19:32 last time I gave my social security, address, and full name, a skin stealing monster came to my house and killed me, overall a 7 out of 10 experience , it was fun running from him but he smelled bad
Thanks for the feedback, I'm currently working on fixing the smell issue, but it's a rotten problem... However, you were fun to hunt down, very creative and your skin tasted amazing 10 out of 10, would flay again.
'Multiplayer PVP arena' makes me think of a game more like World of Tanks or MWO, rather than a fighting game. Some kind of persistent-growth but instanced-gameplay sort of deal. Which I guess you could make a fighting game like that, but it wouldn't be quite the same. I guess the term 'MOBA' already exists, but it's a bit more specific.
i definitely think its just outright incorrect, since in gameology terms, an "arena" game is one with more than two players in a space you can (to some degree) move around freely in
They're putting on an illusion of complexity and intricacy as if to appear professional, or the nebulous concept of "expertise" with the buzzwords. Just smoke and mirrors which is to be expected in any crypto-adjacent project by this point.
This whole idea of "using CS skins in Fortnite" is wild. Sure, the reason why restaurants don't allow you to bring your own food is because we just don't have the technology.
Nah brah you see, we add nfts to the food, and once you sit down you like log in to an app that tracks your sugarlevels in your blood, and once you are finished you sign out and send your blood data to the company so they can give the restaurant where you dined with your own food a percentage. Of course, the percentage would be higher if the restaurant owns the ultra rare land nfts, and you get a discount if you own the blood node nfts. Its so simple man, blockchain and stuff.
It's such a weird a weird concept. Like, it's great on paper, but the only people, who think that it's even remotely possible know diddly squat about game development, game engines, 3D modelling, or anything of the sort; the kind of people, who have an idea and expect someone to "just code it up," regardless of how unviable said idea is.
@@cataleast reminds me of an retport a buddy of mine once had on this very same topic "so would you expect an engineer to make water flow uphill with nothing but gravity? thats what youre asking, you know nothing about the source, yet you expect those who do to figure it out for you, while you continue to think yourself smarter."
"Worst NFT game ever" is like "Dumbest Flat Earther ever" - a record that somehow keeps getting surpassed despite already being more absurd than you imagined possible.
Most indie fighting games have like 6-8 characters... They are so much effort to make and balance so having 40somthing makes me a liiiitle skeptical haha
@@battlion507 a decade for a quality set of fighters, all well animated and with their own playstyle But its not a play to earn web 3 game, so their 40 something fighter set with popr animations and stupid move sets are clearly superior right? Obvious sarcasm lmao
@@luheartswarm4573 And from the roster... it's just ripoffs of characters either from League of Legends, Warcraft and Diablo (in Heroes of the Storm quality). Yes, I get that armored Dude and fighter dude and Son Wukong #23 and super demon devil dude are free usable archetypes, but man they are not even trying. At best the game would be akin to a certain group: poverty fighters. Jank ass, graphically uncanny fighting games with small fanbases that (ironically or unironically) love it and really know how to play it.
I could, maybe, see an Indie Fighter launching with a few more. But, I'm going to say that if they're going past SFII Champion Edition (12) at launch, it's not a good sign.
In the first game when I saw Athena I thought "huh that looks a lot like Athena from King of Fighters" and then the moment the gameplay started she even has the same exact stance So honestly I'd bet that most of the characters are just stolen
@@williamdrum9899 Athena's ancestor has a NES game. Athena's own game cameout on Arcades. Also reminder that the OG KOF was sorta of a SNK Smash Bros + original characters.
the thing with battle of guardians, theyre using a unity package called "universal fighting engine" which lets you very easily create a fighting game. my guess is they used the example fighter moves, replaced the models, and copy pasted them dozens of times.
The mismatch between horrific balance (audio and gameplay lol) and shallow anything (no features beyond what a template unity project would provide!) and amazing graphics tells me that these graphics actually received the same amount of effort- they were purchased from unity asset store, or commissioned from people not in the know or who have no shame, or simply stolen like the animations and such There is no real effort in this game, everything here is stock standard template stuff. It's actually crazy how far you can get on zero skill or knowledge at all, due to unity's overly specific templates and the asset store, which I think vastly degrades the quality of gaming as a whole (without these templates, the only way a game like this is getting made is if the devs actually are talented, and that'll bring with it actual options and features and balance and stuff like that, because it's an actual game made by actually talented people in it for the game)
@@ZazooEel57 if I'm not wrong there is a SSN variation for every country. In Brazil, it's called a CPF (Cadastro de Pessoa Física, or "Natural Person Register" in English)
@@NocturnalTyphlosion What's worse is there's no point for them to have all this information, it screams "info stealer" and that they wanna steal your identity, i would have immediately backed out if i found out about that and tell everyone I know....
I mean, I'm refusing to send Google a scan of my ID for videos they deem 18+ on youtube. If I weren't old enough, I couldn't have this account to begin with. My account is old enough to make an account. Following their TOS, I must've become 18 a decade ago.
As a game developer, it absolutely infuriates me to see people with techbro brain rot claiming that NFTs can make items or other player-owned assets transferable across different games. NFT is not some ultra-sophisticated intellegent API that can understand differences between file formats, programming languages, 3D models and game mechanics, then somehow translate and integrate an asset to another game. That's not how code works. That's fucking magic. NFTs are not fucking magic. They're a cumbersome and flawed framework that can (within limited applicability) authenticate an ownership of an asset. It's like pointing a receipt printer at a car shop and shouting "WOW, this amazing machine can build a Ferrari out of thin air!"
The art is really impressive. There must be a ton of talented artists they paid to make the character and environment designs look awesome... to fuel their grift by showing pretty screenshots. It's a real waste of the art and character design. A home grown Indonesian fighting game? Hell yeah. But make it not a grift. There are clearly talented but underpaid people working here on the project of some enterprising scammers. It's a shame.
Honestly, that's probably what itis. A legit gaming studio with great art skills and good potential, being contracted to make boring games fueled by VC firms. Their other games (the visual novels) actually look really good and have some good reviews.
@jauwn Hadn't occurred to me that the project founders contracted the game studio. Yeah that sounds about right. Gave them priority and budget on visuals as well. Damn.
@@jauwn Although I was wincing at the terrible clipping issues on the legs and how they articulated. It looks like meat sausages pinned to their waists
The side section where you explain all the implications of Cross-Game NFTs and the balance/implementation/scaling/legal nightmares it'd entail really show that you know what you're talking about. Good work.
Damn… The first one actually breaks my heart a little bit… Looks like somebody put a lot of effort into the design and the modeling of the characters. SOMEBODY put quite a bit of work into it! Would be nice to see this effort being put into something actually worth playing.
I was thinking of Rengar from League of Legends. At this point, this game's design reference is Riot's whole League of Legend's vanilla costumed roster.
@@jauwn Becuase you give these games a fair chance and they are still scammy money grabs at best and at worse they attempt to maliciously steal your info, you're showing how useless the blockchain is for gaming it's survived several years without the blockchain why does it need it now? The information you give also helps ground people in reality showing you're not just hating on the crypto, no you're bringing up legit criticisms and conserns, it's quality work and i consider you up on the shelf with coffeezilla when it comes to debunking crypto scams.
Yeah, you absolutely lost me at asking for my Social Security Number. I too understand what the "know your customers" rules are, but the day I hand over my SSN to a video game company will be well and truly after I'm ashes.
9:13 - I like how you got so invested in David’s gripping backstory that you forgot you picked the training mode :’) great video, love the idea of this series and your channel!
Oh my god. That whole "Balance lock" situation just gave me a horrible prediction of exactly what would happen if any NFT game became successful. They'd just release new NFTs of stronger stuff and make it so all the old ones are worthless. Also I did not know the story behind the creation of Etherium. That is impressively pathetic and also fucking hilarious considering that I believe Etherium had to fork at some point in it's past since someone managed to steal all of it.
They didn't steal all of it, "only" something like 15% of the entire ecosystem. I do believe Eth Classic is still around and usable, though I wouldn't recommend using it. Or any blockchain "currency" of any kind. Or any blockchain solution.
whoa you guys are seriously lost in these comments. I thougt yall were trolling at first. You really don't understand blockchain or NFTS at all. 100% of games will have NFTs, and it actually helps us gamers. @@Atsushogob
Additionally funny for me as my favorite characters often are old and reworked for current balance state with later released, powercreeped characters in mind. Balance lock will not allow this. Ah this "horrors of centralisation" in things that absolutely not work at all without centralisation lol.
Supposedly it was a smart contract bug that let anyone drain their accounts. I don't know how to explain how the bug worked other than it's even dumber than you think
@@Atsushogob Crypto enthusiasts are always rambling on about "the fiat world" and "Fiat currency" when their proposed alternative is what I like to call "Hyper-fiat" currency. Not backed by any central authority so it's value is literally solely determined by consensus (IE if enough people collectively got together tomorrow and said "No I think 1 eth is worth exactly 1/10th of a cent" it'd go to that) and the inherent value of the currency is negative since it only exists as long as you're spending money (In the form of electricity) to make it so. At least with real world currencies, no matter how hyperinflated they get, the bills and coins will always have inherent value, even if it's only as kindling or scrap metal.
@@RawrX32009 oh, that would be neat. it just has to be done right, and with the current state of the industry we'll see season passes and microtransactions everywhere
It's hilarious to me that some guy out there is so incredibly clueless about game engines that he seems to think he can just copy and paste asset files between completely different game engines and get anything other than a crash, a glitch, or an asset that the game just doesn't even try load. NFT "game" developers are a black hole of entertainment
Theres this game i play everyday and make $200 a day. Its teally immersive and real world open world. Its called waking up and going to work where I 'craft' real world apps using a macbook. Best part is my NFTs are actually mine, in the real world. Like my NFT house that i can sell, NFT cars, they dont resell that good tho but they are sporty and fast. The graphics are meh but probably my graphics card need to be upgraded by the local village wizard.
@@king_noobie0buddy, I spawned in Africa. Basically it's a Resident Evil mod and all the zombies have guns, anything you craft disappears when you close the menu.
I've always believed that NFTs are completely worthless, but now I think they may have one benefit: if enough braindead executives who have never picked up a controller in their lives push for their use in games, we might finally get a much-needed developer mutiny to put control of game development back into the hands of actual game developers.
Can you send me the source of that Vitalik quote? Are you telling me that the creator of Ethereum did it because his favourite spell in WoW was nerfed? Jesus, the more I learn about crypto, the more it seems like a parody of itself.
I think the original source has been removed from the internet, but this used to be a part of his bio on his homepage years ago. Anyway, it's a commonly regurgitated thing, so it must be true?
Thanks for the videos, I really enjoy them, they're very well edited! This world of cheaply made and trashy crypto games is bizarre. If the game even exists, that is.
I’m honestly surprised just how many there are. There are thousands, and many of them have playercounts under 200. It was like a fad to give your game crypto in 2021 and 2022 so just so many crappy rushed games were made and abandoned in that time frame
I had no idea you only had a few hundred subscribers yet were pumping out such quality videos. Super impressive effort man, glad your audience has grown so much over the past year.
Battle of Guardians does seem to be the least bad game covered in this serious so far, by which I mean that it actually looks like a game. It'd be impossible to tell how it actually plays until PVP works, or at least local two-player, but it does at least seem to be competent for an early beta.
I think so too but the gameplay itself is so barebones I can’t really stress it enough. You can see by the tournament footage that the best way to play is just to hide and bait out one or two attacks because it’s just too easy to spam light attacks and become unkillable. It’s clear that the team does not know how to make a good feeling fighting game, even though they made a good looking game, it still feels completely garbage to play.
@@jauwn the fact that only bots seem to playing seems to be the reason PVP is so bad, I don’t know if that’s the devs fault for not getting enough players but :/ Maybe if you got another player to play against it may be fun. You could use your own moves just fine right?
Really loved the breakdown at ~25:00 I’m not a crypto guy but love ur content and the explanation of how the blockchain actually works/it’s relation to game development made a lot of sense
Your explanation of how nfts work near the end is actually so good. I understood that nfts make no sense in video games but you really helped me understand just how stupid it is. You seriously need more subs
Honestly you were pretty generous giving Battle of Guardians a perfect score in graphics. The character models and environments are fine, I find the character design pretty goofy like they come from an 80s/90s kids cartoon a la He Man, Thundercats, or TMNT, but that's pretty subjective. On the other hand that animations are horrid. Movement looks floaty and slow, light attacks have no weight at all, and everything is overall pretty robotic. If you look at a still, the graphics are fine, but I think animation is an important aspect of graphics that very often gets overlooked.
When looking at the other game's we've seen, the graphics are amazing, but yeah, they're pretty bad in movement. Especially the point about light attacks, they're just the most spammable thing ever, completely weightless.
@@jauwn having to do animations for a fighting game before, it is incredibly difficult to create good animations for a fast light attack since you often only have a budget of a few frames so you can't give the movement any anticipation to add weight. It's all about the posing on contact and the posing on these characters is pretty bad.
I love how in tournament play this game still looks like it has no special moves or combos. Like Damn I didn't even see a single wake up dp or fireball.
I watched two recent videos and really liked you perspective, its funny to retroactively see you growth lol 400 subs! (Which is awesome your channel grew so fast) To now have 200k
I only found this channel recently, but I respect the tangent about how NFT assets (wouldn't) work in or outside of games, as its many flaws are explained quite well!
26:10 The solution to that problem is that companies should allow community servers and mods. Project M is a great example of a mod rebalancing things in a game after people were unsatisfied with the official company's changes. NFTs won't solve the existing problems the intellectual property system has.
As Indonesian i can say Battle of Guardian is a game made by Indonesian that is why there is a lot of grammar error in that game Fun fact (or sad fact) : Indonesian government really like Battle of Guardian. They even include that game into President Cup, a national esport tournament created by government and endorsed by president himself
Hey mate! Again, much love, keep doing this much needed work! You should make a standalone video of the part you explain what exactly is a NFT (from 21:45 onwards), as too many animal-jpeg-pfp-NFTforLife apes don't even know what NFTs really are.
Hey! Thanks again for your comments. I think that's a great idea! I'll have to make it short and simple so people can send it to their NFT loving friends to debunk the "NFTs allow your items be used in any game claim".
Closed and limited betas are actually pretty common in the traditional games industry. It's a trade-off where the developer wants to get some feedback but doesn't want to reveal too much of the game to the general public to where the public feels like they've seen it all. So they only let a few people in to the beta. That part is actually normal.
Playing with the same items across completely different games is a fun gimic at first, but ultimately leaves such big glaring issues that I don't know how anyone could take it seriously... unless you're the one scamming people off of it.
I can only see it working as cosmetic skins and even then it's a stretch. MAYBE it could work for 2D pictures only. Like if you had a bored ape and you could get it on your GTA car as a wrap or as a graffiti tag in rust, but there's really no point. And then the devs would be foolish to consult the blockchain every time the picture needs to be loaded.
You know, as a game developer with exactly one friend in need of crypto rehab.. I'm already tired of explaining that "no, you can't port your skin to another game. There's skinning, animation, UVs, and all kinds of other data that is determined almost completely arbitrarily by every developer for every environment. And no, it's not so arbitrary that all games can just make their assets in exactly the same way. This concept of "ownership" can't exist, and to force it would just mean every game is limited to the quality of Roblox, forced to use the exact same tools and bear the exact same burdens as every other game before and after. And as a result, gaming ceases to exist as an industry, a hobby, or anything at all." But you know. Magic. We'll just magically import our skins into every game. Somehow. Because Fortnite certainly uses the same animations as Bob's Indie Walking Sim. As an Unreal developer.. No. Anything Epic makes uses a complex, cumbersome, but technically impressive labyrinth of an animation framework. They don't know how to make animation easy: Just good.
I don't understand how social security numbers work in the USA. In France and in the Netherlands, we use them for everything everywhere and it's safe because it's just a login, not a password. You can't do anything with it. Definitely not get a credit card; that's insane. If you want a credit card, ask your bank and prove your identity.
the thing is americans don't have ID because... well idk why they don't have them. so social security, which was NOT made to be secure, has become the new ID
Americans have a deathly insane fear of national ID numbers (because "tyranny" or "communism" or whatever bullshit we wanna pull when it gives good soundbites on Fox News), so when the government created the Social Security system in the 1930s under the New Deal, they inevitably had to make a sort of internal identification system to make sure that people were getting benefits and they were who they said they were. It was never at all intended to be an identification number beyond social services using it to identify who you were _internally._ And then banks found out that "hey, there is a super secret number people are assigned at birth that uniquely identifies them. Instead of having to make our own ID system, let's just piggyback off of the government's system!" And then other places, like hospitals and universities and businesses all began to use social security numbers as unique identifiers, _despite these numbers never being designed to do so._ Social security cards, which contain your number, have no identifying information on them. Just your name and your number, no photo, no biometrics, nothing. The number itself is 9 digits, which means it can at most represent 1,000,000,000 people, which is large but certainly not unattainable by a first-world nation over about 100 years. There are no error-correcting bits of information, no two-factor authentication schema for the data on your card (nobody carries their social security card with them, most people just memorize the number, having the card is useless except for people who have trouble remembering, or other people trying to impersonate you). The best part? The numbers aren't even random, for a very long time they assigned these numbers based on hospital region identifiers, so that the first 4-5 digits denoted where you were born, and the subsequent numbers are assigned _sequentially._ There have been _numerous_ cases of intentional or even _accidental_ leaking of an SSN because someone happened to be born in the same hospital as someone else at about the same time as them. The worst part about all of this is that efforts to modernize the system or abandon it entirely for a safe and secure national ID system is met with intense backlash from the political right wing in the United States, despite our current system literally being worse than not having it. There are some states that are trying to implement a state ID system as part of a state-issued driver's license, but these are patchy and depend on the legislation in your state. This also all does not account for the fact that many Americans don't have social security numbers. You can opt-out of having one, so long as you accept you won't receive social security benefits when you're older. Perfectly fine for its intended system as part of the New Deal, but given the SSN's ubiquity as a de facto identifier number, it obviously plays horribly with most registration forms in the United States. So yeah, I don't understand how social security numbers work either.
it's not a credit card here either, but it's also a super important identifier you're supposed to keep secret. but also you can't laminate or protect the card with the number on it and its made of super flimsy paper because ???.
@21:47 I find it amusing that they claim "unprecedented interoperability" while there is already a centralized platform that allows for skins to be used across millions of games. Right there in the description for why it's unprecedented they mention Roblox, a platform that allows for one to get skins and animations that can be used in a plethora of games (I may be stretching the definition of games for most of what you can find on Roblox, and it certainly isn't a company without more than it's fair share of controversy but still). I always do find it fun to point out that Roblox fits the definition given for most metaverses without requiring blockchains, NFTs, or decentralization.
I wanted to check on Battle of Guardians and have small updates; they actually made progress on the game in Feburary 2024, with a focus on improving combat and the UI, as well as introducing new characters. Battle of Guadians also has an app in the Apple app store, but idk what their crypto situation is or if it’s been integrated ingame yet. If it were, that would make it against the app store TOS, but I digress. Galaxy Fight Club no longer shows up in the Apple app store (at least when I searched for it) so perhaps it’s off of the app store? I hope so! Psyker still seemingly hasn’t released but has advertisements for a battlepass…? Have no idea how that’s supposed to work…
I'm left at a loss of words that the AI was like that. I wouldn't even be able to finish a single match if I saw the AI walking towards me without attacking once
Pokemon has a huge feature creep problem since every game needs to include every pokemon. This leads to a huge chunk of the development budget being spent towards implementing the different pokemon and attacks. NFTs as game items are like this but sooo much worse. If you want to be able to bring a weapon from one game to another then you'll have to implement that wepon in every game. So every new game needs to implement a TON of weapons and characters, making development of NFT games really time consuming and the games impossible to balance.
i gotta disagree here. current mainline pokemon games do not include every pokemon. the majority of attack animations are reused heavily, though occasionally personalized to specific pokemon. not only that, the models of older pokemon themselves are, for the most part, the same from gen 6 (excluding changes in texture or some outliers). hell, even added features such as mega evolutions, z moves, and whatever the newer ones are usually only stick around for a game or two. this isn't even me ragging on pokemon games because on a business level, i get it. but if even one of the biggest game companies out there can't do something on that scale, the odds *insert random nft game company here* have of managing something on a much bigger scale longterm is like basically zero
Indonesian here and what the hell i never even heard of Battle of guardians Suprised too because the fightging game scene here is technically non exist and let alone there being a tournament is funny Checking the tournament archive is such a treat, i never heard the most clueless and cringe inducing commentary of a fighthing game ever lol
You were at 400 subscribers a year ago?! Holy heck, you deserved all of the rapid growth your channel has gone through since then! Great, informed and fun content, can't wait for you to cover even more diverse games!
Game companies won't even work together to support crossplay, how can anyone hope for them to work together to make sure a full chain of games support nfts to bring unique items into a new game.
im Indonesian and if you ask most of the time Indonesian games are horror game and half are bad half are good but technically there's more bad than good ones since they mostly just cheap goofy ahh horror game there are some simulator games that Indonesian RUclipsrs have played its kind of a good and bad game first off the good is that they actually have story in it and a lot of things the bad thing is the graphics are bad and sometime they will never be updated again
I've always loved how cryptobros scream about how crypto is decentralized, but the entire crypto market all runs thourgh a small handful of trading platforms.
4:52 I’m SO glad that video games companies stopped trying to do cryptocurrency/NFT games, for awhile there I was genuinely concerned for the future of gaming, which is the only hobby that has brought me this high level of happiness, and I DESPISE nfts, and cryptocurrency I pray never gets adopted, as it would lead to large companies using market manipulation on payday in order to pay employees less
17:00 I agree 100% that beta access shouldn't be sold, but limiting the playerbase to an amount you can work with (the input you'll get) is probably still useful. - Most Companies work with pools they can manage rather than pools that would turn out in a burn out. So i agree that 7000 is not enough by far, especially if sold, but uncontrolled millions are also not **more** helpful than a big controlled group
Well I think the whole thing was just a scam since the games developers just disappeared off the face of the earth and never made any updates to the game after I made this video
the funniest thing to me about battle of guardians is that in the same unity fighting game engine they made the game in, one guy made a fanmade among us fighting game in one week and with zero funding, and it has way better animations and game feel, cpu fighters that actually know how to play and actual online play
It surprising to me that there's not that many cc of his kind in this genre, kiratv kinda want to dabble in this stuff Abit but he move more toward long form commentary
You've grown so much in subscriber count. I've recently joined and have to admit, your videos are great. I can see you growing in the future, wish you the best of luck.
I know someone who supplied their SSN through some other crypto game, then they found out months later that someone else stole their identity & that they were no longer registered as an American Citizen anymore.
To be fair for some reason western PS controllers swapped the confirm and cancel buttons (in japanese interface design O means "correct" and X means "wrong" but it wasn't cool enough for the US, apparently) so both of them are associated with confirming. Though you'd think the developers would just pick ONE of them though...
It would be fun if you were to compare all the games in a list together. Maybe just update it at the end of every video. Sort of like IHEs old "Search for the Worst" list.
I once gave away my social security number. Worst mistake I ever made! The next day, some assasines showed up at my house. Luckily I could beat them all.
i like how in the half second of google results for "psyker" we see, you had to scroll down to find the NFT game. i'm not into warhammer but i still think of psykers from it first when i hear the name lol
Okay I have to say that "leave a negative comment, send me hate mail, whatever makes you feel better" followed a minute later by "negative comment? reported for promoting terrorism" made me laugh out loud
I have a small correction to NFT immutability. NFT contract(the code) is immutable, if we don't count with upgreadeble constracts, but the NFT attributes can be mutable ofc.
Thanks man! I put a lot of work and energy into making videos ever since day 1 of this channel so I am really happy to see it’s starting to pay off 😄. No such thing as an overnight success!
It is amazing how many non-game-devs threw together a project, figured out how to sell NFTs, and then never quite figured out how to integrate their game with anything pertaining to the blockchain. As somebody who had to implement a blockchain integration myself (for a job with a boss who thought it was somehow useful to what we did - it wasn't), everything pertaining to web3 is an absolutely hellish experience for the developer. There are some libraries that try to polish over the worse warts, but there's a reason every signup and web3 config page is utterly impossible to use - the underlying tech itself is just that bad.
Balancing any multiplayer game is a pain, even the games like LoL, StarCraft2, and war thunder still struggle with it. If you are playing a game with sole reason to earn money you just know everyone will play the most broken and OP character 24/7
Weird, the only people I tend to see use google drives to distribute their games are doing so for RPG Maker games they've released to the public for free and they don't want to host the game on a dedicated site for some reason or another.
The funny thing about the whole "you can take your guns from CS:GO and use them in fortnite!" Is that fortnite and rocket league already share cosmetics. If you get certain cosmetics in rocket league you can use them in fortnite. But the problem is they're having to adapt those cosmetics into fortnite manually and it's taking a long ass time. So many rocket league cosmetics aren't in Fortnite yet and all it required was for the games to be owned by Epic and have the same epic account
the reason to make a pay-to-win version of a free-to-play game is so that whales can feel better by winning easier. They usually fail pretty quickly, since the free-to-play players rarely stick around once they discover the original game exists, then the pay-to-win version starts matching whales to whales, and they have to be good to win anyway, and they go find a new place where they can buy victory. Short term lucrative.
21:46 you went into great detail taking down this quote but there is one section of it that you missed which absolutely shows the ignorance of the person that made the quote. When they say a car could be brought into roblox, they are acting like roblox is one single game which is absolutely wrong. This idea of bringing a car into the game would absolutely ruin anything, it might work in some racing game, but bringing a Porsche into Blood and iron for example (a game set during the Napoleonic wars) would ruin the game. The idea of bringing weapons from other games too would absolutely destroy balance, roblox games can one minute have you fighting in medieval Europe as a knight, and the next minute have you fighting in the Battle of Rorke's Drift and bringing weapons in and out of these games would ruin balance and theming. This quote just screams "I work as a stock trader and I have no idea what a video game is".
19:32 last time I gave my social security, address, and full name, a skin stealing monster came to my house and killed me, overall a 7 out of 10 experience , it was fun running from him but he smelled bad
happens to the best of us
It's a good thing we can all regrow our skin with no problems at all. 😌
Thanks for the feedback, I'm currently working on fixing the smell issue, but it's a rotten problem...
However, you were fun to hunt down, very creative and your skin tasted amazing 10 out of 10, would flay again.
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I love that "fighting game" is apparently a forbidden term to these people. It's not a fighting game, it's a "multiplayer PvP arena" or whatever.
It reads like an attempt to sound more “formal,” or perhaps increase a word count
'Multiplayer PVP arena' makes me think of a game more like World of Tanks or MWO, rather than a fighting game. Some kind of persistent-growth but instanced-gameplay sort of deal. Which I guess you could make a fighting game like that, but it wouldn't be quite the same.
I guess the term 'MOBA' already exists, but it's a bit more specific.
i definitely think its just outright incorrect, since in gameology terms, an "arena" game is one with more than two players in a space you can (to some degree) move around freely in
Because they're buzzword chasers and they want that League of Legends money
They're putting on an illusion of complexity and intricacy as if to appear professional, or the nebulous concept of "expertise" with the buzzwords. Just smoke and mirrors which is to be expected in any crypto-adjacent project by this point.
The biggest red flag in promoting a video game is describing it as an "investment" instead of "fun".
@@alexliddell3171 oh yes. Late stage captialism
That's what I want to do in my free time when I want to relax: invest and get stressed about money
This whole idea of "using CS skins in Fortnite" is wild. Sure, the reason why restaurants don't allow you to bring your own food is because we just don't have the technology.
Nah brah you see, we add nfts to the food, and once you sit down you like log in to an app that tracks your sugarlevels in your blood, and once you are finished you sign out and send your blood data to the company so they can give the restaurant where you dined with your own food a percentage. Of course, the percentage would be higher if the restaurant owns the ultra rare land nfts, and you get a discount if you own the blood node nfts. Its so simple man, blockchain and stuff.
It's such a weird a weird concept. Like, it's great on paper, but the only people, who think that it's even remotely possible know diddly squat about game development, game engines, 3D modelling, or anything of the sort; the kind of people, who have an idea and expect someone to "just code it up," regardless of how unviable said idea is.
@@cataleast reminds me of an retport a buddy of mine once had on this very same topic "so would you expect an engineer to make water flow uphill with nothing but gravity? thats what youre asking, you know nothing about the source, yet you expect those who do to figure it out for you, while you continue to think yourself smarter."
Lol, that's a good way to put it
nicely put
"Worst NFT game ever" is like "Dumbest Flat Earther ever" - a record that somehow keeps getting surpassed despite already being more absurd than you imagined possible.
I've got the next idea. Flat earth tokens.
@evanknight5167FETs available on the BOBA store when?
@evanknight5167 nah, the moon is just a hologram being powered by crypto.
@@ForgedinPrintdo i need to sacrifice my staked ETH to own my stuff
@tylern6420 yes.
Fun fact, flat earth tokens do in fact exist. Doesn't surprise me any but I just think that is hilarious.
Most indie fighting games have like 6-8 characters... They are so much effort to make and balance so having 40somthing makes me a liiiitle skeptical haha
how long did skull girls even take to have the roster they have today?
those asset flippers are wild
@@luheartswarm4573
Started out to like... 8 characters.
More than a decade later... we get Squigly, Big Band, Annie, Beowolf and etc.
@@battlion507 a decade for a quality set of fighters, all well animated and with their own playstyle
But its not a play to earn web 3 game, so their 40 something fighter set with popr animations and stupid move sets are clearly superior right?
Obvious sarcasm lmao
@@luheartswarm4573
And from the roster... it's just ripoffs of characters either from League of Legends, Warcraft and Diablo (in Heroes of the Storm quality). Yes, I get that armored Dude and fighter dude and Son Wukong #23 and super demon devil dude are free usable archetypes, but man they are not even trying.
At best the game would be akin to a certain group: poverty fighters.
Jank ass, graphically uncanny fighting games with small fanbases that (ironically or unironically) love it and really know how to play it.
I could, maybe, see an Indie Fighter launching with a few more. But, I'm going to say that if they're going past SFII Champion Edition (12) at launch, it's not a good sign.
In the first game when I saw Athena I thought "huh that looks a lot like Athena from King of Fighters" and then the moment the gameplay started she even has the same exact stance
So honestly I'd bet that most of the characters are just stolen
Probably. Did you know that Athena has an NES game?
her model is lazy edited from Lian from Paladins. So, once again, stolen assests on a NFT game.
@@williamdrum9899 Athena's ancestor has a NES game. Athena's own game cameout on Arcades.
Also reminder that the OG KOF was sorta of a SNK Smash Bros + original characters.
@@Magnet_Chaos Well the game was called Athena
@@williamdrum9899 Yeah. Different Athena. That's Princess Athena who is her ancestor.
KOF Athena's game is Psycho Soldier.
the thing with battle of guardians, theyre using a unity package called "universal fighting engine" which lets you very easily create a fighting game. my guess is they used the example fighter moves, replaced the models, and copy pasted them dozens of times.
The mismatch between horrific balance (audio and gameplay lol) and shallow anything (no features beyond what a template unity project would provide!) and amazing graphics tells me that these graphics actually received the same amount of effort- they were purchased from unity asset store, or commissioned from people not in the know or who have no shame, or simply stolen like the animations and such
There is no real effort in this game, everything here is stock standard template stuff. It's actually crazy how far you can get on zero skill or knowledge at all, due to unity's overly specific templates and the asset store, which I think vastly degrades the quality of gaming as a whole (without these templates, the only way a game like this is getting made is if the devs actually are talented, and that'll bring with it actual options and features and balance and stuff like that, because it's an actual game made by actually talented people in it for the game)
The fact that there a re so many asset flips that use default Unity or Unreal packages only shows that the engines themselves are good.
Even though its through stripe, having to give all that data for a game would be an absolute NO from me dawg
It should be a no for most people, if not everyone! I am not from the US but even I know that giving your SSN is a red flag.
@@ZazooEel57 if I'm not wrong there is a SSN variation for every country. In Brazil, it's called a CPF (Cadastro de Pessoa Física, or "Natural Person Register" in English)
yeah it'd be like giving a game my CRN, and i barely give that shit to people i SHOULD trust
@@NocturnalTyphlosion
What's worse is there's no point for them to have all this information, it screams "info stealer" and that they wanna steal your identity, i would have immediately backed out if i found out about that and tell everyone I know....
I mean, I'm refusing to send Google a scan of my ID for videos they deem 18+ on youtube. If I weren't old enough, I couldn't have this account to begin with. My account is old enough to make an account. Following their TOS, I must've become 18 a decade ago.
As a game developer, it absolutely infuriates me to see people with techbro brain rot claiming that NFTs can make items or other player-owned assets transferable across different games.
NFT is not some ultra-sophisticated intellegent API that can understand differences between file formats, programming languages, 3D models and game mechanics, then somehow translate and integrate an asset to another game. That's not how code works. That's fucking magic. NFTs are not fucking magic. They're a cumbersome and flawed framework that can (within limited applicability) authenticate an ownership of an asset.
It's like pointing a receipt printer at a car shop and shouting "WOW, this amazing machine can build a Ferrari out of thin air!"
The only things NFTs seem to add are market speculation and a pay-to-win shop. Something games can do just fine without NFTs.
The art is really impressive. There must be a ton of talented artists they paid to make the character and environment designs look awesome... to fuel their grift by showing pretty screenshots. It's a real waste of the art and character design.
A home grown Indonesian fighting game? Hell yeah. But make it not a grift. There are clearly talented but underpaid people working here on the project of some enterprising scammers. It's a shame.
Honestly, that's probably what itis. A legit gaming studio with great art skills and good potential, being contracted to make boring games fueled by VC firms. Their other games (the visual novels) actually look really good and have some good reviews.
@jauwn Hadn't occurred to me that the project founders contracted the game studio. Yeah that sounds about right. Gave them priority and budget on visuals as well. Damn.
@@jauwn Although I was wincing at the terrible clipping issues on the legs and how they articulated. It looks like meat sausages pinned to their waists
@@01Naaman or how the death animation is kind of just t-posing on the floor🤣
doubt it; i'm betting any amount of money that they promised the art team stock ownership in the company, or paid them in their dogshit crypto token.
A little over a year ago Jauwn had 400 subscribers. Now he's over 100k. He's the one crypto related thing actually going to the moon.
The side section where you explain all the implications of Cross-Game NFTs and the balance/implementation/scaling/legal nightmares it'd entail really show that you know what you're talking about. Good work.
Damn…
The first one actually breaks my heart a little bit…
Looks like somebody put a lot of effort into the design and the modeling of the characters. SOMEBODY put quite a bit of work into it!
Would be nice to see this effort being put into something actually worth playing.
Wouls it lighten your spirits to realize that most of these assets are probably stolen and maybe slightly edited?
The lion character is almost literally just Ajani Goldmane from Magic: The Gathering
OK, so it wasn't just me that was thinking that.
Yeah I could see that resemblance too but I saw the "wolverine claws" weapon and immediately thought of Rengar
& he has a girl's name too
I was thinking of Rengar from League of Legends.
At this point, this game's design reference is Riot's whole League of Legend's vanilla costumed roster.
Athena looks quite similiar to Athena from The King of Fighters series, I highly doubt they came up with any of the characters themselves
"400 subs" -6 months ago
13k subs - today
Well done, my guy.
Yeah I don’t even know how that happened 😅
take that to 111k now lol
@@jauwn
@@jauwn
Becuase you give these games a fair chance and they are still scammy money grabs at best and at worse they attempt to maliciously steal your info, you're showing how useless the blockchain is for gaming it's survived several years without the blockchain why does it need it now?
The information you give also helps ground people in reality showing you're not just hating on the crypto, no you're bringing up legit criticisms and conserns, it's quality work and i consider you up on the shelf with coffeezilla when it comes to debunking crypto scams.
@@jamesflynn932scratch that. We're 20k richer in subs now.
@@mercenarydelta7351 Try 173k subs now
"Hey girl, lemme costumize them slots right quick..." *presses square*
Yeah, you absolutely lost me at asking for my Social Security Number. I too understand what the "know your customers" rules are, but the day I hand over my SSN to a video game company will be well and truly after I'm ashes.
9:13 - I like how you got so invested in David’s gripping backstory that you forgot you picked the training mode :’) great video, love the idea of this series and your channel!
Oh my god. That whole "Balance lock" situation just gave me a horrible prediction of exactly what would happen if any NFT game became successful. They'd just release new NFTs of stronger stuff and make it so all the old ones are worthless. Also I did not know the story behind the creation of Etherium. That is impressively pathetic and also fucking hilarious considering that I believe Etherium had to fork at some point in it's past since someone managed to steal all of it.
They didn't steal all of it, "only" something like 15% of the entire ecosystem. I do believe Eth Classic is still around and usable, though I wouldn't recommend using it. Or any blockchain "currency" of any kind. Or any blockchain solution.
whoa you guys are seriously lost in these comments. I thougt yall were trolling at first. You really don't understand blockchain or NFTS at all. 100% of games will have NFTs, and it actually helps us gamers. @@Atsushogob
Additionally funny for me as my favorite characters often are old and reworked for current balance state with later released, powercreeped characters in mind. Balance lock will not allow this. Ah this "horrors of centralisation" in things that absolutely not work at all without centralisation lol.
Supposedly it was a smart contract bug that let anyone drain their accounts. I don't know how to explain how the bug worked other than it's even dumber than you think
@@Atsushogob Crypto enthusiasts are always rambling on about "the fiat world" and "Fiat currency" when their proposed alternative is what I like to call "Hyper-fiat" currency. Not backed by any central authority so it's value is literally solely determined by consensus (IE if enough people collectively got together tomorrow and said "No I think 1 eth is worth exactly 1/10th of a cent" it'd go to that) and the inherent value of the currency is negative since it only exists as long as you're spending money (In the form of electricity) to make it so. At least with real world currencies, no matter how hyperinflated they get, the bills and coins will always have inherent value, even if it's only as kindling or scrap metal.
Gotta love the NFT shillers talking about how you'll be able to take your M16 from CSGO to WoW to Madden. Makes total sense.
To be fair Madden with guns sounds rad as heck >:3
Well that certainly would be an advantage
@@RawrX32009 we really need a well polished new fantasy sports game.
@@HappyBeezerStudios Yeah
Maybe a Speedball reboot?
@@RawrX32009 oh, that would be neat. it just has to be done right, and with the current state of the industry we'll see season passes and microtransactions everywhere
It's hilarious to me that some guy out there is so incredibly clueless about game engines that he seems to think he can just copy and paste asset files between completely different game engines and get anything other than a crash, a glitch, or an asset that the game just doesn't even try load. NFT "game" developers are a black hole of entertainment
Theres this game i play everyday and make $200 a day. Its teally immersive and real world open world. Its called waking up and going to work where I 'craft' real world apps using a macbook. Best part is my NFTs are actually mine, in the real world. Like my NFT house that i can sell, NFT cars, they dont resell that good tho but they are sporty and fast.
The graphics are meh but probably my graphics card need to be upgraded by the local village wizard.
0/10
Didnt spawn in a rich family
@@king_noobie0buddy, I spawned in Africa. Basically it's a Resident Evil mod and all the zombies have guns, anything you craft disappears when you close the menu.
@@king_noobie0 10/10 rich family most are corrupted and unloving
I've always believed that NFTs are completely worthless, but now I think they may have one benefit: if enough braindead executives who have never picked up a controller in their lives push for their use in games, we might finally get a much-needed developer mutiny to put control of game development back into the hands of actual game developers.
The second one was almost funny. "You wanted to play a game? Psyche!"
Can you send me the source of that Vitalik quote? Are you telling me that the creator of Ethereum did it because his favourite spell in WoW was nerfed?
Jesus, the more I learn about crypto, the more it seems like a parody of itself.
I think the original source has been removed from the internet, but this used to be a part of his bio on his homepage years ago. Anyway, it's a commonly regurgitated thing, so it must be true?
@@jauwn if it says so on the internet it must be true...
Thanks for the videos, I really enjoy them, they're very well edited! This world of cheaply made and trashy crypto games is bizarre. If the game even exists, that is.
I’m honestly surprised just how many there are. There are thousands, and many of them have playercounts under 200. It was like a fad to give your game crypto in 2021 and 2022 so just so many crappy rushed games were made and abandoned in that time frame
I had no idea you only had a few hundred subscribers yet were pumping out such quality videos. Super impressive effort man, glad your audience has grown so much over the past year.
Battle of Guardians does seem to be the least bad game covered in this serious so far, by which I mean that it actually looks like a game. It'd be impossible to tell how it actually plays until PVP works, or at least local two-player, but it does at least seem to be competent for an early beta.
I think so too but the gameplay itself is so barebones I can’t really stress it enough. You can see by the tournament footage that the best way to play is just to hide and bait out one or two attacks because it’s just too easy to spam light attacks and become unkillable.
It’s clear that the team does not know how to make a good feeling fighting game, even though they made a good looking game, it still feels completely garbage to play.
@@jauwn the fact that only bots seem to playing seems to be the reason PVP is so bad, I don’t know if that’s the devs fault for not getting enough players but :/
Maybe if you got another player to play against it may be fun. You could use your own moves just fine right?
Really loved the breakdown at ~25:00 I’m not a crypto guy but love ur content and the explanation of how the blockchain actually works/it’s relation to game development made a lot of sense
Your explanation of how nfts work near the end is actually so good. I understood that nfts make no sense in video games but you really helped me understand just how stupid it is. You seriously need more subs
Fun Fact: the girl 2:27 is a fan-made drawing of Shae Vizla from Star Wars: The Old Republic
actually, it's official concept art but yeah it's the first image when you search shae vizla on google
Omg I died laughing at David’s description!
Davids is the fighter
Crazy to think one year ago you had less than 500 subs, and now over 100k. The algorithm is finally promoting good content 😊
Honestly you were pretty generous giving Battle of Guardians a perfect score in graphics. The character models and environments are fine, I find the character design pretty goofy like they come from an 80s/90s kids cartoon a la He Man, Thundercats, or TMNT, but that's pretty subjective. On the other hand that animations are horrid. Movement looks floaty and slow, light attacks have no weight at all, and everything is overall pretty robotic. If you look at a still, the graphics are fine, but I think animation is an important aspect of graphics that very often gets overlooked.
When looking at the other game's we've seen, the graphics are amazing, but yeah, they're pretty bad in movement. Especially the point about light attacks, they're just the most spammable thing ever, completely weightless.
@@jauwn having to do animations for a fighting game before, it is incredibly difficult to create good animations for a fast light attack since you often only have a budget of a few frames so you can't give the movement any anticipation to add weight. It's all about the posing on contact and the posing on these characters is pretty bad.
@@Dipsoid Almost like they should stick to making visual novels for now and not worry about making a Web3 fighting metaverse mania
7 months later and Psyker still isn't playable.
I love how in tournament play this game still looks like it has no special moves or combos.
Like Damn I didn't even see a single wake up dp or fireball.
I watched two recent videos and really liked you perspective, its funny to retroactively see you growth lol 400 subs! (Which is awesome your channel grew so fast) To now have 200k
I only found this channel recently, but I respect the tangent about how NFT assets (wouldn't) work in or outside of games, as its many flaws are explained quite well!
26:10 The solution to that problem is that companies should allow community servers and mods. Project M is a great example of a mod rebalancing things in a game after people were unsatisfied with the official company's changes. NFTs won't solve the existing problems the intellectual property system has.
The fact you gave your actual social to review a game puts you on a level of dedication that I wish I had with my real job.
As Indonesian i can say Battle of Guardian is a game made by Indonesian that is why there is a lot of grammar error in that game
Fun fact (or sad fact) : Indonesian government really like Battle of Guardian. They even include that game into President Cup, a national esport tournament created by government and endorsed by president himself
godamn....
Probably anything but FreeFire
Damn, found other rakyat in this channel I just found out
Baru tau ada piala presidennya, pas ada acara apa ya
@@ricoardian3235 halo rakyat :3
Im surprised that this game was even a thing as Indonesian, I just discovered this today
Hey mate! Again, much love, keep doing this much needed work!
You should make a standalone video of the part you explain what exactly is a NFT (from 21:45 onwards), as too many animal-jpeg-pfp-NFTforLife apes don't even know what NFTs really are.
Hey! Thanks again for your comments. I think that's a great idea!
I'll have to make it short and simple so people can send it to their NFT loving friends to debunk the "NFTs allow your items be used in any game claim".
Damn as an Indonesian I'm pleasantly surprised that there's still incompetent developers among us. Kinda makes me feel better ngl
I am simply so glad to see your current subscriber count VS back when I first watched this video. You have lead the charge and done excellent work
I stumbled across your channel just the other week. I'm honestly impressed by the quality of even your early videos.
I swear every time I hear something Matthew Ball wrote I get more convinced that man has never even used the internet.
Closed and limited betas are actually pretty common in the traditional games industry. It's a trade-off where the developer wants to get some feedback but doesn't want to reveal too much of the game to the general public to where the public feels like they've seen it all. So they only let a few people in to the beta. That part is actually normal.
Playing with the same items across completely different games is a fun gimic at first, but ultimately leaves such big glaring issues that I don't know how anyone could take it seriously... unless you're the one scamming people off of it.
Imagine the logistics nightmare of balancing it all
I can only see it working as cosmetic skins and even then it's a stretch. MAYBE it could work for 2D pictures only. Like if you had a bored ape and you could get it on your GTA car as a wrap or as a graffiti tag in rust, but there's really no point. And then the devs would be foolish to consult the blockchain every time the picture needs to be loaded.
You know, as a game developer with exactly one friend in need of crypto rehab.. I'm already tired of explaining that "no, you can't port your skin to another game. There's skinning, animation, UVs, and all kinds of other data that is determined almost completely arbitrarily by every developer for every environment. And no, it's not so arbitrary that all games can just make their assets in exactly the same way. This concept of "ownership" can't exist, and to force it would just mean every game is limited to the quality of Roblox, forced to use the exact same tools and bear the exact same burdens as every other game before and after. And as a result, gaming ceases to exist as an industry, a hobby, or anything at all."
But you know. Magic. We'll just magically import our skins into every game. Somehow. Because Fortnite certainly uses the same animations as Bob's Indie Walking Sim.
As an Unreal developer.. No. Anything Epic makes uses a complex, cumbersome, but technically impressive labyrinth of an animation framework. They don't know how to make animation easy: Just good.
A triple feature. Splendid. I had high hopes for Galaxy fight club
I know; I always wanted to use my pickle Rick character in every game
@@jauwn I would want to be the triangle that Music made him lose control
Galaxy Fight Club didn't fail to disappoint.
“Worst crypto game” is like saying “best hemorrhoid” 😂
Dunno with a hemorrhoid people at least putty me and try to accommodate you don't even get that with a crypto game
that indonesian announcer is the goat for making the tamest, most boring, stiff looking fighting game in the world seem hype
I don't understand how social security numbers work in the USA. In France and in the Netherlands, we use them for everything everywhere and it's safe because it's just a login, not a password. You can't do anything with it. Definitely not get a credit card; that's insane. If you want a credit card, ask your bank and prove your identity.
the thing is americans don't have ID because... well idk why they don't have them. so social security, which was NOT made to be secure, has become the new ID
Americans have a deathly insane fear of national ID numbers (because "tyranny" or "communism" or whatever bullshit we wanna pull when it gives good soundbites on Fox News), so when the government created the Social Security system in the 1930s under the New Deal, they inevitably had to make a sort of internal identification system to make sure that people were getting benefits and they were who they said they were. It was never at all intended to be an identification number beyond social services using it to identify who you were _internally._
And then banks found out that "hey, there is a super secret number people are assigned at birth that uniquely identifies them. Instead of having to make our own ID system, let's just piggyback off of the government's system!" And then other places, like hospitals and universities and businesses all began to use social security numbers as unique identifiers, _despite these numbers never being designed to do so._
Social security cards, which contain your number, have no identifying information on them. Just your name and your number, no photo, no biometrics, nothing. The number itself is 9 digits, which means it can at most represent 1,000,000,000 people, which is large but certainly not unattainable by a first-world nation over about 100 years. There are no error-correcting bits of information, no two-factor authentication schema for the data on your card (nobody carries their social security card with them, most people just memorize the number, having the card is useless except for people who have trouble remembering, or other people trying to impersonate you). The best part? The numbers aren't even random, for a very long time they assigned these numbers based on hospital region identifiers, so that the first 4-5 digits denoted where you were born, and the subsequent numbers are assigned _sequentially._ There have been _numerous_ cases of intentional or even _accidental_ leaking of an SSN because someone happened to be born in the same hospital as someone else at about the same time as them.
The worst part about all of this is that efforts to modernize the system or abandon it entirely for a safe and secure national ID system is met with intense backlash from the political right wing in the United States, despite our current system literally being worse than not having it. There are some states that are trying to implement a state ID system as part of a state-issued driver's license, but these are patchy and depend on the legislation in your state.
This also all does not account for the fact that many Americans don't have social security numbers. You can opt-out of having one, so long as you accept you won't receive social security benefits when you're older. Perfectly fine for its intended system as part of the New Deal, but given the SSN's ubiquity as a de facto identifier number, it obviously plays horribly with most registration forms in the United States.
So yeah, I don't understand how social security numbers work either.
it's not a credit card here either, but it's also a super important identifier you're supposed to keep secret. but also you can't laminate or protect the card with the number on it and its made of super flimsy paper because ???.
@@deathstinger13 Apparently it's in case you lose it'll degrade quickly and other people won't find it
@21:47 I find it amusing that they claim "unprecedented interoperability" while there is already a centralized platform that allows for skins to be used across millions of games. Right there in the description for why it's unprecedented they mention Roblox, a platform that allows for one to get skins and animations that can be used in a plethora of games (I may be stretching the definition of games for most of what you can find on Roblox, and it certainly isn't a company without more than it's fair share of controversy but still). I always do find it fun to point out that Roblox fits the definition given for most metaverses without requiring blockchains, NFTs, or decentralization.
The worst part is that all that stuff can only work in roblox because of centralization
Gratz on the 400 sub milestone
I wanted to check on Battle of Guardians and have small updates; they actually made progress on the game in Feburary 2024, with a focus on improving combat and the UI, as well as introducing new characters.
Battle of Guadians also has an app in the Apple app store, but idk what their crypto situation is or if it’s been integrated ingame yet. If it were, that would make it against the app store TOS, but I digress.
Galaxy Fight Club no longer shows up in the Apple app store (at least when I searched for it) so perhaps it’s off of the app store? I hope so!
Psyker still seemingly hasn’t released but has advertisements for a battlepass…? Have no idea how that’s supposed to work…
I'm left at a loss of words that the AI was like that. I wouldn't even be able to finish a single match if I saw the AI walking towards me without attacking once
Congratulations on reaching 400 subscribers!
Pokemon has a huge feature creep problem since every game needs to include every pokemon. This leads to a huge chunk of the development budget being spent towards implementing the different pokemon and attacks. NFTs as game items are like this but sooo much worse. If you want to be able to bring a weapon from one game to another then you'll have to implement that wepon in every game. So every new game needs to implement a TON of weapons and characters, making development of NFT games really time consuming and the games impossible to balance.
i gotta disagree here. current mainline pokemon games do not include every pokemon. the majority of attack animations are reused heavily, though occasionally personalized to specific pokemon. not only that, the models of older pokemon themselves are, for the most part, the same from gen 6 (excluding changes in texture or some outliers). hell, even added features such as mega evolutions, z moves, and whatever the newer ones are usually only stick around for a game or two.
this isn't even me ragging on pokemon games because on a business level, i get it. but if even one of the biggest game companies out there can't do something on that scale, the odds *insert random nft game company here* have of managing something on a much bigger scale longterm is like basically zero
I think this is less of an issue now than it was in the past.
Indonesian here and what the hell i never even heard of Battle of guardians
Suprised too because the fightging game scene here is technically non exist and let alone there being a tournament is funny
Checking the tournament archive is such a treat, i never heard the most clueless and cringe inducing commentary of a fighthing game ever lol
You were at 400 subscribers a year ago?! Holy heck, you deserved all of the rapid growth your channel has gone through since then! Great, informed and fun content, can't wait for you to cover even more diverse games!
Game companies won't even work together to support crossplay, how can anyone hope for them to work together to make sure a full chain of games support nfts to bring unique items into a new game.
"welcome to bog"
now that is very apt greeting for any NFT cryptocrap
"Welcome to die!"
18:26 That's not a red flag, that's the entire soviet army
I thought the intro was ironic l, considering I JUST subscribed this week.
They probably paid some fiverr guy to build the game.
Which one 😂 they all could have been built by guys on fiverr
im Indonesian and if you ask most of the time Indonesian games are horror game and half are bad half are good but technically there's more bad than good ones since they mostly just cheap goofy ahh horror game there are some simulator games that Indonesian RUclipsrs have played its kind of a good and bad game first off the good is that they actually have story in it and a lot of things the bad thing is the graphics are bad and sometime they will never be updated again
"We just crossed the 400 subscriber milestone."
My boy has grown so strong in one year, I'm so happy
I've always loved how cryptobros scream about how crypto is decentralized, but the entire crypto market all runs thourgh a small handful of trading platforms.
4:52 I’m SO glad that video games companies stopped trying to do cryptocurrency/NFT games, for awhile there I was genuinely concerned for the future of gaming, which is the only hobby that has brought me this high level of happiness, and I DESPISE nfts, and cryptocurrency I pray never gets adopted, as it would lead to large companies using market manipulation on payday in order to pay employees less
I've fallen into a Jauwn rabbit hole my dude 🤣😂 I've watched most of your videos so far in the last day.
Haha glad you like them!
@@jauwndefinitely do! I'll likely have finished the Jauwn rabbit hole today or tomorrow.🤣😂
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I agree 100% that beta access shouldn't be sold, but limiting the playerbase to an amount you can work with (the input you'll get) is probably still useful. - Most Companies work with pools they can manage rather than pools that would turn out in a burn out.
So i agree that 7000 is not enough by far, especially if sold, but uncontrolled millions are also not **more** helpful than a big controlled group
Well I think the whole thing was just a scam since the games developers just disappeared off the face of the earth and never made any updates to the game after I made this video
Gz for 400 subs🎉🎉🎉
12:05 The guy announcer sounded like he was Popeye on drugs.
Wow your channel grew so much this year !! 400 to 85.2 k :o
Just crossed 400 subs. Congrats XD
the funniest thing to me about battle of guardians is that in the same unity fighting game engine they made the game in, one guy made a fanmade among us fighting game in one week and with zero funding, and it has way better animations and game feel, cpu fighters that actually know how to play and actual online play
Sometimes I like going back here and re-seeing that it took you only a year to go from 400 to almost 300K.
It surprising to me that there's not that many cc of his kind in this genre, kiratv kinda want to dabble in this stuff Abit but he move more toward long form commentary
You've grown so much in subscriber count. I've recently joined and have to admit, your videos are great. I can see you growing in the future, wish you the best of luck.
I know someone who supplied their SSN through some other crypto game, then they found out months later that someone else stole their identity & that they were no longer registered as an American Citizen anymore.
Rather than the "costumized buttons" prompt. the fact that at 8:30 both the Circle and Cross buttons are labelled as "Confirm" cracks me up to no end.
To be fair for some reason western PS controllers swapped the confirm and cancel buttons (in japanese interface design O means "correct" and X means "wrong" but it wasn't cool enough for the US, apparently) so both of them are associated with confirming. Though you'd think the developers would just pick ONE of them though...
It would be fun if you were to compare all the games in a list together. Maybe just update it at the end of every video. Sort of like IHEs old "Search for the Worst" list.
This is a great idea!
I once gave away my social security number.
Worst mistake I ever made!
The next day, some assasines showed up at my house. Luckily I could beat them all.
i like how in the half second of google results for "psyker" we see, you had to scroll down to find the NFT game.
i'm not into warhammer but i still think of psykers from it first when i hear the name lol
Okay I have to say that "leave a negative comment, send me hate mail, whatever makes you feel better" followed a minute later by "negative comment? reported for promoting terrorism" made me laugh out loud
The biggest plot twist to me is when this video came out, just 11 months ago, you only had 400 subs?? 1000 times that now
Where did you learn math
@@jauwn can't say I remember. It must've been about 200 years ago
I have a small correction to NFT immutability. NFT contract(the code) is immutable, if we don't count with upgreadeble constracts, but the NFT attributes can be mutable ofc.
wow, shocked to see how polished your videos are even at 400subs, very impressive bro.
Thanks man! I put a lot of work and energy into making videos ever since day 1 of this channel so I am really happy to see it’s starting to pay off 😄.
No such thing as an overnight success!
It seems like all NFT/Crypto Bros really want is just a machine that prints money for them while they sit on their ass and play video games
They don't even want to play video games. I've heard many times from them that video games are a waste of time and for losers
@@jauwn So I could just shave off the last four words of my previous comment and that'd be more accurate?
**forget everything he knew about crypto**
**personal happiness vastly improves**
It is amazing how many non-game-devs threw together a project, figured out how to sell NFTs, and then never quite figured out how to integrate their game with anything pertaining to the blockchain.
As somebody who had to implement a blockchain integration myself (for a job with a boss who thought it was somehow useful to what we did - it wasn't), everything pertaining to web3 is an absolutely hellish experience for the developer. There are some libraries that try to polish over the worse warts, but there's a reason every signup and web3 config page is utterly impossible to use - the underlying tech itself is just that bad.
Balancing any multiplayer game is a pain, even the games like LoL, StarCraft2, and war thunder still struggle with it. If you are playing a game with sole reason to earn money you just know everyone will play the most broken and OP character 24/7
Love this series, thanks for suffering for us. Excited for new installments
...the bit about the Playstation control scheme that irks me more?
Why are there TWO confirm buttons???
Weird, the only people I tend to see use google drives to distribute their games are doing so for RPG Maker games they've released to the public for free and they don't want to host the game on a dedicated site for some reason or another.
The funny thing about the whole "you can take your guns from CS:GO and use them in fortnite!" Is that fortnite and rocket league already share cosmetics. If you get certain cosmetics in rocket league you can use them in fortnite. But the problem is they're having to adapt those cosmetics into fortnite manually and it's taking a long ass time. So many rocket league cosmetics aren't in Fortnite yet and all it required was for the games to be owned by Epic and have the same epic account
the reason to make a pay-to-win version of a free-to-play game is so that whales can feel better by winning easier. They usually fail pretty quickly, since the free-to-play players rarely stick around once they discover the original game exists, then the pay-to-win version starts matching whales to whales, and they have to be good to win anyway, and they go find a new place where they can buy victory. Short term lucrative.
The fact that TF2 and CS:GO exists and cryptobros ignore them gives me great worry about my generation.
21:46 you went into great detail taking down this quote but there is one section of it that you missed which absolutely shows the ignorance of the person that made the quote. When they say a car could be brought into roblox, they are acting like roblox is one single game which is absolutely wrong. This idea of bringing a car into the game would absolutely ruin anything, it might work in some racing game, but bringing a Porsche into Blood and iron for example (a game set during the Napoleonic wars) would ruin the game. The idea of bringing weapons from other games too would absolutely destroy balance, roblox games can one minute have you fighting in medieval Europe as a knight, and the next minute have you fighting in the Battle of Rorke's Drift and bringing weapons in and out of these games would ruin balance and theming. This quote just screams "I work as a stock trader and I have no idea what a video game is".
This guy wrote a book on the metaverse BTW. Just goes to show how braindead these people are yet people still give them money