please do not use FÜM products, no amount of essential oils should be inhaled or consumed on a daily basis. regardless of their “natural” chemicals, they can still do damage to the lungs and body - and you’re literally just paying for AIR. you could be out $1000 a year if you’re a heavy smoker/vaper looking to switch to them. please look for certified safe alternatives if you want to break your habits :^(
@nachgeben not gonna dog on your fair point, but brother you think someone's gonna slap you with actual evidence in a youtube comment? Wishful thinking, but I commend the notion that people can still have a civil argument on the internets.
Fun fact about 2K games: every year, they arbitrarily change the mechanic for shooting the basketball and tout it as some kind of revolutionary new gameplay feature. It's always worse and it always gets changed in the next game.
Note for the rest of comment: 2K is one of the greediest companies of all time, and the games they produce have serious issues that stem from mere incompetence or laziness from the executives who want more money with less devwork (labor) to increase profit margins. However, I think the reason these games have issues is a complex topic that isn't simply "they barely update the game" or "they change the shooting year after year". I'll admit I have 1000s of hours on every 2K game that comes out, I'm an avid basketball fan and it's one of the only games I can find the time to play with my friends since all of us from childhood live all over the world now. I think the time I've spent on the game gives me a much greater understanding of its issues than a person just picking up the series for the first time will have. One of the biggest problems is that because the game is on an annual release schedule, the devs are forced to spend the majority of their time working on creating new mechanics for the same reasons you already said: so they can be marketed as revolutionary. What this means is that many of the glitches from past games, are still in the game today. I've seen glitches that were in the LAST GENERATION of consoles still be in the game today, which is just atrocious. Another issue is its lack of accessibility and purposefully confusing storefronts and menus. For example in the game you can go to a store like Nike, but what the game fails to tell you is the only shoes you can wear in online modes are the ones in the "colorways" section. If you buy any of the "on court" shoes, you've essentially wasted your money because the only place you can wear them is offline NBA games. Then you have the lack of explanation for the myplayer builder, they have 30 or so attributes like 3pt shooting, passing, stealing, etc. but there are literally no descriptions at all on what each stat does game mechanic wise. For example maybe somebody thinks "If I upgrade my passing, maybe my guy will start throwing crazy flashy passes like LeBron or Luka Doncic". In reality, raising your passing makes your passes a few frames faster while still maintaining the same animations that you can equip called "pass style". The only way we as a community on the game know this is because a youtube channel called 2KLabs tests out all of these mechanics and stats. The game does not explain any of this to new players, which mean players mess up and create terrible builds and spend money on getting them upgraded, only to find out how terrible they are and have to make a new one, which again costs them $50-$75. There's so many issues with the game, but almost all of them boil down to corporate greed, while it's easy to point a finger at the devs and say the shooting mechanics changing is the issue, you have to understand that in the games industry devs are like slaves for the corporations they work for. I'm sure the devs of 2K think it's absolutely stupid that a character on the game costs $70, but people like Ronnie2K, the spokesperson for 2K, are posting videos in ferraris. They are the ones we need to be talking about as the problem. The game will not improve with people like that "running" the show.
15:50 tbh this is just a Japanese Developer thing, nearly every Japanese Developed game is in all caps on Steam. "ELDEN RING", "ARMORED CORE", "SWORD ART ONLINE", "ONE PIECE", "DRAGON BALL", "CODE VEIN", "GOD EATER", and so on.
Resident Evil was the worst. It's fixed now since the RE4 remake, but before then every single title on steam was formatted completely differently. Some even included the Japanese title "Biohazard" for god knows why. My steam library looked something like this: RESIDENT EVIL Resident Evil 0 Resident Evil 2 / Biohazard: RE2 resident evil 4 / biohazard 4 Resident Evil 5 RESIDENT EVIL: REVELAITONS
@roadkillrandy5926Nope ot doesnt, wouldnt make sense. And yeah things are often done in caps over here for stylistic reasons. See it all the time when looking at signs, titles, etc containing some roman characters
"Bro can I join the army in Identity? Can I go fight a war?" Yeah, because this is gonna be the first ever video game where you can do that this is your one chance to experience virtual battle
He was pretty specific about joining the Locomotive Armed Forces regiment. Those guys are very elusive, I guess you could say hard to keep _track_ of ;)
@DodgyDaveGTX DODGY DAVE YO JOKES R UNCLEEEEEE CRUNCHAAAAY UNCLE JOKE BAD! don't tell yo uncle Jokes no mo Don't tell Dem uncle Jokes noooooo mooooore in synth
I’m all for weird games that are artistic and kinda dumb like LSD Dream Emulator or shit like that, but Uriel’s Chasm seems a little too forced. Like it wasn’t being made for the purpose of being weird, but for the purpose of *telling* people it was weird
Can you release a video that's called Many Sandals and you just talk about your favorite sandal brands? You won't have to credit me for this idea, don't worry.
"It's Call of Duty" yep, literally all the information I need to stay far away from it. Also, the fact that pr0n animators have handled Overwatch better than Blizzard, especially recently, is just sad.
Blizzard is handling Overwatch just fine right now, I don't really get it. As a player since day 1 of Overwatch's initial launch, its honestly better than it ever was - it now has WAY more content, gets frequent updates and events.. and the game is not as slowpaced as "OW1", there's less stuns - and it's free, so I can easily drag friends to play without the game demanding $40 per person. What's the downgrade? "wahh its a f2p model with paid cosmetics just like TF2 and Fortnite and every other F2P before it"? kek
@theSato the PvE was scratched off the table, which was the MAIN reason for ow2. everyone wanted that lore to be nurtured via campaigns. are you ignoring that on purpose? or is ist just because its not THAT important to YOU, you think that its not a big deal? they could have spared the "2" by any means and just start delivering 4 years ago ffs. they f**ked up beyond good and evil measures and just because its "better" than it was, it's still not where it's supposed to be. also plenty of people are torn (myself included). blizzard on a neutral note, somehow maneuvered ow into a situation, where no matter what they "fix" they break something else. double shield? lets delete one tank and break the tank play. long ttk? lets nrf healers healing abilities and make them dps with extra steps. and i dont care what you interpret into the next sentence but: if the most important thing upon announcing a new hero is its gender, you know the game cant be qualitatively good anymore. i dont care what gender any hero has. but fix the game and THEN make everyone gay. i'd be fine with that. its just deflection at this point
What the hell. Click on a nice long doc-u-vid for some nice background audio while doing dishes and this dude makes actual information entertaining to watch. Now I gotta find some hot garbage to play in the background to do the dishes to. Thanks a lot.
In fact the "War of the 3 Kingdom" was effectively an expansion of the board game "BANG!". Many basic cards and some classic characters are straight up identical with some characters of "BANG!". But the game blowed up so it was made much bigger and introduced some varieties. Due to its earliest migration into digital board game in China, it became the leading digital card game there for many years. But the game just didn't evolve, and like many card games, relied on getting more complicated and more broken pay2win cards. The dead loop lead to jank
Glad someone else mentioned this! I have fond memories of both Bang! and the 3 Kingdoms card games, so it was really surprising to see here that 3 Kingdoms was on Steam. Too bad they ended up getting greedy.
Seeing Chad show up out of nowhere to read for the video was like seeing my crackhead uncle on the news for reasons not related to a crime. Pretty cool.
21:40 I'm just trying to think through this logic by Activision. "You can't make that game! We own it!" "You sold it to us." "Yeah, but we invested in it before we sold it!"
“I’m not doing that anymore. I’m just doing stuff that I like.” Fucking good, James. Good! 100% of the time, the difference between Creators that enjoy their work and creators that are just trying to get money shows through. Im glad you’re putting tour mental and your health first! I found you in your fun, early vids days, and I’ve been here since. I cant wait to see the crazy shit you make next!
Gundam has a chronic case of games that are terrible or are just terribly supported by Bandai. Our only option is to play Armored Core and pretend that its gundam, which admittedly works pretty well if you can get your hands on the actual FromSoftware gundam game.
@jailcatjones3250 I wish it just launched more balanced. They had such a variety of suits, but boy, did it start out rough. The closed betas felt all over the place.
@jailcatjones3250 There is a community called Side7 that has figured out how to do evo private servers, it's a pain in the ass to setup but it seems to be working.
Why? Cummin has literally driven us to where were at as humanity. All of our achievements are owed to sex. Every last one. This isn't bad nor should it be a surprise. It's exactly the way things have always been lol.
Ah yes, Minecraft. I bought it during beta in 2010 for $15, enjoyed it for years, and then they deleted my account. When I tried to recover it they said sorry, pay us $30 and get none of your old stuff back. Screw that
Ye they deleted my OG java account too. Got another one for 2usd from some random whenever i got my new computer. Still, it doesnt make sense, even if they switched from mohjang acc's to Microsoft what gives them the right to just delete my game license (and my cape at the same time, my acc was worth more than 150usd..)
@Pwnners That is kinda the problem with digital games that have been brewing for years, and perhaps finally coming to a head though. If all you own is a license then they can take it away as a license merely acts as an access point to the actual product and isn't the product itself. There's increasing number of publishers that make the argument that you don't own the games you buy on any online platform.
Happened the same thing to me, but since I am in Brasil, it costa basically 25 Euros both times, but the last time Reais to Euro conversion was way higher
Personal note: bro, if you're having fun, we'll have fun watching you. i'm just a musician, not a film maker, but i'm sure you know what i mean. your anxiety, your pain, your dissatisfaction causes tangible effects for your work. but if you like what you're doing and what you're making, you'll always find an audience for that passion, even if it's not the audience you used to have. that love for the craft and the ecstatic joy of creation always shines through, whether folks watching you realize that's what they're seeing or not. gotta be good to yourself first.
@kombatwombat6579He knows the name of the programming language, all you have to do is google something like "assembly code images". You don't need to know the differences to do that, it's simply a goofy mistake. Also, noone ever mentioned being angry, you're jumping the gun. They probably just found it amusing.
22:33 Iirc, Steam didn't even have a refund system back then, or at least not in the way it exists now. Steam's refund system was only a recent addition after Valve caved to legal demands. There were some exceptions where you could request a refund if a game was especially bad, but otherwise back then, if an EA game was abandoned or failed to live up to expectation, you were basically screwed. At least nowadays, the refund policy isn't as strict as it seems, as you can still attempt to request a refund even if your purchase went beyond the minimum requirements, but only in a scenario where a game failed to meet expectations beyond those two hours/two weeks (that and you had to make it clear that you didn't enjoy the game beyond that limit - you couldn't just complete any random game, then suddenly request a refund and say "lol game sucked")
As I recall, the game didn't have to be just "especially bad", it had to be non-functional. I think there were also exceptions for fraudulent games and games that had to be removed for things like stolen assets and copyright violations, but other than that it was 'you don't, like it? Well, tough luck'.
It's weird how many people don't understand how lenient Steam refunds are, and all they know is the two weeks/two hours part. From Steam's refund policy: "even if you fall outside of the refund rules we’ve described(2 weeks, 2 hours), you can ask for a refund anyway and we’ll take a look." If a game wasted your time for two or three hours before you realized it's crap, you can still refund it. They'll refund you no questions asked in the two week/two hour timeframe. A little outside of that, you just need to give a good reason. Cite hardware issues of you don't know what to say. As long as you're not trying to get a refund way out of that timeframe and intentionally abusing the system, you're okay.
@lewd6764 People have done it, but like i said, most games now have tutorial segments that last long enough for you to be unable to refund. Or even some 30mins shader compilation in some cases.
I love how the CoD slot is literally just "It's Call of Duty". That's not even a joke, the swift cutaway to the next entry isn't even a gag, that's actually there. Anyway, for any future dev circulating the comments here, just know - to fall hard, you must first fly high and proceed to forget how to.
@Distortia1994 When they first made CoD, they flew, as they released what was basically the same game repeatedly over time, they glided. Now, they've released an infinitely shittier remake, and clipped their own wings.
@ekki1993 sorry 4 the reply I'm zooted and kinda got passionate wit it. As someone who grew up with them and still likes them to some extent, one of the biggest issues is the simplest. In order to play semi-safely in current time, you'll have to play the latest greatest dumpster heap to have any chance of human interaction. The fact that it's the same game isn't an issue kinda like 2k players won't find it an issue-you love this game, you loved playing it with others, but now servers are hacked or shut down entirely or it's completely unsafe for your hardware, and you have one legal option, which is purchase the newest game and hope it's similar to the ones you enjoyed before. The kind of game that you can sit down and relax with (even if it involves screaming) with friends. There's little pressure to perform impeccably as it's meant to be casual and most people aren't tryhards contrary to the stereotype. The last few years of entries are obviously even worse than their copied counterparts from the late 00's to early '10s. Still even further, there's the impact of the sizable divide of players where some like the early Modern Warfare entries, some like me disliked those and favored the 2008-2014 games for things like grim historical shit and a different vibe, and others who are now part of the battle royal crowd. It's a mess of different folks who are forced to intertwine if they want to be active in its playerbase, aside from royal players. Another facet is the obvious problems like monetization but the reality of people playing is that they are not locked into what this does to them like people always online are; they came home to drink beer and wind down after work, and don't feel bad about spending money on a camo after a long day. Not justifying it, but knowing numerous people who play to this day, if you look around generally, you'll see most people are more casual about these things than not. There is nothing wrong with that beyond the obvious vote-with-your-wallet debacle. I wish it were different, and that they cared more, but if wishes were pennies I'd be rich. There's even more to be said about the community being audibly upset about the way Activision has handled stealing voices and art through use of AI the last month or two, but this doesn't get talked about so much. It's a low bar that players at least have enough braincells to understand as immoral. There's lots of reasons players like one CoD while disliking others. No two games play precisely the same even if it doesn't look like it. I haven't truly enjoyed a COD game since Black Ops 2, until 6. Rose tinted glasses, but 2 was limited in its outlandishness and stayed mostly true to what I liked about the first installment. But I acknowledge 2 and 6 are nothing alike in the slightest in ways that truly matter to me and that this forces me to get comfortable with that for $70 to play with others, or revert to private servers as one of the few who would go to that length. (This is what I choose to do because I ain't got the money or 200gb for what boils down to one mode that I'll play sparingly, though the absolute garbage of the community lingers in private corners, so I'm forced to play solo anyway.) I got lost off topic, but this has always been fascinating to me when seeing people dog on franchises like this (for good reason). They rarely think more on the players beyond the sheeple mindset. Which again is accurate, but that doesn't mean people are stupid so much as willfully ignorant for their sanity. Offering perspective for the hell of it. I'm sure someone sober could offer better perspective that makes sense lool
9:22 - Donkey Kong actually started as a Popeye game, there's some awesome early prototype drawings that show essentially the same setup we got in Donkey Kong but with Popeye characters (Jumpman = Popeye, Donkey Kong = Brutus, Pauline = Olive Oyl)! There were some delays getting the IP specifics worked out so Nintendo turned the work they had done into their own original IP with Donkey Kong. The rights holders for Popeye eventually did decide they wanted a game so they came up with another entirely separate game for them, the one that released after Donkey Kong.
I hope you do a deep dive in early access games, the amount that get abandoned or even just cancelled before getting to the 1.0 release I imagine is quite a lot now
god I've seen such promising looking games either get completely gutted of their promise and left as half abandoned shovelware, or just straight up done a runner with the money
I imagine the problem with that as a video is that the story is the same every time. Dev wants to make a game. Dev gets it to playable. Dev early accesses the game. People buy in and are excited. Dev works on game for a bit. Uh oh, the game is hard to make and/or the money ran out and/or we're bored of working on the game and want to do anything else. Either bail or push a bad 1.0 and then bail.
@bobbodaskank what I hated I was browsing the steam sale and saw some cool looking games in early access but so often would see a release of a game that it's core is sound, so they have done a lot of the heavy lifting already but then might have a couple of updates and then radio silence, Superfuse is an example
Roller Coaster Tycoon 1, 2 & 3 are responsible for my crippling gaming addiction in adulthood. When I go to theme parks I always binge it afterwards, always. Good to hear no new generations will have to suffer.
1:18 Simon was the character name I used in all those games (where a character name was needed). Also: How dare you forget the best ones?! SimCopter and SimAnt! You could load in your SimCity city into SimCopter and blow it up with an apache helicopter! Nowadays the framerate limiter that can stop the helicopter from achieving light speed at the barest hint of input from the 'q' key hasn't been invented. So I haven't played it since the 90's. But that and MechWarrior II were my life for awhile. Thank you for coming to my "I am very old" TedTalk
Happy to hear you're taking a step back and focusing on what you want to make; anything else just isn't worth it in the end. Just so you know Kudos, a lot of us really do enjoy your content and love the weird humor and edits. That's not even mentioning how a lot of people (like myself) share your interest in these kinds of topics. Keep it up my guy, but make sure you're getting some satisfaction from it too. Also happy to hear about the second channel! I'll be sure to click the link, but I'll have to get back to you on the ball sucking.
Next Car Game actually came out. After the Kickstarter failed, they sold Pre-Orders as a „Technology Sneak Peek“, just before christmas 2013, which was so successful that it raised more money in a week than the initial kickstarter even asked for. the game got released on Steam Early Access in January 2014, got renamed in October the same year.. to Wreckfest.
That’s some wild HTML too: External JavaScripth2>h2>h2> what looks to be: A Paragraph.p>p>p> Followed by a saying “Try it” that runs myFunction() when clicked (no semicolon, though it’s not required in JS) and then the same weird duplicate closing tag thing
I find baffling that NBA and FIFA games think they can get away with their shitty practices when there are literally 24+ other versions to choose from since the nineteen-nineties But yeah, the public for those games has severe brain rot since the first version
If you want to play competitively or even casually online, there's at most 2 versions that are viable, they shut those servers down real quick once the next year comes out
I'll never forget the first time I saw Farming Simulator. As someone who grew up on a farm, I thought it was a hilarious joke. Nope. It's "let's play tractors!" for grown adults, so successful it gets a new release annually. Wtf!? 😅
@rhythmandblues_alibi I can see why. However, people who grew up in a city are the target buyers, as they get to experience the freedom (and the routine) of living in the countryside; a much needed release from their Work-Home routine.
I'm a trucker and legitimately used American Truck Sim to practice for my CDL test lol. When the multiplayer mod came out there was a couple times I'd park my real truck then get online to play with friends. Haven't touched it in a few years though.
City folk are absolutely not the target audience. It's overwhelmingly boys from rural areas that have a passion for modern farm equipment. They unironically have LAN parties playing it. Just because one grew up on or around farms doesn't mean you get to operate the newest or largest harvesters and tractors. It's for tractor nerds. Just like how I many play Snowrunner to enjoy huge offroad trucks they will never get to drive. I'm not saying there aren't those city gamers at all. But you've got to be pretty interested in the newest combine harvesters to keep getting the newest version.
My friend got me into Gundum battle operation 2, and i stopped playing it bc i left once bc i kept getting jumped while almost no progress of the game was being made, and the second time was bc my whole team left, and it was just me and one other guy. I came back in a week to see if the penalty was gone, was still there. Two years later, that penalty is still there.
It isn't even this. The tragedy of Verrueckt Water Slide at Schlitterbahn Kansas City could have been avoided by RollerCoaster Tycoon. I tried that at age 8 and the float FN exploded.
Your quirky humor mixed with interesting stories and facts is amazing! Keep up the great work at whatever pace you feel most comfortable with. I love the awkward stuff, it's the most memorable! -IE "I made a song for you.....(one strum) ~Josh!~"
That quirky, dry-as-the-Nullarbor Aussie/Kiwi humour is precisely how I found this channel and why I re-watch many of those earlier videos on Magic The Gathering, WoW, Runescape. etc when I need a good laugh to pick me up. So you do you, James... we're all here for it. 👍
12:42 it’s the same with Madden. Then pokemon trademarking using a thing to fight another thing. These companies don’t want to make better games the want to monopolize them and be the only ones in town to force you to buy their product. Monopolies were outlawed for just this reason and they need to be outlawed in our video games!!!
Yes please make the weird jokes and content. It's refreshing and never fails to get a laugh. I mean, a mini-Kudos out of the gaping mouth-box? Instant classic.
Fun fact about the Flatout 3, around the time of that game being released I was in a programming and art course equivalent to associates degree or trade school, we were required to do an internship to complete it. Quite literally half the 20 people class was an intern at Team 6 to the point that in out course it was called "the [name of class] company" or worse "the intern company", because from what people that interned there told a grand total of 4 people of the, roughly, 40 people that was in the office daily wasn't an intern making only ~10% of the people working at that office paid employees.
Identity sounds like a genuinely insane concept. You could literally just do a job in your real life, how is creating a job for you to do AFTER you come back from work seem at all interesting?
Well there are SOMEEE interesting concepts I could see explored that I couldn't in real life. Like going around getting away with crimes, robbing people, and ruining their lives. Sure I could be a cop, but I not a scumbag.
As stupid as it sounds there's a huge market for it. If you play GTA V online you'll see people that spend hours every day being a truck driver or working at a chicken factory. Same with GMOD.
Unlike real life, not only are you allowed to be someone other than yourself, but everyone that you interact with has the same basic interests. You also don't have to worry about assholes, because it's just a game it doesn't matters if you get into a fight or start insulting customers. It's basically IRL: No Consequences.
One thing about the Gundam game that contributes a bit to the reviews is probably the lack of crossplay with consoles because the PC version decided to add new units from the franchise that they console gamers don't get. Basically the franchise is decades old with many interpretations, but the oldest versions of the franchise were centered around a single Universal Century timeline that was more militaristic. Later on it got way more anime in separate timelines and the giant robots got increasingly insane abilities as the franchise continued. The game started on consoles with an old school UC only robots thing, but the PC version introduced some of the later ones with comparitively insane abilities that some players thought would render all their favorites obsolete. It is now a huge division on consoles as to whether they want these newer units at all with some convinced it will ruin the game and devs actually holding a giant survey asking console players if they want to keep the new units out of the console version or if they want it to get all the ones the PC version has.
After watching till the end it completely makes sense why this video was so hilarious. I never realised how much I missed what you were doing with your older content. The bizarre writing and phrasing is your strength and what makes you unique.
Man, Overwatch is just... such a damn bummer. I have never seen a company cook up such a stellar IP and then just fumble the ball so hard. They could have dominated the PvP market for *years* more, made incredible spin-off games, comics, maybe a tv series - and now it's a lame horse, laying in the mud, sad and broken.
I play Gundam Battle Operation 2 (apologies, GUNDAM BATTLE OPERATION 2) and I'm surprised yet not surprised that its on this list. I seem to be one of the fortunate ones that has decent internet- and yet the hardest part of the game is actually starting a match. Its a shame since aside from this problem, its a REALLY good Gundam game/team shooter. I don't even mind the gotcha mechanics that much since you earn a lot of free tokens (again though- if you can PLAY.) Its criminal that they haven't tried fixing any of these problems for people who actually have been able to play the game... we're a small but loyal crowd- and the game DOES get weekly updates!
Yeah, as someone who has read into it, there's a lot. Like how, for the last few years of the classic era of the show, it was basically left at the mercy of people who hated it and wanted it to fail.
@jic1 I tried to give it a chance. Then they turned the Master into an obnoxious potato and had said obnoxious potato somehow singlehandedly destroy Gallifrey thus negating the best anniversary special the modern show ever produced and I checked out entirely.
Good for you man. This vid definitely played like a more polished, fancy-pants moving picture show! I'm a video editor, and know how long it can take to get a good film out. People will always appreciate quality,
Isnt it crazy how "fum" or whatever its called is a product meant to be a healthy alternative to vaping which was a product meant to be a healthy alternative to tobacco?
Just a correction thats pedantic but minecraft was sold in pre alpha too. I bought mine during infdev and it was $5. When it went to alpha the price went to $15, but buying it before then still got you the full release. Id like to say i only spent $5 on minecraft but i bought it on 360 and switch, however my pc version was $5.
it would be nice if steam went "as long as a game is in early access, it's refund time limit is increased from 2 hours to 50" suddenly a lot of early access games would reconsider being early access
I have nearly the exact same CRT monitor at 1:00, mine's the FS740, speakers included. Had to to a double take there since I was watching the video on that monitor.
overwatch two also had the great idea of buffing hit detection for almost every character, so now theres many compilations of people getting headshots while not even having the crosshair aimed at the enemy
I love the very end of this video. Do what makes you happy because I like what makes you happy. I became a fan of yours awhile ago and I'm planning on sticking around. You cover stuff that I find interesting, make it funny and just do a great job all around.
Er, in GBO2 lv1 penalty only bans you for one day and 5 hours, its the lv 2 penalty that bans you for 7 days. I know this because Ive gotten hundreds of penalties in my 800 hours of play time (and I still play daily since day 1)
@ 28:50 The reason flatout 3 was such dog shit was because they used assets from the flatout wii release that they originally helped to make instead of making new, better-looking, and functioning assets for PC.
the funny thing about Uriel's Chasm is that the developer, self described "micro indie developer" (whatever the hell that meant given indies are usually small), goes on to create thematicly connected games as if they try to create a lore or series or something. Surprisingly the follow-ups has less negative reviews despite they have roughly the same quality (probably because even though they're cheap, Uriel's Chasm is an enough of a deterrent). Also you forget that while "Next Car Game" cancelled, Bugbear went on to create one of the most underrated best demolition racing game of 2018 (with several Early Access years): Wreckfest.
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please do not use FÜM products, no amount of essential oils should be inhaled or consumed on a daily basis. regardless of their “natural” chemicals, they can still do damage to the lungs and body - and you’re literally just paying for AIR. you could be out $1000 a year if you’re a heavy smoker/vaper looking to switch to them. please look for certified safe alternatives if you want to break your habits :^(
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@stolen_stardustCorrect. Now what is your evidence that these are *essential* oils?
@nachgeben not gonna dog on your fair point, but brother you think someone's gonna slap you with actual evidence in a youtube comment? Wishful thinking, but I commend the notion that people can still have a civil argument on the internets.
@nachgeben It's literally on their website lmao
I'll admit, I was caught off-guard when you said, "I don't speak Chinese and barely speak England." I was laughing so hard.
But he dances with wolves
@cernunnos_livesdances like one
Bugbear's "Next Car Game" did eventually get funding, and got developed and released! It's called Wreckfest, and it's bloody glorious.
It was around the same time that THQ Nordic acquired Bugbear too, so we know where that funding came from
Wreckfest is so fun. Love the collision physics.
Goes to show, some go fund me's do work out for the better
I love wreckfest! I'm having PS4 memories 🥲
1k like hehe
Fun fact about 2K games: every year, they arbitrarily change the mechanic for shooting the basketball and tout it as some kind of revolutionary new gameplay feature. It's always worse and it always gets changed in the next game.
they should make a to-scale basketball controller you need like guitar hero
@ManyKudos I swear there was a plug and play basketball game that was literally that in the early 2000s
Note for the rest of comment: 2K is one of the greediest companies of all time, and the games they produce have serious issues that stem from mere incompetence or laziness from the executives who want more money with less devwork (labor) to increase profit margins.
However, I think the reason these games have issues is a complex topic that isn't simply "they barely update the game" or "they change the shooting year after year".
I'll admit I have 1000s of hours on every 2K game that comes out, I'm an avid basketball fan and it's one of the only games I can find the time to play with my friends since all of us from childhood live all over the world now. I think the time I've spent on the game gives me a much greater understanding of its issues than a person just picking up the series for the first time will have.
One of the biggest problems is that because the game is on an annual release schedule, the devs are forced to spend the majority of their time working on creating new mechanics for the same reasons you already said: so they can be marketed as revolutionary. What this means is that many of the glitches from past games, are still in the game today. I've seen glitches that were in the LAST GENERATION of consoles still be in the game today, which is just atrocious.
Another issue is its lack of accessibility and purposefully confusing storefronts and menus. For example in the game you can go to a store like Nike, but what the game fails to tell you is the only shoes you can wear in online modes are the ones in the "colorways" section. If you buy any of the "on court" shoes, you've essentially wasted your money because the only place you can wear them is offline NBA games.
Then you have the lack of explanation for the myplayer builder, they have 30 or so attributes like 3pt shooting, passing, stealing, etc. but there are literally no descriptions at all on what each stat does game mechanic wise. For example maybe somebody thinks "If I upgrade my passing, maybe my guy will start throwing crazy flashy passes like LeBron or Luka Doncic". In reality, raising your passing makes your passes a few frames faster while still maintaining the same animations that you can equip called "pass style". The only way we as a community on the game know this is because a youtube channel called 2KLabs tests out all of these mechanics and stats. The game does not explain any of this to new players, which mean players mess up and create terrible builds and spend money on getting them upgraded, only to find out how terrible they are and have to make a new one, which again costs them $50-$75.
There's so many issues with the game, but almost all of them boil down to corporate greed, while it's easy to point a finger at the devs and say the shooting mechanics changing is the issue, you have to understand that in the games industry devs are like slaves for the corporations they work for. I'm sure the devs of 2K think it's absolutely stupid that a character on the game costs $70, but people like Ronnie2K, the spokesperson for 2K, are posting videos in ferraris. They are the ones we need to be talking about as the problem. The game will not improve with people like that "running" the show.
767corp the iPhone of iPhone games? 🤔
The last sports game i enjoyed was nhl 2003
My cat is named Lemon and when you said "Ya big Lemon" she woke up from her drowziness.
Please give Lemon a gentle pet and kiss on the forehead ty
Aww what a nice name, I've got two cats named Mango and Lychee ^^
15:50 tbh this is just a Japanese Developer thing, nearly every Japanese Developed game is in all caps on Steam. "ELDEN RING", "ARMORED CORE", "SWORD ART ONLINE", "ONE PIECE", "DRAGON BALL", "CODE VEIN", "GOD EATER", and so on.
What's the deal with that? Any idea
@Kurian10I think Japanese has no capital letters
Maybe it's Bandai Namco thing, since every example you gave was published by them
Resident Evil was the worst. It's fixed now since the RE4 remake, but before then every single title on steam was formatted completely differently. Some even included the Japanese title "Biohazard" for god knows why.
My steam library looked something like this:
RESIDENT EVIL
Resident Evil 0
Resident Evil 2 / Biohazard: RE2
resident evil 4 / biohazard 4
Resident Evil 5
RESIDENT EVIL: REVELAITONS
@roadkillrandy5926Nope ot doesnt, wouldnt make sense. And yeah things are often done in caps over here for stylistic reasons. See it all the time when looking at signs, titles, etc containing some roman characters
"Bro can I join the army in Identity? Can I go fight a war?"
Yeah, because this is gonna be the first ever video game where you can do that this is your one chance to experience virtual battle
He was pretty specific about joining the Locomotive Armed Forces regiment. Those guys are very elusive, I guess you could say hard to keep _track_ of ;)
@ADHDickhead door. now. 🚪👈
@ADHDickheadstill, even for that niche one could play foxhole
Bro legit could just play Arma 3 if he wanted that badly lmao
@DodgyDaveGTX DODGY DAVE YO JOKES R UNCLEEEEEE CRUNCHAAAAY
UNCLE JOKE BAD! don't tell yo uncle Jokes no mo
Don't tell Dem uncle Jokes noooooo mooooore in synth
Fun Fact: "Next Car Game" by Bugbear later became Wreckfest, which is on Steam and still has an active playerbase.
Oh, right! I was so confused because I was thinking “Didn’t that game come out, though??” I forgot about the name change lol
That was them? Damn. Wreckfest is fun too
@feistyy it's so fun especially with a wheel
Wreckfest to me will always be next car game and I own whybeare for that.
The true third game to I forgot the name of the franchise but know its related to smashing cars against stuff
41:06 As a former 1000+ hour Heroes of the Storm player, "left to rot" is the best way I've seen someone succinctly describe that situation.
Transition to dota2? Kek
Good game but not enough money for Bobby Kotick's fifth yacht, so no more enjoyment for you!
I still play it with friends, the vs AI gameplay is still worth it as a casual social experience.
@nizm0manwho would want to transition to a bad game?
@labtec514 If you were playing hots2 you can only go up
I’m all for weird games that are artistic and kinda dumb like LSD Dream Emulator or shit like that, but Uriel’s Chasm seems a little too forced. Like it wasn’t being made for the purpose of being weird, but for the purpose of *telling* people it was weird
Bro got sponsored by the ScamStick 9000
Can you release a video that's called Many Sandals and you just talk about your favorite sandal brands? You won't have to credit me for this idea, don't worry.
Rate them based on style, comfort, durability, spell slots, and mouthfeel.
@sloshed-rat and its weight distribution on a pair of grapes
Missed opportunity for April Fool's day
or perhaps Many Candles with some scented candle brand reviews
Bro if you know, you know. It got to be many jandals
Yes building a community during development is great UNLESS the guy who's job that is doesnt get any support by the team and feedback is ignored.
"It's Call of Duty" yep, literally all the information I need to stay far away from it. Also, the fact that pr0n animators have handled Overwatch better than Blizzard, especially recently, is just sad.
You can say that again.
Best line in the video.
Blizzard is handling Overwatch just fine right now, I don't really get it. As a player since day 1 of Overwatch's initial launch, its honestly better than it ever was - it now has WAY more content, gets frequent updates and events.. and the game is not as slowpaced as "OW1", there's less stuns - and it's free, so I can easily drag friends to play without the game demanding $40 per person.
What's the downgrade? "wahh its a f2p model with paid cosmetics just like TF2 and Fortnite and every other F2P before it"? kek
@theSato the PvE was scratched off the table, which was the MAIN reason for ow2. everyone wanted that lore to be nurtured via campaigns. are you ignoring that on purpose? or is ist just because its not THAT important to YOU, you think that its not a big deal? they could have spared the "2" by any means and just start delivering 4 years ago ffs. they f**ked up beyond good and evil measures and just because its "better" than it was, it's still not where it's supposed to be. also plenty of people are torn (myself included). blizzard on a neutral note, somehow maneuvered ow into a situation, where no matter what they "fix" they break something else. double shield? lets delete one tank and break the tank play. long ttk? lets nrf healers healing abilities and make them dps with extra steps. and i dont care what you interpret into the next sentence but: if the most important thing upon announcing a new hero is its gender, you know the game cant be qualitatively good anymore. i dont care what gender any hero has. but fix the game and THEN make everyone gay. i'd be fine with that. its just deflection at this point
@aleksm_ Mate he's a troll.
What the hell. Click on a nice long doc-u-vid for some nice background audio while doing dishes and this dude makes actual information entertaining to watch. Now I gotta find some hot garbage to play in the background to do the dishes to. Thanks a lot.
Also yes I am now subscribed.
I haven't heard the words "Scholastic Book Fairs" in decades.
That unlocked a core childhood memory.
Do they still do those?
Not that I’m aware of.
@paulstein8854books don't exist anymore
Got my first PDA at a book fair lol
They still do those you louts.
The surprise guest appearance from Chad made me spit out my coffee. Thank you to my two favorite Australian youtube channels
Thank you Chad for letting me film in your office~
Many Kudos is from New Zealand. They're basically Aussies though.
In fact the "War of the 3 Kingdom" was effectively an expansion of the board game "BANG!". Many basic cards and some classic characters are straight up identical with some characters of "BANG!". But the game blowed up so it was made much bigger and introduced some varieties. Due to its earliest migration into digital board game in China, it became the leading digital card game there for many years. But the game just didn't evolve, and like many card games, relied on getting more complicated and more broken pay2win cards. The dead loop lead to jank
Glad someone else mentioned this! I have fond memories of both Bang! and the 3 Kingdoms card games, so it was really surprising to see here that 3 Kingdoms was on Steam. Too bad they ended up getting greedy.
Also, 3 Kingdoms is on Tabletop Simulator. If you can get a group of friends to sit and figure out the game, it's pretty fun
Next Car Game actually came out. It just got renamed for obvious reasons. You've maybe heard of it: Wreckfest
Seeing Chad show up out of nowhere to read for the video was like seeing my crackhead uncle on the news for reasons not related to a crime. Pretty cool.
Or the Seinfeld episode where Kramer is randomly on a TV show.
Real.
21:40 I'm just trying to think through this logic by Activision.
"You can't make that game! We own it!"
"You sold it to us."
"Yeah, but we invested in it before we sold it!"
“I’m not doing that anymore. I’m just doing stuff that I like.”
Fucking good, James. Good! 100% of the time, the difference between Creators that enjoy their work and creators that are just trying to get money shows through. Im glad you’re putting tour mental and your health first!
I found you in your fun, early vids days, and I’ve been here since. I cant wait to see the crazy shit you make next!
Gundam has a chronic case of games that are terrible or are just terribly supported by Bandai. Our only option is to play Armored Core and pretend that its gundam, which admittedly works pretty well if you can get your hands on the actual FromSoftware gundam game.
Yeah, it's nuts that we keep having to go to ghiren's greed as one of the good gundam games. And that was on the Saturn.
I miss Gundam Evolution, I'm not a fan of online shooters but that one was a diamond in the rough to me.
@jailcatjones3250 I wish it just launched more balanced. They had such a variety of suits, but boy, did it start out rough. The closed betas felt all over the place.
Zone of Enders was for me a Gundam game. Loved playing it as a kid
@jailcatjones3250 There is a community called Side7 that has figured out how to do evo private servers, it's a pain in the ass to setup but it seems to be working.
You know its bad when Coomers make better hero animations than Blizzard.
Comers are the most motivated population on the planet.
say what you will but i truly believe coomers have changed the game for animation
Why? Cummin has literally driven us to where were at as humanity. All of our achievements are owed to sex. Every last one.
This isn't bad nor should it be a surprise. It's exactly the way things have always been lol.
Can't really blame Blizzard, the game devs are interns and the old guard have left thanks to wokeism and cancel culture.
Overwatch 2 models cracked in 4 DAYS!
XD
Ah yes, Minecraft.
I bought it during beta in 2010 for $15, enjoyed it for years, and then they deleted my account. When I tried to recover it they said sorry, pay us $30 and get none of your old stuff back. Screw that
Ye they deleted my OG java account too. Got another one for 2usd from some random whenever i got my new computer. Still, it doesnt make sense, even if they switched from mohjang acc's to Microsoft what gives them the right to just delete my game license (and my cape at the same time, my acc was worth more than 150usd..)
@Pwnners That is kinda the problem with digital games that have been brewing for years, and perhaps finally coming to a head though. If all you own is a license then they can take it away as a license merely acts as an access point to the actual product and isn't the product itself. There's increasing number of publishers that make the argument that you don't own the games you buy on any online platform.
Happened the same thing to me, but since I am in Brasil, it costa basically 25 Euros both times, but the last time Reais to Euro conversion was way higher
Personal note: bro, if you're having fun, we'll have fun watching you. i'm just a musician, not a film maker, but i'm sure you know what i mean. your anxiety, your pain, your dissatisfaction causes tangible effects for your work. but if you like what you're doing and what you're making, you'll always find an audience for that passion, even if it's not the audience you used to have. that love for the craft and the ecstatic joy of creation always shines through, whether folks watching you realize that's what they're seeing or not. gotta be good to yourself first.
ah yes, "JavaScript Statementsh2>h2>" the fundamental line necessary in every assembly program 1:33
Seriously, WTF happened 😂
As a React dev, this hurt to see
You guys really are angry about non-developers not knowing programming languages. Guess you'd be even angrier if they did and you were out of work.
@kombatwombat6579 HTML isn't a programming language.
@kombatwombat6579He knows the name of the programming language, all you have to do is google something like "assembly code images".
You don't need to know the differences to do that, it's simply a goofy mistake.
Also, noone ever mentioned being angry, you're jumping the gun. They probably just found it amusing.
hey wait a minute THIS ISN'T NAKEY JAKEY
Being sponsored by füme in a video about scandals is hilarious
It's another RUclips sponsorship scandal, isn't it
@DewaKrishna_ yea you really shouldn’t be inhaling essential oil’s
@user-ry7tq6bc8c wait they use essential oils instead of water based flavourings similar to vape liquid? Thats insane lmao
@Sairriolth if you want a source I googled: fume controversy
@ehnk0unter I can't believe I want people to go back to fidget spinners at this point
2K: "Basketball Americans are poor console casuals."
wtf he was such a jump scare I didn’t expect to see him😂 18:08
This was the first video I’ve seen on this channel, is Chad a recurring guest? What a surprise!
RCT World looks like a company near bankruptcy putting out an unfinished game, because it was their last hope... Wait, that literally happend 😂
And Park Beyond is RCTW, but done right.
Seems like anyone in game dev with the surname "Sawyer" ends up being a legend.
Let me list all the ones I can think of off the top of my head
- Chris
- Brutus
- Don Benjmin
- Chris "The Douglas"
- Double-D
@ManyKudos how is Josh not the first on the list?
@Clash-in-the-Land-of-Waves you should do game dev then
22:33 Iirc, Steam didn't even have a refund system back then, or at least not in the way it exists now. Steam's refund system was only a recent addition after Valve caved to legal demands. There were some exceptions where you could request a refund if a game was especially bad, but otherwise back then, if an EA game was abandoned or failed to live up to expectation, you were basically screwed.
At least nowadays, the refund policy isn't as strict as it seems, as you can still attempt to request a refund even if your purchase went beyond the minimum requirements, but only in a scenario where a game failed to meet expectations beyond those two hours/two weeks (that and you had to make it clear that you didn't enjoy the game beyond that limit - you couldn't just complete any random game, then suddenly request a refund and say "lol game sucked")
As I recall, the game didn't have to be just "especially bad", it had to be non-functional. I think there were also exceptions for fraudulent games and games that had to be removed for things like stolen assets and copyright violations, but other than that it was 'you don't, like it? Well, tough luck'.
It's weird how many people don't understand how lenient Steam refunds are, and all they know is the two weeks/two hours part. From Steam's refund policy: "even if you fall outside of the refund rules we’ve described(2 weeks, 2 hours), you can ask for a refund anyway and we’ll take a look." If a game wasted your time for two or three hours before you realized it's crap, you can still refund it.
They'll refund you no questions asked in the two week/two hour timeframe. A little outside of that, you just need to give a good reason. Cite hardware issues of you don't know what to say. As long as you're not trying to get a refund way out of that timeframe and intentionally abusing the system, you're okay.
IIRC, you actually CAN 100% a game in 2 hours, then refund it, no questions ask
Its still like that, the tutorial + the first game before you manage to grasp how bad the EA game will last longer than 2hours, no refund for you.
@lewd6764 People have done it, but like i said, most games now have tutorial segments that last long enough for you to be unable to refund. Or even some 30mins shader compilation in some cases.
I love how the CoD slot is literally just "It's Call of Duty". That's not even a joke, the swift cutaway to the next entry isn't even a gag, that's actually there.
Anyway, for any future dev circulating the comments here, just know - to fall hard, you must first fly high and proceed to forget how to.
Its also the complaint, that is really why people hated it
@Distortia1994 When they first made CoD, they flew, as they released what was basically the same game repeatedly over time, they glided. Now, they've released an infinitely shittier remake, and clipped their own wings.
I'm surprised it was the new MW3 as that seems more universally panned
Considering the reasons why people like CoD games, I can't imagine those same people's reasons for disliking a CoD game making logical sense.
@ekki1993 sorry 4 the reply I'm zooted and kinda got passionate wit it.
As someone who grew up with them and still likes them to some extent, one of the biggest issues is the simplest. In order to play semi-safely in current time, you'll have to play the latest greatest dumpster heap to have any chance of human interaction. The fact that it's the same game isn't an issue kinda like 2k players won't find it an issue-you love this game, you loved playing it with others, but now servers are hacked or shut down entirely or it's completely unsafe for your hardware, and you have one legal option, which is purchase the newest game and hope it's similar to the ones you enjoyed before. The kind of game that you can sit down and relax with (even if it involves screaming) with friends. There's little pressure to perform impeccably as it's meant to be casual and most people aren't tryhards contrary to the stereotype. The last few years of entries are obviously even worse than their copied counterparts from the late 00's to early '10s. Still even further, there's the impact of the sizable divide of players where some like the early Modern Warfare entries, some like me disliked those and favored the 2008-2014 games for things like grim historical shit and a different vibe, and others who are now part of the battle royal crowd. It's a mess of different folks who are forced to intertwine if they want to be active in its playerbase, aside from royal players. Another facet is the obvious problems like monetization but the reality of people playing is that they are not locked into what this does to them like people always online are; they came home to drink beer and wind down after work, and don't feel bad about spending money on a camo after a long day. Not justifying it, but knowing numerous people who play to this day, if you look around generally, you'll see most people are more casual about these things than not. There is nothing wrong with that beyond the obvious vote-with-your-wallet debacle. I wish it were different, and that they cared more, but if wishes were pennies I'd be rich.
There's even more to be said about the community being audibly upset about the way Activision has handled stealing voices and art through use of AI the last month or two, but this doesn't get talked about so much. It's a low bar that players at least have enough braincells to understand as immoral.
There's lots of reasons players like one CoD while disliking
others. No two games play precisely the same even if it doesn't look like it. I haven't truly enjoyed a COD game since Black Ops 2, until 6. Rose tinted glasses, but 2 was limited in its outlandishness and stayed mostly true to what I liked about the first installment. But I acknowledge 2 and 6 are nothing alike in the slightest in ways that truly matter to me and that this forces me to get comfortable with that for $70 to play with others, or revert to private servers as one of the few who would go to that length. (This is what I choose to do because I ain't got the money or 200gb for what boils down to one mode that I'll play sparingly, though the absolute garbage of the community lingers in private corners, so I'm forced to play solo anyway.)
I got lost off topic, but this has always been fascinating to me when seeing people dog on franchises like this (for good reason). They rarely think more on the players beyond the sheeple mindset. Which again is accurate, but that doesn't mean people are stupid so much as willfully ignorant for their sanity. Offering perspective for the hell of it. I'm sure someone sober could offer better perspective that makes sense lool
9:22 - Donkey Kong actually started as a Popeye game, there's some awesome early prototype drawings that show essentially the same setup we got in Donkey Kong but with Popeye characters (Jumpman = Popeye, Donkey Kong = Brutus, Pauline = Olive Oyl)! There were some delays getting the IP specifics worked out so Nintendo turned the work they had done into their own original IP with Donkey Kong. The rights holders for Popeye eventually did decide they wanted a game so they came up with another entirely separate game for them, the one that released after Donkey Kong.
I hope you do a deep dive in early access games, the amount that get abandoned or even just cancelled before getting to the 1.0 release I imagine is quite a lot now
god I've seen such promising looking games either get completely gutted of their promise and left as half abandoned shovelware, or just straight up done a runner with the money
Shit I worked on one. Coulda been worse.
I imagine the problem with that as a video is that the story is the same every time.
Dev wants to make a game. Dev gets it to playable. Dev early accesses the game. People buy in and are excited. Dev works on game for a bit. Uh oh, the game is hard to make and/or the money ran out and/or we're bored of working on the game and want to do anything else. Either bail or push a bad 1.0 and then bail.
@bobbodaskank what I hated I was browsing the steam sale and saw some cool looking games in early access but so often would see a release of a game that it's core is sound, so they have done a lot of the heavy lifting already but then might have a couple of updates and then radio silence, Superfuse is an example
*Stares at The Isle*
Roller Coaster Tycoon 1, 2 & 3 are responsible for my crippling gaming addiction in adulthood. When I go to theme parks I always binge it afterwards, always. Good to hear no new generations will have to suffer.
"it's call of duty" into the next game has me DYING
I thought it was a video editing error at first 😂
17:30 the video ACTUALLY started lagging for me at this point
intentional
@sourvine2313I thought it was my AirPods for a second😭
1:18 Simon was the character name I used in all those games (where a character name was needed).
Also: How dare you forget the best ones?! SimCopter and SimAnt! You could load in your SimCity city into SimCopter and blow it up with an apache helicopter!
Nowadays the framerate limiter that can stop the helicopter from achieving light speed at the barest hint of input from the 'q' key hasn't been invented. So I haven't played it since the 90's. But that and MechWarrior II were my life for awhile.
Thank you for coming to my "I am very old" TedTalk
Your weird, out of pocket humour and wacky edits are what I love about your videos. Don't change a thing, man.
Happy to hear you're taking a step back and focusing on what you want to make; anything else just isn't worth it in the end. Just so you know Kudos, a lot of us really do enjoy your content and love the weird humor and edits. That's not even mentioning how a lot of people (like myself) share your interest in these kinds of topics. Keep it up my guy, but make sure you're getting some satisfaction from it too.
Also happy to hear about the second channel! I'll be sure to click the link, but I'll have to get back to you on the ball sucking.
Next Car Game actually came out. After the Kickstarter failed, they sold Pre-Orders as a „Technology Sneak Peek“, just before christmas 2013, which was so successful that it raised more money in a week than the initial kickstarter even asked for. the game got released on Steam Early Access in January 2014, got renamed in October the same year.. to Wreckfest.
Aka the spiritual sucessor to Flatout series and one of the funniest racing games on the market.
@racingraptor4758sofa car is built different.
I actually have the 2.0 demo! Found it on some website! Its practically lost media at this point! The destruction even then still looks good!
1:30 “entirely in assembly” (HTML in the background)
That’s some wild HTML too:
External JavaScripth2>h2>h2>
what looks to be:
A Paragraph.p>p>p>
Followed by a saying “Try it” that runs myFunction() when clicked (no semicolon, though it’s not required in JS) and then the same weird duplicate closing tag thing
And then the closing html tag into an h2 tag, W H A T?
Throwing out Meet n' Fuck kingdom so nonchalantly.. You're a fucking legend.
I find baffling that NBA and FIFA games think they can get away with their shitty practices when there are literally 24+ other versions to choose from since the nineteen-nineties
But yeah, the public for those games has severe brain rot since the first version
If you want to play competitively or even casually online, there's at most 2 versions that are viable, they shut those servers down real quick once the next year comes out
I absolutely lost it when dude started dancing at 4:10 lmao
I had to hold in my laughter because I was in a public place and it was unexpectedly really funny
Just saw that, too. Way too funny 😂
1:09 American Truck Simulator, Euro Truck Simulator, Flight Simulator, Train Simulator... the list goes on. It's still a money maker to this day.
I'll never forget the first time I saw Farming Simulator. As someone who grew up on a farm, I thought it was a hilarious joke. Nope. It's "let's play tractors!" for grown adults, so successful it gets a new release annually. Wtf!? 😅
@rhythmandblues_alibi I can see why. However, people who grew up in a city are the target buyers, as they get to experience the freedom (and the routine) of living in the countryside; a much needed release from their Work-Home routine.
I'm a trucker and legitimately used American Truck Sim to practice for my CDL test lol. When the multiplayer mod came out there was a couple times I'd park my real truck then get online to play with friends. Haven't touched it in a few years though.
City folk are absolutely not the target audience. It's overwhelmingly boys from rural areas that have a passion for modern farm equipment. They unironically have LAN parties playing it.
Just because one grew up on or around farms doesn't mean you get to operate the newest or largest harvesters and tractors. It's for tractor nerds.
Just like how I many play Snowrunner to enjoy huge offroad trucks they will never get to drive.
I'm not saying there aren't those city gamers at all. But you've got to be pretty interested in the newest combine harvesters to keep getting the newest version.
38:28 "we have grognak the destroyer attorney at law at home"
My friend got me into Gundum battle operation 2, and i stopped playing it bc i left once bc i kept getting jumped while almost no progress of the game was being made, and the second time was bc my whole team left, and it was just me and one other guy.
I came back in a week to see if the penalty was gone, was still there. Two years later, that penalty is still there.
It isn't even this. The tragedy of Verrueckt Water Slide at Schlitterbahn Kansas City could have been avoided by RollerCoaster Tycoon. I tried that at age 8 and the float FN exploded.
Your quirky humor mixed with interesting stories and facts is amazing! Keep up the great work at whatever pace you feel most comfortable with. I love the awkward stuff, it's the most memorable! -IE "I made a song for you.....(one strum) ~Josh!~"
Thank you so much man, appreciate you
That quirky, dry-as-the-Nullarbor Aussie/Kiwi humour is precisely how I found this channel and why I re-watch many of those earlier videos on Magic The Gathering, WoW, Runescape. etc when I need a good laugh to pick me up. So you do you, James... we're all here for it. 👍
12:42 it’s the same with Madden. Then pokemon trademarking using a thing to fight another thing. These companies don’t want to make better games the want to monopolize them and be the only ones in town to force you to buy their product. Monopolies were outlawed for just this reason and they need to be outlawed in our video games!!!
36:29 pan sound
9:18 I remember when Miyamota made that quote.
That dementia diagnosis hit Nintendo hard...
Weird how well it lines up with this topic though
What if you tried to piss but it was the consistency of peanut butter?
That quote is misattributed
You mean that quote that Miyamoto never ever said but the internet thinks that he did? That one?
The World of Warcraft level up sound effect when you said William Ding's name was perfection.
Considering that Konami just banned non-Japanese players from tournaments in Japan, how about a new Yu-Gi-Oh scandals video?
Agreed
WHAT, I can't believe I didnt know about this
@toamst47178 it's just announced recently
What the fuck. The pharaoh didn’t die for this
But the blue-eyed white dragon is Swedish.
11:51 can confirm Browndust 2 (the game shown) is a pretty F2P not grindy gacha game
Minecraft was originally LESS than $15. I recall $5 pricepoint for when it was just a creative mode.
Yes please make the weird jokes and content. It's refreshing and never fails to get a laugh. I mean, a mini-Kudos out of the gaping mouth-box? Instant classic.
Fun fact about the Flatout 3, around the time of that game being released I was in a programming and art course equivalent to associates degree or trade school, we were required to do an internship to complete it. Quite literally half the 20 people class was an intern at Team 6 to the point that in out course it was called "the [name of class] company" or worse "the intern company", because from what people that interned there told a grand total of 4 people of the, roughly, 40 people that was in the office daily wasn't an intern making only ~10% of the people working at that office paid employees.
Identity sounds like a genuinely insane concept. You could literally just do a job in your real life, how is creating a job for you to do AFTER you come back from work seem at all interesting?
Well there are SOMEEE interesting concepts I could see explored that I couldn't in real life. Like going around getting away with crimes, robbing people, and ruining their lives. Sure I could be a cop, but I not a scumbag.
As stupid as it sounds there's a huge market for it. If you play GTA V online you'll see people that spend hours every day being a truck driver or working at a chicken factory. Same with GMOD.
Unlike real life, not only are you allowed to be someone other than yourself, but everyone that you interact with has the same basic interests. You also don't have to worry about assholes, because it's just a game it doesn't matters if you get into a fight or start insulting customers.
It's basically IRL: No Consequences.
"51 minutes video - do I have the time? It's probably clickbait anyways..."
"Hello, here's the list."
Kudos, that's a nice!
24:44 "Decades" sounds like dick heads. Love it! 10/10 !!!!
One thing about the Gundam game that contributes a bit to the reviews is probably the lack of crossplay with consoles because the PC version decided to add new units from the franchise that they console gamers don't get.
Basically the franchise is decades old with many interpretations, but the oldest versions of the franchise were centered around a single Universal Century timeline that was more militaristic. Later on it got way more anime in separate timelines and the giant robots got increasingly insane abilities as the franchise continued. The game started on consoles with an old school UC only robots thing, but the PC version introduced some of the later ones with comparitively insane abilities that some players thought would render all their favorites obsolete. It is now a huge division on consoles as to whether they want these newer units at all with some convinced it will ruin the game and devs actually holding a giant survey asking console players if they want to keep the new units out of the console version or if they want it to get all the ones the PC version has.
You could have gone the entire video without pointing out that Bloodborne is almost TEN (10) years old now, ya know. Holy shit time flies
And it's still stuck at 30fps with no PC port in sight. 😞
When he pointed out The Witcher 3 came out in 2015, that HURT me 😭
After watching till the end it completely makes sense why this video was so hilarious. I never realised how much I missed what you were doing with your older content. The bizarre writing and phrasing is your strength and what makes you unique.
1:30 “programmed entirely in assembly”
Shows HTML on screen.
Classic.
how dare you not name your second channel "FewerKudos"
jokes aside, all the best, do what you love man, i'll still be here
Man, Overwatch is just... such a damn bummer. I have never seen a company cook up such a stellar IP and then just fumble the ball so hard. They could have dominated the PvP market for *years* more, made incredible spin-off games, comics, maybe a tv series - and now it's a lame horse, laying in the mud, sad and broken.
Lol
I think the worst part of GBO2 is that it launched years earlier on PS4, and the matchmaking works there ssssssooooooooo
Love the announcement at the end! So happy to see you getting back to making stuff you ENJOY making, we can wait!
It's a tragedy that 'The Day Before' can't be on this list
I do not, in any level, understand people who want games like Identity. You do you, man, but I feel like you're on another level.
I play Gundam Battle Operation 2 (apologies, GUNDAM BATTLE OPERATION 2) and I'm surprised yet not surprised that its on this list. I seem to be one of the fortunate ones that has decent internet- and yet the hardest part of the game is actually starting a match.
Its a shame since aside from this problem, its a REALLY good Gundam game/team shooter. I don't even mind the gotcha mechanics that much since you earn a lot of free tokens (again though- if you can PLAY.)
Its criminal that they haven't tried fixing any of these problems for people who actually have been able to play the game... we're a small but loyal crowd- and the game DOES get weekly updates!
I play on ps5 currently but started on ps4. Even as a player that’s never bought tokens I love GB02.
@proboscismonkey-1413 Yeah the console version seems very much the way to go... I just don't want to invest in a PS5 :P
I'd like a video of many scandals of Doctor Who. I'm sure this niche has something interesting.
Yeah, people throwing tantrums when they announced the first female Doctor.
Yeah, as someone who has read into it, there's a lot. Like how, for the last few years of the classic era of the show, it was basically left at the mercy of people who hated it and wanted it to fail.
@applejuice7108 If it wasn't for that, they wouldn't have been getting any attention at all by that point. The show was already all but dead.
@jic1 I tried to give it a chance.
Then they turned the Master into an obnoxious potato and had said obnoxious potato somehow singlehandedly destroy Gallifrey thus negating the best anniversary special the modern show ever produced and I checked out entirely.
@applejuice7108 and the first nonwhite Doctor.
Good for you man. This vid definitely played like a more polished, fancy-pants moving picture show! I'm a video editor, and know how long it can take to get a good film out. People will always appreciate quality,
Isnt it crazy how "fum" or whatever its called is a product meant to be a healthy alternative to vaping which was a product meant to be a healthy alternative to tobacco?
4:13 OH SHIT! GET IT! GET IT DOWN GOD DAMN!
Aye bro whats that at 1:23
Yeh, I definitely ain't searching that up 👀
Tygoon 💀
@Visceral2096😂😂😂😂 thanks man, i needed that laugh. Tygoon is wild 😅
“programmed entirely in assembly”
*shows footage of javascript*
lmaoo great vid though
Just a correction thats pedantic but minecraft was sold in pre alpha too. I bought mine during infdev and it was $5. When it went to alpha the price went to $15, but buying it before then still got you the full release. Id like to say i only spent $5 on minecraft but i bought it on 360 and switch, however my pc version was $5.
"Would you believe this game is better rated than..." *Final Fantasy ad plays*
it would be nice if steam went "as long as a game is in early access, it's refund time limit is increased from 2 hours to 50" suddenly a lot of early access games would reconsider being early access
I have nearly the exact same CRT monitor at 1:00, mine's the FS740, speakers included. Had to to a double take there since I was watching the video on that monitor.
29:12 funniest shi you’ve ever said 💀
Fr lmao😭
overwatch two also had the great idea of buffing hit detection for almost every character, so now theres many compilations of people getting headshots while not even having the crosshair aimed at the enemy
1:22 I had some good childhood memories with this one.
Roller Coaster Tycoon World is so bad it earned a cameo from The Supreme Gentleman himself.
I love the very end of this video. Do what makes you happy because I like what makes you happy. I became a fan of yours awhile ago and I'm planning on sticking around. You cover stuff that I find interesting, make it funny and just do a great job all around.
Just straight killing it with the dance moves, I give you many kudos for them
Er, in GBO2 lv1 penalty only bans you for one day and 5 hours, its the lv 2 penalty that bans you for 7 days.
I know this because Ive gotten hundreds of penalties in my 800 hours of play time (and I still play daily since day 1)
I love the contrast of humorous bits and memes and serious commentary in your videos, I think you found a good ratio.
21:00 Exactly what Ultrakill did.
32:14 that cash conversion rate is brutal going south
Damn I miss Jim Crow games, those were the best days
@ 28:50 The reason flatout 3 was such dog shit was because they used assets from the flatout wii release that they originally helped to make instead of making new, better-looking, and functioning assets for PC.
the funny thing about Uriel's Chasm is that the developer, self described "micro indie developer" (whatever the hell that meant given indies are usually small), goes on to create thematicly connected games as if they try to create a lore or series or something. Surprisingly the follow-ups has less negative reviews despite they have roughly the same quality (probably because even though they're cheap, Uriel's Chasm is an enough of a deterrent).
Also you forget that while "Next Car Game" cancelled, Bugbear went on to create one of the most underrated best demolition racing game of 2018 (with several Early Access years): Wreckfest.