And at 19:27 you can clearly see the face of denial itself. I watched this video to basically make sure that not only Evolve ended up on here, but that I was partially held responsible for it too.
JacobTalksForever it was like an echo chamber for two weeks of us desperately trying to convince one another that it was worth the 60 we threw down at the midnight premiere hahaha
I did not know Junji Ito was going to be in on that team with Kojima and Del Toro, and it hurts so much more now. I'm going to go play Dark Souls 2 to feel better because IT'S FUCKING AMAZING.
If you are really very interested I'd reccomend watching PythonSelkan's videos on Death Stranding. I'm convinced now that Death Stranding is Silent Hills and has been all along. Start at part 3 if you don't have the time, it's a very long rabbit hole collection of videos but they are all incredibly well made.
I feel your pain brother or sister? I love Junji Ito, I have most of his novels at home and like that kind of body horror more than King who is okay but doesn't scare me at all or creep me out.
Take this with a grain of salt but I heard a rumor that Sony is working to purchase the Silent Hill IP for they can actually have Kojima work on Silent Hills for the PS5... Also heard they were trying to get the Metal Gear Solid IP but again take it with a grain of salt
@@starman6392 As much as we’d all love this, I’m pretty sure both Kojima and Guillermo del Toro have expressed that they have no desire to pick the project back up after what happened, so i find it unlikely that even if it somehow happened, we’d really get all of the pieces lined up again like they where.
"I truly believe that the harrowing journey of norman reedus and his freaking fetus would have been a straight up modern masterpiece." Oh buddy do I have news for you. It's called Death Stranding and you called it two years before its release. I cannot not subscribe for that one.
I had the gift of not playing New Vegas before Fallout 4. So I went from 3 to 1 to 2 then 4. I bought New Vegas over the summer and holy crap... Why is this game so old, but so much better than most open world games we have now. I love that we don't have a pre established story. I love the factions that have an impact on the main story. I stumbled across a vault and was asked to side with a faction that I didn't want on that playthrough and I'm like shit.... I can't explore this vault.. then I went to the next room over and found out I can screw over that faction. That's dope af. The map is huge, it's lived in. It's the new standard. Thanks for reading my random comment.
I remember playing Marvel Nemesis when I was younger. One day I just for no reason thought about it years ago and couldnt remember the name of the game, until this list. So, thank you for that. Glad to be one of the chosen few who even know of its existence. lmao. Great list btw, really enjoying your content.
Connor is cool because he’s one of the only characters in games who is stupid and naive as one would expect from someone who is forcibly indoctrinated into a creed. As opposed to ezio who is just good at everything
God that Silent Hills section is such a mood. I feel that shit in my soul. I'll rewatch videos about it and lament the fact that such an amazing creation was stolen from us
Somehow, i find it really telling that in the, in my opinion, best Assassins Creed game, you play as a Templar. ... Assassins Creed: Rogue is the single best entry in the series, and you're actively killing assassins. ... OOF.
Black Flag is awesome though. And it's funny because the characters are supposed to be the most unlikable and the worst if the worst, but they are the ones I felt for the most. Edward's breakdown in chapter 10 was cheesy, but his voice actor sold it, as through most of the game he was calm and witty, and during his dream/breakdown, he was screaming and crying and it was just a good depth. Majority of the characters are likable. Blackbeard is both scary and laid back and I've never seen a character do that as well as him.
I kinda loved the settlement building in fallout 4 personally. Arkham knight did make one change from the previous games that I liked, entering every building wasn't just a giant useless time sinking maze in the name of puzzle-solving. Navigating the maps was much more streamlined.
I've gotta say dude, I think Spider-Man 3 gets too much hate. It's really not that bad, a lot of the stuff many people hate on (the dance scene) fit perfectly within the tone that Sam Raimi set. I'll defend that movie until I die.
The studio forced him to squeeze in villains that didn't belong. You can't make a good film with three fucking villains and two main plots. Lmao. They should have left him alone and let him make a film about just Sandman.
It's kinda like DmC: Devil May Cry. Everyone hated on it cause it wasn't the game they wanted, but on its own, and in hindsight, it's not as bad as everyone said it was.
Prototype 1: an ugly cake that tastes really good. Prototype 2: a single slice of cake that looks more tasty than the first but tastes worse. and that's the most creative analogy for prototype that I was able to come up with Edit: Note to arkham knights graphics it shouldn't be able to look this good because it runs on ue3 not ue4
Johnny Ohm is still my favorite character. 50's shirtless greaser that survived the electric chair multiple times and looks like he was a battery from the Matrix because of all the ports on his body. I remember his backstory and everything about him from memory. I don't even remember the names of the other characters. All I really remember is that Venom had the heftiest and most weighty web swing ever, and the Frankenstein guy liked to have 'Nam flashbacks mid-fight.
Same. Prototype 1 was baffling bad when I played it for the first time back in November last year and after seeing all the praise for that dogshit game I couldn’t believe it. I played prototype 2 and was amazed by how fucking fun it was and how entertaining the cutscenes and dialogue was. Like side characters actually had characters. Hell, the Blackwatch guide side missions were more entertaining and fun then all the missions in p1 combined. Especially that one where he’s talking to these stereotypical nerd scientist and he hears them talk about race cleansing the world so he throws them out of the helicopter “see ya bitch”
I'm two years late to this vid but I have to say it. Knight was an improvement on every single aspect. The story was great, the batfam interactions were amazing. GOTY edition easily stands next to City and Asylum for it's own reasons. It only got a bad rep because of over reliance on tanks and few bosses (fixed with SOI) and because it ran like absolute dogshit.
Listen, I love knight, but if you think it actually improved on EVERYTHING on an objective level you are just wrong. The story, while having a lot of great moments individually, doesn't have any logical consistency. Jason hating Batman doesn't make nearly as much sense as under the red hood, in which he hated him for not killing joker and avenging him, for not putting an end to it so nobody else could suffer at joker's hand. In knight, joker is already dead, and Batman didn't abandon Jason, he thought he was dead. Also everyone thinks Batman killed joker after Arkham City, meaning Jason should also believe Batman killed joker, the exact thing he wanted in the story that inspired this one. There are a lot of smaller issues but I'm not going to dissect every plot point beat for beat, you get my point. It's fine, and like I said it had really great effective moments until you think about how they interact with one another. Also the plot lost some impact by not being paced as well, with it making you stop the main story to do side quests while waiting for your next lead isn't that bad, but when it happens between back to fucking back tank battles it's infuriating. Especially when the tanks don't make any sense at all. Jason knows Batman can't kill, if his tanks weren't unmanned they're basically invulnerable without killing anyone inside. Trying to get through the story just for it to be filled with tank battles and logical inconsistencies sucks. Arkham City's story is so, so much better than knight could even dream of being honestly. Hugo strange and protocol 10 were great, but that ending with joker is more than great. It's impactful, meaningful, fucking iconic. It displays such a deep and nuisanced understanding of these characters and how they work together, complete one another, it simply cannot be topped.
Part 2: the combat is knight is great, especially if you bother learning all the combos and whatnot, but the issue is most people won't. They're gonna punch some dudes five times until they can do a takedown, do the occasional environmental takedown and maybe the more intrinsically motivated players among us might use the grapple hook or explosive gel special takedowns. Arkham City, however, gives you interesting options and split second decisions instead. You get free flow focus, you could use that to just destroy these dudes or you could use your takedown, or you could down a few enemies and the multi ground takedown, or you could use the powered up versions of your gadgets that offer great crowd control options to focus on more dangerous enemies, then another layer of depth is added with how your gadgets interact with different enemies. Did you know shocking an armored enemy sends them flying backwards? Little things like this add enough depth you're always finding little ways to get the upper hand, noticing new variables to account for. This to an extent applies to knight, but they really nailed it in city. Honestly, the one and only way I would say knight improved upon city's foundation was predator encounters (despite having nothing anywhere near as good as the freeze boss fight.) The fear multi takedown feels and looks phenomenal, really, it feels like you're fucking Batman truly. The ai also seems to have more ways to counter your bat shenanigans, fire bombing grates and whatnot. Moment to moment gameplay wise, I'd call it an improvement. You can tell they wanted the ai to learn from their mistakes the way freeze did. However they never utilize this incredible, beautiful depth to it's fullest extent really. We needed another stealth boss that actually challenged the player. That bullshit with Jason down not count, it was literally three normal predator encounters with a psuedo quick time event thrown between them. It was fine, but it's not at all living up to the greatness it's following in regards to predator style boss fights. I mean seriously Jason is just a sniper and he takes long enough to shoot you he feels incompetent and half blind.
dude i actually remember marvel nemesis, in the weirdest way too. when i was little, some mcdonald's Play Places (the area with the slides and stuff, as well as a weird basketball court in mine that had like 12 hoops all in really weird positions) had a game station with gamecubes, and one of them had marvel nemesis. i thought it was the coolest thing.
My first disappointments when it came to a game release were Fallout 4 and Halo 5. For some reason I enjoyed literally anything handed to me before that, but then again I didn’t have many games that weren’t good and when I *did* have bad games I was too young to realise it (I am way too nostalgic about Sonic ‘06). I grew up with the Halo series being something integral to my family. My earliest memories are of splitscreen CE bloodgulch and my dad dying to infection forms in Halo 2. Hell, my first console that I was allowed to play on unattended by my dad was a Halo 3 special edition 360, and Halo 3 was the first game I ever got to truely play outside of the aforementioned CE splitscreen. So despite Halo 4 being underwhelming the longer I thought about it and butchering the spirit of the series, I was excited for Halo 5. And you can guess how that went. But lucky for me, Fallout 4 was coming soon and was certain to make up for the disappointment! Seriously, that hype train hit me hard and a few months later I was the proud owner of a pip-boy edition soon destined to be a not-so-proud owner of a pip-boy edition. From then on, I’ve never trusted anything with hype surrounding it, outside of the occasional exception like RE2.
If Charlie was PC: "Some might say "Oh, why you chose to compare Connor to a bag of hammers? You have something against hammers?", but actually I'm tool-blind, I didn't choose a bag of hammers, I chose Connor"
Arkham Knight is an amazing game. In general it's a step up from city and definitely from origins. The combat is faster and more frantic than ever, with more enemies and more moves and options, better quick-fire gadgets and animations that are as good or better than ever. Stealth sections are better, with enemies using more gadgets and stuff, and you being able to hack stuff to backfire on them or distract them, doors you can lock to keep enemies in rooms, and heavy enemies that you can only take down with a loud takedown move that takes time. The batmobile was.... urgh. Fine. Definitely should not have included the batrmobile. Or at least not included those stupid drones. Because if Jason Todd knew all that about batman, he would know just to put a single man in each drone. Not even one of his own soldiers. Just keep them as a drone and put a hostage in each. Job done. I didn't mind some of the puzzle solving. Some of it was pretty fun. But just because the batmobile was mostly bad, didn't mean the whole game was bad. Because mostly you could ignore the batmobile. It was actually faster to traverse the city without it. And as for microtransactions, there weren't any. They did too many "challenge" DLC's, sure. But who cared about those anyway? The actual expansions were great. Batgirl expansion was a ton of fun, and season of infamy was a fantastic little send-off for some of the other villains, most especially Ras Al Ghul and Mr. Freeze. I couldn't find much other than the batmobile to complain about with this game, seriously. And the batmobile was only there because people demanded it since arkham asylum. They kept demanding it and demanding it, even going so far as to say, in a lot of cases, "no batmobile, no buy". So they had to shoe-horn it in. And for an arkham game, they did just about the best they could have ever done with it. Overall, it's my second favourite of the arkham games. Right behind asylum. Maybe level pegging for second place, along with city.
I want to say one thing about the Dark souls 2 segment. While I can't help but agree for most of the things, saying that you don't get any good weapons till 75% of the game is just objectively wrong. The Rapier and Mace are two of the most pve destroying weapons that are easy to obtain pretty much 3% through the game. The katana sold by Mcduff is also amazing. The Drangleic sword is another. All of those 4 different weapons are easy to obtain early in the game and they are powerful enough to cut through the game like the buttery slugde that it is.
RUclips prophet 2018 - "destructible environments with a 3rd person camera that follows you around, marvel really needs to jump on this" Marvel 2020 - "I've got it! Avengers but 3rd person! And EXPLOSIONS!" HE'S DONE IT AGAIN!!!
I loved Arkham Knight when it came out, but I do see the flaws now. I wouldn't consider the season pass microtransactions, but it is annoying to cut content and sell it later, and I despise the tank battles. And I think the graphics are still gorgeous in that game.
I do prefer dark souls 1 because it has more atmosphere and a more creative boss design, but I do have to disagree on some of your points. Weapons and shields: That you don't get the best weapon in the game right at the start is called progression and it has a purpose. The game is way more fun if you try out out different weapons (and infusions) during the game. Sure, black knight halberd and lightning zweihander are great weapons, but you are gonna miss out on other fun weapons if you don't experiment. The game gives you a 100 percent physical damage after the second boss in the forest of fallen giants. And both the flaming long sword and the halberd are good wepons that can carry through a huge chunk of the game. The weapons you get from the Heide knights are great for faith builds and you can get them very early, too. Also the infusion and boss weapon systems have been streamlined so it's now way easier to try out different infusions or buff your magic resistances for certain bosses. Teleporting: It's not as bad as people make it out to be. Yes, it is boring, but it is way better than spending several minutes backtracking through areas to get to get around in DS1. Especially in the first half of the game when you can't teleport at all. And to make up for that you can level up, upgrade or repair your gear at bonfires. But you'll still gonna do a lot of backtracking to do other things, like buying new equipment/spells, infusions, farming, quests etc. Being able to teleport to any bonfire right from the start in DS 2 makes traveling a lot less tedious and saves you time in the end. It also means you won't get stuck in an area like you could in DS1. Like getting cursed by the basilisks in the sewers and having to walk all the way back to the belltower with only half of your health. Or being stuck in Anaor Londo or the painted world because you can't defeat the boss. Or how about having to go through Sen's fortress a second time, because you didn't know that cage thing at the top is an elevator? Speaking about time saving and convenience: Now infusions and getting boss weapons is way easier and needs less resources. And it's great that you don't need a bonfire to restore your humanity so you don't waste it if you die on the way to a boss. So they did make some improvements. But also some steps back: The estus/healing is worse than in 1, the carry weight and stamina split was a bad idea and reducing the players health upon death is terrible for newcomers and annoying for veterans (but you get some workarounds with the rings you find). Can't say anything about DS3 because I haven't played that yet. And yeah, loading screens suck. But they are a technical limitation and not a design decision. The system needs time to load the assets in. And in a large open world game there is a lot of assets the game has to load in. So it will only load the parts around the player, to make the game run more smoothly. But if you teleport or enter a building the system has to change everything and that just takes time. In some games they can hide that loading time with animations. Like Link playing a song on his ocarina to teleport for example. But in games like Skyrim or Dragon Age Inquisition the loading screens are so long that you can't reasonably make an animation for that. Seriously, DAI takes so long to load sometimes that I worry the game or my console froze, especially since the music stops midway thorugh loading.
Fallout 4 is *mechanically* the best in the franchise, but it unnecessarily sucked balls narratively. It's pretty much a cautionary tale of how one bitter developer could drastically tank a project.
Fallout 1: If you kill children, you get the child murderer trait, people refuse to talk to you, you are hunted down by bounty hunters. Fallout 4: Children can't be killed.
I've gotta say as an indigenous dude, I was hyped as fuck for AC3. It's so rare to find any natives in media that don't fall into some type of stereotype, are sidelined, are villains, are brutalized, etc. so I was SO excited to be playing as a native dude. Honestly the game and his character still holds a place in my heart because of that and I still revisit it from time to time, but I was so... disappointed with his character. I mean, its almost as if they were trying to be as inoffensive as possible with his character they forgot to give him a personality besides "revenge". Like, we know he's clearly a good guy who will do good by any means necessary, but the same pretty much goes for any AC protagonist. Sometimes during the game, I felt as though he almost falls back into the "stoic native" stereotype just because he's rarely shown being more than 2 dimensional. Also, I'm not sure if anyone else was disappointed by this, but I was hoping that the Kanienʼkéha people would have more involvement in the main storyline considering that they've possessed a whole ass Piece of Eden for like what, centuries? And the game just never really touches on that besides them thinking it allows them to communicate with Spirits? Like I had so many questions lol. Not to mention leaving the fate of Connor's people entirely open ended (obviously we can infer from real life history but you know... still disappointing). I was also hoping there would be missions involved with them, like something similar to the homestead missions but they pretty much exist as padding for his background then are just fucking gone after a certain point in the game and that's it. Highly disappointed in that regard. Don't even get me started on the DLC.... that was a fucking nightmare. I actually had to turn it off at one point, it just made my stomach turn with how brutalized the Kanienʼkéha were and how stupid the "animal powers" were. I'm Tsalagi, so I can't speak on behalf of the Kanienʼkéha, but I felt as though the involvement of the animal powers was tacky and sort of offensive. His outfit in that DLC was dope though I guess. So yeah, I agree, the game sucked ass for more than just the reasons you stated. I guess you gotta hand it to the game for being the first AAA game with an indigenous protagonist though? Unless something came before that that I'm not aware of.
Let me just say that regarding your opinion on AC3 I could not agree more. I stopped playing the game entirely after an enemy NPC was still attacking me during a cutscene, and managed to kill me during the cutscene, causing the entire cutscene to freeze, leaving me unable to even pause the game so I could quit. I was just done with how unpleasant it was as a game.
Strangely I've put several hundred hours into Spore, and a lot of other people have too. I think if it had come out with its original vision intact, it actually wouldn't have been as popular and probably would've ended up being pretty obscure. It would've been much more niche, where as now it has a dedicated cult following that keeps a thousand-ish players online at all times. There is something to be said for simplicity.
The difference between Spore and NMS, is, that NMS devs cared enough to improve the game even beyond expectation after launch, while Spore just stayed as is.
@@aspeckinthegrandschemeofth3457 people tend to forget that the consensus goes by majority and yeah most people were let down it's infuriating the amount of ds2 fanboys are in the comments acting like they've been slighted and streeb is wrong, that's not how opinions work guys
The way heller jumps off of buildings is just the exaggerated swagger of a military black man, and it sends chills down my back.
"maybe it's cause we're Canadian"
Dom Locater my favorite part of the whole interview hahaha
@@PurposelessRabbitholes "We don't see race. What First Nations?"
@@QuikVidGuy starlight tours? never heard of them
@@QuikVidGuy "Aboriginals? Never heard of them"
@@PurposelessRabbitholes "You chose an African American, no we chose Heller" 🤣🤣🤣
Heller isnt a stereotypical black man. He is a stereotypical Marine.
Stereotypical black Marine 😂
I played prototype 2 before prototype 1 so I'll always prefer it.
Zack Kerber The mothafuckas are pretty goofy/stereotypical for black dudes though agaghhag, but yeah definitely mostly stereotypical marine
@@chrismarcellh6797
I was in. So was my dad. This guy is beat for beat a Marine Sergeant. That's why I love him so much
Thats pretty damned cool, thank you for your service
And at 19:27 you can clearly see the face of denial itself. I watched this video to basically make sure that not only Evolve ended up on here, but that I was partially held responsible for it too.
JacobTalksForever it was like an echo chamber for two weeks of us desperately trying to convince one another that it was worth the 60 we threw down at the midnight premiere hahaha
I did not know Junji Ito was going to be in on that team with Kojima and Del Toro, and it hurts so much more now.
I'm going to go play Dark Souls 2 to feel better because IT'S FUCKING AMAZING.
If you are really very interested I'd reccomend watching PythonSelkan's videos on Death Stranding. I'm convinced now that Death Stranding is Silent Hills and has been all along. Start at part 3 if you don't have the time, it's a very long rabbit hole collection of videos but they are all incredibly well made.
I feel your pain brother or sister?
I love Junji Ito, I have most of his novels at home and like that kind of body horror more than King who is okay but doesn't scare me at all or creep me out.
Nope dark souls three
thats it. we are storming the greedy corporate crustball fuckwads who cancelled this game man
@@Persephone01 SWIRLSSSS!!!!!!
I dream of a day when P.T. actually gets fully produced into Silent Hills
Take this with a grain of salt but I heard a rumor that Sony is working to purchase the Silent Hill IP for they can actually have Kojima work on Silent Hills for the PS5... Also heard they were trying to get the Metal Gear Solid IP but again take it with a grain of salt
@@starman6392 As much as we’d all love this, I’m pretty sure both Kojima and Guillermo del Toro have expressed that they have no desire to pick the project back up after what happened, so i find it unlikely that even if it somehow happened, we’d really get all of the pieces lined up again like they where.
I keep dreaming if I were you
"I truly believe that the harrowing journey of norman reedus and his freaking fetus would have been a straight up modern masterpiece." Oh buddy do I have news for you. It's called Death Stranding and you called it two years before its release. I cannot not subscribe for that one.
I mean while death standings is cool it ain't pt nor a silent hill
I had the gift of not playing New Vegas before Fallout 4. So I went from 3 to 1 to 2 then 4. I bought New Vegas over the summer and holy crap... Why is this game so old, but so much better than most open world games we have now. I love that we don't have a pre established story. I love the factions that have an impact on the main story. I stumbled across a vault and was asked to side with a faction that I didn't want on that playthrough and I'm like shit.... I can't explore this vault.. then I went to the next room over and found out I can screw over that faction. That's dope af. The map is huge, it's lived in. It's the new standard. Thanks for reading my random comment.
Thanks for writing it!
I'm glad you were able to play New Vegas after 4. So many people let graphics get it the way of a great game.
I remember playing Marvel Nemesis when I was younger. One day I just for no reason thought about it years ago and couldnt remember the name of the game, until this list. So, thank you for that. Glad to be one of the chosen few who even know of its existence. lmao. Great list btw, really enjoying your content.
Guess I’m in the minority in that I really like Connor.
This comment is ancient but I do too. He's my favorite AC protagonist
Connor is cool because he’s one of the only characters in games who is stupid and naive as one would expect from someone who is forcibly indoctrinated into a creed. As opposed to ezio who is just good at everything
@@thepetrifiedbard1646 Connor is also 17-19 throughout the most of the game. It kind of makes sense that he is naive.
Yeahhhh.... You're in the minority for liking him...
I do too.
I now want to play Prototype 2.
Orc Warboss73 same here, just by art style alone.
@Lord Megawin i would say its not, its a poor sequel. They added 1 weapon? Really?
Tequila Whiskey and removed muscle mass, the vision abilities, and the shield/armour variability stuff in return
Lord Megawin the first game is absolute garbage, as is the second
i honestly love prototype 2 but 1 is better
With the recent “release” of Cyberpunk 2077, make a part two of gaming disappointments please and thanks Charlie!
But seriously y'all should do your taxes.
no.
"Top 10 gaming disappointments"
Me: i feel like prototype 2 is--
*sees prototype 2 in the description*
Me: nailed it
The rant about Prototype 2 was perfect, but I was only dissapointed that you didn't include the obvious scene from Get Out
*I WANT... YOUR EYE, MAN*
God that Silent Hills section is such a mood. I feel that shit in my soul. I'll rewatch videos about it and lament the fact that such an amazing creation was stolen from us
Somehow, i find it really telling that in the, in my opinion, best Assassins Creed game, you play as a Templar.
...
Assassins Creed: Rogue is the single best entry in the series, and you're actively killing assassins.
... OOF.
Black Flag is awesome though. And it's funny because the characters are supposed to be the most unlikable and the worst if the worst, but they are the ones I felt for the most. Edward's breakdown in chapter 10 was cheesy, but his voice actor sold it, as through most of the game he was calm and witty, and during his dream/breakdown, he was screaming and crying and it was just a good depth. Majority of the characters are likable. Blackbeard is both scary and laid back and I've never seen a character do that as well as him.
Absolutely love your videos my dude. The writing, the comedic timing, it's just my jam. Keep up the good work!
I kinda loved the settlement building in fallout 4 personally. Arkham knight did make one change from the previous games that I liked, entering every building wasn't just a giant useless time sinking maze in the name of puzzle-solving. Navigating the maps was much more streamlined.
Dark Souls 2 is awesome. I love it.
I agree but apparently like dark souls 2 is a taboo of sorts.
I've gotta say dude, I think Spider-Man 3 gets too much hate. It's really not that bad, a lot of the stuff many people hate on (the dance scene) fit perfectly within the tone that Sam Raimi set. I'll defend that movie until I die.
Ill stand by you on this
The studio forced him to squeeze in villains that didn't belong. You can't make a good film with three fucking villains and two main plots. Lmao. They should have left him alone and let him make a film about just Sandman.
I agree
Did purposeless rabbit Hole's just become my favorite channel?... I think it did
Old video, but I actually like Dark Souls 2 though.
Same. I actually really liked it. I disagree with the majority of his complaints.
steeb is a fucking clown
I like dark souls 2. Its not bad.
It's kinda like DmC: Devil May Cry. Everyone hated on it cause it wasn't the game they wanted, but on its own, and in hindsight, it's not as bad as everyone said it was.
It's also weird that most of the criticisms also appear in DS3, and everybody loves that game
Prototype 1: an ugly cake that tastes really good.
Prototype 2: a single slice of cake that looks more tasty than the first but tastes worse.
and that's the most creative analogy for prototype that I was able to come up with
Edit: Note to arkham knights graphics it shouldn't be able to look this good because it runs on ue3 not ue4
Johnny Ohm is still my favorite character. 50's shirtless greaser that survived the electric chair multiple times and looks like he was a battery from the Matrix because of all the ports on his body. I remember his backstory and everything about him from memory. I don't even remember the names of the other characters. All I really remember is that Venom had the heftiest and most weighty web swing ever, and the Frankenstein guy liked to have 'Nam flashbacks mid-fight.
I played Prototype 2, without the nostalgia it was definitely a solid experience
Same. Prototype 1 was baffling bad when I played it for the first time back in November last year and after seeing all the praise for that dogshit game I couldn’t believe it. I played prototype 2 and was amazed by how fucking fun it was and how entertaining the cutscenes and dialogue was. Like side characters actually had characters. Hell, the Blackwatch guide side missions were more entertaining and fun then all the missions in p1 combined. Especially that one where he’s talking to these stereotypical nerd scientist and he hears them talk about race cleansing the world so he throws them out of the helicopter “see ya bitch”
I'm two years late to this vid but I have to say it. Knight was an improvement on every single aspect. The story was great, the batfam interactions were amazing. GOTY edition easily stands next to City and Asylum for it's own reasons. It only got a bad rep because of over reliance on tanks and few bosses (fixed with SOI) and because it ran like absolute dogshit.
Listen, I love knight, but if you think it actually improved on EVERYTHING on an objective level you are just wrong. The story, while having a lot of great moments individually, doesn't have any logical consistency. Jason hating Batman doesn't make nearly as much sense as under the red hood, in which he hated him for not killing joker and avenging him, for not putting an end to it so nobody else could suffer at joker's hand. In knight, joker is already dead, and Batman didn't abandon Jason, he thought he was dead. Also everyone thinks Batman killed joker after Arkham City, meaning Jason should also believe Batman killed joker, the exact thing he wanted in the story that inspired this one. There are a lot of smaller issues but I'm not going to dissect every plot point beat for beat, you get my point. It's fine, and like I said it had really great effective moments until you think about how they interact with one another. Also the plot lost some impact by not being paced as well, with it making you stop the main story to do side quests while waiting for your next lead isn't that bad, but when it happens between back to fucking back tank battles it's infuriating. Especially when the tanks don't make any sense at all. Jason knows Batman can't kill, if his tanks weren't unmanned they're basically invulnerable without killing anyone inside. Trying to get through the story just for it to be filled with tank battles and logical inconsistencies sucks. Arkham City's story is so, so much better than knight could even dream of being honestly. Hugo strange and protocol 10 were great, but that ending with joker is more than great. It's impactful, meaningful, fucking iconic. It displays such a deep and nuisanced understanding of these characters and how they work together, complete one another, it simply cannot be topped.
Part 2: the combat is knight is great, especially if you bother learning all the combos and whatnot, but the issue is most people won't. They're gonna punch some dudes five times until they can do a takedown, do the occasional environmental takedown and maybe the more intrinsically motivated players among us might use the grapple hook or explosive gel special takedowns. Arkham City, however, gives you interesting options and split second decisions instead. You get free flow focus, you could use that to just destroy these dudes or you could use your takedown, or you could down a few enemies and the multi ground takedown, or you could use the powered up versions of your gadgets that offer great crowd control options to focus on more dangerous enemies, then another layer of depth is added with how your gadgets interact with different enemies. Did you know shocking an armored enemy sends them flying backwards? Little things like this add enough depth you're always finding little ways to get the upper hand, noticing new variables to account for. This to an extent applies to knight, but they really nailed it in city. Honestly, the one and only way I would say knight improved upon city's foundation was predator encounters (despite having nothing anywhere near as good as the freeze boss fight.) The fear multi takedown feels and looks phenomenal, really, it feels like you're fucking Batman truly. The ai also seems to have more ways to counter your bat shenanigans, fire bombing grates and whatnot. Moment to moment gameplay wise, I'd call it an improvement. You can tell they wanted the ai to learn from their mistakes the way freeze did. However they never utilize this incredible, beautiful depth to it's fullest extent really. We needed another stealth boss that actually challenged the player. That bullshit with Jason down not count, it was literally three normal predator encounters with a psuedo quick time event thrown between them. It was fine, but it's not at all living up to the greatness it's following in regards to predator style boss fights. I mean seriously Jason is just a sniper and he takes long enough to shoot you he feels incompetent and half blind.
dude i actually remember marvel nemesis, in the weirdest way too. when i was little, some mcdonald's Play Places (the area with the slides and stuff, as well as a weird basketball court in mine that had like 12 hoops all in really weird positions) had a game station with gamecubes, and one of them had marvel nemesis. i thought it was the coolest thing.
When you said, “why isn’t anything good” I felt that.
"Ban all loading screens."
Ban the ability for a game to exist >->
But the least we can do is make sure they aren't around very much
Watching this after Cyberpunk with Michael Jordan's devastated crying face...
My first disappointments when it came to a game release were Fallout 4 and Halo 5. For some reason I enjoyed literally anything handed to me before that, but then again I didn’t have many games that weren’t good and when I *did* have bad games I was too young to realise it (I am way too nostalgic about Sonic ‘06). I grew up with the Halo series being something integral to my family. My earliest memories are of splitscreen CE bloodgulch and my dad dying to infection forms in Halo 2. Hell, my first console that I was allowed to play on unattended by my dad was a Halo 3 special edition 360, and Halo 3 was the first game I ever got to truely play outside of the aforementioned CE splitscreen. So despite Halo 4 being underwhelming the longer I thought about it and butchering the spirit of the series, I was excited for Halo 5. And you can guess how that went. But lucky for me, Fallout 4 was coming soon and was certain to make up for the disappointment! Seriously, that hype train hit me hard and a few months later I was the proud owner of a pip-boy edition soon destined to be a not-so-proud owner of a pip-boy edition. From then on, I’ve never trusted anything with hype surrounding it, outside of the occasional exception like RE2.
That second guy talking about Dark Souls and H4 is using a CRT to play his games by the looks of it.
The Freezeborgini.
Cool shit.
I remember being disappointed by spore but I still enjoyed that game. Lol
If Charlie was PC:
"Some might say "Oh, why you chose to compare Connor to a bag of hammers? You have something against hammers?", but actually I'm tool-blind, I didn't choose a bag of hammers, I chose Connor"
This things are so real to me during some of these entries I began to well up.
Konami, more like pleez-kill-mi
i like the transitions between youtubers and i agre with every dissapointment
Thank you so much I've been looking for the name of Marvel Nemesis for so long. I loved the game and its been years since i played it.
Arkham Knight is an amazing game.
In general it's a step up from city and definitely from origins.
The combat is faster and more frantic than ever, with more enemies and more moves and options, better quick-fire gadgets and animations that are as good or better than ever.
Stealth sections are better, with enemies using more gadgets and stuff, and you being able to hack stuff to backfire on them or distract them, doors you can lock to keep enemies in rooms, and heavy enemies that you can only take down with a loud takedown move that takes time.
The batmobile was.... urgh. Fine. Definitely should not have included the batrmobile. Or at least not included those stupid drones. Because if Jason Todd knew all that about batman, he would know just to put a single man in each drone. Not even one of his own soldiers. Just keep them as a drone and put a hostage in each. Job done.
I didn't mind some of the puzzle solving. Some of it was pretty fun.
But just because the batmobile was mostly bad, didn't mean the whole game was bad. Because mostly you could ignore the batmobile. It was actually faster to traverse the city without it.
And as for microtransactions, there weren't any. They did too many "challenge" DLC's, sure. But who cared about those anyway? The actual expansions were great. Batgirl expansion was a ton of fun, and season of infamy was a fantastic little send-off for some of the other villains, most especially Ras Al Ghul and Mr. Freeze.
I couldn't find much other than the batmobile to complain about with this game, seriously.
And the batmobile was only there because people demanded it since arkham asylum. They kept demanding it and demanding it, even going so far as to say, in a lot of cases, "no batmobile, no buy".
So they had to shoe-horn it in. And for an arkham game, they did just about the best they could have ever done with it.
Overall, it's my second favourite of the arkham games. Right behind asylum. Maybe level pegging for second place, along with city.
Those dark souls 2 complaints were kinda petty honestly.
Colton Strike also hbomber did mention those things
The worst was yet to come.
number 4 nearly had me in tears
I want to say one thing about the Dark souls 2 segment. While I can't help but agree for most of the things, saying that you don't get any good weapons till 75% of the game is just objectively wrong. The Rapier and Mace are two of the most pve destroying weapons that are easy to obtain pretty much 3% through the game. The katana sold by Mcduff is also amazing. The Drangleic sword is another. All of those 4 different weapons are easy to obtain early in the game and they are powerful enough to cut through the game like the buttery slugde that it is.
The most entertaining RUclipsr out here.
The freezeborghini sounds very cool. I now want one.
sinclear ifill gets better gas mileage than the Killer Crocmobile
Purposeless Rabbitholes. Personally I’m more of a fan of the penguincycle myself. Though it does lack that cool factor of the freezborghini.
Lol imagine how he feels about fallout 76
I physically groaned in pain and betrayal when I saw the slow fade in of number one. The loss of a beautiful creation.
We feel exactly the same way about Marvel Nemesis!!! Marvel needs to have more faith in their games!!!
RUclips prophet 2018 - "destructible environments with a 3rd person camera that follows you around, marvel really needs to jump on this"
Marvel 2020 - "I've got it! Avengers but 3rd person! And EXPLOSIONS!"
HE'S DONE IT AGAIN!!!
Ac3 was definitely my biggest gaming disappointed.
I never got that hyped for the game again.
I honest to god thought Imperfects was some kind of acid fuelled fever dream
Oh man...
lOoK aT hIS eYEs...
... loOk aT tHe StRenGTh oF hIS FoRm!
Never knew what spore was until I saw a video of it and I loved it
Btw keep up the great work, I just discovered ya and I see you put a lot of effort in your videos
I think the company put more development into Alex Mercer in prototype 2 than the boring generic hero we got
Splicing in that bingo auction from Get Out got me.
I totally forgot there's a game called q.t that's the opposite of p.t it's the same layout but cuter
Wow. That bit there just summed up everything I absolutely dislike in Dark Souls 2. great vid btw
I loved Arkham Knight when it came out, but I do see the flaws now. I wouldn't consider the season pass microtransactions, but it is annoying to cut content and sell it later, and I despise the tank battles. And I think the graphics are still gorgeous in that game.
I do prefer dark souls 1 because it has more atmosphere and a more creative boss design, but I do have to disagree on some of your points.
Weapons and shields: That you don't get the best weapon in the game right at the start is called progression and it has a purpose. The game is way more fun if you try out out different weapons (and infusions) during the game. Sure, black knight halberd and lightning zweihander are great weapons, but you are gonna miss out on other fun weapons if you don't experiment. The game gives you a 100 percent physical damage after the second boss in the forest of fallen giants. And both the flaming long sword and the halberd are good wepons that can carry through a huge chunk of the game. The weapons you get from the Heide knights are great for faith builds and you can get them very early, too. Also the infusion and boss weapon systems have been streamlined so it's now way easier to try out different infusions or buff your magic resistances for certain bosses.
Teleporting: It's not as bad as people make it out to be. Yes, it is boring, but it is way better than spending several minutes backtracking through areas to get to get around in DS1. Especially in the first half of the game when you can't teleport at all. And to make up for that you can level up, upgrade or repair your gear at bonfires. But you'll still gonna do a lot of backtracking to do other things, like buying new equipment/spells, infusions, farming, quests etc. Being able to teleport to any bonfire right from the start in DS 2 makes traveling a lot less tedious and saves you time in the end. It also means you won't get stuck in an area like you could in DS1. Like getting cursed by the basilisks in the sewers and having to walk all the way back to the belltower with only half of your health. Or being stuck in Anaor Londo or the painted world because you can't defeat the boss. Or how about having to go through Sen's fortress a second time, because you didn't know that cage thing at the top is an elevator?
Speaking about time saving and convenience: Now infusions and getting boss weapons is way easier and needs less resources. And it's great that you don't need a bonfire to restore your humanity so you don't waste it if you die on the way to a boss.
So they did make some improvements. But also some steps back: The estus/healing is worse than in 1, the carry weight and stamina split was a bad idea and reducing the players health upon death is terrible for newcomers and annoying for veterans (but you get some workarounds with the rings you find).
Can't say anything about DS3 because I haven't played that yet.
And yeah, loading screens suck. But they are a technical limitation and not a design decision. The system needs time to load the assets in. And in a large open world game there is a lot of assets the game has to load in. So it will only load the parts around the player, to make the game run more smoothly. But if you teleport or enter a building the system has to change everything and that just takes time. In some games they can hide that loading time with animations. Like Link playing a song on his ocarina to teleport for example. But in games like Skyrim or Dragon Age Inquisition the loading screens are so long that you can't reasonably make an animation for that. Seriously, DAI takes so long to load sometimes that I worry the game or my console froze, especially since the music stops midway thorugh loading.
Fallout 4 is *mechanically* the best in the franchise, but it unnecessarily sucked balls narratively.
It's pretty much a cautionary tale of how one bitter developer could drastically tank a project.
I loved heller..
The freezebougini
5:34. That yell kills me every time.
XD
just hearing the words "silent hills" make me cry
Silent Hills
sad.
Death Stranding: we'll Fill Your hole in your soul.
Bruh I loved marvel nemesis
Slimflimmin underrated!
I really like half of the games on this list and I feel bad now
jerk shed-jr to each their own, don’t feel bad man haha
that moment when some of your favorite games are spore,prototype 2 and some others
oh well we all have opinions nice vid mate
He likes Prototype 2 as well. He's just disappointed that they didn't take advantage of their chance to really add some amazing shit.
suddenly embarrassed to be Canadian again rewatching this
I need prototype 3 help me😭
Hype is the root. Expectation is the tree. Disappointment is the fruit. Ahh, gaming life.
Fallout 1: If you kill children, you get the child murderer trait, people refuse to talk to you, you are hunted down by bounty hunters.
Fallout 4: Children can't be killed.
Honestly, I loved Marvel Nemesis, definitely a gem from my childhood
isn't there word that konami is talking with kojima about making silent hiills now? don't remember where i heard that from though....
Prototype 2 really is a fun game, but can't compare to the original
True but i like being able to glide around with a single button press
I thought the original sucked
And then Todd saw your video, said “oh you think that’s bad?”, and started production of fallout 76
I saw PT and was like OMG dont even get me started on that fucking game
I've gotta say as an indigenous dude, I was hyped as fuck for AC3. It's so rare to find any natives in media that don't fall into some type of stereotype, are sidelined, are villains, are brutalized, etc. so I was SO excited to be playing as a native dude. Honestly the game and his character still holds a place in my heart because of that and I still revisit it from time to time, but I was so... disappointed with his character. I mean, its almost as if they were trying to be as inoffensive as possible with his character they forgot to give him a personality besides "revenge". Like, we know he's clearly a good guy who will do good by any means necessary, but the same pretty much goes for any AC protagonist. Sometimes during the game, I felt as though he almost falls back into the "stoic native" stereotype just because he's rarely shown being more than 2 dimensional.
Also, I'm not sure if anyone else was disappointed by this, but I was hoping that the Kanienʼkéha people would have more involvement in the main storyline considering that they've possessed a whole ass Piece of Eden for like what, centuries? And the game just never really touches on that besides them thinking it allows them to communicate with Spirits? Like I had so many questions lol. Not to mention leaving the fate of Connor's people entirely open ended (obviously we can infer from real life history but you know... still disappointing). I was also hoping there would be missions involved with them, like something similar to the homestead missions but they pretty much exist as padding for his background then are just fucking gone after a certain point in the game and that's it. Highly disappointed in that regard.
Don't even get me started on the DLC.... that was a fucking nightmare. I actually had to turn it off at one point, it just made my stomach turn with how brutalized the Kanienʼkéha were and how stupid the "animal powers" were. I'm Tsalagi, so I can't speak on behalf of the Kanienʼkéha, but I felt as though the involvement of the animal powers was tacky and sort of offensive. His outfit in that DLC was dope though I guess. So yeah, I agree, the game sucked ass for more than just the reasons you stated. I guess you gotta hand it to the game for being the first AAA game with an indigenous protagonist though? Unless something came before that that I'm not aware of.
Surprised not to see Brink on this list. Playing Brink finally broke me, I no longer see new releases with anything approaching optimism.
AC 3 combat and Parkour was amazing change my mind.
Awesome video, I didn't know that Mattpatt had a new channel...JK. Subscribed.
I'm apparently the only person on the planet who loved Arkham Knight and enjoyed the Batmobile...but the Riddler racing challenges can get bent, tho.
That interview though 🤣🤣
I loved marvel rise of the imperfects, and I enjoy prototype 2, but the speed of proto-one was epic!!!!
Honestly a modern Prototype game would be incredible. Why did the two good non licensed superhero games have to die off? (Prototype and InFamous)
Aw man. I remember Reboot. Saturday mornings.
I thought you were about to complain about Marvel vs Nemesis, and I was about to question all of humanity for it.
Let me just say that regarding your opinion on AC3 I could not agree more. I stopped playing the game entirely after an enemy NPC was still attacking me during a cutscene, and managed to kill me during the cutscene, causing the entire cutscene to freeze, leaving me unable to even pause the game so I could quit. I was just done with how unpleasant it was as a game.
Strangely I've put several hundred hours into Spore, and a lot of other people have too. I think if it had come out with its original vision intact, it actually wouldn't have been as popular and probably would've ended up being pretty obscure. It would've been much more niche, where as now it has a dedicated cult following that keeps a thousand-ish players online at all times.
There is something to be said for simplicity.
The difference between Spore and NMS, is, that NMS devs cared enough to improve the game even beyond expectation after launch, while Spore just stayed as is.
am i like, the only person on earth that actually really loves arkham knight? like, equally as much as city?
No
Assassins creed 4 was brilliant.
Damn right
Everything was fine until Dark Souls 2. I am no fanboy, but this game was everything but a dissapointment
But it was tho
@@aspeckinthegrandschemeofth3457 people tend to forget that the consensus goes by majority and yeah most people were let down it's infuriating the amount of ds2 fanboys are in the comments acting like they've been slighted and streeb is wrong, that's not how opinions work guys
5:46 this scene from get out made me laugh so much here that i had to stop video
That Halo 4 one hit me deep.
Excuse me why was the 2013 Tomb Raider cover shown in the "too many sequels/reboots" bit
That game is fucking amazing
Idk what you were talking about with being disappointed by Spider-man 3. That movie was great in a sort of charming / trashy way