18:47 That's a common tactic to sell your game on key reselling sites like G2A and other places. Because they sell game lootboxes where they guarantee the buyer "at least X games worth X dollars" to make it seem you're going to get at least one AAA game if you buy said lootbox. So instead of doing that they hit up indie devs with loose morals and offer to buy cheap review keys (every dev on Steam can generate a certain amount of keys they can hand out to reviewers/friends/backers). It's pretty disgusting.
always wondered why there were games so overpriced and after i found out that, i feeled even more sickened. because before I thought " Greedy devs specting fool people" but now is just nasty despicable strats...
@@TheaArtsFox Yea, it's just disgusting. What's even more annoying is when they are constantly on "sale" so they appear in the list of games on sale. Basically it's just the product version of spam. Really goes to show that there is absolutely ZERO quality control on Steam's store. But as long as Valve can still profit off it there won't be any changes.
@@kurdtcobencan tell you have no clue what youre talking about. Fyi steam offers a good return. So dont like the game refund it. Simple as that. But can tell youve been scammed a time or 2
Maybe after a certain number of good games in the midst of the worst reviewed game, like Last Epoch, you could revisit 5 or 10 of those gems to re-endorse them?
Why, son? Haven't your mother and I taught you that you shouldn't hurt yourself for attention? We're worried about your sanity, any more of these bad games and you might just... lose yourself. Just be careful... We love you.
Galactic Bowling reminds me of those game discs you'd get at Walmart that would say like 2000+ games or something. Those always sounded cool to me until I got one and realized that like 99% of them sucked.
IDK if I misunderstood that part about the bowling game. In the 2000 we already had a huge gaming market on PC. The era you are talking about was in the early- to mid-nineties. Are you saying that the game was from that period (because that can't be) or are you saying it is a game that would have worked in that time period?
Yeah that was a weird premise. The PC game market was already huge, it just wasn't on online storefronts like Steam. You could go to any major store and find tons of great games on CD. Maybe he's just too young to know this.
It took some time for me to understand that it was "MMA" not "anime" and I was very confused that you watch and practice Anime. Also I thought "what a weird pronounciation of anime"
@@joe--cool I suspected as much and watched someone elses gameplay, and comparing it to this, in the other person's gameplay the wheel moves far slower, so it's actually possible to do that. Looks to me like with the wheel turning as fast as it does here, it's impossible to jump correctly, because the character moves so slowly
@@flusendieb6833 I wonder if the wheel's speed is tied to the game's framerate or something like that. I know that happens a ton when people try to play old games on modern systems, but I can imagine an indie dev making a mistake like that too.
The existence of Cobra Kai kinda baffles me. I thought we were past the era of shitty cashgrab games based on movies, TV shows etc., that kind of stuff was such a cancer during the PS2 era and especially the Wii.
Maybe im tripping but i think streamer simulator ripped assets from Crypto Miner Tycoon Simulator. Either that or its the same engine Edit: im pretty sure they made a room in that game then screenshot it, put some bubbles over it, and called it a day.
For steamer simulator: There was/is a "RUclipsr Simulator" flash game. It got around the problem of not getting much money at the start by: Letting you get a job. The game adding that would help a lot.
It could be that Phobias physics engine is tied to FPS, so youre meant to have a very slow wheel you jump past but its speed up like crazy and makes it impossible instead.
Was really surprised to see last epoch on the list! Didn't realize it had been reviewed so poorly. I picked it up the week before release and have since logged ~200 hours in it. It's been a perfectly fun time, but I guess people just got really mad about all the release bugs and server issues. I've had no major issues since like the 1.1 patch. Certainly no crashes like at release.
I feel like Karma is missing a more irl interactive element to drive its point as well. Elements that would increase and decrease USER stress as well. Not just as a game mechanic, but as something that the user would feel in their body as a result of interacting with the game. If they could have figured out how to manipulate user emotions that way, I think that could have been super interesting. As it is, the game JUST looks like it has increasing user irl stress levels down pretty well though. It needs elements that decrease stress of the user too.
16:50 Yes, yes it does. As long as the game or product doesn't work, customers are eintitled to say so. It deserve the rating, so other people don't buy it and maybe wait until the issues are fixed, so those customers can have a better experience.
Why do I feel like the way to get through the spike wheel in fobia is to lower your fps? It look like the spike wheel is following your fps and spinning too fast
Typical of the gaming community at large to actually put their foot down on legitimately small indie team making a fun ARPG like Last Epoch but give Blizzard multiple passes. I say this as someone who pre-ordered Diablo 3 so its also my fault.
I saw LE in the thumbnail and was about to Deus Vult but its literally because of the reviews eviscerating the server issues that have been fixed by now lol.
If you'd still like to play a tower defense game that's good, I can recommend "Crystal Guardians". It's currently a free "Prologue" version of the game and is slated to come out soon. Some interesting systems, quite fun.
Out of curiosity when did project z come out? Reason i ask is because it honestly looks like if someone took dysmantle (i think thats how its spelled?) took only the turret defense parts and had no clue what they were doing and botched the fun parts lol might just be because of the pov and graphics though idk
to be fair to developers (especially solo devs) making models is extremely time consuming so as a solo game dev myself i really don't mind games "ripping" models from the asset store.
I think Last Epoch fixes a lot of that. That's the main appeal of the game is that you don't really need to do a ton of research just to be good at the game. With that being said, there's still a ton of variety in builds. It's great.
I've been interested in making something like that for a while, but I'm generally not a fighting game guy. I'd have to really learn a lot in terms of controls and mechanics for the genre, which would be an interesting video in and of itself. My answer in short is...maybe someday haha.
@@YourFavoriteSon1 thank for the replay love all your retrospective videos n and regardless of what's next I'm gonna watch it. Keep up the great work son!!!
if u have time try the first cobra kai game : cobra kai the karate kid saga continues , actually brougth me back to old style scrolling beat 'em up and actually had really fun going trought it , second one was meh fun dialogue tho if u are in to the series
When you mentioned Last Epoch having mixed for some reason I was just glad it wasn't them getting into bed with the racist D.E.I/Bridge companies. I hope Last Epoch does great going forward.
Last Epoch is really good. The story could be told better, especially from a world building perspective, but the game itself is really fun. I only play it in offline mode, so server issues don't affect me. (It's so nice to have a game with an offline mode in these days.)
Streamer Simulator and RUclipsr's Life games brought me a flashback of a piece of history I had totally forgotten. Pewdiepie's Tuber Simulator. Anyone remember that one lol?
Yeah that second game would make me motion sick with that constant moving around and I grew up watching edd ed and Eddy so I'm used to it but that game did it horribly.
i expect a ARPG launch to have a mode that let's me skip all the forced, unnecessary online crap. You know, how Diablo2 had no server issues on launch? Or Grim Dawn just works?
I disagree with the statement that you need to "expect" issues with new games. Imagine this, you buy a brand new car, drive out of the dealership and boom, the tires pop. Now some random guy comes around and says, "well should've expected some slight problems when you buy a new car". That wouldn't be fine now would it? Even though you can still get new Tires, it's a major problem and most people now wouldn't buy another car there. Same applies to games in my opinion. Games should only release without Major Bugs that can Ruin a PC or Savefile. No bugs that can softlock you and if they are multiplayer games, enough server size to hold 4x the predicted amount. You can always downsize later on.
I'll agree with this. I do think that I made the point that people had the reason to be upset, and it was understandable. If your game doesn't work at launch then people are going to want their money back. But, it was still worth saying that LE is a good game at the end of the day.
Note: Last Epoch is now at "Mostly Positive"
Note 2: Cobra Kai was originally a RUclips Premium show, not a Netflix show.
Would be more accurate to say *back* at mostly positive
Steam reviews was a mistake. Most of them aren't even real reviews 😂
Last Epoch is SO good. It just got review bombed for a week of server issues. OW2 servers were 100x worse at launch
15:49 - you said it was 150k at launch, then at next saturday this number got up to 230k... guess that was a very rought week for backend team
it was a review bomb, now the game is playable online. tbh i expected those problems so i played offline until the servers were more stable
"The amount of money you get streaming is barely enough to pay your expenses"
This game is so realistic
cap emoji
Getting money day 3? I don't think so lol
These have become a great "wind down and relax" kind of thing for me.
big ups 🙏
Avalanche are you going to cover the ff7 remakes at any point?
Ive caught a few z's to both of you
18:47 That's a common tactic to sell your game on key reselling sites like G2A and other places. Because they sell game lootboxes where they guarantee the buyer "at least X games worth X dollars" to make it seem you're going to get at least one AAA game if you buy said lootbox. So instead of doing that they hit up indie devs with loose morals and offer to buy cheap review keys (every dev on Steam can generate a certain amount of keys they can hand out to reviewers/friends/backers). It's pretty disgusting.
I wasn't aware of this, thanks for the information.
@@YourFavoriteSon1 Anytime hun
always wondered why there were games so overpriced and after i found out that, i feeled even more sickened. because before I thought " Greedy devs specting fool people" but now is just nasty despicable strats...
@@TheaArtsFox Yea, it's just disgusting. What's even more annoying is when they are constantly on "sale" so they appear in the list of games on sale. Basically it's just the product version of spam. Really goes to show that there is absolutely ZERO quality control on Steam's store. But as long as Valve can still profit off it there won't be any changes.
@@kurdtcobencan tell you have no clue what youre talking about. Fyi steam offers a good return. So dont like the game refund it. Simple as that. But can tell youve been scammed a time or 2
Maybe after a certain number of good games in the midst of the worst reviewed game, like Last Epoch, you could revisit 5 or 10 of those gems to re-endorse them?
That would probably be a good idea after getting maybe 10 or so. I can really only think of like 2 or 3 so far though.
My son is doing lord work and making another banger video. Keep up the good work son and I might finally comeback in your life.
maybe someday
27:46 Woah... did you see that? I wish you'd shown more of that scene.
I went back after this comment, now I've seen it. It really made me wonder if there's more hidden stuff in that game.
Son, if I could give you a relatively large wheel of cheese for this I would
Havarti please
Why, son? Haven't your mother and I taught you that you shouldn't hurt yourself for attention?
We're worried about your sanity, any more of these bad games and you might just... lose yourself.
Just be careful... We love you.
I can't stop
lol
4:37 Honestly thats the most realistic part. Feels like I'm playing it everyday
Sometimes a simulation management game becomes too realistic.
Galactic Bowling reminds me of those game discs you'd get at Walmart that would say like 2000+ games or something. Those always sounded cool to me until I got one and realized that like 99% of them sucked.
This series has become a favorite of mine, and it’s always a very nice surprise to see a new entry pop up in my sub box!
Thanks for the meal! 🙏
Hope you enjoy the video!
Visual design of the second game increased my stress more than any amount of programming ever did
IDK if I misunderstood that part about the bowling game. In the 2000 we already had a huge gaming market on PC. The era you are talking about was in the early- to mid-nineties. Are you saying that the game was from that period (because that can't be) or are you saying it is a game that would have worked in that time period?
Yeah that was a weird premise. The PC game market was already huge, it just wasn't on online storefronts like Steam. You could go to any major store and find tons of great games on CD. Maybe he's just too young to know this.
It took some time for me to understand that it was "MMA" not "anime" and I was very confused that you watch and practice Anime. Also I thought "what a weird pronounciation of anime"
I'm an anime practitioner
Using these videos to help remind me I'm doing a good job as a solo dev, so thank you. I can program in peace.
Clicking on this video has fucked my youtube algorithm for 3 weeks.
Been there
Shame about Fobia. It really does look like it could become something nice.
I was really hoping that it at least wouldn't be broken
Only the spiky bits of the wheel are supposed to kill you. You can bunny hop on the flat sides of it.
@@joe--cool I suspected as much and watched someone elses gameplay, and comparing it to this, in the other person's gameplay the wheel moves far slower, so it's actually possible to do that. Looks to me like with the wheel turning as fast as it does here, it's impossible to jump correctly, because the character moves so slowly
@@flusendieb6833 I wonder if the wheel's speed is tied to the game's framerate or something like that. I know that happens a ton when people try to play old games on modern systems, but I can imagine an indie dev making a mistake like that too.
The existence of Cobra Kai kinda baffles me. I thought we were past the era of shitty cashgrab games based on movies, TV shows etc., that kind of stuff was such a cancer during the PS2 era and especially the Wii.
Maybe im tripping but i think streamer simulator ripped assets from Crypto Miner Tycoon Simulator. Either that or its the same engine
Edit: im pretty sure they made a room in that game then screenshot it, put some bubbles over it, and called it a day.
Love hearing the Deadly Premonition theme in the background 🔥
For steamer simulator: There was/is a "RUclipsr Simulator" flash game. It got around the problem of not getting much money at the start by: Letting you get a job. The game adding that would help a lot.
I miss flash games
i love the way you talk about the positive and negative things about the game, also huge props for the Tekken ost, as a fan of Tekken i loved it
It could be that Phobias physics engine is tied to FPS, so youre meant to have a very slow wheel you jump past but its speed up like crazy and makes it impossible instead.
The least realistic thing about Streamer Simulator is that the streamer only pays $500 for rent, for that much space.
Well it is 500$ a week so 2000$ a month which yeah seems right lol
Looks like Dark Astral and the dev's other games (at least a few I searched for) have been removed from Steam.
Was really surprised to see last epoch on the list! Didn't realize it had been reviewed so poorly. I picked it up the week before release and have since logged ~200 hours in it. It's been a perfectly fun time, but I guess people just got really mad about all the release bugs and server issues. I've had no major issues since like the 1.1 patch. Certainly no crashes like at release.
4:45 so, a realistic simulator of life as a millennial then
I feel like Karma is missing a more irl interactive element to drive its point as well. Elements that would increase and decrease USER stress as well. Not just as a game mechanic, but as something that the user would feel in their body as a result of interacting with the game. If they could have figured out how to manipulate user emotions that way, I think that could have been super interesting. As it is, the game JUST looks like it has increasing user irl stress levels down pretty well though. It needs elements that decrease stress of the user too.
16:50 Yes, yes it does. As long as the game or product doesn't work, customers are eintitled to say so. It deserve the rating, so other people don't buy it and maybe wait until the issues are fixed, so those customers can have a better experience.
Why do I feel like the way to get through the spike wheel in fobia is to lower your fps? It look like the spike wheel is following your fps and spinning too fast
So dramatic in the opening. Stream has been like this for a very long time. 😂
Great video, but 1 small correction.
23:05 Cobra Kai is a RUclips Premium show, not a Netflix show.
Thanks for the correction. Somehow I thought it was Netflix haha, will add to the pinned comment.
THE MENTION OF CUBEWORLD HAD ME SENT. I still love cube world, Just hate what happened and the lack of what happened.
This is such a good series. Really enjoy it.
Typical of the gaming community at large to actually put their foot down on legitimately small indie team making a fun ARPG like Last Epoch but give Blizzard multiple passes. I say this as someone who pre-ordered Diablo 3 so its also my fault.
Do I hear P4 OST - Heartbeat, heartbreak in the background? Already hit like immediately
Of course
I saw LE in the thumbnail and was about to Deus Vult but its literally because of the reviews eviscerating the server issues that have been fixed by now lol.
I've played it far too much since launch haha
It looks like all of the games from the Dark Astral Dev including Dark Astral are no longer even listed on steam. So thats good news I guess.
I'm glad you said what you did about Last Epoch. I'm enjoying it so far, even if i don't really know what I'm doing.
“Sounds like you and the word ‘epoch’ have a lot of catching up to do”
0:19 - Hey son. Josh "Tera Killer" Hayes called. He wants his catchphrase back.
GameMill almost feels like a modern incarnation of LJN.
18:18 God, $60?!? Sounds like a joke/scam 😅😅
If you'd still like to play a tower defense game that's good, I can recommend "Crystal Guardians".
It's currently a free "Prologue" version of the game and is slated to come out soon.
Some interesting systems, quite fun.
Out of curiosity when did project z come out? Reason i ask is because it honestly looks like if someone took dysmantle (i think thats how its spelled?) took only the turret defense parts and had no clue what they were doing and botched the fun parts lol might just be because of the pov and graphics though idk
0:57 - Anything for you, son. You're my favorite one after all!
This has become one of my favorite series about PC video games.
It looks like The Visitor does have pre-made assets... The game Ghost Watcher on Steam has the same exact house.
to be fair to developers (especially solo devs) making models is extremely time consuming so as a solo game dev myself i really don't mind games "ripping" models from the asset store.
Dang that Streamer game has the most inconsistent game assets across the game..nothing matches
Mmm want to try last Enoch. Think i hate about most arpgs is that i do more reading on the game systems and build than I do playing the game
I think Last Epoch fixes a lot of that. That's the main appeal of the game is that you don't really need to do a ton of research just to be good at the game. With that being said, there's still a ton of variety in builds. It's great.
How about playing The Legend of Candlewind: Nights & Candles with 3% positive reviews? ;)
last epoch looks genuinely amazing, i am putting it on my wish list right now
With the release and success of tekken 8, any chance we could get a retrospective on the series???
I've been interested in making something like that for a while, but I'm generally not a fighting game guy. I'd have to really learn a lot in terms of controls and mechanics for the genre, which would be an interesting video in and of itself. My answer in short is...maybe someday haha.
@@YourFavoriteSon1 thank for the replay love all your retrospective videos n and regardless of what's next I'm gonna watch it. Keep up the great work son!!!
I really like the art style of the second game....I can see maybe a horror game in that style
Niko! Its Roman, lets go galactic bowling
Dark Astral puts the Ug in Ugly.
Stylized games are generally better then picture realism crap. Then you get the boring blobs from 07 onwards
if u have time try the first cobra kai game : cobra kai the karate kid saga continues , actually brougth me back to old style scrolling beat 'em up and actually had really fun going trought it , second one was meh fun dialogue tho if u are in to the series
13:16 Yes that does sound like a great game mechanic/system! 😊
When you mentioned Last Epoch having mixed for some reason I was just glad it wasn't them getting into bed with the racist D.E.I/Bridge companies.
I hope Last Epoch does great going forward.
Last Epoch is really good. The story could be told better, especially from a world building perspective, but the game itself is really fun. I only play it in offline mode, so server issues don't affect me. (It's so nice to have a game with an offline mode in these days.)
Enjoyed your comments on Last Epoch, and agreed with all of them. Good work being balanced regarding the 1.0 launch.
Last Epoch (pronounced eh-puck or epic) is now rated as Mostly Positive
over the years ive learned a very simple lesson: if a steam game is overhyped and costs 60€... it almost always flops
Can you not do drugs in Karma? to keep stress levels down cheaply... at first. Seems like an obvious direction to go in
Ah son.. You make me proud!
Fobia gives me Fancy Pants vibes
Steam page currently shows "Mostly Positive" for Last Epoch
For Steamer Simulator was dev and publisher by regulus
But you are not my favourite son, in fact, I don't think you are even my son. Which is why this is so difficult
I disagree
Streamer Simulator and RUclipsr's Life games brought me a flashback of a piece of history I had totally forgotten.
Pewdiepie's Tuber Simulator. Anyone remember that one lol?
I actually completely forgot about this game
It's still relevant!
17:15 im just mindblown how you paid 60$ for THIS???
Son we love you. This doesn’t have to keep happening!
4:58 God this game seems really boring no wonder the devs removed their details
Its not sleeping dogs, its Watch dogs.
The list of references Minecraft,Slenderman,H1Z1, witcher 3,world of tanks,watch dogs, payday 2.
I don't know, the emblem around the icon looks just like sleeping dogs.
Project Z reminds me of 10 miles to safety. It really looks like they stole all the assets from that game and somehow made it worse lol
Project Z beginning of the end was the game made in the beginning of the end game jam I actually watched a video of the person making the game
Project Z: The beginning of the end. Chapter I is one of those titles that somehow is very forgettable.
As always, I'm proud of you, son.
holy shit I bought Galactic Bowling at a 99 cent store like 5 or 6 years ago, fucking insane it's 20 bucks
This video series is comfort food for my mind. Yum yum yum.
hey son, can you make Retrospective video on Hitman series?
It's on the list eventually. I'd like to get into that series.
I enjoyed the cube world reference
Are you winning, son?
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Yeah that second game would make me motion sick with that constant moving around and I grew up watching edd ed and Eddy so I'm used to it but that game did it horribly.
i expect a ARPG launch to have a mode that let's me skip all the forced, unnecessary online crap. You know, how Diablo2 had no server issues on launch? Or Grim Dawn just works?
I LOLed when I saw Llast Epoch on there
if you have the time to grind on streamer simulator ? you should just stream irl bc the pay off would be way better for you lol
true lmao
Great video idea. Subbed 😊😊
streamer simulator is a poorly made ripoff of tuber simulator which has a multiplayer creative competitions
Haha, son, these are great. Shovelware crap your dad doesn't have time for.
that's what I'm here for
Dark Astral literally looks AI-generated lol
I disagree with the statement that you need to "expect" issues with new games. Imagine this, you buy a brand new car, drive out of the dealership and boom, the tires pop. Now some random guy comes around and says, "well should've expected some slight problems when you buy a new car". That wouldn't be fine now would it? Even though you can still get new Tires, it's a major problem and most people now wouldn't buy another car there. Same applies to games in my opinion. Games should only release without Major Bugs that can Ruin a PC or Savefile. No bugs that can softlock you and if they are multiplayer games, enough server size to hold 4x the predicted amount. You can always downsize later on.
I'll agree with this. I do think that I made the point that people had the reason to be upset, and it was understandable. If your game doesn't work at launch then people are going to want their money back. But, it was still worth saying that LE is a good game at the end of the day.
Im sorry but x4 server capacity bit is just mental. Otherwise I agree
I mean not really? Bugs can be missed. I think having small bugs should be expected of all games. That's what we as players are also there for.
What kind of bull crap is $500 for a single room per week? I pay $500 for an entire house per month.
Steam sucks so much lol! A true guage of the stupidity of the gamer community.
Well I can at least tell you that the first game is polish. About half of the streamers on the 4:11 ranking are from Poland.
Last epoch does not deserve the hate!