@@Ceece20 How presumptuous of you to think they failed. Let's just say the information landscape around video games back in the day is so different from anything you ever experienced you can't even comprehend it.
1. Game's good now guys. You can mostly avoid stealth and climb ladders with cool guns that you find. You still can't keep them, though. 2. Yeah we know the game has a bunch of poorly implemented, not fully developed mechanics that we might eventually have time to do something about. We are listening to our community blablabla but don't expect any of that any time soon because: 3. WE ARE WORKING FULL TIME ON TWO DLCs Also, the game is going to be discounted for the holiday, you should totally pick it up. You're going to try our cool amazing new patch now too, right Skillup?
I'm sorry but what did they not answer? I feel like they brought up things they themselves acknowledged was subpar, they brought up reasons (steam+holiday sales) for why they did things, and they said they're listening to community feedback? They even bring up changes.
I get that devs use these interviews for PR purposes, but that Outlaws segment was next level. The answers were far too safe or avoided saying anything substantial, and it was clear they were there just for damage control. It didn't feel genuine at all, and the interview suffered as a result.
The way I see it, if you have nothing substantial to say, then doing these interviews is a detriment to their PR, not a help. Why do you think Ubisoft has a bad reputation? Part of it is that they do a lot of these interviews where they don't give out anything substantial and/or lie.
@@kaingates there was no detailed announcement of fixes or anything specific. It was a general "we're working on it" which to me felt a little like a waste of my time. I have little interest in the game but I'm also just as not interested as I was before. If this was some indie studio, I'd bet that they'd come prepared with some specific things they're targeting and I'd be much more excited about trying the game then.
Wow! These people are damned if they do, and damned if they dont!! I think they did fine - and damage control is absolutely part of the process. They were very careful not to criticize the work of their co-workers (not their job) and they don't want to step on peoples toes and that is professional conduct (whether we like it or not). It means they have to answer things very diplomatically and not necessarily say the things that come to mind - but at least they are listening and at least they are trying. Most don't even bother these days.
Reminder to take everything Ubisoft says with a grain of salt. They've already done things to contradict their recent policy changes announcement they made in a panic. Edit: they're not actually addressing what they're asked, and they keep using corporate language to fluff up their game and not actually say anything despite the quantity of words.
I take everything ubishit says and immediately disregard it. How the fuck can anyone trust anything they say? They've lied to their userbase time and time again and have shown that they do not give a single fuck about any of them. Its a huge part to the reason why they are in the financial hardships they are in, their own fault. FUCK UBISOFT
yeah they clearly don't want to answer the 1st question about how unusual fixing the core gameplay of a single player game post-launch. if i hear the interview right they give a non-answer
I really had to skip that outlaws interview. I had no interest in the game before release and thought maybe that segment could get me interested. Instead it was very corporate and PR speak.
@@chrislopez5301 more like most people want them to prostrate themselvers before the gaming audience for the sins of...idk? Making the definition of a 7.5 out of ten game that didn't set the world on fire. Game isn't Elden Ring or BG3, but neither is Jedi Survivor yet it didn't get anywshere near this amount of hate.
@jordannoell4222 I haven't played either, but the narrative for the hate train seems to be that the Jedi games delivered on their fantasy through a solid character story and enjoyable gameplay with souls-like combat and that Outlaws doesn't deliver on its Han Solo rebel outlaw fantasy through story or gameplay. Didn't read much on the story but the stealth and shooting gameplay did not seem fun. As an outsider looking in, Jedi Survivor does just generally look like a better game so I think it's just the usual internet dogpiling on a bad game or at the very least a poorly marketed game.
that interview was painful. I'm sure your questions were pre screened and had to be toothless. they said a lot of nothing... for a company that has lost 10% of their stock price this month, 52% down this year.
Honestly, probably a pretty good time to buy Ubisoft stock. Regardless of where they are now, Assassins Creed, Far Cry, Tom Clancy and Prince of Persia is a very strong catalogue of brands. The value of those properties alone way outstrips Ubisoft's entire valuation.
Thrusting Rey into the main character spotlight, relegating Luke to obscurity and wasting away in anger, ending Han Solo, making Rey Palpatines daughter, etc etc etc 😂 They definitely took risks and tried new things my guy
@@Skateandcreate9Actually, most idiots who take over an IP do the same. They don't want the past to overshadow their present so they kill it... but the past was what got the IP popular in the first place, so it ends pissing off the fanbase and ruining the IP. What they do tends not to be good because good creators know better than to do that. So no, they did not try anything new, just did the same proven mistakes so often made. Maybe added a few new ones too. And ffs, if a story lore and themes work, don't attempt to deconstruct it from within the story itself because the only thing showed is not caring.
@@Skateandcreate9None of you know what you’re talking about so just stop. The problem with Star Wars is that Disney and Lucasfilm as they are now, refuse to acknowledge the legends and expanded universe source material. There is literally whole series of books and comics with enough content to make multiple trilogies of films. They even took George Lucas’s plan for the sequel trilogy when he sold the company and scrapped it, changed it up and made their trash films which we know now had no plan and they made it up as they went.
Thanks to a dfifferent creator I know Ubisoft often have a PR person in the room when interviews are being done, making sure correct things are being said. I dunno if it applies in this interview, but it definitely felt that way.
The level of disconnect displayed by the Ubisoft devs in the interview is absolutely insane, saying things like "turns out, players wanting to micro-choices in combat is fun" and "turns out, getting to keep playing the video game is fun" makes me believe these guys don't actually play games at all. You don't need to be a game developer to know the basics of what makes good game design, if they just played their own game before they released it, they wouldn't have to go back and fix things like forced stealth. That's not something you had to wait for community feedback to test out that's something that could have been play tested before release. And then on top of all that to say most of the improvements for this update just come from the internal dev team and not community feedback? If that's true, maybe they could have just done them in the first place then if they are so passionate? This has been an insane PR push by Ubisoft + Disney for what is one of the most mid released games of 2024.
It feels like they've gone way too deep into focus group-style testing and lost sight of how to just know that an idea is working out. And then also push the dev schedule so hard they run out of time to do the focus group.
@@goldie819 it also doesnt help that a ton of the job layoffs in the gaming industry has been on the Quality Assurance side too and its been obvious to see with how buggy releases can be :/
Hearing a dev say they didn't realize that people like making small choices in gameplay is just...what. How could a game desigjer not know this? This isn't hyper focusing on detail. This is like basic game design fundamentals. Like truly, bottom level foundations. This is like if a movie director didn't know that cinematography was important
They weren't being literal. They already knew this and are pointing out how many really bad design decisions were made during development, that they're now fixing for what should have been an excellent game on release
They are just B.S.ers. They are so bad! Ubisoft stock holders need to jump ship! They are sinking so hard and these devs lying to the public's face is just fanning the flames.
The game isn't finished until after launch. How could they play the finshed product if they are still developing it until way after they sell it to us??????????????????
They better have gotten paid well for that slop. It felt very much lets pretend there was no controversy at all about the game and we just need to clean some stuff up.
That would be a dream come true. She and the group have such good chemistry, her and Ralph in particular. But no way she's joining permanently, she's got too much going on and is even doing a podcast herself
Man what a softball waste of time corporate PR interview. Real shame we could have had a look behind the curtain into single player development hell. It’s not often this type of thing happens
I miss her own podcast with the other 3 guys from different areas of the industry. It was the best combination because it had people from all major disciplines involved in making games: directing/programming, acting, scoring and writing.
As someone who has 100s of hours in the Division games, Outlaws just genuinely feels terrible to play. I despised both the stealth and the combat on mouse and keyboard. And the speeder controls on mouse are genuinely unusable. I literally couldn’t turn. I don’t understand how they screwed up 3rd person movement so bad compared to their previous games.
I only played Outlaws on PC with a controller, but I have to say I enjoyed it a lot. No issues with gameplay or controls. No GOTY, but very fun SW game.
@@SuperBallani The speeder is meant to be terrible at first, and only gets better with upgrades. Imagine if they started you on Akiva with the non-upgraded speeder though haha.
@ Hold on, is your argument that a 70$ game on PC that comes bundled with intel CPUs meant for pc gaming from a developer that has made other 3rd person shooter games that felt good on m&kb should’t be expected to play well on PC? This is your argument?
Yeah, my main point of interest was the handheld discussion. I personally wouldn’t buy a new Sony handheld for the sole reason that I bought a Vita and it was very poorly supported; a common issue with them outside of their main consoles.
This podcast is so good at Including everybody in the talks, theres nobody that get to stay quiet for long, a rare thing to see on a podcast, even the guests. Well done FPS
In the Star Wars interview... some of my takeaways... and btw Ralph I REALLY appreciate you asking some questions that were like "why didn't you do this?" like obvious shit I think in their Ubisoft bubble they just aren't aware of for some reason. To me, lot of their "original intent" seems so obviously ridiculous, I don't understand how it was allowed to happen. Why wasn't more playtesting done, because they seemed surprised by some feedback from their audience, yet as I mention below, they also already knew? Weird responses some of these. I wish they could have hit some of the feedback head-on, instead of doing this sorta game director-y hand waving stuff. The guys answer like politicians instead of gamers. Paraphrasing "Well, we didn't need the feedback from our audience, we heard the same thing from the team" well why didn't you implement it that way initially if you had that feedback in hand?
Honestly, you guys really shouldn't do interviews like this if the person you are interviewing isn't going to answer the questions and just dodge them or give corporate BS as answers.
Miyazaki’s lie is hilarious because even if they were given two full weeks you would be working a typical 8 hour day to get the game done assuming you finish around 80 hours. That’s pretty nuts.
Impression I got from the guys at Massive is that there's no big picture changes being worked on, simply managing the game at a surface level until the designated timeline finishes. The nervous chuckles on any mention of significant changes were a dead giveaway.
Yea that interview just makes me root against Ubisoft more. There’s some companies that need to fail for the overall health of the industry and Ubisoft is definitely one of them.
Between hyperspace ramming, Luke being cast out of the sequels the way he was, and Palpatine self-reviving in an exploding Death Star, the rest of Star Wars has been retroactively ruined by Disney, nothing matters anymore, and there’s nothing that can repair that. It seems more appropriate to call Jedi Survivor’s success a miracle rather than calling Outlaws an unexpected failure for this reason.
To be fair, Palpatine being revived was not Disney's idea, it was a thing in Legends. And Outlaws has less to do with Disney being Disney and more about Ubisoft making bad games.
@ The whole point of Disney wiping out the EU was to not do dumb EU stuff, only to top it with insane proportion. The EU just had *one* starship-sized Death Star, RoS had 300 on one planet I think? And I refer to Outlaws like that because so many recent Star Wars projects have flopped dramatically, there’s just no interest anymore. Ubisoft could’ve hired as many former LucasArts devs as they could find, made The Force Unleashed III, and still sold only a million copies.
@@thesamuraimanYeah and the Soth returning was also doke in Legends. Except it was done by Luke's crazy ex and a tryhars nobody that Obi Wan apparently left to die on Tatooine led to the destruction of the Jedi once again. Post ROTJ Legends is not good lmao.
Stalker is the most immersive game I played this year hands down. It's totally engrossing. Maybe I'm lucky to be playing after patches but what y'al are saying is not landing at all with me. Game is really really good. Story works for me. Voice acting is good too. And it's terrifying.
Thats the problem.... it makes you feel feelings, and most of those feelings are Fear and discomfort. I died in the first 20minutes..... so clearly its because the game is bad.
The game is still a pretty broken mess after the most recent patch, especially late game. Honestly the more i play the less forgiving i am inclined to be, so many features just aren't there and the world feels incredibly artificially and dead. Nothing exists 40m outside of your view, you can't even snipe in the game reliably because everything just spawns in in front of you. The bipolar lighthing also really needs work. I'd just reinstall Stalker Gamma and put another 100hrs into it at this point until mods fix it.
The best sales pitch I have for Gladiator 2 is to imagine the twin emperors as the McPoyle Brothers from Always Sunny. It makes the movie FAR more entertaining.
I agree but she is so busy most of the time, she has a full time job on top of multiple channels of her own, she would most likely miss a lot of episodes anyway, I'll take a cameo once in a while though
Why do you chat like the game flopped? It from all measures did great except pleasing gamers (which of course they didn't, it's an action game. Gamers love to hate on anything that's not turn based, walls of text and needlessly complicated wording for basic mechanics)
I know they're going to get a lot of hate, but I appreciate the devs trying to make the best star wars game given the circumstances and trying to fix the mistakes.
If this is their "best" that is a sad state. Other SW games like Jedi Knight and Republic Commando completely wipe the floor with Outlaws and those games came out 20 years ago.
@@Rakka5 Those games were made under lucasfilms, while this game was licensed by disney to ubisoft. I would not be surprised if disney heavily meddled with the game especially the gameplay, as the gameplay seems weirdly bad for a game developed by the devs of the division. This isn't their best for sure, I expected the gameplay to be great and the story to be bad but the opposite happened so I think this game probably has had a weird development history.
Ok for the Hyrule theme park. A lot of parks will have a watch or device of some kind for bonus/interactable things like the wands at Harry Potter. Imagine for Hyrule they gave you a little disposable ocarina, and at different points in the park they had guides to play songs and you could use those songs in different areas. As a bonus you take the ocarina home and now you know how to play all the classic songs.
Would be cool to real Stars wars game with an actual outlaw/bandit that does actual morally grey stuff like murder, hiests, bounties like you can do in actual games like Cyberpunk or Red Dead.. and not a Disneyified "outlaw" that can only be a toned down generic hero. The difference tone from Lucasfilms 1313 or KOTOR to Star wars Outlaws is just sad and sterilized
I just watched the first couple hours of Stalker 2 and if this made a bad first impression to you, Ralph and Lucy, this game might just not be for you. This is exactly what many of us have been waiting for for years and years. I WANT it to be this dark, I WANT to be made to think what I'm picking up and what I leave behind, I want it to be brutal and challenging and punishing. I think this is simply a question of taste since I care little about Metaphor, Astro Bot, Warhammer, Final Fantasy, Destiny and many other games you recommend. If the bugs are really that bad even after the first patch that sucks and needs addressing. The performance issues suck as well but I would partially blame Epic for that since every UE5 game has this problem and who knows what the hell is going on in that engine that's causing the CPU to struggle so much.
Star Wars Outlaws really hurt Ubisoft BAD. Now they’re pushing this insane Marketing campaign of “the game is much better now!!!” that they’re sending devs to podcasts like this to talk about it. I’ve never seen anything like this. Disney must be MAD at Ubisoft with just how poor this game performed.
It's not a bad game overall, I enjoyed it. However the recent DLC was absolute plop, I paid £12 for it and cannot praise it in any way. It's pathetic. Clearly been cut from the base game and sold at a later date. Shite.
I doubt disney care because they will have had a minimum payment for the license regardless of sales before the typical percentages kick in. I imagine ubisoft simply have paid a shit ton for the licence so are desperate to recuperate. Perhaps there us a minimum profit number they need to hit to get a better profit percentage from ubisoft.
That Ubisoft interview is a ShillUp moment. In your review you said the casts of characters were uninteresting and forgettable but in the interview you’re saying how much you love the main character and hope to see more of her. On top of that you never pushed back on any of their corporate speak BS which is something you’ve called out from other devs in your catalogue. Kind of really disappointed here. How can I trust your thoughts and opinions if you can just be blatantly bought?
You only get one first impression (and one metacritic score) Next time Ubisoft should try finishing the game BEFORE releasing it Oh, and maybe they could also try making something new instead of just rehashing a mixture of Assassins Creed 2 and Far Cry 3 for like the 15th year in a row?
not sure why people are shocked at the Ubi interview. They're not your friends, they're in business to make money. These interviews are going well when they speak and say nothing. Vote with your wallet, its the only language they hear.
The irony is that it doesn't matter to me. Between Disney's BS and theirs when it comes to the Star Wars franchise, I simply won't support them with my money. It's shame because I was 16 in 1977 and was one of those guys who spent most Saturday's during the Summer of '77 standing in line for three hours to get tickets first so I could get the best seats. Now, I don't even care. Star Wars is just dead.
So weird to see footage from TheRadBrad after just discovering he's still doing the RUclips thing. Haven't run into his stuff in ages and just ran into it a few days ago :D
Ralph, you had the opportunity to follow-up on the statement the Outlaws devs made about not giving all the systems in their very broad game the detail and depth required to have a fun and engaging game feature. They teed it up for you, man. WHY INCLUDE A FEATURE AT ALL IF YOU CAN'T REFINE IT AND DEVELOP IT ENOUGH FOR IT TO BE FUN? Please do better, man. I know you're not an industry shill, and the games media needs needs access to break stories, but you owe it to us as your customers/community and their consumers to ask meaningful questions. You missed similar opportunities with the STALKER 2 devs. Don't allow people to just use your audience for their PR. EDIT: You'll note my comment didn't say anything about whether their game or STALKER 2 is good. This is about doing good journalism when presented with the opportunity to do so. Ask follow-ups. Challenge their messaging. Ask them to elaborate. That's an interview. This is just a PR Q&A. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
I feel like it was enough for the devs to admit their scope was too broad. There isn’t an insidious reason as to why there scope was too broad, it was probably an early design decision that was too difficult to pivot away from late in development.
I would love to see them release a sequel, or expansion, that leaned more into the roleplaying aspect of the game. I hated the main storyline missions because they forced Kay into mistakes that I had no say in and Kay, as I'd been playing her, would not have made. Kassandra's story was linear but she had a lot more say in major issues like who to let live and who to forgive - so we know the writing team is capable of giving that to us! Why didn't they?
Stalker 2 is one of the best game I’ve played in years despite all the bugs I will admit it’s very unpolished and needs another 5-6 months but when the game works properly it’s absolutely amazing
I'm several hours in and the game is a buggy mess. Economy is busted. Quests don't always trigger rewards. Gunplay feels awful because of performance. Really not impressed.
@@manjitmishra410 4090/5800x3d. Had to make a custom ini to disable mouse acceleration and smoothing but it's still bad. Going from Black ops 6 or OW2 to this is a joke.
@@Phil_529 hm, i am having 60 + fps on max settings and gunplay is actually great Also they fixed the economy with the latest patch When they fixed spawns it will be 10/10 for me
This will be an unpopular opinion, but in actuality of the giant AAA Studios Ubisoft is the one that Buck the trend of cutting your losses and the staff if you have a bad release. Despite what's in the air currently with Ubi being seen as a dying relic. I know gaming has been better for it. Seige, For Honor, division, Wildlands, & even Just Dance! All at least decade-long post-release Productions. The shake up on the Assassin's Creed formula seems to be a win when all the chips are counted for, and I bet Far Cry will be up for the same treatment directly. I applaud ubi taking quite a few at least what you would call asymmetrical bets? Phoenix Rising, the vertical whatever Battle Royale, Riders republic, oddball, Prince of Persia, X defiant, battle core Arena! Ubi for sure needs an audit I don't know that anyone in the world could argue against that, and I have no doubts that they need Massive Internal change starting at the very top of the executives floor, with pain every Direction as far as one can see. On the other hand where is constellation is there is only one real Direction and that is to dig to the foundation and rebuild. "Standing on the shoulders of giants" and such is the only rational direction in a world that every day is more determined to prove competent leadership will have no quarter, & quarterly profits are your vision statement... nothing less nothing more.
I wouldn't know they hide all of the good items behind oaywalls so I haven't got an Ubisoft game since blackflag. I do not get dopamine from spending my money. The opposite actually
Alana made a really good point about game reviewers and I thought about it many times. Reviewers will enjoy things that regular gamers won't, like shorter games so they can produce faster reviews. A expansive map for a game that you love should not make you mad but happy. And that is a big disconnect between gamers and reviewers.
They also have often played more games than most gamers and are tired of some things. Imagine Ubisoft fatigue but over far more genres. They usually prefer more original ideas.
Re: outlaws- steal any speeder, shoot from said speeder without deadeye, random interactions, shoot in towns, and npc interactions (say hello or antagonize)
I just feel like in the interview nothing was asked in a serious manner addressing why it was shipped like this. Why facial animation was broken how did they think this was acceptable to release the game in this state did they even test the game before releasing it. How was it when Ubisoft made the statement saying it underperformed and the state the game was in it felt like a very PR interview from both sides. Like they still let you punch a stormtrooper and knock them out bare hands 😂😂 like seriously gamers need to stop accepting mediocre games and allowing publishers or devs to get away with giving us these types of games. I expected more from Ralph in a more hardcore interview to these devs as he has a proper voice within the gaming community and just felt like the questions was to safe thats just my opinion but I am a passionate gamer and i just feel like gaming has really lost its way in recent times which is sad and mediocre games feel like they get a free pass now.
Hey hey, shoutout to my Morocco, speaking of Gladiator, filmed there ( hence the sunny unique lights ;) ) & u can even spot one frame where a bit of our southern roads is slipping in a corner ^^
And the NFT games, the staff abuse cases, the staff lay offs, the executive bonus payments, the racism towards Japan, their belief that their games are AAAA, the terrible monetization of their single player games. I really could go on, this company is peak anti-consumer and just in general full of terrible people. The mainstream media and big independent reveiwers positivity towards them is absolutely crazy, though to be fair we all know it is about access.
do you have evidence that ubisoft told steam to hide player counts? All I saw was the website FandomPulse who reported on this first say that "A leaker shared it to". Basically there is no proof that Ubisoft asked steam to hide it.
@Ceece20 I don't defend ubisoft when they actually do bad stuff but what you said is very misinformed. Do better research before spreading false info on the internet.
The Stalker patch from yesterday improved the experience significantly. Again. Btw. enemies don't se you through walls. They hear you. Stealth works just fine. I personally play Stalker for the combat, the experience of the Zone and the "being there" rather than for the story. The story is more a backdrop that generates missions than to actually drive the gameplay. This is not an RPG. It is a sim. I don't know why people always want to be able to "make their own way" in a game and when they can do exactly that they ask for a compelling story. Stories are always interruptions and restrictions. Enjoy the freedom you have and make your own way for once. Stalker lets you do it. And regarding the items you find: Everything in Stalker is a currency. You use half of it and you sell the other half. You lose weight that way and upgrade your gear with the money. This is part of the progression system. Apart from that there are mutants that have you go quickly through 20 medpacks in a fight....I you're not playing rookie... And lastly, there are artifacts that increases you carrying capacity. All those things are not thrown in the face of the player, just like the fast travel system. You have to find it out. That is playing Stalker.
It was absolutely an unacceptable launch but we should be willing to give things a second chance. There’s a good star wars game there, especially in the final 1/3rd and the changes they’ve made so far have been good. I know it’s extremely cool to be negative now but I appreciate them trying tbh
I only started playing outlaws a few days ago when the last big patch went up, and, to be honest, it's been great. It absolutely excels in a few areas (especially environment design, sense of atmosphere, immersion in star wars) and it's just okay in others. I haven't identified anything terrible about it. This game also has a lot of little details that are just plain charming, lots of interesting character moments, lots of things you can do that you wouldn't expect. I think this game is being sold short by many people in comment sections. If you enjoy games that have great environment design and sense of atmosphere and immersion, and especially if you're also a star wars fan, I expect you'll like this. There are many portions where I've just enjoyed drinking in my surroundings, looking at the architecture, the spaceships... Finding a half unbuilt a-wing in some dirty hangar was such a treat...
I enjoyed it immensely. The DLC with Lando Calrissian was complete shite, but I enjoyed the base game alot. It's trendy to the Ubisoft and I totally get that, but most people in the comments have not even played the game. Just hopped on an easy bandwagon.
@@Yodalemos I'm an OG, empire strikes back kid here. I think there have been a couple bright spots under disney (rogue one, andor, some of the mandalorian) but overall it has been mismanaged. that's where I'm coming from
Stalker 2 is definitely messy as hell, but I really think that's a feature, not a bug. The film equivalent to me is something like Dark Star or Eraserhead; fixing the technical issues with these movies would also take something from the vibe - and the broken-ness of Stalker 2 seems like the game's strongest active metaphor - a little of a the-medium-is-the-message effect for me.
I got Outlaws on sale recently, so just now playing it for the first time. For me, it feels like the hate is overblown. Even if the gameplay is kind of simplistic, I'm finding many things about it rather charming. I would give it 7/10 overall, but because of having to average highs and lows. Inconsistent is how I would describe the quality. So it's a shame that I feel like this interview didn't do them favors, especially reading the comments about it here... I hope that while they "fix" it they don't just mess it up more...
@@goldie819people are over "the message" they just want good games good writing and an end to the soul less DEI crap. Give us good characters good writing and an edge back to our media. To suggest that the culture wars are meaningless shows you toddler like understanding of what's going on. Of course people's culture matter. To pretend otherwise betrays you as a snob. Good luck with that. It pretty clear as day. Give the people what they want and stop trying to tell them off. Clear as day.
@zorastin Who "people"? Reddit basement dwellers? 4chan incels? Bad and mediocre games existed longer before bigots had these "woke" dogwhistles. Normies hardly care about this sh*t. "People" are delusional if they think that a more sexy character equals better game. There is p * r n for that. Keep your wet fantasies out of my games.
@@zorastin Well, the thing is that I'm pretty anti-woke and I still think Outlaws was unfairly targeted. It's miles away from Veilguard in that department, that's for sure. As a pet lover, there were plenty of moments with Nix that I found genuinely touching. And it's an open world game that doesn't hold your hand. There's plenty there to like for some people, and it isn't woke culture war stuff... The main problem I'm seeing so far is just that the gameplay feels old school in a way that isn't necessarily good. But it's still fun enough to keep my interest for the exploration.
@@zorastinAnd yet most people who have actually played the game have praised the writing and the gameplay is where most of the paints point are. Culture war is abosolute conspiratorial nonsenese a game is never a bad game because it is has bad writing or bad gameplay, but because it has diversity in it. And whenever a game is unambigously good the tourists fall silent and transition to the next thing to hate. They were crying about BG3 having gay people in it and then crickets when the game releaesed. One of the lead writers for Warhmammer 2 is trans and they were ready to eviscerate it, until it was actually good. It is the same pony show over and over again with Avowed being the current target, despite people who have previewed it loving the writing and gameplay (skillup included).
@@Lucax97 you say that like its an insult but i had a good time with zzz. If your trying to defend a ubi game are you really in a position to throw stones at peoples choice in games. Atleast with zzz i had a great time for 20 bucks. Where as ubi games will cost u 90$ to end up with a far greater sense of disappointment all around. They aren't doing a pr run about fixing the game cause its good.
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yeh definitely start by making the ugly girl less ugly.. .thats a perfect little tiny little start to begin to work on
54:30 no the game is so bad!!! People did not connect with these horrible characters either! Kay is a horrible character! Stop kidding yourself!
as an 86 baby I think we are some of the last who do
"plans to improve Star Wars Outlaws" They're going to get the reviews changed?
Remember the times where devs worked on core mechanics of the game BEFORE release?
Remember when partially (and fully) broken games never got a fix ever?
@@Wariyaka and they deserved to failed because of it.
@@Ceece20 How presumptuous of you to think they failed. Let's just say the information landscape around video games back in the day is so different from anything you ever experienced you can't even comprehend it.
Alright Nostradamus calm down @@Wariyaka
Did you not listen to the interview?
I don't think this interview did anybody any favors, the devs just kept spinning things and didn't take any ownership whatsoever
Yep. Everything they said was literally the opposite of reality. It's like they are talking about a different game all together. It's just so bad.
That does us, the consumer, a favor.
I kind of feel bad for them, there must be a lot of company politics which forbids them from speaking their mind
1. Game's good now guys. You can mostly avoid stealth and climb ladders with cool guns that you find. You still can't keep them, though.
2. Yeah we know the game has a bunch of poorly implemented, not fully developed mechanics that we might eventually have time to do something about. We are listening to our community blablabla but don't expect any of that any time soon because:
3. WE ARE WORKING FULL TIME ON TWO DLCs
Also, the game is going to be discounted for the holiday, you should totally pick it up. You're going to try our cool amazing new patch now too, right Skillup?
I'm sorry but what did they not answer? I feel like they brought up things they themselves acknowledged was subpar, they brought up reasons (steam+holiday sales) for why they did things, and they said they're listening to community feedback? They even bring up changes.
I get that devs use these interviews for PR purposes, but that Outlaws segment was next level. The answers were far too safe or avoided saying anything substantial, and it was clear they were there just for damage control. It didn't feel genuine at all, and the interview suffered as a result.
The way I see it, if you have nothing substantial to say, then doing these interviews is a detriment to their PR, not a help. Why do you think Ubisoft has a bad reputation? Part of it is that they do a lot of these interviews where they don't give out anything substantial and/or lie.
What was insubstantial? I get disliking ubisoft but I think these guys did an okay job. And seems like critics agree.
@@kaingates there was no detailed announcement of fixes or anything specific. It was a general "we're working on it" which to me felt a little like a waste of my time. I have little interest in the game but I'm also just as not interested as I was before. If this was some indie studio, I'd bet that they'd come prepared with some specific things they're targeting and I'd be much more excited about trying the game then.
I was just about to say, why was star wars segment like talking to a politician? Not even Triple A games have those precise dodging mechanics 😂
Wow! These people are damned if they do, and damned if they dont!! I think they did fine - and damage control is absolutely part of the process. They were very careful not to criticize the work of their co-workers (not their job) and they don't want to step on peoples toes and that is professional conduct (whether we like it or not). It means they have to answer things very diplomatically and not necessarily say the things that come to mind - but at least they are listening and at least they are trying. Most don't even bother these days.
Reminder to take everything Ubisoft says with a grain of salt. They've already done things to contradict their recent policy changes announcement they made in a panic.
Edit: they're not actually addressing what they're asked, and they keep using corporate language to fluff up their game and not actually say anything despite the quantity of words.
I take everything ubishit says and immediately disregard it. How the fuck can anyone trust anything they say? They've lied to their userbase time and time again and have shown that they do not give a single fuck about any of them. Its a huge part to the reason why they are in the financial hardships they are in, their own fault.
FUCK UBISOFT
With a huge pile of salt!
yeah they clearly don't want to answer the 1st question about how unusual fixing the core gameplay of a single player game post-launch. if i hear the interview right they give a non-answer
I don't need the salt, I know Ubisofts game and I'm not buying a cent of what they release.
@@Psychotoxic86 More like a salt desert.
I really had to skip that outlaws interview. I had no interest in the game before release and thought maybe that segment could get me interested. Instead it was very corporate and PR speak.
I got the game on release and loved it, was a boring interview, but a good game
You act like they were gonna be transparent ubisoft doesnt do that and blaming these two for it is crazy
@@chrislopez5301 more like most people want them to prostrate themselvers before the gaming audience for the sins of...idk? Making the definition of a 7.5 out of ten game that didn't set the world on fire. Game isn't Elden Ring or BG3, but neither is Jedi Survivor yet it didn't get anywshere near this amount of hate.
@jordannoell4222 I haven't played either, but the narrative for the hate train seems to be that the Jedi games delivered on their fantasy through a solid character story and enjoyable gameplay with souls-like combat and that Outlaws doesn't deliver on its Han Solo rebel outlaw fantasy through story or gameplay. Didn't read much on the story but the stealth and shooting gameplay did not seem fun. As an outsider looking in, Jedi Survivor does just generally look like a better game so I think it's just the usual internet dogpiling on a bad game or at the very least a poorly marketed game.
that interview was painful. I'm sure your questions were pre screened and had to be toothless.
they said a lot of nothing... for a company that has lost 10% of their stock price this month, 52% down this year.
Welcome to the shadowban club
@@F41LZZz Welcome to corporate interviews where some questions get asked but none get answered.
Yeah it's so bad and not being honest make them look so foolish.
Honestly, probably a pretty good time to buy Ubisoft stock. Regardless of where they are now, Assassins Creed, Far Cry, Tom Clancy and Prince of Persia is a very strong catalogue of brands. The value of those properties alone way outstrips Ubisoft's entire valuation.
@hippie_4762 I got in at 10 euros lmao. I've already made gains lol
Ubisoft and Star Wars go well together. Played out brands that wont risk trying truly new things as they flail into irrelevance
They really went down hill unfortunately. They have made some very horrible decision and very greedy anti consumer too.
Wasn’t everyones entire issue with Star Wars is that they tried so much new random stuff that no one agreed with????? 😂
Thrusting Rey into the main character spotlight, relegating Luke to obscurity and wasting away in anger, ending Han Solo, making Rey Palpatines daughter, etc etc etc 😂 They definitely took risks and tried new things my guy
@@Skateandcreate9Actually, most idiots who take over an IP do the same. They don't want the past to overshadow their present so they kill it... but the past was what got the IP popular in the first place, so it ends pissing off the fanbase and ruining the IP. What they do tends not to be good because good creators know better than to do that.
So no, they did not try anything new, just did the same proven mistakes so often made. Maybe added a few new ones too.
And ffs, if a story lore and themes work, don't attempt to deconstruct it from within the story itself because the only thing showed is not caring.
@@Skateandcreate9None of you know what you’re talking about so just stop. The problem with Star Wars is that Disney and Lucasfilm as they are now, refuse to acknowledge the legends and expanded universe source material. There is literally whole series of books and comics with enough content to make multiple trilogies of films. They even took George Lucas’s plan for the sequel trilogy when he sold the company and scrapped it, changed it up and made their trash films which we know now had no plan and they made it up as they went.
That Ubisoft interview was painful. No information would have been lost if that segment was just cut completly from the podcast.
Hell I skipped it after the first question. I just hope the podcast sees the dip in retention from that interview and take less corpo interviews
Thanks to a dfifferent creator I know Ubisoft often have a PR person in the room when interviews are being done, making sure correct things are being said. I dunno if it applies in this interview, but it definitely felt that way.
yup just pr jargon
@@jon8234 I think it’s very important to have those though. I just wish they were a lot more transparent more often than not
Disagree
As an aspiring game dev, I dream of the day that anyone in this group would curse my name as they play something I worked on.
Then stop dreaming and start making games
@ already in the process.
Make an appealing game. No woke sit. And you win. If you can't resist the woke. Do it like how BG3 did.
@ just working to make a good game. That’s our only focus.
The level of disconnect displayed by the Ubisoft devs in the interview is absolutely insane, saying things like "turns out, players wanting to micro-choices in combat is fun" and "turns out, getting to keep playing the video game is fun" makes me believe these guys don't actually play games at all.
You don't need to be a game developer to know the basics of what makes good game design, if they just played their own game before they released it, they wouldn't have to go back and fix things like forced stealth. That's not something you had to wait for community feedback to test out that's something that could have been play tested before release.
And then on top of all that to say most of the improvements for this update just come from the internal dev team and not community feedback? If that's true, maybe they could have just done them in the first place then if they are so passionate? This has been an insane PR push by Ubisoft + Disney for what is one of the most mid released games of 2024.
It feels like they've gone way too deep into focus group-style testing and lost sight of how to just know that an idea is working out. And then also push the dev schedule so hard they run out of time to do the focus group.
@@goldie819 it also doesnt help that a ton of the job layoffs in the gaming industry has been on the Quality Assurance side too and its been obvious to see with how buggy releases can be :/
Hearing a dev say they didn't realize that people like making small choices in gameplay is just...what. How could a game desigjer not know this? This isn't hyper focusing on detail. This is like basic game design fundamentals. Like truly, bottom level foundations.
This is like if a movie director didn't know that cinematography was important
It's all safe meaningless talk with zero substance.
They weren't being literal. They already knew this and are pointing out how many really bad design decisions were made during development, that they're now fixing for what should have been an excellent game on release
Ubisoft in full damage control while STILL COMPLETELY MISSING THE POINT
I'm actually shocked at how much the Ubisoft devs sound like they don't play games or even played their own until after launch lol
They are just B.S.ers. They are so bad! Ubisoft stock holders need to jump ship! They are sinking so hard and these devs lying to the public's face is just fanning the flames.
No worries, just hire new leads for the post-launch support.
The Exquisite Corpse approach to game dev.
The game isn't finished until after launch. How could they play the finshed product if they are still developing it until way after they sell it to us??????????????????
Forced Stealth was a problem way back in AC Black Flag, it's never liked.
@liaminwales Black Flag is my favorite Assassins Creed game but yeah the forced stealth stuff isn't as fun as having multiple other ways
The Outlaws dev interview felt like a retrospective meeting where everyone knows that 90% of it is “What went wrong?”
Please don't do another corporate PR interview like this.
They better have gotten paid well for that slop. It felt very much lets pretend there was no controversy at all about the game and we just need to clean some stuff up.
This is RUclips mainstream media.. 🤷🏻♂️
They don't call him ShillUp for nothing
Low key, most interviews on here aren't any good. The podcast is where the meat is.
@@DannyJoe08shut up.
I really think Alanah should be a permenant member of the podcast her insight is so awesome
100%. I love Lucy and Jake but Ralph is doing most of the talking. Alanah mixed that up a bit which was great.
That would be a dream come true. She and the group have such good chemistry, her and Ralph in particular. But no way she's joining permanently, she's got too much going on and is even doing a podcast herself
Eh
@ damn that's a shame
Man what a softball waste of time corporate PR interview. Real shame we could have had a look behind the curtain into single player development hell. It’s not often this type of thing happens
I legitimately need a super cut of the things Jake says & the reactions to them. 😂
On Stalker 2:
"It's certainly a game"
Jake Baldino - November 2024
This man cant give negative feedback, therefore I like skill up and falcon more on reviews
Can't go wrong with that statement.
Jake looked crestfallen when Ralph was laying out the problems with S2.
@@tylerdurden6992 I have this tin foil theory that they are the same person, falcon is Jake alter ego that allows himself to be pessimist XD
@@tylerdurden6992i feel skillup is the opposite lol he cant give a positive review on anything.
“I just think they’re neat” in the Marge Simpson voice has entered my daily vocabulary thanks to this podcast
Same
AP is the best surprise guest ever. She'd make a great permanent fourth. Until then, can we get some more Tam, please?
I miss her own podcast with the other 3 guys from different areas of the industry. It was the best combination because it had people from all major disciplines involved in making games: directing/programming, acting, scoring and writing.
As someone who has 100s of hours in the Division games, Outlaws just genuinely feels terrible to play. I despised both the stealth and the combat on mouse and keyboard. And the speeder controls on mouse are genuinely unusable. I literally couldn’t turn. I don’t understand how they screwed up 3rd person movement so bad compared to their previous games.
funny because on console i find the game very enjoyable to play, even if i had a bit of problem to control the speeder well at first
I only played Outlaws on PC with a controller, but I have to say I enjoyed it a lot. No issues with gameplay or controls. No GOTY, but very fun SW game.
Maybe the problem is you're using a stupid input method to play a console game. You're like "I put salt in my eye and now my eye hurts."
@@SuperBallani The speeder is meant to be terrible at first, and only gets better with upgrades. Imagine if they started you on Akiva with the non-upgraded speeder though haha.
@ Hold on, is your argument that a 70$ game on PC that comes bundled with intel CPUs meant for pc gaming from a developer that has made other 3rd person shooter games that felt good on m&kb should’t be expected to play well on PC? This is your argument?
The interview was a 20 min blip in an over 2 hour podcast Ubisoft really brings out the circle jerk
Yeah, my main point of interest was the handheld discussion. I personally wouldn’t buy a new Sony handheld for the sole reason that I bought a Vita and it was very poorly supported; a common issue with them outside of their main consoles.
Best gaming podcast ever. Look so forward to watching these every time! You all are so appreciated. Thanks for making the day more enjoyable. ❤✌🏼
This podcast is so good at
Including everybody in the talks, theres nobody that get to stay quiet for long, a rare thing to see on a podcast, even the guests. Well done FPS
In the Star Wars interview... some of my takeaways... and btw Ralph I REALLY appreciate you asking some questions that were like "why didn't you do this?" like obvious shit I think in their Ubisoft bubble they just aren't aware of for some reason. To me, lot of their "original intent" seems so obviously ridiculous, I don't understand how it was allowed to happen.
Why wasn't more playtesting done, because they seemed surprised by some feedback from their audience, yet as I mention below, they also already knew? Weird responses some of these.
I wish they could have hit some of the feedback head-on, instead of doing this sorta game director-y hand waving stuff. The guys answer like politicians instead of gamers.
Paraphrasing "Well, we didn't need the feedback from our audience, we heard the same thing from the team" well why didn't you implement it that way initially if you had that feedback in hand?
Sometimes you guys interviews just feel like PR
Honestly, you guys really shouldn't do interviews like this if the person you are interviewing isn't going to answer the questions and just dodge them or give corporate BS as answers.
They should. It is opportunity for the devs to come clean - and they didn't. Now you know everything you need to know.
Miyazaki’s lie is hilarious because even if they were given two full weeks you would be working a typical 8 hour day to get the game done assuming you finish around 80 hours. That’s pretty nuts.
Whatever make up Lucy did on her eyes? Well done! They look very sharp.
Thank you!! Been experimenting a bit more with make up lately
Impression I got from the guys at Massive is that there's no big picture changes being worked on, simply managing the game at a surface level until the designated timeline finishes. The nervous chuckles on any mention of significant changes were a dead giveaway.
Yea that interview just makes me root against Ubisoft more. There’s some companies that need to fail for the overall health of the industry and Ubisoft is definitely one of them.
Ubisoft devs sound like they don’t like videogames, I’m not convinced they even play their games
Between hyperspace ramming, Luke being cast out of the sequels the way he was, and Palpatine self-reviving in an exploding Death Star, the rest of Star Wars has been retroactively ruined by Disney, nothing matters anymore, and there’s nothing that can repair that. It seems more appropriate to call Jedi Survivor’s success a miracle rather than calling Outlaws an unexpected failure for this reason.
To be fair, Palpatine being revived was not Disney's idea, it was a thing in Legends. And Outlaws has less to do with Disney being Disney and more about Ubisoft making bad games.
@@thesamuraimansadly the endlessly respawning Palpatine is the worst part of some awesome legends material.
@@thesamuraimanIt was a desperate move to attempt to save the sequels... it didn't work evidently.
@ The whole point of Disney wiping out the EU was to not do dumb EU stuff, only to top it with insane proportion. The EU just had *one* starship-sized Death Star, RoS had 300 on one planet I think?
And I refer to Outlaws like that because so many recent Star Wars projects have flopped dramatically, there’s just no interest anymore. Ubisoft could’ve hired as many former LucasArts devs as they could find, made The Force Unleashed III, and still sold only a million copies.
@@thesamuraimanYeah and the Soth returning was also doke in Legends.
Except it was done by Luke's crazy ex and a tryhars nobody that Obi Wan apparently left to die on Tatooine led to the destruction of the Jedi once again.
Post ROTJ Legends is not good lmao.
I'm sick of this trend from developers of buy it now and we'll fix it later. Ubisoft has been leading the way with that mindset
Stalker is the most immersive game I played this year hands down. It's totally engrossing. Maybe I'm lucky to be playing after patches but what y'al are saying is not landing at all with me. Game is really really good. Story works for me. Voice acting is good too. And it's terrifying.
Thats the problem.... it makes you feel feelings, and most of those feelings are Fear and discomfort. I died in the first 20minutes..... so clearly its because the game is bad.
The game is still a pretty broken mess after the most recent patch, especially late game. Honestly the more i play the less forgiving i am inclined to be, so many features just aren't there and the world feels incredibly artificially and dead. Nothing exists 40m outside of your view, you can't even snipe in the game reliably because everything just spawns in in front of you. The bipolar lighthing also really needs work. I'd just reinstall Stalker Gamma and put another 100hrs into it at this point until mods fix it.
The best sales pitch I have for Gladiator 2 is to imagine the twin emperors as the McPoyle Brothers from Always Sunny.
It makes the movie FAR more entertaining.
It’s time you guys got a new 4th member. Just saying alanah would be an amazing addition 👀
I agree but she is so busy most of the time, she has a full time job on top of multiple channels of her own, she would most likely miss a lot of episodes anyway, I'll take a cameo once in a while though
Hey Jake…… it was my first time too man
PSP was ole faithful lol
Oh nice to see Alanah on the pod. I will keep listening tomorrow
Yeah she and the others have such great chemistry
Same, gnight
Ralph doing everything in his power to not ask "why did you make a bad game?"
Oh hey it’s my favorite podcast!
I think Lucy is gonna come back praising 1000 x resist one of the most interesting stories I have ever played
Was there no play testing before outlaws came out? Did no one play through it and think "man big parts of this don't work"?
Why do you chat like the game flopped? It from all measures did great except pleasing gamers (which of course they didn't, it's an action game. Gamers love to hate on anything that's not turn based, walls of text and needlessly complicated wording for basic mechanics)
@@kaingates By ubisofts account it didn't perfom as expected. though I agree with the rest of your paragraph.
@kaingates the fact that they are doing huge reworks after launch says a lot though
the guest woman was really cool and a genuine improvment to the pod
Early October is our Canadian Thanksgiving
If one could castrate an interview, it would sound like this. It was like reading a corporate press release.
I know they're going to get a lot of hate, but I appreciate the devs trying to make the best star wars game given the circumstances and trying to fix the mistakes.
If this is their "best" that is a sad state. Other SW games like Jedi Knight and Republic Commando completely wipe the floor with Outlaws and those games came out 20 years ago.
More accurately they are trying to salvage something from this that can be presentable as a completed project.
The circumstances is a bloated budget, a team filled with beginners, activists in their ranks, calling critisism bigotry, poor design choices, greed
You can't make a good meal with poop.
@@Rakka5 Those games were made under lucasfilms, while this game was licensed by disney to ubisoft. I would not be surprised if disney heavily meddled with the game especially the gameplay, as the gameplay seems weirdly bad for a game developed by the devs of the division. This isn't their best for sure, I expected the gameplay to be great and the story to be bad but the opposite happened so I think this game probably has had a weird development history.
Ok for the Hyrule theme park. A lot of parks will have a watch or device of some kind for bonus/interactable things like the wands at Harry Potter. Imagine for Hyrule they gave you a little disposable ocarina, and at different points in the park they had guides to play songs and you could use those songs in different areas. As a bonus you take the ocarina home and now you know how to play all the classic songs.
I mean no one saw this coming…..there were no warning signs….no brand erosion from all the C-Grade TV shows….i mean color me shocked. 😂
THE POWER OF MANY ... useless DEI employees...
andor and mando c-grade?
@ Yes, let’s just bypass Ahsoka, Boba-Fett, Acolyte, Obi-Wan, 3rd Season of Mando.
1:25:20 Jake is a real one for that comment.
Would be cool to real Stars wars game with an actual outlaw/bandit that does actual morally grey stuff like murder, hiests, bounties like you can do in actual games like Cyberpunk or Red Dead.. and not a Disneyified "outlaw" that can only be a toned down generic hero. The difference tone from Lucasfilms 1313 or KOTOR to Star wars Outlaws is just sad and sterilized
meh, Star wars is pretty lame in 2024 we dont really need anymore games from this universe.
@@AlwayzFreshIt doesn't have to be, and video games are a great place to try more interesting stuff, but they just keep making milquetoast slop.
I just watched the first couple hours of Stalker 2 and if this made a bad first impression to you, Ralph and Lucy, this game might just not be for you. This is exactly what many of us have been waiting for for years and years. I WANT it to be this dark, I WANT to be made to think what I'm picking up and what I leave behind, I want it to be brutal and challenging and punishing. I think this is simply a question of taste since I care little about Metaphor, Astro Bot, Warhammer, Final Fantasy, Destiny and many other games you recommend. If the bugs are really that bad even after the first patch that sucks and needs addressing. The performance issues suck as well but I would partially blame Epic for that since every UE5 game has this problem and who knows what the hell is going on in that engine that's causing the CPU to struggle so much.
Star Wars Outlaws really hurt Ubisoft BAD. Now they’re pushing this insane Marketing campaign of “the game is much better now!!!” that they’re sending devs to podcasts like this to talk about it.
I’ve never seen anything like this. Disney must be MAD at Ubisoft with just how poor this game performed.
It's not a bad game overall, I enjoyed it. However the recent DLC was absolute plop, I paid £12 for it and cannot praise it in any way. It's pathetic. Clearly been cut from the base game and sold at a later date. Shite.
I doubt disney care because they will have had a minimum payment for the license regardless of sales before the typical percentages kick in. I imagine ubisoft simply have paid a shit ton for the licence so are desperate to recuperate. Perhaps there us a minimum profit number they need to hit to get a better profit percentage from ubisoft.
That Ubisoft interview is a ShillUp moment. In your review you said the casts of characters were uninteresting and forgettable but in the interview you’re saying how much you love the main character and hope to see more of her. On top of that you never pushed back on any of their corporate speak BS which is something you’ve called out from other devs in your catalogue. Kind of really disappointed here. How can I trust your thoughts and opinions if you can just be blatantly bought?
People are still playing ubisoft games... That's the world we live in
I sure am.
You only get one first impression (and one metacritic score)
Next time Ubisoft should try finishing the game BEFORE releasing it
Oh, and maybe they could also try making something new instead of just rehashing a mixture of Assassins Creed 2 and Far Cry 3 for like the 15th year in a row?
Nope. No man's sky baby!
Definitely recommend trying Stalker 2 now after the updates 👌 also Stalker game isnt for everyone, just like most games
Looking forward to when studios launch "the best version of the game" at launch
not sure why people are shocked at the Ubi interview. They're not your friends, they're in business to make money. These interviews are going well when they speak and say nothing. Vote with your wallet, its the only language they hear.
its funny that ralph said Outlaws was net positive in terms of reception - man it was absolutely not, it was lukewarm at best
The irony is that it doesn't matter to me. Between Disney's BS and theirs when it comes to the Star Wars franchise, I simply won't support them with my money. It's shame because I was 16 in 1977 and was one of those guys who spent most Saturday's during the Summer of '77 standing in line for three hours to get tickets first so I could get the best seats. Now, I don't even care. Star Wars is just dead.
Watch Andor.
Kudos sir you r being 60 + here in a gaming podcast video. Still pursuing the passion.Massive salute 🫡
really appreciate having gameplay for when you guys do the specified game's discussions (i.e the stalker segment)
Man I just couldn't care less about anything Ubisoft these days
So weird to see footage from TheRadBrad after just discovering he's still doing the RUclips thing. Haven't run into his stuff in ages and just ran into it a few days ago :D
Perfect timing. Just woke up got some steak n eggs, Starting FF7 Rebirth today… it’s a good day
Starting peak fiction
Game of the year!
great game. enjoy. don't feel the need to 100% it in the first play through!
Bro I just made the worst egg whites, enjoy your breakfast
I'm starting the Blood & Wine expansion for the Witcher 3, so it's a very bittersweet day for me 😑
Playing Stalker Gamma makes you really realize how weak the health economy of Stalker 2 is, every fight in Gamma is so tense and exciting
Ralph, you had the opportunity to follow-up on the statement the Outlaws devs made about not giving all the systems in their very broad game the detail and depth required to have a fun and engaging game feature. They teed it up for you, man. WHY INCLUDE A FEATURE AT ALL IF YOU CAN'T REFINE IT AND DEVELOP IT ENOUGH FOR IT TO BE FUN? Please do better, man. I know you're not an industry shill, and the games media needs needs access to break stories, but you owe it to us as your customers/community and their consumers to ask meaningful questions. You missed similar opportunities with the STALKER 2 devs. Don't allow people to just use your audience for their PR.
EDIT: You'll note my comment didn't say anything about whether their game or STALKER 2 is good. This is about doing good journalism when presented with the opportunity to do so. Ask follow-ups. Challenge their messaging. Ask them to elaborate. That's an interview. This is just a PR Q&A.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
You sound like you’re on an angry rant about a game you never played and know jack about
I feel like it was enough for the devs to admit their scope was too broad. There isn’t an insidious reason as to why there scope was too broad, it was probably an early design decision that was too difficult to pivot away from late in development.
Did you play the game?
I would love to see them release a sequel, or expansion, that leaned more into the roleplaying aspect of the game. I hated the main storyline missions because they forced Kay into mistakes that I had no say in and Kay, as I'd been playing her, would not have made. Kassandra's story was linear but she had a lot more say in major issues like who to let live and who to forgive - so we know the writing team is capable of giving that to us! Why didn't they?
Stalker 2 is one of the best game I’ve played in years despite all the bugs
I will admit it’s very unpolished and needs another 5-6 months but when the game works properly it’s absolutely amazing
I'm several hours in and the game is a buggy mess. Economy is busted. Quests don't always trigger rewards. Gunplay feels awful because of performance. Really not impressed.
@@Phil_529 which card are you running it on
@@manjitmishra410 4090/5800x3d. Had to make a custom ini to disable mouse acceleration and smoothing but it's still bad. Going from Black ops 6 or OW2 to this is a joke.
@@Phil_529 hm, i am having 60 + fps on max settings and gunplay is actually great
Also they fixed the economy with the latest patch
When they fixed spawns it will be 10/10 for me
"Valve prices things aggressively, but that's not really how Sony rolls."
My brother in Christ, wtaf.
Yooo I'm literally looking for the time stamp, listening to that segment alone and trying to figure out how in the actual f he came to that conclusion
This will be an unpopular opinion, but in actuality of the giant AAA Studios Ubisoft is the one that Buck the trend of cutting your losses and the staff if you have a bad release. Despite what's in the air currently with Ubi being seen as a dying relic. I know gaming has been better for it. Seige, For Honor, division, Wildlands, & even Just Dance! All at least decade-long post-release Productions. The shake up on the Assassin's Creed formula seems to be a win when all the chips are counted for, and I bet Far Cry will be up for the same treatment directly. I applaud ubi taking quite a few at least what you would call asymmetrical bets? Phoenix Rising, the vertical whatever Battle Royale, Riders republic, oddball, Prince of Persia, X defiant, battle core Arena! Ubi for sure needs an audit I don't know that anyone in the world could argue against that, and I have no doubts that they need Massive Internal change starting at the very top of the executives floor, with pain every Direction as far as one can see. On the other hand where is constellation is there is only one real Direction and that is to dig to the foundation and rebuild. "Standing on the shoulders of giants" and such is the only rational direction in a world that every day is more determined to prove competent leadership will have no quarter, & quarterly profits are your vision statement... nothing less nothing more.
I wouldn't know they hide all of the good items behind oaywalls so I haven't got an Ubisoft game since blackflag. I do not get dopamine from spending my money. The opposite actually
They've fired 1700 people over the last 2 years...
Jake: "You guys made a really good guy there!" 😂😂😂
Alana made a really good point about game reviewers and I thought about it many times. Reviewers will enjoy things that regular gamers won't, like shorter games so they can produce faster reviews. A expansive map for a game that you love should not make you mad but happy. And that is a big disconnect between gamers and reviewers.
They also have often played more games than most gamers and are tired of some things. Imagine Ubisoft fatigue but over far more genres. They usually prefer more original ideas.
Ok, I wasn't impressed with Star Wars at launch, but one of these guys dropped a Jurassic Park line. Now I have faith. I might check back in with it.
Re: outlaws- steal any speeder, shoot from said speeder without deadeye, random interactions, shoot in towns, and npc interactions (say hello or antagonize)
That sounds super super expensive. They'll probably limit fixed to ones that don't require thousands of pages of dialogue to be recorded.
Also in beat the MC with that ugly stick. You know maybe make her actually look like the real person she is modeled after...
@ yes, but they also said they want to know what the players want. That’s what we want.
@@goatcoffeesounds like stuff they would do in the sequal
I just feel like in the interview nothing was asked in a serious manner addressing why it was shipped like this. Why facial animation was broken how did they think this was acceptable to release the game in this state did they even test the game before releasing it.
How was it when Ubisoft made the statement saying it underperformed and the state the game was in it felt like a very PR interview from both sides. Like they still let you punch a stormtrooper and knock them out bare hands 😂😂 like seriously gamers need to stop accepting mediocre games and allowing publishers or devs to get away with giving us these types of games. I expected more from Ralph in a more hardcore interview to these devs as he has a proper voice within the gaming community and just felt like the questions was to safe thats just my opinion but I am a passionate gamer and i just feel like gaming has really lost its way in recent times which is sad and mediocre games feel like they get a free pass now.
Tell your uncle to post that presentation online, and link it here.
PLEASE!!!
Hey hey, shoutout to my Morocco, speaking of Gladiator, filmed there ( hence the sunny unique lights ;) ) & u can even spot one frame where a bit of our southern roads is slipping in a corner ^^
An IGN journalist who played all games in a franchise before he gets to review the latest one is a rare gem. I wish him a good career!
1:25:27 I burst out laughing, I love Jake 😂
They could have just made a decent game to begin with and not have to worry about fixing their new game....
Canadian Thanksgiving is more about celebrating the harvest season. Not the genocide stuff
This is the same Ubisoft that is pressuring Steam to hide the concurrent player count for their games.
You don’t hate Ubisoft enough.
And the NFT games, the staff abuse cases, the staff lay offs, the executive bonus payments, the racism towards Japan, their belief that their games are AAAA, the terrible monetization of their single player games. I really could go on, this company is peak anti-consumer and just in general full of terrible people. The mainstream media and big independent reveiwers positivity towards them is absolutely crazy, though to be fair we all know it is about access.
@ yep, in all those cases: you do not hate Ubisoft enough.
do you have evidence that ubisoft told steam to hide player counts? All I saw was the website FandomPulse who reported on this first say that "A leaker shared it to". Basically there is no proof that Ubisoft asked steam to hide it.
@@Ceece20Well i do, but then again, i already did since Odyssey and people called me crazy.
@Ceece20 I don't defend ubisoft when they actually do bad stuff but what you said is very misinformed. Do better research before spreading false info on the internet.
I don't know jake that ubisoft interview was a bit on the infuriating side...
So what horrible and confusing name is the Xbox handheld going to get?
Xrectangle 360-2
Xbox X First X One X Series X Handheld X
Footbox stationary game player
The intro content was beautiful..
The Stalker patch from yesterday improved the experience significantly. Again. Btw. enemies don't se you through walls. They hear you. Stealth works just fine. I personally play Stalker for the combat, the experience of the Zone and the "being there" rather than for the story. The story is more a backdrop that generates missions than to actually drive the gameplay. This is not an RPG. It is a sim. I don't know why people always want to be able to "make their own way" in a game and when they can do exactly that they ask for a compelling story. Stories are always interruptions and restrictions. Enjoy the freedom you have and make your own way for once. Stalker lets you do it. And regarding the items you find: Everything in Stalker is a currency. You use half of it and you sell the other half. You lose weight that way and upgrade your gear with the money. This is part of the progression system. Apart from that there are mutants that have you go quickly through 20 medpacks in a fight....I you're not playing rookie... And lastly, there are artifacts that increases you carrying capacity. All those things are not thrown in the face of the player, just like the fast travel system. You have to find it out. That is playing Stalker.
It was absolutely an unacceptable launch but we should be willing to give things a second chance. There’s a good star wars game there, especially in the final 1/3rd and the changes they’ve made so far have been good. I know it’s extremely cool to be negative now but I appreciate them trying tbh
Can't fix something that's rotten at its core
I wish you guys focused more on Stalker than this Ubisoft game that came out months ago.
Do they think that everyone is suddenly going to buy Star Wars Outlaws because of some updates???
If they update it properly, I would buy it, once it is discounted somewhat
Always love the episodes with Alannah as guest, the Aussie ratio increases 😂🇦🇺
I only started playing outlaws a few days ago when the last big patch went up, and, to be honest, it's been great. It absolutely excels in a few areas (especially environment design, sense of atmosphere, immersion in star wars) and it's just okay in others. I haven't identified anything terrible about it.
This game also has a lot of little details that are just plain charming, lots of interesting character moments, lots of things you can do that you wouldn't expect. I think this game is being sold short by many people in comment sections.
If you enjoy games that have great environment design and sense of atmosphere and immersion, and especially if you're also a star wars fan, I expect you'll like this. There are many portions where I've just enjoyed drinking in my surroundings, looking at the architecture, the spaceships... Finding a half unbuilt a-wing in some dirty hangar was such a treat...
But what kind of a Star Wars fan are you? Pre-Disney or Post-Disney?
I enjoyed it immensely. The DLC with Lando Calrissian was complete shite, but I enjoyed the base game alot. It's trendy to the Ubisoft and I totally get that, but most people in the comments have not even played the game. Just hopped on an easy bandwagon.
@@Yodalemos I'm an OG, empire strikes back kid here. I think there have been a couple bright spots under disney (rogue one, andor, some of the mandalorian) but overall it has been mismanaged. that's where I'm coming from
@@mattwhitedev Yes, I like those too, but I don't think it outweighs the damage.
Stalker 2 is definitely messy as hell, but I really think that's a feature, not a bug. The film equivalent to me is something like Dark Star or Eraserhead; fixing the technical issues with these movies would also take something from the vibe - and the broken-ness of Stalker 2 seems like the game's strongest active metaphor - a little of a the-medium-is-the-message effect for me.
I got Outlaws on sale recently, so just now playing it for the first time. For me, it feels like the hate is overblown. Even if the gameplay is kind of simplistic, I'm finding many things about it rather charming. I would give it 7/10 overall, but because of having to average highs and lows. Inconsistent is how I would describe the quality.
So it's a shame that I feel like this interview didn't do them favors, especially reading the comments about it here...
I hope that while they "fix" it they don't just mess it up more...
it got caught up in the culture war BS, which is where all the hysterical screeching comes from
@@goldie819people are over "the message" they just want good games good writing and an end to the soul less DEI crap. Give us good characters good writing and an edge back to our media. To suggest that the culture wars are meaningless shows you toddler like understanding of what's going on. Of course people's culture matter. To pretend otherwise betrays you as a snob. Good luck with that. It pretty clear as day. Give the people what they want and stop trying to tell them off. Clear as day.
@zorastin Who "people"? Reddit basement dwellers? 4chan incels? Bad and mediocre games existed longer before bigots had these "woke" dogwhistles. Normies hardly care about this sh*t. "People" are delusional if they think that a more sexy character equals better game. There is p * r n for that. Keep your wet fantasies out of my games.
@@zorastin
Well, the thing is that I'm pretty anti-woke and I still think Outlaws was unfairly targeted. It's miles away from Veilguard in that department, that's for sure. As a pet lover, there were plenty of moments with Nix that I found genuinely touching. And it's an open world game that doesn't hold your hand. There's plenty there to like for some people, and it isn't woke culture war stuff...
The main problem I'm seeing so far is just that the gameplay feels old school in a way that isn't necessarily good. But it's still fun enough to keep my interest for the exploration.
@@zorastinAnd yet most people who have actually played the game have praised the writing and the gameplay is where most of the paints point are. Culture war is abosolute conspiratorial nonsenese a game is never a bad game because it is has bad writing or bad gameplay, but because it has diversity in it. And whenever a game is unambigously good the tourists fall silent and transition to the next thing to hate. They were crying about BG3 having gay people in it and then crickets when the game releaesed. One of the lead writers for Warhmammer 2 is trans and they were ready to eviscerate it, until it was actually good. It is the same pony show over and over again with Avowed being the current target, despite people who have previewed it loving the writing and gameplay (skillup included).
Seems I ain't the only one who eventually skipped the ubi interview 😂
I have been really enjoying Stalker2. Patch 1.01 and 1.02 helped a lot.
Appreciated the deeper dive stalker 2. I agree, the swamps needed a stash to unload all that loot!
do people still buy games under ubisoft?
i already feel comfort to not own ubisoft game... :))
they sell to gamers who have ludicrously low standards.
@@MrArrow54Don't you play Zenless Zero?
@@Lucax97 you say that like its an insult but i had a good time with zzz. If your trying to defend a ubi game are you really in a position to throw stones at peoples choice in games. Atleast with zzz i had a great time for 20 bucks. Where as ubi games will cost u 90$ to end up with a far greater sense of disappointment all around. They aren't doing a pr run about fixing the game cause its good.
@@Ellyasveil You can not own their games in the first place, so... 😅