Him thinking I could actually be in a meaningful relationship with another human being is the funniest part of him finding another excuse not to pay me.
I think I got the wrong UI file. Mine has a speedometer and GPS map for a country that doesn't exist. Also it's telling me one of my tail lights is broken.
For their DLC, they plan on adding the prison system and funneling players in and out over extremely minimal or imaginary charges, purposely denying them from passing stipulations for parole, and forcing them to pay exorbitant amounts of money for fees while never being able to get a proper job or housing. Every time you get rearrested for not being to pass impossible parole criteria, they add thousands of dollars of debt to your life that you have to repay when you get out or you're arrested yet again. Oh, the realism.
@Shareeve the Russian guy said “Hello, I’ve been playing this game for a long time and know a lot about it. If you need any help let me know. What is your name?” The Russian guy was totally happy to see another player. I bet he did make his day. PS I think it’s probably a girl based on how she phrased her gamer tag.
@@Reppo80085 probably some poor Russian teen show could only afford 1 game and bought this sham of a game....So Noe its either play this of play nothing
My infamy level only goes up when I ask people to dance. I'm put on a wanted poster, people send SWAT teams, I tell them it's just airsoft pellets but everybody freaks out.
Bad dancing is still a display of confidence, at least. It's like fashion, it can be bad until people are so confused by your lack of embarrassment they wonder if you actually just know something / have better taste than them.
The ending for this episode is beautiful. At 21:20 his character gets tired of the shackles of capitalism and decides to leave society behind and create his own destiny... by running into the ocean until an electric storm makes him ascend to a different plane of existence where he can finally be truly free. After reaching his goal he looks back at society and shouts his final message: 'oaaa'
You do know what you described is baked into a Capitalist system and already a part of Consensual Trad? And because of such system he can choose to do so?
@@wesleywyndam-pryce5305It's only the system that has brought the most people out of poverty in the history of the world and the system that every other economic system feeds off of including Chinas "communist" economy and all European countries with well funded and effective social programs, but go off.
That bit with the ominous voice telling you to repent of all your sins while your character is dancing and shouting "Yee haw!" like Mario is one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen. And it's even funnier because I doubt they were actually trying to be funny.
Ah, Avatarika, aka "Dom-3", aka the first "reality show mmo", the OG mmo made for middle aged women that was, actually, very popular with them in 2006-2007. It was originally an official tie-in for the one of the most popular reality shows in history, russian "Dom-2, Build your Love", which ran for 16 years (2004-2020) on the most popular entertainment channel in the country (TNT), they aired a new episone every 6 hours, daily, with millions of people (mostly middle aged women) watching them every single day. p.s. "Dom" means "House" in russian. The goal of the tv show originally was for contestants to build a house and find love, the winner gets to live in said house with their newfound loved one. Dom 1 was exactly that. Dom-2, on the other hand, was basically "watching a bunch of trashy people have sex, argue, fight and do other shit under 24/7 surveilence" for 16 years. edit: I was wrong, they relaunched Dom-2. Its still going. over 17 years now.
@@HelloHelloe Not really, Russia had it's official licensed Big Brother too, by the same channel even. Dom-2 started as "people trying to build a house competing for it at the end, get voted out, play games etc" and morphed into "trash TV that everyone hates, and there is no house, noone cares about the house" very quickly. It was like Jersey Shore 5 years before Jersey Shore.
17:19, the player who said this was "the best game ever" left that review after playing for 6 hours. Their total playtime is 7 hours. This game's biggest fan left their review 1 hour before abandoning it and played it altogether 1 hour less than what Josh played it for.
The NPC that said he had 4 corns on his feet made me feel slightly bad for him. A corn (a callus that has a deep core) can be insanely painful depending on where it shows up.
I laughed my ass off when he showed off the in-game voice acting for the player character. They really paid some guy to halfheartedly say "Aah" into a microphone and called that voice acting 😂😂😂
Oh god, it was such a meme in Russia back in 2012 😂 Back then very popular Russian RUclipsr named "Maddyson" made comedy review of this game (and comedy game reviews was something fresh for Russian audience in 2012) and it was an absolute banger. Every single teenager was quoting and making fun of this abomination of game. Watching foreigner diving deep into deviant rabbit hole of Avatarika made me both feel nostalgic and laughing in tears 😂
Russian here. Never heard of this game. Looks like some sims fan had a "great" idea but didn't think it through. I'll try to comment on what I can to clarify. First, "Avatarica" probably supposed to translate to "Avatarland" or something like that, "avatar" being a word for player character in games. 8:01 Someone answered "hello" with Russian friendly/playful "hi". 8:03 He said that he is playing for a long time and is happy to help. It looks like a real person speaking. 12:05 I think "corns" was supposed to be blisters, no idea how they got this translation 12:38 Hello, American guy! European cars tend to be smaller than yours. I'm not a car person at all but I see cars like that on streets - I think this one is old-ish design but I may be wrong - and the scale seems about right for an old car, or maybe a bit off. Here's a random video with a person walking around and sitting inside an old (soviet-era) car. ruclips.net/video/rHeRER8kjIA/видео.html 13:15 Russian language spelling can be rather hard sometimes, mistakes are easy to make. They tried to translate that into English very very poorly. Crosswords are traditionally a popular passtime, especially for pre-smartphone generations. 17:31 Not many Russians own a car, and taxis are expensive in terms of paychecks. People rely on public transport or walking long distances, so this is realistic (but realism isn't a good idea here of course). I guess walking together is also a socializing experience like driving together in the US. I briefly saw circled "M" on maps, on real maps this usually indicates "metro" (subway train station). If I'm correct, this is probably the intended way for long distance commutes because this is how people get around in largest cities here (again, realistic but bad game design). 19:45 Orthodox calendar is shifted(for no sane reason). So we celebrate Christmas after new year on jan 7th. And whatever the weird calculations are done to determine Easter date resulted in it being in may (in real life) - no idea what logic (if any) is behind this. I literally can still see Easter decorations out my window right now. 20:10 They most likely meant you need at least one person to compete against. Nor sure about the US but bowling here is typically a group activity, and a relatively expensive one. But it is normal and acceptable to play alone. 21:25 Some high-end clubs can have a bouncer to assess your attire. Never really understood that and never actually tried to get into one, but I'm sure you didn't miss much. Unfortunately a lot of Russian MMOs have hard monetization. Not a lot of people are willing to pour money into the games so they make sure to suck dry anyone who is. Also a lot of them - especially small ones - are "stricter" than American ones, not sure why. Like, more serious effort is expected. Though not normally on Korean grindfest level either although it varies. Anyway I totally agree this sad excuse for adding realism to a MMO rightfully deserves to die and serve as a reminder that many ideas look interesting when discussed in abstract terms, but immediately seem stupid when implemented in reality. P.S. no comment on how boring soviet-era buildings and roads are? Or why you do not need to drive to get to a shop, or why shops are not giant-sized?
If I remember correctly Orthodox calendar is shifted because it's still in Julian calendar instead of Gregorian and as such leap years are calculated differently which makes it shift slowly further apart.
This game actually got rebranded. When i was a wee young russian lad i played the same exact game with the same exact UI and mechanics, same graphics etc called "Dom 3" or "house 3" from a popular russian dating show
"Ha, as a native Russian speaker it's quite funny watching English speakers not understanding language in game" - I was thinking until 12:01 happened. No matter how much I relisten and reread this sentence, I still have no idea what the fuck does that mean
It means the Russian is used to English speakers understanding everything in a game and Russians don't understanding it because of the language. When it switches, he finds it funny.
Corns on feet is a type of callus that is painful. They can be soaked and removed with a pumice stone. But he cannot take his shoes off, so he will just slowly walk home for about 2 weeks. edit: "removed" is a little far...you can smooth them down. removal will probably make you bleed.
Yoooo I'm a British человек thats obsessed with Russian hiphop and Russian movies 😅 Would this phrase make sense/sound natural? У меня есть две кошки и кот, их зовут Флоренс, Лил Мисс и Мило
"When you get sick, your funds are frozen, as long as you're sick, You can't get money." Yeah...sounds like where I work 10 hours a day...it hits pretty real xd
@@jwhite5008 Whereas here in the US you pretend you aren't sick out of fear of getting fired and your boss doesn't give a fuck so he looks the other way while you give all your coworkers the plague
@@Salsmachev And you don't go to the doctor because you can't afford the expenses, because 'affordable' insurance is pretty much garbage for anything that isn't catastrophic.
2:00 look how disappointed this dog is! “Uh I didn’t come all this way to be in some lame skit -you better throw a ball or give me a treat er something”
I think the description of that item was trying to say that it freezes your pet's needs (i.e. doesn't just fill up the meters, but keeps them full for a certain amount of time), not that it freezes your pet.
My MMO suggestion is Aika online. Just because the idea of having a child "pet" with you at all times feels especially odd. Or you can just imagine them as "bring your children to work day" but you work as a hero (?)
This video was preceded by an ad for an MMO "Galaxies of Eden." I reckon you'd need to be pretty brave to advertise an open world sandbox MMO with public player housing on this channel. Good for them! I look forward to seeing it featured in this series.
Josh, the song you chose is literally named "A Letter From Hell" by some artist called Indigochild. I think the devs just chose the songs that sounds funky.
This is the funniest games you've covered so far, laughed pretty hard when the game started and it had the tiny resolution + huge garish pink UI combination going on, I thought the video peaked there but the shitty dancing minigame with yee ha sound effects and gospel music was even better. Amazing fever dream of a game.
I love how it looks like Apollo has no clue what's going on. Reminds me of when SomecallmeJohnny was chasing after his cat Selene in his Crash 4 review due to how bloated it is in terms of content.
I remember this game, it was originally released in 2006 when I graduated from school. I don't know how the game is still alive ... Its original name is Дом 3, and it was somehow connected with the popular, at that time, reality show of the same name.
@@TheBonkleFox the reality tv show is called "Дом-2", the game was an official tie in, so they called it "Дом-3". The reality-TV show was not just popular, it was "air a new episode every 6 hours in prime time on the most popular TV channel for 17 years" kind of popular, it was EVERYWHERE.
I'm Russian and I played this game in 2010 I believe.... it hasn't changed. they only added dance thing from other Russian game (a dancing game of course. the interface and the sound effects are the same) and that's all lol I remember when there was A LOT of people, I wasn't donating in games, so everyone was rich except me.
Josh I just found your channel recently and I absolutely love your reviews. They're long form, which I enjoy a lot and both your personality and humour click with me so well. I really hope your channel grows a lot!
i'd love to see you take a look at "will to live online". one of the few MMOs i personally tried - and while it's not as completely hopeless as some of the games you've covered, it might still be fun to pick apart.
I FOUND IT, the audio, I know what it is from!!! @10:07 - The "Yahoo" - it's a slightly slowed-down maybe down pitched as well, sound effect of when you character select LARK from Pilot wings 64
I'm not one to ever feel uncomfortable but that song got me, I've seen beheadings that bothered me less for real I have no idea why I'm soo off put by that
One of your funniest videos yet, and that's really saying something, especially when the game is so clearly not entertaining in the slightest! I lost it at the "LETTER... FROM HELL" thing.
What's a good MMORPG that is: -open world -for PC or Android -not story driven (doesn't force you to do quests and allows the player to do what they want to do)
wow, finally an mmo about as crappy as just going outside and being alive. groundbreaking
lmao yup
Lol
Second life with extra steps
Pakistanika.
Better than Russia
Imagine a world where your boss said
"Oh, you broke up with your girlfriend, guess you aren't getting your pay check"
It's a fine world, I'm a virgin anyway.
Anti-family court
Him thinking I could actually be in a meaningful relationship with another human being is the funniest part of him finding another excuse not to pay me.
"This company is no place for beta cucks!"
That happened to Johny Depp...
Ah yes, they really nailed the realism, I too am surrounded by pink UI everywhere all the time
Atleast yours is pink my is broken
Sounds harsh.
I think I got the wrong UI file. Mine has a speedometer and GPS map for a country that doesn't exist. Also it's telling me one of my tail lights is broken.
I seriously do
Mine is actually blue and I have a green diamond above my head is that not normal? No wait the diamond just turned to red
This game manages to accurately recreate the cycle of poverty and houselessness
That's the talk of someone who doesn't know how to pick corn from his feet while crawling!
Intentional or not they did ^^
If they changed the color of the UI it could easily pass for a gritty realism game and might actually match the tone
america moment
For their DLC, they plan on adding the prison system and funneling players in and out over extremely minimal or imaginary charges, purposely denying them from passing stipulations for parole, and forcing them to pay exorbitant amounts of money for fees while never being able to get a proper job or housing. Every time you get rearrested for not being to pass impossible parole criteria, they add thousands of dollars of debt to your life that you have to repay when you get out or you're arrested yet again.
Oh, the realism.
That Russian guy who messaged you was happy to see another player, you probably made his day
The Guy : "no, Russian game"
You : Hey you made his day he happy to see you..
@Shareeve the Russian guy said “Hello, I’ve been playing this game for a long time and know a lot about it. If you need any help let me know. What is your name?”
The Russian guy was totally happy to see another player. I bet he did make his day.
PS I think it’s probably a girl based on how she phrased her gamer tag.
@@alexc9434 my bad
Dude....I can't fathom who would spend long time in awkward game~
Thanks anyway
@@Reppo80085 probably some poor Russian teen show could only afford 1 game and bought this sham of a game....So Noe its either play this of play nothing
@@thedoge9590 in russia you can pirate any game you want, so i doubt that
"Prestige goes up when you dance" Clearly the devs have never seen me dance
Whenever I happen to dance, I always end up in the evening news and multiple people are stricken blind.
My infamy level only goes up when I ask people to dance. I'm put on a wanted poster, people send SWAT teams, I tell them it's just airsoft pellets but everybody freaks out.
Bad dancing is still a display of confidence, at least. It's like fashion, it can be bad until people are so confused by your lack of embarrassment they wonder if you actually just know something / have better taste than them.
The ending for this episode is beautiful.
At 21:20 his character gets tired of the shackles of capitalism and decides to leave society behind and create his own destiny... by running into the ocean until an electric storm makes him ascend to a different plane of existence where he can finally be truly free.
After reaching his goal he looks back at society and shouts his final message: 'oaaa'
Incredible.
This is literally the ending of the Truman Show
You do know what you described is baked into a Capitalist system and already a part of Consensual Trad? And because of such system he can choose to do so?
@@hatemongerofthetoxicbrood6561 Shut up.
@@hatemongerofthetoxicbrood6561 it's not that deep
I love how Josh describes several systems in the game, which also exist in real life and just goes: "Who thought this was a good idea?"
yeah, like the entirety of capitalism
@@wesleywyndam-pryce5305 Edgy 🙄
@@wesleywyndam-pryce5305It's only the system that has brought the most people out of poverty in the history of the world and the system that every other economic system feeds off of including Chinas "communist" economy and all European countries with well funded and effective social programs, but go off.
@@kassar7146he’s not wrong though.
@@tarakinwu1246 Yes, he is wrong
I think the #1 thing I learned is that Josh Strife Hayes has a fluffy little dog named Apollo, which is about as posh British as I expected.
That bit with the ominous voice telling you to repent of all your sins while your character is dancing and shouting "Yee haw!" like Mario is one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen.
And it's even funnier because I doubt they were actually trying to be funny.
Never forget the random russian guy you texted that tried to help you.
It seems like it was a girl.
Yeah... thats was a girl... whoopsy.
Someone translate what they said please I'd love to know.
@@loopholesloopy "I've been playing for a long time and know everything here. I would be happy to help you. What's your name?"
@@mykytapolchanov6490 sad
Ah, Avatarika, aka "Dom-3", aka the first "reality show mmo", the OG mmo made for middle aged women that was, actually, very popular with them in 2006-2007. It was originally an official tie-in for the one of the most popular reality shows in history, russian "Dom-2, Build your Love", which ran for 16 years (2004-2020) on the most popular entertainment channel in the country (TNT), they aired a new episone every 6 hours, daily, with millions of people (mostly middle aged women) watching them every single day.
p.s. "Dom" means "House" in russian. The goal of the tv show originally was for contestants to build a house and find love, the winner gets to live in said house with their newfound loved one. Dom 1 was exactly that. Dom-2, on the other hand, was basically "watching a bunch of trashy people have sex, argue, fight and do other shit under 24/7 surveilence" for 16 years.
edit: I was wrong, they relaunched Dom-2. Its still going. over 17 years now.
Yeah its all copying UKs Big Brother house which predates it by a few years.
So it's MTV's Real World but in Russia?
@@HelloHelloe Not really, Russia had it's official licensed Big Brother too, by the same channel even. Dom-2 started as "people trying to build a house competing for it at the end, get voted out, play games etc" and morphed into "trash TV that everyone hates, and there is no house, noone cares about the house" very quickly. It was like Jersey Shore 5 years before Jersey Shore.
"father, do not put me in the freezer. I was a good boy"
What if your frozen dog sent you a letter from hell because of Jesus WA-HOO!
'I came here for head pats, instead you try and put me in the freezer. I am disappoint'
Try husky on hot day. They tend to like freezers at that point
why did you say "was" like he used to be a good? was it intentional?
@@yequasr3972 I assume it's meant to indicate past tense rather than perfect aspect. "I haven't done anything bad" rather than "I used to be good"
17:19, the player who said this was "the best game ever" left that review after playing for 6 hours. Their total playtime is 7 hours. This game's biggest fan left their review 1 hour before abandoning it and played it altogether 1 hour less than what Josh played it for.
This man just wanted to show off his dog, and I can respect that.
One of the very cutest dog I ever seen. Apollo character remind me of my dog too 😆
The two most wholesome things in this video is your cloud based doggo loving you and the Russian player that attempted to help you.
To be fair, Josh, russians celebrate Orthodox Easter, so that was this year on May the first.
Second, not the first
I was literally about to comment that. Same for Bulgarians and Serbs, we use different calendar.
That ending sequence of leaving society nearly gave me an existential crisis
your dog is just a walking cloud, i love it
ikr
The NPC that said he had 4 corns on his feet made me feel slightly bad for him. A corn (a callus that has a deep core) can be insanely painful depending on where it shows up.
I legit laughed my ass off when you had us focus on the lyrics to the song for the dancing tutorial 😂😂
A LETTER FROM *HELL* 😆
That was unironically the funniest joke I've ever heard. There's no way that wasn't intentionally meant to be a joke, right? Shit had me in tears
I was really close to stopping the video because of how boring the game was but after I heard the lyrics I decided to sit all the way to the end
I laughed my ass off when he showed off the in-game voice acting for the player character. They really paid some guy to halfheartedly say "Aah" into a microphone and called that voice acting 😂😂😂
Oh god, it was such a meme in Russia back in 2012 😂
Back then very popular Russian RUclipsr named "Maddyson" made comedy review of this game (and comedy game reviews was something fresh for Russian audience in 2012) and it was an absolute banger.
Every single teenager was quoting and making fun of this abomination of game.
Watching foreigner diving deep into deviant rabbit hole of Avatarika made me both feel nostalgic and laughing in tears 😂
Russian here.
Never heard of this game.
Looks like some sims fan had a "great" idea but didn't think it through.
I'll try to comment on what I can to clarify.
First, "Avatarica" probably supposed to translate to "Avatarland" or something like that, "avatar" being a word for player character in games.
8:01 Someone answered "hello" with Russian friendly/playful "hi".
8:03 He said that he is playing for a long time and is happy to help. It looks like a real person speaking.
12:05 I think "corns" was supposed to be blisters, no idea how they got this translation
12:38 Hello, American guy! European cars tend to be smaller than yours. I'm not a car person at all but I see cars like that on streets - I think this one is old-ish design but I may be wrong - and the scale seems about right for an old car, or maybe a bit off. Here's a random video with a person walking around and sitting inside an old (soviet-era) car. ruclips.net/video/rHeRER8kjIA/видео.html
13:15 Russian language spelling can be rather hard sometimes, mistakes are easy to make. They tried to translate that into English very very poorly. Crosswords are traditionally a popular passtime, especially for pre-smartphone generations.
17:31 Not many Russians own a car, and taxis are expensive in terms of paychecks. People rely on public transport or walking long distances, so this is realistic (but realism isn't a good idea here of course). I guess walking together is also a socializing experience like driving together in the US.
I briefly saw circled "M" on maps, on real maps this usually indicates "metro" (subway train station). If I'm correct, this is probably the intended way for long distance commutes because this is how people get around in largest cities here (again, realistic but bad game design).
19:45 Orthodox calendar is shifted(for no sane reason). So we celebrate Christmas after new year on jan 7th. And whatever the weird calculations are done to determine Easter date resulted in it being in may (in real life) - no idea what logic (if any) is behind this. I literally can still see Easter decorations out my window right now.
20:10 They most likely meant you need at least one person to compete against. Nor sure about the US but bowling here is typically a group activity, and a relatively expensive one. But it is normal and acceptable to play alone.
21:25 Some high-end clubs can have a bouncer to assess your attire. Never really understood that and never actually tried to get into one, but I'm sure you didn't miss much.
Unfortunately a lot of Russian MMOs have hard monetization. Not a lot of people are willing to pour money into the games so they make sure to suck dry anyone who is.
Also a lot of them - especially small ones - are "stricter" than American ones, not sure why. Like, more serious effort is expected. Though not normally on Korean grindfest level either although it varies.
Anyway I totally agree this sad excuse for adding realism to a MMO rightfully deserves to die and serve as a reminder that many ideas look interesting when discussed in abstract terms, but immediately seem stupid when implemented in reality.
P.S. no comment on how boring soviet-era buildings and roads are? Or why you do not need to drive to get to a shop, or why shops are not giant-sized?
If I remember correctly Orthodox calendar is shifted because it's still in Julian calendar instead of Gregorian and as such leap years are calculated differently which makes it shift slowly further apart.
Hello American guy eh? Josh is among the most British looking and sounding people ever lol how'd you get that wrong :D
@@JohnDBlue and he even explains that european cars are smaller... And Josh is european lmao
Thanks this game confused me also Josh is not an American tho
Он вообще не американец ни на минуту)
i think the fact that the extremely punishing mmo also happens to be the one 'most like real life' says a lot about society
Bro... All I can say is mad respect for enduring all these mind numbing dumpster fires all the time.
same af
It's a little known secret but Josh's middle name isn't actually Strife - it's Sisyphus
@@Andy500265 Well, his Sisyphean efforts to criticize shitty games are wrought with strife from sweaty fanboys so either one would be accurate.
@Ebola Doesn't mean it's enjoyable, dude xD
It's.....It's like they just discovered GTA vice city and sims for the first time and tried to make a game with both aspects, then gave up
That answers in Russian are actually quite nice, people say hello and offer their help
That's actually awesome.
Then who are the russians in cs go and dota 2 0.0
@@paolopappalardo9976 Even toxic non-russians gather there.
It was an answer? Oh. Thought it was just the same "text" but in Russian.
Sorry to be off topic...but what character is that in your pfp?
This game actually got rebranded. When i was a wee young russian lad i played the same exact game with the same exact UI and mechanics, same graphics etc called "Dom 3" or "house 3" from a popular russian dating show
"Unlike Elves, we do not have levels. Like them, we do not age - we are eternally young". Damn this got deep very quickly.
The dog was so confused bruh lmao 🤣
"Ha, as a native Russian speaker it's quite funny watching English speakers not understanding language in game" - I was thinking until 12:01 happened. No matter how much I relisten and reread this sentence, I still have no idea what the fuck does that mean
It means the Russian is used to English speakers understanding everything in a game and Russians don't understanding it because of the language. When it switches, he finds it funny.
Corns on feet is a type of callus that is painful. They can be soaked and removed with a pumice stone. But he cannot take his shoes off, so he will just slowly walk home for about 2 weeks.
edit: "removed" is a little far...you can smooth them down. removal will probably make you bleed.
@@freedustin yeah removal should be left to a physician
commie
Yoooo I'm a British человек thats obsessed with Russian hiphop and Russian movies 😅
Would this phrase make sense/sound natural?
У меня есть две кошки и кот, их зовут Флоренс, Лил Мисс и Мило
A game so based on life that they even took out the fun out of bowling alone. Perfect.
"When you get sick, your funds are frozen, as long as you're sick, You can't get money." Yeah...sounds like where I work 10 hours a day...it hits pretty real xd
@@jwhite5008 Whereas here in the US you pretend you aren't sick out of fear of getting fired and your boss doesn't give a fuck so he looks the other way while you give all your coworkers the plague
@@Salsmachev And you don't go to the doctor because you can't afford the expenses, because 'affordable' insurance is pretty much garbage for anything that isn't catastrophic.
@@Salsmachev that's Canada too my man.
@@nateman10 god tier satire, your comment is being slept on my man
@@nateman10to get a doctors note. where i work i get one free sick day and after that it’s doctors note or work sick
2:00 look how disappointed this dog is! “Uh I didn’t come all this way to be in some lame skit -you better throw a ball or give me a treat er something”
2:13 Of course it's not working, Dog is not yet frozen. That is according to Codex Avatarica.
I just wanna remind any dumb people to not actually freeze their dogs.
@@jwoah416 do you want dogs to stay sad or something??
>make your pet happy by freezing them
>Apollo is a Sammy, a breed that's designed for freezing and in fact, love it
"Maybe they can actually make Dreamworld on this thing."
Woah, woah, woah... let's not get ahead of ourselves here.
The Dreamworld snark is what I hope for in his reviews lately.
Always a good video when Apollo the snowfloof makes an appearance.
Just want to say Apollo is adorable and I wish I could pet him and give him some treats.
same.
I think the description of that item was trying to say that it freezes your pet's needs (i.e. doesn't just fill up the meters, but keeps them full for a certain amount of time), not that it freezes your pet.
@@Ashebrethafe we... we know
@@Ashebrethafe I am 100% sure that he was joking.
My MMO suggestion is Aika online. Just because the idea of having a child "pet" with you at all times feels especially odd. Or you can just imagine them as "bring your children to work day" but you work as a hero (?)
RE: The easter eggs, Russian Orthodox Easter was actually just on May 2nd, so it's not *quite* as out of date as you imagine.
Apollo is my new favorite character from this entire series
2:00 Your dog is a big ball of snow, he'll love it in there.
I personally don’t like playing mmos in general yet I love this channel so much
The "yeehaw" sound effect is from PilotWings 64!! It's been over a decade since I played it and that sound is still cemented in my memory.
I'm shocked NIntendo didn't sue this game for stealing a sound effect from one of their games.
@@GatorRay Someone not Russian would have to know of its existence first..... whelp, their time has come.
This video was preceded by an ad for an MMO "Galaxies of Eden." I reckon you'd need to be pretty brave to advertise an open world sandbox MMO with public player housing on this channel. Good for them! I look forward to seeing it featured in this series.
"..any desire, unobtainable in real world, can easily be solved in Avatarika'
Oh cool, so I can be happy for once?
No, is Russian game.
Yes. But only once. Further happiness will have to be bought in the cash shop.
@@Dilligff Hey, I heard you can get rubles at bargain prices.
Apollo is the cutest lil pup I've ever seen. 10/10 video
"how did this design get past the 'ideas' stage?" - me asking god about life
That will happen if the designer is the same guy as the tester.
Don't worry, it'll probably be fixed next patch. Just hang on for another few billion years.
You just need to be born with the 1% dlc for the game to get good.
16:15 this is probably one of the best loading screens ive ever seen, looks like something you'd find in GTA
as for easter Orthodox easter this year was actually 2nd may. the one saving grace of the game it got the correct easter
between that and the christian song from the dancing minigame, maybe this was secretly a christian game the whole time
Josh, the song you chose is literally named "A Letter From Hell" by some artist called Indigochild. I think the devs just chose the songs that sounds funky.
This is the funniest games you've covered so far, laughed pretty hard when the game started and it had the tiny resolution + huge garish pink UI combination going on, I thought the video peaked there but the shitty dancing minigame with yee ha sound effects and gospel music was even better. Amazing fever dream of a game.
Wait that was gospel music
@@polytanksan5761 I dont think it was actually gospel music.. but then again.. hard to say! I rate the song "not sure if gospel or not/10".
@@p4nnus it would be kinda hilarious if it was
I love how it looks like Apollo has no clue what's going on. Reminds me of when SomecallmeJohnny was chasing after his cat Selene in his Crash 4 review due to how bloated it is in terms of content.
I remember this game, it was originally released in 2006 when I graduated from school. I don't know how the game is still alive ...
Its original name is Дом 3, and it was somehow connected with the popular, at that time, reality show of the same name.
3? What is it with these Devs and the number 3? They're like the anti-valve
блядь, это что, та же игра в которую играл мэддисон???? 0_о
@@TheBonkleFox the reality tv show is called "Дом-2", the game was an official tie in, so they called it "Дом-3". The reality-TV show was not just popular, it was "air a new episode every 6 hours in prime time on the most popular TV channel for 17 years" kind of popular, it was EVERYWHERE.
Of course it's from 2006. No other game's aesthetic screams mid 2000's as loud as this.
@@troublemaker267 ТОЧНООООО, Я ВСПОМНИЛ. Я-ТО ДУМАЮ ЧЕ ИГРА ТАК ЗНАКОМО ВЫГЛЯДИТ
I'm Russian and I played this game in 2010 I believe....
it hasn't changed. they only added dance thing from other Russian game (a dancing game of course. the interface and the sound effects are the same) and that's all lol
I remember when there was A LOT of people, I wasn't donating in games, so everyone was rich except me.
So they wanted to make a mmo about The Sims, how do you screw that up?
They asked EA what to do.
They could just copy The Sims: Urbz for GBA, I bet it can be made into a good social MMO with little adjustings
When I wonder about if I’m missing out on another game playing ESO, I can always watch one of these videos. Haha
The "wahoo" and "yeehaw" are from a character named Goose in Pilotwings 64
Holy shit, you're right! I wondered why I recognized those sounds.
Glad I'm not the only one who recognized it.
I wonder if that counts as a Nintendo Reference or a TopGun reference?
Josh I just found your channel recently and I absolutely love your reviews. They're long form, which I enjoy a lot and both your personality and humour click with me so well. I really hope your channel grows a lot!
Those lyrics. I want that song played at my wedding.
Got me drop my jaw, then burst into laughter at how out of place it was
play it at my funeral
it's not even a song long, it's a christian propaganda film thing.
POV: You’re playing a DDR game with a hot pink ui, Mario sound clips, and a song about how your friend will go to hell for not believing in Jesus.
About the Easter eggs, Orthodox easter was on May 2nd this year
Was just about to comment that, but I saw quite a few people already correcting him.
i'd love to see you take a look at "will to live online". one of the few MMOs i personally tried - and while it's not as completely hopeless as some of the games you've covered, it might still be fun to pick apart.
Oh jeeez one of the first russian video- bloggers Maddyson now known as streamer HoneyMad started his career mocking this game back in 2008
Wrong...
Great video as always but im truly happy to see your channel is growing so much right now!
What a gorgeous puppy! (Yes that is all I've retained from this whole thing ---the PUPPY)
3:46 Walking backwards looks like you're terrified of running into a tree with a disasterously placed branch.
Apollo is adorable. 🥰
He also looked like "Dad I think you need to give the internet a break yeah" XD
I appreciate that you made the dog speak in a British way.
On the one hand i would like to see you ingame once. On the other hand....i dont want to find out my game is one of the worst games XD
Just come to Otherland. There you might see him online :)
To be fair, he sometimes comes out of these Worst MMO Ever videos with a positive outlook, so you could get lucky lol.
Your Apollo looks EXACTLY like my Bailey, I love that little fluff ball
ur channel is growing pretty fast :) happy for you
“Sir the letter from Hell’s postmark matches the game, it’s in the game!”
BTW on the Easer comment, Russia is a predominantly Orthodox Christian nation. and in Orthodox Christianity Easter was last week.
I FOUND IT, the audio, I know what it is from!!! @10:07 - The "Yahoo" - it's a slightly slowed-down maybe down pitched as well, sound effect of when you character select LARK from Pilot wings 64
Seeing ToriVega as a username, just makes me feel like I’m watching a video from 2011
I was wondering if someone caught this lmao.
all jokes aside, that car was scaled just fine
Sipping a beverage every time you hear the word "virtual" would lead to dangerous inebriation.
Or death, holy hell.
I love Apollo! We need more of your dog in the videos!
The cloud's name is Apollo?! That's so cute!
The religious song with the Mario yelling had me in tears!
I chuckled at the "...is not actually your friend" line. Well played.
got me too
"I'm actually intrigued by the concept of death.."
Me too Josh, me too.
Apollo DON'T GO IN THE FREEZER!
"Are you happy, now?"
Apollo: "That's my secret, Josh. I'm always happy."
Who'd have thought Russia would make the world's best capitalism simulator. Crazy.
Great video man, thanks. Really neat cameo from Apollo too!
I hope Apollo got some treats and love after the freezer confusion, he seems like a good boy.
Your dog is adorable! And hope everyone is having a good day.
Josh Strife Hayes: The Gordon Ramsay of MMO's.
But in all seriousness, I love this series. =)
I commented this on his runes of magic vid just the other day. Would be great if the devs were sometimes involved to answer for their crimes
Apollo's an arctic fluffy boi he'll be ok.
No animals were hurt in the making of this video, just one puppy thoroughly bamboozled why they needed to be in the freezer.
I'm not one to ever feel uncomfortable but that song got me, I've seen beheadings that bothered me less for real I have no idea why I'm soo off put by that
Don`t worry that`s normal. It is the fear of the Russian guy getting serious.
Man, those Wahoos and Yeehaws are absolutely Goose from Pilotwings 64. I'm somehow not surprised these developers would just steal sound effects.
Next maintenance happens in 2017 according to the launcher? That's probably fixing all the issues.
The character running animation is very…. flamboyant
Oooo prestige levels! /pinkyup
One of your funniest videos yet, and that's really saying something, especially when the game is so clearly not entertaining in the slightest! I lost it at the "LETTER... FROM HELL" thing.
What's a good MMORPG that is:
-open world
-for PC or Android
-not story driven (doesn't force you to do quests and allows the player to do what they want to do)
OMG the transformation, pupper looks so happy now.
I about died laughing at the discovery of the music you have to dance to. That was beautifully ridiculous
Looks like the kind of game where you could meet a Nigerian prince in person.