I really always enjoyed your content mate bloody banger animations always hope you upload your music somewhere eventually i would love to just keep listening to it non stop keep at it good chap
Hey I love your writing! I love your reviews. I love the story you’re showing us in snippets. I love everything you are doing…buuuuuuut please change your 2d character design. It looks cheap and like a poor Snapchat character. Everything else is amazing. Maybe I’m in the minority but to me it is ugly.
Ubisoft’s downfall is deserved. After their whole “don’t expect to own your games” schlock they spouted, I only got their single player stuff on disc used and never buying them digitally. They were against the consumer for over a decade, don’t expect the consumer to come back. GREAT VID as always dude!!!
I'm not one to defend multi billion dollar corporations but the glee people have over ubisoft failing anything is crazy, especially because it's lately attributed to that quote... which was misquoted "gamers need to get comfortable with the idea of not owning all their games" and a personal opinion of an exec not a studio policy and was in regards to streaming services
If saying the truth is a bad thing then we are living in a wrong world. Ubisoft is in no way on the forefront of this. Dont shoot the messenger and hate the game instead: capitalism
@@JJJBunney001 I know, and yes I did misquote, but that’s the problem. Locking story based content to live service or subscription services means there is no preservation, and if there is no preservation, it becomes like what happened to me as a customer of Bungie and Destiny 2, I paid $120 for both launch and Forsaken, and what did I get? All of that story content whipped, gone, no replayability. That kindof mentality isn’t okay, it means they want to push out game ownership in the long run, like how they said “time savers are not pay2win”, then a decade later there are constant XP booster microtransactions in SINGLE PLAYER GAMES. This is wrong, it is greed, and they need to hurt if they are gonna make up BIG to customers if they want me to care again. Plus the way Ubisoft disregards lore in Assassins creed (since Desmond’s pathetic death in 3 and had Juno’s death in a comic) means they don’t care about the fan’s intelligence. If you can’t make a story run forever…DONT HAVE IT RUN FOREVER.
@@JJJBunney001If you've been paying attention for the past ten years, you'd know why. The entire time they've been falling, they've been smug, rude, exploitative liars to everyone. ALL of their CEOs have behaved like this, and their actions consistently follow the CEO's worst ideas. Why do you NOT believe them this time when they've been reliable in keeping their word when at it's WORST?
They literally had the blueprint to make THE Pirate Game on their lap and somehow made something worse, that the sheer failure in itself is the most impressive part of the whole train wreck, they essentially took a pot of gold and tossed it off a cliff expecting it to come back to them
to quote Yahtzee on Second wind: "But how does the game play Yahtz?" ".....(deep painful sigh) You. Fucking. Know. How it plays. It plays like a Ubisoft open world game, as in all of them."
Honestly I just can’t force myself to get interested in anything Star Wars related anymore. It used to be something special but now even if it’s actually serviceable i can’t help but see it as corporate nostalgia slop!
It is almost abusive how hard Ubisoft try to force their Star Wars for a modern audience like a square block into a round hole. Maybe we'll get it next time Yeeves or whatever his stupid name is. Hope he goes bankrupt.
@@Zenny-RUclips I appreciate the honesty with it though, and I'm glad you made it. But yeah, glass half full mentality can only go so far when the glass is half full of piss.
I knew it was bad, but when you have the DROID WANTS TO MURDER PEOPLE and the GUY WHO WANTS A DROID TO MURDER PEOPLE quests being right next to one another... and not even related? The only question becomes 'why'... who was in charge who thought this was a good idea?
I just played the quest, the guy that requested the droid reveals that he wants it to be a surveillance droid/spy for the crimson dawn (aka not a combat role) and so the combat droid is a bad match. I think Zenny either lied about the quest for dramatic effect, didn’t do the quest, or just didn’t pay attention to the dialogue
Well, I do know from talking to people in the industry that a big problem is that they purged a lot of Gen X who were actually competent from the industry. A lot of the millennials (who are now older) and Zoomers are infamous for terrible work ethic and not wanting to do anything but their specific, itemized, job, and noone really is good at "big picture" thinking. This is why you have so much clipping with outfits and hairstyles and models and such, it's because you have these different art teams and none of them are even willing to talk to each other to test anything, so if say someone makes a new outfit to sell for the cash shop, they might not be able to get the hair team to test it and adjust things so different hair styles won't clip through the collars and such. This is not a new problem, but it's gotten worse and worse at times, and is one of the quieter problems with the micro transaction model. You'd be shocked how many people are just not buying stuff because they might have spent so much money for a digital item and then found it looked like crap for their character in an MMO or something. I mention that because I'd imagine the answer is simply that they had different quest teams, they didn't talk to each other, and actually refused to work with anyone else or coordinate because it "wasn't their job" and oversight long ago lost the ability to crack the whip on some Zoomer and force everyone to get together on one team and force them all to do something cohesive. People have been pointing out tons of narrative and conceptual disconnect in the game, beyond other issues. As the video points out, Kay's personality isn't even consistent. I theorize based on what I've heard in general that part of the problem was that people writing different quests and areas all got to do their own scripting, and none of them were forced to check with each other, and no one in oversight had the ability to just tell different people to work with each other to make it all consistent.
@@jeremyrichard2722 To be fair given how the industry tended to handle its workers. I don't blame them for having a "I'm only doing what my exact written job is" type of mentality. Not much incentive to go above and beyond really.
@@thereseemstobeenanerror1219 Well, I will say this kind of attitude is part of the problem. Beyond the issues in the game industry it applies to all generations beyond mine really. If your going to advance in a place with advancement possibilities, and be in charge, it's important to understand that the job of a "boss" like a supervisor, lead, or manager is as they say "not to do the work of ten men, but to get ten men to do their work". Thus when someone tells you to do different things, by learning to do them decently, your showing you know how those things are done in that place, then later if they need someone to act as oversight overall, your someone who can at least keep an eye on everyone doing their jobs, and even if your not as good as they are, you have some idea of what they are doing. If you have a bad attitude about this and even trying to juggle multiple jobs, they aren't going to ever promote you. At that point it's easier to just promote from the outside as they think your not willing to do what it takes. Ditto for the so called "work/life balance", that kind of concept only applies to people in very specific jobs, either ones that someone was actively recruited for due to them being recognized as the best early on, or were worked into over a long period of time. For most normal people, it's about earning your way into a position where a concept like that isn't going to be a hilarious concept to any workplace that wants to make money. Likewise, people who tunnel focus on only what they are specifically demanded to do, will drag everyone down. Game development is a good example of that, because if you say have people doing different assets that don't mesh together because no one will work together, check in, or otherwise properly coordinate, then the product begins to suck and less money comes in means less benefits and appreciation for the employees, along with them being seen as increasingly disposable. If the end product sucks for the consumer, there is no reason to keep you around. Terrible attitudes among younger workers is a big part of why workers have become so disposable. If your not going to grow, get better, and learn to do more things, then why should they pay you more seniority when they can just hire someone for a starting wage to replace you in that job? It actually becomes a common sense thing. Paying for an expensive, well established, set of workers is only worth it if the results of that team amount to more than is being spent on it. Greedy companies can tank their companies by firing loyal workers with good attitudes and wrecking the product they were responsible for. That said at the same time it's stupid to keep a bunch of lazy kids who refuse to learn or do anything else around, and pay them more and more money each year. It is a double edged sword, and can go both ways. One problem is that workers tend to empathize with other workers, and people who are used to having oversight positions tend to associate with that. The former always outnumbers the latter. In my case I have a good bit of experience with both so very much understand both perspectives. I'm retired due to disability, not because I sucked at my job, or became rich. Another thing far too long for a youtube response, but I think it merits repeating. I think one of the problems with companies like Ubisoft and other "woke" companies is that they tend to make ideology and having activists bring in other activists the major criteria, rather than any kind of job performance. Thus someone who should be canned for having a terrible attitude and only mono-focusing on one thing and not working with others, can actually stick around for a long time and spread that cancer to others similarly favored even more than it would be a problem. This leads to crappier product, along with everything else. I think we're seeing the results of long term activist infiltration now where people in things like game development can claim legitimately to have ten years of doing the job like that should mean something, when they never did the job well to begin with. An incompetent lez-dyke revolutionary who never learns anything but sticks around for 10 years due to long term DEI initiatives, is still going to be incompetent after 10 years due to the inability to learn antyhing and nobody being able to call them on it, make them change, or boot them out the door.
No way they did those bodyguard droid quests like that on accident, they must be some sort of joke the devs played on the higer-ups. They can't be THAT dense and stupid to work for probably months on end on those two quests without realizing their intersection.
tbh this game would have been peak if they just let you play *As* ND-5. at least then it would make sense for the player to knock out people by punching them.
Nah, that first Sliro scene is just fluff. He doesn't gain anything from monologuing before killing his opposition. Just have their food poisoned. It's purely for the audience, and sort of lazy. Maybe he should've had them over to talk about some proposals he'd made, and they say something about how one sided the terms are, then have him gun them down to show that it's more of a convenience. This alludes to him having ulterior motives, maybe what he proposed suggests more about him and his goals. Could've been way better and more meaningful.
You know what you are kind of right. It would make more sense if something during his interaction with the factions influenced him to kill them. That's a good observation
They could just make his character someone who likes teatrics, who enjoys monologing along. Plenty of people in real life are like that, and it would make him fun to watch.
Ubisoft never listened to its customers and treated them like trash and then expects them to pay for mid-tier games with mostly bland and generic stories.
As someone with over 1k hours in The Isle, PLS PLS I need the shit talk video so bad. It went from having a great community to the dev actively hating anyone having fun in his Dino realism game
@@Zenny-RUclips what point in the timeline did you start playing? I started just before that v4 map released. The one where you died of dehydration after spending like 9 hours in the progression system hellscape cause there were three water sources and a giant canyon cutting halfway through the map. I think I played on that map a total of 3 times. Played on wynter realism, Isla Nycta when it became the only active realism option, and TheIsle.Realism (TIL:Realisem)back in ye old days.
i started playing about 3 months into the development of the Evrima Branch, where they started remaking the game from scratch. so I played on the spiro legacy map, and all 4 of the iterations so far of the evrima map. I LOVE the isle, but I hate it. and I cannot wait to hype up a video on it in the next year or 2
About the Rep/Moral choice system. Starsector... not Starfield, Starsector. Starsector taught me that if you want a moral choice system in your game, you need to make the morally right choice mechanically difficult. If your game is all about being a criminal that's morally ambiguous, making the 'heroic' choice should make the game significantly harder, and potentially lock you out of cool stuff.
Frankly, I prefer the minuscule (but full of interesting stuff ) planets of Outer Wilds. Granted, it is not the same thing, but I think well crafted maps (like those of Subnautica or Satisfactory) are far more interesting than almost anything generated procedurally.
@@SystemBD Fun fact the same studio that made No Mans Sky is making a new game, Light No Fire. Fantasy instead of SciFi and based on one Earth Sized Planet instead of a Galaxy.
Just a note to anyone paying attention to Kay's punching form: *SHE'S NOT PUNCHING, SHE'S WINDMILLING. IN ANYTHING CLOSE TO A REAL FIGHT,HER THUMBS AND FOREFINGERS ARE DUST. NEVER "PUNCH" ANYTHING LIKE THAT. UBISLOP DUN GOOFED AGAIN.*
GODS THE ANIMATION IS SO CRISP AND CLEAN Edit: oh gods he mentioned The Isle, i wonder how that went lmao Edit 2: btw absolutely loving your Cybersona, super cool!
ND-5 just makes me sad, man. He's such a cool fucking concept (Droids in trench coats are just so drippy, don't @ me), but he just falls so fucking flat. You could have him contrast so well off of Kay by having her think with her heart and him with his brain (Computer? Processor? Whatever-), while also maintaining the throughline of him being the only one to stick around Kay in a life where everyone else just constantly comes and goes. The bouncer interaction could have gone so much better if ND-5 had been more of a secondary main character. Picture this: On the way into the bar ND-5/Kay see the speeder and comment on it and/or realise it belongs to the bouncer, and ND-5 gets an idea. Kay heads inside, tries to persuade the bouncer, but fails, but then ND-5 comes in (having, I dunno paid someone off to steal the speeder) telling the bouncer his sweet new ride's been nicked, and offers to help him get it back, on the condition he lets Kay inside. The bouncer agrees reluctantly, and as Kay heads into the bar, as she looks back at ND-5 and nods at him, after which he reciprocates the nod and heads out.
The speeder not being able to shoot is extra funny because rockstar had figured out shoouting out of cars 16 SIXTEEN YEARS AGO WITH GTA IV, FFS UBISOFT FIGURED IT OUT IN 2015 WITH WATCH DOGS
@@masterace9543 lol such a mood, and I'm pleased to report the second was in my opinion as good as the first with some good qol fixes (LIKE THE FUCKING MAPS AAAHHHHHHH) so, something to look forward to
Man your channel is so underrated dude. I have such a genuinely good time watching your videos, I hope you blow up and get the success you deserve someday
I'm glad I waited to make a decision on this game until your review, Zenny. The Ubisoft discussion well has been beyond poisoned, so I appreciate how you focus on actually critiquing the characters and mechanics while sneaking in your humor and kick ass animations. Great video, as always, I'm gonna go replay Mass Effect. Shoutout to naming Kay's rodent different variations of dog every time!
42:01 okay, I'm sorry, but vines or nets are not more creative in any way. They usually feel just as artifical, personally. And if they're integrated into the level design well enough to not stand out, we're back at "playtests show players being confused about where to go"
The comparison is to yellow paint. Making something stand out by using on-point set dressing is inherently more creative than yellow paint. It's the slightest bit more effort than literally saying "follow the yellow brick road."
@@Sabbatic it's more effort by such a marginal degree that I basically prefer yellow paint. Especially because it's often integrated into the set designs. Just throwing vines or nets over it isn't any better
I think instead of going off just coloring places where you can climb, why don't they just have a visual effect happen or better yet color it in a way where it makes sense and fit the whole world theme. For example, if it was a horny game, you would have a blood trail leading to attic or dripping from the attic in a way where you would want to check it out. I know it might not be the best example, but there are ways to show something that is interactive. Even zenny mentioned some things like a rock sticking out more than others while it has melted snow on it, unlike the rest.
In fairness- making a 30 - 50 hour game that was ALL sh!t would be a weird sort of huge accomplishment I.e. the type accomplishment that modern Ubisoft, devoted to mediocrity, could never do
Was always a bit on the cautious side but Star Wars outlaws shows all of Ubisoft's weaknesses and no amount of Dlc will be able to fix a boring and weak fountain. Oh well get to save 70 bucks
The stealth:combat in this game is honestly like FC3 and 4, where even if you land a perfect headshot on a guard; whose nowhere near the others, with a suppressed weapon, all the other guards are instantly on high alert and know exactly where you are.
Not really true. I’ve hit headshots without alerting other guards in FarCry 3. If I didn’t kill with the headshot…now that’s a different story. They absolutely know exactly where I am.
How is Kay driven when she won't go straight and make a decent person out of herself? She will hustle low money gambling tables instead of accepting a few credits from a friend that she is mooching off of to make something better of herself. That's not driven.
Well, I'd imagine the idea is that she wants to do it on her own, and is supposed to have a general disrespect for society at large, as well as little idea of how to deal with it like a normal person as she's never been a normal person. There have been a fair few characters like that written over the years, but the team did not talk to each other, or do any kind of research. I think what they were trying to go for was a sort of gender swapped, and less-than-attractive version of Harry Harrison's "Stainless Steel Rat" before he got drafted into galactic law enforcement. It's a somewhat different take on it from Han Solo, but it goes in similar directions. His wife (who never does go straight) would be a great inspiration for someone like Kay. Part of her theme was originally as I remember that she was born ugly, and then uses technology to have herself re-sculpted to be basically a sex goddess, but she has a terrible attitude with a lot of people due to how she was treated before she had the money to do that. They could have done something similar with Kay to make the statement they wanted, while still having a character the players would find visually appealing. Incidently in those stories, she falls for "Slippery" Jim Digriz (The SSR) as she's one of the only people that could go toe to toe with him mentally, aside from the super cop that eventually catches and recruits him. The fact that he respects her for that before ever having seen her is part of what made it work as I recall. It has been a while... and well they wind up having two kids who are entirely criminal grifters that are even worse than their parents. I guess the point is that there have been so many "Space Rogue" type characters over the years, many of whom were quite popular and successful, that it should have been really easy to do a "Space Underworld" story in the spirit of Han Solo without actually aping him entirely. If they had hired me as an overall writer for this, I admit, I wouldn't plagiarize directly, but I'd certainly have taken inspiration from the best. I doubt most of these writers are familiar with any of that stuff though which is kind of funny and makes me wonder what the hiring criteria was. At any rate not only did they have people terrible for the material, as I said in a few places, I'd imagine it's the Post-X problem of no one talking to each other, refusing to do so, and toothless oversight unable to force it, so you wind up with a disjointed character based on some basic ideas who has constant tonal shifts, and never manages to actually mesh well with the game world or the game play, which are themselves sort of disconnected from each other to begin with.
@@jeremyrichard2722 the writing isn't strong enough to support any of that thesis. I get what you are saying that they implied, but all of the smugglers she dealt with had minions and support systems. She was needlessly and annoyingly standoffish to the people that actually wanted to help her, and at times not smart enough to have ever gotten that close to the main villain. Not to be given work, or to be enough of a threat to keep watch over or manipulate.
@@phayroent9742 I agree, the writing is a mess, as I said, they seemed to have a bunch of different people writing it with different ideas. Most of the text wall was just guessing the intent, and how they could have done it better.
U know, the knocking people out with a punch has a easy and "modern" solution. Have her have a missing arm. She can knock out guys with her enhanced punch, and also upgrade said arm to make it more fun.
Man. Even when a game is missing like this, I really look forward to your videos. Your animations and storyline combined with this format is so unique and always a treat
When I started playing, I saw the cut scene with the mom and the whole lesson on 'nobodies going to be there for you' or whatever. I thought this was going to be a way bigger theme in the game; I really expected kay's mom to have had a larger role either in manipulation of kay, using Kay without Kay's knowledge or to be another bad guy that was working for slirro and saw a way to take over from slirro by using Kay. What a bummer.
1. new intro~!!!!! 2. FIgHT SCENE!?!?!?!!!!!! 3. the final hook!! It's not an exaggeration to say this is some of the absolute best animation on this site, coupled with a really fun story. Every new video I"m completely blown away, especially because I see the improvement each time. In this case, I'm losing my mind over cinematography!! The dynamic way a lot of these shots are framed. Also the gestures of each character are both insanely natural and distinct between them. I'd buy a bluray of the compliation tbh. Now back to watching the fight scene another 20 times
that fight took me a whole month to animate! I've had such a wonderful time with the animated story, and if you are really enjoying it! get ready. because the next video is the pilot!
Every time I think it can't get worse, someone releases a video making me aware of yet another failing of this stupid game. And I still can't get over how stupid it is that she can one-tap a stormtrooper with her bare hands and knock them out. I'm pretty sure if someone just bonked me in the back of the head, with no helmet, with their fist like she did, they'd get more hurt than I would. Skulls are hard. Finger bones are brittle. Punching someone in the face is generally considered a terrible idea as you will shatter your hand and might not even knock the other person out. Doing that to someone wearing a helmet? It's so stupid and we're all already sick of the Stormtrooper slander. It's not the main character is a jedi this time. She's a nobody. Stormtroopers should be TERRIFYING for her.
if anything it's just sad to see Ubisoft go from a cool company putting out unique games to what they are now just slapping a different visual coat of paint on the same game over and over again
I grew up in love with the Star Wars universe, always excited to see the new games and movies. But now it’s just low effort slop being pumped out of an industrial process. It’s sad to see, but on the bright side I can at least revisit tbe old star wars games.
@@Zenny-RUclips Force Unleashed is a better stealth game than Outlaws. Granted Force takes the ‘it’s still stealth if there aren’t any witnesses’, but my point remains.
@Zenny great video as always, you've definitely become my favourite review youtuber. Keep up the awesome videos/animations, can't wait for the next one!
growth over time my dude! I don't scale my effort in ratio to my audience. I love making cool stuff! and the fact that people tune in is such a privilege
Outlaws ticks me off because on paper it's my favorite kind of game set in my (once upon a time...) favorite universe. But everything I've seen and heard about it has completely turned me off. Nevermind that I'll never pay full price for an Ubi game after that "get comfortable not owning games" announcement. Yeah, sure man, get used to me not paying for your games.
Guess I missed this video for a few days! Time to RING that BELL since I already SMASHED that SUBSCRIBE button I enjoy your critiques! I like how you suggest things you would have liked to have seen when you point out issues. Stuff like the YELLOW PAINT and the story beat early on. Great job on the animations!! They're so fun!
There are some good story beats to the game, and a few points where I felt legitimately invested in what was happening. Some of the puzzles were fun, but overall the game was a little too much on rails. One thing that’s fun and actually pretty challenging: being at the highest wanted level. I felt like the Empire really wanted me dead.
As soon as I saw the marketing this game was a hard pass because why would I want to play it? Why would I want to play as a normal person in the Star Wars universe? Star Wars is a cool universe but personally, I didn't watch movies about space wizards fighting each other with laser swords, epic wars, space battles, etc and think to myself, "Wow, I wonder what kind of shenanigans the petty criminals of this universe get up to"...
I will now be unable to think of them as anything but "flying death Doritos" ever again. Thank you Patheticmango... until the invention of Brain Bleach I will no longer be able to look at Star Destroyers the same way again. Sort of like a girl I dated who insisted Princess Leia gets her hair done at Cinnabon.... silly, but I am incapable of ever forgetting it now. :)
42:41 I remember the developers actually adressing this. They didn' it because in the movies most speeder chases involved the main characters evading and dodging and they wanted to replicate that feeling and experience. "We wanted to make a mechanic that made you experience chases, rather than having you feel as if you can ride in and assault people from the speeder." - Fredrik Thylander, Ubisoft Massive Apparently, the reason why speeder combat ended up playign like it does in the final product was because they couldn't program the speeder to drive well while aiming your blaster. And considering how the programmed the two I fully understand why they couldn't make them work together, because those two systems are already kind of clunky on their own. They actively made choices to make the game anti-fun because they couldn't program it well enough, and they don't even seem to have fully realised it.
I'm a new subscriber, you are so funny and I love the story you're telling between the reviews This is also the first game where I've been tempted to just write a rewrite for XD
I can understand where you are coming from, I'm a big fan of open bad guys having big speeches it's super fun, but it does make for a very one note over the top character
@@kade_the_cin between 1 to 2 months. Alot of behind the scenes work dragged this out to 3 with all the modelling work. But keep in mind I work a full time job and only get like 3 hours a day for this sorta stuff!
I'm so glad I randomly found you, ngl for a moment I thought you were Zanny with a new profile picture but I'm so glad for being wrong and glad to be reminded of not just your passionate and awesome reviewing efforts but also the sick sub-plot story you've got going on with your own universe. Never mind your amazing animation skills being just casually shown off like its a cutaway gag, can't wait for the next review man, would be interesting to see you take a stab as AC Shadows to see if all the talent went to that or if the pre-emptive disliking is warranted.
It's fascinating that Ubisoft is responsible for at least PUBLISHING ghost recon and Division, but this is the level of tactical stealth we get in Star Wars.
Ubisoft: still unbroken? Still your spirit is in same shape, after all we did, after droping the ball 3 times, after making descent to watchable to "this is the movie where i started see plotholes in movies, random SW fan that gave all other movies in franchise a 10", gutting everything else in it and ripping old media into "no longer canon"? Still belive in it? Whe will succed where Disney couldnt, we will BREAK you!
I'm still mad that the original plan for this game was to make The Division but we're Mandalorians traveling the galaxy. It's why Ubisoft had Massive you know the studio that makes The Division to make this game. Instead we get Assassins Creed in space where everything is milk toast and the stealth sucks because the developers have no experience making a stealth game...
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Ok zenny i won't hurt you for now
So call this a TRASTERPIECE!
I really always enjoyed your content mate bloody banger animations always
hope you upload your music somewhere eventually i would love to just keep listening to it non stop
keep at it good chap
Hey I love your writing! I love your reviews. I love the story you’re showing us in snippets. I love everything you are doing…buuuuuuut please change your 2d character design. It looks cheap and like a poor Snapchat character. Everything else is amazing. Maybe I’m in the minority but to me it is ugly.
Remember guys, AAAA game design.
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I cant wait for AAAAA design
I can't wait for 200A design
Technically, they only claimed Skull n Bones was AAAA lol
LOL yah that’s what this is 😂😂😂
0:04 where is your eye protection? Is there OSHA in the mechanical future? I will report this.
NO NO NO WAIT! I HAVE THEM AROUND HERE SOMEWHERE!
@@Zenny-RUclips too late Zenny, OSHA is on the way to cite you. Safety first, even in the far future.
@@daddysnake5250 here comes the OSHA death squads
@@ACCB710 sweet jesus
*kicks door* OSHA IS HERE TO PROTECT YOU!
FROM YOURSELF!
*BANG BANG BANG BANG*
I will probably never play this game, but I will watch this video multiple times.
BASED BASED BASED
Ubisoft’s downfall is deserved. After their whole “don’t expect to own your games” schlock they spouted, I only got their single player stuff on disc used and never buying them digitally. They were against the consumer for over a decade, don’t expect the consumer to come back.
GREAT VID as always dude!!!
I'm not one to defend multi billion dollar corporations but the glee people have over ubisoft failing anything is crazy, especially because it's lately attributed to that quote... which was misquoted "gamers need to get comfortable with the idea of not owning all their games" and a personal opinion of an exec not a studio policy and was in regards to streaming services
If saying the truth is a bad thing then we are living in a wrong world. Ubisoft is in no way on the forefront of this. Dont shoot the messenger and hate the game instead: capitalism
@@JJJBunney001 I know, and yes I did misquote, but that’s the problem. Locking story based content to live service or subscription services means there is no preservation, and if there is no preservation, it becomes like what happened to me as a customer of Bungie and Destiny 2, I paid $120 for both launch and Forsaken, and what did I get? All of that story content whipped, gone, no replayability. That kindof mentality isn’t okay, it means they want to push out game ownership in the long run, like how they said “time savers are not pay2win”, then a decade later there are constant XP booster microtransactions in SINGLE PLAYER GAMES.
This is wrong, it is greed, and they need to hurt if they are gonna make up BIG to customers if they want me to care again.
Plus the way Ubisoft disregards lore in Assassins creed (since Desmond’s pathetic death in 3 and had Juno’s death in a comic) means they don’t care about the fan’s intelligence. If you can’t make a story run forever…DONT HAVE IT RUN FOREVER.
@@JJJBunney001If you've been paying attention for the past ten years, you'd know why. The entire time they've been falling, they've been smug, rude, exploitative liars to everyone. ALL of their CEOs have behaved like this, and their actions consistently follow the CEO's worst ideas. Why do you NOT believe them this time when they've been reliable in keeping their word when at it's WORST?
They literally had the blueprint to make THE Pirate Game on their lap and somehow made something worse, that the sheer failure in itself is the most impressive part of the whole train wreck, they essentially took a pot of gold and tossed it off a cliff expecting it to come back to them
Man, your animations just get better and better. I can't wait for the full story compilation in 5 years.
well i've got wonderful news my dude! next videos gonna be an animated pilot for the animated stuff!
@@Zenny-RUclips HOLY FUCK I CANT WAIT
Yeah dude this is cool shit
@@Zenny-RUclips When does the popsicle stick with a drawn figure stapled to it pilot drop? 😂
Jokes aside, I'm stoked for it!
to quote Yahtzee on Second wind:
"But how does the game play Yahtz?"
".....(deep painful sigh) You. Fucking. Know. How it plays. It plays like a Ubisoft open world game, as in all of them."
I'd argue it's worse than the typical Ubisoft game, as far as gamplay goes. The stealth is even worse than usual, as is the gunplay.
Honestly I just can’t force myself to get interested in anything Star Wars related anymore. It used to be something special but now even if it’s actually serviceable i can’t help but see it as corporate nostalgia slop!
It is almost abusive how hard Ubisoft try to force their Star Wars for a modern audience like a square block into a round hole. Maybe we'll get it next time Yeeves or whatever his stupid name is. Hope he goes bankrupt.
Disney destroyed it all. How Lucas was so money hungry to destroy his legacy is a Mysterium to me. He had more than several lifetimes
@@listrahtesafter seeing a recent video essay I think he didn't even get to show his vision either so he just gave it up.
Seeing you give up trying to redeem this game was tragic, perhaps the only thing that was truly outlawed the whole time was fun
i tried.. i tried so so hard
@@Zenny-RUclips I appreciate the honesty with it though, and I'm glad you made it. But yeah, glass half full mentality can only go so far when the glass is half full of piss.
@@Zenny-RUclipsand got so far
Ubisoft makes me Ubisoft
Realest comment here
And Formsoft doesn’t make me soft.
They make U bi sad
Ubiflaccid
I knew it was bad, but when you have the DROID WANTS TO MURDER PEOPLE and the GUY WHO WANTS A DROID TO MURDER PEOPLE quests being right next to one another... and not even related?
The only question becomes 'why'... who was in charge who thought this was a good idea?
i was so excited when i found both of them! for the first time in the game it was like i discovered something... i was wrong
I just played the quest, the guy that requested the droid reveals that he wants it to be a surveillance droid/spy for the crimson dawn (aka not a combat role) and so the combat droid is a bad match. I think Zenny either lied about the quest for dramatic effect, didn’t do the quest, or just didn’t pay attention to the dialogue
Well, I do know from talking to people in the industry that a big problem is that they purged a lot of Gen X who were actually competent from the industry. A lot of the millennials (who are now older) and Zoomers are infamous for terrible work ethic and not wanting to do anything but their specific, itemized, job, and noone really is good at "big picture" thinking. This is why you have so much clipping with outfits and hairstyles and models and such, it's because you have these different art teams and none of them are even willing to talk to each other to test anything, so if say someone makes a new outfit to sell for the cash shop, they might not be able to get the hair team to test it and adjust things so different hair styles won't clip through the collars and such. This is not a new problem, but it's gotten worse and worse at times, and is one of the quieter problems with the micro transaction model. You'd be shocked how many people are just not buying stuff because they might have spent so much money for a digital item and then found it looked like crap for their character in an MMO or something.
I mention that because I'd imagine the answer is simply that they had different quest teams, they didn't talk to each other, and actually refused to work with anyone else or coordinate because it "wasn't their job" and oversight long ago lost the ability to crack the whip on some Zoomer and force everyone to get together on one team and force them all to do something cohesive.
People have been pointing out tons of narrative and conceptual disconnect in the game, beyond other issues. As the video points out, Kay's personality isn't even consistent. I theorize based on what I've heard in general that part of the problem was that people writing different quests and areas all got to do their own scripting, and none of them were forced to check with each other, and no one in oversight had the ability to just tell different people to work with each other to make it all consistent.
@@jeremyrichard2722
To be fair given how the industry tended to handle its workers.
I don't blame them for having a "I'm only doing what my exact written job is" type of mentality.
Not much incentive to go above and beyond really.
@@thereseemstobeenanerror1219 Well, I will say this kind of attitude is part of the problem. Beyond the issues in the game industry it applies to all generations beyond mine really.
If your going to advance in a place with advancement possibilities, and be in charge, it's important to understand that the job of a "boss" like a supervisor, lead, or manager is as they say "not to do the work of ten men, but to get ten men to do their work". Thus when someone tells you to do different things, by learning to do them decently, your showing you know how those things are done in that place, then later if they need someone to act as oversight overall, your someone who can at least keep an eye on everyone doing their jobs, and even if your not as good as they are, you have some idea of what they are doing.
If you have a bad attitude about this and even trying to juggle multiple jobs, they aren't going to ever promote you. At that point it's easier to just promote from the outside as they think your not willing to do what it takes. Ditto for the so called "work/life balance", that kind of concept only applies to people in very specific jobs, either ones that someone was actively recruited for due to them being recognized as the best early on, or were worked into over a long period of time. For most normal people, it's about earning your way into a position where a concept like that isn't going to be a hilarious concept to any workplace that wants to make money.
Likewise, people who tunnel focus on only what they are specifically demanded to do, will drag everyone down. Game development is a good example of that, because if you say have people doing different assets that don't mesh together because no one will work together, check in, or otherwise properly coordinate, then the product begins to suck and less money comes in means less benefits and appreciation for the employees, along with them being seen as increasingly disposable. If the end product sucks for the consumer, there is no reason to keep you around.
Terrible attitudes among younger workers is a big part of why workers have become so disposable. If your not going to grow, get better, and learn to do more things, then why should they pay you more seniority when they can just hire someone for a starting wage to replace you in that job? It actually becomes a common sense thing. Paying for an expensive, well established, set of workers is only worth it if the results of that team amount to more than is being spent on it. Greedy companies can tank their companies by firing loyal workers with good attitudes and wrecking the product they were responsible for. That said at the same time it's stupid to keep a bunch of lazy kids who refuse to learn or do anything else around, and pay them more and more money each year. It is a double edged sword, and can go both ways.
One problem is that workers tend to empathize with other workers, and people who are used to having oversight positions tend to associate with that. The former always outnumbers the latter. In my case I have a good bit of experience with both so very much understand both perspectives. I'm retired due to disability, not because I sucked at my job, or became rich.
Another thing far too long for a youtube response, but I think it merits repeating.
I think one of the problems with companies like Ubisoft and other "woke" companies is that they tend to make ideology and having activists bring in other activists the major criteria, rather than any kind of job performance. Thus someone who should be canned for having a terrible attitude and only mono-focusing on one thing and not working with others, can actually stick around for a long time and spread that cancer to others similarly favored even more than it would be a problem. This leads to crappier product, along with everything else. I think we're seeing the results of long term activist infiltration now where people in things like game development can claim legitimately to have ten years of doing the job like that should mean something, when they never did the job well to begin with. An incompetent lez-dyke revolutionary who never learns anything but sticks around for 10 years due to long term DEI initiatives, is still going to be incompetent after 10 years due to the inability to learn antyhing and nobody being able to call them on it, make them change, or boot them out the door.
No way they did those bodyguard droid quests like that on accident, they must be some sort of joke the devs played on the higer-ups. They can't be THAT dense and stupid to work for probably months on end on those two quests without realizing their intersection.
It’s possible if they literally never talk to each other or they don’t give a shit. I bet it both with Ubisoft.
tbh this game would have been peak if they just let you play *As* ND-5. at least then it would make sense for the player to knock out people by punching them.
Nah, that first Sliro scene is just fluff. He doesn't gain anything from monologuing before killing his opposition. Just have their food poisoned. It's purely for the audience, and sort of lazy. Maybe he should've had them over to talk about some proposals he'd made, and they say something about how one sided the terms are, then have him gun them down to show that it's more of a convenience. This alludes to him having ulterior motives, maybe what he proposed suggests more about him and his goals. Could've been way better and more meaningful.
You know what you are kind of right. It would make more sense if something during his interaction with the factions influenced him to kill them. That's a good observation
They could just make his character someone who likes teatrics, who enjoys monologing along. Plenty of people in real life are like that, and it would make him fun to watch.
Ubisoft never listened to its customers and treated them like trash and then expects them to pay for mid-tier games with mostly bland and generic stories.
As someone with over 1k hours in The Isle, PLS PLS I need the shit talk video so bad. It went from having a great community to the dev actively hating anyone having fun in his Dino realism game
Zenny’s girlfriend here he has 500 hours in The Isle. A game he loves and HATES he shall reply to you soon
Its True, over 500 hours. I'm gonna make a video on it in the future, just gotta hype it up a tad
@@Zenny-RUclips what point in the timeline did you start playing? I started just before that v4 map released. The one where you died of dehydration after spending like 9 hours in the progression system hellscape cause there were three water sources and a giant canyon cutting halfway through the map. I think I played on that map a total of 3 times. Played on wynter realism, Isla Nycta when it became the only active realism option, and TheIsle.Realism (TIL:Realisem)back in ye old days.
i started playing about 3 months into the development of the Evrima Branch, where they started remaking the game from scratch. so I played on the spiro legacy map, and all 4 of the iterations so far of the evrima map. I LOVE the isle, but I hate it. and I cannot wait to hype up a video on it in the next year or 2
when are you gonna just put all these animations in a playlist and just make the series independent of your reviews cause this shit crazy
The next video is the pilot.
@@Zenny-RUclips I'm so fucking hyped
The animations just keep getting better and better!
@@squangleproductions1382 you guys deserve the best!
About the Rep/Moral choice system. Starsector... not Starfield, Starsector. Starsector taught me that if you want a moral choice system in your game, you need to make the morally right choice mechanically difficult. If your game is all about being a criminal that's morally ambiguous, making the 'heroic' choice should make the game significantly harder, and potentially lock you out of cool stuff.
Agree, it's easier to break something instead of meticulously opening it without harming it, and there is fun in that challenge
No mans sky is the only game with lifesized open world planets eith full exploration and seamless landing and leaveing the orbit of the planet
Frankly, I prefer the minuscule (but full of interesting stuff ) planets of Outer Wilds. Granted, it is not the same thing, but I think well crafted maps (like those of Subnautica or Satisfactory) are far more interesting than almost anything generated procedurally.
@@SystemBDThe precrafted ones get boring.
@@SystemBD Fun fact the same studio that made No Mans Sky is making a new game, Light No Fire.
Fantasy instead of SciFi and based on one Earth Sized Planet instead of a Galaxy.
Just a note to anyone paying attention to Kay's punching form:
*SHE'S NOT PUNCHING, SHE'S WINDMILLING. IN ANYTHING CLOSE TO A REAL FIGHT,HER THUMBS AND FOREFINGERS ARE DUST. NEVER "PUNCH" ANYTHING LIKE THAT. UBISLOP DUN GOOFED AGAIN.*
Her whole combat animations are horrendous.
GODS THE ANIMATION IS SO CRISP AND CLEAN
Edit: oh gods he mentioned The Isle, i wonder how that went lmao
Edit 2: btw absolutely loving your Cybersona, super cool!
@@makehappyfaces2542 the animation to months! So glad people are enjoying it
Ubisoft really has been collecting an impressive amount of L's as of late💀
cant stop, wont stop
ND-5 just makes me sad, man. He's such a cool fucking concept (Droids in trench coats are just so drippy, don't @ me), but he just falls so fucking flat. You could have him contrast so well off of Kay by having her think with her heart and him with his brain (Computer? Processor? Whatever-), while also maintaining the throughline of him being the only one to stick around Kay in a life where everyone else just constantly comes and goes.
The bouncer interaction could have gone so much better if ND-5 had been more of a secondary main character. Picture this: On the way into the bar ND-5/Kay see the speeder and comment on it and/or realise it belongs to the bouncer, and ND-5 gets an idea. Kay heads inside, tries to persuade the bouncer, but fails, but then ND-5 comes in (having, I dunno paid someone off to steal the speeder) telling the bouncer his sweet new ride's been nicked, and offers to help him get it back, on the condition he lets Kay inside. The bouncer agrees reluctantly, and as Kay heads into the bar, as she looks back at ND-5 and nods at him, after which he reciprocates the nod and heads out.
Your nd5 and Kay idea is awesome! This game could of been something man
Agreed. The people who write media and their stories these days are either handicapped by higher ups, or just plain pathetic.
The speeder not being able to shoot is extra funny because rockstar had figured out shoouting out of cars 16 SIXTEEN YEARS AGO WITH GTA IV, FFS UBISOFT FIGURED IT OUT IN 2015 WITH WATCH DOGS
RIGHT! its not like its not possible
We need a 3rd Fallen Order game.
good news, we're getting one
It aint coming fast enough fam, then again, I'm still on the first one, lol
@@masterace9543 lol such a mood, and I'm pleased to report the second was in my opinion as good as the first with some good qol fixes (LIKE THE FUCKING MAPS AAAHHHHHHH) so, something to look forward to
Man your channel is so underrated dude. I have such a genuinely good time watching your videos, I hope you blow up and get the success you deserve someday
its slowly happening! and its such a wonderful feeling
I'm glad I waited to make a decision on this game until your review, Zenny. The Ubisoft discussion well has been beyond poisoned, so I appreciate how you focus on actually critiquing the characters and mechanics while sneaking in your humor and kick ass animations.
Great video, as always, I'm gonna go replay Mass Effect. Shoutout to naming Kay's rodent different variations of dog every time!
its on gamefly if ya have an xbox or ps5 ya can rent it from them. i dont buy games anymore using it.
im so glad someone noticed the bit about the dogs!!!
42:01 okay, I'm sorry, but vines or nets are not more creative in any way. They usually feel just as artifical, personally. And if they're integrated into the level design well enough to not stand out, we're back at "playtests show players being confused about where to go"
The comparison is to yellow paint. Making something stand out by using on-point set dressing is inherently more creative than yellow paint. It's the slightest bit more effort than literally saying "follow the yellow brick road."
@@Sabbatic it's more effort by such a marginal degree that I basically prefer yellow paint. Especially because it's often integrated into the set designs. Just throwing vines or nets over it isn't any better
considering all the uncharted games managed to not use yellow paint but made some very cohesive climbing sequences, i think proves what we've lost.
@@danielhuras617 don't get me wrong, there are ways to do it better. But vines are more cliché than yellow paint
I think instead of going off just coloring places where you can climb, why don't they just have a visual effect happen or better yet color it in a way where it makes sense and fit the whole world theme. For example, if it was a horny game, you would have a blood trail leading to attic or dripping from the attic in a way where you would want to check it out. I know it might not be the best example, but there are ways to show something that is interactive. Even zenny mentioned some things like a rock sticking out more than others while it has melted snow on it, unlike the rest.
In fairness- making a 30 - 50 hour game that was ALL sh!t would be a weird sort of huge accomplishment
I.e. the type accomplishment that modern Ubisoft, devoted to mediocrity, could never do
Was always a bit on the cautious side but Star Wars outlaws shows all of Ubisoft's weaknesses and no amount of Dlc will be able to fix a boring and weak fountain. Oh well get to save 70 bucks
The stealth:combat in this game is honestly like FC3 and 4, where even if you land a perfect headshot on a guard; whose nowhere near the others, with a suppressed weapon, all the other guards are instantly on high alert and know exactly where you are.
You are spot on! Does not matter how well you do, the game just cannot comprehend anything you are trying to pull. Every enemy is alert
Not really true. I’ve hit headshots without alerting other guards in FarCry 3. If I didn’t kill with the headshot…now that’s a different story. They absolutely know exactly where I am.
How is Kay driven when she won't go straight and make a decent person out of herself? She will hustle low money gambling tables instead of accepting a few credits from a friend that she is mooching off of to make something better of herself. That's not driven.
Well, I'd imagine the idea is that she wants to do it on her own, and is supposed to have a general disrespect for society at large, as well as little idea of how to deal with it like a normal person as she's never been a normal person. There have been a fair few characters like that written over the years, but the team did not talk to each other, or do any kind of research.
I think what they were trying to go for was a sort of gender swapped, and less-than-attractive version of Harry Harrison's "Stainless Steel Rat" before he got drafted into galactic law enforcement. It's a somewhat different take on it from Han Solo, but it goes in similar directions. His wife (who never does go straight) would be a great inspiration for someone like Kay. Part of her theme was originally as I remember that she was born ugly, and then uses technology to have herself re-sculpted to be basically a sex goddess, but she has a terrible attitude with a lot of people due to how she was treated before she had the money to do that. They could have done something similar with Kay to make the statement they wanted, while still having a character the players would find visually appealing.
Incidently in those stories, she falls for "Slippery" Jim Digriz (The SSR) as she's one of the only people that could go toe to toe with him mentally, aside from the super cop that eventually catches and recruits him. The fact that he respects her for that before ever having seen her is part of what made it work as I recall. It has been a while... and well they wind up having two kids who are entirely criminal grifters that are even worse than their parents.
I guess the point is that there have been so many "Space Rogue" type characters over the years, many of whom were quite popular and successful, that it should have been really easy to do a "Space Underworld" story in the spirit of Han Solo without actually aping him entirely. If they had hired me as an overall writer for this, I admit, I wouldn't plagiarize directly, but I'd certainly have taken inspiration from the best. I doubt most of these writers are familiar with any of that stuff though which is kind of funny and makes me wonder what the hiring criteria was.
At any rate not only did they have people terrible for the material, as I said in a few places, I'd imagine it's the Post-X problem of no one talking to each other, refusing to do so, and toothless oversight unable to force it, so you wind up with a disjointed character based on some basic ideas who has constant tonal shifts, and never manages to actually mesh well with the game world or the game play, which are themselves sort of disconnected from each other to begin with.
@@jeremyrichard2722 the writing isn't strong enough to support any of that thesis. I get what you are saying that they implied, but all of the smugglers she dealt with had minions and support systems. She was needlessly and annoyingly standoffish to the people that actually wanted to help her, and at times not smart enough to have ever gotten that close to the main villain. Not to be given work, or to be enough of a threat to keep watch over or manipulate.
@@phayroent9742 I agree, the writing is a mess, as I said, they seemed to have a bunch of different people writing it with different ideas.
Most of the text wall was just guessing the intent, and how they could have done it better.
U know, the knocking people out with a punch has a easy and "modern" solution. Have her have a missing arm. She can knock out guys with her enhanced punch, and also upgrade said arm to make it more fun.
Guys. I think I found it. The most underrated channel on RUclips
Awh stop it you!
Man. Even when a game is missing like this, I really look forward to your videos. Your animations and storyline combined with this format is so unique and always a treat
I'll be sure to keep making more!
Incredible review!
Worth the wait!
Stuck in a storm with my power knocked out, perfect time to watch a video essayist with the ability to create some fantastic 3D animations
You aren’t making it out
the game should have BEEN about ND-5...
Unironically yes. Even if you don't play as him, his relationship with Kay should of been front and center
If only we got Star Wars 1313
Now THAT would of been fun!
Hey Zany I finished The Observer! Thank you soooo much for bringing it to our attention! What an absolute hidden gem!
You're quickly becoming one of my favorite video essayist. Well edited, well written, and well narrated.
Imagine this game but with inspiration from the Guardians of the galaxy game. A rag tag group of outlaws where the characters matter.
a game where you STARt with a crew would of been so so cool.
45:48 Think fast chucklenuts.
These videos are so worth the wait, love the animation and the voice acting
Can’t believe Zenny was the bay harbour butcher
The Isle as in the Dinosaur game?
When I started playing, I saw the cut scene with the mom and the whole lesson on 'nobodies going to be there for you' or whatever. I thought this was going to be a way bigger theme in the game; I really expected kay's mom to have had a larger role either in manipulation of kay, using Kay without Kay's knowledge or to be another bad guy that was working for slirro and saw a way to take over from slirro by using Kay. What a bummer.
Considering how early they started trying to introduce kays mum you'd think they were going somewhere with it
1. new intro~!!!!!
2. FIgHT SCENE!?!?!?!!!!!!
3. the final hook!!
It's not an exaggeration to say this is some of the absolute best animation on this site, coupled with a really fun story. Every new video I"m completely blown away, especially because I see the improvement each time. In this case, I'm losing my mind over cinematography!! The dynamic way a lot of these shots are framed. Also the gestures of each character are both insanely natural and distinct between them. I'd buy a bluray of the compliation tbh. Now back to watching the fight scene another 20 times
that fight took me a whole month to animate! I've had such a wonderful time with the animated story, and if you are really enjoying it! get ready. because the next video is the pilot!
Dawg your channel is goated the animations, your method of examination, all of it. Thank you for blessing us with your creativity ❤
One way the game can seem like it was written by two different teams is ... writing consultants. They're very common in the gaming industry.
watching this channel is like watching someone tourge themselfs and they love it
I suffer so that you all can save money
31:10 I ship them
Oh they would kill eachother if forced on a date
Bro im more focused on the story sprinkled in theses videos. Keep it up man! Its amazing 👏
well get ready! next videos gonna be my pilot!
@Zenny-RUclips Can't wait to see it, man! I have no doubt it's going to blow me away just like the rest! 👍
Every time I think it can't get worse, someone releases a video making me aware of yet another failing of this stupid game.
And I still can't get over how stupid it is that she can one-tap a stormtrooper with her bare hands and knock them out. I'm pretty sure if someone just bonked me in the back of the head, with no helmet, with their fist like she did, they'd get more hurt than I would. Skulls are hard. Finger bones are brittle. Punching someone in the face is generally considered a terrible idea as you will shatter your hand and might not even knock the other person out. Doing that to someone wearing a helmet? It's so stupid and we're all already sick of the Stormtrooper slander. It's not the main character is a jedi this time. She's a nobody. Stormtroopers should be TERRIFYING for her.
Jesus this man puts more effort into videos than most other RUclipsrs. Please sub this man!!
Broooo, the transformer segment at the start is sick.
Well done
if anything it's just sad to see Ubisoft go from a cool company putting out unique games to what they are now just slapping a different visual coat of paint on the same game over and over again
You jumpscared me when the mentioned The Isle, god damn I bet your video covering that'll be juicy. Looking forward!
Man… your stuff keeps getting better and better. Those animations are so smooth looking. Keep up the good work!
'you play as an idiot and the game didn't mean for that to happen'
oh yes it did.
I grew up in love with the Star Wars universe, always excited to see the new games and movies. But now it’s just low effort slop being pumped out of an industrial process. It’s sad to see, but on the bright side I can at least revisit tbe old star wars games.
Bring back the days of starwars the force unleashed
@@Zenny-RUclips Force Unleashed is a better stealth game than Outlaws. Granted Force takes the ‘it’s still stealth if there aren’t any witnesses’, but my point remains.
We need a Zenny and Zanny collab
the world would not be ready for such glory!
@Zenny great video as always, you've definitely become my favourite review youtuber. Keep up the awesome videos/animations, can't wait for the next one!
Zenny, amigo, how the fuck do you only have 23k subs, with this level of incredible quality????
growth over time my dude! I don't scale my effort in ratio to my audience. I love making cool stuff! and the fact that people tune in is such a privilege
Outlaws ticks me off because on paper it's my favorite kind of game set in my (once upon a time...) favorite universe. But everything I've seen and heard about it has completely turned me off.
Nevermind that I'll never pay full price for an Ubi game after that "get comfortable not owning games" announcement. Yeah, sure man, get used to me not paying for your games.
So basically what I took away from this is that the gameplay is like Gollum with a fight button.
I think the title's miniature should've been "Trash or Trash pro max".
Just wanted to say that I love how you play with the aspect ratio in your fight scene, very cool!
It was so fun to mess around with
Guess I missed this video for a few days! Time to RING that BELL since I already SMASHED that SUBSCRIBE button
I enjoy your critiques! I like how you suggest things you would have liked to have seen when you point out issues. Stuff like the YELLOW PAINT and the story beat early on.
Great job on the animations!! They're so fun!
Cheers my dude
There are some good story beats to the game, and a few points where I felt legitimately invested in what was happening. Some of the puzzles were fun, but overall the game was a little too much on rails.
One thing that’s fun and actually pretty challenging: being at the highest wanted level. I felt like the Empire really wanted me dead.
As soon as I saw the marketing this game was a hard pass because why would I want to play it?
Why would I want to play as a normal person in the Star Wars universe? Star Wars is a cool universe but personally, I didn't watch movies about space wizards fighting each other with laser swords, epic wars, space battles, etc and think to myself, "Wow, I wonder what kind of shenanigans the petty criminals of this universe get up to"...
simply put the game boring, and starwars should be anything BUT boring
I tapped out because to me the premise of the game was just "let's play as not-Han but less cool!"
Grabs popcorn 🍿😁, always looking forward to these deep dives 🫡👊🏿
Ubisoft fumbled so hard they had to delay one of their biggest releases of the year. They just keep missing and missing.
That intro has some insane production quality.
im gonna be milking that shit for the next say 3 to 4 videos for sure!
I've been waiting for this video to drop. Grabbing my popcorn to enjoy this masterpiece.
At 20:38 you call it the "star destroyer" battle station but it's actually Star Killer. Star destroyers are the flying death doritos.
God damn it! These names all sound the same!! Not sure how I didn't catch my blunder during editing
@@Zenny-RUclips I only caught it cause I'm a massive nerd who unapologetically likes episode 7 so no worries my guy.
I will now be unable to think of them as anything but "flying death Doritos" ever again. Thank you Patheticmango... until the invention of Brain Bleach I will no longer be able to look at Star Destroyers the same way again.
Sort of like a girl I dated who insisted Princess Leia gets her hair done at Cinnabon.... silly, but I am incapable of ever forgetting it now. :)
The janky, rough and a bit uncanny 3d renders remains me of those Jetix mid-show segments. I love it ❤
Always really impressed with animations you produce for these videos.
I love how despite the fact I have the bell on, youtube still doesn't notify me when you post a video. What an incredible site.
i found your channel about a week ago, and i am already excited when i see you uploaded!
I come for the critique, but i stay for the unraveling storyline. You rock Zenny
I’m suprised I haven’t seen anyone talk about how this is exactly how assassins creed shadows will play but with a different coat of paint
42:41 I remember the developers actually adressing this. They didn' it because in the movies most speeder chases involved the main characters evading and dodging and they wanted to replicate that feeling and experience. "We wanted to make a mechanic that made you experience chases, rather than having you feel as if you can ride in and assault people from the speeder." - Fredrik Thylander, Ubisoft Massive
Apparently, the reason why speeder combat ended up playign like it does in the final product was because they couldn't program the speeder to drive well while aiming your blaster. And considering how the programmed the two I fully understand why they couldn't make them work together, because those two systems are already kind of clunky on their own. They actively made choices to make the game anti-fun because they couldn't program it well enough, and they don't even seem to have fully realised it.
I'm a new subscriber, you are so funny and I love the story you're telling between the reviews
This is also the first game where I've been tempted to just write a rewrite for XD
To be honest I couldn't take Sliro seriously because he was so over to top 'I'm a bad guy' this being said the twist later on was pretty interesting
I can understand where you are coming from, I'm a big fan of open bad guys having big speeches it's super fun, but it does make for a very one note over the top character
a robot? injury? slowly dying?
For a smaller channel the production value is crazy
knowing my its only gonna get bigger and bigger!
YAY! My Favorite under appreciatted game reviewer has uploaded again!
and now i shall vanish into the void for another 3 months
I'm 100% watching this for the story bits that have nothing to do with the game.
The most based zenny enjoyer
Bladur's Gate 3 video when?
Brother do not make me suffer like that (such a good game but to talk about it would be evil)
Reminds me of Avatar, they had good ideas but either refused to capitalize on them or the development was rushed.
Just wondering how long do the animated segments usually take when making vids?
@@kade_the_cin between 1 to 2 months.
Alot of behind the scenes work dragged this out to 3 with all the modelling work. But keep in mind I work a full time job and only get like 3 hours a day for this sorta stuff!
I'm so glad I randomly found you, ngl for a moment I thought you were Zanny with a new profile picture but I'm so glad for being wrong and glad to be reminded of not just your passionate and awesome reviewing efforts but also the sick sub-plot story you've got going on with your own universe. Never mind your amazing animation skills being just casually shown off like its a cutaway gag, can't wait for the next review man, would be interesting to see you take a stab as AC Shadows to see if all the talent went to that or if the pre-emptive disliking is warranted.
best thing that came out of this game is that we get a new zenny review on it
I actually just saw you in my recomendattions today and...I don't mind this surprise. =)
awesome production quality.
Ubisoft just doesn't understand GTA as a concept. She's a bad 'outlaw', a child's perception of a criminal. It's so, DISNEY Star Wars.
It's fascinating that Ubisoft is responsible for at least PUBLISHING ghost recon and Division, but this is the level of tactical stealth we get in Star Wars.
Ubisoft: still unbroken? Still your spirit is in same shape, after all we did, after droping the ball 3 times, after making descent to watchable to "this is the movie where i started see plotholes in movies, random SW fan that gave all other movies in franchise a 10", gutting everything else in it and ripping old media into "no longer canon"? Still belive in it? Whe will succed where Disney couldnt, we will BREAK you!
I'm still mad that the original plan for this game was to make The Division but we're Mandalorians traveling the galaxy.
It's why Ubisoft had Massive you know the studio that makes The Division to make this game.
Instead we get Assassins Creed in space where everything is milk toast and the stealth sucks because the developers have no experience making a stealth game...
I WANT THAT SO BAD