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This Game was developed by Ubisoft and is Limited to First-Person, what does this mean? It means the only respectable way of playing it is by Pirating and Modding it- Amazing! 😀
I was playing this morning, and I shot an arrow through a fern at an rda mech, and not only did the mech’s front glass shatter leading to a unique animation where the soldier inside was scrambling for his mask, but the fern I shot through lost only the part of its mass that the arrow went through and the rest kept standing except for where I’d disconnected it with an arrow…I’m blown away by the tech here
@@peterpop-off yeah, today’s day and age I’ve been really impressed with some of the technical leaps forward that we have seen that will likely make gaming and development in the future compound their successes to give us a truly next gen experience. A little humility tends to go a long way.
@@peterpop-offthe whole game is excellent but if you wanna keep calling it mediocre because it's made by a company you have a personal problem with for some reason and miss out on playing this gem yourself thats your loss man. Sad that you're full of this much hatred that you feel the need to spread it where it's not wanted or needed.
I hope RoboCop and this game help remind movie studios how well tie-in games can do if they don’t cheap out and are willing to invest in competent developers.
@@shaneregan7745 not even a little bit off topic. thats exactly the kind of thing dude was talking about. but imagine the way he sees the world, with ray tracing and an OLED screen, thatd be WILD
And also be willing to release a game well after the movie's release. Forcing movie tie-ins out day and date with the movie is why so many of those older ones were crap.
this is what makes me sad because i remember a time when Ubisoft was known for making and publishing good fun games. They have completely squandered their reputation.
It's basically Far Cry: Pandora, so of course it wasn't going to be terrible. They've honed Far Cry to a formulaic edge, so there was pretty much a road map pre-made for it. All they had to do was figure out how to apply it to being a big blue alien.
As nice as it is to hear that this game came out looking great, I feel it shouldn't be a surprise that the team that made the best looking/feeling urban environment in the first Division game was successful in making a great looking natural environment as well. That team is at the top of the environmental immersion game. Ubisoft would be smart to use this team to boost their other teams' projects as well.
totally agree. I just adored walking around the division 1 soaking in the world. I did the same today with Avatar. They are excellent at giving their players a beautiful packed world to explore.
Yes and no. I think the marketing for this was horrible. Everything screamed Far Cry 7, and Ubisofts track record didn't inspire much confidence. However, that's where game reviewers really do a much needed service. Between this and ACGs review I went from "maybe when it's on gamepass" to a definite buy
@@sean6793 Austin and ACG are definitely exceptions wouldn’t you say? The most common reactions I’ve seen are folks dunking on this game because it has low review scores. That said both reviews I appreciate since they understood the ways this game isn’t Far Cry
Just want to say that I absolutely love the addition of Austin to the review roster, not only do we get more reviews for games but every single review no matter the reviewer is top class. Loving the channel lads
@@ericwindsor339yeah i unfollowed i unsubbed after, its so cringe, if hes lazy af at least say it, hes just busy spending his money from audience while his employee spans videos, its so weird, also who the f did i subbed to
How similar are Austin and Ralphs views/opinions. Ralph is my most trusted reviewer and ive never failed to agree with everything he says, so Austin being around muddles the waters.
the dev videos on youtube in the game's leadup are a great little watch, they show how much they worked with Cameron's team right down to the tiniest detail and care so much about getting it right, and for my money, i think they nailed it.
@@NF_Redux Dude... have you heard anything about James Cameron? If they didn't nail it it wouldn't come out... hahahaha Cameron might be an egotistical diva that thinks he's 100 times better than anyone else, but to be fair... the man is a genius when it comes to film making and he doesn't settle for anything than 2 steps ahead of what's currently possible... all of his movies hold that standard... Terminator 2 pushed film making to a very very new era... the Titanic in terms of visuals is a masterpiece... Avatar pushed us to the new age of what's possible with 3D... and so much more... A James Cameron movie will NEVER EVER BE MEDIOCRE... and he would never ever let them push out some bullshit based on his work... the dude cares about his reputation more than any other director... Now, can we have a WW2 shooter directed by Steven Spielberg??? Pretty please??? 😋
I was so hesitant on this game because it just looked like another farcry. But after watching the release reviews, it has completely changed my mind, and now I want to play it.
How is it Ubi get their main franchise all wrong yet get this so right. I’m a big Avatar fan so was really wanting this to be something so definitely looking forward to grabbing it!
Because their franchises already have a solid idiot install base so pumping out a sequel every 2 years makes financial sense. Avatar was overseen by James Cameron and his studio and every decision had to go through him. Basically because Ubisoft weren't allowed to force out shit it will be much better than usual
I dunno but their 3rd party franchise games have been a cut above their own IP as of late (the nintendo colabs and now this). Might be they dont have the creative chops at the studio(s) anymore to realize/make their own world building work (or the creatives are just tired of their own IP). Here they dont have to do as much work in that department since there is already established lore and world for them to draw on... but who knows? Whatever the reason is, this looks way more bespoke than their usual open world adventures. Peace
Worldbuilding isn't Ubisoft's strength, or at least it hasn't been for a long time. Adapting a preexisting world into an interactive format, however? Not as difficult as building something new from the ground up.
Something I love so far is how well they’ve nailed the feeling of being a giant blue person. Running through the tutorial section and regular corridors basically being air vent sequences where you have to crouch - they just nailed the scale of it. Especially compared to Armoured Core where most levels you just felt like a regular sized thing, not a huge hulking mech.
The level of care, detail, and variety in the world is one of the reasons I love open world games like this in the first place. To explore places like this is such an experience that I end up coming back to it over and over again.
Played a few hours today and am impressed. Feels like a sister game to Sony's Horizon series in a lot of ways...but with blue people. Massive is pretty much Ubisoft's secret weapon at this point.
If you had told me I'd be more excited to play an Ubisoft open world movie based game, rather than a new Bethesda IP, I'd call you a liar... And yet here we are.
Makes me so happy you like this one Austin, was waiting for the review to go up on this channel before deciding to get it. But Avatar fan and this made me much more excited to play it.
Great review. Honestly sold me on this. I wouldn’t consider myself an Avatar fan but I DID love the world and lore itself. This review honestly swayed me and I’m looking forward to a sale in the future, tbh
he sold you on one of the most mediocre and generic, invested time disrespecting game this year. But at least Open World is nice. (it got generated by AI so yeah) sadly u have to fill it with interesting quests, mobs, loot and stuff manually... that's where they stopped because people like austin will push the game anyways and people like you will enjoy it because OH MY GOOSH big world 2 explore UwU *repeating same copied outpost over and over while exploring the map"
I'm only a few hours in so far, but i've been blown away by the visuals and how pretty the music is to go with it. It runs decently well on my old potato PC as well shockingly
As a huge fan of Avatar, I'm pleasantly surprised Austin strongly recommends it! Avatar's strength is always the world and it's themes, and Ubisoft were definitely the right pick for this. Also, feeling vindicated in choosing the PS5 for the controller, it sucks going back to normal rumble!
lol, characters have 0 depth, questlines be like "run from a to b to c and back" terrible level system where mobs only nee 1 or 2 shots to kill you if you are only 1 level únderneath them. Awkward leveling through gear which makes gearstats comletely irrelevant since you only need it to not get one or two shot. A huge AI-generated open world with aölmost nothing in it except some flora and a few mobs. Gamebreaking bugs, performance issues (even on console lol) and a story that's really nothing special jsut black and white good and evil basic plot.
This is legitimately the most stunning setting I've seen in a video game in a long, long time. It blows my mind the way so many critics just toss that out of the equation saying things like "good graphics bad game" or "skin deep". When you play this game I just don't understand how you can be so numb to not appreciate the incredible amount of work and technology that went into this. It's obvious where the work was put and it's a very critical aspect of Avatar, it's deeper than just graphics and critics that can't get that are discredited IMO
I have played the 1st hour and so far I like it a lot, I can't say I love it yet because it's only been one hour but I can see it happening. Pandora is so damn beautiful
Will this year please stop ambushing me with all these great games! Now I gotta finish Cyberpunk and Robocop and get around to Alan Wake 2, Assassin's Creed Mirage, Lies of P, Final Fantasy 16, AND NOW THIS! 😊😊😊 This year has just been spoiling us.
I'm a huge nerd of the films. The first movie was very weak but the lore and world that James Cameron built was absolutely incredible. The second movie really stepped it up with the story and writing. I'm watched dozens of hours of lore videos, learning everything there is to know about the Avatar Universe. So when I tell you I was way more excited for this game than most people, I'm not kidding. I've only been able to play 4-5 hours or so, but I'm really enjoying my time so far. It doesn't feel nearly as much like Far Cry as I expected. I love those games, have close to 1000 hours in the entire franchise but I was glad to see this felt like a new game. Can't wait to do everything there is to do and fully experience an interactive version of Pandora.
lol, characters have 0 depth, questlines be like "run from a to b to c and back" terrible level system where mobs only nee 1 or 2 shots to kill you if you are only 1 level únderneath them. Awkward leveling through gear which makes gearstats comletely irrelevant since you only need it to not get one or two shot. A huge AI-generated open world with aölmost nothing in it except some flora and a few mobs. Gamebreaking bugs, performance issues (even on console lol) and a story that's really nothing special jsut black and white good and evil basic plot. Have fun doing everything there's to do aka repeating the same stuff over and over because there isnt much to explore except some generic and copied outposts and the same cooking materials over and over xD
I'm not an Avatar fan, but I am a big fan of exploring alien worlds, so I've been interested in this game. I'll be waiting for a sale, but I'm looking forward to playing this eventually.
I love when games like this apear out of nowhere. Games where the developers just say "here...take this beautifull world and...just have fun." I was nowhere near excited for this title but now im really looking forward to try it out.
lol, characters have 0 depth, questlines be like "run from a to b to c and back" terrible level system where mobs only nee 1 or 2 shots to kill you if you are only 1 level únderneath them. Awkward leveling through gear which makes gearstats comletely irrelevant since you only need it to not get one or two shot. A huge AI-generated open world with aölmost nothing in it except some flora and a few mobs. Gamebreaking bugs, performance issues (even on console lol) and a story that's really nothing special jsut black and white good and evil basic plot.
@@destate2 it seems like you're describing ME Andromeda which had all those flaws but i ended up having a blast playing it nonetheless. Sometimes a game just clicks despite whatever problems it may have.
lmao thanks for supporting forming cringe modern gaming industry that use AI to egenrate open world but fails to manually fill this world with a cariety of mobs, points of interest and loot @@MiguelXisto1
I had not heard of this game until a week or two ago. I saw your review pass by and decided to give it a shot. You are completely correct in saying that the world they have crafted is next level, including the characters and sounds. While it has some tedious open world elements, you can safely ignore those if you wish. The world and story are plenty engrossing and engaging. Really made me feel like I was in the Avatar movies at times.
I'm enjoying it quite a bit so far. But I will say, if you opt for "exploration mode," be prepared to spend A LOT of time just trying to find quest objectives. That extra bit of immersion definitely has a cost in terms of time spent.
4:05 Every time I want to be excited about a new Ubisoft game, then I listen to a snippet of dialogue and it kills the mood for me immediately. Its like they hire their normal floor developers to do the writing and voice acting.
18:21 that's actually very surprising. Very impressed by how much thought they put into this game. Hopefully it pays off so they feel encouraged to experiment more with these interesting features. Really happy to see the quality over quantity hunting and gathering.
The video game community loves to live in a spiral of hatred for anything that’s not a perceived masterpiece. A side of the backlog/fomo culture of people wanting to play “everything good” It’s like they can only justify not buying the games if they actively hate on them. I wouldn’t pay full price for this, and yet I think it’s worth checking out so I got Ubi+ to play it super cheap
Can you blame them? Ubisoft has shown that they will willingly invest low effort if it gives them a quick buck. The ubisoft formulae didnt come out of nowhere, they created it, copy pasting shit across all there games. Its good that this is an anomaly, if l get time l will pick it up since l love the movies. But l understand why many are skeptical with ubisoft open world games.
@@alispeed5095 I wouldn’t blame anyone. It’s an observation. Apathy towards Ubi copy paste games I’d understand. Indifference is one thing but the active hatred this game has received based on review scores is something else entirely. Mind you that games like this and others that get hated on right upon release aren’t even games that anyone has played. It’s the whole mob mentality thing of people hating games that their favourite RUclipsrs hate. Like they were interested initially and now need to hate the game to justify not buying it. Hating a game you haven’t played is juvenile at best. Mind you I used to do the same thing too until I played Days Gone a few years ago. Dunked on release and much better a later when I picked it up for $20.
Game is so fun and my God it makes you feel like you are on pandora and it's beautiful hands down the best I have seen and play on explorer mode with no map markers that's when you have to use your memory eyes and ears so so good
xDDDDDDD lol, characters have 0 depth, questlines be like "run from a to b to c and back" terrible level system where mobs only nee 1 or 2 shots to kill you if you are only 1 level únderneath them. Awkward leveling through gear which makes gearstats comletely irrelevant since you only need it to not get one or two shot. A huge AI-generated open world with aölmost nothing in it except some flora and a few mobs. Gamebreaking bugs, performance issues (even on console lol) and a story that's really nothing special jsut black and white good and evil basic plot.
Thank you for including the dualsense compatibility, since Returnal used it soooo well, I’ve been trying to find a game that also uses it to its potential. 🙏👌😎
This is Far Cry Primal with a few xtra bits,its pieces taken from all Far Cry games and especially Blood Dragon,heres the most honest review youll hear...wait til the sales and get this for cheap,if youre not an Avatar fan or a Far Cry fan then wait for a month or so.
@@zomgpie2 Genuinely wouldn't be shocked if Ralph was simply just horribly burnt out from having to play so many massive games all the time to review. It's literally impossible for anyone to keep up with everything nowadays.
@@sneaky5141 i'm not talking about live service, just some more details that could be on the game and would make it cooler, for me avatar is all about the wildlife so more interaction would be nice
The only nitpick i have is i wish the game didnt go into a black screen going into and out of cutscenes, wish it was simultaneous. Other then that little nickpick im really enjoying it so far
I can barely believe that I have been enjoying this game as much as I have. It is absolutely STUNNING to look at. There is something about the “FarCry” formula that really fucking rocks in Pandora. I’m truly shocked tbh.
Man, MASSIVE is really the one Ubisoft-Studio that still delivers as far as I can tell (and especially their Snowdrop-Engine delivers so hard for many years now) If nothing this makes me more exited for StarWars Outlaws honestly (and an eventual Division 3 maybe) but for now I will look into maybe trying this game in the future (when I have more time)
XDDD lol, characters have 0 depth, questlines be like "run from a to b to c and back" terrible level system where mobs only nee 1 or 2 shots to kill you if you are only 1 level únderneath them. Awkward leveling through gear which makes gearstats comletely irrelevant since you only need it to not get one or two shot. A huge AI-generated open world with aölmost nothing in it except some flora and a few mobs. Gamebreaking bugs, performance issues (even on console lol) and a story that's really nothing special jsut black and white good and evil basic plot.
@@destate2 Well, because I haven't played this specific game yet, I can only tell you what THIS and OTHER REVIEWS have said so far and while some of the Ubisoft-spirit of more basic game-design are obviously in MASSIVEs games as well, I can't say I have heard many of the problems you listed from anybody else (especially the performance-problems which are the once that are the least subjective that you listed here and therefore the easiest to talk about) The last Massive-Game I played was Division 2 and I really liked it and in addition it was technically more than impressive for it's time (with complete real-time lighting from every light-source and honestly some of the smarter shooter-ai in recent years)
I am really happy that this one is actually good. However, I will sadly not play it myself as I will stick to boycotting any full price game that includes an unnecessary cash shop. Still hope that anyone who plays it will have a lot of fun with it :D
@@gotworc It is about having some principles, not about having to "resist some bundle". I do not care what is sold, it can be cosmetics or power ups or progression. When there is a cash shop in a full price non-live-service game, I simply won't play it. You can choose to play it but you don't have to act like an idiot
Listen man, I'm an unashamed Farcry enjoyer. This looks quite lovely and I can't wait to pick it up. When it's on a steep sale. Couple of years from now 😂 Love you, Austin!!! You're the best man! My blind Charr Ranger, Vesik Ashmark, loves you as well!!
Glad someone else is willing to voice their appreciation for Avatar. It was a tremendous marriage of cutting edge tech, world building and masterful blockbuster writing and direction (even if the story and theme were somewhat derivative). The second one bored the pants off me though.
The strong points of Avatar is definitely it's tech and presentation. I'm glad this game lives up to that. I can't really say the world building is a notable strong point simply because there's not much to it. Not necessarily a bad thing but it is how it is. Unfortunately I'm not a fan if Avatar because the story just isn't really intriguing. It's definitely a "blockbuster story". It's perfectly serviceable but nothing truly interesting. That's the one thing that's putting off on the game. I don't dislike Avatar, but I'm not a fan either. I'm afraid I might buy it then lose interest since there's not much substance to compel me. Or I might like it. I've liked games worse than what this sounds like. Just don't know. I'll probably wait for a sale.
@@sawdust8691for me the world building is strong because they so vividly imagined an alien world. When you first step into the jungle in the game everyone gets blown away. I also think the story is really interesting, or at least the premise. A human literally manages to inhabit an alien body, but yet still has the weakness of humans. Terminator 2 is a better movie, but it's really the premise that makes it, the story is just one long chase sequence.
That would be an incredible amount of work. They would have to do high quality animations for both first and third person. There is a reason why most games choose one orientation, getting one right takes tons of work, let alone having both. A lot of games that add another orientation don't add another set of animations and just reuse the original ones which are always lower quality than if they made custom animations for it.
this game is so much better than it had any right to be, and even though the story's kinda threadbare, as in the films, it's a wonderful experience for fans of Avatar or just fans of open world exploration. Massive have outdone themselves again, and it's a wonderful environment to just exist in, attention to detail everywhere. press will be divided on this one, but user reviews are far more positive than i expected as well. it's great to see it resonating with people who give it a chance. love the review, btw, will be sad when the intern come back and takes over again.
Ubisoft always builds amazing looking worlds they are great at that , really really good i would say.... Sadly the gameplay and story of most of their games is always horrible
What I really love about this game is that there aren't enemies around every single corner, like with the later Far Cry games. You want to explore, because you're not threatened that around each and every turn you have to get into combat with somebody. Trust me that gets sickeningly frustrating very fast for me. When a game that wants you to explore insists on attacking you around every corner with everlastingly spawning enemies you begin getting anxiety attacks at even remotely considering taking the unknown route to see if there is something there. This game lets you BREATHE and explore without that constant factor of threat, and I love it because of that. Add to that a great adventure and some nice loot-mechanics and RPG elements, and you have yourself a winner.
@@thedoomslayer5863 No, Ralph is the guy who started the channel. Austin is his editor but recently has been doing his own videos ("Austin recommends...")
In my experience, the game got worst the further along I got. I really enjoyed the first Act, but then in act 2 I realized i'm just doing the same quests over and over again only in a location not as beautiful as the first and in act 3, I had to force myself to finish the game, I really really did not want to.
lol, characters have 0 depth, questlines be like "run from a to b to c and back" terrible level system where mobs only nee 1 or 2 shots to kill you if you are only 1 level únderneath them. Awkward leveling through gear which makes gearstats comletely irrelevant since you only need it to not get one or two shot. A huge AI-generated open world with aölmost nothing in it except some flora and a few mobs. Gamebreaking bugs, performance issues (even on console lol) and a story that's really nothing special jsut black and white good and evil basic plot.
You're the reason the gaming industry is getting more cringe with every year. People will be pleased ass long as the surface is nice and shiny, doesn't matter how generic and mediocre the actually product, it'll be successfull so why should profit driven companies like ubisoft should put any real effort into a game if they can make a fortune without being innovative and dedicated? Shit stays shit doesn't matter the setting. @@Brokenlance
honestly i kind of hate the avatar movies for a lot of reasons, but i am not immune to gorgeous immersive open-worlds to explore so i'm actually excited to try this out (probably on sale)
Ubisoft dropped the ball on this. Considering this is one of the biggest IP in the world they chose to not put their normal full marketing budget into this game. It seems like the felt the game was poor and "thought" other people would have the same reaction after playing it. They were wrong and no matter how good this game actually is, not enough people are aware of its existence.
How I wish they had given us a choice to play in third person mode! It's such a common and enjoyable feature in games like Bethesda's and Rockstar's. I'm so disappointed that this game lacks it.
The little details can make the game in the sense of, if each adds to immersion, and immersion bring you into their world, and you're almost, if not completely in their world, then you're immersed. If you're immersed, then the developers job should be done. That's why Far Cry 2 is still one of my favourite games, even with the faults. Rear of the rpg shooting sparks, you happen to be on dry grass, well it's on fire and you're probably realising via damage taken and looking behind you. What might be seen as an annoyance and avoided now days, helped sell the world, thus, kept me in their world as video games for a lot are escapism. Cross that with small details like the bullet shell sounds on different surfaces, ammo crates exploding and causing carnage. All hostile to the player, an annoyance, yet brings the player closer into the world that the developer is trying to suck you into. This ended up on a FC2 praise comment, meant to emphasise the merit to the technical effort that Ubi/Massive put into this game, it outweighs the repudiative bases, modern conventions like crafting etc.
It's really encouraging to see Ubisoft adapt their typical game format to this world. It makes things feel just a little bit better than it just being Far Cry on Pandora. Do I think this can be taken forward as Ubisoft finally fixing their approach to making games? I don't know, they did put out Assassin's Creed Mirage just a few months ago. But at least it's a positive sign.
This game has like 6 weapons, 2 enemy types, no dynamic or moving NPCs, dreadfully boring and time wasting fetch quests, a paper thin villain with 20 minutes of screen time, boring traversal that turns into run/fly in a straight line for 5 minutes, absolutely no memorable characters and a story that is relegated to an Avatar filter arc. It's crazy to see how a reviewer I usually trust dropped the ball so heavily here, at least for me.
Love the channel and the review, but I have to bring something up that both Austin and Skill Up talks about (and sadly misrepresents or misunderstands) in many of their reviews: DLSS and rendering resolution. Saying you're testing the game in 4K while using DLSS performance is ignorant at best. DLSS performance renders the game at just 50% pixels per axis or in other words just 25% of the overall resolution, which means using DLSS performance in 4K the game is being rendered at 1080p. So being impressed that a 4090 can run the game at "over 60fps at 4K on ultra settings" is just baffling, because it's not running at 4K. That 4090 is only managing over 60fps at 1080p! The *output* is 4K, sure, but the game itself is only *rendering* at 1920x1080, and then DLSS is doing its best to make that look like 4K. Don't get me wrong it can still look great, but you're not anywhere near rendering at 4K, and so telling the viewers that "performance is good" while a 4090 gets "over 60 fps" at 1080p is either just doing nVidia's marketings for them or you're misinformed or misunderstanding DLSS. And for 1440p on the 3090Ti with high settings, with DLSS performance, you're rendering at just 720p and upscaling to 1440. So for that GPU to only manage in "50-60 fps" in 720p is not something that a reviewer should praise with and I quote "performance is good"...
The physical copy of the game requires online authentication and account registration to download and install the game, another step back for game preservation. Seems like big AAA publishers are doing this nowadays to their big ganes from Activision, WB, EA and now Ubisoft.
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I hope you can play Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader one day!
Does the game break immersion with modern day politics?!
@@JoesCaribbeanVanLife what do you mean by that?
This Game was developed by Ubisoft and is Limited to First-Person, what does this mean?
It means the only respectable way of playing it is by Pirating and Modding it- Amazing! 😀
@@DracobyteHe wants to complain about wokeness in a game with Aliens that don’t exist. Ignore him. 😂
I was playing this morning, and I shot an arrow through a fern at an rda mech, and not only did the mech’s front glass shatter leading to a unique animation where the soldier inside was scrambling for his mask, but the fern I shot through lost only the part of its mass that the arrow went through and the rest kept standing except for where I’d disconnected it with an arrow…I’m blown away by the tech here
Haha an arrow taking down an armoured mech.
@@timothychapman3265 the arrows are like spears, so…
And did this experience keep you invested in the game? Or is it a distraction from the ubisoft mediocrity
@@peterpop-off yeah, today’s day and age I’ve been really impressed with some of the technical leaps forward that we have seen that will likely make gaming and development in the future compound their successes to give us a truly next gen experience. A little humility tends to go a long way.
@@peterpop-offthe whole game is excellent but if you wanna keep calling it mediocre because it's made by a company you have a personal problem with for some reason and miss out on playing this gem yourself thats your loss man.
Sad that you're full of this much hatred that you feel the need to spread it where it's not wanted or needed.
I hope RoboCop and this game help remind movie studios how well tie-in games can do if they don’t cheap out and are willing to invest in competent developers.
Kinda off topic but man I wish we could get another Riddick game.
@@shaneregan7745Yo that would be sick
@@shaneregan7745 Comment of the week😁
@@shaneregan7745 not even a little bit off topic. thats exactly the kind of thing dude was talking about.
but imagine the way he sees the world, with ray tracing and an OLED screen, thatd be WILD
And also be willing to release a game well after the movie's release. Forcing movie tie-ins out day and date with the movie is why so many of those older ones were crap.
I can't believe this game is not horrible what a shock
this is what makes me sad because i remember a time when Ubisoft was known for making and publishing good fun games. They have completely squandered their reputation.
@@LilFeralGangreltheir game sales show otherwise.
Its made by Massive... division 2 is by far the best shooter Ive played.
It's basically Far Cry: Pandora, so of course it wasn't going to be terrible. They've honed Far Cry to a formulaic edge, so there was pretty much a road map pre-made for it. All they had to do was figure out how to apply it to being a big blue alien.
HONESTLY! I was so surprised, I was expecting something reeeeal bad, but it actually is looking like a solid title.
As nice as it is to hear that this game came out looking great, I feel it shouldn't be a surprise that the team that made the best looking/feeling urban environment in the first Division game was successful in making a great looking natural environment as well. That team is at the top of the environmental immersion game. Ubisoft would be smart to use this team to boost their other teams' projects as well.
Agree
totally agree. I just adored walking around the division 1 soaking in the world. I did the same today with Avatar. They are excellent at giving their players a beautiful packed world to explore.
Yes and no. I think the marketing for this was horrible. Everything screamed Far Cry 7, and Ubisofts track record didn't inspire much confidence.
However, that's where game reviewers really do a much needed service. Between this and ACGs review I went from "maybe when it's on gamepass" to a definite buy
Massive Entertainment is an underrated studio. I've been a big fan since Ground Control 2. They've only made good games.
@@sean6793 Austin and ACG are definitely exceptions wouldn’t you say? The most common reactions I’ve seen are folks dunking on this game because it has low review scores. That said both reviews I appreciate since they understood the ways this game isn’t Far Cry
This would be brilliant in VR. All those people who wanted Pandora to be real would be in heaven! 😂
Just reading this comment made me motion sick
Given that it's an unreal 5 engine, the praydog unreal engine VR mod coming out this month should be able to play it.
And financially bankrupt, but hey
there would instantly be a sex mod lol. i remember simping for navi was a whole thing when the first movie cam out.
@@azap1378you can get a quest 2 that can play pc vr games for less than $200
Just want to say that I absolutely love the addition of Austin to the review roster, not only do we get more reviews for games but every single review no matter the reviewer is top class. Loving the channel lads
I'm always disappointed when it's an Austin review
@@HULK-HOGAN1 Same. It's not even because Austin is bad or anything, he seems great. But I subbed to the channel for Ralph, not his friend.
I hate it, i unsubbed and unfollowed, i followed the skillup guy dont know why hes forcing me to watch these weird vids because hes lazy
@@ericwindsor339yeah i unfollowed i unsubbed after, its so cringe, if hes lazy af at least say it, hes just busy spending his money from audience while his employee spans videos, its so weird, also who the f did i subbed to
How similar are Austin and Ralphs views/opinions. Ralph is my most trusted reviewer and ive never failed to agree with everything he says, so Austin being around muddles the waters.
Really happy they actually cared to make a good Avatar game. I love the world building James Cameron and his team did for the movies.
the dev videos on youtube in the game's leadup are a great little watch, they show how much they worked with Cameron's team right down to the tiniest detail and care so much about getting it right, and for my money, i think they nailed it.
@@NF_Redux Dude... have you heard anything about James Cameron? If they didn't nail it it wouldn't come out... hahahaha
Cameron might be an egotistical diva that thinks he's 100 times better than anyone else, but to be fair... the man is a genius when it comes to film making and he doesn't settle for anything than 2 steps ahead of what's currently possible... all of his movies hold that standard...
Terminator 2 pushed film making to a very very new era... the Titanic in terms of visuals is a masterpiece... Avatar pushed us to the new age of what's possible with 3D... and so much more...
A James Cameron movie will NEVER EVER BE MEDIOCRE... and he would never ever let them push out some bullshit based on his work... the dude cares about his reputation more than any other director...
Now, can we have a WW2 shooter directed by Steven Spielberg??? Pretty please??? 😋
I was so hesitant on this game because it just looked like another farcry. But after watching the release reviews, it has completely changed my mind, and now I want to play it.
its awesome!
dude just repeating what he saw in another video
It's kind of a far cry but i like Far cry(enough to play it even though it's slightly above average) so imo, it's a decent game to consider.
Lmao sounds like a commercial
Well, it is just Farcry on Pandora though
How is it Ubi get their main franchise all wrong yet get this so right. I’m a big Avatar fan so was really wanting this to be something so definitely looking forward to grabbing it!
Because their franchises already have a solid idiot install base so pumping out a sequel every 2 years makes financial sense. Avatar was overseen by James Cameron and his studio and every decision had to go through him. Basically because Ubisoft weren't allowed to force out shit it will be much better than usual
Probably because it's not Ubisoft proper making it. This the studio behind The Division, no? Let Massive do the next AC.
I dunno but their 3rd party franchise games have been a cut above their own IP as of late (the nintendo colabs and now this). Might be they dont have the creative chops at the studio(s) anymore to realize/make their own world building work (or the creatives are just tired of their own IP). Here they dont have to do as much work in that department since there is already established lore and world for them to draw on... but who knows? Whatever the reason is, this looks way more bespoke than their usual open world adventures.
Peace
Worldbuilding isn't Ubisoft's strength, or at least it hasn't been for a long time. Adapting a preexisting world into an interactive format, however? Not as difficult as building something new from the ground up.
They don’t get far cry wrong. They just have done way too many of them, it’s sickeningly old now and it’s just not a fun formula anymore
Something I love so far is how well they’ve nailed the feeling of being a giant blue person. Running through the tutorial section and regular corridors basically being air vent sequences where you have to crouch - they just nailed the scale of it. Especially compared to Armoured Core where most levels you just felt like a regular sized thing, not a huge hulking mech.
So you recommend it? It’s worth $70
i love standing next to people it’s so trippy being twice their height sometimes i’m crouching next to a person and forget i’m crouching😭
@@WizzlyBearW0rmsi would recommend it if you’re a fan of either the far cry games, or the avatar IP. as a fan of both i’m in heaven currently!
@@WizzlyBearW0rmsits in instant gaming for 55, and for that price I reccomend it
@@WizzlyBearW0rms no, get the Ubisoft plus subscription for $17 a month then cancel after your done with the game
90 mins in approx and absolutely loving it so far. Amazing graphics and gameplay, seems very polished, the jungle looks amazing.
So absolute
LMFAOOOO
Graphics are amazing, what a shock
Did it hold up 2 months later? Curious if I should get it
The level of care, detail, and variety in the world is one of the reasons I love open world games like this in the first place. To explore places like this is such an experience that I end up coming back to it over and over again.
Played a few hours today and am impressed. Feels like a sister game to Sony's Horizon series in a lot of ways...but with blue people. Massive is pretty much Ubisoft's secret weapon at this point.
If you had told me I'd be more excited to play an Ubisoft open world movie based game, rather than a new Bethesda IP, I'd call you a liar...
And yet here we are.
the biggest thing i love about this game is how you can climb so much more than you expect .
Makes me so happy you like this one Austin, was waiting for the review to go up on this channel before deciding to get it. But Avatar fan and this made me much more excited to play it.
The world is absolutely insane. The noises, the colours, the weather. Truly remarkable
"I feel right at home."
- Papa Smurf
It was nice seeing Ralph nerd out with a flawed but fun Robocop game, and now Austin with a flawed but apparently fun Avatar game.
I love the game so far. As a fan of Pandora and the Na’vi (not so much the storylines of the movies) the game is extraordinarily satisfying to play.
You sound acoustic to me 🤓
@@AmbitiousPanda not sure what that means
@@nerdoutreachprogram5358acoustic is like calling someone austistic. Makes 0 sense to me it sounds kinda ironic coming from him
@@ogjesseesquivel878 lol gotcha thanks for the info. Maybe he doesn’t speak English well or something.
@@nerdoutreachprogram5358its a meme
Great review. Honestly sold me on this. I wouldn’t consider myself an Avatar fan but I DID love the world and lore itself.
This review honestly swayed me and I’m looking forward to a sale in the future, tbh
Ubi plus is a great way. $23 to bang out the game in a month.
he sold you on one of the most mediocre and generic, invested time disrespecting game this year. But at least Open World is nice. (it got generated by AI so yeah) sadly u have to fill it with interesting quests, mobs, loot and stuff manually... that's where they stopped because people like austin will push the game anyways and people like you will enjoy it because OH MY GOOSH big world 2 explore UwU *repeating same copied outpost over and over while exploring the map"
@@destate2 no one asked, my dude.
I'm only a few hours in so far, but i've been blown away by the visuals and how pretty the music is to go with it. It runs decently well on my old potato PC as well shockingly
Man Austin would love Scavengers Reign
You talking about the beauty of the game and immersed fully... Love seeing someone gush over something that makes them so happy.
As a huge fan of Avatar, I'm pleasantly surprised Austin strongly recommends it!
Avatar's strength is always the world and it's themes, and Ubisoft were definitely the right pick for this. Also, feeling vindicated in choosing the PS5 for the controller, it sucks going back to normal rumble!
lol, characters have 0 depth, questlines be like "run from a to b to c and back" terrible level system where mobs only nee 1 or 2 shots to kill you if you are only 1 level únderneath them. Awkward leveling through gear which makes gearstats comletely irrelevant since you only need it to not get one or two shot. A huge AI-generated open world with aölmost nothing in it except some flora and a few mobs. Gamebreaking bugs, performance issues (even on console lol) and a story that's really nothing special jsut black and white good and evil basic plot.
@@destate2 who are you talking to? I suggest you write a review of your own. Get a friend to edit it first
stop being passive-aggressive and playing dumb.
This is legitimately the most stunning setting I've seen in a video game in a long, long time. It blows my mind the way so many critics just toss that out of the equation saying things like "good graphics bad game" or "skin deep". When you play this game I just don't understand how you can be so numb to not appreciate the incredible amount of work and technology that went into this. It's obvious where the work was put and it's a very critical aspect of Avatar, it's deeper than just graphics and critics that can't get that are discredited IMO
I have played the 1st hour and so far I like it a lot, I can't say I love it yet because it's only been one hour but I can see it happening. Pandora is so damn beautiful
Wait til you get the ikron, thats when it really opens up.
Looking forward to picking this up at a heavy discount in 2026
2026? More like heavy discount next year for black friday/christmas, and probably a goty edition to add. Cant wait (no sarcasm).
Lol, Ubisoft games usually go on sale a month after release
Heavy sale in January
@@DrViperVideos let it be heard my man!
this will be $20 by july
Just bought it yesterday, and was ready to play after work today. Happy it is decent.
Thanks for the review Austin!
xDDD hope u enjoyed that waste of time
Will this year please stop ambushing me with all these great games! Now I gotta finish Cyberpunk and Robocop and get around to Alan Wake 2, Assassin's Creed Mirage, Lies of P, Final Fantasy 16, AND NOW THIS!
😊😊😊 This year has just been spoiling us.
Getting the ad for the game on a video for the review of the game..im surprised this hasnt happened before
I'm a huge nerd of the films. The first movie was very weak but the lore and world that James Cameron built was absolutely incredible. The second movie really stepped it up with the story and writing. I'm watched dozens of hours of lore videos, learning everything there is to know about the Avatar Universe. So when I tell you I was way more excited for this game than most people, I'm not kidding. I've only been able to play 4-5 hours or so, but I'm really enjoying my time so far. It doesn't feel nearly as much like Far Cry as I expected. I love those games, have close to 1000 hours in the entire franchise but I was glad to see this felt like a new game. Can't wait to do everything there is to do and fully experience an interactive version of Pandora.
lol, characters have 0 depth, questlines be like "run from a to b to c and back" terrible level system where mobs only nee 1 or 2 shots to kill you if you are only 1 level únderneath them. Awkward leveling through gear which makes gearstats comletely irrelevant since you only need it to not get one or two shot. A huge AI-generated open world with aölmost nothing in it except some flora and a few mobs. Gamebreaking bugs, performance issues (even on console lol) and a story that's really nothing special jsut black and white good and evil basic plot. Have fun doing everything there's to do aka repeating the same stuff over and over because there isnt much to explore except some generic and copied outposts and the same cooking materials over and over xD
I'm not an Avatar fan, but I am a big fan of exploring alien worlds, so I've been interested in this game. I'll be waiting for a sale, but I'm looking forward to playing this eventually.
“It really makes you FEEL like the blue aliens from avatar” great review ign 10/10
LMAOO this statement will never get old
I love when games like this apear out of nowhere.
Games where the developers just say "here...take this beautifull world and...just have fun."
I was nowhere near excited for this title but now im really looking forward to try it out.
lol, characters have 0 depth, questlines be like "run from a to b to c and back" terrible level system where mobs only nee 1 or 2 shots to kill you if you are only 1 level únderneath them. Awkward leveling through gear which makes gearstats comletely irrelevant since you only need it to not get one or two shot. A huge AI-generated open world with aölmost nothing in it except some flora and a few mobs. Gamebreaking bugs, performance issues (even on console lol) and a story that's really nothing special jsut black and white good and evil basic plot.
@@destate2 it seems like you're describing ME Andromeda which had all those flaws but i ended up having a blast playing it nonetheless.
Sometimes a game just clicks despite whatever problems it may have.
lmao thanks for supporting forming cringe modern gaming industry that use AI to egenrate open world but fails to manually fill this world with a cariety of mobs, points of interest and loot @@MiguelXisto1
I had not heard of this game until a week or two ago. I saw your review pass by and decided to give it a shot. You are completely correct in saying that the world they have crafted is next level, including the characters and sounds. While it has some tedious open world elements, you can safely ignore those if you wish. The world and story are plenty engrossing and engaging. Really made me feel like I was in the Avatar movies at times.
I really am sold more on this thanks to Austin
Half ***** kids. Thought we’d left that term behind in the 90s.
Absolutely know SkillUp wouldn’t recommend this but this is Austin so I know he different
The best editor is the editor that create the content for you. Great content, and a greatly put together review!
I'm enjoying it quite a bit so far. But I will say, if you opt for "exploration mode," be prepared to spend A LOT of time just trying to find quest objectives. That extra bit of immersion definitely has a cost in terms of time spent.
Fr man, sometimes is impossible to find the objective and you go around with your na'vi sense trying to find it
4:05 Every time I want to be excited about a new Ubisoft game, then I listen to a snippet of dialogue and it kills the mood for me immediately. Its like they hire their normal floor developers to do the writing and voice acting.
An immense amount of the dialogue is just plain stupid and tiresome throughout. At thus point though, that's kind of ubiquitous with a Ubisoft game.
What a beautiful looking and sounding game this is , proper enjoying what I’ve played so far :)
18:21 that's actually very surprising. Very impressed by how much thought they put into this game. Hopefully it pays off so they feel encouraged to experiment more with these interesting features.
Really happy to see the quality over quantity hunting and gathering.
The video game community loves to live in a spiral of hatred for anything that’s not a perceived masterpiece. A side of the backlog/fomo culture of people wanting to play “everything good”
It’s like they can only justify not buying the games if they actively hate on them. I wouldn’t pay full price for this, and yet I think it’s worth checking out so I got Ubi+ to play it super cheap
Can you blame them? Ubisoft has shown that they will willingly invest low effort if it gives them a quick buck. The ubisoft formulae didnt come out of nowhere, they created it, copy pasting shit across all there games.
Its good that this is an anomaly, if l get time l will pick it up since l love the movies. But l understand why many are skeptical with ubisoft open world games.
@@alispeed5095 I wouldn’t blame anyone. It’s an observation. Apathy towards Ubi copy paste games I’d understand. Indifference is one thing but the active hatred this game has received based on review scores is something else entirely. Mind you that games like this and others that get hated on right upon release aren’t even games that anyone has played. It’s the whole mob mentality thing of people hating games that their favourite RUclipsrs hate. Like they were interested initially and now need to hate the game to justify not buying it. Hating a game you haven’t played is juvenile at best.
Mind you I used to do the same thing too until I played Days Gone a few years ago. Dunked on release and much better a later when I picked it up for $20.
Did you enjoy the game?
Such a well crafted review! other sources barely mentioned some the the details discussed here! Kudos!
Game is so fun and my God it makes you feel like you are on pandora and it's beautiful hands down the best I have seen and play on explorer mode with no map markers that's when you have to use your memory eyes and ears so so good
xDDDDDDD lol, characters have 0 depth, questlines be like "run from a to b to c and back" terrible level system where mobs only nee 1 or 2 shots to kill you if you are only 1 level únderneath them. Awkward leveling through gear which makes gearstats comletely irrelevant since you only need it to not get one or two shot. A huge AI-generated open world with aölmost nothing in it except some flora and a few mobs. Gamebreaking bugs, performance issues (even on console lol) and a story that's really nothing special jsut black and white good and evil basic plot.
watched several reviews of this game, this is by far the best review (quality wise), thank you Austin!
Thank you for including the dualsense compatibility, since Returnal used it soooo well, I’ve been trying to find a game that also uses it to its potential. 🙏👌😎
Demon souls uses it very well
@@eldenchad7130 awesome! Thank you 😊 I downloaded that but still haven’t had time to even start it up 😭😭🤣🤣
@@eldenchad7130cyberpunk is also underrated
This is Far Cry Primal with a few xtra bits,its pieces taken from all Far Cry games and especially Blood Dragon,heres the most honest review youll hear...wait til the sales and get this for cheap,if youre not an Avatar fan or a Far Cry fan then wait for a month or so.
sure seems like Ralph is outsourcing as much as possible these days lol
Yea and he didn’t even bother reviewing starfield ( I mean it was shit but still)
@@zomgpie2 Genuinely wouldn't be shocked if Ralph was simply just horribly burnt out from having to play so many massive games all the time to review. It's literally impossible for anyone to keep up with everything nowadays.
All I see is big pretty open world with nothing to do, but pick flowers.
I hope they keep it updated with new content, maybe add more interactions with the wild life like baiting a bobcat into a camp on farcry
oh my god just enjoy a videogame and move on this isnt destiny
@@sneaky5141 i'm not talking about live service, just some more details that could be on the game and would make it cooler, for me avatar is all about the wildlife so more interaction would be nice
@@sneaky5141they already have 2 dlc planned, what the fuck is ur problem?
@@oozy1333 lol the irony
@@sneaky5141 lol ok whatever
The only nitpick i have is i wish the game didnt go into a black screen going into and out of cutscenes, wish it was simultaneous. Other then that little nickpick im really enjoying it so far
Sounds good that they give you a break from everything pointing to tge main quest and let you get lost in the world of pandora
I can barely believe that I have been enjoying this game as much as I have. It is absolutely STUNNING to look at. There is something about the “FarCry” formula that really fucking rocks in Pandora. I’m truly shocked tbh.
7 hrs in and this game is 🔥 Having a blast!
Giving this a try on Geforce now and enjoying it.
poor soul
@@Jack_Pliskinhow so? It’s a decent game
@@Jack_Pliskin you’re a “poor soul” get outta here
Suuuure you are...
Man, MASSIVE is really the one Ubisoft-Studio that still delivers as far as I can tell (and especially their Snowdrop-Engine delivers so hard for many years now)
If nothing this makes me more exited for StarWars Outlaws honestly (and an eventual Division 3 maybe) but for now I will look into maybe trying this game in the future (when I have more time)
XDDD lol, characters have 0 depth, questlines be like "run from a to b to c and back" terrible level system where mobs only nee 1 or 2 shots to kill you if you are only 1 level únderneath them. Awkward leveling through gear which makes gearstats comletely irrelevant since you only need it to not get one or two shot. A huge AI-generated open world with aölmost nothing in it except some flora and a few mobs. Gamebreaking bugs, performance issues (even on console lol) and a story that's really nothing special jsut black and white good and evil basic plot.
@@destate2 Well, because I haven't played this specific game yet, I can only tell you what THIS and OTHER REVIEWS have said so far and while some of the Ubisoft-spirit of more basic game-design are obviously in MASSIVEs games as well, I can't say I have heard many of the problems you listed from anybody else (especially the performance-problems which are the once that are the least subjective that you listed here and therefore the easiest to talk about)
The last Massive-Game I played was Division 2 and I really liked it and in addition it was technically more than impressive for it's time (with complete real-time lighting from every light-source and honestly some of the smarter shooter-ai in recent years)
I am really happy that this one is actually good.
However, I will sadly not play it myself as I will stick to boycotting any full price game that includes an unnecessary cash shop.
Still hope that anyone who plays it will have a lot of fun with it :D
Lol
It's useless cosmetics lmao
"omg I can't resist buying the $5 t shirt and pants bundle in the shop!!! Argghhh omg ahhhh" ☠️
@@gotworc It is about having some principles, not about having to "resist some bundle". I do not care what is sold, it can be cosmetics or power ups or progression. When there is a cash shop in a full price non-live-service game, I simply won't play it.
You can choose to play it but you don't have to act like an idiot
Listen man, I'm an unashamed Farcry enjoyer. This looks quite lovely and I can't wait to pick it up. When it's on a steep sale. Couple of years from now 😂 Love you, Austin!!! You're the best man! My blind Charr Ranger, Vesik Ashmark, loves you as well!!
Glad someone else is willing to voice their appreciation for Avatar. It was a tremendous marriage of cutting edge tech, world building and masterful blockbuster writing and direction (even if the story and theme were somewhat derivative). The second one bored the pants off me though.
The strong points of Avatar is definitely it's tech and presentation. I'm glad this game lives up to that.
I can't really say the world building is a notable strong point simply because there's not much to it. Not necessarily a bad thing but it is how it is.
Unfortunately I'm not a fan if Avatar because the story just isn't really intriguing. It's definitely a "blockbuster story". It's perfectly serviceable but nothing truly interesting.
That's the one thing that's putting off on the game. I don't dislike Avatar, but I'm not a fan either.
I'm afraid I might buy it then lose interest since there's not much substance to compel me.
Or I might like it. I've liked games worse than what this sounds like. Just don't know.
I'll probably wait for a sale.
@@sawdust8691for me the world building is strong because they so vividly imagined an alien world. When you first step into the jungle in the game everyone gets blown away.
I also think the story is really interesting, or at least the premise. A human literally manages to inhabit an alien body, but yet still has the weakness of humans.
Terminator 2 is a better movie, but it's really the premise that makes it, the story is just one long chase sequence.
My only criticism is I would like the option to stay in third person at all times instead of switching between the two
That would be an incredible amount of work. They would have to do high quality animations for both first and third person. There is a reason why most games choose one orientation, getting one right takes tons of work, let alone having both.
A lot of games that add another orientation don't add another set of animations and just reuse the original ones which are always lower quality than if they made custom animations for it.
this game is so much better than it had any right to be, and even though the story's kinda threadbare, as in the films, it's a wonderful experience for fans of Avatar or just fans of open world exploration. Massive have outdone themselves again, and it's a wonderful environment to just exist in, attention to detail everywhere. press will be divided on this one, but user reviews are far more positive than i expected as well. it's great to see it resonating with people who give it a chance. love the review, btw, will be sad when the intern come back and takes over again.
So Ubisoft can make a good game w/o too much bloat; go figure. Looks really impressive!
IGN and most reviewers gave it 7/10 . Its definitely Far cry reskin with same repetitive formula and repetitive tasks
Ubisoft always builds amazing looking worlds they are great at that , really really good i would say.... Sadly the gameplay and story of most of their games is always horrible
@@Shivam-vr6eh Yeah this game got pretty much the same mid/polarizing reviews as Starfield. I'm confused by these comments.
but of course had to egregiously monetize it
another game to skip sadly by that alone
@@TheSpartan227well this game did what we expected to do, starfield did nothing other than less of what we expected
Villain disappears after the intro and doesnt show up in any substantive capacity until the end... Classic ubisoft first person RPG moment
Not a fan of avatar… won’t be picking this up but glad your having fun with it.
Me too ✋️
What I really love about this game is that there aren't enemies around every single corner, like with the later Far Cry games. You want to explore, because you're not threatened that around each and every turn you have to get into combat with somebody. Trust me that gets sickeningly frustrating very fast for me. When a game that wants you to explore insists on attacking you around every corner with everlastingly spawning enemies you begin getting anxiety attacks at even remotely considering taking the unknown route to see if there is something there. This game lets you BREATHE and explore without that constant factor of threat, and I love it because of that. Add to that a great adventure and some nice loot-mechanics and RPG elements, and you have yourself a winner.
Ok so don't get mad but this is the first Austin review I've watched and is it just me or does Austin sound so much like Ralph
Are they not the same person?
Perhaps, Austin is Ralph's AVATAR.
@@thedoomslayer5863 No, Ralph is the guy who started the channel. Austin is his editor but recently has been doing his own videos ("Austin recommends...")
Voice, not really. Cadence, yes. Playing the same song with a different instrument. ;)
Not many people know this, but Austin is actually Ralph trolling his viewers with an AI-modified voice.
Yes, they are the same person.
This looks like Far Cry: Avatar but in the best way.
Welp, was going to buy it till 23:20.
It's a Ubisoft game. This has been standard for 10+ years now.
Is there no Friends Per Second Podcast this Week??
In my experience, the game got worst the further along I got. I really enjoyed the first Act, but then in act 2 I realized i'm just doing the same quests over and over again only in a location not as beautiful as the first and in act 3, I had to force myself to finish the game, I really really did not want to.
Solid review Austin, thank you!
I’m happily surprised on how this turned out. Looking forward to playing it.
lol, characters have 0 depth, questlines be like "run from a to b to c and back" terrible level system where mobs only nee 1 or 2 shots to kill you if you are only 1 level únderneath them. Awkward leveling through gear which makes gearstats comletely irrelevant since you only need it to not get one or two shot. A huge AI-generated open world with aölmost nothing in it except some flora and a few mobs. Gamebreaking bugs, performance issues (even on console lol) and a story that's really nothing special jsut black and white good and evil basic plot.
@@destate2 Cool, didn’t ask. Glad to know you’re one of those unappeasable type I guess.
You're the reason the gaming industry is getting more cringe with every year. People will be pleased ass long as the surface is nice and shiny, doesn't matter how generic and mediocre the actually product, it'll be successfull so why should profit driven companies like ubisoft should put any real effort into a game if they can make a fortune without being innovative and dedicated? Shit stays shit doesn't matter the setting. @@Brokenlance
@@destate2 👍 go cry about it and watch Luke Stephens or something.
;* @@Brokenlance
honestly i kind of hate the avatar movies for a lot of reasons, but i am not immune to gorgeous immersive open-worlds to explore so i'm actually excited to try this out (probably on sale)
Ubisoft dropped the ball on this. Considering this is one of the biggest IP in the world they chose to not put their normal full marketing budget into this game. It seems like the felt the game was poor and "thought" other people would have the same reaction after playing it. They were wrong and no matter how good this game actually is, not enough people are aware of its existence.
The fact that an Avatar game in the year of our lord 2023 is one of the better games to come out this year is WILD
"The combat is okay, but running around the world is better" ..i miss Anthem sawr much though....
i wish theyd remake that
How I wish they had given us a choice to play in third person mode! It's such a common and enjoyable feature in games like Bethesda's and Rockstar's. I'm so disappointed that this game lacks it.
Truth is, I'm so burnt out by ubisoft that even being told by everyone that this game is great, I can't bring myself to care.
The little details can make the game in the sense of, if each adds to immersion, and immersion bring you into their world, and you're almost, if not completely in their world, then you're immersed.
If you're immersed, then the developers job should be done.
That's why Far Cry 2 is still one of my favourite games, even with the faults.
Rear of the rpg shooting sparks, you happen to be on dry grass, well it's on fire and you're probably realising via damage taken and looking behind you. What might be seen as an annoyance and avoided now days, helped sell the world, thus, kept me in their world as video games for a lot are escapism.
Cross that with small details like the bullet shell sounds on different surfaces, ammo crates exploding and causing carnage. All hostile to the player, an annoyance, yet brings the player closer into the world that the developer is trying to suck you into.
This ended up on a FC2 praise comment, meant to emphasise the merit to the technical effort that Ubi/Massive put into this game, it outweighs the repudiative bases, modern conventions like crafting etc.
Ngl I'm surprised this got a reccomendation a liscenced open world game made by ubisoft are words to avoid but colour me surprised
All I want is to experience this planet in VR.
So does Skill Up just not play games anymore?....
It looks so good, best looking game made on this engine. I’m enjoying it so far pretty standard fair decent gameplay.
Bah gawd, it's 'luke warm' skillup austin
In such a stacked year this game feels like it might fly under the radar. Hope that isn't the case, looks amazing.
yea one of the worst AAA games this year.
It’s going to. It’s got Ubisoft’s name on it. They have a long way to go for redemption
Looking forward to when this game comes on sale, 70 euro is just a little too much for a game imo.
It's really encouraging to see Ubisoft adapt their typical game format to this world. It makes things feel just a little bit better than it just being Far Cry on Pandora. Do I think this can be taken forward as Ubisoft finally fixing their approach to making games? I don't know, they did put out Assassin's Creed Mirage just a few months ago. But at least it's a positive sign.
This game has like 6 weapons, 2 enemy types, no dynamic or moving NPCs, dreadfully boring and time wasting fetch quests, a paper thin villain with 20 minutes of screen time, boring traversal that turns into run/fly in a straight line for 5 minutes, absolutely no memorable characters and a story that is relegated to an Avatar filter arc. It's crazy to see how a reviewer I usually trust dropped the ball so heavily here, at least for me.
A nice surprise I'm glad they did the game justice and didn't release pure garbage.
I love playing it too. It’s fantastic
It’s a really good game. Somehow I’m a huge fan of the avatar franchise and this is one of the best video games I’ve ever seen.
This is how I felt about Hogwarts. Its no game of the year, but its one of the best ways to immerse yourself into the Hogwarts universe
Kinda but in Avatar the whole world is as detailed and exciting as Hogwarts castle :)
Love the channel and the review, but I have to bring something up that both Austin and Skill Up talks about (and sadly misrepresents or misunderstands) in many of their reviews: DLSS and rendering resolution.
Saying you're testing the game in 4K while using DLSS performance is ignorant at best.
DLSS performance renders the game at just 50% pixels per axis or in other words just 25% of the overall resolution, which means using DLSS performance in 4K the game is being rendered at 1080p. So being impressed that a 4090 can run the game at "over 60fps at 4K on ultra settings" is just baffling, because it's not running at 4K. That 4090 is only managing over 60fps at 1080p!
The *output* is 4K, sure, but the game itself is only *rendering* at 1920x1080, and then DLSS is doing its best to make that look like 4K. Don't get me wrong it can still look great, but you're not anywhere near rendering at 4K, and so telling the viewers that "performance is good" while a 4090 gets "over 60 fps" at 1080p is either just doing nVidia's marketings for them or you're misinformed or misunderstanding DLSS.
And for 1440p on the 3090Ti with high settings, with DLSS performance, you're rendering at just 720p and upscaling to 1440. So for that GPU to only manage in "50-60 fps" in 720p is not something that a reviewer should praise with and I quote "performance is good"...
The physical copy of the game requires online authentication and account registration to download and install the game, another step back for game preservation. Seems like big AAA publishers are doing this nowadays to their big ganes from Activision, WB, EA and now Ubisoft.
Great game. Put a few hours into it today. And i don't even like the movies that much. Ubisoft did great.
Nice review Austin! I'll be picking this one up when it's on sale.
In a year as stacked as this there doesn't seem to be much room for 7/10 games. Definitely think I'll grab this on a sale though.
Cool thing Is you can get it through Ubi’s subscription for $15/ month. Even if it’s for only a month, can’t beat that price lol
I don't think you watched Austin's review.
Yeah, it seems very much "fine." I'll get it on a deep discount but "fine" isn't worth full price.