Worst MMO Ever? - Sphere 3: Rage of the Devastator

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  • Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
  • This game is neither good nor bad, fun nor boring, it just, is.
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  • @BookOfWraiths
    @BookOfWraiths 3 года назад +469

    If you have trouble with your inventory filling, theres a small trick. If you climb up a high tree and jump off it, then you die and your inventory empties. Thank me later.

  • @FredAureus
    @FredAureus 3 года назад +855

    For some reason, I am mightily annoyed by games which won't let you sheathe your weapon.

  • @etherraichu
    @etherraichu 3 года назад +1642

    To any developers out there, I have a suggestion: If your game is going to have quest items that you can't actually do anything with except turn them in for a quest, give them their own separate inventory. Don't make players carry them around in the same inventory they keep their stuff in.

    • @JoshStrifeHayes
      @JoshStrifeHayes  3 года назад +521

      Eso and ff14 do this

    • @dosbilliam
      @dosbilliam 3 года назад +152

      @@JoshStrifeHayes So did Rift, and there was a TON of space for those items...which was handy, since there was a repeatable quest from a late-game but pre-expansion area that needed you to pick up 50 of something that dropped from most enemies there, so if you REALLY wanted to, you could get a ton of them together since it didn't take up inventory space. :D

    • @TheZombieCurryKid
      @TheZombieCurryKid 3 года назад +31

      That ruins immersion, they should feel like real objects just like the other items.

    • @PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi
      @PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi 3 года назад +18

      @@TheZombieCurryKid
      dem casuals
      To me WoW handled it well.

    • @PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi
      @PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi 3 года назад

      @@JoshStrifeHayes
      They also do whats at 18:00

  • @aronpuma5962
    @aronpuma5962 4 года назад +889

    Sounds like this game has a really passionate art director, which is something. I'd wonder if it was their project and they needed to justify making their art with a game.

    • @Jordan-Ramses
      @Jordan-Ramses 3 года назад +36

      Looks exactly like early World of Warcraft. Exactly. At least they knocked off a great game. I mean, not exactly.... it's not of the same quality but it's obvious who they were imitating.

    • @ivanmonahhov2314
      @ivanmonahhov2314 3 года назад +59

      @@Jordan-Ramses It is a third installement in a very old MMO series. Sfera 1 was in 1995 or something. It was a a "no target" system , in quotes because it was instantly switching targets. But that game had so much cheese ! Enemies do not evade and it is truly 3D and you have a skill that increases jump height 3 times. Also everything was bound to your skills and not level. And there were skills that increase your skills. Sooo the common tactic was to jump onto a rock , apply lots and lots buffs and blast enemies. You could wield melee weapons , bows , use 2 combat spells ( fireball and poison ) and use magic powders ( basically magic ammo ). Now crafting was interesting as you had to craft magic powders with right ingredients , right time of day and right phase of the moon. Sfere 3 most likely had a budget of a box of ramen for development.

    • @thraceres5061
      @thraceres5061 3 года назад +44

      @@Jordan-Ramses back then there weren't many options with graphics so calling something a knock off is a stretch... Like water... How many types of waters are there to drink?

    • @brainstormsurge154
      @brainstormsurge154 3 года назад +19

      Ya, the glowing neon forest and the enemy designs were great.

    • @Faelocke
      @Faelocke 3 года назад +3

      @@ivanmonahhov2314 so what was Sphere 2 like?

  • @Vermbraunt
    @Vermbraunt 3 года назад +1914

    "I feel like playing a warrior so i am gender locked to a female"
    That's a first

    • @Bradley_Dragon
      @Bradley_Dragon 3 года назад +167

      ikr? warrior being female not male? i bet mage is male an dnot female. odd subversion of expectation

    • @uiopuiop3472
      @uiopuiop3472 3 года назад

      --config ~/Dethadder/Neofetch/neofetch.conf

    • @PaladinGear15
      @PaladinGear15 3 года назад +258

      @@Bradley_Dragon Well you know, how can you expect men to be hardy enough to wear the incredibly tough heavy armour the women use in this game?

    • @carlmanvers5009
      @carlmanvers5009 3 года назад +6

      It has the character customization of the arcade game Gauntlet.

    • @uiopuiop3472
      @uiopuiop3472 3 года назад +6

      @@PaladinGear15 WHATG

  • @mansandersen1110
    @mansandersen1110 3 года назад +385

    I know this is quite old but to be fair the 'fence' at 8:12 likely isn't intended to be a fence. It looks like landslide prevention and actually gives the village a bit more character

    • @JohnDBlue
      @JohnDBlue 3 года назад +47

      Heeeey! Glad someone had commented this already.
      I actually thought it might also possibly be an artificial hill, and there IS a fence - but it's underground, keeping the hill's edge right there.

    • @Drakith90
      @Drakith90 2 года назад +33

      Or guard rails to keep wagons from rolling over the edge into the house below.

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 9 месяцев назад +1

      And those fences that line the path. Broken down in many places. Clearly a sign that things used to be better.

  • @contentlocked99
    @contentlocked99 3 года назад +163

    P for paperdoll, they're using an old old term for a character spreadsheet

    • @ksiazykgregoire767
      @ksiazykgregoire767 3 года назад +32

      Or P for Personnage if you are french xD that's the keybind i use instead of C

    • @12isaac00
      @12isaac00 3 года назад +39

      thought it stood for player, have seen it in some other games.

    • @skotchasdf5678
      @skotchasdf5678 3 года назад +42

      @@ksiazykgregoire767 That's what most likely is the source for this game's choice of binding - in Russia, we also use "Персонаж" (pronounced identically to french but with a hard "r") for "character".

    • @Irvieman
      @Irvieman 3 года назад +13

      @@ksiazykgregoire767 Russians uses word "Personage" too. So, yes... your guess is right.

    • @flatlinejimbob
      @flatlinejimbob 3 года назад +5

      Profile

  • @catriona_drummond
    @catriona_drummond 3 года назад +822

    Of course a Russian game will have a lack of Polish. They don't like each other. :P

    • @jamiekamihachi3135
      @jamiekamihachi3135 3 года назад +123

      It won’t be Finnish. Because he Russians are scared for them.

    • @PaulVandersypen
      @PaulVandersypen 3 года назад +20

      Groan. You'd better see yourself out after that joke.....

    • @Sadfluffybear
      @Sadfluffybear 3 года назад +4

      I was just about to make a similar comment

    • @uiopuiop3472
      @uiopuiop3472 3 года назад

      @@jamiekamihachi3135 groenendael beautiful secksy

    • @twelvesevven4678
      @twelvesevven4678 3 года назад +11

      That was awful, but it made me smile. Thank you!

  • @Akrna47
    @Akrna47 3 года назад +320

    "Generic unlicensed song playing in a shopping center" sounds like a great description of this game

  • @cant-use-my-other-name
    @cant-use-my-other-name 3 года назад +365

    "...hidden away for generations and lost to time. I then find the altar up a slight incline right next to him"
    You already noticed he was a troll, turns out that's also his race.

    • @uiopuiop3472
      @uiopuiop3472 3 года назад +2

      --config ~/Dethadder/Neofetch/neofetch.conf

    • @Remls
      @Remls 3 года назад

      @@uiopuiop3472 Same.

    • @uiopuiop3472
      @uiopuiop3472 3 года назад

      @@Remls whate

    • @Depressed_Spider
      @Depressed_Spider 2 года назад

      I honestly don't know what's so special about this quest. I could give you quests like that. In Real Life. All the time.

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 9 месяцев назад +1

      That quest is the kind of writing a more tongue-in-cheek MMO would revel in. Not overly silly, but with a kind of double layer of humour that you only notice afterwards that gives you a chuckle.

  • @desanimoosrs6443
    @desanimoosrs6443 4 года назад +484

    I feel the opposite about the first combat encounter. I would much rather it were a rat or a small goblin, because it really breaks the immersion when you, a rookie at the start of his life journey, can take on a giant forest beast.

    • @JoshStrifeHayes
      @JoshStrifeHayes  4 года назад +437

      I didn't see our character as a rookie, we were injured and needed to rest but we're clearly an experience fighter before the game actually begins, that and i'm bored of goblins.
      But i can totally see your point.

    • @andreieduard2591
      @andreieduard2591 3 года назад +8

      @@JoshStrifeHayes
      I am amazed to see that one of the most controversial and yet distinguishable games in the MMORPG jandra was not covered ☺.
      Silkroad online private or official server on Joymax
      Yet another piece of history would be Tales of runners by GPOTATO
      Day 1 in comments

    • @TheBrazilRules
      @TheBrazilRules 3 года назад +14

      And then smaller enemies appear after it LOL

    • @jasonscarborough94
      @jasonscarborough94 2 года назад +13

      @@JoshStrifeHayes That just runs head long into my "level 1 means inexperienced noob, not seasoned combatant" pet peeve but, that's probably just me

    • @philippenachtergal6077
      @philippenachtergal6077 2 года назад +10

      @@jasonscarborough94 Yeah. My noob characters are noobs that make noob mistakes and don't even know the most basic combat tactics (aka level 2 skills).
      Some of them are however delusional and will claim to be the reincarnation or "alt" of some great warrior. It's not my fault if my characters are half-mad.

  • @moogd7750
    @moogd7750 4 года назад +342

    I am loving this Worst MMO Ever series. Please keep them coming!

  • @Liaret
    @Liaret 3 года назад +127

    I've played Sphere 1. THAT was a very unique MMO (first Russian MMO, as they proudly called it). A ton of very interesting mechanics (separate physical and magical leveling; skills divided into Scrolls and Powders, and the real good ones are only powders, and powders need to be crafted en masse, cause they are consumable), but overall experience was extremely unfriendly for beginners, and the game heavily rewarded player killing and griefing, pretty much. You never felt safe in the game world. I played WoW after the Sphere, and WoW felt so safe and peaceful after Sphere :)

    • @Liaret
      @Liaret 3 года назад +17

      Here's an example of another idea which sounded interesting on paper but wasn't any fun in Sphere: proper leveling.
      You received profession (class spec with skills and stat boosts) at level 15. But as u recall, Sphere has Phys and Magical levels, so levels are numbered e.g. 15/15 (15th phys level, 15th magic level).
      Leveling Phys requires last-hitting monsters with a phys weapon
      Leveling Mag requires last-hitting with a sword.
      You can't get magical profession if ur Phys level is higher than 15, and vice versa.
      BUT:
      1) You need to have the highest possible Phys level, so that u have the largest HP pool
      2) The bigger the gap between ur phys and mag levels - the harder it is to gather enough XP for next Level
      SO, the only viable way to level up magical char until profession is to do this (vice versa for phys profession):
      - Level up Mag level
      - Now you need to bring Phys level to the same number.
      - Attack mobs but for each mob equip and kill them with a sword as last hit (imagine juggling weapons and spells all the time)
      - Now you have the same phys/mag levels
      - Go level up Mag again
      - Rinse and repeat till you are 15/16 phys/mag levels, and get ur profession.

    • @FlareBlossom
      @FlareBlossom 3 года назад +7

      Wow I didn't expect you here I watched a lot of your UE4 tutorials years ago (they were really helpful and with other content creator's UE4 videos they motivated me to become a gamedev) ^^ I instantly recognised you from your pfp (I know for you maybe this isn't a big thing but for me it gives that "Oh wow how small the world is" feeling) (I'm still subbed to your channel, and using your advanced tron material in my current sci-fi/fantasy project)

    • @Liaret
      @Liaret 3 года назад +5

      ​@@FlareBlossom thanks, it's great to hear that I helped ;)
      Been real busy these last years, so not posting much. Thank you for your support fam :)

    • @nesp_phieti
      @nesp_phieti 2 года назад +1

      Wow i played it too. Sunpool was my city

    • @Dethernal
      @Dethernal 11 месяцев назад

      First thing that you need to do in Sphere 1 is lost your sword and then spend couple of hours to find some replacement for it. I know that joke when I start playing and yes, I lost it too.

  • @skyesfury8511
    @skyesfury8511 4 года назад +91

    16:41 "I spend a few minutes trying to work out where the sun is"
    You found the moon, at least!

    • @somberflight
      @somberflight 4 года назад +1

      Heh.

    • @michaelwilson8461
      @michaelwilson8461 3 года назад +4

      Funny , I was thinking something along those lines. I was wondering if he was looking for the sun, why was the camera pointed where the sun dont shine lol

  • @jarirepo1172
    @jarirepo1172 2 года назад +42

    I really, really hate low drop rate quests. Game devs, if you want it so that player needs to kill around 100 mobs to finish quest, just make it so player needs to collect 100 or 200 or whatever amount of items and mobs always drop them. That way, players will be annoyed about the grind but at the same time they still feel like quest is progressing. Worst is when you have something like 5% drop rate and get a bad luck streak and no drops after 40 kills or so.... that really, really makes you want to abandon quest altogether.

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 9 месяцев назад +1

      And make the drop rate, the reward for handing them in, and the xp the player gets for simply killing the monsters to be balanced.
      Players will have no reason to hand in 20 pelts for a lv 3 quest if getting them means they have to kill so many wolves, they're level 5 when they come back to the NPC and the reward has become worthless.
      And it's fine to go with either, it can be a simple grind that doesn't take much attention and allows the player to chat with friends or watch videos while grinding. Or it can be heavily quest focused with kills barely rewarding something and handing in quest giving progression.
      Or make it so that level 3 enemies drop stuff for the level 5 quest and players can collect them in advance.

  • @solego5504
    @solego5504 3 года назад +41

    Oh be fair! Several Triple A MMOs have an unstuck feature and I've been thankful every time. And a few do not, and I have regretted the lack almost every time. I end up in the weird corners of games a lot. 😓

    • @Wyzai
      @Wyzai 2 года назад +7

      I think the point is it's not accessed through a menu or something. It's actually part of the UI. That seems like a concerning design choice.

    • @knavenformed9436
      @knavenformed9436 2 года назад

      I remember losing my first Bounty Hunter in SWTOR to a cliffside that was counted as "free terrain"
      Levelling up again, however so long, was still faster than waiting for support.

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 9 месяцев назад

      And not just to unstuck yourself, but also as a convenient fast travel back to town. When you're all the way on the other end of the map and it will take 10 minutes to run back, using a 20 second fast travel is super convenient.
      In one MMO I used to play for many years the unstuck teleport was in the emote window. Right next to dances and poses and a combat stance toggle. You could also buy teleport items linked to specific towns, but the generic "get me out of here" one was always available at no cost.

  • @khelouch4461
    @khelouch4461 2 года назад +38

    "It's one of the more expensive microwave dinners" - beautiful metaphor, Josh

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 9 месяцев назад

      Incredibly accurate. The expensive microwave dinners are decent. Not high class, but totally servicable. Or like a upper class frozen pizza. You buy them deliberately for your lazy day because you know they will taste fine, but they won't blow your socks off.

  • @RIlianP
    @RIlianP 3 года назад +16

    Actually the music in shopping centers, elevators etc. is licensed and owned by Muzak brand of background music (or other similar brand) and is usually designed to numb your mind into tricking you to spend more, so exact description of this game.

  • @Sundaydish1
    @Sundaydish1 3 года назад +55

    "See if you can remember that music at all"
    "What music?"

    • @kindkindred
      @kindkindred 3 года назад +1

      I DIDINT REMEMBER IT, HOLY

  • @lemontop881
    @lemontop881 3 года назад +79

    This game looks solid and has a lot of heart in it. It seems like all of these issues are just indie dev problems. I've seen them so many times in my career, I can imagine exactly how each one came about in this game. I bet if they had a larger budget, this game would be really good.

    • @NaudVanDalen
      @NaudVanDalen 2 года назад +5

      Never make 3D games if you're not amazing at it. Just make a platform game with a single gimmick and you'll get an 8/10. 10 times easier to make than a generic 3D game and you'll get so much more respect.

    • @Artrysa
      @Artrysa 2 года назад +9

      @@NaudVanDalen That's the thing though, this game actually looks very good. I wouldn't say that the 3d part of the game is the problem here.

    • @paulmahoney7619
      @paulmahoney7619 2 года назад +6

      @@Artrysa Yeah, the MMO part is the problem. The slow and unresponsive combat could easily be a result of covering up flaws in netcode and server infrastructure, and having to produce enough content to fill an MMO likely diluted their writing creativity.

    • @scintillam_dei
      @scintillam_dei Год назад

      This game exploded into existence. I am an atheist. Let's evolve, and leave intelligent design in the trash can, eh?

    • @nerdychocobo
      @nerdychocobo 11 месяцев назад

      I think saying it being an mmo is "the problem" is missing the point of this comment? a lot of the issues in the game are largely inoffensive, and read as a development team getting to grips making an mmo. good mmo devs don't spring out of the ground, you need to make a few clunky stinkers before you're able to nail a formula

  • @zechsblack5891
    @zechsblack5891 3 года назад +114

    Weirdest thing about this is that I feel like I recognize every button and UI element from a different game. Wow maybe?

    • @Terrordragonfly
      @Terrordragonfly 3 года назад +10

      @@Derzto Yeah noticed that aswell the UI almost looks copy pasted

    • @jordanpowell2242
      @jordanpowell2242 3 года назад +2

      Agreed I was thinking they were coping stuff from WOW

    • @DarthZ01
      @DarthZ01 3 года назад +2

      It is very much a slightly recolored wow interface

  • @jackdague1792
    @jackdague1792 3 года назад +27

    "Now later in the day, see if you can remember that music AT ALL"
    Joke's on you this is my second time watching the review because I forgot it existed.

  • @MrLiabu
    @MrLiabu 3 года назад +92

    Is the server in Russia? It would explain the combat lag at least.

  • @yep8058
    @yep8058 2 года назад +10

    26:42 This section reminds me so much of Heartwood from TERA Online.
    Heartwood was an enormously small little grove that could only be accessed by walking up a mountain in a swamp.
    It was very remote and there was only one road in and out.
    The vibrant colors remind me a lot of it. Heartwood was visually my favorite area in TERA Online albeit a completely useless one.

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 9 месяцев назад

      That sort of location is exactly the kind of place where people would hang out because it looks nice. And with time more people would sit around there. Until the area becomes a gathering place to chill and hang out.

  • @markup6394
    @markup6394 3 года назад +25

    "Best defence is distraction!" --- Totally. Absolutely legit ^.^ The last forest area reminded me of the Grove in GW2...

  • @konflicted1729
    @konflicted1729 2 года назад +14

    I just discovered you last week but I've binged watched your worst mmo series and I must say your content is very well made and entertaining. I could see you hitting one Mill soon

  • @cattrucker8257
    @cattrucker8257 3 года назад +13

    I played the original, first Sphere (am Russian), and it's wild to see how a supposed sequel is almost nothing alike. I guess the only similarity is pretty cool monster and creature designs. Sphere 1 was so crazy and wild, nothing really like it because no-one really knew all the ins and outs of MMOs back when they were making it. The devs only really knew Everquest but went for full PvP enabled and it was a brief celebration of chaos and wild messing around, with unique mechanics I never saw attempted anywhere else and a weird wild storyline. Clan wars, early fan culture and memes, and then it just kind of went under the radar in a year or two. 'least that's how I remember it, because its design made it hard to play for a kid without plans to clan up so I didn't stay around. But still... almost weird to see that name again.

  • @RoIllustrations
    @RoIllustrations 4 года назад +23

    I subbed! Great content sir. I also just realized that you've covered just about every game I played/tried in the past and I am currently playing WoW. Looks like I am pretty much going to marathon your vids thanks to this 'Worst MMO Ever' series of yours :). Two MMOs you should check out (If you haven't already, I am new here lol) are Perfect World and Forsaken World, both by the company Perfect World Entertainment.

  • @__.__-_.
    @__.__-_. 2 года назад +7

    10:12 "a strange mix of bored and terrified" had me dying

  • @BigBoiClimbs
    @BigBoiClimbs 3 года назад +24

    Bro how has the growth of your channel been? You getting consistent subs? I am a new sub and astonished at the quality of your videos, your presentation, narration, research, and editing is better than many channels pushing a million subs. You deserve such a big audience. Never change.

  • @blades9152
    @blades9152 3 года назад +85

    They need to get some of the people who made the games in this series to work together because oftentimes they all do something really well. So if they are all assigned to their strong suit a perfect mmo will be the result

    • @AdaTheWatcher
      @AdaTheWatcher 2 года назад +8

      Or create the biggest dumpster fire

  • @MushVPeets
    @MushVPeets 4 года назад +12

    Almost no player ever (except you apparently) would "just press on" if their UI's broken... They will relog.
    Also I'd advise not to start with that bioluminescent forest zone; it just overtunes expectations and doesn't have as brilliant of an effect if it's the first thing you see. Aion sort of made this mistake when they revamped their starter zones, while the original versions didn't have the issue. Start with the more generic sort of environment, but then let players out into *that* within the first half an hour or so, not after six hours of grind in monotonous genericland.

  • @Slash0mega
    @Slash0mega 2 года назад +16

    i like how josh keeps bringing up the identical twins found whenever a quest npc dies, but doesn't mention anything about his own respawning.

  • @somberflight
    @somberflight 4 года назад +38

    Sounds like something you'd play for a day or two while waiting for a release

  • @mikoto7693
    @mikoto7693 3 года назад +43

    I laughed at his reference to Goldeneye when it came to hating npc escort quests. Oh how many times I shot Natalya out of pure rage.
    And during the 15th minute I tried to remember anything about it from earlier in the video and can't either.

    • @Wyzai
      @Wyzai 2 года назад

      there was a beanstalk sprout that bugged his character. That was memorable.

  • @whanethewhip
    @whanethewhip 2 года назад +9

    Pro tip. May older games referred to the character sheet as the paperdoll, hence if C doesn't work then try P.

  • @LexRemlap
    @LexRemlap 3 года назад +5

    "This quest has Fighting club, which I'm not allowed to talk about."

  • @gulferamus4999
    @gulferamus4999 3 года назад +11

    i found the myriad ways you could describe "just fine" really entertaining

  • @WhaddonSnep
    @WhaddonSnep 3 года назад +4

    "Can you climb the giant, floating vine tower"
    Quite a way of saying beanstalk, accurate though

  • @prettyshortshorts
    @prettyshortshorts 3 года назад +22

    Plain paper is quite incredible actually. Imagine a "plain paper" - the game, you can write on it, draw on it, use it for restroom needs. Amazing, the player is given all the tools and has 100% agency in what happens.

    • @Sylviaon
      @Sylviaon Год назад +2

      Gotta disagree. Back when gaming was good writing tablets came with styluses and enough clay for a true sandbox experience. Modern triple-a paper however can't get enough of microtransactions for pen and ink. It's not really giving the player all the tools they need if they have to pay to access most of the content.

    • @Toastybees
      @Toastybees Год назад

      @@Sylviaon And then there is Baldurs Gate 3

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 9 месяцев назад

      Boring and bland MMOs are like water. It is nobody's favorite drink, but nobody hates it. You can drink water and get hydrated. But it still stays bland.
      And these MMOs are exactly like that. You won't tell your friends how amazing it is and that they must play it. But you also won't complain after playing. You might have some great memories, just like that one summer day when you worked all day and came home and drank directly form the faucet.

  • @blazernitrox6329
    @blazernitrox6329 2 года назад +15

    "Sometimes the best defense, is distraction."
    My dad has an old AD&D story he likes to tell of the female knight with full, honest-to-god plate mail, and the rogue who wanted to, and I quote, "check for trap doors."

  • @SCEzeric
    @SCEzeric 2 года назад +3

    "Collect 4 crystals of the elements, gee I never heard that one before" *holds up copy of FF1*
    That's what I thought of when Josh was talking about the quest giver system with yellow exclamation and question marks.

  • @mintystoat9340
    @mintystoat9340 3 года назад +9

    You underestimate how much I love prawn crackers

  • @Jamie-st6of
    @Jamie-st6of 2 года назад +6

    the floaty jumps and slow falling may be the devs chose to make gravity similar to earth's, which basically no game does for the above reasons. pretty much every game with gravity makes gravity much stronger than earth's to make jumping and falling feel better and less floaty

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 9 месяцев назад

      Many games also use unrealisticly powerful jumps, because it simply feels better. No normal person can jump twice their height from a stand, but a realistic jump would be lame.

  • @jaiwright197
    @jaiwright197 3 года назад +7

    Sounds like the programmers typed the "press 'F' to do something" which makes 'F' hard coded tot he text whereas inserting the changed variable from keybindings such as "Press roll to do something" will display any key that was changed for that action.
    changing 'F' to 'keybind action' would fix that, crazy.

    • @ElariaFlori
      @ElariaFlori 3 года назад +5

      Yeah that's exactly what Josh said. You didn't need to repeat it, mate.

    • @jaiwright197
      @jaiwright197 3 года назад

      @@ElariaFlori Where exactly did he say that, must've missed it.

    • @ElariaFlori
      @ElariaFlori 3 года назад

      @@jaiwright197 He said it when the "Press F to interact" thingy popped up.

  • @OceanbornAngel
    @OceanbornAngel 3 года назад +16

    Okay...this video persuaded me to try this game out. I seriously love games that give you the choice to play PvP or PvE. I hate being forced into battles with other people. Maybe positive feedback an interest in the game can make certain bad elements improved by the developers.

  • @MrAnihillator
    @MrAnihillator 3 года назад +16

    Nothing wrong with eye candy.
    THERE I SAID IT!

  • @trypich8121
    @trypich8121 3 года назад +6

    P for character sheet is actually so common, that it's the first button I try.

  • @meddinaandrew6439
    @meddinaandrew6439 3 года назад +13

    Oh man. That gorgeous scenery zone gives me Kingdoms of Amalur feels.

  • @DoomsdayR3sistance
    @DoomsdayR3sistance 3 года назад +2

    3:22 who knew that wooden dummies bleed! Gotta love that attention to detail!

  • @graysongdl
    @graysongdl 3 года назад +24

    23:43 "Good god I admire your confidence!" If you think this game has amazing confidence for indirectly comparing itself to WoW by setting its subscription price at $15 a month, you should see all the Minecraft servers nobody's heard of that think people will pay hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars on their server for advantages over others. I've seen 41 and counting.

    • @darkdusty1937
      @darkdusty1937 2 года назад

      ?

    • @graysongdl
      @graysongdl 2 года назад +3

      @@darkdusty1937 I'm not sure what you're confused about, but I see this kind of thing all the time. Hell, I've even seen shops that have a front page with a long speech convincing parents that "yes, it's okay that your kid wants to buy virtual items, we assure you, that's totally fine."

    • @the_last_ballad
      @the_last_ballad Год назад

      @@graysongdl maybe it's the "I've seen 41 and counting"? 41 what? $41,000? 41 servers? 41 speeches?
      I mean, I suppose I can guess but that's not satisfying.

    • @graysongdl
      @graysongdl Год назад

      @@the_last_ballad Servers. In my attempts to find actually good Minecraft servers, I've done research into 41 so far, and as soon as I find that they have a store that wants you to pay $300 for "god rank" or whatever, I add it to a list so I don't have to waste my time researching any one server twice. Because yes, it's so hard to find good servers that I kept running into the issue of looking into the same ones multiple times.
      Any time I've ever found a server that wasn't trying to scam people, it wasn't from looking on those stupid server lists that ruins any sense of honesty by letting servers force players to vote for them for rewards, that's for sure.
      Worst I've probably seen so far is a rank you can buy for $800 that gives you the ability to literally enable godmode and spawn money. I don't know what the server expects to do if someone buys that kit and destroys the ingame economy. Close the server and run off with the money they successfully scammed? Most likely, considering the lifespan of most of these cookie cutter servers.

  • @armita611
    @armita611 2 года назад +2

    I have almost no interest in MMOs but I subscribed to you and consistently watch your videos for the humor. The line about area-hold mechanic sounding cool "until you realize it's just combat where the enemies come to you" made me laugh harder than it probably was meant to.

  • @grayknight9453
    @grayknight9453 Год назад +3

    To be fair, no one goes to battle dressed in pauldrons larger than their head, but everyone in WoW does

  • @ehk5948
    @ehk5948 2 года назад +1

    >No one goes to battle dressed like this.
    Probably accurate since leather armor like that would be expensive, BUT historaly there are societies that went to battle completely naked.

  • @Jm-rv7mm
    @Jm-rv7mm 3 года назад +3

    just cause it reminded me of it and it was awesome, i played gw2 with 2 chinese people for like 4 hours once, best time i had in that game by far. they had very broken english, to the point i couldnt decipher it. so about an hour in we all resorted to typing in google translate and pasting the sentence in game. we did the thorns map event route thing for the entire time. shit was great

  • @Wizard_Level_1
    @Wizard_Level_1 Год назад +1

    From one pedant to another, the point of a fence doesn't have to be to block passage. Many fences are built to do nothing more than mark property lines.

  • @vividimagination2044
    @vividimagination2044 3 года назад +13

    That invisible wall is a perfect example of how open world games actually work, though. So there is value in that I guess. It's just poorly implemented. Skyrim has a similar illusion break if you turn cheats on and fly up really high and look down while soaring over the game world.

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 9 месяцев назад

      The map in Skyrim is just a copy of the actual area you run around in. And that whole "see that mountain, you can climb it" is sort of true. The game has very few invisible walls besides the one encircling the overworld. Limitation comes more from the fact that you can't walk up vertical cliffs. New Vegas for example has a lot more invisible walls.

  • @robertinogochev3682
    @robertinogochev3682 3 года назад +20

    "Nobody goes to battle dressed like this." Nobody that lives for long.

    • @Dracowinges
      @Dracowinges 3 года назад +9

      Everytime I see skimpy armor in games and especially anime my inner armor fan screams in pain. 'That is not armor, you're gonna die to any kind of substantial damage, put something on!'

    • @madphantompixels6478
      @madphantompixels6478 3 года назад +5

      I find it odd that in a fantasy game people get anal about the realism of things like this. And anime games are typical the least realistic games you could possibly play. If realism is what does it for you, then surely you would play a game that caters to that preference. I mean are you cool with people shooting fireballs from their hands but if the armour isn't based on realistic functionality then it's a problem. Not to mention if you get hit with that fireball even the best full plate isn't realistically gonna stop you from being baked like a potato.

    • @Dracowinges
      @Dracowinges 3 года назад +8

      It's not so much realism as 'dress appropriately'. Like, for battle, where danger is, not like im going to a dance/night club to pick up somebody. And it's still probably better then nothing I suppose.

    • @Crypted112
      @Crypted112 3 года назад +3

      @@madphantompixels6478 i think it's just because fighting in basically a leather bikini looks way dumber than fighting in full plate armor, i don't think realism plays a part in it

    • @JoeDirtisawsome
      @JoeDirtisawsome 3 года назад +2

      @@madphantompixels6478 I also think it's odd that people only have an issue when it involves female characters. There are male armor sets that dont cover much as well. Ive played games where they give your male character armor that doesnt protect your chest at all. Even if the armor completely covers everything, it still doesnt automatically make it more practical. A lot of these armor sets are super bulky looking and really spiky. You cant realistically dogeroll, run, and jump in something like that.

  • @EmiFolkMusic
    @EmiFolkMusic 4 года назад +25

    4 people disliking the PREMIERE?
    Video is not released yet...

    • @JoshStrifeHayes
      @JoshStrifeHayes  4 года назад +37

      I'm very proud of how much power i seem to have.

    • @umbra-rose6789
      @umbra-rose6789 3 года назад +5

      @@JoshStrifeHayes your biggest hater is also your biggest follower. ;)

  • @konstique
    @konstique 2 года назад +2

    The signpost at 11:12 actually shows a location in the bottom right of the screen while you hover over one of the arrows.

  • @Xanthelei
    @Xanthelei 3 года назад +3

    I'm almost through the playlist for these and just now have realized it's actually out of order. I have episodes 1-4, 16-18, and 20-22 left on the list (because I've already watched 23). This struck me as humorous since it's an error on a list of videos pointing out errors. :P

    • @JoshStrifeHayes
      @JoshStrifeHayes  3 года назад +10

      Its also an error in the youtube ways of sorting these, because i ordered them correctly when the playlist was made.
      Ill go back and sort them again, thanks for letting me know:)

  • @manfredinigamer
    @manfredinigamer 3 года назад +2

    The original Sphere or Sphere II, dont remember which, is the first mmo I've ever heard of and tried to play
    I say tried to play cuz I was like 10 at the time and I got the CD for it on a magazine, and it didn't really explain to you how to make an account.
    So i had the manual sitting there, taunting me with promises of playing with other people on a fantasy world which was something completely new to me, and I couldn't play it. Eventually I forgot about it, should I go back and try to play it so that my internal child will be finally appeased?

  • @MrAdrien914
    @MrAdrien914 3 года назад +8

    You should've tried another class. Tbh i've always found warrior's gameplay in MMORPG pretty boring, it's always auto attack and a few boring skills

    • @youtube-kit9450
      @youtube-kit9450 3 года назад +4

      Warriors can be super creative. They could buff allies, nerf opponents, crowd control, draw aggro, tank, inflict DOT, anything... if anything, if warrior means just "auto attack and some boring skills for more damage", the mmo just showed it's not that good and creative.

    • @Zamoxino
      @Zamoxino 2 года назад +1

      Dunno if i agree. I think warrior is most of the time simple class for simple people. Most of the time its just 5IQ tanky man that can hit very hard but slow with options to ignore CC and slowly come to kill you or whatever they think should not exist anymore lol

    • @duhotatoday3277
      @duhotatoday3277 2 года назад

      @@youtube-kit9450 You're describing a paladin.
      Warrior is always "Simple attack. Tank damage"

  • @miguelangelus959
    @miguelangelus959 3 года назад +7

    Lost exp on death seems to be a veeeeery comon motif of the games that you show on this series

    • @mikoto7693
      @mikoto7693 3 года назад +2

      I'm really glad FF14 doesn't do that.

    • @lyranoto6264
      @lyranoto6264 3 года назад

      @@mikoto7693 there's a set of zones in the game where it does, actually, but it's a separate type of levels and experience you lose. It's called Eureka and it's side content for a relic weapon. Meant to evoke ff11 nostalgia so yeah

  • @jacquesmains7453
    @jacquesmains7453 2 года назад +4

    I love your metaphors! You really communicate the Meh-ness of subjects, without malicious nitpicking. And as a listener, you get a clear sense of what to expect/not expect.

  • @blackdragongaming4539
    @blackdragongaming4539 2 года назад +2

    'I was a strange mix of bored and terrified.'
    Ah, yes, my characters mental state in Project Zomboid at all times.

  • @malkav0488
    @malkav0488 3 года назад +4

    Look, the whole WoW HUD xD fonts and colours included

  • @argentbast
    @argentbast 3 года назад +1

    @22:34 Somewhere in Australia a sword-obsessed man is shouting MACHICOLATIONS!!

  • @PenguinDT
    @PenguinDT 3 года назад +12

    Imma going to start every conversation with a stranger with 'Hello, human' from here on out.

  • @adamfrazer5150
    @adamfrazer5150 2 года назад +1

    Josh : the more of your content I enjoy, the more ads featuring cute nymphs and bearded wizard-lizards dogpile me 😤😬

  • @Brekner
    @Brekner 3 года назад +8

    Wait, why is X for dodge stupid? O_O Shift should be for sprinting, i always use X for dodging O_O
    Also, a lower chance for a PERFECT raptor hide doesn't seem that unreal. Not every raptor has perfect skin, maybe some got into fights and their hides have holes in them?
    Ho-ly cow that second zone does indeed look awesome!

  • @maggieflash320
    @maggieflash320 2 года назад

    Oh man... seriously cracked up at the part with the "altar long lost to time" which was next door to the quest giver xD

  • @stophatingeachother9762
    @stophatingeachother9762 3 года назад +3

    "8 hours later and I felt nothing" lmao

  • @rvrside10291
    @rvrside10291 2 года назад +1

    I feel called out. Since I use C as a regular keybind and I for my Inventory (bags), I use P for the character sheet. (I think of it as the character 'profile').

  • @ShuckleII
    @ShuckleII 2 года назад +4

    I think Josh is an MMO accelerationist. He wants MMOs to either be terrible or great or good, not bland.

  • @Jeagan2002
    @Jeagan2002 3 года назад +1

    "combat is stand in front of enemy and left click" reminds me of UCGO (Universal Century Gundam Online) xD My favorite setting, hands down period, but the game really doesn't do it justice of any sort. There are a few private servers still active, but the game isn't optimized for... well, anything. But I really love Gundam in general, so...

  • @MaakaSakuranbo
    @MaakaSakuranbo 4 года назад +19

    "theres nothing to hate or love about this game"
    1 min later: "see, I love this"

  • @jameseustice7144
    @jameseustice7144 Год назад +1

    This game is the embodiment of the scene from the Simpsons where Homer goes to the cursed item shop

  • @alwaysamwise
    @alwaysamwise 9 месяцев назад +5

    This game is so forgettable i've watched this video at least 3 times and every time i click on it I go, "ive never seen this game before!"

  • @SlightlyFizzled
    @SlightlyFizzled 3 года назад +1

    I don't know why I find this so funny but as a medieval architecture nerd the arrow slits comment really resonated with me. You do good reviews mate, keep it up

  • @NoobGaming-uo2ee
    @NoobGaming-uo2ee 3 года назад +4

    5:57 tyranid? necromorph? no, it is just typical russian rabbit...

  • @seanstuchbery
    @seanstuchbery 10 месяцев назад +1

    “one of the more expensive microwave dinners” is insane😂😂

  • @beet0510
    @beet0510 3 года назад +5

    what an underrated youtube channel

  • @Nightweaver1
    @Nightweaver1 2 года назад

    I'm going through these vids one by one and I really really love your analogies.

  • @kerrytyk111
    @kerrytyk111 4 года назад +5

    I've been enjoying these videos. Interesting series on bad games reminds me of Angry Nintendo Guy

  • @bryh555
    @bryh555 Год назад +2

    I never understood games that lock genders to specific classes like black desert and tera. If they had regular character customization theyd probably see more people playing their games

  • @Cam-sl8ve
    @Cam-sl8ve 2 года назад +3

    fun fact, the in game currency is worth more than the russian rubble

  • @bethebadger5517
    @bethebadger5517 Год назад +1

    More fun fact but many castles in England actually have unusable arrow slits cause they were built during a time of peace and they cared more about the looks

  • @nyos22
    @nyos22 3 года назад +6

    After watching a bunch of those, I'm getting an itch to actually make the worst mmo, just to watch Josh rip it apart.

  • @Shkreych
    @Shkreych 2 года назад +2

    This video actually made me ltry the game,and I have to say,I had a great 2 hours run just now. Classic systems well done. Combination of WoW and ESO. The only thing that holds it out a bit is the lag you mentioned,but still for me this is very enjoyable journey! Thanks for the review

  • @ludwiglarsson3352
    @ludwiglarsson3352 3 года назад +4

    Wow... If he thinks this is the "Worst MMO ever", I think that's a pretty good grade for MMOs in general. Though I haven't tried this myself, from this review, it seems fine. I definitely think there are worse games out there if you just look around...

    • @DregunStash
      @DregunStash 3 года назад +6

      That's why it's a series. This is not THE worst, but it's not really good either.

    • @kwando472
      @kwando472 2 года назад +1

      ? do you know what this means?

  • @saoghail9769
    @saoghail9769 2 года назад +1

    "Hello Human" is how I will start all of my conversations from now on.

  • @blake7285
    @blake7285 3 года назад +6

    These are so fun to watch, its like he is tryin so hard to enjoy this game but the game just wont let him.

  • @Rezuvious
    @Rezuvious 3 года назад +1

    Prawn crackers are my favorite dish and we always get them if we get Chinese takeout because they are the only dish that never dissapoints.

  • @michasokoowski6651
    @michasokoowski6651 3 года назад +52

    "Why would you give me a choice, when i can't choose"
    Ah yes, Russian democracy.

  • @pitpotputpet
    @pitpotputpet Год назад

    Merch Idea:
    Artisanal unglazed pottery coffee mugs. Caption:
    "A real lack of polish"

  • @ObiWahnKnobi
    @ObiWahnKnobi 3 года назад +5

    Wait a goddamn minute there...Vanilla ice cream IS THE BEST! There is no better flavour for ice cream!

  • @PhilipKerry
    @PhilipKerry Год назад +1

    Sorry about the necro comment but I've just got this game from steam and was browsing reviews . You mentioned that the Character Screen was on the " P " key and not " C " , perhaps because this is a Russian Game the keys used refer to the Russian Language equivalent or maybe just because they think of it as the " Personal " Screen and not Character .

  • @Felinaxo
    @Felinaxo 3 года назад +4

    9:01 I feel like the odd one out, when you asked about the character menu, my mind directly went to P
    Not sure what game conditioned me to it, but im really used to P and H to be character menus, K for skills, and O or L for the quest log

    • @luketfer
      @luketfer 3 года назад

      It's weird but I think a lot of Korean MMOs for some reason have P as the character menu...

  • @matthewchandler7845
    @matthewchandler7845 2 месяца назад

    10:06 JESUS....That is terrifying considering the context of that film....as a grown man I was disturbed greatly. Unsettling for sure!