I just genuinely don't understand what made people go so crazy over this game, especially considering how little we got to see of it over the years it was supposedly in development for.
I think we all can have big debt of gratitude towards the work Nick does in the background. Without Calandra this would be much harder for the content creators.
Honestly the most unbelievable part of all this is that The Day Before was the most-wishlisted game on Steam. There are so, so many online competitive co-op/pvp open world zombie shooters with crafting and survival elements. My Steam queue is flooded with them every time there's a sale. How can that market not be well past its saturation point? Are all the fans of the genre just shambling from one title to the next like some sort of mass herd?
To call this game a fiasco would be an understatement. Props for covering it though. Scams like this should be archived as a warning that something like this could happen again, and should serve as a reminder to us gamers to not fall for this and be smart with our money.
Wait, how are there still defenders of this game to the point where Nick had to actually debate them? Are people so blind to obvious scams, even after the jig is up? 💀
IGN and Nvidia need to be held some what accountable for promoting the game so much and offering legitimacy to it, without actually playing it themselves
I quite like the parallels between the Day Before, and the game that outsold it that came out the same day, Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader. Owlcat Games and Fntastic are pretty similar studios, Owlcat even being 2 years younger than Fntastic (Founded in 2017 vs 2015) and they both started out with a kickstarted game. However, Owlcat has released 3 major games since it was founded, all extremely well-recieved. The Development of Rogue Trader was done transparently, and as a result has been fantastically successful. We knew what the game actually was for years, and it was more successful despite never being shown off on IGN or Gamespot. It shows the stark differences between people who know what they're doing and people who don't.
The weirdest thing for me is that I never even heard of this game until it released and everyone started calling it a scam. And I’m on top of all kinds of gaming news
Bro, the raspy, smokey, noir voice your using, combined with the dragnet/cold case files/unsolved mysteries structure of this video is absolutely blowing me away. Great work!
The whole "The Day Before" really drives him the fact that gamers out there want that "The Division" experience. See, The Division had something that many people wanted in that game, but it was bogged down by its RPG elements that were added, i.e., the rarity system.
Now we need Yahtzee making a "Let's all laugh at the industry that never learns anything teeheehee" lookalike for Second Wind. This one, alongside Redfall and other fiascos deserve it.
Hearing this man say "it takes more then thick thighs to pull the wool over my eyes" is a priceless gamer moment
I just genuinely don't understand what made people go so crazy over this game, especially considering how little we got to see of it over the years it was supposedly in development for.
I think we all can have big debt of gratitude towards the work Nick does in the background. Without Calandra this would be much harder for the content creators.
Honestly the most unbelievable part of all this is that The Day Before was the most-wishlisted game on Steam. There are so, so many online competitive co-op/pvp open world zombie shooters with crafting and survival elements. My Steam queue is flooded with them every time there's a sale. How can that market not be well past its saturation point? Are all the fans of the genre just shambling from one title to the next like some sort of mass herd?
The irony of suggesting a "Watch Dog" series for misleading trailers, because I sure remember that first trailer for Watch_Dogs...
To call this game a fiasco would be an understatement. Props for covering it though. Scams like this should be archived as a warning that something like this could happen again, and should serve as a reminder to us gamers to not fall for this and be smart with our money.
Wait, how are there still defenders of this game to the point where Nick had to actually debate them? Are people so blind to obvious scams, even after the jig is up? 💀
IGN and Nvidia need to be held some what accountable for promoting the game so much and offering legitimacy to it, without actually playing it themselves
I quite like the parallels between the Day Before, and the game that outsold it that came out the same day, Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader. Owlcat Games and Fntastic are pretty similar studios, Owlcat even being 2 years younger than Fntastic (Founded in 2017 vs 2015) and they both started out with a kickstarted game. However, Owlcat has released 3 major games since it was founded, all extremely well-recieved. The Development of Rogue Trader was done transparently, and as a result has been fantastically successful. We knew what the game actually was for years, and it was more successful despite never being shown off on IGN or Gamespot. It shows the stark differences between people who know what they're doing and people who don't.
The weirdest thing for me is that I never even heard of this game until it released and everyone started calling it a scam. And I’m on top of all kinds of gaming news
"Takes more than thicc thighs to pull the wool over my eyes." Frost really is the greatest wordsmith of our time.
"Nick Calandra, Editor in chief for the Escapist at the time" that was some subtle shade
A series finding red flags in trailers would go crazy.
Bro, the raspy, smokey, noir voice your using, combined with the dragnet/cold case files/unsolved mysteries structure of this video is absolutely blowing me away. Great work!
"Within reason" is the most impossible thing you could ask someone to do when getting hype over things. But I agree.
NGL, a "watchdog" series would be pretty cool. And if it had a bloodhound in a trilby and trenchcoat, that'd probably give Ludo a playmate.
“Tin Foil Fedora.” Best line ever.
The whole "The Day Before" really drives him the fact that gamers out there want that "The Division" experience. See, The Division had something that many people wanted in that game, but it was bogged down by its RPG elements that were added, i.e., the rarity system.
Now we need Yahtzee making a "Let's all laugh at the industry that never learns anything teeheehee" lookalike for Second Wind. This one, alongside Redfall and other fiascos deserve it.
It's beyond poetic that The Day Before ended the days after.