Dungeons and Dragons Dark Alliance - Disgraceful!
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Sorry the last clip went out of sync, not worth re-editing and rendering for a few seconds.
As for the game, it's outrageous that this game was released with so many bugs, broken AI and lazy controls, it's a sign of the times am afraid, things are just getting worse for everything that used to be good, so sad.
Got the fucker for free on gamepass, was goanna veg-out with podcast n blast through campaign for some mindless chillout gaming...... wasn't even worth playing for that. Disappointed
Hey mack, seeing how this turd isn't worth talking about... what did you think of F.E.A.R. ? I just got the trilogy having never played it b4.
I rather spend £35 dollars on D and D board games than wasted on this pile of garbage
Please review project zomboid since it was updated to build 41.
Hey Mack,
thank you for the awesome job you are doing for the gaming industry! Regarding pcgamer, ign, etc. These are rating agencies and they are no different than S&P and Moody... They take money for good reviews, and when ign and pcgamer contribute to bad games, S&P and Moody are responsible for the huge financial crisis of 2008 in the US and worldwide :( No point then to take any of them seriously...
I like how the archer literally doesn't move aside from her arms. Nothing else moves.
Its like they did the animation work using garry's mod.
I've seen better animations in Minecraft
I tried Avengers out again recently and the archers in it are quite similar just lazy ass animations
Tits are not allowed to move in games anymore… 😂
Hyper efficient archery /s
I knew this was going to be shit when they had paid actors pretending to have fun with it on a livestream.
I always wonder why they do this crap, it's so obvious.. My highlight of the E3 was the outer worlds 2 trailer, just because it mocks all those other trailers.. Still won't buy their game before it isn't reviewed on here!
@@PinePizza Outer Worlds 1 was kind of shit. None of the people who worked on Fallout New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity are still at Obsidian. And it shows. People were all jacking off over OW because "uh it's a fallout clone, they stick it to bethesda. bethesda done bad. bethesda done fallout 76. bethesda obsolete."
Do you see any content created for OW nowadays? I don't. Because the game was bad. I still see content for FNV after all these years. Even the random review for POE.
@@Blitzkrieg1605 OW was a tedious game don't know why people were raving about it.
@@Blitzkrieg1605 I personally absolutely loved Outer Worlds, never played the dlc though.
Edit: I found the writing humorous and the theme of corporations not caring about the little people to resonate with me as well. To each his own
I presumed it would be shit when I heard about it, when I saw the first 20 seconds of their reveal I knew it would be shit. Nobody wants to listen though, I got blasted for having a negative opinion. How many times do people have to get screwed over before they start to see the pattern? lol
@Misanthropic Attack helicopter Even on the first playthrough it had some tedious moments. There was some charm in there, but they really didn't capitalize on it.
@Shanussmoking Loud The writing was humorous often, occasionally bad, but the concept was good. It was a really great concept with mediocre execution in many ways. Love is a strong word. If you really did, good for you, but so often people use terms like "love" or "amazing" for anything they deem even slightly above average.
Games today is not about IF its broken, its about HOW broken it will be on release.
Imagine if games back in the 90s and early 2000s got away with such buggy messes the gaming industry would of collapse a long time ago. A lot of my favorite games are on the SNES, N64, and 90s early 2000s pc games. It might be a shocker to the kids these days but patches weren't possible and those games came out near flawless with bugs if you hunted for them like the OoT Ganon stick trick. These days for some reasons people think its okay for the largest companies in gaming to throw out buggy messes. Indie companies make higher quality products than AAA companies.
We had broken games back in the days, it’s just nostalgic that we defend them.
@@captainobvious1252 yeah, i remember the demo discs you'd get on pc mags - man, so many of those demos were borked with bugs or plainly just didn't work. which was great, as then you knew not to buy them - unless word of mouth got about that the game was sorted and is good now.
@@doghous3 just look at Skyrim lol just now is when I was able to play it with no problem.
The only Dark Alliance that should peak your interest was released in 1996.
Dungeons and Dragons Dark Alliance is made for auto-aimers with 30 PREMIUM FPS doing macro-transactions for cut content giving out their personal data and that data is being exploited by publishers to inflate their scam and keep people in the loop. Welcome to the brave naive world. Developers of said naive world can't face the facts so they suppress, censor people. Outsource their dirty work to influencers which get high when they receive free merch.
Free merch > free speech.
Is your mind blown how people fall for same thing every time? It shouldn't be. Because divided, singled out individuals has no chance against organized criminal entity; corporation.
Corporation is an approved scam & spy business. Their approval was obtained through manufactured consent. Corporation is not the industry of manufacturing products. Corporation is in the industry of manufacturing consent.
As well Corporations [through governments] are harvesting our behavioural/biometric data on global scale. So they can get to know us far better than we know ourselves,
and they not just predict our feelings but also manipulate our feelings and sell us anything they want- Be it a product as a service or politician.
Hardcore corporate defenders please check out "The Corporation", "Surveillance Capitalism", "The century of the self", "Stockholm syndrome", "Milgram Experiment" and "The Secrets of Silicon Valley: What Big Tech Doesn't Want You to Know")
Respect you for calling out games even when you rarely get a key for one
If that's the case then I hope you have respect for all the other thousands out there doing the same if not less or more.
@@jamespaul6315 RE8 is a bad game
@@jamespaul6315 RE8 is a joke it's basically call of duty. Resident evil 7 is a way better horror game
What is a key? Is it like a free copy or a discount?
@@MichaelJ44 It's a code provided by the publisher or developer to websites, RUclips channels, and "influencers" that allows them to download a copy of the game free of charge to review.
"PC Gamer gave this 82%"
A bribe can go a long way these days.
What a fucking joke!
Damn wtf?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
They gave Days Gone 63%. It’s not perfect but it deserves far more than that. Same reviewer as well. He obviously hasn’t got a clue what he’s talking about.
All the development costs went towards bribing PC gamer
**Runs away** "Must've been the wind"
was that a Viva La Dirt League reference? if so, kudos on great taste! if not, please do yourself a favor and check out VLDL's 'When NPC's forget to die - Arrow
' :D
@@MsYunaFires It's a Skyrim meme
The monsters have poor eye sight, that's why they stop attacking cuz they can't see far.
They move slow because they are old, sick and tired.
*-Logic*
@@HideorEscape They are so old that the arrows in their back are probably less painful than their regular back pain. xD
"on paper this was an excellent game" - Was that a D&D joke? :D
This definitely was rushed and not play tested at all, such a shame.
There's no way a dev, or play testers didn't notice the NPC's not reacting to being shot in the back, either they had no clue what they were doing or were rushed to the point that most obvious bugs were ignored. More of the same, Its another CyberPunk release ready game.
I imagine it's a "it's broken, we need to fix it first before releasing it" "You're not delaying it" "But we need to!" *waves P45 in front of developer* situation.
These things should be called with their name, they are frauds. CP 2077 too.
Cyberpunk wasn't nearly as bad as this.
@@josie_the_valkyrie True. However it was promoted a lot more, super delayed, had fake gameplay scenes shown at public presentations and sold at 80 euros, for some editions even more. So probably more scammy than this pearl here.
If they only played a melee class, or were co-oping with a melee class you wouldn't notice it.
I would rather play Dungeons and Dragons in real life than this.
real life? you mean play as how it was intended ... with people and a DM lol
@@OverlordZephyros yhea good luck with that
Of course, I would rather play real D&D than a GOOD video game.
The only Dark Alliance that should peak your interest was released in 1996.
tfw we'll never see a Mack review of Ravenloft.
“I don’t have a mark low enough for this game” there you are - put that on the box 😂
The way her shoulder deforms awkwardly when she fires but her body doesn't move even a little...
Mack, I want to see more bells destroyed: please review the Olympics game!
I would be interested in seeing this too. I wanted to try it but most of the steam reviews state that it's a buggy mess.
Why would he play a sports game? Why would anyone. . .
@@ihave7sacks normies seem to like them. Of course they like anything shiny placed in front of them
@@ihave7sacks because its a hilariously bad game. Much over Over the road truckers lol
@@ihave7sacks I'm sure you can figure out why someone would play a sports game lol
lol the monsters flying off in the sky is dead funny. Looks like another game where high CPU speed makes physics calculations go wild.
Usually it's because the ragdoll is set up improperly and when it takes over from the regular animation there's a bunch of clipping and strained constraints, which makes the physics add a lot of force to un-clip and un-strain it, all that force sends everything flying. If the ragdoll was configured to match the animations better it wouldn't happen.
No one gonna point out how all the enemies fly into space upon dying? LOL
The world is controlled by a Universim player who grabs the enemies and throws them into orbit when you've exhausted their hit bar.
That's the best bit!
I own this turd game, shame is sucks. If it wasn't a dogshit console port and had godawful animations it would've been a solid mediocre co-op game. The enemies going into orbit was one of the more fun aspects of the game. :P
"I have to go now. My planet needs me."
They didn't die, their people needed them.
Dear, Mack. When Kenshi? We will never let go!
@@FreyofKtau He would get his ass kicked and quit after 1st boss. Not going to happen.
I actually had a dream that he mentioned Kenshi in one video.
@@fosty. He did make a comment on doing Kenshi finally in 2021 but then never mentioned it again. So the ''When Kenshi'' squad is back.
@@Emperos
Isn't Kenshi getting a sequel?
@@darken2417 yes, but that is going to take a couple years.
3:53 animations look so lifeless lol
@@clementine2001 the bow animation
Gonna need a church bell for this.
My friends were waiting for this a few even pre ordered on steam. Turns out it was day 1 on gamepass. Me and one of my friends tried playing this and we got to 4th map and have never touched it again. Basically a free game and nobody will touch it. Anyone defending this is what's wrong with gaming.
Preordering it is also what's wrong with gaming.
Never pre order a game especially these days, by preordering your telling the devs they don’t need to put effort into what their making because you already given them money.
People who preorder video games are not your friends.
was fun to play for a couple of hours, but luckily i got the xbox pass 3 months for £1 :)
@@del4668 I thought it was fun until all the problems started to horribly outweigh the fun parts. So yes I agree.
9:37 just let it sink in how much of their marketing budget was spent bribing streamers/content creators to play on launch day...there's your answer
A lot of devs have been doing that lately with games to fool people so they buy them but thankfully almost all of us don’t fall for that anymore and realise that when a streamer or someone big plays the game in the trailer it’s a big red flag.
Not sure why they even bother when online retailers have to offer refunds. People will buy it, see its actually rubbish and refund it. Money wasted on stupid streamers when they should have put it in to better development.
Let that sink in... because it's raining.
Congratz, you lasted about 75 minutes longer than me before uninstalling.
Once you notice only the arms move during the firing arrow animation you can't unsee it.
Probably one of the reviewers I have to keep coming back too ! Honest good reviews
As a massive fan of D&D I hope the developers watch this and take on board what you have said. Solasta has proven fancy graphics does not a great D&D game make
Yoda you are?
I don't think the devs give one single fuck. Why all the hard work when they can just buy reviews and pay streamers?
@@utrak yeah. If they released it like this, what would make anyone think they will put more effort into updates?
You’re more optimistic than me. I think this was a smash and grab, trading in on the rising popularity of D&D.
“We’ve got their money, now let’s get the hell outta here!”
i really do hate the whole "put colored objects at the climb/jump points" shit that games have been doing for years now. It's so silly looking, and just ruins immersion. It's just as bad as constant quest objective arrows. i blame Ubisoft.
My theory is they do it in order that you finish the game quicker so they can sell you the next one. It doesn't seem to happen so much in indie games. Curious eh?
with all these games that have come out I find my self back at battlefield 4.
Mack, the game isn't broken
It's called "reviewer mode"
Wasn't there a baldur's gate game called dark alliance already?
there were two of them on the PS2. Fun hack and slash games.
@Alex Sonne A friend and I are currently playing through the second one and think they are rather fun, not bad at all. Dated but not bad.
Yes, and it was actually good, unlike this pile of wank.
93 minutes is a long time to play this before uninstalling. It's almost immediately obvious it's a mess
Dayumn I hoped this was gonna be a sort of 3rd person Vermintide...
"Or uninstall the game because its a festering pile of shite" - Mac
It's funny how only her upper body moves when firing arrows lol
Makes me want to go play vermintide 2
Love the part at about 9:50 where that troll just turns around and scratches his butt while ignoring the fact that he's being peppered with arrows.....!
A take on "Solasta: Crown of the Magister" would be great...
It's still in Beta and he doesn't like doing beta games, more full release. It's gameplay I think is better than Baldurs gate 3 which is very similar. Both turn based, uses DND 5.0 ruleset (I like 3.5, there's less options in 5.0 for character creation, but that's my personal opinion), Baldurs gate looks prettier but there's nothing wrong with Solasta.
The story is a more traditional old school fare, nothing spectacular but does the job, similar I guess to Dragon age. You can assemble your own party of four characters however you want, want a party of all mages or rogues, you can do that, mix and match how you like.
It's ok, There's balancing issues if you min max last time I played which was a while ago, I'm personally waiting for full release, but I have played it.
@@dawnrazornephilim Yh but when I heard my party speaking I just couldnt continue,the voice acting is terrible :(
@@raphael9055 Yeah, it's a bit cheesy, I can deal with it from a small company though lol.
Solasta is pretty good from a mechanics / representation of D&D, a LOT better than Baldurs Gate 3.
That said, do not go in expecting immersive, compelling, well written storytelling; cause you ain’t gonna get it! Hopefully, as the engine is there, if they allow mod support then people can make their own modules/campaigns.
🎶 _More heat from the dungeon gets you more loot, but only if you can shoot. More looting equals more shooting, more shooting equals more looting, more heat equals more loot, looting and shooting._
Back in the ps2 era, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance was so fun to play. It's a shame this game is just a dud
dude i absolutely love youre videos. ill watch your videos of games i have no intensions of actually playing i just laugh so hard at your reactions/explanations LOL
We need more reviews with rabbit
lol look at her horrifyingly steady head as she's pulling the arrow
This combat is as impactful as a wet mop
MACK! THIS IS WHY DEVELOPERS DON'T SEND YOU KEYS!
So maybe Mack. you should start listing all the developers who don't send you keys? It would let us know which ones don't have faith in their products which would be interesting.
Those animations hahah. Jesus, all the positive reviews!!! What the hell
a lot of money has changed hands, obviously. Sad really
This is why you really need to have a list of trustworthy game reviewers like worth a buy and etc because these days a lot of gaming RUclipsrs shill and lie to fans for money.
The corporate press act as the outsourced marketing and advertising departments for the gaming industry. They've all been on the same team for years now.
The corpse ragdolls getting launched into the ceiling....Jesus
Damn, the character movement alone tells the story.
I can't believe this game is rated M. Now that's mind blowing.
Those graphics 🤣
Looks like it’s from 2008
Hey, Crysis Warhead was amazing looking.
yeah, fuck outta here with the 2008 graphics bashing. No, this game looks like on of those Kickstarter scam fake games, seriously
Visually, it's basically a UE4 marketplace asset flip.
That hilarious archer shooting animation. Lol wtf were they thinking? Hahahahaha!
But Mack, it has Dungeons & Dragons in the title, so it's automatically a good game.
I haven’t watched the vid.
But I hope it’ll have X Ray Vision. The full trilogy of what makes a game shite
Damn I wish that was the case, unfortunately there have been so many stinkers. I’m revisiting NWN 1 official modules; games decent if a little dated and clunky.
Mack: (On paper) *this is an excellent game*
Developer: OK boys, we have the quote! Put it on the box
"The area is clear - nothing to see here" even though I'm shooting arrows in to his back
Lol
4:07 LMAO that shit never needs to fixed, that was hilarious
when i saw the first gameplay with combat for this game, it looked stiff, now the full game is out and its worst
*worse
@@BBIAJ thanks
I love how they tried to hide how bad the game was with their 2 trailers. From GoPro Drizzt to Fullscreen Rumblepak, pathetic. That second trailer was just amazing, I've never see more fucking screen shaking than that.
@@DvSDiabloHR Don't forget the helpful UI in the trailer flashing status alerts of "INVALID" on screen.
All I can think of about it is the gameplay trailer, seeing the UI flashing status alerts "INVALID" on screen.
A long list of deal-breakers. Too bad, it's the kind of game that I like.
Agree with everything you've said, other than being locked into animations. Risk vs reward, you complete your combo for more damage at the risk of being vulnerable to damage... I like the sound of that as a design choice. Similar to how Dark Souls or Sekiro punish you for attacking when you shouldn't.
is this raid shallow legends?
Unless someone can prove to me this isn’t the case, I strongly believe the only testing done these days is to see if the game functions, the customers are used as actual game testers.
That’s why at every launch devs are always saying “we are listening for any ways to improve the game, join us on Reddit” this is always followed by numerous patches over months until finally the customer actually gets the finished product.
Saved me yet more money, cheers Mac lad!
(1:03) Girl with man's body, Hulk's forearms and hands...
£50 saved. Thnx Mack 👌
You were actually gonna buy the greedy version? lol
@@sihledotcom No I ment £30. 😁
YGHJ gives you options with your thumb too, i always bind right-alt to stealth/duck, C for sprint etc.
Haha this looked like a bag of shit and I was right! I wish they just continued the original DA series and kept the top down diablo style
I preordered this for the PS4 only to find that the quest for Crenshinibon "The Crystal Shard" had become the quest for "The Crystal Shart".
Why you did that wtf, this shite is free on gamepass = 90% of change of being bad
Even if it was bug free, this is not the game I wanted with Dark Alliance in the title.
Without the bugs it's got tons of potential so while your entitled to your opinion I don't think everyone wanted the same
I took a look at this game before your review came out and you have basically put into words what I was thinking in my head.
I like the old PS2 versions back in the day. But looking back I can see it's just some rpg-lite for kids and normies. And add in the shoddy 2021 quality control it's no surprise this is shite.
The ragdolls are definitely the highlight of all this footage.
As for animation lock, I somewhat disagree. I think Nioh did a great approach: You have basic attacks with no animation lock and special combos/skills with animation lock. But the game does 2 things to make animation lock acceptable:
1. The skills are much stronger than regular attacks, and most have extra properties other than simply doing more damage than regular hits.
2. The game itself gives you opportunities to use these skills without fear of eating damage due to animation lock, either by making enemies easily 'staggerable' (is this even a word?), allowing you to stun or knock them down onto the ground so you can use these skills with impunity and so on.
I'm a 42 year old man. I want games for adults! No X-ray vision or blips telling me where to go at all times! But I can't find them any more.
I think you'll be disappointed for some time. The era of hand-holding, bottom-wiping is here to stay indefinitely.
That body is so static and lifeless when she draws the bow string
D&D isn’t even worth playing for free on Gamepass. 👎🏿🛎
The frost killed you because you didn't stand next to the flaming sword to take on the Warmth status, thus providing you resistance to the cold.
I think the game was worth that 1 usd I paid for the game pass
Yes, But not a penny more.
Bashing walking on frost without realising you get a warmth buff from the swords that are on fire.....
My mate had almost completed it and loves it despite it being entirely broken: but then he got it free
He agreed it does not deserve a penny
It looks like a mobile game to me !
I think you are spot on, this is a mobile game parading as a full PC release.
Watching the intro, I already have a smirk on my face knowing full well Mack will need new bells after this one
I don't comment often. But i want to say i love your videos. Thank you for having actual opinions and preference. Even when i disagree with your assessment, your takes are always interesting and give me a good idea of what to expect. You're one of my most trusted reviewers because of this. Willing to trash a popular franchise, but also love it if you think it's good. Thanks brother.
you knew it was gonna be trash when during the gameplay footage, we had more reaction shots than gameplay
As a left hander, WASD never works for me. Thanks for the review Mack, your the BEST.
WAB: "You do not make locked-in animations!"
Ever heard of Monster Hunter?
Also Dark Souls.
Just curious, would playing a melee
non-ranged class made this a little more fun?
No.
re: the Bright Red carpets. There are people who play Mass Effect like COD and never upgrade skill points. Some people, unfortunately, have to be told every second what to do and where to go. Even Tomb Raider had the 'white paint on critical path' problem but at least they could be turned off.
Mac you are by far the best game reviewer EVER ! Nobody even comes close
Check out 21kiloton. He is good as well.
D&D games should theoretically have a whole series of deep RPGs available, instead it’s D&D in name only.
I don't think deep and meaningfull is part of any game development discussion any more lol
The only Dark Alliance that should peak your interest was released in 1996.
Dungeons and Dragons Dark Alliance is made for auto-aimers with 30 PREMIUM FPS doing macro-transactions for cut content giving out their personal data and that data is being exploited by publishers to inflate their scam and keep people in the loop. Welcome to the brave naive world. Developers of said naive world can't face the facts so they suppress, censor people. Outsource their dirty work to influencers which get high when they receive free merch.
Free merch > free speech.
Is your mind blown how people fall for same thing every time? It shouldn't be. Because divided, singled out individuals has no chance against organized criminal entity; corporation.
Corporation is an approved scam & spy business. Their approval was obtained through manufactured consent. Corporation is not the industry of manufacturing products. Corporation is in the industry of manufacturing consent.
As well Corporations [through governments] are harvesting our behavioural/biometric data on global scale. So they can get to know us far better than we know ourselves,
and they not just predict our feelings but also manipulate our feelings and sell us anything they want- Be it a product as a service or politician.
Hardcore corporate defenders please check out "The Corporation", "Surveillance Capitalism", "The century of the self", "Stockholm syndrome", "Milgram Experiment" and "The Secrets of Silicon Valley: What Big Tech Doesn't Want You to Know")
Preach it Mac. Don't take their sh**
Welcome to the world of
Can’t be fucked.
And that will do.
I must have missed a big meme at some point, but who is that guys face on all of Mack's game thumbnails?
"This pile of fucking shite oh by the way thanks for the key" 🤣🤣
Wait if u don't play archer is it okay? If u in melee range is the Ai better? I understand it's broken but can you force it to be better by not running away?
I knew this one would turn out like this just by watching the 2019 trailer. Abysmal!
Called this before release lol.. was just waiting for mack
This is end of June 2021 right now and I still play only 3 games. Bannerlord (with mods), Valheim, and 7 days to die. That's it. I don't even get slightly exited when I see any new "big games" rolling out. The only thing I really want try out is Manor Lords, and that's it.
I'm shocked they sent you the key for this, what did they expect lol
Yeah for real. Their marketing department must have A. Never actually playtested, and B. Never actually watched mack.
They should make "number of steps to be detected" a configurable option.
What a stellar intro on this one
Completely agree about locked in animations, it works in monster hunter
dying from walking over ice would've tilted me to no end
There is no substitute for the Pen and Paper game old school D&D is where D&D should stay.