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deadlock's problem is that SMNC did it with more charm and polish out of the box ten years ago, with tangible progression

I don't know if you want any cinematography advice, but you should back up the camera and zoom in. It looks better that way

Amazing hat

unexpected high quality vid bro great list

I dont know if a unique objective for each match makes a game popular. Case in point, my favorite moba / hero shooter / Gearbox toilet Gigantic. That game has the most unique and fun objective of any hero shooter. Nobody played it in 2016, and nobody plays it now because Gearbox ruined the game.

Wouldnt say its doomed, I didnt like it at first but once you start losing, only to sell items to make room for different ones and then WIN, most people might not experience that type of joy but it should be highlighted.

I was a tf2 one trick w 7k hours. Deadlock made me put it down, I love that game but Deadlock has me by the nuts with how important everything feels compared to the casual and individual nature of tf2. I really hope that it can succeed.

I was excited until I heard you say MOBA. Valve desperately needs to move away from MOBA's if they want to make an e-sport game that will be a success on par with TF2.

good ass vid

I was suprised to see something so well done from someone under 100 subs lol

I'm mostly a comp fps player, the only moba I play on the reg is pokemon unite. Unite works for me because it feels like it distilled the moba genre down to something that does have good dynamics, despite having simplified mechanics. deadlocks decision points feel like a multiple choice test, where you have to pick one of a few correct answers out of hundreds. what do I need to buy? what should I build around? what should I pick up to counter x on the enemy team? when do I need to switch lanes? when do I abandon lane for an objective? those are all reasonable decision points, but the breadth of answers makes it really hard to know when you are making the correct decision, or when a choice is consequential. Unites decision points and how they reflect in how the game goes are pretty simple to understand. I skipped objective to farm my ult, I took too long and my team got wiped. I chose the ranged kit for a pokemon, the enemy had a speedster who countered me. the feedback on when you make a poor decision, and how it impacted the match is a lot easier to track. I totally understand why moba players coming from league or dota might crave a depth of decision trees, but to get the broader audience it needs to be built around teachability.

highly underrated video

I got thousands of hours in overwatch and Deadlock is the first Moba I've tried. Personally I'm loving it

Man i do wish Team Fortress 2 competitive was more than just a hobby at this point. Back when i63 had 12k viewers Valve should have added money into the future LAN events. Even just 10k would have made a very big difference imo, since i63 had a pool of around 9500$. I wont say Valves lack of support for TF2 competitive killed it but it sure did not incentivize new players to try it out. TF2 Competitive mode wasn't even really an attempt, i mean it was but it was such a bad attempt it made people even less motivated to try out competitive. Like who on gods green earth thought that turbine was a good competitive map? Who thought it was a good idea to force change your settings to play competitive? Not only disrupting your ability to play but it would just outright crash your game sometimes. But i digress, maybe one day we will see a return to TF2 competitive as it's really one of the best competitive shooters that exists (imo). Maybe when TF3 releases? xD. Great video btw, but i think that out of every MOBA i've ever played (1 lol) Deadlock was the easiest to grasp the concepts of. Not that i'm some MOBA fanatic, in fact i really hate MOBAs (could probably tell) since i find alot of the gameplay boring. But Deadlock... idk it just hits different. It's not really a pure MOBA, but i wouldn't say it's also mostly a MOBA. Id say its a hero third person shooter and a MOBA at the same time. Like a 50/50 split on that. You can't play it like a MOBA but you can't play it like FPS you really have to be good at both to be good at the game. But hey i've never seen even a screenshot of Dota 2 gameplay so take it with a grain of salt please xD.

I can see how the 3rd person perspective is better for the spectator, but I have yet to see someone explain exactly how 3rd person is better than a 1st person for the player apart from being able to see your own skins which shouldn't take priority over gameplay.

If Dota is as successful as it is, making Deadlock look like child's play by comparison, there's nothing to worry about other than the team's recent balance decisions.

you have such a breadth and depth of knowledge about video games & a structured and substantive way of communicating your thoughts. also your editing and branding is getting more refined. keep building your game analysis catalogue! i can't wait to learn more.

ever since quitting league many years ago after they reworked my fav champion into utter nonsense. i was swapping from many fps games that would change every year or so. hearing about cs2 being a thing i came back to csgo and eventually into cs2 and for a while it was good. But when deadlock was announced it felt like the perfect mix of genres i never knew i needed. during a time of hardship for cs2 and the rampant cheaters with little to no communication, deadlock was a easy way out and i still stay playing after knowing how public the devs are with its community, after how committed they are to building the game including the addition of anti cheat measures. it is a game that rewards great skill expression.

great analysis, and fantastic pacing. i really appreciate thought-out, well scripted videos that respect the viewers time, and present themselves casually like this one. most new youtubers either fall into the camp of a 3 hour long ramble session, or substanceless flashy editing. keep this format up and you'll get your audience in no time.

Deadlock is trash bro, confusing and too complex. Not even satisfying when killing heroes

good vid bro

why is bro crying

A big part of why the pacing felt so weird to me was the distribution of bosses/minibosses. You'd think each island leads up to a lighhouse, so at the end you'd beat a boss or miniboss to finish the Island with a bang, right? But no, most of the islands just sort of end anticlimactically. No boss, no miniboss, you just pull the plug and it's over. Heck, even one of the BIG lighthouses doesn't have a boss and just ends with an anticlimax. At the start of the game, the bosses actually show up at a good pace. But as the game goes along, it's like they forgot the concept of minibosses altogether. Early on you fight one of the Extension Corpse guys alone... so you'd think you'll battle each of the other ones solo as well, right? But no, you only fight that one guy alone. Then you don't fight any of them again until you confront them all as a team. Seems like a missed opportunity. So yeah, this weird boss pacing leaves a lot of the quests to end unsatisfyingly. At the end of an area, I wanna bash a strong foe. It doesn't even have to be a complex boss with multiple phases or anything, just something to put your bros attacks to good use. The game does so many things so well... But it also has so many aspects that seem half baked and not thought out well. Like they had an idea for something couldn't execute it properly.

"It should all be the good part" is such a good way to put it

looks like an editing upgrade!

also i def agree about round length. rly enjoy that there are more spaces to do things than simply blues and reds but wish that there weren’t so many lucky spaces or at least it just auto gives something instead of having to choose every time to speed things up (also item spots). need more rounds to feel the ebbs and flows of mario party but rn more rounds is too long to play. if they did speed up the rounds would love the option of an extended pro mode . 2 bonus stars plz n more rounds the thing i miss the most is having hidden paths or areas that you really want to reach like the donkey kong road in mario party with the hotels on the wii. there feel like no special regions that you have to work specifically to reach and get a little lucky. overall though this is the best mario party we’ve had since 2007 and huge step in the right direction. i felt like that kinda cared for the first time in a while hope they continue that love and care with dlc’s. would love some updates that add secrets like how to unlock special characters (even though barely an easter egg to get pauline and ninji)

toad challenge is very fun when u and a friend take one controller each

I like your hat. 💸

This is soo wholesome

good review! imo more of the game should've had that helping Link section the end has and just should've been longer in general?

excellent video. now how do you feel about a Zelda game with ganondorf as the protagonist

Great review -- thanks!

Completely agree about the missing leaderboards.

good vid lad

i love this video! reminds me of the gameplay commentaries that used to be all over youtube.

Could you please send me invite too? Im very interested in this game but sadly none of my friends have it. My friend code is: 1092221627 Thank you very much

u know that castle crashers just dropped as remaster or something like that with new stuff too

Still extremely thankful that you invited me to play test DeadLock Have a nice day!

Can you PLEASE PRETTY PLEASE INVITE ME! MY FRIEND CODE IS 1162999870 ps I subscribed

Hey could you please send me invite to deadlock? Im very interested in the game but sadly none of my friends have it. Heres my friend code: 1092221627

Any chance you are sending out invites? My friend code is 209382095

dude can you add me and invite me? Here's my friend request:1323832443

2nd view!! 🎉🎉

People with tiktok brain could listen to you for longer. You have a very intelligent way of talking sir, keep it up! Subscribed

maybe it’s more of a pain in the butt but you should record the audio while you play and then edit the audio so there aren’t so many pauses and play the edited audio over your gameplay. obviously if there’s funny audio moments that match up with gameplay try to have those parts match

Great video! Appreciate the nuanced and informative look at this topic!

I will defend LM2hd with all my soul but most of these points are valid and agreeable

Gamers have to start seroiusly start speaking out and up for casuals some companies think there slick having no demo, no gameplay trailer and then overpricing the game way more than its worth then people buying the game and it ends up horrible