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can't wait for a fourth guy response to this video

0:50 “Now if you couldn’t tell, i didn’t really like this video.” [like button glows]

Ah yes, the next episode of "TH-cam recommendation drama" I know of Noodle only from his Please Stop Talking appearances and said BG3 video since it was recommended on YT Then got the CJ video and now this What will happen on the next episode (for which I'll also be at least a month behind)

Your point on mysteries is why I hate what they did to the zonai so much. They basically ruined the mystery of who they were whilst still giving it zero substance. Truly the worst of both worlds

I don't particularly appreciate people cynically reducing the sentiment of "You should want to learn more about the thing you won't shut up about to contribute more meaningfully." down to just "You should... shut up..." How's that for "fabricating a new context"?

26:55 look it's me!

Honestly fuck all this, my take is this, Baldurs Gate 3 didnt raise the RPG game standards, but raised the Quality Standard and that's how it should be. If you have the power the funding and the people to make a game as ambitious as BG3 then fucking upkeep quality *Ubisoft you still fucking suck*

Nice video

Love your channel

Is this some sort of American joke I'm too British to understand? (Baccano is easy to find on DVD here and I got it for £15 or a little under $20)

Every one should listen to my opinion because it is objectively correct, boulder gate three was unique it was allowed to be unique, AAA games are put on a tight leash, 28:29 which is why boulders gate three raised the stranded, as in AAA games should be made games before they are profit cows to Be milked. I didn't like noodles video because he just blames gamers, for their miss guided criticism, targeting a small guy, and also his thesis which is games developers being forced to make games big because gamers like big, what gamers like is circumstances, ceo's and investors force the developers to make what gets back profit, big is an easy and safe way to matket your game, to a massive crowd, aj video is clearly by a crazy guy, but I still believe there's valid criticism, mostly on noodle not seeing the forest from the trees.

also both you and cj use asshole language like not trying to be rude but going "heh... i destroyed his entire argument" is lame... both you cj and noodle are all liars its kinda brazy

"devs are on your side" name 1 time nintendo has been for the fans

“Telling them to do better without understanding what the actually do” is literally what happens in the ending of the Falcon and the Winter Soldier “You need to do better Senator”

Wow, A Feature length cope about an opposing party's legitimate criticism of that disingenuous excuse of a video, complaining about petty remarks to paint the target as bad faith, completely ignoring valid points on a flimsy basis, playing up minor discrepancies as deceit, completely manufactures rebuttals by missing the point of the criticism in the first place *multiple* times. admits to bias, expects to be taken seriously. Its all here folks! and ripe for the picking!

What I really find hard to understand is how did balding door 3 set a “new standard” for triple a games. This is a game with some graphical downgrades could run comfortably on ps4 and hell I’d say even the ps3 has a chance to run it. This game goes nowhere NEAR to the monstrous tasks that are made by rockstar. (I checked up and the development cost of baldurs gate 3 is quite a good amount around a 100 million so I guess if you want you can disagree with this point but I think most triple a games have budget near this amount so I might be wrong about this)But the only thing is that it’s a feature rich, complete, non buggy game(for the most part) with a good story. How did it “raise the standard”. The only thing I see is that the basic standard which we should expect from all triple a 60$ games has been met.

Just don't believe everything you see online.

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Good points. Also, I just love that in one moment in CJ's video, he smokes a bong lmao

I personally like getting physical media for a couple reasons. 1) I own it and I can watch it whenever I want. The downsides are space to store it and yes discs can get scratched/damaged and you might not be able to rebuy it. 2) I don’t have to worry about a streaming sites just yanking a favorite show off of their site and never being able to watch/buy it outside of piracy. That’s just my take, I’m sure an argument can be made for streaming only, if that’s your preferred watching habit than continue to do so.

I can't believe this fantasy game has fantasy elements

3:10 - I think you lack a bit imagination here, having an archeologist just tell you might be boring but maybe finding a live one somewhere, say, in depths would surely be a sight to behold and answer some questions to satisfy everyone. Mystery with a boring conclusion are bad, mystery with an interesting conclusion retains it's awe. 3:25 - As you say, this is a nitpick. This isn't a important point in skittybittys video, it's just one of many examples something that COULD get answered. It's kind of like getting stuck on one joke among 20 other things said. 4:36 - Not having obvious people remember you takes you out of the game, it ruins immersion when the world is not consistent being direct sequel to BotW. They didn't need to write about everyone remembering Link, they only needed to not write it like it's their first time meeting. Also, I don't know if this was a joke but everyone would read a newspaper when it's brand new and the only way to get news in the world. 6:50 - Skitty doesn't gloss it over, it doesn't matter because even though she too did the dive it did not prevent the conclusion from ruining the experience. Also if you didn't buy and play the DLC I don't think you're really qualified to debunk other peoples lack of excitement over them, these are bigger fans of the games than you are. That's why they bought and played the DLC, they should be enjoying the games more than you did, yet they are being punished for playing the previous game. 7:35 - The problem is that the mazes were three time bigger than last time yet not only was the reward an item from the last game, it's worse gear than we got there in BotW. Like literally getting the Barbarian armor would be more useful because you will never use the Ganon armor if you have Barbarian armor. It has the exact same effect as the Barbarian armor so it's literally a downgrade. I also didn't give a damn about the plot of the mazes but when the reward is so bad compared to BotW it's almost insulting. 8:55 - I don't know how you can say TotK or BotW isn't perfect and in same breath question why someone would want TotK to improve upon the not perfect parts when it is the direct sequel. Unless you thought BotW was perfect with nothing to improve on it makes no sense to question WHY someone would want it to be improved. 10:01 - ...Really? You made a response video to a video you only watched like 20% of and you mention it now at the end? Geez, thanks for wasting my time.

*Afterthoughts* I probably could have worded some of my thoughts better, but I'm pretty okay with how this turned out. I just wanna clarify a few things though. Towards the end I said I disliked the video. So, I disliked it simply because I didn't agree with Skitty's points, this doesn't necessarily reflect the quality of the video or anything. It takes a lot of work for someone to make a 4 hour review, and I respect that. I also said I thought the video was pretty interesting, but I didn't really get to dig into the more interesting aspects of Skitty's video. Like, I thought what they had to say about Ultrahand and the menu was interesting, but my thoughts on those were a bit longer and more complicated. Someday I may talk about it, but it won't be for a while. This video was supposed to be a short in between video for my next project, and I have more things planned after that too. I realized after recording all this that while I did respond to a lot of Skitty's criticisms, I didn't really talk about what I liked about Tears of the Kingdom. Fortunately though, one of my next videos will have me talk very positively about it, so stay tuned, I guess.

I don't know what to think anymore. I saw Noodle's video, then CJ's video, then I read a random comment congratulating CJ for being Pro-Communist or something, and then I realized I was on the internet, which is chock-full of unhinged clout farmers. I really need to approach everything on the internet with skepticism.

It your time to be the main character. For bertter or for worse

all in all i am subbed to both of them still and i don’t care.

yea i'm done with this tomfoolery. all this whole argument needed to start with was better clarification from the people who brought it up. now idiots like me get confused after watching a debunk.. of a debunk... OF ANOTHER DEBUNK!! and WHY DO THEY ALL HAVE TO BE AN HOUR LONG!?!?! i gotta life to live. leaving this comment here just in case a bot steals from me - zenlis 12

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im interested in the article mentioned in 24:08 but i can't find it in the description :(

Tf!!! Larian is not an indie studio - I'd argue that they stopped being one after Divinity Original Sin 1. Why did you change the definition of what a game studio is? Why are you being pedantic? I caught 3 problems with your video before the 20:00 minute mark. I'm starting to feel the need to do a response video to this video.

I know how to make the discontinued light novels appear: just pray to the Rail Tracer

the amount of people i've seen under noodle's video that watched CJ's video and, without trying to form their own opinion, *regurgitated it* by "calling out" nood on his "bullshit" is straight up rage inducing to me. is thinking for yourself just... dead? thank you for this video, swordsman.

Thank you for articulating this! I watched CJ’s vid and found it was completely missing the point but I couldn’t put my finger on what.

I watched part of CJ's video when it came out. I was stupid at the time. With Noodle having been one of my favorite TH-camrs at the time, I was so heartbroken and felt so goddamn deceived that I unsubscribed. Now that I am doing research on this topic several months later and realize more and more how bad faith CJ was, I feel *even more* deceived (for context, I can be a very naive person when it comes to online opinions sometimes). I feel like I owe Noodle an apology even though I said nothing to him, or anything about this on the internet in general. Makes me wish this video came out sooner. I'm resubscribing to noodle after this, thank you SO MUCH for making this. I'm gonna go rewatch his Need for Speed video now.

Coming up next week: Chaosblade33 Lied, CJ was taken out of context and Noodle is a nepo baby

First it was the OSC, now its this

can't wait for a random youtuber to make Chaosblade33 lied, Noodle never had a point. (anyways jokes aside great video!)

Understandable. Noodle is still obnoxious and pretentious and I hate him.

Informative video, now's a good time for me to return to Baldur's Gate Slop Drama Part 3 (I still haven't played the game LMAO)

There is something magical about stumbling into internet drama where the only part I saw was one reasonable take (Noodle's video) and the conclusion (this video).

Realistic expectations are not high expectations and thus when making a game if you have high expectations lower them to realistic expectations... Isn't that...lowering your expectations? Idk. I'm going to watch the rest of the video. (they said it themselves...they wanted to pull the breaks and not make another game..... ( Ok so it cut off here and i don't know were the rest went)) Edited: 41:00 They say it themselves that they are done because they want to spend time with their family But yeah...they don't want to make another one because they make them too big and ambitious. it eats too much of their time and....no one told them to make games that would suck out their souls. They did that themselves. (I said something ruder but when editing some how it got deleted)

I went to CJ's discord to see what he said about you: he calls you a loser, a noodle d*ckrider and makes fun of your sub count and says that you just made the video for attention. Classy guy

I don’t care what CJs points were, he acts like the biggest baby in his comment section so I am against him no matter what

The funniest part of CJ's video was calling Noodle "demonic" over cutting 3 seconds from a video that didn't really add anything

This has gone from a dude on twitter talking about a game, to a game journalist telling him he’s wrong, to noddle defending the first guy, to another TH-camr tearing down noddles response, to you responding to that guy video. Who’s going to rip this guy a new one so we can keep this chain going until we forget why we’re here! ( JOKE! DO NOT DO! )

noodle is in the right because he made a video about spong rob

I think the crux of this controversy comes down to a misunderstanding. people are mistaking developers for publishers and shareholders. developers want to make a good game, and publishers and shareholders want your money, it’s that simple

My takeaway: both raised some interesting points for me to think about And that cj sounds like a complete asshole in regards to how he engages with this discourse. He gets very snarky and defensive on twitter. I think he needs to chill a bit At this point I'd need to refresh myself on everything from the first video, before I take away anything else of value lol