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Imagine they implemented the text-to-speech into the game, allowing you to switch and tune it on the fly. Like the character tweaks it in the PDA. Man I feel like that's a missed one

In the first game, Riley's motivation never stops being "survive, escape." What surviving and escaping meant from moment to moment changes as the story progresses, from figuring out how to eat and drink to raiding the Aurora for supplies to building a seabase and settling in to figuring out what the history of this place is to curing a deadly disease. Below Zero, Robin arrives wanting to investigate her sister's death, you very quickly end up with Alan in your head, and then most of the rest of the game is about him. You can investigate Sam's plot line if you want, but strictly in gameplay terms it is something you can also do. It's not a required milestone, it's there in case the player still wants to do it. I don't know why they didn't have a flag that made Robin say "I'm not leaving until I find out what happened to Sam, and then maybe make it a requirement somehow where Alan won't take us off the planet unless we cure the kharaa. Or make it a moral choice. Make the player either destroy the bacteria, or send a sample to the Alterra space station. Make the player choose between Sam's "We must destroy it" and Alan's "We must study it." Maybe this choice effects the ending, that either you part ways with Alan and have to construct your own way out, or you leave with Alan. I'm tempted to do a run of the game and purposefully ignore Alan until I've carried out the whole Sam plotline, just to see if they bothered accounting for it. It starts off where Robin is keeping a journal, she talks to herself etc. I wonder if they recorded lines for everything you don't NEED Alan for.

Look on the plus side - the old TSW game is still playable.

Now the game is getting a Nightdive remaster.

I just hope someone else gets the IP and makes a new game set in the Secret World universe. I don't care if it's an MMO, single player RPG, RTS, the setting is so, SO GOOD, it's criminal that it is being forgotten forever.

Great review

I thought there was this whole murder mystery, nope! I thought the guy that was the head of the altera team killed Sam, or any of the other team members! So trash! I thought she was trying to find out what happened! 😡🤷🏽‍♂️

“Are you certain it’s worth it?” No actually it’s not

I haven’t listened to the story part yet but the part that really blew it for me was the fact your down there to find out what happened to your sister and when you do find a pda that literally recorded her death that’s it nothing happens nothing is said you just go on about your day

I managed to play it just before the rework I had a lot of fun levelling and with the combat. Finding new combat styles which gave you skins can't remember what it was called but it was great. Apparently the Classic version is still good. Do you have a walk through?

Was Sweet Baby Inc involved with this story writing? It's so bad. :(

This isn't a review, it's a hate speech

Best way to play this game, imo, is turn off the story entirely and turning on the NoCost cheat (tho that part is optional)

I do and will continue to play Valheim, but the pacing is so unrewarding. I’m typically done playing when I’m finished with bronze

Yes, I completely agree with what you said in this video, but you gotta remember it's made by 5 people.

54:00 so its GTA San Andreas now 😂

52:20 What a sad ending. Truely it died with a whimper 😢

So you don't know how to mine copper or silver... You quickly dig out all of the ground around the deposit and then you break the whole thing in one hit if possible. Sorry SEVEN DAYS FOR SILVER. I went to three mountains and go the Silver to make full level silver gear, hammer, and shield, all in less than a single day. Your world gen must have been bad. The other big issue with the skill system, is there is not each type of weapon per upgrade tier. For example, if you were using the axe as a weapon you don't get an upgrade in the mountains nor the Mistlands. Mistlands axe is worse than the Black metal axe. Add more to the fact everything else can have an actual natural progression as you play. Introduction to magic in the Mistlands and Crossbows, both requiring a lot of grind to even become usable, otherwise they are hot garbage. I agree with your stamina issues, but also can't help but notice you are using very poor food types. You'd have less stamina issues if you used the right foods in each zone. Geeze, your world gen was awful.

And what was up with adding that stupid targeting reticule ugghh

Wouldn't one of the first things Alterra would do when they found the bacteria be to send samples of to other research facilities? Especially if they had nefarious plans for it? 🤔

Life hack. Turn of audio for voices. makes the game so much better HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAA. I hate it.

I thought it'd be fun to give my story fix as well! First cut Robin, Alan, Margaret, and the whole frozen bacteria plotline. You play as Fred from the game trailer, a SILENT protagonist and diligent undersea trucker. While running cargo a meteor storm hits and everyone evacuates off world. Alterra takes this chance to deem the planet too hazardous to be worth the effort and cuts their losses, relocating the scientists and workers somewhere else in the galaxy. Unfortunately Fred's absence from the evacuation is chalked up as another casualty to the hazardous planetary conditions. You return to your base to find it in total ruin from the meteors and that you were left behind. Time to get trucking, fabricating, and exploring as you work to gather the increasingly rare resources to construct a powerful enough SOS beacon to alert a rescue team light years away that you are still there.

Basically below zero is made for you to survive and thrive instead of experience oceanic horrors that will make sure you never look at the ocean the same way again

The 1st game, captured the grandeur, hostility and calm of the ocean all at the same time. The vertigo of looking up and barely seeing the surface was a special feeling. its a shame #2 was such a let down, I imagine it was to appeal to a wider aucience.

There's only one thing I disagree with. The sanctuary where AL-AN was stored had its power cable cut. How or what can cut an architect power cable, idk. But yea, why didn't AL-AN just take over one of the maintenance bots, idk.

23:20 POV: you do NOT play on hardcore. L noob

Excellent video, this guy is very funny.

Alien Isolation but in a Thing setting. Main character can get infected and the gameplay changes subtly by making the character do things that seem logical from a game perspective but narratively it doesn't make sense for the character to do to contain or destroy The Thing and only players who stay focussed on what enemy they're fighting against can figure it out. I'd also make it so you can jump between the MC (that you can create yourself) and characters you meet along the way. Once everyone has been infected, it's Game Over, but as long as there's a human around, you can still succeed. That way, if your MC gets infected, you can take control of one of the other characters and still try to finish the game.

Maida existed for the writers to make an invincible character that would place them in good books. Maida did not wrestle a leviathan, survive the void and kharaa 💀. This is more like a dream sequence she had when she was about to be swalled by the reaper

Is power transmitter in BZ? Does it still use that blue, eyesore of a beam? I always wanted power receivers added to SN as a requirement, and HUD elements for connections.

Below zero sucks, moving on to the next game to talk shit about... :>

Looks like the game isn't for you. I enjoy it vanilla style, I have over 350h in the game and I've never ever complained about the grind. My only complain is about graphics... I don't know why they mixed beautiful graphics with ugly models. But that's about it, everything else is pretty well balanced and bug free. Something that I can't find in a game nowadays.

I think the reason that Al-AN acts like an individual is because he is disconnected from the community

I've put 380 hours into Valhiem and agree with everything you said. Now that I think about it, I don't know why I didn't mind the grind in this game. I HATE MMOs, especially ones like Runescape; however, this game's grind didn't affect me that way, and the satisfaction of completing a large project after all the hours grinding materials really sat well with me. I also played most of my first playthrough of this game with a server of friends and then moved on to my solo world, so maybe the companionship helped mitigate the grinding aspect. However, I always tried to play this game vanilla as the devs intended, while my friends often used "Teleport exploiting." Which was essentially allowing you to teleport with metals by abusing the client based inventory. I, however, did everything the old-fashioned way: grinding the iron, transporting hundreds, if not thousands, of iron, and then having to drag all of that up a mountain to build my perfect mountain base. So, yeah, basically I agree with everything you said in the video. However, despite that, I still loved the game. Also, I just want to give you a slight nitpick about your video. All silver weapon descriptions explain they do more damage to the undead, so not using a silver weapon on Yagluth is on you, chief. Other than that, I love the video and commentary!

I think you can make dialog work in a game like this IF you make it really sparse look if most people bumped into an alien structure for the first time or saw the sunbeam shot down they'd have something to say about it

The problem I have with this series is that both of the maps are traversable so quickly that you only really need one base, the cyclops is fun as a mobile base and the sea truck is pretty underwhelming

AL-AN and Robin could be a good pair if the two simple talked less, were more serious and saw eye to eye, both are biologist let them bond some, maybe even have AL-AN be excited that inside Robins brain is new information about creatures hes NEVER seen, and have Robin be genuinely intrigued by the fact shes speaking to a alien, a intelligent alien, Robin should be PUMPED as a Xenobiologist, she should be asking question after question about the biology and the culture of such a being and the two can actually work together instead of being weirdly hostile?

Ghost leviathans feed off micro organisms not meat. Other then that I agree and wish below zero was better.

25:57 First game: *Crunching and chugging noises.* Below Zero: Are ya winning son?

This game says the devs were unsatisfied with the size of their fan base. Very unfortunate.

Robin was such a strong female character that she had to remind you of that multiple times throughout the game. She was so cringe...every word out of her mouth.

subnautica bellow zero - millennial writing at it's peak

if you run up to the bridge at an angle in the prawn suit, you can actually jump the gap without fixing the bridge

My brain hurts

It's so cool to see how other people experience gaming! For me, a silent protag ruins my immersion because the silence is unrealistic. People talk to themselves and the objects around them. It's just how we're wired. I'm also lucky because Robin reacts just like I would, and thus helps me stay immersed for longer!

16:40 I like the fact that the items don't stack. And if you have unlimited inventory space, it's not fun anymore. Inventory management is a game in itself.

On my 3rd playthrough trying to unlock everything. Love this game!

Below zero feels like it was made by someone who never played subnautica, but did hear about it once on a bus or something

I thought I was insane because I've furiously, intensely, and extensively tried to force myself into liking it; four earnest attempts. I just don't. I'm almost exclusively a solo player, and it feels like there's no long-term motivation for overcoming the survival challenges. I feel like I'd enjoy the building but I never get that far. Tedium is the biggest boss in Valheim.

Dude I get this, I had this game for years and just couldn't get into it. Then around the Bronze Age after my friends got me to play with them I got invested in the game. But yeah the dev team just now realized 7/9th's into the games progression that they should encourage all types of play styles rather than making one off side grade armour/equipment for each biome. The skill loss is silly when you consider how the devs make it impossible to farm (skeleton/dragaur spawns are still good) and certain skills aren't even introduced until the end of game like magic. Not being able to hit enemies because of verticality is also not fun to deal with.