Grifters can't kill a good game, it's literally impossible. Grifters tried and failed with Wukong Grifters tried and failed with Stellar Blade Grifters tried and failed with The Last Descendant Grifters tried and failed with Space Marine 2 Meanwhile... Unknown 9 failed SW Outlaws failed Concord failed Veilguard failed Anyone with a brain can see the difference
Bioware killed any shot at my buying Dragon Age when they described it as "inherently gay." When you advertise your game based on the bedroom preferences of the characters, rather than the merits of the game, you are admitting that your game is going to be terrible. You are admitting that your game has no merits on which you can rely on to advertise it. Give credit where credit is due. Bioware themselves destroyed my enthusiasm for the game before it launched, not "some streamer."
Dude. The studio is woke The employees are woke The game has woke messaging They have DEI hiring practices and policies It’s not every second of the game, but it’s there. These people keep trying to act like we don’t know what we’re talking about
He's actually contradicting his own position in regards to "grifters tell you what to think about this game & you'll believe them" yet ignores the Studio's support of these characters they make and always put them into all our games but THAT'S ok to keep forcing their views onto us'. His take is a doublestandard based on bye is
DA was very diverse before, the problem is they forgot to tell Dragon Age story, to tell the story of they social opinions from RL. Bioware killed Dragon Age , stop blaming your bs on gamers.
Gaming youtuber that hates gamers cycle: It's not woke! You sure you're not a grifter?? Okay, it's a little woke, but hey it's not a bad game. Okay, it's woke, it's not made for you! but that's a good thing. 😅
He also said the combat was very simplistic in a way that made it sound boring.. in fact he didnt really say anything truly positive about the game to justify a 80$ purchase. But the game is pushing a narrative he wants to push so lets pretend the game is good.
Why do these people use word "hate" so casually. We all know what this verb/noun really means. If people don't like something, that is NOT hatred. They just use most bombastic words to get them desired results.
Nothing new from woke cultists who are same as religious puritans and dictatorship cultists. Although there is a thing called "love to hate", which is now more like a badge of honour.
Game is way worse for spanish speakers. The "they/them" doesn't exist in our lenguage, we have "La" (female) and "El" (male) but the games use "elle" meaning neither woman or men. The thing is, "elle" doesn't exist. The game change all the words ending with "la" or "lo" with that stupid word making entire phrases impossible to read without having brain damage.
OMG that is insane...😢 Even germans have problems... I talk French, ther is only "iel" Word but this forcing is so bad. I want to respect people who want to be called mike this but they force so much, I Begin to hate wokism for that. Sorry for your head...
It doesn't exist in french either. It's "il" (♂or neutral), and "elle" (♀). And the funniest thing ever is that when they tried to come up with "inclusive pronouns" they made two : "iel" (♂) and "ielle" (♀).
@@NoraTsukyoEchoes Yeah, most people agree with you. Most people are reasonable and would absolutely take a slight inconvenience to make someone else feel more comfortable. It's when the inconvenience becomes unreasonable and forced that people take up against it. Jordan Peterson got raked over the coals for fighting for free speech in Canada, against a bill that FORCED speech. Now Jordan Peterson has went off the deep end of late, but what reasonable person wants forced speech, no matter how well meaning?
If Veilguard was amazing people would play it no matter if youtube "grifters" told us not to. Guys like him believe that gamers are completely mindless sheep who just consume or ignore whatever we're told to. Such an insulting attitude.
which also doesn't track because the number of shills willing to die on this hill should mean "grifters" can't do jack against this game anyway. which is it?
He’s projecting himself in this, he believes that people doesn’t have it’s own criteria, exactly like him because nobody else can think different that him, right?
I don't agree with this idiot dude (the guy in the video) but yes gamers are like sheep. If you don't believe me just try to say certain games are bad under baldy's videos or call others good and see what happens. Everyone wants to conform and be accepted that includes this whole bunch too. This place is as much an echo chamber as the woke nests people hang out in, just at the opposite direction.
I have seriously never heard someone take a stance on an issue and have absolutely no experience with what they are discussing. The guy, repeatedly, brings up how he either didn't play this/that game, didn't finish it, or didn't like it. Then comes right back giving an opinion about that very game. It's crazy. Nobody needs to expose this guy ever again as he did it himself. He also repeatedly says how he doesn't agree with something, then says he respects their opinion, then shifts right back to saying they are wrong. What an utter clown.
This guy doene't really belive in this kind of stuff. His son is trans so he is playing the shill, but when he talks too much his real opinions come out slightly.
Asmon: "I've played 71 hours. The game's suck." David: "I've played 22 hours and the game is McDonald's tier, but those grifters are wrong for saying the game is bad."
I've gotten my platinum, my authority is the highest. It's a badly written game for teenagers and a disgrace to both the Dragon Age franchise and the LGBT+ community.
"People shouldn't compare this game. It's unique, like all games." He self admitted that it has terrible writing, and it's a guilty pleasure junk food. He just don't have the balls to say that it's bad.
No we're not. It just means as gamers we're losing what could have potentially been great games. I'd have much rather DA woke guard have instead been a game closer to Origins than DA:I was. Instead we got this trash. Another example is Avowed. As a big pillars of eternity fan I was looking forward to that. Now I'm worried it's going to be filled with progressive bs and I'll have to skip it. I don't want to win as "non buynary," I want to win as a gamer just wanting more great games.
@@MartinRodriguez-li6xs well like 99% of people disagree with you and the issue is we keep giving this 1% the ruling vote in situations like this. you dont cater to a fraction of your customer base and expect stellar results.....bud light tried that remember....and now theyre launching ads against wokeness....how ironic
9:35 No. BioWare replaced an S-Tier setup with D-Tier fantasy slop. There is no aspect of Veilguard that is improved by replacing Solas with two random Elvish Gods who, until this game, were unknowns. Solas was this Universe's Loki, and an entire DLC of Inquisition was dedicated to his betrayal... And it was some of BioWare's best writing. Solas was an awesome character and a compelling villain by the end of Trespasser, and all BioWare had to do was cash in those chips. You even had the perfect setup with Varric organizing the Veilguard, so you got the connective tissue back to the old story. Instead, we get ANOTHER generic "end of the world" plot with child-tier villains. Instead of complex motivations by an elf betrayed and cast out by his own people, a wound that festered into a painful decision to shatter the veil... We get "Well, we're doing it because we're evil," and Solas was a secret good guy all along! You're just a dumb idiot for believing him at the end of Trespasser... But totally believe him now! You and him have a common enemy!
This is the guy that made Twisted Metal. Twisted Metal Black, is one of the DARKEST games ever made. And he's been roped into the DEI cult. What a damn shame. RIP David Jaffe 2024.
Og GoW and Twisted Metal Black, some of my personal all time favorite games. With Jaffe being a huge part of the development of these amazing games, I was a fan of his work for a long time and even of his as well even despite his personal beliefs being the polar opposite of mine but he got to he too much for me a while back. Never thought he'd come back quite like this but here we are, what a shame
@bandawin18 exactly. Twisted Metal Black gave me a visceral reaction with the dark themes, imagery, and story back in the day. One of the few memories I have with my older brother is through Twisted Metal. I watched Jaffe after the TM show came out and thought to try and follow some of his stuff more, but didn't. At least I know it was for the better. I don't understand his view point, and apparently he has a trans kid or his kids friends are trans don't know for sure don't care, but I feel like the stuff he's said in this video is performative. And that is understandable given more context. Still writing him off, but at least I don't feel resentment about it.
David Jaffe was the game director behind God of War and Twisted Metal. He was big in the PS2 era, but has literally done nothing in the industry since then. He left Sony in 2007 to founded his own studio ... and left said studio in 2012 due to "creative differences." Not really sure how there are creative differences when you're the one running the company ... He opened a new studio (a second time) in 2014 and made a game called Drawn to Death which also failed, causing THAT studio to shut down a year later. Now, he just sits on Twitch and Discord cosplaying "Old Man Who Yells At Wind."
Remember what? He only ever played Inquisition, never finished it and is only about 10% into Veilguard. He literally has no basis for any of his arguments.
This guy is similar to the people who say you have to play for X amount of hours before you can judge this game, and the main reason he wishes for you to do this is because he wishes for you to suffer as much as he did playing this game
On the contrary, I can't take offense because as an old baldy with a beard, I'm watching an old baldy with a beard talking shit about an old baldy with a beard.
You know what's truly sad? This man is the creator of both Twisted Metal and God of War, among other hard-edged, no bullshit kind of games. To see him talk like this just breaks my heart. You know this industry truly has failed us when even the OGs are fueling this delusional narrative.
@@drthmik he's listed as Game Director for many titles, basically the guy who calls all the shots. What I attribute this to is life in California. It warps people's views of reality.
At the same time Chris Avellone speaks against racist hiring practices at Obsidian and the creator of Earthworm Jim straight up stands up to all this modern nonsense.
"Hey Rev, remember when I said making videos about woke games would result in a chain reaction that would destroy the gaming industry?" "Hai desu?" "I believe we did"
Well if you were around ni the 1990s the happy meals came with a toy. When I was a kid i liked the toy now they no longer do that. So you got a small burger, small fries medium drink and a toy now you get small burger small fries and small drink as they found out they are not good at picking what toys the kid will want. McDonalds is better than EA in that regard as at least they still offer for you to pay for it what might be seen as food.
Wasn’t this the guy who got stuck on a Metroid Dread level and complained about how bad the level design was, while all the other streamers seemed to have no trouble with the same section? He’s quite the authority on gaming, huh?
Because it's easier to argue against him like that. "That guy is an evil bigot, therefore his opinions can't be reasonable". People dehumanise other people to make it easier for themselves to be hostile and aggressive against them.
14:30 He doesn't realize that isn't the same. It's like playing a game in feudal japan and you are about to eat something and a thing pops up and says "Oh, is this gluten-free?". That's the same as the immersion-breaking shit in this game.
No one would've cared if it was a good game. The writing just made them all whinny and unlikeable the entire game because it kept coming up for no reason.
"Terribly written, cringe and stupid" Ha, he cannot even keep his lying story straight. According to him, people who don't like the game are grifters, and then he says it is "Terribly written, cringe and stupid"? "It's a young adult fantasy novel" lol, just say it sucks. What a guy.
Reminder that this pile of garbage was already up for a GOTY nomination *the day after release* , and Space Marine 2 didn’t even get a nod. Never question whether or not there’s an agenda at play, because there is. Edit: seems to be some confusion amongst commenters with poor reading comprehension. I never once claimed SM2 is or should be GOTY (that goes to Wukong imo) but that it absolutely deserved the nomination over Veilguard, which it does, because Failguard is trash and SM2 is not.
and wtf would it be? online is pure trash with no content. and the game is 6 hours long. it's a shell of a game. good gameplay with no content is just as shit as content but no gameplay.
@@U5mR L take. I do not care how long a game is. If I enjoy absolutely every second of the experience like I and many other's did with Space Marine 2, it is objectively a good game. If your main criticism of a game is "there isn't enough of it" that is absolutely a mark of a good game. Always leave them wanting more. Play it again, try to do thing's differently, get really good at it. Or just appreciate it for what it is. Putting a marker on how long a game needs to be for it to be considered a good game is a very slippery slope. That's how you get games that drag on far longer than they need to and diminish their own accomplishments. That's how you end up with things that are buggy messes because there wasn't enough development time to iron out all the content equally. You also are not the arbiter of what is good game length and what is not. Personally any game that goes longer than 10 hours I am typically not interested in. I have too many things that consume my time in my life as it is, I cannot devote 100 hours to any singular piece of entertainment because I will miss out on 10 other incredible things in the process.
@@_uncreditedyeah, I looked for videos talking about how lacking it was. Never found any. It could have been great too. But it's too linear, too short, and missing basic features. I will say the lack of bugs were refreshing, but again, that is easy when you consider how small the game is.
@@jonathanst89 Basic features like? I remember when people actually made their points. It's a true sequel that's bigger and better than the original, does it not have endless replay value, sure. It's not cod's endless grind, it's about fun gameplay, which I feel the operations mode fulfills the desire for more as playing well with a squad feels epic. People need to enjoy something for once goddamn.
It's funny how they say "our games weren't made for you", but then there's apparently a 100 % overlap between the audience of the TH-cam "grifters" and their target demographic.
Saw how that logic turned out for them when Concord and dustborn came out 😂😂. And they still complain about the people that didn't buy it. Like these people can't pick a side or be consistent with what they want. It's unbelievable and I say we get insane asylums brought back and purge the companies.
The table scene + the Barf apology scene. No other context needed. Those two scenes were so cringe-inducing I couldn't even watch let them play. Had to skip through a little bit.
@@TheTuttle99 It is, but its gonna take time. Everything already in development is going to be just like veilguard. Things that are starting production may be better. No guarantees of course, but there's a chance for the stuff that hasn't already been started.
he didnt achieve anything thereafter, but stuck to that glory like a super glue and paste the title on his video every now and then. his subs is 50k+ and his views is 2k 1k 10k? then he think too highly of himself...
BG3 was ok but if you chose any dialog options that one thought would lead to deeper conversations, you were immediately hit on by the character. They need to have an option to select your characters sexuality from the get go.
Dudes, I might be wrong, but wasn't this guy saying that he hated how the new installments of God of War were going in a different direction of the original game? Isn't that a little hypocritical since Veilguard is NOT on the same page of the previous games?
16:13 "I was at a gay wedding in WOW in 2007. Two of my guild mates married eachother. They weren't gay IRL but in the game they WERE gay. They were REAL gay in the game...SUPER gay." Hands down Assmon's best quote EVER.
You know, the days when people would go into games to escape reality and be able to experiment with things they didn't want to do irl huh. Good old times i guess
All the so-called "grifters" did was showcase what was in the game. Focused on the stupid in the game. Focused on the preaching in the game. Let potential players know what was in the game. The game is what contributed to the downfall of Dragon Age.
Isn't this the SAME GUY who complained about how they made Kratos softer in the new GOW games??? So you can put up with a "dark" action RPG with bad dialogue, bad writing, forced LGBTQ inclusion, bland combat, etc, but Kratos can't be a good dad and a more passionate character or it ruins his franchise? Tf outta here with that. Makes it SEEM like your argument for GOW is actually based on the fact that YOU don't control it anymore. No wonder he doesn't make games anymore. Too much Twitter/Tumblr brain rot
He made the og GoW AND Twisted Metal so it tracks that he'd be mega edgy. That era of gaming never left him. To be fair, I do personally prefer og Kratos most due to TC Carson's performance and Twisted Metal Black was a childhood favorite, but David Jaffe fell off so fuckin hard, man. He could've continued to be a huge part of these franchises and Twisted Metal could've been thriving as a franchise but he left that life long ago
Can someone explain the David Jaffe Fall off to me? I never knew why he stopped making games. Also yea, I much prefer OG gow, I dont know how people can prefer the river styx simulator that that first sequel was, didn’t even bother with Ragnarok because the combat to me was just way less fun than in the OG games and I was NOT here for visual novel GOW bs.
@@charnel8435 to be fair i like it but haven't finish it yet lol. my main issue is how he can like it and then advocate for dreadwolf (f off veilguard is a dumb name) like he points out issues that fans have goes ya ok sure....... stop hating like he knows whats wrong with the game can't defend it but goes stop being negative guys.
The simple fact of the matter is they are trying to hide their toxic content in a game now. No real normal gamer is going to invest in a game until it’s reviewed online. So straight away the pre orders are going to fall, then if there is toxic content in the game, normal gamers aren’t going to invest their hard earned money in something they don’t want to interact with or see in a game.
This guy is trying his hardest to defend and hype up this game, but he knows it's objectively bad and unpopular so to avoid being called an idiot fanboy of the unpopular themes of this game, since he clearly knows nothing about Dragon Age as a franchise and how this game butchered the lore, he has to go about defending it in the most vague, soft and wimpy way possible.
literally every frame where he paused the video to talk, the video during the gameplay footage it's all glowing and gaudy blinding color effects green, red, blue, purple it's objectively hideous blinding, and ugly and that's not even the worst thing about the game
That doesn't make any sense then. Unless he doesn't know his child at all. Last thing I want as someone who's trans is wanting to see my problems being written like a caricature straight out of circus by people that not only don't understand it, but try to appeal to people like me by... reminding me about my irl problems while I try to relax and escape from them in games. It does more harm than good to trans people in general because such garbage makes people think that all of us are irrational crying clowns that want to see this badly portrayed bs in every piece of media.
Jaffe used to be based af, not leaning left or right and had an open mind, talking to all kinds of people on his stream. Seeing that Jaffe blocked Asmon preemptively is sad man.
@@cococock2418wrong, im not religious, im pro choice, i believe in free health care, i believe (to a certain extent) in climate change, i believe in a safety net and financial help from the government for poor people, i believe in government regulations however I absolutely hate identity politics, i hate wokism, i hate political correctness. I believe in freedom of speech, what does that make me? Politically homeless? Cos that ain't right wing or left wing.
@@cococock2418 That thinking is exactly what brought us here. Both sides offer good and bad things, and when you prevent yourself from seeing that you become part of a blind cult that's resistant to good ideas.
I stopped taking this guy seriously 3 minutes in. At 5:30 he admits he's played 1 dragon age game prior- and didn't even finish it. This dude isn't even a casual gamer. My grift broker is tingling
is this just the pattern nowadays? > release bad game > it has very woke elements > prior experience with other bad "woke" games makes players wary > game fails because it's bad and nobody wants to play > game is also poorly written and has woke elements needlessly added > journalists, game devs, and other influencers attack gamers for being every ist and phobe and blame that for the game failing > rinse and repeat until we're all insane (we might already be there)
>rinse and repeat as they try to gaslight, but instead slowly go bankrupt, then whine online that they lost their job/company went bust because of all those "horrible toxic ist-phobic gamers." FTFY 😄
While also guilt tripping the audience and telling audiences to not buy their game since it's not for them and only for the minority target their trying to get. We all saw how dustborn and Concord turned out.
“Grifters” are not “influencing.” They simply provide information about the product that the legacy reviewers try to hide from you. Then it’s up to the gamer to decide if they still want to pay £70 for the product or not.
"Grifter" implies the person doesn't actually believe what they're saying and is just engagement farming. Its dishonest to call legitimate critics that.
10:40 Its not a conspiracy, its a religious faith. Conspiracy implies they do it secretly when they do it openly. You don't need to have secret meetings when everyone already has been inculcated into the tenets of the faith, and purged if they disagree.
Funny enough, a lot of the "grifters" that are on TH-cam have experience with the other games in the series. But hey Jaffe, don't let the fact that you are talking about things you haven't experienced get in the way of your rage videos.
@@rafal2903 Yep, I thought it was boring as well and I'm still pissed about the hero from Origins being erased from existence in the series, imagine if they did that with Commander Shepard after Mass Effect 1, he/she dies and is only mentioned a couple times later. I remember about 2 years after DA:I came out they admitted it was a flop and that the first one was the only successful one financial-wise. Interestingly enough you cannot find those articles or final sales numbers for Origins anymore on the internet, at least I cannot. I can only find sales numbers from 3 months after Origins came out, which were GOOD 3.2 million copies sold in 3 months. And these lying POS are now saying Inquisition sold "12 million copies." These sick people need to be excised from gaming altogether
3:50 He shouldn't say that stuff isn't there only to turn around and say it is there IF you look for it. Which is it? That stuff doesn't exist, or the stuff does exist and is actively ignored.
Saw that with Angry Joe, as he is a diehard DA fan and was completely devastated by how bad it was. He even struggled to say anything positive. As for myself, I just enjoyed the dumpster fire of the game via other live streams, almost as hilariously bad as SW Outlaws.
i thought Taash was a very well done character. They were unlikable, annoying, cringe and fit perfectly in this mediocre at best dragon age themed game
In Veliguard’s subreddit I wrote a comment responding to such claims: “When you make a great game everyone will shut up and play it. It’s as simple as that” I was banned for that comment 💀 DM if you want a screenshot of the ban message and the thread
you know what is annoying the most for me? They make games that are both bad AND woke. After that, when you tell them that this game is bad because it is really BAD (with wokenes or without, it is bad), they tell you in return that you only hate the game because you are against gay people or something UPD I thought about it a little longer. In fact, they use wokenes as a defense against any criticism, even if it is completely objective criticism. I hope that the success of such projects as Space Marines 2, Stalker 2, Stellar Blade, etc. and the complete failure of "western" projects will finally make "western" developers understand that this no longer works UPD2 And yes, there are some games with some "wokenes" elements such as Cyberpunk and BG3, I’m wondering if ubisoft developers has ever thought about why no one hates these games for wokenes, it seems to me that they haven’t thought about anything at all
Even when you question the wokeness to try to make a sincere discussion around it like asking why is this in this game that has nothing to do with the game. They will automatically think you are against LGBTQ and call you every buzzword word.
Celeste was woke as fuck, but it was a good game, that is the reason nobody complained about it. Fact is that people are not tired of "woke" games, but of BAD games
How does an older guy like this speak like a mid 2000s teenage girl? “Like ya know, whatever”, “I mean, like, come on, ya know”? Bro can’t even speak a straight sentence without it.
They also fail to realize that if buying and playing the game was a requirement for each person to review and decide, what's the purpose of review? The sale has been made. They are making the argument that only works if there is a totally free demo to try.
I have yet to see a clip of Taash that doesn't make them(?) seem like an unhinged man child, written by someone who would struggle to land a Webtoon original. The rest of the cast is obnoxiously and poorly written too, but nobody talks about them because of how aggressively awful the writing for Taash is. But no, it's balding-mon Gold driving away sales.
What makes DAV worse is that the writing is straight up just awful. Someonemade a video and rewrote Taash's scene of coming out to their mom and it sounded so much fucking better without losing the emotional weight that the original couldn't fucking muster. TH-camrs didn't kill DA, it was them. The writing team. The game director. Their fucking bosses. I hate how the story for dreadwolf and the concept arts clearly had a great idea behind it but nah, they wanted to just do their own shit. Yeah, i'm still mad
Here's a better and more profitable idea: how about just not including the worst companion to ever grace an Obsidian title in your game. Seems crazy I know. "Owning the Chuds" is the priority after all.
9:30 whaaaat? You mean the game that pushes trans ideation also seems like it’s geared to visually and intellectually be for kids?…. Of course they wouldn’t do that…
22 hours means he is on the first map of the game and with how little he knows about the games history/story he isn't even paying attention. Which showcases that the only real reason he is defending it like many others who scream "YOU MUST PLAY TO TALK." Basically is only about ideology. Same thing happened with Saints Row 2022 and quite a bit other games. These people aren't gamers they are grifters that want to push agendas.
I've also heard numerous people saying (and I agree) that the game plays better at the beginning bc you still have the illusion that it's building up to something. Kinda like the Haven period in Inquisition that's mostly a long tutorial and then you get to Skyhold and the game opens up massively with roleplay and choices. And in Veilguard the more you play and realize "this is it, this is all it's gonna be until the end of the campaign" the more depressed you get.
@gucciguy3408 by his logic then I'll say "I watched 3 to 4 different youtubers live stream the game and had to turn the difficulty down cuz it was boring, bland, spongey enemy and they completed the game with everyone dead" so far I've had more hours than him by watching the live streams.
The irony of this quote is that Asmongold doesn't even know the name of the guy he's reacting to. 😂 (Nor does Asmongold know WHO he is, HOW old he is, or WHAT he's done for gaming 😂😬)
There's a reason there's a very much alive, funded by gamers, modding scene for Skyrim 13 years after its release, while a lot of these "competitors" fade into obscurity months after release. The next one in that line is going to be Avowed.
Guy played 22 hours and doesn't even know the plot is about the ancient gods trying to tear down the veil to release the blight, and that's why they are called... the Veilguard
His successful games came from wanting to make things that were FUN and focused on ENTERTAINING the audience, not preaching to them. That David Jaffe would hate this dude. He's like the Kevin Smith of vidya.
@@PeroCat This is actually what happens to a lot of these 35-50 year old developers or middle aged parents/uncles/aunts, they get sentimentally captured by a close friend/relative of theirs, and their friend/relative are usually young, naïve and mentally ill. When that happens, your empathy receptor overloads, and you want to catch a grenade for them to the ends of the earth. As a result, they create this safe space for these friends/relatives as a means to shield them from potential harm.
@@zzz66688 They also spend an insane amount of time watching mainstream media like TV and believe it 100%, never question it, never do personal research, don't use online. They are completely brainwashed by the narrative.
I think a lot of people like to blame the game being 'woke' but BG3 proved that isn't the problem. Having more options and choices isn't the problem. Bad writing is the problem, end of. I don't get why my fellow gamers get so heated about options existing, no one is forcing you to play a non-binary character, it's just an option that exists. Taking that option away isn't going to make Veilguard a good game.
Steam Charts : Failguard : 9,396 players Witcher 3 : 19,844 Players These numbers don’t lie, yet tells a rather compelling story. Edit : Further Elaboration is apparently needed, so as with all Single Player Games with said short Life-Span. Hence my Original Post was merely measuring said concurrent in matters of time zones. If one would pay attention, by using Steam Charts as a universal metric. It took 7th of June (2015) for Witcher 3 to fall off to the 55k Benchmark. It Took DAV, a mere week about 10th November of a drastic reduction of 61k. That's essentially 1.9/2 by merely comparing Witcher 3 7th June player base, with a recent release of DAV is baffling to be sure. Naturally whatever conclusions people want to come up with these analysis, is based on individualism of opinions.
Stardew Valley peaked at 104,521 today. It's just too damn funny that a game as old as Stardew, which is just 2D, peaks at more players 8 years after release than Failguard managed to reach as its max player number. Terraria had 48,000 today, released in 2011.
On Twitter he was like “What is woke about this game? Clearly articulate to me.” Someone did that, and he completely ignored and disengaged. He’s an industry tool trying to be relevant.
I’m 41 and not balding. Must be why I don’t agree with David. But literally almost every Taash side quest is about her being non binary and trying to get peoples approval of it.
David Jaffe is hilarious. He thinks that people will take into consideration the opinion of a guy who was stuck on Metroid Dread for 45 minutes and then got mad at the game because he couldn't figure out he needed to shot part of the ceiling.
Gotta love how nowadays any dissenting opinion on shit like this is apparently "grifting". I saw the gameplay footage, listened to the writing in the cutscenes, and decided against this game. Darn grifters manipulating me into not liking Veilguard by... showing me their gameplay footage!
When every video someone makes is about woke game, bad, non-woke game, good, you don't think they have realized those are the videos that make them money and that is why they do it?
This guy was pivotal in creating the original God of War, but we see how age has made him lose all his testosterone and now he is all soft modern. Let us also not forget that the Metroid devs named a room in Metroid Dread the Jaffe Room (this guy's name is Jaffe) because he was filtered out in that room. All he had to do was shoot a destroyable ceiling/wall (an incredibly common mechanic in Metroid games when you find a "dead end"). His meltdown about the poor game design of Metroid Dread was so legendary even the devs came to mock him.
"I've only played Inquisition and I didn't finish it" sounds to me like he can't say shit he wasn't there for the actual good games and he didn't finish the mediocre one.
@@shinian6523 Not just the lore. He doesn't know much about the games in general. Didn't play 1 or 2, didn't finish 3, and isn't even halfway through 4. Yea...truly an authority on the series... /s
I played the first one for about 2 hours and I didn't even need to do that to see this game looks like ass. It looks like a mobile game and EA made it, what else could you need to know?
I really hate this passive agressive talk that david have, every time hes like, "if you dont like thats fine, BUT the game is good, there no way the game is bad, but if you dont like thats fine", I HATE THIS KIND OF SPEECH!!!
Game is average by today's game standards. But comparing it too past Dragon Age games or even games of that era yeah this game is below average in my opinion.
Grifters can't kill a good game, it's literally impossible.
Grifters tried and failed with Wukong
Grifters tried and failed with Stellar Blade
Grifters tried and failed with The Last Descendant
Grifters tried and failed with Space Marine 2
Meanwhile...
Unknown 9 failed
SW Outlaws failed
Concord failed
Veilguard failed
Anyone with a brain can see the difference
They REALLY tried with Hogwart's Legacy.
This is so true
The First Descendant*
@@jimjam51075 Bad example, that game was made for the modern audience. They hated on it because of the author of the original works and her opinions.
@@cipherstormwolf14 Still grifters didn't manage to really dent the game's popularity.
Dragonage killed they/themselves 😂
Good one 😂
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
what was it again - the self-deletion rate of the target audience is about 40%. So, seems fitting 😂
Brilliant 😂😂😂😂😂
dark - but still funny 😂
"Is the doctor who told me i have cancer responsible for my cancer ?"
That's an interesting question. 🤔
-Patient at unit 731
Doctor Jaffe he is 😂
According to their logic, yes. Or lack of.
Nice one.
Bioware killed any shot at my buying Dragon Age when they described it as "inherently gay." When you advertise your game based on the bedroom preferences of the characters, rather than the merits of the game, you are admitting that your game is going to be terrible. You are admitting that your game has no merits on which you can rely on to advertise it. Give credit where credit is due. Bioware themselves destroyed my enthusiasm for the game before it launched, not "some streamer."
I think they are letting the devs work on mass effect too…if so, nope
I mean it's a decent advertisement if you're trying to market it as an eroge.
Dude.
The studio is woke
The employees are woke
The game has woke messaging
They have DEI hiring practices and policies
It’s not every second of the game, but it’s there. These people keep trying to act like we don’t know what we’re talking about
He's actually contradicting his own position in regards to "grifters tell you what to think about this game & you'll believe them" yet ignores the Studio's support of these characters they make and always put them into all our games but THAT'S ok to keep forcing their views onto us'. His take is a doublestandard based on bye is
He choose Taash as his teammate btw.
Fwiw I don't care if the game is woke if it is written well. The Veilguard isn't.
DA was very diverse before, the problem is they forgot to tell Dragon Age story, to tell the story of they social opinions from RL. Bioware killed Dragon Age , stop blaming your bs on gamers.
Gaming youtuber that hates gamers cycle:
It's not woke! You sure you're not a grifter??
Okay, it's a little woke, but hey it's not a bad game.
Okay, it's woke, it's not made for you! but that's a good thing. 😅
"it was terribly written" He answers his own question on why DA failed.
Yeah, the horrible writing killed it, the focus on identity naval gazing was the signal that their focus wasn't writing a coherent fantasy universe
He also said the combat was very simplistic in a way that made it sound boring.. in fact he didnt really say anything truly positive about the game to justify a 80$ purchase. But the game is pushing a narrative he wants to push so lets pretend the game is good.
It was fanfic tier
@@adamaccountname people love the ancient fantasy setting of 2020s California. What do you mean?
they’re just looking for a plausible scapegoat just to avoid blaming their failures on DEI.
“All the haters secretly love it” ah yes, classic delusional fanatic defense.
If all haters loved it, it would be the most successful game of the decade lol
Why do these people use word "hate" so casually. We all know what this verb/noun really means. If people don't like something, that is NOT hatred. They just use most bombastic words to get them desired results.
Nothing new from woke cultists who are same as religious puritans and dictatorship cultists.
Although there is a thing called "love to hate", which is now more like a badge of honour.
they secretly love it but still don't play it... obviously logic 101
They’re right tho, they love it so much that they don’t play, it makes all the sense in the world….. buahahahahahahaha
"Just say my f*cking name" .... gave me "Breaking Bad" vibes and I'm here for all of it! :D
Game is way worse for spanish speakers. The "they/them" doesn't exist in our lenguage, we have "La" (female) and "El" (male) but the games use "elle" meaning neither woman or men. The thing is, "elle" doesn't exist. The game change all the words ending with "la" or "lo" with that stupid word making entire phrases impossible to read without having brain damage.
OMG that is insane...😢
Even germans have problems...
I talk French, ther is only "iel" Word but this forcing is so bad.
I want to respect people who want to be called mike this but they force so much, I Begin to hate wokism for that.
Sorry for your head...
It doesn't exist in french either. It's "il" (♂or neutral), and "elle" (♀).
And the funniest thing ever is that when they tried to come up with
"inclusive pronouns" they made two : "iel" (♂) and "ielle" (♀).
@@NoraTsukyoEchoes Yeah, most people agree with you. Most people are reasonable and would absolutely take a slight inconvenience to make someone else feel more comfortable. It's when the inconvenience becomes unreasonable and forced that people take up against it. Jordan Peterson got raked over the coals for fighting for free speech in Canada, against a bill that FORCED speech. Now Jordan Peterson has went off the deep end of late, but what reasonable person wants forced speech, no matter how well meaning?
And leftists expect you to thank them for bringing your language out of the caveman ages
They tried the latinx bit for a while too
If Veilguard was amazing people would play it no matter if youtube "grifters" told us not to. Guys like him believe that gamers are completely mindless sheep who just consume or ignore whatever we're told to. Such an insulting attitude.
which also doesn't track because the number of shills willing to die on this hill should mean "grifters" can't do jack against this game anyway.
which is it?
Didn't you know? Gamers is just a term to refer to the hivemind collective of people who have an active steam account
Case in point, Hogwarts Legacy. The grifters did everything possible to dissuade us from playing it, but it still made $12M.
He’s projecting himself in this, he believes that people doesn’t have it’s own criteria, exactly like him because nobody else can think different that him, right?
I don't agree with this idiot dude (the guy in the video) but yes gamers are like sheep. If you don't believe me just try to say certain games are bad under baldy's videos or call others good and see what happens. Everyone wants to conform and be accepted that includes this whole bunch too. This place is as much an echo chamber as the woke nests people hang out in, just at the opposite direction.
He didn't even play Origins...how can he possibly understand how far we've fallen?
Video game developer who doesn't play game of the years, fell off and lost in his own sauce. No lesson will ever be learned.
He didn't even finish inquisition. Did he only put 22 hours into that too and then make a video about it?
Asmongold also didn't. Which i hope after seeing the content, hell play origins at the very least so fans can. Gauge his response
He's the guy who made the Twisted Metal franchise and ended it for no reason with the last PS3 game.
@@MichaelJordanTennisShoes whats twisted metal? I grew up with PlayStation an never heard of that series
I have seriously never heard someone take a stance on an issue and have absolutely no experience with what they are discussing. The guy, repeatedly, brings up how he either didn't play this/that game, didn't finish it, or didn't like it. Then comes right back giving an opinion about that very game. It's crazy. Nobody needs to expose this guy ever again as he did it himself. He also repeatedly says how he doesn't agree with something, then says he respects their opinion, then shifts right back to saying they are wrong. What an utter clown.
This guy doene't really belive in this kind of stuff. His son is trans so he is playing the shill, but when he talks too much his real opinions come out slightly.
@@Pokeringo slightly?
Asmon: "I've played 71 hours. The game's suck."
David: "I've played 22 hours and the game is McDonald's tier, but those grifters are wrong for saying the game is bad."
I've gotten my platinum, my authority is the highest. It's a badly written game for teenagers and a disgrace to both the Dragon Age franchise and the LGBT+ community.
"McDonald's tier" "CW show" "YA Book"
That means it's fucking garbage for studio that made KOTOR and Mass effect.
What he's actually saying: "I'm more focused on my impending Baldness than actually playing this game... You're wrong...And that's fine."
"People shouldn't compare this game. It's unique, like all games."
He self admitted that it has terrible writing, and it's a guilty pleasure junk food. He just don't have the balls to say that it's bad.
@@Geronimo_89 Thats an insult to teenagers. lol
Dragon Age wasn't just killed, it was buried alive - 😭😭😂😂
By its own people.
@@sirhc8927 *by its own creators
it was murder ... 😢
Captain BBC🫡🫡
It was never alive in the first place
The Non-Buynary community just keeps winning.
🤣🤣🤣
Ahh i didn't want to click like this because it's on 69 likes ...
@@josephbryanasuncion4904 Let's get it to 420
No we're not. It just means as gamers we're losing what could have potentially been great games. I'd have much rather DA woke guard have instead been a game closer to Origins than DA:I was. Instead we got this trash. Another example is Avowed. As a big pillars of eternity fan I was looking forward to that. Now I'm worried it's going to be filled with progressive bs and I'll have to skip it. I don't want to win as "non buynary," I want to win as a gamer just wanting more great games.
@@MartinRodriguez-li6xs well like 99% of people disagree with you and the issue is we keep giving this 1% the ruling vote in situations like this. you dont cater to a fraction of your customer base and expect stellar results.....bud light tried that remember....and now theyre launching ads against wokeness....how ironic
9:35 No. BioWare replaced an S-Tier setup with D-Tier fantasy slop. There is no aspect of Veilguard that is improved by replacing Solas with two random Elvish Gods who, until this game, were unknowns.
Solas was this Universe's Loki, and an entire DLC of Inquisition was dedicated to his betrayal... And it was some of BioWare's best writing. Solas was an awesome character and a compelling villain by the end of Trespasser, and all BioWare had to do was cash in those chips. You even had the perfect setup with Varric organizing the Veilguard, so you got the connective tissue back to the old story.
Instead, we get ANOTHER generic "end of the world" plot with child-tier villains. Instead of complex motivations by an elf betrayed and cast out by his own people, a wound that festered into a painful decision to shatter the veil... We get "Well, we're doing it because we're evil," and Solas was a secret good guy all along! You're just a dumb idiot for believing him at the end of Trespasser... But totally believe him now! You and him have a common enemy!
This is the guy that made Twisted Metal. Twisted Metal Black, is one of the DARKEST games ever made. And he's been roped into the DEI cult. What a damn shame. RIP David Jaffe 2024.
Og GoW and Twisted Metal Black, some of my personal all time favorite games. With Jaffe being a huge part of the development of these amazing games, I was a fan of his work for a long time and even of his as well even despite his personal beliefs being the polar opposite of mine but he got to he too much for me a while back. Never thought he'd come back quite like this but here we are, what a shame
@bandawin18 exactly. Twisted Metal Black gave me a visceral reaction with the dark themes, imagery, and story back in the day. One of the few memories I have with my older brother is through Twisted Metal. I watched Jaffe after the TM show came out and thought to try and follow some of his stuff more, but didn't. At least I know it was for the better. I don't understand his view point, and apparently he has a trans kid or his kids friends are trans don't know for sure don't care, but I feel like the stuff he's said in this video is performative. And that is understandable given more context. Still writing him off, but at least I don't feel resentment about it.
That is a damn shame, I love Twisted Metal.
I don't care about has-beens.
Mate you forgot God of War!
David Jaffe was the game director behind God of War and Twisted Metal. He was big in the PS2 era, but has literally done nothing in the industry since then. He left Sony in 2007 to founded his own studio ... and left said studio in 2012 due to "creative differences." Not really sure how there are creative differences when you're the one running the company ... He opened a new studio (a second time) in 2014 and made a game called Drawn to Death which also failed, causing THAT studio to shut down a year later. Now, he just sits on Twitch and Discord cosplaying "Old Man Who Yells At Wind."
I'm just reminded of how angry he got at Metroid Dread because he couldn't understand the basic concept of destructable environments.
Forgive my post above 🙂
@@Zyart got a link?
He also created God of War on ps2. I guess his edge is all gone.
@@Zyart I remembered watching him reacting to wukong release video and said it looks like a boss rush game which is boring
Usually when you’re defending something, it’s a good idea to remember at least a couple of things about it.
Remember what? He only ever played Inquisition, never finished it and is only about 10% into Veilguard. He literally has no basis for any of his arguments.
@@thedarkemissary and asmons said he is bald, so its a tie
This guy is similar to the people who say you have to play for X amount of hours before you can judge this game, and the main reason he wishes for you to do this is because he wishes for you to suffer as much as he did playing this game
While also not being eligible for a refund.
@@nightkil13r So true
As a 40 year old balding man watching this, I take offense at being called out as a 40 year old balding man watching this video.
On the contrary, I can't take offense because as an old baldy with a beard, I'm watching an old baldy with a beard talking shit about an old baldy with a beard.
@Pejxu GASP I too have a beard! The old-baldy-beardception is strong here...
This would be a certified asmongold fan moment if i wasn't a late 20s guy with a full head of hair.
Be offended than
@@ninjacom3 just shave it for one time... it will grow back 😂
You know what's truly sad? This man is the creator of both Twisted Metal and God of War, among other hard-edged, no bullshit kind of games. To see him talk like this just breaks my heart. You know this industry truly has failed us when even the OGs are fueling this delusional narrative.
It shows how sane company can make sane games with a few people who does not meets the sanity level.
Society matters
Games are made by a lot of people
Are we SURE he is the one that actually made the decisions?
What if he just took the credit?
He was probably "re educated" to keep getting work, the dude who created those games is no longer "there".
@@drthmik he's listed as Game Director for many titles, basically the guy who calls all the shots. What I attribute this to is life in California. It warps people's views of reality.
At the same time Chris Avellone speaks against racist hiring practices at Obsidian and the creator of Earthworm Jim straight up stands up to all this modern nonsense.
When Asmongold said "I am become grifter, destroyer of Dragon Age" I shed a tear. Pure cinema
"Hey Rev, remember when I said making videos about woke games would result in a chain reaction that would destroy the gaming industry?"
"Hai desu?"
"I believe we did"
And then Grifted all over the place
*It’s Griftin’ Time*
The internet's humour has never recovered from the effects of morbius and it's honestly hilarious reading comment threads like these
@@IAmTheEagleHTMFalse scenario, Rev would never follow through with his channel name. 😂
That elf guy, the elven gods did this thing and open whatever and tried to you know... This guy is so into the story, he must be an expert.
"this game is not mediocre"
"this game is like a McDonalds meal"
Huh?
Well if you were around ni the 1990s the happy meals came with a toy. When I was a kid i liked the toy now they no longer do that. So you got a small burger, small fries medium drink and a toy now you get small burger small fries and small drink as they found out they are not good at picking what toys the kid will want.
McDonalds is better than EA in that regard as at least they still offer for you to pay for it what might be seen as food.
Some people love McDonalds
They act like McDonalds is a gourment luxury meal in the modern era...
@@yumri4your statement is nonsensical to the maximal degree.
To be fair I would consider a McDonald's meal below mediocre
Wasn’t this the guy who got stuck on a Metroid Dread level and complained about how bad the level design was, while all the other streamers seemed to have no trouble with the same section? He’s quite the authority on gaming, huh?
No shot!
He forgot to turn on urinalist mode.
This guy David Jaffe made the OG God of War
The pretty same.
@@Mikey-uj3dcHe did, and Twisted Metal Black. Something went wrong along the way though.
Why does everyone pretend Asmongold is like this far-right guy or something? He is absolutely not. He is just some guy giving his opinion.
Because it's easier to argue against him like that. "That guy is an evil bigot, therefore his opinions can't be reasonable". People dehumanise other people to make it easier for themselves to be hostile and aggressive against them.
@ivanaleksandartsanev1693 That is a very dirty, cheap and ultimately desperate thing to do.
Cause the "everything is political" people have a zero tolerance policy: if you are not 100% in line with the cult, you're an enemy to it.
@@yunusgokcen174its the same kind of people who claim Joe Rogan is right wing.
He’s not even right-wing. He’s clearly leans towards left
Dragon age was way darker then any rpg. They really turned it into a Muppet show.
14:30 He doesn't realize that isn't the same. It's like playing a game in feudal japan and you are about to eat something and a thing pops up and says "Oh, is this gluten-free?". That's the same as the immersion-breaking shit in this game.
Do you put avacaods in your feudal japan sushi roll 😂😂😂
Hopefully no dolphins had to die for the fishes I cought for my starving family...
@@molybdaen11 wait did people in feudal japan eat dolphins?
@@molybdaen11 wait did people in feudal japan eat dolphins?
@@wrathfirex lol they still eat them now... they never stopped. whales too.
Dragon Age fully committed to the Trans bit, and self-deleted.
Dragqueen's Rage: The MA'AM Guard
That's how 80% of them end so it's a very accurate and faithful representation. Very brave, or should I say, Barve
@@jesustyronechrist2330 _It's Barvin' time!_
🤣
No one would've cared if it was a good game. The writing just made them all whinny and unlikeable the entire game because it kept coming up for no reason.
this is the same guy that couldn't pass the tutorial section in metroid dread.
And the Metroid devs named that room the Jaffe Room for all eternity to remember him being trash at playing games
Holy shit the lore
LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!
He seems to be deeplywounded by this game's failure
Now I understand why he likes the combat
Dragon age was dead the moment they changed the name from dreadwolf to valeguard
"Terribly written, cringe and stupid"
Ha, he cannot even keep his lying story straight. According to him, people who don't like the game are grifters, and then he says it is "Terribly written, cringe and stupid"? "It's a young adult fantasy novel" lol, just say it sucks. What a guy.
I guess that makes him a "grifter" too. By his logic, giving your honest opinion means you can't be trusted
Calls others grifters, yet his own grifting mindset is shining through so hard with those words.
I've read better fantasy novels meant for young adults 😂
I kinda get it now. It was written by people that had HR in the same room for people that have HR in the same room.
What a freak lol, he's ignoring the problems and trying to pretend the discourse is at fault.
Reminder that this pile of garbage was already up for a GOTY nomination *the day after release* , and Space Marine 2 didn’t even get a nod.
Never question whether or not there’s an agenda at play, because there is.
Edit: seems to be some confusion amongst commenters with poor reading comprehension. I never once claimed SM2 is or should be GOTY (that goes to Wukong imo) but that it absolutely deserved the nomination over Veilguard, which it does, because Failguard is trash and SM2 is not.
and wtf would it be? online is pure trash with no content. and the game is 6 hours long. it's a shell of a game. good gameplay with no content is just as shit as content but no gameplay.
@@U5mR I played it for an hour and was bored. I honestly don't get the SM2 hype either. It's a really crummy button-masher.
@@U5mR L take. I do not care how long a game is. If I enjoy absolutely every second of the experience like I and many other's did with Space Marine 2, it is objectively a good game. If your main criticism of a game is "there isn't enough of it" that is absolutely a mark of a good game. Always leave them wanting more. Play it again, try to do thing's differently, get really good at it. Or just appreciate it for what it is. Putting a marker on how long a game needs to be for it to be considered a good game is a very slippery slope. That's how you get games that drag on far longer than they need to and diminish their own accomplishments. That's how you end up with things that are buggy messes because there wasn't enough development time to iron out all the content equally. You also are not the arbiter of what is good game length and what is not. Personally any game that goes longer than 10 hours I am typically not interested in. I have too many things that consume my time in my life as it is, I cannot devote 100 hours to any singular piece of entertainment because I will miss out on 10 other incredible things in the process.
@@_uncreditedyeah, I looked for videos talking about how lacking it was. Never found any. It could have been great too. But it's too linear, too short, and missing basic features. I will say the lack of bugs were refreshing, but again, that is easy when you consider how small the game is.
@@jonathanst89 Basic features like? I remember when people actually made their points. It's a true sequel that's bigger and better than the original, does it not have endless replay value, sure. It's not cod's endless grind, it's about fun gameplay, which I feel the operations mode fulfills the desire for more as playing well with a squad feels epic.
People need to enjoy something for once goddamn.
It's funny how they say "our games weren't made for you", but then there's apparently a 100 % overlap between the audience of the TH-cam "grifters" and their target demographic.
It's changed from a "game" to a "product". It's only about $ and trying to get new audiences. Good luck!
“Our games aren’t for you!! …but you still better buy them and like them!”
@@SpiceCh It's the "We are trying to appeal to 0.1% of prospective customers by abandoning 99.9% of customers we currently have." type logic.
Saw how that logic turned out for them when Concord and dustborn came out 😂😂. And they still complain about the people that didn't buy it.
Like these people can't pick a side or be consistent with what they want. It's unbelievable and I say we get insane asylums brought back and purge the companies.
I don't know who killed Dragon Age, but I want to shake their hand for being an angel of mercy.
"Grifters killed Dragon Age"
That table scene without anyone's input was enough to deter people from playing the game.
💯 %. I watched that scene without any commentary, and knew it was not for me. Like not at all.
Grifters tried to make Dragon Age - thats more accurate lmao
@@mauriceanderson5413 "Grifters lie and blame gamers for dragon ages failure"
The table scene + the Barf apology scene. No other context needed. Those two scenes were so cringe-inducing I couldn't even watch let them play. Had to skip through a little bit.
The only reason this guy is defending the game is BECAUSE of the LGBT message and content, he just doesn't want to be put on the Naughty List lol
Feels like the pendulum is starting to swing back tho which is interesting
@@TheTuttle99 It is, but its gonna take time. Everything already in development is going to be just like veilguard. Things that are starting production may be better. No guarantees of course, but there's a chance for the stuff that hasn't already been started.
That or he's just tired of grifters hating diversity more than Dracula hates the sun. 😂
@@ericb2103Doubtful, considering all the propaganda they are feeding children nowadays
sssshhhh you cant talk about the talmud
David Jaffe directed the very first God of War. He has fallen so hard. Guy can't even play Metroid.
he didnt achieve anything thereafter, but stuck to that glory like a super glue and paste the title on his video every now and then. his subs is 50k+ and his views is 2k 1k 10k? then he think too highly of himself...
Oh wow really? Sad…
I didn't know that man was David Jaffe.... God of war back then was so amazing. still is... The world is going to hell for real.
Was he in the "white guys for Kamala" group meeting?
@@mr.bee5225To be fair, he created an entire genre of games with Twisted Metal, as short lived that genre was. But he didn't progress past his 20s.
BG3 was ok but if you chose any dialog options that one thought would lead to deeper conversations, you were immediately hit on by the character. They need to have an option to select your characters sexuality from the get go.
4:20 so he says he put 20 hours in and "hasn't seen anything" but right after says he hasn't tried any of the romance yet. Wow crazy
to be fair , that's like baldur's gate 3.
Typical 420 attitude
he says he hasnt seen anything, and then lists a bunch of things hes seen.
I wonder why? Lol
Dudes, I might be wrong, but wasn't this guy saying that he hated how the new installments of God of War were going in a different direction of the original game? Isn't that a little hypocritical since Veilguard is NOT on the same page of the previous games?
16:13 "I was at a gay wedding in WOW in 2007. Two of my guild mates married eachother. They weren't gay IRL but in the game they WERE gay. They were REAL gay in the game...SUPER gay."
Hands down Assmon's best quote EVER.
😂
ASSmon😂😂
You know, the days when people would go into games to escape reality and be able to experiment with things they didn't want to do irl huh. Good old times i guess
Me: **inserting the HEHE BOI meme**
DITTO
"Say my name."
"Baldemort"
"You're god damn right."
baldemort is an actual youtuber though. he does 40k lore.
Peak 40k content, also the intro voice for markipliers podcast Distractable
All the so-called "grifters" did was showcase what was in the game. Focused on the stupid in the game. Focused on the preaching in the game. Let potential players know what was in the game. The game is what contributed to the downfall of Dragon Age.
Isn't this the SAME GUY who complained about how they made Kratos softer in the new GOW games??? So you can put up with a "dark" action RPG with bad dialogue, bad writing, forced LGBTQ inclusion, bland combat, etc, but Kratos can't be a good dad and a more passionate character or it ruins his franchise? Tf outta here with that. Makes it SEEM like your argument for GOW is actually based on the fact that YOU don't control it anymore. No wonder he doesn't make games anymore. Too much Twitter/Tumblr brain rot
He made the og GoW AND Twisted Metal so it tracks that he'd be mega edgy. That era of gaming never left him. To be fair, I do personally prefer og Kratos most due to TC Carson's performance and Twisted Metal Black was a childhood favorite, but David Jaffe fell off so fuckin hard, man. He could've continued to be a huge part of these franchises and Twisted Metal could've been thriving as a franchise but he left that life long ago
@@bandawin18same new kratos is lame
Can someone explain the David Jaffe Fall off to me? I never knew why he stopped making games.
Also yea, I much prefer OG gow, I dont know how people can prefer the river styx simulator that that first sequel was, didn’t even bother with Ragnarok because the combat to me was just way less fun than in the OG games and I was NOT here for visual novel GOW bs.
Jaffe is spot on about how lame Kratos is in the w0ke reboots though.
Last game flopped, didnt enjoy making games anymore i think. Enjoys podcasting and video creation more. @@djandjb1
This guy had to verbally dance for 10 mins and rub his head 36 times just to justify this game
dont forget the sniffling
LOL and he did nothing to help it either after trying to defend it.
It had all the energy of a guy explains why his wife’s boyfriend has done really good points about relationships.
I like how he doesn't even know whats good about the game, just "its not that bad" or "don't be so negative"
I would not believe a guy who claims to have loved inquisition but also says he did not even finish it even if he told me water is wet.
@@charnel8435 to be fair i like it but haven't finish it yet lol. my main issue is how he can like it and then advocate for dreadwolf (f off veilguard is a dumb name) like he points out issues that fans have goes ya ok sure....... stop hating like he knows whats wrong with the game can't defend it but goes stop being negative guys.
The simple fact of the matter is they are trying to hide their toxic content in a game now. No real normal gamer is going to invest in a game until it’s reviewed online. So straight away the pre orders are going to fall, then if there is toxic content in the game, normal gamers aren’t going to invest their hard earned money in something they don’t want to interact with or see in a game.
No, they managed to do that all fine by themselves.
This guy is trying his hardest to defend and hype up this game, but he knows it's objectively bad and unpopular so to avoid being called an idiot fanboy of the unpopular themes of this game, since he clearly knows nothing about Dragon Age as a franchise and how this game butchered the lore, he has to go about defending it in the most vague, soft and wimpy way possible.
literally every frame where he paused the video to talk,
the video during the gameplay footage
it's all glowing and gaudy blinding color effects
green, red, blue, purple
it's objectively hideous
blinding, and ugly
and that's not even the worst thing about the game
"Say my name."
"Heisengold."
"You are goddamn right."
_Heisenbold_
Asmonburg
@@OMG_ITS_NGHeisenbald*
I throught it was HeisenStein.
BALDENBURG
You tube grifters didn't kill Dragon Age Veilguard, they saved all of us gamers from suffering that crap
You would have bought it if influencers told you to? That is embarassing.
@@michaelh878 hold this L
@@michaelh878 this kindergarden logic dosent work in this situation
Grifter implies the person doesn't actually believe what they're saying.
@@michaelh878as about everything, there are good TH-camrs and bad ones, this game is trash
My mans called the game a "slightly above McDonalds meal" and chose to die on that hill.
Jaffe’s kid is trans, which is why he’s defensive about this stuff.
Totally makes sense now.
He seems like a nice guy though despite his terrible views on modern gaming 😅
That doesn't make any sense then. Unless he doesn't know his child at all.
Last thing I want as someone who's trans is wanting to see my problems being written like a caricature straight out of circus by people that not only don't understand it, but try to appeal to people like me by... reminding me about my irl problems while I try to relax and escape from them in games. It does more harm than good to trans people in general because such garbage makes people think that all of us are irrational crying clowns that want to see this badly portrayed bs in every piece of media.
@@GurubyThe1yeah when we know its only a vast majority that are that, not everyone! Just like 80%
There it is
I just saw an article titled "If you're unhappy with Dragon Age: The Veilguard, you've only got yourselves to blame"
I mean, in a weird way, they're right. You made the mistake of getting it.
Jaffe used to be based af, not leaning left or right and had an open mind, talking to all kinds of people on his stream. Seeing that Jaffe blocked Asmon preemptively is sad man.
Being a centrist isn’t based. It’s the opposite of based. Not being afraid of being right wing is based.
@@cococock2418wrong, im not religious, im pro choice, i believe in free health care, i believe (to a certain extent) in climate change, i believe in a safety net and financial help from the government for poor people, i believe in government regulations however I absolutely hate identity politics, i hate wokism, i hate political correctness. I believe in freedom of speech, what does that make me? Politically homeless? Cos that ain't right wing or left wing.
@@cococock2418 Having a herd mentality that’s been programmed into you by the internet is not based
@@DoubleO88Certainly not based.
@@cococock2418 That thinking is exactly what brought us here. Both sides offer good and bad things, and when you prevent yourself from seeing that you become part of a blind cult that's resistant to good ideas.
I stopped taking this guy seriously 3 minutes in. At 5:30 he admits he's played 1 dragon age game prior- and didn't even finish it.
This dude isn't even a casual gamer. My grift broker is tingling
That company deserves to go under, so good to see this games numbers drop.
is this just the pattern nowadays?
> release bad game
> it has very woke elements
> prior experience with other bad "woke" games makes players wary
> game fails because it's bad and nobody wants to play
> game is also poorly written and has woke elements needlessly added
> journalists, game devs, and other influencers attack gamers for being every ist and phobe and blame that for the game failing
> rinse and repeat until we're all insane (we might already be there)
>rinse and repeat as they try to gaslight, but instead slowly go bankrupt, then whine online that they lost their job/company went bust because of all those "horrible toxic ist-phobic gamers."
FTFY 😄
While also guilt tripping the audience and telling audiences to not buy their game since it's not for them and only for the minority target their trying to get.
We all saw how dustborn and Concord turned out.
Stop swapping 'wary' and 'weary'.
@@SamHell-wr8bi fixed pfffft
If all gamers are ists and phobes it's time to start making games for ists and phobes... but they aren't even smart enough to do that.
Dragon age origins is from 2009. It’s still a superior game to the new one in every single way.
DA:O is still a superior game to all the other DA games as well. That’s how good it was.
Absolutely not in every single way! Woke age has better... resolution.
@@ermac7636 They just refused to make a good one after this.
DA2 was a cash grab.
DA:I was a pseudo MMO
DA:VG is a pseude Live service Game.
B-but it has hair physics!
And it wasn't even anything special.
"TH-cam grifters killed Dragon Age."
Asmongold: (blushes)
“Grifters” are not “influencing.” They simply provide information about the product that the legacy reviewers try to hide from you. Then it’s up to the gamer to decide if they still want to pay £70 for the product or not.
27:27 dude just full on copy and pasted the comment, at least paraphrase or credit the original guy or smth
@@DankWand woah whutt? people copy comments? crazy man, what a world we live in
"Grifter" implies the person doesn't actually believe what they're saying and is just engagement farming. Its dishonest to call legitimate critics that.
WAIT WHAT those games are SEVENTY POUNDS???
Bruh, you´d think they ´d at least slow down for the UK but goddamn dude
@@DankWand whoa spreading the message so others can see it? Whoa. What a world we live in
10:40 Its not a conspiracy, its a religious faith. Conspiracy implies they do it secretly when they do it openly. You don't need to have secret meetings when everyone already has been inculcated into the tenets of the faith, and purged if they disagree.
5:25 "The only other Dragon Age game I've played was Inquisition."
That explains it.
Funny enough, a lot of the "grifters" that are on TH-cam have experience with the other games in the series. But hey Jaffe, don't let the fact that you are talking about things you haven't experienced get in the way of your rage videos.
And he didn't even finish it.
He didnt even play inquisitions apparently, as he did not even know solas's name..
Inquisition was a flop, i remember having a weird sleepy feeling all the time. It was a completely soulless game.
@@rafal2903 Yep, I thought it was boring as well and I'm still pissed about the hero from Origins being erased from existence in the series, imagine if they did that with Commander Shepard after Mass Effect 1, he/she dies and is only mentioned a couple times later. I remember about 2 years after DA:I came out they admitted it was a flop and that the first one was the only successful one financial-wise. Interestingly enough you cannot find those articles or final sales numbers for Origins anymore on the internet, at least I cannot. I can only find sales numbers from 3 months after Origins came out, which were GOOD 3.2 million copies sold in 3 months. And these lying POS are now saying Inquisition sold "12 million copies." These sick people need to be excised from gaming altogether
3:50 He shouldn't say that stuff isn't there only to turn around and say it is there IF you look for it.
Which is it? That stuff doesn't exist, or the stuff does exist and is actively ignored.
As a diehard DA fan no, BioWare killed it on their own 100% and also scammed the fans, we should unite and sue for false advertisement.
Saw that with Angry Joe, as he is a diehard DA fan and was completely devastated by how bad it was. He even struggled to say anything positive. As for myself, I just enjoyed the dumpster fire of the game via other live streams, almost as hilariously bad as SW Outlaws.
You don't even own this game. Be delulu somewhere else.
@@hilo_skwhy would we own the game. Its trash. I saw PLENTY of playthroughs. Dialogue and story is not for me. 😂😂😂
@@brianherrera1390 But at the same time, you have all been crying about this game's "wokeness" since day 1 :D. Move on!
@@hilo_sk You seem upset that we aren't in the cult.
We can help you escape, you know...
Dragon Age is dead, dying, What i dont get is people who want to be buried with it
Let's not be so rude as to stop them from making a Mistake.
To be fair all this dragon age talk got me playing origins again
White knights can't help themselves. _tips fedora_ "M'lady"
@ScootsMcPoot same and god it's such a good game
@@ScootsMcPootbro I played origins again too, and man the dialogue is sooooooo good I have no words for it
Grifters grifting about grifting...griftception. Jokes aside though how can they ignore such blatant irony?
Griftception 👍 imma use that one in the future, thanks! Lolol
Because they are evil. That is why.
i thought Taash was a very well done character. They were unlikable, annoying, cringe and fit perfectly in this mediocre at best dragon age themed game
Man, he only played Inquisition before - and he didn't even finish it?
He thinks he is more qualified to talk about this than anyone else?
In Veliguard’s subreddit I wrote a comment responding to such claims:
“When you make a great game everyone will shut up and play it. It’s as simple as that”
I was banned for that comment 💀
DM if you want a screenshot of the ban message and the thread
Sounds like Reddit tbh
Reddit is full of shit
They wanted to make a real dystopia.
Haha that's why I love reddit, all sorts of people there, a war starts over simple things.
you know what is annoying the most for me? They make games that are both bad AND woke. After that, when you tell them that this game is bad because it is really BAD (with wokenes or without, it is bad), they tell you in return that you only hate the game because you are against gay people or something
UPD
I thought about it a little longer. In fact, they use wokenes as a defense against any criticism, even if it is completely objective criticism. I hope that the success of such projects as Space Marines 2, Stalker 2, Stellar Blade, etc. and the complete failure of "western" projects will finally make "western" developers understand that this no longer works
UPD2
And yes, there are some games with some "wokenes" elements such as Cyberpunk and BG3, I’m wondering if ubisoft developers has ever thought about why no one hates these games for wokenes, it seems to me that they haven’t thought about anything at all
Even when you question the wokeness to try to make a sincere discussion around it like asking why is this in this game that has nothing to do with the game. They will automatically think you are against LGBTQ and call you every buzzword word.
Tbf they went for esg angle for funding cuz they're not confident the games will sell on their own merit
That has been their strategy for the last decade
Celeste was woke as fuck, but it was a good game, that is the reason nobody complained about it. Fact is that people are not tired of "woke" games, but of BAD games
Exactly, bg3 was also some degree of woke but it was a great game.
13:07 you can't force people to like something. It gives quite the creepy vibes. "You know you want it..."
How does an older guy like this speak like a mid 2000s teenage girl? “Like ya know, whatever”, “I mean, like, come on, ya know”? Bro can’t even speak a straight sentence without it.
Straight up sounds like Lisa Simpson trying to fit in with the older teens
Board game couldn't ease the alzheimer
"How do you do fellow kids" ultimate vibe
Confrontation scares people like him. He's salty about it, too, which means he's too dumb to avoid the very thing that scares him.
If trump can be president speaking an incohesive English it doesn't really fucking matter how they talk 😂
I don't think youtubers ruined the game. They just got the word out the game was shit before a bunch of people could waste their money on it.
Jaffe and his allies can't fathom that people just watch gameplay and form their own opinion: "This is awful, I'll skip it."
They also fail to realize that if buying and playing the game was a requirement for each person to review and decide, what's the purpose of review? The sale has been made. They are making the argument that only works if there is a totally free demo to try.
I have yet to see a clip of Taash that doesn't make them(?) seem like an unhinged man child, written by someone who would struggle to land a Webtoon original. The rest of the cast is obnoxiously and poorly written too, but nobody talks about them because of how aggressively awful the writing for Taash is.
But no, it's balding-mon Gold driving away sales.
Fuck, that was David Jaffe? Dude, way to burn a legacy down.
What makes DAV worse is that the writing is straight up just awful. Someonemade a video and rewrote Taash's scene of coming out to their mom and it sounded so much fucking better without losing the emotional weight that the original couldn't fucking muster. TH-camrs didn't kill DA, it was them. The writing team. The game director. Their fucking bosses. I hate how the story for dreadwolf and the concept arts clearly had a great idea behind it but nah, they wanted to just do their own shit. Yeah, i'm still mad
Which channel? This sounds interesting to watch
Here's a better and more profitable idea: how about just not including the worst companion to ever grace an Obsidian title in your game. Seems crazy I know. "Owning the Chuds" is the priority after all.
Everyone on TH-cam should take a bow. If this is true, then you’ve performed a public service. You have slayed the dragon.
there are dragon?
9:30 whaaaat? You mean the game that pushes trans ideation also seems like it’s geared to visually and intellectually be for kids?…. Of course they wouldn’t do that…
Soon as this dude came out with “ happy Thanksgiving… if you celebrate” I immediately knew what kind of person this is going to be.
" I didn't finish Inquisition."I bet you he won't finish Veilguard either. 22 hours ain't nothing in an RPG game.
22 hours means he is on the first map of the game and with how little he knows about the games history/story he isn't even paying attention.
Which showcases that the only real reason he is defending it like many others who scream "YOU MUST PLAY TO TALK." Basically is only about ideology.
Same thing happened with Saints Row 2022 and quite a bit other games. These people aren't gamers they are grifters that want to push agendas.
"This is my personal GOTY, best game ever, 10/10... no I'm not going to play through it, it's boring and annoying ass sh**."
I've also heard numerous people saying (and I agree) that the game plays better at the beginning bc you still have the illusion that it's building up to something. Kinda like the Haven period in Inquisition that's mostly a long tutorial and then you get to Skyhold and the game opens up massively with roleplay and choices. And in Veilguard the more you play and realize "this is it, this is all it's gonna be until the end of the campaign" the more depressed you get.
Played for 22 hours just to say he played for 22 hours
@gucciguy3408 by his logic then I'll say "I watched 3 to 4 different youtubers live stream the game and had to turn the difficulty down cuz it was boring, bland, spongey enemy and they completed the game with everyone dead" so far I've had more hours than him by watching the live streams.
"SAY MY NAME"
Asmongold.
"You're Goddamn right."
The irony of this quote is that Asmongold doesn't even know the name of the guy he's reacting to. 😂 (Nor does Asmongold know WHO he is, HOW old he is, or WHAT he's done for gaming 😂😬)
@@flaminghead1vawhat has he done for gaming
@flaminghead1va he doesn't seem worth knowing honestly
@@justinmc415 How the mighty have fallen...
Fun fact: DA: The Veilguard has a lower 24 h peak on Steam than Skyrim right now. Let that sink in.
ooooooof...
Maybe on there next re-release they could do better.
There's a reason there's a very much alive, funded by gamers, modding scene for Skyrim 13 years after its release, while a lot of these "competitors" fade into obscurity months after release. The next one in that line is going to be Avowed.
Skyrim brought more to gaming
@@threestars2164 modders brought more to gaming.
@@ericb2103 hell yes they did
Guy played 22 hours and doesn't even know the plot is about the ancient gods trying to tear down the veil to release the blight, and that's why they are called... the Veilguard
David Jaffe? THE David Jaffe that created Twisted Metal? THAT David Jaffe? This actually makes me sad...so sad to see...
His successful games came from wanting to make things that were FUN and focused on ENTERTAINING the audience, not preaching to them.
That David Jaffe would hate this dude. He's like the Kevin Smith of vidya.
@@PeroCat This is actually what happens to a lot of these 35-50 year old developers or middle aged parents/uncles/aunts, they get sentimentally captured by a close friend/relative of theirs, and their friend/relative are usually young, naïve and mentally ill. When that happens, your empathy receptor overloads, and you want to catch a grenade for them to the ends of the earth. As a result, they create this safe space for these friends/relatives as a means to shield them from potential harm.
@@zzz66688 They also spend an insane amount of time watching mainstream media like TV and believe it 100%, never question it, never do personal research, don't use online. They are completely brainwashed by the narrative.
Created Twisted Metal and God of War
3:11 Asmo win but at what cost? 71 hour of his life thrown into the trash...
Only 71? That’s nothing for asmon
Jokes aside tho he made ton of money from playing it
well. those kind of games are good for streamers. they are so bad and cringe, it makes content itself. content where you laugh at the game
I mean he spent how many years playing WoW. 71 hours is literally a blink of the eye.
A win is a still a win 😂
These poor mega corporations being victimized by TH-camrs. Thank goodness we have brave white knights to come to the rescue of these companies.
I think a lot of people like to blame the game being 'woke' but BG3 proved that isn't the problem. Having more options and choices isn't the problem. Bad writing is the problem, end of.
I don't get why my fellow gamers get so heated about options existing, no one is forcing you to play a non-binary character, it's just an option that exists. Taking that option away isn't going to make Veilguard a good game.
*I’ve been playing Dragon Age since I was a kid with my PS3!*
*That Game is NOT a Dragon Age game!!* 😡
R.I.P. Dragon Age 😔
It is the same as inquisition.
@@michaelh878no it's not inquisition had great writing and some good characters and it actually looks better
@@michaelh878maybe if i was blind and had severe brain damage, yeah i could see it being the same as inquisition.
@@Soulreactions hell nah inquisition was ass 😂😂😂 origins dlc was better than the entirety of inquisition
Steam Charts :
Failguard : 9,396 players
Witcher 3 : 19,844 Players
These numbers don’t lie, yet tells a rather compelling story.
Edit : Further Elaboration is apparently needed, so as with all Single Player Games with said short Life-Span. Hence my Original Post was merely measuring said concurrent in matters of time zones. If one would pay attention, by using Steam Charts as a universal metric. It took 7th of June (2015) for Witcher 3 to fall off to the 55k Benchmark. It Took DAV, a mere week about 10th November of a drastic reduction of 61k. That's essentially 1.9/2 by merely comparing Witcher 3 7th June player base, with a recent release of DAV is baffling to be sure. Naturally whatever conclusions people want to come up with these analysis, is based on individualism of opinions.
BG3: 64,229 players
@@anomanderrake2947yeah but W3 is even older
Stardew Valley peaked at 104,521 today. It's just too damn funny that a game as old as Stardew, which is just 2D, peaks at more players 8 years after release than Failguard managed to reach as its max player number. Terraria had 48,000 today, released in 2011.
Even skyrim has 23,072 players and the game released in 2011 lmao
Sad thing is Witcher 4 will be in the same category as Vailguard.
On Twitter he was like “What is woke about this game? Clearly articulate to me.” Someone did that, and he completely ignored and disengaged. He’s an industry tool trying to be relevant.
I’m 41 and not balding. Must be why I don’t agree with David.
But literally almost every Taash side quest is about her being non binary and trying to get peoples approval of it.
David Jaffe is hilarious. He thinks that people will take into consideration the opinion of a guy who was stuck on Metroid Dread for 45 minutes and then got mad at the game because he couldn't figure out he needed to shot part of the ceiling.
guy think he is relevant and stuck in his glory of the past.
45 minutes? 😆
That's longer than Dean Takahashi's Cuphead and DOOM moments combined!
@LibraritheWizardOfficial exactly
Wait what?
2:08 - "Say my name. Say it."
"Asmongold."
"You're goddamn right."
Gotta love how nowadays any dissenting opinion on shit like this is apparently "grifting". I saw the gameplay footage, listened to the writing in the cutscenes, and decided against this game. Darn grifters manipulating me into not liking Veilguard by... showing me their gameplay footage!
When every video someone makes is about woke game, bad, non-woke game, good, you don't think they have realized those are the videos that make them money and that is why they do it?
@@michaelh878it's called pattern recognition, kiddo.
@@michaelh878 I would personally find it very difficult to make "woke game bad" videos without companies releasing bad, woke games.
@@michaelh878 have you realized why those particular videos get so many views? It’s because a huge number of gamers have those opinions.
@Karathos Missing the point.
"Asmongold the Dragon Slayer"
Dope title dude, different meaning but still a cool title
This guy was pivotal in creating the original God of War, but we see how age has made him lose all his testosterone and now he is all soft modern.
Let us also not forget that the Metroid devs named a room in Metroid Dread the Jaffe Room (this guy's name is Jaffe) because he was filtered out in that room. All he had to do was shoot a destroyable ceiling/wall (an incredibly common mechanic in Metroid games when you find a "dead end"). His meltdown about the poor game design of Metroid Dread was so legendary even the devs came to mock him.
It's sad isn't it, how someone as a chad several decades ago has become this so soft of an old man.
He also made Twisted Metal and Twisted Metal Black.
And the ultimate blasphemy... wearing a DnD shirt.
"Why can't Metroid crawl?!"
Goes to show that he doesnt really deserve the credit we gave to him on those old classics.
"I've only played Inquisition and I didn't finish it" sounds to me like he can't say shit he wasn't there for the actual good games and he didn't finish the mediocre one.
Just listening to him you can tell he knows nothing about the lore
@@shinian6523 Not just the lore. He doesn't know much about the games in general. Didn't play 1 or 2, didn't finish 3, and isn't even halfway through 4. Yea...truly an authority on the series... /s
I played the first one for about 2 hours and I didn't even need to do that to see this game looks like ass. It looks like a mobile game and EA made it, what else could you need to know?
@@Sanquinity It almost feels like he's a grifter.
I really hate this passive agressive talk that david have, every time hes like, "if you dont like thats fine, BUT the game is good, there no way the game is bad, but if you dont like thats fine", I HATE THIS KIND OF SPEECH!!!
Maybe he's just mad he cant get a refund anymore. There are people like that who need to justify their purchases after getting buyers remorse.
Game is average by today's game standards. But comparing it too past Dragon Age games or even games of that era yeah this game is below average in my opinion.
asmondgold is known for that too
@@TheBf666 can't remember the last time asmon tried to take my money from me in exchange for a garbage rip-off of a product that no one wants to buy.
"the game is very bad but people i dont like also thinks the game is very bad "