@@pizzabeerd I truly did think about it but I didn’t want to make a trip to the craft store for the edible spray paint knowing I had DayJob meetings the next morning 😂
You know what's really crazy to think about? Just 3.5 months BEFORE Metal Gear V and Mad Max released, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt dropped. And while I was so engrossed in TW3, I had at least gotten somewhat familiar with MGSV thanks in no small part to Quiet. Mad Max just really didn't even try to market to us 😭
@@LootsMcGoots I fully agree that the marketing was either drowned out or barely there in the first place (outside of instances like mine where my whole workday was full of it) You’re also reminding me that “holy crap 2015 was a banger year for video games”
It is 4 am as I am typing this... first of all nice video. I'm not entirely sure this is the mad max game I'm thinking of, but I remember hearing about a mad max game that a lot of people were really hyping up many years back now. However when the game actually came out, I never even looked at footage of the game because the people that I trusted to look at games and review them and give me good feedback all told me the same thing. "Within 2, maybe 3 hours you have seen the entire gameplay loop, you have seen effectively all the content of the game. You run around the map, do quick missions, grab stuff and then you leave to another section of the map to do it all over again." At that time that was honestly a pretty damming statement about the game. Obviously these days we have seen standards drop far far below the simple "eh game didn't have a lot of variety." but back then that was all it took to doom a game to being a second or even third class citizen in the gaming industry. With the hindsight of almost a decade we can say it at least is a fully functional game, it isn't a game that came out and then actively had the devs suck the fun out of it because the game is a live service and they need to keep things "balanced." and I don't think they really promised anything they didn't deliver on. It just didn't live up to a lot of peoples expectations or hopes. Personally based on the little I've seen of the game from this video I definitely wouldn't get it. As someone that puts significant chunks of time into games I really like, the lack of variety is a massive problem. I'm also not a fan of literally any of the super hero games and that combat style/system is one of the reasons why. I think I can comfortably stamp it "not for me." Still I do see what you mean about the car combat, that looked nice and I kind of almost wish we could get an updated Twisted Metal game with slightly more realistic and chonky car combat like that. God I miss Twisted Metal... I am so fucking old T_T
@@LagunaFox this is beautifully coherent for a 4am write up! I think, knowing your specific play style and preference, you’re right - it’s mostly not your cup of tea. But I think Mad Max is now ironically benefitting from open world bloat fatigue. The map is large but not oppressively so. The game being shorter actually works to its favor and it doesn’t get caught up in the more modern need to “never end” Live service has become a stain on the industry and I think the resurgence in favor for shorter games or at least games with all of their content baked in and not pay walled is a direct response to the state of what AAA keeps rolling the dice and busting on
What a wild ride this one was! Ha ha oh god, Spooky’s jokes really changed me
@@n0nder you’re a legend - thank you for fighting through the puns
For many reasons I wasn’t aware of this game till I saw Spooky play it recently. I got it and absolutely loved it.
@@Oldschool369p you played the hell out of it and that was super validating
Half expected you to appear covered in white paint with a shaved head and chrome mouth at some point in this video. There's always next time!
That would have been so great
@@pizzabeerd I truly did think about it but I didn’t want to make a trip to the craft store for the edible spray paint knowing I had DayJob meetings the next morning 😂
YOOOO WE GOT A VIDEO BEFORE HE COMES BACK TO US!!!
And probably at least one more!
Mad james is back ya'll
@@RallonWolfheartx WITNESS ME
Um, but I don't know what I get at Taco Bell
@@Eirein77 you had a chance recently to change that but you didn’t wanna roll the dice with fate smh
You can eat me like a taco, baby don’t worry.
^that comment is for @eirein77
#carpg
I felt very clever
Very clever Easter egg hidden around 2:00😂
@@Donemessedup how does he get away with this stuff 😂
You know what's really crazy to think about? Just 3.5 months BEFORE Metal Gear V and Mad Max released, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt dropped.
And while I was so engrossed in TW3, I had at least gotten somewhat familiar with MGSV thanks in no small part to Quiet. Mad Max just really didn't even try to market to us 😭
@@LootsMcGoots I fully agree that the marketing was either drowned out or barely there in the first place (outside of instances like mine where my whole workday was full of it)
You’re also reminding me that “holy crap 2015 was a banger year for video games”
First off not only did I buy it and play it but I loved it at the time. I keep meaning to go back and finish it lol like most of my games
@@ark_os_v1 the backlog never shrinks unless we roll credits on stuff! (I rarely succeed)
It is 4 am as I am typing this... first of all nice video. I'm not entirely sure this is the mad max game I'm thinking of, but I remember hearing about a mad max game that a lot of people were really hyping up many years back now. However when the game actually came out, I never even looked at footage of the game because the people that I trusted to look at games and review them and give me good feedback all told me the same thing. "Within 2, maybe 3 hours you have seen the entire gameplay loop, you have seen effectively all the content of the game. You run around the map, do quick missions, grab stuff and then you leave to another section of the map to do it all over again."
At that time that was honestly a pretty damming statement about the game. Obviously these days we have seen standards drop far far below the simple "eh game didn't have a lot of variety." but back then that was all it took to doom a game to being a second or even third class citizen in the gaming industry. With the hindsight of almost a decade we can say it at least is a fully functional game, it isn't a game that came out and then actively had the devs suck the fun out of it because the game is a live service and they need to keep things "balanced." and I don't think they really promised anything they didn't deliver on. It just didn't live up to a lot of peoples expectations or hopes.
Personally based on the little I've seen of the game from this video I definitely wouldn't get it. As someone that puts significant chunks of time into games I really like, the lack of variety is a massive problem. I'm also not a fan of literally any of the super hero games and that combat style/system is one of the reasons why. I think I can comfortably stamp it "not for me." Still I do see what you mean about the car combat, that looked nice and I kind of almost wish we could get an updated Twisted Metal game with slightly more realistic and chonky car combat like that. God I miss Twisted Metal... I am so fucking old T_T
@@LagunaFox this is beautifully coherent for a 4am write up!
I think, knowing your specific play style and preference, you’re right - it’s mostly not your cup of tea.
But I think Mad Max is now ironically benefitting from open world bloat fatigue. The map is large but not oppressively so. The game being shorter actually works to its favor and it doesn’t get caught up in the more modern need to “never end”
Live service has become a stain on the industry and I think the resurgence in favor for shorter games or at least games with all of their content baked in and not pay walled is a direct response to the state of what AAA keeps rolling the dice and busting on
I don’t play RPG games but CARPG count me in
@@Iamthemam86 it’s right up your alley!