I was in the first place for the whole second race , but it turns out the finish point was next to the start so I probably never even left the spawn lol
Astro Bot is just a good game, the ad part doesn’t really factor in; my girlfriend doesn’t like or play video games but she really likes Astro Bot. Which both shows that the references aren’t important and that Astro Bot is so much better than most games that it can get non-gamers into gaming. Astro Bot executes on a classic concept better than anyone else has in the modern era. It’s just a hyper-polished game that puts fun first - it also uses the computational power of modern hardware better than any other game this year. It’s definitely game of the year for me and the only thing that could even be considered close is Balatro but I think Balatro is a less important game than Astro Bot for the industry.
FRENCH show in my JAPANESE animation marble race!? Absolutely despicable! Woe how the Joe has fallen! Can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm UNSUBSCRIBING, goodbye totally official Joseph Anderson account that uploads daily.
Only part of Astrobot that felt egregious to me is a certain ending sequence, but it was also very well done like the rest of the game so I found it easy to forgive. Surprised Joe likes it to much though, my only complaint is that almost every bot feels like a Mario Odyssey moon (just kinda sitting there with no additional challenge) and he seems to REALLY hate that about Odyssey.
I think the difference imo is that with Odyssey moon collecting feels a lot more like “the point” of the game, whereas much less so in Astro Bot. If you removed the moons in Odyssey you’d be left with a bunch of empty open zone levels and relatively uninteresting sequences compared to Mario games of the past. If you did the same for prior 3d mario titles I think most of the feeling of reward would still be intact, as each collectible in those older games is more individually demanding. I don’t think the moons being so important to the reward feeling of playing Odyssey is the problem, the problem is that without them the “challenges” required to get them feel hollow. With Astro, if you removed all the bots you’d still have a lot of pretty fun levels and the reward for beating levels being unlocking more levels. The bots are more comparable to something like the green stars from 3d world where they’re there to pace progression more than be “the point” in themselves. If you replaced the green stars with little figurines of Mario characters then you’d basically have Astro’s bots (pun intended).
Nodja you are a treasure
I was in the first place for the whole second race , but it turns out the finish point was next to the start so I probably never even left the spawn lol
speed demon editing wtf
Thank you SO much for these edits. I love Joes streams, but all the dead time makes them hard for me to watch.
Look ma! 19:14 Im on the stream!
No way! You're the guy from Joseph Anderson's Stream!! Huge Fan btw
Astro Bot is just a good game, the ad part doesn’t really factor in; my girlfriend doesn’t like or play video games but she really likes Astro Bot. Which both shows that the references aren’t important and that Astro Bot is so much better than most games that it can get non-gamers into gaming.
Astro Bot executes on a classic concept better than anyone else has in the modern era. It’s just a hyper-polished game that puts fun first - it also uses the computational power of modern hardware better than any other game this year. It’s definitely game of the year for me and the only thing that could even be considered close is Balatro but I think Balatro is a less important game than Astro Bot for the industry.
FRENCH show in my JAPANESE animation marble race!?
Absolutely despicable!
Woe how the Joe has fallen!
Can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm UNSUBSCRIBING, goodbye totally official Joseph Anderson account that uploads daily.
Love the Joe streams where he doesn't play the game for 2 hours and calls it an "intro"
My onions! 😢
when does joe get knack
1:41:09
I was enjoying the Marble steam but lost interested with the Astro Bot intermission
Only part of Astrobot that felt egregious to me is a certain ending sequence, but it was also very well done like the rest of the game so I found it easy to forgive. Surprised Joe likes it to much though, my only complaint is that almost every bot feels like a Mario Odyssey moon (just kinda sitting there with no additional challenge) and he seems to REALLY hate that about Odyssey.
I think the difference imo is that with Odyssey moon collecting feels a lot more like “the point” of the game, whereas much less so in Astro Bot. If you removed the moons in Odyssey you’d be left with a bunch of empty open zone levels and relatively uninteresting sequences compared to Mario games of the past. If you did the same for prior 3d mario titles I think most of the feeling of reward would still be intact, as each collectible in those older games is more individually demanding. I don’t think the moons being so important to the reward feeling of playing Odyssey is the problem, the problem is that without them the “challenges” required to get them feel hollow.
With Astro, if you removed all the bots you’d still have a lot of pretty fun levels and the reward for beating levels being unlocking more levels. The bots are more comparable to something like the green stars from 3d world where they’re there to pace progression more than be “the point” in themselves. If you replaced the green stars with little figurines of Mario characters then you’d basically have Astro’s bots (pun intended).
@@grasshopper9220 That's a fair point, and would explain why Joe seemed to like the open-ended levels the least.