Just a reminder, the reason the main character doesn’t trust the robot character is not because of past trauma with machines or anything, but because she can’t use her powers to manipulate the bot until he receives human emotion. She hates robots cause she can’t manipulate them.
I mean, dude, now that you said that... that's FKN GENIUS... Here's why... One of the longest running questions of my life, as someone who has been messing with "tech" for the past 40 years. WHY DO (MOST) WOMEN (HISTORICALLY) NOT LIKE USING TECH? I remember for years knowing so many women that would refuse to use Google, or any of that, and I remember this one time a drunk lady at a bar was like "I'll tell ya why!" and I was like "Ok, finally, here it is!" and she goes "Because I can't hit it if it makes me mad!" and I was like "What?" NOW I GET IT!!!! HOLY SHITE!!!! Bro these devs are genius, most women do do that... And they get mad if they can't manipulate a thing, that's why they don't much care for most "things" lmfao dude you're a fkn genius!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@ayeyuh6920unfortunately most of the coverage of this game has been done by right wing grifters, so expect people like that in the comments. Edit: not responding to some of y’all in the comments because it’s pointless to argue over what I wrote vs what you misinterpreted. Read my comment again and you will realize we have not disagreed or come to any reason for disagreement.
Having been around many folks like the dev team and writers, and that I'd also be labeled as such to many here, this is how many go about personal relationships. But for me, I can't have the constant competition and nastiness. I've also had this from people.of other standings as well, so it's not just due to base ideology, but something else
Hot garbage written by talentless millennials with 0 life experience, and somehow even less friends. Soon, this thing will be used in the industry as a reference point to teach student game devs what a game shouldn’t be.
@@Americanbadashhthat has to be cope my guy. It is absolutely insane a SINGLE PLAYER GAME got ONE player in the world, some atleast have 100 or 1000 depending on time since release
0:29 i can explain this. The developers were banning and reporting anyone who left a negative review. So the only way to make the messages stay with the negative review. Was to put a thumbs up. So 100% of those comments. Are actually trashing the game
it's a "fully autonomous" truck which only drives because it'd be too convenient to have crash report software. it's a pretentious hipster simulator; just like all the other schlock.
@@followeroftheprince Each character had an intro card which shows their age. Almost all the characters, or at least Pax is 33, Sai is 31, Noam is 37, Theo is 42, and Ziggy is 31. The youngest are Eli and Ophelia and the girl.
I’m gonna be honest here; the overarching narrative of being a touring startup/ garage band with special powers/ abilities isn’t THAT bad of an idea. Someone having power of the voice (Dragonborn from Skyrim🤔) being the bands singer, being able to enchant people to gain band popularity seems like a unique story that could be very interesting if done right…… I like the break in gameplay where you’re playing front of a crowd and writing a song….. However, literally EVERYTHING about the execution is fuggin ABYSMAL. The writing, the gameplay, the situations, the combat, the characters. Absolutely atrocious
And the plot too... They could have had some moment of reflection that maybe What they're doing is wrong. Or the devs recognize you're playing as the villain by the end. But they believe you're the Hero and "we must brainwash and gaslight people to deprogram them so they do what we want." Doesnt raise any flags
@ EXACTLY. Kinda have a morale system ala RDR2, mass effect, or InFamous, where people react differently to you based on your character’s actions. Maybe even be able to change the genre/ style/ tone of music to darker, bleak, more nihilistic tones for consistently choosing morally questionable decisions, and more upbeat and optimistic tones for making honorable choices.
yeah the concept itself is pretty good and in fact some of the concept that Dustborn has while not outright 1/1 has been done by other game in a far more competent way like a group of friend goes on a roadtrip again authoratian goverment? That's Final Fantasy 15. Character with the power to change people mind who use it to fight against corrupt authority figure and even among those who use the same power? that's persona 5. A story about powerful singer who can unite the entire race into a hivemind while addressing societal divide, culture and discrimination? that's Ar Tonelico heck persona 4 dancing all night is about character having psych battle with dancing
Unitonically true. That idea would've been made into an amazing game in the mid to late ps3 and early ps4 eras. Basically in this world every band is made up of peoplw woth special powers and they compete for fame with each other, a rhytm game where you could sprinkle some more stuff in in order to get money and make you own set be better, have better equipment and such, imagine that.
This feels like a game designed by people who have never had a healthy relationship, and can’t even conceive of one. The Joss Whedon-esque “sassy = funny” dialogue fails to break up the tension because it’s just more conflict. We’re supposed to like these characters? They don’t even like each other.
Yeah, but you forgot to add they are the reason they've never had a healthy relationship, and are too busy blaming that on everyone and thing else under the sun to realize it. "Eternal victims", nothing is ever their fault.
It feels that way because this game is literal propaganda funded by multiple governments, with the explicit purpose of pushing a left-wing agenda. It was not designed to tell a story. It was designed to brainwash you. This is what left-wing people actually think normal people think, talk like, and treat others like. This is what the left literally wants.
Ok ok. But the biggest insult. We can ever give to the game. It was so unliked nobody made Rule 34 or any hentai of it. Its officially so bad that nobody even said "would"
There are 5 results for this game...1 of which is AI, so 4 total There is over 50 more results for Concord...than of this game. Jesus christ they REALLY failed hard.
@@matthewchristian9591 You need something like 243212-proof spirits to play this. Or just straight methanol, at least with the latter you won't have to see it, the downside is never seeing again though so not worth the prep to play it XD
This feels like a parody that a conservative studio would make as a parody of "modern gaming". Everything in it feels like a parody. The whole "escaping to Canada" thing, the villainous guards saying stuff about not being political, the consistent use of keywords used on Twitter, EVERYTHING. I have to wonder if it actually is, somehow.
@@AlbinoMothDragon Maybe they're just... playing the role really well??? Probably not, but when reality is this hard to distinguish from satire, you know you're fucked.
It's like that one video where a group of British comedians are convinced that Bibleman was so bad that it must've been made by anti-Christians to make Christianity look bad.
No, from what I read it's developed by a company in Norway. So this is what Europeans thought would resonate with Americans/Canadians. Just completely out of touch.
I’m sure if the creators of South Park games were given the same basics of style, game play/powers, and maybe story theme of this game, there version would probably sell a whole lot better.
Well it does equal good design if there's passion but here it just looks like they were using the overwatch 2 diversity bingo card that no one asks for other then these self righteous devs
@@InfiniteDeckhand To be fair, having a socially inept cast of characters could be made interesting if handled properly (I know you meant the game itself, I'm just saying it could work with characters that have social difficulties), or at least bearable if the rest of the game makes up for it. From what I can see, neither is the case in this game.
A game with a colorful stylized world, psychic abilities, the power of influence, and negativity demons...Yeah, I know that. It's The World Ends With You.
That's insulting... The World Ends With You have an amazing soundtrack... This thing? Even calling it scratching noises is an offense to scratching noises...
Honestly watching this I was beginning to question if some of it was, like if one of them was completely serious and then one was making jokes like what if we use words to ‘trigger’ them as a superpower and the other one was like yeah! That’s a great idea lol
One of the most unintentionally funny moments of the game is the flashback to Pax as a kid on the slide with a skateboard, as you can see that her adoptive mother is missing a leg. That's right, ladies and gentlemen, we have a black, amputee lesbian! It's like they are literally trying to check every box they can! Though the funniest joke about this game is that the game director said he was purging the toxic elements of the Dustborn community. What community? You couldn't even get 100 players concurrently on Steam during its lifetime, and when you had a booth at Tokyo Game Show, it was literally just you playing it while everyone else avoided it like the plague! Still hilarious to point and laugh, though.
@@followeroftheprince far as i can tell they where pulling thst out of there ass i cant find any info that supports there claim devs cant even take negitive reviews down off there games they can only dispute them then steam decides if they are removel worthy
@@sayLeotardbutsayitChinese this game's politics aren't even communist or socialist for that matter. It's some contrived American culture war bullshit.
crazy how it’s anti government even tho the game itself was funded by the government. it’s hilarious because the entire game is full of hypocrisy and the best thing is that the devs and supporters of the game don’t even realize they’re being the slightest bit hypocritical
@@Nick_J_ It was funded by the Norwegian government and the US government to literally be propaganda . The entire concept was created (and I wish I was joking) to “predict what Trump’s first term as president was gonna be like”. Like the entire game was made by woke leftist who wanted to preach to people. That’s all that can be said about it and how it was literally funded by tax payer money.
This video, by you, has to be the greatest acknowledgement this game will ever receive. Seriously, I can no longer even remember how I ever got to know this game, nobody talks about it, AT ALL. (to no one’s surprise I might add)
Honestly I'd rather play Concord than this At least hypothetically Concord had decently fun gunplay. And the characters despite being god-awful are at least not all THIS level of hate-able and had some form of teamwork/synergy in their lore videos.
@@illahstrait the ones who have no issue beating DMC games with SSS ranks? And the ones writing all the game guides for Elden Ring? Those games journalists?
The idea by itself is not thaaaat bad. Words hold power, that is what spells are afterall but they went with the absolutely worst way to actually apply it.
@@matthewchristian9591 Depends on the spell system. In some there are words that in and of themselves have power, usually as "true names" of certain things or concepts.
@@Alexander59059 this game is a projection and the propaganda failed miserably. checkmate weetahd lol cry about it or support it idc where is your "modern audience" anyways is it just you?
@@DerekS-kq3zh I'm left wing and trans and this game blows, dig? It's filled with forced diversity and written by lobotomized infants. At the same time this game could have been cool if you remove those facts and add an actual competent male character. 😭
He was being intentionality combative but yeah, Pax is literally a psycopathic villain regardless of your choices. It's not even a bad attempt at "bad charcter grows through their flaws" like Forspoken at least tried to do, the game just assumes Pax is the good guy. The woman literally mind controls people, mostly her "friends", and is the good guy somehow. I saw someone else choose the "nice" dialogue options and they are only marginally less self-righteous and vicious, and don't really affect the story in any meaningful way anyway
@@drawingdragon yup and her powers literally warp there ability to act and think two of which being gaslight and cancel cancel by the way psychologically isolates others for her benefit
Compared to Veilguard, at least Kevduit can actually be an evil psychopath, and reap the entertaining chaos that ensues. However, even when taking the "good path" Pax is still a manipulative unlikeable narcissist.
Oh, trust me, Kev. I never planned on playing this "game" in the first place, I already forgot that this garbage even existed, I hate that you reminded me of its existence, though. Thanks.
Red Thread Games received financial support from the Norwegian Film Institute from 2019 through 2024, totaling 15,600,000 NOK (approx. $1.5 million) under the scheme "development of games after artistic assessment" (Utvikling av spill etter kunstnerisk vurdering).[9][10] The game also received a grant of €150,000 from the EU's Creative Europe project, and 300,000 NOK from Viken Filmsenter. No mention of US funding.
Genuinely impressed how writers who were looking to create an empathic and woke title managed to create such a deeply unlikeable and messed up protagonist. Like, the poster child here is literally magically brainwashing people and dislikes robots exclusively because she cannot brainwash a CPU. Also, the characters all treat each other like shit. I just wanna be clear about this: This is not a functional group dynamic. If you get a group of people who dislike each other but are expected to cooperate, what you'll usually see is is them being reserved and cool and not talking to each other more than necessary. Because everyone instinctively knows that if they don't, they'll drive each other up the walls in no time. There's ideas and a concept here that could actually function well, but it all fails from the offset because the writing refuses to acknowledge that Pax is a horrible person who treats everyone else like shit because she can. Like, imagine if the story was instead about her learning to stop being a manipulative little shit and recognizing that using her powers as a weapon to coerce people into doing what she wants them to is not healthy for anyone.
So basically, it seems like a NITW/Life Is Strange hybrid but with the writing quality of a self entitled 15 year old redditor. Sucks because the alternate reality stuff (JFK surviving, America becoming a Dictatorship etc. etc.) was kinda interesting, but oh well I guess.
Everything I see about Dustborn begs the question: You created this weird alt-history world and THESE are the characters we're viewing it through?? The map shown at 13:02 begs SO MANY questions!
I just see a foreigner who loves california and hates the rest of the us for really stupid reasons given apparently the good places on the continent acording to this game is canada and california
Was it temporary insanity or just some deep morbid curiosity that drove you to touching this.. I don´t want to call it a game... I am wondering because it seems as appealing as as touching human feaces from the local junkie.
I got a new record on having my comment deleted by TH-cam, but it included a question about why you would play this game + an likeness that involved "human biproducts".
Forward, the Kev Brigade! Was there a man dismayed? Not though the soldier knew Someone had blundered. Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. Into the valley of Dustborn Rode the Kevduit
I know that most game protagonists are unobjectively abhorrent people so to criticize the main character for being a bad person seems silly. But at least when Nick from L4D says something terrible there is no attempt to justify or downplay it. The main character is a narcissistic control freak who exists purely to get under peoples skin, then hides behind being the good guy doing good.
@@darianstarfrog Incredible strawman. I lean left, I agree with the underlying politics the game is putting out there, it is handled and done in such an awful way that it has become a parody of itself. It's clear to me that this writer, while on the left, is just deep down a bad person.
@@darianstarfrog Just like the right, "protecting" their country and kids? Just like Christians and their "crusades"? Why try to paint everyone with one brush and push your own beliefs when anyone on any side can be a horrible person who thinks they're right? Do you think you're in the right, maybe?
@@crusadercarl6269you just lean left, you aren't actually being like the mainstream left where they call literally anyone who disagree with them ww2 german or rac*st
People argue that the woke aspects are why the game is bad. Whether it's true or not, I feel like the awful voice acting, awful writing, uninspiring, and nearly broken gameplay to be a more reason to this game being an absolute dumpster fire.
Yeah, and the story makes no sense. I’ve watched at least 3 full gameplay and story breakdown videos and I still barely know what’s happening. It feels incredibly rushed
Lets be real, it wouldn't matter if the writers were on the opposite side of the political horseshoe or even neutral, these people could still not write themselves out of a paper bag if their life depended on it. It is genuinely just bad at the core, not even related to the ideology or political lean. It's impressive how it fails on so many levels of basic writing.
Pretty sure the hateful rhetoric towards Whites is also a big factor since that's most of the player base of gaming comparatively😂. Even if it wasn't trash a lot of people wouldn't play something that discriminates against them or talks crap
Just a reminder the director claims the game is not primarily about politics Despite being Gov funded/ was inspired by the T man winning the 2016 election and the fact that gov/politics makes up a ton of the games themes
Happy new year Kev!!! We made it. Take a deep breath and get ready to force yourself for more crazy shenanigans but also great goal. Best wishes to you and the community!!!!
I used to know people that act like these characters. Nobody redpills and drives people right like they do lmao. They preached love and tolerance but tried to get me to off myself.
ive been saying this for years. The left do a much better job at pushing people to the right than the right has ever done at pulling people to their side.
The game that insults the intelligence of anyone that plays it. How can you be woke & make a game so bad that it ends up being offensive to pretty much everyone that has at least some common sense? Even their target audience was like, oh HELL NO, we ain't touchin' that turd, lol.
"The game that insults the intelligence of anyone that plays it." sounds like modern games in general, mostly AAA... with notable examples like God of War games
I wouldn't even call it woke really unless you define woke as "having a surface level understanding of leftist ideas and trying to present yourself as progressive while still mostly operating within a liberal/centrist/conservative ideology" which in that case you might as well call jk rowling and Elon musk woke
As someone who lives in Europe and pays taxes, I demand Steam give me a copy of Duskborn. Not to play, but so I can say how shit the game is in the Steam forums with the "owns game" tag
I remember that game. I also remember the dev hating on people that complained about it saying that it wasn’t his fault if the game was too hard to figure out and maybe we should just get good.
Just a reminder, the reason the main character doesn’t trust the robot character is not because of past trauma with machines or anything, but because she can’t use her powers to manipulate the bot until he receives human emotion.
She hates robots cause she can’t manipulate them.
I never played the game and i already hate it
@@WidgeonThepigeon it looks and sounds so shit
I mean, dude, now that you said that... that's FKN GENIUS... Here's why... One of the longest running questions of my life, as someone who has been messing with "tech" for the past 40 years. WHY DO (MOST) WOMEN (HISTORICALLY) NOT LIKE USING TECH? I remember for years knowing so many women that would refuse to use Google, or any of that, and I remember this one time a drunk lady at a bar was like "I'll tell ya why!" and I was like "Ok, finally, here it is!" and she goes "Because I can't hit it if it makes me mad!" and I was like "What?" NOW I GET IT!!!! HOLY SHITE!!!! Bro these devs are genius, most women do do that... And they get mad if they can't manipulate a thing, that's why they don't much care for most "things" lmfao dude you're a fkn genius!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@daisy9181 bro relax wtf
@@ayeyuh6920unfortunately most of the coverage of this game has been done by right wing grifters, so expect people like that in the comments.
Edit: not responding to some of y’all in the comments because it’s pointless to argue over what I wrote vs what you misinterpreted. Read my comment again and you will realize we have not disagreed or come to any reason for disagreement.
Seeing how this group of "friends" act to each other makes me worried about the writers if THIS is what they believe friendship is
Having been around many folks like the dev team and writers, and that I'd also be labeled as such to many here, this is how many go about personal relationships. But for me, I can't have the constant competition and nastiness. I've also had this from people.of other standings as well, so it's not just due to base ideology, but something else
Hot garbage written by talentless millennials with 0 life experience, and somehow even less friends. Soon, this thing will be used in the industry as a reference point to teach student game devs what a game shouldn’t be.
@@deltasaves so they are passive aggressive with each other like that? Geez
@@benjamaster14 I agree - wtf happened to people actually valuing each other as human beings in their own right in relationships?
@benjamaster14 yep.
Soo...the protagonist's special ability is...being a manipulative gaslighter. Ok.
she can also silence those who annoy her and use "cancel" to psychologically isolate people as a form of assault
Remember, she's the good guy in all this 😊
Having that ability doesn't make you a bad person.
Using it, however, probably does.
It's just like Twitter and Tumblr but in video game form. Lol no wonder this game bombed so hard😂
really illustrates the type of people who enjoy this type of game
Fun fact: When Kev played Dustborn, he was probably the only one in the world at that time.
Fun fact, he was. It has 0-1 concurrent players currently.... even shovelware has more concurrent players
best dustborn streamer in the world
#1
@@ToxicMothBoi it''s a single player game indie game. Tons of them have 0-1 player at any time
@@Americanbadashh Not many indie games have funding from governments.
@@Americanbadashhthat has to be cope my guy.
It is absolutely insane a SINGLE PLAYER GAME got ONE player in the world, some atleast have 100 or 1000 depending on time since release
0:29 i can explain this. The developers were banning and reporting anyone who left a negative review. So the only way to make the messages stay with the negative review. Was to put a thumbs up. So 100% of those comments. Are actually trashing the game
The devs are just as toxic as the fucking characters lmao
😂 so weak
@@darianstarfrog You mean woke lol
@@DerekS-kq3zhno, he means weak, ben Shapiro
That's so childish lol
The fact these people are 30 and act like teenagers drives me crazy.
Also why did the truck driver never report that crash?
I’m 33, still feel like a kid, and even I’m more mature than them.
Wait these characters are 30? I remember seeing other videos about this and I thought they were like, 20 somethings
it's a "fully autonomous" truck which only drives because it'd be too convenient to have crash report software.
it's a pretentious hipster simulator; just like all the other schlock.
You use act like teenager as an insult and it says a lot about you. Gramps
@@followeroftheprince Each character had an intro card which shows their age. Almost all the characters, or at least Pax is 33, Sai is 31, Noam is 37, Theo is 42, and Ziggy is 31. The youngest are Eli and Ophelia and the girl.
As a Nova Scotian, we don’t want them.
We Canadians do not accept such foolish idiots!
🇨🇦
As a Canadian, we need to build a wall if this is what is coming from the south.
As a Nova Scotian, I agree.
As a Brazilian, o Hope they stay in USA forever 🐟
I'm not from nova scotia but I currently live here. Am I also allowed to reject them? 😂
I said it once and I'll say it again. The game wants to be Hi-Fi Rush so bad but gets tangled up in being just the most obnoxious thing ever.
And Hi-fi Rush couldn't save their studio.
No we have hi fi rush at home
@@mcsatans5120 the dinosaurs couldn't save themselves from the meteor
@@mcsatans5120that was more because of corporate greed and stupidity
With Hi-Fi Rush, I can't get into the artstyle. With this, I can't get into the writing. Thus, I ignore both.
I’m gonna be honest here; the overarching narrative of being a touring startup/ garage band with special powers/ abilities isn’t THAT bad of an idea. Someone having power of the voice (Dragonborn from Skyrim🤔) being the bands singer, being able to enchant people to gain band popularity seems like a unique story that could be very interesting if done right…… I like the break in gameplay where you’re playing front of a crowd and writing a song…..
However, literally EVERYTHING about the execution is fuggin ABYSMAL. The writing, the gameplay, the situations, the combat, the characters. Absolutely atrocious
And the plot too... They could have had some moment of reflection that maybe What they're doing is wrong. Or the devs recognize you're playing as the villain by the end. But they believe you're the Hero and "we must brainwash and gaslight people to deprogram them so they do what we want." Doesnt raise any flags
@ EXACTLY. Kinda have a morale system ala RDR2, mass effect, or InFamous, where people react differently to you based on your character’s actions. Maybe even be able to change the genre/ style/ tone of music to darker, bleak, more nihilistic tones for consistently choosing morally questionable decisions, and more upbeat and optimistic tones for making honorable choices.
yeah the concept itself is pretty good and in fact some of the concept that Dustborn has while not outright 1/1 has been done by other game in a far more competent way
like a group of friend goes on a roadtrip again authoratian goverment? That's Final Fantasy 15. Character with the power to change people mind who use it to fight against corrupt authority figure and even among those who use the same power? that's persona 5.
A story about powerful singer who can unite the entire race into a hivemind while addressing societal divide, culture and discrimination? that's Ar Tonelico
heck persona 4 dancing all night is about character having psych battle with dancing
@@TheForbidden_1ne I mean they couldn't really write the songs they put in the game as is. Not a single song is actually good.
Unitonically true. That idea would've been made into an amazing game in the mid to late ps3 and early ps4 eras.
Basically in this world every band is made up of peoplw woth special powers and they compete for fame with each other, a rhytm game where you could sprinkle some more stuff in in order to get money and make you own set be better, have better equipment and such, imagine that.
This feels like a game designed by people who have never had a healthy relationship, and can’t even conceive of one. The Joss Whedon-esque “sassy = funny” dialogue fails to break up the tension because it’s just more conflict. We’re supposed to like these characters? They don’t even like each other.
Yeah, but you forgot to add they are the reason they've never had a healthy relationship, and are too busy blaming that on everyone and thing else under the sun to realize it. "Eternal victims", nothing is ever their fault.
It feels that way because this game is literal propaganda funded by multiple governments, with the explicit purpose of pushing a left-wing agenda. It was not designed to tell a story. It was designed to brainwash you. This is what left-wing people actually think normal people think, talk like, and treat others like. This is what the left literally wants.
It feels that way because this game is literal propaganda funded by multiple governments, with the explicit purpose of pushing a left-wing agenda.
It feels that way because this game is literal propaganda funded by multiple governments.
@@DerekS-kq3zhGrow up
If you start 2025 at the bottom, you can only go up from there.
It can always get worse.
@MyAramil It's always different
It can't get worse...
They already deleted concord
Or give yourself the worst luck for the year
Averages 7/10 from most reputable sources. This is far from the actual bottom of the barrel.
Ok ok. But the biggest insult. We can ever give to the game. It was so unliked nobody made Rule 34 or any hentai of it. Its officially so bad that nobody even said "would"
😂 facts!
If that's your logic then this game isn't actually that bad. One quick google search is enough to see that there is porn of this game.
They broke the Internet rule of 34 which is next to the laws of physics
There are 5 results for this game...1 of which is AI, so 4 total
There is over 50 more results for Concord...than of this game. Jesus christ they REALLY failed hard.
this made me check, theres 5 hits on Dustborn Rule34
This game accurately simulates being trapped on a long road trip with the most insufferable people you know.
This is painful to watch, I can only imagine what sort of self-medication was needed to play it.
I think its called alcohol
All of it.
@@matthewchristian9591 You need something like 243212-proof spirits to play this. Or just straight methanol, at least with the latter you won't have to see it, the downside is never seeing again though so not worth the prep to play it XD
@@matthewchristian9591 A LOT
This feels like a parody that a conservative studio would make as a parody of "modern gaming".
Everything in it feels like a parody. The whole "escaping to Canada" thing, the villainous guards saying stuff about not being political, the consistent use of keywords used on Twitter, EVERYTHING. I have to wonder if it actually is, somehow.
The behaviour of the Devs kinda makes it clear that it's not
@@AlbinoMothDragon Maybe they're just... playing the role really well???
Probably not, but when reality is this hard to distinguish from satire, you know you're fucked.
It's like that one video where a group of British comedians are convinced that Bibleman was so bad that it must've been made by anti-Christians to make Christianity look bad.
LOL The game was made by communists as a recruitment tool for communists. I can't 3ven finish watching Kev play it. This some pure commie shit.
No, from what I read it's developed by a company in Norway. So this is what Europeans thought would resonate with Americans/Canadians. Just completely out of touch.
You know Its bad when i dont even want to watch kev play it
Bro starting off the year with a self inflicted wound 💀💀💀
Self inflicted wound happens to be the main demographic that likes this game
Can only go up from here 😅
this game has worse dialogues than Forspoken, that supposed to be impossible
I'm starting to believe that the people who made this and Saint Row 2022 are Crab People from South Park.
CRAAAB PEOPLE CRAAAB PEOPLE
LOOK LIKE CRAB
ACT LIKE PEOPLE
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
bro that's an insult to crabs
Same man same
@@aneuralCRAAAB PEOPLE, CRAAAB PEOPLE
WANNA GET MONEY LIKE MR. KRABS
ONLY MAKE TRASH POLITICAL SH*T AND ARE HATED BY PEOPLE
I’m sure if the creators of South Park games were given the same basics of style, game play/powers, and maybe story theme of this game, there version would probably sell a whole lot better.
How can Kevduit do a psychopath route if that is how the character is in general? Would just be a normal run.
This game is a classic example of ''original and exotic design does not equal good design''.
Well it does equal good design if there's passion but here it just looks like they were using the overwatch 2 diversity bingo card that no one asks for other then these self righteous devs
original and exotic design and the main character is a sassy and brave afro-american woman who can't take shit from anyone, very unique
@@lonewanderer882 And having no idea how normal human interaction works. Forgot to mention that.
Huh!? This is a terrible rip on Telltale games with some jank action sequences tossed in.
@@InfiniteDeckhand To be fair, having a socially inept cast of characters could be made interesting if handled properly (I know you meant the game itself, I'm just saying it could work with characters that have social difficulties), or at least bearable if the rest of the game makes up for it. From what I can see, neither is the case in this game.
From DUST you were BORN,
and to DUST you shall return 🪦
What are we? Some kind of-
🎶 We're the alieenn, We're the refugeees🎶💀
STOP LOLOL
Nah as dust i refuse to take them
Who up dusting they born rn?
A game with a colorful stylized world, psychic abilities, the power of influence, and negativity demons...Yeah, I know that. It's The World Ends With You.
Holy shit what a memory to have suddenly dusted off, I had forgotten TWEWY
That's insulting...
The World Ends With You have an amazing soundtrack...
This thing?
Even calling it scratching noises is an offense to scratching noises...
You know, TWEWY is just what I need after watching Kev suffer thru this pile of digital dung.
Thanks for reminding me it exists lol
No, thats Psychonauts 1 and 2
Same score as Doom 2016...gonna take a while for that to sink in
Classic IGN for ya
Can't spell "ignorant" without IGN
@@Flesh_Wizard Its the first three letters for a reason XD
if they would have marketed this as satire this would have been a hysterical game
Honestly watching this I was beginning to question if some of it was, like if one of them was completely serious and then one was making jokes like what if we use words to ‘trigger’ them as a superpower and the other one was like yeah! That’s a great idea lol
One of the most unintentionally funny moments of the game is the flashback to Pax as a kid on the slide with a skateboard, as you can see that her adoptive mother is missing a leg. That's right, ladies and gentlemen, we have a black, amputee lesbian! It's like they are literally trying to check every box they can! Though the funniest joke about this game is that the game director said he was purging the toxic elements of the Dustborn community. What community? You couldn't even get 100 players concurrently on Steam during its lifetime, and when you had a booth at Tokyo Game Show, it was literally just you playing it while everyone else avoided it like the plague! Still hilarious to point and laugh, though.
Another comment claims they were removing bad reviews and reporting them so, I guess they part of the community
@@followeroftheprince far as i can tell they where pulling thst out of there ass i cant find any info that supports there claim devs cant even take negitive reviews down off there games they can only dispute them then steam decides if they are removel worthy
it is impressvly pathetic especially given the dev in interview basically admitted to having a complex about being a leach
By "community," they mean "communists who agree with us," not necessarily actual players
@@sayLeotardbutsayitChinese this game's politics aren't even communist or socialist for that matter.
It's some contrived American culture war bullshit.
"proletarian" not even a minute into the game lmao
Well I’m in pain. Physical, mental, emotional and even spiritual pain.
This may have even caused generational curses
crazy how it’s anti government even tho the game itself was funded by the government. it’s hilarious because the entire game is full of hypocrisy and the best thing is that the devs and supporters of the game don’t even realize they’re being the slightest bit hypocritical
Would love to know how it ended up getting funding
That's what these activists are.
Big hypocrites.
several governments, actually
@@Nick_J_ It was funded by the Norwegian government and the US government to literally be propaganda . The entire concept was created (and I wish I was joking) to “predict what Trump’s first term as president was gonna be like”.
Like the entire game was made by woke leftist who wanted to preach to people. That’s all that can be said about it and how it was literally funded by tax payer money.
Thats liberals and conservatives for ya
You can skip fights, but NOT the cutscenes! 😂
Someone pin this!
you missed the best part where she gets an ability to make the person she fights "cancel" aka kill themself
The true mark of a hero 😂😂😂
Nah that's actually hilarious though.
Like, this game might be skating next to the "so bad it's funny" line.
You don't have to punish yourself for our entertainment we already know it's bad
This video, by you, has to be the greatest acknowledgement this game will ever receive.
Seriously, I can no longer even remember how I ever got to know this game, nobody talks about it, AT ALL. (to no one’s surprise I might add)
Because it's left-wing propaganda funded by multiple leftist governments and it makes you all look bad lol
Dustborn was so bad it didnt even win the race to zero players that honor went to concord...im so glad 2024 is over.
That says a lot, a game that is so bad that, despite being the worst, it can't even win an award for being the worst
Honestly I'd rather play Concord than this
At least hypothetically Concord had decently fun gunplay. And the characters despite being god-awful are at least not all THIS level of hate-able and had some form of teamwork/synergy in their lore videos.
ah yes, my favourite part of any video game is the part where i can skip any fight, thus, making combat entirely a waste of time.
That was added for game journalist
@@illahstrait the ones who have no issue beating DMC games with SSS ranks? And the ones writing all the game guides for Elden Ring? Those games journalists?
@@Americanbadashh
Do you not remember the cuphead incident?
What was the cup head incident
A Game where u can skip the Gameplay is how u know they just wanted a platform where there is a big audience for their u know what's to put in.
It’s just a game of angry 30 year olds snapping at each other and competing to see who is the biggest narcissist.
Happy new year everyone!
Happy new year stranger!
@silentnquiet cheers mates
Happy new year!
Merry New Time, chum
What I’ve gathered from this game, is that this is a game is about someone who’s made being an unbearable jackwagon a legitimate superpower.
Most games are a typical male's power fantasy.
This game is Anita Sarkeesian's power fantasy.
I think I'd rather play Gollum than ever touch this game.
Same here, I can't even bear to watch kevduit play it.
At least in that game, the dialogue doesn't constantly make you want to throw your computer out the window every time any character opens their mouth
@@padmanabhanvaidyanathan7182 I had to come back to the video. I couldn't watch it in one sitting.
The idea by itself is not thaaaat bad. Words hold power, that is what spells are afterall but they went with the absolutely worst way to actually apply it.
No its the intent behind the words that give them power. You need to imagine what the spell will do then speak the word to focus the power.
@@matthewchristian9591 yes exactly, emotion and intention - words alone will barely make a dent in anything
@@matthewchristian9591 Depends on the spell system. In some there are words that in and of themselves have power, usually as "true names" of certain things or concepts.
Ok if you can literally play on your gameboy and ignore your family trying to have an emotional moment with you, goty for sure.
I wonder how much did Norway's state wasted into this game
Left wingers and failed propaganda, name a better duo
@@DerekS-kq3zh
Right wingers and projection
@@Alexander59059 As you've so neatly demonstrated, you're the best at that too lol
@@Alexander59059 this game is a projection and the propaganda failed miserably. checkmate weetahd lol cry about it or support it idc where is your "modern audience" anyways is it just you?
@@DerekS-kq3zh
I'm left wing and trans and this game blows, dig? It's filled with forced diversity and written by lobotomized infants. At the same time this game could have been cool if you remove those facts and add an actual competent male character. 😭
I literally groaned in pain,
I'm ready for this shit. Its the ONLY way ill see this game through is here so thanks bro.
It took me this long to finish this painful video,
It's finally over.
So is the main character written to be some kind of psychopathic manipulative megalomaniac or is Kev just doing like the evil route or something?
He was being intentionality combative but yeah, Pax is literally a psycopathic villain regardless of your choices. It's not even a bad attempt at "bad charcter grows through their flaws" like Forspoken at least tried to do, the game just assumes Pax is the good guy. The woman literally mind controls people, mostly her "friends", and is the good guy somehow. I saw someone else choose the "nice" dialogue options and they are only marginally less self-righteous and vicious, and don't really affect the story in any meaningful way anyway
@@drawingdragon yup and her powers literally warp there ability to act and think two of which being gaslight and cancel cancel by the way psychologically isolates others for her benefit
I knew nothing of this game prior... ignorance was indeed, bliss.
I'm just beyond baffled this was actually made by humans...
Leftists, not humans
who said it was?
I heard so many Bad things about the game, but now after seeing it for the first time I'm sure it's way worse than I thought.
You can shout at enemies and not one Skyrim reference? The Mass Effect death music was hilarious
this game's combat dialogs makes forspoken a masterpiece
Compared to Veilguard, at least Kevduit can actually be an evil psychopath, and reap the entertaining chaos that ensues.
However, even when taking the "good path" Pax is still a manipulative unlikeable narcissist.
This is the first game that not even Kev could make bearable. Truly an achievement.
Oh, trust me, Kev. I never planned on playing this "game" in the first place, I already forgot that this garbage even existed, I hate that you reminded me of its existence, though. Thanks.
Taxpayer, EU and US funds went into this game btw.
How?
@@SjuSju99 This game was pretty heavily supported by a government, I'm not sure exactly of which country
@@Ashurman666 It was the Norwegian government.
Cool i will put this on my taxes cant wait too see a few thousand back
Red Thread Games received financial support from the Norwegian Film Institute from 2019 through 2024, totaling 15,600,000 NOK (approx. $1.5 million) under the scheme "development of games after artistic assessment" (Utvikling av spill etter kunstnerisk vurdering).[9][10] The game also received a grant of €150,000 from the EU's Creative Europe project, and 300,000 NOK from Viken Filmsenter.
No mention of US funding.
What an awful birthday gift, thank you Kevduit.
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday!
When it comes to playing this game, WOPR said it best:
“The only winning move is not to play."
“How about a nice game of chess?”
Genuinely impressed how writers who were looking to create an empathic and woke title managed to create such a deeply unlikeable and messed up protagonist.
Like, the poster child here is literally magically brainwashing people and dislikes robots exclusively because she cannot brainwash a CPU.
Also, the characters all treat each other like shit. I just wanna be clear about this: This is not a functional group dynamic.
If you get a group of people who dislike each other but are expected to cooperate, what you'll usually see is is them being reserved and cool and not talking to each other more than necessary. Because everyone instinctively knows that if they don't, they'll drive each other up the walls in no time.
There's ideas and a concept here that could actually function well, but it all fails from the offset because the writing refuses to acknowledge that Pax is a horrible person who treats everyone else like shit because she can.
Like, imagine if the story was instead about her learning to stop being a manipulative little shit and recognizing that using her powers as a weapon to coerce people into doing what she wants them to is not healthy for anyone.
Don't use the word woke pls
This is like Road 96 but... backwards in every way, it's almost impressive how bad it is
Okay that first fight scene was hilarious
That was the game I was thinking about. This even has the US being sime like Socialist/dictatorship
So basically, it seems like a NITW/Life Is Strange hybrid but with the writing quality of a self entitled 15 year old redditor. Sucks because the alternate reality stuff (JFK surviving, America becoming a Dictatorship etc. etc.) was kinda interesting, but oh well I guess.
The conversations in this game feel so disconnected.
Wow, I never expected this to be a game where you play as the villains. XD
Go away
Said Dumbledore calmly
Some Norwegian game ''experts'' believe this was the game of the year of 2024... so ashamed
Tbf it was made by them so it makes sense they'd shill for them
@@airplanes_aren.t_realThose wasted EU tax payer money had to be for something, they must be thinking
When did Norway get so cucked?
@@Lajos_KelemenNorway is not in the EU lmao
@@lucca000 no, but in EØS
Everything I see about Dustborn begs the question: You created this weird alt-history world and THESE are the characters we're viewing it through?? The map shown at 13:02 begs SO MANY questions!
I just see a foreigner who loves california and hates the rest of the us for really stupid reasons given apparently the good places on the continent acording to this game is canada and california
It is so cursed that Boulder Colorado survives. Would have thought the college kids would have gone full Lord of the Flies (I lived there)
I saw the title and nearly died, Dustborn is one of the worse games ive ever touched in my life
I’d rather be touched by a priest than play this game.
Was it temporary insanity or just some deep morbid curiosity that drove you to touching this.. I don´t want to call it a game...
I am wondering because it seems as appealing as as touching human feaces from the local junkie.
I got a new record on having my comment deleted by TH-cam, but it included a question about why you would play this game + an likeness that involved "human biproducts".
Its deffinatly top 5.
Please tell me you got a full refund……
The robo-bus is the most sympathetic character.
There is NO WAY the devs were making this and went like “Yeah. This is gonna be the next GOTY.”
Mom, I want Hifi Rush!!!!
Honey we already have Hifi Rush at home...
I know, dead meme but I feel like it kind of fits.
What a way to start out the year. And I don’t think I’ve ever seen a game that lets you skip the combat all together.
Forward, the Kev Brigade!
Was there a man dismayed?
Not though the soldier knew
Someone had blundered.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Into the valley of Dustborn
Rode the Kevduit
I watched Kev play this live, chat (myself included) had a lot of fun mocking this game relentlessly the whole time🤣
Wow, I've heard about this game but haven't actually seen it. It's complete brain rot.
I know that most game protagonists are unobjectively abhorrent people so to criticize the main character for being a bad person seems silly. But at least when Nick from L4D says something terrible there is no attempt to justify or downplay it. The main character is a narcissistic control freak who exists purely to get under peoples skin, then hides behind being the good guy doing good.
Just like the left, no?
@@darianstarfrog Incredible strawman. I lean left, I agree with the underlying politics the game is putting out there, it is handled and done in such an awful way that it has become a parody of itself. It's clear to me that this writer, while on the left, is just deep down a bad person.
@@darianstarfrog Just like the right, "protecting" their country and kids? Just like Christians and their "crusades"? Why try to paint everyone with one brush and push your own beliefs when anyone on any side can be a horrible person who thinks they're right? Do you think you're in the right, maybe?
Cringe @@darianstarfrog
@@crusadercarl6269you just lean left, you aren't actually being like the mainstream left where they call literally anyone who disagree with them ww2 german or rac*st
"watch me suffer so you dont have too" Dude all i do is suffer with you.
Usually, the games you make yourself play are pretty tame, but this was just too far. I wouldn’t wish this game on my worst enemy.
The worst thing is that the alt history and the concept of JUSTICE was a good idea in my eyes; but (more than) flawed execution stopped that.
Good lord this game is awful, thankfully Kevduit makes it bearable
Wow.... You started the new year pretty hardcore 😂😂😂
As a Nevadan, I'm so glad to hear Kev pronounce Nevada the correct way, thank you
People argue that the woke aspects are why the game is bad. Whether it's true or not, I feel like the awful voice acting, awful writing, uninspiring, and nearly broken gameplay to be a more reason to this game being an absolute dumpster fire.
Yeah, and the story makes no sense. I’ve watched at least 3 full gameplay and story breakdown videos and I still barely know what’s happening. It feels incredibly rushed
Let’s not forget killing 2 cops in the game 😂 and kept driving
Lets be real, it wouldn't matter if the writers were on the opposite side of the political horseshoe or even neutral, these people could still not write themselves out of a paper bag if their life depended on it. It is genuinely just bad at the core, not even related to the ideology or political lean. It's impressive how it fails on so many levels of basic writing.
Pretty sure the hateful rhetoric towards Whites is also a big factor since that's most of the player base of gaming comparatively😂. Even if it wasn't trash a lot of people wouldn't play something that discriminates against them or talks crap
To be fair, it was probably written by AI.
15:15 missed opportunity here "BeGoNe ThOt!!!"
1:11 She literally choked on words, wish i could do that with my words
Just a reminder the director claims the game is not primarily about politics
Despite being Gov funded/ was inspired by the T man winning the 2016 election and the fact that gov/politics makes up a ton of the games themes
Certificate of entitlement sums up just about everything. I’m going to carry one around to give to someone when they get all Karen mode
So, this is where our Tax money went . . . i want back that 000000000000.1% 🤣
000000000000.1% is the same as 0.1%
@slavcow hm ye you are right
Dustborn is what would have happened if Road 96 was written by the people who made the first Life Is Strange game.
LiS is intentionally cringe… this is just bad writing.
"How do you do, fellow kids" the game.
The mc zombie censors really throwing me off my mining session.
Glad to have found you man. You made last year much more bearable. Happy new year and I hope 2025 treats you well
Gosh... this thing is pure agony, complete garbage, absolute abomination.
Chtulhu shivers at the thought of this trash, thats how bad of an abomination this game is
Kev literally made a disaster fun to recollect on.
Happy new year Kev!!!
We made it.
Take a deep breath and get ready to force yourself for more crazy shenanigans but also great goal. Best wishes to you and the community!!!!
I used to know people that act like these characters. Nobody redpills and drives people right like they do lmao. They preached love and tolerance but tried to get me to off myself.
ive been saying this for years. The left do a much better job at pushing people to the right than the right has ever done at pulling people to their side.
Damn, hope your better now dude.
The game that insults the intelligence of anyone that plays it. How can you be woke & make a game so bad that it ends up being offensive to pretty much everyone that has at least some common sense? Even their target audience was like, oh HELL NO, we ain't touchin' that turd, lol.
BECAUSE they’re woke, lmao
@Ellebeeby That's not what it means, the true meaning is lost nowadays days. Heck we are now calling Silence of the Lambs woke now.
Probably because one guy was in charge doing most roles that had him in control of the game with not enough experience or talent.
"The game that insults the intelligence of anyone that plays it." sounds like modern games in general, mostly AAA... with notable examples like God of War games
I wouldn't even call it woke really unless you define woke as "having a surface level understanding of leftist ideas and trying to present yourself as progressive while still mostly operating within a liberal/centrist/conservative ideology" which in that case you might as well call jk rowling and Elon musk woke
Modders need to implement a new button prompt to choose to steer left into the oncoming traffic just to end this abysmal travesty.
As someone who lives in Europe and pays taxes, I demand Steam give me a copy of Duskborn. Not to play, but so I can say how shit the game is in the Steam forums with the "owns game" tag
Thanks to this video, I now have 32 minutes of playtime in Dustborn and I just want it all to end.
For some reason I just got a flashback of a game I haven’t heard of in forever, lichdom battlemage. And I don’t remember good things about it.
I remember that game. I also remember the dev hating on people that complained about it saying that it wasn’t his fault if the game was too hard to figure out and maybe we should just get good.
I just came from watching Kev attach rockets to cows to THIS. Kev makes everything he plays entertaining but this was a chore to get through.
Such a stereotype. "America is biggoted and hateful, so let's run away to Canada." 😂😂😂
I know no one will ever care enough to mod this game, but if someone does, I hope they make an alternate ending where Pax gets jumped and dies