Correction on the FFXIV subscription, it is not 80 bucks a year its 80 bucks for 6 months making Wizards101 half the price, still not great but not as bad as you made it out to be
They give you a demo essentially up until level 50 for free, and it was enough for me to close my wallet permanently. The only fun I had was the random dungeons scattered through the completely snore-fest story that you were essentially forced to do. Wizard 101 isn't much better.
@@PhrozenFox you actually get to play up to level 70 for free, 1-50 is the base ARR and is a lot of world building, ARR stumbles so all the expansions can fly
I saw a 4yo on a bus, playing one of these games for 1 level, getting and ad, downloading and playing that game until he got another ad and the cycle went on That's the target audience
@@skystoyhunts7225 minimum age 11-13 after being taught about viruses and malware and other junk. These toddlers shouldn't be allowed on the internet but here we are.
Plot twist: He is!! He's a shadow sponsor, raiding youtube and becoming a legend in the process. 😚👌I'm actually a little proud of this comment, not too much though I'm not a c*nt. 🤌
The original ads featured the puzzle game and that does exist within the game as small bonus stages when you collect all possible stars in a zone for the first few zones. It's possible stuff from the newer adds is available in a similar way further into the game.
@@jamilandres9989 I saw that ad as well. Unfortunately for them, there's a little something called false advertising. Of course, if their ad made the game look WORSE than it actually was? Well, that's another story.
out of all those 1000's of ads only 1 got the interested RIN: the last child on steam. it looks like a good looking metroidvania. which i love these kinds of games but i still have no hope watch-o-ever unless someone manage to sue all those greedy companies and there future plans fail. not just standard sue, cold hard by full force with evidence hard as 50x titanium
Well... Yt recommended Obey Me! to me a few years ago so there's like a 0.00000001% chance they'll recommend something good every once in a while. Edit: oh right it recommended Sky Children of Light and Dragon Raja too, but only one time each and then I never saw their ads again for some reason. It sometimes recommends Ni no Kuni too but I haven't played it yet so idk if the game is as good as the ads make it look.
@@BluzlbeeI think we should never put up with those kinds of mechanics or manipulation, regardless of the supposed quality. On a semi-related note, my brother has tried to get me into Warframe for some time. While the game may seem fun and relatively well-made, I find it all too overwhelming just by watching gameplay. Not only that, it's full of the stuff I'm railing against: premium currency, wait-timers for stuff that go up to hours, daily log-in "bonuses" & some other forms of FOMO.
I play Hero Wars for over 2 years ads have nothing to do with the game and beginning is stupid for sure game is very different later as you unlock all the things 😂 that is: clash of worlds, guild war, adventure maps, tournament of the elements, grand arena, guild raid...
I'm pretty sure you could sue them if you really wanted. But there's hundreds, maybe even thousands of them out there, so why bother? The time, effort and money that would go into suing just one of them would probably be enough to put out a dozen more.
Actually no, it's only false advertising if you need to spend money on it to play, which some games do fall into, a specific creature collector that constantly markets itself as a horror game comes to mind. That said the actual amount courts are going to care that something that's 2 bucks was a scam is almost 0
21:17 Speaking as a pretty passionate Genshin player, weapons and artifacts effects start off simple so that beginners can understand the basic concept of equipping and using them. Then once you get later in the game, the artifacts and weapons are all oddly specific like “Doing a plunge attack gives you a Wibbly Wobbly stack, for a total of 5 max Wibbly Wobbly stacks. Each Wibbly Wobbly stack buffs your Quicken and Aggravate reaction damage by 5% but lowers your Superconduct reaction damage by 5%. Once you get all 5 Wibbly Wobbly stacks, it gives your character a funny hat for 10 seconds” lol
genshin artifacts are like: Doing a a full auto attack string within 8 seconds grants 1 Opulent Shitblast. When you get 3 Opulent Shitblasts your character gains 12-14-16% dmg bonus. At full stacks activates Enshittening Simulacra increasing normal attack speed by 5%
And game is still too easy to think about it or read that description lmao you just need to pull a few strong characters to clear all of the “hard” content
Some of those Hero Wars ads where so horrendous that I whenever I got one, I’d watch it all the way through. They were too uniquely disgusting to ignore.
And they Made a video of someone playing like if he has been hitted 30 times in the head and also he is in the middle of a brain surgery with doctors playing with his head
Same, and for me the funniest thing is that my 58 year old dad has been addicted to hero wars for at least the past 3 years and is one of the top players in the entire game (across several hundred servers)
@@SleepyRPGman Just realised right now i kinda feel the same way and here i am, wondering how low ads have fallen to make me nostalgic of raid shadow legends ads 😅
I am genuinely so confused because they seem to make new ads daily, each with their own "storyline". But who funds it? Who pays for the creation of more ads when the game actually does not exist? At some point they'll have made so many assets for their ads, that making the game they advertise would be easier, no?
@@mattc9598 That's one of my biggest questions with these crappy games being advertised. Another one that I cannot escape is "Royal Match," which, as far as I can tell, is just another generic match-3 game. But like, they're being advertised everywhere and they make so many new ones all the time-how can they afford that? Are there actually people going out and paying for these games? It genuinely baffles me how these companies aren't bankrupt already.
@@mikejeffries3333 thats the thing, people actually do pay for those games. its just that they are rarely sustaining that revenue because they rely on adhd infused children to make one purchase and never play it again while the devs just go work on some other game.
Their target audience seems to be 12 year old boys with sub 80 IQs. ...which offends me. Because I see these same ads, and I'm a 45 year old guy with an advanced degree that just happens to enjoy a couple mainstream games (which is why I assume I got targeted with the Hero Wars ads in the first place).
I really love Genshin Impact. I discover the game trough an ad some years ago, and the beautiful landscapes and ambiance, the music, the color, the little quest story, the dynamic gameplay really talked to me. What's more is that even if it's a gatcha game, i never put one centim in it and it didn't stop me in any fashion from enjoying the expérience. And it blew me away that all of that was for free. The nostalgic and melancholic feeling of the games was one of my best personal expérience in video games, which help me even through some hard times in my life
I played the game for about 30 minutes before getting bored. Sure it looks nice and they put a good amount of effort into the dialogue and gameplay. But it was all kinda meh. You just wander around and beat things up and get items but there is no real challenge. And this type of gameplay just isn’t that great on a phone. I much rather play something like that on a pc or console. It just isn’t a good setup for the type of game.
@@justinhunt3141 it's quite ass on the phone. PC experience for genshin is much better. it gets good after a bit, but the story is subpar compared to other story driven gachas and grinding for artifacts (your main stat source) feels like absolute doodoo. JP (a lot of big name Japanese VAs) and even CN dub is very good.
@@FutureChaosTV Having played all of them I would say Raid was by far the worst as a time waster. To play it properly becomes almost like doing a full time job - you also end up spending more money. The combat in HW is pretty garbage but that's not really the point of the game - its about developing teams of hero's. The real problem with HW is that the game is played out - its impossible to win or get anywhere close because there are too many teams that are already maxed out. Actually that's the exact same problem with Evony and Stormshot and most of the others (online mobile games) as well.
I remember when there were "acceptable ads", which were non-intrusive, didn't start autoplaying vdeos, didn't have huge blinking gifs, didn't block half the page. No there were rather laid back banner ads that were "fine" But at some point ad providers started declaring their BS ads as nonintrusive, and that was the point where I decided, if they don't play by the rules, why should I...
The funny thing is that I have received advertisements for adblock on TH-cam AFTER they took the anti-adblock actions. I watch much less TH-cam these days because of these atrocious advertisements, which has turned out pretty good for me. Honestly, I should just outright quit watching TH-cam; the hypocrisy and contradicting nature of these modern media companies is mind boggling.
As a long time Genshin player (started a week after it launched) I will say that you're half right about how the difficulty scales. The difficulty definitely jumps up to the point where you have to put some thought into gear and team composition, although the game never scales up to a point where you have to pay to pull on new characters. There is certainly power creep as the devs want to push sales (the game is still unfortunately a gacha) however you can play through the entire game with only the basic characters with 0 issues, in fact there are plenty of videos which showcase some of these characters soloing the endgame content. It's understandable that you came to the conclusion you did in this vid considering you barely made it out of the tutorial, but this game has a ton of depth and honestly gets better with every update. The devs very quickly shed the "anime botw" identity and have put more and more focus on the aspects of the game that are unique to it as they've grown more confident in the game standing on its own merits. The game is a huge time sink so it's understandable why you would put the game down and stop where you did, but I just wanted to put my opinion out there as someone who loves this game even in spite of it being a gacha. Anyway if anyone actually read this whole comment thanks for listening to my TED talk, and HD if you're reading this then I just wanna say this was an awesome vid and I hope you keep it up.
I'll 100% agree with you. I've not been playing as long as you, but for about one and a half year. I haven't spent a single penny on the game, but I would say my characters are very strong and can kill everyone in the world, but I almost never get the highest rewards in the fighting events. But that's not because I would have to spend money on the game, but because I can play with only my absolute favoutire characters (which I all got without spending money) and still make a pretty high amount of damage. I even got close to 36 star the abyss last time with only my favourites. Buuut I will still admit that I use guides to build my characters because that stuff is just way too complicated for me and I'm also way too lazy to learn every detail about my characters strenght. I just love everything about Genshin from the events (the current one with Lisa is sooo great!) to the breathtaking sceneries and of course putting time and love into getting and building my favourite characters. The fighting for me is more of a side effect because I'm horrible at dodging for ex. (That's why I'm Layla main hehe (she is best girl
It's a game that asks you to sink in a very large amount of time or money. Preferably both. For some people who can devote that amount of time to it, it's playable for free, but for most it won't be. Given, it's a well made game that's legitimately fun to play. But your representation of it is a bit deceptive. Also, for people who want to just supplement money by spending a lot of time grinding, there's also an "energy mechanic" at play where you can only do so much in a day without paying extra. Doesn't prevent you from doing everything, and it's basically irrelevant in the early game, but it becomes cumbersome as the game goes on. It's a mechanic that explicitly makes the game less fun to play and exists only to draw money from you.
@@anthonybowman3423 I would half agree with what you're saying here. Paying money to reload on resin is a pretty inefficient method to grind out most things and with good pacing you can gear out a character completely within a week or so (artifact luck can extend this process by a lot but odds are you'll get something usable). Much like most gacha games, so long as a player doesn't use their resources haphazardly you can make pretty consistent and meaningful progress towards building up a proper team. As far as the content most people will be interested in, namely just progressing the main story, the power requirements are quite low and at least in my anecdotal experience from both progressing myself and helping guide some friends through the game requires minimal optimization to comfortably progress. Full 36 star abyss runs or combat events on the highest difficulty are another story entirely and require a pretty high level of investment in 8+ units to effectively clear for the average player, though the bulk of the meaningful rewards (namely primos) are never gated behind attaining the highest scores in combat events, and most players can 16-24 star abyss with relative ease. While I do tend to look at all this in a positive light, I do wholeheartedly agree that the resin system does only exist to restrict the player and tempt people to make the poor decision to swipe your credit card just for a bit of extra progression on character builds. Gacha games by their very nature are designed to make as much money as possible by subconsciously pushing players with inconveniences and stop gates which can be circumvented slightly by just shelling out a tiny bit of cash. As I mentioned earlier, I love this game in spite of it being a gacha game due to the underlying gameplay and artistry along with a generally rising quality standard that has personally kept me feeling like the money is at least being put back into improving the game. I completely understand why someone would want to avoid playing a gacha all together and would genuinely advise people to steer clear of this game unless they're certain they have enough impulse control to hold back on dropping money on the game. It wasn't my intention to be deceptive in my portrayal of the game but rather to highlight the things I personally find appealing and enjoyable, though you are right that the game is ultimately built on a predatory business model and that's an important thing to understand going in.
As a 101 head, it's definitely a "baby's first mmo". If you're not interested in the game it's definitely not worth paying for- they have been pretty regularly doing "free weekends" that let you get further than normal though. You can also buy areas individually rather than subscribe but that can be more expensive depending on how you play. As kid my brother and I got our parents to do the "by area" thing so it was more like buying DLC for me than an over priced subscription.
That's interesting - I didn't know you could pay for areas individually. I am also not a huge MMO person in general so that could also explain why it didn't really resonate with me.
Yeah I think this may have been unfortunate introduction for me because Wizard101 was the first MMO I ever played and the moment I got to my first paywall to get into a new area I dropped the game faster than scam games flop and I've sworn off the entire genre. I've never once tried WoW for instance because of 101 but everyone always goes on and on about how much a great game it is and I just don't believe them.
In the video it showed $7 for a month. This is significantly cheaper than Runescape & WoW. So I don't feel it is that bad for a subscription based game. But I grew up on subscription based games so maybe I'm biased somehow.
I've had membership for....the better part of a decade. It was definitely my first mmo rpg, and I've loved em ever since. It's simple, graphics are cute, and I'll for sure try and play it with my kids one day, if it's still around. It's gonna have its 16th birthday this year which is...really impressive for a kids mmo.
THANK YOU! For so long I wondered what kind of game "Hero Wars" actually was after getting it's mildly traumatising ads constantly, and you quenched my curiosity without me having to sacrifice my sanity by delving into it myself. Your sacrifice is greatly appreciated.
@@Gabriel_F4924 Oh god I hope not. I hate these ads. I feel insulted youtube thinks I want to play a game designed for 4 year olds. I wouldn't feel insulted if it was a game I might actually consider playing.
Hero Wars is the undisputed reigning champ when it comes to fake ads, they've done every trick in the book and then some, and they've been doing it for a lot longer than you'd expect. Plus, there's different versions of the game too - the one you played seemed to be called "Dominion Era" but the one on mobile is called "Alliance" or something like that. I've never played either, but from other videos I've seen the auto-battling is still the main gameplay, and it cuts every now and then to minigames that are closer to the ads you saw but still a different brand of their ads. The pin-pulling ads used to be a staple, but they've since fallen to the wayside.
@@Zeelian "At least the first few maps" is how I hear mobile games get away with it. The ads make it seem like it's the main game (Evony ads are particularly infamous for this), but it'll more often than not be a minigame that's either only offered sporadically or vanishes after a short amount of play time. I've seen several other mobile games use the same strategy, since if something similar to the ads is 'technically' playable, then it's harder to prove false advertising.
@@Antifrost Jupp, there is a handful of those pin-puzzles available so technically it's not false advertising. Never did see the stuff from the other ads (like the one where the char runs around a structure/maze collecting items and attacking things) during the time I did play around with it.
Tbh Hero wars is just a thing to be made, so it can use cringe ads like using the left right trend when it isn't popular anymore. Also why can't TH-cam allow us to report ads like these, i would personally add so we can report ads like ai or impersonating someone or fake ads like Hero wars or i would add other so people type their reason like innapropiate content
I... with how popular and good genshin is I wasn't expecting it here but also practically every other video I watch used to have Genshin ads so honestly I should have expected it. It is such a shame Hero Wars is nothing like it's ads because genuinely I kinda wanted to play it.
Somebody turned most of these fake gacha ad games into game collection called ""Yeah you want those games right?" on Steam. Yes, really. The games themselves show just how insultingly simplistic these concepts actually are, they're not fun at all. Try it if you don't believe me
Genshin has one of the best open worlds. The level of beauty in some places is just incredible. Ofc you eventually fall into boring dialogs and repetitive activities between events, but still -- for a F2P game it's really great. Difficulty is something that is tied to your world lvl. You were just in the beginning, so)
MiHoYo games are generally good if you can deal with some gacha bullshit in FOMO events (or ignore them completely and just focus on the main story). In 2018 TH-cam add pulled me into Genshin's predecessor, Honkai Impact 3 and it is till going on very strong.
Yeah, I started loving Genshin again once I banned myself from all future events (and characters/artifacts). They really sucked the soul out of me and made me quit when Sumeru’s desert was introduced… until like a few weeks ago. Same with Star Rail, but that one’s the farming game because it’s basically automatic.
Genshin limited events aren’t even that bad in terms of fomo. Everything is completion based and there’s no grinding or pulling required and at the end of the day the rewards are still shit lol.
@immort4730 The problem for me is, missing events means missing out on story, and I hate that. Unless it's truly something that I have to pay no attention to, I'm not letting FOMO control when I play things. So that means no events for me.
I think they added an option to the game to mute Paimon... it's only so much of an improvement though - there are other characters who're almost as annoying. Klee comes to mind.
@@lordweeb8928 their best selling points are their beautifully designed characters and cool skill effects. That's basically it. Their gacha RNG is horrendous.
God I love Wizard101. It still has quite a large player base despite being 15 years old. And I honestly don’t think it’s aged _that_ poorly. Its price tag of $80/yr also hasn’t changed in the 15 years of its existence in spite of inflation. It’s also _technically_ possible to be a f2p player by using free methods of earning crowns, the currency used to unlock game content and other things - though this can take a long time. The worst thing about the game is that the predatory micro transactions have slowly gotten worse and worse over the years.
Oh, wow. I didn't even realize this before reading your comment and checking the number of subscribers myself. I don't usually subscribe to channels after just one video but I think the channel deserves to grow with quality videos like these. I'm honestly speaking a little bit surprised how different some of those games are from their advertisements. I think it's one thing to see a cinematic trailer and understand the actual gameplay is different but when ads are showing something that looks like actual gameplay but the game is nothing like that then I'd say it is definitely false marketing.
Hero Wars absolutely annoys me because they design the ad to be a puzzle solver but the "puzzle" is so obviously easy to do that they intentional "lose" to frustrate ad viewers to pick up the game in order to make the right decisions but then that isn't even the game at all and hopes to sucker you in in the first ONE MINUTE! Fortunately I was out in the first 10 seconds when I realized what was happening but seeing a more _genuine_ attempt at the game really finally confirms to me my eternal hatred towards this "game." I remember when 7 Knights was in my Ad feed and that was genuinely fun to play even if it was another gacha auto battler game but at least it had some actual gameplay thought to it. It had an active PvP meta that you could keep up with as a f2p player but it's PvE actually slaps too which again you can keep up with even better as f2p player. Events happen all the time and are manageable to do but you are looking at a solid 3-5 hour time commitment a day if you want to make any good progress. Too bad I stopped playing for a month and fell completely behind and it just wasn't worth getting back into just to struggle to regain lost ground.
I can't remember what the ad was for. It was a hero game but it was puzzle based. And you had to match up symbols so the characters could use their moves against the enemies. I can't remember what it was for or, if it's accurate but it looked alright as it seemed like the only accurate ad compared to others like it.
I believe there was an app out there with characters ripped off of hero wars that gives the players what they were hoping for: the puzzles that the ads featured. Don't know If it is still out there.
Yeah ive gotten to the point where I instinctively refuse to play any game that pops up as an ad online. The ad is probably total bull and the game is generally awful.
I'm considering giving this a try on Steam after seeing actual, non-trailer gameplay, but if she keeps yammering non-stop... I might just go back to ESO.
Turned VA off after 2h of playing. Am now over 400h deep and loving it, not a single cent spent. Mechanics; gameplay and the world are great. Worst thing in the game is that I have to wait for animations to play out to skip the dialogue and that I cant just skip *all* of the cutscenes; or at least have my dude just auto-select dialogue options to get it over with quicker. Just let me do stuff and earn my primogems.
Genshin went from "okay, this breath of the wild rip-off is quite enjoyable" to "if you had read C. G. Jungs Red Book or the greater key of Salomon, you'd know where this is headed."
But that is all that I liked about Genshin. The BOTW rip off parts. I loved exploring the map and fighting some of the bosses the first time. At the end I dont care about the characters so pulling for them has 0 impact on me. Which makes most gachas have no endgame for me.
If you like vampire survivors and similar games, Heroes vs Hordes is actually fun. I've been playing it for a while and I don't regret paying to remove ads (and nothing else). You can unlock a bunch of heroes for free and they offer enough variation to keep the game fun despite the inherent repetitiveness of the genre.
Hero Wars veteran here! (not proudly lol;) The game occasionally introduces mini-campaigns to hook new players into staying (when I started playing, it was doing math towers), these don't last long. The more you progress in the game, you'll notice that it isn't exactly about beating the solo campaign mode (which ends at chapter 15) but the PVP aspect--- that's right, this game makes you juke against other players with its 62 existing hero characters-- all of which have EXTREMELY GRINDY and complex upgrades on many aspects (artifacts, glyphs, ascencions, gifts of the elements, etcetc). The reward is in finding the hero combinations that synergize enough to beat your opponent. Plus the game also has in-game chats with guilds you can form with up to 30 players to fight against other guilds in your same server in a weekly event called Guild Wars AND against other server's guilds in Clash of The Worlds. It's all about team-building for PVP. You need to grind to build your team. It's a horrifying money-sinking trap for boomers that progressively gets WORSE with how much you need to spend to keep up. Save yourself anyone thinking of trying it. I already took the L a long time ago.
veteran here too, 5years. wouldn't recommend it to anyone unless they got a heck of a lot of money, time, and patience, anyone else should avoid it all costs
I downloaded it for a sponser and sunk $20 in it cause it also helped with the sponsership. I got to level 80? In like 6 months, roughly and then realized the majority of the game was putting the phone down and waiting or doing something inbetween fights. (mainly the tower lol) Plus as I was F2P other than that inital $20, anyone who got the battlepass or paid for the subscription things got such a massive advantage, there's literally no point after level 60 I'd say. Just a giant money sink.
I have never tried this game, but once tried something similar. I came to the sneaking suspicion, that loads of the "opponents" that I would meet in PvP weren't actually human, but autogenerated bots giving the impression of a massive playerbase. I do not trust games like these for a second. I believe they should be made illegal as they target kids and encourage them to spend money, that they don't have. It's a despicable business model.
I got addicted to this for a months, didn't spend any money thankfully. It's basically a more advanced version of the "one more turn" phenomenon that Civ pioneered. There's always something to do, and any one thing can be accomplished in seconds, but to actually get anywhere you either have to take out your credit card or waste hours a day. And aside from your team composition in PVP, none of your decisions are interesting.
I've played genshin for 2 years before quitting and it starts off simple but then you're basically stuck grinding RNG based artefacts for months just to get nothing good. That's mainly why I quit.
Yep. I haven't quit genshin but it starts off so deceptively simple lol. Then when you hit AR 55 all of a sudden you're in artifact grinding hell lmao.
Yep, it's why I quit too. I don't mind gacha systems, but the fact a lot of artefacts are locked behind them and the insane amount of grinding you need to do for them plus parts of the games just become impossible if you don't min-max is just infuriating.
But why would you do that? You can do everything in the game with mediocre artifacts. I am a day one player and I never spent too much time farming artifacts. For example I don't give a s*t about the sweaty try hard 1:2 Crit rate:crit damage rate. I can clear easily Floor 11 in the abyss with lvl80 characters with said artifacts.
Thank you for making this video and covering hero wars. So now every time I get ads for that game, which is 95% of the time, I will literally skip the ad and say "Yeah the game isn't actually like this".
21:46 Fun fact about Genshin, the first character game lets you see on the beginner's pulling interface qualifies as an end game dps character that deals as much damage as premium gacha character and can be used to clear end game contents
I'd always wondered what kind of game Hero Wars was, because like you said, the ads are so bizarre; I actually catch myself watching them at least halfway before skipping them just to see where they're going.
Okay but counterpoint to Paimon's voice acting it also has the _oratrice mechanique d'analyse cardinale_ which I feel like evens it out. I know literally nothing else about Genshin, and I'm never going to, but I know that the _oratrice mechanique d'analyse cardinale_ is a bop. And that its judgement is final.
Paimon not knowing how to shut the f up and there not being a skip button for quests was what pushed me away from genshin, I log in once a month for the 5 free pulls and saving the other 5
Oratrice cardinale is the only thing that give me the feel of regret for not stacking with English VA. On the other hand, it is the only thing I liked in English version and I still love Chinese voice more
Funny thing is, the puzzles in _Hero Wars_ were used in the first sets of false ads for it, and IIRC were added in when they were threatened with legal action.
Honestly, Genshin is a slow burn, difficulty wise, that does build into a moderate challenge. Downright evil at times, with special modifiers dictating the flow of battles in some modes. Funnily enough, the character gacha isn't the end game, as every character is usable in the later stages of difficulty. Even the first four characters you have access to can be competent, and their elemental affinities compliment each other well enough. The free character pulls are a bit stingy, with the premium currency, primogems, being offered in paltry amounts, but the characters alone have such heavy potential value, not in their strength but gameplay flow alteration, that the high perceived price is somewhat justified. When I last played, I was still utilizing the first two characters I had pulled from the Beginner Banner: Beidou, a 4* electro claymore user, who's split between a support and main DPS; and Qiqi, a 5* cryo healer. Realistically, the characters are only assigned artificial rarity, Qiqi is often perceived as useless because of her lackluster elemental application and pure healing ability/lack of damage opportunity. The real end game comes from the character customization you had barely touched on. The accessories serve as the deciding factor of a character's overall power, with percentile modifiers being desirable traits to skyrocket a character's potential. Most of the best accessories come from repeatable dungeons with a scalable difficulty to your level, with the highest difficulty giving the highest tier of accessories. These accessories come as part of different sets, containing modifiers of their own with the more accessories of a set you equip. These set bonuses come with a full requirement of four pieces, allowing the fifth to be replaced with a piece from any other set. Three of the five accessory types, the cup, timepiece, and headpiece, carry a random main stat, meaning that you need to try and roll a desirable stat for these three pieces on top of actually getting the particular accessory pieces you want. Each accessory also comes with bonus stats applied to them, up to 4 on a 5* accessory. These stats are either applied to the accessory until the maximum is reached, or one of the applied bonus stats increases, with every 4 levels. These bonus stats can be ANYTHING other than the accessory's main stat, which can heavily boost the potential of the accessory. Provided you can get lucky with your desired stats getting rolled, there's also a range for which the stats can get boosted, meaning a stat can potentially get boosted lower than what you're looking for. So, RNG on RNG, making accessory grinding a statistical hell for people looking for even moderately acceptable accessories. There is a feature to combine undesirable accessories into new ones, more rolls for what you want with the mountain of trash you'd absolutely accumulate. The most agonizing aspect of this cycle is that attempts are tied to an energy system. This system ties into all manners of character progression, from dungeons that drop materials to level up a character's abilities, to world bosses that drop materials to level your characters past certain level thresholds, to weekly story bosses that drop materials for both. All of that is shared with this energy with the same energy system that allows you to grind for accessories. With the unpredictability of accessory rolls, I always assert to people that THAT whole mess is the last concern for character progression. It's not even pay to win, like some people might see the up-front gacha: energy CAN be refilled with premium currency, but only up to five times a day, with a staggering increase in price with every refill. It's simply not worth it, the premium currency is much more valuable when spent on character rolls. To emphasize how god-awful this system is, I had spent the better part of two years grinding a single dungeon for a particular accessory with desirable stats, and had still yet to find a satisfactory selection. ...The story for Genshin's moderately interesting, but does contain a TON of padding, and the dialogue exchanges go on for way too long with a ton of nothing happening within them. Paimon's voice unfortunately gets worse, as well. The grind isn't exactly arduous when you reach a story wall and explored your fill of the land, only asking about 30 minutes of your day, outside of events, but the burnout will eventually reach you, as it did me after four years. Not nearly as bad of a game as people make it out to be, though, and one of the best examples of a gacha game around.
not to mention the amount of story quests that will stop the dialogue just to tell you to walk 30 feet over before continuing right where it picked off
I will say one thing in Wizard101's defence - recently they're doing this great promotion campaign where for a week everyone gets free membership, or everyone gets free access to the entire first arc for a month (you get to explore 5 worlds, do hundreds of quests and end on a satisfying note plot-wise) You are right of course, the pricing is outrageous (which is why I only play during the aforementioned promotion campaigns) and there's another problem I'm surprised your friends didn't bring up - players' toxicity regarding gear and farming. The gear that's considered the "best" in the game is dropped at pretty low rates by the final bosses of dungeons, which if you're trying to get at the lowest level the gear is usable is pretty hard to clear without help from other players - so you need to run the same dungeon over, and over, and over, and over... and if you don't wanna do it (which is reasonable - again, you're paying A LOT for your membership, and if you're playing during Free Membership Week that's precious time you're wasting on tedious reruns of the same dungeon instead of questing or exploring or doing minigames...) and settle for decent/pretty good gear you can buy at the bazaar (players' trade hub) or win by questing, get ready for fellow players you come across, team up or quest with to barrage you with "why don't you have " "you should farm " "your gear's shit you need "
I was wondering exactly the same thing, so amazing someone did a video on this. I also get 'Evony' and a Pirate one all the time, I'd reckon like 80% of my youtube ads are these 3-4 games, then someone sort of person trying to sell me some sort of course or scheme to make money on the internet are probably the next most common. Normal ads for like cars, clothes, food, physical products etc. are really really rare for some reason.
Seems like it has always been that way. Haven't seen any ads for years but remember it exactly as you described it. A few games repeating and some bitcoin scammers in between.
I've played Evony before, it's another discount Clash of Clans, and like Hero Wars it has some pull the pin puzzles sprinkled around here and there, but those puzzles are treated like rewards aka, complete tasks in the clash of clans game in order to play more of the puzzle game
But if you have food at home a change in phone case might be better also losing access to phone (i.e. by breaking it because you didn't have a case) can be dangerous in case of emergency.
You never know if the loaf of bread is poisoned or not, you shouldn't take foods from total strangers, so phone case is safer choice, atleast you can't die from that.
I remember as a kid loving Wizard 101, me and my two brothers would play that shit nonstop whenever we got the chance. Made friends, fought many battles, my little brother even got a girl on there to buy him a house, and we would just chill there sometimes. Ahhh good times, good times.
@@LocalSlasher Behind the gacha for hot, cool, adorable or badass characters and the funny events is a story about a lot of loss, tragedies, betrayals, human expirements, human sacrifices,.. You will meet ghosts filled with regrets, some of those characters you pulled for have felt nothing but betrayal and hatred their entire life... Most stuff is light hearted and fun, but then the main quest and world quest happens or maybe you read the story of characters or of the books or notes placed in the world and oh boy... It gets really dark at times
Isn't it actually more than just 2? If we count the sunchildren, ruu, that npc across an alter who went mad and sacrified many people including children, and the Fontaine serial killer one. Otherwise, there is loads of human trafficking, human experimentation, poverty, and parentless kids lol
TH-cam has been trash lately. Now in everything. Ads are trash, video recommendations are basically stuff that's trending at the time, and when I try to look up stuff, I see so many "other people watched" and "watched already" when it has nothing to do with what I looked up. And yeah I keep getting hero war ads but it's a giant woman spreading her legs and it being censored with a giant number. I reported that ad so many times and TH-cam didn't seem to care. Edit: wait i just had a thought.. the games they are suggesting to me aren't even what I'm into. I normally like games like wild craft. (I sadly lost my account somehow so i dunno if I'll ever go back to it) TH-cam used to show me ads like wildcraft but, not any more. And i remember playing wizard 101 but it was the first and last time because i didn't know how to leave the game XD.
Fun fact: I started using ad-block on TH-cam again almost solely because of HeroWars' ads. The other 2% being unsolicited medical advice. Also, I thought Herowar and Lastwar were the same thing. Fair because they both appear to be incomprehensibly shit games. Most importantly, however, thank you for suffering this filth and somehow managing to make something enjoyable for others! 💝
@@rogersmith3094 That first winter event some years ago with that ice plant thing... I STRUGGLED lol 🤣 luckily I got fire kid just in time. Genshin is easy if you're experienced with it. You can't call it an easy game outright though. Like BG3 I hear a lot of people saying it isn't that hard. Yet I have friends who would be totally lost and give up within a couple of hours due to the difficulty lol. It's only easy if you know how to play it.
Genshins story starts getting extemely good at sumeru and fontaine just got even better, fontaine is also an extremely beautiful place and the music is majestic. The lore is also intense and we see about 3 people die. The bosses also improve a lot
I'd argue that it has always been so good (with a hiccup at inazuma; it had the potential to be great but it was a bit too rushed). And the World Quests hhhhh like the Dragonspine ones. Sumeru felt like they put in even more effort into telling the story visually, and good GODDD Fontaine. GRRRRR
Funny thing about Hero Wars from what I’ve heard the puzzles weren't even in the game originally but later added them in when people started complaining and accused them of false advertising. If you want an actual good mobile game (that's also available on steam), play Bloons Tower Defense 6, its fun, has actual strategy in it, its only like 5 dollars, and while their are microtransactions they truly are optional and you don’t need them if you can play the game well and know what you’re doing, and even all the maps hardest modes chimps mode turns off all the microtransaction stuff so you can’t just pay to win the game completely.
Many of the paid mobile games are good. Sure, there is still trash out there, but it's ratio is lower than for Steam games i think, maybe on par. The reason is because many good games are either designed for pc and then ported to mobile or vice versa. Same is true for BTD series. So... Any free good mobile only games? I can name a bunch if needed, but i want to see some other opinions first
@@LocalSlasher free to download, without ads, with optional or rare ads, or with ability to turn off ads. Preferably not a live service game, also better if it has no scummy monetisation practises such as battle passes or gacha/lootboxes, but it has one - fine, unless it may ruin gameplay experience. Examples: 1) Candy crush is technically free, but it is a live service and has plenty of micro transactions, therefore it should not be considered as a good option. 2) Sky: children of Light is also free, and you can explore 100% of the game without paying a cent, but it is a live service that focuses on player interactions, daily farming and cosmetics many of which are paid. This game is fine as a finite experience, and iirc it is not ported on pc yet. 3) Nameless cat checks all the marks - complete game with optional. It is also a good platformer and will recommend anyone to play it once.
@@LocalSlasher free to download, with no ads, optional or rare ads or the ability to turn ads off for a cost. Also it is prefered for the game to not being a live service, and without scummy monetisation tactics like battle passes or gacha/lootboxes. It may have some, but only if these do not change your gameplay experience. Here are examples: 1) Candy crush - technically it is free, but it was designed to pull as much cash from your pocket as it can. This is a no-go. 2) Sky: Children of the light - 100% of gameplay content is accessible for free. But this game is based on social interactions, daily candles grind and cosmetics, many of which are paid, plus it's a live service. Though main game is 100% done, they only add new areas and side stories once in 3 months, so this is not a big deal. This game is fine, especially as a finite experience, if you complete main story, explore all areas, and close it. Also it is still not on PC iirc. 3) Nameless cat - checks all the marks, free, ads are optional and you can turn them off, game is complete. Also this is a platformer i can recommend everyone to play, including yourself.
Brave is nice, but it still runs on Chromium. Google may soon prevent ad blocking in Chromium entirely. Hopefully the Brave folks will deal with theat before hand. Even then, I feel a bit iffy about all the integrated crypto pushing. In the time being it seems like forks of Firefox will stay a good choice
TH-cam has the most dog diarrhea comment censorship on any website I've ever been on. I've started keeping a list of my comments that get removed to try and see which words get flagged. And I use swears/slurs in NONE of them!!!!
TH-cam has the most dog diarrhea comment censorship on any website I've ever been on. I've started keeping a list of my comments that get removed to try and see which words get flagged.
Gacha games feel to me like a hijack of our most base human tendencies, all these ads showing off sexy characters, with gameplay that looks NOTHING like the real game, with the ads only purpose to get you to download the game where they attempt to get you to feed into the gacha aspects, get addicted, and whale for PNGS of either sexier characters or powerups to even get just that little bit further in their soulless game built to make you not be able to play it normally past a certain point. It's one of the most disgusting things i've seen come out of any entertainment industry, and that's really saying something. Anything gacha, even the high quality stuff from Mihoyo I can't stomach.
Psychological manipulation is just too profitable... No level of quality in gameplay excuses the addition of gacha mechanics to a game. The game would always be better without the gacha.
As someone who likes vtubers, I'm pretty disgusted by how much that community glorifies gacha knowing full-well how many children are in their audience.
Nah bro, that's trauma right there. But if you wanna talk about it, I'm here for you man. As someone who likes wasting hours on end for rpgs, I'm someone who stomached the irredeemable gacha aspect in Jenshin by solely playing as a f2p. Everyone needs to be drunk on something
@@dustrockblues7567Well you can't expect a salesman to sell without being good at talking. If you gotta blame their marketing strategy, blame currency and the existence of the internet
I have been craving a video like this. I couldn’t find one from creators that I know of so I almost just downloaded a lot of these games myself just to see what they were like. This is awesome thank you.
14 years ago, there would be 1 single 5 second ad at the beginning of the video, now it's watch 2 ads that's 30 seconds long without being able to skip and do that 3 times in a 10 minute video
21:46 seasoned genshin player here, the easiness is like a rising sine curve, later on you get to upgrade your world level raising the difficulty of all enemies at once, in turn getting better loot, thus making it more difficult, but you get used to it quickly, and soon you are raising the world level again. and all characters are quite viable. genshin stays quite easy, even in late stage, the end stages, especially if players want to partcipate in, basically the boss rush contents, require really well built characters, which can be very very grindy to obtain, and a lot of things cant be solved even if u spend money, the beginning of the story is quite lame, as it is made 3 years ago, the newer areas and stories are genunely very well written, if ur intrested definetly keep it around as a " garden in your pocket" type of game
I'd say its the other way around, up until Inazuma the story feels coherent, and actually intriguing. After that...general direction of the story is like copy-pasted between locations. You arrive=> you meet goofy archon => you solve their problems which are always caused by the fatui/AO (who supposed to be mysterious and dangerous antagonists but instead after Inazuma they are just nonstop losing stupidly in everything they do and not feeling even somewhat menacing.) . The whole Khaen'Riah story feels like cheap fanfiction on some obscure anime. The only thing that carries game is the chracters that are memeable, memorable & their daily interactions.
@@lylianx4209 yea this is how yk somebody never played genshin. archon war, fallen kingdom of khaenriah, how genshin connects with hsr and hi3, im sorry youre missing out sm by ignorant hating
In regards to Genshin's difficulty, you're in the first area so it is actually pretty easy! But when you get to the higher areas it can be VERY. VERY hard. They give you enough free pulls to at least get some 5 stars, which will help you a lot but are not necessary. You can perform very well with the basic characters. Because they give away so many primos during events, getting new characters feels like a neat little bonus. Of course, if anyone reading this has issues with gambling.. DO NOT.
Some of the more recent Spiral Floor 12s have required 5 stars to beat. (Mostly the consecrated beasts). While Wenut, Golden Wolf Lord, and Thundering Manifestation have been beaten by 4-star only characters, they need really, REALLY stacked artifacts to do so. That said, the game is a marathon, not a sprint. Keep playing the game long enough, and you will eventually get good 5-star units and weapons that make everything a breeze. I'm completely F2P, and while it took me over 1.5 years to hit 36 stars, I've been able to consistently 36 star everything since.
Also as someone who plays other gacha games, I find Genshin to actually be very kind if you fail to lose the character you wanted. Because after a bit you'll get them anyway
Just to speak up for people using adblockers, they have nothing against creators. Ads are often malicious and most people just don't want to see them. People will happily support creators they enjoy via patreon or other means, TH-cam Adsense is not a good avenue for actually making money doing this.
I had real fun in genshin climbing peaks and gliding down from there. I never paid a single penny so my characters and equipments are mostly 'mid', well that makes some boss fights extremely challenging. But you can always utilize the Co-op fearure and ask a friend to help out or even use a healer in your party. Combat is hardly a challenge otherwise and typically you can have more fun just wandering about the lands instead. Real difficulty in genshin begins when you get to the icy mountains down south.
raid shadow legends this would probably be the only "game" ad that ive seen. but you cant really call it a game when you dont even play it and you cant get the higher tier stuff by grinding but by buying instead
I remember for 2 months straight, that ad was the only thing I've seen and sometimes it was on my homepage 3 times. I had to report the ad for being too repetitive and even showing photos of it. It finally stopped but now Tik Tok took its place...
The two ads that come to my mind would be for Ants: Underground Kingdom (Personally I don’t like it especially since I have on my pc the game they literally took assets from for their ads lol) and the other would be Cookie Run Kingdom, this one is actually a little fun though only casually but while it definitely has monetization it isn’t quite as predatory about it (least last time I played it maybe that’s changed now) Edit: In case any one is curious the game I talked about is Empires of The Undergrowth, it’s about ants but it’s rts and while the devs may not be 100% accurate to life in it they certainly try and that’s more than a few studios would do.
Oh god, I've seen some really outrageous Ants ads before. There was one where a hornet(?) SA's a queen ant, so the 'hero' ant must level up by eating progressively bigger things until he can beat him up. Vile stuff 🤮
101 felt worthy of paying after I joined the free event, where I could progress. With friends or without, I would pay but only when it would be on sale and I had gigantic load of free time.
Looks at the TH-cam premium logo in the corner and silently thanks the world for someone gifting me a family membership 5 years ago and forgetting to cancel it.❤❤❤
A lot of the ads for those games use a simple mechanic to tempt you as well. They all feature a very simplistic progression, then the player/hero/whatever makes an horrible (and obvious) mistake, and you instantly think "I can do better". Which is half the job of getting you to click. (also, regarding Hero Wars - even its players, while they are playing, speak of the Legendary... not Hero, but Greed of Nexters. They do make millions per month)
This video is great, it saved me multiple hours of downloading and trying these games ( other than Genshin which I already play and Wizard 101that I have played in the past ). Because while I would never pay for anything it can be fun to just see the shitshow live, thanks for the youtube recommendation TH-cam. 10/10 ( also it's always funny to see people's reactions to Timmy on the bridge )
The Play Store ads are even worse.. There was an ad for a game that showed gameplay from Spore... Also tons of ads promising hundreds of dollars after you download. There is no quality control.
Damn, the quality of review, audio, editing, and jokes is endgame, thought you were already a big channel, keep going this is a fun video, I think you'll be successful if you continue doing this kind of experimental type of game review!
This is weird. I downloaded HeroWars just to see how misleading the ads were and I had a completely different experience. In my version, each level took place on a chessboard pattern where you would place one hero at a time and attack enemies across the board, then place heroes to defend your side.
Genshin monstadt chapters were meant to entroduce the world and gameplay mechanic similar to RDR2 Prologue chapter, Both are equally boring for exact same reason. But ofc RDR2 Wins on its graphic that maked people hooked to continue the story. Liyue is where things start to kicks in. While sumeru and Fontaine chapters is the one who kicks the hardest.
Yep. I'd say Liyue and Mondstadt are a single region. There's just so little to do in Mondstadt - I feel like the Dragonspine mini-region doubled Mondstadt's total content. Liyue is massive now thanks to the Chasm and Chenyu Vale, but back in 1.0 it was clearly just the second half of the base game.
Correction on the FFXIV subscription, it is not 80 bucks a year its 80 bucks for 6 months making Wizards101 half the price, still not great but not as bad as you made it out to be
My mistake, good catch!
For my own wallet I wish FFXIV's sub was annual xD
They give you a demo essentially up until level 50 for free, and it was enough for me to close my wallet permanently. The only fun I had was the random dungeons scattered through the completely snore-fest story that you were essentially forced to do.
Wizard 101 isn't much better.
Did we play the same game?@@PhrozenFox
@@PhrozenFox you actually get to play up to level 70 for free, 1-50 is the base ARR and is a lot of world building, ARR stumbles so all the expansions can fly
I saw a 4yo on a bus, playing one of these games for 1 level, getting and ad, downloading and playing that game until he got another ad and the cycle went on
That's the target audience
Kid is an actual npc
Literal key jingling
To me kids shouldn't be allowed to have phones and tablets until they are older
That poor child
@@skystoyhunts7225 minimum age 11-13 after being taught about viruses and malware and other junk. These toddlers shouldn't be allowed on the internet but here we are.
Hero wars ads are the embodiment of "the writer's barely disguised fetish"
You see it...Some Nickelodeon ish geared to the young people.
Whoever writes those ads is actually a genius. Every time I see one, I'm appalled, and I stop and think about Hero wars.
Worst part is every AD i get for Hero Wars starts with: "Are you tired of fake mobile games AD's? We are too."
@@blackking3270most ads have that now.
@@osmium7738
Not really.
I immediately skip them as they are annoying as hell!
And they tend to get longer and longer and longer...
Silly.
The cherry on top would've been if you were sponsored by raid shadow legends
You killed me 😂😂😂😂😂
I honestly expected him to be
Plot twist: He is!! He's a shadow sponsor, raiding youtube and becoming a legend in the process. 😚👌I'm actually a little proud of this comment, not too much though I'm not a c*nt. 🤌
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I can't get over Hero Wars having completely different gameplay compared to the ads.
The original ads featured the puzzle game and that does exist within the game as small bonus stages when you collect all possible stars in a zone for the first few zones.
It's possible stuff from the newer adds is available in a similar way further into the game.
I actually made it to the game in one of the ads...it's like in lvl 3 and it's a special bonus level.
Funny because I once saw an ad saying "tired of games not being like the ads? Well good thing hero wars is exactly as advertised!" lol
@@jamilandres9989
I saw that ad as well. Unfortunately for them, there's a little something called false advertising.
Of course, if their ad made the game look WORSE than it actually was? Well, that's another story.
Conclusion: YouTtube doesn't recommend things it expects you to enjoy more than TH-cam
…SHIT. A little conspiratorial for my taste but it would explain so much!
out of all those 1000's of ads only 1 got the interested
RIN: the last child on steam. it looks like a good looking metroidvania. which i love these kinds of games
but i still have no hope watch-o-ever unless someone manage to sue all those greedy companies and there future plans fail.
not just standard sue, cold hard by full force with evidence hard as 50x titanium
Well... Yt recommended Obey Me! to me a few years ago so there's like a 0.00000001% chance they'll recommend something good every once in a while.
Edit: oh right it recommended Sky Children of Light and Dragon Raja too, but only one time each and then I never saw their ads again for some reason. It sometimes recommends Ni no Kuni too but I haven't played it yet so idk if the game is as good as the ads make it look.
Genshin is actually really good if you don't suffer hedonic treadmill brain and want all the 5 stars and have gambler addiction
@@BluzlbeeI think we should never put up with those kinds of mechanics or manipulation, regardless of the supposed quality.
On a semi-related note, my brother has tried to get me into Warframe for some time. While the game may seem fun and relatively well-made, I find it all too overwhelming just by watching gameplay. Not only that, it's full of the stuff I'm railing against: premium currency, wait-timers for stuff that go up to hours, daily log-in "bonuses" & some other forms of FOMO.
I appreciate you playing Hero Wars so the rest of us don't have to, despite all of us knowing it was gonna be shit
the only game I came for
@@sargaa8471 I wanted to see Million Lords, another long form cash grab.
@@drascalicus5187 because you got ads from that game recommanded ?
I play Hero Wars for over 2 years
ads have nothing to do with the game and beginning is stupid for sure
game is very different later as you unlock all the things 😂
that is: clash of worlds, guild war, adventure maps, tournament of the elements, grand arena, guild raid...
@@sargaa8471 I did as well 😉
isn't it illegal to lie about your gameplay with your ad's isn't that called false advertisement
yes, what are you going to do? sue them?
Yeah, but the courts aren't interested in it because you don't lose money to this false advertising
I'm pretty sure you could sue them if you really wanted. But there's hundreds, maybe even thousands of them out there, so why bother? The time, effort and money that would go into suing just one of them would probably be enough to put out a dozen more.
@@squiddler7731 exactly why these no effort "games" prosper
by the time you settle with one, 14 more have already been made
Actually no, it's only false advertising if you need to spend money on it to play, which some games do fall into, a specific creature collector that constantly markets itself as a horror game comes to mind. That said the actual amount courts are going to care that something that's 2 bucks was a scam is almost 0
we thank you for your sacrifice. finally i can rest knowing what the hell hero wars actually is
exact same reason for gratitude here ahahah
21:17 Speaking as a pretty passionate Genshin player, weapons and artifacts effects start off simple so that beginners can understand the basic concept of equipping and using them. Then once you get later in the game, the artifacts and weapons are all oddly specific like “Doing a plunge attack gives you a Wibbly Wobbly stack, for a total of 5 max Wibbly Wobbly stacks. Each Wibbly Wobbly stack buffs your Quicken and Aggravate reaction damage by 5% but lowers your Superconduct reaction damage by 5%. Once you get all 5 Wibbly Wobbly stacks, it gives your character a funny hat for 10 seconds” lol
Speaking nothing but facts
Wait that is exactly how it is - speaking as someone who makes fan kits lol
genshin artifacts are like: Doing a a full auto attack string within 8 seconds grants 1 Opulent Shitblast. When you get 3 Opulent Shitblasts your character gains 12-14-16% dmg bonus. At full stacks activates Enshittening Simulacra increasing normal attack speed by 5%
Pretty much yeah. Kinda funny that in-game systems are more annoying than the gacha itself, ironic.
And game is still too easy to think about it or read that description lmao you just need to pull a few strong characters to clear all of the “hard” content
Some of those Hero Wars ads where so horrendous that I whenever I got one, I’d watch it all the way through. They were too uniquely disgusting to ignore.
And they Made a video of someone playing like if he has been hitted 30 times in the head and also he is in the middle of a brain surgery with doctors playing with his head
LMFAOOO i uploaded one to my channel that I'd found. the comments are either understandably disturbed or drooling over its contents
@@smoppetbro how bad is it for it to get age-restricted tf
Same, and for me the funniest thing is that my 58 year old dad has been addicted to hero wars for at least the past 3 years and is one of the top players in the entire game (across several hundred servers)
@@vanillaskin1907At least he started playing before the worst ads started
Oh sweet summer child, even cold hard cash won't save you from genshin's artifact RNG
yeah lol
Can confirm
Like in life you pay either with time or money.
ahh yes the $2000 staff of homeless
I have been grinding viridescent for 2 years and venti still has an 80:75 ratio.
You never came across a raid shadow legends ad?
I haven't seen a raid shadow legends ad in a long time. I would rather see those than the crap ads I see now.
@@SleepyRPGmanyeah for real what happened did they run out of money
@@SleepyRPGman Just realised right now i kinda feel the same way and here i am, wondering how low ads have fallen to make me nostalgic of raid shadow legends ads 😅
He's the chosen one
@@Secondpointed they're from Israel, maybe political blunders?
Reasons people run ad-blockers on TH-cam:
1. These exact games.
2. Those times Google lets literal malware infect their banner ads.
There may be some overlap between 1 and 2. Just maybe.
Even the flippin FBI recommended everyone to use ad blockers! Look it up if you haven't seen it before
3. They dont want to watch 4 30second unskipable ads
4. They don't want to sit through ads that load and play properly only to encounter the actual video that fails to load/play.
Many times there are straight up scam ads like " how to make money" or some drugs that promised to cure my cancer
Hero wars ads are crazy. They are some weird form of modern art.
I am genuinely so confused because they seem to make new ads daily, each with their own "storyline". But who funds it? Who pays for the creation of more ads when the game actually does not exist? At some point they'll have made so many assets for their ads, that making the game they advertise would be easier, no?
@@mattc9598 That's one of my biggest questions with these crappy games being advertised. Another one that I cannot escape is "Royal Match," which, as far as I can tell, is just another generic match-3 game. But like, they're being advertised everywhere and they make so many new ones all the time-how can they afford that? Are there actually people going out and paying for these games? It genuinely baffles me how these companies aren't bankrupt already.
Also they go overboard on the weird fetish stuff.
@@Phoebe5448 Man, I thought everybody was into having a giant, busty cyclops spit green slime all over them.
@@mikejeffries3333 thats the thing, people actually do pay for those games. its just that they are rarely sustaining that revenue because they rely on adhd infused children to make one purchase and never play it again while the devs just go work on some other game.
I'm convinced these types of games are a form of psychological warfare. Legitimately. They are poison to the mind
Their target audience seems to be 12 year old boys with sub 80 IQs.
...which offends me. Because I see these same ads, and I'm a 45 year old guy with an advanced degree that just happens to enjoy a couple mainstream games (which is why I assume I got targeted with the Hero Wars ads in the first place).
I really think they are deliberately trying to influence something in younger minds, nihilism or something in that type of way.. I agree with you 100%
China is trying to destroy us via TikTok and shitty gacha games
It's working
Bro played these games so we didn't have to, legend.
it's not like we really had to
And we definitely wouldn’t want to
Wizard101 is good.😊
I mean , travelling in a subway daily with absolutelly nothing to do , it would definitely be fun but I'm sure there are better games out there .
One could call him...a Raid Shadow Legend? 😚🍌
"Why is Jazmine so detailed"💀💀
Yasmine vs Jazmine
Zazmine
Jizzmine
Razmine
I can't even lie bro, they easily struck by far my favourite monster girl kind with her
6:10 we all know exactly why is she so detailed. Almost all of the ads if you noticed are thirst traps one way or another.
Yeah it's just like Evony taken up to 1,000.
Buy her 😂
@@Phoebe5448omg someone mentioned Evony. I played it when I was a kid and thought it was cool just making the buildings lol 😂
@lifedeather lol I never played it but I so many ads for it!! 🤣
Evony. Straight up PAY 2 WIN. Also you gotta "buy speakers" to chat. Lol.
"Come play my lord!".
I really love Genshin Impact.
I discover the game trough an ad some years ago, and the beautiful landscapes and ambiance, the music, the color, the little quest story, the dynamic gameplay really talked to me.
What's more is that even if it's a gatcha game, i never put one centim in it and it didn't stop me in any fashion from enjoying the expérience.
And it blew me away that all of that was for free.
The nostalgic and melancholic feeling of the games was one of my best personal expérience in video games, which help me even through some hard times in my life
The music is good, too. I don't play the game, myself, but they put on actual live orchestral concerts of the BGM, and that is some solid music.
I played the game for about 30 minutes before getting bored. Sure it looks nice and they put a good amount of effort into the dialogue and gameplay. But it was all kinda meh. You just wander around and beat things up and get items but there is no real challenge. And this type of gameplay just isn’t that great on a phone. I much rather play something like that on a pc or console. It just isn’t a good setup for the type of game.
The beginning of the game is meh it gets better though
More power to you, I only hope you continue to enjoy it.
@@justinhunt3141 it's quite ass on the phone. PC experience for genshin is much better. it gets good after a bit, but the story is subpar compared to other story driven gachas and grinding for artifacts (your main stat source) feels like absolute doodoo.
JP (a lot of big name Japanese VAs) and even CN dub is very good.
Remember when raid shadow legends was bloody everywhere
But those ads are at least somewhat funny and have a distincly higher production quality than that Evony/Hero Wars crap.
The game was shit but at least their ads were funny
raid shadow legends can never hold a candle to mafia city
I try not to.
@@FutureChaosTV Having played all of them I would say Raid was by far the worst as a time waster. To play it properly becomes almost like doing a full time job - you also end up spending more money.
The combat in HW is pretty garbage but that's not really the point of the game - its about developing teams of hero's. The real problem with HW is that the game is played out - its impossible to win or get anywhere close because there are too many teams that are already maxed out. Actually that's the exact same problem with Evony and Stormshot and most of the others (online mobile games) as well.
TH-cam ads recommending these games is exactly the reason why I use Ad blocker.
I remember when there were "acceptable ads", which were non-intrusive, didn't start autoplaying vdeos, didn't have huge blinking gifs, didn't block half the page. No there were rather laid back banner ads that were "fine"
But at some point ad providers started declaring their BS ads as nonintrusive, and that was the point where I decided, if they don't play by the rules, why should I...
The funny thing is that I have received advertisements for adblock on TH-cam AFTER they took the anti-adblock actions. I watch much less TH-cam these days because of these atrocious advertisements, which has turned out pretty good for me. Honestly, I should just outright quit watching TH-cam; the hypocrisy and contradicting nature of these modern media companies is mind boggling.
“why is yasmine so detailed?” lmaooo had me rolling 😂🤣
Mmmm... My monster girl fetish is acting up because of that detail. But I will never be horny enough to play awful games.
@@BC-vl4rnbro acting like he made the video
@BC-vl4rn bot
@@AManWithAVoiceBrain rot. At least you types will not breed. Listen to liberals: yeetus the feetus.
Oshi No Ko
He actually played Hero Wars? That alone is enough to earn my subscription. Well played Command B, well played.
As a long time Genshin player (started a week after it launched) I will say that you're half right about how the difficulty scales. The difficulty definitely jumps up to the point where you have to put some thought into gear and team composition, although the game never scales up to a point where you have to pay to pull on new characters. There is certainly power creep as the devs want to push sales (the game is still unfortunately a gacha) however you can play through the entire game with only the basic characters with 0 issues, in fact there are plenty of videos which showcase some of these characters soloing the endgame content. It's understandable that you came to the conclusion you did in this vid considering you barely made it out of the tutorial, but this game has a ton of depth and honestly gets better with every update. The devs very quickly shed the "anime botw" identity and have put more and more focus on the aspects of the game that are unique to it as they've grown more confident in the game standing on its own merits. The game is a huge time sink so it's understandable why you would put the game down and stop where you did, but I just wanted to put my opinion out there as someone who loves this game even in spite of it being a gacha. Anyway if anyone actually read this whole comment thanks for listening to my TED talk, and HD if you're reading this then I just wanna say this was an awesome vid and I hope you keep it up.
I'll 100% agree with you. I've not been playing as long as you, but for about one and a half year. I haven't spent a single penny on the game, but I would say my characters are very strong and can kill everyone in the world, but I almost never get the highest rewards in the fighting events. But that's not because I would have to spend money on the game, but because I can play with only my absolute favoutire characters (which I all got without spending money) and still make a pretty high amount of damage. I even got close to 36 star the abyss last time with only my favourites. Buuut I will still admit that I use guides to build my characters because that stuff is just way too complicated for me and I'm also way too lazy to learn every detail about my characters strenght. I just love everything about Genshin from the events (the current one with Lisa is sooo great!) to the breathtaking sceneries and of course putting time and love into getting and building my favourite characters. The fighting for me is more of a side effect because I'm horrible at dodging for ex. (That's why I'm Layla main hehe (she is best girl
It's a game that asks you to sink in a very large amount of time or money. Preferably both. For some people who can devote that amount of time to it, it's playable for free, but for most it won't be. Given, it's a well made game that's legitimately fun to play. But your representation of it is a bit deceptive.
Also, for people who want to just supplement money by spending a lot of time grinding, there's also an "energy mechanic" at play where you can only do so much in a day without paying extra. Doesn't prevent you from doing everything, and it's basically irrelevant in the early game, but it becomes cumbersome as the game goes on. It's a mechanic that explicitly makes the game less fun to play and exists only to draw money from you.
@@anthonybowman3423 I would half agree with what you're saying here. Paying money to reload on resin is a pretty inefficient method to grind out most things and with good pacing you can gear out a character completely within a week or so (artifact luck can extend this process by a lot but odds are you'll get something usable). Much like most gacha games, so long as a player doesn't use their resources haphazardly you can make pretty consistent and meaningful progress towards building up a proper team. As far as the content most people will be interested in, namely just progressing the main story, the power requirements are quite low and at least in my anecdotal experience from both progressing myself and helping guide some friends through the game requires minimal optimization to comfortably progress. Full 36 star abyss runs or combat events on the highest difficulty are another story entirely and require a pretty high level of investment in 8+ units to effectively clear for the average player, though the bulk of the meaningful rewards (namely primos) are never gated behind attaining the highest scores in combat events, and most players can 16-24 star abyss with relative ease. While I do tend to look at all this in a positive light, I do wholeheartedly agree that the resin system does only exist to restrict the player and tempt people to make the poor decision to swipe your credit card just for a bit of extra progression on character builds. Gacha games by their very nature are designed to make as much money as possible by subconsciously pushing players with inconveniences and stop gates which can be circumvented slightly by just shelling out a tiny bit of cash. As I mentioned earlier, I love this game in spite of it being a gacha game due to the underlying gameplay and artistry along with a generally rising quality standard that has personally kept me feeling like the money is at least being put back into improving the game. I completely understand why someone would want to avoid playing a gacha all together and would genuinely advise people to steer clear of this game unless they're certain they have enough impulse control to hold back on dropping money on the game. It wasn't my intention to be deceptive in my portrayal of the game but rather to highlight the things I personally find appealing and enjoyable, though you are right that the game is ultimately built on a predatory business model and that's an important thing to understand going in.
Man, I'm not reading all that
When the Genshitter starts talking
As a 101 head, it's definitely a "baby's first mmo". If you're not interested in the game it's definitely not worth paying for- they have been pretty regularly doing "free weekends" that let you get further than normal though. You can also buy areas individually rather than subscribe but that can be more expensive depending on how you play.
As kid my brother and I got our parents to do the "by area" thing so it was more like buying DLC for me than an over priced subscription.
That's interesting - I didn't know you could pay for areas individually. I am also not a huge MMO person in general so that could also explain why it didn't really resonate with me.
Yeah I think this may have been unfortunate introduction for me because Wizard101 was the first MMO I ever played and the moment I got to my first paywall to get into a new area I dropped the game faster than scam games flop and I've sworn off the entire genre. I've never once tried WoW for instance because of 101 but everyone always goes on and on about how much a great game it is and I just don't believe them.
WoW is a very VERY different beast that games like this stole from. @@leoncoben6983
In the video it showed $7 for a month. This is significantly cheaper than Runescape & WoW. So I don't feel it is that bad for a subscription based game.
But I grew up on subscription based games so maybe I'm biased somehow.
I've had membership for....the better part of a decade. It was definitely my first mmo rpg, and I've loved em ever since. It's simple, graphics are cute, and I'll for sure try and play it with my kids one day, if it's still around. It's gonna have its 16th birthday this year which is...really impressive for a kids mmo.
THANK YOU! For so long I wondered what kind of game "Hero Wars" actually was after getting it's mildly traumatising ads constantly, and you quenched my curiosity without me having to sacrifice my sanity by delving into it myself. Your sacrifice is greatly appreciated.
The algorithm now picked that you watched a vid about these games and will recommend even more
@@Gabriel_F4924 Oh god I hope not. I hate these ads. I feel insulted youtube thinks I want to play a game designed for 4 year olds. I wouldn't feel insulted if it was a game I might actually consider playing.
Hero Wars is the undisputed reigning champ when it comes to fake ads, they've done every trick in the book and then some, and they've been doing it for a lot longer than you'd expect. Plus, there's different versions of the game too - the one you played seemed to be called "Dominion Era" but the one on mobile is called "Alliance" or something like that. I've never played either, but from other videos I've seen the auto-battling is still the main gameplay, and it cuts every now and then to minigames that are closer to the ads you saw but still a different brand of their ads. The pin-pulling ads used to be a staple, but they've since fallen to the wayside.
The pin-pulling puzzles do actually exist as a bonus minigame when completing all starts for a map (at least the first few maps)
@@Zeelian "At least the first few maps" is how I hear mobile games get away with it. The ads make it seem like it's the main game (Evony ads are particularly infamous for this), but it'll more often than not be a minigame that's either only offered sporadically or vanishes after a short amount of play time. I've seen several other mobile games use the same strategy, since if something similar to the ads is 'technically' playable, then it's harder to prove false advertising.
@@Antifrost Jupp, there is a handful of those pin-puzzles available so technically it's not false advertising.
Never did see the stuff from the other ads (like the one where the char runs around a structure/maze collecting items and attacking things) during the time I did play around with it.
"Fake ads"? What do you mean. They tell me each time in their ads that they don't use fake ads and that the game looks exactly like in the ads. 🤣
Hero wars on every youtube ad
Raid Shadow legends: finally a worthy opponent!
Tbh Hero wars is just a thing to be made, so it can use cringe ads like using the left right trend when it isn't popular anymore. Also why can't TH-cam allow us to report ads like these, i would personally add so we can report ads like ai or impersonating someone or fake ads like Hero wars or i would add other so people type their reason like innapropiate content
I... with how popular and good genshin is I wasn't expecting it here but also practically every other video I watch used to have Genshin ads so honestly I should have expected it.
It is such a shame Hero Wars is nothing like it's ads because genuinely I kinda wanted to play it.
Somebody turned most of these fake gacha ad games into game collection called ""Yeah you want those games right?" on Steam. Yes, really. The games themselves show just how insultingly simplistic these concepts actually are, they're not fun at all. Try it if you don't believe me
@@fuzzydude64 I've already seen someone play it and felt 2nd hand boredom.
Yeah genshin doesn't belong on here
@@icheeva1why? The title is “playing every game TH-cam advertises me” I constantly get genshin ads just as often as I get these scam games.
I would seriously play hero wars if it was what it was advertising.
Genshin has one of the best open worlds. The level of beauty in some places is just incredible.
Ofc you eventually fall into boring dialogs and repetitive activities between events, but still -- for a F2P game it's really great.
Difficulty is something that is tied to your world lvl. You were just in the beginning, so)
I tried making a new genshin account using only the og crew and noelle and Barbara but I got so bored doing the early stage content again😭
MiHoYo games are generally good if you can deal with some gacha bullshit in FOMO events (or ignore them completely and just focus on the main story). In 2018 TH-cam add pulled me into Genshin's predecessor, Honkai Impact 3 and it is till going on very strong.
Yeah, I started loving Genshin again once I banned myself from all future events (and characters/artifacts). They really sucked the soul out of me and made me quit when Sumeru’s desert was introduced… until like a few weeks ago.
Same with Star Rail, but that one’s the farming game because it’s basically automatic.
Genshin limited events aren’t even that bad in terms of fomo. Everything is completion based and there’s no grinding or pulling required and at the end of the day the rewards are still shit lol.
I missed out on aloy oh well atleast I have horizon zero dawn/forbidden west all single player no fomo
@immort4730 The problem for me is, missing events means missing out on story, and I hate that. Unless it's truly something that I have to pay no attention to, I'm not letting FOMO control when I play things. So that means no events for me.
LaHiss, where is your profile picture from?
"7 if Paimon stopped talking" killed me with laughter. I wish so too.
"How about we explore the area ahead of us later" - little Paimon pushes your strong warrior back
@@matejathos3645off the cliff
Honestly, I just... got used to her EN voice
now she is less annoying
I think they added an option to the game to mute Paimon... it's only so much of an improvement though - there are other characters who're almost as annoying. Klee comes to mind.
Dragonheir literally is "we have Baldur's Gate 3 at home" lol.
Im curious is it any good cause it looks fun well to me at least Im a sucker for the type of games where you watch your team fight?
@@lordweeb8928 their best selling points are their beautifully designed characters and cool skill effects. That's basically it. Their gacha RNG is horrendous.
Exactly what I was thinking lol it looks like a cheapo ripoff of BG3
God I love Wizard101. It still has quite a large player base despite being 15 years old. And I honestly don’t think it’s aged _that_ poorly. Its price tag of $80/yr also hasn’t changed in the 15 years of its existence in spite of inflation. It’s also _technically_ possible to be a f2p player by using free methods of earning crowns, the currency used to unlock game content and other things - though this can take a long time. The worst thing about the game is that the predatory micro transactions have slowly gotten worse and worse over the years.
Man acknowledges the benefit of the war on ad blockers but also remembers he was once a consumer. Instant like 💕
I was absolutely surprised that this video is not by some huge channel, holy hell. Amazing work
Glad you liked it - means a lot :)
i agree@@Command_B
I was genuinely surprised when I looked down at the number of subscribers! definitely deserves more subs.
He literally went with quantity over quality 😂.
Oh, wow. I didn't even realize this before reading your comment and checking the number of subscribers myself. I don't usually subscribe to channels after just one video but I think the channel deserves to grow with quality videos like these.
I'm honestly speaking a little bit surprised how different some of those games are from their advertisements. I think it's one thing to see a cinematic trailer and understand the actual gameplay is different but when ads are showing something that looks like actual gameplay but the game is nothing like that then I'd say it is definitely false marketing.
Hero Wars absolutely annoys me because they design the ad to be a puzzle solver but the "puzzle" is so obviously easy to do that they intentional "lose" to frustrate ad viewers to pick up the game in order to make the right decisions but then that isn't even the game at all and hopes to sucker you in in the first ONE MINUTE! Fortunately I was out in the first 10 seconds when I realized what was happening but seeing a more _genuine_ attempt at the game really finally confirms to me my eternal hatred towards this "game."
I remember when 7 Knights was in my Ad feed and that was genuinely fun to play even if it was another gacha auto battler game but at least it had some actual gameplay thought to it. It had an active PvP meta that you could keep up with as a f2p player but it's PvE actually slaps too which again you can keep up with even better as f2p player. Events happen all the time and are manageable to do but you are looking at a solid 3-5 hour time commitment a day if you want to make any good progress. Too bad I stopped playing for a month and fell completely behind and it just wasn't worth getting back into just to struggle to regain lost ground.
I can't remember what the ad was for. It was a hero game but it was puzzle based. And you had to match up symbols so the characters could use their moves against the enemies. I can't remember what it was for or, if it's accurate but it looked alright as it seemed like the only accurate ad compared to others like it.
I believe there was an app out there with characters ripped off of hero wars that gives the players what they were hoping for: the puzzles that the ads featured. Don't know If it is still out there.
Yeah ive gotten to the point where I instinctively refuse to play any game that pops up as an ad online. The ad is probably total bull and the game is generally awful.
I wanted to see the real gameplay of Hero Wars and Last War for so long. Thanks a lot for sparing me to try them out myself.😁
"6.5/10. 7 if Paimon stopped talking"
Boy, do I have good news for you. And by good, I mean bad.
I'm considering giving this a try on Steam after seeing actual, non-trailer gameplay, but if she keeps yammering non-stop... I might just go back to ESO.
@@Geno2733 try the japanese dub. its so much better
@@Geno2733 Her Japanese voice is actually adorable. The English one is considerably more annoying.
Turned VA off after 2h of playing. Am now over 400h deep and loving it, not a single cent spent. Mechanics; gameplay and the world are great.
Worst thing in the game is that I have to wait for animations to play out to skip the dialogue and that I cant just skip *all* of the cutscenes; or at least have my dude just auto-select dialogue options to get it over with quicker. Just let me do stuff and earn my primogems.
people really need to stop playing anime games in English.
Genshin went from "okay, this breath of the wild rip-off is quite enjoyable"
to "if you had read C. G. Jungs Red Book or the greater key of Salomon, you'd know where this is headed."
Honestly the genshin story is so goddamn complex and amazing I love genshin so much even if I haven't played it in like 6 months
I prefer Tower of Fantasy, but it's also great.
But that is all that I liked about Genshin. The BOTW rip off parts. I loved exploring the map and fighting some of the bosses the first time. At the end I dont care about the characters so pulling for them has 0 impact on me. Which makes most gachas have no endgame for me.
Idk why, but to me genshin impact seems like a game discord mods play 24/7. I'll pass
00:02 believe me when I say TH-cam has lost that war
If you like vampire survivors and similar games, Heroes vs Hordes is actually fun. I've been playing it for a while and I don't regret paying to remove ads (and nothing else). You can unlock a bunch of heroes for free and they offer enough variation to keep the game fun despite the inherent repetitiveness of the genre.
Hero Wars veteran here! (not proudly lol;)
The game occasionally introduces mini-campaigns to hook new players into staying (when I started playing, it was doing math towers), these don't last long.
The more you progress in the game, you'll notice that it isn't exactly about beating the solo campaign mode (which ends at chapter 15) but the PVP aspect--- that's right, this game makes you juke against other players with its 62 existing hero characters-- all of which have EXTREMELY GRINDY and complex upgrades on many aspects (artifacts, glyphs, ascencions, gifts of the elements, etcetc). The reward is in finding the hero combinations that synergize enough to beat your opponent.
Plus the game also has in-game chats with guilds you can form with up to 30 players to fight against other guilds in your same server in a weekly event called Guild Wars AND against other server's guilds in Clash of The Worlds.
It's all about team-building for PVP. You need to grind to build your team.
It's a horrifying money-sinking trap for boomers that progressively gets WORSE with how much you need to spend to keep up.
Save yourself anyone thinking of trying it.
I already took the L a long time ago.
veteran here too, 5years. wouldn't recommend it to anyone unless they got a heck of a lot of money, time, and patience, anyone else should avoid it all costs
I downloaded it for a sponser and sunk $20 in it cause it also helped with the sponsership. I got to level 80? In like 6 months, roughly and then realized the majority of the game was putting the phone down and waiting or doing something inbetween fights. (mainly the tower lol) Plus as I was F2P other than that inital $20, anyone who got the battlepass or paid for the subscription things got such a massive advantage, there's literally no point after level 60 I'd say. Just a giant money sink.
I have never tried this game, but once tried something similar. I came to the sneaking suspicion, that loads of the "opponents" that I would meet in PvP weren't actually human, but autogenerated bots giving the impression of a massive playerbase.
I do not trust games like these for a second. I believe they should be made illegal as they target kids and encourage them to spend money, that they don't have. It's a despicable business model.
I got addicted to this for a months, didn't spend any money thankfully. It's basically a more advanced version of the "one more turn" phenomenon that Civ pioneered. There's always something to do, and any one thing can be accomplished in seconds, but to actually get anywhere you either have to take out your credit card or waste hours a day. And aside from your team composition in PVP, none of your decisions are interesting.
"A weekly event called *Guild Wars* ..."
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm
I've played genshin for 2 years before quitting and it starts off simple but then you're basically stuck grinding RNG based artefacts for months just to get nothing good. That's mainly why I quit.
the gacha for the characters it's not bad at all, but the artifacts are just impossible to get.
That's also why i quit
I quit after i needed to gain alot of levels just to enter a new dungeon. While the bokoblins and other critters barely give exp
Yep. I haven't quit genshin but it starts off so deceptively simple lol. Then when you hit AR 55 all of a sudden you're in artifact grinding hell lmao.
Yep, it's why I quit too. I don't mind gacha systems, but the fact a lot of artefacts are locked behind them and the insane amount of grinding you need to do for them plus parts of the games just become impossible if you don't min-max is just infuriating.
But why would you do that? You can do everything in the game with mediocre artifacts. I am a day one player and I never spent too much time farming artifacts. For example I don't give a s*t about the sweaty try hard 1:2 Crit rate:crit damage rate. I can clear easily Floor 11 in the abyss with lvl80 characters with said artifacts.
Thank you for making this video and covering hero wars. So now every time I get ads for that game, which is 95% of the time, I will literally skip the ad and say "Yeah the game isn't actually like this".
21:46 Fun fact about Genshin, the first character game lets you see on the beginner's pulling interface qualifies as an end game dps character that deals as much damage as premium gacha character and can be used to clear end game contents
I'd always wondered what kind of game Hero Wars was, because like you said, the ads are so bizarre; I actually catch myself watching them at least halfway before skipping them just to see where they're going.
Wizard 101 definitely needs a modern remake
Still gets updated regularly by the devs, but they focus on adding new worlds.
I love when you give hero wars a 2 / 10, a hero wars ad interrupts your video.
Okay but counterpoint to Paimon's voice acting it also has the _oratrice mechanique d'analyse cardinale_ which I feel like evens it out.
I know literally nothing else about Genshin, and I'm never going to, but I know that the _oratrice mechanique d'analyse cardinale_ is a bop. And that its judgement is final.
Mega based.
Paimon not knowing how to shut the f up and there not being a skip button for quests was what pushed me away from genshin, I log in once a month for the 5 free pulls and saving the other 5
Oratrice cardinale is the only thing that give me the feel of regret for not stacking with English VA. On the other hand, it is the only thing I liked in English version and I still love Chinese voice more
@@CMEPTbOoYou missed some incredible voice acting from the latest archon quests then, they really uped the voice acting with fontainee
Funny thing is, the puzzles in _Hero Wars_ were used in the first sets of false ads for it, and IIRC were added in when they were threatened with legal action.
Honestly, Genshin is a slow burn, difficulty wise, that does build into a moderate challenge. Downright evil at times, with special modifiers dictating the flow of battles in some modes. Funnily enough, the character gacha isn't the end game, as every character is usable in the later stages of difficulty. Even the first four characters you have access to can be competent, and their elemental affinities compliment each other well enough. The free character pulls are a bit stingy, with the premium currency, primogems, being offered in paltry amounts, but the characters alone have such heavy potential value, not in their strength but gameplay flow alteration, that the high perceived price is somewhat justified. When I last played, I was still utilizing the first two characters I had pulled from the Beginner Banner: Beidou, a 4* electro claymore user, who's split between a support and main DPS; and Qiqi, a 5* cryo healer. Realistically, the characters are only assigned artificial rarity, Qiqi is often perceived as useless because of her lackluster elemental application and pure healing ability/lack of damage opportunity.
The real end game comes from the character customization you had barely touched on. The accessories serve as the deciding factor of a character's overall power, with percentile modifiers being desirable traits to skyrocket a character's potential. Most of the best accessories come from repeatable dungeons with a scalable difficulty to your level, with the highest difficulty giving the highest tier of accessories. These accessories come as part of different sets, containing modifiers of their own with the more accessories of a set you equip. These set bonuses come with a full requirement of four pieces, allowing the fifth to be replaced with a piece from any other set. Three of the five accessory types, the cup, timepiece, and headpiece, carry a random main stat, meaning that you need to try and roll a desirable stat for these three pieces on top of actually getting the particular accessory pieces you want. Each accessory also comes with bonus stats applied to them, up to 4 on a 5* accessory. These stats are either applied to the accessory until the maximum is reached, or one of the applied bonus stats increases, with every 4 levels. These bonus stats can be ANYTHING other than the accessory's main stat, which can heavily boost the potential of the accessory. Provided you can get lucky with your desired stats getting rolled, there's also a range for which the stats can get boosted, meaning a stat can potentially get boosted lower than what you're looking for.
So, RNG on RNG, making accessory grinding a statistical hell for people looking for even moderately acceptable accessories. There is a feature to combine undesirable accessories into new ones, more rolls for what you want with the mountain of trash you'd absolutely accumulate. The most agonizing aspect of this cycle is that attempts are tied to an energy system. This system ties into all manners of character progression, from dungeons that drop materials to level up a character's abilities, to world bosses that drop materials to level your characters past certain level thresholds, to weekly story bosses that drop materials for both. All of that is shared with this energy with the same energy system that allows you to grind for accessories. With the unpredictability of accessory rolls, I always assert to people that THAT whole mess is the last concern for character progression. It's not even pay to win, like some people might see the up-front gacha: energy CAN be refilled with premium currency, but only up to five times a day, with a staggering increase in price with every refill. It's simply not worth it, the premium currency is much more valuable when spent on character rolls.
To emphasize how god-awful this system is, I had spent the better part of two years grinding a single dungeon for a particular accessory with desirable stats, and had still yet to find a satisfactory selection.
...The story for Genshin's moderately interesting, but does contain a TON of padding, and the dialogue exchanges go on for way too long with a ton of nothing happening within them. Paimon's voice unfortunately gets worse, as well. The grind isn't exactly arduous when you reach a story wall and explored your fill of the land, only asking about 30 minutes of your day, outside of events, but the burnout will eventually reach you, as it did me after four years. Not nearly as bad of a game as people make it out to be, though, and one of the best examples of a gacha game around.
not to mention the amount of story quests that will stop the dialogue just to tell you to walk 30 feet over before continuing right where it picked off
The game is mid
i think it's really sad how you wrote this entire novel on genshit shitpact
@@maxclark4957 I think it's sad how you like to take other's opinion as your own, so you can shit on people's game
Let people enjoy their hobbies fam
@@maxclark4957ok
I will say one thing in Wizard101's defence - recently they're doing this great promotion campaign where for a week everyone gets free membership, or everyone gets free access to the entire first arc for a month (you get to explore 5 worlds, do hundreds of quests and end on a satisfying note plot-wise)
You are right of course, the pricing is outrageous (which is why I only play during the aforementioned promotion campaigns) and there's another problem I'm surprised your friends didn't bring up - players' toxicity regarding gear and farming. The gear that's considered the "best" in the game is dropped at pretty low rates by the final bosses of dungeons, which if you're trying to get at the lowest level the gear is usable is pretty hard to clear without help from other players - so you need to run the same dungeon over, and over, and over, and over... and if you don't wanna do it (which is reasonable - again, you're paying A LOT for your membership, and if you're playing during Free Membership Week that's precious time you're wasting on tedious reruns of the same dungeon instead of questing or exploring or doing minigames...) and settle for decent/pretty good gear you can buy at the bazaar (players' trade hub) or win by questing, get ready for fellow players you come across, team up or quest with to barrage you with "why don't you have " "you should farm " "your gear's shit you need "
I was wondering exactly the same thing, so amazing someone did a video on this. I also get 'Evony' and a Pirate one all the time, I'd reckon like 80% of my youtube ads are these 3-4 games, then someone sort of person trying to sell me some sort of course or scheme to make money on the internet are probably the next most common. Normal ads for like cars, clothes, food, physical products etc. are really really rare for some reason.
1. Do you have ad personalization enabled?
2. You talking mobile or on a PC?
Seems like it has always been that way. Haven't seen any ads for years but remember it exactly as you described it. A few games repeating and some bitcoin scammers in between.
I've played Evony before, it's another discount Clash of Clans, and like Hero Wars it has some pull the pin puzzles sprinkled around here and there, but those puzzles are treated like rewards
aka, complete tasks in the clash of clans game in order to play more of the puzzle game
I clicked this purely to see hero wars actual gameplay and its nothing like the funny ads this sucks
There’s a steam game that’s specifically those games- go for that one instead
I played it for a few days hoping one of the unlock areas was what the ads shown. Negative.
Same. It's a shame because the isometric view looked interesting.
@@Delmworks *Yeah! You Want "Those Games," Right? So Here You Go! Now, Let's See You Clear Them!*
Quite the mouthful
A free loaf of bread can secure your surival for a few days, which a phone case can't do.
But if you have food at home a change in phone case might be better also losing access to phone (i.e. by breaking it because you didn't have a case) can be dangerous in case of emergency.
You never know if the loaf of bread is poisoned or not, you shouldn't take foods from total strangers, so phone case is safer choice, atleast you can't die from that.
A loaf of bread is also worth like a dollar while a phone case is worth at least 5 dollars. Although if it's the wrong phone, it's useless.
I remember as a kid loving Wizard 101, me and my two brothers would play that shit nonstop whenever we got the chance. Made friends, fought many battles, my little brother even got a girl on there to buy him a house, and we would just chill there sometimes. Ahhh good times, good times.
Genshin also has two instances of child sacrifice, it's not much but it's weird it happened twice.
Sorry for the randomness but like- Serai Island and Enkanomiya, right? I feel like i'm missing one xD
WHAT
...I think I understand now why they have a "Paimon"
And a ton of dead children overall, especially in Liyue quests....
@@LocalSlasher Behind the gacha for hot, cool, adorable or badass characters and the funny events is a story about a lot of loss, tragedies, betrayals, human expirements, human sacrifices,.. You will meet ghosts filled with regrets, some of those characters you pulled for have felt nothing but betrayal and hatred their entire life...
Most stuff is light hearted and fun, but then the main quest and world quest happens or maybe you read the story of characters or of the books or notes placed in the world and oh boy... It gets really dark at times
Isn't it actually more than just 2? If we count the sunchildren, ruu, that npc across an alter who went mad and sacrified many people including children, and the Fontaine serial killer one.
Otherwise, there is loads of human trafficking, human experimentation, poverty, and parentless kids lol
Wizard 101 gives me that beta World of Warcraft artwork vibes, from buildings, trees to that yellow quest markers.
It still gets updated regularly too with new world coming out pretty often lol.
TH-cam has been trash lately. Now in everything. Ads are trash, video recommendations are basically stuff that's trending at the time, and when I try to look up stuff, I see so many "other people watched" and "watched already" when it has nothing to do with what I looked up.
And yeah I keep getting hero war ads but it's a giant woman spreading her legs and it being censored with a giant number. I reported that ad so many times and TH-cam didn't seem to care.
Edit: wait i just had a thought.. the games they are suggesting to me aren't even what I'm into. I normally like games like wild craft. (I sadly lost my account somehow so i dunno if I'll ever go back to it) TH-cam used to show me ads like wildcraft but, not any more. And i remember playing wizard 101 but it was the first and last time because i didn't know how to leave the game XD.
Fun fact: I started using ad-block on TH-cam again almost solely because of HeroWars' ads. The other 2% being unsolicited medical advice.
Also, I thought Herowar and Lastwar were the same thing. Fair because they both appear to be incomprehensibly shit games.
Most importantly, however, thank you for suffering this filth and somehow managing to make something enjoyable for others! 💝
Dirt tulip is bad but I once heard it described as a meat flower. That now lives rent free in your head. You’re welcome.
Meat curtains. You are also welcome.
Darn y’all
@@matthewferguson6524I think dirt tulip is the other one (?)
Appreciate this one. Stunned Hero Wars was even that close to the ads.
1. No scam/microtransaction
2. No NSFW
Already broke both of them at 6:05
Not really the latter though…
Genshin Impact difficulty level?
You poor poor child! God bless your soul you didn't pass the tutorial level.
Yeah that was a bit annoying to hear lol
Wait until he has to fight Azdaha
@@rogersmith3094 That first winter event some years ago with that ice plant thing... I STRUGGLED lol 🤣 luckily I got fire kid just in time.
Genshin is easy if you're experienced with it. You can't call it an easy game outright though.
Like BG3 I hear a lot of people saying it isn't that hard. Yet I have friends who would be totally lost and give up within a couple of hours due to the difficulty lol. It's only easy if you know how to play it.
tbh once you've go far enought things get too easy and boring, the only thing that's hard is getting good RNG on artes and early 5*
I think you don't realize who the real "poor child" is. Greetings from Nibelheim 😂
Genshins story starts getting extemely good at sumeru and fontaine just got even better, fontaine is also an extremely beautiful place and the music is majestic. The lore is also intense and we see about 3 people die. The bosses also improve a lot
I'd argue that it has always been so good (with a hiccup at inazuma; it had the potential to be great but it was a bit too rushed). And the World Quests hhhhh like the Dragonspine ones.
Sumeru felt like they put in even more effort into telling the story visually, and good GODDD Fontaine. GRRRRR
Funny thing about Hero Wars from what I’ve heard the puzzles weren't even in the game originally but later added them in when people started complaining and accused them of false advertising.
If you want an actual good mobile game (that's also available on steam), play Bloons Tower Defense 6, its fun, has actual strategy in it, its only like 5 dollars, and while their are microtransactions they truly are optional and you don’t need them if you can play the game well and know what you’re doing, and even all the maps hardest modes chimps mode turns off all the microtransaction stuff so you can’t just pay to win the game completely.
Many of the paid mobile games are good. Sure, there is still trash out there, but it's ratio is lower than for Steam games i think, maybe on par. The reason is because many good games are either designed for pc and then ported to mobile or vice versa. Same is true for BTD series.
So... Any free good mobile only games? I can name a bunch if needed, but i want to see some other opinions first
@@Romashka_Sov The games made by JBGames such as the 8-Bit Jump tetralogy, and Stick Of Titan
@@Romashka_Sov 👋 Depending on what you meant by "free", I might have some suggestions
@@LocalSlasher free to download, without ads, with optional or rare ads, or with ability to turn off ads. Preferably not a live service game, also better if it has no scummy monetisation practises such as battle passes or gacha/lootboxes, but it has one - fine, unless it may ruin gameplay experience. Examples:
1) Candy crush is technically free, but it is a live service and has plenty of micro transactions, therefore it should not be considered as a good option.
2) Sky: children of Light is also free, and you can explore 100% of the game without paying a cent, but it is a live service that focuses on player interactions, daily farming and cosmetics many of which are paid. This game is fine as a finite experience, and iirc it is not ported on pc yet.
3) Nameless cat checks all the marks - complete game with optional. It is also a good platformer and will recommend anyone to play it once.
@@LocalSlasher free to download, with no ads, optional or rare ads or the ability to turn ads off for a cost.
Also it is prefered for the game to not being a live service, and without scummy monetisation tactics like battle passes or gacha/lootboxes. It may have some, but only if these do not change your gameplay experience. Here are examples:
1) Candy crush - technically it is free, but it was designed to pull as much cash from your pocket as it can. This is a no-go.
2) Sky: Children of the light - 100% of gameplay content is accessible for free. But this game is based on social interactions, daily candles grind and cosmetics, many of which are paid, plus it's a live service. Though main game is 100% done, they only add new areas and side stories once in 3 months, so this is not a big deal. This game is fine, especially as a finite experience, if you complete main story, explore all areas, and close it. Also it is still not on PC iirc.
3) Nameless cat - checks all the marks, free, ads are optional and you can turn them off, game is complete. Also this is a platformer i can recommend everyone to play, including yourself.
the two Hero Wars ads that played in this video really add something to the experinece
"TH-cam has decided to wage war on adblockers"
Me on Brave with no ads: "Oh no! Anyway"
Brave is nice, but it still runs on Chromium. Google may soon prevent ad blocking in Chromium entirely. Hopefully the Brave folks will deal with theat before hand.
Even then, I feel a bit iffy about all the integrated crypto pushing.
In the time being it seems like forks of Firefox will stay a good choice
Great. Every time I want to talk about this stuff my comments get hidden IMMEDIATELY. Thanks a lot TH-cam & Google 🙄
@@LocalSlasher ye, mine get hidden randomly as well and no, it has nothing to do with swearing, unlike the bullshit that others are spewing
TH-cam has the most dog diarrhea comment censorship on any website I've ever been on. I've started keeping a list of my comments that get removed to try and see which words get flagged. And I use swears/slurs in NONE of them!!!!
TH-cam has the most dog diarrhea comment censorship on any website I've ever been on. I've started keeping a list of my comments that get removed to try and see which words get flagged.
Gacha games feel to me like a hijack of our most base human tendencies, all these ads showing off sexy characters, with gameplay that looks NOTHING like the real game, with the ads only purpose to get you to download the game where they attempt to get you to feed into the gacha aspects, get addicted, and whale for PNGS of either sexier characters or powerups to even get just that little bit further in their soulless game built to make you not be able to play it normally past a certain point. It's one of the most disgusting things i've seen come out of any entertainment industry, and that's really saying something. Anything gacha, even the high quality stuff from Mihoyo I can't stomach.
Psychological manipulation is just too profitable...
No level of quality in gameplay excuses the addition of gacha mechanics to a game. The game would always be better without the gacha.
Anyone's dumb enough to download them , shouldn't reproduce.
As someone who likes vtubers, I'm pretty disgusted by how much that community glorifies gacha knowing full-well how many children are in their audience.
Nah bro, that's trauma right there.
But if you wanna talk about it, I'm here for you man. As someone who likes wasting hours on end for rpgs, I'm someone who stomached the irredeemable gacha aspect in Jenshin by solely playing as a f2p. Everyone needs to be drunk on something
@@dustrockblues7567Well you can't expect a salesman to sell without being good at talking. If you gotta blame their marketing strategy, blame currency and the existence of the internet
I have been craving a video like this. I couldn’t find one from creators that I know of so I almost just downloaded a lot of these games myself just to see what they were like. This is awesome thank you.
14 years ago, there would be 1 single 5 second ad at the beginning of the video, now it's watch 2 ads that's 30 seconds long without being able to skip and do that 3 times in a 10 minute video
the first time i saw the next button instead of skip i knew we were living in the end times
I haven't seen ads in years. Premium is a good deal I think. But I can imagine they get more like in any media. Capitalism ftw.
I used to listen to music playlists while doing my housework. Now I listen to stupid ads and a song in between.
TH-cam is awful.
@@MarcCastellsBallesta unfortunately all forms of broadcasting do that. It does give you a free service though.
You also forget videos used to have yellow bars on the timeline, indicating when an ad would pop up.
wow 7:00 the puzzles are actually in the game? Thought those were fake ads.
20:10 you could say it felt like a huge.. *_breath of the wild_*
21:46 seasoned genshin player here, the easiness is like a rising sine curve, later on you get to upgrade your world level raising the difficulty of all enemies at once, in turn getting better loot, thus making it more difficult, but you get used to it quickly, and soon you are raising the world level again. and all characters are quite viable.
genshin stays quite easy, even in late stage,
the end stages, especially if players want to partcipate in, basically the boss rush contents, require really well built characters, which can be very very grindy to obtain, and a lot of things cant be solved even if u spend money,
the beginning of the story is quite lame, as it is made 3 years ago, the newer areas and stories are genunely very well written,
if ur intrested definetly keep it around as a " garden in your pocket" type of game
I'd say its the other way around, up until Inazuma the story feels coherent, and actually intriguing. After that...general direction of the story is like copy-pasted between locations. You arrive=> you meet goofy archon => you solve their problems which are always caused by the fatui/AO (who supposed to be mysterious and dangerous antagonists but instead after Inazuma they are just nonstop losing stupidly in everything they do and not feeling even somewhat menacing.) . The whole Khaen'Riah story feels like cheap fanfiction on some obscure anime. The only thing that carries game is the chracters that are memeable, memorable & their daily interactions.
as a genshin player ive been wanting to comment the same thing LMAO
@@MM-hd6xo Tell me you didn't play through Fontaine without telling me you didn't play through Fontaine.
Genshin's story feels like one out of a thousand Chinese-made, childish-as-F bland anime stories for otaku incels tbh.
@@lylianx4209 yea this is how yk somebody never played genshin. archon war, fallen kingdom of khaenriah, how genshin connects with hsr and hi3, im sorry youre missing out sm by ignorant hating
In regards to Genshin's difficulty, you're in the first area so it is actually pretty easy! But when you get to the higher areas it can be VERY. VERY hard. They give you enough free pulls to at least get some 5 stars, which will help you a lot but are not necessary. You can perform very well with the basic characters. Because they give away so many primos during events, getting new characters feels like a neat little bonus. Of course, if anyone reading this has issues with gambling.. DO NOT.
Some of the more recent Spiral Floor 12s have required 5 stars to beat. (Mostly the consecrated beasts). While Wenut, Golden Wolf Lord, and Thundering Manifestation have been beaten by 4-star only characters, they need really, REALLY stacked artifacts to do so.
That said, the game is a marathon, not a sprint. Keep playing the game long enough, and you will eventually get good 5-star units and weapons that make everything a breeze. I'm completely F2P, and while it took me over 1.5 years to hit 36 stars, I've been able to consistently 36 star everything since.
@@jyashinI agree with the Wenut, but GWL, and to a lesser extent, TM, are easy to beat with 4 stars.
Not to mention the META defining characters are all 4 stars which is by the way you can by them in the shop 😅😅😅
Also as someone who plays other gacha games, I find Genshin to actually be very kind if you fail to lose the character you wanted. Because after a bit you'll get them anyway
Conclusion: youtube doesn't show ads that you're interested in, it shows ads that pays more.
Just to speak up for people using adblockers, they have nothing against creators. Ads are often malicious and most people just don't want to see them. People will happily support creators they enjoy via patreon or other means, TH-cam Adsense is not a good avenue for actually making money doing this.
I had real fun in genshin climbing peaks and gliding down from there. I never paid a single penny so my characters and equipments are mostly 'mid', well that makes some boss fights extremely challenging. But you can always utilize the Co-op fearure and ask a friend to help out or even use a healer in your party. Combat is hardly a challenge otherwise and typically you can have more fun just wandering about the lands instead. Real difficulty in genshin begins when you get to the icy mountains down south.
I am shocked you aren’t a larger creator. I anticipated at least 100k while I was listening to this video!
So - yknow, good work!
Instead of Hero Wars, I was 100% convinced you were going to say "Raid: Shadow Legends" and hop into an ad for them.
7:50 A mobile version of a game that already has a free to play mobile version
raid shadow legends
this would probably be the only "game" ad that ive seen. but you cant really call it a game when you dont even play it and you cant get the higher tier stuff by grinding but by buying instead
I remember for 2 months straight, that ad was the only thing I've seen and sometimes it was on my homepage 3 times. I had to report the ad for being too repetitive and even showing photos of it. It finally stopped but now Tik Tok took its place...
@@Simipourfangirl I actually didn't even download it. Just didn't look fun and you know they are paid to talk about it in a positive light
@@Nerd_Gamer_Buddy I gave the thing five hours of my time, I will never get those five hours back.
@@Jokoko2828 dang I od t think I could even play it that long. Was it as bad as they say?
The two ads that come to my mind would be for Ants: Underground Kingdom (Personally I don’t like it especially since I have on my pc the game they literally took assets from for their ads lol) and the other would be Cookie Run Kingdom, this one is actually a little fun though only casually but while it definitely has monetization it isn’t quite as predatory about it (least last time I played it maybe that’s changed now)
Edit: In case any one is curious the game I talked about is Empires of The Undergrowth, it’s about ants but it’s rts and while the devs may not be 100% accurate to life in it they certainly try and that’s more than a few studios would do.
Oh god, I've seen some really outrageous Ants ads before. There was one where a hornet(?) SA's a queen ant, so the 'hero' ant must level up by eating progressively bigger things until he can beat him up. Vile stuff 🤮
Hero Wars ads drive me crazy if I'm not in the room to skip the ad.
101 felt worthy of paying after I joined the free event, where I could progress. With friends or without, I would pay but only when it would be on sale and I had gigantic load of free time.
This was a really good Genshin Impact ad.
Which is a bad thing.
Yeah, pretty sure he was paid even if he claimed otherwise on that lol. The usual Genshin shillings
@@rayonMazterOr maybe he actually liked it?
He probably liked it. Who wouldn't after playing the previous games @@mikhailefimenko2622
Genshin is pretty good actually, I don't know why so many people hate it 🤷♂️
17:00 I mean, Stray has won the Most innovative gameplay award on steam
Looks at the TH-cam premium logo in the corner and silently thanks the world for someone gifting me a family membership 5 years ago and forgetting to cancel it.❤❤❤
A lot of the ads for those games use a simple mechanic to tempt you as well. They all feature a very simplistic progression, then the player/hero/whatever makes an horrible (and obvious) mistake, and you instantly think "I can do better".
Which is half the job of getting you to click.
(also, regarding Hero Wars - even its players, while they are playing, speak of the Legendary... not Hero, but Greed of Nexters. They do make millions per month)
A joke you overlooked, after that statement from timmy, the screen says "F Timmie"
21:00
💀💀💀
This video is great, it saved me multiple hours of downloading and trying these games ( other than Genshin which I already play and Wizard 101that I have played in the past ).
Because while I would never pay for anything it can be fun to just see the shitshow live, thanks for the youtube recommendation TH-cam.
10/10
( also it's always funny to see people's reactions to Timmy on the bridge )
The Play Store ads are even worse..
There was an ad for a game that showed gameplay from Spore... Also tons of ads promising hundreds of dollars after you download. There is no quality control.
Damn, the quality of review, audio, editing, and jokes is endgame, thought you were already a big channel, keep going this is a fun video, I think you'll be successful if you continue doing this kind of experimental type of game review!
Yeah, kinda wish TH-cam would actually remove false advertisements, but we see how much they really care about it.
This is weird. I downloaded HeroWars just to see how misleading the ads were and I had a completely different experience. In my version, each level took place on a chessboard pattern where you would place one hero at a time and attack enemies across the board, then place heroes to defend your side.
I’ve downloaded it as well and had exactly the same experience as the video. Sounds like you got a different game
That, or they updated it. I've seen a number of these games change significantly for zero reason.
Always love it when someone talks about Wizard 101. The game is great when you have had all the content when the game was relevant
The best part of the vampire survivors rip off is that you can get vampire survivors on mobile for free with optional ads.
Genshin monstadt chapters were meant to entroduce the world and gameplay mechanic similar to RDR2 Prologue chapter, Both are equally boring for exact same reason. But ofc RDR2 Wins on its graphic that maked people hooked to continue the story.
Liyue is where things start to kicks in. While sumeru and Fontaine chapters is the one who kicks the hardest.
Yep. I'd say Liyue and Mondstadt are a single region. There's just so little to do in Mondstadt - I feel like the Dragonspine mini-region doubled Mondstadt's total content. Liyue is massive now thanks to the Chasm and Chenyu Vale, but back in 1.0 it was clearly just the second half of the base game.
Inazuma just straight up depression 💀💀💀