@@Patrix8558 The Until Dawn remake...fuck that was some awful 'gameplay,' awful plot writing...and voice acting. Oh, and he & Metal were playing the new & old games simultaneously to see how different choices impacted the plot...they didn't change anything, but the result was crap dialogue in stereo half the time, lol.
I was 11 in 1997 and I remember begging my parents for a PS1 because I just saw the commercials for FF7. It’s my favorite game of all time as well. At the time I had never played an rpg and it really just blew my mind. I stopped playing games for about 20 years, when I started high school till 2020. That’s when I found out they were remaking it. So I bought an OLED tv, a PS4 pro, and FF7 remake. It single handedly got me back into video games and I’m now entrenched in the hobby more than ever.
I began gaming at 3 years old. It was Pong on my mums Grandstand Console. Then between 3 and 4 I got an Atari 2600 with H.E.R.O, Millipede, Pinball and miss pacman. In my mid 40s today I still game almost every day and always have done. I have had an Atari 2600, Atari ST, Vectrex, gameboy, NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Dreamcast, every playstation at launch except the new pro, that I don't plan on getting, PC, every Xbox, Vita and PSP, I just love gaming. I haven't played COD for ages. I know most gamers regard it as throw away and junk these days, compared with its hey day. Black ops 6 is fun for me though, so I don't care. Played my first game since advanced warfare and got 24 kills in tdm and was top of my team. My son is 13 he joined me and got 35 kills. It was then I realised he had surpassed me, which is cool because that's what's sons are supposed to do. I enjoy going on and playing with him sometimes. My eldest son joins us as well, but he is more into creative games. It's a great hobby to share though. I have also gotten into GT7 over Christmas. I normally love and play alot of open world games, but needed a pallette cleanser of something different to dip in and out of. Astrobot is so good though as well. Once I have had my COD fill, I will go back to Cyberpunk for another play, and will pick up the thing. I have a ton in my back catalogue I want to replay. I hope I make it to 100 and I am still gaming. I love it. FF7 was a tremedous game when it came out. The remake is absolute class.
Still Wakes the Deep is possibly the most atmospheric game I played all year. Highly recommended. It's like a mash up of The Thing and Paul from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, but genuinely terrifying. Cosmic horror at it's best.
No way it could be made until the PS5 era based on the extremely advanced physics alone. AstroBot literally has the best interactive physics of any game made .
@@emiami458 I think he means the nature of the game, not the game itself. It absolutely feels like a throwback to an older era of gaming that realistically has only been kept alive by Nintendo.
@Frawgfith The only thing this game does better than Mario (especially the perfect Galaxy) is the speed of the game. Ecerything else is very good but inferior to Mario. Stop lying to yourself!
I am a49 year old man watching a slightly younger man play astro bot and I want to play this game now. Instead I'll watch u while I take Kratos on a killing spree😅
Very happy to see more people trying out and loving Astro Bot... this thing wasn't GOTY for nothing... as a Nintendo gamer, this game was right up my alley and in many ways refreshes some of the tropes that Mario games does.
It was GoTY for something. For shamelessly ripping off NINTENDO. I'm not phased that it exists. But GoTY is a joke. Maybe everyone's just mercifully relieved that it's an actual finished game in a package, instead of a subscription leech. But GoTY? That's gunna age like a dog turd on a pavement. Tropes? That's a quaint way of saying "all their ideas". It's one thing to be a clone basically. The astonishing thing about Astro Bot is the sheer, undeniable QUANTITY of its "inspiration". This game being GoTY is awarding the trophy to a desperate oasis.
@@pathogeneration5138 It was a fantastic game, and it more than earned it's win. It was the loveliest surprise of pure enjoyment this year and if this is ripping off Nintendo then I dare say I'd love to see many more ripoffs of this quality. It's a shame to hear you are so hostile towards it; wallow in your own frustration as you please, I suppose.
@@pathogeneration5138 Inspired is not ripping off.. show me exactly what they ripped off that is unique game mechanic for Mario that isn't to the whole Platforming genre.
@@MedalionDS9 That's it? That's your request? Once you combine the stupid chicken boost, with the laser hover. The game looks straight up like Mario Sunshine. Which would be tolerable if it had a preponderance of inspiration. The way you frame it EVERYTHING is a standard, and NOTHING is a distinct mechanic. But this is also an equation of the quantitative. But this thing is a COMPENDIUM of "borrowed" Nintendo design. It's so outrageously shameless and lazy, it's actually an impressive scale of gall. It's as if the apologists, go: Well yeah, it looks like Mario Sunshine now- BUT WAIT, it's ok, because it'll look like Mario Galaxy next.
A game that's a love letter to the old sony games that had actual gameplay instead of, the glorfied walking simulators of today ? You have my interest.
I bought a Saturn in 1995 to play Sega's great arcade games and I was never disappointed with it. I only bought a PS1 in 1998 to play Resident Evil 2. Still kept the Saturn though.
With Astrobot you use the lrvels power up as much as possible, the levels sre disigned that way..and most things sre interactable, so so punch etc everything, you missed ALOT of the hidden magic moments
The clueless guy LadyGamer from the chat asking Drinker if this game is really that bad (as if this game has a reputation of being bad lol) like dude this is the highest rated, most beloved game of the year and official GOTY. I mean how embarrassing are you really.
@@italianspiderman5012 Because the Character is a blatant design language rip-off of Eve from Wall-E. Probably because they never expected it to amount to more than a tech demo. So why waste design inspiration on it? And... now... they're accidental heroes, trapped in a cycle of... "borrowing".
@lmao. Sure, their designs are in the same style, but that’s stretching, and I highly doubt any judge would take it seriously, it’s really silly. If Astro is a knock off Eve, then Link is Peter’s Pan copy, Master chief is Doom’s guy copy (it’s inspired by, by the admission of chiefs creators) Nathan Drake? Just Indiana Johnes. Every fictional character you know was inspired by something else, by your logic taking inspiration is somehow plagiarism, so there never can be a white robot with blue eyes resembling Eve, that’s stupid I’m sorry.
@@italianspiderman5012 Again, the oversimplification. Same as people do about Astro Bot as a game. Master Chief is a trope of gruff, stoic hero. But his design is nothing like Doomguy. The aesthetics aren't even close. Marcus Fenix is the same trope. Again, visual design, nothing alike. Nathan Drake IS just an Indiana Jones reference. Yes. I wasn't caring that Astro Bot would actually be sued. That's hyperbole. But in the cumulative view of derivatives, it's a further reflection of how near NOTHING in this game is actually "inspired". Super Mario 64 is "inspiration". Astro Bot is derivation. And "Robot with blue eyes". Oh yeah, that totally unpacks the visual language. It's everything about the design language in the face. The smooth gloss white into a black frame. The rounded primitives. The glared slats of blue, digital glow. I would care not for or endorse a lawsuit. But it's obviously a cheaply derivative design, in a cheaply derivative game.
"Nice and fun", eh? Try playing the Void levels. While bite-sized, some of them can be downright sadistic. Still not as bad as Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown, though.
I can easily name dozens of better platformers, but this game is pretty dang good. Something tells me if the nostalgia aspect was completely missin’ far less people would care. It’s become overrated real quick IMO.
@@pathogeneration5138didn’t odyssey won goty? It was highly praised anyway, hell, most Nintendo games are being praised to high heavens, and don’t always deserve it.
@@italianspiderman5012 At least you're operating your brain levers I guess. Being that Nintendo audience, pardon me as I dispel that falsehood. What would actually happen, is NINTENDO would cop a deluge of detraction, for cannibalizing themselves, dropping a Mario game that fails to uphold the well hewn, but demanding Mario tradition of distinction and innovation. BOWSER'S FURY as a side bonus, is vastly more significant in design contribution than Astro Bot. People expect a lot from a Mario game. The privilege that Astro Bot leverages to duck taste, is the pressure that Mario is under. To have an identity. Each Mario game, retains the basics, and translates some tropes. But each one is its own idiosyncratic form and flavor. Sunshine is an outgrowth of 64. But they aren't the same. The core mechanics differ, and manifest in novel identity. Galaxy reinvents the whole form factor again. Astro Bot just preys on the fact that nobody expects anything of it, to run around like a magpie, pilfering everything and cramming it without design identity, into its own nest. It's the ethos of crude maxmalism. It's like Godzilla movies that put all the Godzillas in one, comically unserious pop cultural barf bag.
Would you be interested in a Mario game if it didn't have nostalgia? I think for platformers to become huge hits these days they need to draw from that well.
The Critical Drinker having a good time is a blessing
Mauler's stream was pure exquisite pain, this is a nice palette cleanser
what did he play
@@Patrix8558 The Until Dawn remake...fuck that was some awful 'gameplay,' awful plot writing...and voice acting. Oh, and he & Metal were playing the new & old games simultaneously to see how different choices impacted the plot...they didn't change anything, but the result was crap dialogue in stereo half the time, lol.
I was 11 in 1997 and I remember begging my parents for a PS1 because I just saw the commercials for FF7. It’s my favorite game of all time as well. At the time I had never played an rpg and it really just blew my mind. I stopped playing games for about 20 years, when I started high school till 2020. That’s when I found out they were remaking it. So I bought an OLED tv, a PS4 pro, and FF7 remake. It single handedly got me back into video games and I’m now entrenched in the hobby more than ever.
I began gaming at 3 years old. It was Pong on my mums Grandstand Console. Then between 3 and 4 I got an Atari 2600 with H.E.R.O, Millipede, Pinball and miss pacman. In my mid 40s today I still game almost every day and always have done. I have had an Atari 2600, Atari ST, Vectrex, gameboy, NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Dreamcast, every playstation at launch except the new pro, that I don't plan on getting, PC, every Xbox, Vita and PSP, I just love gaming. I haven't played COD for ages. I know most gamers regard it as throw away and junk these days, compared with its hey day. Black ops 6 is fun for me though, so I don't care. Played my first game since advanced warfare and got 24 kills in tdm and was top of my team. My son is 13 he joined me and got 35 kills. It was then I realised he had surpassed me, which is cool because that's what's sons are supposed to do. I enjoy going on and playing with him sometimes. My eldest son joins us as well, but he is more into creative games. It's a great hobby to share though.
I have also gotten into GT7 over Christmas. I normally love and play alot of open world games, but needed a pallette cleanser of something different to dip in and out of. Astrobot is so good though as well. Once I have had my COD fill, I will go back to Cyberpunk for another play, and will pick up the thing. I have a ton in my back catalogue I want to replay. I hope I make it to 100 and I am still gaming. I love it.
FF7 was a tremedous game when it came out. The remake is absolute class.
After getting the platinum for AstroBot I went and purchased a copy for my mate as I felt he shouldn't miss out! Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Loved playing through this game, just good clean fun 😃
Wouldn't mind trying out them speedrun jobbies!
Trunk of Funk is one of the best platforming levels ever.
Still Wakes the Deep is possibly the most atmospheric game I played all year. Highly recommended. It's like a mash up of The Thing and Paul from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, but genuinely terrifying. Cosmic horror at it's best.
The kicker to me is Astro Bot is realistically a game that could have been made 15 years ago, its just a simple game
No way it could be made until the PS5 era based on the extremely advanced physics alone. AstroBot literally has the best interactive physics of any game made .
@@emiami458 I think he means the nature of the game, not the game itself. It absolutely feels like a throwback to an older era of gaming that realistically has only been kept alive by Nintendo.
It couldn't have been made 15 years ago. NINTENDO hadn't invented many of the ideas for them to steal yet.
@@pathogeneration5138 Maybe without the advanced physics but yeah.
Indeed! A simple fun game and yet people seem to forget that concept these days. Platformers like these are rarities recently.
“get GOTY game because it must’ve been unique”
*Look inside*
“Super Mario Galaxy”
It does everything better than mario and does tons of things mario doesn't and can't, that is undeniable for anyone who isn't aliar
AstroBot does everything better than mario and it does tons of things that mario doesn't and can't . AstroBot GOTY GOAT! q:
@Frawgfith
The only thing this game does better than Mario (especially the perfect Galaxy) is the speed of the game. Ecerything else is very good but inferior to Mario.
Stop lying to yourself!
@@4400seriesFAN nah he's right, I have played mario since I was 10 and Astro clears all the Mario games in every way
That's some super cope bro!😂
I was pleasantly surprised when I played the first one. They have the genre down. Just wish it was in VR like the first. Sooo good.
I am a49 year old man watching a slightly younger man play astro bot and I want to play this game now. Instead I'll watch u while I take Kratos on a killing spree😅
I'm 46, game is pure joy! Reminded if being a kid again..the excited was real!
I can't wait to see Zack make a post on how you didn't really play Astro Bot
Zack who?
Astro Bot is great fun, but it's certainly no "Lord of Ring: Gollum", or "Star Wars: Outlaws".
😂😂😂
Loved the stream 👍
Very happy to see more people trying out and loving Astro Bot... this thing wasn't GOTY for nothing... as a Nintendo gamer, this game was right up my alley and in many ways refreshes some of the tropes that Mario games does.
It was GoTY for something.
For shamelessly ripping off NINTENDO.
I'm not phased that it exists. But GoTY is a joke. Maybe everyone's just mercifully relieved that it's an actual finished game in a package, instead of a subscription leech. But GoTY? That's gunna age like a dog turd on a pavement.
Tropes? That's a quaint way of saying "all their ideas".
It's one thing to be a clone basically. The astonishing thing about Astro Bot is the sheer, undeniable QUANTITY of its "inspiration". This game being GoTY is awarding the trophy to a desperate oasis.
@@pathogeneration5138 It was a fantastic game, and it more than earned it's win. It was the loveliest surprise of pure enjoyment this year and if this is ripping off Nintendo then I dare say I'd love to see many more ripoffs of this quality. It's a shame to hear you are so hostile towards it; wallow in your own frustration as you please, I suppose.
@@pathogeneration5138 Are you ok, man?
@@pathogeneration5138 Inspired is not ripping off.. show me exactly what they ripped off that is unique game mechanic for Mario that isn't to the whole Platforming genre.
@@MedalionDS9
That's it? That's your request?
Once you combine the stupid chicken boost, with the laser hover. The game looks straight up like Mario Sunshine.
Which would be tolerable if it had a preponderance of inspiration.
The way you frame it EVERYTHING is a standard, and NOTHING is a distinct mechanic. But this is also an equation of the quantitative.
But this thing is a COMPENDIUM of "borrowed" Nintendo design. It's so outrageously shameless and lazy, it's actually an impressive scale of gall.
It's as if the apologists, go:
Well yeah, it looks like Mario Sunshine now- BUT WAIT, it's ok, because it'll look like Mario Galaxy next.
A game that's a love letter to the old sony games that had actual gameplay instead of, the glorfied walking simulators of today ? You have my interest.
Love it drinker❤
Wow… it’s just a fun cute game. Nice!
Welcome to the party pall.
I bought a Saturn in 1995 to play Sega's great arcade games and I was never disappointed with it. I only bought a PS1 in 1998 to play Resident Evil 2. Still kept the Saturn though.
My kid loves this game
If you want something fun to play with them I recommend Sackboy a big adventure
Astro Bot is the combination of a platforming video game and a trip to a flashy casino
With Astrobot you use the lrvels power up as much as possible, the levels sre disigned that way..and most things sre interactable, so so punch etc everything, you missed ALOT of the hidden magic moments
Would love to hear drinkers thoughts on the Metal Gear series
For real
Such a fun game, I love it
Absolutely gutted this wasn't on VR like the first one. The first game was on par with Ace Combat 7 for best VR game imo
It's not?! That's a shame. I wasn't planning on playing the first, but it was free with the console, and we wound up loving it! Fantastic use of VR.
The clueless guy LadyGamer from the chat asking Drinker if this game is really that bad (as if this game has a reputation of being bad lol) like dude this is the highest rated, most beloved game of the year and official GOTY. I mean how embarrassing are you really.
Drunk bot
Finally played AstroBot, my personal Game Of The Year, so good and just pure fun! :D
Mine was Metaphor which was best RPG of the year.
Mine was Battlefront II (the original) which I played for the first time last year on PS2 and I’m still enjoying all it has to offer
You sound less drunk then usual.
NHS could use Astto Bot to cure depression.
Hey Drinker. I really think you should go over the Mass Effect Trilogy.
such a good game
My copy of Astro bot just came in today too
So Mario, it hurts!
I think the Critical Gamer should have more chat videos like the Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth chat
Very good game, goty?.. Nop
AstroBot Absolutely IS GOTY and 100% well deserved .
@FrawgfithAmblose Sure..
@@kanosession22 So jaw-dropping you’ll need a chiropractor after playing.
@@HaloWise Ehhh.. Ok
Drinker if you're going to do this and want to get paid, you need to start streaming on Twitch, Kick and the like. Cheers mate!
How has Pixar not sued the crap out of these guys? They've got a stronger case than Nintendo v Pal World, lol
How?
yes, it was a disposable Tech Demo, that accidentally became a thing.
Because Idiocracy.
@@italianspiderman5012
Because the Character is a blatant design language rip-off of Eve from Wall-E.
Probably because they never expected it to amount to more than a tech demo. So why waste design inspiration on it?
And... now... they're accidental heroes, trapped in a cycle of... "borrowing".
@lmao. Sure, their designs are in the same style, but that’s stretching, and I highly doubt any judge would take it seriously, it’s really silly.
If Astro is a knock off Eve, then Link is Peter’s Pan copy, Master chief is Doom’s guy copy (it’s inspired by, by the admission of chiefs creators) Nathan Drake? Just Indiana Johnes.
Every fictional character you know was inspired by something else, by your logic taking inspiration is somehow plagiarism, so there never can be a white robot with blue eyes resembling Eve, that’s stupid I’m sorry.
@@italianspiderman5012
Again, the oversimplification. Same as people do about Astro Bot as a game.
Master Chief is a trope of gruff, stoic hero. But his design is nothing like Doomguy. The aesthetics aren't even close.
Marcus Fenix is the same trope. Again, visual design, nothing alike.
Nathan Drake IS just an Indiana Jones reference. Yes.
I wasn't caring that Astro Bot would actually be sued. That's hyperbole. But in the cumulative view of derivatives, it's a further reflection of how near NOTHING in this game is actually "inspired".
Super Mario 64 is "inspiration".
Astro Bot is derivation.
And "Robot with blue eyes".
Oh yeah, that totally unpacks the visual language.
It's everything about the design language in the face.
The smooth gloss white into a black frame. The rounded primitives. The glared slats of blue, digital glow.
I would care not for or endorse a lawsuit. But it's obviously a cheaply derivative design, in a cheaply derivative game.
"Nice and fun", eh? Try playing the Void levels. While bite-sized, some of them can be downright sadistic.
Still not as bad as Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown, though.
Critical drinker probably get paid by Sonny to do this Video lol
Lol, that's cope..it's just pure joy! Game if the year award got people trying it out .
I can easily name dozens of better platformers, but this game is pretty dang good. Something tells me if the nostalgia aspect was completely missin’ far less people would care. It’s become overrated real quick IMO.
A dozen better platformers made by one company.
That rarely won "GoTY" for being the fountain it drinks from.
I think the opposite, I think if this was a mario game, it would get infinitely more praise and hardly anyone would question it getting goty.
@@pathogeneration5138didn’t odyssey won goty? It was highly praised anyway, hell, most Nintendo games are being praised to high heavens, and don’t always deserve it.
@@italianspiderman5012
At least you're operating your brain levers I guess.
Being that Nintendo audience, pardon me as I dispel that falsehood.
What would actually happen, is NINTENDO would cop a deluge of detraction, for cannibalizing themselves, dropping a Mario game that fails to uphold the well hewn, but demanding Mario tradition of distinction and innovation.
BOWSER'S FURY as a side bonus, is vastly more significant in design contribution than Astro Bot.
People expect a lot from a Mario game.
The privilege that Astro Bot leverages to duck taste, is the pressure that Mario is under. To have an identity.
Each Mario game, retains the basics, and translates some tropes. But each one is its own idiosyncratic form and flavor.
Sunshine is an outgrowth of 64. But they aren't the same. The core mechanics differ, and manifest in novel identity.
Galaxy reinvents the whole form factor again.
Astro Bot just preys on the fact that nobody expects anything of it, to run around like a magpie, pilfering everything and cramming it without design identity, into its own nest.
It's the ethos of crude maxmalism. It's like Godzilla movies that put all the Godzillas in one, comically unserious pop cultural barf bag.
Would you be interested in a Mario game if it didn't have nostalgia? I think for platformers to become huge hits these days they need to draw from that well.
Bye for now 👋
Best game (:
niceeee!
I AM ASTROBOT 🤖 🗣🗣
I need to try out this game. It got picked over wukong and rebirth meaning it has to be amazing
It is .
I think you should play Thank Goodness you're here. it's a short chill game with jokes only you brits would know lol
This is the type of game they show at the bottom of a video of an AI reading obviously fake Reddit posts.
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Bro no ..... why ?why do you play this Fake game of the Year?
Lol😂Bro is in 1 stage of 5 stages of grief right now lmao 🤣💀
I’d rather watch this than Rogue Elements
Ya that was a tough watch lol
Great game and no wokeness