At least Free Guy was bumbling around its own sandbox, and not ruining beloved characters. Which was why I thought it was fun enough despite everything.
Yet shoving in a ton of references isnt? You do know its tougher to get licensed characters in a series than just sprinkling things from said series into the movie.
Yeah, this movie is bad, but good. Although that gun violence line from cool girl was cringy af. Also, I don't think this movie says people who play violent games are bad people. I think it's just a joke.
Minor correction. In games like Bloodborne there are NPCs that do have levels and stats like player characters because they're using the same mechanics/animations as the player, so it's feasible that in Free City the NPC mechanic works the same way, since both players and NPCs use a normal human body plan.
True and even though I haven't played it I'm pretty sure Shadow of Mordor has a leveling system where if an enemy kills you they get stronger. I think my friend called it something like Nemesis cam where they zoom in on them and start playing music.
See also any Elder Scrolls game and any game in the Disgaea series and related spinoffs (where NPC levels are a manipulatable mechanic and they can gain exp and level up)
I don't really think it can be equated to that. Those Bloodborne NPCs do have levels because they can fight back. Shadow of Mordor can also fight back. This is because Enemies are *also* NPCs. And in games like Bloodborne and TES, the examples given here, it is literally possible for an NPC to turn on aggressio nand fight back the player. This doesn't happen in an NPC that doesn't need to fight, though. Yakuza series has enemies geting harder, but NPCs normally don't have to fight, only specific enemies. Games like Just Cause and Saints Row would bump up difficulty and health for enemies, but not for peaceful NPCs. This is a Role-playing game though, and an MMO where you can apparently attack anyone. So I assume the levelling system is there for certain NPCs like cops, but not exactly for these NPCs who don't need any fighting. Why complicate them?
I love how you just get right to the point in these reviews. No unnecessary dumb jokes in the beginning, and no corny skit that lasts for the whole entire video (unlike some other movie reviewers). Also, the way you break down every single flaw the movie has is insane! You leave no stone unturned. You notice something as minor as someone spitting, or someone using a portal gun to destroy the entire story. That level of observation HAS to be admired! Sometimes you might drag a point a little too much, but that's really just a nitpick. Overall, an amazing video!
At 8:00 you know what would have made for a funny gag to explain how he could have seen Cool Girl? If his head was clipping through the wall of his workstation.
That is legitimately an awesome idea. It could even tie into the state of affairs at the game studio itself as an indication of Korg’s lack of care for the quality of the games.
@@GamingMagic13 It could've been cool of they presented Korg as an incredibly admirable guy but show a couple moments both within the game world where a couple things break and in the real world where he doesn't respect his employees and would rather shevel out anything that could make money. Until towards the end where he goes full villain mode instead of just making him into a discount Mr. Krabs.
@@GamingMagic13: All right, *_First up: HE IS AN NPC!!!_* The number of online players shouldn't drop anyway!! *_Second: HOW CAN THE NUMBER OF ONLINE PLAYERS DROP IF AN NPC RESPAWNS?!?!?_* This is Shandy defending Madvocate, defending CinemaSins, essentially complaining there's *_No Sex Scenes in the DiC dub of Sailor Moon_* level stupidity!!!!!
@@GamingMagic13: Star Wars Stormtroopers - And I mean official ones, not guys from spoofs like the Family Guy spoofs - *_ARE BUSTING GUTS LAUGHING_* at the terrible aim of these guys in this movie!
All of the references and 'hip' talk makes this entire movie feel like video game key jingling. It could've been more than that, the idea of an npc in an mmo gaining sentience is a pretty great idea, but instead they just made it about key jingling references in the audiences face so they'll giggle and clap like babies and love the movie simply because of that.
Related, there's a game worth checking out if you want something like this but without the key-jingling and whatnot - CrossCode! You're put in the shoes of a new player to an MMO but it still touches on some similar concepts regarding the whole "AI sentience" deal It's a game with a really slow start but it's well worth the wait, the writing is spectacular too
@@mannythemaniac1009 It's available for $20 on basically everything as I understand, but I'd recommend the Steam version since it also has some exclusive DLC stuff
I dunno why, but I find your absolute DESTRUCTION of this movie extremely hilarious. You just shred the thing to pieces like a wild animal and I'm just left laughing at the utter ruin of plot threads XD
Her kissing the main character in game is the most absolutely insane plot hole I think I’ve ever seen. How the heck did they overlook such an obvious mistake?!
@@thefunnestaccount5632 You're right, what I meant was that they were dedicating their other hand to... something else, which could explain how they made that oversight in the script.
trevor going on hour-long hate rant against minor pieces of shallow entertainment that faded into irrelevancy long ago never ceases to be fun, great video
something that always draws me to your content is just how thoroughly you look into everything. most people wouldn't bat an eye at the scene of a player character spitting in game or anything else like that, but you manage to find things like that and use it to thoroughly destroy the movie. I've never seen anyone look so thoroughly at every single thing in something they're reviewing and tie it in to how the thing you're reviewing is fundamentally broken and I admire that. not only that, but you are direct and to the point with everything and you don't dwell on comedy or entertainment because, in cases like this, frankly the pure rage is entertaining enough. keep up the good work
Yes, he _should've_ done that. He should've immediately revoked his access to everything and fired him on the spot. What he should _not_ have done was call him into his office without confiscating his laptop. I go over this in the video.
@@welpimf0cked654 I mean, it depends on which movie you're watching. Do you think this take inherently qualifies as braindead regardless of which movie we're referring to?
Can we please appreciate how Trevor does his best with these reviews? He gives us a lot of genuinely funny and well made content that we never knew we needed. Merry Christmas to everyone and I hope you all have a wonderful new year! ❤️🎄
"He acts as if the launch of a new game automatically shuts down the previous game but that's not how anything works" Except Overwatch 2, for some stupid reason
just started THIS video but i wanted to say that THIS IS THE TH-cam CONTENT IVE BEEN DYING FOR FOR THE PAST COUPLE YEARS not quick useless videos of reasonable-less content or unbelievable, unrealistic, over dramatized reaction video after another we get well constructed analysis and critiques with amazing presentation of trending/relevant shows/movies but also good old fashion "let's play videos" ive been a fan for 3 days now and its probably the greatest way to start the year
When I was younger, probably around those girls' ages, I called them NPCs because I thought it was cool I knew the actual terminology. A lot of my friends were the same way.
I do it sometimes out of habit, mostly if they're an unnamed character. If they are an actual character in the plot I use the proper noun. It's not that weird to call NPCs NPCs. Some of these critiques for this movie seem kind of shallow, that said the movie looks horrible
The seeing another world thru the blinds thing actually makes some technical sense from the game dev side of things. Games usually use pre made (baked) reflections to make everything run faster. If (which is not that probable, but possible) they forgot to rebake the reflection of the city in-engine in this specific place it could reflect something, that was there before.
As a Portal/Portal 2 fan, I honestly had no clue that was the portal gun till they called it that. And keep in mind I only saw the middle of the movie cause my dad was watching it. I was happy at first cause “hey cool Portal!” but seeing how it functions in this movie and they have the balls to call that ripoff not at all resembling fake gun a portal gun made me feel so disappointed and angry.
Just a small nitpick about the spitting and crying being coded but not kissing point, it’s likely that spitting and crying were coded in as taunts, which would make sense in an online game of Free City’s nature.
I'll admit that I shut off my brain quite early in the movie. I couldn't handle the stupidity and promptly forgot about it until this video. You've been far more entertaining and intelligible.
"Why are they removing the first game when releasing the second one? It doesn't make sense" Yeah blizzard, why did you d- ah no this is a movie review, not a video regarding OW2, my bad
So you’re telling me, the devs are doing all of that stuff of messing with the game world while the servers are up meaning they are breaking the experience for legitimate players who may be playing at that time. Why not take the servers down for maintenance, patch the game and then bring it back up again with a Free Guy skin for everyone? Also, when the NPCs go on strike, the game is broken. It literally cannot run because things like quests and missions can’t start, because in games NPCs are your mission givers or triggers by random events. So when that happened, no one can play. Also, the NPCs are established as not being sentient, unlike Free Guy, so why would they go on strike? They literally can’t, unless Free Guy’s code acts like a virus. Also, how does Buddy have an apartment, he should be unloaded/despawbed/whatever the word is if he’s not needed or visible because keeping everything loaded at once is a way to make your game crash or run poorly Interestingly, all these things were addressed in Wreck It Ralph. All the characters were established to be sentient therefore they could go on strike. Ralph did, and when he did his arcade cabinet didn’t work because he’s not there to start the game and act as the antagonist to Felix. Turbo did this, kind of, breaking his own cabinet and the other games he went to because he was foreign code. To the players he appeared to be a glitch/bug. He even acted somewhat like a virus, altering code to change NPC behaviour and his appearance. None of the characters did game altering stuff when players were around otherwise the game appears to be glitchy and broken and will be shut down
"Also, how does Buddy have an apartment, he should be unloaded/despawbed/whatever the word is if he’s not needed or visible because keeping everything loaded at once is a way to make your game crash or run poorly " Guy has an apartment.
I loved this movie, but I agree with everything you said lol. It was a fun film to watch, but once you start thinking about stuff it all falls apart. But it's just so ridiculous that you'll have a fun time if you dont wanna think for a while.
Merry Christmas and thank you for this gift. Actually, I never saw the movie but it's always fun to watch GM13 tearing down scripts. 1:24:10 Now this... this is the real deal that I am patiently waiting for .
Two notes. I don't see how calling an NPC an NPC is at all abnormal in casual conversation. I also don't think Guy's "he's just resting" thing after shooting the robber is at all psychopathic, it's denial, because he's freaked out about just shooting someone.
@@SpiffoGamingif you play terraria (a game by religion that I love) in the menus and loading screen tips they are referred to as npcs and all the TH-camrs I watch who play and all my friends call them npc so it it’s pretty normal in some games
You're breakdown of movies is very good and i like that you take an objective lens when critiquing bad writing but you talk way to fast. There are multiple times when i can't even hear what you are saying because your words start slurring together. When i first started watching your long form videos, i thought i accidentally put the video on 1.5 speed because of how fast you are speaking. I don't why you think you need to speak so fast when a normal speaking pace makes it so that you can hear what you are saying more clearly. There is no problem with people who speak quickly, but when it comes to the detriment of the videos understandability, it becomes a problem
Infinity War is pretty violent. You like those, doesn’t that make you a sociopathic manchild? Ninja plays Fortnite. That’s a violent game. Id you like that game, doesn’t that make you a sociopathic man child? Star Wars can get pretty brutal at times. So if the screenwriters enjoy it, doesn’t that make them a sociopathic manchild? Man, Half Life is pretty violent, so that makes people who enjoy it sociopathic manchilds. In Pac-Man you can eat ghosts. That’s brutal. Doesn’t that make you a sociopathic manchild. In MegaMan, you shoot at robots, so it’s a shooter game. Sociopathic manchild…. *Sighs*
Dentists have to use tools to get into people's mouths and it can get pretty violent, does that make them sociopathic man-children? Chefs have to cook dead animals and plants, that's pretty violent, does that make them sociopathic man-children Insert Every single Nintendo, Sega, Indie (Undertale, Minecraft, Cuphead), and other game company. Actually, scratch that, what about every other movie franchise including Disney movies themselves that can get pretty violent, *bleeping* Bambi and Robin Hood and more, does that make everyone who watches them sociopathic man-children? Heck, let's try and drag this out to the existence of soldiers and politicians, since they too can get violent, are they all sociopathic man-children. What are the rules and the guidelines on violence, goshdarn it!?
"Are you saying that the servers it was on will be shut down? Because that also makes no sense." I really wish someone could've told Blizzard that before they launched Overwatch 2 and shut down the first game despite customers having payed for it..
It’s wild that the reviews for this I saw before watching it myself were not just positive but in too many cases, straight up glowing. The trailers didn’t intrigue me at all & at best I saw it as a PG-13 version of Crank. However it was much worse than I expected compared to the reviews it was getting. Not absolute dreck but was still a struggle to even get past the first 30 minutes. The first signs that this was a movie coasting on the idea of being a “love letter to gaming” without actually having equivalent effort was the very conceit of the glasses distinguishing players from NPCs. Why would a game with heavy customization have an essential element be connected to a face accessory that not everyone would even want to wear? Even accepting that, why then is it at all possible for that accessory to be removed not even just by another player but any random NPC? Toss in a plethora of tepid Walmart T-Shirt-caliber gamer geek “humor” & I had to tap out on my first attempt around where “Wrecking Ball” plays. This isn’t even a movie worth absentmindedly putting on in the background while I do something else. It’s too bland even for that.
@Master_Builder-es1lf Not true at all. Wreck it Ralph is an excellent story written by people who are passionate about video games. There are a few references to modern games like Call of Duty and Mario Kart, but they aren't done in an annoying or on the nose way like Free Guy. The rest of the characters and games are based on old arcade games that a lot of kids wouldn't know. Wreck it Ralph is actually one of GamingMagic13's favorite movies, and he's said it's what Free Guy should've been.
@@chunkysalsa6264 I have three rules to what I think makes an OK reference. 1. the reference need to make sense to be in the universe. 2. the movie needs to not give it special treatment. ie giving it an mcu moment or name dropping it for no reason 3. it needs to respect the source material. ie having a reference just to crap on the source material.
@@Master_Builder-es1lf I never said any of the references were bad. By old games I meant Pac-Man and Qubert. It doesn't matter who gets what references. The point is Wreck It Ralph is a great movie with a great story, unlike Free Guy. The main difference between the two movies I'm trying to point out is that while both have references to games, Wreck It Ralph does it in a natural way that fits with the narrative while Free Guy does it in a way that feels like lame jokes and product placement. The biggest example of that is when Guy uses items like Captain America's shield and a lightsaber to fight the buff copy of himself. Wreck It Ralph's references are small, simple, and serve a purpose. Bowser is in the bad guy meeting place as part of the scene showing that Ralph wants to be more than a bad guy. He wants the respect and admiration of the other characters that Felix gets.
I feel like when I watch a movie with fan service or tons of references to popular media I totally forget everything and I'm spoon fed constant fan service to hide all the cons so the movie makes me look at the pros.
Speaking of the big red out of bounds barrier, Minecraft implemented such a visually disturbing world border. It acts as an invisible wall, but you can see it and it has an animation. It's really only appealing to look at on a factions server because you know it's one area you're more safe in. I believe using commands to pass it or flying over the wall (if you can) results in taking damage over time, too. It only lacks the catapulting of the player backward into the permitted zone. The world goes on much further past the barrier.
This is a better video than the entire movie. Honestly, this movie's relationship with its target demographic is "peeing on us without the dignity of calling it rain" I had another idea in mind for a better quote weeks ago and now I've lost it. Well, Jack was certainly right about the "didn't *have* to cater to anybody" part, but they still did it anyway just to sell better and to integrate the greater gaming and popular culture into their movie specifically for fan service. I would like to set up an experiment. Set a group of kids to do an escape room where they have to complete 3 rooms, one room is an Undertale game room where they get to play however they like 5 times, then they get two checklists in the second room, telling them to complete a series of challenges that either require them to do a pacifist run or a genocide route and then give them an option at the end of the room. Either talk to a dummy version of their friends or shock them to death. I bet they won't become sociopaths at the end, I mean the whole "video games cause violence" sounds like "all it takes is one bad day", and if you were to compare and contrast Mr. J and Bats, you would see that one becomes a serial killer who thinks killing is not only fun, but the only real reason for life, which is to end it's meaningless misery and to perpetrate it at the same time and just have fun with it, and the other becomes the embodiment of anti-crime, to stop any kid from having any more thugs kill their parents. Video games do not cause violence, they never have and they never will.
This movies plot (despite being focused on the AI) perfectly encapsulates Blizzard’s mentality on Overwatch. So anyway, here’s Overwatch 2! A BRAND NEW GAME!😬 49:03
I thought i was in the twilight zone when everyone single person i talked to said this movie was SO good and that it was exactly what they wanted in their shitty video game movie. I really thought i was fucking insane. Thank god that isn’t the case😭🙏🏾
@@JJ_Jonah Maybe that’s the idea though. Like, he’s supposed to sound like he’s casually talking in a livestream, rather than sound like he’s acting in a movie?
Small insignificant nitpick at 4:45 At slower speeds you can hear a train if it whistles or its hitting the trains, but after a certain speed, you physically will not hear a regular train coming until its too late or right infront of your face "The Doppler Effect" (I know doesnt fix this movies problems at all but just a little trivia)
I'm a developer and hobbyist game designer and I enjoyed this movie. I imagined the game is too big for it to actually be installed on one one machine so it has to be streamed from the big server farm they have. And the only way for programmers to work on it is to modify the game code directly (or like a testing version). Obviously that's not how games are developed currently but it's not too far fetched to imagine that's how games will work in the future. Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud comes to mind where no single developer has an understanding of the whole system
"boy this part about the youtube appearance seems really nitpicky and handwaved by alternate universe shenanigans" "IT'S NOT SPECTICEYE" "....carry on, then"
49:11 “shutting down the servers for one of the most popular games in the world because a sequel is coming out is stupid” Overwatch 2: “…yeah you’re right”
its pretty cool how the devs are able to change the code of the game on the fly without players needing to download updates, log out of the game for maintenance or any of that
wait wait wait wait wtf why does the movie include references to avengers and specifically Hulk if one of the characters is played by the director of Thor: Ragnarok?
13:35 this actually makes sense because player characters are usually an extension of a base entity class like human. so they might share the code that allows them to have inventory or healing ability
from watching all of this, I have deducted that during watching films I am head empty no thoughts. I literally did not notice any of these discrepancies, let alone remember most of the movie itself. very fun videos tho
I hate the portal refrence so much. When you think of everything you can do in that game, its like they couldn't be bothered, just put two perfectly parrael portals 10 feet from each other and walk in in with no momentum. We referenced portal, now clap
You know what makes even less sense with the Portal Gun’s inclusion? YOU NEED MOONDUST TO USE IT. And with how they just shoot a portal into the air (and somehow make 2 portals instead of one), you can’t look at me with a straight face and say the air contains moondust. Cause if that’s the case then you’ve never played Portal 2, cause if so then you’d know that the air would’ve been dumb toxic and making people sick! WHAT IN THE APERTURE SCIENCE LEMON GRENADE IS THIS MOVIE??
gel made from crushed moon dust is only one of the portalable surfaces, aperture labs used white concrete way before purchasing moon rocks. (remember, the quantum tunneling device (prototype portal gun) was used in the testing spheres way back in the day)
What? That makes no sense because the portals in Free Guy function completely differently to Portal 1 and 2. There is a different reason how portal surfaces exist, as explained in Portal 2, but it is so convoluted and nonsensical. If you know me well, you'll know that Portal 2 is my most hated video game of all-time.
It is INCREDIBLY funny that some of the criticisms halfway in this video become criticisms for real life because when Blizzard released Overwatch 2 they completely deleted the first game to replace it. We should criticism our actual real life for being so inept that bad movies are able to accurately depict what will happen in it.
I actually really liked this movie. Was it incredibly dumb? Yes. Was it the "regular simple dumbass learns the world is fake and becomes a god" story in a world inspired by GTA (also where i met my boyfriend, ei one of the very few people I know I'd actually cry for if they died) that I needed...yes, yes it was. At least it was better than TS4 and Lightyear.
It's technically possible to drop a character from one game to another if they use the same engine and some systems work the same / similarly, but generally would propably be way harder, than it's shown here
57:50 I feel like I am starting to know your vids too well. This is the first time I got this far in the vid, and when I heard this tangent and a long pause, I found myself blurting out "BAH!" at the same time Woody did! I somehow found that hilarious.
i like how at 48:20 you rant about how stupid it would be for a sequal to come out of a game that replaces the first game and deletes it. but then 1 year later thats what OW does xD
4:32 You’re acting like this isn’t a video game, which you can’t do in this movie which is about living in a video game. There are plenty of hazards that exist in video games that don’t spawn until the player (or in this case NPC) crosses the threshold (this can act as a world barrier or a dungeon trap), and it’s very obviously implied throughout the movie that this is one of those hazards. So, with that in mind, Guy couldn’t have seen the train coming because it simply didn’t exist until he stepped onto the railroad. You cannot expect video games to be completely internally consistent. For a train to be running at all times in a game like this would take a massive amount of CPU resources, and it’s also possible that the train only exists for Guy as a client side trap rather than a server side (yes, I’m aware Guy is on the server, but the world operates as though Guy were using a player character so my point still stands). 6:35 Several video games have glitch/crash failsafes that eliminate a problematic process or entity that may pose a threat to the game’s (or system’s) integrity. In Zelda BOTW, this is the blood moon; yes the blood moon is a timed event, but there is a secondary type of blood moon that not everyone knows about, the panic blood moon. The panic blood moon is an event triggered when more than 90% of the game’s allotted RAM is used up, triggering a blood moon allows the game to reset and clear its RAM so that it doesn’t crash or break. The incident here with the coffee could be exactly that; Guy ordered a coffee that deviated from the script, and the game probably started freaking out with a “code red” because it received an input that didn’t have a designated output, so that makes Guy a threat, but obviously you can’t reset the entire game for this, so they send in a tank to temporarily despawn the bug and reset the character to an unglitched state. Again, you cannot ask that everything in a video game makes sense, it’s not a book or a movie where it can do whatever it wants, it’s a compilation of instructions with failsafes. So far, both of these events are easily explainable as failsafes, and are clearly implied to be as such. If your argument boils down to “it doesn’t make sense in the physics! It can’t just happen!” then your argument isn’t valid. Video games don’t make sense, and that’s true of the physics engine and of entities spawning/despawning, it actually makes LESS sense that the game would act normal as if there wasn’t a structural instability in the code. Like it or not, this is accurate to how video games function. Stop trying to review the game’s continuity through the lens of storytelling, because games don’t operate that way. 8:50 No, this isn’t how natural dialogue happens, you’re right about that, but this is how gamers talk to *themselves* when they’re frustrated with the game. Also, her player character isn’t moving, it makes perfect sense that she’d give her hand a rest from the keyboard right now. 11:25 Not every video game has shotgun recoil, and given how little the boss cares about the game, this makes sense. This also justifies the one-handed tug of war. 13:28 Okay, yes, the UI is atrocious and the glasses being linked to it is dumb, I’ll give you that, but under those rules, when Guy puts on the glasses, the game would treat him like a player character. It’s really stupid, but it’s the logic that the game is operating under. 25:43 That’s natural dialogue. It’s pretty hard to show an NDA with expository dialogue. Spoken exposition is sometimes necessary, and this is one of those cases. What are you even complaining about here? 30:50 Not what that line is saying, at all. From what we’ve seen, she deals with idiots and jerks like 24/7, so it makes perfect sense for her to hold a grudge against the player base. 46:52 It’s only that big because he’s become sentient. Like a Minecraft world, the storage space it takes up depends on how much has actually happened and how large the thought process (or physical world) is. This isn’t a set number, it’s been increasing throughout the movie. 58:19 The missing 4 is an Easter egg alluding to the laziness with which the game was made. That’s there intentionally. This is a well-known fact; how did you not know this?? Seriously, dude, this review is not going well for you. A lot of what you’ve complained about are intentional, logical things out there on purpose. THIS IS NOT REAL LIFE, IT IS A BROKEN BUGGY VIDEO GAME, STOP TREATING IT LIKE ITS SUPPOSED TO BE PERFECT! Everything else was fine, but these things in particular really got under my skin. Overall good review, but missed some glaringly obvious details.
2:11 ... also in the background while guy is at the ATM is a dude jumping, clipping and freezing into the wall. a nice nod to things gamers experience.
This is one of those movies my parents would say is good and get mad at me for talking trash about it while watching, just wanting me to shut up. But yeah to me this film isn’t terrible but incredibly mid.
You know it’s bad when people would rather watch a feauture length video for the same time as your movie about how bad your movie is than watch your movie
_Free Guy_ hurts my professional software developer brain. First off, and people are starting to figure this out with ChatGPT in the news, AIs aren't coded per se. They are learning algorithms that essentially use high speed brute force to determine optimal behavior patterns given certain inputs. For example, Stockfish is an actual AI designed to win at Chess with as optimal a proficiency as possible. Leaving aside what the Reynolds.chr AI was supposed to do (or if this movie is essentially saying that they made artificial life... at least _Digimon Tamers_ had the digi-gnomes, heavily implied to be shinto demigods, to finalize Shibumi's catalyst algorithm), what people mostly talk about when they refer to "AI" are their stored weights. They are _NOT_ manually written. That would take decades of brute forcing every possible action and reaction. When it comes to AI, I like to say that, if you want to create a humanoid intelligence so badly, the optimal development strategy involves a woman and nine months. Second, the whole premise of deleting Less Cool Girl's original files is an even dumber plot point than you thought. The way most professional development of _any_ variety works, from _Elden Ring_ to _Doki Doki Literature Club,_ is that development work is stored on the cloud via some form or another of source control. Microsoft even has their own proprietary version because of course they do. To _not_ take this precaution would expose your development cycle to _apocalyptic_ risk if literally anything went wrong on a specific machine in any way. (Say, just for sake of example, some psycho took an axe to it.) The point of source control is to allow development to recover from critical failures in development via rebasing to the last successful push (and for the love of God, PLEASE implement some kind of continuous integration...) as well as to have multiple branches of code, usually at least on the level of developer code, live production, and some form of QA and / or staging, ideally both. Anybody who develops on live prod data, as this movie seems to imply, is either immeasurably stupid or so fatally desperate that they're screwed regardless. If you're lucky and everything goes right (and it _never_ goes right), you'll have to deal with merge conflicts on every non-prod branch. So why does this make deleting Less Cool Girl's code stupid? Because source control meticulously logs all code changes, both in terms of both the date and the content of those changes, including deleted files. Anybody who tried to do corrupt shenanigans with their code would get found out short of a catastrophic server purge (at which point you're looking at spending the next 1-3 two-week development cycles trying to get everything back to where it was; PLEASE tell me that the writers were not implying a waterfall development methodology was being used for a _presently-live MMORPG_ for f's sake...) and simply "deleting the data" would not even come close to covering up criminal culpability. Covering up crooked software development takes a little more than a fire axe. (That said, if Waititi saw this eventuality as even remotely possible, why does he not have a killswitch that can instantly short the entire system? Cyber criminals already do this. It's basically a more holistic and functional implementation of the idea behind "when I die, delete my browser history".) That sort of thing is biting Twitter in the ass in real life right now. And now, for something you correctly eluded to but didn't have enough detail on, the hidden level. I was operating under the presumption that Discount GTA was essentially being piggybacked off the original game's core engine. That code would just be logic. So why did the UI components appear in any way in Free City at all? Did Less Cool Girl literally tightly hard-couple the AI to the UI? (If so, she must've been fired for gross incompetence.) Even if so, it shouldn't have taken long for other developers to decouple that code and wrap it in a class library more conveniently usable by the rest of the team. Anything relevant enough to visibly tie the code to the original game would be long gone. Less Cool Girl should've had to dive into a Tron-eaque subdimension to find her files, if they could be found at all. What wound up happening instead is more like _Sword Art Online_ as envisioned by a tech-illiterate boomer. Incidentally, if Less Cool Girl was an employee at Taiga Waititi's company (hell if I'm watching that movie again), she likely doesn't even own that code she's claiming. It is _extremely_ common boilerplate in software developer contracts that anything you code for your employing company belongs to them. (I'd know. Just a year ago, I built my boss a website automation testing engine from scratch. And just a few weeks ago, I was working on a high-volume CSV parser / report writer. It didn't wind up getting used, but that code still belongs to the company nonetheless.) Less Cool Girl can't claim ownership or that it was stolen. Repurposing developed code for other purposes is a pretty common practice, especially if the code is any good. In fact, most code is written for the express purpose of being a black-boxed tool for other development. Waititi is fully within his rights to do so. Who cares if he didn't make Less Cool Girl's lame nature sandbox? That's for the designers to decide upon, which, as we are led to believe, is Waititi. He did nothing wrong, neither legally nor ethically. Less Cool Girl just inexplicably felt entitled to dictate the use of her code and threw a tantrum when she didn't get her eco-fappy walking simulator for Californian hipsters that nobody in real life (not even the Californian hipsters) would play.
@1:09:00 ish, when you were talking about him doing the stuff on his comp, I get that comps could have some amazing battery life, but if that Razer laptop really was doing all that programming and not dip into a nearly dead battery, how is that comp still alive?! Edit; great vid Trevor!!
1 thing i need to say is that obviously him getting hit by the train at the beginning is because of the out of bounds, it's like an invisible wall and stopped him from getting out of the map
Since Free City seems like it's supposed to be a sandbox game, I could assume it has something like Minecraft's creative mode where you can get spawn eggs for enemies and have them spawn at a certain trigger. Definitely agree with the movie's writing being shoddy though
Though I enjoyed the film, you do make a lot of good points here... Might have made it a little trickier to re-watch now that I'll have some of this going around in my head, lol. Some possible notes/disagreements though: 1) Maybe it's a stretch but I can accept Ryan Reynolds getting launched into that pillar but not dying. Maybe the game has a really wonky physics engine or some weird mechanic like having those situations count as fall damage and the special jump shoes reduce fall damage. Again it could be a stretch but I come across situations like that A LOT in games of all types. 2) The "sociopathic manchild" line is both just that character's view (and she would definitely have a bias as someone clearly interested in non-violent games and such) and could be exaggerated/facetious. Maybe could be a little bit tweaked but probably not worthy of being repeatedly referred back to. 3) The thing about a company not shutting down the first game when the sequel comes out... This video came out after the Overwatch 2 ordeal, right? Even before that it wasn't a totally implausible thing for a super greedy company to do.
"Actually, gun violence is a huge problem in the real world." 🤓 ~ A literal line from the movie Whether anyone supports or opposes gun control, we can all agree that that line was cringy as fuck and certainly doesn't belong in a big-budget Hollywood movie.
@Giltspark yeah because other countries enjoy being ruled by fascist dictators. I know, freedom is a weird thing only found in very few places in this world, most of which the citizens own guns
At least Free Guy was bumbling around its own sandbox, and not ruining beloved characters. Which was why I thought it was fun enough despite everything.
Yet shoving in a ton of references isnt? You do know its tougher to get licensed characters in a series than just sprinkling things from said series into the movie.
Yeah, this movie is bad, but good. Although that gun violence line from cool girl was cringy af.
Also, I don't think this movie says people who play violent games are bad people. I think it's just a joke.
unlike ralph breaks the toilet
@@Samrules888 YES, PREACH IT!
Pixels flashbacks...
Minor correction.
In games like Bloodborne there are NPCs that do have levels and stats like player characters because they're using the same mechanics/animations as the player, so it's feasible that in Free City the NPC mechanic works the same way, since both players and NPCs use a normal human body plan.
True and even though I haven't played it I'm pretty sure Shadow of Mordor has a leveling system where if an enemy kills you they get stronger. I think my friend called it something like Nemesis cam where they zoom in on them and start playing music.
See also any Elder Scrolls game and any game in the Disgaea series and related spinoffs (where NPC levels are a manipulatable mechanic and they can gain exp and level up)
morrowind too. and that was way back in the 90's
I think NPC's work in a similar way in Saints Row 1 and especially in Saints Row 2.
I don't really think it can be equated to that. Those Bloodborne NPCs do have levels because they can fight back. Shadow of Mordor can also fight back. This is because Enemies are *also* NPCs. And in games like Bloodborne and TES, the examples given here, it is literally possible for an NPC to turn on aggressio nand fight back the player. This doesn't happen in an NPC that doesn't need to fight, though. Yakuza series has enemies geting harder, but NPCs normally don't have to fight, only specific enemies. Games like Just Cause and Saints Row would bump up difficulty and health for enemies, but not for peaceful NPCs.
This is a Role-playing game though, and an MMO where you can apparently attack anyone. So I assume the levelling system is there for certain NPCs like cops, but not exactly for these NPCs who don't need any fighting. Why complicate them?
I love how you just get right to the point in these reviews. No unnecessary dumb jokes in the beginning, and no corny skit that lasts for the whole entire video (unlike some other movie reviewers).
Also, the way you break down every single flaw the movie has is insane! You leave no stone unturned. You notice something as minor as someone spitting, or someone using a portal gun to destroy the entire story. That level of observation HAS to be admired!
Sometimes you might drag a point a little too much, but that's really just a nitpick.
Overall, an amazing video!
At 8:00 you know what would have made for a funny gag to explain how he could have seen Cool Girl? If his head was clipping through the wall of his workstation.
That is legitimately an awesome idea. It could even tie into the state of affairs at the game studio itself as an indication of Korg’s lack of care for the quality of the games.
@@GamingMagic13 It could've been cool of they presented Korg as an incredibly admirable guy but show a couple moments both within the game world where a couple things break and in the real world where he doesn't respect his employees and would rather shevel out anything that could make money. Until towards the end where he goes full villain mode instead of just making him into a discount Mr. Krabs.
@@GamingMagic13: All right, *_First up: HE IS AN NPC!!!_* The number of online players shouldn't drop anyway!! *_Second: HOW CAN THE NUMBER OF ONLINE PLAYERS DROP IF AN NPC RESPAWNS?!?!?_*
This is Shandy defending Madvocate, defending CinemaSins, essentially complaining there's *_No Sex Scenes in the DiC dub of Sailor Moon_* level stupidity!!!!!
@@GamingMagic13: Star Wars Stormtroopers - And I mean official ones, not guys from spoofs like the Family Guy spoofs - *_ARE BUSTING GUTS LAUGHING_* at the terrible aim of these guys in this movie!
All of the references and 'hip' talk makes this entire movie feel like video game key jingling. It could've been more than that, the idea of an npc in an mmo gaining sentience is a pretty great idea, but instead they just made it about key jingling references in the audiences face so they'll giggle and clap like babies and love the movie simply because of that.
And, unfortunately, it worked.
Related, there's a game worth checking out if you want something like this but without the key-jingling and whatnot - CrossCode! You're put in the shoes of a new player to an MMO but it still touches on some similar concepts regarding the whole "AI sentience" deal
It's a game with a really slow start but it's well worth the wait, the writing is spectacular too
@@lordmarshmal_0643 Sounds amazing, how much is it?
@@mannythemaniac1009 It's available for $20 on basically everything as I understand, but I'd recommend the Steam version since it also has some exclusive DLC stuff
ready player one 2.0
I dunno why, but I find your absolute DESTRUCTION of this movie extremely hilarious. You just shred the thing to pieces like a wild animal and I'm just left laughing at the utter ruin of plot threads XD
"How do you screw up spelling a URL?!? Especially when the correct name is *ON THE GOD DAMN SCREEN,* you morons!!!"
Her kissing the main character in game is the most absolutely insane plot hole I think I’ve ever seen. How the heck did they overlook such an obvious mistake?!
They were writing that part of the story with one hand
@@mannythemaniac1009 People tend to write with only one hand. Unless if you’re writing on Google Docs but even then one could multitask.
@@thefunnestaccount5632 they meant they were using their under hand for...... stuff.
@@thefunnestaccount5632 You're right, what I meant was that they were dedicating their other hand to... something else, which could explain how they made that oversight in the script.
@DJ Mutt Who couldn’t?
trevor going on hour-long hate rant against minor pieces of shallow entertainment that faded into irrelevancy long ago never ceases to be fun, great video
I appreciate people who review things that are not commonly reviewed.
something that always draws me to your content is just how thoroughly you look into everything. most people wouldn't bat an eye at the scene of a player character spitting in game or anything else like that, but you manage to find things like that and use it to thoroughly destroy the movie. I've never seen anyone look so thoroughly at every single thing in something they're reviewing and tie it in to how the thing you're reviewing is fundamentally broken and I admire that. not only that, but you are direct and to the point with everything and you don't dwell on comedy or entertainment because, in cases like this, frankly the pure rage is entertaining enough. keep up the good work
One of my biggest pet peeves are movies about video games written by people who know nothing about video games.
But look! It's the Portal gun! From portal! (It doesn't function how it's supposed to at all) BUT it's the PORTAL GUN!!!
@kingkazahe's being sarcastic, and holy shit dude. Its an 8 months old comment
@jimmyhopkins8305
Thank you Jimmy
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If Korg knew Steve was helping Less Cool Girl, wouldn’t he have fired him as soon as he found out?
Yes, he _should've_ done that. He should've immediately revoked his access to everything and fired him on the spot. What he should _not_ have done was call him into his office without confiscating his laptop. I go over this in the video.
@@GamingMagic13 -rep furry
@@romanium365 wow how original
73% "chill, it's a movie"
27% well, fair point
Are you referring to the comment section?
@@fanofyoshi2238 No I was just trying to sum up my thoughts during the video
@@NeseComedy Same here, though, i thought "Chill, it's just a movie!" a lot more during this video's runtime.
Ps: Most of his videos are like this.
@@fanofyoshi2238I disagree heavily with this braindead take but to each their own.
@@welpimf0cked654 I mean, it depends on which movie you're watching. Do you think this take inherently qualifies as braindead regardless of which movie we're referring to?
Can we please appreciate how Trevor does his best with these reviews? He gives us a lot of genuinely funny and well made content that we never knew we needed. Merry Christmas to everyone and I hope you all have a wonderful new year! ❤️🎄
"He acts as if the launch of a new game automatically shuts down the previous game but that's not how anything works" Except Overwatch 2, for some stupid reason
Free Guy: ‘Worst movie of 2021’
Home Sweet Home Alone: Hold my beer
Loll
just started THIS video but i wanted to say that THIS IS THE TH-cam CONTENT IVE BEEN DYING FOR FOR THE PAST COUPLE YEARS
not quick useless videos of reasonable-less content or unbelievable, unrealistic, over dramatized reaction video after another
we get well constructed analysis and critiques with amazing presentation of trending/relevant shows/movies but also good old fashion "let's play videos"
ive been a fan for 3 days now and its probably the greatest way to start the year
When I was younger, probably around those girls' ages, I called them NPCs because I thought it was cool I knew the actual terminology. A lot of my friends were the same way.
I do it sometimes out of habit, mostly if they're an unnamed character. If they are an actual character in the plot I use the proper noun. It's not that weird to call NPCs NPCs. Some of these critiques for this movie seem kind of shallow, that said the movie looks horrible
49:00 Everything about this argument is both painful and hilarious in a world post OW2
The seeing another world thru the blinds thing actually makes some technical sense from the game dev side of things. Games usually use pre made (baked) reflections to make everything run faster. If (which is not that probable, but possible) they forgot to rebake the reflection of the city in-engine in this specific place it could reflect something, that was there before.
A good example of this is in many n64 games. Mario 64’s metal Mario uses a texture of some flowers or in smash bros you can also find it.
As a Portal/Portal 2 fan, I honestly had no clue that was the portal gun till they called it that. And keep in mind I only saw the middle of the movie cause my dad was watching it. I was happy at first cause “hey cool Portal!” but seeing how it functions in this movie and they have the balls to call that ripoff not at all resembling fake gun a portal gun made me feel so disappointed and angry.
I do like the concept of an NPC being the main focus of a movie that takes place mostly in a Video Game.
Please make more of these. I throughly enjoyed your Toy Story 4 review and this one was also highly entertaining.
Fantastic editing, kept me mentally engaged the entire time
48:04 Isn't it funny how Blizzard did the same thing.
Just a small nitpick about the spitting and crying being coded but not kissing point, it’s likely that spitting and crying were coded in as taunts, which would make sense in an online game of Free City’s nature.
My thought for spitting specifically is it might be an idle animation.
I'll admit that I shut off my brain quite early in the movie. I couldn't handle the stupidity and promptly forgot about it until this video. You've been far more entertaining and intelligible.
"Why are they removing the first game when releasing the second one? It doesn't make sense"
Yeah blizzard, why did you d- ah no this is a movie review, not a video regarding OW2, my bad
Gonna be honest I actually loved this movie despite everything. There's no pre existing universe to ruin. It just was a fun watch.
Personally I really love this movie. I saw it twice in theaters, but you had good points.
yeah i still like this movie even after watching this review, unlike Toy Story 4, which i now despise after watching his review of it
you can like shit but that does not mean the shit is good
Same, it’s just a genuinely fun movie. It’s obviously flawed ofc, but it’s very enjoyable still
So you’re telling me, the devs are doing all of that stuff of messing with the game world while the servers are up meaning they are breaking the experience for legitimate players who may be playing at that time. Why not take the servers down for maintenance, patch the game and then bring it back up again with a Free Guy skin for everyone?
Also, when the NPCs go on strike, the game is broken. It literally cannot run because things like quests and missions can’t start, because in games NPCs are your mission givers or triggers by random events. So when that happened, no one can play.
Also, the NPCs are established as not being sentient, unlike Free Guy, so why would they go on strike? They literally can’t, unless Free Guy’s code acts like a virus.
Also, how does Buddy have an apartment, he should be unloaded/despawbed/whatever the word is if he’s not needed or visible because keeping everything loaded at once is a way to make your game crash or run poorly
Interestingly, all these things were addressed in Wreck It Ralph. All the characters were established to be sentient therefore they could go on strike. Ralph did, and when he did his arcade cabinet didn’t work because he’s not there to start the game and act as the antagonist to Felix. Turbo did this, kind of, breaking his own cabinet and the other games he went to because he was foreign code. To the players he appeared to be a glitch/bug. He even acted somewhat like a virus, altering code to change NPC behaviour and his appearance. None of the characters did game altering stuff when players were around otherwise the game appears to be glitchy and broken and will be shut down
"Also, how does Buddy have an apartment, he should be unloaded/despawbed/whatever the word is if he’s not needed or visible because keeping everything loaded at once is a way to make your game crash or run poorly "
Guy has an apartment.
Feels like the writers have never played a videogame before..
Selling the very first true, functional self-learning AI would get him more money than a pg-13 shooter...
Yeah, Google would give them a billion.
I loved this movie, but I agree with everything you said lol. It was a fun film to watch, but once you start thinking about stuff it all falls apart. But it's just so ridiculous that you'll have a fun time if you dont wanna think for a while.
Merry Christmas and thank you for this gift. Actually, I never saw the movie but it's always fun to watch GM13 tearing down scripts.
1:24:10 Now this... this is the real deal that I am patiently waiting for .
Two notes. I don't see how calling an NPC an NPC is at all abnormal in casual conversation. I also don't think Guy's "he's just resting" thing after shooting the robber is at all psychopathic, it's denial, because he's freaked out about just shooting someone.
Agree on the npc thing. Although if you think about we say npc a lot less than you'd assume but still it's pretty common
@@SpiffoGamingif you play terraria (a game by religion that I love) in the menus and loading screen tips they are referred to as npcs and all the TH-camrs I watch who play and all my friends call them npc so it it’s pretty normal in some games
You're breakdown of movies is very good and i like that you take an objective lens when critiquing bad writing but you talk way to fast. There are multiple times when i can't even hear what you are saying because your words start slurring together. When i first started watching your long form videos, i thought i accidentally put the video on 1.5 speed because of how fast you are speaking. I don't why you think you need to speak so fast when a normal speaking pace makes it so that you can hear what you are saying more clearly. There is no problem with people who speak quickly, but when it comes to the detriment of the videos understandability, it becomes a problem
There's just so much going on that these vids would be almost twice as long. Like, it's so dense in how much of a screw up going on in the movie.
Then there’s the issue of being accused of padding out the runtime.
Infinity War is pretty violent. You like those, doesn’t that make you a sociopathic manchild?
Ninja plays Fortnite. That’s a violent game. Id you like that game, doesn’t that make you a sociopathic man child?
Star Wars can get pretty brutal at times. So if the screenwriters enjoy it, doesn’t that make them a sociopathic manchild?
Man, Half Life is pretty violent, so that makes people who enjoy it sociopathic manchilds.
In Pac-Man you can eat ghosts. That’s brutal. Doesn’t that make you a sociopathic manchild.
In MegaMan, you shoot at robots, so it’s a shooter game. Sociopathic manchild….
*Sighs*
Dentists have to use tools to get into people's mouths and it can get pretty violent, does that make them sociopathic man-children?
Chefs have to cook dead animals and plants, that's pretty violent, does that make them sociopathic man-children
Insert Every single Nintendo, Sega, Indie (Undertale, Minecraft, Cuphead), and other game company. Actually, scratch that, what about every other movie franchise including Disney movies themselves that can get pretty violent, *bleeping* Bambi and Robin Hood and more, does that make everyone who watches them sociopathic man-children? Heck, let's try and drag this out to the existence of soldiers and politicians, since they too can get violent, are they all sociopathic man-children. What are the rules and the guidelines on violence, goshdarn it!?
@@StoryTeller796 to be fair, it seems most political figures ARE sociopathic manchildren.
@Jack Pijjin Well yeah, but what are the standards that others who aren't trained psychological professionals measure sociopathy?
"Are you saying that the servers it was on will be shut down? Because that also makes no sense."
I really wish someone could've told Blizzard that before they launched Overwatch 2 and shut down the first game despite customers having payed for it..
It’s wild that the reviews for this I saw before watching it myself were not just positive but in too many cases, straight up glowing. The trailers didn’t intrigue me at all & at best I saw it as a PG-13 version of Crank. However it was much worse than I expected compared to the reviews it was getting. Not absolute dreck but was still a struggle to even get past the first 30 minutes. The first signs that this was a movie coasting on the idea of being a “love letter to gaming” without actually having equivalent effort was the very conceit of the glasses distinguishing players from NPCs. Why would a game with heavy customization have an essential element be connected to a face accessory that not everyone would even want to wear? Even accepting that, why then is it at all possible for that accessory to be removed not even just by another player but any random NPC? Toss in a plethora of tepid Walmart T-Shirt-caliber gamer geek “humor” & I had to tap out on my first attempt around where “Wrecking Ball” plays. This isn’t even a movie worth absentmindedly putting on in the background while I do something else. It’s too bland even for that.
I saw it as them trying to be all Deadpool, especially poking fun at the trailer for say how the movies from the creators behind Disney remakes.
Free Guy is just "How do you do fellow kids?" the movie.
Wreck It Ralph is also like that.
@Master_Builder-es1lf Not true at all. Wreck it Ralph is an excellent story written by people who are passionate about video games. There are a few references to modern games like Call of Duty and Mario Kart, but they aren't done in an annoying or on the nose way like Free Guy. The rest of the characters and games are based on old arcade games that a lot of kids wouldn't know. Wreck it Ralph is actually one of GamingMagic13's favorite movies, and he's said it's what Free Guy should've been.
@@chunkysalsa6264 are you saying kids do not know bowser or sonic.
mega man is an old game. so how is this a bad reference.
@@chunkysalsa6264 I have three rules to what I think makes an OK reference.
1. the reference need to make sense to be in the universe.
2. the movie needs to not give it special treatment. ie giving it an mcu moment or name dropping it for no reason
3. it needs to respect the source material.
ie having a reference just to crap on the source material.
@@Master_Builder-es1lf I never said any of the references were bad. By old games I meant Pac-Man and Qubert. It doesn't matter who gets what references. The point is Wreck It Ralph is a great movie with a great story, unlike Free Guy. The main difference between the two movies I'm trying to point out is that while both have references to games, Wreck It Ralph does it in a natural way that fits with the narrative while Free Guy does it in a way that feels like lame jokes and product placement. The biggest example of that is when Guy uses items like Captain America's shield and a lightsaber to fight the buff copy of himself. Wreck It Ralph's references are small, simple, and serve a purpose. Bowser is in the bad guy meeting place as part of the scene showing that Ralph wants to be more than a bad guy. He wants the respect and admiration of the other characters that Felix gets.
49:00 The exact same thing happened with overwatch, and everyone probably knows how that went
1:06 Not going to lie that *Deadpool joke* made me chuckle and I agree when I think Ryan Reynolds I think Deadpool.
I feel like when I watch a movie with fan service or tons of references to popular media I totally forget everything and I'm spoon fed constant fan service to hide all the cons so the movie makes me look at the pros.
Speaking of the big red out of bounds barrier, Minecraft implemented such a visually disturbing world border. It acts as an invisible wall, but you can see it and it has an animation. It's really only appealing to look at on a factions server because you know it's one area you're more safe in. I believe using commands to pass it or flying over the wall (if you can) results in taking damage over time, too. It only lacks the catapulting of the player backward into the permitted zone. The world goes on much further past the barrier.
Fortnite has a similar thing in the creative mode with a bright orange barrier but it’s only visible when close by
This is a better video than the entire movie. Honestly, this movie's relationship with its target demographic is "peeing on us without the dignity of calling it rain"
I had another idea in mind for a better quote weeks ago and now I've lost it.
Well, Jack was certainly right about the "didn't *have* to cater to anybody" part, but they still did it anyway just to sell better and to integrate the greater gaming and popular culture into their movie specifically for fan service.
I would like to set up an experiment. Set a group of kids to do an escape room where they have to complete 3 rooms, one room is an Undertale game room where they get to play however they like 5 times, then they get two checklists in the second room, telling them to complete a series of challenges that either require them to do a pacifist run or a genocide route and then give them an option at the end of the room. Either talk to a dummy version of their friends or shock them to death. I bet they won't become sociopaths at the end, I mean the whole "video games cause violence" sounds like "all it takes is one bad day", and if you were to compare and contrast Mr. J and Bats, you would see that one becomes a serial killer who thinks killing is not only fun, but the only real reason for life, which is to end it's meaningless misery and to perpetrate it at the same time and just have fun with it, and the other becomes the embodiment of anti-crime, to stop any kid from having any more thugs kill their parents. Video games do not cause violence, they never have and they never will.
53:18 “Don’t you love Infinity War? Well then you should love our-NO!”
How you shifted tone like that just kills me. 😂😂😂
I also can’t get over “Mass X Acceleration = You are dead.” 😂😅
5:46 was a brilliant use of that scene for the choice of word
This movies plot (despite being focused on the AI) perfectly encapsulates Blizzard’s mentality on Overwatch.
So anyway, here’s Overwatch 2! A BRAND NEW GAME!😬 49:03
I thought i was in the twilight zone when everyone single person i talked to said this movie was SO good and that it was exactly what they wanted in their shitty video game movie. I really thought i was fucking insane. Thank god that isn’t the case😭🙏🏾
Jacksepticeye was the only one actually acting in that movie everybody else made me want to blow my brains out
Wtf do you mean, his acting in the film was by far the worst it’s like he just got handed the script and started being recorded.
@@JJ_Jonah Maybe that’s the idea though. Like, he’s supposed to sound like he’s casually talking in a livestream, rather than sound like he’s acting in a movie?
I wonder how he’d feel about Chip N’ Dale Rescue Rangers
Small insignificant nitpick at 4:45 At slower speeds you can hear a train if it whistles or its hitting the trains, but after a certain speed, you physically will not hear a regular train coming until its too late or right infront of your face "The Doppler Effect" (I know doesnt fix this movies problems at all but just a little trivia)
I'm a developer and hobbyist game designer and I enjoyed this movie. I imagined the game is too big for it to actually be installed on one one machine so it has to be streamed from the big server farm they have. And the only way for programmers to work on it is to modify the game code directly (or like a testing version).
Obviously that's not how games are developed currently but it's not too far fetched to imagine that's how games will work in the future. Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud comes to mind where no single developer has an understanding of the whole system
"boy this part about the youtube appearance seems really nitpicky and handwaved by alternate universe shenanigans"
"IT'S NOT SPECTICEYE"
"....carry on, then"
“Sure hope somebody got fired for that blunder” The Movie
49:11 “shutting down the servers for one of the most popular games in the world because a sequel is coming out is stupid”
Overwatch 2: “…yeah you’re right”
Hahaha the real world is a joke
its pretty cool how the devs are able to change the code of the game on the fly
without players needing to download updates, log out of the game for maintenance or any of that
wait wait wait wait wtf why does the movie include references to avengers and specifically Hulk if one of the characters is played by the director of Thor: Ragnarok?
thats like the big lebowski thing in the endgame when Jeff Bridges was in the first Iron Man thats so stupid
One major change I would do to make Free Guy (a little) better:
Take the real world aspect out of it.
13:35 this actually makes sense because player characters are usually an extension of a base entity class like human. so they might share the code that allows them to have inventory or healing ability
It seems like removing the glasses just deactivates the HUD, not the account
from watching all of this, I have deducted that during watching films I am head empty no thoughts. I literally did not notice any of these discrepancies, let alone remember most of the movie itself. very fun videos tho
I hate the portal refrence so much. When you think of everything you can do in that game, its like they couldn't be bothered, just put two perfectly parrael portals 10 feet from each other and walk in in with no momentum. We referenced portal, now clap
48:04
Sounds like a Blizzard entertainment move to me.
Okay so the movie isn’t exactly good, but i love it lmao
it’s stupid, it’s funny, and it’s basically a shitpost
You know what makes even less sense with the Portal Gun’s inclusion? YOU NEED MOONDUST TO USE IT. And with how they just shoot a portal into the air (and somehow make 2 portals instead of one), you can’t look at me with a straight face and say the air contains moondust. Cause if that’s the case then you’ve never played Portal 2, cause if so then you’d know that the air would’ve been dumb toxic and making people sick! WHAT IN THE APERTURE SCIENCE LEMON GRENADE IS THIS MOVIE??
I never knew about the moondust thing. All I knew was that Johnson ate moon gel and died.
@@Dullsonic3 PFTTT WOW THAT IS SUCH AN OVERSIMPLICATION BUT I LOVE IT LMAO
gel made from crushed moon dust is only one of the portalable surfaces, aperture labs used white concrete way before purchasing moon rocks. (remember, the quantum tunneling device (prototype portal gun) was used in the testing spheres way back in the day)
What? That makes no sense because the portals in Free Guy function completely differently to Portal 1 and 2. There is a different reason how portal surfaces exist, as explained in Portal 2, but it is so convoluted and nonsensical.
If you know me well, you'll know that Portal 2 is my most hated video game of all-time.
I liked Deadpool & Wolverine, but knowing GamingMagic, I can’t wait to hear his rants about it when it happens XD
Funny enough the server shutting down for a previous game when a new one comes out is exactly what Blizzard did to Overwatch 1 when 2 launched.
48:00 blizzard has left the chat.
It is INCREDIBLY funny that some of the criticisms halfway in this video become criticisms for real life because when Blizzard released Overwatch 2 they completely deleted the first game to replace it.
We should criticism our actual real life for being so inept that bad movies are able to accurately depict what will happen in it.
A 10 min review wasn't enough, bro took the time to roast EVERY SCENE in the movie, I salute you sir 😭
I actually really liked this movie. Was it incredibly dumb? Yes. Was it the "regular simple dumbass learns the world is fake and becomes a god" story in a world inspired by GTA (also where i met my boyfriend, ei one of the very few people I know I'd actually cry for if they died) that I needed...yes, yes it was. At least it was better than TS4 and Lightyear.
It's technically possible to drop a character from one game to another if they use the same engine and some systems work the same / similarly, but generally would propably be way harder, than it's shown here
That's it, the girl who pointed out the gaping plotholes is the best character
Rest is of course a trash
Also yeah, Merry Christmas everyone
@@BwaBwabu Merry Christmas to you too
6:38 I think it’s suppose to be just a funny joke. The tank being in the background doesn’t make sense but I personally found it funny.
57:50 I feel like I am starting to know your vids too well. This is the first time I got this far in the vid, and when I heard this tangent and a long pause, I found myself blurting out "BAH!" at the same time Woody did! I somehow found that hilarious.
i like how at 48:20 you rant about how stupid it would be for a sequal to come out of a game that replaces the first game and deletes it. but then 1 year later thats what OW does xD
4:32 You’re acting like this isn’t a video game, which you can’t do in this movie which is about living in a video game. There are plenty of hazards that exist in video games that don’t spawn until the player (or in this case NPC) crosses the threshold (this can act as a world barrier or a dungeon trap), and it’s very obviously implied throughout the movie that this is one of those hazards. So, with that in mind, Guy couldn’t have seen the train coming because it simply didn’t exist until he stepped onto the railroad. You cannot expect video games to be completely internally consistent. For a train to be running at all times in a game like this would take a massive amount of CPU resources, and it’s also possible that the train only exists for Guy as a client side trap rather than a server side (yes, I’m aware Guy is on the server, but the world operates as though Guy were using a player character so my point still stands).
6:35 Several video games have glitch/crash failsafes that eliminate a problematic process or entity that may pose a threat to the game’s (or system’s) integrity. In Zelda BOTW, this is the blood moon; yes the blood moon is a timed event, but there is a secondary type of blood moon that not everyone knows about, the panic blood moon. The panic blood moon is an event triggered when more than 90% of the game’s allotted RAM is used up, triggering a blood moon allows the game to reset and clear its RAM so that it doesn’t crash or break. The incident here with the coffee could be exactly that; Guy ordered a coffee that deviated from the script, and the game probably started freaking out with a “code red” because it received an input that didn’t have a designated output, so that makes Guy a threat, but obviously you can’t reset the entire game for this, so they send in a tank to temporarily despawn the bug and reset the character to an unglitched state. Again, you cannot ask that everything in a video game makes sense, it’s not a book or a movie where it can do whatever it wants, it’s a compilation of instructions with failsafes. So far, both of these events are easily explainable as failsafes, and are clearly implied to be as such. If your argument boils down to “it doesn’t make sense in the physics! It can’t just happen!” then your argument isn’t valid. Video games don’t make sense, and that’s true of the physics engine and of entities spawning/despawning, it actually makes LESS sense that the game would act normal as if there wasn’t a structural instability in the code. Like it or not, this is accurate to how video games function. Stop trying to review the game’s continuity through the lens of storytelling, because games don’t operate that way.
8:50 No, this isn’t how natural dialogue happens, you’re right about that, but this is how gamers talk to *themselves* when they’re frustrated with the game. Also, her player character isn’t moving, it makes perfect sense that she’d give her hand a rest from the keyboard right now.
11:25 Not every video game has shotgun recoil, and given how little the boss cares about the game, this makes sense. This also justifies the one-handed tug of war.
13:28 Okay, yes, the UI is atrocious and the glasses being linked to it is dumb, I’ll give you that, but under those rules, when Guy puts on the glasses, the game would treat him like a player character. It’s really stupid, but it’s the logic that the game is operating under.
25:43 That’s natural dialogue. It’s pretty hard to show an NDA with expository dialogue. Spoken exposition is sometimes necessary, and this is one of those cases. What are you even complaining about here?
30:50 Not what that line is saying, at all. From what we’ve seen, she deals with idiots and jerks like 24/7, so it makes perfect sense for her to hold a grudge against the player base.
46:52 It’s only that big because he’s become sentient. Like a Minecraft world, the storage space it takes up depends on how much has actually happened and how large the thought process (or physical world) is. This isn’t a set number, it’s been increasing throughout the movie.
58:19 The missing 4 is an Easter egg alluding to the laziness with which the game was made. That’s there intentionally. This is a well-known fact; how did you not know this?? Seriously, dude, this review is not going well for you. A lot of what you’ve complained about are intentional, logical things out there on purpose. THIS IS NOT REAL LIFE, IT IS A BROKEN BUGGY VIDEO GAME, STOP TREATING IT LIKE ITS SUPPOSED TO BE PERFECT!
Everything else was fine, but these things in particular really got under my skin. Overall good review, but missed some glaringly obvious details.
2:11 ... also in the background while guy is at the ATM is a dude jumping, clipping and freezing into the wall. a nice nod to things gamers experience.
This is one of those movies my parents would say is good and get mad at me for talking trash about it while watching, just wanting me to shut up. But yeah to me this film isn’t terrible but incredibly mid.
You know it’s bad when people would rather watch a feauture length video for the same time as your movie about how bad your movie is than watch your movie
_Free Guy_ hurts my professional software developer brain.
First off, and people are starting to figure this out with ChatGPT in the news, AIs aren't coded per se. They are learning algorithms that essentially use high speed brute force to determine optimal behavior patterns given certain inputs. For example, Stockfish is an actual AI designed to win at Chess with as optimal a proficiency as possible. Leaving aside what the Reynolds.chr AI was supposed to do (or if this movie is essentially saying that they made artificial life... at least _Digimon Tamers_ had the digi-gnomes, heavily implied to be shinto demigods, to finalize Shibumi's catalyst algorithm), what people mostly talk about when they refer to "AI" are their stored weights. They are _NOT_ manually written. That would take decades of brute forcing every possible action and reaction. When it comes to AI, I like to say that, if you want to create a humanoid intelligence so badly, the optimal development strategy involves a woman and nine months.
Second, the whole premise of deleting Less Cool Girl's original files is an even dumber plot point than you thought. The way most professional development of _any_ variety works, from _Elden Ring_ to _Doki Doki Literature Club,_ is that development work is stored on the cloud via some form or another of source control. Microsoft even has their own proprietary version because of course they do. To _not_ take this precaution would expose your development cycle to _apocalyptic_ risk if literally anything went wrong on a specific machine in any way. (Say, just for sake of example, some psycho took an axe to it.) The point of source control is to allow development to recover from critical failures in development via rebasing to the last successful push (and for the love of God, PLEASE implement some kind of continuous integration...) as well as to have multiple branches of code, usually at least on the level of developer code, live production, and some form of QA and / or staging, ideally both. Anybody who develops on live prod data, as this movie seems to imply, is either immeasurably stupid or so fatally desperate that they're screwed regardless. If you're lucky and everything goes right (and it _never_ goes right), you'll have to deal with merge conflicts on every non-prod branch. So why does this make deleting Less Cool Girl's code stupid? Because source control meticulously logs all code changes, both in terms of both the date and the content of those changes, including deleted files. Anybody who tried to do corrupt shenanigans with their code would get found out short of a catastrophic server purge (at which point you're looking at spending the next 1-3 two-week development cycles trying to get everything back to where it was; PLEASE tell me that the writers were not implying a waterfall development methodology was being used for a _presently-live MMORPG_ for f's sake...) and simply "deleting the data" would not even come close to covering up criminal culpability. Covering up crooked software development takes a little more than a fire axe. (That said, if Waititi saw this eventuality as even remotely possible, why does he not have a killswitch that can instantly short the entire system? Cyber criminals already do this. It's basically a more holistic and functional implementation of the idea behind "when I die, delete my browser history".) That sort of thing is biting Twitter in the ass in real life right now.
And now, for something you correctly eluded to but didn't have enough detail on, the hidden level. I was operating under the presumption that Discount GTA was essentially being piggybacked off the original game's core engine. That code would just be logic. So why did the UI components appear in any way in Free City at all? Did Less Cool Girl literally tightly hard-couple the AI to the UI? (If so, she must've been fired for gross incompetence.) Even if so, it shouldn't have taken long for other developers to decouple that code and wrap it in a class library more conveniently usable by the rest of the team. Anything relevant enough to visibly tie the code to the original game would be long gone. Less Cool Girl should've had to dive into a Tron-eaque subdimension to find her files, if they could be found at all. What wound up happening instead is more like _Sword Art Online_ as envisioned by a tech-illiterate boomer.
Incidentally, if Less Cool Girl was an employee at Taiga Waititi's company (hell if I'm watching that movie again), she likely doesn't even own that code she's claiming. It is _extremely_ common boilerplate in software developer contracts that anything you code for your employing company belongs to them. (I'd know. Just a year ago, I built my boss a website automation testing engine from scratch. And just a few weeks ago, I was working on a high-volume CSV parser / report writer. It didn't wind up getting used, but that code still belongs to the company nonetheless.) Less Cool Girl can't claim ownership or that it was stolen. Repurposing developed code for other purposes is a pretty common practice, especially if the code is any good. In fact, most code is written for the express purpose of being a black-boxed tool for other development. Waititi is fully within his rights to do so. Who cares if he didn't make Less Cool Girl's lame nature sandbox? That's for the designers to decide upon, which, as we are led to believe, is Waititi. He did nothing wrong, neither legally nor ethically. Less Cool Girl just inexplicably felt entitled to dictate the use of her code and threw a tantrum when she didn't get her eco-fappy walking simulator for Californian hipsters that nobody in real life (not even the Californian hipsters) would play.
fun fact the portal gun can only work on surfaces made with moon dust hence the colour and the ending to portal 2 and the gel in portal 2.
Can't believe Free Guy predicted Overwatch 2
Bet ten bucks the devs took their lessons from Bully Hunters lol
@1:09:00 ish, when you were talking about him doing the stuff on his comp, I get that comps could have some amazing battery life, but if that Razer laptop really was doing all that programming and not dip into a nearly dead battery, how is that comp still alive?!
Edit; great vid Trevor!!
5:45 I see you have achieved the art of dick jokes as well!
Real subtle Lightyear
58:18
Mista would be proud
1 thing i need to say is that obviously him getting hit by the train at the beginning is because of the out of bounds, it's like an invisible wall and stopped him from getting out of the map
39:06 actually during the Jacksepticeye bit we do see him ride a motorcycle
“Shutting down a game just because there’s a sequel is a dumb strategy and not how this really works!”
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Overwatch 2
I just kinda assumed the train was spawned in as a method to prevent NPCs from leaving
Wait, you're telling me the blinds are important to the ending of this movie? Gee, that sounds awfully familiar . . .
the problem with this video is that it forgets that it doesnt have to make that much sense from a physics standpoint, because its a game
if this guy hate references so much, then he must loath Wreak It Ralph 😂
He actually likes that movie though, so you are wrong.
Since Free City seems like it's supposed to be a sandbox game, I could assume it has something like Minecraft's creative mode where you can get spawn eggs for enemies and have them spawn at a certain trigger. Definitely agree with the movie's writing being shoddy though
I don't know anything about Ryan Reynolds, but he keeps trying to sell me Mint Mobile so I do not like him
To be fair mint is the cheapest quality service out there, I know I sound like a damn commercial but i did the research and it's true
Though I enjoyed the film, you do make a lot of good points here... Might have made it a little trickier to re-watch now that I'll have some of this going around in my head, lol.
Some possible notes/disagreements though:
1) Maybe it's a stretch but I can accept Ryan Reynolds getting launched into that pillar but not dying. Maybe the game has a really wonky physics engine or some weird mechanic like having those situations count as fall damage and the special jump shoes reduce fall damage. Again it could be a stretch but I come across situations like that A LOT in games of all types.
2) The "sociopathic manchild" line is both just that character's view (and she would definitely have a bias as someone clearly interested in non-violent games and such) and could be exaggerated/facetious. Maybe could be a little bit tweaked but probably not worthy of being repeatedly referred back to.
3) The thing about a company not shutting down the first game when the sequel comes out... This video came out after the Overwatch 2 ordeal, right? Even before that it wasn't a totally implausible thing for a super greedy company to do.
"Actually, gun violence is a huge problem in the real world." 🤓
~ A literal line from the movie
Whether anyone supports or opposes gun control, we can all agree that that line was cringy as fuck and certainly doesn't belong in a big-budget Hollywood movie.
@Giltspark yeah because other countries enjoy being ruled by fascist dictators. I know, freedom is a weird thing only found in very few places in this world, most of which the citizens own guns
@Giltspark 🤡
Why not? It’s true.
Yeah, Videogame themed movies just dont work. I ve heard Sonic is a good movie... but havent watched yet.
Sonic is good, but it's more like an actual movie that just happens to use Sonic characters, if that makes any sense
@@Garry_Combine sonic 2 makes it more like a "sonic movie" movie, and it's great
@@Garry_Combine but I see what you mean with the first sonic movie
You say you have no idea why he fiddles with the blinds and then literally explain why he does this... lol
exactly