@@Random_dud31how dare you, 5 was also amazing. Yes it tried to do something different and it had so many bugs that made it unplayable at launch but that was part if its charm. But of course u wouldnt see its art since ur a fan of the overrated 8 🙄
@@jsharp9735 lol that's a new one... I suppose I could see why you'd see her that way. However, she's nowhere near as intelligent or charismatic as Obama and pretty sure she's French-Canadian. They're both black and radical progressives though. Lol
Writers ignoring what the overall market desires or wants and just makes it all about them, disrespecting the source material if it's an adaptation, and just taking their project in an entirely politically-motivated direction? Many such cases!
That’s not accurate. Unknown 9 was given away for free as a bundle with AMD products. The other option was Space Marine 2, so yeah, some unlucky people have made the wrong decision. That’s why there’s this huge drop off in players immediately after launch, even though it was the weekend. It’s because a lot players got it for free so then can just quit without regrets
Yeah, I can see that. Like the devs played a couple of the games and decided to base a game around a couple ideas from them, add a couple of non-descript mind powers and then call it a day.
what is SPI? I tried to google it and see the comments but nobody is mentioning what that term means, I'm not a native English speaker so I got trouble with some english terms
@@MechaMan2012 yup. This game kinda feels and looks like a bootleg Ubisoft. Lets just imagine a universe where there is a company doing shallow, generic Ubisoft stuff even worse then Ubisoft. This might just be it
@@MechaMan2012 Reflector is based in Montreal and majority of employees are ex Ubisoft that describe themselves as "AAA veterans" so yeah thats why lmao. At this point being Ubisoft employee means you got no experience whatsoever after over a decade working on asset flips with same design template, its like they have singular AI tier prompt inside their heads and you just go with it design wise.
The "artifacting" at 3:14 is not a bug actually. It's a shader trick called "dither opacity", which cut out some percentage of pixels of rendering object so it looks "translucent". It allows you to apply opacity on opaque object, without create a transparent shader for it. Which is cheaper and easier for development. Mostly used for LOD switch (like trees, grass). My theory is the devs want to build the "ghost" effect, but it turn out too expensive performance wise and they don't have the time to optimize it. So they just turn on the dither opacity button and call it a day. The pre-render screenshot and trailer don't have this issue.
@@aBadWizard It might be LOD switch. We want highly-detailed grass only visible while the camera is close enough. So we use dithering to let them "fade in", instead of just insta switch model.
What's even crazier is that most of the few people who actually played it (the Unknown 9 if you will) received the game free with an AMD CPU. At least 3 out of every 4 reviews on steam are from people who got the game for free...and they still hate it.
Lol i got it for free with my 7800x3d cpu and yea once i looked up the game i never bothered to install it. I also got starwars outlaws with my gpu and yea i have about 3 hours in that game and haven't touched it since...
Whats absurd to me is this game was supposed to spawn a series of other games. They already had sequels and spin-offs planned. They had names for them in the public sphere already it's all just... Bewildering
@@MorbidEelyeah pretty much 🤣, they were hoping to expand the IP into multiple different types of media, they even made a whole podcast with it's own story set in the same world. I'm pretty sure they wanted to make some books too
That's not upscaling artifacting, that's just another cheaper method of doing transparent materials in Unreal Engine. Instead of using the full transparency shader that has the full grayscale bit depth range, they use masked transparency and then use "dithering" to divide the black/white masking in the cheaper masking shader. That dithering then causes that weird checkerboarding.
So.... the "dithering" made the grass look pixelated and artifact-y? Or was the grass supposed to be transparent as well? Whatever the case, it looks like dogshit lmao
I’m asking this question out of legitimate curiosity: Why do a lot of recent female protagonist character models in video games all seem to have a pronounced jaw or slight underbite quality? Was there some kind of research that suggests certain facial features are subtly recognized as being “strong” and therefore imbue the character as strong? I think this trend is fascinating and really want to know the thinking behind it.
No they just want them to look mostly gender less. Because they THINK that is what people want. Even nonbinary people. Basically they want them to be androgenic, neither male or female looking. Only they fail utterly and just make things purely ugly. Even when they have a full face to work on.
To avert the "male gaze" and to desexualize women in media. I mean 3d artists have no problem modeling male actors face's really well, but women? Hell no. We gotta make them ugly and unattractive so the male gamers do not sexualize them. I mean, look at this game. Look at SW Outlaws, look at Concord (lol), Horizon FW, Suicide Squad...I can go on and on.
some ppl call the Maam Solo "uncanny valley" but i call it ugly...dunno why ppl have to define "uncanny valley" as anything but ugly is still ugly. Man jaw just makes it so obvious...these ppl think woman that do men's job have to become them...🤮 just make women look good while they do their stuff too like bayonetta and its iterations of it. Why is it so hard to make good-looking women.
Thanks I've never heard of the butt slapper game, but I can just add that onto the pile of evidence to a point that I've been making, which is basically; video games are for (primarily straight) men. So make sure your game appeals them in some way. If you're spending $100 million on a game, you're not asking, "how does this game appeal to a primarily straight and male audience", then you are in trouble. Everyone can cope and seethe about that as much as they want, but that's just the reality, and we should be honest about it.
Luke at least is partially saying the quiet part out loud now but still undermining the impact these consulting firms have on the industry. Especially with Kim Blair pretty much guaranteeing they're gonna double/triple/quadruple down on everything they're involved with for which I just don't care at this point. It's up to the devs and companies to keep doing business with them whether they wanna keep this charade going like Luke's local theater.
Bad products after bad products, it should be commonsense now to reject Checkboxing Scoring system entirely. I don't care if the game is good as long as the source is there waiting to erupt, it's already plaguing good games in the form of censorship.
@@m0-m0597 at this point and time, I don't even care. Western game devs self-cencored themselves so much nowadays, and they tend to ignore consumer wishes. Hell, I wish Saudi Arabia chimed in too.
Now that I think about it, all good games this year have been from Eastern devs, with the exception of helldivers 2. Astro Bot and Metaphor Refantazio are also amazing games by Eastern devs
I like Luke's moderate way of discussing these things compared to other more political gaming channels. Stays on the safe side but still covers the facts.
@The8bitbeard refusing to say the names of public figures and devs isn't covering or revealing anything, it's a sad attempt to dance around the real problem so he doesn't lose ties with corporate partners
It was weird on the Steam discussions yesterday, a mod was pinning what should have been obvious bait/jester farming threads for some bizarre reason. It is impossible to know if they are just so out of touch they cant recognise trolling bait threads or if a mod just went rogue and was trying to pin the 'chuds' in a failed attempt to expose them or something. Either way, today all the pins have been removed lol. Really would love to know what was going on there...
@@Bogglemanifyyep, the reviews are great on Steam. Not so much the summary of positive/nefative, but that will always lack context. You can see which reviews are worth taking seriously. “I love it!” *30 minutes at time of review* *product refunded* obviously not serious. Disregard. You can also see when something was given free (though that has to be done manually), something is reviewed in early access. I think it also says when it’s redeemed through a key as well. So you know if someone got it for cheap via a humble bundle vs paying whatever it is on Steam as well. That can color your feelings when you get a mid game for basically nothing via those bundles. Compared to someone who paid $60 or something. Valve gives most of the necessary info for us to weigh the reviews if we choose. People are just lazy and don’t want to read the reviews though
They must have paid quite a bit on ads for this because for the last 24-48 hours - no exaggeration - I’ve seen at the minimum 10 ads for it.. I thought it was Forespoken 2 or something every time I skipped it
Steam reviews are great, even if there're a lot of people memeing. You can see for how long they've played at the time of the review, so I pay more attention to people with reasonable playing time. Looks like most of the people reviewing this game got it for free with an AMD gpu
The industry has spoken, the modern audience does not exist, political messaging is not fun when it's so in your face, we are tired of being called bigots.
@@revolutionarydragon1123 I haven't seen much outside the horrible dialog. Thing is stranger things and a much different show peaky blinders are phenomenal shows. Some characters are in those shows to push left wing talking points like Tommy's sister and the 🌈 kid in ST. yet both shows are brilliant
Wellp... Luke puts a lot of effort to not to point fingers in this video, another pretty sanitized analysis... Even telling irrelevant personal experiences just to try to create a forced analogy just to not say "pushing political agenda"
Here is the thing about these games and also the plays you describe: Even if you have a message that is, in principle, good and valuable, if you lack the skill to pull it off you end up doing more damage to your cause than you are helping. Case in point: Just stop oil.
@@07m07 I saw Plan 9 in a theater, probably a midnight showing. The three guys a row on front of us were like MST3K in person. We had a blast. Don’t see anyone enjoying this
Fellow theatre loser here: I initially thought you were talking about Endgame by Samuel Beckett. Then you described something more absurd than the master of Absurdism.
"Important" stories fell into the same trap that Christian media did. When adherence to the message is your only goal, everything else falls by the wayside.
That's such a perfect way of looking at it, these games be it this or dustborn or saints row or any number of others are essentially leftist veggie tales
3:13 No, that just looks like a dithering effect, usually used as an alternative for transparency effects, to get around transparency depth sorting issues.
Regarding your story about that horrible play, I've notice a lot of artist believe they have more to say than they do. People will unironically talk and essentially say "I have a brand new story to tell, you've never heard of it before: global warming is bad!" I don't mean to belittle artists; I consider myself one with 3D, but I've only noticed that kind of thing with artists.
The checkerboard on that energy is probably (if unreal engine) a masked material with like opacity between 0 and 1 into a DitherTemporalAA to make it look see through. Masked material is cheaper than translucent but using it like that is bad. Masked is usually 0 or 1 so visible or masked out and completely invisible and using that Dither Temp AA can allow you to make softer edges/transitions but it seems they used it just over the while character like that.
Hey man, have you seen what VRising developer just did? They expanded with new items Castlevania Legacy pack which many people got a year ago to support the Developer on 1.0 release. Now instead of milking it in new DLC for celebrating Steam Castlevania days, they just added new stuff to the old DLC, practically upgrading many people for free... Take that Ubisoft ;) That's how you make people return to the game (great btw). Cheers!
I'm glad you addressed the elephant in the room , even when your opinion might not align with the most extreme and negative ones (including mine sometimes) . Honestly whatever streamers and reviewers opinions are on those matter , that's all you can ask , that they don't pretend the issue does not exist , does not matter , and is only in the mind of dumb "phobes".
I stand by this, the companies mentioned in this video can't ruin a good game; but they can exacerbate a bad game. this is because creatives need to know what they are doing before they can take such advice.
Remember that Bandai Namco said a Xenosaga remaster would not be profitable and therefore would not do it. And then they they decided to make this game.
I place more stock in Steam reviews than I do the corporate access media. While the Steam reviews may "review bomb" titles whose sole purpose is to "force behaviour" with their political checkbox messaging, the access media does opposite positive review bombing games which align with their ideology, propping them up.
Let’s put it like this today is October 30. The game came out on October 18 and I literally just saw a trailer for it on TH-cam 10 minutes ago. I had no clue this thing existed was coming out. And now I’m here finding out about it more information about it
Generally company wants to make money, but then there is the odd cases that some companies are alergic to money for some reason during some periods of times... It may seems like an outlier, but I they seems to be poping up more often than before.
IGN gave it a very favorable review, 8/10, so my expectation is that once people hear about it, the game's sales will soar like an Eagle. Cream rises to the top, as they say
On a completely different note. The concept of the game reminded me of another game I played on ps2 I think. But it was a cop in car that could switch with other drivers on the road. I can’t remember the name at all.
I mean it worked for Star Wars to skip to IV - but I mean at least Lucas was gaining a name for himself. I'm not even a big fan/sci-fi guy but I can understand the why people like the original trilogy. Love for the other two trilogies makes me scratch my head though, especially those in the "the prequels are better now because the sequels suck" crowd.
@@utopua4all Plus, Episode IV was pretty stand alone. It had hooks for prequels or sequels, and more background to be filled in, but it was pretty self-contained.
4:34 Video games are art, yes, but this is a game from Bandai Namco, literally one of the biggest publishers in the world, who (except for From Software games), care very little for art, especially with the money troubles they’re in at the moment
Got it with my CPU purchase. So far it’s fine like a fine AA with some interesting elements. The other game was Space Marine 2 so My bar was pretty high
I like to think that I'm fairly tuned into gaming news and releases. I've heard of this game maybe once or twice before now, and I'm not sure, I might be confusing it with that "Clair Obscur: Expedition 33" game.
This game is literally unknown
I heard it called unplayed 9
@@paulconnolly4483thanks, I just sprayed orange juice all over myself. 😂
@@Jfcw-vc9eu oh it's known, but for all the wrong reasons lol
lmao
@@paulconnolly4483 maybe playedBy9
Unknown 9 Ive never even heard of it. Would I need to play 1-8 first
saving ur time dude do not ever play this game if u play this please proceed with precautions for ur brain
Yeah. 1,2,6 are alright. was amazing. 3 and 5 was horrible. And 4 and 8 were amazing. And 7 was a masterpiece
That's what I said about Covid 19. Covid 1 - 18 were no big deal, nobody even heard of them. Why was 19 such a big deal??
@@Random_dud31how dare you, 5 was also amazing. Yes it tried to do something different and it had so many bugs that made it unplayable at launch but that was part if its charm. But of course u wouldnt see its art since ur a fan of the overrated 8 🙄
Before watching "2001 a space odyssey", make sure you watch 1-2000 in the series first.
Kim Belair is like Midas, except instead of gold, everything she touches turns to 💩
shitass instead of midas
Sadim instead of midas
Yes fully earned. No money for racists. She clearly hates white male gamers!
@@ProducerX21 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
New idea for her name Turd Midas 😂😂😂😂
A rough launch? brother it didn't even leave the launch pad 😂
Exploding on the pad could, in fact, be considered "rough."
This rocket might as well be north Korean made
Isn't this the game that was supposed to be Kim Belair's magnum opus? Would explain who the game is for... Her..the game is for her.
You mean female obama ?
@@jsharp9735 lol that's a new one... I suppose I could see why you'd see her that way. However, she's nowhere near as intelligent or charismatic as Obama and pretty sure she's French-Canadian. They're both black and radical progressives though. Lol
Writers ignoring what the overall market desires or wants and just makes it all about them, disrespecting the source material if it's an adaptation, and just taking their project in an entirely politically-motivated direction?
Many such cases!
@@aznhomig oh I know dude...I'm all too aware unfortunately. Kinda wish I was ignorant to everything wrong with the industry at this point. 😮💨
@@EvEnMoR unfortunately its too much in our face these days for us to be ignorant towards it
Based on this and concord, it seems like 200-300 people seem to be the modern audience. The studios are chasing. Makes sense.
Sounds like a great business model 😂👏
Don't forget the dozen or so playing Dustborn.
That’s not accurate. Unknown 9 was given away for free as a bundle with AMD products. The other option was Space Marine 2, so yeah, some unlucky people have made the wrong decision. That’s why there’s this huge drop off in players immediately after launch, even though it was the weekend. It’s because a lot players got it for free so then can just quit without regrets
@@Saimiri1334 Those people are the Unlucky 9 😁😂
I really envy the "modern audience". There's Sooooo many games being made for them, but as a normy, I struggle to find anything I want to play.
It looks so.... Ubisoft in the worst way possible.
Not at all
Yeah, I can see that. Like the devs played a couple of the games and decided to base a game around a couple ideas from them, add a couple of non-descript mind powers and then call it a day.
what is SPI? I tried to google it and see the comments but nobody is mentioning what that term means, I'm not a native English speaker so I got trouble with some english terms
@@MechaMan2012 yup. This game kinda feels and looks like a bootleg Ubisoft. Lets just imagine a universe where there is a company doing shallow, generic Ubisoft stuff even worse then Ubisoft. This might just be it
@@MechaMan2012 Reflector is based in Montreal and majority of employees are ex Ubisoft that describe themselves as "AAA veterans" so yeah thats why lmao. At this point being Ubisoft employee means you got no experience whatsoever after over a decade working on asset flips with same design template, its like they have singular AI tier prompt inside their heads and you just go with it design wise.
The "artifacting" at 3:14 is not a bug actually. It's a shader trick called "dither opacity", which cut out some percentage of pixels of rendering object so it looks "translucent". It allows you to apply opacity on opaque object, without create a transparent shader for it. Which is cheaper and easier for development. Mostly used for LOD switch (like trees, grass).
My theory is the devs want to build the "ghost" effect, but it turn out too expensive performance wise and they don't have the time to optimize it. So they just turn on the dither opacity button and call it a day. The pre-render screenshot and trailer don't have this issue.
It also gets around depth sorting issues when transparency is used. I usually see dithering being used more and more now.
So how does that appy to the grass next to the characters?
Is it just really cheaply made?
@@aBadWizard It might be LOD switch. We want highly-detailed grass only visible while the camera is close enough. So we use dithering to let them "fade in", instead of just insta switch model.
Huh, it's not using the normal ordered dithering pattern for it. Weird.
Huh, it's not using the usual ordered dithering pattern. Weird.
What's even crazier is that most of the few people who actually played it (the Unknown 9 if you will) received the game free with an AMD CPU. At least 3 out of every 4 reviews on steam are from people who got the game for free...and they still hate it.
Lol i got it for free with my 7800x3d cpu and yea once i looked up the game i never bothered to install it. I also got starwars outlaws with my gpu and yea i have about 3 hours in that game and haven't touched it since...
unknown: breakfast
unknown 2: a coffee
unknown 3: working
unknown 4: lunch
unknown 5: working again
unknown 6: off work
unknown 7: dinner
unknown 8: sleeping
Unknown 9: Awakening
Unknown 10:..............
@@thgiLnooM001 10: poofing...
Unknown 10 will be a remake.
Unknown 10 is a Breakfast remake.
Unknown 10: Bankruptcy
@@probablysnot3343 hahahahhahaha
Unknown 9 is the total of people who bought it and enjoyed it.
9 people might have bought it, but I somehow doubt all 9 actually enjoyed it.
no one knows who the 9 are, that's how the legend goes anyway
The mythical modern audiences
That many??😂
@@KevinoftheCosmossomething tells me a few of those are from an Indian computer warehouse
Whats absurd to me is this game was supposed to spawn a series of other games.
They already had sequels and spin-offs planned.
They had names for them in the public sphere already it's all just... Bewildering
Sounds a lot like Concord.
Really i never heard of this game until i hear how it crash and burn
@@MorbidEelyeah pretty much 🤣, they were hoping to expand the IP into multiple different types of media, they even made a whole podcast with it's own story set in the same world. I'm pretty sure they wanted to make some books too
They all just want to make their own Marvel. Which is funny when people grow more and more tired of Marvel.
This game looks like a AA game from 2016 that exists solely as a tax write off to get government grants.
*write
AA? That's being generous 🤣
trust me... is worse. It sounds,move and look like a final grade college project.
This game is really bad. Like 2009 double AA game
That's not upscaling artifacting, that's just another cheaper method of doing transparent materials in Unreal Engine. Instead of using the full transparency shader that has the full grayscale bit depth range, they use masked transparency and then use "dithering" to divide the black/white masking in the cheaper masking shader. That dithering then causes that weird checkerboarding.
So.... the "dithering" made the grass look pixelated and artifact-y? Or was the grass supposed to be transparent as well?
Whatever the case, it looks like dogshit lmao
I’m asking this question out of legitimate curiosity: Why do a lot of recent female protagonist character models in video games all seem to have a pronounced jaw or slight underbite quality? Was there some kind of research that suggests certain facial features are subtly recognized as being “strong” and therefore imbue the character as strong?
I think this trend is fascinating and really want to know the thinking behind it.
No they just want them to look mostly gender less. Because they THINK that is what people want. Even nonbinary people. Basically they want them to be androgenic, neither male or female looking. Only they fail utterly and just make things purely ugly. Even when they have a full face to work on.
To avert the "male gaze" and to desexualize women in media.
I mean 3d artists have no problem modeling male actors face's really well, but women? Hell no.
We gotta make them ugly and unattractive so the male gamers do not sexualize them.
I mean, look at this game. Look at SW Outlaws, look at Concord (lol), Horizon FW, Suicide Squad...I can go on and on.
Yes, masculine facial features 😂
Oh ya. The man jaw is everywhere these days.
some ppl call the Maam Solo "uncanny valley" but i call it ugly...dunno why ppl have to define "uncanny valley" as anything but ugly is still ugly. Man jaw just makes it so obvious...these ppl think woman that do men's job have to become them...🤮 just make women look good while they do their stuff too like bayonetta and its iterations of it. Why is it so hard to make good-looking women.
dont doubt it ive never heard of this
@@rune5416 it's called unknown for a reason
Unknown 9: Awakening
285 Peak Players
74 Currently Playing
Amarillo's Butt Slapper
113,068 Peak Players
16,440 Currently Playing
Thanks I've never heard of the butt slapper game, but I can just add that onto the pile of evidence to a point that I've been making, which is basically; video games are for (primarily straight) men. So make sure your game appeals them in some way. If you're spending $100 million on a game, you're not asking, "how does this game appeal to a primarily straight and male audience", then you are in trouble. Everyone can cope and seethe about that as much as they want, but that's just the reality, and we should be honest about it.
Interesting choice for second game to compare with :D
@@owieczkacs Orc Massage has only 30 current and 1723 peak that works too
check out "my stepmom is a futanari chemist" it most likely dwarfs these combined, it dwarfed starfield even lmao..
I laughed a bit too much at Amarillo’s butt slapper, then l thought it couldn’t possibly be a real game but there it is on Steam😂
Who would of thought huh? I'm pretty sure we all thought this was gonna sell millions of copies right? Right???
Luke at least is partially saying the quiet part out loud now but still undermining the impact these consulting firms have on the industry. Especially with Kim Blair pretty much guaranteeing they're gonna double/triple/quadruple down on everything they're involved with for which I just don't care at this point. It's up to the devs and companies to keep doing business with them whether they wanna keep this charade going like Luke's local theater.
Yep . Luke doesn’t want to say that tho does he
he literally said "I dont mind social messaging or what ever, so long as its a good game"
@@gawkthimm6030 hey!! don’t tell me how to dry my underwear pal.
Bad products after bad products, it should be commonsense now to reject Checkboxing Scoring system entirely. I don't care if the game is good as long as the source is there waiting to erupt, it's already plaguing good games in the form of censorship.
I can't believe the modern audience it's coming out in droves for this game
God bless Wukong and Space Marine 2! If not for them, we would have a pretty grim future ahead.
Chinese products
@@m0-m0597 at this point and time, I don't even care. Western game devs self-cencored themselves so much nowadays, and they tend to ignore consumer wishes. Hell, I wish Saudi Arabia chimed in too.
They buy everything after dragging it through the mud. Soon they own Ubisoft and they're not gonna stop there.
Now that I think about it, all good games this year have been from Eastern devs, with the exception of helldivers 2. Astro Bot and Metaphor Refantazio are also amazing games by Eastern devs
@@bingusdingus39 1/2 helldivers owned by ten
Forspoken 2: The Forspokening
It’s forespokeing time
Wait how did you do the search link in the YT comments?
Rather for*skin since it's the unneeded part.
I want to like your comment, but I don't want to change the 69 next to the thumbs up icon. Yes, I really am the juvenile sometimes.
Well THAT just happened. Again.
9:40 bro just...just say the name, they're not like Voldemort and will curse you to top surgery scars and vitiligo.
Haha!!! Oh man, I wasn't ready for your comment. 😀
I like Luke's moderate way of discussing these things compared to other more political gaming channels. Stays on the safe side but still covers the facts.
@@SuwinTzi I like how he's acknowledging these issues without diving full-on into becoming another outrage TH-camr.
@The8bitbeard refusing to say the names of public figures and devs isn't covering or revealing anything, it's a sad attempt to dance around the real problem so he doesn't lose ties with corporate partners
@@SuwinTzi If you say their name 3 times in a row in a mirror they appear in your house and do the surgery on you without asking.
It was weird on the Steam discussions yesterday, a mod was pinning what should have been obvious bait/jester farming threads for some bizarre reason. It is impossible to know if they are just so out of touch they cant recognise trolling bait threads or if a mod just went rogue and was trying to pin the 'chuds' in a failed attempt to expose them or something. Either way, today all the pins have been removed lol. Really would love to know what was going on there...
4:20 Unknown 9 is an "Important Game" in the sense that it's going to serve as another example of what NOT to do with a game.
Luke... you can't leave a steam review if you don't own the game tho.
>buy
>post review
>refund
@@dr_diddy The review will mention if the owner refunded the game.
Didn't the game come free with the AMD GPU?
@@Bogglemanifyyep, the reviews are great on Steam. Not so much the summary of positive/nefative, but that will always lack context.
You can see which reviews are worth taking seriously. “I love it!” *30 minutes at time of review* *product refunded* obviously not serious. Disregard.
You can also see when something was given free (though that has to be done manually), something is reviewed in early access. I think it also says when it’s redeemed through a key as well. So you know if someone got it for cheap via a humble bundle vs paying whatever it is on Steam as well. That can color your feelings when you get a mid game for basically nothing via those bundles. Compared to someone who paid $60 or something.
Valve gives most of the necessary info for us to weigh the reviews if we choose. People are just lazy and don’t want to read the reviews though
What I love is the steam reviews are literally all "Product received for free" because they got it with a AMD card. NO one actually bought it lol
They must have paid quite a bit on ads for this because for the last 24-48 hours - no exaggeration - I’ve seen at the minimum 10 ads for it.. I thought it was Forespoken 2 or something every time I skipped it
I’ve never heard of it
Steam reviews are great, even if there're a lot of people memeing. You can see for how long they've played at the time of the review, so I pay more attention to people with reasonable playing time.
Looks like most of the people reviewing this game got it for free with an AMD gpu
Buy it., review, refund
AMD got scammed!
The industry has spoken, the modern audience does not exist, political messaging is not fun when it's so in your face, we are tired of being called bigots.
I have the same opinion as Luke said, I dont mind Social or political messaging so long as the game is fun and its well written.
But what the political message in this game
@gawkthimm6030 how many of those games are made with consulting firms
Cause you are you fucking clown
@@revolutionarydragon1123 I haven't seen much outside the horrible dialog. Thing is stranger things and a much different show peaky blinders are phenomenal shows. Some characters are in those shows to push left wing talking points like Tommy's sister and the 🌈 kid in ST. yet both shows are brilliant
Wellp... Luke puts a lot of effort to not to point fingers in this video, another pretty sanitized analysis... Even telling irrelevant personal experiences just to try to create a forced analogy just to not say "pushing political agenda"
how to point at "something" without pointing at "it". Word salad can be just said in a sentence instead of just prolonging it for the video's sake...
I noticed that too
The finger pointing is that the game is just bad in every way. It is just a terrible game.
Here is the thing about these games and also the plays you describe: Even if you have a message that is, in principle, good and valuable, if you lack the skill to pull it off you end up doing more damage to your cause than you are helping. Case in point: Just stop oil.
just stop oil is also funded by people who are more interested in causing political scenes than real messaging or political pragmatic changes
or the play Luke mentioned
What are you talking about? The whole modern audience showed up for it! It's a resounding success!
got it free with my GPU. Will probably play for 15 minutes, fall asleep, try it a second time and uninstall it. Did the same with Starfield.
Starfield is miles better than whatever this is, lets get real.
I got Starfield Free with my CPU. It was worth every penny.
@@Bignuke87It isnt, which is the sad thing
@@AttaMan lmao aint no way, starfield is bad, but this unknown 9 is on whole another realm of bad lmao
Starfield is terrible.
Perhaps they were trying to become the Plan 9 From Outer Space of gaming.
@@07m07 I saw Plan 9 in a theater, probably a midnight showing. The three guys a row on front of us were like MST3K in person. We had a blast. Don’t see anyone enjoying this
Imagine thinking you could create an entire franchice based on this game.
not going well, is a very kind statement for a 5/10 by IGN game
“It doesn’t seem like anyone stopped to ask if who would want to play this?” Good observation Luke. Turns out they didn’t.
“There’s not a lot to talk about this game, so I’m going to talk about something completely different.”
Best review ever.
Her: It was Vincent!.
Also Her, 5 seconds later: Who's Vincent?
That writing skills tho!
Fellow theatre loser here: I initially thought you were talking about Endgame by Samuel Beckett. Then you described something more absurd than the master of Absurdism.
I see the actress from the witcher and my brain immediately turned off.
Seems many players on steam got the game free with an AMD purchase. Like some say they got it free and still want their money back.
Alongside Space Marine 2... They had no chance
"Important" stories fell into the same trap that Christian media did.
When adherence to the message is your only goal, everything else falls by the wayside.
That's such a perfect way of looking at it, these games be it this or dustborn or saints row or any number of others are essentially leftist veggie tales
I'm praying we get an unknown 8 which takes place before the cool powers and all it is, is an interactive video novel 😂
I didn't even know this was released
It's called unknown for a reason
Unknown 9, a game that is literally unknown except for the 9 person who actually bought the game.
This looks like a low sodium assassins creed.
The ads give a very strong Forspoken vibe. Wasn't sure if it was a sequel or at least something that takes place in the same universe.
Forspoken 9: Unknown Outlaw Awakening
Keep forgetting how ridiculously nice your camera is. It has such good picture damn
Unknown 9. 9 being the player count.
The love child of sw outlaws and forspoken😂
I hope the devs learn the "importance" of losing millions, layoffs and studio closures.
I originally saw their beautiful CGI trailer and kept an eye on it over the years. I saw the gameplay videos on TH-cam and took it off my wishlist.
Feels like I'm watching Star Wars Outlaws 2.
3:13 No, that just looks like a dithering effect, usually used as an alternative for transparency effects, to get around transparency depth sorting issues.
Unknown 9 so Unknown we get storytime with Luke instead
Regarding your story about that horrible play, I've notice a lot of artist believe they have more to say than they do. People will unironically talk and essentially say "I have a brand new story to tell, you've never heard of it before: global warming is bad!" I don't mean to belittle artists; I consider myself one with 3D, but I've only noticed that kind of thing with artists.
From how it looks, it's one of those games where the NPC is bent down with a puckered hole asking to be taken down "stealthily".
Was anyone surprised by this? I’m sure even the devs knew this was DOA, just not for the reasons they think.
'remember those blue dancing dudes in that club in starfield ? - it was that bad!' :D brilliant
The checkerboard on that energy is probably (if unreal engine) a masked material with like opacity between 0 and 1 into a DitherTemporalAA to make it look see through. Masked material is cheaper than translucent but using it like that is bad. Masked is usually 0 or 1 so visible or masked out and completely invisible and using that Dither Temp AA can allow you to make softer edges/transitions but it seems they used it just over the while character like that.
I didn’t even know it existed until a few days ago.
Hey man, have you seen what VRising developer just did? They expanded with new items Castlevania Legacy pack which many people got a year ago to support the Developer on 1.0 release. Now instead of milking it in new DLC for celebrating Steam Castlevania days, they just added new stuff to the old DLC, practically upgrading many people for free... Take that Ubisoft ;) That's how you make people return to the game (great btw). Cheers!
I'm glad you addressed the elephant in the room , even when your opinion might not align with the most extreme and negative ones (including mine sometimes) . Honestly whatever streamers and reviewers opinions are on those matter , that's all you can ask , that they don't pretend the issue does not exist , does not matter , and is only in the mind of dumb "phobes".
I stand by this, the companies mentioned in this video can't ruin a good game; but they can exacerbate a bad game. this is because creatives need to know what they are doing before they can take such advice.
An unknown game for a non-existent audience.
Maybe I'm stupid, but I have not heard ANY news of this game dropping.
Same Yennefer actress only they couldn't get her face to look right with all of the available technology.
13:35 perhaps the modern audience doesn’t play video games??
Really cool to hear your a Coloradan! I did musical theater in and went to college in Greeley, had no idea, pretty cool!
Remember that Bandai Namco said a Xenosaga remaster would not be profitable and therefore would not do it. And then they they decided to make this game.
This was by Bandai? Damn
I place more stock in Steam reviews than I do the corporate access media. While the Steam reviews may "review bomb" titles whose sole purpose is to "force behaviour" with their political checkbox messaging, the access media does opposite positive review bombing games which align with their ideology, propping them up.
Him telling theater stories a lot more makes sense now...
I’ve been hit with this advert non stop for the past week on TH-cam, a few times it was back to back ads of this.
Let’s put it like this today is October 30. The game came out on October 18 and I literally just saw a trailer for it on TH-cam 10 minutes ago. I had no clue this thing existed was coming out. And now I’m here finding out about it more information about it
Generally company wants to make money, but then there is the odd cases that some companies are alergic to money for some reason during some periods of times... It may seems like an outlier, but I they seems to be poping up more often than before.
IGN gave it a very favorable review, 8/10, so my expectation is that once people hear about it, the game's sales will soar like an Eagle. Cream rises to the top, as they say
IGN GAVE IT A 5/10.
Steam reviews are the only reviews to trust...there is literally a 'Time Played' right in the review ignore any that haven't played the game.
When she stealth walks... 😅 she looks like Vess from SW: Outlaws.
On a completely different note. The concept of the game reminded me of another game I played on ps2 I think. But it was a cop in car that could switch with other drivers on the road. I can’t remember the name at all.
@@aarsi8339 driver San Francisco. Ps3 game from Ubisoft
@@VladBagrus YES! Thank you 🙏🏽. I have been trying to remember the name for a while now.
It's a bold strategy to start your new game franchise on the 9th one while skipping 1 - 8. Doesn't seem to be working out for them tho.
I mean it worked for Star Wars to skip to IV - but I mean at least Lucas was gaining a name for himself. I'm not even a big fan/sci-fi guy but I can understand the why people like the original trilogy. Love for the other two trilogies makes me scratch my head though, especially those in the "the prequels are better now because the sequels suck" crowd.
@@utopua4all Plus, Episode IV was pretty stand alone. It had hooks for prequels or sequels, and more background to be filled in, but it was pretty self-contained.
4:34 Video games are art, yes, but this is a game from Bandai Namco, literally one of the biggest publishers in the world, who (except for From Software games), care very little for art, especially with the money troubles they’re in at the moment
I had this on my wishlist ‘cuz I was curious and even I had no idea it was already out.
6:08 the monologue - you've been there, too
You making this video is literally the first time I’m hearing about this game and I feel like I’m pretty connected
The Free Market will correct all.
there won't be a free market when private equity eats it
Luke describing that play he was supposed to be in sounds exactly like something kamala Harris said🤣
Where's the modern audiences at
Got it with my CPU purchase. So far it’s fine like a fine AA with some interesting elements. The other game was Space Marine 2 so
My bar was pretty high
That’s probably one of the lowest bars ever lol
Son that bar is on the ground
15:21 is there a full version of this gem?
Maybe unknown 1-8 are better?
I like to think that I'm fairly tuned into gaming news and releases. I've heard of this game maybe once or twice before now, and I'm not sure, I might be confusing it with that "Clair Obscur: Expedition 33" game.
Now we need to work on Microsoft and Bridge.
sir you are aware that sbi's mission is to burn down the gaming industry according to kim belair herself
Literally never heard of this until this video
I typically find steam reviews to be the most honest and telling about a game. If people don’t like it they are gonna tell you
Star Wars Outlaws has finally some competition
I got a key for this game with an AMD Radeon GPU Promotion that also got me Warhammer 40k Space Marine II so I forgot all about Unknown. Until now.
Not going well? Sorta like the Star Wars Outlaws?
More like Concord.