Babylon's Fall Is a TERRIBLE GAME! - Angry Impressions
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Holy shit the weapons floating behind you the whole time is incredibly distracting.
They're following what Nier Automata did I guess
@@JustANyanCat It looks way more intrusive in this game
They have character creator which you can not see. What were they thinking?
Haha yeah, worst design decision I've ever seen.
@@JustANyanCat yeah but weapons in nier look cool,and have textures,also you see just one weapon not a whole weapon rack
Usually you can use an art style to cover up for less than stellar graphics. This is the first time I've seen an art style choice that enhances the lack of graphics
😂
"Good" graphics are not objective in the first place. Art styles don't "cover up" for bad graphics. I know this might seem like nitpicking but the language and perspective we come at this with, I think, matters a lot. You wouldn't call most highly stylized games bad looking.
Honestly look worse than the original Dark Souls 2, a game that is known to be downgrade in terms of graphic
@@Amrylin1337 Graphics can absolutely be good or bad. How a game looks overall can be subjective. The main point is that not every art style needs or benefits from unreal engine over 9000 ultra ray tracing graphics. Games are all about resource allocation. Usually you try and make a smart art direction choice early on based on your budget and priorities.
Elden ring
it killed me when joe unlocked like 3 steam achievements in the tutorial of the game, it feels like the game was saying congrats you’re already 20% finished with the game lmfao
Congratulations, you've obtained your first achievement. No givsies backies on your purchase sale!
this game is literally the "we have elden ring at home" kind of shit
Except its nothing like elden ring at all. Must be one of these dudes who say shit like crash "bandikoot is a souls game"
It looks like they saw how bad the character creator was on the older Dark Souls titles and they thought "pshh, we can do that." Without realizing theres more to those games than a shitty CC
Home made elden ring 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It'd be funny if Platinum deliberately made this game as awful as possible to spite their new CEO. He's the one who wanted to stray from good games and do live services
As if we should be so lucky
Honestly, this is bad though. The studio will soon be history if this keeps up.
I only wish that was the case.
@@Lucaz99 better to die a hero than to live as a villain. If the Platinum name dies, the talent can always make a new studio. Obviously it's not that simple, but it can happen
That, or a very fast change in management
Thats what i was thinking too
I'm not usually a graphics snob but with modern technology, there is at least a benchmark you must reach before charging full price for a game especially if the game is not absolutely great in other areas.
Elden Ring showed beautifully what you can do with rather "low" graphics (like as much as i love Elden Ring the graphics are more fitting for a game releasing in 2015/2016 and not 2022 :P)
@@Y0G0FU The thing with Elden Ring is, the character models look bad. But the world looks so beatiful, specially when you can max the settings on the PC.
Horizon has amazing graphics but it feels like every other open world game full of fetch quests, nothing innovative about it, the ways you can kill the robots is cool but that's it.
Give me Elden RIngs worlds open world idea with Witcher/God of War story quality and I'd never leave. Elden World may have some of the best gameplay but nothing beats my first visits to each area of Witcher, first time in Novigrad, the viking towns of Skellige, etc. I am just waiting for a game to fill both every itch with story, a world that feels more alive (towns, npcs, lots of side content that isn't just combat), and a well designed world with fun gameplay.
@@TheCloudofWar Ah yes The Witcher, weak dialogue, almost non-existant stories and a little bit more effort in the writing department to low effort quests. The masterpiece.
Witcher 3 was just as bad as Cyberpunk is, except Cyberpunk has slightly more toleratable gameplay.
This game has "What Happened?" all over it. I want to find out what was the budget for this game, because if it's anything more than $7, there should be some investigations in SE for money laundering.
Lol "$7". You can't make that kind of genius up.
We are now into PS5 and Xbox Series S/X consoles and keep seeing games released like they came out of the PS3 era. This game in particular looks like it belongs in the PS2 era and I'm not even being hyperbolic. What makes it depressing is this is from one of my favorite studios of all time. I don't know how you make games like Nier Automata, Astral Chain, and Bayonetta 1,2, and 3, and then pump something like this out. Did Platinum really think making live service games would be that easy and could do the bare minimum and create a cash cow? I'm just waiting for the inevitable Square Enix blame game even though they are going all in on this GaaS stuff and NFT's. Publishers/Devs now focus so much on what can make the most money, they have abandoned game design, presentation, and innovation.
The weapons floating on the back is the worst design decision I've seen my whole life.
Which is ironic since nier has the same thing
@@hovsep56 Except you dont have 4 present every single time. They had it right with the reveal trailer from 2019, but that may as well be a whole different game
@@Synkhan it was different in the reveal trailer?
edit: just watched it, big oof. gues they realised it worked in nier so they tried it on this game.
@@hovsep56 Yep, definitely a big oof, dont know what weird exec came along and thought they knew better, cos that certainly looks like what happened.
@@hovsep56 Nier isn't that huge or floating 3 feet off your back.
€69,99 for Babylon's Fall
€59,99 for Elden Ring
Hmm, which one to choose, tough decision, huh?
Dying Light 2 is more worth the money as well 👍🏿
Tough one (Pre-order ER)
The Paragon/Renegade choices are getting tougher
Kingdomkey 22 I feel like both renegade and paragon Shep would buy Elden Ring no doubt.
Elden Ring is worth the money hands down! At least that game is fun!!
You should like totally play through the entire game, I haven't really seen a full on angry review on a bad game for a while
The dude looks like a Lady I love that song from Ms. Doubtfire 16:55
How the mighty have fallen. Wasnt expecting this to happen to Platinum games and if that idiot CEO who wants their games to go more towards live service there is a good chance that the studio will totally disappear in a few years.
they wanna chase the live service trend because thats potential $ but that comes at a cost of their integrity and game design people come to Platinum first for.
That reset when you didn't dodge on cue... instant deal breaker for me. Wtf is this design?
I thought it was an edit error or me accidentaly rewinding the video at first.
mobile game design lmao
It's not just hand holding now.. it's getting chained to the railroaded train.
After playing Elden Ring, this game design is an instant red flag. I mean, I never liked hand holding and restricting the player with bullshit reasons was always a bad thing, but ER is just one of the proofs, it truly isn't needed to treat the player as they have some brain damage.
Literally mobile game design. Who tf on Platinum thought that was a good idea? (and yes, this applies to the entire game lmao)
This game screams rushed development. From the weird chapter thing to the lazy cutscenes. It will be interesting to know the story of what the hell happened here.
What makes is worse is the game must have started developing roughly 2016 or 17 since it was announced with game play in 2018.
Squeenix actually thought they could compete against Elden Ring with a crappy live service discount Dragon's Dogma Online.
@@TheSpongyMallard The early trailers support that. Best guess is that after having their previous live service games tank, Square looked at what was in development and said, "Okay, make it a live service.", forcing the devs to redo a lot of work, and have to rush out something to meet deadlines.
Matt McMuscles is knocking at the door.
@@Two-for-One_half-off Bro, don't do Dragon's Dogma's legacy like that, LOL. That masterpiece's name should be nowhere near this garbage dump
WHERE IS THE NEWS
No news this week?
The worst of 2022 list is starting off strong I see
That part with the crowd cheering for the people on the ship is literally out of a nightmare.
Timestamp?
0:43 - in it almost untextured glory
I literally thought they were yelling in hatred and booing them
@@TheBakingYeast Same...
This is a perfect example of why I don't fall for any sort of pre game hype anymore and pre-order anything. Thanks for keeping it Trill Joe
Amen to that. Ever since I got burned badly by preordering Fallout 76 I never buy a game on release day.
Instead I wait for trusted reviews and actual gameplay footage before buying. It’s saved me so many times since then. I should write a list lol. The only time that I was tempted to break the rules and buy on release day was Cyberpunk 2077.
And oh boy I’m glad I didn’t given I have an old base PS4.
People are forgetting that Tencent is Squenix's business partner/consultant since 2018.
Never forget your history people.
who hyped this?!
The thing I find crazy about this is Platinum games made this, like they have so many good titles such as the bayonetta series, metalgear rising, nier & astral chain but then make this. Did they just give the whole project to one intern?
Did you see the 2019 trailer? The gameplay actually look kinda good,now it's a joke
Really hate the floating weapons.
Its distracting
They made them well in nier automata, they were never distracting but they somehow made them very distracting in this...
@@palawolfy4855 In nier, the weapons are dynamic. Here, they're static and rigid, making it looks like the character is dragging along a weapon cart.
Especially considering the fact that you can already see the weapons... at the bottom left.
Legit this is some blizzard level negligence
@@Silent.Watcher yes! It's moving whenever that onahole is moving. It's with physics instead of static
I'm gonna call it here: This game got rushed out the door by Square in the hopes of generating some quick and dirty revenue before the end of their fiscal year which ends this month.
square is NOTORIOUS for delaying games even before pandemic, so im not sure your theroy flys, they held final fantasy 15 in dev for over 10 years
@@aaronclay4665 grats
@@aaronclay4665 companies change and his theories could be correct because square is still towing the massive loss from Avengers game and they recently revealed that even after good reviews the sales for guardians of the galaxy were pretty low
@@aaronclay4665 This seems to be the exception then.
Jokes on them since that rush did absolutely nothing. Launch day had maybe a thousand players on steam at most.
The fact that the enemies just stand there is awful enough. After playing through the Yakuza series where enemies, not just bosses, even the chumps on the streets block, dodge, parry, etc. (like they should in most games, I just find the combat most memorable in Yakuza & Judgement) makes the combat in this game look incredibly poor
Even the Yakuza Like a Dragon turn based combat, the enemies move around more than this statue enemies lol
I swear I recognise a full fifth of the assets from other Platinum/Squenix games. Windows and fences from Bayonetta, armour from Final Fantasy, at least one animation from The Quiet Man of all things... It's borderline asset flipping.
For the cutscenes, I know exactly what went wrong. They were trying to replicate the cutscenes from Bayonetta, but forgot a few things:
- The Bayonetta cutscenes had both a comic book, and a noir-ish effect to them. These, just feel like someone took what WERE fully animated and motioned cutscenes, and chopped 95% of the motion OUT of them.
- The cutscenes from Bayonetta that were kind of stop-motioned, made sure that you knew who was talking, by often putting them front and center of the screen. Never once was someone talking in that game, and you got a shot of the back of their head or some stupid top-down view of four people so you had to guess who was speaking.....
- The cutscenes from Bayonetta were SHORT!!!! Dear god, just watching these CLIPS is boring for how lifeless and uninteresting they feel. I'd rather watch a video of the team storyboarding this idea, than the idea itself. At least that has a chance to be better shot....
We must pray now for Platinum, Pray that Bayonetta 3 will drag them out of Square’s cesspool.
@@jacobpascale4858 let's hope this game pulls devil may cry 5 instead of whatever the hell with this game is
I mean, similar presentation which have better quality has released in PSP, about TEN YEARS AGO🙄🙄and now they're providing these, WTF🙄🙄
it helped that the Bayonetta was voiced there as well..this style of cutscene and MC just DOES NOT work with choppy stop motion
I get the feeling from joes footage the devs couldn't animate the mouths and so they made these still frames to hide it.
Battlefield fails... Babylon fails... Elden Ring succeeds. It's pretty clear live services are not working anymore, single player games are the way to go!
Elden Ring is like chocolate sex. It's that good. It soon might even be my favorite game of all time.
Multiplayer can still be fun, the older Battlefields and cods were legendary.
Original comment said multiplayer not live service
Wanna see another live server failure look at Avengers. I’ve always hated live servers.
I play Elden ring for the multiplayer pvp so I can’t say it’s completely single player lol you can 100% have multiplayer games succeed
@@cosmickeyboard9811 well multiplayer and live service aren't the same thing. Live service just means the game includes purchasable elements post release. That's why single player games like shadow of war are also considered live service.
I love how each “chapter” is literally just one battle in a street
Finally, a game to rival elden rings greatness! Platinum games has really outdone themselves with this one.
This comment just broke my sarcasm detector…
Hopefully sarcasm. If not, you need to relook at this terrible excuse of a game.
Sarcasm in this is off the charts!
Gotta love how this came out at the same time as Elden Ring :D Couldn't be further apart... and they have the same price tag
Good elden ring can bury this trash
They are going to blame elden ring for why they failed I wouldn’t doubt it 😂😂
But Its still better than Elden ring lol
@@darkprince6543 hahahahaha
@@darkprince6543 you must've bought it 😂😂😂😂😂
Battle Passes always seem to be paired with games that offer the bare minimum in terms of effort by the devs.
Nah it was a trend set by Free to Play Battle Royale games. It is made to retain player's game time forcefully.
@@AzariusR True, but I'm not talking how it originated, I'm talking how it is now. With AAA games.
Stop noticing thingsss
@@TheOnePistol After looking at Halo Infinite, yeah it kinda is.
Whoever did the sound design for this game should be fired immediately. There's _zero_ reason that a game in a medieval setting should have the picking-up-rings sound effect from Sega Saturn era Sonic the f***ing Hedgehog.
I'm a huge fan of Platinum, and usually I find enjoyment even in their most mediocre titles (Legend of Korra comes to mind). But that was before DMC5 and Nier Automata. I now have a certain level of expectation when it comes to action games, especially from a studio like Platinum, and this game took those expectations threw them straight in the bin. Honestly disappointed.
It's games like these, that I wish Total biscuit was still around.
LULW TOTAL BISCUIT WAS TRASH XD
@@96jote One day, the universe will catch up with you.
@@XavierAlexanderr whatever you say "Xavier"
@@96jote watch your mouth, weeb
Who?
Square Enix have been making some extremely bad decisions with their games lately. It's pathetic
They’ve been making bad decisions since FFXlll trilogy cluster fuck,almost burying the franchise,got few good games here and there but overall,anything they have say in turns to shit.
@@italianspiderman5012 but i love my FF13 ☹️
Even ff14 failed at first time. Took a risky and costly hard reset to make it better.
@@phil_zupra_b5880 well,that’s ok,we all have bad takes🙃
@@italianspiderman5012 i have a thing for turds wrapped in gold 🙃
I’ve seen mobile games less linear and less monetized than this game……and that’s saying something knowing how bad mobile games are
The weapons behind your back floating is the worst idea I've ever seen in a video game 😂
I was just thinking about the 10+ developers who looked at the floating weapons and GREEN LIGHTED IT 😞
@@chriso9505 It was probably more like 10 devs saying, "This looks bad, don't do this." And one higher up saying, "It looks great!" Something smells bad at Platinum Games.
Haven't heard of this game until it launched and that tells you even Square Enix wasn't gonna give this game much promotion. Been making 3d models and textures and even I am struggling to see the reason of having these kinds of graphics. The UX needs to be changed and to have your weapons hover with the player causes confusion when combat happens. Not shocked about the microtransactions which could be the only reason Square let this game happen its sad how the studio that made really amazing combat games made this awful of a game.
Same didn’t know it existed till I saw angry joe and yong yea talk about it
They didn’t advertise this shit game at like all
Its not sad
Its a disgrace
The guys behind bayonetta and nier coming up with this
And a playstation exclusive as well?
Wtf Square enix?
@@Mustafa_9628 It's not platinum fault even. Looked up the 2019 gameplay for babylons fall, almost completely different from this. Square made them stop their near finished game and recobble it into a live service multiplayer focused game.
@@NeutralGuyDoubleZero
Debatable
Bc in the last investors call when the company had a power shakeup
The new CEO spoke about 3 things
New ip, babylon’s fall and bayonetta 3
In regards to babylon’s fall… he sounded confident and added that fans will find it new yet compelling to play
He didnt mind its current state or said anything about square interfering in the project
So the takeaway here is: its either platinum living under a rock and not aware of the avengers or anthem
Or square enix didnt realize the full extent of their live service title and babylon was on due schedule so they released it in its whole mess without a delay or bothering to change it up
Hurting not only crystal dynamics
But platinum in its way
So either can be valid
I dont think square gets the blame for this one too
There's 3 different art styles going on at once, and their implementation of all 3 is so bad that it's created a watercolour paintbrush effect, and the textures are not scaling with res in the slightest. To think, you can play Lost Ark entirely for free....tbf it probably did start life as mobile-only game. It'd explain a lot, including the floating weapons, they probably had it so you could swipe to change weapon on the back...on PC / console it is highly strange.
The music in that cut scene sounds like something that would have been playing at that Italian restaurant where Michael Corleone greased the police captain and Sollozzo.
it is funny to me how there is food and drink on the other tables in the french Bistro yet not another person there. Not even a worker behind the bar. This is truly a AAA game
This game is made worse by the realization that you could’ve been playing Elden Ring instead.
Elden ring was just pure hype, the game itself is a 4/10,
The balance is so broken that I beat most bosses on the first/ second try
(Including the 3 last bosses and Melania)
Fromsoft really dropped the ball sadly....
@@Sapphire_Jack nice troll.
@@Skarwind
No troll 100% serious,
Ind dex builds kill bosses in 10 seconds,
Bleed builds in 20 and stunlock the boss,
And faith builds just one hit everything even on NG++
The balance in this game doesn't exist, bosses are too easy and skills/ spells are too over powered
@Sapphire Jack stay in the minority 🤣, u one of the only cry baby's saying the game sucks
@@Sapphire_Jack what fairy tail are you living in my dude, or is it that good shit you're smoking?
Mobile game that costs 60$. I can't believe this was developed by Platinum games. They must've had their F team work on it.
omg... most of those armor pieces are retextures from FFXIV... the gauntlets were the standard craftable gauntlets from A Realm Reborn, the hood was one of the tome sets I think, the jacket with all the pouches was from the dungeon at the end of stormblood...
Holy shit OG Demon Souls has better graphics and gameplay then this shit. SE made this? WTF
This game is from Square Enix and Platinum Games; the same companies that gave us Nier: Automata. So what happened here?
Platinum games quality is inconsistent because they have two teams that work on games simultaneously. And one team has the best talents while the other team the lesser talent. You can guess which team this one made.
problem is that its not FF, after they released FF7 remake in 2020 they have solely been focusing on that property alone, this year were getting like 4-5 games (we got the mobile BR first soldier game, FF origins: paradise lost in like 2 weeks, FF16 in June, and the evercrisis mobile game later this year, the 2nd act to FF7 drops this year as well, and the recently new FF14 expansion). I'm pretty sure Babylon fall was stuck with the C team for development and the new IP Forspoken was delayed 5 months until October this year most likely because that game also currently has a skeleton crew developing it.
Live service harkened
@@MrToren01 platinum games made this game. There is no c team. It’s just a live service game and you know most are given no effort
@@vizuz Like Cyberpunk 2077. Cyberpunk was made by the bad team
I don’t know why but I could tell from the moment I saw it that it would suck. Theres just something about how it looks that made me not trust it
Probably the bad graphics and lack of marketing. Lmao
Seems pretty obvious why but ok.
Square Enix logo?
@@genetea3802 square enix logo isnt usually a give away to a bad game, an EA logo on the other hand tho
@@magnav6797
S-E:
Infinite Undiscovery
Mindjack
The Quiet Man
Left Alive
Driving Emotion Type-S
Musashi Brave Legend
Final Fantasy XIV 1,.0
Balan Wonderland
The Last Remnant
Final Fantasy All the Bravest
That Legacy of Kain third person live service PC shooter
Drakengard 3
Dissidia NT
Front Mission Evolved
Parasite Eve the Third Birthday
Final Fantasy XIII, FF XIII LR
Chocobo Racing GP (which will be F2P though but still)
There's literally signal bars in the upper right hand corner. It's a mobile game.
You know what it kinda reminds me of is that old DnD game called Daggerdale for PC and I think PS2 maybe. That had a similar co-op feature as well but, none of my friends had it so I wasn't able to check it out. I did play through the solo campaign though and this, to me anyway, looks like an updated version of that.
The marketing for this game was/is terrible and literally NO ONE is talking about this. SMH
didnt even know this exist before AJ played it on stream.
It's a piece of garbage that's why
@@kanon951 yeah I can clearly see that
Who is the Dev anyway?
@@blessanabey8386 Platinum games of Bayonetta and Nier Automata fame... Let that sink in.
Based on early trailers, I can only assume that they had a mostly finished engine-level build when SquareEnix told them, "Okay, that's great and all, but we need it to be a 4-player live service, so can you go ahead and add that?" and they had to gut everything, redo it, and push something out as fast as they could before they hit their deadline.
Apparently, it being a live-service game was entirely on Platinum. Heck, they even opened up another smaller branch purely dedicated to making those types of experiences.
Yeah, I saw a clip that was showing off the world of the game and started getting interested, thinking "this looks right up my alley. Until I had the thought, "wait, why am I looking at concept art and not gameplay?". Glad I waited till release to take another look.
@@ldragon2515 Yeah, generally I think Square allows people to make their own mistakes a bit too much. If this was truly a Platinum decision to go Live Service then shame on them.
Platinum is _saying_ that it was always going to be Live Service, but I doubt that it's actually true. Or, even if it is, they may have originally had a different approach in mind. You can look at the game's development and clearly see that they went through drastic changes at some point in development. The sad truth is, they won't tell us if Square meddled late into development, because doing so would burn their bridges with Square, and make everyone else in the industry see them as a company that's willing to throw their business partners under the bus.
@@KefkeWren So wait, hold on. If PG said it was always gonna be live service....your response to that is to say they are lying or somehow being coerced by Square to say that? HAHAHAHHAAH. Come on, your love of PG is blinding you to facts.
Remember Sony's E3 conference from 2006 where they doomed the PS3? $599 US Dollars? Giant Enemy Crab? RIIIIIIDGE RACER!? This literally looks like something that would've been revealed there. Like, it doesn't just look like 2006, it looks like BAD 2006. Like, this would've been laughed at back then.
When I see the graphics it feels like i need glasses.
There seems to be some kind of blurry filter on the game. Maybe its just blurry brown groud textures + youtube compression. But it really feels totally out of focus.
Alex's face at the start says it all.
I think this was meant to be a mobile game that got pushed to be a $60 game.
wtf is that constant beeping? 16:35 - 17:23 I thought it was truck backing up but its the actual in-game sound.
I wanna see a game from platinum similar to skyrim and kingdoms of amular with bayonetta style combat, that'd be cool!
Less than 3 minutes in and I have that feeling I often get when games are bad, the feeling is "you would have to pay me to play it."
And the combat doesn’t even look good! There’s no feedback on your hits! Like there’s no slight slow motion and screen shake to every hit and they wanna dare call this a Hack and Slash?!! Just stick to the good square games like KH and FFVIIR if you want good combat and are not half assed.
Same. They could give it away for free & i wouldnt even waste my free time on this garbage
@@finalboss7956 it’s an insult to JRPGs!…. Still better than last of us 2 though LMAO
@@HupCapNinja fuck LOU 2
I don't care about the dated graphics, but the greedy microtransactions and DRM are enough to turn anyone off...
I mean with these graphics DRM won't affect even decade old laptops
The graphics look like the game is still trying to load the rest of the textures
The sound effect for the bow is the sound Megaliths make when shooting their main cannon in SUPREME COMMANDER 1
The combat system (which matters the most in games like this) so fricking weightless, it's a joke :( I knew the game was going to be at most mediocre when we learned it will live service, but I didn't know it can turn out this bad.
Most mmorpg style games lack reactive combat and enemy feedback, always feel weightless. That's why I hate them.
Well basically every animation was practically lifted from nier automata where you play an android who's strong enough to weightlessly swing every weapon lol
🤣🤣🤣 what a flippin embarrassment!! Some of these companies aren't even pretending to give it a full effort anymore. This is worse than most PS3/360 title graphics
Game didn't even last a year before being delisted
Having those weapons floating in the air just looks plain stupid. I don't think I could get used to that.
This is completely sqaure enix's fault, not platinum games. To clarify, platinum indeed had an amazing action game lined up. But then square basically said "make it more on multiplayer and live service" close to their release window, and they scrapped what they had, and recobbled it together into this Frankenstein monster.
Square hasn't learned jack shit from their experience with avengers. They're still forcing and rushing bad game concepts onto ill fitting studios.
How do you know? Do you have a source on what you're saying?
@@LucyXDD Look up castle superbeast podcast, they have a clip on TH-cam discussing it in more detail. It's also very clear from how the different builds look. In 2019 the game looked completely different almost. Silence for 2 years, then in 2021 sqaure announces its being developed as a live service game and we get this.
There's also a fresh precedent for it. Square has already admitted avengers was a dissapointment and they'll stop putting design concepts onto ill fitting teams, aka live service multiplayer onto studios like crystal dynamics and platinum games.
If you want a fully written professional article breaking down the specific ins and outs like anthems development, you wont be seeing that for a few months at least probably.
Wait, the developer is Platinum? Wtf
@@LucyXDD Compare this gameplay to the very first trailer, the difference is night and day. That, plus knowing how Square Enix operates (calling good selling single player games financial disappointments, pumping out bad GAAS games), and the picture starts to get a little clearer on what happened to this game.
Nah plat games is just garbage now pretty simple.
The game's user score right now on Metacritic is 1.5/10. The critic score isn't much better. Poor Joe, lol. I'd be pissed on spending $5 on this, let alone $60.
What he dosen't tell you about the games he reviews n buys is that he writes them off as a business expense and gets it back at the end of the year cuz this is all he does
@@fnggaming89 I know he makes money from it, but playing shit like this is torturous. Also, feeling like you've been robbed isn't pleasant regardless of how much money you make.
@@forkymental5154 absolutely
@@fnggaming89 so you’re telling he makes money from his job? Who would’ve thought
@@megamask3158 obviously YT revenue Dipstick im talking about he gets his money 60$ back where as we don't
Is it just me, or is the music in the "cutscenes" off key? I can't concentrate on the dialog because I'm distracted by how off the music sounds.
Bruh, anyone notice that most if not all of the enemies have one attack animation. Not only that, you would think the heavy hammer attack would stagger or push them back. What would be the point of doing any different attack or combo. Just spam square or triangle lol
so Square had the Nier Automata team and the engine, and this is what they do with it? this is how they treat the veterans who developed one of their best games ever?
you know what? this is actually a good thing, this is a clear indicator where 99% of Platinum's resources are being focused, good job Platinum, keep working on Bayonetta 3 and screw Square, and you Square, good job to you too, keep up that pace and in a few years you're gonna be Konami 2.0
Agreed
Square really need to get their heads out of their arse and stop wasting talented peoples time
bro..sometimes its not the publisher some times its the development team..........square also has ffxiv and guardians of the galaxy, the only diffrents is the devs..............they make great games, dont blame them for all this shit, plat wanted to make it a live service. this is on plat
@@aaronclay4665 guardians of the galaxy was one of the easiest games I’ve ever played the story was alright but wasn’t groundbreaking at all neither was avengers. And FF14 is it’s own team
People out here defending Platinum games when they themselves said in a recent interview they will focus more on live service game as they believe its the "future" of gaming.
Yoshi P 's literaly carring Square Enix from downfall. Funny note, Babylon's fall copy/paste a lot of animations and armor from ffxiv.
It's not surprising but the only series that is keeping them afloat is Final Fantasy. The game that saved them from bankruptcy.
You are forgetting Kingdom hearts 😅
I remember seeing people talk about the FFXIV armor in the game and I thought it was just a placeholder. Turns out that's not the case. This game is the AAA publisher version of the unity asset flip trash that is at the bottom of the steam store. They just lifted stuff from another game, made it worse, stuffed it full of microtransactions and shoved it out the door. They even downgraded the gear they pulled from XIV so the assets they didn't even make look way worse than their source. Truly dire development.
The little ring noise every time you do something in the menus made me go crazy.. I thought i was hearing things. What the hell is that.
Near the end, Sophia missing like 12 shots as the guy dodges and runs away, then saying "Damn! He got away!" LOL so funny 🤣
24:03 This. Right here. This pistol is an abomination of revolvers.
The entire barrel revolves, with a single hammer, and somehow she doesn't need to rotate the barrel to a new chamber, it just does it automagically (That's apparently a word confirmed by Google) somehow.
Which can reset the hammer by just shooting it.
That. Is without question... the most cursed revolver I have EVER seen.
so I wasn't the only one who thought "what the fuck kinda gun is that"
13 shots from a 7 round revolver wasn't shocking haha
Not to mention she fires 11 shots consecutively...with a six-shot revolver.
What the fuck?
The music for that boss was actually pretty sick...probably the one alright thing about this game
If this was a book, each chapter would just be one paragraph.
That okay shit at 2:00 activated my google assistant lol
I mean still images for cutscenes would be fine, the problem is how low effort they are. If they were some hand painted still images in a storybook style it could look good. The cheap ingame render they went with is bad enough, but they also insisted on addig an effect for movement that looks laggy as if you're playing on a low spec pc that cant handle the graphics. Just removing that effect and replacing it with a page turning in some old book for example would at least make it look palatable.
Thief 1 and 2 had still cutscenes, and it was fine, because narration, sound, composition and pacing were thought about and not just slapped into a boring frame.
The "cutscenes" with that Microsoft Powerpoint transition effect and hilarious motion blur feel like the dev team were patting themselves on the back for being so clever. In reality it legitimately made me feel embarrassed for them. I guess this is what Platinum meant when they said they were moving from "well conceived" games to live service.
This thing is the most recent addition to the Wikipedia article "Video Games Noted For Negative Reception". And for a very good reason! This really does look and play like shit! So thanks to the guys for showing it's shittiness for everyone to see!
the water in runescape literally looks like that
It really, really seems like a mobile game. Was it developed as one and then they decided to switch to consoles late in development? This just seems archaic, passable a decade ago maybe, but very poor fare in 2022...
Im convinced that this game was developed for mobiles
Early trailers look similar to this, but with completely different gameplay. If I had to guess, after having their last Live Service tank while this was still in development, SquareEnix decided to have Platinum change the game into something that they could monetize. Platinum probably had to rebuild the game largely from scratch late into development, and didn't have time to replace the placeholder graphics, design more than basic levels, or put any proper polish on anything other than slapping an "artistic" filter on to try to cover up the graphics, and push it out the door on time.
Does this even need to look more terrible than mobile games?
This definently wouldn't even be passable 10 years ago. It might not have raised as many eyebrows but it still would have been considered shovelware and trashed by critics.
10 years ago you had games like Darksiders 2, which is the closest comparisment I can make, which plays and looks infinitely better than this
from 24:17
You have six barrel revolver that shoots 10 times
There is no animation, just gun hiding flash in frames.
Where's the news at!?
4:10 lmao chapter 2 was just killing that one enemy
Im loving the metal shirts Joe is rocking a lot of lately. I still love hearing the Human Abstract midi. Classic Angry Joe!
Oh damn, I didn't realize he was rocking an Omnium Gatherum shirt! :)
I've seen him also rock a Nile and a Dark Tranquillity t-shirt.
@MetalHead4ever I saw Nile in Detroit about twelve years back and they were soooo good!
Angry joe Wearing metal shirts is a bad ass seal of aprouval
@@jeanfrancoisrondeau6444 haha hell ya!
I hope to god that Platinum Games can get back on their feet with Bayonetta 3 after this because Platinum Games are one of my favourite developers of all time :)
That boss song reminded me of the great mighty poo of conker, I was expecting to come out and start singing too 😂
7:10 Jesus at least put some shadows on the ground, the whole team is levitating in a blurry tavern
Oh yeah, this is definitely a buy for me. Looks amazing. The graphics are gorgeous and those outfits are a 10/10......LOL!! 😆🤣🤣😆
Stay where you are ,i promise we gonna get you some help .
GOTY
Cant believe joe gave this game a bigger showing than what he did for nier replicant
I still don't see a first impressions for elden ring too
Hey what do want from the menu?
Some French cuisine?
I love how the cutscenes look like they're from a F2P visual novel one guy threw together over a weekend.
I had a feeling from the trailers that it wasn't gonna be great. Platinum almost always hits it outta the park and I'd have bought it on name alone but I'm learning that game devs can't be trusted in the covid age.
Except for ID Software
This is the kind of game the developers shitting on Elden Ring make.
angryjoe i wanna bring this to your attention its been bothering me all morning. but with the the gts 5 ps5 and series x upgrade not only is the upgrade path very weird considering its only free the first 3 months only on ps5 and not on the series x also but to unlock story mode for gta 5 u gotta pay almost 11 dollars to unlock the single player portion for the game and if your using a psn gift card since they dont have 15 dollar psn gift cards u have to spend 20 dollars to unlock the single player story mode for gta 5.
Wait, at the beginning isn't that Christopher Moltisanti from the Sopranos?
That specifically looks like Dragon's Dogma creation screen but worse
Somehow the game looks even worse than dragon's dogma
I think a funny skit would be to put this game and dragons dogma on a table and watch the gamer go for the copy of dragons dogma every time
The Ascent had like 12-14 devs working on it and had epic cut scenes.
Latest news is they are shutting down support for this late February 2023. Game couldn't even last a full calendar year.
It blows my mind how SE has one of the most popular live service titles in the world with FFXIV, and yet every other live service they’ve tried they totally blunder with. Makes no sense lol
That's because so far they've let Yoshi P have mostly full reign of 14. Even so much as to let him burn it once and build it from the ground up because even 14 was spiraling down the toilet once. I love 14 but Square Enix scares me. I'm afraid one day they're going to take a game I love and rip it's heart out.