@@UncleFiggyIt's like a Royal Rumble. First Redfall enters the ring. Then Gollum comes in to get the Rumble started. Then the Avatar the Last Airbender game stumbles in. Then Kong comes out of nowhere. THEN the Walking Dead comes out of the bottom of the ring. THEN The Day Before finally makes their grand entrance, jumping from the top rope!
Isn’t that one of the weirdest parts? They knew this was not what was promised. It’s not like this is missing one or two features that can be implemented later, and they are like “ok, but we worked really hard and here is 90% of what we promised.” They knew this was false advertising the whole time. There had to be a reason why they actually made it and made it this way. Pressure from the studio? The public after calling them out in the multitude of lies? They deleted videos on their TH-cam channel the day prior. They knew this would happen and still went with it. It’s just so puzzling they kept doubling down every chance they got, and even one month ago released that nonsense trailer promising to “revolutionize survival games” or whatever other BS they spewed. These guys just cannot and will not admit they lied. This whole thing is so bizarre.
I'm more impressed for how ballsy these people are charging $40 for an early access piece of crap that surely was rushed and made in just a few months when they kept being called out.
Its pretty sad seeing all these terrible games cuz u know these guys just wanna make games at the end of the day and many of them are probably drowning in debt from going to school and the end result being a game like this is pretty sad imo.
It's the beginning of a new era for gaming. First there was DOOM and everything else was a DOOM clone. Now we'll have Gollum-likes which are the ever so increasing pool of hot videogame garbage.
I know The Day Before was IGN's first "1" in like a decade, but it still looks outright good next to Gollum and that Walking Dead game. I guess one explanation could be that people were hoping for another "so bad it's funny", and got the one thing that's genuinely worse: a "so bad it's not even funny".
What makes this whole situation that much more interesting is that they assumed thousands of players would be too stupid to remember any of the marketing. They sold a product that is no where near what was shown in trailers and gameplay.
“Quick! Delete the videos on TH-cam. No one will ever know!” Yeah, so that didn’t work out very well did it? It’s just another baffling decision in a sea of baffling decisions about this game.
nah, they didn't assume that. what they assumed was that people would be stupid enough to buy the game after a year's worth of people trying to stop them knowing it was a scam. they assumed correctly and got a huge pay out after releasing a pile of hot garbage they got a bunch of interns to make for free.
"UE - Survival Game" looks like the name of an asset store kit or framework. Which I wouldn't doubt is the case. And that's not even a huge sin, they're there to help a game get off the ground with basic genre mechanics, but if they couldn't even be bothered to rename the project, I think that shows the exact level of effort that's reflected in the rest of the game.
It's because they started from a template in Unreal Engine and were too lazy to change it. ARK has that too, but instead of UE-Survival Game it says UE-Shooter Game
Yeah I thought about that for a while. Call it the Rusty Lootbox awards, with categories like this: Worst Game of the Year, Worst Game Director, Worst Localization or Adaptation, Worst PC Port, Worst Twitch Streamer, Worst Up and Coming ESports Team or Game Streamer (so like DSP), Worst Character Designs, Worst Monetization, Worst Cashgrab Release, Most Creepy Anti-Cheat/DRM, Worst CEO, Worst Fanbase, Worst Pandering, Most Forgettable (or Worst) Soundtrack, Most Busted Game (That Modders Fixed), Most Busted Game (That Modders Have The Self Respect NOT To Fix), Most Insufferable Character, Most Predatory Executive, Worst VR Game, The r/AdviceAnimals Award for the Most Reddit/Whedonesque Writing, Worst PC Game Client (There's more of those than genders), The Flaming Shit Bag Award for the Biggest Asshole (They deserve one at their doorstep), The Filthy Frank Loose Clock Award (For stuff where it's time to stop), The Cumrag Spandex Award for the Worst Capeshit game, The Fluphenazine Award (For games that subvert expectations a bit too much, the writers need to take their schizophrenia medication), The "Definition of Insanity" Award for the least innovative game. @@bremsberg
No, we don't need to give these games more publicity. Especially anything with a license IP, like Walking Dead and LotR, they just don't care because on preying on kids or parents that doesn't know anything except "oh Timmy love Lord of the Ring, let's buy this game him", they are cash brag.
If you aren't willing to shine a light on bad actors, then expect nothing to change and everything to get worse. Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Simply use the negative energy as a force for a greater good. Demand publicly traded companies to be better beyond surface level ESG virtue signaling. @@aleigor450
The main reason so many were skeptical of this game is due to the track record of this dev company. They have a proven track record of either never finishing games, or else the games they do release are bad and then they abandon them within months.
It really has. In a year with some of the worst games we have also had some of the best games with BG3, Alan Wake 2, Tears of the Kingdom, and Final Fantasy 16
BG3 is the only great game to drop this year. Imo this is one of the worst years ever in gaming. Elden Ring was overrated because of who made it rather than the quality of the game. Lies of P and Jedi Survivor are both just Dark Souls clones, so you'll like them if you like those games, but they're nothing if you don't. Starfield is bland Spiderman 2's story sucks Alan Wake 2 is a cluster fuck
Imagine Capcom charged Resident Evil 3 Remake for 80 bucks and it doesnt have even a large urban city like this game, compared to RE3R this game looks a gift XD
@@pandanation2121 Yeah but Starfield didn't come out *this* half baked. This hasn't even begun baking yet it's literally just dough someone set out in the sun for a day or two, and then proclaimed that it was baked.
Damn this timeline is crazy we've somehow gotten some of the best games of the decade multiple time's a year, year after year & at the same time we've gotten some of the worst games of the decade multiple times a year, year after year this is one hell of a rollercoaster.
EVERY YEAR SINCE 1986 HAS BEEN THIS WAY,. I swear to God half the gamers alone right now are either stupid or just decide to forget things. Games have always been 85% trash from day 1. I was there buying games with my own money, and we didn't even have reliable reviews to go off of. And there were zero returns as well. We have it so much better now it isn't even funny
They need to start being realistic and saying things like “the game gets really good after you can’t refund it anymore and you have to try to find a way to enjoy it now that you’re stuck with it! :)”
They marketed the game themselves, though. Nvidia pulled out of from after whatever conference they had in March. They have no one else with them except the publisher, which is somehow tied to the developer. Be mad at them. They are alone on the island of misfit games right now.
Ubisoft literally has everything you need for this kind of game with the Division and breakpoint. All they would have to do is add zombies. I have no idea why they haven’t realized that they have a gold mine in their hands
It is surprising especially since State of decay 1 and 2 were relatively popular at the same time as the division and Ghost recon came out and Ubisoft usually jumps in on trends
Honestly, even just the division but every area of NYC is an open pvp zone would make me happy. I think the division had such a cool atmosphere with the snowed in city
The way he says "OK It's not bad..." "I'll give them that..." "That could work..." etc just sounds like he is encouraging a toddler. I don't know if it's intentional or not but it's just golden.
I worked at Mytona when the game was still in development and once in a while they would give us showcases to give us insight on the state of the game. The CEO of Mytona was playing it live before hundreds of people and the game was just as broken as it is right now, and that was back in 2020. There was an actual open-world, and you could actually drive the vehicles but when he tried to drive one, the car bugged out and flew away. They had to stop the showcase prematurely just to not embarrass themselves more than they already did.
TheRadBrad is one of the most longing playing gamers I've watched. He's played so many games it's hard to believe THE DAY BEFORE is the first one he's EVER refunded. I think that shows just how trash this game is
I just got done watching his video and even the ever positive, optimistic king Brad himself couldn't find any redeeming qualities apart from a nice looking environment. First game he's ever refunded and he's been around for a very long time. That indeed says all you need to know about how bad it is. I see minor potential, but in its current state, I'm actually shocked it got released.
Woodberry should have its own server. When you step into the open world, that should be a separate server. When it’s all one server you split the player base because some players might be afk in a safe zone.
I don't blame people for being excited after the first trailer but I have zero sympathy for people disappointed Day Before didn't live up to the hype after the avalanche of evidence leading up to release
Those gunshots you hear, they are not from players. They spawn sounds around each player to simulate it. Why don't they show how many people are in a server?
I hate Geoff Keighley for not making a worst game of the year category finally. We could have a banger list this year. Forspoken Redfall Gollum Kong Walking Dead Now this Just absolutely perfect nominates. It would have been a hard and perfectly balanced fight.
This has been one of the best years for gaming we have ever had! Last time we had a year like this was probably 2011, with Skyrim, Batman Arkham City, Portal 2, Minecraft, and Uncharted 3. But this year is special because we got gems like Forespoken, Redfall, Gollum, Rise of Kong, The Walking Dead Destinies, and The Day Before! So glad I could live to see this!
About volunteers, it actually is pretty common for volunteers to work on a game IF and only IF they didn't get anything else or they're trying to build portfolio or something, or just finished college and didn't get anything to work on, so they start working on a project as a volunteer to get experience and hopefully get a better job. But what it isn't common is the way that the game was marketed. It was straight up a lie from the start and that not only hinders the company's reputation but the volunteer devs that worked on it. I feel sad, because I worked on some game projects as a volunteer myself because I didn't had anything to show and the projects were just for like, one or two months. The idea of having a big game made by volunteers is crazy and it is worse with the marketing as well.
One other thing that screamed "unexperienced people" doing this was the error message. The "UE-Survival Game" was probably the name they used for the Unreal Engine Project, not the game itself and they forgot to change it once they had the build to release the game.
But honestly, doesn’t that error tell you everything you need to know? “UE Survival Game” just screams low effort asset flip. Which is what this was. Low effort cash grab in the end.
@@georgen5882 Honestly, the game seemed just like a "Level Design show off" with some generic survival mechanics that looked like people just trying to show off what they could do. It's a $5 game at best, at worst, it needs to be FTP.
Another thing that sucks about all this is that if you were a volunteer, is this even something you'd want on your portfolio? Cause I feel like mentioning that you worked on this game would hurt you more than help you. I guess you could just not disclose the name of the project or who you worked for but I feel most people would ask that question. It honestly just sucks all around for everyone involved. I don't feel bad for whoever was at the helm though, they fully are getting what they deserve, but it still sucks that they made off with so much money from what has basically come to light as a scam.
You gotta give the devs some credit though, everyone expected this game to be just a scam and yet they somehow managed to disappoint most players even despite that.
The UE-Survival Game is most likely the 6 parts learning corse from Tom Looman. From what iv seen its even a feature match. Think you can finish the corse in a weekend or just get the finished version online
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Also most... or all(?) assets are from Marketplace and maybe other places. I mean, the city can be bought from Unreal Engine Marketplace. So they bought all the assets and then probably put most things together from tutorial series (I'm gonna look up the one you mention, I'm curious now). So it's extremely low effort.
As a fellow parent who actually quit TH-cam when I started getting big enough for people to harrass me, here's some coin to get your little boy a gift after all of the bullshit you, he, and the rest of your family have been through. Give him a big hug from BC.
Funny how they gave out early access keys but no one could even play it early. Now its no suprise why, they took the money and ran deleting all original trailers. Im actually shocked it even released, the main city map is a $300 unreal engine asset
The giant PC head slowly rising out of the pavement and then randomly vibrating/bugging out toward you when you shoot it is one of the most terrifying things I've seen in a horror game, ngl.
18:25 "I've never seen that in a game" I did. I had a modded Minecraft world in which a zombie spawned glitched and its miniature spinning zombie became absolutely massive. Since it stops spinning when you go far away from it, I just had a massive zombie in my world for a minute.
UE Survival Game is the name of the Unreal Enginge Survival Base Kit you can buy for creating your own survival game. Also many assets seem to be from the asset store. It seems like they just bought the Suvival Kit, used assets from the store, put in some ambient sounds for good measuring and called it a day..
Luke should do an awards show for worst games of the year. Different genres, craziest bugs. It would be great. If not a bit cruel. Real people work in these games, but someone’s got to be person to hit the breaks
I’m thankful for this disaster because it shows more people to be more careful about the corporate marketing executive priorities in the competitive world of game development
No basic parkour (vault/jump a fence-wall) is just a deal breaker for me in this type of game + No melee in a Z O M B I E S U R V I V A L game + Fantastic record on abandoning projects. I can't see a future where they actually complete the game they promised. I still don't understand why is no legal problems with this kind of practices, insane.
Hmm. A company with a shady history makes a game with shady footage prior to early access. Yes. People should totally buy it. In all seriousness, don't expect a quality product from people with a shady history.
17:45 That error title is because the game is built on asset packs and kits from the unreal engine store and that's just the default error message that comes with the Survival Game one. They didn't bother to modify it
I think we can thank the bigger studies for creating this trend. Games like these follow the same idea as Cyberpunk, Fallout 76, No man sky etc. that it is perfectly acceptable to release a half finished, barely working game and then players just have to accept to wait a few years for them to get them working with lacking features and promises originally made. The biggest difference is that these smaller companies don't have the means to follow through with this way of making games so they just go bankrupt instead.
Yeah I don't believe for a second they went bankrupt for that reason. This is a pump and dump cash grab. Simple as. They have folded the company so they can take the money and avoid any lawsuits. This wasn't to pay off creditors or investors. Investors wouldn't let them scrub the company after four days, especially seeing as sales were strong- especially compared to the average game sale on steam in 2023. It's complete BS
They’ve definitely done a last-minute asset flip to make it look like there’s something there, hence no gameplay loop. A UE kit called Survival game kit V2 has the exact features that make up the core of the game (jigsaw inventory, base building, shooting/animations, multiplayer)
I'd pay a 100 $ for a New Vegas remake any day instead of being bafooned by false advertising. It still baffles me how so many people bought and played this game.
I was jumping around different people streaming the game yesterday, and every time there was an alarm going off. Then I’ve watched a couple of videos and everyone mentions the constant alarms 🤣🤣
I would describe a game like the Walking Dead: Destinies as a so bad it's good kind of game, or a Tommy Wiseau, "the Room" game. The Day Before is not a Tommy Wiseau game.
Zombie open-world MMO is what was promised. Extraction-based looter-shooter was delivered. I love when I buy Red Dead Redemption 2 and get Sonic Adventures.
Can we stop getting asset flip, cookie cutter, shovel ware, multiplayer games? We all know why this game was made. Money. Their dream is the player wallet, and nothing more. Also, at least for me, whenever I get "PUBG" vibes from animations and graphical design I can almost call it out that the game is going to be absolute shit well before the game even drops. I *HAVE BEEN WRONG* before but 80-90% of the time I end up being correct.
It’s honestly so lame that the video game industry does this. A lot of these companies are just scam artists in my opinion and are really no better than the scam callers trying to steal your credit card info and or identity
If they fix the foundations: the amount of zombies, the audio and add a melee system the chance is there... but if in the next 4 months the game doesn't get at least 2 updates it's just going to be removed from steam or be completely abandoned by May of 2024
@@zakanyimen What's weird to me is that there's *way* too much work done here for a cash-grab. Like, there's an obvious amount of genuine effort put in, way more than you'd expect for a scam.
This is not just an asset flip this is a full game flip. The entire core of the game looks to be a survival template from the UE market filled with other market place survival packs. They made the cutscenes but the rest its just a bunch of templates anyone with a little skill set of Unreal, can put together.
That's what I say too: "I'm not very good at most games", especially pvp ones. Good on Luke for being honest. When I tell people this I get this immediate silence then a nervous titter might chime in as if I might be lying, lol. And then we all hit it off in the chat and they go all mentory on me (which is kind of... nice). 🐣
The copium on Steam is mind boggling and it's hilarious just how stupid many people are. The stans are defending the developers saying they didn't do a bait and switch. 😂 It was marketed as a SURVIVAL mmo, no survival elements exist in the game, blatant false advertising.
The gun shots you heard are ambient noise they put gun fire as ambient noise in a game where you'll be fighting other players idk what they were thinking with that
The game was getting thousands to streamers to buy it. Streamers buy it, gamers laugh, content creators like yourself make bank on the videos, they get a million dollars, and start again. Fntastic may not know how to make a game, but they sure know how to play the game.😉
I actually love that this turd is what caps off 2023, one of the greatest years for insanely good games maybe ever lol. Like putting ketchup on perfectly prepared Wagyu steak 😂
@@georgen5882 certain types of steak, if it’s made at home fuck it why not throw some ketchup on that $15 grocery store cut every once in awhile, but if you’re at a steakhouse ordering a $200 wagyu it’s time to get used to what a really good steak taste like.
Hey Luke, Hope you and your family are doing well! Did you get to watch the Game Awards yesterday? I’m glad Baldurs Gate 3 won. And finally, Black Myth: Wukong has a release date!
They haven't put any love or care into this project. They basically slapped something that kind of works in the last months. No way this piece of crap was developed for years.
I'd love to see a class action lawsuit wrecking these scammers financially. Cause they're getting away with millions of dollars and they'll do it again. They'll apologize, re-brand, hype up some new game and again pull some similar scammy sh*t - hell they already apologized BEFORE the game came out... my god, what a dump... [off topic] what keyboard is Luke using? I like the grey/yellow color combo.
I have this feeling that the servers saying it has a high player count is just straight up lies, i've seen two people report the same server as saying high or low at the exact same time. Which explains why when you get into the game it's just empty like there's no one there.
If you like running simulators... you'll love this. Its action packed with leg moving in front of other leg action. You can even run at different paces!!! Watch the tall buildings pass you by in the skyline as you do your favorite thing......Running. I don't understand why they don't charge 80? I might buy 2 copies so I can run on two monitors at once. Mind blown
companies think they can get away with crappy launches because stuff like no mans sky, cyberpunk and probably starfield in the future happened. if it's from a smaller less known studio they're most likely gonna pull an exit scam.
This wasn't their dream game, Fntastic is the poor version of GameMill. Except they got an idea game that had everyone excited and instead of making it they used their popularity to pump other cheap swill which were abandoned weeks later. Their own community tore them apart on their reddit, this game had one chance to shine and prove everyone wrong, but it didn't do that. It turned out worse than everyone thought. This game wouldn't be worth anyones time even as a free game.
It amazes me that anyone would be surprised that this was a rug pull type of game. Or a scam, or whatever you want to call it, considering it was called out a long time ago.
DAMN! The options for worst game of the year are stacked this time!
FR! I can't think of a clear winner because they all are just SO BAD.
I think if we're going to determine the suckiest game of the year based off of popularity and impact, this easily takes the cake
We're in the tale of two cities when it comes to video game years it was the best of times it was the worst of times
This was the biggest red flag i've seen whenever i watched the first stream on this game...
NO MELEE
@@UncleFiggyIt's like a Royal Rumble. First Redfall enters the ring. Then Gollum comes in to get the Rumble started. Then the Avatar the Last Airbender game stumbles in. Then Kong comes out of nowhere. THEN the Walking Dead comes out of the bottom of the ring. THEN The Day Before finally makes their grand entrance, jumping from the top rope!
I'm legit just impressed by the fact they actually released it. We all knew it was gonna be hot garbage but, damn I am surprised it actually came out
Isn’t that one of the weirdest parts? They knew this was not what was promised. It’s not like this is missing one or two features that can be implemented later, and they are like “ok, but we worked really hard and here is 90% of what we promised.” They knew this was false advertising the whole time. There had to be a reason why they actually made it and made it this way. Pressure from the studio? The public after calling them out in the multitude of lies? They deleted videos on their TH-cam channel the day prior. They knew this would happen and still went with it. It’s just so puzzling they kept doubling down every chance they got, and even one month ago released that nonsense trailer promising to “revolutionize survival games” or whatever other BS they spewed. These guys just cannot and will not admit they lied. This whole thing is so bizarre.
Seems like it's a last gasp cash grab
I mean you can't scam someone without a way to actually get their money, so it had to go for sale in some capacity lol
I'm more impressed for how ballsy these people are charging $40 for an early access piece of crap that surely was rushed and made in just a few months when they kept being called out.
Companies gotta pump content out every 2 years regardless of quality or they can expect to be dropped.
If this is their dream game, they should have had better dreams
Their dreams are nightmares to us.
i think they had a nightmare
Its pretty sad seeing all these terrible games cuz u know these guys just wanna make games at the end of the day and many of them are probably drowning in debt from going to school and the end result being a game like this is pretty sad imo.
I almost bought this game last night then this video popped up my feed, I'm glad I didn't, Thank you
@@nickwoodlock5196why do you even want to buy it
The rise of the gollum-like genre has been an amazing ride for all of us
💀💀💀
It's the beginning of a new era for gaming.
First there was DOOM and everything else was a DOOM clone.
Now we'll have Gollum-likes which are the ever so increasing pool of hot videogame garbage.
and games like anthem，forspoken，godfall，redfall are unbelievable.
How can you guys leave Kong out?
One of the best in this genre.
I know The Day Before was IGN's first "1" in like a decade, but it still looks outright good next to Gollum and that Walking Dead game.
I guess one explanation could be that people were hoping for another "so bad it's funny", and got the one thing that's genuinely worse: a "so bad it's not even funny".
What makes this whole situation that much more interesting is that they assumed thousands of players would be too stupid to remember any of the marketing. They sold a product that is no where near what was shown in trailers and gameplay.
“Quick! Delete the videos on TH-cam. No one will ever know!” Yeah, so that didn’t work out very well did it? It’s just another baffling decision in a sea of baffling decisions about this game.
It's in "early access" so no one can really complain. Lol
@@DeffNinja *early access*
nah, they didn't assume that. what they assumed was that people would be stupid enough to buy the game after a year's worth of people trying to stop them knowing it was a scam. they assumed correctly and got a huge pay out after releasing a pile of hot garbage they got a bunch of interns to make for free.
@@DeffNinja Said nobody with functioning brain cells
"UE - Survival Game" looks like the name of an asset store kit or framework. Which I wouldn't doubt is the case. And that's not even a huge sin, they're there to help a game get off the ground with basic genre mechanics, but if they couldn't even be bothered to rename the project, I think that shows the exact level of effort that's reflected in the rest of the game.
It's because they started from a template in Unreal Engine and were too lazy to change it. ARK has that too, but instead of UE-Survival Game it says UE-Shooter Game
Yeah as Tishquid said, its just the name of the executable, a lot of UE Games have it. Not really saying anything.
@@Tishquidthis
@@TishquidI've seen that full screen fatal error message from ARK too many times to count
@@70MCKing Gotta love that tasty spaghetti code
We really need to have a "Worst Game" segment at TGA cause this year has had so many contenders lmao
We need gaming Golden Raspberry awards. That would be a hit.
Yeah I thought about that for a while. Call it the Rusty Lootbox awards, with categories like this:
Worst Game of the Year,
Worst Game Director,
Worst Localization or Adaptation,
Worst PC Port,
Worst Twitch Streamer,
Worst Up and Coming ESports Team or Game Streamer (so like DSP),
Worst Character Designs,
Worst Monetization,
Worst Cashgrab Release,
Most Creepy Anti-Cheat/DRM,
Worst CEO,
Worst Fanbase,
Worst Pandering,
Most Forgettable (or Worst) Soundtrack,
Most Busted Game (That Modders Fixed),
Most Busted Game (That Modders Have The Self Respect NOT To Fix),
Most Insufferable Character,
Most Predatory Executive,
Worst VR Game,
The r/AdviceAnimals Award for the Most Reddit/Whedonesque Writing,
Worst PC Game Client (There's more of those than genders),
The Flaming Shit Bag Award for the Biggest Asshole (They deserve one at their doorstep),
The Filthy Frank Loose Clock Award (For stuff where it's time to stop),
The Cumrag Spandex Award for the Worst Capeshit game,
The Fluphenazine Award (For games that subvert expectations a bit too much, the writers need to take their schizophrenia medication),
The "Definition of Insanity" Award for the least innovative game.
@@bremsberg
@@KingKrouchThis soinds depressingly negative and would be unsupported by anyone in yhe industry, and would get no sponsors.
Come on man, be positive
No, we don't need to give these games more publicity. Especially anything with a license IP, like Walking Dead and LotR, they just don't care because on preying on kids or parents that doesn't know anything except "oh Timmy love Lord of the Ring, let's buy this game him", they are cash brag.
If you aren't willing to shine a light on bad actors, then expect nothing to change and everything to get worse. Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Simply use the negative energy as a force for a greater good. Demand publicly traded companies to be better beyond surface level ESG virtue signaling. @@aleigor450
The main reason so many were skeptical of this game is due to the track record of this dev company. They have a proven track record of either never finishing games, or else the games they do release are bad and then they abandon them within months.
Exactly. And after THAT history they roll out the blowing the lid initial trailer. My first thoughts were - too good to be true. And it seemed right.
Man, 2023 is stacked with the worst games of all time... (& some of the best) truly a wild year for gaming
But also the best
It really has. In a year with some of the worst games we have also had some of the best games with BG3, Alan Wake 2, Tears of the Kingdom, and Final Fantasy 16
which games that came out this year are the best of all time?
@@DAXXXTER balders gate 3
BG3 is the only great game to drop this year. Imo this is one of the worst years ever in gaming.
Elden Ring was overrated because of who made it rather than the quality of the game.
Lies of P and Jedi Survivor are both just Dark Souls clones, so you'll like them if you like those games, but they're nothing if you don't.
Starfield is bland
Spiderman 2's story sucks
Alan Wake 2 is a cluster fuck
The fact that they released it and charged 40 dollars for it is laughable
Based off the amount of Steam reviews, they made nearly $1 million in one day so far off it too.
How much of that was refunded lol
@@boxingfan2796 they better hold that money until all the refunds clear 💀
Imagine Capcom charged Resident Evil 3 Remake for 80 bucks and it doesnt have even a large urban city like this game, compared to RE3R this game looks a gift XD
@@pandanation2121 Yeah but Starfield didn't come out *this* half baked.
This hasn't even begun baking yet it's literally just dough someone set out in the sun for a day or two, and then proclaimed that it was baked.
Damn this timeline is crazy we've somehow gotten some of the best games of the decade multiple time's a year, year after year & at the same time we've gotten some of the worst games of the decade multiple times a year, year after year this is one hell of a rollercoaster.
It's kinda normal I guess... the greater the good games are, the worse the bad games look.
EVERY YEAR SINCE 1986 HAS BEEN THIS WAY,. I swear to God half the gamers alone right now are either stupid or just decide to forget things. Games have always been 85% trash from day 1. I was there buying games with my own money, and we didn't even have reliable reviews to go off of. And there were zero returns as well. We have it so much better now it isn't even funny
@@ricardo_lavrait is normal and always has been
Gaming, in terms of MMOs, has been a wasteland for many years. It won't change, the industry itself is a mess
That's every industry basically
They need to start being realistic and saying things like “the game gets really good after you can’t refund it anymore and you have to try to find a way to enjoy it now that you’re stuck with it! :)”
Time to hold marketers accountable. They can’t keep getting away with this.
i would not even call them makers game is a copy and past its just bones
@@donald925marketers*
They marketed the game themselves, though. Nvidia pulled out of from after whatever conference they had in March. They have no one else with them except the publisher, which is somehow tied to the developer. Be mad at them. They are alone on the island of misfit games right now.
@@donald925 Learn how to read. Nobody said anything about "makers"
You know you can refund yes?
Ubisoft literally has everything you need for this kind of game with the Division and breakpoint. All they would have to do is add zombies. I have no idea why they haven’t realized that they have a gold mine in their hands
You answered your own question. It’s Ubisoft, That’s why it hasn’t happend.
It is surprising especially since State of decay 1 and 2 were relatively popular at the same time as the division and Ghost recon came out and Ubisoft usually jumps in on trends
because they want to follow trends and milk r6(extraction). i said the same thing, ubisoft already have a base they just need to make it happen
Because that would mean Ubisoft needs to actually try.
Honestly, even just the division but every area of NYC is an open pvp zone would make me happy. I think the division had such a cool atmosphere with the snowed in city
The way he says "OK It's not bad..." "I'll give them that..." "That could work..." etc just sounds like he is encouraging a toddler. I don't know if it's intentional or not but it's just golden.
I worked at Mytona when the game was still in development and once in a while they would give us showcases to give us insight on the state of the game. The CEO of Mytona was playing it live before hundreds of people and the game was just as broken as it is right now, and that was back in 2020. There was an actual open-world, and you could actually drive the vehicles but when he tried to drive one, the car bugged out and flew away. They had to stop the showcase prematurely just to not embarrass themselves more than they already did.
Honestly im surprised in the sense i didn't even expect there to be a game, just a png that said "sorry"
TheRadBrad is one of the most longing playing gamers I've watched. He's played so many games it's hard to believe THE DAY BEFORE is the first one he's EVER refunded. I think that shows just how trash this game is
Wow when RadBrad refunds a game, you know it’s bad.
I just got done watching his video and even the ever positive, optimistic king Brad himself couldn't find any redeeming qualities apart from a nice looking environment. First game he's ever refunded and he's been around for a very long time. That indeed says all you need to know about how bad it is. I see minor potential, but in its current state, I'm actually shocked it got released.
It takes a lot for Brad to shit on a game lmao
I saw that. Typical Brad he remained optimistic... until he didn't lol.
Woodberry should have its own server. When you step into the open world, that should be a separate server. When it’s all one server you split the player base because some players might be afk in a safe zone.
I really like how your titles aren’t clickbaity like everyone elses. It kinda makes me wanna see them more, just because they aren’t clickbaittitles.
I don't blame people for being excited after the first trailer but I have zero sympathy for people disappointed Day Before didn't live up to the hype after the avalanche of evidence leading up to release
the hype for this game died like a year ago.
then it rose again a few months ago@@starryeyes5860
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I didnt even know about this game till now tbh
Those gunshots you hear, they are not from players. They spawn sounds around each player to simulate it. Why don't they show how many people are in a server?
I hate Geoff Keighley for not making a worst game of the year category finally.
We could have a banger list this year.
Forspoken
Redfall
Gollum
Kong
Walking Dead
Now this
Just absolutely perfect nominates. It would have been a hard and perfectly balanced fight.
Imagine if you HAVE to play one of these games for five hours, which one would you pick? 😂
This has been one of the best years for gaming we have ever had! Last time we had a year like this was probably 2011, with Skyrim, Batman Arkham City, Portal 2, Minecraft, and Uncharted 3.
But this year is special because we got gems like Forespoken, Redfall, Gollum, Rise of Kong, The Walking Dead Destinies, and The Day Before! So glad I could live to see this!
About volunteers, it actually is pretty common for volunteers to work on a game IF and only IF they didn't get anything else or they're trying to build portfolio or something, or just finished college and didn't get anything to work on, so they start working on a project as a volunteer to get experience and hopefully get a better job.
But what it isn't common is the way that the game was marketed. It was straight up a lie from the start and that not only hinders the company's reputation but the volunteer devs that worked on it.
I feel sad, because I worked on some game projects as a volunteer myself because I didn't had anything to show and the projects were just for like, one or two months. The idea of having a big game made by volunteers is crazy and it is worse with the marketing as well.
One other thing that screamed "unexperienced people" doing this was the error message. The "UE-Survival Game" was probably the name they used for the Unreal Engine Project, not the game itself and they forgot to change it once they had the build to release the game.
But honestly, doesn’t that error tell you everything you need to know? “UE Survival Game” just screams low effort asset flip. Which is what this was. Low effort cash grab in the end.
@@LTNetjak Exactly. Normally these games are free to play, or very low cost. A $40 game like this? Very hard to believe it would come out good.
@@georgen5882 Honestly, the game seemed just like a "Level Design show off" with some generic survival mechanics that looked like people just trying to show off what they could do.
It's a $5 game at best, at worst, it needs to be FTP.
Another thing that sucks about all this is that if you were a volunteer, is this even something you'd want on your portfolio? Cause I feel like mentioning that you worked on this game would hurt you more than help you. I guess you could just not disclose the name of the project or who you worked for but I feel most people would ask that question. It honestly just sucks all around for everyone involved.
I don't feel bad for whoever was at the helm though, they fully are getting what they deserve, but it still sucks that they made off with so much money from what has basically come to light as a scam.
You gotta give the devs some credit though, everyone expected this game to be just a scam and yet they somehow managed to disappoint most players even despite that.
They managed to sneak in one last bad game before the year ends.
"man they are gonna be selling that as a microtransaction within a week."
The game didn't even make it that far lol.
The UE-Survival Game is most likely the 6 parts learning corse from Tom Looman. From what iv seen its even a feature match. Think you can finish the corse in a weekend or just get the finished version online
Also most... or all(?) assets are from Marketplace and maybe other places. I mean, the city can be bought from Unreal Engine Marketplace. So they bought all the assets and then probably put most things together from tutorial series (I'm gonna look up the one you mention, I'm curious now).
So it's extremely low effort.
@ Makes you question what they was doing all this time
@@Okabe_Rintaro sure but even a month if doing nothing and I'd be bored out my mind and make something just out of pure boredom
As a fellow parent who actually quit TH-cam when I started getting big enough for people to harrass me, here's some coin to get your little boy a gift after all of the bullshit you, he, and the rest of your family have been through. Give him a big hug from BC.
Can we take a moment to count how many zombies appeared during his gameplay
16 mins in & I believe I’ve seen.. one. …
If this is their dream game then I don't wanna know what their nightmares look like
DayZ standalone early stage Alpha was a pretty high quality nightmare. Lol.
Dead Matter is the nightmare 😂
I'm all for an entertaining dumpster fire. Bring on the nightmare.
They didn't even build the city, it is literally a map bought in the UE marketplace for 300 USD
Funny how they gave out early access keys but no one could even play it early. Now its no suprise why, they took the money and ran deleting all original trailers. Im actually shocked it even released, the main city map is a $300 unreal engine asset
UE - Survival Game is a preset name (text field, preset) for the initial Game title / Basic parameters dialog box that opens on a New Project.
It's been both the highest of highs and lowest of lows for games this year hasn't it?
The giant PC head slowly rising out of the pavement and then randomly vibrating/bugging out toward you when you shoot it is one of the most terrifying things I've seen in a horror game, ngl.
I mean it cleared the high bar of “actually exists” that a lot of people didn’t think it would clear.
How considerate of them to launch this after TGA so that other games had a chance to get an award this year
18:25 "I've never seen that in a game" I did. I had a modded Minecraft world in which a zombie spawned glitched and its miniature spinning zombie became absolutely massive. Since it stops spinning when you go far away from it, I just had a massive zombie in my world for a minute.
UE Survival Game is the name of the Unreal Enginge Survival Base Kit you can buy for creating your own survival game. Also many assets seem to be from the asset store. It seems like they just bought the Suvival Kit, used assets from the store, put in some ambient sounds for good measuring and called it a day..
Luke should do an awards show for worst games of the year. Different genres, craziest bugs. It would be great. If not a bit cruel. Real people work in these games, but someone’s got to be person to hit the breaks
You know it’s 2023 when you can say well… it does seem like an actual video game and for that to be a positive thing 😂
I’m thankful for this disaster because it shows more people to be more careful about the corporate marketing executive priorities in the competitive world of game development
When the character said "Welcome to Woodbury" i thought it was another Walking Dead game 😅
No basic parkour (vault/jump a fence-wall) is just a deal breaker for me in this type of game + No melee in a Z O M B I E S U R V I V A L game + Fantastic record on abandoning projects. I can't see a future where they actually complete the game they promised. I still don't understand why is no legal problems with this kind of practices, insane.
Hmm. A company with a shady history makes a game with shady footage prior to early access. Yes. People should totally buy it.
In all seriousness, don't expect a quality product from people with a shady history.
17:45 That error title is because the game is built on asset packs and kits from the unreal engine store and that's just the default error message that comes with the Survival Game one. They didn't bother to modify it
Woodberry is a direct steal from the name of a town in the walking dead.
I think we can thank the bigger studies for creating this trend. Games like these follow the same idea as Cyberpunk, Fallout 76, No man sky etc. that it is perfectly acceptable to release a half finished, barely working game and then players just have to accept to wait a few years for them to get them working with lacking features and promises originally made. The biggest difference is that these smaller companies don't have the means to follow through with this way of making games so they just go bankrupt instead.
Yeah I don't believe for a second they went bankrupt for that reason. This is a pump and dump cash grab. Simple as. They have folded the company so they can take the money and avoid any lawsuits. This wasn't to pay off creditors or investors. Investors wouldn't let them scrub the company after four days, especially seeing as sales were strong- especially compared to the average game sale on steam in 2023. It's complete BS
They’ve definitely done a last-minute asset flip to make it look like there’s something there, hence no gameplay loop.
A UE kit called Survival game kit V2 has the exact features that make up the core of the game (jigsaw inventory, base building, shooting/animations, multiplayer)
Me: watching another Luke Stephens video
Reaching the point of the giant disfigured player models: *calling my therapist crying*
This was supposed to be their dream game, it's really giving me sleep paralysis vibes though
And the studio shut down just days after game released. One hell of a history
Luke, the spin on their take of apocalypse is that the virus makes the people disappear🤣🤣🤣
7:22 I havent seen knee walking since Goldeneye 007. Nostalgic!
Angry Joe fell through the floor the absolute first moment he got control of his character.
That really says it all.
I'd pay a 100 $ for a New Vegas remake any day instead of being bafooned by false advertising. It still baffles me how so many people bought and played this game.
I was jumping around different people streaming the game yesterday, and every time there was an alarm going off. Then I’ve watched a couple of videos and everyone mentions the constant alarms 🤣🤣
If Rise Of Kong Skull Island and Gollum are better than this, than this is an abomination lol 😂
I keep getting a heart attack because I keep mistaking the day before yt thumbnails as phantom liberty because he looks like Reed LMAO
I get it now, the game was made THE DAY BEFORE it's release.
I would describe a game like the Walking Dead: Destinies as a so bad it's good kind of game, or a Tommy Wiseau, "the Room" game. The Day Before is not a Tommy Wiseau game.
It's called what it is in the error dialog box because that's what the free tutorial told the unpaid volunteers to write in step 18.
3:16 Your cat was saying "No Dad, don't play that! You won't survive it! I need you to live so you can feed me!"
First time Ive seen your content. I enjoyed bro.
the content for worst games of 2023 is gonna be fun to watch
That opening was new Vegas, it was MGSV, down the the angle the doctor is looking over you, the bright white light and the hospital curtains.
Zombie open-world MMO is what was promised. Extraction-based looter-shooter was delivered. I love when I buy Red Dead Redemption 2 and get Sonic Adventures.
I did not know the developers were volunteers. No WONDER the game is so bad! They weren't paid, why would the put effort into it??
Let's take note on something here. Luke killed literally 1 zombie in a game about a ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE
Can we stop getting asset flip, cookie cutter, shovel ware, multiplayer games? We all know why this game was made. Money. Their dream is the player wallet, and nothing more.
Also, at least for me, whenever I get "PUBG" vibes from animations and graphical design I can almost call it out that the game is going to be absolute shit well before the game even drops. I *HAVE BEEN WRONG* before but 80-90% of the time I end up being correct.
It’s honestly so lame that the video game industry does this. A lot of these companies are just scam artists in my opinion and are really no better than the scam callers trying to steal your credit card info and or identity
If they fix the foundations: the amount of zombies, the audio and add a melee system the chance is there...
but if in the next 4 months the game doesn't get at least 2 updates it's just going to be removed from steam or be completely abandoned by May of 2024
So you are saying if they actually filled/finished the game it might actually be mid
Not going to happen.
So it has no melee ,jesus wept.
@@zakanyimen What's weird to me is that there's *way* too much work done here for a cash-grab. Like, there's an obvious amount of genuine effort put in, way more than you'd expect for a scam.
@@zakanyimen I think you are right filled is the correct word , for it to be at least enjoyable for some time
All i can hope from this is for a high end company to realize what we want and then make it happen for us. The concept here is awesome.
This is not just an asset flip this is a full game flip. The entire core of the game looks to be a survival template from the UE market filled with other market place survival packs. They made the cutscenes but the rest its just a bunch of templates anyone with a little skill set of Unreal, can put together.
"The game gets good after a few hours or after a certain amount of time..." cough cough Starfield
i was waiting for you to review this game 🤣
That's what I say too: "I'm not very good at most games", especially pvp ones. Good on Luke for being honest. When I tell people this I get this immediate silence then a nervous titter might chime in as if I might be lying, lol. And then we all hit it off in the chat and they go all mentory on me (which is kind of... nice). 🐣
The copium on Steam is mind boggling and it's hilarious just how stupid many people are.
The stans are defending the developers saying they didn't do a bait and switch. 😂
It was marketed as a SURVIVAL mmo, no survival elements exist in the game, blatant false advertising.
The gun shots you heard are ambient noise they put gun fire as ambient noise in a game where you'll be fighting other players idk what they were thinking with that
The game was getting thousands to streamers to buy it. Streamers buy it, gamers laugh, content creators like yourself make bank on the videos, they get a million dollars, and start again. Fntastic may not know how to make a game, but they sure know how to play the game.😉
Knew was gonna be garbage kept telling my friend who been waiting for it would be garbage
It kind of makes me appreciate The Div 2. That game sucked me in for months.
18:00 it's called that because they used a premade template and built on top of it and never bothered to change the names
I actually love that this turd is what caps off 2023, one of the greatest years for insanely good games maybe ever lol. Like putting ketchup on perfectly prepared Wagyu steak 😂
Come on man. Nothing sets off the fire of a steak like ketchup. If you don’t put ketchup on steak I dont think I want to talk to you anymore.
@@georgen5882 certain types of steak, if it’s made at home fuck it why not throw some ketchup on that $15 grocery store cut every once in awhile, but if you’re at a steakhouse ordering a $200 wagyu it’s time to get used to what a really good steak taste like.
And now, the whole project and everything is shut down. Couldn't see that coming a year away. XD
Hey Luke,
Hope you and your family are doing well! Did you get to watch the Game Awards yesterday? I’m glad Baldurs Gate 3 won. And finally, Black Myth: Wukong has a release date!
Well shit I need to look at that like right now. I’ve had my eye on Black Myth for a while. Could be fun. But it could be a dud. Hopefully it’s fun.
They haven't put any love or care into this project. They basically slapped something that kind of works in the last months. No way this piece of crap was developed for years.
I'd love to see a class action lawsuit wrecking these scammers financially. Cause they're getting away with millions of dollars and they'll do it again. They'll apologize, re-brand, hype up some new game and again pull some similar scammy sh*t - hell they already apologized BEFORE the game came out... my god, what a dump...
[off topic] what keyboard is Luke using? I like the grey/yellow color combo.
I have this feeling that the servers saying it has a high player count is just straight up lies, i've seen two people report the same server as saying high or low at the exact same time. Which explains why when you get into the game it's just empty like there's no one there.
If you like running simulators... you'll love this. Its action packed with leg moving in front of other leg action. You can even run at different paces!!! Watch the tall buildings pass you by in the skyline as you do your favorite thing......Running. I don't understand why they don't charge 80? I might buy 2 copies so I can run on two monitors at once. Mind blown
companies think they can get away with crappy launches because stuff like no mans sky, cyberpunk and probably starfield in the future happened.
if it's from a smaller less known studio they're most likely gonna pull an exit scam.
Crazy how they chose the date that everybody would be talking about Game Awards to reduce the coverage of their launch...
Who’s here after the studio that made this game just announced it was closing? These people need to be investigated and arrested by the authorities.
The division with zombies needs to happen
This wasn't their dream game, Fntastic is the poor version of GameMill. Except they got an idea game that had everyone excited and instead of making it they used their popularity to pump other cheap swill which were abandoned weeks later. Their own community tore them apart on their reddit, this game had one chance to shine and prove everyone wrong, but it didn't do that. It turned out worse than everyone thought. This game wouldn't be worth anyones time even as a free game.
It amazes me that anyone would be surprised that this was a rug pull type of game. Or a scam, or whatever you want to call it, considering it was called out a long time ago.
If you put all bad games of 2023 into a blender the Result would be: Kingkong, the day befor Golum.
It is an MMO. They've just swapped the word "massive" for "miniscule"