Hello everybody and welcome back to another day of 30 NSG on today’s episode we’re gonna be talking about The Last of Us Studio nutty dog is cutting Developers we’re going to be talking about Bungie seems to be embracing uh generative AI for game development and then we’re also
Going to talk about the review process uh Force gaming did a video over on uh YouTube you guys don’t know Force gaming is very big YouTube I think it’s past a million subscribers now uh but he he brings up some good points and what we’ve been
Saying uh and since we’re a nobody on the Internet it’s nice that someone else is also thinking that actually has some sort of uh following that people can see and how broke the review system is we’re also going to show you the reviews that came out for Forza Motorsports and
Assassin’s Creed uh Mirage uh and yeah we’re gonna show you where Assassin’s Creed Mirage ranks between the other Assassin’s Creeds as well if you like what we do here please make sure you hit that like button uh if you’d like to go above and beyond that hit the Subscribe
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Um for the pictures that we’re talking about but again let me know what you guys think which one do you like better all right so Last of Us Studio naughty dog is cutting developers a PlayStation first party Studio behind Uncharted The Last of Us Part Two is laying off dozens
Of contractors now the video game industry is currently facing a big wave of layoffs and even the contract develop developers at PlayStation’s first party Studio Naughty Dog aren’t immune so Kotaku has learned that the maker of the hits like Uncharted 4 thieves have end The Last of Us Part 2 has begun cutting
Contracts short of a dozen of workers all right now layoff and communicated internally of Santa Monica and california-based Studio last week according to two sources familiar with the situation uh departments ranging from the art uh art to production were impacted but the majority of these laid off uh laid off work quality insurance
Testing the sources said that at least 25 developers were part of the downsizing full-time staff do not appear to have been part of the cuts now naughty dog head count was over 400 as of July so sources tell Kotaku that no um uh surveillance is being off or no
Servant Severance Jesus Severance is being offered for those currently laid off and impacted developers as well as remaining employees are being pressured to keep the news quiet now the contracts won’t be officially terminated until the end of October and they’ll be expected to work through the rest of the month
That’s the worst right that’s the worst when you know you’re being let go but then you have to work you get nothing done it’s like it’s like senioritis you know when you’re like high school and you’re like it’s like the last couple weeks right you’re already done you
Already got accepted to your colleges and stuff you’re just like why am I here just to check off a box so Sony did not immediately respond to the request for comment despite the hit ratings for the recent HBO adaptation for the last of us a multiplayer uh spin-off of a zombie
Shooter based off the first game factions mode was struggling in development Bloomberg reported in June that Sony had diverted resources away from the project following a negative internal review by Bungie uh the recently required live service Powerhouse behind Destiny 2 uh One Source now tells kataku that multiplayer
Game will uh while not completely canceled is basically on ice at this point now the layoffs also come just a few months after the studio code president Evan wall Evan Wells announced his retirement at the end of 2023 after working at naughty dog for 19 years now Neil druckman creative director and the
Lead co-writer on both the most recent Uncharted and The Last of Us games as well as a contributor to the HBO show revealed that he’s restructuring the Studio’s leadership around the same time now Naughty Dog isn’t the only major first party Studio to face layoffs this year the Xbox Studio currently in charge
Of Halo 343 Industries was hit hard by mass layoffs at Microsoft back in January and major gaming companies like Electronic Arts Ubisoft epic games and embracer all have added to the tally of recent weeks and months which many developers are increasingly unnerved by the consistent influx of more bad news
From colleagues and peers so back in April Sony announced that his plans to sell record-breaking 25 million PlayStation 5s in the in the current fiscal year so look it doesn’t matter like insert name here insert Studio here insert number of employees missing this happens regardless if the industry is hurting or
The industry is having its best year ever right gaming right now for gamers or Gamers and for companies uh this is one of the best years ever okay as far as game sales uh hits that are coming out but this is one of the worst years in I think recent recent history of
Video game industry since we’ve been covering it that more and more studios are either being closed people losing their jobs not to say this is a new thing this is just we’ve seen an abnormal amount of Studios being let go and an enormous amount of people uh
Losing their jobs this year in the gaming industry so it’s not a very good year uh for devs this year so what do you guys think of this do you think obviously with the with the factions The Last of Us factions multiplayer That was supposed to be uh
Coming out as a live service game uh since Sony picked up Bungie Bungie basically said no we’re not putting this out you know you you paid us 3.2 billion or 3.3 billion to come into your company you’re giving us to look at this stuff and we don’t think this is going to be
Suffice uh putting it out so they kind of just shelved it right it’s not it’s not um canceled but it’s just kind of delayed or put on the shelf and this happens in Hollywood a lot with movies right movies are being filmed and shot and sometimes they’re just not ready to
Go out into the market yet so they’ll just put it on the Shelf it’s in the can as they say and it’s just put on the Shelf until a later date um so maybe that’s what they’re doing here right they’re like you know what right now let’s just wait let’s not release
Anything until something else comes down the line and maybe that’s why they’re shelving it who knows as far as the layoffs this is the least amount of people that we’ve seen right it says laying off dozens now it’s only I think the last time I saw it was like about 20
24 people 25 people um so again that doesn’t make it better or worse but you know embracers just let off a couple of of a hundred people and then uh who just recently let off 800 oh epic games laid off almost 800 900 people uh in their company as well
That’s what happens in this industry this industry why I compare it to the film industry all the time is because when I went to school going into this industry you know that you’re not going to have a stable paycheck okay you know that you’re going to this industry if you’re going into
Computer animation if you’re going to game design if you’re going to show Pro if you’re going to the film industry this is if your job as as a a student going to school I went to I went to full sale right um and wholesale as soon as you’re done
You get tossed into you get real world experience right when you’re there and you’re already built up to it so for instance when I went to school we were doing 13-hour days okay we were doing 13-month non-stop okay 13 hour days seven days a week right we were they
Were preparing us for what’s going to be in the industry as far as the film goes now as game designers they also do the same thing I don’t know what they do now but they they get you ready for what the industry is what you’re going to be
Working on how long you’re going to be working in the industry like hours per day and then go to class and then do your homework and then it was just this non-stop program back when I was at full sale and this was back in the early 2000s okay
They get us prepared so people in show Pro Show Pro are people that get the concerts ready set up the stages set the lights up do everything for the artist and if they get signed to let’s say uh like a Taylor Swift concert that’s coming up okay and they get the tour
With them that’s like that’s like the Bookoo bucks right there right that’s that’s what you’re looking for and when you’re on that job you’re looking for your next job so when this tour is done of like 50 cities then you have someone next to work with when you’re working in
The game uh development you want to get in your foot on the ground floor and try to work your way up and then you know that hey if I’m working for EA or if I’m working for Ubisoft or I’m working for rare you you get to work that industry
And you have a full-time job until you don’t same with the film industry film industry is your contract workers right like you work on a commercial then you work on a feature film then you work on a on a television show but what the show Pro people are looking for is that long
Consistent a concert that they’re always or a venue that’s constantly always having concerts come in right if you’re working in film you want to work on a sitcom because a sitcom is consistent work throughout the entire time or you want to work for a sports team but not
Like a football team because a football team they only have 16 games and eight of them are played at home you want to work for a basketball team or you want to work for a hockey team and if you can get into a stadium that has a hockey and
Basketball playing in the same stadium you’re constantly working right and when you’re a game developer you’re looking for that long-term deal where you know you’re going to have a job for the next four or five years but even then when it when the game comes to an
End you know well I gotta start looking for another job unless the company has another job already lined up for you they’re like hey you worked your ass off we’re gonna move you up from this project to the next project right this happens all the time this is
What the industry is this is what people so I always look at this and go how are these people surprised that they’re losing their job it’s it’s a doggy dog world man like you have to bust your ass what have you done for me lately okay and what I mean by
That is what job did you work on people want to know what would you work on if someone goes well we worked on last of us I’m like oh okay so that’s a good game okay but if you say you worked on uh redfall people were like oh
Yeah I don’t know about you know right like what have you done it doesn’t matter what your credentials are doesn’t matter anything it’s what have you done for me lately okay let me go to the chat and see what you guys are saying good morning what’s going on behemoth
Uh get rid of the Q a department it all makes sense now the games come out broke the Q a department is probably one of the first things to go in most companies rotating door all the time silent can’t wait for Diablo 4 live stream that’s at two o’clock today right
Behemoth come on D Money been seeing some uh ax gameplay absolutely uh atrocious when you realize there’s levels to this and you can’t appreciate Starfield even though they still mess as well just better though oh AC I was like what’s AC or ax AC gameplay absolutely atrocious okay come on water
Okay what’s going on good morning come on dolphin most of the layouts for Q a though right still a bummer yeah it doesn’t really matter if it’s contract work if you’re a production uh designer if you’re an art Department like there’s lots of people that lose their jobs but they they know
Going into it right it’s almost like you work in the regular business world right you kind of want that salary job more than the hourly job all depending because you know if you have salary no matter if you’re late to work or whatever you’re still making that same
Amount of money right like one week you work 45 hours next week you’ll work 35 but overall you’re still making the same amount of money where that where that person that works day in and day out by the hour they have to put in 40 to 45 just to get it you know
I saw the word says do you think Bungie being the crisis mode themselves affecting the ability to provide resources to q a uh these 10 live service games that Sony is trying to push out I do believe that has something to do with it and we’ll see what the
Quality is right it’s we can speculate now about the live service games but until that until they start coming out you know it’s all hearsay um The Last of Us multiplayer and Star Wars old were public remake in the same situation can get uh put away for a while
I’m actually kind of okay I you know me Jesse I I didn’t want the the Knights of the Old Republic uh Star Wars the Old Republic uh remake I was like just leave it the way it is because they were they were talking about changing like the fundamental story and
Stuff I was like if you’re gonna remake it just keep the same but don’t modernize it for you know the world today game designers are are so specialized now yep new projects or you’re gone right and and as a game designer or game developer what you want is to go from
One game so if you work for EA right like if you’re working for EA Madden right you’re a game designer you know as long as they get rid of people all the time believe me but if you’re working for Madden you know after Madden is the next Madden right that’s that’s like the
Cakewalk job you’re like hey what are we working on after this Madden we’re working on the next Madden what are we working on after the next FIFA we’re working on the next FIFA but will you work on a game you’re like all right well we’re working
On uh abms of uh Immortals of avium what are we doing after this I don’t know we have nothing we gotta wait holding pattern let’s see how this game sells and it didn’t sell and then what happens they let go of half the studio right that’s that’s what happens
Al says I actually enjoy redfall you enjoying something else doesn’t mean the game is I I like [ __ ] games all the time right but redfall fundamentally is a bad game it came out it came out broke buggy unfinished the NPCs so much so they know
It’s so bad that they have to fix it if they were okay with it then they wouldn’t touch it they’d be like no we’re good we’re ready right so it doesn’t matter if you’re enjoying a good game or terrible game right everyone can enjoy what they want but fundamentally
We know redfall is a bad game it’s incomplete it’s broke it’s buggy it’s unfinished it was pushed out the developers didn’t even want to work on it so I’ve worked a lot of different Industries and all the fields have uh have layoffs although Ai and entertainment industry will be
Interesting we have a we have a a next industry uh bungee we have a bungee uh thing talking about they’re they’re going into a adaptive AI I started on the project team in 2016 where Microsoft that is now clear from day uh day one they expected us to
Gather data so they would automate it and then get rid of us yeah isn’t that’s that’s the worst right when you know that you’re going to be replaced by the thing it’s almost back in the daisy it’s like you training somebody and then you know that person once
You’re done training is going to take your job right that that’s exactly what’s happening now they’re like hey I need you to work on this and get this all ready so when you’re done working on this this is going to take over your job I mean Android Diablo 4 hopefully today
They give me a reason to uh to redownload it again I I’m gonna stick with my prediction water I think the game will come back around season four I think season two not enough time they can make changes and do stuff right and here’s the thing about Diablo let’s say
Season two comes around and all of a sudden they make these whopping changes that brings everyone back why couldn’t they do this from the beginning and if they can fix it that fast that should also worry you because that means they choose not to fix it that
Fast you see what I’m saying they have to fix it fast now because it depends on the monetization that they’re missing out on okay and and the player base that’s dwindling right because we might look at it and go well there’s 200 000 people playing consecutively but really what they need
Is 400 000. I’ve been that guy that got trained and took the guy’s job but doggy dog indeed yeah that’s it dolphin there’s one thing that I’ll I will I will tell you from my experience I’m 45 I’ve had a lot of jobs in my life
I’ve had a life a life experiences in my life I’ve met a lot of people and I don’t sugarcoat anything right like people tell you oh yeah it’s great I will tell you the real world and what actually happens in the real world right I’m not blinded and I’m not
And I’m not skewed either right I see the situations that happen and the ways certain things work right I work for EA as a QA tester right I worked for for Madden back in the day I saw how the upper management treated the lower management I saw the people
That like water saying crunch time hours I’ve seen how people walk came in and got spit out right right I’m not an expert at anything right but I know a lot of stuff I’ve seen a lot of stuff I have a lot of friends in the industry that have told
Me stories and said things and these are for major companies I will never I will never say who they are or what companies they work for okay but we’re all worked we all went to school together just because I was in Phil I was in the film program and they were in the
Computer animation or they were in the show Pro or they went to game design we all went to school together it’s almost like being a part of um uh you know a fraternity right it’s like your alma mater where you where you go to a school you went to the trenches of
What that school was and now we all had jobs in the industry we all made it right in my in my class alone okay in my class alone there was 500 people that came in on day one at the end of graduation okay how many
People do you think out of the 500 made it to an actual job in the industry just in film right take a guess out of 500 people after 13 months how many people do you think and technically I’m out of it now because I haven’t been in the industry for for a
Couple of years now right but I had a 20-year career inside the inside the industry how many people do you think made it in the industry out of the 500 people just in my class because they couldn’t cut it they couldn’t cut the hours they couldn’t cut the stress they couldn’t
Cut the travel they couldn’t cut the living by paycheck by paycheck they could they couldn’t cut even just competing with other people that were going for the same job as them Behemoth says 20. Elsa’s 10. if the players hate the day after well the devs will uh will lose their
Job it won’t sell well koki says 76. I like I like the specific number there like it’s not a round number he’s like 76 76. I’ll give I’ll give a couple more seconds contestants just fall out yeah probably less than 20. a lot less than 20. the the answer is six six people
Six people made it to the industry okay one of the guys that I worked with became an editor got a full-time job I think he was there as far as about three years ago he was an editor for NFL films okay an editor for NFL films
I have another person that became an ad and became a very good A.D and worked on lots of big budget uh movies okay Matt basically became because of just Coincidence of how he met certain people uh working on certain jobs okay uh uh myself I got right into an unpaid
Internship with MTV and then I went from MTV into uh reality television that worked into feature films that worked into sporting right no ads assistant director makoki assistant director there’s a first ad and a second ad um those are the people that kind of wrangle everybody keep everything on
Track the first ad keeps everyone on track the second ad helps them and then there’s like production uh lead production assistant and and so on and so forth uh then I had another person in our in our in our went into the art department and went on
To be a art Department person and worked on massive commercials and and continues to do it this morning or this morning good morning Jones uh still to this day still works in the art department and then another person became a uh director photographer right worked his way up
From being a director photographer uh was busting his ass being a gaffer and a you know a grip a gaffer worked all the part of that industry worked in the camera department and then became a director of photographer and then works for major companies now and does commercials and whatnot okay
But six people six people out of 500 right and that’s one class for one month all right so in that school we had every month a new class would come in right and it was a Non-Stop non-stop 13-month program I think now it’s a 24 22 month program
I forget how it is now it’s a lot more money a lot more stuff but back then every month a group of people would come in and halfway through the year you would lose half your people because they couldn’t do it right or they would take a job thinking
Well I don’t need this and then they would join a thing and then they couldn’t cut it and take it off or they spend all their money on something and then couldn’t make it didn’t like to travel didn’t like to do anything I had a close friend who got I got to
Edit videos for uh for baseball team another friend went to school and she works for NFL football team yeah that that’s what you want you want that you want that official job a lot of people come out of school and they work at like Hollywood Video or the movie theater
I can assume a lot of game developers or game designers or programmers that come out of school right they they work for major companies and work for big titles and some of them don’t get to make it they make one game and they’re gone they’re like I don’t I
Don’t like that feeling I don’t like that feeling you have crunch time I don’t like that feeling of being away from my family so no matter what industry it is it always happens and obviously in the gaming world they make these headlines and stuff like like I’m supposed to look at naughty dog
And be like or Playstation be like how dare you how dare you fire people not just the business man that’s just the business you’re you’re known going into that business how the business is so the people that can’t make it or break it in any any any company or any
Business is they’re gonna get let go the weakest link is always going to get let go if you don’t bust your ass and do the best job you’re gonna get let go someone’s going to replace you and that’s why people like doing their own own jobs right they have their own
Businesses because then they can’t get fired right they can’t get fired the only way they get fired is if their business sucks and they’re not providing a good service and then they they go under that’s just the way it is I feel like it’s better to start low on the totem pole
Like a grip or something then work your way up uh to director fresh out of school you might not have the experience needed some people come out and they uh they become director right away right maybe they have an idea maybe they get someone that they know that has money uh
And they put something right people that were at UCF back in the day that made Blair Witch they they maxed out a couple credit cards and got into theaters and it became a hit right uh Kevin Smith you know did a lot of stuff where he put
On credit cards made clerks and it became a hit and then he became and directed a whole bunch of stuff there’s there’s always the the other part of the story but what they don’t tell you is that you know Kevin Smith struggled for a couple years on uh you know uh Quentin
Tarantino worked at you know video stores and worked for decades before he got his his break they don’t tell you any of that stuff right I mean obviously Quentin tier 2 we know but a lot of people don’t tell you that they think it’s like overnight success well you’re absolutely right
Always start at the bottom that way when you get to the top and you tell people below you what to do they respect you because they know where you came from not just handed a silver spoon gaming is similar to movies right you get paid to make the thing and then
Fired once it’s finished yeah and this is why I always make the references uh Jones uh for for people right you’re you’re a contract employee and then this is why I’m against them going to the Union right A lot of people are like oh we’re gonna make it all Union
And we’ll be fine no no you won’t because the companies are against the unions they have to use the unions because of their because of the contracts and stuff they do but as soon as those unions basically go on strike or whatever right now you’re now you’re hurting the other companies so they’ll
Just make independent films they’ll make independent games they’ll work with people that are not in the industry or not part of the unions because they don’t have to right it’s just the way it is that’s how it works bro be the best or you’re replaced that’s it take pride in your work
I guess it’s raw talent first experience too some people are born with Incredible musical Talent others uh can get there over time sure but some people that have the super raw talent never get the break because they’re just not in the wrong place wrong time yeah let me tell you
I’ll tell you a quick story okay so I went to school with a buddy of mine uh he no longer works in the business he only works in it for like three years right I was I was double booked okay I was working on one movie
And then another movie called me up and said hey we would like you to work for us and I said well I already because I’m a person that I don’t once I start something I I want to see it through I don’t care if it was a shitty film or
Whatnot I promise somebody that I would do the job so I’m doing the job then another person called me up and I had a an awesome opportunity to work with something but at the moment I was working on this job and I couldn’t I couldn’t do it
So I called my buddy up who didn’t get his break okay I worked with him on another job he was just a PA for me and I said hey this job’s coming up I can’t take it uh would you like to do it and at first he
Was like nah I don’t I don’t want to I said I think you should take it because you know it’s a good it’s a good opportunity right you want to get your foot in the door he’s like I’ll let you know right and I was about to call
Somebody else and they called me right back and he’s like I’ll take the job and I was like all right I’ll let him know and I’ll give you your contact information so now he took the job and when he took the job he got to work with Jay roach okay those
Of you that don’t know who Jay roach is he’s a very well-known uh person in the industry because as he worked with Jay roach there and JJ Abrams is friends with Jay roach JJ Abrams came onto the set he started bullshitting whatever and then my buddy went from working with Jay Roach
To then working with JJ Abrams on Star Trek and then from that he worked on the other Star Wars movies now regardless if you like those films or not or you think they’re trash or garbage because the guy picked up the phone and because I didn’t take a job now to say
That I would have been on that and I would have met Jay roach and me and Jay roach would have hit it off and then I would have worked with JJ Abrams and then I would have worked on those things that’s here nor there right everyone
Makes their own own path of what they’re doing but he went on to work on major films and then didn’t because he couldn’t cut it right he worked on the first Force awakens and whatnot he didn’t work on the rest of the but because of one thing okay he
Went on to the next thing all because he took a phone call from me because I gave him an opportunity because I had the opportunity of taking that job and then because they they uh thought highly of me and I recommended him then he went on so now he’s representing me
You know what I mean so from that one job they got the next job and then they looked at me for the next job so on and so forth so it’s like right place right time take your chances when you can get them but you got to bust your ass off
Star Trek was at 89 so it was trash yep damn we could have blamed you for the force awakens 30 that’s right but see see the butterfly effect I I had nothing to do with it success equals hard work plus luck plus risk yeah all right next story bungee
Seems to be embracing a generative AI for game development so a recent job listing a budgie pushed towards uh oh and by the way I don’t give a [ __ ] what they’re doing a Bunchy with the other thing they’re doing they’re completely getting torched uh online well we won’t talk about that
So recent job listing Bungie uh pushed towards the AI as Studio continues to hire Engineers to build a powerful AI tool for its Developers I like how they’re I like how they’re they’re marketing that right it continues to hire Engineers to build a powerful AI tools for its developers right
Right to help you be a better developer by AI taking over your jobs Bungie’s renowned video game developer responsible for titles like Destiny and Halo and recently announced Marathon appears to be uh worth hardly embracing the transformation potential of generative AI or gen AI technology whether it’s video game development and
Other uh initiatives now the Revelation comes from a company continues to expand its recent establishment machine learning team last week the destiny developer posted new job ad for a generative AI lead tools engineer on its career website and that has since been taken down related Destiny 2
Um reveals that the new Festival of lost a bunch of ramping up the GI uh generative AI initiative yeah the job description Paints the Vivid picture of the company’s commitment to incorporating gen AI seamlessly into a game development process the chosen candidate will play a pivotal role in
String a team of Engineers responsible for generating a gen AI tools to various workflows and systems now a generative AI lead tool engineer it says at Bungie do you believe in generative Ai and changing the landscape of what’s possible do you Delight in combining models of making perfect prom
Do you enjoy working with people workflows and span all the game developers or game development would you like to work on an awe inspiring world that brings people together collaborating encouraging Industries talent and company that values work life Harmony and the invest of creating an inclusive workplace for everyone
Everyone and every employee as the lead tool engineer Bungie’s Central technology organization you’ll be partnered with in a area of experts and drive development to software that allows tools and systems to interact with the Gen AI models in this role you’ll be collaborative with teams across the all Bungie empowering Studio
Developers and reducing toll uh by giving them the access to power AI tools responsibilities are guide a team of Engineers integrating gen AI tools and workflows and systems collaborating with artists designers engineers and more possible to build solutions that improve their work partner with areas of experts and build production quality code
Be a drive and advisor technical uh decisions making across the studio regarding tools and integration and manage Engineers pivoting support a mentorship construction feedback and career developing coaching okay so do you believe in general of AI it’s changing the landscape of what’s possible do you Delight in combining the
Models of making a perfect prompt do you enjoy working with people and workflows they span the game development so he talks about that senior data science machine learning AI as well okay Bungie is actively seeking a senior data scientist to play pivotal role in a recently established machine learning
Team supporting to direct the machine learning you’ll be entrusted with the responsibility of scoping prototyping and deploying machine learning models that will underpin organization generative AI initiative as a data scientist at Bungie you’ll be leveraged to experience the data analyst data science and engineering to build a machine learning service for the games
And create internal tools and Empower Bungie teams to continue doing what they do best most importantly is your work will be essential in creating an aew inspiring entertainment experience designed to bring people together okay so it’s not entirely clear what kind of AI tools Bungie is working on and which
Uh disciplines will take advantage of these tools but uh but the job posting suggests that they’re mostly focused on analysts and research and marketing it’s possible that Bungie is developing tools for tasks such as script writing similar to ubisoft’s in-house AI Ghostwriter tool and in any case evidence that the
Company is highly interested in Ai and is rapidly expanding the ai’s machine learning teams make sure to follow Destiny outline on their bulletin so there you go so they’re they’re doing this now I watched I don’t know if you guys watched um the Epic the unreal event yesterday
They had a live stream talking about the AI and how they’re building certain things and they have teams with people and now they’re making game development so much easier so like if you want to build rocks and you can make multiple rocks and make the Landscapes easier or
When you put a path down it puts lights on there automatically for you and you can space them out through they’re they’re they’re linked together but they’re not so there’s tools that let the AI help you and make your job easier and then there’s things that basically
It’s going to be learning stuff that they don’t really need you so instead of having 10 people doing the work and getting better they can have one person doing the work and the reason that these this is I’m bringing this up is that we’ve talked about in the past
About developers talking about how AAA games are unsustainable okay not not that they’re unsustainable because um you know there’s just too much work going on no they’re unsustainable because they’re blowing up in in uh expenses right 250 million dollars 300 million dollars Grand Theft Auto 6 is supposed to be
Like over a billion dollars right like they they’ve blown up so much that they’re gonna hit a wall because they won’t make that money back Bill Spencer said the reason that game pass you know they they that big companies that don’t have like what EA or Ubisoft is doing where they made the
EA Plus or they made Ubisoft plus they’re struggling to make a game where EA can take a a risk on a game like uh Immortals of avium where other companies can’t right because Madden pays for all that okay they’ll just close that studio down and they’ll try something else
Where other companies can’t do that those AAA games are just getting blowing out of proportion so how do they how do they lower that cost well they lower that cost by making the people make the tools to make it easier and then firing everybody right you see the do you see
The correlation here of why these companies are you know firing all the people we get the AI tools are coming more and more more prevalent inside the inside the industry right where one person could do the work of 10 people because they have to keep it down sure if you’re if you’re a
Worker and you don’t get fired and let’s say that you make a hundred thousand dollars a year but now you’re working on five people’s jobs they’re like they’ll give you a raise and maybe now you make 125 000 or 150 000. you’re happy because you’re making more money but you’re also
You just took out nine other people’s jobs okay doggy dot world okay so gotta work your ass off you got to make sure that you’re the person that’s doing the job correct over everybody else and the AI is just going to push those people out more and more faster and
Faster because people are teaching the AI the AI is then learning the AI you know the other the other developer here the stats here see your data scientists what do you think the data is for right what do you think the data is for the data is to
Take all that data and bring it in so the AI can learn all the things they were talking about this for Halo right the the NPCs in Halo are learning from what you are doing against them so if you jump around and do all this stuff
The AI sees what it’s doing and learns from what you do and the inputs goes in and goes okay when someone fights me so then because there’s less and less people playing each of these games because there’s so many games out there now that are first party or first-person shooters
They all can’t have millions of people playing them it’s impossible so they have to make it look like there’s millions of people playing it and this is why they’re doing AI technology where the AI is learning what the player is doing and why to stop the cheaters in Call of
Duty they make a hologram of someone and it’s an AI and whatever you’re doing on the other side of the map it’s doing it it’s learning to trick people that this is not a real person but it is a real person but on the other side of the map
To trick the people to find the cheaters then there’s people that the AI is learning over time to become more competitive so it feels like you are going up against someone and you feel like you’re you’re you’re owning somebody right type of thing I just said 125k just to put a number
Out there l ol so it’s good for Bungie good morning guys uh what’s going on kylo what other bungee thing is is going on quick recap uh they put out some sort of um uh Hispanic Heritage Month they put something out there and something about latinx and something else and the
Internet is literally destroying them so much so that they they made a post to for the people’s voices and then they shut down people’s voices when they talk about it on the internet they’re like hiding replies and whatnot you can go look it up and it was something with Destiny’s lore
You’re Gonna Keep my uh my finger uh keep my fingers shut now Bungie is working on with AI to work with the next Destiny game about your channel through reforged gaming finding more interesting I appreciate it I do hope it backfires on them I don’t know I think it’s gonna backfire
Not not specifically on on Bungie and boo I think I think the industry it’s gonna buy it’s gonna backfire on on the industry itself right like I believe that there’s tools that you could use like for instance uh here again I’ll go back to film industry right
When I was a first AC now I’m coming in at the tail end of being a first AC now those of you that don’t know what a first AC is is a focus puller okay a person that when you watch a movie if you see like a rack
Focus something in blur you know movement it’s keeping it there’s no auto focus in film right there’s no auto focus back in the day there was film cameras and there was fixed lenses and those lenses have a certain depth of field for a certain thing and you would
Have to take measurements so if a person walks into a room and they’re 20 feet away from me and they walk right up to the camera and they’re like six inches away I would have to take measurements right I would have to take measurements
We would we would set up and do a a dry run okay so the person comes in they’re doing their lines you put a piece of tape on the ground so you know that that marks 20 feet and then you know at the at the tail end and then in between the
20 feet you would do another marker so it would be like 20 feet 10 feet 5 feet and then zero okay the tail end right and then you would mark it on your on your lens with chalk and then you would go and I would look and Eyeball it by
Just focus pulling okay technology AI made it easier because before there was autofocus right there was a measurement tool that you would stick on the camera now it’s a laser pointer and I wouldn’t have to take measurements anymore okay because now I know that just looking at the thing
That’s next to my eyes next to the lens now it tells me 20 feet 10 feet 5 feet because it’s hitting that the talent and as long as it hits the talent you know where it is and you can keep it in between okay but now filmmaking most filmmakers have their cameras that
They have they have the dslrs that they’re using they have their cell phones that they’re using they have all this technology and the camera does all that for everybody right there’s it adds automatic stabilization makes our jobs easier so it’s less people working on the on the studio now now when you have
A camera operator uh the camera operator is usually the DP the first AC the second AC right and then you just have a PA to run the the disks back and forth for the data right so you save money so because technology advance so much right there’s less
People to do those jobs anymore you don’t need to have a person that does a focus pulling anymore because the computer itself now does it it’s 9 11. about that overnight uh New Zealand uh for Mirage uh loving the first hour uh loving the first couple of hours we’ll talk about
That in a second as far as reviews uh Force gaming did a nice video about what’s wrong with the review process in gaming embu says uh Bungie is hella tone deaf they make a post about the Latin Community about the silent uh silence them and then they make a post saying
That they don’t like uh the layoffs uh they’re hiring someone to create something that will lead to layoffs yeah yeah laughs it’s amazing isn’t it amazing as Latino I find a latinx offensive I don’t know why they do stuff like that I don’t I don’t
The actors will be AI I mean do you see what’s happening now Titan uh Mr Beast had to put a post out I mean he’s not an actor but he had to put a post out because there’s AI that is now basically doing deep fakes of these celebrities uh Tom Hanks is also
Out there uh he has AI like selling something with his likeness okay I mean I’m a nobody but someone could do that for to me as well right AI is taking over if you like it or not in a job that you might not think that
Some AI might take over your job might obviously if you’re a plumber or electrician right there’s tools that help your your job but you still physically have to go there you still physically have to put the pipe on right I don’t think there’s gonna be a robot that comes over that
There might be a robot to do the actual pipe fitting or something but you would have to have a a robot for this a robot for that a robot for this where a person can just do the job right but in in the entertainment field how does the businesses make more money if
The budgets keep getting higher and higher how do they make more money they can’t they’re they’re at a saturation point right they have to break a billion dollars now where a movie before would only have to make 100 million and they would make tons and tons of cash games
Didn’t have to sell 30 million copies they only had to sell a million copies right now it’s completely different hmm Robert Jones says not to get into it but I love I love not to get into it but I’m going to and I’m going to read it so not
To get into it but the whites didn’t pick people of color the Hispanics didn’t pick latinx right I used the AI the other day to apologize to my wife yeah it’s it’s it’s it’s it’s weird man it’s weird all I all I have to say is
Don’t fall for it that’s all I’ll say don’t don’t fall for it what’s going on MO like wherever you grew up and all the people you hang out with and what you see with your own eyes every single day as you got to where you are today and what people are saying now
You know something doesn’t add up right so just just stay wary reminds me of uh South Park kids using AI to talk to girls it’s crazy I mean did you see the um the thing we showed last week when uh Snoop Dogg Snoop Dogg is now an AI that does D and D
On The Meta Quest on meta Quest 3 right like think about that people people are smart they’re like they want to make money Snoop Dogg licensed his you know licensed himself to be an AI and now because the computer knows who Snoop Dogg is and knows what his voice is
Regardless once Snoop Dogg is no longer with us Snoop Dogg lives on because of the technology that he that he has and he gave up his likeness yeah can you imagine kylo like you could just take a photo of your math homework okay insert it the picture and say solve this picture
And the AI will then do your homework for you that’s that’s insane right we’re we’re educating a bunch of morons right they think they’re outsmarting them but they’re becoming Dumber because of Technology I mean obviously I’m not against technology I’m surrounded by technology technology makes my life easier I can stream on the
Internet right I have I I have camera changes and and all the stuff that’s happened to make it easier for me exactly Serge exactly my goal is to educate my son so when he gets older he will be the leader of a bunch of morons because he will still be smart he will
Still learn he will still be 10 times smarter than everybody else and everybody else will just follow like sheep because they won’t know anything it’s not about having Tech it’s about how you use it that’s what she said I just saw someone streaming uh AC Mirage I’ll stick with uh with bahala it
Definitely took a step far far back in graphics and gameplay wise oh really let’s go on to the next story if you guys like what we do here we do this Monday through Thursday 10 o’clock in the morning to about noon Eastern this is what we do
We read the news we have conversations um and chat is 100 part of the of the show and I do appreciate you guys coming out and then hanging out with us all right so leading up to the video all right let’s talk about reviews we’ve been saying for years
The review process is broke now all the other YouTubers out there are now saying this the same thing I’m a nobody I’m a nobody on the internet I’m a minuscule I’m a pimple on a pimple’s ass on the internet right I’ve been saying for years that the
Review score is [ __ ] it’s garbage okay it doesn’t really matter okay but it is what it is and here’s here’s how it is so right now what was the Motorsports four out of five four out of five not a ten out of 10 9.5 out of ten nine nine
Nine eight eight eight eight eight eighty three overall uh open uh open critic and Metacritic 83. okay sorry all right then we have Assassin’s Creed uh Mirage okay nine eight point five eight point five eight eight eight seven point five seven seven seven six four out of five
Four out of five four out of five Metacritic 77 open critic 76. now where does where does that take place uh amongst the other Assassin’s Creeds okay Paul Tassie uh in his article right put it up here it says how does it stack up to the grand scheme of Assassin’s Creed
Series here’s a list of the highest scoring platform chosen for each okay the highest one Assassin’s Creed 2 is 90 Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood which is my favorite uh it was 89 then you have Black Flag 88 Assassin’s Creed 384 Assassin’s Creed Odyssey 83 Assassin’s Creed 81 the original uh Origins 81 Revelations
80. Valhalla 80 Assassin’s Creed Mirage 77 Syndicate 76 Rogue 72 and unity 72. so it falls below average of where it’s you know where it would be they say they went back to the basics and whatnot I haven’t seen gameplay or anything I haven’t watched an actual review myself
I’m not interested in Assassin’s Creed I said you know it I am glad that it’s going back to the basics but now you’re saying like the basics uh the graphics and stuff look bad 83 that’s right Rose trash game trash game anything in the 80s now guys
The the internet right but can we can we just say that a game that comes out there’s trash games all the time that come out on Steam okay what a game that comes out in the 70s and 80s let’s let’s can I be honest with you no game that the main media reviews
Is going to be below a 70 really right it’s got to be really bad right like a like a red fall right but 90 of the games that come out 95 of the games that come out are never going to be below a 70. they’re not okay so let’s go to
Let’s go to force gaming I like force gaming right this is you know in my opinion I think he’s pretty fair right obviously he’s gonna play games that he likes uh he’s gonna review games that he likes uh but I like the way he breaks down I like the way ACG breaks down
Games I like the way his skill up breaks game breaks games down okay they kind of tell you you know is it worth your time you know should you do they recommend it they don’t really put a score to it because the score system is a broke
System okay so as we watch this the link is in the description down below um real quick I’ll give it a thumbs up already because I already know I’m gonna like it uh make sure you go down go to force gaming not that he needs my help because I’m a
Nobody like I said and he’s got 991 000 subscribers uh so he knows what he’s doing I think he knows what he’s doing but I like what he has to say about a lot of stuff so he made a video about the problem with game reviews we’re gonna watch it
Um and then we’re gonna stop and pause and talk about it as he as he goes right I did hold on one second game review every time a big new release rolls around I am once again reminded game reviews have some major problems problem number one most reviews are rushed in a
Majority of cases review codes are sent to less than a week prior to release on many occasions in fact I’ve ever seen oh and by the way I have it running at 1.25 if it’s a little too fast most of you probably wouldn’t even have noticed but
1.25 because it’s 20 minutes long we’re gonna stop in here so I don’t want to take it I don’t want to take it’s going to take three times as long you know what I mean Steve Coates with only like two or three days left before and that’s not mathematically correct though but
You know what I’m saying like if I had it at regular speed at 20 minutes and me stopping and pausing it’s gonna take a long a lot a lot longer Fargo two to three days to play through a game write record and edit a review yeah it’s less
Than ideal to say the least even with a full week you basically have to speedrun through a game if you are looking to have anywhere near an all-encompassing review I mean ideally I personally want at least like 30 to 50 hours before I feel confident enough that I can talk
About all of the important aspects okay so that’s very important what he just said right he said that they get like three days for most most review process which is no not even close to having enough time to review a game properly right this is not specific
Because I know people are going to bring up like Star field or whatnot right this is not specific to Starfield this is specific to just games in general okay where they don’t have enough time if it’s a normal game that takes 10 hours and then 20 hours or 30 hours that’s
Going to take them a long time to review a process okay meaning if they get the game if they get the game three days before the Embargo lifts and they have to play it like he says you know they got to play the game right so if they beat the game
They just beat the game then if there’s other things part of the game if there’s side missions extra things to do in the game then they have to also do that as well but they can’t do it all especially if they don’t have enough time because that’s that’s if it’s three days early
They gotta play the game then they’re gonna write the review then they gotta edit the review they gotta go through that footage if they recorded all 30 hours of that footage and they have to break down that footage and then edit that footage and then write the you know what their piece
Is right it’s it’s not like oh they played the game and then put see I don’t review games and when I do play a game I go all in I play it for hundreds of hours and then when someone comes into my stream they’re like hey what do you think about
The game I’m like oh this is what I like this is what I don’t like you know if you’re like this type of stuff maybe you’ll like this right I don’t give numbers because I think it’s all [ __ ] limits to a game let’s say I
Get a review code and it’s a full week seven days prior to the Embargo lifting in this kind of a scenario my schedule would look something along these lines I’d spend four to five days playing through the game so let’s say I sit down and play for 12 hours a day that would
Be at Max 48 to 60 hours and when we’re talking about doing a review for an open world game or an RPG or a live service game like forget about it dude that’s barely enough time to run through the main story with some side stuff and it
Is exactly right so if you’re playing an open world game right where 30 hours that’s nothing right now we can make a specific thing of like Starfield everyone’s like oh well I went through the story so that’s that’s good enough I can tell you what but it’s not it’s not enough
Certain games need more time than other games is definitely not enough time to do and see everything in the game okay so days one through five that’s me playing 12 hours a day from 8 AM to 8 P.M 60 hours in total and then you just better hope
That that is enough time to make a really informed in-depth review come day six it’s time for me to sit down and actually process my experience like think about the game rehash all of the systems and mechanics and then write down all of my thoughts in a single day
And then sit in front of the camera and record what I wrote out about it and then day seven happens and it’s time to edit the review now this is typically gonna take between 8 to 10 hours minimum I mean especially if we’re talking about like working with 40 plus hours of
Gameplay foot right there you go right so he’s saying like it’s it’s not plausible to do that so now when you look at the reviews of stuff right you look at you look at companies like IGN or you know kataku or whatever pick your right there’s a lot of process that goes
In and then on top of that they have to get their stuff out because now they’re they’re in the the running of a marathon of who can get it out first to get the clicks first right whoever gets that whoever gets that first is gonna get more clicks than everybody else
Just because people are hungry to know the information dolphin says but why is this just coming up now reviews have been like this for years I don’t think this is coming up now uh dolphin I could talk about something here for like 20 minutes and then someone comes into the stream for
The first time it’s like what are you talking about right just because someone was talking about it in this day and age doesn’t mean everyone’s paying attention at that moment when people are talking about it that makes sense footage going through all of that searching for examples of everything you
Were talking about 12 plus hour edits are not that uncommon for that very reason it’s just a lot of stuff to parse through now my point here isn’t to complain about this process no it’s simply to Showcase that yes even with having an entire week with a game before
It releases even that much time can result in a review that is pretty rushed out just due to the sheer amount of time you really need a full week in many cases barely cuts it but again having a full week that’s pretty rare in my experience I would say in most cases by
The time you get a review code you’re looking at four to five days somewhere in that ballpark but sometimes like I mentioned I’ve had even less I’ve had like two or three days with the code before the Embargo lifts so for all of these reasons most launch Day reviews
Could more accurately be described as first impressions because the pre-release review process simply does not allow enough time for reviewers to fully think through and digest a game there is no opportunity you’re playing the game non-stop then having to immediately form an opinion you don’t really get the time to steep in and
Really thoroughly think right right like you ever watch a movie or watch a movie and then you like watch the movie and then when you’re done watching the movie you have your initial thoughts you’re like I liked it I liked it I loved it I thought it was great and
Then all of a sudden you start having a little thought process you’re like that didn’t that didn’t really make sense there why do they do that right then you start to you know Brew on on what the movie was then all of a sudden someone else you
Watched it with someone what’d you think and they’re like well I thought it was good because of this and they make it a good point or something that you didn’t think of and then all of a sudden you’re like oh that’s that’s a good point I didn’t see it from that perspective
Right it completely changes what you thought the initial thoughts were of that movie of that show of that game of that book things through the game and even for people not attempting to hit embargo a lot of times there’s a pressure to get out the content while it is still
Relevant even people who get the game on launch day they will be rushing through their play experience and then rushing to finalize their thoughts just to post it when it’s still relevant that’s another thing right so let’s say let’s say some reviewer okay let’s say some reviewer gets a game
They want to be the first one out they go through we’ll take a a game like cyberpunk Star field uh anything that has RPG elements where they’re just they’re smashing through they’re like oh it’s too much dialogue there’s just too much dialogue they just keep smashing
The a button or the x button to get through all the stuff right and then at the end of the day they finish the game they’re like up finished it in eight hours went fantastic right you finished it in eight hours but you didn’t actually play
The game you played the game but you didn’t play the game right and they just rushed through all of it and then they they make an opinion on it they’re like well the dialogue options were just a little uh they didn’t really give a [ __ ] because they just kept pushing the
Button people that play Diablo don’t care about the story they just keep pushing the button right and they just go through the story the story was okay blah blah blah right and that’s just the way some people are because they have to get the review out they have to get it
Out because they can’t get those clicks they gotta get those things because once it’s gone it’s gone that’s only the first problem problem number two is that reviews are done in a bubble most reviewers first of all will only play through the game on a single system whether that’s a particular console or
Whatever PC they happen to have and there’s never enough time as we just mentioned to do multiple full playthroughs like forget about it that is people playing on PC more times than not if it’s if it’s on PC and console to play it on PC because it’s a better it’s a better experience
For quality but at the same time now they they do a review for PC but then you don’t know if there’s problems with the you know the version that you have especially when companies they try to hide their lower system I’m looking at you CD project red okay where
You wouldn’t let any reviews go out of your old system I wonder why is never happening what that ends up meaning is that you only ever see and you only ever experience the game as it runs on the particular system that you’re playing on this impacts your
Exposure to both bugs as well as technical issues you may or may not experience them once a game releases and there are thousands if not millions of people playing on a wide array of different Hardware configurations and different consoles it is only then that
We get a good sense of how good or not the game is on a technical level but when you’re putting together a review you don’t have access to that Collective knowledge there aren’t thousands of Reddit threads or Twitter posts right right there’s nothing to look up when you’re making the review I’m gonna
Rewind that for just a second millions of people playing on a wide array of different Hardware configurations and different consoles it is only then that we get a good sense of how good or not the game is on a technical level but when you’re putting together a review
You don’t have access to that Collective knowledge there aren’t thousands of Reddit threads or Twitter posts showcasing the slew of bugs glitches or performance issues that a game might have so I could sit down with a game and play through it for two weeks straight
And maybe I only see like a handful of minor hiccups and that’s what happened me while the world was burning Fallout 76 down when it came out I played for 82 hours and had zero major bugs these little bugs here and there you know the T pose or
Something like that but nothing major okay 82 hours all of a sudden my game melted down and I was just like oh I see what it is but most people wouldn’t even play that game for 80 hours so they might play a game for 30 hours 40 hours
And never have a problem never have a problem Jedi Survivor I didn’t have major problems with Jedi Survivor I thought it was great other people unplayable for them as a result my impression would be hey that wasn’t all that bad like the game ran pretty well
For me there were only a few bugs and those bugs weren’t bad enough to ruin my experience so I would say from my play time with it my Hands-On in the bubble that I am in technically the game seems to be in a good place and then the game
Releases and it’s like oh my God look at all of this broken crap this game is a total complete mess you just can’t know what you don’t know and when you’re doing pre-release reviews you don’t know what the experience is like for other people that’s also the case that you
Won’t miss out on any launch day issues we’re talking things like launch day issues that’s a whole other thing right servers knocked down I’m sure he’ll bring it up like servers connection issues right day one uh day one patch that’s not in the game yet a few times with overloaded servers or
Overloaded servers resulting in poor performance for the people who are playing things like rubber banding or having interactions take 30 plus seconds before they register or like servers just straight up Catching Fire and so no one can play for multiple days on end these could be major problems that you
Just won’t catch so due to the very nature of reviews being done prior to most people having access to the game and you only having your personal experience to go after you don’t have any of the collective Community knowledge that you can show you if there are widespread issues or performance
Issues or tons of bugs that you just don’t happen to see these reviews are done in a bubble and so they end up missing out on a lot for that reason but then there’s problem number three and that is that Publishers they control the entire review process around the time of Starfield
And this other thing right people like to make fake Brahma right when people say well I didn’t get a code or that person didn’t get a code break it to you just because you have nine hundred thousand subscribers or if you have 1 000 subscribers the companies don’t give
A [ __ ] who you are they’re just using you and they might give you a code and they might not give you a code they can give you a code for any kinds of reasons I like the way you look here’s a code I don’t like the way you look no code for
You I don’t like the way you talk about our past games I don’t like that you like this I don’t like that like that Publishers are allowed to do this they don’t have to give every person that has a YouTube channel and it has a big following an actual code and then when
Their fans come back and they’re like well this person didn’t get a coach so the game must suck that’s that’s not how that works right just false drama that happens it’s released for example this was seemed to be a particular issue I saw a lot of fuss about the fact that
Certain reviewers and certain review Outlets hadn’t gotten keys and people were acting like this was unusual I’ll let you in on a little secrets every single game release Publishers hand pick who gets access what that’s amazing I didn’t know that Mr codes and every single release there
Are a lot of people who don’t get access because I mean of course there is there’s not like some automated system where you check a box that says yes I review video games and then you are instantly forwarded review codes for every single game that your heart
Desires no that’s not how it works game Publishers many times working with third-party agencies will hand pick who gets review codes they have always hand-picked who gets codes and they always will because there’s no other way unless they’re just like handing out codes to whoever the hell signs up there
Is some sort of a vetting process that goes into who is given Early Access to these games prior to them releasing now there are like key distribution uh platforms that help facilitate this stuff sites like keymailer and Rainmaker lurkit and others but even those aren’t completely automated and guarantee that
You will receive keys they are still you just sign up for them it’s basically a place to register and then the Publishers either personally or through those third parties will pick the ones who get access to those keys the unfortunate reality is it’s like not the
Right of every reviewer to get a code for every game prior to launch Publishers are under no obligation to give out codes to anyone actually there are fits right especially for a company who thinks people will enjoy their game positive reviews after all they are free marketing but on the flip side negative
Reviews are you know well not something that they’re looking forward to getting right so and while it would be best for consumers and in an Ideal World everyone who wants a review code would get one that’s just not how this works pre-release access to games by its very
Nature is 100 at the whims of the publisher they choose who gets to play there that’s right that’s right and they have every right to do that what what then turns into the mob of said fans of this person I of this group like if I had a million
Followers and all of a sudden I was like I didn’t get a review copy everyone’s like I can’t believe 30 didn’t get a review copy and then they go to social media and they say well this company is [ __ ] because they didn’t give it’s just like that that’s that’s not a thing
Right anyone that complains right and says well I didn’t get a review copy and this person did is like come on bro like what are you doing here right sorry we didn’t want to give you a code this time maybe next time their game’s early and because of this there’s a huge
Side effect and that is that of incentives to get early access the Publishers have to approve you basically now assuming the best most noble of intentions they will do this so long as they think you’re gonna give them a fair review but assume and do you blame them
Do you blame the companies that are looking for people that are fans of a game do I want do I want to give a code if I make a game and let’s say I make an action adventure game and am I gonna give a code to somebody
That’s a variety streamer but is known for role-playing games probably not right probably not right am I going to give a code or my game to somebody that shits on everything that console does probably not right and then you as the viewer look at and go well they don’t want a bad review
Nobody wants a bad review no nobody if you bake a cookie or make a game wants a bad review of the product that they make because they want to sell the product I know it’s a weird weird concept right weird concept I mean the worst of intentions they’ll only give you access
If they think you’ll give them a positive review or at the very least that you will go easy on the game now how individual reviewers navigate to this issue this issue of incentives it can vary wildly at the very least consciously or not you can certainly imagine how this is gonna potentially
Affect the review process and how someone this is why I like reviewers that are opened up about where they say I bought the game myself because they have no they have no loyalty whatsoever they they invest in themselves right they’re like well I’m a YouTuber I’m
Gonna buy the game that I like or that I think I have interest in or that I think that my people that are watching my channel would be interested in and they buy that game themselves and then they review it now obviously they can’t buy the game themselves to get it early
Unless there’s that five day early access if you buy the game or pre-order the game early and then they can but then in that five day early access they’re still behind times because they’re not getting it they’re not playing ball with the rest of the group
That had a week early or two weeks early they just get to play it five days early like normal people but then when that person makes a review I like listening to them more than a person that is part of some conglomerate company that is just doing it to get the clicks now
Obviously the guy also is trying to get the clicks but he invested his own money to then invest in himself to then get views and clicks where the other one around is give me free [ __ ] let me review your game and if it’s good I’ll give you good reviews and if it’s bad
I’m gonna I’m gonna make more money off of you because it’s gonna be super bad and I’m gonna write about it 10 times over to get my money’s worth out of it one judges a game and then what they express about that game I’ll say personally I am in the position where
Running my own channel I have the luxury of only reviewing games that I am already interested in I don’t have to nor do I spend time on genres or games that I think I’m not going to like that’s why I like force gaming so as a baseline I tend to go into reviewing
Most games at least with the assumption that there’s a good chance I will like it I’m not wasting my time on things that I have no interest in and I don’t have smart man too but it’s also for that reason that if there’s a game that
I’m looking forward to and I got time with it and there are things I really don’t like about it I am more than happy to lean into those issues because it can be a huge disappointment but yeah I’m reviewing games that I’m generally expecting to like if I don’t like them I
Will certainly talk about it I do sometimes get the criticism that a lot of my coverage tends to be positive but that’s just because as a hobby and how I run my channel I’m just talking about things that I enjoy right and he’s giving you his his opinion on things so
A genre like again I’m not gonna watch somebody that doesn’t play fighting games review a fighting game I might like him but if I really want to know what a fighting game is then I’ll go to someone that has a fighting game channel and that plays all the fighting games
And when I do a search I’m like oh this guy knows what he’s doing and then you look at his reviews and you look at his history I should say numbers of reviews if you look at this history and you’re like oh he plays a lot of fighting games
Right I variety of variety guy I play all types of games I play independent games Blockbuster Games doesn’t matter I’m not an expert in any of that of that sort right but I also never give or claim that my reviews are like gold because I don’t give reviews
Why and if there are things that I enjoy or think I would enjoy and they let me down dude I’ll blast it I’m you can run through my videos there’s plenty of room for criticism criticism and I’m more than happy to give it so the less desirable uh aspect of this entire
Process of having to interact with Publishers and request Keys is why do you or do you not end up getting picked was it because they don’t think you’ll give a fair review was it because they don’t think you’ll give a positive review was it because you made content
In the past criticizing the company or some of their prior could be all the above games was it because they once sent you an email and you’ve never responded to it and that really bothered them so they blacklisted you sounds ridiculous but this can absolutely happen remember the people handing out
Keys they are people flaws and all just like the rest of us people can be Petty and it can definitely no people can’t be paid people are Petty certainly happen and the bottom line is many times you will just never know it could be any one
Of those things or none of them at all maybe they just decided that they were very limited they were only going to send out 30 review codes in total and you simply didn’t make the cut and I’ll tell you that’s happened to me plenty of times there have been tons of games even
Just in the past six months that I’ve been wanting to cover wanting to review I’d reached out numerous times just never heard anything and I I think was it something like that okay he’s got 991 000 people almost a million people that watch him you would think as a
As a publisher or game developer you would give this guy a code no matter what right but at the same time you’re like if they know their game and they’re like well if you give it to him maybe that’s not the clientele we’re looking for maybe that’s not the people
We want to to to buy our game would it be more investment wise to put it towards somebody else that has more of what the style of people that we’re looking to to get the game some companies just don’t look for well it’s a million people there we should just
Throw we should just give him give him a code and it’ll work out for us that’s not how it works right you gotta you gotta assess what’s better for you as a company whatever it is right like sometimes in a business if you’re a small little
Company and then all of a sudden you get your stuff into Walmart or Target you can destroy your small business because you can’t Supply the demand that’s happening in those big stores right so in that same type of sense is that if you’re a small independent game
Sure you want to make a lot of money but you also kind of want to work your way up and you don’t want to be all of a sudden just piled on because if there’s problems then you got to work out all those problems but if it’s small there’s small
Problems then it builds up and you work it out it absolutely happens and it could be any of those reasons it could be none of them like I said those are three of the probably biggest issues that I I see with video game reviews the great news
Is they all have one simple solution and that is post launch reviews host launch reviews have no time constraints they’re not trying to meet an embargo so they’re not having to speed rush through a game to get it out at the same time as everyone else the only time constraint
Here um could just be like that of the reviewer themselves if they’re you know trying to upload one video a week then maybe that just Falls in within some time restraints there but there’s no embargo pressure and no type super enforced timeline that they’re trying to uh right and there’s no reason
To buy a game day one there’s no reason to not wait for a review to come out like if you don’t like IGN or Kotaku or game review or PC Gamer or all these other big sources you don’t like the way they talk about a game or you think
They’re being unfair of a game then just wait just wait wait for someone or watch somebody that you more align with as far as you know like-minded not that you want to live in a bubble but at the same time this is why I always watch three
Reviews I watch a person I like a person I don’t like but like disagree with sometimes and then I watch Like a middle one just to see if that middle one leans more towards the good points of this one and the bad points of this one or vice
Versa it then gives me a full range of oh you know what I’m gonna I’m gonna pick it up a complete a review with them they’re also not having to do their review in a bubble they have the time to gather the collective knowledge to see
How things play out at release and to account for a lot of the widespread issues that other people Beyond themselves might be having with the game and to problem number three great they don’t deal with it at all because there is no need for them to interact with the
Publisher and get approval to get access to the game they’re just playing it Post Release like everyone else they buy the game they play it and then they share their opinions so the way I look at it is like this we’ve got two different types of review well there’s more but
You know for argument’s sake we’ve got the pre-launch embargoed reviews launch Day reviews and then the Post Release reviews reviews that come out prior to release should be used more of like First Impressions to get the general gist of a game and what that particular reviewer thought of their time with it
But these reviews will never be all-encompassing they will always be at least a little rushed and are without question missing out on some pretty important details like how did the launch go and were there any widespread issues that I didn’t personally experience whereas with posts that’s another thing right
Where where you have no issues because you didn’t experience the issues and then when everyone else gets it they have the issues we’re a post launch they can bring up the issues launch reviews they can take all of this into account and for that reason having more time to
Flush it out and don’t need to chase down Publishers to try to get early access this makes these post launch reviews way more thorough and uh way having way less conflict of interest right if not at all now this isn’t to say that the pre-launch reviews are useless just that they have some
Inherent flaws and I think it’s important for you to keep those in mind anytime you watch or read any of those pre-release or on release day embargoed reviews personally when I’m doing any pre-launch coverage for games myself my goal is pretty simple I want to inform
People about the game I want to discuss what I think about them with the time that I spent while also fully acknowledging that until the game launches we simply won’t have the entire picture but and this is why I like force gaming right he’s not giving it on a
Scale of well the writing is a two out of ten and you know and that makes the whole game like it’s it’s ridiculous the scale system of reviews the whole review system is broke in the industry three I just hope to with my coverage in these type of reviews give some people a
Useful starting point basically but those three problems aside there is another major issue that both pre and post launch reviews deal with and that is the rating system that 10 point scale that you see when a game gets seven eight nine out of ten ten out of ten
Um it’s garbage actually mostly useless I’m sorry let’s hear him say it again seven eight nine out of ten ten out of ten um it’s garbage actually that’s right it is mostly useless frankly because the why and how different people pick a rating is because it looks good on a title
Game 10 out of 10 game 6 out of ten right all over the place it is so individualized that combining all of these scores with tools like meta and open critic makes zero sense but hey I’m guilty of this myself many of us will still look at these aggregate review
Scores as some sort of reliable general impression of how good or bad a game is and we really shouldn’t there was a time when the 10-point review scale was broken up into multiple categories with a weighted value based on importance so for example it could look something like
This gameplay would be worth three points Graphics were two points visuals two points story two points and then performance worth one point and and that makes no sense why why give one more points than the other you know then depending after playing through a game what a reviewer thought about it they
Would give a different to the decimal point score for each one of these categories and then tally it up to see what the total score out of 10 was now there’s a reason we don’t see Outlets use this method anymore because it’s stupid it is stupid it’s 100 stupid but
It at least provided some sort of a baseline framework for how we go about picking a number as opposed to the common method used today a which for most reviewers really seems to boil down to like how do I feel about the game okay when I think about the game what
Feeling arises does it feel like a seven or does it feel like an eight right it’s like what well you know it feels like like that’s how it comes across honestly when I see most people attribute numbers to games it’s like they’re picking numbers out of thin air instead of
Having a framework that sort of makes sense even if it is stupid to boil a game down to decimal point values per category like hey is the gameplay of Zelda is it a 2.6 out of three or is it a 2.7 out of three like right what the
[ __ ] does it matter at that point does it doesn’t matter it’s a 2.6 2.7 what are we even talking about even though that is very dumb that at least gave some structure to the process of slapping a number on a game compared to how scatter shot it appears to be done
Today and then there’s the fact that most reviewers only use half of the scale right like rarely if ever is a game given below a five right although it can be argued and I would agree that most games people find worth reviewing are somewhere between a 5 out of 10
Because every game below five nobody cares about like when exactly exactly nobody went a seven might as well be a one this is why we make fun of the 80s any game that’s in the 80s is literally mid meaning the scale is literally zero trash three or five right if it’s a
90 it’s a hundred right ten and nine are are five out of five a two through two through eight is mid and one is trash right it’s just garbage and that’s that’s the actual scale system right so seven eight nine ten that’s it seven is literally like Beyond trash it’s like nuclear okay
Eight is trash and nine is amazing when I see someone give a triple A game A one out of ten I’m like mate how many games have you played I don’t care how buggy unfinished or unoptimized the game is there ain’t a single AAA title released in the past preach
Right preach 20 years that is as bad as a one have you spent any time on Steam at all have you seen the sheer volume of utter garbage that’s released every single day there are so many horrendous games coming out all the time those are the one out of tens not Anthem because
It didn’t have enough end game or the story wasn’t as good as you might expect from BioWare sure you cannot like it but it’s definitely not a one out of ten exactly right everyone that says Anthem is a Timber completely [ __ ] game like the game itself was fine it was the end
Game in a looter that you had to put in 30 40 hours to get to and then go oh yeah not very good at this end ten game one out of ten games are released 30 a day on Steam like that is the garbage that deserves a one out
Of ten but then this race is the other question which is what do these scales account for like what are they scaling against are we giving games a rating based on how they compare to all other games in existence are we rating them to how they compare to the handful of games
We play each year over the past five years over the past 10. that that’s a good point right let me rewind this right here what are they scaling against are we giving games a rating based on how they compare to all other games in existence are we rating them to how they compare
To the handful of games we play each year over the past five years over the past 10 years right people they’re doing it right now right people are ranking Starfield up against cyberpunk which is just like I don’t understand so every time someone reviews a game right so let’s let’s um
Trying to think of a game so Mass Effect when it came out right people when that came out was like the standard of stuff and then everyone that made a game like Mass Effect that game was was it ranked against Mass Effect or was it ranked against itself right like
The graphics were good this is what it was this is the gameplay this is the story then when Mass Effect 2 came out now did they rank it against that and they never ranked against Mass Effect ones like is it the standard of the game
That comes out at that moment or is it like we’re we’re now going back like this was the main game in 2012 and a game now in 2022 are we compared to that game back then or we compared to a game in in current day like what’s the scale does the scale
Constantly just constantly move and there’s really no no stays or status of where it sits shouldn’t all games be judged on the same scale not this scale compared to this game are we giving it a rating depending on the one game that we’ve played for the
Past five years and the answer is all of the above every reviewer when giving some point value to a game is using their own personalized scale of comparison which further makes aggregating these scores completely pointless and I’m not talking about the fact that like individuals are judging a
Game based on their own personal taste and preferences of course that’s happening that is all reviews are they are an individual’s subjective opinion on a game did they like it did they not why but on top of that what I’m talking about is like the database of titles
That they’re pulling from when they put a rating onto a game is different for every single person so you got someone who might say they might play a game and they’re like okay this thing is all right but it’s not nearly as good as Path of Exile so I’m gonna give this
Game right rewind that right he’s saying he’s comparing this game to Path of Exile but shouldn’t shouldn’t this game just be rated on its own four out of ten but onto a game is different for every single person so you got someone who’s who might say they might play a game and
They’re like okay this thing is all right but it’s not nearly as good as Path of Exile so I’m gonna give this game a 4 out of 10. but mind you Path of Exile is practically the only game they played for 10 years straight so that is like they’re what they’re comparing it
Again right hey this person loves this game to them it’s the best game in the world another game comes out they want to like but they still like that game so they’re comparing everything to that game so the scale is already off it’s the tldr of this of this is basically to
Say that the 10-point review scale sucks in particular aggregating scores from different reviewers and then judging a game based on that number it’s totally unreliable not only are everyone’s tastes different of course but also everyone’s scale is different how they are rating it the reasons why they are
Rating it their reference points at which they’re scaling it against how they even use the scale there’s just such huge variants across the board review scales I would say are only helpful in isolation per reviewer so if you follow one particular yes right if if one person and I said this last a
Couple weeks ago when that guy was reviewing Starfield the seven out of ten right didn’t care that he gave a seven out of 10. I wanted to know what he did if he reviewed other games from Bethesda and he did and he gave Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 and you can
Look at what his scale is based on what he did in the past games and go okay well he played these types of games before and this is what he rated them and this is what he rated that right reviewer for a long review scales I would say are only helpful in isolation
Per reviewer so if you follow one particular reviewer for a long time you will get a sense of how and why they give games the ratings they do but mashing all of these different 10-point ratings from completely different people who are using these scales completely differently with completely different
Reference points mashing all that stuff together it feels completely worthless but not only that it’s especially bad with how it directly affects a Studios and developers we got aggregate scores impacting developers yearly bonuses like hey if Metacritic isn’t above an 8.5 in this game no Christmas money this year
Or worse yet this can directly result imagine that right these these reviewers or these major Outlets literally hurt the the score right on purpose because of their they don’t like a game or they don’t like the company right and it hurts them monetarily because of their thought
Process of their game hey if Metacritic isn’t above an 8.5 in this game no Christmas money this year or worse yet this can directly result in layoffs and even entire Studios just being shut down this industry can be pretty brutal with people spending five plus years on projects having it release and then
Having half of the staff fired because it scored below an 80 on Metacritic I know which is just so ridiculous to me man job security is practically a fable for most Industries but it does seem especially rough for game developers the 10-point review score system it is awful
I think we should throw it away I actually find these simple but I agree the temp the 10 point system needs to go I’ve been saying this since my since episode one of Generation X gaming which was back in 2015 when I when I actually had you know when we started making a
Voice for ourselves and Arie I recommend or I don’t recommend this game with a short list of reasons why I find that to be the most helpful as has been right let me rewind that again in a review score system it is awful I think we should throw it away I actually find
These simple binary I recommend or I don’t recommend this game with a that is the perfect thing right the I recommend wait don’t buy rent type of stuff is better than the 7 out of 10. you know nine out of ten because if a person goes through and they go through
The story and they tell you I did the story I like the story this is what the story is like and blah blah it’s very good if that’s what you’re looking for it’s it’s a shooter the gun play feels really good the the uh the animations
And the reload and the sound quality and all this stuff for this is this right I like it does really good if you like this right and they break that down overall at the end the review like ACG does like like uh Force gaming does says I recommend this game right because at
That point you’re like okay well I like story I like the gun play I like Graphics he says that those are all good things I kind of like what he’s saying I I respect this guy’s opinion and then I’m gonna pick it up he says he recommends it if he says doesn’t
Recommend it you’re like ah he doesn’t recommend it but I kind of like what’s going on doesn’t mean you shouldn’t buy it or or or buy it make your own choice and but when he says recommend or not recommend instead of saying a 7 out of 10 or a six
Out of ten and then the whole internet explodes because someone says it’s a 7 out of ten it’s mid like it’s it’s just mind-boggling to me a short list of reasons why I find that to be the most helpful as has been said many times by others when talking about
This topic your best bet when it comes to trying to figure out like if a game is going to be for you if you’re going to like a game or not is to just find individual reviewers whose coverage you enjoy and whose taste tend to align up
With your own and then hopefully their coverage gives you enough of a good overview of the game it’s pros and its cons in order for you to make your own informed decision even better find a few of them watch stuff wrong that’s what I do right
Watch a few because if if this person says everything is perfect and then this person says everything is [ __ ] and then the third person you watch happens to say these are the pros and these are the cons and it allies to the thing you’re like oh well this person said it and he
Also said it this person didn’t say it so why didn’t he say it right and he’s hiding type of thing where he says it’s positive this guy also brought up the same positives but this guy didn’t bring up any positives of that why right and
You take all those things if you care if you don’t care then you just buy the game and play the game and enjoy the game but if you’re a person that watches reviews you gotta watch multiple reviews to get the gist of the game itself you can’t watch one person because that
Person in their bias way is either gonna love the thing or hate the thing or whatever right all footage on Twitch and then use that conglomerative information to make informed purchase decisions so with all of that covered with all of the issues with game reviews and some of the
Potential Solutions why do reviews what’s the point of reviews well there’s definitely something very helpful there like why I personally make reviews is I want to just create stuff that is useful and helpful to people I really do try to focus on providing a detailed overview
Of what a game is what are its systems its mechanics the contents what’s the gameplay Loop like with the hope that I can paint a pretty clear picture of hey this is the game and then I do the same thing thing I just don’t do it in a
Review process I do it where if you guys come here every single day you watch me play a game and you know I have tens to hundreds of hours in the game you’re like hey what do you think of the game I’m like ah you know I really like
This I don’t like the system here I think the UI is bad this I I just tell you just generic like oh how you enjoying it I’m loving it right people tell you Gotham Knight sucks those people didn’t play the full game the story The gameplay it’s a fun game
It’s worth it it was worth the price tag of like 50 bucks I said okay I wouldn’t pay 70 for it now it’s on Game Pass right to someone to play it on Game Pass and say the game is trash I can’t I can’t listen to you because if you say a
Game is trash where it does so many different things I to me it’s just like you’re saying trash but you don’t mean that it’s trash right just don’t mean it’s trash right and that goes with anything okay that goes with um with Fallout 76 rough when it came
Out but it wasn’t a trash game I could show you trash games I could show you trash games and add my general Impressions what I liked and what I didn’t and hopefully this lets people decide if that game with all of that stuff in mind is going
To be something that they might enjoy especially when it comes to any of my pre-release coverage my goal is to just make something that’s informative and hopefully can provide a little bit of some early helpful guidance for people also I review because I enjoy it kind of
It’s actually sort of a love hate I hate the I hate the review process I hate I hate that I have to play through a game as fast as possible so I can get my my thoughts together so I can give it to you just so I can get more clicks not me
A relationship especially when it comes to trying to hit embargoes rushing through a play experience can definitely suck some of the fun out of it there’s no question about it and I don’t always love that I don’t really have enough time to ruminate and really think over
My play experience maybe it’s just a cognitive flaw with me personally but I feel like I need a couple of weeks to really play through and really think about a game before I can be super coherent with my thoughts on it again could be a personal issue wouldn’t it be
Too surprised so I’ll wrap up by saying this pre-release reviews cannot and will not ever paint the entire picture but they definitely have a use they act as a starting point from the perspective of the individual reviewer they are often at least a little rushed they are made
In a bubble and can miss widespread issues that they didn’t personally experience and that they do have to go through that process of getting approval from Publishers to gain access unless there are major changes to this process you should expect pre-release reviews to always have these issues while I still
Enjoy making this content myself I am well aware of its problems because I’ve been doing it for long enough I hope to start doing more post-launch reviews in the future because I would like to have more cohesive fully thought out look I think he should looks at games but I do
Still enjoy doing pre-release reviews boy they have a lot of issues and hopefully I’ve done a good job of explaining some of them to you here today that is going to do it for this video thank you for watching hope you enjoyed I’ll see you next time see I
Like his reviews I like his I like his videos he does very good videos production wise um and just talking points right I appreciate people like ACG like skill up like force gaming that don’t give reviews of the traditional form because obviously that’s not a one-size shoe
Fits all type of thing right silent Warrior says do people really just look at a score and assume that’s what it is yes all the time that’s literally a whole industry silent a whole industry people literally go to Twitch and if the first person has more viewers
Than other people they think that’s the best person on Twitch just because of pure numbers okay that happens in everyday life everyday life right oh I could even break it down to traffic on a road right you’re driving down the road people start hitting the brakes you see the shorter Lane they’re
Gonna move over to that shorter Lane because you see numbers you’re like that’s smaller smaller is better I’m gonna go in that lane then you get in that lane and the other lane starts to move and you’re like ah and then everyone starts to move over to the
Other lane and then that lane stops and then the lane that you were just in kind of moves people look at numbers every single day and it justify to themselves this is better this is better this is the best this is what they said I gotta go with what it says
Um Jones I I miss total biscuit man the way he broke down games was I think the way it should have been done back then right the system is broke okay the system is broke there’s so much money in it and the last I don’t know six years seven years okay
The last six to seven years negativity sells more than anything else okay negativity sells more than anything else if there’s a good game and you say it’s a 10 out of 10 that’s it that day people come watch and go okay he likes the game but if you say you know trash game
Six out of ten right total bomb people are clicking on that video people are clicking on that video because they want to know why they want to know why that game is [ __ ] they want to know even if they love the game as much as they do
They will click on your video just to see what you are and then get upset about it and then write in the comment section and write that is what YouTube is YouTube is all about the interaction the clicks the the the the um the comment section the likes the
Dislikes it’s all about that engagement that’s it all of that is engagement the clicks to get to the site with the the title when people come in here and say well this person said this and then you read the first sentence that says this person says like Todd Howard hates
Right uh hates gaming and then in the first sense Todd Howard hates the way gaming is because and then it tells you what the reason right right well see he said he hated gaming it’s like that’s not that’s what the title said right it’s click bait and it works 10
Times as much the people that are on YouTube that like there’s shows that I don’t watch because I have no interest in the show okay like no interest in the show but I’ll watch someone reviewing the show because that’s more entertaining to me than the show itself and then that
Person’s making money because they’re [ __ ] talking a show that no one wants interest in but they have interested in the person reviewing the show but they’re not interested in the show itself it’s all about the hate it’s all about the hate hate hate yeah and that’s what it is
The the process of reviews though is broke it’s fundamentally broke it’s been broke for decades decades there you go dolphin right but that’s that’s not really a click bait though right I’m playing that was day one I’m playing it so you don’t have to you can you can insert that to
Anything right I’m playing a game so you don’t have to so you can see to save money right to save money now with Game Pass everyone saves money because they don’t pay full price game but if I can get a game and play so you don’t have to
Right because a lot of people seventy dollars is a lot of money sixty dollars a lot of money especially when Games come out weekly okay so if I could play a game so you don’t have to I’m investing my money my time and then you come in and
You’re like hey how you liking the game how you like this game what’s going on what it is and you take the assessment of what I’m playing or what other people are playing I’m just one Cog in the wheel of trying to help people decide what they want to spend their money on
Is it worth your time time is my thing not money okay if you have time most people have more money than time okay my point is I’m playing games because if you don’t have the time and you want to know about this game I’m putting the time in so you can ask
Questions and you can make the choice to go okay that’s a game that’s for me for the time I have Chris says to be honest the culture aspect of hate is frustrating and gets old like Starfield there’s bad reviews on on Steam and the guy has 200 hours uh
Why play 200 hours if it’s bad that tells me the opposite sure right like why do you have to put that much time in like if you hated the game 10 hours in why play 200 right I guess you could say that he put 200 in to see if it was bad
But wouldn’t he find out at 20 or 30 or 40 or 50 you know what I mean people give up votes on The Voice depending on the uh the favorite coach instead of the singer I stopped watching that show um maybe watched up until like season six I think
Rose says I like the video and every point he brought up was great but unfortunately the 10-point system is not going anywhere because the majority of Gamers look for that number and you’re and you’re right Rose but the more that people talk about it
And bring it up and this is why I like that he made the video right dolphin’s like why is this a thing now it’s always been a thing but more people that talk about it and bring it up maybe it changes if you don’t if you don’t say anything
About it it’s going to stay the exact same I know if a game is bad after two or three hours sure but as a reviewer right you as a gamer you could tell if a game is bad right away right you’re like yeah it’s not for me whatever it is
But as a reviewer your whole point is to play that game top to bottom and give a review of the game if those people don’t want to do that because they don’t have the time to put in or they uh they they they they didn’t have enough time to put together
And then they put it out there just because they had to get the clicks that to me is fundamentally broke okay as a person it’s almost like taking the journalistic Integrity of yeah you might be a guy in your basement but at that moment you decide to review
That game you’re doing you’re doing a service for someone and you better do it to your best ability and if you’re not doing your best then don’t do it at all right don’t do a review if you don’t want to review the game right and also don’t do a review if you
Hate that game going into hating the game and trying to review it to try to win you over and then talk [ __ ] about that game that’s not a review that’s just a hit piece on the game that you didn’t like right if you like a
Genre of a game if you like Fighters and you review all fighting games and you’re like well this fighting game I really like this fighting game and this is what it is this is a bad fighting game or this is a great fighting game but just
To throw it out there just to put it into the the circulation of of clicks that that to me is an injustice it’s in disservice not Injustice it’s it’s disservice of what you’re trying to do if you’re gonna review a game review the game top to bottom all the all the
Things remember a couple years ago uh I forget what game it was I think it was Fallout 4. Fallout 4 summer one of the girls and it has nothing to do with it she’s a girl I’m just saying because that’s who wrote it a girl wrote
A piece where she didn’t even do a fundamental part of the game because she wasn’t interested in building stuff right so she only played a small portion of the game and didn’t play the rest of it everyone’s like well how do you do a review of a game if you didn’t even
Complete or try everything in the game like don’t review a game don’t review a game if you’re not going to review the actual game like Blockbuster Game Pass lets me uh like or hate a game on my own sure but you also would you agree or disagree Z that
If a game costs you seventy dollars a hundred dollars 125 dollars and it was subpar you’re gonna be pissed because you paid that much money but if you get a game on sale right or on Game Pass and you have the exact same experience you all of a sudden you think well the
Game was actually better than I thought it was because the price entry was much lower than the 100 125. if I was a reviewer I would have a back list of sports games and Sim games as would not be fair to them right this is why I don’t look I’ve been playing Star
Field literally for the entire month right I haven’t played anything else right tonight we’re playing some uh Warhammer uh dark tide on on the uh the Xbox because it came out on P you know it came out in Game Pass right but for a month I’ve been playing the game I’m not
Giving you a review of that game I don’t have to justify why I like game or dislike a game right I’m gonna play games that I interested in and if I don’t if I’m not interested in the game or there’s a better game it takes my
Time away from the other game I just move on I’m actually uh more upset than I wasted the time as a 60 year old gamer right but wouldn’t you be more upset if you paid seven dollars and it was a [ __ ] [ __ ] worth of your time then free or low
Income like low uh entry fee and wasting your time every time a game comes out and it kind of gets a mediocre score to me that’s a win for the streaming services PlayStation Plus a game pass because Saints Row came out didn’t do very well
But now they put it on game uh you know PlayStation Plus and now people are playing it and and getting more fun out of it right Battlefield 2042 didn’t do very well when it came out but when they put on the streaming services it gave more value to the PlayStation and also
The Game Pass right because people now could play those games on those services so every time a game comes out and it’s just kind of you know not perfect and it gets tossed because it didn’t sell well it goes to a streaming service that’s a win it gives more value to the
Streaming services yeah I’m definitely going to play uh dark tie tonight I love Roman time and this is the same the other uh Warhammer universe I try to love all my children equally but you do have a favorite though right see I try to love all my children
Equally as well but I only have one child so uh Warhammer uh dark tide is a co-op Co-op like it’s like a back for blood it’s a co-op shooter it’s like a back for blood vermintide left for dead type of going to a dungeon with a group of friends and then just
Just go says no favorites got a favorite MO it might not be right now but soon as some one of your kids does something like that’s my favorite foreign how long is a tutorial how long is the tutorial should I do the tutorial before stream or do it on stream short enough
I was gonna play it early and I was like I’ll do it on stream I totally forgot if there’s a tutorial part it’s fun as hell 30. last time I played it they added more elements uh to it now like skill trees Etc 10 to 15 minutes if that okay cool all
Right so I don’t I don’t have to do the tutorial ahead of time we could we could do it on on stream tonight that way it’d almost be like the people that are watching can also go through the tutorial I really like that video I’m glad
Someone like him made a video like that uh and the link is down in the description below uh all my articles that I’ve done uh or the videos that we watch if you go scroll down to the description section and hit more you’ll see like force gaming make sure you guys
Click on his video give it a thumbs up because when we watch it over here obviously we’re taking views even if it’s the 30 people that were watching it with me just go over there if you give it a if you give it a thumbs up you’ll be countering the people that
Didn’t give a thumbs up over there right you know what I mean I fully just uh disagree um Spider-Man is going to get good reviews regardless because it’s Sony this one will be under more scrutiny if the bad because it’s it’s sequel of a beloved game
I I think the game’s gonna do well Rose I don’t look at reviews like reviews for a game like that don’t hold anything to me they mean absolutely nothing to me I know what I played for Spider-Man uh in 2018 I know when I played Spider-Man Miles Morales what
That game was and I’m not expecting Insomniac what they did for game one and game two at the third game even though it’s Spider-Man 2 their third game in this universe is going to be any anything less and I agree though that people will review it and be scrutinizing it just because
The people that were Xbox fans that were people were getting [ __ ] on for Star Fields they’re gonna they’re gonna return the favor because people are Petty yeah I’m gonna buy it regardless of the reviews because I’m a Spiderman that’s exactly right Insomniac is a good track record in the
Sequel uh proper IP right and and until they have a good track record until they don’t right where all the Goodwill goes out the door because again this industry is what have you done for me lately okay Bethesda was beloved until Fallout 76 and then anything they did after Fallout
76 or anything Todd Howard said was he was full of [ __ ] he’s a liar but doesn’t know how to make a game even though they make you know Game of the Year type of games oh absolutely Rose absolutely horror reviews in the movie industry well back in the day like Cisco and Eber
When they did the reviews that nobody else wanted to do they had a good system right they would say go watch you know thumbs up thumbs down they didn’t they never gave scores then in the in the 90s right they started putting scores and then after the 90s when we when we
Got the like late 90s early 2000s instead of scores they started using the the what the movie was bringing in As the metric okay so it didn’t really matter if a movie sucked or not it was number one at the box office right it was the most sold movie this is this is
The money it made 500 million at the box office right it made it completely changed the landscape so when you go to a Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes was bought by I believe don’t quote me I believe is um was Fandango and Fandango I believe is
In charge of a from a person that used to be one of the heads up of in Disney so the guy that the CEO of Fandango I think is like a Disney representative right sort of like again like we talked about earlier in the in the in the show
When I went to school it’s like a little fraternity like if people go to Harvard people that stick with Harvard stick with Harvard you know they hire people from Harvard they you know things like that so if you have a head of a company that has a way to manipulate or to move
Things or change the Persona of something on a review site kind of works out in your favor right so the movie industry is is broke in every way shape or form I can do two examples right example one is a couple years ago when Marvel’s or Captain Marvel came out
In between end game and um Infinity war and end game right everyone’s like Captain Marvel’s the number one movie at the box office and it’s the best movie and it was sold out everywhere I literally and if you guys remember this I went to the theater opening weekend
Right when I went to my app it showed that the the entire theater was packed and sold out but then when I went into the theater um there was literally 30 seats open now coincidentally maybe you could say well maybe those people didn’t come to the movie because they got stuck in
Traffic or whatever no one filled those seats in nobody came right there’s ways to say that things are sold out or purchased things or hand tickets out and a bunch of stuff and Disney since that time has been shown that they’ve fluffed their numbers they changed the numbers they shift things to
Make movies look better okay they won’t tell you the budget because if they tell you the budget numbers don’t lie okay so if they tell you the budget and it cost them 200 million dollars then you know how much money they have to make back and if they
Don’t hit that number then you know they didn’t make money well they don’t want to tell you the actual number anymore so what they do is they lowball their number right they lowball their number and tell you that it’s this much right they did this with um Shang Chi right
Number one movie at the box office and then people bring up that well it’s because of the pandemic and then another movie comes out during the pandemic and it blows that movie out of the water but they make their movie look better than it is they say keywords
Number one in the box office overseas number one at the box office the highest one on a Tuesday during a holiday they say everything they can to get the Persona of that movie is doing better than it than it’s doing so the movie industry is [ __ ] as far
As the review process right you read a review of a movie don’t look at the score read what the person’s saying about that film read so find someone that you like and then exactly like um if you watch a video or if you watch a uh or read an article find someone you
Like find somebody else and then read a third one okay and then compare is a pretty good phase four movie though it’s still a garbage movie it barely made profit barely made profit only because it made profit because they had a 50 million dollar uh incentive right
So they got they got a budget cut of 50 million dollars to make that movie that’s the only reason uh it made its money otherwise it would have been another film that lost money eternals they said was the number one movie at the box office so there’s lost
I think 180 million right not even take away from Marvel look at DC Black Adam 200 million they’re like oh no it’s successful it made its money back in DVD sales uh-huh sure it did sure it did show us the numbers how many did it sell how many copies did it sell
Let me review uh all the movies I literally never watched a bad movie yeah and it’s okay to watch bad movies I love bad movies right sometimes movies are so bad they become good sounds like a sports feat first one to score three points on a good Friday on
The 21st century with green hair exactly right exactly right budget cut how so there’s incentives like so for instance um let’s say there’s a state tax incentive so if I if I was a company I worked for Universal Universal shops out where they’re going
To make a movie right so this is a big budget right so this is a big part of the budget so they go where does the movie take place well the the story says it takes place in Washington DC well can we make it in Atlanta Georgia and they’re like
Yeah I guess why well Atlanta Georgia is having a tax incentive where they’re going to give us if we spend 200 million dollars they’re going to give us a 50 million dollar uh deduction and they’re like okay so they rewrite the whole movie to set place in that in that City
And they’ll film around that City because it brings an influx of cash because the people that are making the film people that are living in the film the extras that come in all the stuff it brings money to the city to the state so when a company
Looks to film stuff lots of incentives are taking place in like Vancouver uh Toronto uh UK all this stuff that’s the 50 million dollars that so if a movie costs 200 million it now cost them 150 million the more money you spend the more money you save
Street Fighter the first Last Action uh was so bad it’s amazing well Last Action you talk about the uh oh Street Fighter the First with um Van Damme I see Ahsoka is filmed in Australia and also during the credits uh it was filmed I don’t think the whole thing was filmed in Australia
I think a lot of it was on the sound stages inside of uh in London with the uh with the room or the um virtual room whatever they whatever they call it New York has a lot of incentives this is why there’s so many movies about New
York City there used to be I don’t know about any more I used to I used to keep track of all that stuff and when they when they do stuff like that Titan it’s um like the B crew so do all the principal photography inside the studio inside that volume that’s
What it’s called the volume right they’ll do all the stuff in the volume and you could tell what’s in the volume and what’s not in the volume because the volume is literally a circle right so it’s a it’s a circle room so I’m gonna Earth break break the wall for you here okay
When you watch Disney plus stuff now because they’re using the volume from pretty much all their stuff uh for the Marvel shows for the Disney shows for for everything if you notice a lot of things will be in a circular format okay so for instance if you watched Ahsoka uh
When the uh they were under attack they made the circle because that’s what they built uh and they can move around that Circle uh when certain things are up close it’s in a circle it’s not not major wide shots and when it is a wide shot obviously that’s a screen in the
Background you’ll see a little foreground line uh in the in the foreground and they’ll put like rocks and something to kind of blur that line that there’s they’re shooting in a studio or whatnot um there’s a lot of stuff that goes on now as far as the b-roll goes if they
Have to do like reshoots or anything like that they’ll go to a different location say well this is what it looks like so a lot of the desert scenes that are trying to get more wide wide open shots more b-roll stuff if they’re not doing it all inside the computer they’re
Going to actual locations and shooting and even if they shot one shot in Australia they could put a credit in the thing that’s saying shot in Australia good Shivers or bad shivers I don’t want to go too far in to like discussing the show but I’m super disappointed in the way the finale
Happened super disappointed but I know I’m being very very critical right water well I don’t know if it’s the same set Jones the volume they can change the background pretty easily I mean they’re using the Unreal Engine this is why epic games is more of a of a movie studio now
Let me see if this is uh those of you that didn’t see this right this is this is um this is some behind the scene footage of like the volume okay these are different Productions that are that are shooting on the stuff and what they can do um
Right there’s a lot of Productions that do this through Netflix it keeps the budget down but it also uh it’s very expensive but at the same time you don’t have to move right you don’t have to move anywhere you don’t have to go anywhere you don’t have to change
Locations like you don’t pick up the whole production company and move to another place you want to get an airplane or a bus or move trucks or anything like that you could literally just go make the location in a game right and then make the stuff
I would love to just have a conversation maybe I’ll what I’ll do is nerding with 30 Channel maybe we’ll just have a discussion maybe I’ll have like an hour show or two hour show of just talking about Ahsoka I don’t care if five people show up
I want to talk about how bad that show was you you probably will you probably will Jones you probably like it because of what it what you don’t know yeah but Titan you’re you’re coming from a perspective that you know it exists most people don’t know this exists most
Most people that watch a movie don’t know anything about the volume don’t know anything about how the it’s made filmmaking wise or anything was the show bad or the finale the show was the show was good in a way of if you know if you know the lore if you know the
Stuff they kept to it if you didn’t watch seven seasons of Clone Wars and you didn’t watch four seasons of rebels and you didn’t watch the or read the books um you’re gonna be absolutely lost because they don’t explain anything I want to be confused if I don’t know what I’m missing
You’ll be confused because um the only reason that you you don’t understand certain things in the show is because they don’t tell you in this you know like you you know when they tell you a story Jones and they don’t actually tell you like um imagine watching Marvel
And not knowing what the Tesseract was right the Tesseract is a major plot you know McGuffin in the films if they never told you what the Tesseract was and what it did and what it does and what it could do you’d be like what the [ __ ] is the what is the glowing box
Do you know what I mean that’s the problem with Star Wars with the Ahsoka show there’s things that they have they never explain to the audience what it is I liked Ahsoka show right because I I appreciate that they stuck and this is the biggest complaint right this is the biggest complaint of
Um of people that are on the I watch a lot of the people that scrutinize shows and whatnot they always talk about they’re mad because they don’t stick to the lore they don’t stick to the lore they stuck to the lore they stuck to the lore really well
Clone wars and for Rebels okay so the memory berries that if you watch those shows you’re gonna look and go if you didn’t watch those shows there’s moments to be like oh my God I can’t believe they did this right and you’ll know it because you’re a Star Wars
Because you watch Star Wars okay there’s there’s generic callbacks memory berries and then there’s the Clone Wars Rebels member berries okay so if you watched if you watched all the shows the cartoons you’re gonna get a lot more out of the out of the show but if you’re just a
A person that doesn’t know anything about the Clone Wars knows nothing about the stuff the storytelling of the actual series is terrible terrible just from a standpoint of telling a story I can list so many things that were major topics that other places because people had never watched Rebels yeah
Yeah even the even the points that they make and boo where they they’re making fun of the show because it didn’t watch and they’re like why I don’t want to watch the show this is stupid they have criticism because the show itself doesn’t explain things it doesn’t explain things
That’s fundamental number one in a film a book a show like you gotta explain what’s going on on the screen and it all it takes is like one line that’s all it takes what is that oh this this is you know like explain to the audience but it’s explaining the audience through the
Actual the show because the person that’s asking the question on the screen is basically asking for the audience right Affinity war and end game are pretty much it for the MCU it seems nothing is made and had led up to another close Infinity yeah but I think a lot of the problems with
Marvel now is that it was such a high point at the end of 15 years that you gotta have a low point and the low point they should just not have made anything for a couple years instead they kind of force things out and killing people off and replacing
People and it’s just it looks bad I think people watching Ahsoka without watching the Clone Wars and Rebels um akin to watching Star Wars episode six before episode four and five yeah I think people that didn’t want that don’t know anything and they just watched the show they’ll be entertained
But it’s not a good story I don’t go outside the main movies of Star Wars just too much stuff out there I watched the spin-off series for what they are and let them be on their own things you know what you know what’s a better series to watch it’s another
Cartoon bad batch season one and two I start to finish season two but bad batch is a much better storytelling device than what a circus is Ahsoka wastes so much time so much time and they explain nothing and then there’s the other problems which I won’t say because I don’t want
To ruin anything for anybody go enjoy the film go enjoy the show Amber Heard is banned from all the Red Carpet Events in Aquaman 2. that’s because of PR stuff right production values are great but if it was the director that blocked all these scenes out it’s like high school play yeah yeah
It it’s almost if you gave if you gave if you gave it to somebody that was a brand new film student they could do a better job I’ve seen better uh fan films than coming from the actual company itself I need to go finish Mando season three
In Ahsoka so I can cancel Disney plus it’s going up what are they raising a double they’re raising it double I’m pretty sure they’re raising a dub which is crazy let’s see it’s also connected to Ahsoka realized so much is connected to the show if if you walk there’s so much there’s
So much stuff Ahsoka is attached to so much and look Dave filoni does a phenomenal job with Star Wars in cartoon form he does a terrible job with live-action Star Wars let’s see let’s see it’s simple because you you and I along with others have had
Years to digest what’s going on how much would you bet on someone understanding what’s going on if you start them on Star Wars episode six you would know nothing if if you start if your first Star Wars was episode six and then you started watching like mando and then Boba Fett
And then Ahsoka you would have no idea what the [ __ ] going on none zero it would almost be like this ready when you watch the original Star Wars in episode four okay and Obi-Wan said I fought with your father in The Clone Wars okay that was it you’re like all right just a
Line just a passing line okay and now you look back and go holy [ __ ] the clone wars were amazing the the fight the politics all the stuff that happened from just one line back in 1977 that was given right fought with your father in The Clone Wars that was it okay
Since that line that one sentence has now turned into seven seasons of an animated show three prequels okay and after the the Clone Wars what the downfall of the Jedi plus the right all from one freaking line but back then when you watched it it was
Just I follow your father on The Clone Wars just a toss away line Boba was bad bubble was bad Obi-Wan was terrible and Ahsoka was better than both of them but still bad yeah exactly the what the what now the Clone Wars what’s like I remember
And I watched it on betamax for my first time I didn’t get to see Star Wars in theaters I watched on betamax and I was a kid it’s like four yeah like four or five I think I watched it right before Return of the Jedi I’m sorry uh Empire Strikes
Back came out okay and I was like what phone Wars what’s that okay that sounds cool I like how he was it was entertaining hey knowing nothing yeah it was entertaining it had cool sword fights and stuff and exactly exactly right but the payoff for the I fought with your father in The
Clone Wars didn’t pay off until it’s like you know 20 years later just fundamentally from a from a from a film right they felony I will give him credit for the character of Ahsoka and and the cartoon series I think she’s one of the best written characters and the whole
Seven seasons and the way it’s structured onwards is structured it’s like technically you could watch any episode out of order and you’d be entertained but if you watch them in the coherent format of season one through seven okay it tells a good story but if you just turned on an episode and watched
That episode you would be entertained for that episode right you’re like you wouldn’t be able to piece together that full spectrum of a story but each story had a beginning middle and end for that episode right if it was helping a small village and then they they fought the village
But there was a a longer um story within that that connected to the next episode next episode and learning a lesson with the live action stuff it’s eight episodes of staring at each other wandering around and the dialogue that happens means absolutely nothing there’s nothing to piece together anything they
Don’t explain anything to you and then they’re like and then and then it’s the next episode and then it’s the next episode and what’s different is back in the old days when there was 23 episodes on television okay is different than eight episodes on Disney plus the shows cost so much money
That they can’t fundamentally make enough episodes to tell you a story so they have to drag it out because they have nothing there’s nothing to give so they have to stare each other’s eyes for a really long times they gotta walk really slow because they’re on a Sound Stage it’s a
Circle that’s 10 feet wide right they have to uh drawn out stairs and all this other stuff that they have to do to spread out the no content content that they have and then when Eight Episodes are done you’re like this is it is there is there a season two happening
Is it coming out soon oh wait season two season two are you ready for this guys I hope this is not true I I hope this is not true because if this is true this is bad okay take take it with a grain of salt because it’s coming from
It’s coming from the internet okay but this comes out bi deadline okay this person just tweeted it said season two is reportedly being discussed what hasn’t been officially greenlit yet take that title now and go watch the Ahsoka show so what are we what are we waiting for
What are we waiting for two years from now I watched eight episodes of nothing so I could wait two years so I can have another second season of a show but at that time no one gives a [ __ ] like think of how broke the industry is where if you watch Big Bang
Theory season one the following year there was a season two right there was a 24 episodes 22 Episodes 20 episodes half hour 22 minutes each okay 22 minutes each and they would give you all a short story and a longer bigger store that connects the dots okay this is eight episodes of nothing
Of nothing flashy lightsaber you know it looks cool right and now you gotta wait two years Obi-Wan never told never told you what happened to his father he told me enough he told me you killed you killed him no I am your father exactly right it’s absolutely nothing
I’ll give you an Insight all right I want you guys this is the Ahsoka plot line are you ready I’m not gonna actually tell you the plot line I’m gonna give you an analogy of a plot line um set up a chessboard okay set up a chess board
And put the white on one side and the blacks on the other side and then just swap them just to swap them okay and then put the board away okay then then just take all the pieces off I just gave you the the complete another whole story plot line of Ahsoka you’re welcome
Save yourself eight hours if you understand what I just said you get it if you don’t it’s okay I don’t have to explain it to you okay right don’t worry I’m not going to explain it to you because Disney doesn’t explain anything to you yeah after Ahsoka just waiting for how
Many years until Dave filoni movie to continue on to the story amazing and I’m and I’m coming from a person that’s that’s really I love Star Wars love Star Wars man I love Star Wars Star Wars to me is the best is the best thing
Okay I love the movies I love the books the comics the figures spaceships I just love that whole whole world of Star Wars I just face bomb never has an analogy been so accurate you’re welcome laughs if you get it and we’ll you get it you know what I’m saying
Someone that’s watching this right now goes and watches the show and they’ll be like but [ __ ] that was amazing 30. old school Star Wars no I I love Star Wars water I love that we’re getting Jedi Survivor I love the Old Republic video game I love you know the bad batch
I love the I love the universe of it but it’s so frustrating it’s so frustrating that the people that are in charge of this IP are just they’re just blinded they’re blinded I don’t know if it’s the the lack of knowing or if they truly hate the customers that made Star Wars
What it is or they just honestly don’t know how to make a show or a movie it’s it’s so frustrating and I get upset and I get passionate about it because I’m I just don’t understand how you could do something so idiotic like why see they thought the Mass Appeal would
Be because it’s live action but all they had to do was make a Rebels season five okay that’s all I had to do like do you know why Rebels works out right Rebels uh let’s see there’s four seasons right Four Seasons in each episode is like 22
Minutes right now people look at this and go okay well 22 minutes but they’re doing Eight Episodes and they’re doing 40 they’re doing 44 minutes first off I don’t know why TV Executives don’t get it through their freaking head that you don’t need to do TV format when there’s
No commercials there’s no commercials you don’t need to adhere to the 22 minutes so each episode technically is two episodes so technically there’s eight episodes you have 16 episodes so technically that’s a full show a full season okay because you want to get around 16 to 22 Episodes For That season
And for some reason they have more time to tell a story and get less time to tell a story how do you have 44 minutes to tell a story each episode and yet tell us nothing mind-boggling mind-boggling right season one had 15 episodes season two had 22 episodes season three had 22
Episodes and season four had 16 episodes okay now I want someone to go watch Rebels season one or season four that only had 16 episodes and tell me the storytelling in season one and four that had the same amount of time as the 44 minute episodes of Ahsoka for Eight Episodes which would
Be about 15 to 16 episodes total and tell me which one has a more coherent story at the end of each episode of 22 minutes you will know more about the characters and know more about the plot Point that’s going on in 22 minutes and you’ll get in 44 minutes in each episode
And create episodes the entire time yeah it was terrible let me say it this way and the cartoons are old movies are great if you like them they’re trying to take uh as well known and beloved IP and make it their own Vision I I just don’t understand why
You know why Star Wars sold well because it was Star Wars now they’re trying to change Star Wars for another another fan base that’s not interested in Star Wars you have you have millions of people that love Star Wars and they’re like you know what [ __ ] them
We’re gonna get these people that didn’t pay for Star Wars that didn’t like Star Wars that have nothing interest in Star Wars and we’re gonna dummy it down to be nothing like Star Wars and then we’re gonna Market to them and just shove all these people out what these people are
Not buying Star Wars figures but these people are not watching the show or what these people don’t give a [ __ ] it’s amazing hey guys you want to come back no no we had a character progression in one episode only to see the regression in the episode later had any special things
Happen solely for a plot here’s here’s you understand that um bailing the actor who played bailin died he died in May God Rest his soul okay no matter what happens you know nothing about that character okay and even if they recast that character right even if they recast that character
That character was literally a waste and same with his uh Apprentice nothing they told you nothing everyone’s like everyone thinks it’s good because of their head Cannon the head Cannon is better than the actual Cannon it’s what we do here right we’re like could you imagine it Transformers game like Battlefield or GI
Joe game like Battlefield all the stuff you could do like the head Cannon is better than the actual thing that’s that’s the greatest he walked around looking powerful really well yeah look badass that’s right water seem like a badass character too and then certain people are are like
Introduced and you’re like well where was that person like people ask like where’s Ahsoka right because in the originals Trilogy never brought up never brought up wait didn’t need to be brought up because Darth Vader why would he tell you I had an apprentice once and her
Name was Ahsoka like my it wouldn’t come up because the story that was being told there didn’t and then when the prequels came out you’re like okay they tell you they tell you a time frame of episodes one two and three but then there was eight years in between or ten
Years yeah 10 years between episodes two and three you’re like wait a minute how come she wasn’t in the movies and they did it perfectly they tell you exactly why she wasn’t in the movies and you’re like oh that makes sense that went all out the window now they’re like wait a minute
That happened then this happened and then how come they didn’t say anything and then it’s so bad but IGN gave giving this episode nines oh my God oh my God it goes back to Rob look you just saying that dolphin I got indigestion I got indigestion you told me it got
Nines oh my God people people literally just want to not think about anything there’s like lightsaber right like right now I I could just more people are going to come into the stream right now because I’m holding a lightsaber right people love lightsabers okay people love lightsabers
I got this by the way just recently uh this is calcas’s lightsaber pretty cool [ __ ] heavy as hell it’s like four and a half pounds Is that real I mean like a real lightsaber no no blade actually comes out it’s just a hilt but yeah it’s it’s calcas’s lightsaber
The real one to me personally no it’s just a I can get at the uh at the uh the Disney parks do I know how to use it of course I do everyone has the force now water everyone has the force the forces are with inside me I just gotta do this
That’s it that’s it if I think it it will happen a force oh yeah yeah and but you know what we’re gonna do that I don’t know what maybe I’ll do it Friday Friday night Friday night around like 10 30. we could just I’ll just I don’t care if
It’s just me and you and boo I don’t care if it’s just me and you I will I will well actually it’s probably late for you I think you’re overseas right I will I will have a show Friday night and we’ll talk about it I thought Jedi Survivor was the best
Piece of Star Wars release since episode 3. I liked I liked uh Fallen order and and uh and Survivor L I think that’s some of the best storytelling and some of the best Star Wars I I’ll agree with that yeah it’ll be on our other channel I
Have another channel it’s called 30 and still uh I’m sorry uh nerding with 30. nerding with 30. we haven’t we haven’t uploaded or anything on that channel for a long time oh that reminds me that reminds me um anybody that is subscribed or not subscribed anybody that has a membership
On our original channel 30 and still gaming okay because I haven’t uploaded anything to it uh we’re we’re losing you know the the what we need to keep up to keep monetization over there um so if you have a membership over there if you could move it to this one
Uh you don’t have to but I won’t be it won’t be getting monetized after October meaning that money will not be going to me so if you are a member over on 30 and still gaming which is an original Channel okay if you would like to move your membership over here you’re gonna
Have to do it I can’t move it over it’s just separate entity but I will not be getting that money so you’re still going to be paying but I will not be receiving it so make sure you move their membership I appreciate the support yeah move it over on this channel
There’s not many of you but there’s a couple people over there that are still supporting it over still supporting uh over on that channel just move it on over to this channel but sabines has family history with the force though why ignore that I’m not ignoring anything I’m just saying
That if you it just doesn’t just come out that’s that’s the problem with Rey Ray just had it there was no training or anything it’s almost time to get disappointed by blizzard yeah it’s uh about an hour and a half right history is one thing and speaking of
History wasn’t she tested to be found uh lacking in the department her training showed so she couldn’t her nudge or cup right and then and then she could do a whole bunch of stuff think about this embu from what Luke learned from New Hope to Empire Strikes Back right like long
Time passed she learned in a weekend Eight Episodes episode one and two maybe three you could move a cup and then all of a sudden no problem yeah reduced to a weekend yeah maybe maybe she was practicing moving the cup while she was in prison
When she was on the uh on the ship moving to the new location maybe I don’t know who knows we’ll talk about it we’ll talk about it we’ll go on some rants there’s gonna be no structure it’s literally just gonna be back and forth like this but more on Friday night
Starting with 30. I’ll make I’ll make a thumbnail and stuff for it all right on that note 12 35 I gotta do stuff I appreciate it very much thank you for coming out please make sure you hit that like button down below if you like it we do
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Uh uh yesterday we played it uh we’re still gonna play it more uh but tonight we’re playing Warhammer uh dark tide okay so come on out we’re gonna be playing it on Game Pass Me and Sarge uh I believe brainchild and I think one other person I think Moe said he wanted
To jump in so whoever wants to jump in come on by 8pm tonight we’re gonna be playing some of that Co-op shooter uh uh that’ll be fun tonight so we’ll be doing that tonight and then tomorrow tomorrow evening and the weeks just fly by um Thursday night Generation X gaming a
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