So Tim Cain, one of the head devs on this game, has a YT channel. And he's admitted on multiple occasions that they basically became drunk with freedom and took an absolute kitchen sink approach with this game; if someone had an idea, they threw it in. That's why this game is so full of things like raising the spirits of the dead to complete quests and the huge variety of responses to race, magical affinity, etc.
Highly appreciate this sort of approach, considering how a lot of modern games start with the idea of, "How can we monetize this", more so than putting in fun ideas.
I forgot to mention this in my other comment (and don't want to lose the heart) but one of the reasons Kerghan wants to kill everything is he thinks going to the afterlife is pointless when any necromancer can use his remains to bring him back. When you use the device however, in the ending where you convince him to give up, the device lets him perma-die so that nobody can bring him back. I'm not sure why Mandalore left that out.
Arcanum, no joke, is one of the best games for a purely roleplay aspect. This is the kind of game where instead of sorting out truth from lies, you can just slay the person you're questioning, summon their ghost, then demand the answers in a way that compels them to give them to you. I think you might even be able to resurrect some after that but I don't quite recall. The name of the game is freedom in terms of story progression, and even now the only games that come anywhere near close are BG3, and Way of the Samurai 3.
46:36 It's actually a little worse than that, as the author of that book has never actually spoken with Dwarves about their culture. Everything in the book is either hearsay, stereotype, or total fabrication. And Magnus does NOT like you taking that book.
@40:20 What you described is basically World of Darkness in a lot of ways. Idk if you have any plans on getting into that franchise but if you do, play Bloodlines sometime.
@@TheLegitWeebs I will say hacking in Bloodlines can be STRESSFUL! You have to type out the password itself. And iirc time doesn’t stop when you’re doing it. I’ve never panic typed pterodactyl faster in my life.
@@TheLegitWeebs Bloodlines is one of those games that only becomes "great" on a second playthrough. First time you're probably going to struggle a lot unless you luck into one of the OP builds by accident.
@@TheLegitWeebs Thats funny because guy who made Emperor TTS is now doing Hunter: The Parenting which is WoD. Unless that is the series you speak about doing next, of course.
That Arronax can join your party blew my mind when it first happened, especially when it turned out you could make a party out of all the others banished to the void you'd read about throughout the game. And Mandalore is underselling Kerghan a little, like Keghan himself says: he was the FIRST necromancer. You're usually just fighting a master necromancer in this sort of story. This time, you're up against the guy who INVENTED dark necromancy. Think about how powerful that guy would be after a few thousand years of study. It was a brilliant twist that actually made the final boss even more scary when I encountered it back in the day.
Your (and Mandalore's) point at 4:30 is one of the biggest travesties of the media industry; there are so many interesting worlds and stories that only have one or if we're lucky two entries, then nothing. A good example of this was Kingdoms of Amalur, there was one game made for that world, that was all we had. Thankfully, the IP was bought by THQ Nordic a few years ago and they remastered the game with new content (hopefully they're making a new game).
Feargus Urquhart, one of the founders and CEO of Obsidian, used to work on Fallout 2 at Interplay. Same with the founders of Troika. So Obsidian and Troika were both "children" of the original Fallout games.
@@TheLegitWeebs so to be more precise after Obsidian got the contract for Fallout NV they got some of the old Fallout team on board for the Projekt, so it`s not just the CEO of Obsidain and for me, it feel like the last real Fallout game
This is probably one of the RPGs where race selection is massively important to your experience, and choosing a different one will massively alter how you play the game. It's several flavors of Wild Wasteland at once.
8:50 I believe HBomberGuy said it best. "You LOVE politics in media. Everyone does. If you say you don't then you're lying. You don't want no politics...you just want YOUR politics to be seen." Everyone feels more comfortable when their beliefs and internal biases are reflected or represented.
I don't think that it is a entirely accurate statement, from my experience I think people don't like politics that are out of place, ham fisted, having it preaching down on you, there is very little of the politics in arcanum that reflect my own yet I like the way it is portrayed and it suits the setting
@ but again it’s only shoved down your throat when you don’t accept it. When have you ever had an ideology that you agree with forced on you? Most times you’ve already accepted it. Sure sometimes it can flop if it’s handled poorly, but every game with a story has a position. Being neutral to every stance is how you make a dull plot. Bioshock is a dig against radical individualism…Mass Effect takes jabs at soldiers being used and discarded when the threat is over…and I could throw a rock and hit a zombie game about consumerism from my window. Ya know?
@@KaitoGillscale You have half a point. But there are more unique opinions then there are people. It's not about wanting "our" politics to be seen, as everyone has different opinions - in fact, it's quite the opposite. Western people are generally highly accepting of the idea that other people have opinions worth respecting. When a game fails to respect people's reasonable opinions, then problems arise. HBomberGuy said it *worst*. What he said implies that people only accept politics that align with their own, but he's wrong and it's the opposite. People don't like it when you tell them their beliefs are completely invalid. People want to be respected, or for the disrespectful to shut up. You say Bioshock was a dig against radical individualism, but that's a rather biased view of things. Bioshock also brought up the evils of collectivization in recent history - it helped to sell Ryan's view. And then Ryan became a collectivist, and that's when the real evil started. It's position isn't a straightforward anti-individualist message, it's complicated and represents multiple beliefs in their most extreme form.
@@KaitoGillscale It's shoved down your throat when the writer is completely inept and can't write politics beyond references to things that happened two weeks ago on the news. Also lol at referring to HBG for anything regarding a good narrative.
The Chosen One story being bullshit is probably the first time I saw that kind of twist when I played the game back in the day. It was so great when the game goes "actually, you're just some guy."
I remember playing this game a long time ago with a friend, there was a random guy in Tarant selling "magic beans". I bought the beans and my friends was pissed that i fell for some scam, turns out that they were magic and were consumable resurrection item.
It is funny that in fantasy games I love the high-tech stuff or even the "psychic not magic" stuff, in low-magic games I try to go for the most high-magic and esoteric schizo builds, and in sci-fi games I'm drawn to whatever is the "totally not magic" of the setting like Biotics in Mass Effect (I don't include 40k here because, even though 40k looks like a sci-fi setting and the only real thing I care about in it are psykers, daemons, and the warp, it is a much more of science-fantasy setting than a sci-fi setting with schizo pulpy flashy psychic and bio powers). I guess I'm just a contrarian, and that's one of my favorite things about Arcanum I like, even though the tech system is janky, it's playable enough (especially if you take magic stuff anyway like Speed of Fire and the Time Magic school for the Haste Effects).
@@FriendlyArchpriest 40k also has magic in it, to back the science-fantasy aspect. Even if you're not a Psyker, you can learn rituals and incantations which let you do sorcery, which is literally just magic. Yes psykers make for better sorcerers, but anyone can still do it.
There actually is a fairly new horror game about "dungeons under mundane buildings with conspiracies" called Psychopomp. It has a free shorter version and a longer paid version called Psychopomp Gold. Pretty fun, and has some humor too
Pity they aren't interested in anything other than call of duty, then again that could be a good thing depending on how you view the state of that franchise
@@louissteyn6871 I wish Microsoft would bully them to give it to Obsidian and would get the best people money could buy and either do a remake or a sequel
There is no way any way a triple A game is going to touch this IP or not utterly butcher it. The thematic racist themes reference to the more messed up Victorian ideas would have journalists screaming bloody murder and there is no way studios nowadays aren't going to heavily censor it to the point you won't recognize it
I always stopped in the first village cause the systems are so dated is hard to get used to, it sounds fun in words on paper but when you play it its hard to get used to it. tho yes summoning ghosts is fun. One day i need to properly get into it and finish it
56:00 I'm gonna have to be a bit careful about how to talk about this, but _that_ plot point was kind of a used trope in a lot of rpg's in the 90's and early 00's. Both paper and video games used it with a lot of variations. Ettercaps in the novel of BG1 did that to make more of themselves (and I'm pretty sure that's where Goblin Slayer got the idea), Shadowrun had a few plot points where a certain organization using lobotomized woman to make kids for custom organs for rich customizers, Dragon Age: Origins has something like that but spoilers, etc. It's a trope that's mostly been left behind by the genre for a reason, but new people seem to be exposed to it for the first time every few years.
A staple of dark fantasy stories for sure. I guess it surprised me here because I had never seen it in a game before. I have seen it plenty though in manga like Berserk, Ubel Blatt, and as you mentioned, Goblin Slayer.
Arcanum also had a misfortune of implementing this trope in a way that tied it into a whole slew of RL antisemitic tropes. Shadowy cabal of a physically weak nouveau riche merchants and industrialists with prominent noses resorting to something truly heinous to shield themselves from the wrath of the mob and to further their goals. I am entirely certain that the devs didn't intend it to be read as any kind of confirmation of those vile libels, just used the workhorse ideas of major conspiracies that work and invoke the spirit of the era, and hit an unfortunate "jackpot" Still, as a Jewish teen stumbling upon this quest made me put the game down for a while.
Loved this game. It was my first serious rpg i played and enjoyed many times. So many fun builds, my first character searched cans for rags to craft and throw bombs and the "aerial decapitator" haha. Need to play again with an orc summoning build.
If you want videos on fallout 1 and 2 along with mods on both I recommend checking out Warlockracy’s channel, especially his ‘Fallout: Oblivion Lost (a Fallout-STALKER crossover game)”
In your previous video you mentioned Trails in the sky games and you liked chest easter eggs. And it's completly western inclusion to the game, since all chest messages was "the chest is empty", but was stored separately (every "this chest is empty" had it's own file) translators made the decision to rewrite them and add those jokes. And that was great decision.
the people who made fallout 1 and 2 got screwed over by the publisher repeatedly and lost the rights to fallout in a hostile takeover. So they left and founded Troika, where they made some of the best games ever, AGAIN. But that publishers ALSO screwed them. So they left and founded Obsidian. They made New Vegas. If they got New Vegas over a 90 on metacritic they would make enough money to rebuy the fallout license. New Vegas got an 89 on metacritic, and some people think that was collusion to keep it under 90. So Bethesda kept the license, everyone who made fallout just retired from games entirely, and Obsidian has withered. Indigo Gaming made a documentary about it called, Fallout Was Sold, Not Saved. The Rise and Fall of Interplay.
"If I get super into RTS games, then maybe." On that note, might I recommend a reaction to CloudCuckooCountry's "Real-Time Strategy is incredible and you should play it" video?
Unfortunately a lot of these great games have production hell issues. Not to go into the whole Bethesda Obsidian rivalry thing, Bethesda makes some god tier buggy engines and Obsidian only had a year to make New Vegas so yeah how can it not be a mess on the technical side. Troika Games only made 3 games over 7 years before going out of business, Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, The Temple of Elemental Evil, and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. They went out of business because all of these where jank in the extreme but all became cult classics because they are some of the most engaging games out there even for current times. Which kind of sucks but it's kind of logical how this happens.
If you wanna get into RTS games I highly recommend command and conquer games for dipping your toes cause they are very casual friendly, and not as much of an absolute sweat fest like age of empires and starcraft. I know someone will misinterpret my comment to saying there isn’t ANY sweats for C&C but they should reread my comment carefully and facepalm.
@@TheLegitWeebs I'd highly recommend Command and Conquer Generals. It's extremely easy to jump into, very fun, and it'll prime you for the rest of the series.
I am pretty sure I mentioned it in your Seth video but I will say it now because the story of Arcanum is quite interesting to the point simply for the fact it does not focus strictly on the Magic versus Technology but instead just a background issue where you the player character have a current concern. If this came out nowadays, we would not have this plot, it be strictly "Magic versus tech, choose the ending or go for middle and say kill everyone". Also as for the minor note on "Cultural appropriation", its a weird idea that is mostly, if not, entirely spawned by people who claim something is offensive but really isn't, and doesn't know what the fuck they are talking about.
In short about Dragon Age Veilguard, they were so concerned with it being politically correct they forgot to make the characters likeable and made everything overly sanitized and safe.
"I didn't realise Luck was such an OP stat in Fallout games". In fallout 2 there is a late-game perk that changes your critical hit calculation from "Crit = Luck" to "Crit = Luck * 10". At 10 Luck you have a 100% at dealing crit damage
And now you know why everyone hates Arcanum gnomes. Absolutely despicable.
So Tim Cain, one of the head devs on this game, has a YT channel. And he's admitted on multiple occasions that they basically became drunk with freedom and took an absolute kitchen sink approach with this game; if someone had an idea, they threw it in. That's why this game is so full of things like raising the spirits of the dead to complete quests and the huge variety of responses to race, magical affinity, etc.
Highly appreciate this sort of approach, considering how a lot of modern games start with the idea of, "How can we monetize this", more so than putting in fun ideas.
I forgot to mention this in my other comment (and don't want to lose the heart) but one of the reasons Kerghan wants to kill everything is he thinks going to the afterlife is pointless when any necromancer can use his remains to bring him back. When you use the device however, in the ending where you convince him to give up, the device lets him perma-die so that nobody can bring him back. I'm not sure why Mandalore left that out.
Arcanum, no joke, is one of the best games for a purely roleplay aspect. This is the kind of game where instead of sorting out truth from lies, you can just slay the person you're questioning, summon their ghost, then demand the answers in a way that compels them to give them to you. I think you might even be able to resurrect some after that but I don't quite recall. The name of the game is freedom in terms of story progression, and even now the only games that come anywhere near close are BG3, and Way of the Samurai 3.
Was not expecting a Way of the Samurai mention in 2024. Love that series so much
46:36 It's actually a little worse than that, as the author of that book has never actually spoken with Dwarves about their culture. Everything in the book is either hearsay, stereotype, or total fabrication. And Magnus does NOT like you taking that book.
@40:20 What you described is basically World of Darkness in a lot of ways. Idk if you have any plans on getting into that franchise but if you do, play Bloodlines sometime.
Once I finish the Emperor TTS reactions that's the next big series I'll be covering. Bloodlines is also one of our planned games.
@@TheLegitWeebs I will say hacking in Bloodlines can be STRESSFUL! You have to type out the password itself. And iirc time doesn’t stop when you’re doing it. I’ve never panic typed pterodactyl faster in my life.
@@ichigokage lmao. And I thought hacking in New Vegas was tough enough. Guess I was wrong.
@@TheLegitWeebs Bloodlines is one of those games that only becomes "great" on a second playthrough. First time you're probably going to struggle a lot unless you luck into one of the OP builds by accident.
@@TheLegitWeebs Thats funny because guy who made Emperor TTS is now doing Hunter: The Parenting which is WoD. Unless that is the series you speak about doing next, of course.
That Arronax can join your party blew my mind when it first happened, especially when it turned out you could make a party out of all the others banished to the void you'd read about throughout the game. And Mandalore is underselling Kerghan a little, like Keghan himself says: he was the FIRST necromancer. You're usually just fighting a master necromancer in this sort of story. This time, you're up against the guy who INVENTED dark necromancy. Think about how powerful that guy would be after a few thousand years of study. It was a brilliant twist that actually made the final boss even more scary when I encountered it back in the day.
Your (and Mandalore's) point at 4:30 is one of the biggest travesties of the media industry; there are so many interesting worlds and stories that only have one or if we're lucky two entries, then nothing. A good example of this was Kingdoms of Amalur, there was one game made for that world, that was all we had. Thankfully, the IP was bought by THQ Nordic a few years ago and they remastered the game with new content (hopefully they're making a new game).
Tho sometimes I feel this makes them special, don't want this to become Star Wars, with so many hands touching the IP that it becomes a mess.
Feargus Urquhart, one of the founders and CEO of Obsidian, used to work on Fallout 2 at Interplay. Same with the founders of Troika. So Obsidian and Troika were both "children" of the original Fallout games.
Fallout gave birth to some based people
@@TheLegitWeebs so to be more precise after Obsidian got the contract for Fallout NV they got some of the old Fallout team on board for the Projekt, so it`s not just the CEO of Obsidain and for me, it feel like the last real Fallout game
TGD: Total Gnome Death
This is probably one of the RPGs where race selection is massively important to your experience, and choosing a different one will massively alter how you play the game. It's several flavors of Wild Wasteland at once.
Arcanum was supposed to get a sequel, but Troika closed before it could happen
RIP 😭
Also if you want more insight into it and classic fallout Tim Cain has a channel on youtube where he discuss this and other video game related topics
8:50 I believe HBomberGuy said it best. "You LOVE politics in media. Everyone does. If you say you don't then you're lying. You don't want no politics...you just want YOUR politics to be seen." Everyone feels more comfortable when their beliefs and internal biases are reflected or represented.
I don't think that it is a entirely accurate statement, from my experience I think people don't like politics that are out of place, ham fisted, having it preaching down on you, there is very little of the politics in arcanum that reflect my own yet I like the way it is portrayed and it suits the setting
@ but again it’s only shoved down your throat when you don’t accept it. When have you ever had an ideology that you agree with forced on you? Most times you’ve already accepted it. Sure sometimes it can flop if it’s handled poorly, but every game with a story has a position. Being neutral to every stance is how you make a dull plot. Bioshock is a dig against radical individualism…Mass Effect takes jabs at soldiers being used and discarded when the threat is over…and I could throw a rock and hit a zombie game about consumerism from my window. Ya know?
I love when youtube shadow bans your comments, can't have a normal dialogue at this site nanymore.
@@KaitoGillscale You have half a point. But there are more unique opinions then there are people. It's not about wanting "our" politics to be seen, as everyone has different opinions - in fact, it's quite the opposite. Western people are generally highly accepting of the idea that other people have opinions worth respecting. When a game fails to respect people's reasonable opinions, then problems arise.
HBomberGuy said it *worst*. What he said implies that people only accept politics that align with their own, but he's wrong and it's the opposite. People don't like it when you tell them their beliefs are completely invalid. People want to be respected, or for the disrespectful to shut up.
You say Bioshock was a dig against radical individualism, but that's a rather biased view of things. Bioshock also brought up the evils of collectivization in recent history - it helped to sell Ryan's view. And then Ryan became a collectivist, and that's when the real evil started. It's position isn't a straightforward anti-individualist message, it's complicated and represents multiple beliefs in their most extreme form.
@@KaitoGillscale It's shoved down your throat when the writer is completely inept and can't write politics beyond references to things that happened two weeks ago on the news. Also lol at referring to HBG for anything regarding a good narrative.
The Chosen One story being bullshit is probably the first time I saw that kind of twist when I played the game back in the day. It was so great when the game goes "actually, you're just some guy."
Obsidian, Inexile, Troika, Black Isle. All shared developers and writers through mergers, new studios and liquidations.
Imagine pitching Arcanum Remake to Larian Studio.
I remember playing this game a long time ago with a friend, there was a random guy in Tarant selling "magic beans". I bought the beans and my friends was pissed that i fell for some scam, turns out that they were magic and were consumable resurrection item.
And now we are going to have a spiritual successor for arcanum : new arc line
40:12 Ohhh Boy, you will love Vampire the Masquarade & World of Darkness... without hopefully saying too much... The Maquarde needs to be kept up.
Tell that to the Sabbat!
If you wanna go three for three, may I suggest Warlockracy's Video about Arcanum?
Slavic Humor at it's best.
Woah Claymore..Had totally forgotten that even existed. What a blast from the past.
It is funny that in fantasy games I love the high-tech stuff or even the "psychic not magic" stuff, in low-magic games I try to go for the most high-magic and esoteric schizo builds, and in sci-fi games I'm drawn to whatever is the "totally not magic" of the setting like Biotics in Mass Effect (I don't include 40k here because, even though 40k looks like a sci-fi setting and the only real thing I care about in it are psykers, daemons, and the warp, it is a much more of science-fantasy setting than a sci-fi setting with schizo pulpy flashy psychic and bio powers).
I guess I'm just a contrarian, and that's one of my favorite things about Arcanum I like, even though the tech system is janky, it's playable enough (especially if you take magic stuff anyway like Speed of Fire and the Time Magic school for the Haste Effects).
@@FriendlyArchpriest 40k also has magic in it, to back the science-fantasy aspect. Even if you're not a Psyker, you can learn rituals and incantations which let you do sorcery, which is literally just magic. Yes psykers make for better sorcerers, but anyone can still do it.
35:30
He remembered Virgil's name.
There actually is a fairly new horror game about "dungeons under mundane buildings with conspiracies" called Psychopomp. It has a free shorter version and a longer paid version called Psychopomp Gold. Pretty fun, and has some humor too
Fun fact Arcanum is owned by Activision
Nothing fun about it really😢
@antonyakimov629 no but a fact nonetheless
Pity they aren't interested in anything other than call of duty, then again that could be a good thing depending on how you view the state of that franchise
@@louissteyn6871 I wish Microsoft would bully them to give it to Obsidian and would get the best people money could buy and either do a remake or a sequel
Activision *thunderclap*
There is no way any way a triple A game is going to touch this IP or not utterly butcher it. The thematic racist themes reference to the more messed up Victorian ideas would have journalists screaming bloody murder and there is no way studios nowadays aren't going to heavily censor it to the point you won't recognize it
The grip that journalists have on the gaming industry is sad.
I always stopped in the first village cause the systems are so dated is hard to get used to, it sounds fun in words on paper but when you play it its hard to get used to it. tho yes summoning ghosts is fun. One day i need to properly get into it and finish it
56:00 I'm gonna have to be a bit careful about how to talk about this, but _that_ plot point was kind of a used trope in a lot of rpg's in the 90's and early 00's. Both paper and video games used it with a lot of variations. Ettercaps in the novel of BG1 did that to make more of themselves (and I'm pretty sure that's where Goblin Slayer got the idea), Shadowrun had a few plot points where a certain organization using lobotomized woman to make kids for custom organs for rich customizers, Dragon Age: Origins has something like that but spoilers, etc. It's a trope that's mostly been left behind by the genre for a reason, but new people seem to be exposed to it for the first time every few years.
A staple of dark fantasy stories for sure. I guess it surprised me here because I had never seen it in a game before. I have seen it plenty though in manga like Berserk, Ubel Blatt, and as you mentioned, Goblin Slayer.
Arcanum also had a misfortune of implementing this trope in a way that tied it into a whole slew of RL antisemitic tropes. Shadowy cabal of a physically weak nouveau riche merchants and industrialists with prominent noses resorting to something truly heinous to shield themselves from the wrath of the mob and to further their goals.
I am entirely certain that the devs didn't intend it to be read as any kind of confirmation of those vile libels, just used the workhorse ideas of major conspiracies that work and invoke the spirit of the era, and hit an unfortunate "jackpot"
Still, as a Jewish teen stumbling upon this quest made me put the game down for a while.
Loved this game. It was my first serious rpg i played and enjoyed many times. So many fun builds, my first character searched cans for rags to craft and throw bombs and the "aerial decapitator" haha. Need to play again with an orc summoning build.
All my homies hate the Gnomes Illuminati.
If you want videos on fallout 1 and 2 along with mods on both I recommend checking out Warlockracy’s channel, especially his ‘Fallout: Oblivion Lost (a Fallout-STALKER crossover game)”
the guy who wrote the dwarf culture book wrote it after talking to a dwarf....once.
They now know everything about dwarfs.
In your previous video you mentioned Trails in the sky games and you liked chest easter eggs.
And it's completly western inclusion to the game, since all chest messages was "the chest is empty", but was stored separately (every "this chest is empty" had it's own file) translators made the decision to rewrite them and add those jokes.
And that was great decision.
Massive props to the translators
the people who made fallout 1 and 2 got screwed over by the publisher repeatedly and lost the rights to fallout in a hostile takeover. So they left and founded Troika, where they made some of the best games ever, AGAIN.
But that publishers ALSO screwed them. So they left and founded Obsidian. They made New Vegas. If they got New Vegas over a 90 on metacritic they would make enough money to rebuy the fallout license. New Vegas got an 89 on metacritic, and some people think that was collusion to keep it under 90.
So Bethesda kept the license, everyone who made fallout just retired from games entirely, and Obsidian has withered.
Indigo Gaming made a documentary about it called, Fallout Was Sold, Not Saved. The Rise and Fall of Interplay.
This straight up sounds like bullying.
Troika was truly something else
are you a fan of Josh Strife Hayes?
cause I just realized that you show your list of patrons all at once as well
40:06 so... Persona?
Love Josh's videos. I must admit that the idea certainly spawned from him 😂
"If I get super into RTS games, then maybe." On that note, might I recommend a reaction to CloudCuckooCountry's "Real-Time Strategy is incredible and you should play it" video?
42:00 Well except in Dragon Age, but in that one its traditional and surface dwarf cultural clash conflict :D
The only good gnome...
is a dead gnome
Is a permanently raised undead spirit.
Now you know the truth of gnomes!!!
Pretty messed up.
It’s on sight with them
Unfortunately a lot of these great games have production hell issues. Not to go into the whole Bethesda Obsidian rivalry thing, Bethesda makes some god tier buggy engines and Obsidian only had a year to make New Vegas so yeah how can it not be a mess on the technical side. Troika Games only made 3 games over 7 years before going out of business, Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, The Temple of Elemental Evil, and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. They went out of business because all of these where jank in the extreme but all became cult classics because they are some of the most engaging games out there even for current times. Which kind of sucks but it's kind of logical how this happens.
40:07 They did make a game like that. It's called Persona 5. 😂
If you wanna get into RTS games I highly recommend command and conquer games for dipping your toes cause they are very casual friendly, and not as much of an absolute sweat fest like age of empires and starcraft. I know someone will misinterpret my comment to saying there isn’t ANY sweats for C&C but they should reread my comment carefully and facepalm.
I've always heard about how good the Command & Conquer games were. Definitely got to try them someday.
@@TheLegitWeebs I'd highly recommend Command and Conquer Generals. It's extremely easy to jump into, very fun, and it'll prime you for the rest of the series.
I am pretty sure I mentioned it in your Seth video but I will say it now because the story of Arcanum is quite interesting to the point simply for the fact it does not focus strictly on the Magic versus Technology but instead just a background issue where you the player character have a current concern.
If this came out nowadays, we would not have this plot, it be strictly "Magic versus tech, choose the ending or go for middle and say kill everyone".
Also as for the minor note on "Cultural appropriation", its a weird idea that is mostly, if not, entirely spawned by people who claim something is offensive but really isn't, and doesn't know what the fuck they are talking about.
In short about Dragon Age Veilguard, they were so concerned with it being politically correct they forgot to make the characters likeable and made everything overly sanitized and safe.
Always a shame to see that getting in the way of making a fun game.
Great video !
hey if you want a good game with politics in it play Disco Elysium
Heard it was amazing
@@TheLegitWeebs IT is amazing. It's just a shame what happened to the company.
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"I didn't realise Luck was such an OP stat in Fallout games". In fallout 2 there is a late-game perk that changes your critical hit calculation from "Crit = Luck" to "Crit = Luck * 10". At 10 Luck you have a 100% at dealing crit damage