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2:15 Far Cry 6.
3:48 why God of War Rangarok was delayed.
5:57 eFootball new worst steam game.
8:45 China restricts playtime even more.
15:03 Genshin Impact bad anniversary rewards and how much Genshin Impact has made.
18:35 Highest grossing mobile game Honor of kings.
19:28 Apple makes more then Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, and Activision Combined.
22:10 Book Of boba Fett release date.
22:18 Hasbro making a G.I Joe game
Legend
Don't forget 1:02 OJ hammering his balls.
I like how the bad anniversary rewards werent even mentioned.
@@v.emiltheii-nd.8094 pain. It’s one of the worst gacha anni rewards in my experience. Anyone know an entertaining gacha UA-camr?
On the China story: The Indian government is listening and planning their copy of the laws. Thankfully, unlike China: they are inept in these sectors
2:17 Far Cry 6
3:47 God of War Delayed
5:59 eFootball
8:47 Chinese Govt Sanctions Gaming
15:01 Genshin Impact 1 Year
19:29 Apple Earnings
22:09 Book of Boba Fett
22:24 GI Joe Game
I'm always looking for comments like this. Thanks so much
CCP applied shits for streamings again 🤣
I hope all the restrictions that China is putting on the game industry makes the game industry just say "you know what, it's not worth it" then our gaming companies can get off their knees and make decent games that don't have to bend over to China.
Now that won't happen and we'll likely see a giant increase to development cost because companies will make two copies of everything lol. Wonder how this will effect mobile games over there.
Um...Hollywood went down on China for some money and slurped on WInnie the Pooh's dong so just watch gaming industry getting on those knees faster than a whole room of well paid crack whores. .
@@Siarawaszympanemjest but China doesn't like Hollywood's sjw movies, so why is Hollywood making sjw movies?
@@excaliber2010 because they can make money with them literally almost everywhere else lol
"I hope all the restrictions that China is putting on the game industry makes the game industry just say "you know what, it's not worth it"" ---> Genshin Impact $2b one year (and this is just mobile)
it seems the hollywood industry is slowly getting like that
I like to think that these laws are being implemented because some high ranking Chinese official accidentally fell in love with a man who he thought was a woman in a video game
They just don't want to be like America is
Cloud crossdressing lol
Boomers gonna boomer, more like.
He’s tired of all the Femboys and wants to immediately recognize Dong from dongless.
Shh...dont expose Chinese government officials like that lmao.
10:48 is because OJ has a sense of humor that isn't dictated by the internet. Keep being you OJ!
Deploy the infants!
I love his sense of humour!
@@Mattyfootyy hey man, if you kill them youre the asshole, lol i love his sense of humor too
Seems sensible, unless you got super sick F***s on the other side
I know what i said!
I remember Christopher Judge on Stargate SG1. I think it’s great he was able to come back to reprise role and the studio waited for him to recover.
One of my all time favourite scifi characters!
I like how Konami says they won't fix eFootball, just "fix the situation" around it.
Well spotted. Never trust Konami with anything.
I think it's both amazing and stupid how many people are going on about GoW getting delayed when it never even had an actual announced release date in the first place.
Also...Cyberpunk. Will they ever learn...
People are idiots, and on both sides. Those who think it's a good thing that it got delayed, and those that think it's a bad thing.
I do agree with you, but technically the first reveal logo "trailer" did give a date of 2021.
I know thats not considered a hard official date, but it still was announced to the public.
UA-cam does not allow links to other pages in general but there is an article on the internet where this controversy is mentioned and it is called "God Of War Ragnarok Narrative Director Matt Sophos Defends Angrboda Race Swap: The Series Is An Interpretation Of Mythology Through Our Lens". The answer to what is really happening with GoW Ragnarok is in that article. Bye.
What's even stupider is that people bought the PS5 expecting GoW, FFVII remake part 2, Horizon Forbidden West and all of these *unreleased* games. They basically wasted hundreds of dollars just to wait. Instead of buying a used PS5 with literally all of these games in the end its lifecycle for like $300 bucks and binge all of it and sell it for the same price.
Besides the gotcha trap Genshin Impact is. It is a very good game with a good story and fun gameplay. I never spent a dime on the gotcha and I enjoy it.
Its not even a trap tho .. cos for some reason .. the game devs are .. petrified of Powercreep .. like i cant even remember the last character that came out and is like .. oh shit u need this one .. u must get it
While I don't agree with you immediately writing off Genshin, I will say that I was just as disappointed in the anniversary "rewards" as much as everyone else and the major reward we got was a cop out or how people put it more gently as "damage control". Yet I was not one of those people who invested money in the game and I have been a 1st day player so gotta help represent the free to play players out here.
Not to mention its probably the only good gacha game out there. It isn't raid shadow legends. But yeah the anniversary rewards did suck. But the game is still good. I only spent 100 bucks on the game. Most 5 star characters i get i don't even spend money on.
Joe just hates that its a gacha game even though its no where as tedious as every other gacha game plus he hasn't played it. I think mutahar has great takes on genshin impact and he despises raid shadow legends and even turned down a sponsorship from them. He actually likes genshin impact to a degree.
Personally I've always respected AJ's, OJ's and Alex's opinion but it does really bother me that when he described Genshin he said that it's just a grindy game that's compeletely shit, while I can't really justify Gacha mechanics in any game, AJSA felt like a steriotipical close minded old man that think everyone can just buy $1000+ PC gaming rigs and shill out $60 everytime I want to play a game, on top of that it's like he hasn't played a single AAA game in a while (it's not just mobile games that are a problem). While yes I do play Genshin as a F2P, it is justifiably a very good game (of course with it ups and downs) and considering that most of the AAA games that I want to play are going for that realistic high poligon count graphical style, even if I 'm able to buy them I can't run them, compare that to a game that can run on anything.
It's weird how the standard is applied differently to genshin. Grinding isn't a new thing that genshin did. Mmorpgs, rgps, looter games all have a form of grinding (heck some can even be worse) yet somehow when Genshin did it is bad?
And that's not taking into account the gacha. Genshin's gacha is far more generous than most out there but eh, ask the plebs and they'd said it is the worse gacha out there lol.
@@secondsein7749 Actually very true especially compared to Gacha games like FGO Arknights, and MMORPGs like BDO and WOW where your insentiviced to grind for months for what you want.
A whole year genshin player here, and here's my take:
I have an absolute love-and-hate relationship with this game, and I think this is the only game I feel like that. I LOVE soooo much the open world and stuff you can do while exploring. Discovering hidden secrets, solving puzzles (they're not lame surprisingly), finding out deep lore behind, gorgeous bgm, doing some fun limited events, and many more.
But I absolutely HATE the game's monetization scheme, and I won't talk about that bcoz, you know, gatcha. Annoying bugs and missing QoL improvement are also there. And worst, dev being a radio-silent for a long time with their audience what really grinds my gear.
Overall I like Genshin as a video game, and hate the business model. It's definitely above the mobile game experience of any game on that platform could ever deliver, at least for now.
And it's such a shame to you Joe, for giving such fully biased opinion and proudly tell you never even played the game once. Should've played it first then give your thoughts after that.
joe will be joe. i understand his viewpoint though. I played Genshin for about 6 months and played a bit more when they unlocked the mountain region. As you said, my only problem is the monetization scheme. But I would also add that the game is built around it in such a way as to be inseparable. im not a grindy person. i reached the endgame, ran out out of materials, and quickly stopped playing. I get some people are into that. not me. its also a shame that the QOL and updates are just not substantial in any way. with the amount of money they've made, its genuinely frustrating to see these minor updates that just add new gacha characters and little in the way of exploration, new areas, new anything non-monetized. and the only reason this is all so frustrating is because i did love playing that game for 6 months. it had a ton of potential.
And if they had added meaningful content i would've been back. Now, there have been so many limited edition events/characters/items, that if I did get back into it. id feel behind the curve of fans of the game who did spend that time grinding for materials for unending hours and/or spending the money in its place. truly a shame.
Don't take all this criticism as hate. i love the music, exploration, regions, and occasional lore (really wish they dug more into that). that's what kept me playing for months but when you reach that grind point, the magic falls apart and all that's left is the very blatant machine pushing you to spend time and money.
@@Leyeldamac I do agree though. I'm at AR 56 and it seems nothing else to do. End game content are such a lackluster. Abyss once fully done and, thats it. Artifact grindings has been a painful activity. Even so, I'm still going to play the game, waiting for future contents and new regions.
But that initial impression, the first time I started the game and exploring Teyvat, man it's been a while, even for a AAA titles gave me such huge satisfaction. Truly an unforgettable gaming experience. Now for a new player, with Inazuma region unlocked, it'll be even more immersive. They really nailed the world design.
I feel exactly the same way you do. Even if a player just goes F2P, there is no content they cannot experience. They are only limited to the chances they have to obtain certain characters and weapons. I know Joe and the others do not like Gotcha games, and for good reason, but the've never even played the game and their bashing it and its players. I will not defend the gotcha system, but even as a F2P game its good.
I wish the game was a normal 60 dollar game to be honest removing the grinding and with all characters available to be discovered.
I really loved Genshin Impact back in the early days, and I was really hopeful for it, especially with how much potential it had (or seemed to have).
But I stopped playing within a few months when I realized how badly the game was limited to its medium as both a mobile game (main audience), and as a gacha game.
I was disappointed that certain things like monetization, QoL, Combat, Controls, multiplayer/instances, would never be able to evolve, or change much for the better due to this.
I started on PC but when I tried the game on mobile, that's when it all clicked and a lot of the poor design decisions made more sense. Needless to say, a lot of my hopes for the game were crushed.
It's a shame because the atmosphere, world design and even certain aspects of the story were phenomenal.
Not saying Angry Joe has to play Genshin to pass judgment on it but he should at least learn more about the mobile gaming space. It'd help the news portion since he'd be able to give a more informed opinion on if the space is going to get worse or better and what mobile games should aspire to be. The sea of mobile games is vast and boiling it all down to monetization alone ignores a lot of other important factors. Some of those factors, like data collection, player interaction, and gameplay style, are important too. Might also help Joe see how AAA companies pile in more garbage mobile game tactics than just grinding and microtransactions.
AJ is on COPIUM about GENSHIN impact having slot machines... sad typical stereo typing. The Lack of GACHA to spent money on is actually making the Genshin Community mad. These news review needs fact checks. for GODsake this like Fox News...
Mobile games have been awful for decades. Their only positive is being able to be played everywhere. They are restricted in almost every other aspect like graphics, controls, storage space, mechanics, overstuffed copycat market, full of p2w garbage, little to no sound effects/voice acting. Which is fine I don't expect that when taking a shit, but to say that there's a deeper part of the industry is bullshit they're all the same.
@@goofball1_134 There are deeper parts to the industry, some of them even worse than pay to win stuff. Data collection can basically be equivalent to spying on people.
@@goofball1_134 thats a valid point and for the most part i can agree, majority of mobile games are trash and designed to bring in revenue through and through. However I can understand those who defend genshin as its the only mobile game ive seen thats an exception. You dont need to spend any money if you dont want to and still get access to all content in the game. Other than that it actually feels like a AAA game, the quality and amount of content it has rivals if not succeeds alot of AAA games currently out.
As a massive PES fan since I was a toddler it's a massive shame how they released the new efootball game. I was genuinely excited since the game was going to be free and they worked on it for 2 whole years just for it to be released in an absolutely disgraceful state.
I switched to fifa around FIFA09. PES has sucked massively since then. It hit a new low.
@@PeteDHeat fifa still has the whole scripted ball feeling. So I cannot play fifa
That’s Konami for ya, I thought they were shut down but I guess not.
@@Dayrahl Football Manager time
@@Dayrahl I don’t believe in the actual scripting argument of it. Even if it did, at this current state, it’s fifa. Miles ahead.
13:21 the smartest thing i've ever heard joe say 🤯🤯he nailed it 👏🏼👏🏼
I agree XDDD
If these new Chinese rules actually come into effect, then I'm pretty sure a good chunk of games can't release there no matter how much they change the international release. Most Devs will probably just skip out on China now, especially RPGs.
I think a lot of Devs will follow the money.
Sorry, mister, but you are 300% wrong.
Do you remember, all the movies that were made, from several decades ago to , let's say, 2010, when most movies were about that American super hero/ soldier/marines/etc, that had infinite power, and had to save the planet from some aliens, or some bad Russian/ iranian terrorists... and the few times that Asians were represented in those movies, they would look like useless idiots...?
Then, big investment companies from china started putting billions on Hollywood... and guess what happened ? Suddenly, the brave heroes who would save the planet were... chinese!
-2012.. about the end of the planet. Where and who builds the big arks ? Asians/china/Tibet
-mortal engines... who saved the last ship from destruction, and access the most protected and best place on earth ? Chinese
I could give you hundreds of other examples
The Mulan movie was overseen by the chinese authorities, to make sure china, Chinese, etc values were correctly represented..
Since the chinese cash flooded Hollywood , everything is about china, or at least, china must be depicted perfectly, as the true reference, best values, etc, where the people is happy to live under the communist regime...!
The same is/ will happen, to video games.
What will the western gaming studios choose ?
Will they create their games, scenarios, characters, stories, etc, in a way to please 10 to 30 million potential american/european/uk gamers, and risk being banned by the chinese authorities...?
...or will they create and adapt their games so they can be released in china, and reach some potential 100..200...300 million chinese gamers, and risk pissing off a bunch of american/European gamers, and lose a few million sales...?
Of course they will choose china. Why making 10 or 15 games 'for americans', and only make 1 or 2 billions, when they can make 4 or 5 billions, in china alone, with only 1 or 2 titles...
The only positive thing that could come from these chinese policies, is limiting the amount of allowed microtransactions...
If suddenly the chinese versions came with much less microtransactions, and much cheaper, american and European gamers would start complaining 'hey, why are we paying for all the in-game crap, when in china, most/all game items are free ? '
Just skip the country with 1/5 of the planet's population...
Christopher Judge is the man! He’s a beautiful person and is an INCREDIBLE voice actor
Sussy
The Captain Tsubasa series is THE ONLY soccer (football) game that I play, and I don't even like the sport. Where else can I kick the darn ball so hard that it caught on fire and zips past the goalie at Mach 1?
I keep play Genshin because it's fun, honestly it's not a bad game, just because it has gacha doesn't make it a shit game, some people i know still playing the game even though they never pay a single dime, and their character quite strong.
Joe why dont you at least play the game first before calling it cash grab scam. We aren't saying you have to buy a character. But Warframe is a free game with FARRRR More microtransaction stuff and yet you love it (I play both games btw) Just like warframe You can progress genshin fine Free to play. The only thing you can spend money on is limited time character banners and weapon banners. Which you don't neeeed, it's a matter of want
Finally, someone mentions Warframe being P2W.
I used to play Destiny and WF and Genshin Impact has less grind and doesn’t feel as P2W.
The game isn't perfect but it's probably (IMO) the top five F2P/mobile games.
Genshin impact is the most grindy game I ever played.
@@LarryWater Still less grind than most online games I’ve played.
You shouldn’t be just bashing AJ when Alex and OJ saying it’s trash as well and I agree with them the game is boring and it feels like a bit higher budget mobile game in my opinion.
11:03
Other Joe: Fun fact, the term infantry literally comes from infant. Expendable children too weak to carry big weapons.
Joe: That fact isn't fun!!!
Remind when games was all about unlock back in the day with more content to get instead of buying?
Unfortunately, most/ many gamers were born after year 200x.. with fiber internet connections... 75" flat tvs.. wifi everywhere...3/4g... powerful pcs... tablets and other touch devices... and MICROTRANSACTIONS.... and they have no idea how video games used to be: passionate, devoted game devs, who were gamers themselves, and would work hard to make their upcoming titles the best as possible.. and weeks, or days before launch, they would work night and day, just to create another playable character, a new gun, or some new extra levels. ALL, for free.
And because these hundreds of millions of young gamers have no idea how it used to be, SPENDING 70 bucks for a game... + 50 bucks for some dlcs made with content that got trimmed from the main game..+ 50..100..or even 300 bucks, for some in-game items, skins, guns, etc, IT'S JUST NORMAL !
At the end, if there is a ton of gamers ready to pay a ton of extra cash on microtransactions, why would the studios not sell those microtransactions... and build their games entirely around monetization schemes...?
So sad...
I sometimes wonder what the gaming industry, devs, etc, think about gamers, and microtransactions.. they must think:
'Wow, how stupid these gamers are, to accept paying 20 bucks for a stupid digital skin, item, etc, that took a junior 3d designer 5 minutes to create !'
Well, back then. Game is only offline mode
OJ's perfect army is a battalion of grannies using babies as armor and weapons.
Grannies lived their lives.
Open fire!!!!
And he eats fetus baby hearts to get hp
I knew that guy had something..... lol
In defense of Genshin Impact. It is a good free to play game, the developers keep improving it and the prices of the ingame store are for the most part, fair. You can enjoy the game and get good characters without spending a penny.
On the other hand, MiHoyo´s marketing team is freaking awful. (The Anniversary issue among other things).
The gameplay is extremely tedious. I stopped playing after a few hours.
It’s weird how they haven’t played it at all & say it’s a cash grab scam. You don’t have to spend a penny to play & it’s really fucking fun
I agree with you in almost everything but you have to admit the gacha is pretty fucked and the prices are ridiculous when trying to get a limited banner 5 star, plus mihoyo is super greedy specially when compared to launch
What’s interesting is…you play regularly enough you can earn enough in game to get the Gatcha draws without paying money. I think I’ve gotten at least ten 10x draws just from in game earns since I’ve started.
Still doesn’t completely forgive the existence of the microtransactions IMHO, but still…
"Store ... most part fair" , "play regularly enough". Just listen to yourselves. This is why gaming is going to shit.
Ofcourse they have a horror game in China...it's called "Daily Life", and nobody has ever beat it.
The progression system is garbage
At least there is less mass shootings. But the 9-9-6 work life is what kills ya.
@@LarryWater pretty sure you're unaware about the mass stabbings that happen there regularly.
They usually have similar death counts to mass shootings.
@@LarryWater Oh they still have mass shootings. It's just that the shooters are soldiers.
I heard their a rotten guild who cry all the times,they dominate the game by beating everyone else down ;p
For any Genshin players, bet a good chunk of the money Mihoyo made came from Staff of Homeless by itself lol.
Genshin Endgame looked good tho 😂
Yeah... the staff of homeless incident im sure is resposible for a good percentage of that...
It was nice of them to ensure that never happens again
Tectone flashbacks
Raiden Banner was the most profitable banner ever so there's that.
Cough cough Raiden banner cough cough.
Genshin is pretty good. I have not spend a cent and I finished the story pretty easy.
I just play through the story, grind a little bit afterwards and then quit until a new story patch comes out.
Literally the same way I play warframe which got praised for the same reasons
The gacha in Genshin is godawful though, that's a fact, it's baffling people are spending so much on something so predatory. But it goes to fund Honkai and the rest of the Mihoyoverse so it's kinda worth it in the end? (No, it isn't)
@@abadenoughdude300 nah ain't worth it. Gacha will be inserted into more of their games to keep making that dirty money
@@MazeMaker4Life I know. I keep telling people that spending on "it's just cosmetics, bro" is the reason why we now have games attached to microtransactions and not the other way around. But "without whales you wouldn't have a game to play so shut up!", so I just give up, you can only bash your head against the wall so much.
@Benny Dinsch true while the gacha is shit af, you can totally ignore it and focus on the story and scenery which is the bread and butter of the game
Thing is, I can get, literally, everything in warframe by just playing the game and trading with other players for platinum.
With the gang would give Genshin a try. It's actually not a bad experience and it's free to boot. I haven't spent a cent but gotten a few hundred of hours of content just playing at my own pace and enjoying the content as it comes out.
It is always funny though to see Joe think that it's young children spending hundreds/thousands of dollars on games like Genshin Impact when it's usually fully grown adults. Where the heck would kids get all this money from? Think they get to spend Mom's paycheck whenever they want? The irony is that most if not all of the Genshin Impact content creators are all grown adults, and if you do some research you'll see that it's usually adults with decent jobs paying upwards of ten thousands of dollars on these mobile games. I remember a post somewhere online of some dude who ruined his life and relationship with his wife/kids because he spent thousands of dollars on a Final Fantasy mobile game.
9:55 Imagine it being Chinese law that “Video game Dongs must be immediately recognizable and well manicured to facilitate identification.”
“Plays Genshin impact” doesn’t pay a cent. Gets more time and fun out of a f2p single player game than any release in the past year.
Who would of thought it would be better quality than most AAA games released in the last 3 years.
I mean it just isn’t is it… last 3 years? There has been games miles better then that
Lol no
@@Enidx10 LoL Yes, my personal experience with it in the last year has been more enjoyable than the bug riddled shit show that has been the last year of gaming, looking at you cyberpunk….
@@mitchellscott-young5501 So you like gambling?
@@ArchieGamez Nope unlike some idiots, I have self control. Can loose anything if you never spend it.
I play Genshin with the hand I’ve been delt, sucked up all the free currency they give out, and work with what I got.
The UA-camr Max0r did an excellent review of Genshin that at one point encapsulates how I play it.
Personally I would prefer it to be an 60-80$ game with no Gacha mechanics, but it’s not, and since it’s free I’ll keep playing it for free.
I find hard to take seriously the accusations Joe says about Genshin Impact being a FREE game with no need to spend money, and then went to talk to buy some 60 dollars game knowing that later he'll be yelling for being overpriced
And he also shits on the game when he NEVER played it
Don’t play genshin. The domains are repetitive and tedious.
You shouldn’t be just bashing AJ when Alex and OJ saying it’s trash as well and I agree with them the game is boring it’s just a bit higher budget mobile game in my opinion.🤷🏽♂️
@@AstaIsAMonstergenshin cost $200 million to develop. That's as much as gta5.
@@LarryWater lol end game is always tedious it’s still worth to play for the exploration and story quest lines and once you get to the end game you can quit till more story events. No ones forcing you to grind domains
eFootball beat flatout 3 for the worst rated game on steam what a time to be alive.
16:30 It is so funny with how Joe says that he never played Genshin Impact and is saying it is bad. Yeah it is a Gacha game but there is a reason why Genshin Impact exploded so much in popularity, same with Fortnite. Since these games are free you do not have to spend a dime and just enjoy the story or just something to do in the mean time. If the game was shit it wouldn't be making 2 billion in a year. Especially since as a F2P player you can still achieve everything rather easily in end game, sure you will not get all of the characters but I am content with that as at end game you are mainly focusing on dumping resources on like 4-6 characters while the rest remains like lvl20 or 50 lol.
Though I will say, whales need to chill with how much they spend in this game.
Yeah especially small brain dinguses like Tectone.
Full agree, and the game has a pity system, which most Gacha games don’t iirc. It’s not hard to guarantee you’ll get a character that you like by just saving up gems. And if you don’t have enough for pity they come back around.
Also when whales spend for pulls & make videos they can write it off on their taxes as business expenses.
Genshin impact is the most grindy game I ever played.
@@LarryWater yeah? So?
@@LarryWater You need to play more games then
Ajs during the china section: "usa ! Usa ! Usa ! Freedoooom ! Money above aaaall !!"
Ajs 10 second later on genshin impact:
"That shit should be forbidden its bad for kids and videogames as an industry"
Ahh yes, the freedom.
He doesn't want genshin impact to be baned he wants to ban the way the micro transactions work in that game. Why can't they just buy the characters instead of rolling for it. Gotcha is basically the same as loot boxes only it doesn't f**k you on the tenth roll
@@hherhher2257 There is pity system. Save your currency and roll for characters you really want and not for everyone that comes out. Other Gacha like Fate Go are notorious for having not pity and the horror stories are there.
lol
@@tempatempo3805 so youre buying the problem and solution from the same people. Nice
I just watched some videos to understand how much a billion dollars actually is...
AJ.... we've lost the fight. If no one bought a single video game for decades...they would still have money in the bank. We just have to understand that this is the world we live in now and micro transactions aren't going nowhere.
Complains about micro transactions then hypes bf which has micro transactions. Good job guys, ya did it
I was kinda annoyed by this too. And you just know theres gonna be a lot of them bc of the stupid ass hero-shooter format. Boycotting everything from EA personally, I recommend it for anyone who cares about the gaming industry.
And they play Apex which also has microtransations and lootbox. Hypocrites.
Yeah huge hypocrit harolds again. Genshin and lootboxes = bad. Apex is the same. Genshin is actually a good game. Just because something has MTX doesn't mean the game is automatically bad... many free games are better than paid ones.
@@TheChromLP Even funnier that they always hark on "pay to skip the grind" microtransactions, which genshin doenst even have. (afte all its more pay to grind more with the resin system lol).
But I think Battlefield 4 was the first time I saw a premium pass in a game at all, and all it did was unlock all the weapons you had to farm class/weapon/wehicle XP for (correct my if I'm wrong, its been a while ^^)
This is what PC/console elitists with deep rooted motto of "mobile games ain't games" do... being hypocrites by keep trashing every single successful mobile game with mtx while turning a blind eye on PC/console games with the same practices.
One of the things I’m most grateful in my life is that I don’t live in China.
I've never played Genshin Impact, so I don't have any knowledge of that game specifically. But Microtransactions and a Gotcha format in general doesn't immediately mean a game is bad. You can make a good game out of a shitty monetization format. It doesn't happen a lot, but it is possible. The moment you start doing what you did in this video and write off the game while knowing nothing about it you just become another old man yelling at a cloud like every other major news/gaming outlet. There's nothing charming or funny about being ignorant of a topic while giving an opinion on it.
Ironically Warframe being the perfect example, and he likes it. But Joe is Joe. Mobile game = bad.
Ignorance is bliss.
They don't like *predatory games* simple as that.
@@svd355 warframe don't have fear of missing out, you can get all the characters and weapons any time you want(even vaults warframes because you can still grind for it by trading), you don't have to wait for half a year for that characters to be back just to get a chance to buy it.
I agree 100%. Plus, the monetization format can be bad, but this is a free game. That means a lot of people can enjoy it without spending a dollar.
@@nvidiaGTX-ue7if Genshin isn't predatory. There are no "time savers" and everything is 100% voluntary. And its not even a mobile game since its on EVERY console and PC! Joe was really "old man yelling at clouds" on this one. I'm older than Joe and I played Genshin and liked it just fine.
its funny hearing joe rant reasons why ppl (not kids. adults) play genshin
its the waifus bruh.
Most of them are probably content creator. Most genshin streamers I know spent thousands of dollars. Only one person I know who doesn't is Envious but due to his channels are all about f2p genshin contents.
@@svd355 You can play Genshin without spending a dime very easily, its not even a grind. I have earned sooo much stuff on it with very little effort and no money spent. Its a great Zelda clone lol
@@PTIPPY I've played since the launch and spent $90 in total as my token of appreciation. I think it's worth it. My friend went full F2P and he's still having fun as well. It's a worth game to try.
But here's Joe, the game reviewer, proudly announce that he's never even touched the game.
if you remove the waifu it's still just a gacha game like any other kind of gacha games, and of course gacha is bad because it's basically gambling no matter if the game has waifus or not. waifu in game to weebs are like those in game player card to those sport game fan(cough cough madden). It's always bad, if the game not a gacha game then Joe would play it, but i agree with Joe he shouldn't play any gacha games because it give the gacha game exposure which is what we don't want.
He hasn't played it so he doesn't know anything about it or how things work on that game he just assumed why people play it
Chicharron is the greatest companion you could ever have in a shooter like far cry.
Edit sorry about that miss spelling I didn’t catch that earlier
Wait a second, is it's name a pun on ''Chicken run''?
@@TrashbashMan no, chicharron means pork rind
Chicharrón or chicken run?
Sorry for that erra yes I meant Chicharron
@@autosarte7356 Thanks, I can never tell with these games what are actual words and what's not. Chickenrun made sense to me with the trailer and all
If companies make good products, people will put money into it. Genshin Impact is a pretty good game. I think Joe would enjoy the game if he were to play it. But it's not a game that people should put a lot of money into.
Nah it's bare bones and heavily front loaded. Instead of earning characters by completing their quests, and unlocking cosmetic outfits from doing challenges or quests you're forced to fork up $$ to get a chance to get the characters. I've kept track of all my loot box pulls, average 5* is near 77 pulls. It's very unrewarding and there are tons of idiots that waste money on their pay2win loot boxes.
People can't argue that it isn't pay2win when the original characters have useless abilities compared to the rest. I hate people that pay - so I play solo and ignore anyone that has multiple constellations on characters that haven't even had a rerun banner yet. It is cancerous, more games are getting gutted to resell shit to us later. All the cut areas, cut features, cut characters just to be reinstated later as "free updates" to make them look proactive and all that typical PR BS.
My pointless 2c has just been added.
@@MazeMaker4Life p2w??? There's no PVP
Also new character are basically guaranteed if not there's a 50/50 chance of you getting it.
Also the game is playable even with Amber the worst character in the game.
@@MazeMaker4Life it's a gotcha game. That is what they do. One doesn't play a gotcha game without spending money.
@@MazeMaker4Life also forced???? Lmao you can literally grind the resources needed to summon characters for Free and there's only two skins one of which was free if you played when it released.
To say forced is ridiculous
@@aidenkz But depends on how much grind is forced on to you. Some mobile games force you to spend money just to progress. From an outsider prospective I really think the the weapons and armors should not be gacha. They should be in treasure or part of the character to prevent scalping.
“Gaming is under attack in China”
Joe…. Gaming is the least of their worries right now. How about their freedom is being attacked and has been for years now.
Don’t worry, when the upper class starts to suffer the changes starts
It's like they're a collection of the worst aspects of some of the worst regimes, all in the same country, all at once.
Lol, "freedom?" You do realize it's a socialist country, right?
Lol
yea let the white knight America bring in the freedom and turn everything into turmoil for decades as always.
Genshin Impact is so successful because it is a genuinely GREAT game even if you take the loot box elements out of it.
The EXPLORATION is amazing.
The COMBAT SURPASSES its inspiration: botw.
The STORY is actually really good. It's heartwarming, memorable, and subtle side stories can get really dark at times. World building at its finest.
The CHARACTERS grow on you and are so well designed compared to other thrash 2d pixel gacha games.
The MUSIC is amazing and really sets the mood and immersion.
At least acknowledge it for what it is: a good game marred by its gambling mechanics. People whale because the game is GOOD. Not necessarily because theyre addicted.
AJ is on COPIUM about GENSHIN impact having slot machines... sad typical stereo typing. The Lack of GACHA to spent money on is actually making the Genshin Community mad. These news review needs fact checks. for GODsake this like Fox News...
Angry Joe: saying people playing Genshin because they haven't played other games yet.
Also Agry Joe: haven't played Genshin yet.
lol
I spend a ton of hours on it, and it’s not worth it. Most of the progress are made from domains and bosses, which are super repetitive and tedious.
@@LarryWater It's not meant to spent tons of time on. Think of it as a side game, you spend 15 minutes on it per day to do commissions and resin, then log off and wait for story/content. If you spend hours on it per day you'll get burnt out quick.
You get bored really fast. I mean if you're a stressed out weeb, then sure. It'll relieve some of that stress. But honestly there are better games that can do that. The lack of PvP really makes the game *extra* boring. And even *if* it existed it'd basically be pay2win because the game's literal genre is lootbox(gatcha) game.
lol, "you can only squeeze consumers so much until they at least try to revolt"
All of the chinese government: "Am I a joke to you?"
When efootball is free to play and FIFA is a 60 dollar game and people choose the paid version you know the game is bad
Efootball is not "free" you will need to pay for game modes. For example Master league in single player will need to be paid, same as cups and so on.
@@tomiloger2910 unless you hack the game.
Personally I feel like Genshin is the best "mobile" game out there. (Even though it's on PC and PS)
The world is huge and still getting bigger so there's a lot to explore and new monsters to fight.
There's always an event going on so you can earn premium currency free and even if you didn't summon you can beat the entirety of the game with the characters you got for free in the beginning of the game. They also give you free characters every once in a while with Aloy, a free 5* Collab character coming up soon which is a really strong character.
Gacha is an issue but the biggest problem I have with the game is Constellations... and the anniversary rewards but literally its mostly just that you get a character and you have to get them 6 more times to use thier full potential.
Just pulling one of them would be around $100 and that's not even mentioning the weapon they come out with.
But even so this game is completely free to play and they definitely didn't half ass this game like other Gacha games do.
Me playing Genshin Impact while listening to the episode: *Monkey that looks away meme*
AJ is on COPIUM about GENSHIN impact having slot machines... sad typical stereo typing. The Lack of GACHA to spent money on is actually making the Genshin Community mad. These news review needs fact checks. for GODsake this like Fox News...
@@chugeorge850 Is english not your native language?
@@chugeorge850 I will say this: If I could choose between Genshin as it is now, or Genshin for 50 bucks but you can unlock all characters through gameplay by doing certain quests, I would prefer to pay upfront and not have to engage with the gacha system to get characters.
At the same time however, Genshin offers basically a fully fledged JRPG for completely free. You don't have to grind out characters to play the game, you can simply reduce the World Level and make things easier if you just want the story. It doesn't shove the microtransaction into your fasce at every corner, so you can ignore them easily (unlike in Ubisoft games where you see them every time you open a fucking menu). I would argue it is less monetized than full price Ubisoft game, if it wasn't for the fact that gacha is still a lootbox system. But it's definetly less aggressive with the monetization than FULL PRICED AAA games from Ubisoft, Activision and EA.
It's mostly just funny because Genshin can be played and enjoyed completely for free... unlike most gacha games
@@TheExecutorr Don't bother debating Chu they are likely a bot or someone copy pasting that same comment over and over as if they where payed to do it, look at their comment history ( click their profile icon just in case you don't know how to do it )
12:48 LOL !! chinese consumers aren't gonna rebel and risk their lives for gaming
Genshin Impact is a really fun game, I got a decent amount of characters without spending any real money and that’s due to the grinding. But I can understand it’s not for everyone, and yes I’m well aware of the disaster at the anniversary.
Sorry for putting two comments I wanted to talk about that separate.
Yeah I didn’t see the appeal at first but started playing on recently in ps5 and yeah pretty good game haven’t spent any money in it either
Gave it a try when people actively joking about Venti’s gender. Never regret it since, the world, music and characters are amazing. VA’s didn’t deserve the harassment, I just hope they didn’t remove venti entirely
Really good game, relies on grinding wisely to be consistently efficient rather than leveling/ upgrading every new character up.
Would be pretty cool if Mihoyo makes a fully-fledged game without microtransactions, because now I know they can make a solid good game.
@@cherrygrabber7172 I don’t think they ever would since it’d make pennies compared to anything online
The thing with Chris Judge, I'm glad he's being treated well but I don't think it makes sony the good guys now tbh.
What where they going to do replace the main voice actor? Force a bed ridden man into a recording studio? They had no choice either way
i was hopping they talk about the genshin boicot, its the oportunity to see what they talk about all the time
you people in reddit overexaggerate everything, 90% of the playerbase didnt give a crap
There might be something to talk about if a boycott actually happened. Check their monthly earnings.
China basically just banned every JRPG ever made.
I feel like they just banned their history since just about all of East Asian history equated beauty to godliness.
They didn't ban Final Fantasy and Genshin Impact.... Good job
Just about every game had microtransactions now. Don't see why they hate on Genshin because it's a gacha game? Loot boxes and all that shit in the fps games they love are the same exact thing... is it really that different?
Like yeah it has loot box mechanics, but its a pretty fun game and the gacha can be completely ignored if you truly don't want to go hard in it. I personally think its a fun game but i can understand why the gacha turns people away tho
That's Joe being Joe "if games are free to play I can understand why they have microtransactions" also Joe "I Will shit talk this free to play game for having microtransactions while speaking of it's quality even if I havent even played it"
@@SilentHillOwn Seriously, Genshin is by far the most successful gacha game in terms of achievement (not necessarily money) but story, gameplay, graphics, lore, and fun factor. And you can literally do it all FOR FREE.
@@bridgesbane7032 It's even funnier because he is blaming young kids that don't know any better for spending all the money on games like Genshin, when in reality it is the complete opposite. Think about it. How would KIDS get hundreds/thousands to drop on their mobile game every other month. I bet most of them are just low spenders if not completely free to play players also. The truth is that full grown adults are making their own decision (for better or worse) on spending tens of thousands on these games. All the content creators for Genshin are adults, and if you look at other mobile games it is mostly people doing well in life being able to afford dropping these insane amounts on these games. Hell there was a post online a few years ago about a guy who ruined his life and relationship with his wife because he could not stop spending money on a Final Fantasy mobile game.
@@EpicWolf355 yeah content creators can just write it off in their taxes so I'm sure they love spending for the views. Other than that I agree man. Adults make adult decisions. I buy the Welkin and BP every month but I'm doing well for myself and enjoy Genshin enough to spend but am smart enough not to drop $1000s every update. Definitely not kids funding Mihoyo though 🤣
I gotta agree with what the people are saying in regards to the AJS crew's opinions on Genshin Impact
while the gacha system, timer dependent gameplay and for where I am in the game, lack of true endgame content is an understandable turn-off for a bunch of people, completely disregarding everything else the game does and acting like it is any other mobile game shovelware based off of nothing but ignorance is being disingenuous as well.
There is genuinely a lot of love put into the game, from its music, its setting to even its cast of characters (each of which have their own individual dedicated fanbases and rack in tons of fan art and cosplays). Its microtransactions are FAR from the most offensive, to the point where even some AAA games have worse P2W systems, and despite people labeling it as a "mobile game" it feels more like a AA or AAA game that also happens to have a mobile port with the care that goes into the worldbuilding and story.
Not saying Joe is obligated to play the game or anything, but as someone who saw the AJS News episode last year when Genshin Impact was mentioned for the first time it is sad to see he hasn't moved past the point of "mobile game bad" without trying to understand WHY the game is so successful even a year later.
Joe admits to have never played Genshin Impact also tells u, u r a degenerative fuckin shill if u spend any money or time in this game lmao
@@sleepingtom9337 He's never played the game and insists he will never play the game, but will review every single Madden and FIFA game that comes out each year despite his growing frustrations with those series.
@@whydoistillusethissite8626 big fax
Jesus Joe a year in and you still boil the entirety of Genshin down to its Gotcha system. Its disingenuous to ignore literally EVERYTHING ELSE just because of that. Does the Gotcha suck? Yes, but only mentioning that when bringing up the game is really poor tact. It has all the explorations, the events, the characters, the story, the gameplay... but no ignore ALL OF THAT just so you can complain about the Gotcha system. I'm not even saying you have to like the game but ffs be fair to it at the very least.
I've played the game since several days after its launch and know it in and out. I'm not going to pretend the corporates side of things isn't a greedy SOB but I'm also not going to completely dismiss all of the things it does well just so I can maintain my outrage over its RNG.
I really hope this doesnt apply to them, since technically they rely on online servers but arnt a mmo, if needed i think they should scrap all the coop function if it means itd make them immune. While i wouldnt mind moremasculine characters as i personally dont like the femboys, all the story restrictions would kill the game. I liike how they are leaving it open the travelor can pick who to side with at the end, (good or bad) or how some relationships are seem ambigious Xingqiu and Chongyun, or Beidou and Ningguang. In addtion to more tradtional ones with Jean dn Diluc.
Gacha.
@@SombreroGato I think he is talking about the anniversary and not it being attacked, unless I missed something
But to each their own
@@SombreroGato Well in fairness the relationships are pretty much straight. They were always going to be as a game coming from China as even before the new restrictions homosexual relationship were at the very least heavily frowned upon in China. The relationships between the other characters was always going to be straight. The area where the water muddies on that issue when it comes to the Traveler. Since the Traveler can be either Aether or Lumine and the characters dialog with them in the Serenitea pot can get quite flirty with more than a few of the characters regardless of their sex that will be a big thing they would need to address... assuming its like that in the Chinese version. Mihoyo may have played it smart and tried to please both crowds an censored the Chinese version ahead of time.
But as the for the story... thats a little risky. There has been plenty of moral ambiguity in the game so far which is cause for concern regarding the moral censorship, however this largely will depend on how the censorship is interpreted. Do they mean that there can be NO moral ambiguity at all? I.E. villains and supporting characters can't be complex? Or does it simply mean THE PLAYER can't have the option of choosing good or evil? If its the later I don't think thats an issue as the Travler is clearly good with good intentions. But if its the former... well lets just say Genshin's story will lose a lot of its bite as so much of what makes characters interesting will be siphoned out of them. Especially the Archons.
Because it all boils down to its Gacha system and there is litterally NOTHING ELSE.
I'm with the others here that heavily disagree with your guys notion on Genshin Impact.
Whilst "Free to Play, Gacha, Mobile game" screams all the warning signs; Genshin is an exception to the rule.
The game has good writing, amazing music, and it *is* free to play friendly. None of the stuff offered for real cash is necessary. You guys should do a better job at knowing about the game in better detail before blanket-firing statements at it and it's gamer audience.
Honestly, Genshin is pretty good. I enjoy the combat with the addition of button remapping. I have not paid any money on the game. It's definably better than Breath of the Wild. There is a pity system in place so you do get the banner characters after about 10 rolls. Understandable, it is essentially pay to get the characters. Interestingly, if you do missions that are locked, you will complete them after they are unlocked. The game keeps track for you so you don't do the same thing again you already did by curiosity or happenstance.
Yes definitely better than breath of the wild, really?
@@thechazz8080 Yes, I daresay it's better than BotW. The dodge roll works properly. The characters are memorable, both main and NPCs.
@@thechazz8080 i can list a few at least actually have bosses instead instead of ganons and a master koga which is only 6 bosses. At the moment aside from 6 colour coded cubes but with a sense of stratergy to tackle, there are currently 5 world bosses to fight. Also cooking mechanic that botw wish it can record recipes. Puzzles are great for the most part, enemy variety at most is a lot with the upcoming wolf spirits.
Genshin Impact is a well made game and it's really fun. The monetization sucks but the game is honestly great.
AJ is on COPIUM about GENSHIN impact having slot machines... sad typical stereo typing. The Lack of GACHA to spent money on is actually making the Genshin Community mad. These news review needs fact checks. for GODsake this like Fox News...
I love ajs and his content but what you say about genshing its a bit ironic since, sure its True some people do spend money to get a character they want or weapons the same way other people also spend exuberant amount of money in cod apex ect, while other still play for free, its a choice, but again not everyone spend an exuberant amount of money this game. you also are the first person to spend 20+ bucks to also try a new character you want like superman in fortnite (bad example but you get the point) judge dredd Rambo ect, Whats the difference? I have literally spend less than 20 bucks in genshing in a full year and I am extremely satisfied with the amount of content the game has brought to me, the game has New maps expansion every 2-3 if not sometimes monthly new enemies every few months new collectable new daily event that are extremely polished and well thought out and all that for free and lets not forget more importantly the extremely extremely rich story/quest that the game brings.
Me and joe have lived in the era of gaming where u need to only pay once to get access to 100% of the content.
I am also a genshin player myself but there's really no excuse for the gacha mechanics.
Placing a gambling wall to access major features of the gameplay can be viewed as really scummy and is enough for someone to boycott the game as principle.
Haven't seen the superman thing but did the 20 bucks is a guaranteed superman? Or is it gacha? I assume its guaranteed.
It's not the money spent. It's the gambling wall. Yes theres a pity, but to get full pity just compute how much real money you need to spend. Grinding for a month may assure you one full pity for a 50/50. You may get the character you want... And then theres constellations. Gud luck with that if you are f2p.
@@xXasd012xX pay once for 100% content? My guy the game is completely free you only pay only if you want new characters and new weapons that aren't really necessary its just a luxury to own those. anything else its free. Sure you do struggle a bit more as expected from a f2p game, but the constellation and all the other stuff arent really necessary to play the complete experience of what the game has to offer. And btw keep in mind that I only spend money on the season/battle pass twice and nothing else and still manage to have 24 out of 49 character with a ton of constellations merely just on saving primos that the games gifts from its event,quest ect that it offers!
@@Iheaili again it's not the payment that is thd problem.
It's the gambling part. For casual people like you and me, yes constellation stuffs arent really required just to progress content.
But if you are a game reviewer or a hardcore gamer you have to take this into account.
Since you are not just reviewing the main quest and events but a lot of gameplay stuffs as well.
And a lot of the gameplay stuffs is locked in a gambling wall. I mean each character has it own unique skillsets and synergy
I reckon you if this game removed all the gacha components and make it u acquire the characters as the story progresses and turn this into a pay to play game. Joe would give this a really high score
@@xXasd012xX the gambling part? When has the gambling part of a game stop joe or other reviewers from reviewing such said games? NFL madden one of the biggest gambling game out there? Did the gambling part of it stop joe from reviewing it?
If anything that a negative point that goes toward the game!
@@Iheaili It's because joe has been playing NFL ever since there was no gambling. It didn't stopped him to review it because he was already playing the franchise way before and have been part of his life (for better or worse).
You can also blame the NFL and other lootbox heavy games for him to develop the stigma against gacha games.
Also, we're only talkin about joe here not any other game reviewers. Each has its own set of virtues.
TLDR: Joe has seen so much gambling in the gaming community that he just had enough. This affected him to stay away from any gacha games including genshin.
Call it close minded or whatever but it is what it is
I'm commander Shepard , and this is my favorite place on the Citadel.
Wrex.
I spend money on Genshin. but only for battllepass, character banners arent a must and you can afford for hoard to whichever character grabbed your attention. plus it has a pity system for guarantee rolls so am not too worry about not getting anything.
AJ is on COPIUM about GENSHIN impact having slot machines... sad typical stereo typing. The Lack of GACHA to spent money on is actually making the Genshin Community mad. These news review needs fact checks. for GODsake this like Fox News...
Doesn't sound like they actually researched how Genshin works, or didn't care enough to understand what they did find.
Bit disappointing.
Yeah, they don't know anything about it and yet they diss it.
That’s my main annoyance on this, especially when they could spend 5 mins watching gameplay for their “news show”. It’s a breath of the wild clone with gacha. It’s got at least some creativity there.
@@Cruxxy21only thing I find similar to botw is its traversal. Pretty much every other aspect of the game to me is different.
But yeah, genshin is popular because 1. Honkai is popular and 2. It broke the mold. Big ass open world game with solid story you can play on your phone and still looks amazing.
No part of the core game is behind a pay wall, doesn't take a genius to figure out why it made so much money lol.
@@Link10103 Well, I say BotW clone cause that’s the easiest way to summarize (and what I assume AJ would call it if they bothered to do any research). It’s a good, solid F2P that’s forced into gacha for funding.
But it’s worth the money, and I think it’s income is definitely supplemented by “ordinary players” spending a bit here and a bit there, as opposed to the usual method of whaling.
@@Cruxxy21 I disagree, the game has become a whaling status, compare the game ot its predecessor Honkai Impact 3rd, there is less whaling in Honkai than Genshin for a start.
I know you guys are complaining about Genshin Impact.
But weren't you guys also excited about some of the character like Rambo and judge dredd microtransactions that was coming in the call of duty free to play game.
And didn't you all play Apex Legends for a spell?
The game isn't his thing, but I really wish Joe would drop the heavy bias on Genshin and just give it a go.....
It's such a good game that has deserved it's popularity. I have dropped money on it... I felt playing it for free was criminal considering what you get. It's a fully fleshed game, it's not some cheap cash grab. You play and support games with WAY more predatory microtransactions.
No. Gacha is the scum of gaming. You'd be better off burning your money than giving it to gacha crap.
Edit: also I might add that the game has been cut into little pieces to drip feed to us later and you call it a complete game? God of war is a complete game. Hollow knight is a complete game.
Free games aren't complete by design to suck players dry. You don't know what a "fully fleshed game" is. You were fooled by another trojan horse.
@@MazeMaker4Life Fleshed out does not equal complete.... I never said it was a complete game or else I would of said that dumb dumb.
Also yes, F2P games aren't 'complete' by design, that's kinda the point, they need to provide regular new content to keep/retain players to make money over a long period of time.
This is fine providing the monetary methods aren't scummy and lock content etc.
Do I like Gatcha...No not really. I think it's a very insidious monetary method, but do I think Genshin is a bad game because it has it, no, because that one bad thing affects the game and gameplay and all the good stuff so little that I can easily look past it. I still think a lot of people would enjoy the game if they looked past it...
But hey that's just my opinion. Guess i'll go back to not knowing what a fully fleshed game is apparently....
@@BritishEcho Samurai Warriors & Berserk Warriors is complete games despite its DLCs monetisation game, those games have a proper endgame Loop, Genshin still hasn't made the 5th or 6th, the chest opening quest and fetch quests in your World story isnt finished yet-mate.
In a country where a console costs half of a year of work it's more than obvious why mobile games are such a big thing out of the US and China.
Every time Joe and the gang talk about something they barely know about that I do know about, it makes me think that everything else they talk about that I don't know about might be just plain wrong as well. Genshin Impact is a fantastic game and very far from his incredibly ignorant comments about it. lol
Genshin impact is a grindy and tedious game.
Oh look that guy that keep saying it grindy is here again what a surprise Talking about David btw
@@LarryWater I mean.. I wish it'd let me grind more. It actively discourages that.
All mobile games and f2p games are shit and any self respecting “gamer” would never play them but hey kids are really weird nowadays 🤷🏻♂️ I mean if they love terrible games that much let them have them. Then y’all can lay in that bed that ya made, just don’t take a black light to it…..
Genshin, I actually love the game so I do give them "some" money to get wishes or outfits, though Jean's outfit was overpriced, at least Barbara's was cute and free if u played through quests. I mostly play it when I have nothing else to play. It deserves my money at least.
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Same here I've played since several days after its launch. I don't think Joe has to like the game but every time it comes up on his show he literally just boils the game down to the Gotcha system which I think is very disingenuous.
Same here..im no whale but i do pay for the daily login resin for 4.99 once a month. Im paying for the cheap entertainment
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@@SasukeTheCursed it is a gotcha system. Can't unlock characters through quests, can't unlock cosmetic outfits through quests or challenges. You want the best characters? Sorry but we have a FOMO system built into the banners, and we make it that you need to do a minimum of 75 pulls to get access to the pity system. The Pity system's existence proves how messed up it is. I'm free2play all the way. Anyone who pays is the reason why this crap plagues our games
Long story short, Play it first and actually experience it dude. Its made 2 billion in a year because its a actually good game. It's not raid shadow legends💀
I love the cradle of filth cruelty and the beast shirt joe has on, awesome album. 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
I loved CoF up to and including Midian, but lost interest on albums after that. Did they get better again in your opinion?
@@Ghalion666 check out their latest album existence is futile. I can dig it, but I do feel they have watered down a bit.
I'm pleased to see some comments here that are giving Genshin credit where it deserves it. Yes it has Gatcha, but... that's really it. Also I remember when Joe years ago said when he used to search the app store for mobile games to see if there were anything worth your time. (I think this was back with like Star Trek Trexels.) I understand why he gave up finding good mobile games, since it really is a seemingly impossible endeavor at times. But here and now we have, even in a minimal sense, a mobile game that gameplay wise has potential. Yet AJSA is just gonna chose to ignore it's existence completely like it's a lost cause, don't worry though, yet another annual Madden rant is on it's way. Talk about actual lost causes...
They didnt even talk about Genshins bad anniversary, they just blindly criticised it without even playing it
exactly, its great game that I have spent 0$ on and enjoyed a ton of hours in it.
They criticized the gacha model, which is fine. It’s not for them, and they are always honest about that. They also worry that companies may start to shift resources from traditional gaming to games like Genshin.
It’s the same thing with free to play microtransactions. People were rightly worried that it would spread and be included in console games, and it has, despite people saying it would never happen, and saying stupid things like, “if you don’t like it, don’t buy it”.
They don’t like games like genshin, they don’t buy them and they explain why it’s bad to make this kind of game successful.
You can disagree but they have every right to criticize it.
Waiting on the time stamps brb
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There’s about like two comments too help with that.
@@dCa991 😅
Thing is, most of this money pouring into these games does not come from hardcore gamers or enthusiasts, this is coming from people who are not generally into video games (grand parents, soccer moms, grease monkeys, desk jockeys, etc...) The whole idea is genius, but it does permeate the perception of huge studios thinking the gaming market is only demanding this, thus affecting what gamers really want, which is good quality games without macrotransactions at every turn.
The reason genshin is so successful is because it is a good game though? Has more polish, content and enticing gameplay than alot of AAA games currently being released
sure the monetisation is god awful but its making so much income because the base game is just simply good lol
Genshin is not that bad. If you pay, it's on you.
AJ is on COPIUM about GENSHIN impact having slot machines... sad typical stereo typing. The Lack of GACHA to spent money on is actually making the Genshin Community mad. These news review needs fact checks. for GODsake this like Fox News...
@@chugeorge850 well he's not wrong. Genshin Impact IS dangerous drug. But that's partly because it's decent game.
My only problem with this video is AJ going into “Default Ganga Mobile Rant” in regards to Genshin Impact. It’s a breath of wild style clone, at least it has decent gameplay compared to most. And it’s on PC too.
I dunno, just pointing it out cause AJ seems to be very prone to ranting on stuff he doesn’t know anything about :/
Typical AJ :'v
You should report Aj and get his channel blocked then. I know Genshin fans get rilled and Angry by poor research.
@@VisualdelightPro why though. I haven’t played in a year but AJ is damaging his reputation by just ranting about stuff with no knowledge. Which makes me start to wonder if I should even trust his criticisms?
And I guess I should be really questioning he’s actually a reliable source of news if they’re gonna talk about stuff with no research. (Clearly there is some work out in, but not in all the stories).
But you do you, I guess. Reporting someone for something comparatively trivial is pathetic.
'Two billion dollars' in my mind Genshin Impact says that like Dr Evil and EA walks in and says 'we make that in a day'
Genshin is fundamentally a good game. I have been playing it for a few months and the only thing holding it back is the characters and weapons are locked behind the gatcha system. You earn an ok amount of gems in game but to guarantee the current character is pulled you need short of 30k gems a month. Apex is just selling skins. Characters and weapons actually be for your game. It does suck in that respect.
But you don't HAVE to have the new characters. You can literally play the entire game with the free characters you get. Its just that people WANT them because they have really good art design.
@@HeadCannonPrime what a stupid analogy. Not able to unlock character buddies while finishing the main quest? Do you live on the Moon? Of course gamers going to try to unlock everything the Hardcore gamers which are falsely labelled as Whales fall into this cateogory.
The Chinese Government determining the "correct" morality. That would be a funny meeting to sit in on.
I occasionally play genshin impact but have never spent money. I know a ton of people that play it and more that have spent a lot of money. No surprise it made double of apex in one year
I was sceptical about Genshin impact too. But when I have played for more then 20hrs now and have not spent anything it's still an enjoyable experience. It's like Zelda a bit and the microtransactions feel it's an option more then a demand.
@@lukew753 I played for a whole month, pure F2P and deep into the end game grind now. Don't feel handicapped at all. But the company knows there are enough ppl out there who are bad with their money.
@@bw1678 I mean, they do not push you hard for that. SO it's not their fault. They only did that with tutorial quest & that's it, the game never mentioned about gacha while playing
Huge fan of you guys, but I've got to disagree with everything you said about Genshin.
The game's soundtrack is a masterpiece, the world itself is marvelous and you guys are just judging it over the Gacha system. Let me tell you: you can beat everything on the game while full-F2P, and there's no "oh but then you'll have to grind for an eternity" NO! There's no necessity to spend a dime on the game at all, it is still easy to beat
You guys definetely should check it out (but without this "it's just a lootbox gacha shithole" mentality)
Joe, I have not missed a single day of playing Genshin and started two days after release, I think you have a lot of misconceptions of it, people buy into the character definitely not because of the "more OP than the previous one"
“You can’t stream if you’re under 16”
Wait, there are people in China that are under 16?!
Haven't spent a single penny on genshin impact and I would pay 100 dollars for a version of the game with no gacha mechanics
Warriors All Stars. That is the game.
Been playing Genshin since day one and haven't spent a dime. Hundreds of hours of entertainment and never felt like I needed to spend anything. It rewards you for just about everything you do in the game very generously with constant great updates to the game. I love your guys show but every time you guys cover Genshin, it's VERY obvious you know nothing about it besides "gotcha game bad" which is terrible journalism.. please give it a chance so you can give an appropriate opinion about it. Also, check out their concert they just put on. It's incredible.
Shut it, Chang.
@@richardwatson1254 Shut it, degenerate.
Genshin Impact has shit the western industry is lacking. People go there because it's the only game of this genre that's cute, has inventive mechanics, amazing scenery, and an exceptional sountrack.
Want people to quit Genshin? Show them something similar that's better.
But that ain't happening, because the west is seemingly physically incapable of cute, inventive, amazing, or exceptional.
Also, he's right. I spent nothing on the game as well and still got literal hundreds of hours of content.
I've been playing since launch too. I'm on the side of it's a good game too. Yes it has gatcha, blah blah blah. But there isn't really pay to win, other than characters and the very infrequent weapons to gatcha pull, everything else is completely free. The game is pretty timer free in 90% of it's aspects, and it's got a simple yet enjoyable story/personality. AJSA will never look at it, the Angry Army will continue to reinforce the narrative of it being pure evil, and that's just something that'll stay.
My main reason im still playing Genshin? Well aside from gameplay variety/varied cast of characters, it's an open world game that I don't feel weighed down and drop after a few hours in. It's a nice and easy pick up and play experience, like how TF2 is a very quick pick up and play pvp fps.
@@ErazemofPredjama weeb spotted. Liking genshin is fine. Thinking all of western entertainment pales is just pathetic.
@@mrmxyzptlk8906 Name one western game that has an engaging open-world RPG with hack-n-slash, a cartoony art style, compelling stories, and a heavenly soundtrack.
I understand Joe completely, i was ignorant about Genshin Impact as well but my friends force me to play it and i was shock how good that game really is, i play half year now and i was never tempted to spend money on it, you can beat entire story (as it is in game right now) without spending money, you can solve all puzzles in game with free characters that you get in the way. I was playing some mobile games like Raid Shadow Legends before, and after playing Genshin i can not even look on that other games that force you in every way to spend money, in my opinion Genshin do it right, you can be free to play person and have tons of fun from it.
Genshin isnt only about lootboxes and addiction. It's fine that you don't like gacha but saying it's successful only because it's a gacha game makes you seem pretty ignorant, especially when you haven't played it.
Yeah, Joe's take on Genshin was pretty terrible. I mean he didn't play it so I get where he was comming from but it still looked ignorant.
If we're talking gameplay, you're done with that game in a single week, maybe two. Clearly, there's some habitualization going on there (and if you don't know what that means, don't even bother replying). I will only agree with the gacha being the main draw, since it's easily the worst thing about it.
why are you simping for a chinese billionaire company? lmfao
@@asteria9963 that applies to most games though. There is always one or a couple patterns repeating constantly. Same could be said for example apex. I agree that gacha mechanics in general aren't a good thing though it depends on how you handle them personally.
Im ashamed for spending money on Genshin Impact. I hate myself for that. 🤦♂️
Seems like the angry joe pissed of the genshin impact players, I’ve never played it, but I agree with them Joe if you haven’t played the game at least once, you can’t talk bad about it
If you see a pie full of maggots, you dont need to eat it to know its bad.
@@p4nnus no shit shirlocke But don’t judge a book by its cover makes sense when it comes to video games and media, not rotten food your Comparison is not even in the same league
@@CodyKing45 If the game is based around live service and lootboxes, it's probably bad.
@@p4nnus Your comparison is the worst I've seen tbh. This is a F2P game, not a $60 game. People don't lose anything from trying it and deciding if they like it or not
@@jlev1028 oh yes for sure, I’ve never played it, but it’s free so you can’t be as harsh on a free game that needs money, I’ve seen tons of people saying “sure you can buy shit, but I’ve been free and am just as good” It’s goes for every free game, it’s free just play it first then say shit about it
It was pretty severe, the guy couldn't WALK and had to have a knee and back surgery and his hips replaced. That is at least three operations and the resting time between them and recovery in hospital and physical therapy that follows along with bed rest. Takes time.
I can't believe the numbers, for real o.o
I've been playing Genshin since it came out, I bought the Lunar Pass I think its called? one time, it's 5 bucks and that's it (at least in my region) never gave more money to it because I felt it didn't need it, what the hell tho. Alas, the one kind of people I've seen pour tons of money into it, it's streamers, these guys just check out their lives out giving money to the game, specially when new characters come out, it's insane, I know they're not the full reason of why it has scalated to those ridiculous levels but I believe they're quite the percentage when it comes to putting money into Genshin.
I aint even talking about Honor of Kings, bye-bye with that
The sad thing is that most people tend to stay in their comfort zone even if it's meaningless stuff like video games. Most people spends their time playing only 1 or 2 games. Perfect examples are the people with thousands of hours in CSGO and DOTA2 on steam with only about 5% time wasted on other games. Just like that Genshin Impact lures people in with their color pallet and anime style and that's about it. They just keep on playing that game for thousands of hours like the CSGO and dota2 players. And a lot of people in their 20s in 1st world countries are single so they don't waste a lot of money so they waste it on the video games they play. So it hooks a lot of whales basically. And Genshin Impact can be played on both the PC and mobile so it's easily accessible by everyone. So it's a money printer. It's like anime World of warcraft with lootboxes and waifus.
@@NyangisKhan damn right, guess it happens a lot with these massive online games, why I dont care for real about what ppl do with their money, just hope they would give chances to more and varied games, everyone understands how the videogame industry is a hell in itself, good devs deserve a chance
@@NyangisKhan ppl should do whatever makes them happy tho. If they still enjoy their time 1000 or more hours in than that's great. The moment it becomes a tedium I'd say they should branch out.
Fun fact: there's an international version of Honor of Kings called Arena of Valor where you can play as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and the Flash
As a chinese gamer, I'm absolutely sad and angry about this restriction for games.
I'm also sad about AJ's prejudice against Genshin, lol.
Yes it's a mobile game with microtransaction, but it's still a fun good game especially if you like anime and waifus, i didn't even spend a single cent on it but i had a lot of fun.
But still, i would prefer a single-buy version over a gacha one.
For once you are very wrong, Joe. Genshin, tho it is a gacha game, it's not driven by tier or competitive gaming. Paying doesn't get you any advantage, since most things you can actually get by playing for free. In the couple of months I played it, I got all 4 star characters and like 6 five stars. There's real value to the game if all that plus the story, the events and the multiplayer are free. You can pay if you want more pulls, but by doing comissions and quests you can still get the same amount.
Also, progresion is not tied to payment and the game is ofter very generous with it's rewards by the free monthly Battle Pass.
I honestly put money on it just 2 times because I felt that the devs deserved it. They gave an entire game for free, dude.
genshin is one of the best games there is to play but don't spend 10k on it.
AJ is on COPIUM about GENSHIN impact having slot machines... sad typical stereo typing. The Lack of GACHA to spent money on is actually making the Genshin Community mad. These news review needs fact checks. for GODsake this like Fox News...
I just wanna know the name of the instrumental playing during the manscape ad 🔥
Tbf in a little defense of Genshin, the 2 billion dirty money they made were spent on good stuff and the base game alone is actually pretty good, its just the character balancing and marketing teams that are fucking up right now
Yeah jo was like "the new character os so OP" and in like, and im like we havent had a broken character since fuckin hutao. And the last 3 have been actual trash
@@bluestormpony nah Eula and Raiden are op, its just the fucking balancing team making her unplayable with Beidou
The only true OP is ganyu and ever since that they don't want a repeat of her.
I've played a shit ton of Genshin and never once paid for anything lol. So I don't think you have given it enough of a chance. Regardless if they are spending money on it but its not a bad game. makes it obvious you haven't played it much at all....
btw I play on PC and its not a mobile game as far as I can tell, I think they have a mobile version but the only thing you could say is mobile about it is the micro transactions which are 100% optional. Trust me I hate that shit too but saying its just a shit game without taking the gameplay or story or anything else into consideration is not being completely forthright.
Agreed..i always say this to those people who complain but haven't tried it yet. They always bring up the gacha system and i always say play the game without spending money..tell me if there are quests or chapters that cannot be unlocked without paying on it..and they we're like "it's a gacha game bro, why do i need to play it?"
Whether you have to pay for anything doesn't really matter. The problem is the fact that you can throw an unlimited amount of money into it. There should at worst be an upper limit to unlock everything.
Not a great take on Genshin Joe, there's more content and a much smoother gameplay experience than most AAA games these days. It's on multiple platforms, OH and it's free to play......with free content updates every month......In fact, there's a massive population of people out there that haven't spent a dime on the game. Teyvat (Genshin Impact) is a fantastic world, with deep lore, a solid story, interesting characters and addictive combat. I enjoy your content, but stick to critiquing games you've sunk 100's of hours into first, not those you haven't even played.
EDIT: They completely botched the anniversary though, especially after raking in 2 billion, I do agree with that. Greed does funny things.
The bigger Chinese mobile games are pouring huge resources into non-gaming related media: animations, comics, music releases, multimedia events, physical merchandise... games like Arknights, Honkai Impact 3rd and Genshin Impact even have live concerts streamed on UA-cam with full orchestras and legit musicians. They are entertainment franchises designed to hold people's attention far beyond just the games. The new restrictions would make it 'interesting times' indeed for those companies...