I have many "steam page deleted" games that have impossible-to-verify user rating. But from those that still sell seems to be the one rated most Negatively.
Probably Johnny Graves - The Unchosen One. It's a little action game made by a (now shuttered, as far as I can tell) Finnish game company Stupid Stupid Games. It had a lot of promise at first but it was published in a state that feels unfinished - barely any enemy variety, poor sound design, overcooked dialogue, and it's over in a couple of hours, too. It's a big shame it turned out like it did, the worldbuilding was pretty good during Early Access (though not much of it shows in-game either). It was supposed to be bundled with a short story ebook as well but there was no marketing for it and the Steam store page has no mention of it. To top it off, it was poorly priced on release, 15€ on launch, though now it's only 3,30€.
World Truck Racing gives me a PTSD flashback of AVGN’s review of a particular truck racing game with “Your Winner” text Maybe this is a parody game of that game?
I have been playing Earth Defense Force 2025 (which is 4), on the Xbox 360 for years. It still has an active community. Something about the game just vibes with my autism. It is the game I have played the most in the past decade. The thing that most amazes me about EDF is the hitboxes. Accuracy actually matters in this game because you have no idea how many times you will thread the needle and miss by literal inches cause the shot goes between all their legs or bullseye a lamp post / tree branch and blow yourself up or waste a long reload on your sniper.
26:45 Is "crown vaccine" here a mistranslation of "coronavirus vaccine"? I think the description for the game indicated that a new coronavirus is the cause of the zombie outbreak.
Haven't watched this yet, but I do want to jump in and say how much I appreciate the amount of objective thought you put into these videos - they are very satisfying precisely because you do your best to look past the criticism that already exists and find some redeeming feature in each game, if there is one. Thank you for this series.
@@mattieglover2356 Good point! They might have added those cutscenes later or they just happen to paint with all the tells of AI - over sharpened edges, forms that make no sense, mismatched building styles and broken perspective. I'm thinking now it might just be the later.
Did the developers not thought of ENVY being able to take and use the powers of an enemy for a limited time? That would actually fit with the sin (A person lacks another's quality, skill, achievement, or possession and wishes that the other lacked it) and could be interesting in fights and even puzzles. Example there is a platform that is way to high for the other characters to reach, but there is this flying enemy near by so ENVY takes that enemies ability to Fly for a second which allows the player to reach that platform.
China has a lot looser laws around copyright/patented stuff from what I remember, so they probably just ripped a bunch of assets since they can’t get punished for it
The sin game feels very 2004 in a way that 2024 games aren’t nailing INTENTIONALLY. The Badass Antiheroes Who Aren’t Your Daddy’s Protags, the two female characters being sexpot and cool alt girl, the platforming with a twist… it feels like a game I’d beg my mom for as a kid lol
Damn seeing EDF6 on this is wild, I just wanna say that it's an amazing game overall and if you play it on other platforms you don't need an Epic account at all, I've got it on PSN and it's a blast. Of the EDF's it has the most interesting and weird story of all BUT I would say if you've never tried EDF before, play 5 first. 6 Is the sequel(normally they aren't always connected) and you'll miss a ton of context for what's going on with 6. Not to say it's some high concept art you simply won't be able to enjoy without playing 5 but a lot of 6 will seem weird if you don't, what it's going for is really cool and it works best if you understand the complete package.
Dead by Death feels like one of those projects that "hire" artists and programmers and pay in "exposure", hence the inconsistent art. I've had the displeasure of making assets for similar projects and usually it's one or two idea guys that get volunteers to work on the game and promise profit sharing once the game is published. At least from my experience, the idea guys always forget that their volunteers aren't paid and alienate everyone, which leads to a high turnaround.
You also may not be able to read Simplified Chinese, but you could always throw their name into google translate to get the pinyin and that shouldn't be too bad to pronounce. Darf Daemon is by "Dōngfēng chuī" and Human or Virus's creator is "Zhōnghàolín".
Such a great series, Son. It doesn't get old. Frostbite makes me sad because it feels like it could have been a horror version of "Firewatch" which I really enjoyed.
Frostbitten's problem with picking up items is that the raycast condition on every frame is not setup correctly. Basically, you want the item to select when you look at it and deselect when you look away. The problem they're having is that it is a constant collision so it appears and disappears over and over again. What they should do instead is have a condition first and foremost to see if the item is locked. When i have done this, I have used and for that -- so the first condition is " if raycast is colliding and selected == null" Have and elseif for if the item is locked and the raycast is not colliding. That is where you remove. Some pretty rookie stuff, but understandable problem to encounter. Anyway, the problem wasn't your positioning around the object, it was literally when you pressed the key. The process function is called on each frame -- each cycle of a thread of the processor to deliver a frame. It was rapidly disabling and enabling your ability to pick it up on a frame-to-frame basis. Not only no fun for the CPU performance of the game but also pretty trash to try to make work. If anyone is working on their own game and needs to implement this, i would be happy to write you a demonstration in any language you want :) 🩷
you know what I think could be a great addition to your series? I'd really appreciate a short section at the beginning of each game review where you summarise in a few words what the consensus seems to be on why the game has gotten negative reviews. like for ex "Most reviewers seem to have an issue with the poor optimisation, broken translation and lack of overall polish"; just a few words, enough to get an idea of why people disliked a game. because there are quite a few games that get bad reviews for something related to the dev team or publisher, or a decision around region pricing, stuff like that you know? where imo the bad review is warranted since there aren't many ways to voice your dissatisfaction as a player, but it's not necessarily linked to the game's quality itself. so yeah it'll still be super informative before you go into what you thought of the game to know why the majority of other players gave it a negative review. just a thought! i've been enjoying your series very much
It's literally just people who buy into five year old Epic Games Launcher conspiracy theories being mad. Although EDF6 DOES implement it so badly that the Epic overlay crashes laptops if the screen is... Set to borderless window or something?
@@FelisImpurrator "It's literally just people who buy into five year old Epic Games Launcher conspiracy theories being mad." 100% wrong. For numerous reasons. Here's a couple... 1 - There was no mention of Epic on the store page prior to 12 hours AFTER launch. 2 - Tons of games use EOS (not to be confused or conflated with EGS, which is the launcher you're referring to) but don't require creating an account or giving EOS unnecessary access to your Steam profile. 3 - Most games that use EOS don't require it to be installed in order to play the single player part of the game. EDF 6 will not run at all without EOS installed. It will crash/close-out and throw a validation error. There are more reasons, but these are the biggest ones. "Although EDF6 DOES implement it so badly that the Epic overlay crashes laptops if the screen is... Set to borderless window or something?" This has nothing to do with EOS. This was an AMD driver issue that is being resolved by AMD as quickly as they can. Pro-tip: Before shilling for Epic, make sure you're not going to look like a bootlicking shill. Tim "Swindler" Sweeney is a piece of sh!t for a lot of reasons, almost all of them related to his childish hate and tantrums about Steam. Defending him in any way is a big no-no.
@@skyesfury8511 "Everyone who isn't as hysterical as me is a shill" is my favorite way for other people to discredit themselves. When did I say I was some kind of huge Epic fan? I just don't care, man. I have better things to do than get emotionally invested over the PC equivalent of the console wars. Who even cares this much about Tim Sweeney? All CEOs of large companies are trash. All large companies are trash. What does being indifferent to a product have to do with having some weird parasocial attitude toward some guy who owns a bunch of stuff and doesn't do much of value? Valve isn't your friend either. Besides. All I ever saw on the EDF6 Steam forums were "china spyware ree", so that's what I talked about.
@@FelisImpurrator "Everyone who isn't as hysterical as me is a shill" When you have to lie about what someone has said, you've already lost. "is my favorite way for other people to discredit themselves." The irony of you accusing someone else of discrediting themselves after you lied about the person you threw the accusation at. "When did I say I was some kind of huge Epic fan?" Oh, I see, so since you didn't come right out and say you're an Epic shill, that must mean you're not one. Even though you're behaving like one. "I have better things to do than get emotionally invested over the PC equivalent of the console wars." That rings hollow after the comment I replied to previously. Even more hollow after I clearly struck a nerve. "Who even cares this much about Tim Sweeney? All CEOs of large companies are trash." People who don't want to see the gaming industry turned to sh!t care. And while all CEOs are trash, only Swindler Sweeney has gone out of his way to try to pick fights with Steam. When he launched his failed store (EGS) he specifically called out Steam and said he was going to create a platform war with Steam. Trash CEOs are a dime a dozen, but Swindler Sweeney makes Kotick look like a saint. So to answer you asinine question again: People who don't want to see the gaming industry turned to sh!t care. Run along, tourist.
Try Omno for a game with sand serfing - not for the series (it's 92% positive), but for yourself Also, for a game with 18 reviews on steam it's weird that yours is a second video about Dead by death I saw. I guess it's the name that allures people))
I loved EDF 6 over 4.1 and 5, most of the negative reviews is the blah blah blah epic games, which space marines 2 also has and also did the same thing of not mentioning it because it will tank sales, this is where steam reviews becomes a issue, does it have denuvo- it'll have negative reviews for that, does it link to a 3rd party like ubisoft/epic/bethesda launcher- it'll have negative reviews about that, is the dev done with the game and it is completed and they have moved on to something else, they'll be reviews saying 'abandoned game' this one is rare to see outside of early access, which isent completed but i have seen it. These have nothing to do with the actual game yet it massivly effects review score BUT it is info that is needed in case you refuse to play games with denuvo ect, but if you dont understand why something requires this then think of it from a greed standpoint and from a 'contractual obligation signed by ceo' standpoint.
This fits my now ancient memory of Party of Sin. It was very much a product of its time, an early developer's not well enough polished XNA project. The concept was sound, but the action itself just wasn't satisfying. I do want to recall liking its soundtrack through.
Frostbitten feels very inspired by Dr Who's Angels, which I think can be great if executed well. hope they give it another try some day. Great video, love seeing some of these lesser known games.
Is it possible to see which games have the most contentious reviews? ie approximately equal favorable and negative but high numbers of both. Also it would be interesting to see which games changed the most after launch, that is launched very favorably but then had most reviews turn negative (or vice versa).
The people saying EDF 6 doesn't have many upgrades over EDF 5 are new to the franchise. EDF 4.1 was EDF 3's sequel. EDF 6 is EDF 5's sequel. I'm sure you can see the pattern. EDF 7 will see the improvements people are expecting (though many tourists don't understand that Unreal 4 or higher graphics means you can't do the massive hordes of enemies that EDF is known for: see EDF Iron Rain where they attempted to use the Unreal Engine). EDF is a long running franchise whose fans appreciate what it is: an homage to 1950s/60s campy B movies. The devs are not seeking to be next COD/Battlefield or DOOM or Crysis. They've found something they're great at and they lean into it. A lot of new people coming into EDF with 6 look at the previous titles (without playing them) and don't see the improvements that been made.
Yeah the differences between 5 and 6 are kinda crazy, sure if you look at screenshots it all just looks the same but the graphics are definitely far better but still bad enough that the game can handle hundreds and hundreds of enemies and effects at once. I'm like 110 missions deep and I haven't seen the FPS tank once on PS5 even when the entire screen is ants, robots and fireballs. It's also worth mentioning that every map is absolutely massive, sure most of it is copy and pasted buildings but the end result is still a legit city sized city, you can even go up the stairs outside apartment buildings for a real sense of the scale. And all these buildings can be destroyed, you can level the entire city. Games like EDF are why I'll never buy in to the realistic graphics BS, you could never have games as insane as this with hyper realistic graphics. Notice how ever single major battle sequence in a high spec game is just a bunch of set animations happening in the distance rather than a real active battle.
@@mrcheesemunch The way they reuse maps is also extremely well done. They reuse a few city maps multiple times, but because of where you start, and where the majority of the action takes place, most people won't ever realize they're on the same map they've played on eight times already. And yea, some maps are absolutely insanely huge. Conflict on the Plains (i think that's name?) map is monumentally massive.
@@PlasticCogLiquid That was my first reaction, too. But Son has done justice to titles in the past when they're on these lists, and I think he gave EDF 6 a fair shake on this.
love the channel my man, i do want to say the tall letters are hard to read, they hurt my ape brain when i struggle to read it. Also that old techo music SLAPPED. i loved hearing it inbetween games, please bring it back for the love of FSM.
Keep doing great work my boy and you’re making your mom proud. Also interesting to see how bad these games are but also see how you give them some positive feedback towards them too. I raise you right.
Played Party of Sin after Trine and Trine 2 when I was looking for similar games (there are surpisingly few, even today)... Yeah, safe to say I didn't think very highly about it.
Umbrella Corps is one of the absolute worst I played on Steam. On one computer it was so unresponsive to the controls with massive lag. But on another computer, it simply played better with not great mechanics. The worst part is it's technically an Resident Evil game. I actually won my Steam copy with a few other Capcom games from someone's stream. I highly prefer Strider reboot which I also won from the same stream. Umbrella Corps is everything you don't want in an RE game.
earth defense force 6 is basically edf 5 what if because it adds a time travel storyline which is actually really well done, it takes place basically in 3 timelines, what i call the bad future, edf 5 and the good future, each side the humans and aliens are trying to alter the past to wwin the war essentially, you were mean't to play edf 5 first
Frostbitten.......a Blink Mechanic!??!?!?? YOU'RE KIDDING ME!!!!!! LMAO. This just leaves me picturing somebody purposely opening their eyes as wide as possible looking ridiculous.
Huge fan of the channel. Here are some suggestions for the next video: * Two Worlds II HD * Wanderlust: Rebirth * Home (release 31 Aug 2012) * Guncraft * The Bureau: XCOM Declassified I would definitely like to hear what you think about these ones in a future vid :)
Earth Defense Force 6... Sad to see it here, but it's where it belongs. This didn't cover the major reason people were so upset: On being released, it was more or less more of the same as 5. That's fine tbh. All of EDF was essentially building upon what was already there. But they also changed the stream info post-release to mention it required an Epic Games Store account in order to play multiplayer. This was never mentioned until post-release. This blindsided everyone who pre-ordered, which was a not-insignificant portion of the fanbase, myself included. We are upset not just that we're required to make an outside account, but because we were outright lied to. It's worse then Helldivers in that regard, as at least they were open about how the requirements for a Sony account would eventually be implemented. I struggle to play this series now without a very sour taste in my mouth, and I hate that because this is an amazing game series for some braindead fun with some light strategic planning. This is a black mark that's going to be remembered by everyone who felt that the company had done people wrong.
Human or Virus's models and names for the "Phase" and "Belica" characters were ripped straight from Epic Games' free asset pack released after the characters' original game, Paragon, was shut down. There is currently actual games using these models faithfully instead of for chinese slop
Thank you for another thoughtful and well-researched video!! Please please change your title card font though, I beg. Watching on the TV, I can't even read them unless I squint - it's super unpleasant to force my eyes into submission to read them
By the way if you want to play that zombie game go play world war z third person zombie shooter. Its basically left 4 dead. Its the same game conceptually but world war z is actually good. They made tech for the game. Where hundreds of zombies will climb on top of each other like in the movie. Its really dope to see. And theyre currently using in the space marine 2.
Great video as always, great thoughtfulness and analysis as usual, but if I may give a criticism on this particular video, I find the vertically wide text used to show the name of the game is really hard to try and read, and in my opinion doesn't look that great stylistically. This is probably a one-video choice anyway, but I thought I should leave it in case other people experience a similar issue with reading it.
Thanks for mentioning aidio surf, I've been trying to remember what that name was called for years so I could play it again. It used to have a vice grip on me as a kid.
if you like the premise of sand to surf you should check out Journey its a great game with a similiar premise (im pretty sure it was STS's inspiration) but its brought to perfection
I think what bugs me most about Dead by Death is the lazily made player model, with his mechanical arm always facing the player, no matter if he's facing left or right. This must be either a cheaply purchased asset or the work of a very lazy in-house artist. Why not make a symmetrical player model instead? That way you can easily mask your laziness
Those weird images in the Robowars intro reek of slightly modified AI images to me. Someone generated it, then maybe cleaned up the more egregious oddities in photoshop or something similar.
Life Forge is the worst game i've played on steam. I literally couldnt even pass the first screen because it froze and glitched every time. After 3 or so years i tried again and was now stucked in the first quest lol
me trying to ignore the fact that the sins already have demons that represent them and that Satan is Wrath's and Lucifer is Pride's so I don't get peeved off by the premise of party of sin
I'm reasonably sure that the confusion with the title of Dark Daemon is due to the blackletter font they used. I think many years ago I had the exact same one and was frustrated that the k they used doesn't really look like a k if you aren't familiar with it
God, idk why but when the random anime kid with a gun showed up in dead by death I brusted out laughing, is so goofy i don't know 😂 maybe it's not a good game, but god that was funny
Honestly? When I saw Epic being "required" I thought I missed something. Then I saw it was kept secret until release. And then I just shrugged and still had an amazing time playing the game. It's not really required unless you want to play online co-op, which I absolutely don't care about.
What's the worst game you've played on Steam? 🎮
I have many "steam page deleted" games that have impossible-to-verify user rating.
But from those that still sell seems to be the one rated most Negatively.
GTA online
Abermore
but its a fun game
just broken
I almost wanted to buy Dead Matter
Dodged a bullet on that one
Probably Johnny Graves - The Unchosen One. It's a little action game made by a (now shuttered, as far as I can tell) Finnish game company Stupid Stupid Games. It had a lot of promise at first but it was published in a state that feels unfinished - barely any enemy variety, poor sound design, overcooked dialogue, and it's over in a couple of hours, too. It's a big shame it turned out like it did, the worldbuilding was pretty good during Early Access (though not much of it shows in-game either). It was supposed to be bundled with a short story ebook as well but there was no marketing for it and the Steam store page has no mention of it. To top it off, it was poorly priced on release, 15€ on launch, though now it's only 3,30€.
Party of Sin’s Envy is really smart bc it sounds like they don’t do anything thus making you long for the qualities and abilities of the other sins
The phrase is also "Green with envy," so green eyebeams makes total sense
World Truck Racing gives me a PTSD flashback of AVGN’s review of a particular truck racing game with “Your Winner” text
Maybe this is a parody game of that game?
I have been playing Earth Defense Force 2025 (which is 4), on the Xbox 360 for years. It still has an active community. Something about the game just vibes with my autism. It is the game I have played the most in the past decade.
The thing that most amazes me about EDF is the hitboxes. Accuracy actually matters in this game because you have no idea how many times you will thread the needle and miss by literal inches cause the shot goes between all their legs or bullseye a lamp post / tree branch and blow yourself up or waste a long reload on your sniper.
ARE YA WINNING SON?
26:45 Is "crown vaccine" here a mistranslation of "coronavirus vaccine"? I think the description for the game indicated that a new coronavirus is the cause of the zombie outbreak.
Haven't watched this yet, but I do want to jump in and say how much I appreciate the amount of objective thought you put into these videos - they are very satisfying precisely because you do your best to look past the criticism that already exists and find some redeeming feature in each game, if there is one. Thank you for this series.
what a sweet lil boy
The reason the images in Robowars look so nonsensical is that they are AI generated slop.
I thought it said it was released in 2014. Was there some sort of update?
@@mattieglover2356 Good point! They might have added those cutscenes later or they just happen to paint with all the tells of AI - over sharpened edges, forms that make no sense, mismatched building styles and broken perspective. I'm thinking now it might just be the later.
Did the developers not thought of ENVY being able to take and use the powers of an enemy for a limited time? That would actually fit with the sin (A person lacks another's quality, skill, achievement, or possession and wishes that the other lacked it) and could be interesting in fights and even puzzles. Example there is a platform that is way to high for the other characters to reach, but there is this flying enemy near by so ENVY takes that enemies ability to Fly for a second which allows the player to reach that platform.
It fits, envy is commonly known as the green eyed monster
Dark Daemon's art style looks suspiciously ripped off from Darkest Dungeon.
That's true, it has that really dark shading and minimal features
I wouldn't be surprised if it was an actual rip-off of Darkest Dungeon
The skeletons around 13:00 are incredibly similar to ones in DD and I wouldn't be surprised if it was lifted/copied entirely.
China has a lot looser laws around copyright/patented stuff from what I remember, so they probably just ripped a bunch of assets since they can’t get punished for it
The art is obviously ripped off of Darkest Dungeon.
The sin game feels very 2004 in a way that 2024 games aren’t nailing INTENTIONALLY. The Badass Antiheroes Who Aren’t Your Daddy’s Protags, the two female characters being sexpot and cool alt girl, the platforming with a twist… it feels like a game I’d beg my mom for as a kid lol
The fact EDF's tutorial is too much fits the theme. Everything in EDF is too much lol
good point haha
Damn seeing EDF6 on this is wild, I just wanna say that it's an amazing game overall and if you play it on other platforms you don't need an Epic account at all, I've got it on PSN and it's a blast. Of the EDF's it has the most interesting and weird story of all BUT I would say if you've never tried EDF before, play 5 first. 6 Is the sequel(normally they aren't always connected) and you'll miss a ton of context for what's going on with 6.
Not to say it's some high concept art you simply won't be able to enjoy without playing 5 but a lot of 6 will seem weird if you don't, what it's going for is really cool and it works best if you understand the complete package.
Dead by Death feels like one of those projects that "hire" artists and programmers and pay in "exposure", hence the inconsistent art. I've had the displeasure of making assets for similar projects and usually it's one or two idea guys that get volunteers to work on the game and promise profit sharing once the game is published. At least from my experience, the idea guys always forget that their volunteers aren't paid and alienate everyone, which leads to a high turnaround.
Your own dumbass fault for working for exposure, if you did.
The title sounds like a band name from Myspace.
You also may not be able to read Simplified Chinese, but you could always throw their name into google translate to get the pinyin and that shouldn't be too bad to pronounce. Darf Daemon is by "Dōngfēng chuī" and Human or Virus's creator is "Zhōnghàolín".
5:10 Envy's power would fit then, seeing as jealousy is a green eyed monster.
Such a great series, Son. It doesn't get old. Frostbite makes me sad because it feels like it could have been a horror version of "Firewatch" which I really enjoyed.
My only critisism of this video is the title cards for each game is very bad the text really hurts my eyes trying to read it
Pretty sure they're a riff on a sort of ThorHighHeels visual style, but yeah, they don't really land.
Frostbitten's problem with picking up items is that the raycast condition on every frame is not setup correctly. Basically, you want the item to select when you look at it and deselect when you look away. The problem they're having is that it is a constant collision so it appears and disappears over and over again. What they should do instead is have a condition first and foremost to see if the item is locked. When i have done this, I have used and for that -- so the first condition is " if raycast is colliding and selected == null" Have and elseif for if the item is locked and the raycast is not colliding. That is where you remove.
Some pretty rookie stuff, but understandable problem to encounter. Anyway, the problem wasn't your positioning around the object, it was literally when you pressed the key. The process function is called on each frame -- each cycle of a thread of the processor to deliver a frame. It was rapidly disabling and enabling your ability to pick it up on a frame-to-frame basis. Not only no fun for the CPU performance of the game but also pretty trash to try to make work.
If anyone is working on their own game and needs to implement this, i would be happy to write you a demonstration in any language you want :) 🩷
I think the "Darf Demon" thing actually has to do with the font. There are versions of fraktur where tge k looks like that.
Yup, I got a bunch of old German books (pre 1930) that are all written in fraktur like that.
Correct, my copy of Mein Kampf has the ks written just like that.
@@d.s.8227 xDDDD
My immediate thought was the font choice probably caused the k to look like f. Especially since it was consistent, so probably not a typo.
This was my thought too, on an old PC I had fonts that were like this
Most of these look like baby's first Unity projects.
you know what I think could be a great addition to your series? I'd really appreciate a short section at the beginning of each game review where you summarise in a few words what the consensus seems to be on why the game has gotten negative reviews. like for ex "Most reviewers seem to have an issue with the poor optimisation, broken translation and lack of overall polish"; just a few words, enough to get an idea of why people disliked a game. because there are quite a few games that get bad reviews for something related to the dev team or publisher, or a decision around region pricing, stuff like that you know? where imo the bad review is warranted since there aren't many ways to voice your dissatisfaction as a player, but it's not necessarily linked to the game's quality itself. so yeah it'll still be super informative before you go into what you thought of the game to know why the majority of other players gave it a negative review. just a thought! i've been enjoying your series very much
Imagine giving a poor review to any EDF game that isn't Insect Armageddon... 🤣
It's literally just people who buy into five year old Epic Games Launcher conspiracy theories being mad. Although EDF6 DOES implement it so badly that the Epic overlay crashes laptops if the screen is... Set to borderless window or something?
@@FelisImpurrator "It's literally just people who buy into five year old Epic Games Launcher conspiracy theories being mad."
100% wrong. For numerous reasons. Here's a couple...
1 - There was no mention of Epic on the store page prior to 12 hours AFTER launch.
2 - Tons of games use EOS (not to be confused or conflated with EGS, which is the launcher you're referring to) but don't require creating an account or giving EOS unnecessary access to your Steam profile.
3 - Most games that use EOS don't require it to be installed in order to play the single player part of the game. EDF 6 will not run at all without EOS installed. It will crash/close-out and throw a validation error.
There are more reasons, but these are the biggest ones.
"Although EDF6 DOES implement it so badly that the Epic overlay crashes laptops if the screen is... Set to borderless window or something?"
This has nothing to do with EOS. This was an AMD driver issue that is being resolved by AMD as quickly as they can.
Pro-tip: Before shilling for Epic, make sure you're not going to look like a bootlicking shill. Tim "Swindler" Sweeney is a piece of sh!t for a lot of reasons, almost all of them related to his childish hate and tantrums about Steam. Defending him in any way is a big no-no.
@@skyesfury8511 "Everyone who isn't as hysterical as me is a shill" is my favorite way for other people to discredit themselves. When did I say I was some kind of huge Epic fan? I just don't care, man. I have better things to do than get emotionally invested over the PC equivalent of the console wars.
Who even cares this much about Tim Sweeney? All CEOs of large companies are trash. All large companies are trash. What does being indifferent to a product have to do with having some weird parasocial attitude toward some guy who owns a bunch of stuff and doesn't do much of value? Valve isn't your friend either.
Besides. All I ever saw on the EDF6 Steam forums were "china spyware ree", so that's what I talked about.
@@FelisImpurrator "Everyone who isn't as hysterical as me is a shill"
When you have to lie about what someone has said, you've already lost.
"is my favorite way for other people to discredit themselves."
The irony of you accusing someone else of discrediting themselves after you lied about the person you threw the accusation at.
"When did I say I was some kind of huge Epic fan?"
Oh, I see, so since you didn't come right out and say you're an Epic shill, that must mean you're not one. Even though you're behaving like one.
"I have better things to do than get emotionally invested over the PC equivalent of the console wars."
That rings hollow after the comment I replied to previously. Even more hollow after I clearly struck a nerve.
"Who even cares this much about Tim Sweeney? All CEOs of large companies are trash."
People who don't want to see the gaming industry turned to sh!t care. And while all CEOs are trash, only Swindler Sweeney has gone out of his way to try to pick fights with Steam. When he launched his failed store (EGS) he specifically called out Steam and said he was going to create a platform war with Steam. Trash CEOs are a dime a dozen, but Swindler Sweeney makes Kotick look like a saint. So to answer you asinine question again: People who don't want to see the gaming industry turned to sh!t care. Run along, tourist.
Skyesfury8511 is the least favorite son.
(new crown vaccine) = Novel coronavirus vaccine
I am glad he is still making these videos.
I'm glad he's still making them too
Holy shit party of sin
That was one of the first steam games I ever bought
I really hated it lmao
Becoming green with envy is a saying, so maybe thats why green beam? *shrug*
He envys buttons I guess
I also think of the phrase “little green eyed monster” :•)
Wait we didn’t end with “bye Dad” what gives Son? 😂
Or hi!
Our son left us. :(
Try Omno for a game with sand serfing - not for the series (it's 92% positive), but for yourself
Also, for a game with 18 reviews on steam it's weird that yours is a second video about Dead by death I saw. I guess it's the name that allures people))
I loved EDF 6 over 4.1 and 5, most of the negative reviews is the blah blah blah epic games, which space marines 2 also has and also did the same thing of not mentioning it because it will tank sales, this is where steam reviews becomes a issue, does it have denuvo- it'll have negative reviews for that, does it link to a 3rd party like ubisoft/epic/bethesda launcher- it'll have negative reviews about that, is the dev done with the game and it is completed and they have moved on to something else, they'll be reviews saying 'abandoned game' this one is rare to see outside of early access, which isent completed but i have seen it. These have nothing to do with the actual game yet it massivly effects review score BUT it is info that is needed in case you refuse to play games with denuvo ect, but if you dont understand why something requires this then think of it from a greed standpoint and from a 'contractual obligation signed by ceo' standpoint.
This fits my now ancient memory of Party of Sin. It was very much a product of its time, an early developer's not well enough polished XNA project. The concept was sound, but the action itself just wasn't satisfying. I do want to recall liking its soundtrack through.
You can feel the amount of work you put into these and I really appreciate you giving me something to drink a beer to and unwind with.
Frostbitten feels very inspired by Dr Who's Angels, which I think can be great if executed well. hope they give it another try some day. Great video, love seeing some of these lesser known games.
Is it possible to see which games have the most contentious reviews? ie approximately equal favorable and negative but high numbers of both. Also it would be interesting to see which games changed the most after launch, that is launched very favorably but then had most reviews turn negative (or vice versa).
I actually bought Darf Daemon just now for 5 bucks lol. I see it recently got updated and it genuinly has potential. 😂
Haven't played the September 3rd update, but if they can fix the translation issues and a lot of the bugs, I think it could be halfway decent.
The people saying EDF 6 doesn't have many upgrades over EDF 5 are new to the franchise. EDF 4.1 was EDF 3's sequel. EDF 6 is EDF 5's sequel. I'm sure you can see the pattern. EDF 7 will see the improvements people are expecting (though many tourists don't understand that Unreal 4 or higher graphics means you can't do the massive hordes of enemies that EDF is known for: see EDF Iron Rain where they attempted to use the Unreal Engine). EDF is a long running franchise whose fans appreciate what it is: an homage to 1950s/60s campy B movies. The devs are not seeking to be next COD/Battlefield or DOOM or Crysis. They've found something they're great at and they lean into it. A lot of new people coming into EDF with 6 look at the previous titles (without playing them) and don't see the improvements that been made.
Yeah the differences between 5 and 6 are kinda crazy, sure if you look at screenshots it all just looks the same but the graphics are definitely far better but still bad enough that the game can handle hundreds and hundreds of enemies and effects at once. I'm like 110 missions deep and I haven't seen the FPS tank once on PS5 even when the entire screen is ants, robots and fireballs.
It's also worth mentioning that every map is absolutely massive, sure most of it is copy and pasted buildings but the end result is still a legit city sized city, you can even go up the stairs outside apartment buildings for a real sense of the scale. And all these buildings can be destroyed, you can level the entire city.
Games like EDF are why I'll never buy in to the realistic graphics BS, you could never have games as insane as this with hyper realistic graphics. Notice how ever single major battle sequence in a high spec game is just a bunch of set animations happening in the distance rather than a real active battle.
@@mrcheesemunch The way they reuse maps is also extremely well done. They reuse a few city maps multiple times, but because of where you start, and where the majority of the action takes place, most people won't ever realize they're on the same map they've played on eight times already. And yea, some maps are absolutely insanely huge. Conflict on the Plains (i think that's name?) map is monumentally massive.
Seeing EDF on a bad games list is just straight bullshit.
@@PlasticCogLiquid That was my first reaction, too. But Son has done justice to titles in the past when they're on these lists, and I think he gave EDF 6 a fair shake on this.
I started with 2017, then insect armageddon. Played world brothers a bit, and enjoyed it for trying to lean into a silly direction.
dear mr. son,
thx for the vid.
best regards,
Thank you for watching!
Not the god damn gas bags again
"It's software and it happens to work and display images and react when you press buttons" - YouFavoriteSon. Put it on the box honestly. hahahah
love the channel my man, i do want to say the tall letters are hard to read, they hurt my ape brain when i struggle to read it. Also that old techo music SLAPPED. i loved hearing it inbetween games, please bring it back for the love of FSM.
Keep doing great work my boy and you’re making your mom proud. Also interesting to see how bad these games are but also see how you give them some positive feedback towards them too. I raise you right.
Glad you enjoy it!
Switch Galaxy Ultra reminds me a bit of Thumper. .. now I need to go play Thumper lol
Regarding Envy, the green beam is probably based on the saying “green with envy”.
Kinda weak, but it’s not just based on nothing at least.
I feel like world truck racing is just some meta joke about Big Rigs))
Thanks for playing our game, Frostbitten! ❤
Switch Galaxy Ultra is just an extravagant ratchet & clank grind rail section
Played Party of Sin after Trine and Trine 2 when I was looking for similar games (there are surpisingly few, even today)... Yeah, safe to say I didn't think very highly about it.
What hapenned to the "Hey dad" in the greeting? :C
It's pronounced the same way as "demon" I think.
This video could use some more ads, shill.
Oh boy I sure hope robowars isn't know for any piracy related reasons
Umbrella Corps is one of the absolute worst I played on Steam. On one computer it was so unresponsive to the controls with massive lag. But on another computer, it simply played better with not great mechanics. The worst part is it's technically an Resident Evil game. I actually won my Steam copy with a few other Capcom games from someone's stream. I highly prefer Strider reboot which I also won from the same stream. Umbrella Corps is everything you don't want in an RE game.
earth defense force 6 is basically edf 5 what if because it adds a time travel storyline which is actually really well done, it takes place basically in 3 timelines, what i call the bad future, edf 5 and the good future, each side the humans and aliens are trying to alter the past to wwin the war essentially, you were mean't to play edf 5 first
Frostbitten.......a Blink Mechanic!??!?!?? YOU'RE KIDDING ME!!!!!! LMAO. This just leaves me picturing somebody purposely opening their eyes as wide as possible looking ridiculous.
What happened to “hi dad”?
Huge fan of the channel. Here are some suggestions for the next video:
* Two Worlds II HD
* Wanderlust: Rebirth
* Home (release 31 Aug 2012)
* Guncraft
* The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
I would definitely like to hear what you think about these ones in a future vid :)
Earth Defense Force 6... Sad to see it here, but it's where it belongs. This didn't cover the major reason people were so upset:
On being released, it was more or less more of the same as 5. That's fine tbh. All of EDF was essentially building upon what was already there.
But they also changed the stream info post-release to mention it required an Epic Games Store account in order to play multiplayer. This was never mentioned until post-release. This blindsided everyone who pre-ordered, which was a not-insignificant portion of the fanbase, myself included.
We are upset not just that we're required to make an outside account, but because we were outright lied to. It's worse then Helldivers in that regard, as at least they were open about how the requirements for a Sony account would eventually be implemented.
I struggle to play this series now without a very sour taste in my mouth, and I hate that because this is an amazing game series for some braindead fun with some light strategic planning. This is a black mark that's going to be remembered by everyone who felt that the company had done people wrong.
Love your videos, but please change your font
Human or Virus's models and names for the "Phase" and "Belica" characters were ripped straight from Epic Games' free asset pack released after the characters' original game, Paragon, was shut down.
There is currently actual games using these models faithfully instead of for chinese slop
Thank you for another thoughtful and well-researched video!! Please please change your title card font though, I beg. Watching on the TV, I can't even read them unless I squint - it's super unpleasant to force my eyes into submission to read them
Dead by Death looks like a castlevania ripoff.
By the way if you want to play that zombie game go play world war z third person zombie shooter. Its basically left 4 dead. Its the same game conceptually but world war z is actually good. They made tech for the game. Where hundreds of zombies will climb on top of each other like in the movie. Its really dope to see. And theyre currently using in the space marine 2.
Great video as always, great thoughtfulness and analysis as usual, but if I may give a criticism on this particular video, I find the vertically wide text used to show the name of the game is really hard to try and read, and in my opinion doesn't look that great stylistically. This is probably a one-video choice anyway, but I thought I should leave it in case other people experience a similar issue with reading it.
It does say Dark Daemon, that’s what the “k” looks like in that particular black letter script. I’ve always found it confusing and weird.
Kinda wish there was a good game behind the story/concept for Party of Sin. Maybe i just eat demon slop up, but thats a banger storyline IMO
Human or virus seems like a big ripoff of World War Z the game 😂
It is it's literally the same game but worse in every single way.
@@habijjj haha absolutely
Thanks for mentioning aidio surf, I've been trying to remember what that name was called for years so I could play it again. It used to have a vice grip on me as a kid.
World Truck Racing looks like what Big Rigs might have been if it had actually made it out of alpha before the devs gave up.
My son! Always wonderful to see a new video. Very proud ❤️
Hey son are we getting an MGS 5 video?
of course
when it comes to world truck racing "zablokowany" means "locked" in polish. so yes, they were locked. xd
if you like the premise of sand to surf you should check out Journey its a great game with a similiar premise (im pretty sure it was STS's inspiration) but its brought to perfection
I think what bugs me most about Dead by Death is the lazily made player model, with his mechanical arm always facing the player, no matter if he's facing left or right. This must be either a cheaply purchased asset or the work of a very lazy in-house artist.
Why not make a symmetrical player model instead? That way you can easily mask your laziness
How do you go from well thought out videos and retrospectives to just a junk channel playing bad steam games
Those weird images in the Robowars intro reek of slightly modified AI images to me. Someone generated it, then maybe cleaned up the more egregious oddities in photoshop or something similar.
about thae Dark Daemon title, it appears to me they were using a fracture font, in which k f and s are VERY similar...
Thank you for this great viseo son. As you know, your mother and i recently got our first gaming pc so this has been very helpful.
The feeling of envy/jealousy is often called a "green eyed monster". Hence the green laser beams Envy shoots from her eyes.
Hey, son, what was the name of the 'Plants v Zombies'-like you played for this series that is in the tunnel w/ the Metro vibes?
if you're looking for dune surfing games sword of the sea is an upcoming title by giant squid that allows you to do just that! looks amazing too
Life Forge is the worst game i've played on steam. I literally couldnt even pass the first screen because it froze and glitched every time.
After 3 or so years i tried again and was now stucked in the first quest lol
me trying to ignore the fact that the sins already have demons that represent them and that Satan is Wrath's and Lucifer is Pride's so I don't get peeved off by the premise of party of sin
I'm reasonably sure that the confusion with the title of Dark Daemon is due to the blackletter font they used. I think many years ago I had the exact same one and was frustrated that the k they used doesn't really look like a k if you aren't familiar with it
14:45 Gunand wings was one of my favorite animes.
14:45
Hahahahahahahahahahaha. That character looks like something some anime kid made to show his inner demon
Chinese developers will always be interesting to me, solely because the industry was basically illegal in China until fairly recently
God, idk why but when the random anime kid with a gun showed up in dead by death I brusted out laughing, is so goofy i don't know 😂 maybe it's not a good game, but god that was funny
Dark Daemon is actually a great concept for a video game, I would play it a large amount if some more love was put into it.
Love these videos but you could definitely balance the audio a bit; the music stings between the videos are so loud sometimes.
where were u when world truck racing was in 10 worst steam games.
I was in room when I learned of kill
No
Bro, YT trynna keep me away from my favorite son. Unsubbed me and all.
poor EDF6. They didn´t say a thing about EPIC till release.. Trust was instant gone pooof.
It was a real shame because the game was actually fun
@@YourFavoriteSon1 If you liked the gameplay, you'll probably like the previous mainline entries as well.
Honestly? When I saw Epic being "required" I thought I missed something. Then I saw it was kept secret until release. And then I just shrugged and still had an amazing time playing the game. It's not really required unless you want to play online co-op, which I absolutely don't care about.
Howdy partner I’d love to see a retrospective of the Rachet and clank games ❤
Earth defense is the first game I actually bought and love from this video series lmaoo
It uses gothic script, so as far as I can tell it does indeed say "Dark", not darf.
Earth Defence Force was so good on the xbox, it kinda just died out later on
Seeing those plants vs zombies clips made me want to fire it up again lol 🔥
As bad as that racing game is, it's not as bad as Big Rigs, that game is a clusterfuck
It would’ve been so good if there was sudden Concord in this video.
First game on the 'worst reviewed steam games' is a mixed review game? Wut?