If there's one thing that amazes me about this game it's that the voiceover artist for the intro was able to put emotional gravitas into her performance despite the fact the script was a series of completely nonsensical statements jammed together.
why these people tend find more work later if you going be VO at lease do your job, even if the script is total none sense, anime dubbing in a nutshell lol
That dungeon at the end broke my heart. That's 100% a quit moment. When you queue into a dungeon expecting group content only to become a tourist watching someone over double your level oneshot everything.
@@Orinslayer So that lvl 43 player was literally running that dungeon over and over, just trying to grind to get to the end game?... I have to give it to Koreans, they have the ability to soldier thru the most MEH content imaginable.
@@DustinBarlow8P I find that Asian players, and developers, don't really understand the point of an MMO; that dungeon was pretty much a testament to that since none of them spoke to one another, none waited for the other players and there were no tactics. They treat MMO's like dungeon crawlers, or a MOBA, like Diablo or League of Legends. The game could fix this by level-locking, or level-balancing, the dungeons.
The fact i cant stop watching reviews about games i couldn't care less about is a testament of Josh's charisma. Genuinely entertaining personality. I'm sure you were the favorite teacher :D
Josh would make a great JRPG title-maker. Or Fighting Game edition namer for that matter. (please explain to me what "Under Night In-birth Exe:Late" or "Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code" mean)
I actually realized mid-video that it's most likely limited to something like 5 Korean characters and no one ever thought that it may not be enough in a latin alphabet
@@ienzeNo, read the message closely. He can't have "ri" in his name. So every time he put in "Strife," it saw the "ri" and told him no. It's so much dumber than just names being taken, or character limits.
I enjoy this series, but I feel like it has somewhat become an exercise in Josh Strife Hayes trying to come up with as many ways as possible of explaining the mediocrity of modern gaming. I don't know of another channel that has so many comparisons and similes for the experience of "okay." 😄 Keep up the great work as always, though. 👍
Well.. He did it... So here we go. 0:46 Bless Unleashed on the PC 0:49 Bless Online 0:53 Bless Unleashed Unreal Engine 3 Version 0:59 Bless Eternal 1:04 Unreal Engine 4 Remaster of Bless Unleashed 8:44 Bless Unleashed Remastered 4.0 9:32 Bless a Realm Unleashed 9:53 Bless of Blesscraft 12:52 Bless Unbowed Unbent Unbroken 16:23 Bless Unplugged Raw 20:34 Bless Ultra Deluxe DX 22:02 Bless Ultimate Team 22:45 Bless Until Dawn 25:15 Bless Under the Sea 28:12 Bless Uncharted 29:06 Bless Undivided 29:58 Bless Underworld 32:15 Bless Unavailable in your Country 33:10 Bless a Theif's End 33:49 Bless.... Unfulfilling (?) 34:30 Bless Unremarkable 34:44 Bless Unchained 36:36 Bless Unashamed 39:37 Bless Under-dark 39:59 Bless Uncrustable
11:08 quick correction, the symbols above player's head is actually Chinese and it says "懒得想名字啊" which translate into "too lazy to think of a name" for both his guild and his player name. 233 at the end means laughing in Chinese Internet slang (kinda like lol in English), imagine the 2 as the butt and 33 as the gas. Source: I'm Chinese
Actually, unironically yes. Even though I don't believe that wasn't intentional, as the Mike Sully face swap is the most boomer of memes these days, I'd rather read a legal or technical document by someone who feels like a person. This is the entire reason XIV's letters from the producer work so well, is the staff feels like they're genuinely people who enjoy games, and are excited to talk about their game.
@@TheDapperDragon This, absolutely this. I hate when corporate stuff makes things overly formal, it just creates this wall between the business and the customer.
@Dee I will always respect devs who show a more human side rather than just being 100% business all the time. Some of my favourite devs are ones who aren't super serious all the time and actually interact with their community often.
I understand where you guys are coming from - it's nice to get something *from a human* - but on the other hand, the "Hello , it's been a long time" heavily faked personal letters really turn me off. I'm not sure where Monsters Inc avatar falls on that line for me, but it's not that great. Maybe a personalized in-game character model, instead?
i think the audio balancing is quite realistic if you're the solider at the very back of the formation listening to some leader you never met in person give some speech and you're like "i dunno wtf he just said but okay RAHHHHH!!!"
@@no_idea8012 The music is that song that's always in your head when you're bored and trying to disassociate, the horse is that noise that snaps you back to reality.
well in your rank of 20 dudes, which isnt quite an army or a formation is it - i always found it silly to have the bad ass general leader dude hold a speech to like two dozens of identical soldiers - and yes i realize it is probably a limitation of the game, but maybe you shouldnt integrate those scenes then or find a way around it, they are not an army, they are barely a gang of sword swingers with identical outfits
"When you start valuing jokes more than making content that fits your game, your game turns into a container for jokes, and, eventually, the jokes overflow the content and the game becomes one massive joke itself." I really wish more content creators would have figured this out by now.
Ya agree, I got nothing wrong with cosmetic items, but when you start adding bikinis, swim shorts, maid outfits, school uniforms, clown outfits well it just gets a bit stupid especially when all the horny fucks start running around with female characters in bikinis and over half the game's pop is just female characters wearing bikinis. I still remember Bless Online when everyone only used 1 combat pet out of the literal thousands of options the succubus, I'd be at the market selling items and all I'd hear is the succubus pets of 100+ people sexually moaning 24/7 like I was in some sex dungeon really ruins the immersion of the game.
I like the part where they actually leave him an enemy to hit and he's so down he simply misses it twice... just an experience of "this is not a party for me". Worst experience in any MP game.
Sometimes I miss an episode of Worst MMO Ever because I thought I already saw it because all these MMOs are so generic, I can't tell them apart. It's like finding 10$ in an old pair of pants when I find an episode I missed. Josh is the most super special magic awesome UA-camr~
As someone who lives on the coast in scotland, the seagull quest is very accurate. Seagulls are the rats of the sky and if you do not have any edible offerings for them - or if you withhold your food from them - they will attack without prejudice. One almost tore my thumb off in its quest to steal the piece of mango that was on the end of my wooden knife, then it stood there with the knife in its beak, my blood dripping from its feathers, and stared at the rest of my fruit. All I could do was run away. (this is a dramatised version of a real thing that happened to me lmao, I understand the girl's fear 🤣)
"He challenges Deanna to roll initiative. This doesn't seem too bad until he explains they'll be playing 4th Edition and then we all start panicking." The delivery on this absolutely sent me.
@@youtube-kit9450 I think it's mostly because Wizards of the Coast saw how popular MMOs were, so decided to shove MMORPG-flavored changes into D&D... sideways.
INTERRUPT! FREE ACTION! Several hours later... lol. Still, it was fun how crazy the power creep could get. Thankfully we mostly did RP and navigation encounters, leaving combat to the more epic build-ups.
@@youtube-kit9450 TL:DR will be at the bottom 4e is the combat edition. Fun if you like fighting, not so much if you want to roleplay too. It had the standard actions (Major, Minor, Movement, Free, etc) that you could do each turn, but you could do a ton more with those actions naturally as every class. On top of that classes had even more designed roles in combat then other editions, it's where terms like Striker, Controller, Defender, and Leader popped up with D&D. Classes had a role and it was harder to escape it. It also added Powers to each class that made them Psuedo-Spell Casters, such as: At-Wills (Minor powers with weaker boons that you can cast every round as long as you have the action (Cantrips)), Encounter Powers (Middling powers that are relatively strong but you can only do once per encounter (Spells that can only be used once per fight instead of relying on spell slots), and Daily Powers (Extremely strong powers with either great damage or boons, but can only be used once per day (Most traditionally like spending a spell slot, but only for that specific spell)). Each class usually had 3 At-Wills, 2 Encounters, and 1 Daily at low levels and gained more as they got higher in level. On top of that it was easier to get a lot of health in 4e, as well as to heal without a healer (Dwarves had a feat that let them use their health dice to heal when taking the dodge action for example.) With all of this Combat was a lot more dynamic and flashy, and honestly kinda fun when handled well, but it would often grind to a slow halt because enemies had to be strong enough to withstand it and give back about as much. So a lot of fights turned into slapping matches of who could withstand the other's powers/out last their resources while having inflated hp pools/defenses. Then the final nail in the coffin was that, as the Combat Edition, RP took a massive back seat as far as core rules went. Yeah, you could do RP stuff, and some classes had RP buffs like Paladins which had some powers that boosted diplomacy a lot, but for the most part everything revolved around combat and the new At-Wills/Encounters/Dailies. So if you liked combat you were set, but if you wanted a bit more RP meat in that Battle Soup (Like most people did) you were a bit more out of luck without Homeruling and heavy DM effort. TL:DR 4E was all about combat, Classes were locked even harder into specific roles (Striker, Controller, Defender, Leader), it introduced a lot of mechanics like At-Will Powers (Weak), Encounter Powers (Middling), and Daily Powers (Extremely Strong), and enemies were often buffed to handle said powers leading to inflated fight times. Mix that in with how little 4e really supported RP or outside combat situations and you have people who over all dislike it for those reasons.
For me, when I first installed Bless Unleashed earlier this year, it automatically put me on the Korean servers. You have to change the server on the launcher - the EU community was vaguely helpful, and they go around killing the bosses quite regularly when there's a callout in chat.
It's understandable it may be the default but with simple code you can set the default, on the first launch, to the server with less ping. Online games often do this so your experience isn't ruined by lag, or in some cases, people who don't know your language enough to even type in chat to 'change region in launcher to join EU server #n'.
@@Sorrowdusk i would say it probably was, given that you could see a bunch of weird sliding around at times as well as attacks and their hit confirmation being a little delayed from each other
That is not what whelm means. Whelm is like "overwhelm" but typically not in the same figurative use for "total defeat" - it means to cover in water or be submerged. Good cut, though. Keep swinging that bat.
Just wanted to say I haven't seen all of the playlist but this is his best script so far. The nuance, the subtle humour, the ineffable delivery... :chefs kiss: Perfection.gif
@@thaias9654 Whelming = Intensity Ie. Overwhelmed could be "Drained (Overwhelmed) from too much stress," or "Enemy forces greatly overpower/outnumber (Overwhelm) the defenders. Underwhelmed could be "That performance brought out little joy (Underwhelming)," or "The enemy's RPG-7 did very little (Underwhelming) damage to our tank."
Fun fact: you can skip that 15 second cut scene if you wait in the doorway, as long as someone walks in and gets the cutscene everyone else can attack and completely kill Klu before it ends.
The actual dungeon itself seemed pretty cool, with the kitchen theme and unique enemy designs, its just a shame it wasn't scaled at all and was being run by bots There's something uniquely sad about good design in an MMO going to waste like this
Yeah the overall game looks interesting actually, it’s just empty. The weird audio balancing is something I see all the time in AAA games lol, especially if dubbed into a foreign language (which I assume this might be). Pulling mechanics from Dark Souls or other games that are in vogue right now is pretty normal for big name games too, and often adds to the game.
He did the tutorial version of that dungeon the game scales all dungeons do very hard and the world bosses are very challenging Josh did not do a good job reviewing this game he barley got out of the tutorial there's over 50 world bosses all uniquely designed not copy and pasted it's a very good game tbh it died more so after the devs sold the game to a new publisher and everyone jumped ship as both publishers have a bad reputation for closing a game. People don't want to wast time with a game if it's going to close on them. Proof to what I say is it was ranked really high right before thus happend
@@modernlegend_gaming Thing is it fails as a tutorial if you never get to experience any mechanics, because they let an over leveled character in, that can just face roll the keyboard and succeed. It similarly would be useless for the high level to learn anything to prepare for a level scaled version.
I felt the disappointment as soon as that dungeon run happened. Any MMO I've tried to get into that allowed higher level players to just run it through with the new players, the fun immediately disappears. I've got my head tilted, resting in hand, clicking to keep up, doing nothing, and waiting for it to be over. Awful experience, and a definite quit moment for me.
Happens in ESO sometimes. When they get mad at me for not keeping up with them I get so close to flaming them. They do the group finder dungeons for the bonuses. They could just find the dungeon themselves on the map, but they don't. They squeeze out every minescule bonus they can and make the experience awful for everyone else. Thankfully, I've had experiences in dungeons that were much better. Have had many many people carry me and my friend through some very difficult dungeons. They've been very nice in the chat too, so it far offsets the one absolute douche canoe.
the only time I enjoyed a dungeon run like that was in WoW, and that was specifically because my guild leader helped me through a low-level dungeon so I could get all the loot without having to fight any of the trash mobs because I was the only person who'd turned up for a guild dungeon night and she didn't want me to leave empty-handed
I think FFXIV handles this the best of the current mmos but even it can suffer from "speedrun syndrome" with the wall to wall pulls and such. Thankfully the sprout system and overall friendly community minimize the issue.
This looks pretty mechanically impressive for an mmo, in particular I liked that some guy randomly helps you with that wolf, presumably because he was also doing the quest and you could both do it easier. The dynamic instance is also very impressive. It's a shame it doesn't have enough oomph to stick the landing, would love an mmo where the world isn't completely dead v:
Technically impressive, and looks good... Also Korean MMOs always LOOKED league above the rest, like I've seen games that had entire armies rendered way better than in either Western or Japanese strategies. Shame they almost never have decent translation.
I played it back in the beta, then a little after launch. As far as the actual combat and things go, it's good. I enjoyed it. The problem, is that during the beta, everyone worked together. It was a surprise really, everyone worked together to fight big bosses, people were healing each other even though they were just randoms in the world, people were actually having legit conversations in the chat about the game and world (helped that mods/devs were in chat asking for opinions). It was just a great time all around. But then the full release happened. Open world PvP was hard to avoid, and super annoying. People barely worked together anymore once you got past the super early tutorial area. The whole game just instantly lost the charm it had, entirely down to the playerbase expanding and changing. Which sucks, but the game during beta, was great. I loved it. I was super excited when the full release happened, had it installed day-1, ready to go. But...nah. It was nowhere near as fun as the beta was. Like, once the beta ended and the full game came out, it just stopped feeling like it's own thing and started feeling like every other generic MMO. A fairly high quality generic MMO, but still a generic MMO, complete with pointless nothing quests, every player ignoring every other player, and ridiculous costume sets that look absolutely ridiculous and ruin the aesthetic of the game.
24:01 Actually, there's one thing I really appreciate when I see it implemented in worlds with fixed enemy levels. And that is low-level enemies should feel threatened by out presence and shouldn't attack on sight. Preferably stepping a bit away when you are too close, but whatever. There's nothing more annoying than a level 2 wolf in a starting area attacking you. Hilarious, but annoying as hell. Especially when game have mounts, but drop you from a mount whenever there's an enemy nearby aggro at you or swift enough to hit you. And in some games this gets even worse when you are in a group and game un-mounts everyone in a group as soon as someone triggers a combat.
WoW has aggro enemies reduce aggro radius the higher your level. If your level is high enough it won't aggro until you walk up to it. FFXI has mobs that con as "Too weak to be worthwhile" and won't attack you unless you got enmity from resting near them or heal someone else who had enmity.
@@shirrenthewanderer414 FF14 has neutral enemies and aggressive enemies. The neutral ones never attack you unless you attack them, and aggressive enemies always attack you, unless you are at least eleven levels above them, then they will ignore you until you attack them.
Hell, the first MMO I ever played, City of Heroes, set the standard for me on this. Enemies that are too low level to be considered a challenge don't aggro unless you attack them, which made perfect sense to me. If a level 1 gang member sees a level 20 superhero going by, he's going to stand there quietly hoping not to draw attention.
Regarding 39:06 : In my experience the only MMOs where people sit and kill the mobs are the ones that force the group to kill the mobs before they can move forward through various barriers. Even in GW2 fractals people just run past enemy groups because it's faster and it makes for garbage first time runs for people when match making. It's like every MMO is stuck in the past and nobody wants to have discussions on how to move forward with some of the obvious flaws that exist for at least 2 decades now.
I don't think the genre as a whole needs to move past mob grinding. There are people who enjoy the mob camps and whatnot from the days of EverQuest, me included even though I'm a younger player. I think it's just a preference from player to player.
This is why I love FF14 raids. There isn't bs trash mobs, you just go and fight the boss which is what you wanted to do anyway. It also adheres to the "forced to kill mobs to progress" in dungeons but it's always set up so there are two packs of mobs before each boss so you can burn them down pretty quickly.
@@sillyredsheep2421 I'd say say those players ask what about it they are enjoying doing. I'd suggest there are better ways to improve the experience they want while also improving the experience of those that have no desire to "waste time". If it's a way of progressing solo there have to be better ways. If it's a way of being able to do something simple repetitive and turn the mind off after a long day and still make progress; ok then have it as a section of gameplay for this rather than pushing it everywhere.
@@lon8884 Shin Megami Tensei online did this well... sort of. When your gear isn't finished, which is essentially a lifelong task, any enemy can easily kill you, particularly because the wrong skill will reflect your damage back, and you can do substantially more damage than your health. When it is finished this only applies to the latest content. Enemies have different weaknesses and you may not have the skills to do it. You can have multiple demon partners to help you but raising them is a lengthy task.
38:03 you can see the exact moment Josh's heart sinks, as he realises that his party doesn't even consider the mooks worth their time as they sprint to the boss.
Fun fact, in the character creator on the xbox version, don't know about the rest, but we have a sort of character modeler, meaning you can move just about every part of whoever you've made to do funny poses, and I have made something in it that, ever time I looked at it,I'd break down laughing. Great times, 10/10
I thought Josh already mentioned before that he thinks early game raids/dungeons are a good idea since it gives people an idea what end game would be like.
I also think they're a good idea, based on my own experiences in Tera way before the game died. I went through non-endgame dungeons on some characters, and didn't on others, and I found that I had a far easier time in endgame if I had gone through earlier dungeons, because getting to max level grinding mobs or doing quests doesn't teach you how to play your class in a dungeon setting. going through dungeons does. and at the time I played Tera, there weren't any real punishments for dying before endgame, so if your party wiped in a dungeon the only thing you lost was the time spent in the run. it was a great way to learn dungeon mechanics and how to work in a team, before you got to the point where you'd be running into more serious players who just wanted to get their daily dungeon run over and done with
Maybe so, but not everyone who sees this video will have seen everything he's put up. Sure, it's a problem if you can tune out for half of every video because you could recite his lines in your sleep; at that point he'd just be padding his runtime.
At 11:25, that was either Japanese or Chinese names, there was no Korean in those. This might also explain the lag as most of the time servers will be assigned to the area they are actually physically NEAR, and if there are people from the other side of the world on a server, there likely are no separate servers so you were likely playing on a server located in Asia.
".... Tells her to roll initiative. Which doesn't seem like a bad idea until he informs us we will be playing 4E. At this point we start panicking." Lost it there, had to laugh out loud. Genius writing sir! (I also panicked and tried to remember how to calculate my Initiative in 4E....)
1d20+dex+1/2 level. People who pretend 4e was somehow mechanically confusing likely either never played it, played it in bad faiht, or played it with a bad DM.
@@MelissiaBlackheart I'll be playing 4e tomorrow. Have tried 5e, and it just feels like a toned down 3.5, while still somehow managing to have all the problems of 3.5. I get some people enjoy the more open system of 5e, but I'm largely sticking with 4e, it works for the group I play with far better.
@@MelissiaBlackheart Yeah, having played a lot of D&D, 4th is the only one I still generally consider good. Shame there's a lot of bad will towards it.
Hey Josh! I have a suggestion for an MMO you could try out: Silkroad Online. It was one of the first MMOs that I ever played back in 2006. The system was intriguing because apart from your class, you could be a trader and lead your own little caravan with good from one ingame city to another, you could be a thief, who was able to attack the traders or you could be a guard and protect the traders. Being a trader was awful, you got greifed by high level thiefs, the game was a botfest and the ingame economy was broken from the start...
the only reason that stopped me from playing iSRO is when we had the first “manual merge”. that time got busy really with real life forgot to do it manually HOOOF!! after i logged in some of my hard earned items were KAPusH!! the best experience i had was the caravan runs from jangan all the way up to hotan! with ur hands so sweaty waiting for high level thief with seal of sun set 😅 - troy server
What I love about this series is that when I see the game, I'm thinking I should try it, download it, and then find out I already played it. But apparently most of these are so forgettable... 🤣
And in this particular instance you probably didn’t even actually play this one but one or more of the other games by the same(ish) name from the same(?) company.
I had the same dungeon experience in ESO, queue, port in, rest of the group is already 3 packs ahead running to boss locations, 1 hitting mobs, after one of the bosses there was a cutscene, i watched, when it ended, the group was 2 bosses ahead. This in NOT how you do dungeons.
I've just resigned myself to this with PUGs, and then try to run them in story mode with guildies. I don't get people who skip all the stuff to loot either, especially in Aeylid dungeons. You can find furniture recipes in there that sell for 10M+. Take the couple of seconds to click on all the boxes, barrels, urns, etc.
When you're cp 2k+ and have ran the dungeons 100+ times on vet and hardmodes, you tend to not take your time trying to get your daily dungeons done on 5+ characters
Play veteran dungeons. It almost completely eliminates any rushers and even in the case of multiple wipes people, at least on the PC EU server, are still pretty chill.
I was about to suggest this, but then I realized what that would do to the internet... people would start to compare the values of the scores against each other... "Oh, Flying the eagles out of Mordor is lower than Ninja's in space but higher than Yugioh out of 10 so waffles are worthy and should be able to lift Thor's Hammer."
I put forth my vote for a review of Champions Online. Incredible character creation and customization, buggy, cheesy, jank, jank and more jank coupled with currency hell , lootboxes, monetization beyond monetization and only kept afloat by a semi small group of hardcore players who thrive on power fantasy and roleplay. Game has been in maintenance mode for years with the only new content being released centering around new cosmetics to buy via lootbox and the occasional class remix and rehashed events with rotating cosmetic rewards. Easily my guiltiest gaming pleasure.
Champions Online has some really entertaining quest lines that I will never complete because I rolled Grimoire which is apparently total garbage and the final encounter is always something that is mathematically impossible for me to beat at or even a little above level.
For what i received i passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the scriptures 1 Corinthians 15 3
6:50 "World's strongest bits of rope" Man those ropes quite strong to be able to hold them melons 12:45 "Slap the D, Pound the A" My man Josh killing me with the commentary
28:25 to be honest, yes. This is the kind of representation I want to see as a customer. Not from any company, but something like a game dev, forum moderation or that kind is completely fine for me. I play games for fun, why shouldn't patch notes or important game informations not be posted by some dude with a funny (dead, outdated or old, I don't care) picture/meme profile.
Its different when u are working for a company selling a product. He, at least, should have an avatar that represents the company, not a boomer meme. If you dress like a clown, people gonna expect a circus.
@@jackzera7356 Tell that to Yoshi P and the FFXIV devs. I'd rather Admins try to add a little of their personality to their work. It's more authentic than canned machine response code: 13107.
@@shinon748 You would appreciate the _Monster Manual 3_ and _Monster Vault_ books, then. The authors realized that people wanted shorter, more-intense fights (the idea had been "let monsters have enough turns to do cool stuff," but people weren't keen on the long fights that resulted), so the monster math from MM3 onward was recalculated. Lower defenses, lower HP, higher damage--monsters in general became much more threatening, while combats became faster (especially if you had a Warlord or Shaman to grant lots of attacks.) The "MM3 on a business card" came into existence for that reason, the new monster math was generally very well-received.
In defense of the Bunny suit, it's only really the mask, Not Like a full fursuit, so it's very reminiscent of the German Tradition of "Fasching", in which people Go through the streets wearing costumes. The Tradition comes from people wearing typically ugly masks in early spring to try to scare away the winter. It's a very cool tradition, and can be used to justify *some* seemingly Out place costumes in European Fantasy Stuff.
Germany also kinda has a tradition of waging massive wars with it's neighbors and genocide, so I don't think we should be using them as an example for anything.
@@karenwang313 idk man in comparison to Brittain or France we were pretty tame untill that one Austrian bloke. So, y'know Shut your gob. Also i'm from south Germany So Double shut your gob Fasching is fun.
I love that no matter what happens, as soon as “cabbage” is mentioned, almost everyone has the exact same idea come to mind. Thank you for showing us your culture Sir Hayes. I do so love the effort you put into these videos and even more importantly, your dialogue.
I think this was my first ever mmo, and I played it on launch on console with 2 buddies. I was mage, one was a berserker, and the other a support. I honestly thought I had a good time leveling with them, but it seems they changed a WHOLE lot from the console version. Leveling took FOREVER and we never felt like we made it to the "endgame". We couldn't figure out where it was. At one point the quests weren't leveling us up enough, and we're gatekept in the story. Nothing gave us exp, so we had to grind elephants in a pond in Navarra desert for hours, which everyone also seemed to be doing. After that, we continued the story, which started to feel repititive and samey, and reached around level 40, which was near the final zone at the time. Then everything kinda dulled down. I guess now I realize that was the endgame, and that's where we stopped. I had fun with the co-op and open world battles, the combat and classes had nice depth to them. Unfortunately the story was nothing spectacular and the quests started to just suck towards our end. Lastly, the gear upgrading system, although we didn't really go deep into it, was just 100% bad with weapons possibly breaking, having to use an expensive/rare item to repair, etc. I think after we tried that system, that was our final straw.
So it plays and looks like BDO? Pretty much the same experience. Endgame outside of world pvp is literally everyone grinding the same mobs in the same area for fractions of xp points. And the gear upgrades having high potential of breaking your gear. No dungeons either
Damn, you got to level 40? I stopped after having to grind anacondas in a jungle area for TWO DAYS just to get from level 18 to 20! I think the most fun I had with this game was during the Beta when the tentacle things came out of the sky and spawned high level monsters. It didn't matter what level you were, you could fight and help others and I kinda had fun getting obliterated. One swipe from a monster would one-shot a bunch of players at once. Everyone was just there doing their best and helping each other and having a fun time.
The first few times when he changed the name of the game I didn't realize he was doing it until it started getting weird, but it was always funny to hear what he would call it next.
Y'know, the first time I saw this series was after playing, and stopping, this game. I've longed for this to be on the channel forever. I knew it belonged here.
That review score is pure evil. Thank you for doing this, now I know that I really did not miss anything by skipping Bless... Something or other after the whole Bless crash of 2018.
thank you for taking the time to go over what this game does well! i noticed you started doing that more after the realm of the mad god mess and i very much appreciate it
Man.. opening UA-cam and seeing a new 'Worst MMO Ever' just makes my day. This one was one of the best.. on point humor and very entertaining. I enjoy all your stuff, but this is your best content IMO.. 41 Minutes of greatness.
It would be great if we can have some sort of a "tier" list or something that has all the games you've played on this series so far. Categories like: enjoyable, so close, predatory, unplayable mess, or things of this nature would work well here. It would be fun to see the list expanding with each new game being added to the list and showed maybe at the end credit :)
I actually put a little over 1600 hours into this game. 😅 It was a pretty awesome experience, and as you played higher dimensional dungeons, the difficulty was really enjoyable to grind with friends. (Similar concept of mythic+ in WoW) I also smoked a lot of weed at the time, so the grind wasn't the worst. 😅 Its one of those games where you actually got to experience your grind seriously developing your character. Items could be purchased; however it involved selling on the market and grinding your heart out to obtain currency unless you were an RMT'er. The real development of a character was getting the skill points from a separate "SP" experience bar that was rewarded for quest completion. At the end of the day. The devs did continue to harm the actual game itself. Nerf after nerf on progression led to most of the original people on the server switching to something new. However, if I found another game in the future similar to this one. (Most definitely not by Round 8 Studios) I would totally get into it!
Some fun things to note: The lv26 guy at 11:55 his name is "too lazy to come up with a name 233" or "cbfwithname233" and what I can only maybe imagine is his guild(?) name above it is named similarly "cbfwithname" The Lv17 archer's name at 36:54 is "Hey look there's an arrow over there" All the names appear to be Chinese Combat is pretty much Vindictus with right left combos and the occasional skill use Opening segment reminds me of Tera's original opening segment too where the game threw you in with a level 20 version of your class to kind of show what it can do (but never really explained how to use stuff so it confused the shit out of a lot of people) Otherwise this just feels like another soulless KMMO where they just keep rushing you along the main quest and keep doing what the game tells you to like the world's most boring rollercoaster ride where you get off now and then and an attendant comes and takes your hand to lead you to another, equally boring rollercoaster.
I remember playing this game, I was having fun but reached a terrible grind wall (around level 24?) after which I progressed through a quest and found myself needing to do a world boss Problem: it seems nobody else cares to go through the grind so there wasn't anyone to take on the world boss with :/
had the same experience then i figured id just wait to play it again when i saw the roadmap that mentioned a new class and then the class never came lol
I was enjoying the early-game experience well enough but I'm glad I watched this and caught the warning about the 'forced PVP at level 30' thing, saved me a lot of time and disappointment - though that dungeon experience looked so miserable I would probably have quit at that point regardless lmao
I grinded arena til rank 1, and even I didn't open world PvP very often. Mainly because the soy boys wished you death IRL repeatedly for being so much better than them. Most PvP was done on the beach deep within one of the later zones between people who wanted to fight. Past that; the only time you were killed in an earlier area was because you talked shit and decided to go participate in a world boss run with the community. I'd come hunt your ass down among 30 other people and most people wouldn't say nothing as world chat was for everyone; and they saw it coming. lol On the other side of that spectrum. If you weren't a pvp'er in that game and asked out for help. Myself and a handful of other people that loved pvp would come join you to gank whoever was being bloodthirsty that day. 😆
i quit it long ago but the forced pvp thing isnt actually at lvl 30 but rather its just some maps have pvp enabled if my memory serves right you also dont lose much? in my server there wasnt actually much people KoSing since they would have a killer debuff where people actually hunt killers because of rewards and you cant participate in a maps mini boss because a lot of people farm it and if you come there with a killer status YOU are the mini boss
Bless Unleashed...I loved it in the early betas and server tests. It was so good. Everyone was working TOGETHER, if someone tried to PVP, all of us PVE players would chase them down. We had ridiculous amounts of people fighting huge overleveled bosses. I was a healer when I played the beta, so I was in the backlines of the big boss fights, keeping everyone alive. Meanwhile the DPS and Tanks were reviving the healers that got knocked out. People actively chatted about THE GAME in the chat, and not JUST trading or insults. It was a ton of fun, it felt like the kinda thing I WANT out of an MMO. Everyone treating the game world with respect, and acting like they belong in the world...not running around with glowy pink outfits with 40ft glowing wings, and weird player built houses that don't fit, or people losing their mind at someone in chat. Almost everyone I came across was chill, and willing to cooperate and work together. It was amazing. But then the full game released. Pretty much ANY sense of community went out the window, and Open-World PvP became a huge annoyance. It just felt like every other MMO I've tried where...it just feels like a long series of THINGS happening, forced PvP ruining PvE player's fun, and the player characters look about as out of place as sticking a Lego character in a Call of Duty campaign. The big downside to me watching this video though, is now I wanna go back and give this game another shot. Except, I'm pretty sure the servers shut down not long ago. Which is kinda sad, because as a GAME, I really enjoyed it. Mechanically, the whole thing just felt good to me. It was really just the playerbase that ruined the fun. And that's not even something I can blame them for, or get mad at them for. When I say a lot of what I disliked about Blessed is how the playerbase was, with the PvP, and just...not trying to even attempt to fit into the world, I'm not saying that to mean "I dislike those people, how dare they ruin my experience." I 100% understand that my not liking what they did, is entirely my own opinion, and my own problem. I just don't really like that stuff, and it made the game less fun for me. If anything, I'd blame the game before the players, for even allowing it. -- It's also sad watching you fight that 11:00 wolf boss, almost by yourself. Back in beta and early launch, you couldn't walk past that wolf without seeing at least 15 other players kicking the absolute shit out of it every single time it respawned. -- I remember that ghost warden fight, it WAS pretty fun. I was lucky enough to do it with like 3-4 other players with me that just happened to be there at the same time.
This was a classic. 😂 Awesome that you’ve branched out, your other channel is great, but I gotta admit I do miss when you did this series a bit more frequently. Still, you do what works for you!
I know its not thought of as a typical MMO but I would love a Worst MMO ever on Destiny 2. Destiny 2 has made many changes to the game for the new player experience that I, as a veteran, haven't experienced.
tbf i do from time to time play destiny 2 and i am still baffled on the point of 'how the frick' does that game be anything financially viable with their constant deleting of prior content, it's the main thing that keeps me from ever buying a single expac for them since it's just 'play when it's live' which i just cannot get behind as live-service monetization, even gw2 got a ton of backlash for similar stuff with living world season 1 that they spent years reworking the stuff to fit it intoa more long term persistent version that only was ready after 3 expacs. but yeah, definitly would love to see/hear Josh's take on destiny 2
new player experience has only gotten worse since the removal of the launch campaign. all you do it go to point A. pick up 5 quest, complete quest, repeat until your light level is high enough for nightfall, do nightfall, get pinnacle gear, get shit on by sweats in pvp, do more quest, repeat.
@@alyssavanderklift9296 They're financially viable because of a very large dedicated playerbase that never saw anything wrong (or not enough to stop buying) with Eververse while also supporting DLCs and season passes. The new player experience is rubbish and they were told that as soon as they announced that they were 'vaulting' (read cutting) the earlier campaigns. Yes there were people like you and I who reached a point where their systems made them leave (my breaking point was how bad their weave system is), but they're still raking in stupid amounts of money from the majority not caring.
Destiny 2 is a case study on how live service games can deteriorate into milking the existing playerbase at the total expense of a cohesive game that can be played and enjoyed by a new player regardless of time. They butchered that game so much you cannot even make sense of it unless you have been playing since launch.
Great video as always! It's so weird cause this game actually looks fun to play, the combat looks neat! Hate it when I get tricked by these not great MMOs
Played it for a few weeks when it released, but left after i hit the midgame where the massively p2w blessing and enchance system + the forced pvp kicked in. Gameplay wise if Bless was a drink it would be lukewarm slightly flat sparkling water. Not offensive, and you would still drink it on a hot day if you had nothing else. And at the time when it released on steam, there was nothing else.
Watching Josh Strife Hayes is like watching an episode of the animated show "Archer". The jokes are so rapid fire that you need to rewatch multiple times to process them all!
I'm almost curious about your notes for this, and how many names you came up with for Bless. That was impressive 👏 I always appreciate the witticism and insights you work into the videos. The thought provoking commentary and feedbacks that would legitimately improve things for the bulk of player bases. Even more so because in a lot of these games, the reasons I stopped playing them (like bless uncharted here) are things you address. Mechanically or narratively. Things that even if they sort of work at their core, really ruin immersion and personal attachments to anything going on. (That bit about enchanting was lovely, as well as the 4th edition comment) "The world's strongest bit of rope" was great. It reminded me of your comment in Otherland about returning to the scientists (Darya?) cleavage. Even down to the comment about being a teacher and basically traumatizing the kids to settle their problems. Never change Josh, you beautiful genius
When it released (again) I played it with a friend and the part where you are fighting the wolves had at least 50 - 60 players trying to kill the wolf. But, the more people in the vicinity the more HP it gets etc...
Love how Josh changes the way he says Bless Unleashed every single time, pronouncetation, punctuation and all out changing the Unleashed to something else.
I'd love to see you tackle Final Fantasy XI someday. Granddad to FFXIV and very much a relic of a pre-WoW MMO era with about a dozen quit moments just in the process of trying to sign up for an account, yet so nostalgic. It'd be amazing to see your deadpan take on it as someone who's familiar with old MMOs yet can appreciate the improvements of the modern iterations of the genre.
I had to quit. Ff11 was ruining my life in a very real way. I almost failed high school as I'd constantly skip school to play. Amazing amazing game. ill never play it again. Yes, I still miss it sometimes.
@@Toksyuryel eureka is nothing like FF11 besides having NMs referencing it and was one of the main reasons I quit 14 lol. It was just mindless rushing to NM FATE spawns like the Hunts. It's not even like Abyssea, which it sounded like on paper and was a thing I actually really enjoyed in 11.
If I may recommend a few games, I believe you didn't do Scarlet Blade yet, which would be a really nice choice for the next video in this series. There is also PSO2: the official English release was a mess to begin with, about 7 years worth of content simultaneously, making most items obsolete from the beginning. And the release of New Genesis made things worse. And I personally would really like to hear your opinion/analysis on Spiral Knights, a cute and fun hub based dungeon crawler that no one seems to play nowadays.
@@supergeno128ds I only played the JP server so I haven't been back to the game. PSO2 has the best combat of any MMO hands down, no contest. Every other MMO is pitifully clunky in the combat department. Problem is it demanded too much time. If you're not grinding you're not keeping up with your team. It was far better when it first came out and people were grinding all the maps for different reasons. They didn't spread the rewards across all maps well enough. So another consequence of not playing as much as a no lifer is that said no lifers aren't playing with you and your maps are totally dead.
@@aerrae5608 My sister and I both started playing when they finally released the NA servers. The Windows version was garbage and could really be only played with fan mods until the Steam version came out several months later. We were pretty big fans of the OG PSO and jumped at the chance to play PSO2. We both rolled CASTs and for a long time it was my most played game (yeah I was part of that "no-life" crowd...) NGS looked promising but I lost interest due to the devs basically pretending CASTs didn't exist (I don't remember the exact numbers, but in the 6-7 month period after it launched they relased ~50 female outfits, ~20 male, and *4* CAST sets (2 male, 2 female) I just got tired being let down every scratch ticket release. :(
Same but in a different way because I've never been in a relationship and arguably I'd be fine with this as the idea of moving on to something more serious is terrifying.
Honestly getting a dragon mount is what sold me when it was gifted to me XD played it only for dragon and then grinded one dungeon to buy an to and all mounts available to me. We all know that one dungeon not from the starting town. That gives you heaps of gold and levels just by going through it with higher levels.
Talking about story and the downward rollercoaster, I think FFXIV does it perfectly. Without spoiling anything, there's a balance between story threads; you do one story then you have to stop because you and your friends can't progress until something is done, so they send you to help someone else (that more often than not conveniently happens to pop up just as you finish the first thing, but we'll ignore that). And the writers do a great job making everything feel important. Combating an ancient race of dimension ripping mages? Amazing. Helping solve civil unrest? Amazing. Literally raiding a tomb for fun? Amazing. etc, etc. Villains feel humanized and you can relate and sympathize with the vast majority of them. The world has a noticeable equivalent exchange. Things usually can't just happen. They have to follow the worlds rules.
Fun fact: whelm is actually a synonym of overwhelm-gotta love English being unintuitive even for those of us who speak it lol (would love to see the definition of whelm shift to a more neutral meaning though, it'll take time I suppose)
i remember having a blast playing this game with my friends back when it launched. Its a bit sad to see it in the state that its in right now. Back when it launched everything you'd do in game would be fun. The world bosses were crowded with players at the time and since no one knew the boss' mechanics you could see 100 people die instantly by a single swing from that crow lady boss. The pvp was skilled based , meaning , it was balanced and there was no auto aim , which for me as a mage player back then was pretty hard (im not known for my good aim|). All in all it was a decent game that happened to launch in an unlucky timing , as new world was gonna launch the next few months after this one did.
“You expect me to get emotionally invested in some farmer’s sheep wandering off” Actually they have run amok and the farmer’s name is Greg who farms garlic and… wait… no, sorry, wrong game.
@@J4ymzz oh yeah, I know about it XD I just didn't reconized it was from there and it looked like the kind of silly joke quests you can find on runescape.
The 4th Edition comment made me laugh harder than I expected. I can always count on you being extremely funny and informative in any of your videos and this was just a treat
one of the first mmorpgs to make me feel so sadand dissapointed, i want nothing more than an mmo with such active combat that keeps me fully engaged like Bless' does. Its just a shame they frontloaded anything "good" about the game in the first 20 or so levels and then clearly just haphazardly slapped content together afterwards in whatever fashion encouraged more monetization. I would gladly pay money for a game similar to bless, but not like this, anything but this.
try out vindictus, it's a little janky being from a while ago, but it's combat is actually amazing, basically just bless's but better, and without any of the dumb running around traditional mmo questing, just doing dungeons / raids
"this doesnt seem too bad until he explains we'll be playing 4th edition"
one of the most diabolical villains of all time 10/10
JOCAT??
facts
Hold up, is this one of those cases where we end up rooting for the villain because they're right?
I have a love-hate relationship with D&D. There are several great settings to play in but no matter the edition the ruleset sucks.
I think I require elaboration, because I barely even started playing DnD, so I don't even know what 4th edition is.
It is amazing how low Josh's standards have fallen after years of making this show. Having subtitles match the dialogue is enough to impress him now.
They scale based on rarity lol
When you start rating games based not on how good they are, but how bad they are NOT, you know your standards have reduced.
and the subtitles are even too fast to read sometimes, so still a way to go
The game have fallen, so the guy has to keep up or else won't review much...
It's either you do that or quit gaming because that is where we are today folks.
If there's one thing that amazes me about this game it's that the voiceover artist for the intro was able to put emotional gravitas into her performance despite the fact the script was a series of completely nonsensical statements jammed together.
"evil god lady gonna wake up, that's bad also zombies will happen"
@@MrLego3160 I'm using that for my game's intro.
And then John was aliens.
why these people tend find more work later
if you going be VO at lease do your job, even if the script is total none sense, anime dubbing in a nutshell lol
you summed up most korean mmo intros
That dungeon at the end broke my heart.
That's 100% a quit moment. When you queue into a dungeon expecting group content only to become a tourist watching someone over double your level oneshot everything.
Yep
The reason that happens is because bless has a huge level curve in the 3rd or 4th area and you need a hundred times more xp to level up after this.
@@Orinslayer So that lvl 43 player was literally running that dungeon over and over, just trying to grind to get to the end game?... I have to give it to Koreans, they have the ability to soldier thru the most MEH content imaginable.
@@DustinBarlow8P My god yes.
I can't believe the crap Koreans are willing to grind through. Lost Ark was terrible.
@@DustinBarlow8P I find that Asian players, and developers, don't really understand the point of an MMO; that dungeon was pretty much a testament to that since none of them spoke to one another, none waited for the other players and there were no tactics. They treat MMO's like dungeon crawlers, or a MOBA, like Diablo or League of Legends. The game could fix this by level-locking, or level-balancing, the dungeons.
Finally, the return of this lovely series.
The fact i cant stop watching reviews about games i couldn't care less about is a testament of Josh's charisma. Genuinely entertaining personality. I'm sure you were the favorite teacher :D
Honestly can relate. I haven't touched an MMO in 10 years lol
Same LOL. My biggest adventure into the MMO world was Path of Titans.
@@ImuraiI respect it, fun game. Need that Hatz already though 😩
I don't even play games but I watch a ton of videos on them!
And you were probably a teacher's pet 😅
I'm honestly just super impressed by Josh's ability to come up with a hundred different subtitles for this game.
He probably spent half his time on the script coming up with dozens of alternate names for the game, only using the ones he liked the most.
Josh was channeling his inner Yahtzee Croshaw in this one.
Josh would make a great JRPG title-maker. Or Fighting Game edition namer for that matter.
(please explain to me what "Under Night In-birth Exe:Late" or "Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code" mean)
Bro that shit had me rolling🤣🤣🤣
Anyone dumb like me and didn't realize he was doing this until like the 5th time?
The company behind Bless Unleashed was afraid of Josh killing their game so they banned all variants of his name.
They managed to do that themselves. I don't think they have to worry about some youtuber doing it.
Why don't they just *gasp* MAKE THE GAME GOOD?
except for one!
I actually realized mid-video that it's most likely limited to something like 5 Korean characters and no one ever thought that it may not be enough in a latin alphabet
@@ienzeNo, read the message closely. He can't have "ri" in his name. So every time he put in "Strife," it saw the "ri" and told him no. It's so much dumber than just names being taken, or character limits.
"We talk to the strongest bits of rope."
"It doesn't matter, you are Bless, this is Unleashed, now go unleash your bless."
His commentary is gold 😆
"ALLLLLLLLLL of life's questions can be solved by killing enough wolves!"
-Josh Strife Hayes, "Worst MMO Ever? - Metin 2"
Woah wontolla?
Didnt expect to see you here.
I like ur music man
@@NotSnak Oh hey! Glad to hear that!
Then you realize that wolves was the tutorial and josh failed...
Khan Online agrees
tbh his review of metin2 was total bullshit. he didnt even understand one thing of that game.
I enjoy this series, but I feel like it has somewhat become an exercise in Josh Strife Hayes trying to come up with as many ways as possible of explaining the mediocrity of modern gaming. I don't know of another channel that has so many comparisons and similes for the experience of "okay." 😄
Keep up the great work as always, though. 👍
Almost as many as he has different coffee mugs.
Well.. He did it... So here we go.
0:46 Bless Unleashed on the PC
0:49 Bless Online
0:53 Bless Unleashed Unreal Engine 3 Version
0:59 Bless Eternal
1:04 Unreal Engine 4 Remaster of Bless Unleashed
8:44 Bless Unleashed Remastered 4.0
9:32 Bless a Realm Unleashed
9:53 Bless of Blesscraft
12:52 Bless Unbowed Unbent Unbroken
16:23 Bless Unplugged Raw
20:34 Bless Ultra Deluxe DX
22:02 Bless Ultimate Team
22:45 Bless Until Dawn
25:15 Bless Under the Sea
28:12 Bless Uncharted
29:06 Bless Undivided
29:58 Bless Underworld
32:15 Bless Unavailable in your Country
33:10 Bless a Theif's End
33:49 Bless.... Unfulfilling (?)
34:30 Bless Unremarkable
34:44 Bless Unchained
36:36 Bless Unashamed
39:37 Bless Under-dark
39:59 Bless Uncrustable
You forgot 16:05 Bless Unlimited Power
@@yomi4853 thanks brother
thank you, kind person!
Go and unleash your bless lmfaoooo
Bless you
11:08 quick correction, the symbols above player's head is actually Chinese and it says "懒得想名字啊" which translate into "too lazy to think of a name" for both his guild and his player name. 233 at the end means laughing in Chinese Internet slang (kinda like lol in English), imagine the 2 as the butt and 33 as the gas.
Source: I'm Chinese
I'm confused as to why gas coming out of the butt means laughing but I guess every culture has its quirks.
With a japanese username? Hmn.
I fail to see how 2 can resemble a butt and what's funny about farting xD
@@Jinny-Wa Imagine the top curve to the be the butt and the angle and straight line at the bottom to be legs, it's an kneeling stick figure butt.
But the 3 is clearly the butt.
Josh: "Is this really the level of company representation you want when reading a legal document?"
Me: Absolutely
Actually, unironically yes. Even though I don't believe that wasn't intentional, as the Mike Sully face swap is the most boomer of memes these days, I'd rather read a legal or technical document by someone who feels like a person. This is the entire reason XIV's letters from the producer work so well, is the staff feels like they're genuinely people who enjoy games, and are excited to talk about their game.
when Josh opened the probabilities table I was wondering if he is gonna adress the wazowski in the room
@@TheDapperDragon This, absolutely this. I hate when corporate stuff makes things overly formal, it just creates this wall between the business and the customer.
@Dee
I will always respect devs who show a more human side rather than just being 100% business all the time. Some of my favourite devs are ones who aren't super serious all the time and actually interact with their community often.
I understand where you guys are coming from - it's nice to get something *from a human* - but on the other hand, the "Hello , it's been a long time" heavily faked personal letters really turn me off. I'm not sure where Monsters Inc avatar falls on that line for me, but it's not that great. Maybe a personalized in-game character model, instead?
i think the audio balancing is quite realistic if you're the solider at the very back of the formation listening to some leader you never met in person give some speech and you're like "i dunno wtf he just said but okay RAHHHHH!!!"
With random music and a horse being louder as well?
🤣
lmfao
@@no_idea8012 The music is that song that's always in your head when you're bored and trying to disassociate, the horse is that noise that snaps you back to reality.
well in your rank of 20 dudes, which isnt quite an army or a formation is it - i always found it silly to have the bad ass general leader dude hold a speech to like two dozens of identical soldiers - and yes i realize it is probably a limitation of the game, but maybe you shouldnt integrate those scenes then or find a way around it, they are not an army, they are barely a gang of sword swingers with identical outfits
"When you start valuing jokes more than making content that fits your game, your game turns into a container for jokes, and, eventually, the jokes overflow the content and the game becomes one massive joke itself." I really wish more content creators would have figured this out by now.
"But it works in Fortnite!" -Executives
To add to that, when he is exploring the lairs the chef boss is named Ramzy.
i wish ArenaNet understood this.
Ya agree, I got nothing wrong with cosmetic items, but when you start adding bikinis, swim shorts, maid outfits, school uniforms, clown outfits well it just gets a bit stupid especially when all the horny fucks start running around with female characters in bikinis and over half the game's pop is just female characters wearing bikinis. I still remember Bless Online when everyone only used 1 combat pet out of the literal thousands of options the succubus, I'd be at the market selling items and all I'd hear is the succubus pets of 100+ people sexually moaning 24/7 like I was in some sex dungeon really ruins the immersion of the game.
Lost ark is a prime example of this. PvP was such an eyesore after the furry costumes were introduced.
His dungeon experience actually made me really sad. You could really feel his disappointment without him saying anything during the clip
I like the part where they actually leave him an enemy to hit and he's so down he simply misses it twice... just an experience of "this is not a party for me". Worst experience in any MP game.
Sometimes I miss an episode of Worst MMO Ever because I thought I already saw it because all these MMOs are so generic, I can't tell them apart. It's like finding 10$ in an old pair of pants when I find an episode I missed. Josh is the most super special magic awesome UA-camr~
Alright... the comedy and writing for this episode was on point. Well done sir.
expanding the size of his sack ;")
I could only imagine the comedy if he reviewed sherwood dungeons
Josh is very blessed
The world strongest bit of rope got me laughing pretty hard
The Mike Wazowski pfp had me dying
As someone who lives on the coast in scotland, the seagull quest is very accurate. Seagulls are the rats of the sky and if you do not have any edible offerings for them - or if you withhold your food from them - they will attack without prejudice. One almost tore my thumb off in its quest to steal the piece of mango that was on the end of my wooden knife, then it stood there with the knife in its beak, my blood dripping from its feathers, and stared at the rest of my fruit. All I could do was run away.
(this is a dramatised version of a real thing that happened to me lmao, I understand the girl's fear 🤣)
Big beards in general can be quite dangerous. Doesn't matter if it's a swan, a goose, or indeed a seagull. Don't mess with them if you can help it.
I too fear the evil plans of the diabolic 'gulls!
Watched a woman with a burger get hit on the head from behind by a seagull in Scotland. They are a menace to be feared.
As someone who lives anywhere that seagulls roam, this is true.
Live on the coast in West Norway. Does not matter where you go, seagulls are airborne rats.
The running joke of Josh saying the name of the MMO more and more wrong each time gets so funny by the end that I can hardly hold in my giggles!
"He challenges Deanna to roll initiative. This doesn't seem too bad until he explains they'll be playing 4th Edition and then we all start panicking." The delivery on this absolutely sent me.
It triggered me. But only because I played 4th edition. I played two sessions of it and that's all it took.
@@TheEDFLegacy As someone who never played D&D 4th edition, what was so terrible about it?
@@youtube-kit9450 I think it's mostly because Wizards of the Coast saw how popular MMOs were, so decided to shove MMORPG-flavored changes into D&D... sideways.
INTERRUPT! FREE ACTION! Several hours later... lol. Still, it was fun how crazy the power creep could get. Thankfully we mostly did RP and navigation encounters, leaving combat to the more epic build-ups.
@@youtube-kit9450 TL:DR will be at the bottom
4e is the combat edition. Fun if you like fighting, not so much if you want to roleplay too. It had the standard actions (Major, Minor, Movement, Free, etc) that you could do each turn, but you could do a ton more with those actions naturally as every class. On top of that classes had even more designed roles in combat then other editions, it's where terms like Striker, Controller, Defender, and Leader popped up with D&D. Classes had a role and it was harder to escape it.
It also added Powers to each class that made them Psuedo-Spell Casters, such as: At-Wills (Minor powers with weaker boons that you can cast every round as long as you have the action (Cantrips)), Encounter Powers (Middling powers that are relatively strong but you can only do once per encounter (Spells that can only be used once per fight instead of relying on spell slots), and Daily Powers (Extremely strong powers with either great damage or boons, but can only be used once per day (Most traditionally like spending a spell slot, but only for that specific spell)). Each class usually had 3 At-Wills, 2 Encounters, and 1 Daily at low levels and gained more as they got higher in level. On top of that it was easier to get a lot of health in 4e, as well as to heal without a healer (Dwarves had a feat that let them use their health dice to heal when taking the dodge action for example.)
With all of this Combat was a lot more dynamic and flashy, and honestly kinda fun when handled well, but it would often grind to a slow halt because enemies had to be strong enough to withstand it and give back about as much. So a lot of fights turned into slapping matches of who could withstand the other's powers/out last their resources while having inflated hp pools/defenses.
Then the final nail in the coffin was that, as the Combat Edition, RP took a massive back seat as far as core rules went. Yeah, you could do RP stuff, and some classes had RP buffs like Paladins which had some powers that boosted diplomacy a lot, but for the most part everything revolved around combat and the new At-Wills/Encounters/Dailies. So if you liked combat you were set, but if you wanted a bit more RP meat in that Battle Soup (Like most people did) you were a bit more out of luck without Homeruling and heavy DM effort.
TL:DR 4E was all about combat, Classes were locked even harder into specific roles (Striker, Controller, Defender, Leader), it introduced a lot of mechanics like At-Will Powers (Weak), Encounter Powers (Middling), and Daily Powers (Extremely Strong), and enemies were often buffed to handle said powers leading to inflated fight times. Mix that in with how little 4e really supported RP or outside combat situations and you have people who over all dislike it for those reasons.
"His son Giovani has dreams of catching animals in small magical orbs and then making them fight to the death."
Absolutely perfect.
Pokemon then?
@@rubrub3104 yes
"I do not fear the man who releases a thousand games, but I do fear the man who releases the same game a thousand times." - Todd Howard
For me, when I first installed Bless Unleashed earlier this year, it automatically put me on the Korean servers. You have to change the server on the launcher - the EU community was vaguely helpful, and they go around killing the bosses quite regularly when there's a callout in chat.
Yap, clearly korean server.
It's understandable it may be the default but with simple code you can set the default, on the first launch, to the server with less ping. Online games often do this so your experience isn't ruined by lag, or in some cases, people who don't know your language enough to even type in chat to 'change region in launcher to join EU server #n'.
Ahhhh that explains everything. This needs more attention. Surprised, his ping wasn't horrible. *MAYBE8* it actually WAS horrible?!
@@Sorrowdusk i would say it probably was, given that you could see a bunch of weird sliding around at times as well as attacks and their hit confirmation being a little delayed from each other
The scripts are always good, but this one was just perfection. Clearly the writing was much more whelming than the game it was about. Nicely done. 👏
That is not what whelm means. Whelm is like "overwhelm" but typically not in the same figurative use for "total defeat" - it means to cover in water or be submerged.
Good cut, though. Keep swinging that bat.
@@CyberneticArgumentCreator idk, i felt pretty submerged by the writing
You've made me realize I don't know what "whelming" means in over/underwhelming
Just wanted to say I haven't seen all of the playlist but this is his best script so far. The nuance, the subtle humour, the ineffable delivery... :chefs kiss: Perfection.gif
@@thaias9654 Whelming = Intensity
Ie. Overwhelmed could be "Drained (Overwhelmed) from too much stress," or "Enemy forces greatly overpower/outnumber (Overwhelm) the defenders.
Underwhelmed could be "That performance brought out little joy (Underwhelming)," or "The enemy's RPG-7 did very little (Underwhelming) damage to our tank."
Fun fact: you can skip that 15 second cut scene if you wait in the doorway, as long as someone walks in and gets the cutscene everyone else can attack and completely kill Klu before it ends.
The actual dungeon itself seemed pretty cool, with the kitchen theme and unique enemy designs, its just a shame it wasn't scaled at all and was being run by bots
There's something uniquely sad about good design in an MMO going to waste like this
Yeah the overall game looks interesting actually, it’s just empty. The weird audio balancing is something I see all the time in AAA games lol, especially if dubbed into a foreign language (which I assume this might be). Pulling mechanics from Dark Souls or other games that are in vogue right now is pretty normal for big name games too, and often adds to the game.
He did the tutorial version of that dungeon the game scales all dungeons do very hard and the world bosses are very challenging Josh did not do a good job reviewing this game he barley got out of the tutorial there's over 50 world bosses all uniquely designed not copy and pasted it's a very good game tbh it died more so after the devs sold the game to a new publisher and everyone jumped ship as both publishers have a bad reputation for closing a game. People don't want to wast time with a game if it's going to close on them. Proof to what I say is it was ranked really high right before thus happend
@@modernlegend_gaming Thing is it fails as a tutorial if you never get to experience any mechanics, because they let an over leveled character in, that can just face roll the keyboard and succeed. It similarly would be useless for the high level to learn anything to prepare for a level scaled version.
I felt the disappointment as soon as that dungeon run happened. Any MMO I've tried to get into that allowed higher level players to just run it through with the new players, the fun immediately disappears. I've got my head tilted, resting in hand, clicking to keep up, doing nothing, and waiting for it to be over. Awful experience, and a definite quit moment for me.
That's more or less what happened to me with Neverwinter.
Happens in ESO sometimes. When they get mad at me for not keeping up with them I get so close to flaming them. They do the group finder dungeons for the bonuses. They could just find the dungeon themselves on the map, but they don't. They squeeze out every minescule bonus they can and make the experience awful for everyone else.
Thankfully, I've had experiences in dungeons that were much better. Have had many many people carry me and my friend through some very difficult dungeons. They've been very nice in the chat too, so it far offsets the one absolute douche canoe.
the only time I enjoyed a dungeon run like that was in WoW, and that was specifically because my guild leader helped me through a low-level dungeon so I could get all the loot without having to fight any of the trash mobs because I was the only person who'd turned up for a guild dungeon night and she didn't want me to leave empty-handed
@@whiteraven562 That is a wholesome story. I wish more people had experiences like that.
I think FFXIV handles this the best of the current mmos but even it can suffer from "speedrun syndrome" with the wall to wall pulls and such. Thankfully the sprout system and overall friendly community minimize the issue.
This looks pretty mechanically impressive for an mmo, in particular I liked that some guy randomly helps you with that wolf, presumably because he was also doing the quest and you could both do it easier. The dynamic instance is also very impressive. It's a shame it doesn't have enough oomph to stick the landing, would love an mmo where the world isn't completely dead v:
New world ?
Technically impressive, and looks good... Also Korean MMOs always LOOKED league above the rest, like I've seen games that had entire armies rendered way better than in either Western or Japanese strategies. Shame they almost never have decent translation.
I played it back in the beta, then a little after launch. As far as the actual combat and things go, it's good. I enjoyed it. The problem, is that during the beta, everyone worked together. It was a surprise really, everyone worked together to fight big bosses, people were healing each other even though they were just randoms in the world, people were actually having legit conversations in the chat about the game and world (helped that mods/devs were in chat asking for opinions). It was just a great time all around.
But then the full release happened. Open world PvP was hard to avoid, and super annoying. People barely worked together anymore once you got past the super early tutorial area. The whole game just instantly lost the charm it had, entirely down to the playerbase expanding and changing. Which sucks, but the game during beta, was great. I loved it. I was super excited when the full release happened, had it installed day-1, ready to go. But...nah. It was nowhere near as fun as the beta was. Like, once the beta ended and the full game came out, it just stopped feeling like it's own thing and started feeling like every other generic MMO. A fairly high quality generic MMO, but still a generic MMO, complete with pointless nothing quests, every player ignoring every other player, and ridiculous costume sets that look absolutely ridiculous and ruin the aesthetic of the game.
24:01 Actually, there's one thing I really appreciate when I see it implemented in worlds with fixed enemy levels. And that is low-level enemies should feel threatened by out presence and shouldn't attack on sight. Preferably stepping a bit away when you are too close, but whatever. There's nothing more annoying than a level 2 wolf in a starting area attacking you. Hilarious, but annoying as hell. Especially when game have mounts, but drop you from a mount whenever there's an enemy nearby aggro at you or swift enough to hit you. And in some games this gets even worse when you are in a group and game un-mounts everyone in a group as soon as someone triggers a combat.
WoW has aggro enemies reduce aggro radius the higher your level. If your level is high enough it won't aggro until you walk up to it. FFXI has mobs that con as "Too weak to be worthwhile" and won't attack you unless you got enmity from resting near them or heal someone else who had enmity.
@@shirrenthewanderer414 FF14 has neutral enemies and aggressive enemies. The neutral ones never attack you unless you attack them, and aggressive enemies always attack you, unless you are at least eleven levels above them, then they will ignore you until you attack them.
TRUE THO
Hell, the first MMO I ever played, City of Heroes, set the standard for me on this. Enemies that are too low level to be considered a challenge don't aggro unless you attack them, which made perfect sense to me. If a level 1 gang member sees a level 20 superhero going by, he's going to stand there quietly hoping not to draw attention.
@@chosenuwu tRuE tHo 🥴
Regarding 39:06 : In my experience the only MMOs where people sit and kill the mobs are the ones that force the group to kill the mobs before they can move forward through various barriers. Even in GW2 fractals people just run past enemy groups because it's faster and it makes for garbage first time runs for people when match making. It's like every MMO is stuck in the past and nobody wants to have discussions on how to move forward with some of the obvious flaws that exist for at least 2 decades now.
I don't think the genre as a whole needs to move past mob grinding. There are people who enjoy the mob camps and whatnot from the days of EverQuest, me included even though I'm a younger player. I think it's just a preference from player to player.
This is why I love FF14 raids. There isn't bs trash mobs, you just go and fight the boss which is what you wanted to do anyway. It also adheres to the "forced to kill mobs to progress" in dungeons but it's always set up so there are two packs of mobs before each boss so you can burn them down pretty quickly.
@@lon8884 FF14 is just perfect, raids are flawless and the fact you spawn right there is so refreshing wish more mmos did that
@@sillyredsheep2421 I'd say say those players ask what about it they are enjoying doing. I'd suggest there are better ways to improve the experience they want while also improving the experience of those that have no desire to "waste time".
If it's a way of progressing solo there have to be better ways.
If it's a way of being able to do something simple repetitive and turn the mind off after a long day and still make progress; ok then have it as a section of gameplay for this rather than pushing it everywhere.
@@lon8884 Shin Megami Tensei online did this well... sort of. When your gear isn't finished, which is essentially a lifelong task, any enemy can easily kill you, particularly because the wrong skill will reflect your damage back, and you can do substantially more damage than your health. When it is finished this only applies to the latest content. Enemies have different weaknesses and you may not have the skills to do it. You can have multiple demon partners to help you but raising them is a lengthy task.
The developer of this game is Round8 and they actually redeemed themselves by making Lies of P after this game.
Which is why I hope they take another crack at doing like a Bless 2
“Discuss his leaving the farm to pursue his passion of not living on a farm.” What a relatable guy.
38:03 you can see the exact moment Josh's heart sinks, as he realises that his party doesn't even consider the mooks worth their time as they sprint to the boss.
I hate people who dungeon rush as they often get upset if you actually want to play properly. That ruined dungeons for me in guild wars 2.
i feel so bad for him :c
Fun fact, in the character creator on the xbox version, don't know about the rest, but we have a sort of character modeler, meaning you can move just about every part of whoever you've made to do funny poses, and I have made something in it that, ever time I looked at it,I'd break down laughing. Great times, 10/10
I thought Josh already mentioned before that he thinks early game raids/dungeons are a good idea since it gives people an idea what end game would be like.
I also think they're a good idea, based on my own experiences in Tera way before the game died. I went through non-endgame dungeons on some characters, and didn't on others, and I found that I had a far easier time in endgame if I had gone through earlier dungeons, because getting to max level grinding mobs or doing quests doesn't teach you how to play your class in a dungeon setting. going through dungeons does. and at the time I played Tera, there weren't any real punishments for dying before endgame, so if your party wiped in a dungeon the only thing you lost was the time spent in the run. it was a great way to learn dungeon mechanics and how to work in a team, before you got to the point where you'd be running into more serious players who just wanted to get their daily dungeon run over and done with
Maybe so, but not everyone who sees this video will have seen everything he's put up. Sure, it's a problem if you can tune out for half of every video because you could recite his lines in your sleep; at that point he'd just be padding his runtime.
He keeps making different names for the game, what do you expect 😂
I love how he keeps saying a different name after Blessed ever time he says the name. 😆
i was thinking of doing a drinking game on it.
Bless Uncrustable was my favorite one xD
He's been watching Yahtzee I imagine.
@@seifer447 Yeah it's a very Zero Punctuation thing to do
At 11:25, that was either Japanese or Chinese names, there was no Korean in those.
This might also explain the lag as most of the time servers will be assigned to the area they are actually physically NEAR, and if there are people from the other side of the world on a server, there likely are no separate servers so you were likely playing on a server located in Asia.
That's Chinese and it reads "Too lazy to think of a name 233" from what i can see of the footage.
It sucks how badly this game failed cuz visually it's stunning for an MMO, and combat looks great on the surface as well.
".... Tells her to roll initiative. Which doesn't seem like a bad idea until he informs us we will be playing 4E. At this point we start panicking."
Lost it there, had to laugh out loud. Genius writing sir!
(I also panicked and tried to remember how to calculate my Initiative in 4E....)
1d20+dex+1/2 level. People who pretend 4e was somehow mechanically confusing likely either never played it, played it in bad faiht, or played it with a bad DM.
"magical D20"...
@@MelissiaBlackheart I'll be playing 4e tomorrow. Have tried 5e, and it just feels like a toned down 3.5, while still somehow managing to have all the problems of 3.5. I get some people enjoy the more open system of 5e, but I'm largely sticking with 4e, it works for the group I play with far better.
Dont get it
@@MelissiaBlackheart Yeah, having played a lot of D&D, 4th is the only one I still generally consider good. Shame there's a lot of bad will towards it.
Hey Josh! I have a suggestion for an MMO you could try out: Silkroad Online. It was one of the first MMOs that I ever played back in 2006.
The system was intriguing because apart from your class, you could be a trader and lead your own little caravan with good from one ingame city to another, you could be a thief, who was able to attack the traders or you could be a guard and protect the traders. Being a trader was awful, you got greifed by high level thiefs, the game was a botfest and the ingame economy was broken from the start...
Three AM caravans from Constantinople to Yangan were the bomb tbh
Played SRO back in 2004, later it was flooded with bots and they killed the trading system. That was when i stopped the grind.
@@KayDSmith Bots and Turks was the name of SRO back when I played it
I remeber in silkroad first went open from beta and when there were more player dots on the maps than enemy dots
the only reason that stopped me from playing iSRO is when we had the first “manual merge”. that time got busy really with real life forgot to do it manually HOOOF!! after i logged in some of my hard earned items were KAPusH!! the best experience i had was the caravan runs from jangan all the way up to hotan! with ur hands so sweaty waiting for high level thief with seal of sun set 😅 - troy server
What I love about this series is that when I see the game, I'm thinking I should try it, download it, and then find out I already played it. But apparently most of these are so forgettable... 🤣
And in this particular instance you probably didn’t even actually play this one but one or more of the other games by the same(ish) name from the same(?) company.
I had the same dungeon experience in ESO, queue, port in, rest of the group is already 3 packs ahead running to boss locations, 1 hitting mobs, after one of the bosses there was a cutscene, i watched, when it ended, the group was 2 bosses ahead. This in NOT how you do dungeons.
I've just resigned myself to this with PUGs, and then try to run them in story mode with guildies. I don't get people who skip all the stuff to loot either, especially in Aeylid dungeons. You can find furniture recipes in there that sell for 10M+. Take the couple of seconds to click on all the boxes, barrels, urns, etc.
I play ESO and have never run a group dungeon in the off and on years I have played it.
Thats exactly why I stopped playing ESO. I just dont like stupid easy games.
When you're cp 2k+ and have ran the dungeons 100+ times on vet and hardmodes, you tend to not take your time trying to get your daily dungeons done on 5+ characters
Play veteran dungeons.
It almost completely eliminates any rushers and even in the case of multiple wipes people, at least on the PC EU server, are still pretty chill.
41:22 Missed opportunity to say "have a blessed day"
I don't even play MMO's, I just love your video essays on them, keep up the great work!!!!
I want a worst mmo ever tier list by josh with all the games he’s played thus far in the series
100 episode special?
I was about to suggest this, but then I realized what that would do to the internet... people would start to compare the values of the scores against each other...
"Oh, Flying the eagles out of Mordor is lower than Ninja's in space but higher than Yugioh out of 10 so waffles are worthy and should be able to lift Thor's Hammer."
28:35 is where you lost me, I like that type of personal touch, it shows genuine love for the community that they actually changed their profile pic
I put forth my vote for a review of Champions Online. Incredible character creation and customization, buggy, cheesy, jank, jank and more jank coupled with currency hell , lootboxes, monetization beyond monetization and only kept afloat by a semi small group of hardcore players who thrive on power fantasy and roleplay. Game has been in maintenance mode for years with the only new content being released centering around new cosmetics to buy via lootbox and the occasional class remix and rehashed events with rotating cosmetic rewards.
Easily my guiltiest gaming pleasure.
Champions Online has some really entertaining quest lines that I will never complete because I rolled Grimoire which is apparently total garbage and the final encounter is always something that is mathematically impossible for me to beat at or even a little above level.
yes
I like how amused Josh sounds when he proudly reveals his goat mount.
For what i received i passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the scriptures 1 Corinthians 15 3
6:50 "World's strongest bits of rope" Man those ropes quite strong to be able to hold them melons
12:45 "Slap the D, Pound the A" My man Josh killing me with the commentary
28:25 to be honest, yes. This is the kind of representation I want to see as a customer. Not from any company, but something like a game dev, forum moderation or that kind is completely fine for me.
I play games for fun, why shouldn't patch notes or important game informations not be posted by some dude with a funny (dead, outdated or old, I don't care) picture/meme profile.
Its different when u are working for a company selling a product. He, at least, should have an avatar that represents the company, not a boomer meme. If you dress like a clown, people gonna expect a circus.
@@jackzera7356 Tell that to Yoshi P and the FFXIV devs. I'd rather Admins try to add a little of their personality to their work. It's more authentic than canned machine response code: 13107.
@@Blackpapalink This. You can't make a joke nowadays without retards spazzing out.
It gives me the feeling that they actually play the game and care about it more than financially
It honestly shows that they care enough about the game to change their pfp in the forums
"He explains that they'll be playing 4E and then we all start panicking"
Josh please, my sides 😂
I'd be excited. 4e was great. 5e still lacks many of hte basic features that 4e had.
reminds me of a short video:
"in 4th edition, we spent four hours fighting goblins."
'...that's the end of the story."
@@MelissiaBlackheart 4e has great balance between the classes but monsters have way too much HP. Combat takes too long cause of it.
@@shinon748 You would appreciate the _Monster Manual 3_ and _Monster Vault_ books, then. The authors realized that people wanted shorter, more-intense fights (the idea had been "let monsters have enough turns to do cool stuff," but people weren't keen on the long fights that resulted), so the monster math from MM3 onward was recalculated. Lower defenses, lower HP, higher damage--monsters in general became much more threatening, while combats became faster (especially if you had a Warlord or Shaman to grant lots of attacks.) The "MM3 on a business card" came into existence for that reason, the new monster math was generally very well-received.
In defense of the Bunny suit, it's only really the mask, Not Like a full fursuit, so it's very reminiscent of the German Tradition of "Fasching", in which people Go through the streets wearing costumes. The Tradition comes from people wearing typically ugly masks in early spring to try to scare away the winter. It's a very cool tradition, and can be used to justify *some* seemingly Out place costumes in European Fantasy Stuff.
Germany also kinda has a tradition of waging massive wars with it's neighbors and genocide, so I don't think we should be using them as an example for anything.
@@karenwang313 idk man in comparison to Brittain or France we were pretty tame untill that one Austrian bloke. So, y'know
Shut your gob.
Also i'm from south Germany
So Double shut your gob
Fasching is fun.
@@karenwang313 tradition of waging massive wars with it's neighbors and genocide so you mean anybody
@@karenwang313 Yes lets completely delete the entire importance of a culture and history because of one point in their history.
@@karenwang313 As do extremists such as yourself.
I love that no matter what happens, as soon as “cabbage” is mentioned, almost everyone has the exact same idea come to mind.
Thank you for showing us your culture Sir Hayes. I do so love the effort you put into these videos and even more importantly, your dialogue.
praise Brassica Prime
personally my first thought was of the Stabbages from the Swords webcomic
:c
I thought of the guy who had the cabbage cart in Avatar the Last Airbender. "My cabbages" - cabbage salesman, probably
I think this was my first ever mmo, and I played it on launch on console with 2 buddies. I was mage, one was a berserker, and the other a support. I honestly thought I had a good time leveling with them, but it seems they changed a WHOLE lot from the console version. Leveling took FOREVER and we never felt like we made it to the "endgame". We couldn't figure out where it was. At one point the quests weren't leveling us up enough, and we're gatekept in the story. Nothing gave us exp, so we had to grind elephants in a pond in Navarra desert for hours, which everyone also seemed to be doing. After that, we continued the story, which started to feel repititive and samey, and reached around level 40, which was near the final zone at the time. Then everything kinda dulled down. I guess now I realize that was the endgame, and that's where we stopped. I had fun with the co-op and open world battles, the combat and classes had nice depth to them. Unfortunately the story was nothing spectacular and the quests started to just suck towards our end. Lastly, the gear upgrading system, although we didn't really go deep into it, was just 100% bad with weapons possibly breaking, having to use an expensive/rare item to repair, etc. I think after we tried that system, that was our final straw.
This is exactly my experience with Age of Conan.
this was your first mmo? that blows.
So it plays and looks like BDO? Pretty much the same experience. Endgame outside of world pvp is literally everyone grinding the same mobs in the same area for fractions of xp points. And the gear upgrades having high potential of breaking your gear. No dungeons either
Damn, you got to level 40? I stopped after having to grind anacondas in a jungle area for TWO DAYS just to get from level 18 to 20!
I think the most fun I had with this game was during the Beta when the tentacle things came out of the sky and spawned high level monsters. It didn't matter what level you were, you could fight and help others and I kinda had fun getting obliterated. One swipe from a monster would one-shot a bunch of players at once. Everyone was just there doing their best and helping each other and having a fun time.
The first few times when he changed the name of the game I didn't realize he was doing it until it started getting weird, but it was always funny to hear what he would call it next.
"Blessed uncrusted".
@@s.c.2180this one had me laughing
Once again Josh reminds me of how "blessed" I was after deciding to stay away from this unleashed disaster.
Through the entire 41:38 review of this what part did he consider "disaster" ? He said it's bland, not a train wreck.
@@TinariKao You clearly missed the joke here. Also, it's my opinion that the game's a disaster.
@@goseals6 You silly. You can't like... have an OPINION on the internet!
@@TinariKao
Excuse me?
Newbcake is telling the truth.
@@neilisawesome2333 No, they're trying to state an opinion and we're not allowed those on the internet, silly billy
Y'know, the first time I saw this series was after playing, and stopping, this game. I've longed for this to be on the channel forever. I knew it belonged here.
That review score is pure evil. Thank you for doing this, now I know that I really did not miss anything by skipping Bless... Something or other after the whole Bless crash of 2018.
thank you for taking the time to go over what this game does well! i noticed you started doing that more after the realm of the mad god mess and i very much appreciate it
“Unleash your bless” has very strong “It’s Morbin time” vibes
Man.. opening UA-cam and seeing a new 'Worst MMO Ever' just makes my day. This one was one of the best.. on point humor and very entertaining. I enjoy all your stuff, but this is your best content IMO.. 41 Minutes of greatness.
It would be great if we can have some sort of a "tier" list or something that has all the games you've played on this series so far.
Categories like: enjoyable, so close, predatory, unplayable mess, or things of this nature would work well here.
It would be fun to see the list expanding with each new game being added to the list and showed maybe at the end credit :)
Ohhh that's a great idea!!!
save it either for after ep 69 (for the memes) or after breaking 3 digits on ep 100
awesome idea hope this gets upvoted
I actually put a little over 1600 hours into this game. 😅
It was a pretty awesome experience, and as you played higher dimensional dungeons, the difficulty was really enjoyable to grind with friends. (Similar concept of mythic+ in WoW)
I also smoked a lot of weed at the time, so the grind wasn't the worst. 😅
Its one of those games where you actually got to experience your grind seriously developing your character. Items could be purchased; however it involved selling on the market and grinding your heart out to obtain currency unless you were an RMT'er.
The real development of a character was getting the skill points from a separate "SP" experience bar that was rewarded for quest completion.
At the end of the day. The devs did continue to harm the actual game itself. Nerf after nerf on progression led to most of the original people on the server switching to something new.
However, if I found another game in the future similar to this one. (Most definitely not by Round 8 Studios) I would totally get into it!
Some fun things to note:
The lv26 guy at 11:55 his name is "too lazy to come up with a name 233" or "cbfwithname233" and what I can only maybe imagine is his guild(?) name above it is named similarly "cbfwithname"
The Lv17 archer's name at 36:54 is "Hey look there's an arrow over there"
All the names appear to be Chinese
Combat is pretty much Vindictus with right left combos and the occasional skill use
Opening segment reminds me of Tera's original opening segment too where the game threw you in with a level 20 version of your class to kind of show what it can do (but never really explained how to use stuff so it confused the shit out of a lot of people)
Otherwise this just feels like another soulless KMMO where they just keep rushing you along the main quest and keep doing what the game tells you to like the world's most boring rollercoaster ride where you get off now and then and an attendant comes and takes your hand to lead you to another, equally boring rollercoaster.
I remember playing this game, I was having fun but reached a terrible grind wall (around level 24?) after which I progressed through a quest and found myself needing to do a world boss
Problem: it seems nobody else cares to go through the grind so there wasn't anyone to take on the world boss with :/
This quest is a huge problem. I solo’d the bosses for 30min each when i played. Definitely the biggest quit moment in the game.
had the same experience then i figured id just wait to play it again when i saw the roadmap that mentioned a new class and then the class never came lol
Same with me. Stuck somewhere 20-30 or maybe until 30 idk and this was enough.
Plz. Tell…
When ye get chance I’ll be monitoring this particular vid for rely on this package I seem to have won?
Just askin for, what it might be?
I was enjoying the early-game experience well enough but I'm glad I watched this and caught the warning about the 'forced PVP at level 30' thing, saved me a lot of time and disappointment - though that dungeon experience looked so miserable I would probably have quit at that point regardless lmao
I grinded arena til rank 1, and even I didn't open world PvP very often. Mainly because the soy boys wished you death IRL repeatedly for being so much better than them. Most PvP was done on the beach deep within one of the later zones between people who wanted to fight.
Past that; the only time you were killed in an earlier area was because you talked shit and decided to go participate in a world boss run with the community. I'd come hunt your ass down among 30 other people and most people wouldn't say nothing as world chat was for everyone; and they saw it coming. lol
On the other side of that spectrum. If you weren't a pvp'er in that game and asked out for help. Myself and a handful of other people that loved pvp would come join you to gank whoever was being bloodthirsty that day. 😆
Yeah, forced pvp in any game is mega yikes
i quit it long ago but the forced pvp thing isnt actually at lvl 30 but rather its just some maps have pvp enabled if my memory serves right you also dont lose much?
in my server there wasnt actually much people KoSing since they would have a killer debuff where people actually hunt killers because of rewards and you cant participate in a maps mini boss because a lot of people farm it and if you come there with a killer status YOU are the mini boss
I hope someone makes a guild named "Slap the D, Pound the A" and invite Josh in it on his new rpg adventure.
Bless Unleashed...I loved it in the early betas and server tests. It was so good. Everyone was working TOGETHER, if someone tried to PVP, all of us PVE players would chase them down. We had ridiculous amounts of people fighting huge overleveled bosses. I was a healer when I played the beta, so I was in the backlines of the big boss fights, keeping everyone alive. Meanwhile the DPS and Tanks were reviving the healers that got knocked out. People actively chatted about THE GAME in the chat, and not JUST trading or insults. It was a ton of fun, it felt like the kinda thing I WANT out of an MMO. Everyone treating the game world with respect, and acting like they belong in the world...not running around with glowy pink outfits with 40ft glowing wings, and weird player built houses that don't fit, or people losing their mind at someone in chat. Almost everyone I came across was chill, and willing to cooperate and work together. It was amazing.
But then the full game released. Pretty much ANY sense of community went out the window, and Open-World PvP became a huge annoyance. It just felt like every other MMO I've tried where...it just feels like a long series of THINGS happening, forced PvP ruining PvE player's fun, and the player characters look about as out of place as sticking a Lego character in a Call of Duty campaign.
The big downside to me watching this video though, is now I wanna go back and give this game another shot. Except, I'm pretty sure the servers shut down not long ago. Which is kinda sad, because as a GAME, I really enjoyed it. Mechanically, the whole thing just felt good to me. It was really just the playerbase that ruined the fun. And that's not even something I can blame them for, or get mad at them for. When I say a lot of what I disliked about Blessed is how the playerbase was, with the PvP, and just...not trying to even attempt to fit into the world, I'm not saying that to mean "I dislike those people, how dare they ruin my experience." I 100% understand that my not liking what they did, is entirely my own opinion, and my own problem. I just don't really like that stuff, and it made the game less fun for me. If anything, I'd blame the game before the players, for even allowing it.
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It's also sad watching you fight that 11:00 wolf boss, almost by yourself. Back in beta and early launch, you couldn't walk past that wolf without seeing at least 15 other players kicking the absolute shit out of it every single time it respawned.
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I remember that ghost warden fight, it WAS pretty fun. I was lucky enough to do it with like 3-4 other players with me that just happened to be there at the same time.
"Quick rest at the fire to refill my estus flasks ..." Perfectly executed, well done sir.
Ah, the never ending battle between Josh and the Community to occupy all possible versions of his name in any MMO ever.
This was a classic. 😂 Awesome that you’ve branched out, your other channel is great, but I gotta admit I do miss when you did this series a bit more frequently. Still, you do what works for you!
damn he hasn’t done another one of these in almost 5 months
I know its not thought of as a typical MMO but I would love a Worst MMO ever on Destiny 2. Destiny 2 has made many changes to the game for the new player experience that I, as a veteran, haven't experienced.
tbf i do from time to time play destiny 2 and i am still baffled on the point of 'how the frick' does that game be anything financially viable with their constant deleting of prior content, it's the main thing that keeps me from ever buying a single expac for them since it's just 'play when it's live' which i just cannot get behind as live-service monetization, even gw2 got a ton of backlash for similar stuff with living world season 1 that they spent years reworking the stuff to fit it intoa more long term persistent version that only was ready after 3 expacs. but yeah, definitly would love to see/hear Josh's take on destiny 2
new player experience has only gotten worse since the removal of the launch campaign. all you do it go to point A. pick up 5 quest, complete quest, repeat until your light level is high enough for nightfall, do nightfall, get pinnacle gear, get shit on by sweats in pvp, do more quest, repeat.
Even worse that they want you to buy everything expansion on its own and will eventually more or less delete that content latter on.
@@alyssavanderklift9296 They're financially viable because of a very large dedicated playerbase that never saw anything wrong (or not enough to stop buying) with Eververse while also supporting DLCs and season passes. The new player experience is rubbish and they were told that as soon as they announced that they were 'vaulting' (read cutting) the earlier campaigns.
Yes there were people like you and I who reached a point where their systems made them leave (my breaking point was how bad their weave system is), but they're still raking in stupid amounts of money from the majority not caring.
Destiny 2 is a case study on how live service games can deteriorate into milking the existing playerbase at the total expense of a cohesive game that can be played and enjoyed by a new player regardless of time. They butchered that game so much you cannot even make sense of it unless you have been playing since launch.
As a player of bless unupdated on playstation for almost 2 years now, I just have to, you 100% nailed your review. Well done, sir!
Great video as always! It's so weird cause this game actually looks fun to play, the combat looks neat! Hate it when I get tricked by these not great MMOs
Played it for a few weeks when it released, but left after i hit the midgame where the massively p2w blessing and enchance system + the forced pvp kicked in. Gameplay wise if Bless was a drink it would be lukewarm slightly flat sparkling water. Not offensive, and you would still drink it on a hot day if you had nothing else. And at the time when it released on steam, there was nothing else.
"The World's strongest bits of rope" really got me. Good job.
Watching Josh Strife Hayes is like watching an episode of the animated show "Archer".
The jokes are so rapid fire that you need to rewatch multiple times to process them all!
I'm almost curious about your notes for this, and how many names you came up with for Bless. That was impressive 👏
I always appreciate the witticism and insights you work into the videos. The thought provoking commentary and feedbacks that would legitimately improve things for the bulk of player bases. Even more so because in a lot of these games, the reasons I stopped playing them (like bless uncharted here) are things you address. Mechanically or narratively. Things that even if they sort of work at their core, really ruin immersion and personal attachments to anything going on. (That bit about enchanting was lovely, as well as the 4th edition comment)
"The world's strongest bit of rope" was great. It reminded me of your comment in Otherland about returning to the scientists (Darya?) cleavage.
Even down to the comment about being a teacher and basically traumatizing the kids to settle their problems.
Never change Josh, you beautiful genius
When it released (again) I played it with a friend and the part where you are fighting the wolves had at least 50 - 60 players trying to kill the wolf. But, the more people in the vicinity the more HP it gets etc...
I remember i played A version of it. I just honestly don't remember what version.
Wait, I'm confused. They only have to be in the vicinity for its stats to change? They don't have to actually tag it?
Sounds great/terrible.
Yeah, i really love that. The world bosses is fun.
Same, but they had better gear so it went down fast.
It's gear all the way, if I recall.
Love how Josh changes the way he says Bless Unleashed every single time, pronouncetation, punctuation and all out changing the Unleashed to something else.
Josh has Blessed us with this!
Lololol
@@number1fen ooh, good one
I'd love to see you tackle Final Fantasy XI someday. Granddad to FFXIV and very much a relic of a pre-WoW MMO era with about a dozen quit moments just in the process of trying to sign up for an account, yet so nostalgic. It'd be amazing to see your deadpan take on it as someone who's familiar with old MMOs yet can appreciate the improvements of the modern iterations of the genre.
11 was a gem so many great memories
It was specifically tailored to take everything Everquest was doing and do it better.
I had to quit. Ff11 was ruining my life in a very real way. I almost failed high school as I'd constantly skip school to play. Amazing amazing game. ill never play it again. Yes, I still miss it sometimes.
@@vayneglory655 There's always Eureka in FF14 if you want to recapture that feeling without diving back in.
@@Toksyuryel eureka is nothing like FF11 besides having NMs referencing it and was one of the main reasons I quit 14 lol. It was just mindless rushing to NM FATE spawns like the Hunts. It's not even like Abyssea, which it sounded like on paper and was a thing I actually really enjoyed in 11.
This is one of your funniest videos ever. The wit is so sharp and the jokes are frequent and the dryness that you deliver them with is amazing
If I may recommend a few games, I believe you didn't do Scarlet Blade yet, which would be a really nice choice for the next video in this series.
There is also PSO2: the official English release was a mess to begin with, about 7 years worth of content simultaneously, making most items obsolete from the beginning. And the release of New Genesis made things worse.
And I personally would really like to hear your opinion/analysis on Spiral Knights, a cute and fun hub based dungeon crawler that no one seems to play nowadays.
Yes please do spiral knight strife
Spiral Knights and PSO2NG are my favorite MMO experience, your comment reached my heart and I would love If JSH would check it out.
@Kimi Timoskainen And to top it all off NGS basically told CAST players to eff off because we're now catering to the sexy cat-girl demographic.
@@supergeno128ds I only played the JP server so I haven't been back to the game. PSO2 has the best combat of any MMO hands down, no contest. Every other MMO is pitifully clunky in the combat department. Problem is it demanded too much time. If you're not grinding you're not keeping up with your team. It was far better when it first came out and people were grinding all the maps for different reasons. They didn't spread the rewards across all maps well enough. So another consequence of not playing as much as a no lifer is that said no lifers aren't playing with you and your maps are totally dead.
@@aerrae5608 My sister and I both started playing when they finally released the NA servers. The Windows version was garbage and could really be only played with fan mods until the Steam version came out several months later. We were pretty big fans of the OG PSO and jumped at the chance to play PSO2. We both rolled CASTs and for a long time it was my most played game (yeah I was part of that "no-life" crowd...) NGS looked promising but I lost interest due to the devs basically pretending CASTs didn't exist (I don't remember the exact numbers, but in the 6-7 month period after it launched they relased ~50 female outfits, ~20 male, and *4* CAST sets (2 male, 2 female) I just got tired being let down every scratch ticket release. :(
i only have one problem with this video, the profile picture from this official forum guy was 10/10, i would trust this guy with every cell in my body
Your profile pic is certainly trustworthy. Astolfo always inspires confidence.
@@EvocativeKitsune thank you my dear, for king charlemagne
34:09 aw come on man, you just casually explained my "role" in quite literally all of my schoolmates lives lol
“Have you ever been in a relationship that wasn’t bad enough to end, but not good enough to go anywhere meaningful?” That hit me real hard
Same but in a different way because I've never been in a relationship and arguably I'd be fine with this as the idea of moving on to something more serious is terrifying.
I would love to see 'Last Chaos'. Been a gem in my childhood but can't imagine anything worse than it
Honestly getting a dragon mount is what sold me when it was gifted to me XD played it only for dragon and then grinded one dungeon to buy an to and all mounts available to me.
We all know that one dungeon not from the starting town. That gives you heaps of gold and levels just by going through it with higher levels.
Talking about story and the downward rollercoaster, I think FFXIV does it perfectly.
Without spoiling anything, there's a balance between story threads; you do one story then you have to stop because you and your friends can't progress until something is done, so they send you to help someone else (that more often than not conveniently happens to pop up just as you finish the first thing, but we'll ignore that). And the writers do a great job making everything feel important. Combating an ancient race of dimension ripping mages? Amazing. Helping solve civil unrest? Amazing. Literally raiding a tomb for fun? Amazing. etc, etc.
Villains feel humanized and you can relate and sympathize with the vast majority of them.
The world has a noticeable equivalent exchange. Things usually can't just happen. They have to follow the worlds rules.
Fun fact: whelm is actually a synonym of overwhelm-gotta love English being unintuitive even for those of us who speak it lol (would love to see the definition of whelm shift to a more neutral meaning though, it'll take time I suppose)
i remember having a blast playing this game with my friends back when it launched. Its a bit sad to see it in the state that its in right now. Back when it launched everything you'd do in game would be fun. The world bosses were crowded with players at the time and since no one knew the boss' mechanics you could see 100 people die instantly by a single swing from that crow lady boss. The pvp was skilled based , meaning , it was balanced and there was no auto aim , which for me as a mage player back then was pretty hard (im not known for my good aim|). All in all it was a decent game that happened to launch in an unlucky timing , as new world was gonna launch the next few months after this one did.
That "Bless A Thief's End" as another way to get Uncharted as word with "un.." in it, really made me smile, love your wording!
“You expect me to get emotionally invested in some farmer’s sheep wandering off”
Actually they have run amok and the farmer’s name is Greg who farms garlic and… wait… no, sorry, wrong game.
"...and is looking for his grandfather's sword."
... is that in Runescape?
@@vcool122 Not from a game per say, thats from a Viva La Dirt League skit called 'Epic NPC man'. Its quite fun to watch. You can find it on youtube
@@J4ymzz oh yeah, I know about it XD I just didn't reconized it was from there and it looked like the kind of silly joke quests you can find on runescape.
Hilarious writing and narration - love this review of Bless Reloaded The Squeakuel
16:00
"I know a cabbage merchant who'd be thrilled to have a guard."
I was not prepared for that.
The 4th Edition comment made me laugh harder than I expected. I can always count on you being extremely funny and informative in any of your videos and this was just a treat
one of the first mmorpgs to make me feel so sadand dissapointed, i want nothing more than an mmo with such active combat that keeps me fully engaged like Bless' does. Its just a shame they frontloaded anything "good" about the game in the first 20 or so levels and then clearly just haphazardly slapped content together afterwards in whatever fashion encouraged more monetization. I would gladly pay money for a game similar to bless, but not like this, anything but this.
It hasn't been a great era for MMO's has it? maybe the next ten years will be better.
try out vindictus, it's a little janky being from a while ago, but it's combat is actually amazing, basically just bless's but better, and without any of the dumb running around traditional mmo questing, just doing dungeons / raids