Thank you for making some things clear about the incident I encountered with my first game. It has its flaws but surely did not deserve the review bombing from TikToker who just generated views with my creations.
All joking and goofing aside, like I said in the video, I did really genuinely have a lot of fun with the game! The exploration, environments, and story were all a really fun experience! I genuinely hope there’s more to come in the future 😁
Sorry bro, but the game is very bad. Thankfully you made it free, because it needs more awareness of how games are made. Good effort, more than most. But, not nearly enough awareness. I've never been one to just congratulate someone on only putting in half the work and this is half the work. I would work with a professional storyteller to make a better concept and get a mentor in the game industry. And please don't put your first game on a storefront. Like, that shouldn't happen until you have a grasp of the understanding of creating a game. I understand the brutal nature of the reviews; they are disappointed. And yes, it is VERY bad. And no, it's more than crusty... This is the baby's first game and you kinda deserve the hate, my guy. And one person making this is not very impressive. Yes, the video lied. But, if the game was at least mediocre, then this would be a review bomb. This is just the public just being more honest. I would rework the game and watch more videos on level design, combat design and how to tell a story your audience will enjoy. But, it's free... So, at least you didn't make anyone pay for this.
@@CoreyJohnson193 You don’t have to congratulate him and you don’t have to be an ass either. Put in half the work? You don’t know anything about the work put in. It’s their first game and it’s free. They don’t have unlimited resources to make a AAA product you clown
@CoreyJohnson193 you're so damn clueless lol. This is MINDBLOWING work for a solo dev. Most big games are created by 300-500 people, this game is created by ONE PERSON. You're clueless. This man put ALOT of awareness for a solo project.
I am convinced these people are stuck in their 15 year old mindsets of "I know everything about the world" when in reality, they just hear 1 fact and then create a story based on that based purely on vague assumptions and their bad understanding of the world.
@@jesustyronechrist2330that's exactly why you can't reason with most people especially online. They know everything, even if you give them a link to video evidence they are horribly wrong
"If I had a nickel for every time misinformation was shared on tiktok, I'd have two billion nickels. Which is a lot, but it's weird that it happened that many times" - if Dr. Doofenshmirtz worded his sentence differently and lived in our world.
I think the implication in the scenes at the beginning and end was that Jeremy was being interrogated by the military. I don't think he could see Brian due to the way the spotlight was set up. If he looked where Brian was standing he would just see blinding light with at most vague figures of the people there. He was lying about what happened on the island, and realized he would be found out when he heard the voice of someone who saw the whole thing and could contradict the story he told.
Now I could be wrong but I additionally think the wound on Brian’s head implies that he was also attacked by Jeremy but wasn’t shot. So he likely thought Brian was dead seeing as Brian was hiding in a lil hidey hole by himself in the prior cut scene. So Jeremy had no idea that anyone besides himself survived the event and would’ve been blindsided by the news that Brian survived. What gets me though is if he shot most of the crew, wouldn’t that have been evident on the bodies proving that the beasts weren’t the ones to kill everyone. Now that wouldn’t be clear if it was indeed 35 years from the event but in that case neither Jeremy nor Brian look 35 years older from the time of the exploration.
Not the same thing but kinda similar if you turn your head and squint: Often when I'm focusing on something, be it reading a comment or playing a video game or just thinking about something, I'll kinda... sorta... just a tiny bit... forget to breathe. And then after a few seconds my body will be like "Hey loser, fekkin' give me oxygen!" and I'll take in a deep breath. My husband is always asking me what's the matter because I sound like I'm giving a big frustrated sigh XD No honey, I just forgot to breathe again.
I've witnessed some of the drama as a bystander, and I find it absolutely heart-crushing to know about the work and dedication that was poured into the game over years, being met with so much lazy, destructive and nonconstructive criticism. that somebody else profiteered off and exacerbated the false-expectation problem for views, probably cluelessly going along their way not caring about the mayhem they caused, is what really makes my blood boil. thank you for covering the topic to help cover up some of the misinformation doing its rounds out there. on a sidenote i find your voice very charming, thought i might as well throw that in when making a comment.
Absolutely, I totally get people wanting topics to make content on but the person on tiktok that helped contribute to this game getting dunked on so hard didn't even *attempt* to be accurate. Sometimes people get things wrong but yikes. It really sucks. The games not perfect but for a single devs first attempt it's extremely impressive.
The game is just bad... The criticism isn't lazy, it's on point. I couldn't careless about how long it took if it's bad. But, I guess I have higher standards than most... We don't give out participation prizes on storefronts. Geez...
@@CoreyJohnson193 the game might be bad, but the criticisms _are_ lazy. They decried the game for a missing feature when even the actual description doesn't mention if they actually read it, _that's_ lazy.
@@CoreyJohnson193 The game can be bad and the criticism of it still be lazy- and that's exactly the case here. Additionally, there's a certain line between having high standards and being a jerk while using your standards as a fallback. The end of story is that the dev worked hard and does deserve our respect for putting in the work that he put in, even if it didn't end up an above average experience or even average experience, and that the criticisms were largely built on false pretenses that the dev had no part in. That -is- unfair, no matter how you try to look at it. Not to mention that what most would likely consider a markedly average, maybe 5 or 6 out of 10 game not factoring in production value got more like 3/10 ratings, which is also unfair.
i remember seeing this video on tiktok, thought huh neat, then kept going. very upsetting to see that a developer was affected by something completely out of their control and may permanently affect how or if they make games
The funny thing is even IF tiktok ceased to exist, every single problem on tiktok predominantly would just migrate to other social media platforms. However Tiktok does particularly suffer from some specific degeneracy in the cesspool of it.
Tbf a lot of the negative reviews were about poor performance and bad optimization of probably an earlier version, which the dev response also acknowledged. The tiktok video did contribute to huge interest in the game, and attention invited scrutiny.
So about that huge number of wolves section. When I saw that my first thought was "get up on a rock and they probably won't be able to get at you." 90s era shooters, which this seems to be inspired by, were big on that. When it said something about running it probably meant 'run to a safe position and attack from there'. If you aren't familiar with the genre, though, I suppose it would be rather confusing. I thiiink the intent at the end was that the other survivor was hidden from the protagonist until right at that moment, hence his surprise. Doesn't answer why he didn't think that guy would be at the beach in visual range, though.
For sure I’d totally agree with you on the running to a safer spot thing and hopping on the rock is the first thing I did, but I don’t think it’s intentional because the wolves glitch out and stop pathing correctly when you squeeze yourself up on the rock 😆
@@early-tv Hmmm. Maybe. I do know that when shooters first started allowing jumping and climbing, often the AI pathing was ported over from games where there was no jumping and climbing, so doing so would confuse them. After awhile some games made this a feature, where there would be some hidey hole where you were supposed to hide from a swarm of animals or zombies or something else obviously supposed to be unintelligent and pick them off. I can't think of what specific game I am thinking of right off, but I do remember that seeming deliberate at some point... Maybe Mysteries of the Sith? Seems like it was unintentional in Jedi Knight but I think the expansion/sequel had an area where it was a necessity late-game.
That rifle is either a nagant or kar 98. Either way, depending on the exact model(these were guns that were around long enough to see action in two world wars) had either 6 or 7 rounds and fed from something called a clip or striper clip depending on the gun(the little piece of metal he throws away in the reload animation) which for a time before magazines(whats used in essentially every modern firearm besides revolvers), was pretty freakin neat as any other method that wasnt a tube(which only really saw action on shotguns due to standard rounds setting each other off when stacked, the only exception being lever actions which were prone to catastrophic accidents making them unsuitable for war) limited your capacity to your number of barrels(typically one or two rounds). The only caveat being that the bolt needed to be manually pulled all the way back and pushed all the way forward to extract an old round and ready a new one, as opposed to modern semi and full auto weapons which do it for you. However bolt action rifles still see use to this day in the military, albeit with actual detachable magazines as sniper rifles, because of the much higher reliability and the ease of disassembly and maintenance, as well as the fact they dont auto eject casings and expel them way more consistently meaning its way easier to not leave a trace, coincidentally the same reason organized crime still primarily uses revolvers. Sorry this ran so long, i didnt mean to
Looks like a Kar98k. Probably a stock asset. They have 5 round capacity but can be loaded single shot like any bolt action. They don’t do a good job of establishing what time period the game takes place in. I’m guessing early 1900’s but then the Kar98k is anachronistic as those first appeared in 1935.
Great video! Was kinda just listening the whole time but I looked over towards the end to leave a comment and your low sub count has me baffled. Good stuff.
Thanks for the kind comment, I really appreciate it!! I’m just starting out and still learning how to edit videos 🤣🤣 been having a ton of fun making them though!
@@early-tv just found your fake P.T. video and this one (after editing a video I made about Silent Hill no less) and I've gotta say I love your voice, style, and commentary. I subbed and am looking forward to new videos!
This just feels like a really shitty pre-alpha version of the King Kong game that came out for the Peter Jackson movie (which is an absolute banger btw).
@@early-tv I wrote that comment half-way through the video but now that I've finished it, I've realized that it's pretty much EXACTLY like the King Kong game. Enemy types are basically the same, the puzzles, mechanics and setpieces are all one and the same. Hell, even most of the animations are 1:1 copies. It's almost like plagiarism! I think you genuinely could get an interesting perspective by playing that King Kong game!
It would be funny if "The Incident" was when they took the second brown colored M&M out of the rotation and replaced it with the green M&M and the dev just took it super hard.
This game is really similar to the old king kong game that i use to have on xbox. The elephant part is the exact same as the brontosauruses part. I also encourage to play the king kong has some really cool moments.
On Steam you can only give either a negative or positive review for a game and the overall score is based on the ratio. A very flawed game like this is unlikely to get a positive review even if it's free, but that doesn't mean the reviewers think it's the worst game ever. Even if you dislike the game even slightly more than you like it, your review contributes to the overall negative score. I think there should be at least a neutral option that weighs the score towards the middle so people aren't so misled by the overall score. Slightly negative and slightly positive could also work, though then it's more like the old five star system.
I agree it’d be great to have a neutral or something! I’ve had plenty of games that I wouldn’t want to give a positive or negative score haha. In this games case if you look at the reviews around when the TikTok came out and release almost all of them mention they are negative because of the “false advertising” that came from the video… which sucks because the creator isn’t the one that put the video up.
The only tragedy is that people take TikTok as a credible source of information. Also that camera moving between the pictures at 22:00 looks like straight from the beginning of Cryostasis.
It sucks how much everyone takes out their anger on the wrong people for things that others say. The game is pretty good for one person making it, it's not perfect, mildly offensive (which I don't really mind as an indigenous American person myself), and poorly optimized, but didn't deserve as much hate as it received.
There are some games where a gun can only hold one bullet and needs to be reloaded between every shot. But those often either are historical multiplayer games or horror-ish games where you have ability to fight monster back - but in all of these examples the amount of enemies or threat level is balanced around that. I feel like this dev both picked wrong weapon (this is pretty much a marksman rifle meant for longer distances - it can hold up to 5 ammo so am not sure if the dev just couldn't code it to hold certain amount of ammo or if they wanted some other lore-reason why you can only load one ammo at a time - but for some reason they made/kept the clip for ammo for animations? if their in-world reasoning for single bullet only would had been that the gun was old and the clip was useless then imo just don't animate player interacting with the clip? - i am not sure why would expedition team hold gun like this instead of some other hunting rifle or if some part of the crew knew /was expecting there would be humans maybe submachine gun or pistol might had bene better) but also since there are so many enemies something with higher firerate would had worked much better. Could had been anything from revolver to more modern pistol or from shotgun to that submachine gun. And if killing this many enemies by any of these guns felt like the player would be too overpowered maybe pick some weaker pistol and make wolfs take 2-3 hits until they die? That one bullet and reload does work in those other games. But this one either needed less enemies or better gun to deal with these enemies.
That whole elephant stampede section is suspiciously similar to the King Kong video game from 2005. This whole game seems inspired by it. That game is a banger, by the way. Also, I'm assuming that TikTok video is by one of those "companies" set up to generate revenue from views of videos where they keyword stuff as much as possible. And stuff like Rust gets LOTS of traction. Survival Multiplayer just makes a certain section of gamers go mad. See also The Day Before.
Tiktok remains a blight on the Internet. A shame, too - for a game put together by one guy, this is a rather impressive bit of work. Some jank here and there, yeah, but it's not unplayable. Games like these should be encouraged - there was obviously love and care put into the game, and hopefully the flaws this game has will serve as learning experiences for the author's next title. This absolutely did not deserve to get reviewbombed just because some intellectually-bankrupt morons got misled by some random jackass on Tiktok.
This was another really fun video! (I'm still getting caught up after my bindge. 😂) I felt like the script for this one when summarizing the game's story maybe wasn't quite as tight as your other videos. You do mention you're not used to doing so however, and it's not Bad, my attention just started to wander for a bit. I got pulled back in though. Also I don't know how much of that is simply due to, you know, the game's story lol. It doesn't look like a "bad" game per se, imo. I've played worse, just some missteps and missing polish. There's some promise in there and I think the dev will improve. The one thing I thought was missing from the video was a little more investigation into the tiktok channel that first posted the fake ad. Whether this is an anomaly, something they do regularly, if this could have been an ad campaign that backfired, if no concrete info could be found, etc. Regardless of that, I still really enjoyed the video! Your humor and presentation continue to be a real highlight and make each video fun.
Haha nah I totally agree with ya there I’m still learning how to do formatting and scripting. Been trying to improve it with every video so this one’s definitely not my best attempt 🤣🤣 Hoping to keep getting better as I go! It’s definitely a learning curve haha c:
This reminds me a _lot_ of the 2005 _King Kong_ game, which was famously immersive and also has basically the same setting, albeit without a daikaiju at the end.
I think when I get my new rig built with my 4070ti I'm going to give this a shot just for the elephants scene, so I can regret my purchase immediately. xD
The elephant stampede/burning the bushes is... an exact copy of the 2005 King Kong game. Except instead of elephants its a pack of long neck dinosaurs. INCLUDING needing a torch (although in that game you just find them, and there are already lit sconces around you have to traverse to). This isnt an original concept, but that seems a little sus. It's even a bit of a similar concept - a bunch of guys are exploring a land thought forgotten, finding terrible secrets (hopefully not a big nonhuman primate, I havent finished the video yet)
The elephant puzzle reminds me of that one long neck dinosaur rampage in that like 2006 king Kong game. Where while trying to get through, you also had to fight raptors
...wait this was done by 1 person? Over 2 years? This is damn fine for that! Context matters, holy cow. Though I do wonder, did the guy do all the VA work? Cause if he had others then I guess it's not really a solo project. But still. And I mean, the quality of the voice acting, whatever the case, seem pretty good? Like I'm not super picky about voice acting, people will call things "bad voice acting" that I'll think is fine, and conversely I'll be like "damn, resident evil has awful voice acting!" and people will claim it's fantastic and a great game and I just, you know, I just feel like I'm in bizarro world. Like, you mean it's ironically great? Sure I guess but I imagine the developers wanted you to enjoy the game _genuinely_ rather than laughing at it?? But anyway. yeah the VA seems pretty decent in this. I dunno maybe I'm easily impressed but the face models seem pretty dang good. Being able to see the individual hairs in the close-up at the very start, dang! This absolutely didn't deserve to get review bombed.
@@early-tv Fair enough. I mostly bring it up because I think a lot of folks have this idea that a game and its production only "counts" as the stuff that's like... I'm not sure how to describe it but "mechanical". Like, coding, art assets, things you need to do on a computer. Whereas things like voice acting and writing aren't a "real" part of game design. But I mean... they are. They're part of the game, maybe not the most important part but still a part of it. Though I can see why, if one person does say, 90% of the work on a game then saying the game was made by 3 people would come across as disingenuous. Life is complicated :(
I mean, it's pretty bad, but not the worst thing I've ever seen. The story reads like a 12 year-old's English homework assignment. Tiktok is a plague on humanity.
Oooh you should really do a vid on the remothered games by Chris Darril. It was an indie horror game that had a really good and interesting short first entry but then the second entry was a huge bugged and ugly disaster. I seriously cannot get past the start of the game even after all the supposed patch updates. I imagine this has horrible steam reviews. It was originally planned as a trilogy but it seems MODUS bought the game and Darril lost the rights and has now moved on to creating Bye Sweet Carole.
@@early-tv oh you should, u will be surprised and so invested and then sad and pissed because the second game is so glitchy, bugged and all around horrid. From camera angles to controls and inputs to game mechanics. It has all the makings of a doo doo feces game😞
Mechanically, the game is good. Sure some parts could be tweaked and polished more. The game story telling is more interpretation for the player to figure out. With more Environmental ques to the story telling. One of the reasons Jeremy started to speak about the island again, i pretty much he has been caught, and interrogated about it. The military has quite a interest in it, so they found the only two survivors. Jeremy more or less, wanted to protect the natives. And sadly, even if he would have gone up with Taisha or how her name is spelled, she would have been shot either way. Note what they say after she got shot. Also it is likely Taisha had been watching Jeremy, and figured out, he is not a threat, which is why she understood things about him in a sense. Also why she went to help him. Also, you are using a Bolt Action Rifle, with a mag of 5 bullets. Jeremy is not exactly a trained soldier, so the cycle between each bullet, will be agonizingly slow. If he had some basic training, he would have learned the basic motion to make the shooting a lot quicker. But judging by his small panic attacks (Heavy breathing), he is not exactly prepared to fight with a weapon.
I think the TikTok video was referring to the in game characters. Jeremy is teaming up with his friends, the other people in the game. Someone using that synthetic voice stuff probably doesn't speak English natively.
Small detail, but this "35 years after the incident" doesn't make any sense at all The number is simply too high. 3 years, 5 years or even 35 months would be much more fitting @thomas-media I agree, and I am impressed by what ONE person can achieve, I wish you the best of luck for your next project😘
If you like piña coladas, and... getting caught by tiktok review bombing..? I think that's how the song went, anyway :'D This looks like it could be an interesting game, sucks that it got the short end of the stick.
1:35 These indie games where the developer voices their own characters always seem to come from some guy with this *exact* accent and type of voice. I'm convinced it's always the same person. Also, I said "no" at the beginning and it upsets me a little that you continued talking about the subject. You'll be hearing from my lawyer, once I find one that works pro bono.
Okay, so I know this would destroy the game's entire bookend narrative- but... what if Jeremy became another monster after he murdered all the crew members? That at least would have some spooky implications that players could sit with for a little bit. And absolute yikes at the review situation.
Just wanna say racking the next bullet for a bolt action rifle is not reloading. I don’t think using a bolt action is inherently problematic, but perhaps the wolf AI could be adjusted to fit for the kind of gameplay style this weapon has.
Yeah that!! Like I said idk anything about guns loool, I know there's that little animation and after a few shots you actually reload but... I don't know the terminology 😂 But yeah that's exactly the issue, I'd be totally fine with the gun itself if the combat wasn't a billion wolves jumping at you at the same time when it takes so long to shoot. Clearing out that amount of wolves that way is a chore as opposed to being fun haha.
As a solo dev who has spent years on games and scrapped them because they were not good enough, I have little sympathy for solo devs releasing unpolished crap to the masses and then subsequently whining about how people judge it.
Yeah like I mentioned it could definitely be improved but it’s still a fun play through. Hope the dev keeps making games I think they could make something great!
It’s not technically reloading I just didn’t/don’t know the word for it haha. I am not a gun person 🤣🤣 You take a shot and have to fiddle with the gun for a while then take another shot, and after a few is the actual reload animation.
@@early-tv regarding performance. I have a i9 14900k and 7900xtx yet still around half way trough the game i dropped to like constant 20fps. All i did was restart the game and I was back on 200+.
the guy that made a heavily ai generated game doesn't know anything about the ai voiced promotion videos with the same kind of broken english thats in the game? Did the ai fairy just pick a random steam game to promote? lol
why do you have to complain about every single thing that is slightly hard and takes more than 2 minutes to complete like puzzles bossfights, a third of the way through and this video just sounds like slander
Game overall looks pretty bad. But i am kinda impressed with how this free game actually has some good looking hair. A thing that's pretty hard to get right
I knew this day would come! Where graphics and animation no longer alerted us to the true horrendousness of a game due to technology getting better. The animations: top-notch. The game, garbage and sad that someone really cared about this really bad game. I always say you need two things to make great art; effort and awareness. Typically you can tell when a game lacks one of the other. This game had a ton of effort and nearly zero awareness. This wanted to be the Kong movie game so bad, yet they had no understanding of why it worked. They weren't aware of how that game worked and made a shit homage. I hope this is a lesson to all of those looking to make art for the public; it MUST have both effort and awareness or you're making trash.
This game does have a ton of problems but I do still like it :) I think a better example of a game looking good but being complete garbage in every other aspect is Stray Souls. That game borderline scammed people with its demos and then just turned out to be an asset flip with nothing going for it. But yeah I do agree with the sentiment that it’s getting harder and harder to see red flags in games until you’re playing them these days 😅
@@early-tv It is! But, we can all be more proactive and blunt about reality. The game is bad, even though you like it. Being nice to the creator isn't helping them get better. Art is about expression, design is about translating that expression to others. Art is for you, design is for the community. If this guy wants help making it better, I'm all here for it. But, he will have to admit how terrible it is first. When I make bad designs I sit with them, even apologize and then work on making them better using the criticism I've garnered. We aren't helping a creator get better by ignoring major red flags.
Thank you for making some things clear about the incident I encountered with my first game. It has its flaws but surely did not deserve the review bombing from TikToker who just generated views with my creations.
All joking and goofing aside, like I said in the video, I did really genuinely have a lot of fun with the game!
The exploration, environments, and story were all a really fun experience! I genuinely hope there’s more to come in the future 😁
great work definitely didnt deserve that, appreciate it being free
Sorry bro, but the game is very bad. Thankfully you made it free, because it needs more awareness of how games are made. Good effort, more than most. But, not nearly enough awareness. I've never been one to just congratulate someone on only putting in half the work and this is half the work. I would work with a professional storyteller to make a better concept and get a mentor in the game industry. And please don't put your first game on a storefront. Like, that shouldn't happen until you have a grasp of the understanding of creating a game. I understand the brutal nature of the reviews; they are disappointed. And yes, it is VERY bad. And no, it's more than crusty... This is the baby's first game and you kinda deserve the hate, my guy. And one person making this is not very impressive. Yes, the video lied. But, if the game was at least mediocre, then this would be a review bomb. This is just the public just being more honest. I would rework the game and watch more videos on level design, combat design and how to tell a story your audience will enjoy. But, it's free... So, at least you didn't make anyone pay for this.
@@CoreyJohnson193 You don’t have to congratulate him and you don’t have to be an ass either. Put in half the work? You don’t know anything about the work put in. It’s their first game and it’s free. They don’t have unlimited resources to make a AAA product you clown
@CoreyJohnson193 you're so damn clueless lol. This is MINDBLOWING work for a solo dev. Most big games are created by 300-500 people, this game is created by ONE PERSON. You're clueless. This man put ALOT of awareness for a solo project.
Of course, Tiktok, the malformed spawn of postmodernism.
For a solo dev, and free? This is good! Good job dev!
If I had a nickel for every time misinformation was spread on TikTok, I could have a Scrooge McDuck style vault full of nickels to swim around in.
I am convinced these people are stuck in their 15 year old mindsets of "I know everything about the world" when in reality, they just hear 1 fact and then create a story based on that based purely on vague assumptions and their bad understanding of the world.
@@jesustyronechrist2330that's exactly why you can't reason with most people especially online. They know everything, even if you give them a link to video evidence they are horribly wrong
A-Wooo-Oooh
"If I had a nickel for every time misinformation was shared on tiktok, I'd have two billion nickels. Which is a lot, but it's weird that it happened that many times" - if Dr. Doofenshmirtz worded his sentence differently and lived in our world.
Nah, doesn't work. Saw it on Family Guy. Turns out, coins are solid objects.
I think the implication in the scenes at the beginning and end was that Jeremy was being interrogated by the military. I don't think he could see Brian due to the way the spotlight was set up. If he looked where Brian was standing he would just see blinding light with at most vague figures of the people there. He was lying about what happened on the island, and realized he would be found out when he heard the voice of someone who saw the whole thing and could contradict the story he told.
Now I could be wrong but I additionally think the wound on Brian’s head implies that he was also attacked by Jeremy but wasn’t shot. So he likely thought Brian was dead seeing as Brian was hiding in a lil hidey hole by himself in the prior cut scene. So Jeremy had no idea that anyone besides himself survived the event and would’ve been blindsided by the news that Brian survived.
What gets me though is if he shot most of the crew, wouldn’t that have been evident on the bodies proving that the beasts weren’t the ones to kill everyone. Now that wouldn’t be clear if it was indeed 35 years from the event but in that case neither Jeremy nor Brian look 35 years older from the time of the exploration.
As a man named Jeremy I can confirm that extreme heavy breathing is a primary charcterist of ours.
Keep up the good work Jeremy 😌✨
That explains Jeremy Clarkson.
Not the same thing but kinda similar if you turn your head and squint:
Often when I'm focusing on something, be it reading a comment or playing a video game or just thinking about something, I'll kinda... sorta... just a tiny bit... forget to breathe. And then after a few seconds my body will be like "Hey loser, fekkin' give me oxygen!" and I'll take in a deep breath.
My husband is always asking me what's the matter because I sound like I'm giving a big frustrated sigh XD No honey, I just forgot to breathe again.
I've witnessed some of the drama as a bystander, and I find it absolutely heart-crushing to know about the work and dedication that was poured into the game over years, being met with so much lazy, destructive and nonconstructive criticism. that somebody else profiteered off and exacerbated the false-expectation problem for views, probably cluelessly going along their way not caring about the mayhem they caused, is what really makes my blood boil. thank you for covering the topic to help cover up some of the misinformation doing its rounds out there.
on a sidenote i find your voice very charming, thought i might as well throw that in when making a comment.
Absolutely, I totally get people wanting topics to make content on but the person on tiktok that helped contribute to this game getting dunked on so hard didn't even *attempt* to be accurate. Sometimes people get things wrong but yikes. It really sucks.
The games not perfect but for a single devs first attempt it's extremely impressive.
The game is just bad... The criticism isn't lazy, it's on point. I couldn't careless about how long it took if it's bad. But, I guess I have higher standards than most... We don't give out participation prizes on storefronts. Geez...
@@CoreyJohnson193 the game might be bad, but the criticisms _are_ lazy. They decried the game for a missing feature when even the actual description doesn't mention if they actually read it, _that's_ lazy.
@@CoreyJohnson193bro get a life.
@@CoreyJohnson193 The game can be bad and the criticism of it still be lazy- and that's exactly the case here. Additionally, there's a certain line between having high standards and being a jerk while using your standards as a fallback. The end of story is that the dev worked hard and does deserve our respect for putting in the work that he put in, even if it didn't end up an above average experience or even average experience, and that the criticisms were largely built on false pretenses that the dev had no part in. That -is- unfair, no matter how you try to look at it. Not to mention that what most would likely consider a markedly average, maybe 5 or 6 out of 10 game not factoring in production value got more like 3/10 ratings, which is also unfair.
i remember seeing this video on tiktok, thought huh neat, then kept going. very upsetting to see that a developer was affected by something completely out of their control and may permanently affect how or if they make games
The trick is to never go to tiktok and hope that hive of Chinese spyware goes out of business.
The funny thing is even IF tiktok ceased to exist, every single problem on tiktok predominantly would just migrate to other social media platforms. However Tiktok does particularly suffer from some specific degeneracy in the cesspool of it.
We really enjoyed your commentary about a game we never heard of. That was more interesting than we expected.
thankya! ♥
Tbf a lot of the negative reviews were about poor performance and bad optimization of probably an earlier version, which the dev response also acknowledged. The tiktok video did contribute to huge interest in the game, and attention invited scrutiny.
Oh for sure, it definitely would have gotten some negative attention at first on its own but the video really caused a huge wave haha.
So about that huge number of wolves section. When I saw that my first thought was "get up on a rock and they probably won't be able to get at you." 90s era shooters, which this seems to be inspired by, were big on that. When it said something about running it probably meant 'run to a safe position and attack from there'. If you aren't familiar with the genre, though, I suppose it would be rather confusing.
I thiiink the intent at the end was that the other survivor was hidden from the protagonist until right at that moment, hence his surprise. Doesn't answer why he didn't think that guy would be at the beach in visual range, though.
For sure I’d totally agree with you on the running to a safer spot thing and hopping on the rock is the first thing I did, but I don’t think it’s intentional because the wolves glitch out and stop pathing correctly when you squeeze yourself up on the rock 😆
@@early-tv Hmmm. Maybe. I do know that when shooters first started allowing jumping and climbing, often the AI pathing was ported over from games where there was no jumping and climbing, so doing so would confuse them. After awhile some games made this a feature, where there would be some hidey hole where you were supposed to hide from a swarm of animals or zombies or something else obviously supposed to be unintelligent and pick them off. I can't think of what specific game I am thinking of right off, but I do remember that seeming deliberate at some point... Maybe Mysteries of the Sith? Seems like it was unintentional in Jedi Knight but I think the expansion/sequel had an area where it was a necessity late-game.
That rifle is either a nagant or kar 98. Either way, depending on the exact model(these were guns that were around long enough to see action in two world wars) had either 6 or 7 rounds and fed from something called a clip or striper clip depending on the gun(the little piece of metal he throws away in the reload animation) which for a time before magazines(whats used in essentially every modern firearm besides revolvers), was pretty freakin neat as any other method that wasnt a tube(which only really saw action on shotguns due to standard rounds setting each other off when stacked, the only exception being lever actions which were prone to catastrophic accidents making them unsuitable for war) limited your capacity to your number of barrels(typically one or two rounds). The only caveat being that the bolt needed to be manually pulled all the way back and pushed all the way forward to extract an old round and ready a new one, as opposed to modern semi and full auto weapons which do it for you. However bolt action rifles still see use to this day in the military, albeit with actual detachable magazines as sniper rifles, because of the much higher reliability and the ease of disassembly and maintenance, as well as the fact they dont auto eject casings and expel them way more consistently meaning its way easier to not leave a trace, coincidentally the same reason organized crime still primarily uses revolvers. Sorry this ran so long, i didnt mean to
Thats interesting! Like I mentioned, I know absolutely nothing about guns so neat to read 😄
Thanks for the info!
@@early-tv no problem. I tried to make it simple but I realistically suck at things like this so I'm glad it was at least somewhat coherent
Just wanted to point out that both Kar 98 and Mosing Nagant could hold 5 rounds not 6 or 7
Looks like a Kar98k. Probably a stock asset. They have 5 round capacity but can be loaded single shot like any bolt action. They don’t do a good job of establishing what time period the game takes place in. I’m guessing early 1900’s but then the Kar98k is anachronistic as those first appeared in 1935.
So it’s like if the Tomb Raider reboots and Far Cry had an extremely “slow” child that they abandoned
Great video! Was kinda just listening the whole time but I looked over towards the end to leave a comment and your low sub count has me baffled. Good stuff.
Thanks for the kind comment, I really appreciate it!! I’m just starting out and still learning how to edit videos 🤣🤣 been having a ton of fun making them though!
Jeremy breathes like me after walking up one (1) flight of stairs
Haha relatable. 🤣
@@early-tv just found your fake P.T. video and this one (after editing a video I made about Silent Hill no less) and I've gotta say I love your voice, style, and commentary. I subbed and am looking forward to new videos!
This just feels like a really shitty pre-alpha version of the King Kong game that came out for the Peter Jackson movie (which is an absolute banger btw).
I’ve heard that! Definitely need to check it out 😁
@@early-tv I wrote that comment half-way through the video but now that I've finished it, I've realized that it's pretty much EXACTLY like the King Kong game. Enemy types are basically the same, the puzzles, mechanics and setpieces are all one and the same. Hell, even most of the animations are 1:1 copies. It's almost like plagiarism! I think you genuinely could get an interesting perspective by playing that King Kong game!
"He preserved" 😂 obviously supposed to be persevered 😅
It would be funny if "The Incident" was when they took the second brown colored M&M out of the rotation and replaced it with the green M&M and the dev just took it super hard.
This game is really similar to the old king kong game that i use to have on xbox. The elephant part is the exact same as the brontosauruses part. I also encourage to play the king kong has some really cool moments.
I’ll have to check it out! 😊
also you get to play as king kong. what else do you need :)@@early-tv
The Jack Black movie based game, right? The ravine reminded me of that too.
On Steam you can only give either a negative or positive review for a game and the overall score is based on the ratio. A very flawed game like this is unlikely to get a positive review even if it's free, but that doesn't mean the reviewers think it's the worst game ever. Even if you dislike the game even slightly more than you like it, your review contributes to the overall negative score. I think there should be at least a neutral option that weighs the score towards the middle so people aren't so misled by the overall score. Slightly negative and slightly positive could also work, though then it's more like the old five star system.
I agree it’d be great to have a neutral or something! I’ve had plenty of games that I wouldn’t want to give a positive or negative score haha.
In this games case if you look at the reviews around when the TikTok came out and release almost all of them mention they are negative because of the “false advertising” that came from the video… which sucks because the creator isn’t the one that put the video up.
The only tragedy is that people take TikTok as a credible source of information. Also that camera moving between the pictures at 22:00 looks like straight from the beginning of Cryostasis.
Game looks great for a solo dev passion project. i really hope that didnt turn them off from doing more stuff
It sucks how much everyone takes out their anger on the wrong people for things that others say. The game is pretty good for one person making it, it's not perfect, mildly offensive (which I don't really mind as an indigenous American person myself), and poorly optimized, but didn't deserve as much hate as it received.
There are some games where a gun can only hold one bullet and needs to be reloaded between every shot. But those often either are historical multiplayer games or horror-ish games where you have ability to fight monster back - but in all of these examples the amount of enemies or threat level is balanced around that. I feel like this dev both picked wrong weapon (this is pretty much a marksman rifle meant for longer distances - it can hold up to 5 ammo so am not sure if the dev just couldn't code it to hold certain amount of ammo or if they wanted some other lore-reason why you can only load one ammo at a time - but for some reason they made/kept the clip for ammo for animations? if their in-world reasoning for single bullet only would had been that the gun was old and the clip was useless then imo just don't animate player interacting with the clip? - i am not sure why would expedition team hold gun like this instead of some other hunting rifle or if some part of the crew knew /was expecting there would be humans maybe submachine gun or pistol might had bene better) but also since there are so many enemies something with higher firerate would had worked much better. Could had been anything from revolver to more modern pistol or from shotgun to that submachine gun. And if killing this many enemies by any of these guns felt like the player would be too overpowered maybe pick some weaker pistol and make wolfs take 2-3 hits until they die? That one bullet and reload does work in those other games. But this one either needed less enemies or better gun to deal with these enemies.
I have fallen in love with your avatar. It is so cute!
Haha thank you 😊
i like the beak it kinda looks like shes licking her nose because of the colors. veri cute
@@nandanthony I thought that was a tongue :/
That whole elephant stampede section is suspiciously similar to the King Kong video game from 2005. This whole game seems inspired by it. That game is a banger, by the way. Also, I'm assuming that TikTok video is by one of those "companies" set up to generate revenue from views of videos where they keyword stuff as much as possible. And stuff like Rust gets LOTS of traction. Survival Multiplayer just makes a certain section of gamers go mad. See also The Day Before.
Tiktok remains a blight on the Internet. A shame, too - for a game put together by one guy, this is a rather impressive bit of work. Some jank here and there, yeah, but it's not unplayable. Games like these should be encouraged - there was obviously love and care put into the game, and hopefully the flaws this game has will serve as learning experiences for the author's next title. This absolutely did not deserve to get reviewbombed just because some intellectually-bankrupt morons got misled by some random jackass on Tiktok.
This was another really fun video! (I'm still getting caught up after my bindge. 😂)
I felt like the script for this one when summarizing the game's story maybe wasn't quite as tight as your other videos. You do mention you're not used to doing so however, and it's not Bad, my attention just started to wander for a bit. I got pulled back in though.
Also I don't know how much of that is simply due to, you know, the game's story lol. It doesn't look like a "bad" game per se, imo. I've played worse, just some missteps and missing polish. There's some promise in there and I think the dev will improve.
The one thing I thought was missing from the video was a little more investigation into the tiktok channel that first posted the fake ad. Whether this is an anomaly, something they do regularly, if this could have been an ad campaign that backfired, if no concrete info could be found, etc.
Regardless of that, I still really enjoyed the video! Your humor and presentation continue to be a real highlight and make each video fun.
Haha nah I totally agree with ya there I’m still learning how to do formatting and scripting. Been trying to improve it with every video so this one’s definitely not my best attempt 🤣🤣 Hoping to keep getting better as I go! It’s definitely a learning curve haha c:
The rock trick with the wolves was my first gamer instinct. Find a place I can jump or climb up to they can’t.
Eyelashes slide is on 130%.
This reminds me a _lot_ of the 2005 _King Kong_ game, which was famously immersive and also has basically the same setting, albeit without a daikaiju at the end.
Moral of the story is make sure you do your research I guess. Silly tiktok 🤪
21:41 = AI voice, auto-generated script ... That is in fact NOT a guy on tik tok. That's a robot.
This game is Peter Jackson's King Kong but bad
Not condoning the review bombing for the record, tiktok influencers are cringe.
"Kiełbasa arms" made me chuckle XD
I think when I get my new rig built with my 4070ti I'm going to give this a shot just for the elephants scene, so I can regret my purchase immediately. xD
Those crisp cool 12 frames will make you feel alive
The elephant stampede/burning the bushes is... an exact copy of the 2005 King Kong game. Except instead of elephants its a pack of long neck dinosaurs. INCLUDING needing a torch (although in that game you just find them, and there are already lit sconces around you have to traverse to). This isnt an original concept, but that seems a little sus. It's even a bit of a similar concept - a bunch of guys are exploring a land thought forgotten, finding terrible secrets (hopefully not a big nonhuman primate, I havent finished the video yet)
Interesting! I've had a few comments say it reminded them of the King Kong game but didn't realize it was so close 😅
The thumbnail is terrifying, had to click just to leave this comment. The eyes!
Staring into your soul
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this game reminds me of peter jacksons king kong. their land feels like it was inspired a little.
I can definitely see that
@@early-tv have you played through the game? its very similar
The elephant puzzle reminds me of that one long neck dinosaur rampage in that like 2006 king Kong game. Where while trying to get through, you also had to fight raptors
...wait this was done by 1 person? Over 2 years? This is damn fine for that! Context matters, holy cow. Though I do wonder, did the guy do all the VA work? Cause if he had others then I guess it's not really a solo project. But still. And I mean, the quality of the voice acting, whatever the case, seem pretty good? Like I'm not super picky about voice acting, people will call things "bad voice acting" that I'll think is fine, and conversely I'll be like "damn, resident evil has awful voice acting!" and people will claim it's fantastic and a great game and I just, you know, I just feel like I'm in bizarro world. Like, you mean it's ironically great? Sure I guess but I imagine the developers wanted you to enjoy the game _genuinely_ rather than laughing at it?? But anyway. yeah the VA seems pretty decent in this.
I dunno maybe I'm easily impressed but the face models seem pretty dang good. Being able to see the individual hairs in the close-up at the very start, dang!
This absolutely didn't deserve to get review bombed.
I know for sure he did the main character but I think there are a few other voice actors mixed in as well but not 100% sure.
@@early-tv Fair enough. I mostly bring it up because I think a lot of folks have this idea that a game and its production only "counts" as the stuff that's like... I'm not sure how to describe it but "mechanical". Like, coding, art assets, things you need to do on a computer. Whereas things like voice acting and writing aren't a "real" part of game design. But I mean... they are. They're part of the game, maybe not the most important part but still a part of it. Though I can see why, if one person does say, 90% of the work on a game then saying the game was made by 3 people would come across as disingenuous.
Life is complicated :(
Liked for Elephant Death. Good stuff.
8 minutes in and I'm calling it they basically took all the idea from Peter Jackson's King Kong game
Oh hey look it’s the same asset store monster from that silent hill ripoff!
I mean, it's pretty bad, but not the worst thing I've ever seen. The story reads like a 12 year-old's English homework assignment.
Tiktok is a plague on humanity.
Oooh you should really do a vid on the remothered games by Chris Darril. It was an indie horror game that had a really good and interesting short first entry but then the second entry was a huge bugged and ugly disaster. I seriously cannot get past the start of the game even after all the supposed patch updates. I imagine this has horrible steam reviews. It was originally planned as a trilogy but it seems MODUS bought the game and Darril lost the rights and has now moved on to creating Bye Sweet Carole.
I’ve heard of these games but am not super familiar, sounds interesting! I’ll have to check em out
@@early-tv oh you should, u will be surprised and so invested and then sad and pissed because the second game is so glitchy, bugged and all around horrid. From camera angles to controls and inputs to game mechanics. It has all the makings of a doo doo feces game😞
I personally really like this longform video style. The 20-30 minute timeframe is a good sweetspot.
This reminds me of the old king kong game, that one was a banger.
If you've played it this seems way better.
You have an excellent sense of humor lol
I think your commentary would be hilarious doing a clocktower review preferably clock tower 2 on the PS2 great review by the way
For some reason that thing that annoys me the most in this game are the gold/brass stripper clips for the rifle ammo.
Huh this feels like a bad ripoff of the King Kong movie-Tie-In game. *Edit* and now I know it was made by a single guy and I feel bad.
It’s definitely extremely similar to that game haha.
The dev did good as a solo project, I enjoyed it despite the similarity and the problems c:
why do the elephants have 5 trunks though
We are not gonna talk about the weird 4 sided trunks the elephants have?
I hate TikTok fr
The game isn't that bad for something free that one developer made, it has it's flaws sure, but it's definitely not the paid Golum game type of flaws.
Mechanically, the game is good.
Sure some parts could be tweaked and polished more.
The game story telling is more interpretation for the player to figure out.
With more Environmental ques to the story telling.
One of the reasons Jeremy started to speak about the island again, i pretty much he has been caught, and interrogated about it.
The military has quite a interest in it, so they found the only two survivors.
Jeremy more or less, wanted to protect the natives. And sadly, even if he would have gone up with Taisha or how her name is spelled, she would have been shot either way.
Note what they say after she got shot.
Also it is likely Taisha had been watching Jeremy, and figured out, he is not a threat, which is why she understood things about him in a sense. Also why she went to help him.
Also, you are using a Bolt Action Rifle, with a mag of 5 bullets. Jeremy is not exactly a trained soldier, so the cycle between each bullet, will be agonizingly slow.
If he had some basic training, he would have learned the basic motion to make the shooting a lot quicker. But judging by his small panic attacks (Heavy breathing), he is not exactly prepared to fight with a weapon.
I love the sad cat memes
I think the TikTok video was referring to the in game characters. Jeremy is teaming up with his friends, the other people in the game.
Someone using that synthetic voice stuff probably doesn't speak English natively.
Small detail, but this "35 years after the incident" doesn't make any sense at all
The number is simply too high. 3 years, 5 years or even 35 months would be much more fitting
@thomas-media
I agree, and I am impressed by what ONE person can achieve, I wish you the best of luck for your next project😘
If you like piña coladas, and... getting caught by tiktok review bombing..? I think that's how the song went, anyway :'D This looks like it could be an interesting game, sucks that it got the short end of the stick.
Pretty impressive for a free game.
Even more impressive from one guy.
1:35 These indie games where the developer voices their own characters always seem to come from some guy with this *exact* accent and type of voice. I'm convinced it's always the same person.
Also, I said "no" at the beginning and it upsets me a little that you continued talking about the subject. You'll be hearing from my lawyer, once I find one that works pro bono.
Why did the elephants have AI trunk? WHY?
tiktok ai videos are going to get much worse very soon
Okay, so I know this would destroy the game's entire bookend narrative- but... what if Jeremy became another monster after he murdered all the crew members? That at least would have some spooky implications that players could sit with for a little bit. And absolute yikes at the review situation.
Just wanna say racking the next bullet for a bolt action rifle is not reloading. I don’t think using a bolt action is inherently problematic, but perhaps the wolf AI could be adjusted to fit for the kind of gameplay style this weapon has.
Yeah that!! Like I said idk anything about guns loool, I know there's that little animation and after a few shots you actually reload but... I don't know the terminology 😂
But yeah that's exactly the issue, I'd be totally fine with the gun itself if the combat wasn't a billion wolves jumping at you at the same time when it takes so long to shoot. Clearing out that amount of wolves that way is a chore as opposed to being fun haha.
@@early-tv watched most of your videos today and really like your style. Keep it up 👍
@@ExpertContrarian Thanks, very kind of you! Appreciate it
As a solo dev who has spent years on games and scrapped them because they were not good enough, I have little sympathy for solo devs releasing unpolished crap to the masses and then subsequently whining about how people judge it.
Ah yes, kielbasa. Kielbasa is love, kielbasa is life.
Dont blame tiktok and the reviews guys. You just need to breath heavily along side the game and it will be good experience for you.
People just mad cuz its a good free game which is rare so why so mad XD
Yeah like I mentioned it could definitely be improved but it’s still a fun play through. Hope the dev keeps making games I think they could make something great!
Agreed ^^ @@early-tv
TikTok and bad info? What a surprise
ima be real, that ending was pretty stupid.
Oh... so weird as an Australian to see the Jimmy Barnes meme being shared by a non Australian
Big Enough is a banger
Uninmegable... so if you're a Meg, you didn't experience it!
Why on earth do you need to reload that rifle after every shot, even though you clearly load five shots in a clip?
It’s not technically reloading I just didn’t/don’t know the word for it haha. I am not a gun person 🤣🤣 You take a shot and have to fiddle with the gun for a while then take another shot, and after a few is the actual reload animation.
@@early-tv Ah okay. It looked like you were completely reloading after every shot and I thought that's how the gun was programmed.
Just finnished the game and loved it
Glad ya had fun with it and checked it out, it is a neat game!
@@early-tv regarding performance. I have a i9 14900k and 7900xtx yet still around half way trough the game i dropped to like constant 20fps. All i did was restart the game and I was back on 200+.
The gun had a stripper clip it should have 5 shots before reloading
We arent addressing the elephant tusks?🤨
this game screams quixels and metahumans.
Feels like Farcry.
the guy that made a heavily ai generated game doesn't know anything about the ai voiced promotion videos with the same kind of broken english thats in the game? Did the ai fairy just pick a random steam game to promote? lol
why do you have to complain about every single thing that is slightly hard and takes more than 2 minutes to complete like puzzles bossfights, a third of the way through and this video just sounds like slander
TikTok sucks man
bird
is the word
it’s not free you paid with your sanity and time
This is true! 🤣
Game overall looks pretty bad. But i am kinda impressed with how this free game actually has some good looking hair. A thing that's pretty hard to get right
Crusty lol
Omg gamer girl
I don't watch women on UA-cam great channel tho
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did it work
omg i got baited to a furrys youtube channel by a steam review wtf
Can I offer you a nice egg in this trying time? 😔
I knew this day would come! Where graphics and animation no longer alerted us to the true horrendousness of a game due to technology getting better. The animations: top-notch. The game, garbage and sad that someone really cared about this really bad game. I always say you need two things to make great art; effort and awareness. Typically you can tell when a game lacks one of the other. This game had a ton of effort and nearly zero awareness. This wanted to be the Kong movie game so bad, yet they had no understanding of why it worked. They weren't aware of how that game worked and made a shit homage. I hope this is a lesson to all of those looking to make art for the public; it MUST have both effort and awareness or you're making trash.
This game does have a ton of problems but I do still like it :)
I think a better example of a game looking good but being complete garbage in every other aspect is Stray Souls. That game borderline scammed people with its demos and then just turned out to be an asset flip with nothing going for it.
But yeah I do agree with the sentiment that it’s getting harder and harder to see red flags in games until you’re playing them these days 😅
@@early-tv It is! But, we can all be more proactive and blunt about reality. The game is bad, even though you like it. Being nice to the creator isn't helping them get better. Art is about expression, design is about translating that expression to others. Art is for you, design is for the community. If this guy wants help making it better, I'm all here for it. But, he will have to admit how terrible it is first. When I make bad designs I sit with them, even apologize and then work on making them better using the criticism I've garnered. We aren't helping a creator get better by ignoring major red flags.
Dear God that frame rate
Tik Tok really is a problem. Lol
Not gonna lie, I like the style and editing. Very casual coverage on that game, but it was fun with how you did it. Good work.🫡