Babylon's Fall - More Like Babylon's Fail LOL (Jimpressions)
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
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Under the thrall of Square Enix, Platinum Games has delivered a true masterpiece of awfulness in Babylon's Fall. This live service trash is really bad. Really, really bad.
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I've noticed a pattern when it comes to Platinum games: their worst games tend to be the ones that just scream "the publisher was breathing down our necks." And this one is no different. This game feels like Platinum Games wasn't given enough time to give it proper polishing cause Square Enix just wanted them to shit it out as quickly as possible.
From what someone said above, Platinum had basically a complete game when Square told them to scrap it and do something entirely different. They're clearly capable of making amazing games when left to their own devices, so why are publishers forcing them to produce rushed shit?
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Edit: hey they got removed, nice :)
Oh, hi Nidai, good to see you survived that bazooka to the face!
I think Platinum is also one to blame the CEO Atsushi Inaba said that he want to made "Live Service" games, also the time for the game was OK it's first trailer was on 2019 the same year of Elden Ring, so both takes the same amount of time, funny to see the difference in quality, to me the biggest problem of Platinum Games, is they take too many projects at the same time
Can't really fault them for needing to make money ASAP. That's just how capitalism is meant to be played. Hopefully it shows up on gamepass so i can see if its improved or not.
Man. This hits hard after playing Wonderful 101, another Platinum game. That's an EXPLOSION of color, so much so it's genuinely impressive that the art style didn't get boring. That's not a perfect game, but uh, compared to this, it's gold.
Missed opportunity to say "compared to this, it's platinum"
Bayonetta, Nier automata, metal gear rising. How do you go from games with so much style and personality to this boring, generic, swill? I was hoping the combat would be better than it looked, but they even fucked that up. Total loss. I will forget this game exists in a couple of weeks.
@@johnwrath3612
Never underestimate corporate greed friend, they can take a studio that once made great products and turn them into short-notice swill-makers who exist only to shove as many marketing buzzwords into the product as possible (can you say online live service content roadmap microtransaction MMORPG-lite battle pass AAA money cash dollar three times fast). Unfortunately these producers now only produce playable games by accident apparently, and a good game takes an even greater fluke. It has to escape the notice of the corporate marketing executives who moonlight as actual vulture's, evade the upper management cutting the talent from the development studio so they can grab bigger bonuses, and be in a position where the employees actually want to develop this game, unlike the more common clockwork orange style forced labour that goes on in the AAA gaming mines. I mean look at Raven Software, once a bastion of amazing action games like Jedi Knight Outcast, now condemned the Call of Duty mines forever more by Activision-Blizzard overlord Bobby Kotick.
If there is something good in your life that you actually want to buy, well, these people don't understand that and only see you as a bag full of liquid cash to be drained to the last drop by the cheapest means possible.
I have played Bayonetta, Nier Automata, Metal Gear Rising, Vanquish, and Avatar: Korra. All from Platinum Games. I also tried Wonferul 101 but the gameplay didn't make it for me.
I really feel like platinum games is going through some things... this just isn't like them.
Live Service is code for “we want perpetual money without providing perpetual content, just the same content perpetually.”
And much like perpetual motion, such a concept doesn’t exist. In fact, I’ll put money on us discovering perpetual motion before perpetual money.
Remember when Jim was straight and good at it's job
@@thesilverreich3947 Oh, you mean when they were a fat, insecure shock jock who screamed “FREE SPEECH YO?”
Yeah, I remember, and I’m glad they grew the fuck up.
But wait, there's more!
We'll shut the server down sometime in the next few years and you can't play the shit game you gave us at least sixty dollars for even if you wanted to!
And if you try to emulate or crack the software to access the content you paid money we will treat you like a criminal even though we still pretend that we're selling a product - which would imply you have bought a product and are entitled to access it...
'Live' services don't just push game devs into making worse games, they make games and art unavailable for no good reason
@@fnordfred oh no there’s a reason my Dear Sassy Squatch, it’s to pigeonhole people into the annual sequel to a game that is supposed to last decades.
The point is Game Executives have no idea what they fucking want other than money.
From what I heard Platinum had a game almost completed before Square told them to scrap it and take it in an entirely different direction. Which would explain why they clearly didn't give even half of a fuck
that makes sense.
Yeah I was shocked when we saw it again after it's initial reveal.
I swear SE is the mystery that keeps on giving. Why is it they'll do something awesome/cool then follow that up with something awful? It's like they have to keep some cosmic balance in mind or something. "We're currently being being praised by gamers? Time to do something shitty!"
@@utopua4all They're mostly just bad these days, but with one or two teams of excellent devs having barricaded themselves in wings of the building, like survivors in a zombie apocalypse.
@@aethernaut1899 feels more that they take credit when it's a outside studio
I still remember when Square showed this off and thought
"Ooh a new Platinum game!"
But the second I saw the words "live-service" any potential interest I had for the game died immediately. Seriously, first Avengers, then Outriders, now this? If Square couldn't make a fun live-service that isn't FF14 with Platinum fucking Games, then they never will.
Outriders was fine
@@salemsaleh9577 It wasn't and it's failing like every other live service from SE.
@@cynthricsgamingchannel9177 I think it was ok commercially and the game itself was good fun, which is what matters to us anyway. + the studio kept saying it's not live service
I feel like FFXIV primarily works because the publisher has zero creative control over the game.
@@salemsaleh9577 Is it a pseudo-mmo full of microtransactions with less content than actual mmos? Then it's a live service.
It's only a shame that the corporate pillagers who decided to steer platinum toward live service games will certainly never suffer any consequences, and definitely receive exorbitant bonuses for this inevitable failure, while the fact of that failure will surely be used to justify however much harm those same corporate pillagers choose to inflict on them.
It's good that this thing will fail, all the same.
??? what consequences are you considering? I sincerely doubt this was a bait-and-switch on Platinum. They could have refused the contract.
Platinum said by themself they want to go onther ways than only liniar ones.
This game was from their C Team.
And it shows.
A new Idea by not the best guys the studio has to offer.
I love the konzept and theoretically the art aproach with the oil color paint filter stuff.
But its so stale and heavy in movement its just a big OOOUF
Now "corporate pillagers" is a term I will copy. Very nice.
Yup, I welcome this game's failure. It's sad for all the people who no doubt worked very hard on it, but cynical garbage like this *NEEDS* to fail.
Remember when Jim was straight and good at it's job.
I remember when you read the Square Enix CEO's message concerning NFTs and I'm honestly not surprised they published this not long afterwards. Maybe if enough "live service" games end up dead on arrival, as a lot of them are doing, game publishers will look for some other way to make all the money. Or they could double down, which wouldn't surprise me.
This is, I kid you not, the real-life invasion of Shinra, which in the real world is Squeenix's "you will own nothing and you will be happy" division but should colloquially applied to _all_ of their soulless bullshit like their live service pushing.
They will double down, because just like the gatcha mobile games, it only takes ONE game to hit and that pays for ALL the rest and then some.
Thank god for you
I thank god for Jim F. Stephanne Sterling, Son.
Thank fuck more like
I remember when they first reveal a teaser trailer for Babylon's fall. It was a completely different game back then. It looked like a fun game. Not whatever this is. Oh what could have been.
From what I heard, Square Enix apparently told Platinum Games to start over, despite more than half the game already being done.
@@useraccount333 avengers failure most likely scared the crap outta them and they panicked to try the same thing again with hopes to succeed. But as one wise psychopath once said
"Did i ever tell you the definition of insanity? Its doing the exact same fucking thing expecting it to turn out differently".
Is fun to just leave something alone than kicking it if it’s dead?
I was hoping for actual dungeon crawling and incredible graphics (at least up to PS4 standard)
I had this on my wishlist from some E3 presentation, it looked interesting from what it showed. But here in Germany this thing is *even more expensive* at 70€ (at the rates in early march that's 77$) and even with glowing reviews I think *very* hard about spending that much money on any game... and given it showed "Mixed" at the end of launch week... yeah i don't have 70€ for a "Mixed" expierience.
Meanwhile Triangle Strategy costs about 50€ after a few days and is a great game. Square Enix is very weird indeed
77 euros for something that looks and plays like a tech demo. Wow
@@giratina6665 I really like the combat system in triangle strategy but god damn do they talk too much. The story is so boring, at least so far. I really wish they paced it better because the battle system is the highlight but you spend 2/3rds of the game in text boxes instead.
It recently became mostly negative.
@@johnwrath3612 the story is one of its best parts but I've heard many people complain about its slower set up. I mean the story and how you can affect it is one of its selling points
(currently 23 hrs in)
It took around 1300 years for Babylon to fall.
It also takes about that long to load the first level.
To be fair, 'levels are corridors leading to combat encounters to corridors to combat encounters' is a valid description of the majority of Bayonetta or Devil May Cry level design. Of course that's because the combat was incredibly satisfying, and the corridors with occasional puzzles exist as a pacing mechanism to stop the constant fights getting too repetitive.
Of course the level design won't work if instead of 'satisfying combat' your main design consideration is 'flog cosmetics '.
Yes and no , corridors is how you COULD describe those level yes of course , but those corridors have artistic value , there is exploration (somewhat ) level design, there is platforming section , you remember those level , some are in the air , some are cities , demon place , castle etc... If you can ONLY describe something as being "corridors into room" that's where there's a problem. because otherwise every single linear game is technically speaking corridors taht lead to combat encounters.
I'm starting to wonder if this game was so hated by the devs working on it, they intentionally made it bad to tank it and give the middle finger to management.
apparently the game was originally quite different but Squeenix forced Platinum to scrap the game and retool it when it was almost done, so it's no surprise at all it turned out so badly.
Malicious compliance is a very effective strategy, yeah. Hopefully that's the case.
@@jadedheartsz Probably true. Looking at the trailer from 2yrs ago the game still looks similar I suspect it's because they pushed toward the live services model, as the original looked more solo game play. Maybe it was a single player game at that point? But I think maybe we as the gaming community should see these "failed" games not as the fault of the devs in that they don't know what they are doing, but as the devs intentionally sabotaging these games because they know the game is a soulless cash grab and the devs are sick of working on these types of games. And hell if you're going to be fired regardless if the game is good or not, why even bother? Get your paycheck, F the publisher wait for the axe to drop and move on.
Doing that is crazy because if the game bombs, that’s a big stain on the company. You aren’t “sticking it to the man”, you’re fucking over your employees and your source of income
Seems to be the case, as it was initially gonna be something completely different until SE decided to force PG into scrapping it entirely in favor of a bogged down hack and slash live service.
i remember being a beta tester for this and having large writeups on how simply unfun the combat was in both phases i partook in (one of which was after they made some adjustments for the better but still not enough) and it was very much a prominent thing in the beta test feedback that the combat was simply unfun and nothing was exactly portrayed well to us what did what
this game still needed a lot of work then (and looks like it still does)
Man, this just brings me back to simpler days, where the only thing we had to worry about was live service guff and lootboxes than literal sex pests and abusers in the game industry. While exposing the latter group is always important, it’s never bad to go back to old stomping grounds. It almost makes me nostalgic.
Great work Jim, and thank God for your fine non-binary self!
@homie got everything wrong No, go home bot :)
The kind of sinister thing about it is that it really was _always_ there. It's just that it's only now they're not able to hide it anymore.
@@TrackpadProductions That’s possibly the most tragic thing about this, because you’re right - it’s just refreshing in a way that Stephanie Fucking Sterlingson is able to go to something marginially more happier as a whole by comparison. Compared to discussing how slimy the techbro frat culture dominant in the games industry is, talking about any other game, even a bad one like Babylon’s Fall, is comparatively more appetizing, because at least you’ll have fun laughing at its failure.
Still, I do hold optimism that a reckoning in the games industry is inevitable, and in a way, it’s a major victory the worst was exposed; now is the effort of forcing said changes for the better.
Back where you were ignorant? As if abuser were a new thing lol
@@TrackpadProductions Was about to say the same thing. We *should* have worried about sex-pests back then, but didn't know/didn't care enough to find out.
Be glad you didn't experience the graphics before the changes in the 3rd (?) beta... I was physically *sick* after playing for 30 minutes. The filter was straining my eyes so hard, I got nausea. Yes, the graphics were *this* bad.
And I do agree with the rest. They could've improved the gameplay and they did to a point - But it still feels sooo sluggish. Combined with the spongy enemies makes playing the game exhausting.
I went into the betas hyped. I looked towards the release very lukewarm. And after the release I am so happy I dodged that bullet. It has been very disappointing.
I wonder when Yoshi-P is finally gonna crack his spine for carrying this company so hard. Nowadays it feels like whenever they try online multiplayer without him at all goes to shit no matter what. It's astonishing that FF14 receives so much praise (and deserves all of it) yet rest of the company refuse to take any lessons from it. They got the winning formula which they could iterate upon yet they still go dumpster diving into world of failed live services and rather make their own Anthem rather FF14: Platinum Games edition.
I think that after the total fuckup that they had with the initial release they have fucked off from FF14 and left it alone, they cannot understand how a good game is made and they sure as hell seem to have stopped trying. I really hope that they just blindly approve the current FF14 teams decisions for the foreseeable future, I don't want their "golden" ideas anywhere near the game.
Well he already went out of his way to say despite not putting them ff14, he thinks NFTs are cool and belong in certain other kinds of games, so :/
Eh I wouldn't write off Nomura and Kitase (or Matsui, don't forget FF11 is still chugging along and has made them a gazillion dollars over its nearly 20 years of service)
But Yoshida isn't going make any kind of statement much as I'd love to see it. Japanese business culture expressly forbids it.
@@300IQPrower god, supporting NFTs is a good way to lose a lot of respect
@@300IQPrower all we love shall turn to ash, as shall we…
I’m so sick of this “Live Service” BS!!
Platinum games when they're working on their own ideas: Amazing but don't bring in enough money.
Platinum games when they're doing "mercenary" development: Meh at best but bring in the cash for the other games.
Platinum games when they just give up: This.
platinum games: ok ok we'll make the game you want square enix, but we will no ass it.
To be fair, when you ask a company to make a type of game they're not known for making, what do you expect?
Same thing happened with Crystal Dynamics and Marvel Avegners.
They largely do single player games, not this multiplayer live service shit.
I don't know why Square keeps trying to push companies not known for this stuff to make this shit.
Platinum did mercenary work for metal gear rising: revegenace which turned out great and has gained meme status and cult following
@@arrogantsavant2960 I think part of that might be that that's the kinda thing that they'd have wanted to develop anyway.
Wait, Bayonetta and NieR didn't do well enough financially? Had the impression those were very successful. Bummer, super fun games.
You don't go from Astral Chain to this mistake without heavy publisher meddling. I very much blame Square for their incessant need to make more Live service games without a person like Yoshi P who actually makes FFXIV a tolerable and even enjoyable experience.
That said this game is lukewarm at best, which is a shame considering the initial gameplay trailer somehow looked higher definition compared to...this?
Now that I think about it, Platinum sabotaging this game as a response to SEnix is a stretch, but it certainly feels like it.
Hopefuly they can recover with Bayonetta 3. I absolutely love platinum games when they are at their best. Not with this type of nonsense
Squeenix: Literally calling _themselves_ Shinra at this point.
You gonna stand there and pretend you can't hear the games cryin' out in pain? I know you can!
The industry just needs to leave Platinum alone and let them do their own thing, they clearly know how to make damn good games without outside interference, they’ve been doing it for the better part of almost two decades now, _at least._
Bayonetta has more style in a stationary pose on a blank background than this game has in motion.
I feel bad for Platinum. The only silver lining in this situation is that, according to what I've heard, they don't have their name in the credits at all. Hopefully this won't hurt their reputation too much in the long run.
wait what? how?
@@blacxthornE I don't understand the question. Are you asking how Platinum could keep their name out of the credits, or how that could help protect their reputation in the long run?
They still made the game. This is their shoddy work. Don't feel bad.
@@ChrisGrump They also made a different game originally, and were then told by Square to start over almost completely from scratch to retool the game into its current form. Just more proof that being forced to do what a publisher tells them is the source of all their worst games.
I'm worried about them too, but this isn't the first time they have had a string of bad releases, the Korra/Transformers/ninja turtle era was bad. Scalebound cancellation was bad. Hopefully they turn things around with Bayonetta 3
A single-player focused game like Elden Ring succeeding while the latest Live Service bombs should be something that the industry should learn from.
But it won’t. And we’ll have to go through this cycle for millennia to come
It won't as long as the system rewards rich, white old men failing upwards by throwing money away at various failed projects to appease shareholders rather than apply to market niches. Keep in mind that whenever America talks about taking away social rights from the poor, they just as frequently coddle and protect the rich from ever feeling the burden the "lesser" classes have to go through. Every major corporation has more rights than you or I do in America.
Which is why we, as the next generation, has to lead the charge to change things. There's no way to change things without leftist solidarity, and only through that much can any reasonable change be made.
@@TheAxeLord47911 OK don't know what a bad game like this being made has to do with social rights, but oooooooooookay.
@@jadedheartsz Because the current system isolates those making these shit decisions (like Babylon's Fall) from any consequences of said decisions.
@@jadedheartsz There are a gazillion shades of politics besides MAGA or BLM and the fall of babylon is and was clearly political.
@@xh3NNIN9x quiet troll
Honestly, this one hurts a bit, since Platinum are one of my favorite developers. Still, bad live services must be punished. Especially with that comment about that sh1t being the future of Platinum...
I still remember the first trailer for this game, it looked like a great action packed, single player game, then someone or everyone at Square shat out there own brain and screamed LIVE SERVICE!
This game seriously looks like a bargain bin PS2 game. Not just graphically but game play wise as well.
i had the exact same thought
But where is the bargain in it? You give us all your money and get eye cancer in return?
Squeenix is the baffling case of a company filled with passionate talent and run by leeches who haven't ever purposefully made use of said talent
Capitalism sure is great, huh?
@@michimatsch5862 you can actually create a game designed for profit that is still a great game, you have to care about the quality of the product. Platinum Games works best when they are allowed to do their thing and not have agressive input from the publisher.
@@thedeepfriar745 You *can*, but it's not gonna maximize short-term profit, which is all these ghouls give a shit about
@@thedeepfriar745 But every game needs to make more money than the previous one because your shareholders demand infinite growth. It's not enough to make a great game that makes a lot of money, you need to constantly increase profits or your investors will find another company that does just that. Live service games make more money than traditional singleplayer games, so as far as the publisher is concerned, there is no other option.
The problem with capitalism here is not that publishers want to make money, that's not a bad thing necessarily. Like you said, you can make great games that sell well and make good profit.
The problem is that capitalism requires publishers to constantly make more money than they did the previous year or their company will go under because the people at the top believe that "infinite growth" is totally possible. Making big budget, high quality singleplayer games is not nearly as appealing if you constantly have a bunch of 60-year-old boomers breathing down your neck who demand their investment returns.
@@BaneHydra That’s a hole they dug for themselves and open worlds are incredibly expensive to make and then that’s what we’re seeing in most games nowadays even though it’s not a good thing and most games don’t actually do it well. For example red dead redemption two what is a massive Morant open world online game right? You know that game cost them over to almost $300 million to make? But that’s an insane amount of money when economically they would stand to make a profit center make a better profit if they were to release several like mid tier budget games instead of betting everything on a massive behemoth game
I was looking at a really, really scathing review of this game yesterday and near the end it said "Hopefully they fix everything and make it good" and I just kinda burst and my remains flew around the room for a minute but I guess it's just habit to be generically optimistic about games because you Love Games for some people
From the sound of it they reused some armor assets from 14 and that's extremely funny because 14's cosmetic system (while limiting in places) is a *massive* core draw for people. Some of the best looking stuff is behind the hardest content, I actually recognize some of those armor pieces in the articles as pieces I've *thrown out because I didn't like how they look*
amazing.
And just as a point of humor; FF14's dev team is aware of the graphical issues and one of the huge things they talked about in a recent live stream discussing the future of the game is an absolutely massive graphical overhaul since it's so outdated. So in a few years FF14 will look better than this game.
To be clear the XIV gear in this game is mid level loot that you’re going to toss because something better will come along. Like they were *in* XIV.
@@TysonRex37 I went and found some articles on the subject after making this comment and it seems like Yoshi P and others on the FF14 dev team worked with them to implement the assets to help them out with the workload.
And having read up more, it being mid-level gear makes sense so players aren't running around in the reused assets in the late game.
It's just a shame about most everything else. And a shame how much worse the sets look in Babylon's Fall, somehow.
Is it just me, or did that enemy at the start of the video look like a hulked out Yoda?
Looked like they smacked Yoda's head on the body of an Orc from WoW.
I love you, Stephanie. Your videos make my day every time.
Babylons Fail was released to the world and had all the impact of a wet fart. I knew it would be trash when I saw a full priced game selling premium currency.
I'm honestly terrified about the direction the gaming industry is going in
Yeah. I'm old enough to remember when games were made by gamers for gamers. Now non-game-playing corporations make games for shareholders. So glad I experienced the early days.
don't worry, kenshi 2 is going to exist. one day.
Skeletor “Babylon’s Falllllllll..”
James Stephanie Sterling, I have been watching your videos for 7 years and even after all this time, you never disappoint! Will not be picking this up, thanks!
When it was first announced, I admit I was hyped, can't even remember how that felt now that its out
And to think THIS was the game the PG CEO put on a pedastal when he said the company wasn't making enough money from single player games like the ones they've been making. Moment I heard that I went and bought a copy of Automata just to spite him, been loving it
I am looooving the recent increased output of Jimpressions! Well done!
ER gave some hope back ig 🙆♂🙆🙆♀
Jimpressions are my favorite content. Thank god for you.
The "smearing" looks like they tried for the Guild Wars 2 aesthetic, but that game accomplished that by making it's actual TEXTURES look like that, not by putting a filter over the entire screen. Those two things are never going to have equally good results.
Splendid. Another serving of cold sick from the AAAaaaaaaaargh industry that I didn't even know was in development and absolutely will not be playing even if it ends up on Gamepass.
Still, worth it for that intro. Cheers for the mid-afternoon laughs, Jim Steph! 😂
I was thinking that my internet must be struggling today because youtube reset the quality to 240p, then the reality that this is what the game is supposed to look like dawned on me.
I was on Facebook earlier and saw some horrendous comments targeted at a trans RT member of staff on Women’s day, people saying “that’s not a women” and other idiotic comments. Genuinely don’t know how anyone can think it’s okay to label someone what gender someone is. Scrolling through these comments and seeing nothing but support for Stephanie is a breath of fresh air. Facebook is a cesspool of horrible people.
Also thank god for Steph, I will always support your content for being brutally honest!
I think people are...tired? Tired of it all.
Tired of the politics, tired of the messages, tired of the problems, tired of the world. To the point of increasing hostility, with no way of escape to aid in stress relief or anger management.
No matter where you look nowadays theres some sort of agenda being shoved into your skull. People's only escape from the hellscape of reality, media, has been drowned by them lately. If I were to give an example, that new Lord of the Rings movie that they're planning on making, that tosses all the story that had been made about dwarfs out the window. On the author's birthday, they proceed to announce a complete bastardization of the original work. Stuff like that keeps happening across all of media. It's both infuriating and depressing.
I'dve loved to see a badass lady dwarf with a beard bigger than any man in a galaxy's distance, donning cool looking dwarf armor. Like what was written about already. That'd be worth looking forward to for a change. Alas, they just ignore what's been made already and replace it with...to be frank: mediocre-at-best, fast food style products. It's almost comedic how little they care or try, if it werent so saddening. I imagine some people see this happen and get so fed up they blame the groups being represented directly instead of the companies for making a shit product. Sorta like how russians are being treated right now.
*oh and yes, both twitter and facebook are the worst torture devices devised by humanity, dont use them. disable both your facebook and twitter accounts if you have them, and dont use those bloody sites. You will be much happier without them.
@@fusrosandvich3738 I would also add tumblr to that list. Got off there and twitter YEARS ago and feel so much better. As for reddit I just look at animals and cute shit.
@@LegallyBlindGaming727 I just use discord for announcements regarding game updates for what niche video games I follow, like flash game communities i'm still in that still get game updates somehow, and youtube cause that's my television.
UA-cam is also an echo chamber that plays you back the stuff you like anyways so be wary...
Your wish came true commander! 6 months later and it's so popular retailers are flat out refusing to sell it anymore. :D
Imagine being the next RPG that comes out after the latest From Software game...and bombing this hard through no fault but your own (and by "your own", I really mean "square enix greed")
Seriously! Elden Ring is a tough act to follow in the BEST of cases! But for Square Enix to screw the pooch this much is almost comical.
Speaking of Square enix rpgs that came out after the latest From Software game, how is Triangle Strategy?
@@FireSeraph007 it's been getting good reviews. If you played the demo and liked it you'll probably like the full game. The deciding factor seems to be whether or not you enjoy the dialog scenes between battles.
The Fromsoft exceptionalism is so strange. This same thing has been happening whether or not it's come out after a Fromsoft game and it's always the same story.
"Ensmeared" is my new favorite word.
As a FFXIV player...I'm trying to see the visual connection between these two...and I just can't. FFXIV doesn't have the highest visual fidelity, but fuck, it's not as ugly as they made the assets in THIS. HOW did they make this so ugly???
The only visual connection is some armor that Yoshida offered so that the team would have more gear to give out in the mid game. That’s all.
Halfway through the video I realized I was watching at 480p and switched to 1080p. When I tell you the graphics didn't get one bit sharper...
3:34 - 3:38 just made me lol in front of my boss, and exposed the fact I'm listening to this while at work! Thanks!
Aw damnit Platinum. 😞
Thank you Steph for going through that hell so we don't have to. 🙂
Dear Jim-Stephanie Fucking Sterling Son, will we EVER see you partake in your old side character costumes again? Maybe such legends as the Surprise Mechanic? :0??
8:18 Only $60 and a kick in the ass to get the James Stephanie Sterling to come to my house? A bargain
I've been seeing the odd advert for this on UA-cam for the past week or so (obviously they were desperately trying to drum SOME sort of hype for it....), but from the moment I saw it I thought "Wow, that looks crap. No-one's talking about this. No-one is going to care about this generic load of old shite".
Now that it's come out and tanked HARD, I'm like "yep....thought so..."
Could have sworn I heard a mic drop off in the distance when I got out of my house to go to work this morning, was wondering what that was.
I was wondering when you'd do a video on this. It's bad enough for Babylon's Fall to release at the same time as Elden Ring, but for BF to also be a crappy game too? Rough.
0:15 i just started watching and I inhaled my muesli
And now the game will be End Of Service
For a second I assumed UA-cam had kicked my quality back to 480p, but then I checked my settings to see that it was still hi-def. Apparently the game just _looks_ like that!
Hey, does anyone remember when Square Enix made good games? Oh, those were the days!
Babylon's Fall is a good name, for it demonstrates how the mighty have fallen!
God, Steph could write rap songs with how elegantly they dunk on the game.
It's a hitpiece that has legitimate flow
I don't get why Square-Enix is chasing the live service dragon. I mean... they have Final Fantasy XIV! Which has a subscription model *and* cash shop! And is actually liked! (And has some resources in this game inexplicably.)
Do they really need more than one live service?
Edit: thank you for the anti-corporate hot takes. It was a rhetorical question.
Short answer: Yes
Long answer: I love money.
Yes. They don't need a stable flow of income, they need _growth._ Growth is the only thing that matters in this economy. And _steady_ growth isn't enough either, it needs to be _growing_ growth. Exponential growth, forever, because if the growth ever stops or even slows down a little the whole house of cards is going to come crashing down.
Yes. Have you looked into the earnings of the mobile games SE has? Every effing gacha they release rakes in *more* money. Sometimes having whales hooked on multiple games, bleeding them dry.
They are not satisfied getting *some* money. They want *all* of it.
"A person can learn from mistakes, but corporations... never."
Buddha, probably.
Platinum's TMNT game was pretty decent for me. The online-only co-op was a scam though.
"I'll kick you right in the Fern Gully" is an instant classic.
Man, how Platinum Games has fallen. To think that their previous partnership with Square Enix brought us the beloved Nier: Automata.
Oh Christ, Square roped Platinum into this mess? Poor Platinum did nothing to deserve this.
Now, Stephanie, I may be misinterpreting this video's cut and thrust, but I get the distinct impression that you are a little less than entirely satisfied with the quality of this particular game.
8:31 I actually spat out my beer in laughter at this! xD Sweet Hexxus... hm. Hexxus. He'd *love* NFTs wouldn't he? Fucking up the environment and doing an oddly sexy song and dance. Hm.
I deeply admire you for holding nothing back. Thanks.
Releasing this only a week after Elden Ring was a poor marketing decision. Square Enix should have just given Platinum Games another year to work on it.
After refunding this game, I decided to read some of the positive to see what I might have missed. Someone mentioned that it gets better after you beat the main story, 23 hours in.
23 cock smacking hours? Who has time for that? A tip for game devs, put the good shit in before the first minute. Certainly in the first 1/2 hour. I played 80 minutes of this and found nothing of value. Hence, the refund.
Edit: the most scathing review I could give of this game: I had more fun playing Anthem.
That's because the story campaign is a one giant tutorial session, and the gameplay mechanics are locked behind story completion, only allowing you to play "the real game, with full features" once you beat it
@@tedjomuljono3052 Oof. A 23 hour tutorial that also limits game play. So not only did SE not learn from their Avengers game, they also didn't learn anything from Final Fantasy XIII.
If you look at the box art, PG’s name isn’t even on it. It’s only Square Enix’s name on the box lol PG didn’t want to be associated with it
The best design decision that went into this game
I like how they took the floating weapons concept from Nier:Automata, and then made it worse. It looked nice when it was two weapons on your back, but four, including ranged weapons, just looks messy.
Nier: Automata did not come up with that concept. In fact, Platinum used that concept for the game Okami back when they were Clover.
I don't even particularly like Platinum as it is now, but can we stop pulling things out of our asses?
@@mechanomics2649 I never played Okami. A simple wrong would've sufficed.
Also, nice job ignoring the actual criticism. I like Platinum and it's clearly Square's fault for this mess. No need for hostility.
I hadn't even heard about this game until a couple days ago
this makes me fear for platinum's next game they're helping with: Granblue fantasy relink. I really hope they look at Babylon's Fall's failure and learn from it
They were booted out from that game yeaaars ago, Cygames is currently developing it by themselves now
All Platinum ever made were two trailers worth of game footage
they're no longer the dev since 2019
It really is a shame because the E3 2018 announcement trailer had such an interesting Dark Souls-esque feel to it and the fact that it was Platinum developing it... actually made me really hyped. Then 3 years passed (a true sign that development was a breeze). Not a thing for 3 whole years until E3 2021. The reveal trailer LOOKS FUCKING HORRIBLE. Like Fable 2 graphics in sludge water. Absolutely a goddamn shame.
Thank God for Stephanie Sterling
Damn. That opening line. Tell us how you really feel, sir/madam! (I wasn’t sure which one, but it would actually really bother me if I came across as being rude or mean on purpose.)
it's actually "Them"
I suspect they wouldn't say no to a gender-neutral "comrade" :P.
they are above such petty concerns like binary gender.
I am enraged and jaded just by watching how many hits it takes to kill a small enemy
wow! what a thrashing! love it
That blur could be chromatic aberration setting...it's in every game now days, and usually automatically on... I HATE this stupid setting and ALWAYS check if I can turn it off in every game I play that has it!
Can't wait to see your thoughts as you ever so briefly look back at this game at the end of the year.
Lets hope the year isn't so shitty this game doesn't even manage to make the list lmao
I had to do a double take when I saw the FFXIV armor lmao. Impressive how they made the same asset look worse than it looks in the 10+ years old original game though.
Great video though, this has to be one of the most savage tear-downs you've done in a while.
valkyria chronicles did the "moving painting" look right
Great to see more Jimpressions posted recently. Have I been living under a rock or has Steph not being making them? Anyway, all good
"Looks like someone sneezed on the camera" I was actually dying from laughter after this. Love the review man
7:59 A game that cost HOW MUCH?!
please spare no expense in this gripping full gameplay series. can't wait for the playlist coming out soon.
Looking at the game footage made me realize what it feels like to have a vision impairment. Like I'm wearing a friend's prescription glasses out of curiosity.
I thought maybe there was something wrong with my phone, like it wasn't loading right but no, this is *indeed* what the game looks like
[I put on my robe and preacher hat] Alas! Babylon.
Even though I heard you talk about the way the game looks multiple times, I still kept checking to see if the quality on the video dropped.
That's some filter. I kept thinking that UA-cam had bumped the video down to 480p every time I looked away then looked back at it...
You got a good deal out of it, Stephanie. For me it costs 70€ on Steam.
Guess they know it is trash that no one will play for long, might as well try to get as much money as possible from the sales.
Dang, threatening me with a good time like that. For just $60 too.
the funny thing is platinumgames twitter is more interested in promoting Sol Cresta than this
I can't see them putting that on the box; "a worse use of your money than paying someone to kick you directly in the bumhole"
The whole live service model does not work. Just because one game did it well (the Division) does not mean every game has to be one.
Between this game’s release and them talking about being completely open to tencent style buyouts, i’ve a strong feeling platinum’s days are numbered…
Platinum Games wildly sine waves between "the best game you've ever played" and "barely functional nothing burger of a game"
Anybody know the name of the song used in the end credits? That was a banger