@@solgrex4391 I think I forgot to mention that in my video.. but I do appreciate that you can equip them with whatever weapons and armor, and then have them follow you for a straight up raiding party. I definitely regret not giving them credit for that
Great video and totally fair criticism about the enemy and biome variety. One thing on villager happiness: you’re right that it impacts merchant prices for both buying and selling, but it also impacts enchantment favorability with the mage. The closer the mage is to 100 happiness, the more likely you are to get the top enchantment quality per roll. Lower happiness gives high debuff chance. From what I can tell, the only two NPCs that are worth going out of your way to get to 100 are the mage and pawnbroker since they are your main source of gold and will offer higher prices on goods sold at 100.
@@flowsephstalin2894 that’s good to know! I would definitely incentive people to keep the mage and pawnbrokers happiness up, especially the mage with the enchantments. I think if they add more of that to each of the different npcs it would help. I still would love to see some interaction between npcs that are unhappy like fights and revolts and maybe happy npcs could do town meetings and start families or something
@@samtheashen same thing happened with Kingdom Come Deliverance, a lot of people didnt like the combat and quest system because they found it too hard. Like the game was designed like that
I also made suggestions to the devs a long time ago to consider procedurally generating continents (instead of islands, it's a series of landmass maps, that are interlinked) and revamping how the travel mechanics work, so you can travel on foot easily, but shallow waters on boats, and needing big ships to travel ocean tiles (basically a mass of ocean tiles on the world map that is hazardous and a barrier to travel). This way you don't walk over deep water and just 'swim' to a destination, and more complexities can happen such as kingdoms can 'own' a continent and you can invade or visit them and get diplomatic relationships.
@@dra6o0n I like those ideas a lot. The island and travel system definitely could use a revamp, and I love the ideas with the kingdoms! Maybe good relationships could let you open trade routes and bad ones could cause wars. Awesome ideas!
Just found a vid of yours about Vintage Story. I had never heard of the game! Thanks for the video. Very good stuff! Will continue to watch more. Subbed! I love Necesse as it has online coop ;)
@@honoredshadow1975 that’s awesome, I appreciate you checking the videos out and subscribing! Vintage story is great though, if you get the chance I think you’ll really like it, let me know if you do!
This game is created by 9 people as a hobby. You didn't mention the most important thing, which is that the game is in early access. The developers are constantly adding new content and currently version 0.26 is available. There's still a long way to go before the game is finished, probably maybe 5 years from now.
I mentioned that the game was in Early Access in the first 30 seconds. It’s impressive that it was made as a hobby by 9 people, but it’s still been 5 years since its first EA release so I don’t think it being unfinished shields it from any criticism. In the end, I still really like the game and recommended it because it still stands out from a lot of games.
Crazy to me talking about enemy variety when theres like over 50 mob types in the game, I think there's more than that now, and more regularly being added.
Hopefully they provide more content in the future. Like more interactions with the settlement or new raid mechanics to keep us engaged. They already got a good set up for like settlement defense type of thing. I think it would be awesome if they implement events where items/food gets scarce which forces the player to go to different islands for a supply run. Settler events when they get unhappy, like a settler suddenly betraying you and starts killing everyone or settlers opting to move out and settle somewhere else. Since they have pirates on the game, they can also implement like a kidnap mechanic so you have a reason to go hunt for pirate islands. It would also be great if they had like a blood moon like event for zombies, like they would mutate and shit then drop better loot.
I think you have some awesome ideas there. The settler events for unhappiness would be huge I think, that’s why I brought up Dwarf Fortress. It would go such a long way. It does have a great foundation to build from, I hope to see it do well in the future!
Most of the updates of the past year or so have been incursions, but i didnt see them mentioned in this video. But fair criticism regardless. I think the bossing and the progression is the best aspect by far. Feels good to get a new set of armor or a new weapon. The bosses definitely seem like a lot of time was spent on them.
@@menloo that’s fair, I never did the incursions, I don’t know if I was still on the old build or if I just never did them, but I should’ve went into it. I appreciate you letting me know
this game is 10000% a hidden gem; I found it by chance, gave it a try, and ended up playing it for 110 hours in 2 weeks. Anyone reading this, the game is awesome.
Man you should start uploading more clicked on the video and left it on in the background while i was playing a game. Gonna be honest usually expect this kind of video quality from people with thousands to hundreds of thousands of subscribers. Video quality is there man, keep up the work. Good review btw
@@steakanator Hey that’s awesome to hear, I really appreciate you checking out the video and taking the time to let me know what you think! I definitely should start uploading more, or at least do bigger videos other than just reviews. I’ll stick with it, thanks again for your comment!
Remember that villagers can be permanently lost if they die, but i dunno if they changed it from the earlier days. I remember villagers going on strike and not taking any action while unhappy too.
@@loganbochman1408 I don’t think that’s the case, at least yet, they can get killed from random things but they don’t leave as long as they have the bare minimum, even if they’re unhappy. I checked the wiki to make sure, I could be wrong but everything I’ve seen and checked online says that leaving the town is not one of the effects of unhappiness
Hey uhm sam, you're comparing an unfinished game to a game that has been 'finished' about 3x already. I don't think you made this video in the right context with your 'hidden gem or lost potential' Like it literally says in the biggest font on that page 'EARLY ACCESS GAME' But i'll tell you now, this isn't the next big thing.
Well I mentioned in the first 30 seconds that it was an Early access game, but you’re right it’s not totally fair to compare an unfinished game to a finished one, I agree. I wasn’t trying to bash the game, I found it interesting and good enough to want to make a video on it. For the early access though, the game was released into EA 5 years ago so it’s not like it’s a brand new game just ironing out the kinks, it’s been presumably long enough to have the base game “done” and in the end I thought that it could’ve done more with what it had. Edit: the only reason for the comparisons to finished games was for people who haven’t played it yet, I thought they would be the best references.
Bro shut up, the point of him reviewing it is the hope the devs will see it and have new ideas, the point of telling someone how you can be better, AT ANYTHING. Is a positive motion. So stop complaining. This man is doing good work and this game might become better because of his review, can we just chill?
@@AetigmaFacade Hey I appreciate the support! At the end of the day I think you’re right, I do want the game to get more exposure and to grow to be a better game, I enjoyed it enough to make a video out of it in the hopes some people would check it out and maybe try it for themselves or even talk about their time with it. I appreciate you taking the time to comment!
The comparison to dwarf fortress is not fair lol, also if youre playing above the easier difficulties i'm pretty sure your villagers will go on strike, then straight up leave
most of the criticism you made that i remember by the end of the video sounds like you just spent a little too much time at each stage of progression than was intended
@@rod0fdiscord that’s possible, it did feel like certain parts dragged out too long. It definitely could’ve been user error but I wasn’t intending to go through extra slow, but the early game especially seemed to drag regardless of what I did, unless I knew what I knew after playing for a while and getting towards the late game. 2nd playthroughs would definitely be faster
Imo this game is better than Core keeper, for one big reason only; this is balanced way better than the Core keeper is. P.S Its unfortunate that you made a video like this while using mods. For one; there is no vein miner. In the video clips shown you mine ore pile in one go; that is not a thing. Please try not to use modded gameplay material to provide actual footage of the game as is.
That’s definitely a fair point, I thought I mentioned using a mod to deal with the slow mining in the video, but I might not have. This isn’t a game a picked up and did a video on, I got it when it first released into ea and have put a lot of hours into it, so I gave everything a fair shot before getting any mods. Still a fair criticism, I’ll do better at making sure it’s clear when using mods. Thank you for you comment
@@Luke-zj6ge it’s no masterpiece like terraria or dwarf fortress or rimworld, but it was still fun. It’s pretty cheap, and kinda reminiscent of the other games so I found that it was worth it.
@@samtheashen I respect your opinion, samtheashen. I'm open to other people's opinions & I'm able to accept that other people may enjoy this game below surface level. I can't comment whether it's fun or not. I'll take your word for it. I'm glad you found it was worth it & I hope you cover more games like this one. It would be great if you looked into Tinkerlands.
It'd be cool, if you could be more specific, m8. I see nothing bad about it, and it's maybe my all time fav. game even as of now. Can't call it bad in any way.
@@Luke-zj6ge I appreciate you saying that, and I agree keeping an open mind is good in general. I was just looking at tinkerlands yesterday thinking about getting it and doing a video! So you would recommend it?
I have 612 hours in terraria and really love the game. The biggest problem it has though is that the combat is a total mess in a side scroller system however the base building feels far better in terraria than top down style games. Terraria is defiantly not a masterpiece its a great game that's fun that shitloads of people like but it dose have its problems between boss mechanics and how gear can 100% carry you at end game to the point where you can stand still and just hold click on the boss. Its like this mostly because the combat and bosses become near imposable to to avoid getting hit in combat and the boss mechanics are complete garbage. just look up any boss fight almost.
I appreciate the comment and the time to write it all out. I have to disagree though. Over 1 million reviews at overwhelmingly positive is almost unheard of. To the point of gear, that doesn't work on master mode or even expert mode which your supposed to play after you get a grip of things or if you want a challenge, which it seems you do if having good gear makes the game too easy.
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As someone with over 60 hours in this, the settler automation makes it stand out for me than the rest. The soundtrack hit hard too.
Settler automation and making them best weapons and equipment to go explore and raid bosses with me😊
@@deviant3193 it definitely is a good game, and the settlers are one of the cooler parts too, I agree!
@@solgrex4391 I think I forgot to mention that in my video.. but I do appreciate that you can equip them with whatever weapons and armor, and then have them follow you for a straight up raiding party. I definitely regret not giving them credit for that
Necesse can easy enter in top 20 games in Steam !
Great video and totally fair criticism about the enemy and biome variety.
One thing on villager happiness: you’re right that it impacts merchant prices for both buying and selling, but it also impacts enchantment favorability with the mage. The closer the mage is to 100 happiness, the more likely you are to get the top enchantment quality per roll. Lower happiness gives high debuff chance.
From what I can tell, the only two NPCs that are worth going out of your way to get to 100 are the mage and pawnbroker since they are your main source of gold and will offer higher prices on goods sold at 100.
@@flowsephstalin2894 that’s good to know! I would definitely incentive people to keep the mage and pawnbrokers happiness up, especially the mage with the enchantments. I think if they add more of that to each of the different npcs it would help. I still would love to see some interaction between npcs that are unhappy like fights and revolts and maybe happy npcs could do town meetings and start families or something
first gameplay was overwhelming and I kinda didnt like the art on the inventory but once i surpassed that I got super addicted
@@DisappointedJynxzi Nice! I’ve had quite a few games that had some entry level things that bothered me and once I got past them I was hooked.
@@samtheashen same thing happened with Kingdom Come Deliverance, a lot of people didnt like the combat and quest system because they found it too hard. Like the game was designed like that
I also made suggestions to the devs a long time ago to consider procedurally generating continents (instead of islands, it's a series of landmass maps, that are interlinked) and revamping how the travel mechanics work, so you can travel on foot easily, but shallow waters on boats, and needing big ships to travel ocean tiles (basically a mass of ocean tiles on the world map that is hazardous and a barrier to travel). This way you don't walk over deep water and just 'swim' to a destination, and more complexities can happen such as kingdoms can 'own' a continent and you can invade or visit them and get diplomatic relationships.
@@dra6o0n I like those ideas a lot. The island and travel system definitely could use a revamp, and I love the ideas with the kingdoms! Maybe good relationships could let you open trade routes and bad ones could cause wars. Awesome ideas!
Awesome idea, but man, I believe that as a massive update.
The first game in a long time were i actually felt motivated to play a game over and over again
@@darthclone7 that’s interesting, it’s not easy for a game to motivate you to play through multiple times!
Just found a vid of yours about Vintage Story. I had never heard of the game! Thanks for the video. Very good stuff! Will continue to watch more. Subbed!
I love Necesse as it has online coop ;)
@@honoredshadow1975 that’s awesome, I appreciate you checking the videos out and subscribing! Vintage story is great though, if you get the chance I think you’ll really like it, let me know if you do!
This game is created by 9 people as a hobby.
You didn't mention the most important thing, which is that the game is in early access. The developers are constantly adding new content and currently version 0.26 is available.
There's still a long way to go before the game is finished, probably maybe 5 years from now.
I mentioned that the game was in Early Access in the first 30 seconds. It’s impressive that it was made as a hobby by 9 people, but it’s still been 5 years since its first EA release so I don’t think it being unfinished shields it from any criticism. In the end, I still really like the game and recommended it because it still stands out from a lot of games.
5 years? Lmao no shot bro
@@flipnskater probably more
Crazy to me talking about enemy variety when theres like over 50 mob types in the game, I think there's more than that now, and more regularly being added.
Hopefully they provide more content in the future. Like more interactions with the settlement or new raid mechanics to keep us engaged. They already got a good set up for like settlement defense type of thing. I think it would be awesome if they implement events where items/food gets scarce which forces the player to go to different islands for a supply run. Settler events when they get unhappy, like a settler suddenly betraying you and starts killing everyone or settlers opting to move out and settle somewhere else. Since they have pirates on the game, they can also implement like a kidnap mechanic so you have a reason to go hunt for pirate islands.
It would also be great if they had like a blood moon like event for zombies, like they would mutate and shit then drop better loot.
I think you have some awesome ideas there. The settler events for unhappiness would be huge I think, that’s why I brought up Dwarf Fortress. It would go such a long way. It does have a great foundation to build from, I hope to see it do well in the future!
Most of the updates of the past year or so have been incursions, but i didnt see them mentioned in this video. But fair criticism regardless. I think the bossing and the progression is the best aspect by far. Feels good to get a new set of armor or a new weapon. The bosses definitely seem like a lot of time was spent on them.
@@menloo that’s fair, I never did the incursions, I don’t know if I was still on the old build or if I just never did them, but I should’ve went into it. I appreciate you letting me know
this game is 10000% a hidden gem; I found it by chance, gave it a try, and ended up playing it for 110 hours in 2 weeks. Anyone reading this, the game is awesome.
That's awesome to hear, glad you got so much out of it. Thanks for checking out the video!
hidden gem brought it 3 days ago and already got 21.1 hours 😔
@@MaybeBocchi so your having a good time then yeah?
Man you should start uploading more clicked on the video and left it on in the background while i was playing a game. Gonna be honest usually expect this kind of video quality from people with thousands to hundreds of thousands of subscribers. Video quality is there man, keep up the work. Good review btw
@@steakanator Hey that’s awesome to hear, I really appreciate you checking out the video and taking the time to let me know what you think! I definitely should start uploading more, or at least do bigger videos other than just reviews. I’ll stick with it, thanks again for your comment!
Remember that villagers can be permanently lost if they die, but i dunno if they changed it from the earlier days.
I remember villagers going on strike and not taking any action while unhappy too.
@@dra6o0n I’m pretty sure they can respawn now but I could be wrong. I had a few die in some raids
12:16 Is that the void vault from terraria??
Similar yeah, it's heavily terraria-inspired. I've played the hell out of both and love it
@@nalツ As the other comment said, it pretty much is. Same function and nearly same design too
the villagers also leave if they go to long without what they want
@@loganbochman1408 I don’t think that’s the case, at least yet, they can get killed from random things but they don’t leave as long as they have the bare minimum, even if they’re unhappy. I checked the wiki to make sure, I could be wrong but everything I’ve seen and checked online says that leaving the town is not one of the effects of unhappiness
Maybe after I finish Core Keeper it's like this as well
How's the 1.0 update?
@samtheashen it's been fun and smooth so far
@@Salamando777 that’s awesome. There’s another game, return from core, have you played that? It almost sounded like a sequel but I doubt it
@samtheashen no I haven't but I'll check it out thanks 👍
@ No problem, just a heads up I haven’t ever played it, I’ve seen somewhere that it’s a ripoff of core keeper but it’s got decent reviews
Hey uhm sam, you're comparing an unfinished game to a game that has been 'finished' about 3x already.
I don't think you made this video in the right context with your 'hidden gem or lost potential'
Like it literally says in the biggest font on that page 'EARLY ACCESS GAME'
But i'll tell you now, this isn't the next big thing.
Well I mentioned in the first 30 seconds that it was an Early access game, but you’re right it’s not totally fair to compare an unfinished game to a finished one, I agree. I wasn’t trying to bash the game, I found it interesting and good enough to want to make a video on it. For the early access though, the game was released into EA 5 years ago so it’s not like it’s a brand new game just ironing out the kinks, it’s been presumably long enough to have the base game “done” and in the end I thought that it could’ve done more with what it had.
Edit: the only reason for the comparisons to finished games was for people who haven’t played it yet, I thought they would be the best references.
Bro shut up, the point of him reviewing it is the hope the devs will see it and have new ideas, the point of telling someone how you can be better, AT ANYTHING. Is a positive motion. So stop complaining. This man is doing good work and this game might become better because of his review, can we just chill?
@@samtheashen the fact that you can recognize your mistakes is enough for me to subscribe
@@AetigmaFacade Hey I appreciate the support! At the end of the day I think you’re right, I do want the game to get more exposure and to grow to be a better game, I enjoyed it enough to make a video out of it in the hopes some people would check it out and maybe try it for themselves or even talk about their time with it. I appreciate you taking the time to comment!
@@Game_editsyesyes That’s awesome to hear! I appreciate you joining the channel, glad to have ya here!
The comparison to dwarf fortress is not fair lol, also if youre playing above the easier difficulties i'm pretty sure your villagers will go on strike, then straight up leave
This is a rather surface level review.
@@TheHasazin Yeah I’m not perfect, I’m sure it could’ve been better. What do you think was deeper that I didn’t get into?
most of the criticism you made that i remember by the end of the video sounds like you just spent a little too much time at each stage of progression than was intended
@@rod0fdiscord that’s possible, it did feel like certain parts dragged out too long. It definitely could’ve been user error but I wasn’t intending to go through extra slow, but the early game especially seemed to drag regardless of what I did, unless I knew what I knew after playing for a while and getting towards the late game. 2nd playthroughs would definitely be faster
@@samtheashen okay :3
I like the rating over all but you missed over a pretty important aspect of the end game which is incursions
@@Game_editsyesyes fair enough, I never actually did any incursions, so that’s my bad for missing that. Thank you for letting me know!
@@samtheashen Your welcome, just make sure when doing it to skip over and salvage every gravyard incersiun there awful
@@Game_editsyesyes Good heads up I will definitely keep that in mind!
Good breakdown on the game. Might have to give it a try. 👍
@@brewerroofing632 Awesome to hear, thank you for checking it out!
Imo this game is better than Core keeper, for one big reason only; this is balanced way better than the Core keeper is.
P.S
Its unfortunate that you made a video like this while using mods. For one; there is no vein miner. In the video clips shown you mine ore pile in one go; that is not a thing. Please try not to use modded gameplay material to provide actual footage of the game as is.
That’s definitely a fair point, I thought I mentioned using a mod to deal with the slow mining in the video, but I might not have. This isn’t a game a picked up and did a video on, I got it when it first released into ea and have put a lot of hours into it, so I gave everything a fair shot before getting any mods.
Still a fair criticism, I’ll do better at making sure it’s clear when using mods. Thank you for you comment
Personally, this game is bad. I won’t defend it
@@Luke-zj6ge it’s no masterpiece like terraria or dwarf fortress or rimworld, but it was still fun. It’s pretty cheap, and kinda reminiscent of the other games so I found that it was worth it.
@@samtheashen I respect your opinion, samtheashen. I'm open to other people's opinions & I'm able to accept that other people may enjoy this game below surface level. I can't comment whether it's fun or not. I'll take your word for it. I'm glad you found it was worth it & I hope you cover more games like this one. It would be great if you looked into Tinkerlands.
It'd be cool, if you could be more specific, m8. I see nothing bad about it, and it's maybe my all time fav. game even as of now. Can't call it bad in any way.
@@Luke-zj6ge I appreciate you saying that, and I agree keeping an open mind is good in general. I was just looking at tinkerlands yesterday thinking about getting it and doing a video! So you would recommend it?
@@samtheashen I would recommend it :)
I have 612 hours in terraria and really love the game. The biggest problem it has though is that the combat is a total mess in a side scroller system however the base building feels far better in terraria than top down style games. Terraria is defiantly not a masterpiece its a great game that's fun that shitloads of people like but it dose have its problems between boss mechanics and how gear can 100% carry you at end game to the point where you can stand still and just hold click on the boss. Its like this mostly because the combat and bosses become near imposable to to avoid getting hit in combat and the boss mechanics are complete garbage. just look up any boss fight almost.
I appreciate the comment and the time to write it all out. I have to disagree though. Over 1 million reviews at overwhelmingly positive is almost unheard of. To the point of gear, that doesn't work on master mode or even expert mode which your supposed to play after you get a grip of things or if you want a challenge, which it seems you do if having good gear makes the game too easy.