I mean, this is one of the most impressive NFT games I've seen. Its almost 2% of a game, instead of less than 1% like they usually are. So I guess that's something.
Illuvium is material displaced across soil layers, from one layer to another, by rainwater. A generic sounding fancy name for something that actually is just dirt. Very fitting.
@@QuadratusTiberium Makhnovshchina, aka Based Ukraine. If you don't know, Makhnovshchina is one of the names for a Ukrainian anarchist territory during the Russian Civil War, being anarchists they were, of course, absolute chads which the forces of cringe known as the Bolsheviks didn't like, so sadly Makhnovshchina was shot in the back by their Leninist "allies" and Based Ukraine does not exist today thus we have to settle for Less Based Ukraine instead.
To answer the second line of the description, they focus so hard on graphics because it feigns legitimacy. They're not making a game, they need to look like they're making a game, just long enough to sell enough useless tokens. None of these things are ever going to be finished. Trust me, if this was a passion project, there'd be something interesting. They're all always generic, stock asset projects. It's always whatever they can grab off the shelf to make it the fastest.
The GPU abuse is pretty frequent with Unreal Engine games. There's a free Dizzy game on Steam that has NES-like graphics but keeps your GPU working hard all the time.
It boggles my mind that games like this exist, what the heck? If you wanna mine crypto and play games, why not mine crypto for yourself whilst playing a good game instead of this? Madness
Because why do that when one can just believe the words of some crypto bro whose game totally isn't a scam and rip off of more superior games that don't do any of crypto or NFT crap..
Because unless you have massive scale with cheap graphics cards, cheap electricity, cheap rent, and ideally a friendly government (or, perhaps, you're mining on someone else's equipment), your expenses will be higher than your profit. Also, playing games and mining crypto at the same time is pretty much antagonistic.
There also seems to be a great deal of ‘rise and grind’ mindset with a ton of crypto people, i.e. if you’re not working or doing literally anything to make money then you’re wasting time
"What's with all the FUD guys you're discouraging people from buying in" I don't care, this happens with actual games too. It's just not my job to do the advertising for the game. "Come on guys if the devs nail it and make every game mode good there will be a good game" The absolute brain power on display.
Which btw imagine if the united states dollar was determined by how much investment others put in? Imagine if something as simple as saying "it's crap" causes the united states dollar to crash? Does this not sound insane to anyone else? That's why it's so hard for me to get on board with crypto, it's very unstable even worse than real life currency, it relies on the consumer to set it's value and that's way to inconsistent becuase they you have to make it seem worth it...i just can't get behind something that's more unstable than the regular money..
New intro, and new Jauwn, wooo! Tbh I wouldn't really mind watching 4 hour long videos on obscure games from you, you have a way to make even the most boring and bland game engaging somehow.
It's good to be back! What are your thoughts on Illuvium? Does this look interesting to you? Would you be interested in a PvE autobattler? Do the graphics impress you enough to ignore the boring gameplay? Let me know!
@@Synixdotilv lol bro i get it, you are a mod for them, confirmation bias etc etc, but these guys raised $70+m just on land sales, and they have delivered a walking simulator and 3D axie lmao, they just going thru the motions now they made their money, enjoy being a bag holder you took the bait
@@mrc3432 did you played the game? I guess not. You wouldn't talk like that if you played it and know what's coming this year. And not they got 70mil. The Silv2 part was burned and the rest (4k eth) is going back to all stakers as rev dis.
Kudos for using Cheat Engine on this. If I had the patience, I'd try it on every crappy 'mobile port' and rush through, just to show people the "full" experience.
Yet another reason why NFT games are a joke: The blockchain is SHA-256 secure but the game is not. Therefore the game itself is a weak link, which makes the blockchain's security effectively void. And since the blockchain is inefficient by design to be secure, your game is just shackled to an inefficient machine that doesn't benefit it at all
I like that you're changing the focus of the channel. While bashing NFT games may be fun, there is only so much one can do with that crappy source material. I'm looking forward for what's coming.
I'll still talk about crypto games, just not going to put my full effort into those videos. Those will be the easy, filler content in between long-form documentary style videos
I love the people going “erm if you just took the time to watch the tutorial on UA-cam…” because you should NOT have to exit a game to learn how to play it, that’s literally ridiculous. The tutorial should be in the game, yes even in the beta, that’s like common sense.
tbh that's kinda understandable if the game is really complex like From the Depths (naval battle game where you build your own vehicles) or Crusader Kings. Those can be really overwhelming even with an in-game tutorial There is no reason for an *auto battler* to be even 10% as unapproachable.
Do they just straight up not understand what AAA is supposed to mean? It's mind boggling. If nobody knows you and you've never done anything, why would you call it AAA in the first place? It's not even bait, it's not like people will look at the game and go "oh yeah they made X so they must be good" because there literally is not a thing they've done before.
AAA is a weird term that's used for big budget games by known devs same way some actors are considered A-list. There's no real criteria, it's very arbitrary.
@@KasumiRINA while what you say is true, usually big budgets are given from known companies that have been able to develop content of a certain quality (arguably...) for big scale projects, more often than not including developers that at least had a programming career at any point of their life If any of these steps is missing, these basically become very, very expensive indie titles.
They say it to compare their shit game to actual good games. They are trying to say x is as good as y when it's clearly not the case. People in the crypto scene don't want an Indie game. They want something that's as good as modern titles but it's never happening. That's why you got devs with no track record calling their projects triple A.
Say what you want, but being able to boil water for tea on your GPU is a neat little feature. They should start selling special watercooling setups with a spigot.
What’s with all these games having like 4 different seperate game modes that all play completely differently from one another and may as well be different games
Wouldn't be surprised if the games were being developed by someone(s) who can't sit on one idea, so just flip flops between all modes out of boredom and inability to focus.
My guess it's just templates they found for game engine lmao. They don't have a design document for game they just "see what we can do here" that's the only thing that explains why it's always so incoherent.
I remember when Kira did a dive on this and to be honest I never ever thought it would make it this far. Flimsy premise and no gameplay reveal, at the time, just made it seem like another burner token game... Which it still is. And got an invite from Callum to check you out and I'm so glad I did! Had to sub. ❤
the line "imagine if world of warcraft's homepage said 'join the fight for the canadian dollar'" fucking killed me, and after that i just kept chortling to myself saying shit like "join the war against the ruple" or "join the fight for the peso"
I remember getting ads for this game when I was invested in crypto scam channels and I remember telling to myself: "for being a creature capture game, they focused too much on the player character's butt to show off the trailer"
I remember my dad got into a beta for UFO Gaming. I ran the NFT “game” on Bluestacks. It crashed after being logged in for 1 minute. I never got to play it and the game refused to let my and my dad log in ever again.
In their defense BlueStacks is not the most stable way to run mobile games, emulators will often fail to launch (or keep crashing) stuff that works normally on a device it's emulating.
Personally I really liked your documentary on Kais Maalej (that's also how I found your channel). But I'm down for some 4 hour long videos on games I never heard of. Anyway, do what makes you happy. You're definitely on my "bell" list anyway. Good luck !
The reason crypto bros are simping for these games is extremely simple. They live in "tomorrowland", where all the promises and speculations are already true. They don't know exactly what that will be like -- all they know is that it's going to be awesome. They don't perceive reality as-is, but through a filter of promises what "it is going to be like"
That is the same expression many cripto bros use. In spain there was this youtuber/streamer that was one the tops over the region (willyrex) he switched everything of his content to nft/crypto and people made fun of him. He was saying the typical stuff "it could be" "it's going to be" "imagine if" "someday " Just fake promises with nothing guaranteed as every scam. everyone kept making fun of him until a lot of his audience left. He worked in different nft/crypto "projects"Then his nfts reached to a value of 0 and posted a video where he explains why "my nfts and yours have 0 value". He blocked comments on that video. And till this day none of these people can tell you what these things are worth for.
Builders typically leave when a project is finished, that's when the maintainers take over. It's common, shows that you don't work in tech if you don't know that.
I missed this when it first came out. I'm glad that you're shifting to content that speaks to you more. I like your vids on the topic but I really understand why you would want to give your attention to something else.
Lol except not two weeks later I made more NFT videos. But actually I hired an editor so now I can get help and can use my passion power on making a new series while keeping this series as the “autopilot” one. Best of both worlds!
I may have been guided to your channel by SidAlpha today but I'm here to stay. I enjoy the way you cover games along the lines of Callum Upton, Kira & Josh Strife Hayes do.
keep this work up. Your criticism is very matter-of-factly, and a great premise: judge the game from the perspective of someone who doesn't care blockchain/NFTs. This honest criticism stands out in between cries of "scam!". And respect for actually analyzing the aspect of decentralization.
It's a really half assed "game". Notice how everyone that praise it are just in for the crypto aspect, claiming it's gonna sky rocket and stuff. They know the graphics are mediocre, the gameplay is LIGHT YEARS behind games like Teamfight Tactics and the promise of a competitive scene looks grim.
I think as a snapshot of where these games were at, the videos are really really good. But as you say, it's the same old thing over and over with these games. Seems to be a limited amount you can squeeze out of them. I can see the value in doing a raw, here's me trying to play a crypto game for real. Good games don't leave you baffled and struggling in real time.
I will, if it is even around by then. Sorry that my opinions of the game don’t match your expectations but I try my best to share my honest impressions about the game. I have no agenda to push and hope they can learn from my feedback to make the game better.
6:30: Holy, crap, lol. I know you've upgraded since this vid (Going through your backlog a bit), but if you still somehow own that 5700 XT and haven't apologized to it for putting it through that kind of thermal torture, I advise you do so at your earliest convenience, lol. Sincerely, a former owner of a 5700 XT as well. Solid card that doesn't deserve that kind of treatment, haha. That's the kind of heat I wouldn't wish on even the worst of GPUs.
Apparently the launch date for this is soon and I am eager to see if they did anything with it. Not in a "this game looks great I can't wait for it to be done and play it!" eager though more like a curious "this looks like one of the world's most boring trashfire I wonder where it might go" sort of eager.
I have played Star Citizen! I bought it and played it for almost 15 hours for a video that I never ended up finishing. Maybe further down the line will I release it, but it's a lot of work and it's a topic that's sort of been done to death. I want to make sure I have something new to add to the discussion before making a video on it
Crypto-Bro's just never really understand the realm of gaming and game development. And each iteration of them is just as bad as the last, if not worse; and shows they are clueless.
Sure seems like it’s secretly mining in the background. I assume basically all of these games do this by default and tons of other crumby/free games do the same. I just can’t wrap my mind around what the other purpose of making those types of games would be aside from selling garbage
Jauwn, it's interesting how this is the 6th video I watch from you, going from recent to old, and I'm just now seeing you wanted to pivot away from NFT games I don't remember how I got to your channel, probably through YT algo Anyway, I'm enjoying my time here and looking forward to every next video :)
I just like how even if a "Cryptobro" were to watch all of these videos they would *still* stand by crypto games are "the way of the future" and won't just realize they have always been left holding the bag and they are the true lover while those crypto game "developers" are laughing at them on their way to the bank.
I've been adoring this series, but I totally understand wanting to shift away from this style of video; looking forward to more gaming content and I appreciate you still willing to do some crypto game explorations with less production value-- half the fun of these, I think, is just witnessing and pondering the wacky, lazy, very poor excuses for game design choices in these things.
I would watch pretty much any gaming content you put out, love your videos and everything contained within them and your personality combined with your editing is very charming.
2:25 that's what they are saying. Betas are not just merely stress tests for servers but also large scale playtesting so if they get a flood of bug reports or a flood of complaints about specific game features they're gonna change it. That disclaimer is just telling players this very point.
This game appeals to me about as much as looking at lewd artwork of Nova from Starcraft. Except doing that doesn't take even a fraction of the computation power.
Only just discovered Illuvium and doing currently research, but this video has shown me that it's a bad investment. Great content btw! Straight to the point, I appreciate that :)
How did that work out? He’s trashing a first look at an In Development game? Nobody in the Team or DAO has said this is anywhere close to a finished product. Ranked PvP in 10 days and it’s addictive as hell.
Good to see you back. I would be interested in your perspective on the $GALA 2.0 Upgrade and the supposed GYRI block chain. Also, an update on Mirandus.
Thanks for the support my guy! Always happy to see you here. I haven't really heard anything more about Mirandus. Did they ever release any public way to play it? I saw that GRIT was released, I might play that on stream sometime soon
"Illuvium is a decentralized autonomous organization with 150 dedicated contributors" so no employees and showing a picture of some dude's rec room with an Illuvium sign on the wall. Got it... Really breeds confidence that, lol.
13:20 haha I absolutely agree on this point toall NFT games, If they provide all the 3D model /animation files, at least it's still a 3D model even if the company is dead.
I caught up with this series and I am looking forward to check your other videos. Love your videos and looking forward for more of whatever comes next. To this day the one crypto game I played has been Ni No Kuni Cross Worlds, back when it launched. It is such a good MMO but the crypto is restricted to the PVP arena, completely opt in etc, which I assume is why it's good and none of these.
Interesting question: where did the 15 mil in development go? I feel like a game like this could be produced with $100,000. Most likely they have crazy high overhead or spent most of the money on advertising
Crypto gaming will never be accepted by the mainstream gaming community. Pay to win is almost generally accepted to be bad in gaming, and then crypto gaming comes out trying to make pay to win a good thing... The only reason to want pay to win is because you have the money to flaunt and/or so your NFTs/tokens have value that you can cash out on the new players coming in.
I'm dying to hear or read your opinion on youtubers like Warrior Lion Gaming. Your channel is such an eye opener for a lot of people and the craziest thing is that it should be incredibly obvious that these "projects" are nothing but scams.
I think its for the best that you drop the crypto "gaming" content Because i feel like your videos are great but the games are so irrelevant that they are holding your channel back In any way im looking forward for the 4 hour analysis of skies of arcadia next month :) Jokes aside i wish you luck my man
Yeah, plus it's kind of depressing to just play terrible games that are nothing but money grabs all the time. It had to end eventually. And my comment about 4 hour dreamcast vids was no dig at those folks (i love them) but there's a lot of people who are way better than me at making those so I gotta do something different
I actually once met one of the guys working on this, he was a substitute in my computer lab class. I don’t think this is his only venture as he also showed us a video of this very Jetpack esk thing. It was all rather interesting.
I'm not sure if it's the main cause, but 99% of the time, these poorly optimized games have extremely HD models, and it doesn't look like they have normal maps. It also looks like they go way overboard on the dynamic lighting.
Web3 / Crypto gaming might do ok in some form when: the crypto/nft part is built around the game and NOT a 'game' built around crypto/Nfts. But thank you for doing a critique of the actual game here, we need more of this kind of honest critique on crypto games - so people dont waste their money investing in to mediocre gaming projects, (hyped up by crypto influencers who only care about the crypto aspect and view the actual game with rose tinted glasses.) Also tells crypto games developers that this will not cut it, if they want to put out something genuinley good and not just ride on the back of a fad and/or rug pull.
Illuvium will sky rocket soon 🚀🤘 beta already looks amazing
Lol
How’s that copium treating you?
I agree, it looks good, but the game itself seems boring to me. It seems more fun just to run around and explore the island
I mean, this is one of the most impressive NFT games I've seen. Its almost 2% of a game, instead of less than 1% like they usually are. So I guess that's something.
So true! I also love crypto scam games!
"Join the battle for the Canadian Dollar"
That's just my job
It hurts
Illuvium is material displaced across soil layers, from one layer to another, by rainwater. A generic sounding fancy name for something that actually is just dirt. Very fitting.
Lol, unintentionally fitting indeed
goated profile pic
@@GreenShark4how?
@@QuadratusTiberium iykyk
@@QuadratusTiberium Makhnovshchina, aka Based Ukraine.
If you don't know, Makhnovshchina is one of the names for a Ukrainian anarchist territory during the Russian Civil War, being anarchists they were, of course, absolute chads which the forces of cringe known as the Bolsheviks didn't like, so sadly Makhnovshchina was shot in the back by their Leninist "allies" and Based Ukraine does not exist today thus we have to settle for Less Based Ukraine instead.
So. Much. Purple. Honestly, the most memorable part of this game was how big the avatar character's butt was.
see, the authors were Slaaneshi cultists
@@shooey-mcmoss haha thats good you got me
To answer the second line of the description, they focus so hard on graphics because it feigns legitimacy. They're not making a game, they need to look like they're making a game, just long enough to sell enough useless tokens. None of these things are ever going to be finished. Trust me, if this was a passion project, there'd be something interesting. They're all always generic, stock asset projects. It's always whatever they can grab off the shelf to make it the fastest.
Its funny the hallmark of shovelware has gone from "Obvious Unity Asset Store Flip" to "Obvious Unreal Shooter Template + Quixel Megascans Abuse".
Quixel Megascans?
@@KnakuanaRka 3D asset library.
The GPU abuse is pretty frequent with Unreal Engine games. There's a free Dizzy game on Steam that has NES-like graphics but keeps your GPU working hard all the time.
This makes me cringe just hearing about it. It feels like we're evolving backwards in terms of game design.
dizzy as in the egg thing that can barely do anything?
@@tylern6420 Exactly . It's called Dizzy Two.
@@piratesephiroth fr?
@@tylern6420 Yeah. I don't know how or why but it's there.
NES graphics on Unreal Engine, pushing your GPU to the limits 😁.
"Degenerate Crypto Gamblers" is a much better term than "Crypto Bros".
I think "Insufferable Crypto Fags" suits them more
they fr have the most similarity to gambling addicts
@@huntresswizard569 Le true
I will use that now.
@@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051 You won't regret it.
It boggles my mind that games like this exist, what the heck? If you wanna mine crypto and play games, why not mine crypto for yourself whilst playing a good game instead of this? Madness
Because why do that when one can just believe the words of some crypto bro whose game totally isn't a scam and rip off of more superior games that don't do any of crypto or NFT crap..
Because unless you have massive scale with cheap graphics cards, cheap electricity, cheap rent, and ideally a friendly government (or, perhaps, you're mining on someone else's equipment), your expenses will be higher than your profit.
Also, playing games and mining crypto at the same time is pretty much antagonistic.
There also seems to be a great deal of ‘rise and grind’ mindset with a ton of crypto people, i.e. if you’re not working or doing literally anything to make money then you’re wasting time
This is a system based on old “play to earn” mmos. Which all basically were Ponzi Schemes aka scams
@@williamousley9794its sort of a self feeding grift in that way
me, european: 95 degrees? sounds like those american numbers, how much is that in celsius..? ...
IT ALREADY WAS IN CELSIUS???
"What's with all the FUD guys you're discouraging people from buying in" I don't care, this happens with actual games too.
It's just not my job to do the advertising for the game.
"Come on guys if the devs nail it and make every game mode good there will be a good game" The absolute brain power on display.
That's like saying "If you just buy and sell at the right time you'll make money on the stock market." Easier said than done!
"I have invested a ton in this project and it's YOUR problem, now go shill it so I can get a return on it."
@@williamdrum9899buy cheaper and sell higher, making money is sooooo simple! /s
Which btw imagine if the united states dollar was determined by how much investment others put in? Imagine if something as simple as saying "it's crap" causes the united states dollar to crash?
Does this not sound insane to anyone else? That's why it's so hard for me to get on board with crypto, it's very unstable even worse than real life currency, it relies on the consumer to set it's value and that's way to inconsistent becuase they you have to make it seem worth it...i just can't get behind something that's more unstable than the regular money..
@@artsyscrub3226 Truth.
‘Unregulated security’
That’s a better term for NFT
Best part about this game is that you can cook an egg on your GPU while you play
New intro, and new Jauwn, wooo!
Tbh I wouldn't really mind watching 4 hour long videos on obscure games from you, you have a way to make even the most boring and bland game engaging somehow.
seeing the warframe-ish looking overworld movement and then the reveal that it's just an auto-battler is... lmao
I mean why not make a warframe-like game but nfts instead of a bait and switch with an autobattler (Apart from laziness)
@@Crit-a-cola think you already figured it out
To hide the asset flips @@Crit-a-cola
man, illuvium would be such a good name for a soil simulator game.
I'm thinking ps1 style game where you kidnap hikers and sacrifice them to the God of Soil so the forest can stay healthy and sacrosaint.
I demand 4+ hour reviews of obscure dreamcast games! If it doesn't give me flashbacks to the tokimeki memorial review I want my money back.
It's good to be back!
What are your thoughts on Illuvium? Does this look interesting to you? Would you be interested in a PvE autobattler? Do the graphics impress you enough to ignore the boring gameplay? Let me know!
you know that pvp autobattler is coming soon. pve is only for learn how to play that game a bit.
@@Synixdotilv Cope
@@Synixdotilv So how many more years and millions of dollars do you think they'll need to implement it?
@@Synixdotilv lol bro i get it, you are a mod for them, confirmation bias etc etc, but these guys raised $70+m just on land sales, and they have delivered a walking simulator and 3D axie lmao, they just going thru the motions now they made their money, enjoy being a bag holder you took the bait
@@mrc3432 did you played the game? I guess not. You wouldn't talk like that if you played it and know what's coming this year.
And not they got 70mil. The Silv2 part was burned and the rest (4k eth) is going back to all stakers as rev dis.
Kudos for using Cheat Engine on this.
If I had the patience, I'd try it on every crappy 'mobile port' and rush through, just to show people the "full" experience.
Yet another reason why NFT games are a joke: The blockchain is SHA-256 secure but the game is not. Therefore the game itself is a weak link, which makes the blockchain's security effectively void. And since the blockchain is inefficient by design to be secure, your game is just shackled to an inefficient machine that doesn't benefit it at all
12:21 Ohhhhh boy did this age excellently.
Literally don’t even have to go back and change anything because what I said was technically true even today, lol
@@jauwn Right? It's as hilarious as it is pathetic.
Also, fast response, woo.
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I like that you're changing the focus of the channel. While bashing NFT games may be fun, there is only so much one can do with that crappy source material. I'm looking forward for what's coming.
I'll still talk about crypto games, just not going to put my full effort into those videos. Those will be the easy, filler content in between long-form documentary style videos
I love the people going “erm if you just took the time to watch the tutorial on UA-cam…” because you should NOT have to exit a game to learn how to play it, that’s literally ridiculous. The tutorial should be in the game, yes even in the beta, that’s like common sense.
tbh that's kinda understandable if the game is really complex like From the Depths (naval battle game where you build your own vehicles) or Crusader Kings. Those can be really overwhelming even with an in-game tutorial
There is no reason for an *auto battler* to be even 10% as unapproachable.
Do they just straight up not understand what AAA is supposed to mean? It's mind boggling. If nobody knows you and you've never done anything, why would you call it AAA in the first place? It's not even bait, it's not like people will look at the game and go "oh yeah they made X so they must be good" because there literally is not a thing they've done before.
AAA is a weird term that's used for big budget games by known devs same way some actors are considered A-list. There's no real criteria, it's very arbitrary.
@@KasumiRINA while what you say is true, usually big budgets are given from known companies that have been able to develop content of a certain quality (arguably...) for big scale projects, more often than not including developers that at least had a programming career at any point of their life
If any of these steps is missing, these basically become very, very expensive indie titles.
They say it to compare their shit game to actual good games. They are trying to say x is as good as y when it's clearly not the case. People in the crypto scene don't want an Indie game. They want something that's as good as modern titles but it's never happening. That's why you got devs with no track record calling their projects triple A.
At this point AAA just means "We burned out our devs to make a game, now the people who pre-ordered it get to beta test"
Say what you want, but being able to boil water for tea on your GPU is a neat little feature. They should start selling special watercooling setups with a spigot.
What’s with all these games having like 4 different seperate game modes that all play completely differently from one another and may as well be different games
Wouldn't be surprised if the games were being developed by someone(s) who can't sit on one idea, so just flip flops between all modes out of boredom and inability to focus.
Scope creep?
My guess it's just templates they found for game engine lmao. They don't have a design document for game they just "see what we can do here" that's the only thing that explains why it's always so incoherent.
I remember when Kira did a dive on this and to be honest I never ever thought it would make it this far. Flimsy premise and no gameplay reveal, at the time, just made it seem like another burner token game...
Which it still is.
And got an invite from Callum to check you out and I'm so glad I did! Had to sub.
❤
Damn! I got exited for the 4 hours and a half video of obscure dreamcast games
might actually make one
the line "imagine if world of warcraft's homepage said 'join the fight for the canadian dollar'" fucking killed me, and after that i just kept chortling to myself saying shit like "join the war against the ruple" or "join the fight for the peso"
I remember getting ads for this game when I was invested in crypto scam channels and I remember telling to myself: "for being a creature capture game, they focused too much on the player character's butt to show off the trailer"
"I'm gonna be one of those channels making four-and-a-half hour videos about obscure Dreamcast games."
:D
"Just kidding."
:(
I remember my dad got into a beta for UFO Gaming. I ran the NFT “game” on Bluestacks. It crashed after being logged in for 1 minute. I never got to play it and the game refused to let my and my dad log in ever again.
these nft games really have the vibe of regular generic mobile games with a cash gift button just put somewhere on screen
Bluestacks is malware, look for other android emulators
like have a game where you tap to fly a rocket and then put a button that says 300$ PayPal
In their defense BlueStacks is not the most stable way to run mobile games, emulators will often fail to launch (or keep crashing) stuff that works normally on a device it's emulating.
@@KasumiRINA
Android x86 on VMWare all the way babyyyy lol
You spawn in an (empty?) overworld to find a hub with a screen that gives you the main menu options again??? Ok...
Personally I really liked your documentary on Kais Maalej (that's also how I found your channel). But I'm down for some 4 hour long videos on games I never heard of.
Anyway, do what makes you happy. You're definitely on my "bell" list anyway. Good luck !
The reason crypto bros are simping for these games is extremely simple. They live in "tomorrowland", where all the promises and speculations are already true. They don't know exactly what that will be like -- all they know is that it's going to be awesome. They don't perceive reality as-is, but through a filter of promises what "it is going to be like"
They also have to grift others into crypto to increase the chance of ever seeing the money back. From 0,001% to 0,002%.
That is the same expression many cripto bros use.
In spain there was this youtuber/streamer that was one the tops over the region (willyrex) he switched everything of his content to nft/crypto and people made fun of him.
He was saying the typical stuff "it could be" "it's going to be" "imagine if" "someday "
Just fake promises with nothing guaranteed as every scam.
everyone kept making fun of him until a lot of his audience left.
He worked in different nft/crypto "projects"Then his nfts reached to a value of 0 and posted a video where he explains why "my nfts and yours have 0 value".
He blocked comments on that video.
And till this day none of these people can tell you what these things are worth for.
NFT game reviews were the builder content. General gaming videos are the maintainer content. IYKYK
Builders typically leave when a project is finished, that's when the maintainers take over. It's common, shows that you don't work in tech if you don't know that.
*Company raises tens of millions of dollars for a game*
"They have a soundtrack! What an impressive surprise!"
I missed this when it first came out. I'm glad that you're shifting to content that speaks to you more. I like your vids on the topic but I really understand why you would want to give your attention to something else.
Lol except not two weeks later I made more NFT videos. But actually I hired an editor so now I can get help and can use my passion power on making a new series while keeping this series as the “autopilot” one. Best of both worlds!
I may have been guided to your channel by SidAlpha today but I'm here to stay. I enjoy the way you cover games along the lines of Callum Upton, Kira & Josh Strife Hayes do.
Happy to have you here! And it's an honor to be compared to them, they're some of my biggest influences!
@@jauwn Keep up the work bud & I'll be here to watch! You do a service to your fellow gamers to steer us clear of trash games.
You're definitely on par with that level of quality
@@williamdrum9899 agree with you William
The token prices were exactly the same from this review to the one 2 years later at launch. 😂
keep this work up. Your criticism is very matter-of-factly, and a great premise: judge the game from the perspective of someone who doesn't care blockchain/NFTs. This honest criticism stands out in between cries of "scam!". And respect for actually analyzing the aspect of decentralization.
It is a scam.
Honest criticism: it also sucks as a game.
It's a really half assed "game". Notice how everyone that praise it are just in for the crypto aspect, claiming it's gonna sky rocket and stuff. They know the graphics are mediocre, the gameplay is LIGHT YEARS behind games like Teamfight Tactics and the promise of a competitive scene looks grim.
The amount of copium on some comments really deserve a video on its own tbh, it kind of funny
A 0,01$ NFT is an overpriced NFT.
This is correct in both the etical and Financial way, since most nfts are literally worthless
I think as a snapshot of where these games were at, the videos are really really good. But as you say, it's the same old thing over and over with these games. Seems to be a limited amount you can squeeze out of them.
I can see the value in doing a raw, here's me trying to play a crypto game for real. Good games don't leave you baffled and struggling in real time.
I'm gonna do a "retrospective" video where I look back on every game I played so far, so we'll see how they've changed (for the worse probably)
@@jauwn That's a good idea and I think that you should do that with Illuvium in 2025
I will, if it is even around by then. Sorry that my opinions of the game don’t match your expectations but I try my best to share my honest impressions about the game. I have no agenda to push and hope they can learn from my feedback to make the game better.
6:30: Holy, crap, lol. I know you've upgraded since this vid (Going through your backlog a bit), but if you still somehow own that 5700 XT and haven't apologized to it for putting it through that kind of thermal torture, I advise you do so at your earliest convenience, lol. Sincerely, a former owner of a 5700 XT as well. Solid card that doesn't deserve that kind of treatment, haha. That's the kind of heat I wouldn't wish on even the worst of GPUs.
I have a 7900 XTX now lol so have upgraded. Passed the 5700 over to my brother, I think it still works to this day
Both the intros, and intermissions in your videos are so well put together and addicting to watch/listen to
I missed you!
Then you'd better work on your aim 🎉
I miss you too 😢
1:19 the backer count, we were so close to perfection! Probably the only near-perfect part of Illuvium
Apparently the launch date for this is soon and I am eager to see if they did anything with it. Not in a "this game looks great I can't wait for it to be done and play it!" eager though more like a curious "this looks like one of the world's most boring trashfire I wonder where it might go" sort of eager.
I’m excited too. Will be revisiting it this fall
Did you try the most funded game of videogame history? Star citizen? They sell vessels that are not NFT but has some similarity, mostly in prices haha
the nft version of this is Star Atlas, think he tried that, exact same business model, drawn out rug pull
I have played Star Citizen! I bought it and played it for almost 15 hours for a video that I never ended up finishing. Maybe further down the line will I release it, but it's a lot of work and it's a topic that's sort of been done to death. I want to make sure I have something new to add to the discussion before making a video on it
Damn, no 4-hour videos? I got excited for a second...
I like Sean Seanson and need something to listen to at work, so 4-hour essays on obscure Dreamcast games doesn't sound too bad
5:20 given the context this is a genius choice of background music
the entirety of crypto gaming feels like a scenario from cruelty squad honestly
even in my old gaming laptop i have never seen a GPU hit 95C, that is fucking crazy, like hows that even possible
GPU always running on max in a crypto game, their tag line isn't lying, they are fighting for ETH, just not IN game... and definitely not for you!
to be honest i WOULD watch a 4,5h long video about an obscure Dreamcast game
They finally gave the thicc assassin Dunmer from the Skyrim loading screens his own game
Your use of the Archon Grid music in this is *extraordinarily* fitting.
100% 95°C GPU on an NFT game even on lowest settings? Hmm, I wonder what could be happening...
Crypto-Bro's just never really understand the realm of gaming and game development. And each iteration of them is just as bad as the last, if not worse; and shows they are clueless.
Sure seems like it’s secretly mining in the background.
I assume basically all of these games do this by default and tons of other crumby/free games do the same. I just can’t wrap my mind around what the other purpose of making those types of games would be aside from selling garbage
Jauwn, it's interesting how this is the 6th video I watch from you, going from recent to old, and I'm just now seeing you wanted to pivot away from NFT games
I don't remember how I got to your channel, probably through YT algo
Anyway, I'm enjoying my time here and looking forward to every next video :)
They made a shell of a game to mine cryptocurrency in the background! Who would have thought they failed!
I just like how even if a "Cryptobro" were to watch all of these videos they would *still* stand by crypto games are "the way of the future" and won't just realize they have always been left holding the bag and they are the true lover while those crypto game "developers" are laughing at them on their way to the bank.
I've been adoring this series, but I totally understand wanting to shift away from this style of video; looking forward to more gaming content and I appreciate you still willing to do some crypto game explorations with less production value-- half the fun of these, I think, is just witnessing and pondering the wacky, lazy, very poor excuses for game design choices in these things.
jauwn bro your content is miles better than dudes with mil subscribers +
that's very kind of you!
I agree. Your content is great. You definitely deserve more subs. Found your channel recently and really dig it. Thanks for all the content!
I almost always play indie games anymore. I am so done with microtransactions and shit monetization.
I would watch pretty much any gaming content you put out, love your videos and everything contained within them and your personality combined with your editing is very charming.
i have no idea how you can play so many of those games and keep your sanity, only looking at them (as a beginner game dev) makes me feel depressed
Misreading this rotating text ( 14:34 ) made me physically burst out laughing
2:25 that's what they are saying. Betas are not just merely stress tests for servers but also large scale playtesting so if they get a flood of bug reports or a flood of complaints about specific game features they're gonna change it.
That disclaimer is just telling players this very point.
This game appeals to me about as much as looking at lewd artwork of Nova from Starcraft. Except doing that doesn't take even a fraction of the computation power.
Only just discovered Illuvium and doing currently research, but this video has shown me that it's a bad investment. Great content btw! Straight to the point, I appreciate that :)
What happens is that the commitment is at its maximum and he is angry.
How did that work out? He’s trashing a first look at an In Development game?
Nobody in the Team or DAO has said this is anywhere close to a finished product.
Ranked PvP in 10 days and it’s addictive as hell.
Good to see you back.
I would be interested in your perspective on the $GALA 2.0 Upgrade and the supposed GYRI block chain.
Also, an update on Mirandus.
Thanks for the support my guy! Always happy to see you here.
I haven't really heard anything more about Mirandus. Did they ever release any public way to play it? I saw that GRIT was released, I might play that on stream sometime soon
This video seems to be in your Crypto Game Reviews playlist twice
"Illuvium is a decentralized autonomous organization with 150 dedicated contributors" so no employees and showing a picture of some dude's rec room with an Illuvium sign on the wall. Got it...
Really breeds confidence that, lol.
Admittedly some of the critter designs look neat, but dang this is barebones ..
13:45 NO WHY DID THEY HAVE TO ADD A SHOEBILL UNIT! They're beautiful creatures and don't deserve to be associated with crypto degeneracy 😢
😢😢😢
13:20 haha I absolutely agree on this point toall NFT games, If they provide all the 3D model /animation files, at least it's still a 3D model even if the company is dead.
I caught up with this series and I am looking forward to check your other videos. Love your videos and looking forward for more of whatever comes next.
To this day the one crypto game I played has been Ni No Kuni Cross Worlds, back when it launched. It is such a good MMO but the crypto is restricted to the PVP arena, completely opt in etc, which I assume is why it's good and none of these.
Interesting question: where did the 15 mil in development go? I feel like a game like this could be produced with $100,000. Most likely they have crazy high overhead or spent most of the money on advertising
It's as if game design needs more objectives than "I need a shell to hide my gambling platform/get rich quick scheme"
Crypto gaming will never be accepted by the mainstream gaming community. Pay to win is almost generally accepted to be bad in gaming, and then crypto gaming comes out trying to make pay to win a good thing...
The only reason to want pay to win is because you have the money to flaunt and/or so your NFTs/tokens have value that you can cash out on the new players coming in.
Back in my day there wasnt a thing called beta game, it was a demo and it was free.
The only good thing about this game is how thicc the character is, that's about it.
I'm dying to hear or read your opinion on youtubers like Warrior Lion Gaming. Your channel is such an eye opener for a lot of people and the craziest thing is that it should be incredibly obvious that these "projects" are nothing but scams.
Crypto bros gotta be the only members of our species that see microtransactions and go "damn i gotta play this"
Whatever content you produce, I'm invested!
I think its for the best that you drop the crypto "gaming" content
Because i feel like your videos are great but the games are so irrelevant that they are holding your channel back
In any way im looking forward for the 4 hour analysis of skies of arcadia next month :)
Jokes aside i wish you luck my man
Yeah, plus it's kind of depressing to just play terrible games that are nothing but money grabs all the time. It had to end eventually.
And my comment about 4 hour dreamcast vids was no dig at those folks (i love them) but there's a lot of people who are way better than me at making those so I gotta do something different
Rule of thumb: if the game involves crypto it will suck.
I actually once met one of the guys working on this, he was a substitute in my computer lab class. I don’t think this is his only venture as he also showed us a video of this very Jetpack esk thing. It was all rather interesting.
Just want to thank you for using music from Kaze no Notom. Interesting Ost. Real cultured I see.
the sound design is nice. wonder where they got the stock sfx and who they underpaid to mix them
Looking through the comments, you weren't kidding about the cult like mentality. Eager to see your new content no matter what it is
Amazing channel with amazing creator (with amazing recycle bin vol 0.5!)
You had me thinking my audio was malfunctioning by opening with silence like that 😂
I'm not sure if it's the main cause, but 99% of the time, these poorly optimized games have extremely HD models, and it doesn't look like they have normal maps. It also looks like they go way overboard on the dynamic lighting.
Finally, a new video!
Last 2 min: "I will not continue to make videos on terrible crypto games" NOOOOOO
Last 30 s: "More content" YAAAAAAAAAAAY
Web3 / Crypto gaming might do ok in some form when: the crypto/nft part is built around the game and NOT a 'game' built around crypto/Nfts. But thank you for doing a critique of the actual game here, we need more of this kind of honest critique on crypto games - so people dont waste their money investing in to mediocre gaming projects, (hyped up by crypto influencers who only care about the crypto aspect and view the actual game with rose tinted glasses.) Also tells crypto games developers that this will not cut it, if they want to put out something genuinley good and not just ride on the back of a fad and/or rug pull.
New here, caught you in my reccomendations. Honestly wouldn't mind hearing you talk about an obscure Dreamcast game for 4 hours, hehe! :D