Congratulations Yakko, you have officially made your transition from “popular by tangential relation” to “Gacha Boy”. Your reward is a horde of ravenous fans that will always ask you to review their favorite gacha game and the crushing sensation that you will never be able to recapture the good ole days. Nice!
@@xrosslegends1279 its more-so the sound (gasha) you get from vending machine-dispensed capsule toys and because of the same nature these games have with said machines gacha games were born as a term
Wait... Did they really decided to not only wipe every user's progress on a JoJo gacha but also changed it's core gameplay from real time to turn based????? And no money refunded???? Yeah no wonder it died lmao.
Arknights is so f2p friendly it broke my tendency to whale. It's the only gacha game I can play anymore because of this 'cuz I'm too tempted to spend on others.
One thing I really like about arknights and I sadly don't find in any other gacha game, is that you just could play and mess up with the game and there is so much more to do than just clear a level with the most optimal team, I feel like in most gacha RPG (like epic seven, the other one I play) there not much uniqueness into each unit (at least in term of possibility) and even while there can be some great/cool unit combo, in the end, all you can do is clear the content the way it is intended to. Meanwhile, in AK you can bring up meme strat, cheese some level, clear hard stage with some the weakest character in the game and mess up with the fucking game physics, and it feels so refreshing, I really wish more mobile game will allow us to do these kinds of thing in the future.
My favorite gacha-game is league of legends - in that game, you always get 4 random-characters to help you in your team, and if the enemy got better characters, you are kinda fucked. Love that game.
Or you could.. Try to work with them? Sometimes I think people don't realize it's a team fighting game. Most of those people exclusively play marksman or fighters.
@@BloodsailAdmiralTdk no i think its more of a 1v1 with you having beginner-bots and your opp having intermediate ones. all your lanes lose and you get to fight that one guy on the enemy team thats always slightly more fed than you
As a free to play player, i feel like gachas are basically testing your luck, cause if you get shit characters it can be so boring but if you get good ones you feel like you can keep going on forever
@@s0leil883 I know right?My Greninja could've swept the long ass tower but of course they didn't wanna try it. The story was also somewhat interesting too (more interesting that Sword and Shield atleast lol) and they couldn't even managed that.
Honestly the way that FGO make you spend money is so big brain. At first glance, the way they make money just seems down right silly, as they don’t have any booster pack or something to incentivize spending money on the game.They don’t really make the player deal with AP problem unless you’re super invested in the or game or you just want to flex as the developers constantly bombards the player with GA. Not only that, the cost for the packs for SQ is just down right ridiculous at first glance. I mean $100 for like about 62 total worth of summons. The only real way they fact that they constantly release limited servant banner. By itself, it wouldn’t be that bad, but combine the banner with the story that they write for those limited banner servant is what really makes you spend money on the game. The problem I have most gacha game is that the character that they release for each banner is just boring. Sure they have their dialogues and their maybe skins, but other than that, they rarely have any anything to help them be flesh out as a character. This thus result in them being quite rarely pulled, at least for me, as I just don’t see the worth in them. That’s why, whenever I play the game, I only summon for characters that are either OP or a character that have made appearance in the game’s story. And that’s why FGO is just so ingenious. Almost every servant that is in the limited banner have an event or some sort of story for the character, and with these stories, story writers makes you understand who the characters are and how they are like. The story right make us understand their personality and make us understand just how cool these character. They make the character feel real, as degenerate as that sounds, and that what makes people, at least for me, want to pull for them. Take James Moriarty for example. In FGO, he’s a pretty boring character at first glance, a suspicious looking old man with a gun coffin that he can ride... okay maybe boring isn’t really a great way to describe him, but his kit isn’t really that strong or cool. So he was released along with chapter 1 of EoR, where James was the focus of the that chapter. At first, I wasn’t planning to pull for him, since he really wasn’t that strong, I already had like 3 other units that does his role but better, and I was saving for Ereshkigal, who is best girl. However, after finishing the chapter, I begin pulling for him, simply because he became such a likable character. It’s honestly scary how the developers drive people to spend money on that game, they don’t constantly force ads at your face or constantly force you to look at their “Special Offer”, which they don’t have (unless you count the Guaranteed SSR banner). The way they make you spend money on the is by making you do it on your volition. It can be best described with this meme: When you accidentally spent all your SQ for “bait” banner *SQ pack* : You could not live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me.
Victor Yang That's the kind of way I like my gacha games to be. FGO shows care with their characters. If they can make you fall in love with a fictional character for a mobile game, that's saying something. They could've went the powercreep direction, and force players to spend, but no, they make sure all their characters come with a well laid out story.
I always thought the difference was that the features you mentioned for PC games were always considered problematic whereas in the gatcha community they're just normalised to uncomfortable degrees.
been playing dragalia lost since it came out, and it's the only one that I've genuinely enjoyed after a long period of time. I took so many screenshots of the april fools dog
Ya know what sucks? Being a game designer looking for jobs and seeing a lot of available jobs are from mobile game developers looking for designers that are skilled in predatory monetizing design. Then strongly considering it, swallowing your pride and virtues because you need a job. While I have considered it, thankfully I haven't gone that route in my career. I feel sorry for any designers that have.
Lucky you, I got an ad for Raid: Shadow Legends, Hero Wars, and that Seven Deadly Sins gacha back to back without the ability to skip, AND I HAD ADBLOCK ON!
I legit love the song Speed of Light from that ad, it at the very least is way more palatable then Raid. Honestly almost all mobile games I get into are because I love the OST that I had listen to.....though even I have my gatcha achilles heel......(looks side-ways at Love Live)
I just quit as soon as i find daily logins and missions become a chore To find myself browse the appstore looking for another gacha game to sink 10 hours a day into
Arknights is great, all you literally need to do is play the game, the dailies just complete themselves. It's also incredibly fun, I've been playing for a few days and it hasn't gotten boring, unlike other games I've tried.
Thanks for the recommendations, been an arknights player since day one and rly enjoying it. I tried out afk arena as well and its really fun, tho maybe bc its an old server i cant quite keep up with pvp, everyone is 1M power and above 😅
Recently I checked the storage of my phone and I had 50GB of just apps, mostly gacha games. A lot of gacha games I install but never play, this video most definitely inspired me to truly consider what games are worth keeping and what games aren't worth the time that I could use to be doing something else.
ngl, I totally relate when you said that it's difficult to get into a gacha unless you're in from day one. The only 2 gacha games I ever spent money on, fire emblem heroes and yugioh duel links (duel links is pretty much a gacha at this point) I've only been able to not get lost in thanks to starting from day 1 or having background info in them. All the other games I try are always feel like I missed 2 months to several years worth of content and free premium currency that I can't keep up with everything
When you mentioned aggressive advertising it reminded me of AFK arena. I downloaded AFK arena when it launched on mobile and was enjoying it for a while. But every time I saw an ad that was a blatant lie about the gameplay, I started to get irritated at the game itself. I played for a while, but I got so fed up with the ads I uninstalled after about a month of playing.
I remember when magica record first released the English servers and I was super excited, having found the news right after watching anime it was based off of. I preordered it and played it everyday, until it it died unfortunately.. all I remember is feeling so badass with my 5*rena minami, and playing while I was supposed to be paying attention to class. the only thing that it actually gave me was that I realized I needed Joan d'ark as a magical girl, other than that.. I'm glad I was a poor child cause I would have definitely blew all my money for my waifus
And I'm still mad about it Not long after the whole fanfare as well with the first original magical girl debut for english server, the anime adaptation, and the next arc teaser I'm still bitter about it
@@mr.miscellaneous1079 like any good meme tutorials, blender is a fully-fledged free 3d animation software, and a lot of people have been trying it out recently! I'd watch a beginners tutorial if you're really interested, but I imagined yakko downloaded the character model from online, rigged a puppet of it, and then animated it.
I can't believe you were more surprised that A1 pictures and Mappa animated the Granblue show, than that the first season was composed by Nobuo "suck my dick, i made One Winged Angel" Uematsu.
i think arknights is an example of a gacha game done extremelly well. i started playing the game roughly a month after release, and i have yet to spend any money on it, but i've still cleared just about everything in the game and i have some of the best characters. they give you a lot of the premium currency for free during events (which i usually spend on skins), and give you several guaranteed 5 stars as well as a guaranteed 6 star at the start (6 stars are the highest). also, it is possible to clear the whole game's story using no 6 stars and only the 5 stars you are guaranteed to get. (such as Amiya)
@@l_kaida I have had that recommended to me a few times. And since the devs showed actual gameplay in their ads, it looks pretty good. Sadly girls frontline just took up second gacha game slot in my day so yea. I'm mostly playing because gf2 is coming this year and I heard story is good.
man, gotta say good video. you provide arguments from both sides which I can respect. I find it hilarious that if you say you don't like gacha mechanics, that people will automatically respond, "yeah, gacha mechanics suck but have you played [insert favorite gacha], it's not so bad." umm, no i didn't ask for a recommendation for a game I would hate and yes they are all bad still because they abuse 4 things: 1. Community peer pressure to perform (ranking, parties, leaderboards, etc...) 2. FOMO 3. gambling addiction and to a lesser extent 4. nostalgia/fanservice. IMO, no game should need to come with a warning label like it's a pack of cigarettes. I'd also note there are plenty of games out there that add content without making people gamble for it. love the content and attention to detail you put in this video.
I’ve been playing F/GO and DFFOO for years, hell since they dropped in JP, and the amount of time and strategy into those games that I have so much fun to this day lol so I hate when gachas get a bad rep for being bad :p
As a gacha player myself I have to say that I love how well you know when to do be serious and when to joke around, I 100% have enjoyed each gacha related vid you have released. Love the work behind them
I feel like MTG Arena does a good job with making the game playable without paying money. Just completing daily quests for the first few days of playing gets you a crap ton of theme decks, some of which being very strong if modified slightly. Also, wildcards can be used to craft any card of the same rarity from any set (except special event exclusives.) I was able to rack up mythic wildcards just from playing for 2 hours a week and enjoy what I did. But MTG is a whole nother type of gambling that has its share of addicts. Collecting the real cards is insanely expensive, especially ones that are good in game.
The way you showed Ayakashi Ghost Guild for some seconds made my heart hurt a bit, I kinda still miss that game (along with things like Devil Maker Tokyo and Terra Battle)
Skylanders was one of the most innovative gachas ever. It's got the basics: - Gambling(stores restocking) with commons, rares, xtra rares and really xtra rare (that goddam drill-doser was nonexistent) - "wiafus" and "hosbundos" - Starter units that were always kinda shit encouraging you to get more - Restricting some units to specific s̶e̶r̶v̶e̶r̶s stores - Limited time units (pumpkin eyebrawl) - lazy reskins of units you already have (look, ninjini BUt ReD) - Gradual powercreep (they'd update every character almost every game with better skills) - New random mechanics that hardly make sense (Skylanders: frankenstein's monstrosity-force) - Crossover characters when the franchise, and genre, is starting to rot in stagnation and oversaturation - Goes under when a new story arc was about to begin BUT it also has: - Physical figures you can roleplay with - Kickstarted a new genre with the fastest halve life i've seen in anything - Every character has a lazy eye - your siblings can break them with ease - They can sunbleach sometimes - you can grill the ones you hate I think I've realized where the source of my gambling addiction came from
In the past seven years ive spent well over twelve thousand dollars on dbz dokkan battle and only recently realized that i have a serious gambling issue. Ive been able to partly justify it because of my intense passion for dragon ball and the satisfaction of building my character box but the inevitability that one day the servers will be shut down and all that will be lost has become my main source of existential anxiety and it is absolutley terrifying
tl dr, gacha games sucks, friends are the only thing that made people keep playing these games. if you're playing gacha games and feel like your wasting time, well it's because you are wasting your time. and when you feel fomo. ask yourself, "what am i missing out?", your missing out on nothing pls if you're addicted to gacha games and you paid on those games. pls quit the faster you quit the better your life will be. ask yourself "what benefit will i get if i quit these gacha games?" for me as an example: more time, no preassure from limited predatory events/banner, and so much more that you can't think as of yet. addiction is addiction, pls love yourself and quit these predatory games.
After having lived long enough to make and lose and make new and lose even more friends irl, I'm very opposed to the idea of developing bonds with people I will probably never meet. Not that I think it's a bad thing, I'm just... Very hesitant, myself. But I would love to be convinced otherwise.
I play a metric ton of Epic Seven and have since global launch(and am baby whale/adult dolphin level spender) and I fully agree with everything here. Microtransactions are pretty predatory and the majority of games are almost downright evil with it. I spend because its what I enjoy and while it may not be the smartest thing, as long as I know my limits it's ok, because I'm getting the enjoyment that I wanted from it. Would I recommend at all what i do? Hell nah, stay f2p as much as ever possible. Great video as usual yakko
I played union cross when it first came out and was part of a group called Kaiju. It was probably the best time I've played a mobile game. It was competitive and our team ranked first or at least top 10 consistently and even came up with a raid boss method where even lower level members could lux farm. We even had a person from an opposing team join ours to "infiltrate" and shared our method and optimized it and overtook us. It was the best experience and no other game has come close to that for me. I eventually quit because of the micro transactions and it was getting too much and eventually the original people on my team all left so it wasn't the same and P2W got so unbalanced. I miss it...
The problem with gacha games is how stressful and boring it becomes with time, it's not like you can sit on your couch the weekend and end a game, like prey or mirror's edge, gacha games NEVER ends, they just release a small story chapters and some characters with ridiculous high prices. In my case my gacha game was Honkai impact 3rd, and Boy, after 3 years playing it non stop (and nothing else) i spent around 2000 bucks. had fun? Yes, would do it again? NO. It's a dumb investment, since the characters and weapons you unlock becomes irrelevant after 3 patches. It's better to buy a Xbox X/ps5 and enjoy real games.
I played a lot of Unison League with my girlfriend for about 3 years now, on and off of course, and I met a lot of friends in a guild and had a lot of warm adventures with them. There’s pay to win elements, but honestly none of the progressing stuff ever mattered. It really is the memories you make with people. If I miss a person I know exclusively by their avatar at times, that’s a big feeling.
The point about gacha games ending at the end of this video hits a lot harder with Dragalia's EOS being announced today. Especially since I got into it because of this video. God, i'm still sad.
19:12 And thus was my first heartbreak when I learned M.O.E was shut down 4 months after deciding to get it again after getting a new phone..... Gatcha games are brutal not only in-game but in real life too :
Genshin is the first and only gacha I play and it's nice because it doesn't give much incentive to pay and it actually encourages you to play very little. It gives you a big empty world full of goblins and slimes to kill so there's no reason to pay or care to maximize your characters because there's nothing to do with them.
Total agreement. I now only play a maximum of one gacha at a time. It's been Azur Lane for over a year now and I haven't felt pressured to pay once. I still did but it's not the games fault that I need to marry every character. Yostar stayed pretty true to their free to play design in Arknight so I have high hopes for them in this sea of games that actively rob you.
Gachas are exactly why I’ve almost quit Puzzle And Dragons. Such a fun game, but you need rare monsters in order to be good. In order for the rare monsters, you need to wait until the events that have them such as Godfest. In order for that, you need 5-10 magic stones to pull. There’s a monster where matching some heal orbs just deals damage to the monster anyway! When you don’t have the rare monsters everyone else has and refuse to spend money (like me) everything you can do is either too easy, too hard, or you have to wait for fun events. And even then once you’re finished, it’s like “now what?” They’re quite generous, but only in anniversaries, events, or if you log in for enough days. Another thing is that there’s no way for the game to recommend a team, or make one for you. You have to try to make one, or ask people on social media.
It’s why I’m having so much more fun playing Pokemon Shuffle, you unlock Pokemon as you go, and you’re not forced to pay money. Also, they force you to give you a break when you run out of stamina, so they aren’t trying to exploit you. The Pokemon are likable because you fight with them and have appeal. Puzzle and Dragons doesn’t have this, only some monsters have stories. Also, most “monsters” are just girls. The only good thing I’d say is you’re not forced to “grind” because they give you lots of EXP monsters.
Dragalia Lost is currently one of my favorite gacha games, despite me not liking most action-based combat. My favorite gacha game that I wish more people knew of though, is Another Eden. Its art is GORGEOUS, and its writer and composer worked on Chrono Trigger. With that knowledge alone you KNOW its story and music are gonna be good (seriously. holy shit. the soundtrack? it is ILLEGALLY good for a mobile game, it even puts Dragalia Lost to shame). The story involves jumping between the past, present, and future, and there is a LOT of story. As in, about 50 main chapters in, when you've passed the massive climax, learn the exactly why the game is titled "Another Eden: The Cat Beyond Time and Space," reached the resolution, you think you've finished the story... and then you get slapped with "oh you dumbass, you thought that was the end? That was PART ONE, now here's the beginning of the Part 2. Enjoy this whole ass new CONTINENT to explore." Gameplay-wise, t's turn-based combat, as you'd expect, but you walk through towns and maps, talk to people, find chests and items, the same way you would in a traditional RPG. There's mini-games (including a fishing mini-game that you can unlock after completing a specific questline, and uh. I have spent an extremely unreasonable number of hours fishing and doing nothing else, it is THAT addicting), side-quests from talking to NPCs in every new town you visit, and collab events that DON'T expire, ever, including a two-part Persona 5 Royal collab that gives you Joker, Mona, Violet, and Skull for free, they're REALLY good characters. This game is NOT lacking in content. Aside from the main story and collabs, there's a series of special event questlines called Episodes, just as permanent as the collabs, and they continually add new Episodes. Now the main draw of gacha games: the characters. Every single character you can summon has their own backstory, their own place in the world, their own relationships with other characters. Each summonable character has a set of their own Character Quests you unlock by leveling that character up to the appropriate level threshold (level 5, then 30, then 50). Their Character Quests really flesh them out, and aside from granting easy quest rewards, are the only way to level up their Valor Chant, which is each character's unique ability activated when switching in from the backlines. So to get your characters the strongest they can be, you are very strongly encouraged to complete their Character Quests and learn more about them in the process. tldr Another Eden is a really, REALLY good gacha game that feels more like a console game with gacha elements than a typical gacha game, please PLEASE try it out, thanks for reading my essay on gushing about Another Eden GO PLAY IT
I'm here from the Dragalia Lost subReddit. I love DL. I love hearing people speak fondly about it. I've been fortunate enough to only spend (a truly irresponsible amount of) time on it. I actually quit Marvel Contest of Champions over a year ago because I was playing it so much that it was negatively impacting my job and marriage. Now my wife and I play Dragalia together and we're mostly reasonable about it. I liked this vid. New sub acquired! (Sorry, I'm just a 3 star. I'm not even meta. You should probably roll again. )
100% agree with Fire Emblem. I love a lot about the game, and I still play it, and they even made me dip into the FEH Pass for a single month, but I absolutely despise that they decided it was a good idea to lock quality of life features behind a paywall.
"If a gacha game shuts down, there is no remnant of progress" I felt that with heavenstrike rivals 2, which was the first gacha game I really got invested in. I only played the game for like 4-5 months, but about a year ago, I wanted to check in on it again, just to see how the game has evolved after all this time, and maybe spend a few weeks trying it out again, only to find out that the game no longer has active servers. That genuinely made me a little sad, the game was really fun, and its weird to me that, unlike most other games I like and have liked, there is no way for anyone to experience it ever again.
I've playing gacha games at almost 6 years and what I have to say is: be a free to play for at least 6 months, a good gacha game can keep you playing whitout spending money, you dont have to "need" spending money, you spend money because you want do something for yourself and have -more- fun with it So just have fun, on your own way
4:37 *laughs in Arknights events* I did. I got something from the experience. Tanky enemies that hit range units are the ultimate evil and should be exterminated with all might. Forget the 3 star result, I want the fuckers down. Downing my whole squad to the point where every unit was on cooldown. Some of these ones were E2! How did you knock THEM out?! ...maybe I should've just used more than 2 casters. And...you know...learn to strategize. Still love the events.
My experience level with gacha games comes from only one, very simple looking game known as FitnessRPG, you literally make progress by walking, that's all it was, but it also had all those microtransactions you'd expect from gacha games (except not as outrageous). to be honest, I thought it was kinda fun, despite forcing myself to break my legs to get them sweet sweet level ups for my characters by reaching 10k (mostly) or 20k steps (because of guild reasons) only to have my ass kicked in the PvP section because I'm still a little far behind, after about 6 months straight of walking every single fucking day, I just stopped, I don't walk anymore, I'm bored of it lmao. However, I didn't make any friends along the way like Yakko did here, there was no chat system, so it was the loneliest grind you could ever attempt. 10/10 I hate my legs for working correctly.
Yes, I do love Rayark games and really enjoy playing them, including Sdorica. They have good art style in general and always have the best soundtrack. But I rarely play mobile games at all, maybe once in 3-4 weeks or so, when I have nothing to do and I'm not near my PC. I tried other mobile games too but they didn't catch my attention for a long.
In the first part, your journey of deleting so many mobile games was just like mine, now I only have 4 games on my phone, but the one I play more than the others is Exos now. It has such high quality in everything that even though it does scream at you to pay to win, there's so much content that you could catch up in no time. It's like Dragalia, but I was here Day 1. *And imo it's better than Dragalia fight me*
I played lots of gacha games, but I always stop playing about a month in, except one. I played Granblue Fantasy for 4 years now, since they added the English translation. And in these 4 years I spent around $3000 in it. And the weirdest thing is that I feel worse when I buy a game that I don't like and stop playing halfway than when I think about this. I consider it an MMO of sorts, and I made friends around this game, so I don't regret anything. Now give me a second, they added a suptix and I need to buy it, brb.
This video is brilliant. You've done your research, actually played the games and did an AMAZING job of showing people both the positives and negatives of GACHA Games. I feel like as long as you know what you're signing up for when you get into these types of games (and if you do go down the rabbit hole of paying for content), as long as you do so responsibly you can have a lot of fun with them and that they do have a place ( if done well) in the gaming community as it shifts to this micro-transaction style of content. Play GACHA Responsibly people.
Yeah, i only got really into one gacha. Disney heroes: Battle mode. And i will always remember it. I thoroughly enjoyed it for a long while, I only made one purchase in that game and yet i was in a top 10 guild for a while. But they just kept upping the level cap so i managed to stop once i realised i would have to pay more to catch up. I was constantly just below the curve despite dedicating hours every day to keep up. Now, the reason i will remember it is just the community. The people i found there in the earlier days were hilarious and i would come back to chat with them rather than play half the time.
May I add that I actually enjoyed some storylines of mobile games? I remember playing Brave Frontier for more than a straight year and didnt even have to spend a single dime on the game because I was more interested in the main storyline progression than the actual units, and even then, the unit lore tied in pretty well with the main storyline lore, and we can see what actually happened behind the scenes and get a lot of background between the gods and see just how petty they really were, and how worse the actual humans could be in Grand Gaia, all from reading unit lore and descriptions. And even then, there are relatively easy quests to clear all for background storylines to connect all the dots. Only spent money once because Hakuzo looked way too cool to pass up. Being a F2P in Brave Frontier actually isnt that bad Man, and dont even get me started on FGO's storyline. The ending of the main arc got me teary eyed, ngl.
If it makes you feel any better, Amiibos have far more value than anything in any Gacha Game, because the Amiibos are transferrable. You can later sell them for what you paid, if not a profit, if things get dire, etc.
18:48 I think that point doesnt justify gatcha. Nintendo games like animal crossing get free updates and support through internet. they dont preventing users progression if they dont spent more $$$$$$ in the game.
Just like with The Meth Project there needs to be PSAs for Gacha Games with the tag line "This is not normal...but when addicted to Gacha Games...it is" or something like that
I really wish Dragalia Lost got the love it deserves. The devs are making it as accessible as possible to F2P and Newbies to learn the game and rewards Veterans or Endgame players to help the newbies by rewarding them. And I agree, 2-Part banners can suck a fat one but the devs need to make money somehow (but the collab characters are always below meta after a month or two. They're just there for collection. Being off-meta is completely viable with a coordinated team anyway). Also I want Yakko on my goddanm friend list: ID: 2276 6521 391. Anyone can add me, I hope Ellysane helps you.
@@lunasperidot8760 Peony is only a buff wh*re bc people use it for that purpose, she isn't a must-have. Chrom is a simple delete-button for fire but still, not a must-have. Tiki is fine, she's only used for her dragon form and tanking stuff, she isnt game breaking or op compared to others. None of the collab characters are a must in current content. You can use whoever u want on any type of content with a coordinated team.
i have a coherent reason why i hate those free to play games that filled with microtransaction to the brim: They halts Mobile Gaming potential. when you can play star wars kotor, GTA san andreas, Bully, on your phone, you know that they can handle PS2-wii class game WELL. imagine, if developers are incentified to make AAA experience on phone, imagine that. i'm sure phone nowadays can handle nintendo switch games, I'M SURE. can you imagine ? Zelda BOTW on your phone ? or heck, even skyrim or witcher 3 on the go. man. THE WASTED POTENTIAL MADE ME FURIOUS.
I play Genshin, Super Mecha Champions, and Punishing: Gray Raven. I only play gacha's that are also fun to play, and I have a hard rule that I won't pay more money in any free game than I would have payed to buy it. So I've been able to have a pretty good time playing gachas without going broke. I still think it's shitty how games prey on people's psychology, but for people who are naturally resistant to advertising and addiction these games can be really fun
Congratulations Yakko, you have officially made your transition from “popular by tangential relation” to “Gacha Boy”. Your reward is a horde of ravenous fans that will always ask you to review their favorite gacha game and the crushing sensation that you will never be able to recapture the good ole days. Nice!
-Now do raid- hahahahaha
Oof
Gacha boy sounds kinda cool~
so, yakko... When is the honkai impact 3rd vid coming? xD jk... unless?
I legitimately thought that they were called "gotcha" games because they tricked you into spending real life money.
I think gacha it's just that in japanese, but it's meant to be you saying that after getting what you want in the gacha.
@@xrosslegends1279 its more-so the sound (gasha) you get from vending machine-dispensed capsule toys and because of the same nature these games have with said machines gacha games were born as a term
@@denebu Oh yeah, that makes sense, I new about the relation about the two, but didn't think about the sound as the name.
Gotcha bitch, now you are in crippling debt
that's def how i remember the term. and after i explained the concept to my candy crush-obsessed mom, i think that's what she thinks it's called too.
Fifa is just a gatcha game that resets yearly
Well yes but actually, yes
*Y E S*
That has one of the most profiting gacha in itself also with Ultimate Team
My must you remind me of the copy paste game
EA:"That's not true, it's a suprise server malfunction... give me money plz"
Wait... Did they really decided to not only wipe every user's progress on a JoJo gacha but also changed it's core gameplay from real time to turn based?????
And no money refunded????
Yeah no wonder it died lmao.
addiction bad
my addiction is league content tho
I stopped playing league cuz i don't wanna get too addicted
They hated @Dumbs because he told them the truth
Wtf why are you here?
Wow uhh hi dumbs I like ur stuff
As a gacha game player for almost 6 years and a hardcore arknights f2p player you have alot of points in this and honestly i respect it.
arknights players unite!
Arknights is so f2p friendly it broke my tendency to whale. It's the only gacha game I can play anymore because of this 'cuz I'm too tempted to spend on others.
@@Jovian12 well be prepared, blaze is coming soon and its hard to not whale for her (for me anyways)
One thing I really like about arknights and I sadly don't find in any other gacha game, is that you just could play and mess up with the game and there is so much more to do than just clear a level with the most optimal team, I feel like in most gacha RPG (like epic seven, the other one I play) there not much uniqueness into each unit (at least in term of possibility) and even while there can be some great/cool unit combo, in the end, all you can do is clear the content the way it is intended to.
Meanwhile, in AK you can bring up meme strat, cheese some level, clear hard stage with some the weakest character in the game and mess up with the fucking game physics, and it feels so refreshing, I really wish more mobile game will allow us to do these kinds of thing in the future.
@@kevinseraphin5456 you can even clear stages with only mayer and magallan
My favorite gacha-game is league of legends - in that game, you always get 4 random-characters to help you in your team, and if the enemy got better characters, you are kinda fucked.
Love that game.
Or you could.. Try to work with them? Sometimes I think people don't realize it's a team fighting game. Most of those people exclusively play marksman or fighters.
@@CosmicCreatorCat its a joke.
o i thought that was the game where u go in a 5v5 pvp battle with 4 retard ai bots on your team vs 5 real players that fuck u up every duel
@@BloodsailAdmiralTdk no i think its more of a 1v1 with you having beginner-bots and your opp having intermediate ones. all your lanes lose and you get to fight that one guy on the enemy team thats always slightly more fed than you
@@EinManU i suppose that sounds more like what i remember from hearing about that game
Rest In Peace Dragalia Lost, you will be very much missed as an outstanding outlier in the gacha game market.
As a free to play player, i feel like gachas are basically testing your luck, cause if you get shit characters it can be so boring but if you get good ones you feel like you can keep going on forever
5:38
Yakko: "Tens of thousands of dollars"
*immediately shows FGO*
Me: Is this like a personal attack or something?
See Pokemon Master uninstalled
Yep that's relatable
S0leil yeah Pokémon masters rrly sucks
@@Ash.DragaliaLost ye the gameplay is boring a nd too much grind
They should've focus onto Pokemon Duel . Didn't even finish the damn story.
@@azirul9311 Pokemon duel was lit tho, idk why they shut it down
@@s0leil883 I know right?My Greninja could've swept the long ass tower but of course they didn't wanna try it. The story was also somewhat interesting too (more interesting that Sword and Shield atleast lol) and they couldn't even managed that.
Honestly the way that FGO make you spend money is so big brain. At first glance, the way they make money just seems down right silly, as they don’t have any booster pack or something to incentivize spending money on the game.They don’t really make the player deal with AP problem unless you’re super invested in the or game or you just want to flex as the developers constantly bombards the player with GA. Not only that, the cost for the packs for SQ is just down right ridiculous at first glance. I mean $100 for like about 62 total worth of summons. The only real way they fact that they constantly release limited servant banner.
By itself, it wouldn’t be that bad, but combine the banner with the story that they write for those limited banner servant is what really makes you spend money on the game.
The problem I have most gacha game is that the character that they release for each banner is just boring. Sure they have their dialogues and their maybe skins, but other than that, they rarely have any anything to help them be flesh out as a character. This thus result in them being quite rarely pulled, at least for me, as I just don’t see the worth in them. That’s why, whenever I play the game, I only summon for characters that are either OP or a character that have made appearance in the game’s story.
And that’s why FGO is just so ingenious. Almost every servant that is in the limited banner have an event or some sort of story for the character, and with these stories, story writers makes you understand who the characters are and how they are like. The story right make us understand their personality and make us understand just how cool these character. They make the character feel real, as degenerate as that sounds, and that what makes people, at least for me, want to pull for them.
Take James Moriarty for example. In FGO, he’s a pretty boring character at first glance, a suspicious looking old man with a gun coffin that he can ride... okay maybe boring isn’t really a great way to describe him, but his kit isn’t really that strong or cool. So he was released along with chapter 1 of EoR, where James was the focus of the that chapter. At first, I wasn’t planning to pull for him, since he really wasn’t that strong, I already had like 3 other units that does his role but better, and I was saving for Ereshkigal, who is best girl. However, after finishing the chapter, I begin pulling for him, simply because he became such a likable character.
It’s honestly scary how the developers drive people to spend money on that game, they don’t constantly force ads at your face or constantly force you to look at their “Special Offer”, which they don’t have (unless you count the Guaranteed SSR banner). The way they make you spend money on the is by making you do it on your volition. It can be best described with this meme:
When you accidentally spent all your SQ for “bait” banner
*SQ pack* : You could not live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me.
This has to be one of the most depth comment that i see, which i agree on.
Every character has its own story..
OG Saber Artoria, still has not been inserted into any story LMAO.
(Played FGO JP since release btw)
@@Kaimax61 the Fact that Mordred have more appearance than her Father LoL (even though Artoria sometime appear in Event but only slightly)
That's why we call it Fate/grind order
Victor Yang That's the kind of way I like my gacha games to be. FGO shows care with their characters. If they can make you fall in love with a fictional character for a mobile game, that's saying something. They could've went the powercreep direction, and force players to spend, but no, they make sure all their characters come with a well laid out story.
my favorite gacha game is Animal Crossing: New Horizons
LMAOO
my favorite gacha game is Fortnite: Battle Royale
Facts
Nintendo could've easily made Nook Mile tickets cost money and it'd essentially be a villager lootbox
@@AustinFire you mean pocket camp?
I always thought the difference was that the features you mentioned for PC games were always considered problematic whereas in the gatcha community they're just normalised to uncomfortable degrees.
“Fascinated.ADDICTED.”well you saw you saw that shigechi and followed him to the rabbit hole .
Everytime I see a new vid with Yakko talking about Gacha I get so excited OuO
Hi, Papatec!
the man the myth the legend
Arcknights gang
Even papa tect came
the gacha playerbase has been summoned
been playing dragalia lost since it came out, and it's the only one that I've genuinely enjoyed after a long period of time. I took so many screenshots of the april fools dog
Project QT was ok
A fellow man of culture i presume
What is project qt
The best even
ah, so i'm not alone after all
@@hijacked6663 its a... mature Japanese culture game with interesting puzzles
Ya know what sucks? Being a game designer looking for jobs and seeing a lot of available jobs are from mobile game developers looking for designers that are skilled in predatory monetizing design. Then strongly considering it, swallowing your pride and virtues because you need a job. While I have considered it, thankfully I haven't gone that route in my career. I feel sorry for any designers that have.
“Part 2: Mobile Game Sponsors” *Arknights ad plays*
oh no, not the arknights ads.
Lucky you, I got an ad for Raid: Shadow Legends, Hero Wars, and that Seven Deadly Sins gacha back to back without the ability to skip, AND I HAD ADBLOCK ON!
How they manage to make such terrible ads for such a fun game is beyond me.
ChromaLuke Adams Gacha is good tho. Completely f2p and I’m top 10%
I legit love the song Speed of Light from that ad, it at the very least is way more palatable then Raid. Honestly almost all mobile games I get into are because I love the OST that I had listen to.....though even I have my gatcha achilles heel......(looks side-ways at Love Live)
I just quit as soon as i find daily logins and missions become a chore
To find myself browse the appstore looking for another gacha game to sink 10 hours a day into
Afk arena is fun to f2p. The dailies take 2 minutes to complete
Arknights is great, all you literally need to do is play the game, the dailies just complete themselves. It's also incredibly fun, I've been playing for a few days and it hasn't gotten boring, unlike other games I've tried.
Thanks for the recommendations, been an arknights player since day one and rly enjoying it. I tried out afk arena as well and its really fun, tho maybe bc its an old server i cant quite keep up with pvp, everyone is 1M power and above 😅
@@georgenguyen9732 im late but battle cats
I was half expecting this tp be to the most incredibly in depth paid ad for Arknights
Well it's pretty much the only good gacha game so it would make sense
mEEEEE1934 cough, FGO, Dragalia Lost, cough
@@mEEEEE1934 what about Crusaders Quest?
Recently I checked the storage of my phone and I had 50GB of just apps, mostly gacha games. A lot of gacha games I install but never play, this video most definitely inspired me to truly consider what games are worth keeping and what games aren't worth the time that I could use to be doing something else.
ngl, I totally relate when you said that it's difficult to get into a gacha unless you're in from day one. The only 2 gacha games I ever spent money on, fire emblem heroes and yugioh duel links (duel links is pretty much a gacha at this point) I've only been able to not get lost in thanks to starting from day 1 or having background info in them. All the other games I try are always feel like I missed 2 months to several years worth of content and free premium currency that I can't keep up with everything
When you mentioned aggressive advertising it reminded me of AFK arena. I downloaded AFK arena when it launched on mobile and was enjoying it for a while. But every time I saw an ad that was a blatant lie about the gameplay, I started to get irritated at the game itself. I played for a while, but I got so fed up with the ads I uninstalled after about a month of playing.
I remember when magica record first released the English servers and I was super excited, having found the news right after watching anime it was based off of. I preordered it and played it everyday, until it it died unfortunately.. all I remember is feeling so badass with my 5*rena minami, and playing while I was supposed to be paying attention to class. the only thing that it actually gave me was that I realized I needed Joan d'ark as a magical girl, other than that.. I'm glad I was a poor child cause I would have definitely blew all my money for my waifus
And I'm still mad about it
Not long after the whole fanfare as well with the first original magical girl debut for english server, the anime adaptation, and the next arc teaser
I'm still bitter about it
"You're telling me gacha games are just anime waifu cash and grabs?"
Me: Yes, and I'm tired of pretending it's not.
As a free to play gacha gamer, the time sink can reach levels unheard of.
I love hearing people talk about Dragalia Lost. I really enjoy that game.
A fellow dragalia brother I see
i played on the 1st day, quit, want to go back but lost the account lol
tfw i spent everything for tiki and cant bring myself to return after not getting her
@@HelterwithoutSkelter she ain't even all that, tho I do understand your pain
@@Stocking.mp3 i spent 50k wyrmites and didnt get her... but yknow i got 3 Zephyrs so thats something
6:00
Did.. _did you learn 3D animation just for that one gag..!?_
Another soul claimed by the "I learnt 3d modeling for one meme" club 😔
How and where can I learn this, for a meme ofc
@@mr.miscellaneous1079 like any good meme tutorials, blender is a fully-fledged free 3d animation software, and a lot of people have been trying it out recently! I'd watch a beginners tutorial if you're really interested, but I imagined yakko downloaded the character model from online, rigged a puppet of it, and then animated it.
Hello tri tip chris!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was looking for you now I am accomplishment
I can't believe you were more surprised that A1 pictures and Mappa animated the Granblue show, than that the first season was composed by Nobuo "suck my dick, i made One Winged Angel" Uematsu.
i think arknights is an example of a gacha game done extremelly well. i started playing the game roughly a month after release, and i have yet to spend any money on it, but i've still cleared just about everything in the game and i have some of the best characters. they give you a lot of the premium currency for free during events (which i usually spend on skins), and give you several guaranteed 5 stars as well as a guaranteed 6 star at the start (6 stars are the highest). also, it is possible to clear the whole game's story using no 6 stars and only the 5 stars you are guaranteed to get. (such as Amiya)
Eh, it's always like that during the beginning stages of a Gacha. They'll have to up the powercreep sooner or later. It's the sad truth.
If u wanna play a very f2p friendly gacha game try fgo
everyone just youtubes the solutions anyway :V
@@vivi4362true, but arknights is all PvE and all content so far is clearable with low rarity characters
Yeah, the ads for it are terrible, but it's really obvious how much the developers care about their game.
Arknight and Girls Frontline are few of the rare games where I enjoyed the story line and strategies behind the gacha features.
I learned from Mario kart tour surprisingly not cookie run
Try magicami
Girls frontline I enjoyed more than arknights tbh.
Try guardian tales, the game is actually amazing but sad no one in the west really knows about it
@@l_kaida I have had that recommended to me a few times. And since the devs showed actual gameplay in their ads, it looks pretty good. Sadly girls frontline just took up second gacha game slot in my day so yea.
I'm mostly playing because gf2 is coming this year and I heard story is good.
man, gotta say good video. you provide arguments from both sides which I can respect. I find it hilarious that if you say you don't like gacha mechanics, that people will automatically respond, "yeah, gacha mechanics suck but have you played [insert favorite gacha], it's not so bad." umm, no i didn't ask for a recommendation for a game I would hate and yes they are all bad still because they abuse 4 things: 1. Community peer pressure to perform (ranking, parties, leaderboards, etc...) 2. FOMO 3. gambling addiction and to a lesser extent 4. nostalgia/fanservice. IMO, no game should need to come with a warning label like it's a pack of cigarettes. I'd also note there are plenty of games out there that add content without making people gamble for it.
love the content and attention to detail you put in this video.
I’ve been playing F/GO and DFFOO for years, hell since they dropped in JP, and the amount of time and strategy into those games that I have so much fun to this day lol so I hate when gachas get a bad rep for being bad :p
As a gacha player myself I have to say that I love how well you know when to do be serious and when to joke around, I 100% have enjoyed each gacha related vid you have released. Love the work behind them
waiting for Japan 2: Electric Boogaloo
I feel like MTG Arena does a good job with making the game playable without paying money. Just completing daily quests for the first few days of playing gets you a crap ton of theme decks, some of which being very strong if modified slightly. Also, wildcards can be used to craft any card of the same rarity from any set (except special event exclusives.) I was able to rack up mythic wildcards just from playing for 2 hours a week and enjoy what I did. But MTG is a whole nother type of gambling that has its share of addicts. Collecting the real cards is insanely expensive, especially ones that are good in game.
The way you showed Ayakashi Ghost Guild for some seconds made my heart hurt a bit, I kinda still miss that game (along with things like Devil Maker Tokyo and Terra Battle)
"Welcome to part 2, mobile game sponsors-" _gets interrupted by mobile game ad_
*YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE!*
Skylanders was one of the most innovative gachas ever. It's got the basics:
- Gambling(stores restocking) with commons, rares, xtra rares and really xtra rare (that goddam drill-doser was nonexistent)
- "wiafus" and "hosbundos"
- Starter units that were always kinda shit encouraging you to get more
- Restricting some units to specific s̶e̶r̶v̶e̶r̶s stores
- Limited time units (pumpkin eyebrawl)
- lazy reskins of units you already have (look, ninjini BUt ReD)
- Gradual powercreep (they'd update every character almost every game with better skills)
- New random mechanics that hardly make sense (Skylanders: frankenstein's monstrosity-force)
- Crossover characters when the franchise, and genre, is starting to rot in stagnation and oversaturation
- Goes under when a new story arc was about to begin
BUT it also has:
- Physical figures you can roleplay with
- Kickstarted a new genre with the fastest halve life i've seen in anything
- Every character has a lazy eye
- your siblings can break them with ease
- They can sunbleach sometimes
- you can grill the ones you hate
I think I've realized where the source of my gambling addiction came from
The Feh Pass or what some players call it the "Eh, pass."
I know that Bandori is definitely and Idol Gacha Game and I have spent money in it, but I love playing the rhythm game aspect too. It’s fun as hell.
In the past seven years ive spent well over twelve thousand dollars on dbz dokkan battle and only recently realized that i have a serious gambling issue. Ive been able to partly justify it because of my intense passion for dragon ball and the satisfaction of building my character box but the inevitability that one day the servers will be shut down and all that will be lost has become my main source of existential anxiety and it is absolutley terrifying
Yakko : "I fear for my sanity"
Me as an Arknights player that literally use sanity as energy.
"First time?":v
Yeah I thought of the same thing.
tl dr, gacha games sucks, friends are the only thing that made people keep playing these games.
if you're playing gacha games and feel like your wasting time, well it's because you are wasting your time.
and when you feel fomo. ask yourself, "what am i missing out?", your missing out on nothing
pls if you're addicted to gacha games and you paid on those games. pls quit the faster you quit the better your life will be.
ask yourself "what benefit will i get if i quit these gacha games?"
for me as an example: more time, no preassure from limited predatory events/banner, and so much more that you can't think as of yet.
addiction is addiction, pls love yourself and quit these predatory games.
Cry
After having lived long enough to make and lose and make new and lose even more friends irl, I'm very opposed to the idea of developing bonds with people I will probably never meet. Not that I think it's a bad thing, I'm just... Very hesitant, myself. But I would love to be convinced otherwise.
What are you talking about King?
I play a metric ton of Epic Seven and have since global launch(and am baby whale/adult dolphin level spender) and I fully agree with everything here. Microtransactions are pretty predatory and the majority of games are almost downright evil with it. I spend because its what I enjoy and while it may not be the smartest thing, as long as I know my limits it's ok, because I'm getting the enjoyment that I wanted from it. Would I recommend at all what i do? Hell nah, stay f2p as much as ever possible. Great video as usual yakko
This sentence"i own a Soundtrack of a mobile game on cd" was cursed as hell
i love fire emblem heroes but jesus christ feh pass is the worst thing i’ve seen in a while
Same, unless they come out with some crazy Resplendent hero that I absolutely love, I will continue to be a F2P player.
My dumbass has been fucking paying for it since the beginning. I NEED THE PNGS
@@ExMagz you don't.
@@Zorooooooooooooooooooooooooooo you don't understand quite how retarded I sm
I played union cross when it first came out and was part of a group called Kaiju. It was probably the best time I've played a mobile game. It was competitive and our team ranked first or at least top 10 consistently and even came up with a raid boss method where even lower level members could lux farm. We even had a person from an opposing team join ours to "infiltrate" and shared our method and optimized it and overtook us. It was the best experience and no other game has come close to that for me. I eventually quit because of the micro transactions and it was getting too much and eventually the original people on my team all left so it wasn't the same and P2W got so unbalanced. I miss it...
The problem with gacha games is how stressful and boring it becomes with time, it's not like you can sit on your couch the weekend and end a game, like prey or mirror's edge, gacha games NEVER ends, they just release a small story chapters and some characters with ridiculous high prices. In my case my gacha game was Honkai impact 3rd, and Boy, after 3 years playing it non stop (and nothing else) i spent around 2000 bucks. had fun? Yes, would do it again? NO. It's a dumb investment, since the characters and weapons you unlock becomes irrelevant after 3 patches. It's better to buy a Xbox X/ps5 and enjoy real games.
I played a lot of Unison League with my girlfriend for about 3 years now, on and off of course, and I met a lot of friends in a guild and had a lot of warm adventures with them. There’s pay to win elements, but honestly none of the progressing stuff ever mattered. It really is the memories you make with people. If I miss a person I know exclusively by their avatar at times, that’s a big feeling.
The point about gacha games ending at the end of this video hits a lot harder with Dragalia's EOS being announced today. Especially since I got into it because of this video. God, i'm still sad.
"$1170 on LoL" he shows, whilst I chuckle in despair at the somehow $3010 I've somehow spent without realizing it.
I clicked this video while event farming in FGO
Sadly same, and there's two good events in both servers!
Same.
At least managed to get Chokita
Ryouma or Hokusai?
Same. :))) My Summer Musashi says Hi!
...same, i feel like this is a problem
19:12 And thus was my first heartbreak when I learned M.O.E was shut down 4 months after deciding to get it again after getting a new phone..... Gatcha games are brutal not only in-game but in real life too :
theyre called gatcha games because when you lose money to gambling they play it out like a prank and say "gotcha!"
ill see myself out
Genshin is the first and only gacha I play and it's nice because it doesn't give much incentive to pay and it actually encourages you to play very little. It gives you a big empty world full of goblins and slimes to kill so there's no reason to pay or care to maximize your characters because there's nothing to do with them.
Yakko, your video on gacha games has gotten me addicted to even more of them. Help.
Total agreement. I now only play a maximum of one gacha at a time. It's been Azur Lane for over a year now and I haven't felt pressured to pay once. I still did but it's not the games fault that I need to marry every character. Yostar stayed pretty true to their free to play design in Arknight so I have high hopes for them in this sea of games that actively rob you.
Nearly choked on my laugh when you said "Taking the world by storm deez nuts!" haha
Gachas are exactly why I’ve almost quit Puzzle And Dragons.
Such a fun game, but you need rare monsters in order to be good.
In order for the rare monsters, you need to wait until the events that have them such as Godfest.
In order for that, you need 5-10 magic stones to pull.
There’s a monster where matching some heal orbs just deals damage to the monster anyway!
When you don’t have the rare monsters everyone else has and refuse to spend money (like me) everything you can do is either too easy, too hard, or you have to wait for fun events. And even then once you’re finished, it’s like “now what?”
They’re quite generous, but only in anniversaries, events, or if you log in for enough days.
Another thing is that there’s no way for the game to recommend a team, or make one for you. You have to try to make one, or ask people on social media.
It’s why I’m having so much more fun playing Pokemon Shuffle, you unlock Pokemon as you go, and you’re not forced to pay money. Also, they force you to give you a break when you run out of stamina, so they aren’t trying to exploit you. The Pokemon are likable because you fight with them and have appeal.
Puzzle and Dragons doesn’t have this, only some monsters have stories. Also, most “monsters” are just girls. The only good thing I’d say is you’re not forced to “grind” because they give you lots of EXP monsters.
Don’t worry, I hate battle passes in other games too
Dragalia Lost is currently one of my favorite gacha games, despite me not liking most action-based combat. My favorite gacha game that I wish more people knew of though, is Another Eden. Its art is GORGEOUS, and its writer and composer worked on Chrono Trigger. With that knowledge alone you KNOW its story and music are gonna be good (seriously. holy shit. the soundtrack? it is ILLEGALLY good for a mobile game, it even puts Dragalia Lost to shame). The story involves jumping between the past, present, and future, and there is a LOT of story. As in, about 50 main chapters in, when you've passed the massive climax, learn the exactly why the game is titled "Another Eden: The Cat Beyond Time and Space," reached the resolution, you think you've finished the story... and then you get slapped with "oh you dumbass, you thought that was the end? That was PART ONE, now here's the beginning of the Part 2. Enjoy this whole ass new CONTINENT to explore."
Gameplay-wise, t's turn-based combat, as you'd expect, but you walk through towns and maps, talk to people, find chests and items, the same way you would in a traditional RPG. There's mini-games (including a fishing mini-game that you can unlock after completing a specific questline, and uh. I have spent an extremely unreasonable number of hours fishing and doing nothing else, it is THAT addicting), side-quests from talking to NPCs in every new town you visit, and collab events that DON'T expire, ever, including a two-part Persona 5 Royal collab that gives you Joker, Mona, Violet, and Skull for free, they're REALLY good characters. This game is NOT lacking in content. Aside from the main story and collabs, there's a series of special event questlines called Episodes, just as permanent as the collabs, and they continually add new Episodes.
Now the main draw of gacha games: the characters. Every single character you can summon has their own backstory, their own place in the world, their own relationships with other characters. Each summonable character has a set of their own Character Quests you unlock by leveling that character up to the appropriate level threshold (level 5, then 30, then 50). Their Character Quests really flesh them out, and aside from granting easy quest rewards, are the only way to level up their Valor Chant, which is each character's unique ability activated when switching in from the backlines. So to get your characters the strongest they can be, you are very strongly encouraged to complete their Character Quests and learn more about them in the process.
tldr Another Eden is a really, REALLY good gacha game that feels more like a console game with gacha elements than a typical gacha game, please PLEASE try it out, thanks for reading my essay on gushing about Another Eden GO PLAY IT
I'm here from the Dragalia Lost subReddit. I love DL. I love hearing people speak fondly about it. I've been fortunate enough to only spend (a truly irresponsible amount of) time on it.
I actually quit Marvel Contest of Champions over a year ago because I was playing it so much that it was negatively impacting my job and marriage.
Now my wife and I play Dragalia together and we're mostly reasonable about it.
I liked this vid. New sub acquired! (Sorry, I'm just a 3 star. I'm not even meta. You should probably roll again. )
Really can't wait until Fire Agito comes out so the water Spirals can be released and the king Xander can return
I myself awaits the arrival of Lily's Mana Spiral upgrade
100% agree with Fire Emblem. I love a lot about the game, and I still play it, and they even made me dip into the FEH Pass for a single month, but I absolutely despise that they decided it was a good idea to lock quality of life features behind a paywall.
"If a gacha game shuts down, there is no remnant of progress" I felt that with heavenstrike rivals 2, which was the first gacha game I really got invested in. I only played the game for like 4-5 months, but about a year ago, I wanted to check in on it again, just to see how the game has evolved after all this time, and maybe spend a few weeks trying it out again, only to find out that the game no longer has active servers. That genuinely made me a little sad, the game was really fun, and its weird to me that, unlike most other games I like and have liked, there is no way for anyone to experience it ever again.
I've playing gacha games at almost 6 years and what I have to say is: be a free to play for at least 6 months, a good gacha game can keep you playing whitout spending money, you dont have to "need" spending money, you spend money because you want do something for yourself and have -more- fun with it
So just have fun, on your
own way
real words of wisdom!
4:37 *laughs in Arknights events* I did. I got something from the experience.
Tanky enemies that hit range units are the ultimate evil and should be exterminated with all might.
Forget the 3 star result, I want the fuckers down.
Downing my whole squad to the point where every unit was on cooldown. Some of these ones were E2! How did you knock THEM out?!
...maybe I should've just used more than 2 casters. And...you know...learn to strategize. Still love the events.
My experience level with gacha games comes from only one, very simple looking game known as FitnessRPG, you literally make progress by walking, that's all it was, but it also had all those microtransactions you'd expect from gacha games (except not as outrageous). to be honest, I thought it was kinda fun, despite forcing myself to break my legs to get them sweet sweet level ups for my characters by reaching 10k (mostly) or 20k steps (because of guild reasons) only to have my ass kicked in the PvP section because I'm still a little far behind, after about 6 months straight of walking every single fucking day, I just stopped, I don't walk anymore, I'm bored of it lmao. However, I didn't make any friends along the way like Yakko did here, there was no chat system, so it was the loneliest grind you could ever attempt. 10/10 I hate my legs for working correctly.
You gave FGO 15 seconds of footage, but you did so with Heracles and Edmond. Take my Like and appreciation
4:50 me all the time in cookie run, even in my own guild i get bullied
Was waiting for Yakko to talk abt Love Nikki: Dress Up Queen but then i remembered nobody cares abt it but me skfhdkfjdjdj
sdorica battle theme really takes me back, that game is my first gacha game I really love the artwork and ost
Yes, I do love Rayark games and really enjoy playing them, including Sdorica.
They have good art style in general and always have the best soundtrack.
But I rarely play mobile games at all, maybe once in 3-4 weeks or so, when I have nothing to do and I'm not near my PC.
I tried other mobile games too but they didn't catch my attention for a long.
In the first part, your journey of deleting so many mobile games was just like mine, now I only have 4 games on my phone, but the one I play more than the others is Exos now. It has such high quality in everything that even though it does scream at you to pay to win, there's so much content that you could catch up in no time. It's like Dragalia, but I was here Day 1.
*And imo it's better than Dragalia fight me*
I played lots of gacha games, but I always stop playing about a month in, except one. I played Granblue Fantasy for 4 years now, since they added the English translation. And in these 4 years I spent around $3000 in it. And the weirdest thing is that I feel worse when I buy a game that I don't like and stop playing halfway than when I think about this.
I consider it an MMO of sorts, and I made friends around this game, so I don't regret anything.
Now give me a second, they added a suptix and I need to buy it, brb.
This video is brilliant. You've done your research, actually played the games and did an AMAZING job of showing people both the positives and negatives of GACHA Games. I feel like as long as you know what you're signing up for when you get into these types of games (and if you do go down the rabbit hole of paying for content), as long as you do so responsibly you can have a lot of fun with them and that they do have a place ( if done well) in the gaming community as it shifts to this micro-transaction style of content. Play GACHA Responsibly people.
Fuck that, don't settle for microtransaction crap.
Yeah, i only got really into one gacha. Disney heroes: Battle mode. And i will always remember it. I thoroughly enjoyed it for a long while, I only made one purchase in that game and yet i was in a top 10 guild for a while. But they just kept upping the level cap so i managed to stop once i realised i would have to pay more to catch up. I was constantly just below the curve despite dedicating hours every day to keep up. Now, the reason i will remember it is just the community. The people i found there in the earlier days were hilarious and i would come back to chat with them rather than play half the time.
Thanks Genshin Impact for putting this in my recommended
There's a really good gacha game called battle cats, I've been playing it for about a year. Have you seen it?
Hell Yeah for Battle Cats!
hell yeah bro
This was a fantastic video, great work.
May I add that I actually enjoyed some storylines of mobile games?
I remember playing Brave Frontier for more than a straight year and didnt even have to spend a single dime on the game because I was more interested in the main storyline progression than the actual units, and even then, the unit lore tied in pretty well with the main storyline lore, and we can see what actually happened behind the scenes and get a lot of background between the gods and see just how petty they really were, and how worse the actual humans could be in Grand Gaia, all from reading unit lore and descriptions. And even then, there are relatively easy quests to clear all for background storylines to connect all the dots.
Only spent money once because Hakuzo looked way too cool to pass up.
Being a F2P in Brave Frontier actually isnt that bad
Man, and dont even get me started on FGO's storyline.
The ending of the main arc got me teary eyed, ngl.
2:08 I see mike and I immediately know this will somehow make me laugh...
...God damn it, it was such a simple meme and it got me. I'm so mad XD.
Ironically, a mid roll ad for Raid Shadow Legends played right as he finished flaming Raid
Just because pc games have their own version of gacha (lootboxes) doesn't mean it's okay. It's literally gambling, regardless of the platform.
Nice but I'm still waiting on a rant about the best summoning animations.
"A sense of child like wonder"
Yay! He said it!! 🎉🍥🎉
If it makes you feel any better, Amiibos have far more value than anything in any Gacha Game, because the Amiibos are transferrable. You can later sell them for what you paid, if not a profit, if things get dire, etc.
18:48 I think that point doesnt justify gatcha. Nintendo games like animal crossing get free updates and support through internet. they dont preventing users progression if they dont spent more $$$$$$ in the game.
Botw made me realize (again) how much I missed GOOD games.
Just like with The Meth Project there needs to be PSAs for Gacha Games with the tag line "This is not normal...but when addicted to Gacha Games...it is" or something like that
I only play one gacha game and that’s the battle cats honestly (from what I’ve seen) one of the most underrated ones.
Ah, Battle Cats; one of the only good gacha games
Praying to RNGesus for SSR ships in Azur lane and this pops in my sub feed. Perfect timing
Time to grind for Richie
I really wish Dragalia Lost got the love it deserves. The devs are making it as accessible as possible to F2P and Newbies to learn the game and rewards Veterans or Endgame players to help the newbies by rewarding them. And I agree, 2-Part banners can suck a fat one but the devs need to make money somehow (but the collab characters are always below meta after a month or two. They're just there for collection. Being off-meta is completely viable with a coordinated team anyway). Also I want Yakko on my goddanm friend list: ID: 2276 6521 391. Anyone can add me, I hope Ellysane helps you.
well, there is marth, he's legit the best flame unit but I agree, DL does need more attention, it's a very well made game for a mobile gacha game.
FEH collab: Hold my beer
Dear gosh, Draglia Lost is by far the most fair gacha I played. The game always gives gems to pull for.
Yeah peony is the best light unit dps wise and chrom is third place in flame i believe tiki sucks balls tho
@@lunasperidot8760 Peony is only a buff wh*re bc people use it for that purpose, she isn't a must-have. Chrom is a simple delete-button for fire but still, not a must-have. Tiki is fine, she's only used for her dragon form and tanking stuff, she isnt game breaking or op compared to others. None of the collab characters are a must in current content. You can use whoever u want on any type of content with a coordinated team.
Unchained X is pronounced as Unchained Key because the X is the Greek letter Chi and they didn't realize it's not pronounced as key.
i have a coherent reason why i hate those free to play games that filled with microtransaction to the brim:
They halts Mobile Gaming potential. when you can play star wars kotor, GTA san andreas, Bully, on your phone, you know that they can handle PS2-wii class game WELL. imagine, if developers are incentified to make AAA experience on phone, imagine that. i'm sure phone nowadays can handle nintendo switch games, I'M SURE. can you imagine ? Zelda BOTW on your phone ? or heck, even skyrim or witcher 3 on the go. man. THE WASTED POTENTIAL MADE ME FURIOUS.
I play Genshin, Super Mecha Champions, and Punishing: Gray Raven. I only play gacha's that are also fun to play, and I have a hard rule that I won't pay more money in any free game than I would have payed to buy it. So I've been able to have a pretty good time playing gachas without going broke. I still think it's shitty how games prey on people's psychology, but for people who are naturally resistant to advertising and addiction these games can be really fun
dude you spit so much truth,and about your morale of this video,is verry true...i made manny friend along this 4 years of playing gacha games