Note: Last Epoch is now at "Mostly Positive" Note 2: Cobra Kai was originally a KZread Premium show, not a Netflix show.

@gabelastnamechannel8718

3 ай бұрын

Would be more accurate to say *back* at mostly positive

@jeffferreira1321

3 ай бұрын

Steam reviews was a mistake. Most of them aren't even real reviews 😂

@pdpMASTERP

3 ай бұрын

Last Epoch is SO good. It just got review bombed for a week of server issues. OW2 servers were 100x worse at launch

@Sergey.Naumov

3 ай бұрын

15:49 - you said it was 150k at launch, then at next saturday this number got up to 230k... guess that was a very rought week for backend team

@4pigeons

3 ай бұрын

it was a review bomb, now the game is playable online. tbh i expected those problems so i played offline until the servers were more stable

"The amount of money you get streaming is barely enough to pay your expenses" This game is so realistic

@astrofeeder777

3 ай бұрын

cap emoji

These have become a great "wind down and relax" kind of thing for me.

@YourFavoriteSon1

3 ай бұрын

big ups 🙏

@jonathonparson7967

3 ай бұрын

Avalanche are you going to cover the ff7 remakes at any point?

@treasurehunter3369

3 ай бұрын

Ive caught a few z's to both of you

I think Karma's main issue is something a lot of games fall into, that being that while trying to convey a message, it forgot that inconveniencing the player doesn't necessarily always convey what they want. There's a different between smartly conveying something and still making it functionally annoying without being too much and just making it too overbearing and therefore...well, stressful, lol. And yea, I get the point is stress, but there's a point where it actively hampers the game design. Maybe more clarity in things like purchases etc would've fixed this.

@YourFavoriteSon1

3 ай бұрын

There's definitely a balancing act when trying to include more meaningful mechanics.

@libraryoflilylol199

3 ай бұрын

I was just thinking about that too. From what I've seen, it seems like there's an element (perhaps accidental) of inducing irl stress in the player too from the appearance, to the constant movement of edges, to the stress of trying to figure out how to move forward while not overloading on your stress levels. But it's missing an element of decreasing irl stress levels too. I'm not sure how they would manipulate the player's emotions in that way to match what they're trying to do with the mechanics, but I think if the player felt that balancing act between trying to reach your goals and trying not to overload yourself with stress in a direct way and not just as an "I can totally relate to this issue" type of way it would bring it into a genuinely good game.

18:47 That's a common tactic to sell your game on key reselling sites like G2A and other places. Because they sell game lootboxes where they guarantee the buyer "at least X games worth X dollars" to make it seem you're going to get at least one AAA game if you buy said lootbox. So instead of doing that they hit up indie devs with loose morals and offer to buy cheap review keys (every dev on Steam can generate a certain amount of keys they can hand out to reviewers/friends/backers). It's pretty disgusting.

@YourFavoriteSon1

3 ай бұрын

I wasn't aware of this, thanks for the information.

@kurdtcoben

3 ай бұрын

@@YourFavoriteSon1 Anytime hun

@TheaArtsFox

3 ай бұрын

always wondered why there were games so overpriced and after i found out that, i feeled even more sickened. because before I thought " Greedy devs specting fool people" but now is just nasty despicable strats...

@kurdtcoben

3 ай бұрын

@@TheaArtsFox Yea, it's just disgusting. What's even more annoying is when they are constantly on "sale" so they appear in the list of games on sale. Basically it's just the product version of spam. Really goes to show that there is absolutely ZERO quality control on Steam's store. But as long as Valve can still profit off it there won't be any changes.

@marushall263

7 күн бұрын

​@@kurdtcobencan tell you have no clue what youre talking about. Fyi steam offers a good return. So dont like the game refund it. Simple as that. But can tell youve been scammed a time or 2

Last Epoch - At the same time Last Epoch was having these issues, Helldivers 2 was having MASSIVE issues, with no offline way to play, and that game still has very positive reviews. I was on Last Epoch at launch, it was annoying, but it also was expected. It's like the game was full of newbies who hadn't experienced online game launches. Online games of any popularity always struggle with launch day server issues, it's very rare for them not to. The few to "solve" this have had 3-12 hour queues to wait to get in the game, which start all over when you disconnect or crash.

@imalittletoxicjustalittle

3 ай бұрын

then why are most the negative reviews about the game itself? from broken loot systems to insane bugs so i dont think that its that they are "noobs" they just expected a game that had a demo released 6 YEARS AGO to work on release silly them i guess! so now that the servers are fixed everyone has realised how bad the game is and the reviews reflect that oh and the game punishes you for doing more damage what a trash mechanic

@TheMoonPresence

2 ай бұрын

​@@imalittletoxicjustalittle wdym with being punished by doing more damage?

Streamer Simulator seems like it could be a Papers Please with some work lol.

@YourFavoriteSon1

3 ай бұрын

A lot of work haha

@kkrup5395

3 ай бұрын

Just because you pay rent?

@SaiScribbles

3 ай бұрын

@@kkrup5395 No more in the way the game just never gives you quite enough.

@setharoth114

3 ай бұрын

With just a little work, Forspoken seems like it really could be the next Elden Ring!

@SaiScribbles

3 ай бұрын

@@setharoth114 Now let's not be silly

Im assuming the reason Dark Astral is $60 is due to key reseller sites. Ive heard of stories where people buy random steam keys from 3rd party sites which include a high priced game which usually end up being garbage which was priced highly.

@Cman04092

2 ай бұрын

Welp, that's what happens when you f**k around with these scumbags. You find out that they're scumbags lol.

My son is doing lord work and making another banger video. Keep up the good work son and I might finally comeback in your life.

@YourFavoriteSon1

3 ай бұрын

maybe someday

Maybe after a certain number of good games in the midst of the worst reviewed game, like Last Epoch, you could revisit 5 or 10 of those gems to re-endorse them?

@YourFavoriteSon1

3 ай бұрын

That would probably be a good idea after getting maybe 10 or so. I can really only think of like 2 or 3 so far though.

Ever since I first came across this series of yours, I keep telling myself "pace yourself. just watch a game or two at a time." but I always end up binging the entire video because it's too fascinating and your voice is so soothing. And now that I've caught up I have to wait for a new one. It's like eating my favorite meal at a restaurant I barely go to. I love to have it when I can but I can never have enough 😭 Please never stop making these!! It's crazy that bad games can bring this much pleasure but you are a wizard at it!

@johnl3230

3 ай бұрын

Look up Wicked Wizard, he makes similar videos, he's hilarious as well.

I love how I found this series through KZread recommendations and every time a new vid comes up I'll get another rec. Thanks algorithm, I love these 😊

Why, son? Haven't your mother and I taught you that you shouldn't hurt yourself for attention? We're worried about your sanity, any more of these bad games and you might just... lose yourself. Just be careful... We love you.

@YourFavoriteSon1

3 ай бұрын

I can't stop

@dizzythakidd7350

3 ай бұрын

lol

I bet that spinning wheel is actually the end of the game There's nothing behind that. That's the whole point of Phobia

@mlpfimguy

3 ай бұрын

I'm wondering if the wheel speed is tied to the framerate or screen refresh rate

27:46 Woah... did you see that? I wish you'd shown more of that scene.

@wombleking

3 ай бұрын

I went back after this comment, now I've seen it. It really made me wonder if there's more hidden stuff in that game.

Son, if I could give you a relatively large wheel of cheese for this I would

@YourFavoriteSon1

3 ай бұрын

Havarti please

This series has become a favorite of mine, and it’s always a very nice surprise to see a new entry pop up in my sub box! Thanks for the meal! 🙏

@YourFavoriteSon1

3 ай бұрын

Hope you enjoy the video!

Found this channel by accident and it was exactly the kind of content I was looking for! Playing bad games is so entertaining to watch for some reason. Keep playing bad games and I'll watch it! Thanks! Nice video!

Visual design of the second game increased my stress more than any amount of programming ever did

It's incredibly generous of you to say "You'll why that price is egregious in a minute" when $60 is NOT what this game is worth based on the style of animation, and the graphics alone. A seasoned game dev, bad or not, should absolutely have better graphics. Like wtf.

This is such a good series. Really enjoy it.

Galactic Bowling reminds me of those game discs you'd get at Walmart that would say like 2000+ games or something. Those always sounded cool to me until I got one and realized that like 99% of them sucked.

Using these videos to help remind me I'm doing a good job as a solo dev, so thank you. I can program in peace.

Shame about Fobia. It really does look like it could become something nice.

@YourFavoriteSon1

3 ай бұрын

I was really hoping that it at least wouldn't be broken

@joe--cool

3 ай бұрын

Only the spiky bits of the wheel are supposed to kill you. You can bunny hop on the flat sides of it.

@flusendieb6833

3 ай бұрын

@@joe--cool I suspected as much and watched someone elses gameplay, and comparing it to this, in the other person's gameplay the wheel moves far slower, so it's actually possible to do that. Looks to me like with the wheel turning as fast as it does here, it's impossible to jump correctly, because the character moves so slowly

@TheLetterJ0

3 ай бұрын

@@flusendieb6833 I wonder if the wheel's speed is tied to the game's framerate or something like that. I know that happens a ton when people try to play old games on modern systems, but I can imagine an indie dev making a mistake like that too.

Love hearing the Deadly Premonition theme in the background 🔥

Clicking on this video has fucked my youtube algorithm for 3 weeks.

@gone5821

3 ай бұрын

Been there

IDK if I misunderstood that part about the bowling game. In the 2000 we already had a huge gaming market on PC. The era you are talking about was in the early- to mid-nineties. Are you saying that the game was from that period (because that can't be) or are you saying it is a game that would have worked in that time period?

@Molecutter

Ай бұрын

Yeah that was a weird premise. The PC game market was already huge, it just wasn't on online storefronts like Steam. You could go to any major store and find tons of great games on CD. Maybe he's just too young to know this.

I'm wondering if the wheel's speed in Fobia is tied to the framerate or screen refresh rate

Maybe im tripping but i think streamer simulator ripped assets from Crypto Miner Tycoon Simulator. Either that or its the same engine Edit: im pretty sure they made a room in that game then screenshot it, put some bubbles over it, and called it a day.

It took some time for me to understand that it was "MMA" not "anime" and I was very confused that you watch and practice Anime. Also I thought "what a weird pronounciation of anime"

@YourFavoriteSon1

3 ай бұрын

I'm an anime practitioner

My favorite son, I've seen the house of "The Visitor" at least half a dozen times in indie horror games and yes, indeed, all or at least most of these assets aren't hand-made.

When you said "The Visitor", I thought you meant the flash game with that title. It's a point and click adventure game where you play as a space alien that eats everything and can mutate on the principle- "You are what you eat".

The existence of Cobra Kai kinda baffles me. I thought we were past the era of shitty cashgrab games based on movies, TV shows etc., that kind of stuff was such a cancer during the PS2 era and especially the Wii.

I love this, I want to see this series more often

@YourFavoriteSon1

3 ай бұрын

Luckily, there are no shortage of poorly reviewed games on Steam.

@mobildisko579

3 ай бұрын

@@YourFavoriteSon1 Actually, I am a game developer myself, watching these bad works relieves me, because even at my worst, I am much better than these and this reduces the excessive pressure and stress on me.

I heard galactic bowling and thought it was bowling with planets…I kinda want that now

For steamer simulator: There was/is a "KZreadr Simulator" flash game. It got around the problem of not getting much money at the start by: Letting you get a job. The game adding that would help a lot.

@YourFavoriteSon1

3 ай бұрын

I miss flash games

Great video idea. Subbed 😊😊

Hey, it's a few months late, but Fobia made me curious and I went and found some videos of people playing it. For the spiked wheel, you have to perfectly time your jumps and land on the non spiked parts. It looks like it may be close to frame perfect, which would explain why so many people had trouble with it.

4:37 Honestly thats the most realistic part. Feels like I'm playing it everyday

Great reviews as always ☘️

This has become one of my favorite series about PC video games.

I hate the current mindset around release games. So many people seem to expect a flawless game on release and if anything goes wrong they start parroting "scam", "dead game", and "just refund" like the bloody seaguls from finding nemo. (Just to clarify, if you want to refund and wait til it's more stable, that's fine. Just don't shout it from the hiltops and encourage others to do the same)

4:45 so, a realistic simulator of life as a millennial then

If you want to play two really good Tower Defense games with unique mechanics check out X-Morph: Defense and Rift Breaker. Very addicting and with Couch Coop. Nice Video again.

@YourFavoriteSon1

3 ай бұрын

Will check these out, thanks!

Son we love you. This doesn’t have to keep happening!

I'm glad you said what you did about Last Epoch. I'm enjoying it so far, even if i don't really know what I'm doing.

i love the way you talk about the positive and negative things about the game, also huge props for the Tekken ost, as a fan of Tekken i loved it

0:19 - Hey son. Josh "Tera Killer" Hayes called. He wants his catchphrase back.

This video series is comfort food for my mind. Yum yum yum.

As always, I'm proud of you, son.

“Sounds like you and the word ‘epoch’ have a lot of catching up to do”

So far im only half way through the Streamer simulator portion, but I have to say, ìf all that your describing is intentional, thats kind of genius commentary on the idea of Streaming as a whole.

0:57 - Anything for you, son. You're my favorite one after all!

1:55 had me dying lmao

18:18 God, $60?!? Sounds like a joke/scam 😅😅

well for the first game you could have just search a way to find who uploaded the game as it is stored in some sites. (seen it in other channel)

Do I hear P4 OST - Heartbeat, heartbreak in the background? Already hit like immediately

@YourFavoriteSon1

3 ай бұрын

Of course

the visitor is just that one Garfield show episode

I feel like Karma is missing a more irl interactive element to drive its point as well. Elements that would increase and decrease USER stress as well. Not just as a game mechanic, but as something that the user would feel in their body as a result of interacting with the game. If they could have figured out how to manipulate user emotions that way, I think that could have been super interesting. As it is, the game JUST looks like it has increasing user irl stress levels down pretty well though. It needs elements that decrease stress of the user too.

I played through Fobia two years ago on the Switch. That wheel you couldn't get past was going way faster for you than it was for me. There is no way you could have made the timing with those mechanics with it going that fast. And don't fret about not beating it, it doesn't get all that much better if at all.

If you'd still like to play a tower defense game that's good, I can recommend "Crystal Guardians". It's currently a free "Prologue" version of the game and is slated to come out soon. Some interesting systems, quite fun.

thanks son, you made my day

13:16 Yes that does sound like a great game mechanic/system! 😊

I saw LE in the thumbnail and was about to Deus Vult but its literally because of the reviews eviscerating the server issues that have been fixed by now lol.

@YourFavoriteSon1

3 ай бұрын

I've played it far too much since launch haha

Niko! Its Roman, lets go galactic bowling

It looks like The Visitor does have pre-made assets... The game Ghost Watcher on Steam has the same exact house.

I've never heard of Last Epoch. It actually looks like a lot of fun. I'm gonna check it out as soon as I'm done with FF7

Was really surprised to see last epoch on the list! Didn't realize it had been reviewed so poorly. I picked it up the week before release and have since logged ~200 hours in it. It's been a perfectly fun time, but I guess people just got really mad about all the release bugs and server issues. I've had no major issues since like the 1.1 patch. Certainly no crashes like at release.

Steam page currently shows "Mostly Positive" for Last Epoch

if u have time try the first cobra kai game : cobra kai the karate kid saga continues , actually brougth me back to old style scrolling beat 'em up and actually had really fun going trought it , second one was meh fun dialogue tho if u are in to the series

Bro baited us all with the thumbnail of LE. We all know LE is great

Great video, but 1 small correction. 23:05 Cobra Kai is a KZread Premium show, not a Netflix show.

@YourFavoriteSon1

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the correction. Somehow I thought it was Netflix haha, will add to the pinned comment.

While I agree that Last Epoch wouldn't deserve a bad review, steam reviews are more "Do you recommend others to buy it?". It's not necessarily a quality rating, atleast that is what the review feature says but I think people mostly use it as a thumbs up or down system anyway. Anyways, great video! Keep it up :)

16:50 Yes, yes it does. As long as the game or product doesn't work, customers are eintitled to say so. It deserve the rating, so other people don't buy it and maybe wait until the issues are fixed, so those customers can have a better experience.

GameMill almost feels like a modern incarnation of LJN.

THE MENTION OF CUBEWORLD HAD ME SENT. I still love cube world, Just hate what happened and the lack of what happened.

I can't be sure but looks like the visitor is using a less detailed house from Resident Evil 7.

Mmm want to try last Enoch. Think i hate about most arpgs is that i do more reading on the game systems and build than I do playing the game

@YourFavoriteSon1

3 ай бұрын

I think Last Epoch fixes a lot of that. That's the main appeal of the game is that you don't really need to do a ton of research just to be good at the game. With that being said, there's still a ton of variety in builds. It's great.

to be fair to developers (especially solo devs) making models is extremely time consuming so as a solo game dev myself i really don't mind games "ripping" models from the asset store.

Dark Astral puts the Ug in Ugly.

Project Z: The beginning of the end. Chapter I is one of those titles that somehow is very forgettable.

Stylized games are generally better then picture realism crap. Then you get the boring blobs from 07 onwards

How about playing The Legend of Candlewind: Nights & Candles with 3% positive reviews? ;)

Last Epoch is really good. The story could be told better, especially from a world building perspective, but the game itself is really fun. I only play it in offline mode, so server issues don't affect me. (It's so nice to have a game with an offline mode in these days.)

Project Z reminds me of 10 miles to safety. It really looks like they stole all the assets from that game and somehow made it worse lol

Enjoyed your comments on Last Epoch, and agreed with all of them. Good work being balanced regarding the 1.0 launch.

I saw Fobia and believed it was St Dfina Hotel at first which would have been blasphemy as it’s fantastic. Luckily it was something else entirely

Some constructive criticism; don't use music with lyrics in your background. It was extremely distracting, and I know the volume was really low, some of us just have sensory issues. There are instrumental versions of heartbreak you can use instead! Because the song choice is excellent!

@YourFavoriteSon1

3 ай бұрын

Hey there, thanks for the feedback. Never really thought of this before, so I'll adjust it moving forward.

Typical of the gaming community at large to actually put their foot down on legitimately small indie team making a fun ARPG like Last Epoch but give Blizzard multiple passes. I say this as someone who pre-ordered Diablo 3 so its also my fault.

Dang that Streamer game has the most inconsistent game assets across the game..nothing matches

last epoch looks genuinely amazing, i am putting it on my wish list right now

I enjoyed the cube world reference

you know what sucks? Im the son that is not the favorite. My family went out to get pinkberry and left me in the bathroom. Well its been ten years and im now assistant nightmanager of the lowest rated pinkberry in the tri city area.

The first one is golden for the names alone

30:21 I want candy. Bubble gum and Taffy.

I LOLed when I saw Llast Epoch on there

I played Fobia on the Switch and I reached the end.

@YourFavoriteSon1

3 ай бұрын

I didn't even realize it was on switch lol

@zachwathen9689

3 ай бұрын

How do you get past the wheel? Would you recommend it?

@maneko1408

3 ай бұрын

@@zachwathen9689 I can't really remember, but I'm pretty sure, only the spikes should hurt. It wasn't that hard and I'm not very good at Jump'n'runs. And I liked it. It's not very long but I bought it on sale. Later there is also an enemy, a shadow version of themselves. That was kinda hard. So yeah I'd recommend.

Son, I am disappointed in you putting Nick All-Star Brawl with Rise of Kong and Nerf. Despite it's flaws, its better than those two games. I should cut your allowance by 50¢ for that.

Ah son.. You make me proud!

Last Epoch (pronounced eh-puck or epic) is now rated as Mostly Positive