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@JulesNekro

Жыл бұрын

Ew

@Jpcraque

Жыл бұрын

Have to love the "big bucks" from Steelseries am i right?!

@MintBerryCrunch

Жыл бұрын

You can’t say the characters are not true to their comics then say captain marvel is the strongest and should be… she was weak in the comics and was only turned into a Mary Sue in the movie for political reasons…now I wonder if you only know the characters based on the movies or if you actually read a comic before and based your idea of the characters on that

@Battleneter

Жыл бұрын

eeeeeew you run a PC on a TV, disgusting!

@MintBerryCrunch

Жыл бұрын

You claim to have collected the comics then you would know captain marvel was one shot by thanos and even in binary mode has limits that leave her weaker than Thor or hulk or even Iran man… just can’t get over your comments about her that she should be powerful

Imagine if this game would have taken place at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters with NON-A-LIST superheros. That alone would have at least given context for the weird relationship situation and timid personalities.

@SkillUp

Жыл бұрын

Actually had the exact same thought while playing. That would have totally worked imo

@heromjh

Жыл бұрын

great idea for a game tbh

@bradhaines3142

Жыл бұрын

deadpool a b list?

@amunago080

Жыл бұрын

Should of used payer created characters, go with the tried and true xcom route with a marvel skin.

@playahsan

Жыл бұрын

It doesn't even need to be about X-men, you can just have a game about the young heroes, period. So New Mutants, Young X-Men, Young Avengers, Runaways, Champions, Power Pack etc.The story could be something about an evil entity that corrupts adults, hence why the villains are actually core heroes and the theme of the game is "new generation has to step up and save the old gen from themselves". And all of a sudden all the friendship missions seem way more plausible.

Man, it hurts to hear that basically half of the game was an enormous waste of development time. I'm looking forward to getting this for half price.

@AlexClementTV

Жыл бұрын

Oh yes very much agreed with you there Fat. Half of it being good means it's only worth it at half price at the least.

@bigelowjames

Жыл бұрын

Bingo

@Army1601

Жыл бұрын

It would make Thanos happy

@XProjectHunterX

Жыл бұрын

Ya the price tag is a big turn off for me. $70 for this isn't worth it and that's not even counting the fact that the last gen versions were delayed indefinitely so God knows what kind of state those are in.

@razvanzamfir1545

Жыл бұрын

You mean you don't like to have a 60hrs game instead of a 30hrs game without any extra enjoyment?!

Ralph's telling of the book club saga was absolute comedy gold.

I want shillup to do a whole breakdown of all of the relationships in the game. Especially with the same tone that he described Blade with.

@lfemomo77

Жыл бұрын

Or have Internet Historian cover it all on his Storymode channel

@soaringspoon

Жыл бұрын

@@lfemomo77 After the Blade bit it actually sounds like something for Storymode. The blade bit could absolutely see Zuck and friends explaining it to us lol. Fingers crossed!

@tillist1

Жыл бұрын

100% it made me excited for the story some how lol.

@Siao222

Жыл бұрын

Yes please. I was laughing so hard in the middle of the night my wife had to shut me up.

@Thedownliner2015

Жыл бұрын

Shillup is becoming an apt name for him.

It's fascinating to me, because it really seems like they were trying to "humanize" the characters and make them seem more "down-to-earth" with the hang-out sessions. The thing is, it will always feel like high-school if they don't mix some genuinely adult experience into the mix as part of the humanization. I could imagine a version of Blade who is a hardened badass in every facet of life, but struggles with past grief (Blade commonly is a character consumed by grief for fallen allies/love interests). I could see a game where you slowly get Blade to open up about his grief and lost loved ones, and hints about how he might have caught feelings for another hero, but feeling like it may be betraying his lost loved one, whether it's someone who died or was turned (such as Glory), or having a hard time being vulnerable in that way you must be in a romantic relationship again after what has happened to him the last time he let himself love. It's tropey and not particularly ground-breaking or deep, but it's something; this high-school nonsense just sounds infuriating.

@yordaman17

Жыл бұрын

how about killing monsters during missions, is that not adult enough? or are you talking about going to a strip bar or having an orgy?

@iancruz6617

Жыл бұрын

Also blade in the first film after launching stab pin a vampire to the wall he does a weird smile fish bump.

@nickblomgren

Жыл бұрын

_"I could see a game where you slowly get Blade to open up about his grief and lost loved ones, and hints about how he might have caught feelings for another hero-"_ *"YOU'LL GET SUPER HERO BOOK CLUB AND YOU WILL LIKE IT!"*

@iomar90

Жыл бұрын

If it's the same writers they had for the nuXCOM games, the terrible writing isn't a surprise.

@kylele23

Жыл бұрын

@@yordaman17Wow you really did not read anything in the comment.

That book club high school drama was hilarious. It is almost so bad it's good territory. I imagine there will be some audience out there that is more than happy to go on a picnic with Wolverine, too. Reminds me a bit of Sonic Forces custom character for hardcore fans to insert their sonic fursona into the game and get told they are a badass by Sonic

@Dionyzos

Жыл бұрын

It looks like it's heavily inspired by the part of Mass Effect where you run around the Normandy getting to know the crew. It looks oddly interesting to me because I loved that shit.

@tofo7151

Жыл бұрын

This might be campy enough to be really entertaining

@brucevandermescht6957

Жыл бұрын

Yeah the audience you're referring to here is the "modern audience". For everyone else this is pure crap.

@FuzzyDlop

Жыл бұрын

@@brucevandermescht6957 Nope, this is objectively good and well written. Also necessary to the scope of the game. Been playing Midnight Suns for 2 days and the stories, characters and dialogues are well written and it's actually a pleasure to experience a Bioware-like structure for the first time since 2010.

@Kepesk

Жыл бұрын

This sounds hilarious to me.

The friendship thing is exactly the sort of thing fanfic writers want. This is gonna be a big hit amongst them.

@tovbyte

Жыл бұрын

Yeh lol that’s me😂😂😂

@brendanwilliamson4248

Жыл бұрын

Same here lol, that whole scenario between Blade and Steve sounds HILARIOUS 🤣

@Hugsloth

Жыл бұрын

for some reason mods think they are noble knights who can protect an adult game writer from being criticized and won't allow their names to be posted

@moojoy1920

Жыл бұрын

@@Hugsloth what are you talking about.

@RariettyC

Жыл бұрын

It's basically a high school AU you'd find easily on Archive of Our Own, except all the characters are said to be older than 18 (even if they're written like teenagers) so the writer is less likely to be called out if they include a self-insert who dates a bunch of the cast

Captain America being too shy to tell Blade he wants to be friends is the funniest thing I’ve seen come out of marvel

Commander, the aliens continue to make progress on the Avatar project. If we're going to slow them down, we need to move fast.-nico probably

22:15 To be fair, Robbie Reyes is exactly the same in the comics. He just sees himself as a kid from the hood who isn't in the same league as the rest of the Avengers, so this is actually accurate in the game.

@yordaman17

Жыл бұрын

no, in his "real life", he also has to act like someone who has a flaming skull for a head' half the time /s

@iancruz6617

Жыл бұрын

His not Johnny blaze ghost rider that already is a bad ass

@GhostRiderLSOV

Жыл бұрын

Johnny's a badass. Danny's a badass (whines more though). Robbie...eh...I don't know. He was a badass in the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. TV Series, which was a welcome surprise. Hell, I start to miss Alejandra, she was nuts, but no game ever used her, except as for an alternate skin and voice for Ghost Rider in Marvel Heroes.

@UFCWWE69

Жыл бұрын

I haven’t even heard of this guy up till now. What happened to Nicolas cage?

@ArseneGray

Жыл бұрын

thank you

The book club thing might have sold me on this game. Hilarious.

@matthewcarpenter7393

Жыл бұрын

Was gonna say the same 😂

@taylorstenhouse6168

27 күн бұрын

It’s such perfect characterization, for Steve especially. It’s a shame that the reviewers understanding of these characters is so bad that he actually uses that specifically as a negative

Your description of the book club sounds utterly hilarious. I'm legit looking forward to these interactions in a "I'm watching a train-wreck unfold" kind of way. Bird watching with Wolverine? Oh my goodness! It's almost as if Firaxis was like: "You've seen Tony Stark sacrifice himself to throw a nuke into outer space... now see him catch a large mouth bass!".

I’m a huge fan of fire emblem, but the slice of life relationship aspect of it is deceptively difficult, and I think part of why it works is that the characters are original to that story and developing them in those interactions is important, while here they can’t really change or develop much about characters everyone already knows.

@ExtraordinaryFate

Жыл бұрын

Fire Emblem struggles with it too. It wasn’t exactly fun to play tea party with students in Three Houses unless you loved that character.

@shadowjoey777

Жыл бұрын

@@ExtraordinaryFate Also to be fair, you can easily earn enough support with students who you don't like just by playing normally and have more than enough time to make your favorite units as busted as possible.

"You can still enjoy a game even if large parts of it suck" Welcome to the life of a JRPG fan

@jhsrpg

Жыл бұрын

Literally

@blackhammer5035

Жыл бұрын

I've played every Xeno game since Xenogears and cannot agree more. Xenoblade 2 left me a broken man.

@iancruz6617

Жыл бұрын

It's rpg.

@iancruz6617

Жыл бұрын

Jrpg reminds me why I hate this games when looking back at Gameboy games and I remember seeing recommended games and an jrpg show up they attack not even enemies move just shows a slice attack and that's it brings back why I hated it.

@WebstarGaming

Жыл бұрын

Yeah definitely not an jrpg

Honestly the Blade Captain Marvel Steve Rogers _thing_ sounds hilarious when you tell it, but that's probably because we experienced that middle school rollercoaster in the span of a minute or two whereas you probably had to get through half an hour of cutscenes with no sense of irony in order to tell us about it. Very entertaining review overall. I think I'll try to pick this up when it's on sale at a good discount.

@Yunglex313

Жыл бұрын

Feels more like a role for James Rhodes rather than Blade...cause Rhodey actually dated Carol Danvers...and all of them are former US Military. Blade I can see being yoga, but not telling a woman he's into her? That guy is Wesley Snipes energy codified, no way he has to work that hard for a date.

Like I said in the preview, games like this should have a REPLAY option after battle that plays out real time for viewing pleasure (optional of course)

Finally the Marvel X Sweet Valley High mashup we were all asking for.

@Juju-cm7ge

Жыл бұрын

😂

22:50 I lost it there 😂 it’s like someone on the development team inserted their own fanfiction.

@Xero_Kaiser

Жыл бұрын

The term "lol" gets thrown around a lot, but I legit busting out laughing at that part.

@Fachewachewa

Жыл бұрын

That's called writing

I was on the fence until I heard about the Captain America book club story arc. Now I'm all in.

I’m having a lot of fun here. I like the dialog and cutscenes too. It’s just like watching a Marvel movie. I really like all the characters. To be fair ive only played for 23 hours and I’ve done 3 story missions so i haven’t really seen the story play out. But I think it’s really good so far. Running around the Abby is fun and a good exploration feels like fable 1. But yeah running around the Abby grounds is pretty darn “no smooth”

I expected this after watching your impressions video, but the "recommend half of" in the title makes me laugh. Thanks for yet another thoughtful, in-depth review! I was really looking forward to this game and still think I'll personally enjoy it, but will wait for a sale.

@ShiningArmor

Жыл бұрын

If you were looking forward to it, you should still buy it. I hesitated after this review and I’m very glad I ended up ignoring him. I disagree with almost every negative point he makes.

The combat and animations look *amazing* but man its a huge bummer to hear about the RPG mechanics. Especially with a franchise that has so so much history and material on how to showcase that character. Either way, I'm still really looking forward to getting my hands on the game.

I fought it hard, but I finally burst out laughing when you got to Steve Rogers somehow being unable to tell Blade he wants to be friends.

The book club stuff actually sounds hilarious. I kinda want to see it through after your description

@tovbyte

Жыл бұрын

lol same

Is it weird that I kind of sold on the book club story? I mean I genuinely smile as I listen to Skill Up getting increasingly angry at the story, but I really want to know how the drama end!

@CJKhaos

Жыл бұрын

Same. Did Blade and Carol get together, does Cap make a Friend and will Logan discover a new favourite book

@Hugsloth

Жыл бұрын

It's a storyline that would work well in a "Teen Titans Go" style of Marvel cartoon or comic, where the intent IS to be a child-friendly version of the Avengers hanging out.

@MrGgabber

Жыл бұрын

@@CJKhaos I must know!

Appreciate you always bringing up the playability on Deck as well. :)

That Blade scenario you described sounds so awesome

I just read a review that completely praised the story as being authentic to the characters. I have no idea how they came to that conclusion based on what was shown here. But I trust Skillup because he's more than often right on the nose. And he provided actual examples.

@gellister

Жыл бұрын

If there is one thing that has been proven by things like phase four MCU or Zack Snyder's DC films, people have very different ideas what makes the essence of hero characters... And not all ideas have equal value.

@Hugsloth

Жыл бұрын

I feel like anyone who says these characters are 'authentic' to the comics, could probably be fed burgers made of grilled cardboard and not even notice.

@TheBigJame_

Жыл бұрын

Unless he’s talking about Lost Judgement

@metallicfingers

Жыл бұрын

@@Hugsloth nah thats a Wyoming delicacy 💯

@Crazetex

Жыл бұрын

people love to be Right about characters and violently "over-"analyze them while not really digging past the surface, leading to "oh i know that character trait" Eye-Spy. tumblr-ass writing is the epitome of this

Give them credit, the writing is going to fuel memes for years to come

@rottenborn2292

Жыл бұрын

X man destiny all over again.

@crazymachinima1

Жыл бұрын

Naah, everyone will forget about this game after 3 weeks.

@rottenborn2292

Жыл бұрын

@@crazymachinima1 Yk what’s funny. I actually did till your comment popped up.

"There are certain lines you don't cross and Marvel's Midnight Sons commits the cardinal sin of taking some of the most badass characters in the MCU and turning them all into fucking pussies" HOLY SHIT HE SAID IT

@iancruz6617

Жыл бұрын

Confuse because this is not even part of the mcu?!?!

@Joel-wx7zk

Жыл бұрын

@@iancruz6617 He meant the Marvel Universe as a whole, in no version will Blade, the guy who regularly goes to war with Vampires, be too afraid to ask a girl out or run a book club. He might be into yoga due to his acrobatics but that's about it.

@fkyfky0208

Жыл бұрын

Don't worry. The actual MCU already did that.

@iancruz6617

Жыл бұрын

@@Joel-wx7zk MCU he literally stand for Marvel Cinematic Universe. Not the actual Marvel comic universe. Plus I been seeing a lot of idiots mention phase 4 this and that and act like it's part of the mcu when idiots not everything is part of the mcu and that should be obvious

@Joel-wx7zk

Жыл бұрын

@@iancruz6617 And? Most general people don't really seperate the two, when they say MCU, they're refering to the entire Marvel universe.

all the compaints about the characters in the relationship parts are acutally comic accurate at times wolverine is a nice dude, if he likes you. that is basically captain marvel when she isnt being the worst character like in civil war 2, tbf robbie is a kid and he is basically that he is a honorary ghost rider so i can see him being like that

It feels weird he didn’t mention the whole other chunk of the game: exploring the Abbey. It’s not just the home base. There’s all these new areas in it where you’re uncovering mysteries about your character, the Caretaker and Agatha. It’s the most engaging story part of the game imo.

I think that the non-combat parts of this game could have been better if they had the characters fit their personality and threw in some of the of the wall stuff. Like imagine Blade actually being a badass, but then he tells you that he does yoga. It would add just enough humor to the super serious characters

It sounds like Firaxis was inspired by something like Fire Emblem Three Houses. Except, the issue is that Fire Emblem characters aren't usually already established entities. Plus, they are written with interesting personalities, due in no small part to permadeath. But you can't have, say Wolverine, be subject to that, because that wouldn't make sense with his powers.

@blackhammer5035

Жыл бұрын

Fire Emblem characters are also designed to be one-dimensional. That sounds bad, but remember: they're mostly built to be optional (they can die or simply not be recruited) as well as background to more important characters. Bernadetta needs to share the supporting cast role with like thirty other characters as well. So she has to be fairly simple from a design perspective. Meanwhile, Captain America and Wolverine are showing up with decades of character development in narratives where they are the main character. Now put that legacy in the hands of the people who thought "Indian Man Eats Curry" was character development. Yeah, that's the Firaxis writing team on Chimera Squad.

@CrocvsGator

Жыл бұрын

@@blackhammer5035 I mean, I'd say Bernadetta is pretty three dinensional compared to some of the other characters from other FE games. A lot of other FE games have way more than 30 characters though. Even still, I find Bernadetta pretty well developed compared to say Cyril or even Hubert.

@blackhammer5035

Жыл бұрын

Hubert's got some surprising depth to him, though it comes out in weird places. He's oddly friendly to Petra, for instance, and almost sympathetic to her situation as a political hostage. He's still probably the least interesting dark mage in the series, and one of the only ones where they never address his role as a dark mage (though to be fair, FE3H's freeform classes means nobody is guaranteed to be anything).

@CrocvsGator

Жыл бұрын

@@blackhammer5035 See, the thing is Blue Lions is my favorite route, so I'm kind of biased admittedly. And admittedly I find Bernadetta somewhat relatable due to my own social anxiety and....unpleasant events in the past we'll say. But I'm glad you brought up Dark Mages though, because it riles me up to no end that Tharja is used in crossovers as the Awakening Dark Mage rep when Henry is right there, and is way more entertaining as a character. Seriously, Tharja is in Tokyo Mirage Sessions, FE Warriors, and gets reincarnated as Rhajat in Fates. But Tharja is hot* while Henry I guess looks too much like default male Robin, which sucks because I am way more interested in Henry's brand of crazy than Tharja's. *according to a lot of people online, not me personally.

@CrocvsGator

Жыл бұрын

@@blackhammer5035 And admittedly, we've come along way from Shadow Dragon where they gave us a bunch of identical characters because they were literally intended to be cannon fodder. Bord, Cord, and Barst....the bald guys...those cavalry members who aren't Cain and Abel.

OK the story about the bookclub with cap america being friends with Blade actually makes me want to unironically play this even more just to see what happens.

@rottenborn2292

Жыл бұрын

Spoilers. Nothing. Nothing happens.

@Wol1427

Жыл бұрын

Same, it's just too hilarious to pass up.

It doesn't take much for gameplay to appease, so I liked M.E. 1 gameplay and didn't realize it was a thing till others made it a thing

When's the Callisto embargo up?? Can't wait

Seems like someone wanted a piece of that Persona pie. And seeing those characters I can tell that whoever the writer is, they would fit into modern-day Marvel perfectly. It's elevator music level of writing.

@Texelion3Dprints

Жыл бұрын

Apparently there are like 6 or 7 writers for this, including people who worked on the Telltale games... And I'm just like... how ?

@BackwardsPancake

Жыл бұрын

@@Texelion3Dprints If I had to guess, it's because they're doing exactly what they intended, to target a very specific audience. It may leave you cold, but this type of presentation and storytelling dynamic is like crack for two demographics: The fanfic crowd and the incredibly basic modern mainstream Marvel fans.

@blackhammer5035

Жыл бұрын

Having six or seven writers probably means everything was designed by committee to committee standards. AKA pointless and soulless.

@iancruz6617

Жыл бұрын

Man I seen better written of this character interact and matches there personality in the comics that I wish I took some screen shot of a few to show a good examples of it.

@FuzzyDlop

Жыл бұрын

Nope, this is not inspired by Persona, this is inspired by old school Bioware and it worked great. The Abbey part of the game is great and the reletionship/friendship stuff is really good and well written overall. It's also necessary which makes everything better. Sometimes the combat is more enjoyable than the Abbey stuff and sometimes it's the other way around. Good stuff. Don't listen to moronic youtubers with zero attention span.

I'm honestly genuinely excited about playing as Morbius

Your description of the book club and friendship conversations between Wolverine and Blade had me literally laugh-crying! 😂 Ghost Rider talking about his feelings! 🤣 I have to play the game just to hear this for myself! The combat will just be a bonus! 😅

@FlameHAZE2010

Жыл бұрын

Not the same ghost rider, just putting that out there.

i am so glad you included all your praise for the comabt cause my god the character interactions sound like an actual fan fic

@CK-lt6jl

Жыл бұрын

the good fanfics are many times better than this. jesus, this is worse than Andromeda

Hopefully they add a combat-only mode similar to ME3 which had a mode that let the game go through the dialog for you, so you could just focus on combat.

the book club part was soooo funny, thanks!!! :)

The way you described the blade story inspired me to buy this game, it sounded hilarious!

I'm sorry but I have to completely disagree with you on Mass Effect. I like the first game the most and a huge reason for that was its gameplay and its deeper RPG systems.

@jdoggydogg

Жыл бұрын

Same, honestly.

@user-if3os9sd6z

Жыл бұрын

I liked Mass Effect 3 and Andromeda gameplay the most (ME1 is still the best and everything else about Andromeda is terrible) but I get it. It gives you freedom and the weapon sfx and customization still holds up. I have actually been using mods that port ME1 weapons, power and mechanics over to ME2 and the experience is fuller znd funner for it.

@marcusclark1339

Жыл бұрын

this, first game had a good balance of it and made the progress to use guns a long term investment where newer just streamlined it cause wider appeal

Some would argue the criticism of the story side of the game reflects the state of modern Marvel Comics. But that gets into a whole lot of controversial debates and topics. Mind, people have also criticize the "current state" of the writing and editorial of Marvel Comics for decades, long before it developed into a larger political debate.

@Ceece20

Жыл бұрын

I honestly wish it didn’t turn into a political debate thing because the Marvel dialogue writing is objectively terrible. I honestly will compare this dialogue with Wolfenstien Youngblood but without the Marvel façade. It’s terrible dialogue with mediocre gag jokes that someone locked in a room for 15 hours of work would come up with. Marvel just does that same thing but with Superheroes instead of forgettable daughters.

Man, I laughed my butt off when you talked about the relationship stuff. Amazing!

Hey @SkillUp. Minor suggestion. When ever you do the technical part, could you (or Austin if he's the editor) perhaps include in text what you're using when you're talking about it. I dunno about others but i tend to get that blank glance over look instantly when i hear those very technical names for things "...I tested this out on a RTX4090 with a Ryzen 9 5950X..." I would really appreciate if that would appear as text in the video so it doesn't just seem as white noise. Love the channel and content so I hope I don't come across too nickpicky ^^'

As long has the gameplay is solid I will bear the story. Its not like I played XCOM for the cinematic storytelling anyways.

This is the perfect game for me and my girlfriend who doesn’t like games much, but loves romantic dramas and dating Sims. I’ll play the action, fun part and she’ll play the marvels sitcom.

8:35 I love that enemy doing an impression of MC Hammer Can't Touch This

Your explantion of 'book club' had me in tears. Like, just thinking Movie blade being like, "Alright everyone come around and listen dammit!....Who wants to read motha-fuckin' My little pony with me? I need answers people! Fluttershy won't express her feelings!...and...I-I can relate..." Proceeds to go off to cry; clutching his precious stuffed unicorn. Won't you join the book club for Blade?

TBH The story wasnt that great in XCOM 2 as well but the premise was very cool and gameplay wise the the premise was extremly good. But of course XCOM 1 & 2 didnt really focus on a narrative told story with much cutscenes and dialogues. Gameplaywise Firaxis a top notch round based strategy devolper. If they also want to be a top notch story driven developer they surely have to hire new and better writers.

@razvanzamfir1545

Жыл бұрын

Well, the story didn't have to be great, but just enough there to move things along - which is what it did.

@Dja05

Жыл бұрын

The story in the XCOM games was absolutely non intrusive. A 2 minutes cutscenes every 5 hours and some optional flavor text. Here, it's basically half of the game. Shame :/.

@amunago080

Жыл бұрын

@@Dja05 ^this 100%. It's a huge part of the game here, Xcom kept it to the side or delivered while you were fighting on a mission.

@chrishansenwithdatelinenbc5080

Жыл бұрын

@@amunago080 even when it was to the side, the writing was kinda bad.

@rottenborn2292

Жыл бұрын

@@chrishansenwithdatelinenbc5080 You’re missing the point.

Your description of Blade's book club made me break out laughing. I was planning on playing this for the gameplay and enduring the story, but now you've made me excited for the story too, albeit in a "so bad it's good" kind of way.

took me awhile to figure out you were saying firaxis and not far access. gotta love the accent.

Thank you for including the Steam Deck in your technical portion!

I think the RPG angle is going to be very divisive among players. Hopefully if they revisit this format in another game they smooth it out, as this is the biggest departure from their last few games.

I don’t understand why they didn’t go full in with relationships and more personal friendships and Ong having to walk to your room every single night just to be able to do another mission is mind blowing. At least make it so that you can blow through 5 side missions in a row without having to waste days

Do you have your music linked I love the songs in the background

The book club love triangle segment between Blade/Captain Marvel/Steve Rogers was absolute gold.

It’s between this and Callisto protocol for me

@RickRate

Жыл бұрын

go for callisto and wait for a sale for this game

@QaysarZ94

Жыл бұрын

@@RickRate exactly

@saniakshay12

Жыл бұрын

@@RickRate Gonna do the same. As per ACG the game is very buggy as well. Better to wait a few months

@aznjay94

Жыл бұрын

Just wait for reviews and look at gameplay. Form your opinion dude. Half of this game wasn't skillup's cup of tea, but that doesn't mean it won't be enjoyable for you

@Juju-cm7ge

Жыл бұрын

Calisto Protocol is a day one

I can see how the book club stuff would be bad for some but honestly it sounds a little endearing and refreshing. Kinda like the hangout missions you go on in genshin. Probably not for everyone but the Blade stans probably enjoy it.

Thanks for the amazing review SkillUp!! :)

I don't have these performance issues (micro stutters and frame drops) during battle. So I don't think this is GPU related. I'm playing on 4k with all settings on ultra/maxed on an RTX3090 so if it is a streaming/bandwith issue, then I don't experience that. Could be a RAM issue? Though I'd assume that a system with a 4090 in it will have fast RAM with really good timings and transfer rates , a decent NVME SSD and a good CPU to facilitate the high transferrates? The only time where I get a bit of stutter, weirdly enough, is when I start up the game and midnight suns logo intro is playing but that hardly matters at all. I think I have a pretty well tuned "last year's higher end system" with an unvervolted RTX3090 via MSI Afterburner, a 5800x3D (running PBO Runer 2) and decent DDR4 RAM with 3600MT/s at 14-15-15-35 timings. So if you have a RTX4090 (or 4080) or an AMD RX7900(XT) and somehow get stutter during Ghost Rider's "Hell Ride" animation, there is either something off with your system or it's an issue with the game specific to your setup that should be patchable.

The writing, characters and character models feel like ME Andromeda all over again. For me an RPG with bad writing is a deal breaker. It is crucial in these kind of games. It's funny that it goes out of it's way to give us the most sanitized and non offensive version of these characters ever created and at the same time the trailers are all about heavy metal, flames and demons.

@JewTube001

Жыл бұрын

"trailers are all about heavy metal, flames and demons" that's actually a really good point. whats up with these conflicting themes.

@Wooki3

Жыл бұрын

@@JewTube001 My theory is that at first they wanted to go darker more like the comics but they were stopped by Marvel/Disney activ...I mean story group and all that was left were these early promotional materials. I was really looking forward to the dark, tactical RPG set in Marvel Universe but this is modern MCU level shitfest. I hope one day we are going to get the game more in line with Divinity Original Sin 2 or Freedom Force.

This is honestly the first time I have heard of this game

Funny that the sponsor this time is Steel Series. I just bought some after hearing about them from your videos before

Hi, do you know if I can replay history missions in the late game to get 3 stars?

If Skill Up recommend this game half-way, then im willing to buy this game for half the price.

@rottenborn2292

Жыл бұрын

😆 Yup. I’ll probably wait till its a free ps monthly game before I buy it.

@jibbersdelight1616

Жыл бұрын

@@rottenborn2292 that might take a while though 😅

@DazeOfWar

Жыл бұрын

Ya it’s definitely a half price or less game now. I was looking forward to a story in this but after seeing this I can wait a while for it to get cheap.

I actually enjoyed the Mass Effect 1 combat at the time lol

@ilikecats45648

Жыл бұрын

I still do it today

Great review, will pick this up on the cheap, however, that near-constant mouse pointer, my gawd!!!!!

Your whole "bookclub" section was hilarious 😆 Well done 👍

I know you’re trying to sell that blade scene as terrible and that is an extremely condensed version of events, but it also sounded wildly hilarious and now I just need to experience it

@KasukeSadiki

Жыл бұрын

Right?? This just makes me want to play even more lmao

@thaddeusgenhelm8979

Жыл бұрын

I mean, I imagine the compression makes it sound way funnier than it is, since the dead air is extracted and all =P

@fairmonkey4786

Жыл бұрын

Yea blade teaching yoga just sounds hilarious and entertaining to me

KING Skill Up back at it again, love your work bro. Also I’m curious where you got your steam deck. Where did you purchase it from? I’m looking at importing one and I’m in Australia too.

@tombuben

Жыл бұрын

Afaik Valve sent it out to reviewers and developers world wide, but don't have proper distribution channels to sell them to regular customers.

@QOBRA

Жыл бұрын

I think he got it from Valve at launch

God I loved your breakdown of these characters!

The stutters seem to be mostly caused by the 2k launcher. Disable it through steam and it should help eliminate them. Helped me.

I've played Persona 5 royal so my standards for character interaction are usually a bit higher than what I have seen from Marvel midnight Sons.. however with that being said seeing this game is like what 60 hours. The combat looks fun and it's got DLC coming in the form of Deadpool Venom morbius and storm. I think this will be a perfect game to at least hold me over until Spider-Man 2 comes out. Now that's a game that I'm really looking forward to so I guess I don't mind buying and playing this until that game comes out a little something to do. Also to anyone reading this shout out to you if you watch the'90s Spider-Man animated TV show. If you watch the reruns of it that counts too that was my shit!

I'm 30 hours into Persona 5 Royal. And I love hanging out with other characters outside of combat. But since the writing here seems to be what I don't enjoy out of marvel I don't think I'm going to play it. Maybe in the future if there are mods that speed things up so I can focus on the combat side of the game.

@rottenborn2292

Жыл бұрын

Persona is the gold standard and I personally dont expect that kind of writing in a Marvel game, but yeah same. If you’ve shoving dialogue down our throat you better write them to be entertaining. So off putting thinking half the game is garbage writing.

@infamous6283

Жыл бұрын

Guardians of the Galaxy managed to have some very well written characters and pretty engaging story.

@rottenborn2292

Жыл бұрын

@@infamous6283 That game was lightening in a bootle.

Hey man thanks, most of the time I don't think about the real talent and passion that goes into making these videos.

21:40 "Most aliens you're better off avoiding, but there's a few good ones out there." ... Wolverine sure knows how to blow that dog-whistle!

Will wait for a sale but the combat half looks so good

@kingc1331

Жыл бұрын

Turn based 🗑

@arthurdent9281

Жыл бұрын

Same. This looks like it will be fun, but not deserving of a full price purchase.

I want the other half

I agree with your take on the dialogue sequences. What made it worse is I'm OCD, so I save scummed to check ALL the different dialogue options to see all the different responses and the Friendship/Light/Dark changes they affected. I'm over 150 hours, and close to 2/3 of that would be the dialogue/Friendship/Hangouts/Abbey stuff. The battles and mod crafting was what kept me hooked.

Loved the Cheez TV call-out! =D Great review - definitely gave me a lot to think about. Especially as I was hoping to get into this via the big Marvel ensemble story, not just the gameplay.

The way you describe the characters and the way they're written sounds like a description of what someone who really loves Persona 5 but has never, ever seen a single Marvel movie or read a single comic would conjure up I know this because I AM that exact person, and if I was contracted to write a narrative-driven RPG-lite tactics game about Marvel characters, despite not being very familiar with them, I'd probably go for a tone and dialogue style very similar to this one. I'm not saying Firaxis didn't do their research when it comes to the heroes or their personalities, but that's just the vibe I'm getting from the way the dialogue is described here; a team known for making really great strategy games with generally pretty barebones plots and unexciting characters where the stories you create through your own emergent gameplay scenarios are more important than the actual plot, being contracted to write enormous amounts of dialogue and story content for some of popular culture's most beloved and widely dissected characters ever

The writing for the story and characters reminds me of the current state of the MCU

22:51 Dammmn Skill Up, you went hard hahahahaha

Okay, I spewed my drink when you did Magik's accent 🤣

I’ve never heard of this game before you covered it. Man, there’s tons of interesting ideas here but it’s sad to see that it’s bogged down by bad design choices

@FuzzyDlop

Жыл бұрын

It's not, SkillUp is just one of the many garbage and incompetent youtubers. Been playing this game for 2 days and the "second half" of the game is not bogged down by any major design choices. The writing of the characters and the dialogues is good and all those parts inspired by old school real Bioware games are necessary. The only bland design choice is the exploration of the environments of the Abbey. Other than that, this video is a complete lie and complete dogshit, made by someone with no critical skills and ZERO attention span.

I'm not sure what Firaxis was thinking with the whole social mingling side game. That dev time should have been put toward base building and resource management.

Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, I like the idea of the heroes being mundane. Blade doing yoga and running the book club because he has a crush on Captain Marvel is the kind of every day tribulation anyone would go through. I understand that these are comic book heroes that are turned up to 11, but I can appreciate the slice of life kind of stuff..

Lol, your rendition of the book club was hilarious 😂

This translates so well to modern marvel. Empty vapid husks of their former characters but the CGI fight scenes look nice.

Don't be silly, you don't kill bosses. You just down them. No character in the Marvel Universe really dies.

@bradhaines3142

Жыл бұрын

a headless thanos disagrees

@Insan1tyW0lf

Жыл бұрын

@@bradhaines3142 "Characters in the Marvel Universe rarely actually die"?

@robind8526

Жыл бұрын

@@bradhaines3142 One word: Retcon!

It blows my mind that Ralph didn't make a reference to Spiderverse when describing how everyone knows the backstory of Spiderman.

When will there be one for Callisto?? game drops Friday!!!

"Wolverine is a nice guy" 😆 I don't think I have ever heard anyone describe wolverine like that before ever.

Dunno if this has happened to anyone else....the 20 year old me would love this but the 42 year old me with so much less free time has lost interest with turn paced games

I'll be waiting for a deep steam sale. Appreciate the review.