Hubert Shorter - It's Gaming
Hubert Shorter - It's Gaming
This is my channel for videos about the latest games, particularly CRPG's. We will be doing a lot of breakdowns for Baldur's Gate 3 and Sci-Fi role playing games. There may be some tech as well.
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Mass Effect romance options were hilarious to put it plainly, well developed though. It'd be good to see you put out some actual gaming videos of maybe what you're currently playing or some of your fav games, been subscribed for a while and seen a few of your videos which consist mostly of talking but not much actual gameplay. it is "huber shorter - it's gaming" after all!
First and foremost, enjoy the 4070 man! I've been meaning to upgrade my PC for a while now, but boy will I need to fork out a pretty penny. Fable was probably the first RPG game I played on the original Xbox game. Amazing game, since then the IP has seen a slow and steady decline in the quality of the games made and its in-keeping with what makes Fable, Fable. With regards to the aesthetic of the main character, I mean we're seeing a growing trend, particularly with game studios that are in consultancy with SBI that these female characters who look less female and more like a would-be male counterpart in every single occasion. I recall on X, there was a game dev, Del Walker, who recently spoke out about pitching a beautiful black women leads but that they are constantly transformed and made ugly. There has to be a balance between characters that look pretty and characters that are frankly ugly. It is not impossible to have beautiful female leads as well as less attractive counterparts. Even Star Wars Outlaw's female lead was made uglier for no apparent reason as opposed to the in-game model mimicking that of the actual person. I like the route the Japanese and South Koreans are taking, they stay true to the models used, they understand their audience and what they want. I'm not particularly one to care for male fan-service but I quite frankly simply cannot ignore the very obvious push from DEI consultancies such as SBI to change the MO with regards to female characters and leads. I've always held that the character, setting, mechanics and plot are what make a game but now it seems games are increasingly becoming DEI checkboxes as opposed to games made with love and passion. We are, quite frankly, getting terrible games with leads who we cannot resonate or root for and in some cases, much beloved characters are being transformed from what audiences have known to grow and love into unrecognisable characters. Jean Grey from Insomnia's in-the-works Wolverine being the latest victim, she's always been pretty, whether in the comics, movies, MVC3, you name it, she's attractive, but now she looks like a middle-aged auntie extra that you'd see as a side character in GTA or an open world game. This is not to say all characters need to be pretty, good looking or vanilla aesthetics. But let's be honest, the halo effect exists for a reason. Fundamentally people want characters who they think look good, cool or attractive. That's some of the appeal of these games. Speaking in terms of Fable, the world looks gorgeous, I have the customisation options and the gender selection option makes a return. I'm glad they're returning to the age of Fable 1 if you will. That was the best time. IMHO Fable 1 is still one of the best games I've ever played.
I think some of the complaints can be quite toxic but the gameplay is the most important thing and you can avoid all of this with a character creator !
If memory serves, the 'drama' behind the ugly character was more about what the devs said / replied when asked about it. It made it seem like they were using this character/opportunity to push an agenda instread of just making a game. (i've not kept up with the drama but thats what i remember hearing)
For me it's Light No Fire. There are rumors of a 2024 release but it could easily be later.
Great work, your videos are just perfekt. Short and detailted with all importend news. thank you.
Glad you like them!
Thank you for this video.
i hope they release the skill tree before the release because we can think on it
The combat sounds very interesting and varied. We might not be very pigeonholed. The skill tree is interesting, with the control, burst, sustain pyramids (or weapons, abilities, etc). We can get creative, i hope.
I can smell how shit this game is going to be it a shame being the dragon age origin was so good this smell like hose shit missed with DEI LGBT ESG shit and it such a shame being they had such great gay romantic in inquisition
booho a game has lgbtq stuff. what’s the issue lol
@@AlaskaOwens they are doing it for pandering sake I don't know about you but I don't particularly appreciate being used as a check Mark
@@AlaskaOwensI kinda get what they mean. A lot of modern fiction (movies, TV shows, and games) only add lgbtqia characters to pretend to care, but do it so sloppily that it comes off dishonest. Meanwhile you have DAI who gave is Krem and Sera. Krem, a trans Tavinter man who nobody ever spotlights, but doesn't make it a big secret you're only supposed to know about if you dig through mountains of files, and Sera, easily the cutest remale romance option in the game, but she's not a sex object to fantasise about, or hitting on every girl she sees, and if you don't take the hint and keep hitting on her as a male, she straight up leaves cause you're a creep for doing that. The way I always look at it, is you can have a GAY character, and you can have a character, who's also gay. The GAY character's entire existence stats with them being gay, and then branches off from there. They're a GAY rogue, or a GAY mage, or a GAY warrior. Meanwhile the other character is written as a warrior, or a mage, or a rogue, and that's what matters. The end... Oh, and they're also into people of the same gender. Here's hoping Major Wolf IS overreacting, but well written lgbt characters are a lot less common than characters who are written as stereotypes by straight people who think they're being woke.
@@Trojianmaru it’s all a money thing, it’s their job to make something people want and an easy way to that is to be inclusive even if it is sloppily
I am happy that they offer more options than in DAI. So far it looks promising. I am excited.
Same here!
So the Combat has not changed at all and the Specializations are also exactly the same, more or less! Give me a break, this looks horrible, especially the NEON Stuff on all the Demons and stuff, this is alot but Dragon Age it is not! Gave you a thumbs up, good and informative video, saved me 60 bucks I can spent on a way better Game!
You mean hasn't changed since some other news about the game? Cause that's definitely different from the last 3 games. I had such a visceral reaction to hearing the phrases "Hip Fire" and "Light & Heavy attacks" in my Dragon Age game, cause that just does not sound even remotely like a Dragon Age game.
Every single dragon age is different, maybe is time to stop whinig?
@@spacesushi210 every single Dragon Age is SLIGHTLY different, but there's a big difference between slight changes & tweaks, and turning the game into a FPS shooter, or a DMC style hack and Slash. Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, and Dragon Age:Inquisition, all still had tactical pause that turned the game practically into a RTS game.
@@spacesushi210 Not if they are getting worse and worse.
Hey, the discord link in the description is telling me its invalid, can I get a fresh one please!?
8i cant wait harding and the warden will be in my party has much has possible want to see how the griffon works in a fight
Brother I enjoy these videos and I hope you keep making them. Love hearing you talk about games you’re excited or passionate about. I think you should consider lowering the volume on your intro music by about 10-15%. It’s much louder than your speaking voice and blows my ears out every video 😂
Thanks for the advice and thanks for following my content. I really appreciate it.
Personally, not a fan. Dragon Age 3 was such a let down to me, i had little hope for this tittle so i'm not terribly disappointed.
I have 557 hours into DD2. Level 113 In NG++. Still missed quests last time so started NG again.
It's not a shortcoming in the game. You didn't play it right.
That's why we start NG+. If you quit you are missing out on an awful lot.
Not my typical cup of tea, having looked into it a little further it sounds really pleasant in terms of game mechanics and game ethics. Fully offline singleplayer, no MTX, Mass Effect style squad. You've piqued my interest Hu. Great video, keep up the great work!
"Fast travel and horses, essentially are for wimps" - definitely agree on fast travel, but as I'm sure you already know, one of the best things about W3 Wild Hunt was traveling by horse, following the trail for a quest, only to come across a side quest or monster den. You could get lost for hours traversing off-path... I still go back and get lost in that game every now and again.
glad I subbed you seem to engage with your comment section NG+ is ok... but the enemies do not level up with you so you'll be way stronger one tapping goblins and etx, so the NG+ now feels like an after thought, hopefully they'll add new content in the next patch, keep enjoying game I enjoy how relaxed you sound. as for their being no fast travel you can place 10 port crystals in the world hieves can steal ferry stones in end game have too many at NG++ (sadly the port stones you place do not get saved.)
Seriously the side quests in this game are structured soooo bad its almost like the game didnt want you to do them at all. To me these vague side quests are just as bad as elden ring side quests.
NG+ tbh the fact t6hat you can get locked out of quests is nice. the romance quests in the game aren't all that great tbth it's nothing that serious but they are still super lenient
I'm with you this is my 4th start over with this game with over 300hrs and I still haven't reached the end game because I've found out there are several quest that I'm locked out of. Now I've played DD1 back in the day, but that was a different style of gaming back then, what worked back then doesn't always work in this gaming era. It's a great game but it lacks modern features, like traveling one of my biggest issues, back in the day walking around was fine, but now this doesn't work. Another issue is the since of direction for side quest, they put an exclamation point on the map for nothing, well to mark a ladder. My rant is over, great video and hope you do another playthrough. Oh who ever made up the NG+, newsflash when the story is over so is the game there is nothing after that.
My BIGGEST issues are NO HORSES or FAST TRAVEL and pawns that are completely clumsy.
I just could not get into it. About 45 hours in and I am probably not going back. It just did not rope me in.
I see your point and to be fair I feel the same way towards many of the games I try to 100% but Baldurs gate 3 taught me to just roll with the decisions and face my consequences lol. This is one of the few games I actually look forward to NG+.
Here's the thing, I truly hear what your saying and it killed me to think I might have missed out on something too ,.... but take a deep breath and try to stop playing it as a game, instead just let it take you on an adventure. It took me awhile to figure out why the game was designed that way in fact it made me a little mad, it was like I was being punished for not doing things in the right order or pace and then I realised .... its designed that way for a reason.
Trust me, you didn't miss out by not doing those quests.
I could not finish it. I got around 60% through and just found myself being bored by it. The mobs/types/sheer amount, one after the other, just made me bored. It reminded me of the days on FF7 when you became god-like and yet still ran into mobs, and you were, "Oh come on, it's not worth my time" There are other issues, but I remember liking the first one a lot more.
I’m having a frustrating time with all the castle missions. Maybe I don’t understand the way to go about them but I don’t like being chased into town by 6 guards that are named NPCs and having to fight them to the death.
Why not just finish to start new game plus? Or post story content? My reason why I dropped it is because my save file bugged and completely wiped all my progress. It was nearly 80hours of progress wiped instantly. Maybe some time down the line when the game gone through a ton of patches and I can be confident it won't do that again. The fact it's a one file save system though makes me question that though.
Just beat the game either do the unmoored world or save that for when you beat the game and get to new game plus. unless you still want a challenge because new game plus is pretty easy...
Yeah 1 is better
Nice vid.... good take, and very honest (even if a little click-baity). Hope you enjoy the re-start (if you do it).
Make no jokes!!!!! I played through DD2.....THERE ARE ROMANCES??????🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
I'm frustrated with the sphinx founder's coin riddle. Gotta finish my first playthrough and do it again
New sub here! The title scared me, but I was glad to hear that you do enjoy the game 😅. I went into my first playthrough with the expectation that I would be doing multiple runs using the ng+ feature. I almost was hoping to be in the position you are because it meant another playthrough making different choices 🎉🎉.
I'm just sick of spending 30 minutes wailing on the same 3 baddies only to have one of them fly off every time. I get attacked every time I try to use a cart. I just want to do some quests and have enemies go down within 5 minutes unless they are really something special.
Playing this after BG3 and feels completely sterile, not a bad game but it still needs polishing; pawn AI is incredibly dumb, combat is pure chaos with everyone swinging around, fighting a very limited variety of enemies, the fast travel system is made to artificial stretch the length of the game, armours are between great and ridiculous I don't get the hype, it improved on the first, but feels the same, it's a decent game but not great or goty People tend to see mediocrity as excellence probably because of the ocean of garbage games that come out
I urge you to stick with it. You'll want to experience the "true ending" endgame. I'm on NG+++ and still stumbling onto side quests I didn't know were there. I played through NG totally blind, which is my way. After that I allowed myself the luxury of consulting the wiki to satisfy my completionist urge. The side quests, in truth, are far less interesting than the combat, world exploration, and sheer joy of exploring the different vocations. Which is good, because they can be quite frustrating. IMO the developers overdid it in their effort to make sure players had to discover things on their own. (And I'm a big fan of Dark Souls.) I love the overall arc and theme of the story; however, the causal chain feels weak, with key plot points that can fall between the cracks, as well as broken links where a quest can't be completed because there was only one narrow path to navigate it. I've even resorted to walkthroughs on occasion, which I usually avoid. That said, I love the game. I'll probably restart it at some point because I prefer to play low level characters and crave more difficulty. To challenge myself in NG+++, I'm playing trickster with only my main pawn to dish out damage. Whatever you do, the endgame ("true" ending) is very much worth it.
Well let me start by saying Baldur's Gate and Dragons Dogma 2 are both different games. That being said, if your biggest gripe is unfinished missions and you haven't beaten the game then you shouldn't have made this post to begin with... There are multiple ways to complete most missions which add's a little more "spice" to NEW GAME PLUS!!! Where you get to do things differently while maintaining your level and items. But hey, if you cant stay focused long enough to complete the playthrough... Maybe Dragons Dogma 2 just isn't for you....
The fast travel mechanic just isnt fun for more than 1 play through. Feels like wasted money just to fast travel when in most games it's free and easy. When games feel more like work than fun, I stop playing. Just like starfield, just a few minor tweaks could have fixed it.
Don't give up on the game. Finish it and start a new game plus. Then : take your time. Take your time to explore and play, you will do all you want !
Thing is with dd1 you could load a previous save or autosave, with dd2 you can load last save or inn rest and I find it really does screw you over. I ended up doing the same, I got to level 47, got to the sphinx where it asked me for my first seeker token and I thought, that's the equivalent of bilbo asking gollum what he had in his pocket. I started a new game and I'm not ashamed to say, got all of the side quests up online through powerpyx and just methodically done them. I'm almost higher than before and I've enjoyed it much more aswell.
I'm in the same boat. I spent a lot of time unlocking and leveling up vocations that the quests around coronation got skipped and I can't go back to it.
This is what NG+ is for. The world is for exploring, making your choices, then getting reborn and choosing new paths. I missed one quest (I think), but on NG+ I can do it all over, or differently, or whatever I choose. DD1 was just like this, it's just a way to make each playthrough unique. I would suggest you go ahead and beat the game, then start a NG+ and do your game differently.
NG+ gets too ez cause there is no hard mode and no BBI, not to mention caping unmoored world to about 14 days was the dumbest choice I've ever seen, it's honestly a better idea to start a new game AFTER finishing the game with the true ending, but still this guy is a big baby😅
@@lolsaidthescorpionlmao I think the game was made for people to kind of speed run the first time around. Then, you’d max out your vocations, take different paths, explore more, whatever the second time around. For me, I was level 90 by the time I finished my first play through since I practically did everything. So, NG+ is a cakewalk.
@@averyroscoe91 Yeah I was like 75 but in Ng+ I kill everything just by looking at it so I got really discouraged from continuing with this character, they should have put the option to continue in unmoored world until you wanted to Ng+, my run was blind so I didn't know it'd force me into Ng+. I guess all that's left is doing challenge runs in a new char just me and my pawn and choosing 1 vocation from the start..
sorry but Dark Arisen is much more fun went back to it and there's levels I haven't passed too even facing the UNDEAD DRAGON..
Not everything has to be done in one play through. Things like that have “replay value” written all over it. I skipped out on a lot of content in Elden Ring but I will get to it in another play through. Not everything is meant to be found.
dragons dogma 2 is a game meant to be played multiple times, start again