Hi, call me Zakh! As we move forward we look back at what made video games great. Join me as we relive some of our favourite gaming memories & explore new games from an experienced perspective.
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1. Nostalgic Games Modernised
2. Upcoming Games Today
3. Strategy & City building
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The first one kinda reminds me of a flash game.
Hands down, when I've played this level specifically, it has been relatively hardest mission so far when chronologically playing. The need of completing monuments, while you have gem extorting armies threatening the safety of your city, while you need your army elsewhere to establish ties and trade routes to help raise population grids and sustain more work. Quite a juggle and likely a test of will between rookies and pros.
why you dont show playble platforms? for example i want to pla in rise of the ronin, but what im see in total? PS5!!!!!!
I do, they're in the description.
How did you forget dune 2? its the first of all modern RTS - and the one warcraft 1 copied.
I didn't forget dune 2, I've played dune 2 and covered the dune series quite a bit on this channel. It's just when games come to copying, C&C was the baseline and that's basically dune 2 because it was a dune 2 reskin by Westwood and got way more popular.
Why does every person making youtube videos think we want to see their face? I'm here to see the game, NOT YOUR FACE.
Because people want to see the face. It's pretty clear why we do it, because people like it. Personally it's 3 factors: 1. For the majority of viewers, they prefer seeing the streamer and statistically people watch for longer when there is a facecam. 2. Having a camera means I can visually communicate things like with facial expressions and hand gestures. Think of a teacher in a classroom, is the teacher just in the way of the blackboard or is the teacher part of the content? 3. Representation matters and Eurasians/mixed race don't get a lot of exposure. One of the most common hate comments I get is that my face is "weird" or "strange". The more I show my face the more normal people who look like me become. Hope that clarifies.
As soon as I saw kill the justice league I had to leave a comment and close the video
Sure thing, thanks for the view and comment. If you're not able to take games objectively then you won't find a lot of games you're looking for.
Surprised this list doesn't have Shin Megami Tensei V Vengeance. It was still upcoming when this video dropped and now that I've played it a fair bit it's definitely in the running for GOTY for me. The demon recruitment and huge amount of resulting customization mechanically combined with amazing art design make it a must play.
@@HiddenAdept I don't usually list enhancements of games unless they're something more notable. Shin Megami Tensei V released 3 years ago, so it's not a new or upcoming game. Yeah Vengeance is an enhancement but it's not even to the level of being a remaster, plus I don't even list remasters as upcoming games either unless they're of a very old game. Gothic is here because it's a whole remake from the ground up of a very old game. I also list Age of Mythology in my strategy list because that's a huge rebuild of a very old game. Vengeance is just a sizeable update of a 3 year old game, I wouldn't say that's a whole new upcoming game.
@@GamerZakh Well the original release was Switch exclusive. For people with zero interest in the Nintendo Switch like myself it's basically the original release lol
@@HiddenAdept Haha yeah I get that, though to be fair for all I don't list new platform releases for other games too. Like I don't list the FF7 Remake episodes when they come to PC either.
The biggest gripe with this game: the map is too confined.
Yeah it really turns a lot of people away from this game. Thing is, the maps get bigger around mission 10 and the game gets much better then. I was actually surprised by how much better it felt playing once maps just got bigger.
Total Annihilation came out in 97.....
@@6StimuL84 Yes it did.
Gothic was before its time; the UI and combat were a mess. I am looking forward to the Og world, but with game features that work, hopefully.
Im stuck in the oxigen for evolution biome. Very frustraded
When it comes to train games, not many talks about Transport Fever 2, since its not predominantly a train game. But in my opinion, its the best of the lot.
Pretty good list. Many i wasnt aware of and look very interesting
@@andresprieto6554 Thanks! I'm glad you found some new ones
Middle finger is supposed to represent the dick, it is "Fuck you!" that it means and not "Screw you!"! I thought most people who know about the "middle finger" gesture know that!
Uhh yeah, did you know 'screw' means 'fuck'? Don't most people know that?
@@GamerZakh Maybe, I thought it just means that metal very thin object used for holding things together alongside with the action of installing it.
@@aleksitjvladica. Much like the middle finger, things can mean other things.
@@GamerZakh Good.
How do the wood cutters and hunters get employees? When I road block it from the houses it doesn't work 🤔.
A working building sends out a walker in white to look for workers. That walker just needs to pass 1-2 houses and the building they came from can access your entire population. So you can scatter a couple tents in industry blocks or just make sure that walker passes a single house at the edge of your housing block.
It's sad knowing that there are adults that don't remember or played the PS2 era because of their youthfulness.
Yeah but they'll see things we won't too, so it all balances out.
Szach mat - „Soviet workers and resources”
Sims 5 does not exist in my mind, and Project Rene is likely going to be a micro-transaction-esque game. Sadly Life by You has been cancelled too :(
They also timed the dialogs better. If I recalled correctly, Serpent Kenji would let Otomo finish speaking during their first interactions.
Grim Dawn. Period. Nuff said.
There is a reason why I made an exception and listed it here even though it's not a 2024 game.
I know that this is not the same genre, but I'd really like you to check out Expeditions Rome
I wish they made an Ancient Rome RPG or MMO game. I am tired of city-builders.
I know a lot of people hate on the space stage of spore but I always found space stage to be the best. Want to be a trader? Go ahead. Want to be an Explorer? Explore away. Want to terraform every planet you can? Do it. Want to be a tyrant and glass everyone who ever slightly offends you? Be evil you sick fuck.
I'm not a reason afficionado, but my 2 year old son loves trains. Especially Japanese trains and Thomas the Tank Engine
"Morrowind is the best game of all time and really holds up in 2024" *installs mods that change everything about Morrowind
Are you quoting me? I don't think I said that.
The one I have doesn't even have an information label. It just has a blank white one and it isn't even applied correctly.
Yeah that would mean it's not an official one.
I miss the lost 4x core of the game: eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate. Modern CIV games try to be a simulation game instead of a "paint the map board game" and that's not fun for me.
And finally, the population goal is 7,000. As nice as the 3 deep experiment is, it won't win this particular mission.
You're not really understanding the point of this playthrough.
Zakh has no idea how to use walls with towers to defend the city! The walls need to be extended further North. That way, sentries armed with spears will patrol the additional walls. It also means it will take longer for the invasion forces to break through the extra lines of defences, during which they are open to being repelled by the ballista and sentries. You need 3 forts for each of the passes. Not only that, but there are 2 requests for military aid, thereby leaving you with just 4 companies of soldiers. I would so love to share my ideas, only I have no idea how to record a game.
I have beat the game 3 times, every mission is easy unless I give myself special challenges and play laid back. I hear what you're saying and I'm seeing all your many comments, but I have already demonstrated the things you're talking about in other videos. By this playthrough I'm intentionally playing more relaxed because if I really try it's too easy and I get bored. That's why the silly block design challenge, just to give me something to do besides win. The blocks get much worse as you go through the missions. The walls need to be further north? 3 forts in proper positions? None of that is required, I win this map as is. My playstyle is based on necessity. If I don't need to do it to win, I don't put in the extra effort to do it. I hope that explains the premise of this playthrough. I am getting the sense this isn't the kind of gameplay you're looking for, but maybe if you see the context in which it was made you will enjoy it better. To be clear, I made this playthrough specifically to demonstrate how you can play any way you like, not calculating any numbers or optimising properly, being creative and loose with things, and still win the game. I wanted to show how that's possible and okay to do, because a lot of people were criticising me for not optimising numbers and that's just not my playstyle, so I made this playthrough to optimise even less on purpose and still win.
In order for the 3 deep housing, that is to say, the two rows of housing furthest back from the inner road to evolve, is for them to merge as a 2 X 2 solid 'quad', something that, even with Large insulae, is not guaranteed.
There is no 1x1 large insula, you're giving a lot of advice for someone who doesn't know that.
Too many weapons workshops. Capua only buys 25 weapons per year. Fact! While a marble industry only produces 5 marble per year, all other raw material buildings produce 10 units per year. Additionally, and as with the marble industry, the industrial buildings, those that turn raw material (clay, iron, olives etc) into their finished product, only produce 5 units per year. On that basis, you only need 5 weapons workshops and not the 13 in the video. You will, though, need 6 forts = 96 weapons, however, you only have 1 barracks and so the soldiers are created over time. 13 workshops will give you a surplus of 40 extra weapons per year.
The entire point of this playthrough is to not be optimised. It's a 'silly blocks' playthrough to demonstrate how you don't have to be optimal and don't have to play perfectly to beat the game. The whole purpose is to do the opposite of optimisation, so 'too many' doesn't apply to this playthrough. All your facts and numbers are 100% correct, but that's not the point of this run. All these numbers and meant to be ignored here and I'm demonstrating how you can ignore all that and still win.
You need to deal with and enclose the wolves at the start, that is because you need to defend the two passes at their northern most point from vicious attacks by infantry and elephants.
It's a rule of this playthrough to not enclose the wolves. So I'm not allowed to do that. I did that every mission in my first 2 playthroughs on this channel.
Northern provinces have a ZERO fire risk and so provided you can keep your citizens happy they are not needed. You will also need more prefects for desert provinces, in which fountain coverage is reduced by a factor of 1.
The so called 'bug' is the 'Brundisiam hump'. What is more, it ONLY effects the Brundisiam map because of its small size. In effect, by immigrants occupying empty houses at the start of the game they will stop coming in at a point, despite there being spaces for more. The way to get around the problem and have the game conclude that there is empty housing to fill, thereby sending a continuous amount of immigrants into the city, is to make the immigrants take the longest route possible to the empty housing, which should be placed closer to the NNW rock formation than that of the one in the video. Incidentally, at 13.38 you will note the clever trick of placing a road behind the housing, which, in turn, provides workers from the housing to any recruiters that walk along the road. What the game's player overlooked was, a row of gardens can be placed in between the housing and the road and still provide workers for the buildings placed along the 'U' shape road. Fact, since common housing is built 2 deep , some of which won't merge to a quad, (a solid 2 X 2), the coverage of those support workers, from the Prefect to the Gladiator, is 2 deep from the road.
I actually wanted a game like the tribal phase, it was my favorite then the others. The single cell stage was also very fun.
Settlements Rising feels like it's also partly inspired by Knights and Merchants
Zakh, its you again. I like watching your caesar 3 series again and again. I remember watching you around 2018 and here you are, playing it again. Great job. Love your style.
Hey thanks and welcome back!
Virtual is the only reality in which democracy can work.
WHY THE FREAKING F**** IS THIS MISSION SO HARD????
Yeah Pharaoh has balance issues throughout. Some missions are just way hard, 1 is even impossible to win normally without massive cheese of some form if you're on Very Hard difficulty. The game is really balanced for Normal difficulty.
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What map mod are you using? The stock DREAM map mod is incomprehensible
How do people watch you? Spent half the time not able to find the road icon even though it's blatantly in your face, then spent the other half of the video complaining about road visuals. Try actually playing the game, like maybe increase your water/tools/cloth production when the icons are showing these items are decreasing?
If you really want to know I can explain, but are you being sarcastic and rhetorical? If you just wanna hate, hate away. But genuinely, if you want to know why people watch me I can explain. Just ask if you actually wanna know. As you have noticed, people do watch me and I've been a creator for 12 years, so I know the reasons.
Thanks for this video.
Use settlers to clean up the pollution as it happens. Build more railways to increase your production around cities.
Yeah but there's no automate settlers in Civ 1 right? I didn't want to micro that when I was already winning.
Swordhaven looks pretty awesome, im withdrawing from BG3 still...
Same issue here: no subtitle. @GamerZakh. I believe you haven’t turned on the subtitle setting for some of your excellent early videos. I can find the subtitle in the recent Mini-motorways video but not in the early city building videos. Please check.
It's on in the settings but there are no subtitles generated by KZread. I have to find some other way to get subtitles on.
Just a semi-correction - We didn't know about Avowed until after Microsoft bought Obsidian, though Bethesda was certainly bought afterwards.
This videos title is very misleading. Im 10 minutes into the video and you have listed two titles without release dates and one still in early access?! Title says in 2024. Are you psychic? While i appreciate the effort you put into these videos you shouldnt have to rely on games that arent even out and stuffing the video full of ads to pad the watchtime.
Early access means you can play it right? I don't think you want to get into the etymology of 'released' and the definition of that word haha. To be clear, 18 games out of 20 have set 2024 release windows or have released. And I'm not psychic, I'm experienced. Also I don't need to pad the watchtime, how would putting in unrelated games help that anyway? People just tune out. I predict things by analysing. Someone got really upset at me because I listed Dragon's Dogma 2, Rise of the Ronin, Dragon Age, and Black Myth Wukong for 2024 all before they had release dates. They also said the video was misleading and clickbait, that I was padding the video, etc just like you feel. Then all those games got 2024 release dates. I've done this every year for 10 years. See the problem with video game release dates is 2 fold: 1. Many games only get a release date as short as 2 months before release 2. Even if games have a specific release date, they can and are often delayed into the next year So how do you make any forward-looking list videos with any kind of certainty? Really it's impossible, but myself after making these videos for 10 years I have a stronger sense of what is more likely to become playable and what isn't. I'm not 100% correct of course, as you say I'm not psychic and I don't have a crystal ball, but I'm more experienced than most. The choice is: A) List only games with release dates and still be wrong because of delays, surprise releases, and cancellations B) List games with release dates and those without but have likely odds of releasing and still be wrong but be more informational and often more correct I opt for B and after 10 years, my predictions are more right than wrong anyway. Not to mention, I'm only predicting 2/20 games here. The other 18 have either released in some form or I'm taking their word for a 2024 release.
Also to note, for example with Outward 2, there's no fixed release date but they have already given out demo builds to some people and media, and the developer is considering early access. It could have a 2025-onwards release date but it could enter early access or just release that demo to everyone in 2024, which does count as becoming playable. These are things to consider when I make these lists. It also gave me an opportunity to talk about the first game's definitive edition release that was not too long ago, just as a bonus for something that can be played right now.
"if you like samurai's" Bro if you don't like samurai's then f**k you! lol