Played it all and liked it, took me 3 tries over couple of months and powering thru first couple hours to really get into it tho. Skipped all dialogue and cutscenes as they were uninteresting to me personally
@Aqsticgod15 күн бұрын
honestly this game is super fun, but random fps drops, ungodly loading times that dont make sense in todays market and at least in my case random crashes from random shit
@korrinmichealson534426 күн бұрын
I enjoyed everything about this game except the three person party limit. With so many characters to choose from, plus the Hunter, it just felt extraordinarily limiting.
@seanmcgurk260326 күн бұрын
I played through the game around 7 times and got my money's worth of the main game and all the dlc
@VenzyntАй бұрын
I unfortunately got bored of this game within 2 or 3 days. I was already skeptical of something as bombastic as superheroes being depicted by turn-based card gameplay. However I am an enjoyer of Magic the gathering, superheroes, the custom Hunter, and even the lifestyle/friendship stuff. So I bought the game. Ultimately the battles started to feel more like puzzles with only one or two designated ways to succeed, constant repeats of the same enemies and environments, and boss mechanics that were just annoying. Maybe if the game was about fighting villains in an interesting way, or even pvp against other players teams and builds. Also I wish Hunter could have other options beyond just light and dark, maybe like psychic or elemental. 6/10.
@zahedu_4488Ай бұрын
i would buy a sequel .. or two
@controlflix2 ай бұрын
I had a blast with it: the addicting gameplay loop even derailed me from my Witcher 3 homerun dash. But in the grander scheme of things, it felt like a half-baked Persona offshoot. You'll run out of things to do in the Abbey pretty quickly, the missions are overly repetitive, and you'll learn soon enough that your social-linking leads to a blue-balled cul-de-sac (which may be a huge deboner for folks who'd expect romance options as much as Blade the sappy vampire slayer did).
@IbstarYT2 ай бұрын
Yup agree with all your points, though im shocked you left Witcher 3 for this ? ! The final act of that ( everything post the castle defenence ) had me nailed down, sure skellige was a little slow but man I had to see how it ended up.
@controlflixАй бұрын
@@IbstarYT I didn't really fully leave. I'm almost done with everything save for the HoS part and I got the game free from Epic, so I figured why not try it out. 😅 It's got quite an addicting loop but sans the combat, everything felt half-done. They should have given it a Wasteland 3 exploration treatment (or at least a modicum of it). The social link should have romance options and allowed you to do other activities to keep the interactions fresh.
@Cyrath892 ай бұрын
I played for a good amount if hours now (got it one big discount with DLC). I do agree with the bonding system that it is fun, going to battles is slow, exploring the garden is fun but just the one time needed then it becomes a drag. But the biggest thing i miss are the amount of skins... colour swaps are fun and all, but different skins, or 'combat suits' would make it even cooler. The 'fallen' skins are just lazy.
@IbstarYT2 ай бұрын
The heavy restrictions on mods didnt help, just imagine all the cool stuff that could have been added if the game let there be a true workshop like xcom.
@Max-zs6ur2 ай бұрын
It will be always rememebered as the game that killed Xcom 3 for nothing.
@IbstarYT2 ай бұрын
Theres no way Xcom 3 isnt coming. The last rumours were that the design lead on war of the chosen is leading it since Jakes gone now. Civ 7 got annoucned so im betting on xcom being the next major one. I hope they took some ideas from some of the xcom clones that have come out since then !
@TheOldMan-752 ай бұрын
The game is really good.
@IbstarYT2 ай бұрын
Yeah but I wish it had more/did more still, maybe then more people would have enjoyed it.
@Wingspand12 ай бұрын
He was making good points, but what is wrong with a day night cycle for the game. I dont get why he is complaining about it, the night is when your supposed to hangout with the other heros, if you want ro skip that and go do another battle, just use the bed. I do agree once you maie it to the end of the game, when you get no more story events happening at night and are just waiting for hamgouts to appear, it sucks.
@IbstarYT2 ай бұрын
Sometimes I wanted to do multiple battles back to back without the 'in between' the game never lets that happen. Why cant I sent 3 characters on a side mission and another 3 on the main and do them back to back ? Seems like a minor complaint but over time its really frustrating.
@trickygaming32113 ай бұрын
damn this man really hates The Hunter. I really disagree with all the negativity you gave to The hunter. We already know a lot about Marvel and their characters. Hunter is a brand new hero made for this game and you don't care about it? Like how much more do you need to know about Tony Stark?
@IbstarYT2 ай бұрын
For me I got the game for the marvel characters I grew up reading the comics of, to see them be side characters to the hunter was boring. I dont mind the hunter being there but they should have been the side character more than the main one. The midnight suns were the selling point of the game and even at the end I never felt like I got to connect with them as much as comics.
@dtmaddenogz3 ай бұрын
I loved this game. I found this video trying to find out if they had any plans for new dlc lol. Good vid btw
@IbstarYT2 ай бұрын
Thank you ! If you have any constructive critisms/suggestions for how I make future ones that would be great.
@mariotraxler14864 ай бұрын
This is what you get, when you ignore your (XCOM-) fans. Simple as that. I love XCOM. Marvel/Superheroes bore me to Death. So i skipped this Game.
@IbstarYT2 ай бұрын
XCOM 3 is being led by the guy who led the war of the chosen dlc so I think its in good hands. But I get what you mean, I REALLY cant wait for Xcom 3. I am more excited for that then GTA 6.
@mariotraxler14862 ай бұрын
@@IbstarYT me too.....i also found phoenix point, aliens dark descent, jagged alliance 3, gears tactics and miasma chronicles really good!!!! They help alot to fill the gap.
@IbstarYT2 ай бұрын
Pheonix point was made by the original xcom devs, I was actually going to do a video on it but I just didnt enjoy the game enough, felt like it was missing something. Theres another one I thkn .. decieve inc or something thats really good, I think jacob geller mentioned it once.
@khalidbaig38644 ай бұрын
Game was amazing. Sad that we'll never get a sequel.
@IbstarYT2 ай бұрын
It defo had potential, but enough to justify a sequel over say xcom 3 I dont think so.
@nevixx48434 ай бұрын
Btw whar was the cliffhanger at the end of the story? Teasing a sequel?
@IbstarYT2 ай бұрын
Lilith and hunter trapped in the book which dr doom has. The others are trying to free them / think they are dead.
@mshake70564 ай бұрын
I just recently finally got the game and really enjoyed it. What really killed this game was Denuvo and the awful 2k launcher. That's what kept me and sooo many others I know who were interested in this game from trying it out.
@IbstarYT2 ай бұрын
It was even worse on release, sucked all the excitement out being blocked by network and connection errors for a single player game
@chrisfreeman68194 ай бұрын
I fucking loved this game i genuinely dont understand the hate. Its the most addictive game ive played in a while. It's a shame no one played it
@mshake70564 ай бұрын
Denuvo and the 2k launcher were the main cause of its demise. People hate denuvo so much that they spread false reviews to get people from buying.
@IbstarYT2 ай бұрын
Bad launch, performance issues, xcom fans wanting xcom 3 etc But when the loop hits its defo one of the most satisfying games.
@odaynewilliams1810Ай бұрын
I concur I don't typically play strategy based games but this game addictive
@SP1DEY50004 ай бұрын
I always say this is the best game no one has ever played. I put over 200 hours into this game. Beat it twice. And still play it. This is such a timeless classic.
@IbstarYT2 ай бұрын
Have you played xcom 2 ?
@joshuaknox2724Ай бұрын
dude i love this game i've been playing it for the past week i love playing around with the comic book thing too and photo mode, but for real this game is a underrated gem.
@Senumunu4 ай бұрын
i didnt try it bcs of the repulsive character designs
@IbstarYT2 ай бұрын
I dont think they were that bad, but I wish they let mods change them more. Shame denuvo means thats not possible.
@jocab44094 ай бұрын
I just finished it an hour ago. As a marvel fan I liked it 8/10. If you’re not a marvel fan and you don’t know a crap ton about every character becuase you have no life… maybe not for you. Combat was still really fun and addicting though. I wish they would do season two. And the setup for the sequel would make that so good.
@IbstarYT2 ай бұрын
One thing I give firaxis credit for is the combat systems are always top notch ( even with the 99% chance to hit misses :p ) Prob xcom 3 next though.
@Johnny_the_55 ай бұрын
For me, it was the lack of no real New Game+ and continuing the story with the dlc character nor bringing in more stories like facing Magneto or Onslaught or maybe having to deal with Franklin Richards.
@IbstarYT2 ай бұрын
I imagine if the game did well they would have brought in more characters, there were still some closed off rooms in the abbey after all.
@isidrohuicochea24325 ай бұрын
The dlc had better writing i was promised a dark tale instead i got how to make a friend the story was crap the combat was the only fun thing about this game .
@IbstarYT2 ай бұрын
I just wished the social links went further, it was like they just got good and them bam there are done.
@bencampbell1045 ай бұрын
I started playing CK 3 recently, and I’m quite the noob, but the fact that I managed to create a massive kingdom within my first ruler’s lifetime despite not really knowing what I was doing really turned me off. I was drawn in by the depth and complexity of the game, but what’s the point when you can just ignore most of it and still become a god-emperor anyway. I see a lot of people saying the game needs to be easy to attract a wider audience, but it’s so easy that I completely lost interest. And to not even have in-game options to make things like infant mortality, age of ruler death, and death during childbirth more realistic, it seems like the devs have no interest in simulating the medieval period outside of an aesthetic choice. Really the game seems to be about breeding genetic superhumans, taking over the world, and making both of those goals as simple and divorced from reality as possible.
@IbstarYT2 ай бұрын
Yeah the reccomended ones are kinda easy, I did find the defence of england one to be tougher, might have been because on that patch raids were broken and I was getting massive ones each year. Hopefully community overhauls will change this.
@sHoNoMeRcY696 ай бұрын
Story was ok
@IbstarYT2 ай бұрын
Yeah, but for how restricted everything was it needed to be a bit more than ok.
@sHoNoMeRcY692 ай бұрын
True
@IPickUpSticks6 ай бұрын
The the legendary edition is on sale right now for $20
@IbstarYT2 ай бұрын
Epic just made it free too !
@jwb_6666 ай бұрын
CK3 feels soulless I bought it at launch and I wish I hadn't. It's just a bad game, it's shallow and honestly uninteresting when compared to CK2. Graphics and general improvements aside the game feels shallow and empty. And don't give me the DLC crap
@IbstarYT2 ай бұрын
I think the base is solid, though its been solid for years now. DLC is how paradox games get their legs but so far its been meh. I still havent felt like going back to it, hoping once the community overhauls are done in a few years ill be back.
@MattHorton7 ай бұрын
You liked the shop more than the Emo Kids? We are different people.
@WolfCop975 ай бұрын
I was a book club guy not gonna lie😂
@IbstarYT2 ай бұрын
Theres just something about building cool stuff in a garage that appeals to my soul.
@skiddyskiddz27 ай бұрын
I hate how everyone let this game flop. It seems to be picking up legs now like 2K predicted but it’s annoying af we’ll never get a sequel or season 2
@isidrohuicochea24324 ай бұрын
Story was crap you don’t show me johnny blaze and say no you can’t use him. To many plot holes
@mshake70564 ай бұрын
2k launcher and Denuvo made this game flop. Those kept me and so many others away for so long. The only reason I recently got it was I needed something to play on my steam deck
@IbstarYT2 ай бұрын
Game needed more time to cook, even with the free weekend its a hard sell for casuals and too slow for xcom fans. I enjoyed it dont get me wrong, but the faults are clear.
@roykong70247 ай бұрын
Thanks for your nuanced opinions, it's a bloody shame this game doesn't seem like it's getting a Season 2. I loved the blueprint and the idea. Just wished there was more to expect in the future.
@IbstarYT7 ай бұрын
Yeah I think if the game had maybe 1-2 years more time to cook they would have made a truly exceptional experience. Even as it is if you get over the slow cycles it’s really fun but just was not enough Still I am hopeful xcom 3 will be great !
@mmorpgal42297 ай бұрын
It was ome of my top games of 2022 and I liked it WAY more than Fire Emblem Engage.
@IbstarYT7 ай бұрын
Glad to hear, I tend to compare it more to xcom 2 and maybe with more time it could get to that level but as it is … just needed a little more
@arkosilaura7 ай бұрын
Well. Their next game wasn't a warhammer one, but it is a total war one.... and uh.. yeah no, they didn't learn anything, lmao.
@IbstarYT7 ай бұрын
At least it looks like they realised total war warhammer is where their resources should be, I mean cmon which idiot exec thought hyeanas would do anything for them.
@pukypr89648 ай бұрын
Game for me was 8 / 10 I like the game
@IbstarYT7 ай бұрын
Yeah I feel about the same tbh, wish it got more time to cook though could have been an easy 9 or 10 with more focused changes
@Arsylvos8 ай бұрын
I enjoyed the game and played through the entire DLC, had fun and enjoyed the story
@IbstarYT8 ай бұрын
Glad to hear it I think it’s a good game just with some changes it could have been great one. It’s defiantly not a bad game tho, shame we lost Jake Solomon for xcom 3 because of the sales for this game though :(
@sjsharp20078 ай бұрын
So have I I'v eplayed it multipl etimes even got a NG+run on the go atm. I twas one of my favouriet games from last year.
@shorts266 ай бұрын
I definitely had way more fun than I expected I'm going to get all the dlc
@stefemp8 ай бұрын
I loved the game
@IbstarYT8 ай бұрын
Did you come from an xcom background ?
@1stmorgoth2898 ай бұрын
i had a huge problem with the performance, but it looked generaly good. I had infact fun with the game for a couple of hours. Yet i had a huge problem with the battles itself. On the Pro side: i liked the charackters and there unique mechaniks, i even could live with the rng part of deckbuilding, On the negative side: the deckbuilding itself was very weak. And the tactical aspect of the fights was basicly nonexistend. Coming from xcom, and learning that positioning the various charackters is a key componant of the battle and seeing how unimportant positioning the charackters is made it less a strategie game and basicly just a weak, but pretty, deckbuilder. In conclusion, it might be a combinagion of various game mechanics but it doesn´t fuse them well and in evry single mechanic its weaker then the game its "copying". Sadly.
@IbstarYT8 ай бұрын
Damn your comment basically covers exactly how I felt about it too. I think the lack of stakes is something else that didn’t work, in xcom that fear of losing someone adds some tension to combat but here the only tension is if you need to repeat a section again so the stakes had to come from the story which didn’t happen either !
@sjsharp20078 ай бұрын
I don' tthin ki twas rtyin gt ocop y anything from Xcomthey were trying I thin kt omake a strateg gam ethat used superheroes rather tha nsoldiers it's wh ythe yditched the percentage system stuff an dthings lik ethat as generally superheroes don' t duck and dive for cover they confront the bad guys
@1stmorgoth2898 ай бұрын
@@sjsharp2007 if i ever see you writing i comment in this"style" again i will not bother reading it, regardless of the information it contains. to your point tho, but thats part of the issue. If you are right and they didn´t want to make a strategie game (to any decree) than you have basicly just deckbuilder and "persona simulator" left, and while i cannot speak for the second the deckbuilding part was bad. And you can see in the game that they tried to have it "tacticaly" with the movement and the enviroment, but that stuff hardly mattered at all. Ditching the Percentega stuff isn´t even a negative, strictly speaking, you can do that, if you do it right. And for superheros not duck and dive: Here it kinda gets into a whole other debate, but Humans die/get injured when something like a bullet hits them, so like in xcom they take cover, if you or a superhero doesn´t take cover i have to asume they don´t get injured from this bullets. In this game they do tho and many superheros do so to in comics and movies. Not giving me, or them, the option to defend them ultamatly means that inunivers they either are imortal, or don´t care whatsoever about their health.
@wampyrelli7 ай бұрын
@@sjsharp2007 Well said, horribly written :D
@RyansFine8 ай бұрын
Greatest IP? Bro, thats Pokemon. If we're talking sales. MCU barely cracks top 10 at 9. Even Barbie makes more money than Marvel.
@IbstarYT8 ай бұрын
Damn I looked it up and your right it’s only topped engagement metrics during the endgame years but otherwise Pokémon’s number 1. Wtf man they earn that much money and Pokémon games are this trash ?
@abacusite8 ай бұрын
Honestly? Combat was a lot of fun, and the card system worked well. But it felt like a mobile game shoehorned in to a full release on PC. Plus the drip-feed dlc heroes soured me on it too. Plus the main hero having predefined heroes once again. If we are gonna customise a hero let us customise th powerset. Marvel games are always so afraid to do that. That nuked reolayability.
@IbstarYT8 ай бұрын
Yeah you nailed it tbh, I know they included the hunters light/dark mechanic but it was such an afterthought and barely impacted the combat
@frozenangel74608 ай бұрын
Such a shame, if they just focused on the gameplay loop and implemented more interesting perks/powers and fully fleshed that out, instead of all the weird dating/friendship sim part. It would of been so good
@IbstarYT8 ай бұрын
Based off the interviews with Jake I read online it seems the friendship persona sim was the main thing and then they added the battle systems and loops around it … which is a little strange for an xcom studio
@Ottenskjold8 ай бұрын
I like it 😂
@IbstarYT8 ай бұрын
Yeah I mean it’s not a bad game by any means there’s a lot of good here but just held back by some weird decisions. Maybe another year or two of dev time might have helped here
@PicklesRTasty8 ай бұрын
It was extremely boring. It tried so many things and ended up doing none of them well.
@IbstarYT8 ай бұрын
I do think the combat was acc pretty good all things considered like there’s good variety and good difficulty options too and the animations all look good. But yeah as a complete package I get what they were going for it just needed another year or two of changes before launching
@janihelin81708 ай бұрын
The game was just tedious all around. Abbey felt empty and pointless combined with the slow running around collecting worthless junk. Horrible relationship minigame of match likes with character. Slow AF deck building with whole bunch of bad or clearly inferior cards you would quickly realize. Once you min maxed few characters to reasonable degree practically all battles ended in 1-2 turns on hardest difficulty. Slow re-rolling of cards to min-max with whole bunch of worthless modifiers. Slow grind for resources. slow cycle to get into battles with ton of empty running back and forth. Too small, simplistic and easy fights. Leveling system that encouraged ignoring majority of roster and focusing on select few. Writing ranging from bad to mediocre to absolute cringe definitely didn't help things either. It's a shame really. This could've been great game, but it just fell flat practically everywhere😢
@IbstarYT8 ай бұрын
Yeah it felt like it was trying to do too much, though a part of me wonders if there was some kind of liver service model they scrapped with the loot/store thing becuase it never made sense with how it worked. I did think the actual battles were pretty good though, I never made it close to max difficulty but found them pretty fun for the most part except the damn invis sniper. I’m guessing you’re a xcom vet right ? Prob long war one too ?
@TL8ez8 ай бұрын
Well maybe they shouldn't have made it into a fucking card game, screwing with some basic marvel story, grindfest and shitty denuvo.
@Raximus30008 ай бұрын
...That sounds like a gahcha game. What are the odds it was changed to console?
@TL8ez8 ай бұрын
It's not a gacha, card game is during the fights. It is grindy when you have to wait for days for some research, and the video already brought up the time passing problem because of how it works.@@Raximus3000
@IbstarYT8 ай бұрын
Tbh the card system reminds me a lot of the back4blood issue where it caused a lot of controversy even before the game came out. Then in reality it’s actually not that big of a problem at all, tbh they could have just made it like a perk ability system with hero’s having energy/stamina to use certain cards. I think by now it should be clear to big studios that card systems just don’t have a place in big games even if implemented well they push people away. Like that Witcher spinoff game I forgot what it’s called but it was awesome but nobody played it because it was a card style game .. thrones one not the gwent game that’s online only
@mshake70564 ай бұрын
All you had to say was Denuvo and we all would have understood to stay away from this
@_holy__ghost8 ай бұрын
welcome back!
@IbstarYT8 ай бұрын
:) Honestly its kinda crazy someone is actually following this channel given how tiny it is and how inconsistently I upload, means a lot thank you really made my night !
@_holy__ghost8 ай бұрын
@@IbstarYT glad to hear it! and dont worry about the views, just focus on making your insight as valuable to watch as possible and people will inevitably tune in. plus, your channel is a nice balance against all the +3 hour long video essays i watch. its nice to see someone whos able to actually make a point in 15 minutes or less.
@IbstarYT8 ай бұрын
I hope to one day make longer content where I can do in depth stuff for games like rimworld/wrath/BG3 but I have ways to go to get to that level.
@albertoizquierdo177111 ай бұрын
A lot of downvotes on this video 6 months ago and now, 6 moths later, withe Shadows of Change controversy, everyone is saying what you were saying back then
@IbstarYT8 ай бұрын
Yeah to be fair to the downvotes though the opening of this video is kinda .... negative/over the top since it was my first and I messed up the script so people assumed from the intro it was a hate video which was not the goal at all. Honestly I though back when I made it that we were finally gonna get the TWW3 I had been waiting for, so I wanted to talk about the issues the game still had at thatpoint, but with all the bs around creative assembly I still cant believe they fuked it up this bad. I was going to make a video about the layoffs/cancelled projects etc but tbh man I dont want to add to that drama, total war is one of my favourite games ever I just wanna see it back on top you know.
@8bit-ascii8 ай бұрын
@@IbstarYTIve just re-installed the game after quitting a couple days into the release. And it only took 1 fight for me to realise that the only thing i was looking for (good battles, with ai that does not run away/hide/stay idle on spawn) was still not implemented. Might just drop the game again…
@IbstarYT8 ай бұрын
Honestly with the engine they use I don’t think we will ever get good AI. What I really want is fleshed out campaign mechanics for all factions. Going from chaos/greenskin/skaven to like dwarf/lizard men feels terrible because there’s nothing to work on other than painting the map. Heck even on a smaller scale the difference between Cathy’s/tezzench and High elves ability to impact factions is crazy.
@borginburkes181911 ай бұрын
In CK2, no two playthroughs are ever the same. And I mean that. Your wife can get assassinated, you can become a cannibal during a famine and eat your entire family, your brother can revolt against you and put you in prison. But in ck3, no matter where you start, the same stuff happens every time. Not to mention the game is way too easy.
@IbstarYT8 ай бұрын
Yeah I came back recently to try out the new dlcs and it still feels like much of the same they need to add more events that actually mean something instead of these smaller ones that lead to nothing too.
@LilyLovecraft11 ай бұрын
-Gameplay changes for casual players based on limited and specific uses in competetive play are a glaring issue. -DPS healers were always a huge pain, now they introduced a "healer" whose main ult is damage effective only. -Nerfing and drastically changing the characters we loved and pretty much left it installed for. Overwatch doesn't know what it wants to be when it grows up, but it's 40 and clutching a bottle of cheap whiskey in its bathtub. I miss when it was fun, but I don't have high hopes.
@IbstarYT11 ай бұрын
Yeah I had notes that didn’t make the video on how blizzard basically removed a lot of cc from the non tanks away alongside damage buffs to healers. Overwatch always felt more like a really fun part game / casual experience than a balanced e sport title at its best now it’s just fun but not something I want to play for long periods like before Kinda reminds me of the dbd community complaining about swf/op content in a game without a real competitive mode leading to the devs killing meme perks/builds making everyone play the exact same build in the same way
@wudlorff188811 ай бұрын
blizzard is dead
@IbstarYT11 ай бұрын
Microsoft taking over so maybe they revive it, moving over to steam for all current + future games and making some quality content outside the games would be a great start ( not like halo show though )
@wudlorff188811 ай бұрын
i mean i hope so but just look at the state of halo, fable, banjokazooie, viva pinata, crackdown, or any other microsoft owned property. i'm not optimistic
@VolrinSeth Жыл бұрын
For some reason, the mega Immortal Empires game mode just can't hold my attention. Very quickly I will start auto-resolving most battles and soon after that, abandon the game.
@IbstarYT Жыл бұрын
Im guessing you played the other warhammer games before right ? Same for me, I didnt even try chaos drawfs much yet either will proboably pick up tww3 again in 2024 sometime when more dlcs/updates/changes/mods have come out
@VolrinSeth Жыл бұрын
@@IbstarYT Yes, I played the others. Their smaller maps might have made a difference.
@Patriksuccat Жыл бұрын
I was waitng to see some of Street Fighter Online: Mouse Generation, gameplay
@IbstarYT Жыл бұрын
WTF was this street fighter game, even for the spinoffs this this is an abomonation ... now I kinda wanna get an emulator to try it :p