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.

​@@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.

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.

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 !

Yeah but I wish it had more/did more still, maybe then more people would have enjoyed it.

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.

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.

Thank you ! If you have any constructive critisms/suggestions for how I make future ones that would be great.

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.

@@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.

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.

It defo had potential, but enough to justify a sequel over say xcom 3 I dont think so.

Lilith and hunter trapped in the book which dr doom has. The others are trying to free them / think they are dead.

It was even worse on release, sucked all the excitement out being blocked by network and connection errors for a single player game

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.

Bad launch, performance issues, xcom fans wanting xcom 3 etc But when the loop hits its defo one of the most satisfying games.

I concur I don't typically play strategy based games but this game addictive

Have you played xcom 2 ?

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.

I dont think they were that bad, but I wish they let mods change them more. Shame denuvo means thats not possible.

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.

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.

I just wished the social links went further, it was like they just got good and them bam there are done.

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.

Yeah, but for how restricted everything was it needed to be a bit more than ok.

True

Epic just made it free too !

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.

I was a book club guy not gonna lie😂

Theres just something about building cool stuff in a garage that appeals to my soul.

Story was crap you don’t show me johnny blaze and say no you can’t use him. To many plot holes

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

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.

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 !

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

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.

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

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 :(

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.

I definitely had way more fun than I expected I'm going to get all the dlc

Did you come from an xcom background ?

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 !

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

@@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.

@@sjsharp2007 Well said, horribly written :D

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 ?

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

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

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

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

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 ?

...That sounds like a gahcha game. What are the odds it was changed to console?

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

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

All you had to say was Denuvo and we all would have understood to stay away from this

:) 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 !

@@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.

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.

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.

@@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…

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.

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.

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

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 )

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

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

@@IbstarYT Yes, I played the others. Their smaller maps might have made a difference.

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