Engineer here, don’t worry we didn’t went to school for that either

This video perfectly illustrates my favorite part of Satisfactory's game design. The tutorial is unintuitively set up to teach you the wrong way to play the game, which you think would be a terrible decision, but it actually cleverly highlights how fun the right way to play the game really is. From that point forward using the crafting bench almost feels like a punishment, and automating everything makes you feel smart.

Another poor soul that goes from building a factory to becoming part of it.

Great video

Heh, this guy hasn't even made it to coal power yet :P Basically still in the tutorial

2:44 new fear unlocked That noise haunts me.

That is how they get you. Always remember the mantra: The factory must grow!

Yarp

Very Nice video 😊

engagement!

Great you started too, I began in 2020 and never stopped - played a lot of mods and now restart with the clean 1.0! I can tell, it is an amazing game that made me happy for thousands of hours ;) yours Kai from Germany

Your opinion doesn't hold up. Go away.

Skill issue

Listen, man, you gotta be kidding me with this take! I’m with everyone else on this one-it’s a skill issue, It’s hard as hell to master, sure, you’re gonna screw up a bunch, but that’s the whole point! And for a game this old? It looks amazing, like, you’re gonna tell me this doesn’t hold up against today’s games? Get outta here

You get better with practice

if you think 5 mins is long i feel sorry for anyone who chooses to sleep with you

Lmao get ratio'd

>drops ascetically gorgeous game with truely one of a kind gameplay mechanic >only makes the game 4 hours long >moves on and never explores this concept ever again >refuses to elaborate or acknowledge its existence ever again (i know mirrors edge catalyst exists but i never tried it) why are companies like this?

bro you fucking suck, how can you be so bad, seriously like not even 1/10 gameplay, youre not supposed to either fight or run, you're supposed to run around and fight the opponents that get in your way

Play with a keyboard and mouse next time, will be better

This is the worst take on Mirror's Edge I have ever had the misfortune to experience. You keep smashing your head into a wall and blaming the wall.

Skill issue

skill issue

I wholeheartedly agree with this video. I played a couple of bits and pieces of Mirror's Edge on a friend's XBOX 360 growing up, and I thought it was fun at the time. A couple years ago I decided to finally launch the steam version I bought like a decade ago. It does not hold up. The parkour itself is hit or miss, and sometimes Faith just straight up doesn't grab onto the thing you're looking at and jumping towards. The combat is very bad, like it was designed to be something you do in only a last-ditch effort. Also, character models look absolutely horrible. It is a product of its time and I appreciate what it did for movement in singleplayer games, but yes, it is extremely dated.

I'm not entirely sure you understood the combat. 2:37 You say "You can run or you can fight" but you're supposed to run and fight. In order to be successful in the combat you need to blend parkour and attacks together to keep the momentum going and ensure you're dealing a lot of damage while minimizing the amount you take. 2:16 you say its ludicrous that faith can punch out a swat guy while being physically very small but she actually can't. And you literally show footage of her being unable to overpower a swat guy and getting killed in the process. Faith is only effective in combat when you use your speed and surroundings to your advantage. 3:18 I do however agree with this though some of the late game level design makes certain areas difficult to navigate when you haven't played before.

Mad cause bad fr

dude you just suck at it

skill issue. still a masterpiece.

0:45 You hate cages, yet you live in a cage. Curious.....

Boring game. Slow af

>Did not get the hang of combat > says it sucks Ok bro

Is that a review of Mirror's Edge or skill issue's edge ?

It was controversial when it came out because of all those criticisms. Either you get it or you don't. Top 5 game of all time IMHO.

This is a miss. It's not the game's fault that you cannot play it properly. Git Gud.

It's pretty interesting to see the new generation of gamers trying to assess older games. Mirror's Edge was the first high-mobility FPS game. There was NOTHING quite like that at the time. Saying it doesn't hold up in 2024 is like saying Quake doesn't hold up in 2024. You're not reviewing a game but a major milestone in tech and media, it needs context.

That pre-baked lighting really does still look damn good to this day. It's a shame most developers are going for very compute-heavy dynamic lighting on every damn little things, and foregoing strong art direction.

Firstly, welcome to the game essay/discussion sphere! Always nice when KZbin recommends new channels. I respectfully disagree with you though. From looking at your footage there's a fair bit of "git gud" here. The game discourages combat by way of it being bad - you're meant to run, not pick up a gun and start shooting back. Absolutely, it probably exists because of some thumb-sucking, suit-wearing exec but running is the core of the game, not shooting. It's about flow, running from one object to another (hence the red highlights to guide you), not gun-fights. Hopefully you give the game another chance sometime, just run from the enemies, don't engage.

I hate to be brutally honest but I'm just gonna come out and say it. I think the reason you disliked this game is because you're not very good at it. Most of the clips you provided were not at all flattering lol. The goal of the game is to get from point A to point B in the quickest way possible, not the flashiest way possible. I saw you vault over objects unnecessarily or miss other objects which would help you vault to a better position multiple times. Having said that, I'll agree that the combat feels like an afterthought, but trust me when I say the sooner you treat it as such, the sooner you can enjoy the rest of the game. The combat is MEANT to be avoided. Take a guy out, pick up his gun, shoot the other guys quickly, drop the gun, keep running. You don't have to engage with every single enemy you encounter, and it's heavily recommended that you don't. The only part of the game where the combat feels like complete bs is the final mission in the server room, I have to admit. I highly recommend playing this game on PC btw, MnK specifically. It's much easier to aim weapons and look towards where you want to go than the angle-snapping movement you get from using a controller. Your motion sickness can be easily attributed to the FOV. Unfortunately, FOV is locked on both console and PC version, but you can download a mod to widen it (and also unlock the fps, enable ultrawide resolutions, etc.). Yeah, I know modding is technically cheating in this argument, but it is a valid solution to your problem. Give the game another try with an open set of eyes and try not to compare it to modern titles. You might enjoy it.

honestly disagree with the fighting mechanics. I only played this game once or twice back in the day but I had a lot of fun with the gun fights, you could easily disarm opponents, the game purposely doesnt give you a reload so youre forced to run to the next guy with parkour and disarm him. You were using parkour as your advantage and this loop of gun and run was fun. At the time I remember wishing for a shooter with parkour mechanics so bad, something that is in most shooters now.

I played this a long time ago as well, and while the combat was never a focal point, it seemed like you did the worst combat ive seen in this game. Idk if that was intentional, while rough, there are decent ways to keep the momentum rolling in combat. You used no parkour to gain speed and knockout combatants, which is like the entirety of what mirrors edge combat is supposed to be. I agree with combat being overall lackluster, but it can be infinitely more fun than the way you played it in the clips shown.

2:41 "Run and it becomes a game of trial and error" What game isn't a game of trial and error? what's wrong with that? Half of the game really isn't combat. You can run past the vast majority of enemies. The focus is really only in the parkour, with the combat being an alternative very situational option, and it's really not hard as you make it sound, remember that there's a parry that disarms any enemy in one hit, but I see you run into the enemies and repeatedly punch them until something happens. That's really blunt and not the point of the game tbh. Comparing it to batman or titanfall 2 is a big stretch. Batman is focused on fighting, and the fighting in that game is even dogshit tbh. Titanfall has wall sliding but it's ultra unrealistic and very abusable and very small parts of its gameplay actually revolve around parkour. Mirror's edge is an odd game, but it's decent in its oddity. The oddity being that it's centered on parkour rather than combat, and you just don't seem to like that oddity. It's fair if you don't like it, but you are analyzing it from the wrong perspective.

I wanna preface this by saying I’m not trying to be an asshole. but your complete inability to keep a flow going is astounding. Not ONE clip you showed demonstrated the gameplay properly. and while the combat IS bad it can almost entirely be avoided except for a few select points. The game is almost entirely climbing, not 50% fighting? You missed on this one ngl. The sound track is great, the graphics hold up while running around, there really ISNT any competition other than its sequel (Batman, really?) and when compared to the hundreds of standard fps games coming out at the time, I think it deserves more than this.

Bro, if you are bad in the game dont mean its bad

I'd love to see more, and possibly play with you :)

Hey man I'd be your friend in a second video. Got Discord?

AND ITS KRAFTON WITH THE STEEL CHAIR

Whelp... it seems the newest DLC update has broken the game for a lot of people. Please note, this review was made before that happened. 😡 Hopefully they get the game straightened out soon.

this was really damn unfortunate to see in my recommended :(

i like your vibes dude. nice video and yeah lets hope something good comes off hifi rush now that the studio got bought.