When you say the gameplay is a "total failure", I instantly start to pull back. Elements of the gameplay may be sub-par or broken, but calling it a total failure is hyperbole, and I start to distrust further critique. Then you said "digging up Roger Ebert", and that's enough for me to stop the video. I know it's been 8 years since you left this review, but hopefully you've moved past this amateur language.

I have played this game recently. I discovered the environmental puzzle very early and tried to find as much EPs as I can, before getting the first ending. And after that I did not touch it again. I know that I am not a very patient person after the games that I played. Therefore, I decided to stop. I experienced the amusement of all the other puzzles by watching speedruning video of the witness. And after your video, I am glad that I did it. I do enjoy the game, and honestly, the game is genious. I'm just so glad that my impatience helped me big time, this time. Thank you ser for the video!

Speaking of positive toxicity, one of the first things that leaked out in the creation of Concord, once again Joseph was right.

25:10 IT'S NOT THAT THE CAT IS BOTH ALIVE AND DEAD. IT'S THE OPPOSITE. The thought experiment was to show that quantum effects cannot be ruth golberged to object of non quantum size because then it would make no sense. Hence, a cat which is both alive and death is purely nonsensical. So even if the isotope machine is both emiting radition and not emitting raditiation, at some point, the scale of the quantum system would be to big, and would collapse to a specific option. ------ My notes/extra: Human observation have nothing special. Human observation is just one type of ruth golberg upscaling. The cat is another observation. Aka, the cat is doing an observation. Hence, an observer is just a ruth golberg machine of any kind. When you observe with your eyes the result of a quantum result logged through a computer/electronics/machine then both the original quantum object, the computer and the human's eye and brain and then human's body and then every action the human would make... are linked into it. At some point, it became too big. If any macroscopic object (~ a size you could see with your eyes ) would be in that box and be affected enough, it too would collapse the wave function. Said object would "observe" itself and its surrounding. But then theres the question, how does it collapse to one scenario, and when, and That is a complicated question. Maybe through a shit ton of math you could "understand it" in the concept of the copenhagen interpretation. But I didn't take master level course on QM so idk. One way to wrap your head arround it is: The hypothesis of the multiverse. Where the entire universe is in one big wave function, and each multiverse is in a possible option of it. Hence you just "discover" which universe you are in when you "observe" and you get stuck in that universe and its children. You can't go back. It's not really about multiverse, but more of an easier way to wrap your mind arround it. Other branches of physics also have a case where thinking of multiverse makes the phenomenon easier to wrap your mind arround it. Hence, even without evidence, it became popular. It's not a theory btw. Theories are proven. Theories are above Laws. Theories are a collection of Laws and many other things, which all work together perfectly.

Nice one with facade haha

Getgood evolves into Skillissue

So you don’t like these games. Pick another franchise to leech off maybe

I love it how i randomly remember those videos and watching it again and again and again…just love them

Dark souls 2 is better

For 40 dollars the dlc should have definitely not been unfinished and if this was full price sequel that wouldn't guarantee it would be finished either.

A few beasssssstsssssss

12 minute introduction

Uses “I do not like sushi” analogy* Proceeds to go on for nearly the entire video as to why you do not like the sushi the game provides*

where wimtcher?

I'm a witcher

Your insights into Elden Ring really capture the depth and complexity of the game👏 You’ve highlighted both the challenges and rewards in a way that makes me even more excited to dive back into the Lands Between. Fantastic work! 💯

Bro you’re terrible at taking criticism, good or otherwise. You only seem to accept pseudo-criticism which is just praise in thin-veiled disguise. Cringe hypocrite. And even if it were true, it nothing special, yet you gloating about it (when, again, it isnt even true)

bro I liked your video but don't address the non constructive criticism crowd. You make yourself look bad that way.

This is my first time trying to listen to this sarcastic dweeb….i lasted all of two minutes good bye

Do you maybe think that the fact you haven't played a game in, as you say, months might have had something to do with the fact that you thought this DLC was anything but a complete disappointment?

does this guy like any games?

I kind of liked how technically everything you did didn’t make a difference and how it’s still a really compelling story for all the characters. I think having a solution and exploring real choices would make the game more traditional. It’s really hard to pull of the impact this game did without focusing on action and decisions. Just pondering and empathizing. (Though totally agree with you about the gameplay!! Finally someone said it!!)

Sooo... When is part 3?

Honestly you really can’t talk about this game without talking about Martin Stig Andersen’s sound design and score

1:13:10 the impostor also poisons himself at that time so he doesnt really care if the recycler charge kills him or not anymore. I saw that when i removed the recycler charge in time so it doesnt go off.

WHERE THE FUCK IS THE WITCHER 3 VIDEO JOSEPH!?!?

When I first started playing Elden Ring, I kept drawing comparisons to Skyrim and thinking how it made this style of open world game actually interesting to me. Even as I found myself frustrated with the same issues you've expressed in both critiques. I hope the fix to the Elden Beast boss fight is the start of FromSoftware diverging from Bethesda's "let the fans fix it" mentality.

Elden ring sucks because of terrible button layout and atrocious dodge delay. LotF 2023 has an infinitely better button scheme, FS has absolutely zero excuse for what is clearly CONSISTENTLY lazy design choices. They are NOT ‘intentionally being vague’ they are just lazy.

3:07 i got to this spot and realized this guy has no idea what he’s talking about, he just spent 3 minutes just to say “this game is terrible because i had a bad experience with it”

Harsh

"Poor exploration rewards", aka "Why is it always mushroom?"

I'm discovering video games. It's the second time I stumbled upon your channel. First time was after I played the witness. I just finished Inside, for both games I feel like you expressed my exact feelings. Now I really wanna find a game you did enjoy so I can try it next.

"It has to be 40 hours!" -AI LLM trained on Joseph Anderson's videos asked if the Witcher 3 video has to be this long. I forgot where I saw it. But a youtuber made a video about AI LLM trained on celebrity and he gaslight Joseph AI that the witcher never existed. I still laugh at this whenever I think of JA.

51:30 ... oh boy. waiting for the disappointed Ragnarok review. it's as if they watched ur critique and said "no... fuck u."

Being less familiar with your content, I almost didn’t make it through that first part. I’m very glad I did, and I really appreciated your thorough analysis!

JOSSSEEEEEEEEPPPHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Man, after crawling around the cesspool that is Elden Ring community hearing the intro to this video is like having a healing spell placed on a wound. It's crazy how many people have a massive ego over playing the game for thousands of hours and studying every little fart the boss can make. Actual jobless behaviour.

11:25 what's wrong with you? 😂 The bird goes: mid, mid, high, mid, looow. There is one large, three mid sized and one small point on the board. SERIOUSLY?! it's two much to ask to see that, if you pick the large pne as high, there is no solution and picking the small one as high is what you entered! Oh... my... god!

9:47 if you don't understand that you start ON a branch and the only way roughly across branches to the exit is that one, you're challenged. That's it. Take a break, try again or give up. This game is not for everyone and that's fine. It's a challenge and i loved it. Nothing you can't solve by taking a break and taking a fresh look. Just like life.

8:00 probably simply means you're american. 😁

No way friede p2 is a pinnacle in anything ever Also personally love the long combo design especially prevalent in the dlc. Just executing the dodge mechanic feels great. My own critique instead is that any long form combo/aow from the player is practically always worse than dodge-hit on repeat. i have been proven this isnt objecticely correct by better players but its not something worthwhile nor fun for me to learn The last part could be applied to each point u make about "unavoidable" attacks. Your sad bitter conclusion deserves a similar conclusion in response: skill issue

It’s funny how things age. Comments from 7 years ago saying how the tomb raider game at the time sucked and the reviewer was brave for saying it. I didn’t play uncharted when it came out. I played 1 years ago but way after original release and the thought it was OK. I’ve jumped into 4 on PS+. I think it’s aged really badly - the combat is poor, there are way to many climbing sections, which (this isn’t the games fault at the time of release) are now chronically overdone, and the sliding “puzzles” involve you breaking the laws of gravity when it suits the game to jump across while sliding. I’m in Scotland and really struggling to get through this, even dropping the difficulty to light. (Struggling as in, finding the motivation to continue playing it) Whereas I played the tomb raider new trilogy a little while ago, and found them really fun to play, even if the story is questionable in the 2nd and 3rd.

Joseph Anderson has officially become George R.R. Martin

i've come back to this video multiple times - the first time I watched it was right after playing the game myself back in 2020. It was free briefly during that first lockdown, and once I finished the final challenge area I put the game down for good. I didn't enjoy it and only got that far for the sake of getting all the achievements. I didn't want to go through the torment of completing as many puzzles or finding as many secrets as possible, as cool as the secret puzzles can be or as fun as the regular puzzles are when they utilise the environment in a good way. It just wasn't for me, and that's okay. I appreciated this video because it echoed a lot of my sentiments about the game, and went further than I did and so gave me a sense of closure. Beyond that, it's a great video that is well-structured. I keep coming back because of that, and to remind myself of those very weird two days I spent playing this game that feel more like a fever dream than anything else. It's funny. I used a glitch to give myself infinite time in the final room of the challenge area. I opened up MSPaint as I looked over the pillar so I could map it out in a crappy little trackpad drawing. I still have that file saved somewhere. Random aside, but given the mention of using pen and paper and whatnot, it's just another shared experience.

Any chance for BG3 video? Keep up the quality work.

"Video editing - 80-90% done." my ass bruh

Every video is just you saying how nothing is challenging and everything is too easy bruh

my understanding of that Earl Stirling quest was he had already gone under facial reconstruction surgery thus no one recognizing him, making people assume he went messing. And the whole reason Doctor Crocker kills him is because Earl wanted to undo the surgery, offending the Doctor. I don't know. maybe it was that bad that I tried to rationalize it that way.

the left nostril is the important one, and your just bad at the game if you didn't notice that the six string combo is attached to the left nostril but the eight string is tied to the right. Git Gud Joseph.

Ive begun searching for meta puzzles irl. Save me