An Incompletely Accurate Summary of Atomic Heart

Lets be honest, the only thing people are going to remember positively from this game are the robot twins. You know why.
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[@ja0298]

Thanks, Williaso, for suffering through this so I don't have to.

[@tmi1234567]

I went into the game completely blind. I was very sceptical at first. My only real complaint was the no FOV at first. I really thought I would hate the FOV more I ended up getting used to it. I had no issues with crashing. The dialog gets better and I thoroughly enjoyed playing the game. "Suffering" is far from an accurate word to describe the game. I ended up enjoying the game more as time went on.

[@ja0298]

@@tmi1234567 alright

[@irishboy_pa]

He remembers it so we don't have to No wait that's not right

[@SnepBlepVR]

Yep. Not touching that. Its free but i dont care. Free aint worth this.

[@ja0298]

@@SnepBlepVR same. It crashes on my buddies pc.

[@chrono1728]

I LIKE THE GAME THERE I SAID IT. I see everything wrong with it and the longer I play the worse it gets. But, there's still something bringing me back. Maybe it's the "CRISPY CRITTERS!" He says every 5 minutes after he stops swearing... every... 5 minutes.

[@KalicoKal]

Yeah nah it’s the fridge she’s awesome but crispy critters might be my new substitute now😭

[@ilo3456]

@@Art__E Honestly I felt that it was a sort of pre-programmed phrase into P-3 because how unnatural it sounds, because I figured he was part of some sort of experiment because of the codename P-3, I have no idea what Crispy Critters is supposed to be

[@Art__E]

@@ilo3456 yeah His weird dialog and loyalty to the professor despite the red flags are explained with the ending

[@michaelwesten4624]

no, you are not allowed to have fun with video games in this console generation

[@NipplWizard]

No cap, lighting a smoke backwards is PAINFUL.

[@phantomdude9901]

I've done it too

[@gmofi8778]

Tastes gross and you waste a ciggy

[@da8197]

The cig wasn't backwards, it's a type of Russian cigarette that's short on the front and the back is white cardboard. Called papirosa. But yeah don't smoke filters

[@ToonamiT0M]

It's been a while since I played them, but I recall the first person melee combat in The Chronicles Of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay and Assault On Dark Athena games being very good.

[@NightRogue77]

Been more than a few games w I th excellent fpm combat

[@30cal23]

wait the chronicles of riddick had video games? WHAT CONSOLE I MUST PLAY THEM! (me and my mom before she died loved the riddick series) hell i think i still have my anime riddick movie (i forget the name but him jack and the muslim guy are kidnapped for some crazy lady to keep him on display)

[@ToonamiT0M]

@@30cal23 I think Butcher Bay was on the original Xbox, but I played both of them on Xbox 360 because they came together on one disk. I'd imagine they're also available on PC and one of the PlayStations. Maybe PS3? If you're a Riddick fan I highly recommend playing the games. They're fun and officially canon. Also, the animated film is called Dark Furry.

[@VAULT-TEC_INC.]

The Riddick games were awesome!! It’s graphics still hold up! Get Assault on Dark Athena for 360 because you get both games.

[@30cal23]

@@ToonamiT0M thank you bro

[@LOBricksAndSecrets]

My sympathies to Williaso for the Tankies in the comments section telling him why he was "wrong"

[@aringinspace]

This ^

[@robertbeja5291]

The worst part of this game is that it makes you genuinely not want to continue playing it the more you play it.

[@tmi1234567]

That's odd. I played though the entire game completely blind. As the story unveiled and I got used to the combat, I wanted to play more and more. The music is dynamically adjusted and there are some truly awesome moments.

[@tinfoil778]

Have you played it?

[@ZoraNextDoor]

Agreed, slow movement, and forced stealth an open world game isn't where its at. Now i do find the dialogue kinda funny (cussing and corny jokes are funny to me) But i cut them some slack because its the company first game

[@DrSpreadem_]

@@ZoraNextDoor there are like 4 movement upgrades in the character skill tree and there are vehicles in the open world. What more do you want? This isn't titanfall 2

[@xDARTHxMOx]

@@ZoraNextDoor You also have to consider that most Americans are spoiled regarding games, us Americans get games for cheaper and also get triple-A games. Another factor for dialogue is that the game is native Russian so in English it doesn't sound like what we're used to. Although I would agree the game has too many glitches and should've been released after more testing.

[@DrChiefgame]

Can’t wait to see your upcoming CAS project of The Callisto Protocol and yeah I do agree that Atomic Heart has terrible dialogue

[@unnameddude9325]

Will didn't break this one. It was broken on its own I swear

[@andrewowens4421]

Ain't gonna lie, the robot twins are the best part of the game.

[@FadedMaple07]

100%. Devs knew what they were doing. To distract us from the horrible dialogue and plot.

[@Metz_the_butcher]

SImp

[@haka-katyt7439]

6 hours

[@AC-hj9tv]

Step on me robo mommy

[@kennethpeterson7524]

Thank you for being as annoyed as I am by the way the character opens that glass door.

[@apcsox]

Same. I actually said the same thing out loud at that point in the game 😂

[@jambojomes4955]

They could of easily made the rowboat and flying sequence controllable by the player and allowed you to see or skip as much as they wanted. And they make you ride the elevator, just to get a key and then take it all the way back down again.

[@alexfranz817]

Issac hacking up corpses makes sense because they might get up and try to eat you.

[@ilo3456]

I had a good amount of fun, but that is also because I didn't run into any bugs at all, and was not bothered by the FOV. I enjoyed the combat once I got into the flow for me, but it definitely took a while, the fact that my playthrough was so problem free makes it so I still remember it sort of fondly even it it was not the best.

[@Logan7281X]

The only thing I liked about the first 20 minutes, was discovering that I could completely dismember the dead bodies.

[@josephhobbs4680]

People who buy the game on day one without looking at videos or reviews are what is killing this industry.

[@PrinceSheogorath]

Yea only played for the robot twins.

[@codybanks2006]

I agree with a lot of what you said. That being said i got a good couple chuckles from the dialog, and enjoyed the combat a little. i dont know why you had so many crashing issues. I didnt crash once and i just finished the game.

[@SaiyanDemon]

It’s like wolfenstein but with what if Soviet Union never dismantled instead of what if NONO Germany won ww2

[@twisted_fo0l]

Soviet wolfenstien if you played as deathshead

[@demnbrown]

9:40 is Is giving me some hard bioshock infinite vibes I'm talking about like straight up Columbia's intro

[@donder172]

Will we get a completely accurate summary of Atomic Heart?

[@Williaso]

This is what you're getting, I'm never touching this game again

[@donder172]

@@Williaso Fair enough.

[@KalicoKal]

@@Williaso stop touching the fov slider nobody else is crashing 😭please finish the game I actually like it and was excited when I thought it was the completely accurate or play it on console it’s on gamepass hopefully you won’t have to re buy it for that

[@Colossalj77]

fucking genius of you to do a summary and then use the exact same footage for the next 12-15 minutes and still have people watch it, not being sarcastic it just fits the channel and the quality of the game so well

[@natev7870]

Bioshock but mid

[@xx313bryxx5]

And horny

[@Rediipandaii]

Basically

[@KaiserKrow202]

Not even mid, just awful.

[@gaberabobber448]

I knew about this game years ago, didn't know if it would actually come out

[@JohnNichols566]

I literally uninstalled after the first 45 min, which 40 of is dialogue, but then realizing the shotgun sucks so I gave up lol

[@dogium3332]

Not even a game like Skyrim or New Vegas crashes that often.

[@captaintre44]

I’m like 12+ hours in And the game crashed twice for me and that was like pre release because I moved my location to New Zealand

[@DirtyDann-lw3ub]

Love the long ass cutscenes

[@shrike3771]

It was nice seeing this weird b-movie with you Williaso. I have no idea what the hell was going on. But it was enyojeable.

[@TK-7193]

my heart going atomic when i see the robussy:

[@AC-hj9tv]

Pneumaticussy

[@FiauraTheTankGirlGamer]

No, as a person who speaks Russian as a second language, NO it doesn't sound better; it sounds worse.

[@friendlyfire3412]

Extra Salt to the Wound huh?

[@FiauraTheTankGirlGamer]

@@friendlyfire3412 yep!

[@raptorsquad2223]

Tron Legacy was amazing. Plot was good, and characters were great

[@eggsman63]

I felt personally attacked by what will said, it was my favorite childhood movie. I still watch it from time to time.

[@toseeupload8855]

The babe was hot for sure. Quite enjoyable childhood movie

[@over9000713]

my FIRST complaint was how long the paddle boat ride was... I literally thought i had to stay out of suspicion (because it was going slow) until I realized I wasn't controlling the boat I got to the "attempt at making grandma badass but failing in every way" and lost my entire ability to play it because of how boring it was.

[@jorb333]

What's the fov slider tool you used?

[@ozker5448]

Flawless Widescreen

[@jamescarranza420]

Gotta say I don't really care what anybody says because what they have to say is pretty fucking true and I find a lot of it hilarious I just really enjoy this game it was worth the anticipation it was worth the wait and it's worth the many many deaths i'v totalled so far.

[@Williaso]

Exactly as it should be, you're enjoying the thing and acknowledging it's shortcomings, and enjoying it despite them.

[@Pinkmusak]

I do agree that it will be more of a cult classic. I do enjoy the game, and I hope Mundfish will make better games as they keep going.

[@dragarasavuros8054]

so the game forces you to play a no death run i guess?

[@soulishere3869]

well the xbox app on PC is trash. Got the game on Steam and has never crashed on me.

[@bobthecube]

There was an ad that was talking about nuclear bomb threats before this

[@lukasbuhler1359]

What rig are you running? I swear every new game you play crashes multiple times.

[@Williaso]

It's almost like it's the game's fault.

[@lukasbuhler1359]

@@Williaso Lmfao imagine a world where you can actually play games

[@Williaso]

@@lukasbuhler1359 I play plenty of other games with 0 issues lol

[@zalkor2000]

Ah so thats what happens to Kyle Crane in the end of Dying Light: the following if you choose the nuke option, He wakes up on a weird paddle boat on Russia's version of Columbia from Bioshock Infinite. (The V,A who voiced Kyle Crane voiced this guys english dialog)

[@pyrosomebody]

Hell yeah I have been waiting for this since the cluster of a stream

[@stinkypzzbby]

Played it, gameplay was cool, game is missing FOV slider or something to make the text bigger, soundtrack was amazing, story was wack, list goes on. crashes for everyone but only once for me. Overall I rate it a good 6/10

[@muddysudz6550]

I like this game for its music

[@D748]

Russia’s Soviet-Fiction Skyrim sure is one of the games of all time.

[@Ghost-dd9ns]

i always watch you and i wonder how your games crash so often, i played atomic heart from launch and it never crashed?

[@Williaso]

Me too.

[@ZombieBunny0095]

the ballerina twins are the only reason anybody is talking or playing this game

[@AC-hj9tv]

Ballerinussy

[@pdq114]

everyone likes cookies, I like cookies, I want a cookie, give me cookies!!

[@shanemcdowell3628]

Good 1st person melee combat is such a rarity, and I've only seen it with Kimgdom Come Deliverance. That game is great.

[@xtanagaming1017]

It's popular because of the robotitties. No one will admit it, but we all know it's true.

[@Suzukibob69]

I predownloaded this on my Series X, and when it came out I went to play it but it needed another 65GB update and I decided to just delete it. Glad I did 😅😂

[@captaintre44]

Tbh I’m having fun and I’m almost done with the game.

[@revvol1776]

It has been confirmed they are gonna make 4 new dlcs of gameplay that takes place 2 in the past before the accident, 1 present and one is in the events after this

[@NipplWizard]

Been thinking about buying AH. Tell me. Does the combat gameplay at least balance out all the gripes in the video? Like idc about dialogue if the gameplay loop is good. Like Hogwarts Legacy has some weird dialogue too, so whats your analysis?

[@captaintre44]

@@NipplWizard to me the combat is very similar to OG bioshock. All the weapons kinds start off dukey but the more I play the more fun I have

[@captaintre44]

@@NipplWizard imo I having fun. I have my problems with the game but the combat is actually good. Using your glove powers and combining with guns Is fun

[@NipplWizard]

@@captaintre44 see that right there is good enough for me to go ahead and buy. Unless its advertised as a narrative heavy game then I'm really only in it for the mindlessness of combat. Thanks.

[@jmoore112344]

The game runs pretty well on console so it's probably just an optimization issue.

[@ghostspyder9109]

Console has all the options your missing. I am so sorry you have suffered this way.

[@AdultingWithoutSupervision]

Don't feel bad I had trouble playing the game too, not because it kept crashing but because it sucks

[@thatdudeinasuit5422]

When Google Translate is responsible for your dialogue:

[@toseeupload8855]

Dude's game constantly crashing is the funniest shit ever 😂

[@dr._breens_beard]

To be fair.. ANY fps game, even from yesteryear, without an fov slider on pc ports should have their devs and publishers fined. The pain from motion sickness and migraines is indescribable to people who dont experience it. And no "just dont buy it" isnt an excuse. Unless its specifically stated to not have one in advertising or descriptions on the store pages, refusing to purchase is not a solution.

[@smeagollumartin]

TRON legacy plot and writing is unfairly misremembered as being bad

[@revvol1776]

I didn’t find it mid I thought it was fun and worth my money I didn’t go into it with any expectations and tbh I am happy they are making dlc the steam reviews don’t lie. I hope they keep making more

[@JudgmentAkky]

Dlc? WOOOOO! Same tbh, I played it mainly for the robot booba but also cause i saw quite a lot of cool little features were in it, didn’t encounter any problems actually, played the game, beat the game, and pretty much enjoyed it.

[@revvol1776]

@@JudgmentAkky yeah they are making 4 dlc for the game, 2 in the past before the events of the game, 1 during and 1 after

[@JudgmentAkky]

@@revvol1776 cool

[@rexrip1080]

15:15 There has been a good first person melee combat game. It is called Dark Messiah and it is one of the best kicking simulators out there!

[@Williaso]

The kick is fun, I'll give you that, but overall I'd still count that as not good melee combat.

[@embersaffron5522]

Dying light and Dead Island i'd put up there, takign zombie gourds and turning them into paste is so much fun

[@874dan4]

@@Williaso what about dying light?

[@Williaso]

@@874dan4 What ABOUT Dying Light? I've talked at length about how I feel about Dying Light.

[@mikewade777]

The only time I enjoyed first person melee combat is modded Skyrim... Since by a single click i go third person in a melee battle and take advantage of perspective an animation... Then back to first for no crosshair archery.

[@irishboy_pa]

7:06 it's not a bug. It's a feature 😂😂

[@jameznpc]

it probably kept crashing because you forced fov

[@kylekomicbro1836]

Again, turn colorblind mode ON because games have that option, William

[@Williaso]

Pretty sure this one didn't

[@rats703]

At least my ear isn't stuck

[@CrusaderTheFirst]

This game suffers what I like to call "Resident Evil Village Syndrome" The waifu material is more memorable than the product itself. However in this game's case, it's even worse because Resident Evil Village was received as a good game. Atomic Heart on the other hand was received poorly or at the very least mixed.

[@makzammo]

i think the voicelines were Russian but they were put through Google translate for the US copies of the game

[@skramerwrites]

I'll say the Xbox console version of this wasn't nearly this buggy or crashy. But, yeah, it's definitely not for the faint of heart.

[@fangsith9796]

I actually enjoyed the game but disliked the endings. Bosses seemed a little to tanky at times, even on normal. It has its enjoyable moments, such as the theater. I also enjoyed the puzzles, felt like it played like RE Village.

[@captshavers]

Vermintide did great melee combat

[@Williaso]

Sure, in a void where third person melee games don't exist. Vermintide's combat is FINE. It's not GREAT.

[@nickbriggs8059]

It's free and that's there first red flag

[@Williaso]

It's not free, it's $70. It's on gamepass, but that's also not free.

[@juice6521]

No FoV sliders and broken Vsync. Don't summon the ghost of Totalbiscuit.

[@campbellhansen7533]

Honestly, welcome to an indie tutorial level, with a high graphical budget.

[@campbellhansen7533]

That’s also (I think) release atomic heart, when the game had issues on Windows mainly. Iirc, console releases were fine, as with most of Steam, but something happened with Windows.

[@campbellhansen7533]

Also, man has issue with the humor… when it was made and written by Russians… mostly in Cypress because they were understandably against the russo-Ukraine war. Straight up, it’s mostly Russian humor, which translates like shit to American humor. (And need I say, the game paints communism as run by fuckin idiots.)

[@campbellhansen7533]

What we have here is a common issue with foreign made games, made by a company not run and backed by an international gaming corporation. Localization is hard to do, and “exact translation” as this would be called, sounds horribly uncanny. It honestly is better to play the game in Russian, with English subtitles (which I do believe is an option).

[@campbellhansen7533]

13:54 and small note here: that cig is because “this is Soviet era,” and the white there denotes the filter… pretty sure Russian branding is the same way.

[@bezier108]

I bought the game for the art style, rest is pretty bad but I’m happy with my purchase

[@riley9464]

the absolute worst thing about the shitty lockpicking is that it also has normal lock picking and it's also dog shit

[@apcsox]

The dialogue kills it for me. Like. I didn’t really mind the rest, but, I’d prefer a silent protagonist over this 12 year old sounding humor.

[@Bieszczady_.Archiwum]

it crashes more than gmod this is impresive

[@pargaras]

I gave up when I got to the weird plant tentacle boss. Also you can't review tutorials you skipped and can't check the controller layout to find out what buttons do.

[@joeysimunds6352]

Sorry Will, you torture yourself for our entertainment. I sympathize in your frustration

[@dimitrigaribay6135]

I finished the game, enjoyed it. Only crashed once. Bad luck I guess.

[@omarkumar8036]

I enjoyed the game. No issues for me.

[@Somegoy]

So robot thot bioshock but horrible game that looks beautiful. Got it

[@azzaprime7257]

You should try out Red Steel 2 on the Wii. FPS with Melee combat and done really well.

[@bricktobot]

I quite like the game, however, I did not have the game crash every time I died, and I would also have a sour opinion toward the game aswell.

[@Darth_Wader07]

To your point about no good first person melee combat, I will rebut that with Dishonoured, that game is the only good first person combat melee i've ever played.

[@Williaso]

As I've said to the others who've chimed in- it's passable, but not better than a good third person melee game. I'm not comparing them in a void. No first person melee holds a candle to third person melee

[@Darth_Wader07]

@@Williaso Yeah fair enough, first and third person melee combat are two completely things

[@mh1ultramarine]

have you tried useing a controler. I booted it via the xbox app and I would only let me look around, had to use wasd keys to move

[@TheGrimFormOfLuck]

Will you go back to play this if. Big if. The game gets fixed?

[@Williaso]

No.

[@Mr_Cognito]

1:58 Felt that (I didn't end up unlocking anything and I'm currently stuck)

[@rtasvadam1425]

Basically halo 5 with halo 4 Cortana

[@darkreflection9087]

I’m find the robots interesting kinda reminds me of Fallout robots

[@simp4iniquity26]

Fallout robots better

[@patrickemery6947]

fisto and the robot twins got something in common

[@Boxfortress]

Welp. Thanks game pass for the free download but damn seems like it's not even worth the disk space. And thanks Will for playing this so we don't have to.

[@badmedicine1977]

I pretty much just watch these videos so that I know what games to play.because dollars to donuts the games he hates are going to be dumb mindless fun

[@Maxtech50]

ive been playing it and honestly its pretty fun ive had no performance issues luckily (woooo xbox) but the dialogue is really bad unfortunatly but its funny bad so at least its entertaining. maybe i should switch it to russhian just to see if it feels better to listern to. and a really annoying thing is the dialogue jumps ahead if u do things too fast. but like normal people speed? so it tells you to pick something up as ur being given story info so u pick it up and it skips the lines to the lines after u pick it up, so ive missed quite afew stroy points because im fast?? but overall i am enjoying it! XD

[@captaintre44]

The dialogue reminds me of Metro 2033 not the redux where they got a good VA for artyom I mean the OG one

[@phantomdude9901]

I agree with all the cons to the game, I found it fun but my bar for gaming is a bit low tbh

[@booperdooper1790]

I've been playing this game at home on my Xbox because it's free. I do agree the dialog is stupid and some parts drag on too long but I do have to say and it's probably because I'm on Xbox but I didn't have any crashes at all. And I've noticed that about a few games we're they crash all the time on PC but on Xbox their fine

[@romansaldana2923]

The only game I've had crash on me for my Xbox was literally Titanfall 2 and that was it. Never happened again.

[@mar71n32n0v1lLL0]

"First person is so janky" when talking about melee... There's a reason for that. Have you actually seen any professional-level melee combat match IRL? It's perhaps more "elegant" and refined than what you see in a videogame, considering limitations, but there's rarely any twirling around and doing pirouettes like you would see in a third-person videogame. In armed combat, turning your back on an enemy even for a split second can spell doom for you, despite doing it to perform a cool spinning attack or anything of the sort... Only places one can still perform some kind of acrobatics is in martial arts, and just barely, if there are moves included in your style that require such movement. And you know why is it possible, if barely so? Because it is done in a heavily regulated situation, such a sparring or competitive match. Just watch a MMA match and count how often a fighter performs even a spinning kick, which is the most common and less intensive acrobatic attack in martial arts in general...

[@AC-hj9tv]

Ok American gladiator

[@argostar3423]

"bUt ThE gAmE lOoKs GoOd" people who say this I wish would shut up. Graphics don't mean shit if the game doesn't work

[@joka264]

While the fov slider being gone is weird. The crashing was because of the scanner fix in flawless widescreen. I experienced it too on day of launch. But after that was patched the day after launch I literally played through the rest of the game in one sitting, the ending is lack luster but otherwise I enjoyed the game.

[@iU0n]

So does anyone have a fix for the crashing because I have the same issue

[@EmpPeng2k7]

The opening feels like HL1

[@rhysthecreator4065]

tbh the only thing I found annoying about this other than the no FOV slider, would be the parkour bits, the parkour just sucks , most of the time the reason for the parkour being hard to do is just it being broken and annoying to do, other bits of the game where fine in my opinion, combat is hard at the start obviously, get easier by upgrading weapons, should have had more movement upgrades like more dash though, definitely needed sprinting as well, other than that all that its just dialog, its goofy af half the time and just funny, cant take it seriously alot of the time

[@aggelosaggelos5696]

where is the flashing effects and more memes per second than glaezed donuts per bald eagle?(max0r joke)

[@revvol1776]

Also I don’t understand the problem with it not having an fov slider honestly it has less bugs than most modern fps games and I tend to play games on the default settings so it’s all up to personal preferences I had fun

[@Williaso]

I get motion sick.

[@olliecarter8757]

@@Williaso cope 😘

[@SaltDoesArt]

@@olliecarter8757 Shut up my guy. There's absolutely NO reason for a modern FPS on PC to not have an FOV slider.

[@gasmaskgaming7550]

@@SaltDoesArt it should have an fov slider on console

[@rexrip1080]

It is basically done by adding another camera with a path fixed to the character model, it takes 10 minutes to do in Unreal...