Angry Game Developer Accuses Reviewers of Not Playing His Game

[@Gogo32monkey]

I mean I suppose he might have a point. If certain reviews talk about things that aren't even in the game, then that's a very strong sign the reviewer isn't doing his job properly.

[@colecrouse754]

It appears that no reviewers actually said anything that wasn't in the game other than the building fires which does seem like a minor slip up because there are tons of games where fires/campfires are used in the same way that sleeping spots in Ancestors are used. It's like if I were to be reviewing Jedi Fallen Order and call the Meditation Points a Bonfire. It's really not a big deal. Also by reading the review, it is very clear that the reviewer did play the game. Seems like this developer is actually making comments about reviews he didn't read.

[@Nnothingg-]

@@colecrouse754 but the resting spot is piling up grass to sleep on it there is no fucking fire involved

[@TreyeParker]

The situation similar to death stranding and some other game. Shaking my head

[@raklibra]

Go Patrick for calling the reviewers out. I would be mad too, because it’s a lose-lose situation. That site did the right thing in owning up to the mistake. It’s sad that now as a smaller company there’s some things you just can’t do, but looking forward to Panache.

[@thelastone0001]

I get my gaming and movie reviews from youtubers. Professional critics are dishonest and out of touch

[@kreempa.i.8349]

Hey I had the same profile pic. Garou Is daddy

[@Dragonking1984]

You think KZbinrs are better? They get paid to "review" things all the time. Sponsorships etc. Look it up and be horrified has there have been several that admitted that they were offered $ to give something a positive review. Some turned down the offers some took the offers. More of the later then the former though.

[@GECKman88]

IGN gives your comment a 7 out of 10, really a terrible score. You should be ashamed.

[@Cavs191]

GECKman88 but the critics r right here. This game isn’t very good especially considering the very deep zoo type game that just came out also makes this ancestors game feel shallow and empty

[@MW-ty5zw]

The term is 'professional shill'.

[@thinkingmachine354]

When I look for reviews for a game I just watch a bunch of KZbin videos. I can get a better sense of how the game looks and plays as well as everyone’s thoughts on it.

[@thesedays1985]

Yes, a 10 minute gameplay video on mute is better than a review most of the time.

[@thinkingmachine354]

MrBrimstone Not that I’ve done that but I’d like to agree.

[@annabella1650]

KZbin vids tend to be the best go-to for reviews, because you’re at least going see how the game plays. A person can claim a given game is great, but they usually cannot actually hide how it actually plays.

[@annabella1650]

GhostFZ 62 Thats true, but if there’s no demo then the next best thing would be a Let’s Play or review. I’m not going to say that reviewers don’t pull shite, but generally speaking you don’t get a bunch of them working together to take down a game on KZbin.

[@thinkingmachine354]

GhostFZ 62 that’s why I watch multiple reviews. The opinions may be different and some of them may go into details neutrally. If there is also a free demo I always try that first, sometimes without watching a review.

[@gamingforpizza5142]

I would be surprised if game "journalists" actually play games.

[@kubbykush420]

You could say that about development as well.

[@taxuenowoz4038]

Kubby Kush you really just want to shit on him don’t you?

[@NeThZOR]

@@kubbykush420 that is not comparable at all. logic nonexistent here.

[@thebaconsonful]

He kind of has a point. Gone are these days of developers being hardcore gamers.

[@Twiggymaster666]

I didn’t play it but then again I didn’t care for it

[@michaelfont7239]

@Logic maybe not.Why are you so hostile.Need to relax a little ;)

[@MerlautJones]

All you lads need to watch some Miss Raquel, she'd loosen you up.

[@michaelfont7239]

@@MerlautJones lmfao ;)

[@MrHendrikje]

"I have played for an hour, What do you want me to do" - 1 hour? Really? 1 full hour? Poor little boy. I'm so glad he doesnt work in IT. he'd be terrible. Did that reviewer actually give a low score because of his own stupidity? What do you mean "What do I have to do?" what kind of a question is that? The game is called "Ancestors, the humankind odyssey" AKA You start out as an ape, who has to survive, build a community, protect said community and thrive where ever he or she can. You as the player have to do that You know, Survive? Find a place to live, how teporary it may be, Build shelter, teach your community members where its needed, build a suitable place for them to live and such? I'm sorry If you can't figure out how a survival game works you maybe weren't the reviewer suitable for this game at all. That person clearly has no idea what he is talking about. That reviewer should play games from a decade or 2 ago, I want to know how he reviews some of the more popular games for those times. You won't get told what to do at all, not in the slightest. Just... figure it out until you succeed.

[@KristianKumpula]

Too high expectations? All I've seen were rather low exceptations. That certainly was the case for me.

[@lwaves]

Seems to me like the dev was the one with too high expectations. Seems like he wanted AC numbers and didn't like it when it didn't happen, which of course is everybody's fault but his own.

[@kbg12ila]

People expected an AC level game.

[@szysi3k]

@GhostFZ 62 I bet there were only 4 people that knew that he was AC2 dev.

[@jamstonjulian6947]

Sounds like the ol' Randy Pitchford excuse to me

[@lwaves]

@GhostFZ 62 I never doubted that some people had high expectations, I never even mentioned what others thought. That doesn't mean that he himself didn't also have high expectations. His own words in the video kind of imply this, although he doesn't directly say it.

[@1InVader1]

I pretty much forgot this game exists, because IT'S ON THE FREAKING EPIC STORE! Beyond that, personally, I watched Ranton's review, and I'm pretty sure watching his video is the most fun anyone will ever get out of that game anyways.

[@1InVader1]

@GhostFZ 62 Because their security is garbage. The unrealengine forums got hacked back in 2016 or so (and several times thereafter) and now my most secure e-mail is busted because of them and on the black market lists. I keep getting e-mails of various people trying to log into my account. When I tried enabling 2FA, I almost got locked out of my own account, because I wouldn't receive the authentication e-mails, and of course these idiots didn't set it up so that you need to use a 2FA e-mail code as confirmation when trying to enable 2FA so that you can verify that you can receive those mails at all. At the time their customer support team had a lot of trouble with a lot of people getting locked out too. After getting my account back I suggested them to implement the 1st time e-mail verification when enabling 2FA. The morons couldn't forward this basic idea their bosses at Epic themselves and told me to open a forum post instead on the massively flooded Fortnite forums (which I did, just so I can tell this 'joke' someday) where it would go unnoticed, so of course this basic security measure isn't implemented up to this day. Absolute incompetent morons. Hell freezes over before I trust these amateurs with my debit card info.

[@1InVader1]

@Dark of the knight they had 5 years and that's only counting the time since I joined.

[@kaidon39]

@GhostFZ 62 Epic cancelling the UT game they were working on is a damn big reason for me to put them on my blacklist. That they have the audacity to outright steal games from other storefronts, as well as making some of them timed exclusives, certainly doesn't help.

[@Feilongy]

Well they probably couldnt beat the tutorial

[@GMan-ku9wg]

I remember the time when the Bladerunner colectors case was released on Blu-ray / HD DVD and the reviews stated it was made of metal, I have it and it's made of plastic so yeh they make crap up.

[@MasterMayhem78]

And now people are defending game "journalists" because they don't like what some dude said. He may be right to an extent. These "journalists" are paid to play games, but we all know that they don't play every game but just use other people's experiences to review a game. It could've happened here, but maybe not. But one thing is well known, you can't trust game "journalist" reviews.

[@Slingblade2040]

minor booboo? nah they didn't play it. reviewers are rushed, tend to be bad at games and tend to be forced to play games they don't have interest in and in most cases expect their hands to be held through game play like a lot of gamers these days. I don't trust reviews and rather shell out the money to play a game I have some interest in. Also maybe companies should hire a few more reviewers if they have to play so many different games in a week and have to rush out reviews which sometimes end up being bad due to lack of play time. small add onto...the fact that so many players had no clue how to make simple tools in this game shows the intelligence of some of these gamers.

[@annabella1650]

Daniel Hermoso Granted I’ve not played this game, but if it’s a common complaint that people don’t know what they’re doing then perhaps there needs to be tutorials? I with you on all the rest, because gaming journalism needs fix itself. Too few people who actually know what they’re doing are involved, and there needs to either be more writers or less reviews.

[@myztklk3v]

yeah 90% of time I don't even bother with critic reviews. I usually buy a game I'm excited for regardless unless it's gets super bad reviews from regular people.

[@Dragonking1984]

@@annabella1650 The review issue is a simple matter of arrogance & lazyness. Journalism has a whole is in the toilet because people want their article to be first but are too lazy to do the actual research, fact checking and proof reading to make sure they're not talking out of their ass. See lamestream media as a big example of this.

[@Dragonking1984]

@@myztklk3v Same here i go over as much technical info as i can find (screen shots, video, maybe even a demo) then i add that to all the reviews from OTHER GAMERS to help come to my decision. I have long since cut out "professional reviewers" as biased, lazy & paid PR.

[@zensoredparagonbytes3985]

Watching a let's play til you understand game play mechanics gives a better impression than a review. Most reviewers don't even show all this stuff. Total Biscuit, RIP, was the one of the best reviewers. He showed how the game would play. And in regards to spoilers for the first hours. Your hard earned money is involved. You always inform yourself before you hand it over. And in that case, spoilers are overrated

[@Jax_Destro]

I don't trust mainstream gaming journos or reviewers. More often than not all they review based off their political ideologies rather than the merits, or lack there of, of the games themselves. I remember a while back when there was a bit of fuss over the Witcher 3. People were saying it was a shit game because it was racist as it only had white people. They ignored the fact that it was base off the culture of a country that was predominately white in the time period. They ignored the many different sentient races in the game. They ignored anything else that made the game good, because there were too many white people.

[@mass1985]

Aye, they just type in the company line!

[@wroughtmetals]

Holy fuck a majority white company, from a white country, made a game based on another white countries time period in history, has white people in it? REEEEEEEEEeeeeEEEEEeee!!!

[@SammySam7x]

Gaming journalism and tech industry being in San Francisco, Commiefornia is the reason for this.

[@Jax_Destro]

@@SammySam7x the funny thing is, the wealthy are leaving cali in droves because they don't want to deal with all their extra taxes and laws.

[@SammySam7x]

@@Jax_Destro it's sad that they may possibly bring their culture to other places. I heard Austin has a lot of imports lately.

[@Ma1q444]

He’s right it’s his first game in his new company and folks acted like it was a AAA release.

[@Doc_OLDGUY_Savage]

The error is continuing to call game reviewers, Journalists. Until one wins a Pulitzer Prize or equivalent, for a game review, they aren't journalists. Especially those game rag organizations that use corporate speak, 'a small number/etal,' as an excuse for tabloid writing.

[@MightyJonE]

I wish someone would pay ME to write worms for a living - I’d never get my worms wrong! So here’s my review of Ancestors...The 60fps gunplay feels cumbersome, and the map design is very confusing, especially when looking for your next assassination objective. However, the apes were fun to control and the story’s twist ending, where you discover the Statue Of Liberty on a beach and realise the astronauts were on Earth all along, is a great revelation - IGN 10/10

[@The-Blue-Knight]

Hey, copying the review from IGN word for word is plagerism! Lol

[@taureanrage2065]

😂😂😂

[@quixadhal]

"our reviewer accidentally wrote building fires [...] he meant building resting spots." Yeah, sure he did. Orrrrrr... he watched the promo video, look at the screen shots, and assumed you must be able to build fires since it's planet of the apes, so buildings fires would be a thing. Why would anyone be surprised that half the reviewers out there don't bother playing the game, or play it for 15 minutes and call it good enough? When's the last time any major review publication gave any title a 1 out of 10? There have been terrible games that deserved it, yet somehow, 5 out of 10 is considered harsh. Follow the money.

[@michaelboyes5849]

Gaz: "This is a big deal" Me: Checks to verify that we're still talking about a minor error in a review about a game that no one cares about, by a source that no one cares about.

[@nicholaskinkaid]

Integrity matters to some regardless of who it's coming from.

[@braddinator]

Don't hold my hand. I like that about games. I'll try this and make my own mind up. I like the concept and the idea of mixing things you might not know about!

[@didiogamer1744]

Ancstors is great. One of the best games ive played this year. Amazing adventure. And its different from all other games, so they nailed their goal of making a different game hahaha. Also there are tutorials, they do explain u how to do the basics in the game. But they only give u the basics the other stuff its u to u to try and see if it works or not which is a big part of the journey.

[@rickylovesyou]

"hahaha"?, just wanted to know, what part of your comment was supposed to be funny?

[@jonathanpalma713]

Thanks for your comment mate. This will be one of those games like Death stranding some will think it's shit others amazing.

[@Justin-ym5ce]

Your just one of the few and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that

[@nicktailor8062]

Fully agree, this is what death stranding should’ve been. He should be praised for his creativity alone

[@Denzao-D]

Haven’t played it yet but videos on KZbin made me pre-order it. Release 12am here in Sweden on Xbox. I love the videos I’ve seen and that I must try to smash two stones together to discover something I can do with the stones. Trying and failing. Not having the game tell nothing. Awesome.

[@marjohnbuncio2782]

Its funny how modern humans couldn't figure out a video game about ancient humans learning the basics of survival. Charles Darwin would be rolling in his grave.

[@minyeolia]

You the type of guy to say "we live in a society"

[@stefan1360]

@@minyeolia we do live in a society tought, you would have to be less than a primitive man to see that.

[@marjohnbuncio2782]

@@minyeolia probably, sure is better than someone with an anime profile pic though.

[@minyeolia]

@@marjohnbuncio2782 we live in a society

[@jamstonjulian6947]

Um, anyone can make a complex game. You just design it in a way where you know the game mechanics and the player doesn't. That's not on the player, and it's not any kind of achievement.

[@dmaxcustom]

Isn't journalism and integrity a contradiction in current times?

[@Karajorma]

Nope. While some journalists are quite willing to sell their souls, it's definitely not all of them. It's just that most corporations want you to think that they all do it so that you won't believe the journalists when a corporation gets caught with their hand in the cookie jar. It's ironic how it is exactly the people who act the most cynical who get caught out by that one.

[@Karajorma]

@NotJo While the 100% objective news story is a myth, writing off all journalism as being just about opinion and that no journalist ever tries to get at the facts (even if the best they can do is give a somewhat subjective opinion because they're human) is doing a massive disservice to the profession. That anyone would even claim what you just did pretty much proves my point that people are buying The Man's lies about journalism. The really funny thing is that it doesn't matter who The Man is. Liberals, Republicans, The Deep State, Nazis, or Reptilian Overlords. Making people believe that nothing they read could ever be an attempt at being objective is dangerous regardless of whether it's your side doing it or not.

[@jayr7965]

@@Karajorma Yeah, saying that all Journalism is purely based on opinion means the propaganda is working. Pushed most notably by the people most desperate to stay in power.

[@mariobadia4553]

That's the same excuse Kojima cult members make whenever somebody criticizes death stranding.

[@SilverTooth666]

Honestly I don't trust the reviewers to play the games.

[@ghostofwar5430]

Same goes to all "cult members"

[@Slingblade2040]

dude a lot of reviewers either don't play it, are bad at games ( like that whole cup head thing ) or are go with the mob mentality of hating it because others hate it and don't want to be labeled such as you labeled those who enjoyed the game.

[@blacksantagaming7009]

Death stranding fun as fuck. Take a fat dab thrown on some 80s jam and start delivering them packages.

[@mariobadia4553]

@@Slingblade2040 or they go with the mob mentality of blindly loving it(shill up[ his review is biased because he said that he would rather not talk about the negatives of DT] and yong 'please fuck me kojima' yea).

[@lorenzovonmatterhorn7402]

Ok so heres the thing... if you made a game with love and you know its good and someone gives you an F and not even see it... how would you feel?? Like you get an F on the test and you are like a B...

[@kbg12ila]

Patrice can often say things he shouldn't, but I think he has a point here. He's a talented developer and he should just keep going. Its his first game thats gotten bad reviews and i know he can make something as good as AC1-ACB again. He needs a story game again.

[@minimimimaxiboy1]

He needs a big team and budget, too.

[@markmitin7397]

@@minimimimaxiboy1 He used to have it. Ubisoft just exploited him with AC franchise, to the point where he wasn't happy and just left.

[@300IQPrower]

Ngl i thought this would be about Kojima and was like “aw shit here we go again.” Anyways i believe the dev. I like that he actually backed up his claim as well as mention how reviewers might have a dozen games a week and might cut corners. Course i’ve never even heard of this guy so- Quick edit: wanna point out he could not sound more entitled if he tried. Not talking about his attitude though i’m talking about his argument. He didnt just pull a Kojima and claim people “don’t understand” he at least had an actual argument.

[@shalindelta7]

Kojima is a woke ass bi-yach. If you dont like my game you're a blah blah blah. He pulled an elizabeth banks lol.

[@shalindelta7]

@GhostFZ 62 ah ok, thanks for clearing that up. Im not american and i disliked the game, its not my taste either. Never bashed on it tho, just never praised it either.

[@tyranidgenestealer]

I don't listen to 'games journalist' reviewers since they're paid to promote the product. Never get a game when it first comes out. Never pre-order. Especially after all of the new MTX crap. I check out the review from players, then make a decision.

[@Dragonking1984]

I find it hilarious that reviewers are being defended here. Nobody but the reviewers themselves force them to rush their reviews. They do that because they HAVE TO BE FIRST. If they took their time & did the job correctly they would put out better reviews all around & be more useful for gamers/consumers. As if I've seen better reviews by gamers on Steam even for the worst games out there.

[@corok12]

Dragonking1984 if they do the extra work, they make less money. Let’s face it, you wouldn’t take the extra time either

[@Dragonking1984]

@@corok12 I would if it meant getting things correct & actually informative. So much so that people would trust my reviews & would always check them out getting me more traffic then the others who "make mistakes" so often you wounder if they don't do it on purpose just for rage clicks because otherwise nobody would give them the time of day.

[@thebaconsonful]

Then you wouldn't make any money, because everyone reads the first reviews out.

[@Dragonking1984]

@@thebaconsonful First is worst as KZbin comments often show. Again would rather the info be CORRECT then first & I'm willing to bet I'm not the only one who thinks that way.

[@corok12]

Dragonking1984 you are not the only one but not many people wait 2 weeks after launch on a game they’re interested in to read reviews. I guarantee if you try doing reviews with this tactic you’d go broke

[@klonvomhaus]

Henry saying as an example that you HAVE TO LEARN HOW TO MAKE FIRE when the previous discussion was about how you can't make fires in the game kinda triggered me. Not a slipup or anything, just a thing that happened.

[@drunk3ngaming349]

I might actually cared if it was on steam

[@blahblah3775]

What a stupid ass mindset

[@kreempa.i.8349]

@GhostFZ 62 Epic games launcher is shit and they spy on you.

[@drunk3ngaming349]

@GhostFZ 62 no cuz I have values and stick to it. Maybe you don't thats ur business. I have not bought many games including shenmue 3. If it had a steam release I would have bought it full price. I don't support a chinese owned company, even if it is only 40% ownership

[@EvaluateAssimilate]

@@drunk3ngaming349 does all of this allegiance really go anywhere beyond the fact that people's gaming hours and achievements etc are logged? I mean, my mate plays day Z and has, sadly, almost 2k hours on that damn thing. If something new came out on anything but steam, I'm certain he wouldn't buy it as his efforts of gaming are recorded on Steam. to use another launcher and lose that "prestige" must be worth not switching or downloading other launchers.

[@thebaconsonful]

Epic games does not abide by my countries trading laws, Steam does, that's why I use Steam and not Epic.

[@dr.chungusphd108]

It wasn’t very good. And I played it and i think saying it just wasn’t very good is me being fucking nice.

[@Disinfectantanime]

And who the fuck are you?

[@DiGiTyDarKMaN]

@@Disinfectantanime who are you? Who am I? What are we here for?

[@Disinfectantanime]

@@DiGiTyDarKMaN sorted the same reason why you here. Finding a reason to bitch!

[@Gogo32monkey]

@@DiGiTyDarKMaN why are we still here? just to suffer?

[@ntz752]

@@Disinfectantanime Who are you? And why the fuck are you here?

[@annabella1650]

Okay but when you’re designing a game, shouldn’t the tutorial be one of the first things you think of? Leaving “72 pop-up messages on the floor” tells me you probably shouldn’t have shipped, or that you didn’t manage you project very well. That is no reason for people to be lazy with reviews, but at times there needs to be an admittance that maybe this wasn’t just the reviewers fault.

[@braddinator]

Dark souls...? Still completed and enjoyed every last one in the series. Pop-up messages are fine by me.

[@IchiEyes]

*From Software wants to know your location*

[@annabella1650]

@Jack Bradshaw I wouldn’t count it as the same thing, since in Dark Souls those “floor messages” are optional, well implanted and don’t act as the tutorial. They’re are part of it and an important mechanic in the game, since they’re used by other players to warn you (about amazing chests ahead). They’re not there to act as opposed to s tutorial so much as part of it.

[@annabella1650]

@Tylerforeman1000 I don’t count the message system in Dark Souks as the same thing, since it’s a permanent and key mechanic of the franchise. Here it sounds like they were used instead of a tutorial.

[@mass1985]

Thats what i said about "THEY ARE BILLIONS"; and i got laughed at, they say the missions are the tutorial! Skirmishes are the core game then? That is just pure lazy dev! Plague Inc: Evolved has proper tutorial and everything works correctly, and it was a frekking mobile game to begin with!

[@russmiddleton5486]

Henry, just you wait till your knees start making 'out of warranty' noises.

[@PhantomZtryker]

Professional critics and reviewers of pretty much any kind of media these days have so little credibility as a whole that it's laughable to even consider their "scores".

[@nicktailor8062]

This is 10/10 journalism guys, showing the sources accurately and the whole story unlike jimquisition. Respect

[@PrettyGoodGaming]

Thanks dude

[@TheUberSuperNova]

3 people created Cuphead, 35 people for an indie game isn't too bad at all.

[@TheUberSuperNova]

Yeah but Cuphead is a well received good game made by a very small team, same goes for salt & sanctuary (2 people) Hollow knight (4 people) etc... whereas this guy is trying to make excuses by saying he has a small team of 35 people lol it doesn't matter if these games aren't in the same genre, the problem is the core design of the game & the execution not being good enough, the user score says it all really.

[@cosotube4621]

@@TheUberSuperNova imagine comparing the work behind a 3D open world featuring layered gameplay interactions to a 2D framed experience.

[@burningphoenix6679]

“Hey. I’ve seen this one before”

[@N3n0Rak]

It's nice! I have it but Sabertooth "glitch" ruined it for me. Same effing Sabertooth constantily attacked to my base, even after several stabs and one time it attacked from underground.

[@Musicreach101]

Lol! Was CleanPriceGaming reviewing games again?

[@Ter0zak]

When did that happen? Just wondering

[@Musicreach101]

Ter0zak check out his division review. Then search the guy who slams him for the review, followed by cleanprincegaming coming clean about not actually playing the games.

[@user-dj9iu2et3r]

@Christopher Simon yea his Death Stranding story seemed like bullshit to me too. But I don't think he's ever come out and said "I don't play games before I review them." Wasn't the Division debacle just that he used someone else's footage for his video?

[@Musicreach101]

Dave Santini yah pretty much, he made a collage of ppls info in to a video. But some how 500k people still follow him! I’m not entirely sure if I unsubscribed come to think of it lol!

[@huntertomblin1946]

Just look at their trophies and u can mostly tell how much of the game someone played

[@GECKman88]

Unless you play offline at all, then you don't get trophies, typically. Nor does it always add to your "hours played".

[@mass1985]

every game is not in steam, and does not have "trophy system"

[@The-Blue-Knight]

Didn't Gamespot say the horse thing?

[@PrettyGoodGaming]

Yes. We found out after recording

[@The-Blue-Knight]

@@PrettyGoodGaming Gotcha. So some people didn't play the game so the claim has some legitimacy, but I feel like the dev thinks his game is a 1000/10 which it is not.

[@Azhrei2000]

2:32 he has a right to be pissed if they're just making shit up...

[@mcnairguitar5739]

I played the game, it was pretty fun for me.

[@our_illumination949]

Hmm that is quite unfortunate. Well I didn’t find the human odyssey that interesting but I am willing to give it a try later.

[@namansharma9770]

Patrice should return to ubisoft...only he can save assassin's Creed series...

[@Chu8rock]

No, let him have fun making games with his current team. Ubi has fucked that man over too many times.

[@Ceece20]

Epic store exclusive = hates reviews No surprise they disagree with meta critic. Do they also want to claim KZbin reviews don’t play the game?

[@8-bitsteve500]

"What do you want?" clips and you missed out Mr Morden? I'm disappointed, that would have been perfect.

[@Karajorma]

Yes, but unfortunately I suspect not many other people will even know which show you're talking about, let alone have seen it and realised which particular time he said it might work best.

[@the.art.of.shadows]

Maybe next time try to add some action to the game... Like action skills and stealth kills different weapons and animals.. New attacks.. And try to change that weird green jungle color for example make it like green hell graphics and color

[@highmunchezznatureisprime3768]

I love it!!! It's fun and difficult it's meant to be legit you smashing rocks together trying to figure it out. I've only had one bug, and i fixed it. so many AAA games have too many to count. Ghost recon blackout still broken. Adding tutorials would ruin it all

[@fw2345]

The most "traditional" reviewers I follow are Easy Allies and saying traditional its a stretch. I know full well the personalities of every reviewer and that why I trust them so much!

[@philbarton2832]

Hey fellow ally! Love & Respect

[@colinevans3213]

Its like when people make reviews about the Witcher 3 and pronounce Geralt as Jeralt lol you know they didn't play the game. Smh

[@craigbedwell8489]

It's the players who are the best people to review games .

[@GECKman88]

They gave it a 7 "low score". We really are conditioned to think a 7 or lower is bad. They got fucking 64 out of 100, that's not even bad! It's just thanks to IGN and other similar dumps that have set 7 as the 0 mark. If if was a bad game (I've not played it LOL he'd hate that, even though I'm technically defending) then it would have gotten lower than 50. Not 50 itself but lower, because even 50 just means average, or ok. In school I'd be fucking happy to get a 50 / 100 on a maths test for example.

[@blatantlyjohn6234]

DONT YOU KNOW WHO I AM

[@ColdieHU]

and i thought his next game was going to be a sequel to Ancestors, since you couldn't really experience any kind of evolution of humanity like they advertised.

[@homesickalien1492]

This is hilarious considering how much video game reviewers whine about tutorials and having their hands held....and ledge paint lmao.

[@sO_RoNerY]

I’m interested. Will get it eventually.

[@Stephengirty]

If you are not ready to ship then don't sign an exclusive agreement with a store. Imagine if this came out on steam? It would have got crushed. Haha

[@kclink1579]

Don't think I have heard of him till now.

[@marinaglasscock7462]

Modern gamers rely too heavily on modern "common features." Every game doesn't need the same set of tutorials, quest markers, and all that jazz. Yeah it may be difficult, but are you going to cry about it? 😂

[@ronin7590]

Far Cry Primal is a better oongaboonga game than this one but the potential this one had is insane. I think Patrice should have dedicated 1 more year or even more to the project before releasing it.

[@Coswalker27]

I would love to see a indie assassin creed.

[@ge2719]

We might actually get a plot that's not just "steal this sword, the end"

[@rumplstiltztinkerstein]

the market is a bit saturated right now, I don't have time for a game that is just cute when there are soulsborne games, resident evil 2, devil may cry 5, dwarf fortress and a bunch of online games out that more than satisfy all my gaming needs. Each one of such games have a strong point, but Ancestors doesn't seem to be interesting enough at any specific aspect. Doesn't seem to have any unique story. Doesn't seem to have any unique type of compelling gameplay. What this game have to offer? I have no idea. I don't even care. I don't have time to be checking up on any game that is launched out there. He didn't say what his product really was, he didn't market the game to show us what it is. What can you expect from a product like that?

[@philbarton2832]

I saw one trailer and concluded that it is a survival game set in ancient Africa where you play as an ape, a human descendant. Pretty obvious really.

[@rumplstiltztinkerstein]

@@philbarton2832 resident evil is a survival game as well. There are plenty of survival games out there, doesn't seem to be anything in this one that will drag my attention to pay for this game.

[@philbarton2832]

@@rumplstiltztinkerstein Then don't buy it. Ancestors is a survival game that stands out because you play as a chimp trying to survive in the wild, that's it's hook because there's nothing out there like it.

[@Xarr23]

it came in august? I though i had it on my radar... damn was it badly advertised.

[@hyperspeed_心猿]

Advertised? I don't think it was advertised at all. I never saw an ad anywhere. Only reviews.

[@scrubby2]

Probably because it was on epic game store.

[@philbarton2832]

In terms of professional reviews I would suggest not just looking at the end score to judge if it's worth buying but to find a trusted reviewer (in my case 'easy allies') and read or watch the full review. If you check a games opencritic score and you buy it solely on that you can't whine that you think the games crap because it's not the game for you. Do your research, don't be lazy and you shouldn't ever be disappointed. It comes down to being a responsible consumer.

[@DaGamerDad]

That's why he should make demo's and do serious campaigns and skip the old guard. Boom! Sold.

[@jwbrushpl]

I despise Ubisoft ever since they DRM-ed Anno for the first time, not to mention things brought up in this video. Definitely buying the game!

[@pierrepellerin249]

I watched Nooblets play that game to see what it was like. Well, it was as interesting as watching someone fishing or playing solitaire. I like survival games but this seem far too primitive to be of any interest.

[@CarimboHanky]

i sense some sarcasm in that correction 🤣😂

[@pierre6339]

Like I have yet to see a video reviewing the PvP in kingdom under fire 2 and none of them mention how progression works.

[@ShaneAddinall]

I haven't read a game review in years. If I want to know about a game I watch a review, or more often a gameplay video.

[@pierre6339]

This is why I'm very picky about who review I'm watching. Most reviewers don't even do a good jobs of explaining the game. The core gameplay loop is usually ignored, if you are lucky might just glances over the deepest aspects of the game, and they will often ramble on praising or complaining about side features that you will hardly experience. Often times feeling as though they just went down the feature list that's advertised and are just knocking checks off a box.

[@Viper-dz2kw]

All of he reviews I saw weren’t that bad? It seemed like the game is average

[@GECKman88]

"This comment is bad" 7/10 - IGN. :p Seriously though, I agree, people are just conditioned to think a 64/100 is bad, even though it's pretty good TBH.

[@MerlautJones]

Yeah that is an unnecessarily long name. Lol Just leave out the subtitle, mates. Like Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, I nvr say "Odyssey to the West".

[@nisiwilli]

I don't get why people keep claiming reviewers don't play game despite many of them have footage playing the game. You take one individual that is bad at reviewing and claimed your game have a low score because ppl didn't play it is just making excuse.

[@DutcherDog]

I bought it cause I like the concept, not to interested in structured a game it is

[@SammySam7x]

It's a fact that games "journalists" don't play the games they review to completion. They have been caught time and time again

[@kersaherpafuqer784]

Improper use of the word "humbly"

[@johnpatz8395]

I think part of the issue is devs of a game like this think reviewers should put in a couple hundred hours into the title before doing a review, which isn't reasonable. Meanwhile from the reviewers side, many likely playing for awhile, even a few hours and check out other reviews/stories about the game, and incorporate those into the review to make it seem like they played more than they really did, which is also wrong.

[@Justin-ym5ce]

It could’ve been a little mistake, I’ve straight up talked in conversations where I say the thing I’m thinking about and not trying to talk about lmao

[@philbarton2832]

Writing is different, you proof read the draft a few times before you publish the final review, when speaking it's easy to make a 'slip of the tongue' mistake, a brainfart if you will.

[@franciscomannoni]

Happy birthday Henry the older slower lamer "overall pretty goodier"

[@Mojavekight17]

Life of white tiger prequel?

[@Tjomnij]

My expectations is 0. I'm totally not interested in this game

[@Emanouche]

I believe it, I just lost all the respect I had left for Angry Joe recently after his review of Death Stranding. Didn't mention lots of features in the game, only showed early game in his footage, late game footage was taken from other youtubers, even had other people water marks on them... f'ing lazy. A week later, his outerworlds review came out... so we can see he compromised to squeeze in an unusually fast review.

[@hyperspeed_心猿]

So he says the pro reviewers didn't play it. Which is possible of some of them. But how does he explain the 5.8 of user reviews?

[@thebaconsonful]

Shhhh, you're not meant to notice that.

[@fnl4eva269]

Sick of rushed out incomplete game early access games launch at full price why i rarely buy unless dirt cheap f these companies.

[@iliketea9122]

ehh I've enjoyed Ancestors. It's similar to Death Stranding in that its going to be very niche I enjoy it because i adore games set in ancient periods, and evolution is really intriguing to me. That said, its not for everyone, hell probably not for many, and honestly that's okay. Games don't need to be for everyone in order to be good.

[@bloodranger1188]

I was really looking forward to this.

[@manuelmontalvo3]

Excited for the game

[@Loveilis]

I wouldnt be surprised if "Reviewers" are lazier than ever. Some lady reviewed Shenmue 3 and said the combat is the exact way it's always been. She obviously did not play or even watch Shenmue 3 she might as well have just been speaking out of her ass.

[@garybeharrie]

his right.

[@kenevatjic9996]

He has a point but I didn't buy cause it didn't appeal to me, not the type of game I play, I didn't even watch or know about reviews of the game

[@dlaroc]

I bought this game and played it for about 4-5 hours. The game just isn’t fun to play. At all. It’s funny they say people had too high expectations. Yea, because they hype people up too much for that preorder money! 💰

[@EvaluateAssimilate]

I was alright with the game. wasn't too bad except the fact that wild beasts will spawn on your ass whether you're in a secluded cave or moated on an island free of danger. the game design was rigged to spawn large cats on you from out of nowhere. As soon as I figured that out, never bothered since

[@Tim.Bombadil]

Why worry about these reviews when you can look at the reviews on steam by people you know for sure played it...... Oh wait.

[@unholywolf1945]

Main reviver I trust is Worth a Buy

[@generalcrow]

All of this falls flat on its face when the user score is lower. Grow up pal you made a stinker swallow it move on and make a better one next time! If you are going to go on TV a neck bead and baseball cap over 40? The games mechanics appeared to show a lack of basic understanding of evolution.

[@markwheeler4245]

I've always said reviews are rushed, I've heard ppl on IGN say a game is 8-10 hours then I get it and see 25 hours ish and that's not because I'm shit Lol, it's because I take my time exploring and I read everything, speak to everyone until they repeat themselves to make sure I don't miss dialogue and stop to admire pretty graphics taking screenshots:) it's obvious to complete the game in the time the review said they must of just blazed through the main story to get the gist of it, we have to know as gamers these reviews are one persons view who hasn't been anywhere near as thorough as most of us will having paid £50-£60!

[@krazylevin]

I understand the concept behind this game, but it just doesn't catch my interests. I wish them all the best with it thought.

[@Capricorn_IV]

Game dev wondering why his game wasn’t received well?.... because your game is Paleofeces pal!

[@Capricorn_IV]

Alex Marsh yep