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It does seem bizarre that a developer who spent millions making a game, then demands you don't buy it, but there's been examples in gaming past when such a thing happened! And here are five such examples...
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[@aspieatheist6040]

"Don't Buy This" ironically sold well in the 1980's, and Steal This Book was a book that ironically sold well in the 1960's.

[@NEEDbacon]

Don't forget SOAD's "Steal this Album" in did well in sales in '05.

[@Death_Korps_Officer]

So in other words, people don't pay attention to the title.

[@nobodyinparticular9640]

@@Death_Korps_Officer or feel the need to do the opposite they're told to do

[@Death_Korps_Officer]

@@nobodyinparticular9640 That would make Battlefield V and TLOU2 the exception, which are not.

[@jacksonpercy8044]

And Weird Al's "Don't Download This Song" which initially was only available via free download

[@zenksren8206]

What about Anachronox? One of the developers recommended pirating the game after the entire dev team was fired before its release, on top of the sequel being cancelled

[@JulianBo188]

Now I feel guilty for buying the Steam release Not like I'm buying anything for a long time since they expect me to pay US prices now

[@noop9k]

Weren’t they the same people who also worked on Daikatana? Can you please give me a link?

[@dtester]

maybe that doesn't count because that was a "former" developer

[@oz_jones]

@@noop9k same studio, yes

[@JASpiring]

I've got that game - but I bought it second hand!

[@henrynelson9301]

Dong Nguyen actually took the game down because him and his family were getting harassed by journalists.

[@baalfgames5318]

From what I can tell... Larry Bundy Jr is not that good at fact-checking.

[@ProjectDevilEye]

One big thing you didn't mention about last of us 2 was the rather illegal use of the copyright system by ND and Sony against youtubers who were talking about the game in any way but positive, that really helped fan the flames of hatred towards it.

[@Larry]

Well, I like to save some info for a future video :)

[@fandangobrandango7864]

That's false. The only thing they done was sign an NDA so they couldn't talk about spoilers.

[@Ceece20]

@@fandangobrandango7864 it was not false. Sony/ND used a law firm and that law firm filed the copyright strikes against the KZbin videos. Legally and literally, Sony/ND were at fault. The law firm was just there to enact their illegal take downs.

[@benpage11]

@@Larry oooooo

[@markcarpenter6020]

@@Larry I have to disagree on one thing. In the last of us 2 they weren't unhappy the women were "plain" (they were just as plain in the first one). They were upset that one woman in particular looked like a male who spends 4 hours a day in the gym and got plenty of protein. With the help of HGH and a lot of time in a gym a woman can sort of look like that, but it was kinda unrealistic in a post apocalyptic setting.(not many gyms, protein shakes, or human growth hormones to go around) There was actually a lot of speculation that the character was originally meant to be transgender until those leaks.

[@theactualTVB]

Even Peter Molyneux still wanted you to buy his games.

[@jamesonweimann4720]

We don’t want him but we’ll take his games

[@mahiru20ten]

I wonder what's with Larry and him constantly poking fun of Peter Molyneux. Is it because he left the games unfinished like Godus? Or promising too much on his games? In fairness, he made games like the Fable series, though...

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

@@mahiru20ten Every single game that Molyneaux has released has been overpromised and underdelivered. His whole career is a pile of lies, including how he got his first job as a developer - by lying on his CV.

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

@@jamesonweimann4720 You can have the games, I'm fine.

[@JesseWFDusk]

That’s why he kept making false promises.

[@misterzygarde6431]

Remember when Ocean deliberately made a Highlander game bad because they fucked up when getting the license and if the game was a success they’d not be able to financially handle it as the royalties would end up bankrupting them?

[@zenksren8206]

No because the story isn't true, watch Kim Justice's video

[@Mike-ky6jc]

@@zenksren8206 it is true

[@michaelm2861]

Com-pie-lation? Com-pill-ation!

[@scarletnight4554]

That still baffles me, why would the royalties bankrupt them?

[@spankypants2793]

I mean it's not like Ocean could make a good game if they tried in the first place

[@tailcatch5704]

I was actually expecting Postal 3 to make it on this list. Postal 3 was outsourced to a "Akella" a russian game developing studio since the studio, Running with Scissors, didn't have the assets at the time. Postal 3 was so terrible Running with Scissors pulled it from their stores and even issued an apology for those who bought the game in their website. That takes integrity, that takes class a lot of AAA studios are lacking these days.

[@user-bl5so7dv1s]

Technically speaking, this isn't the case, because it wasn't the initial developer that was telling you not to buy the game. RWS was against it, not Akella.

[@RabidlyTaboo]

@@user-bl5so7dv1s yeah. op is off on how licensing works.

[@lizardguyNA]

Can't even get it on Steam anymore.

[@silverflight01]

Got so bad that it lead to POSTAL 2 getting a DLC that basically wrote POSTAL 3 off as a dream and later created POSTAL 4 as the true sequel.

[@CYN9108]

Postal III and Running With Scissors' opinion on it comes to mind, although they might not count depending!

[@LonelySpaceDetective]

They're apparently willing to give out Postal III keys to anyone who tweets them with a complete POSTAL library on Steam, and IIRC Postal III was included as part of the recent POSTAL collection they did. It seems like the rule they have is that you shouldn't be paying for Postal III, unless it is just a bonus to the actual thing you bought/are buying.

[@Falcovsleon21]

I was just about to say the same thing.

[@ronnie3044]

@Ivore Surkuri I mean it's not like the first two were good at all. It was just mildly fun to play for like ten mins lol

[@asneakylawngnome5792]

Do you mean Running with Scissors as in the book?

[@CYN9108]

@@asneakylawngnome5792 No, there's a game series called "Postal". You can find Postal 2 on Steam, and the developers of that series are called Running With Scissors.

[@crestofhonor2349]

I want a WWII game about that Scottish guy who went around killing people with his bow and arrow

[@glacierwolf2155]

Killing Nazis, Scottish-style.

[@vengarlof7033]

Jack Churchill- if I recall he started and signalled the beginning of an attack with his bow and then proceeded to run in with a two handed sword

[@SuperPerry1000]

Oh yeah, Mad Jack! I'd buy that. And people would scream it wasn't "authentic". Even when they only know WWII from Saving Private Ryan and the old Medal of Honour games.

[@warbossgegguz679]

That would require actual effort, silly.

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

@Joong Kim And because some youtuber tells you that it happened, you believe it?

[@DrLynch2009]

Soderlund didn't leave EA, he was FIRED... with a 20 million golden parachute.

[@k96man]

Good thing he had that parachute, he might of have had to explain *another* thing to his daughter

[@capthavic]

@@k96man "I'm sorry honey but we can't afford to buy you a new solid gold Tesla car every month...it will just be a regular Tesla car instead."

[@warbossgegguz679]

Remember Kids: Capitalism is evil and unfair, until you start winning at it.

[@Chronoic]

Soderlund's daughter "why can't i play as a woman in a NFL game? I could in barbie goes shopping game" Soderlund "I don't know, but daddy will make it happen and they will have robot arms and legs too."

[@KainYusanagi]

@@warbossgegguz679 There's winning at it, and there's what CEOs and similar high-level execs do. Same thing with Jeff Bezos; if he made his money without all the issues of not paying his staff, the treatment of the warehouse workers, the gleeful flaunting of tax laws, etc. etc. etc. he wouldn't be as hated as he is.

[@DeadBaron]

The issue with that prosthetic is it's physically impossible and downright cartoonish in how it moves, and it wouldn't be able to hold a pistol, let alone an LMG

[@JD-Media]

Yeah, he was far too forgiving on BFV, you can tell which side he agrees with.

[@lartrak]

They can support an SMG as an off-hand as shown in the trailer, just not effectively (a stump could do it too). But yeah, you can tell they just rigged a prosthetic arm onto a standard model for the trailer animation (the wrist rotates on their own a couple times, which is not really possible on a period split hook) - makes me wonder if originally she didn't have a prosthetic arm and it was a late change.

[@corncake4677]

@@JD-Media he literally called the game bad, also why are you treating a dumb video game controversy from 3 years ago as something with “sides” thats mobthink lmao

[@fahadalghamdi9316]

@@corncake4677 Because in the mentally challenged online gaming world , if you are not with team A you are by default with team B. The idea of nuance is foreign to the average gamer today.

[@planescaped]

@@fahadalghamdi9316 Seriously. Too many fuckwits who spend all their lives living on the interwebs forget what reality is like. It's only going to get worse before it gets better too.

[@Thelordofcrabs86]

As horrible of a character as abby was, laura baily didn't deserve any of the hate just for voicing her (let alone any voice actor doing their job for that matter).

[@garfieif8187]

It reminds me of when people sent Anna Gunn death threats over Skyler White from Breaking Bad. Like, Jesus Christ. Did they think the show was real? If so, they should have sent some anonymous tips to the FDA regarding a certain chicken restaurant.

[@rustyjones7908]

Agreed.

[@MrHunterseeker]

@@garfieif8187 its what happens when a country politicizes its mental healthcare system. Yes there are people out there that believe what they see on TV is real. Yes they really are crazy. You can thank Democrat parents that want their mentally retarded kids and psychopaths to be treated the same as normal kids for the state of our mental health care system in the US.

[@Jettison42]

MrHunterseeker Yeah you’re wrong. Thank the concentrated efforts of Republicans to destroy social safety nets and actual access to healthcare. Look into the massive closures of state mental hospitals during the late 90’s for examples. Or you can just keep parroting hateful and ableist rhetoric you got from Fox News.

[@hexidecimark]

You're both right- the private sector made an effective system for mental health, which the government got involved in. They then flooded the system with old people and attempted to compensate with state funds, which were generally nowhere near enough. Not willing to admit the mistake, they then simply brushed it off as the asylums being a bad idea, cut funding, and left the regulatory floodgate open, ensuring that public hospitals would be cheaper and not need mental wards, while also creating a self-fulfilling prophecy where the asylums would fail and be hated.

[@stigmaoftherose]

Naughty dog has a 70% turn over rate and the lead writer of last of us 1 wasn't working on TLOU2. I'm not sure if it was a lack of knowledge or a miss speak or what, but most of the devs of tlou1 was not working on tlou2.

[@warbossgegguz679]

This series isn't always as well researched as people think.

[@Pelcurus]

@@warbossgegguz679 It probably was well researched. In the past couple of years, Larry has had a tendency to not inform people properly when certain political issues were involved.

[@palitodequeso1234]

What is some small research that anyone could do compared to those sweet click bait bucks you get from people like us

[@SpecShadow]

That worries me, they made a lot of great games but with so many talents gone I wonder... how long they will live on controversies and playing all that drama and whatnot...

[@warbossgegguz679]

@@Pelcurus He said Alien Resurection created the twin-stick FPS control-scheme when it was in MoH years before and the scheme itself effectively originated from ACTUAL twin-stick games. It was for a punchline, but it's still an inaccuracy...and i don't doubt that on occasion comedy takes priority over research. It is a comedy channel after all.

[@irtehmrepic]

I swear, with every video the "but, hello you" sounds more and more like a horror movie villain catchphrase

[@servedbot7377]

He might can do a good joker impression

[@KevinTheTimeGeek86]

Well, "Hello, you!" is a catchphrase of one of the Master's incarnations in the "Doctor Who" audios from Big Finish Productions, so you're not wrong,

[@UnjustifiedRecs]

It also makes no sense

[@Darth_Conans]

"But, hello Jews! I'm Obergruppenführer Larry."

[@tkayube]

One weird variation on this is "Rodea: the Sky Soldier". It was originally intended to be a Wii game, but ended up released on Wii U and 3DS. The Wii version was released as a bonus disc with early copies of the Wii U version. However, the Wii U and 3DS versions made a lot of gameplay changes, so Yuji Naka recommended that people play the Wii version over the one made for the more advanced system!

[@LonelySpaceDetective]

That's... weird, and sounds rather disrespectful to the man. But I'm curious, were the Wii U/3DS versions indeed worse for the changes or did they turn out to be an improvement despite Yuji Naka's feelings?

[@siegfreedos1563]

@@LonelySpaceDetective they were worse in quite some aspects, even the visuals somehow were worse compared to the wii

[@NickEnlowe]

@@LonelySpaceDetective Yes, worse in all ways. For example, the Wii version has more enemies on-screen at once, less glitches, and is a more polished experience all around.

[@dimitriwarchief301]

Ah yes I always wondered that... the wii version has such nightmarish controllers Sad since the game could have been good

[@GiordanDiodato]

kinda sad that the 3ds and Wii U versions didn't take advantage of the gyroscoping feature. I'm probably gonna restart it but with the Wii version.

[@ChaoticHoly]

Psst: Larry: Players were pissed at Battlefield V due to the game being advertised as DICE's most realistic WWII shooter yet...before they _showcased_ blatantly non-historically accurate content, then doubled-down with their launch party that mocked their prior titles customer complaints by quoting them on a big screen and laughing at them.

[@namelessresource5782]

Link to that video???

[@darth_yoda]

@@namelessresource5782 Do a google for "Fans Mocked By EA & DICE" there are literally thousands of posts images and videos of it.

[@mtacharlie649]

True but do you honestly trust in capital G Gamers to complain about logical issues and not turn into screeching keyboard apes at the mere thought of women or minorities existing in a game because of "ESSJAY DUBYEW FORSE DEVURCITY" or whatever?

[@AJKiesel]

@@namelessresource5782 Sadly it is not a strawman and is very real.

[@Ravenite456]

Just today Screen Rant had a story about the casting of She-Hulk for Marvel's new show. Except a lot of the comments seem to think She-Hulk is a forced diversity genderswapped Hulk and seem ignorant of fact she was created forty years ago by Stan Lee himself.

[@SkewedVisionsGames]

Larry: Borderlands is a trilogy Pre-Sequel: Am I a joke to you? Most people: I mean, yeah, kinda?

[@Larry]

It's a full priced DLC.

[@MaxiemumKarnage]

Honestly better than 3 at launch, menus didn't lag

[@rosssnyder4490]

Hey I like the pre-sequel

[@Bootleg64DD]

still better than 3

[@corrosive_mongol1415]

at least tps wasn't a hot steaming pile of garbage

[@KremBotop]

I actually found a Flappy Bird arcade machine in an indoors mini theme park inside a nearby mall last year. I was speechless. Genuinely thought it was some kind of bootleg made to capitalize on its popularity

[@ohnoitschris]

Yeah, arcades are full of adaptations of mobile games now. Which is ironic, considering mobile games are free and playable anywhere, while arcade games are kinda pricey. It costs more to play one game of Timberman Arcade at Round 1 ($1.50) than buying the entire PC version when it's on sale (75¢). Plus, the arcade version is worse!

[@leecroft7311]

They have them in arcades in the Philippines.

[@TritnewNG]

Is it really THAT hard to get genuine retro arcade machines? If I wanted to play mobile games I could download them for free on my phone.

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

@@leecroft7311 They have them in arcades everywhere.

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

@@TritnewNG There aren't enough people who only want to play retro games. Most adult arcade gamers want "immersive" games that can't be played anywhere else (with the big cabinets and wot) but their kids want to play mobile games except for tickets.

[@Vetusomaru]

Imagine defending The Last of Us 2 and the obvious lies about one of the voice actress being harassed by "trolls" (a classic tactic that shitty companies and people use when they can't take negative criticism).

[@eightcoins4401]

In what world is a voice actor/actress getting harassed by gamers not credible? Its not like the first time its the first time that would have happened People have literally gotten death threats for pjutting games "on the wrong console"

[@curlybrace4984]

The coverage of BL3's reception seems strangely dismissive of how shitty and anti-consumer epic really was (and sarcastic towards the people review bombing bl2). As well as the fact that Steam didn't necessarily _remove_ the reviews, but rather, they labelled them as unrelated to the game in question. They were kept up, but users were given the option to see said reviews if they so pleased. Not only that, but they made it so these reviews didn't count towards the game's overall score (i.e. Overwhelmingly Positive). I think Steam did a good job all things considered. They came to a nice middle-ground that allows people to make a decision for themselves.

[@linusgustafsson2629]

Worst part is probably that even today, Epic and Steam Borderlands 3 multiplayer crossplay is riddled with bugs. Considering Gearbox attitude, I'd imagine it is on purpose just to mess with anyone who didn't move over and play it only on epic store instead of trying to stay on Steam.

[@crazydud3380]

Larry's criticism was that people were leaving negative reviews of a completely different game. That is an abuse of a user review system, regardless of how justified it may or may not be. Again, the only criticism that matters is that which hurts their bottom line, so a boycott would be far more effective. Get the game to fall far short of sales expectations. Yes, they will respond by blaming the poor sales on something else, and continue on, so boycott their next game too, and the next one, and the next one, until finally they are forced to listen, as the company's shareholders are now livid.

[@curlybrace4984]

@@crazydud3380 That's just flat out incorrect. Reviews matter a lot to a company. They provide a good standard to start off with before the games release, which is why companies will send out review copies; so these games have a good score right out the gates. So review-bombing is a _very_ effective way of getting the developer's attention at the _very_ least. In fact, it's one of the few ways people _can_ reliably catch a developer's attention, let alone vocalize their distaste for the direction a game is heading in. You can call it improper abuse of a system all you want, but steam 100% made the correct decision in deciding _not_ to censor the players' distaste for where Gearbox was taking BL3. Players need their voices to be heard, and sadly, if you paid any attention in the past decade, you'd realize people don't really _have_ a way to do that. For most, review-bombing is the next best alternative to express discontent, whether you like it or not. TL;DR: Good fucking luck getting people to boycott any game in this day and age where there are plenty of people willing to criticize a game harshly and then buy it anyway lol. Happened with sword and shield. Happened with BL3. It's not reliable because *_nobody does it enough to make it a viable strategy._* Literally fucking nobody. And if people _are_ doing it, it's because the game was going to flop anyway.

[@bigdaddychemster1201]

I don't get this, how is Epic and more anti consumer than steam. Seems like gamers were just doing what they do best: throwing childish tantrums over nothing.

[@curlybrace4984]

@@bigdaddychemster1201 Nice bad faith argument.

[@ekaaaaaans]

Kind of important to note how NaughtyDog/Sony abused youtubers with mass copyright strikes just for talking about the leaked Last of Us 2 footage. The kind of thing I'd expect this channel to cover.

[@SpecShadow]

they also send "delegations" to journalists who dared to give lowers score than 10/10 (they still gave them high score, just not perfect one) Who does that? And why?

[@Surikoazimaet]

There was also red tape about reviewers couldn't say anything about the story despite that would have been useful for the consumer.

[@warbossgegguz679]

They did the same shit with NMS

[@ekaaaaaans]

How about the deceitful trailers blatantly lying about the story. TLOU2 is one seriously nasty entertainment property.

[@mothra__13]

They sent DMCAs to websites as well.

[@KorporalKReephdmkiytrecv69]

Plot twist: it was opposite day but no one knew it except for Squidward, patrick, spongebob, and the developers.

[@ToxPhy]

Double plot twist: they were all Squidward

[@santosgonzalez3443]

Shhh

[@OrangeyChocolate]

**Sees Battlefield V and The Last of Us 2** “Aww shit, here we go again...”

[@JJAB91]

I'm honestly not a fan of how Larry somewhat misconstrued people's issues with both games.

[@Raoul9753]

@@JJAB91 It was 2020 and is now 2021. If he was honest and didnt pander to the left by siding with them, he would be at risk of getting cancled. I can understand why he wants to take their side.

[@JD-Media]

Honestly, he seemed to be on the side of EA for BFV.

[@corncake4677]

@@JD-Media he called the game bad how is that being on its side

[@corncake4677]

@@Raoul9753 “i can never be wrong, people who disagree with me are being forced to say things i don’t like.”

[@neopup1776]

The fact that the Prosthetic arm actually functioned like a normal arm is what makes it the worst, even modern Prosthetics can barely function like a normal arm.

[@JJAB91]

Why would a woman with a prosthetic arm even be on the frontlines?

[@TulpechaidoplaysMC]

@@JJAB91 seriously, they don’t allow people to do certain jobs in the army if they’re colorblind, or don’t allow them to join at all if they have illnesses like diabetes. But they’d let someone who is straight-up missing an arm?

[@BorfieKai]

@@plasmawarper5837 Ok bb

[@TheJinxCast]

@@TulpechaidoplaysMC Or peanut allergies.

[@melody3741]

@@TulpechaidoplaysMC if the arm was actually functional then why not

[@Grinnar]

Randy Pitchford called me a child predator on Twitter because I asked if he felt bad for what he did to Sega.

[@SETH_420]

are you sure he isn't talking about himself? what a loser

[@Grinnar]

@@SETH_420 bingo.

[@CharlesVDoktaur]

Just be happy the real Randy Pitchford responded to you

[@Grinnar]

@@CharlesVDoktaur why would I be happy to be accused of being a sexual predator?

[@Fenris2]

That guy from the glasses advertisement looked like he hangs out at parks with a windowless van

[@cursedex80]

I actually recall that people were happy to see that Valve would get competition, intially, as that'd push for improvement on both sides. Then Epic started to purchase the exclusivity deals for games already finishing development, and bringing to a store with a myriad of problems and lack of functions. That's when people got pissed off.

[@Larry]

Competition is always great for the consumer.

[@derp195]

@@Larry Usually, but not always. Sometimes companies compete by increasing profits by screwing over customers.

[@an3582]

You know what? This video taught me that some things ARE lost even in hindsight. Certain things happened that angered people not just because of what was, but WHEN those things happened. Its pretty eaay to say "people were mad about stupid thing" but dont analyze the why.

[@emberfist8347]

I would say that the side complaining about the handicapped woman in the Battlefield V trailer was making a good point. There were plenty of people who suggested better way to include woman like including actual military units like the night witches. Instead, the game did rewrite history by turning a Norwegian Commando raid into something done by two random female civilians.

[@dhenderson1810]

A video game not reflecting real life. Gee, that's never happened before?

[@dhenderson1810]

Do you know what else is unrealistic about the game? The fact that, if you are killed in this, you can just restart and try again, whereas in real wars, if you are dead, you are dead forever. I don't know why people want realism in a VIDEO GAME.

[@robertnomok9750]

@@dhenderson1810 Because you are an idiot. Dice advertised bf5 as their most realistic game. Also you are too stupid to understand difference between realism and realistic.

[@nickelakon5369]

@@dhenderson1810 "the game has unrealistic elements therefore expecting it to make any sense is stupid" Literal smoothbrain take.

[@emberfist8347]

@@dhenderson1810 There is a difference between gameplay and the main presentation.

[@Ciborium]

When I saw that Druckman had a man bun, all of his bad decisions suddenly made sense.

[@theextremeanimator4721]

Man bun?

[@MaskedHeroLucky]

@@theextremeanimator4721 Yeah, that douchey-looking growth coming out of the back of his head.

[@Daftanemone]

When I saw your profile photo was a grumpy cat meme you being a dipshit suddenly made sense.

[@HumanoidCableDreads]

It is more of a hermaphrodite bun, if you think about it.

[@vgamedude12]

When I read his last name it all made sense.

[@SnowyRVulpix]

The anger regarding Borderlands is because Epic was paying companies to be anti-consumer. Exclusivity is not a thing on the PC space until Epic came along. Yes, sometimes things became technically exclusive because they were only released on one platform, but that was only due to publisher/developer laziness. Then epic came along and destroyed the PC gaming market by forcing things to be exclusive.

[@HossBlacksilver]

And then Epic goes and takes Apple to court for monopoly like behavior.

[@SomeIdiota]

Origin and Steam already existed, both of which had games that were exclusive. Epic did not invent exclusivity. Epic is merely boosting their platform with deals such as those as well as giving away constant free games (many of them high end) to help bust Steam's chokehold on the market. Competition is good for business, flat out.

[@roxas4930]

@@SomeIdiota amen! Because we all know what happens if one company has a massive monopoly over something, it becomes impossible to even compete with

[@bashamd96]

@@SomeIdiota You mean they're bolstering there shit while literally not even having basic storefront assets like a shopping cart they weren't trying to break a chokehold Epic made clear with the actions they toke they wanted to be the chokehold buying out every big game they could get ahold of for exclusivity to force people away from Steam

[@gyflies]

@@SomeIdiota It's nothing like that. Valve has never paid any company to make their game exclusive to Steam. Epic Games are not the heroes, Epic Games will never be the heroes, please stop pretending that Epic Games are the heroes. All they're doing is creating animosity between players and developers.

[@corvidconfidential8826]

The problem with BF5 wasn't about the arm, nor was it about the fact that an unrealistic woman with a stone-age prosthetic can take down male soldiers, but it was their attitude towards it and respectful criticism.

[@makara80]

All of that _still_ might’ve been forgivable were it not for that bloody Norwegian level in which the courageous deeds of a band of Norwegian commandos of whom endured untold privations and hardships... were replaced by a young girl and her frail mother! ‘But it’s just a game bruh!’ my arse, it was utterly tasteless and disrespectful. Besides, as others have often said, if they wanted a wimmin-orientated level so badly they could’ve taken inspiration from the many female Soviet snipers on the Eastern front instead. BFV was a circus from its very inception.

[@ComfyCherry]

2 things I remember that have been completely dismissed in this video are 1. The epic games hate was cause they were just throwing money around trying to become the new monopoly with a worse platform and, 2. Most of the battlefield V hate came after they threw a secret "all the haters are just sexist scum" party that got leaked and rightfully caused backlash I had issue with both situations from the start, epic being anti-consumer buying up everything that looked good and in my eyes battlefield had always tried to be somewhat realistic and a disabled female british sodier on the frontlines of WWll was just weird, ofc i wasn't hating them for it it's just weird and very inaccurate. Normally Larry seems to cover things pretty well and I don't usually question his accuracy but now I guess I'll have to be a bit more sceptic of anything he says

[@RexVergstrong]

The trailer was idiotic besides the woman with the prosthetic arm working like a robotic arm. The guy with the golden katana was as bad. The whole thing smelled of trying too hard to get the Fortnite audience.

[@Cythil]

Yeah. It was a pretty dumb trailer. The dumb reaction the community had was worse in my book. Since I think one should judge a game based on, you know, the game. Not it's trailer. It was very strange to see some rally against historical inaccuracies when previous games were full of them to. As for how the game turned out? Not sure. Not played it. EA did not release games beyond their own platform at the time. And the game seemed to have to lootbox sickness like most EA games. And that is beyond the fact that I am not super in to those sorts of shooter, even tend to favour Battlefield's combined arms. So never really picked it up.

[@SakuraAvalon]

@@Cythil But the trailer exists for the sole purpose of selling you on the game. Putting its best foot forward, and getting you invested. Admittedly, this applies more to movies, since games tend to use their trailers as more of a 'put an animated movie here, and we'll hope they don't ask about gameplay'.

[@Rpground]

@@Cythil Honestly they did it pretty bad, they had to gender swap people to get extra females into the game...even though there are plenty of actual stories of women in WW2 that did amazingly heroic things...

[@ikagura]

People being casually sexist were worse

[@underthepale]

@@Rpground Well, yeah, but most of these were on the Russian front, and in order to make a game about THAT, you'd have to go well outside of the usual cheap "AMERICA GOOD, NAZIS BAD!" pablum that most WW2 games have been for 20 years. Even if you don't touch on uncomfortable things like the Holdomor, it would still require something that "black guy with a golden katana and British badass with a cyborg arm" didn't- Effort.

[@wastelander138]

The first game reminded me of the band System of a Down and their third album "Steal This Album" the record label demanded they follow up their second album ASAP to capitalize on it's success. They were not interested but the label insisted. So they quickly threw a compilation of b-sides and cut songs together and slapped this title on it. Even when asked to promote the album they said the title wasn't a joke. They were pissed that they had to do it and use material that they could have used later when they wanted to.

[@DicklessHipster]

Wait... You're telling me cyborg women DIDN'T fight in WWI?!?

[@andrewaftontheandroidhedge2780]

nope we didnt have that weird shit

[@Palmieres]

Next he'll be telling us med packs don't actually cure several bullet wounds instantly. Or that dragons don't actually exist. Or that we don't have ships in which we can explore space. Or that old gods and mythological creatures aren't real. Or that rage-zombie spore infections aren't a thing. Or that if you die you don't get a "Continue/Reload" screen...

[@andrewaftontheandroidhedge2780]

@@Palmieres well we do have space ships there just crappy

[@andrewaftontheandroidhedge2780]

@@Palmieres and the old gods are dead and we worship there corpses

[@houston7135]

Let's cancel history because it's racist

[@bradsnet]

Love your channel Larry, but blue light damage is a myth. According to the Harvard Health Blog: "The short answer to this common question is no. The amount of blue light from electronic devices, including smartphones, tablets, LCD TVs, and laptop computers, is not harmful to the retina or any other part of the eye." Please don't advertise for scam products.

[@alientimetraveller]

Ironic this guy is pushing that scam product.

[@scootergirl3662]

It's not a great sponsorship, though if Larry is using them himself it at least has a layer of sincerity. He has turned down ones that would have been unethical (Nord when they had been hacked) There are two sides to it though: We may need to work on getting him an Audible sponsorship so he doesn't have to accept any dodgy sponsorships. It seems blue light irritation is a thing, but greatly overexaggerated and can probably be avoided by just not looking at devices before bed. www.health.harvard.edu/blog/will-blue-light-from-electronic-devices-increase-my-risk-of-macular-degeneration-and-blindness-2019040816365

[@SlapstickGenius23]

Red light is actually worse.

[@elanordaerofgondolin8247]

Don't assume tis purely for that. Effects of Blue Light on Lens Cataracts are one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide, which is the result of lens opacity[10]. As early as the 1980s, people realized that the lens provides not only the main optical power (in diopters) but also can effectively filter short light waves in order to reduce retinal light damage occurrence. The lens contains structural proteins, enzymes, and protein metabolites that absorb short wave light. These substances and derivatives are added to the lens's protein to produce yellow pigments in the lens's protein, causing the lens gradually darkens and turns yellow. The absorption blue light by the lens increases significantly, thus blocking potential blue light retinal damage[11]. However, when it exerts its protective effect on the retina, the lens has to undergo a decrease in transparency or color change, which leads to cataract formation. As we all know, Sunlight exposure is considered to be a risk factor for cataracts. Studies have shown that blue light can induce the production of ROS in the mitochondria of lens epithelial cells (hLECs), which may lead to the development of cataracts[12]-[13]. In a very recent study, oxidative stress was considered an important medium in the pathogenesis of age-related cataracts. The use of added antioxidants is a reasonable strategy for protecting antioxidant defense systems from oxidative stress, and studies have shown that an increase in antioxidant enzyme expressions in hLECs directly scavenge free radicals in order to reduce hydrogen peroxide's effects. Apoptosis and ROS accumulation can keep the lens clear and slow down cataract occurrence and development[14]. In the eye, carotenoid lutein (L) and zeaxanthin (Z) are effective antioxidants and are the only carotenoids found in the lens. They have the characteristics of compounds that absorb short-wave blue light[15]. Research data show that L or Z can protect the lens's proteins, lipids, and DNA from oxidative damage. During oxidative stress, the redox state of these antioxidants can be improved, thus providing protection for the lens[16]. Effects of Blue Light on Retina Retina is the initial site of vision formation, and it is also the lesion site of various blinding eye diseases. It plays an important role in preventing blindness. Blue light can penetrate through lens to the retina and cause retinal photochemical damage. At present, there are relatively many studies on blue light's effects on the retina, but they are still being debated. Retinal degeneration and morphological changes The effects of blue light- and light-emitting diode (LED)-induced irradiation on retinal function and morphology were studied by Kim et al[17]. The results showed that the a and b amplitude of the electroretinogram decreased after blue light irradiation. After activation of microglia cells, they then migrated to the phagocytic fragment of the outer nuclear layer as seen under the electron microscope. In age-related macular degeneration (AMD) patients, there were many activated microglia infiltrating the outer nuclear layer of the retinal rod-shaped cell death region[17]-[18], and some studies have shown that blue light can accelerate AMD occurrence and development after cataract surgery that occurred many years previously. In addition, an experimental study about blue light-induced oxidative stress injury on rabbit retinas showed that the rabbit retinas after 24h of blue light irradiation had become disordered in the inner and outer segments of the photoreceptor cells when compared with the normal control group. The outer retinal nuclei were scattered in the edematous cells, and the photoreceptor cells were mildly disordered. The more disordered the cell arrangement, the lower the thickness of the outer nuclear layer[19]. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6288536/ US National Library of Medicine National Institudes of Health. Articles from International Journal of Ophthalmology are provided here courtesy of Press of International Journal of Ophthalmology

[@bradsnet]

@@elanordaerofgondolin8247 The paper you cite (not a study) doesn't seem to conclusively endorse glasses as a solution for the long-term damage they identify. But even their non-committal verbiage on it doesn't cite any evidence. So I don't view this paper as supportive of your position.

[@carouselofagony3276]

My issue with battlefield V was if they wanted a female soldier. The Red army had so many. It feels like erasing real women's stories for an anglo-centric fanfic. I'd buy a game based on Lyudmila Pavlichenko's story in a heartbeat

[@carouselofagony3276]

@Oboroth 777 Women were tankers, Engineers, snipers. All in a war that had flexible battle lines. There isn't such a thing as "front line" if you weren't artillery (and even then sometimes) you had a real chance of getting fired on just like any other soldier. And "so many" in comparison to the western powers. Dismissive prick

[@ScrambledAndBenedict]

Man. As out-of-control as some of the TLOU Part II haters were, just randomly accusing everyone who doesn't want to buy your product of bigotry is fucking vile.

[@melody3741]

He didn’t. He said specifically that if your issues were that they were women or that they were gay, then to not buy the game. And you could even argue that he didn’t even say that.

[@cericat]

@@melody3741 and even if he had he wouldn't have been wrong. People complaining about there being homosexual characters in the series has been happening since it was first confirmed Bill was gay, and especially with the release of Left Behind and it being clear there were feelings there... and don't get me started on the crap flung over any of that being delved into further on the show episode 3's response was very homophobic from a lot of people.

[@jackmcslay]

The way Larry looks at the advert it looks like he's going to sell mana potions and not glasses

[@Fenris2]

No I think he would sell candy from a windowless van by a child's park

[@hyruleponcho3885]

nah he looks like he stinks

[@PhirePhlame]

"40% OFF FOR THE NEXT 48 HOURS!" Looks down a bit "2 days ago"

[@1UpEXP]

Jfc Larry, you look like Joaquin Phoenix when he was the Joker

[@garfieif8187]

What do you get when you take a mentally ill man and give him a broken, unplayable game?

[@namelessresource5782]

H E L L O Y O U

[@PanAndScanBuddy]

Idk lotta people think Joaquin Phoenix looks good

[@th3graveofwrath354]

really? me thought he looked lik3 angus young

[@sypoth]

Pretty sure others have pointed this out but Druckman was brought into TLOU2 AFTER development began, fired nearly everyone in the team who worked on the original game, drove everyone else away, hired his own team, rewrote the entire story and most of what had been done on it to push an agenda nobody wanted, then pissed up a storm trying to literally kill people who posted our talked about the leaks. Yes that last one is true, he swatted some you tuber who kept posting the leaks, an underage one if I remember right and the way he did it was really slimy because he got their info by using the courts to have Google give up the information under the pretense of suing him then used that info to Swat him, and when that didn't work he carried through with the threat of a multimillion dollar law suit, just for talking about the game and the changes he made. But you missed all of that drama now didn't you?

[@cherrygrabber7172]

Was expecting one of them to be Postal 3, not exactly the developers' (Running with Scissors) game, it's mostly by a separate Russian publisher with it's own teams. What's most interesting about it is how much RWS express to not buy Postal 3, removed on their own website to even rewriting it as nothing but a bad dream and a hallucination on Postal 2: Paradise Lost. Also on Postal 2, there's an Easter egg in which you encountered a VR headset and entered a store selling Postal Redux, the cashier aka Mike J, one of the original devs, says, "Oh and don't buy Postal 3."

[@LonelySpaceDetective]

Oddly enough though, they did include Postal III as part of that recent POSTAL collection IIRC, and they've historically given away Postal III keys to anyone who tweets them proof of an otherwise complete POSTAL collection on Steam and asks for it. It seems like their philosophy on the matter is less "don't buy this, ever" and more "don't buy this, unless it is just a bonus to whatever you bought/are buying".

[@1000drman]

@@LonelySpaceDetective Well I would not wanna pay money for that game it is bad

[@JF-xj3cu]

I think with Battlefield DICE screwed it up in only one or rather two regards: first off, THIS TIME they suddenly claimed realism and all that when it was probably the most one out there yet. And at the same ttime they re-wrote pretty famous battles with, in this case, female soldiers just to fit it better to show that women also fought in WW2. Instead of using maneuvers where women were actually a part of it and using those. It was just stupid on literally every side.

[@diobrando2575]

Drew Johnson I don’t think anyone was expecting it to be a documentary, but when you take the accomplishments of real soldiers and say a teenage girl caring for her sick mother did it, that’s disrespectful of the people who fought there already, much less when you claim your wanting to tell the stories of WW2. There’s also the mission where they took a battle the US Army fought and replaced them with the French soldiers, which takes away from the battles both sides went through IRL.

[@Pikachu132]

@@drewjohnson9498 The point was more that instead of going "dude, it's not a documentary, Battlefield has always rewritten history pretty hard. Why is it a problem this time?" they went "it's actually historically accurate, you sexists, so shut up". Antagonizing your audience is bad enough already when you're NOT misrepresenting your product.

[@diobrando2575]

@The aqua mage As i said, i honestly doubt many people were expecting Post Scriptum, or a documentary. I mean, there were likely a few, but they honestly had no effect in the success of the game. The thing is, BFV didn’t even follow BF1’s style of historical authenticity. BF1 was only historically inaccurate in weaponry, everything else had at least some basis in reality. Black soldiers in the German Empire faction in game? They are based of German colonial troops. Indians/Sikh soldiers in the British faction? They’re Ghurka’s. What does BFV bring to historical authenticity? Nothing really. The uniforms weren’t even accurate to the colors or materials, with them only adding in proper UK and GER uniforms in the final content update. Of course, you can’t not avoid the fact that prior to release, they were gonna allow prosthetics that’d work better than what’s possible right now in a WW2 game, and the fact that them just throwing random women into the game for the sake of “diversity” only takes away from the badassery of the few women who were serve during that time expressed. BF1 had accurate portrayal of women, with women playable in the Red Army Scout class. But what’s even more egregious is the War Stories mode, in which they marketed as telling the unknown stories of WW2, completely spitting in the face of the people who fought, suffered, and died during the conflict. I mean, “fuck all the Norwegian and British special forces who sabotaged the heavy water facility, let’s make it a fucking teenage girl doing it all by herself.” “We can’t forget to include minority representation, so let’s take a battle the Americans fought in and replace them with French colonial troops. Who cares if it takes away from both the accomplishments? Why should we spend the time to actually give a good approximation of the accomplishments of black French army soldiers? Let’s give them an American battle and call it a day!” People were rightfully unhappy, and DICE made it worse by insulting them, and trying to dehumanize them. I find the want for historical authenticity in to gaming community to be far from overblown.

[@diobrando2575]

@The aqua mage How is asking that a WW2 game marketed as a somewhat accurate portrayal of battle in a real war be somewhat accurate, mean that the community is horrible? The people who complain about the people complaining are more toxic.

[@pferreira1983]

You nailed it.

[@Tailstraw_xD]

"Nguyen" is pronounced more like "Gwen" but with an N at the beginning

[@PanAndScanBuddy]

Nnnnn Gwanda. Shit!

[@InMintCondition13]

I've heard it pronounced in my school as "New-Winn"

[@Cythil]

I knew a Nguyen who him self was unsure how to pronounce it. There seem to be some regional difference. And well, he was chines descendent and was raised in Sweden and the name for those that do not know, is of Vietnamese origin. So I get why it was a bit confusing ever for him.

[@TemmiePlays]

Nob nugu Bob nugwa Bob noygonbeworkin here no more

[@Pikachu132]

Always heard it pronounced "KNEE-gen"

[@otakubullfrog1665]

The fact that several of these examples are fairly recent is why publishers really should learn that not all creative people are suited to be public-facing; many should just create and leave the rest to the marketing and public relations departments. If I were interviewing developers for a job, a knockout question that I might ask is: are you capable of seeing people discuss your work on the internet without immediately jumping in to defend it?

[@tintillor]

Naughty Dog fired the lead writer of the first TLOU. Not The same team at all.

[@Roadent1241]

Why did they fire him? Did he do something he should've have?

[@Xerrand]

@@Roadent1241 He wanted to make a respectful and acclaimed TLOU 2 and it didn't fit in with naughty dogs vision

[@Roadent1241]

@@Xerrand -_- Why can't they let the people they hire to be creative, uh, be creative and happy with their work?

[@Xerrand]

@@Roadent1241 no idea, I was just joking btw. I have no idea why he was fired lol

[@Roadent1241]

@@Xerrand Fair enough, my bad, I've mostly been thinking 'I should likely look up what 'acclaimed' means outside of the games company.' so that probably didn't help with my response.

[@ObscureJapan]

For those wondering, at 0:06 that’s スーパーギャルデリックアワー aka Super Galdelic Hour! A very odd but enjoyable collection of mini games starring girls in animal themed space costumes.

[@federiconahuel6997]

Do u know the game name where there's girl in a toy sized? She has kind of battery reminding other game that had this system

[@Peratohtori]

@@ittylink Dance Summit 2001: Bust a Move (Bust a Groove 3)

[@Blokeymon]

Came here for this, thank you. 😁

[@abloogywoogywoo]

Funny thing is, the worse the game, the more the publisher asks, nay, _demands_ you buy it.

[@maxxxaids]

omfg larry you have lost so much weight! I'm so happy for you. I hope everything is well

[@pellmara5045]

Holy crap that was Larry in the video? That weight loss is astounding, he looks like a completely new man.

[@Larry]

Cheers, lost 252lbs/18 Stone so far, and got another 24lbs to hit my BMI

[@maxxxaids]

@@Larry You've inspired me to do the same. Thank you!

[@ohnoitschris]

@@Larry Massive congrats dude! How did you do it?

[@hystericallover5989]

@@Larry 18 stone? 18 STONE???? huge congrats

[@getthegoons]

Neil Druckman reminds me a lot of Ryan Johnson (or however it's spelled) Both got to work on big money franchises. Both made things they knew that a lot of fans would hate. And both got the surprised Pikachu face when the thing they made got a lot of hate, and both managed to pretty much sink their respective franchises in they eyes of a lot of fans.

[@sutorippuwebmaster8783]

Yeah, pretty sure the hate for TLOU2 was less to do with the look of the characters, even if they did look like breast-enhanced males, and more to do with the self-insert rape scenes and the terrible treatment of its characters from its already unwarranted media darling prequel that thus cemented Druckmann as a creeper.

[@Firebird-he3sz]

Funny that all but one are titles that came out in the last ten years, and three of them are because the developers handled the backlash poorly.

[@TimSkovblleHolst]

Last time I was this early EA stood for Electronic Arts.

[@RobsonRoverRepair]

Lol. Nice.

[@SpecShadow]

And Activision was made to fight agains Atari by being more gamer friendly...

[@hudde814]

*EA used to be a well respected gaming company

[@jedimasterpickle3]

...does it not?

[@SpecShadow]

@@jedimasterpickle3 not by the principle

[@dannybeane2069]

9:40 Probably wasn't intentional, but having "pre-alpha work in progress" above his Randy's head made me laugh. Like Gearbox is trying to patch Randy.

[@SomeIdiota]

Laughed harder than I probably should have. If only Randy was a malfunction rather than a malignant mong.

[@NathanCassidy721]

Randy Pitchford is like FO76. You can try patching it and new bugs and problems keep popping up.

[@mightyfilm]

I always love that story about Don't Buy this Game. It's so many levels of passive aggressive. It's basically out to say "if you want to send in a game, it better be damn good," while saying "if you send us crap, we'll publicly shame you."

[@moyluna1589]

I will never not be mad about how if they wanted to include strong female protagonists in BFV they should have let players do bombing runs as the Night Witches! They're the most amazing bombers in WW2, These women flew crop dusters into Nazi territory in the dead of night and TURNED OFF THEIR ENGINES to glide silently over the troops in the dark and rain hell over them!

[@bashamd96]

Not to mention the Night Witches were such badasses Hitler put bounties on them and anyone who toke down 1 got high honors they were the coolest people not to mention I believe the sniper with the highest kill count in WW2 was a woman aswell so many great stories of females in WW2 but they all got ignored for some 16 year old and her mom

[@TheCrazierz]

The ability to repair a horse in bfone was more of an oversight...

[@rescuerex7031]

No it's a Feature

[@steel8231]

I wish I never bought Battlefield V, even though I did wait a year and get it at Walmart on clearance. I didn't but The Last of Us 2, but that was more because I didn't preorder and misery porn isn't my thing.

[@CasepbX]

I don't think people wanted women in TLOU2 to look like super models. They just didn't want them looking more manlier than the men LOL.

[@DaMainman2]

The footage you used at 9:46 - 9:55 is solid gold. Thank you for re-kindling that wonderful memory.

[@purpleheartfan4762]

Your Bubsy impression is impeccable.

[@eightcoins4401]

Careful, that studio my hire him

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

@@eightcoins4401 Good. Maybe a little outside influence?

[@Nikku4211]

uwu

[@Nikku4211]

@matt OwO, what's this?

[@th3graveofwrath354]

reminder that neil fuckman during development of last of us 2, said he was massively inspired by anita sarkeesian. explains everything, really

[@Corrderio]

Wasn't that idiot also brought in as a counselor for BF5?

[@th3graveofwrath354]

@@Corrderio maybe. I dont remember, but Anita was.mentioned at some point

[@eightcoins4401]

@@Corrderio Anita Sarkeesian already was fully irrelevant by the time BF5 was developed.

[@DrPluton]

Signs that a game doesn't want to be sold: EA logo, sports genre, yet another battle royale game (blech), and the game spending too long in early access. Signs the game will sell tons of copies: EA logo, sports genre, yet another battle royale game (blech), and the game spending too long in early access.

[@rucker69]

BFV had many more issues that were blatant revisionist history (I will refer you to the ommitted Nazi symbolism for one)

[@JD-Media]

Honestly, it's clear Larry agreed with the EA side of the argument.

[@atomic747]

The whole battlefield 5 thing with the dude. I still feel he just using his daughter as a shield so he doesn't have to take any hit while she does. Because the way he quoted his daughter doesn't sound like any normal person would talk like that.

[@EastsideShowSCP]

Ah the Streissand Effect, the bane of every person who doesn't know how to just be silent and let it pass

[@kubiakWU]

This is one of my favorites channels. So much great information told in a fun and interesting way. Love it!

[@Larry]

Wow, thank you!

[@dantereyes4304]

The Last of Us 2 sold well but only in the first week but honestly the controversy around the leak, why it was leaked and the developers responses did serious damage to their reputation

[@crystalgoddess4085]

Well, The Last of Us 2 became a bargain bin priced game very quickly in Japan because of the controversy, it dropped to less than half of the launch price in about a month because retailers just wanted it off their shelves. I get the feeling Naughty Dog will have trouble selling any future games in Japan after that debacle.

[@eightcoins4401]

@@crystalgoddess4085 mysteriously, I cant find any proof of that claim on legitimate sources. The oldest "source" for that is a website called spieltimes, but if you actually visit it you get one of those "CONGRATULATIONS, 1.000.000 VISITOR YOURE WINNER! ENTER CREDIT CARD INFORMATION!" websites. I did find one legit source, but all that said was it dropped from Place 1 to Place 4 and is still going for 6.900Y (around 60$)

[@Asterra2]

The game itself damaged the franchise. Its sales rode on the popularity of the first game but that boat has now sailed. If they make a third game, people will be _very_ wary and there will need to be assurances that deeply misguided plot vehicles-of the sort which inspire someone to leak the whole damn game as a warning-aren't once again ruining everything.

[@Ronbotnik]

@dayzgone it sold alot at first, but sales grinded to a huuuge halt after the first month. at this point it looks like its going to struggle to get even close to the total sales of the original, and its not a far leap to assume a 3rd game can sell even less. theres definitely some nervous business heads over at naughty dog right now

[@crystalgoddess4085]

@dayzgone At first it did, sales did start dropping off relatively soon. Also, how can a game selling extremely poorly in one region not mean anything? As I said, this will most likely have a negative impact on any future Naughty Dog titles released there.

[@truckerallikatuk]

BF5 could have included a number of segments with actual WW2 female heroes, but they gender swapped several where the hero was male.

[@PixelatedH2O]

A similar kind of thing happened with Assassin's Creed Odyssey. Kassandra was only a playable character because of reasons. That wasn't initially going to happen.

[@guybrush20X6]

@SolidVault The full reason's a bit more nuanced. Namely one of the selling points for the game was that your character could romance various different people of either gender only for new story added to force your character to get together with a particular other character and have a child.

[@PixelatedH2O]

@SolidVault I didn't actually know that

[@sleepykitty8918]

@SolidVault I'm a bit annoyed at that, but it does make sense for continuing the bloodline.

[@det.bullock4461]

@@PixelatedH2O IIRC it was Alexios that was made playable because the same guy that got kicked out for assaulting and sexually harassing some of his underlings insisted on there being a playable "alpha male" character. Same with Origins but there they weren't allowed to keep the female character playable. Also the guy is apparently the one responsible for blocking every attempt at a Beyond Good and Evil sequel until it got triple A-d into that 2edgy4u trailer we got some time ago.

[@carminescurse]

I said it then, I'll say it now. The whole Battlefied debacle was dumb. However, nobody wanted to face the fact that women were not sent to frontline combat, nor are they presently. I don't care how many females are assigned to infantry units, they still aren't suiting up to go on a raid. That being said. Look up Killer Chick, Colonel Kim Campbell. Piloted an A10 Warthog close aerial fighting plane. Took heavy damage, her plane lost electronics. She wire flew the son of a bitch back to base and landed it. In the words of her copilot, she landed the aircraft by wire better than he ever could with electronics. To this day when we speak about strong female role models, her name never fucking comes up. That is a failure and proves that the whole Battlefield issue was forced. Instead of taking inspiration from real women like Colonel Kim Nichole Campbell, they took historically inspired actions of men and cycled fake women in. You have an actual legend to take inspiration from. Her actions and actual combat flights aren't given the recognition they deserve. She remains ignored to this day, instead of celebrated. That's the problem I had with Battlefield's decision. Rewriting history to force inclusion, instead of using actual instances as inspiration for genuine characters. Shame.

[@GiordanDiodato]

calling women "females' kinda shows all I need to know about ya.

[@carminescurse]

@@GiordanDiodato oh you wouldn't like the military then. That's how they describe it. Female soldiers, male soldiers.

[@carminescurse]

@@stnank aww kiss my whole dick. Why are you mad about the truth? They do not send females to kick in doors and clear rooms. That makes me sexist? No, that makes you sexist. You cannot give the men who actually do that job there respect. You have to portray females as doing something they don't do, and probably never will.

[@carminescurse]

@@stnank that's sexist against men. But the way you guys allow men to take over the female gender, shit doesn't surprise me. You'll allow someone with a dick and two balls to dress in a skirt and call it a real female. The same fucking way you take away from men and men alone do in combat. Because women automatically have to be included.

[@carminescurse]

@@stnank there is nothing that men have that exclusive to them. But if women said they don't want males in something, they are excluded. What fucking sense does that make? None.

[@Halo44327]

In peoples defense regarding last of us II, it is hypocritical to push criticism to Sony for pushing censorship over anime tits but on screen sex in LoUII was given exception. Also most logically hated the plot of anything. And I definitely can see why Japanese haaaaated it too for their own reasons

[@jaxonjaxoff3871]

The issue that ppl had with Battlefield 5 was that they took a real mission made by Norwegian soldiers to sabotage the Nazis heavy water production and shoe horned fictional characters into it.. The heavy water was part of a Nazi attempt to make a nuke. Had they made a fictional mission It would have been a much better idea. Some ppl sadly will only know of this mission because of this game and will have a skewed idea of what really happened.

[@JustinY.]

Lawbreakers in a nutshell

[@MichaelKilley]

Of course... Your here

[@CalvesFanatic]

Ooh, hey.

[@theghostofthomasjenkins9643]

they didn't have to tell people to not buy their game. no one wanted to anyway.

[@averagebritishguy7082]

*you*

[@AnomalySource]

I just saw you on a some ordinaries gamers vid

[@thenadonation2664]

"Do you guys not have phones?" Best failing company quote ever.

[@Dr170]

This happens every time someone makes an Xbox exclusive.

[@jaymzx2587]

Ouch 😆🔥🔥

[@MaxiemumKarnage]

We just gonna act like TLOU2 isn't real or? Sony moment

[@VoidedEyelids]

Same for Sony when your on PC cause better experience and PS5 games that people like to bring up 1 of them Spider-Man ran on a PS4 pro cause it’s cross platform. I’m excited that they’re also porting them to PC

[@Pikachu132]

Happens with a LOT of games that are console "exclusives" despite being developed for PC and the "exclusive" console version is a downgrade of the actual PC version they have to sit on and pretend doesn't exist until the exclusivity deal runs out. Though in these cases they can't actually SAY they don't want you to buy it.

[@VoidedEyelids]

Pikachu132 when exclusives don’t stay exclusive it’s makes them more money than being on 1 piece of plastic. Which generally means better experience and or more people get to play it. I’m pumped that Microsoft bought all of companies that Bethesda is has which I forgot the higher up company

[@jimbox114]

They should have known the backlash Last of Two was going to cause over the trailer alone.

[@Superluigi881]

Because the trailer was a lie. Not just vague, that would be fine. Just a flat out lie.

[@ErikN1982]

Reviews should NEVER be deleted because a company doesn't like the criteria the reviewer is using. If someone leaves a bad review of a game, a movie, a product of any kind because they don't like something that company did to them, that is a Valid criticism.

[@Cyberweasel89]

Oh, that's obvious. It's just Randy Pitchford is only capable of using narcissistic, arrogant, selfish me-centered hypocritical non-logic.

[@kazbnuuy]

everytime larry says hello you in the intro i always picture him as a grandma pinching some kids cheek and saying that

[@RossTheNinja]

TLOU2: Killing off one of the duotaganists and hardly playing as the other one is a good way to discourage buying it.

[@danwilliams1989]

So “Don’t Buy This” was a marketably successful attempt at reverse psychology?

[@cattysplat]

Only when it doesn't involve shoving politics and SJW views down other peoples throats.

[@20035079]

@@cattysplat Fuck off back to Reddit, dude. It's not 2014 anymore. Gamergate is over.

[@Avigorus]

Given the 1-3 punches of Joel, the dog, and the way they hijacked the awards... the only way I'd touch tlou2 with a 50 ft pole would be if it was for a fan-made mod that actually made the game good.

[@redbaron2455]

Just stumbled upon this channel but its very informative. Think you're presentation is very easily digestible.

[@makara80]

Re Battlefield 5: didn’t realise some folk actually resorted to arguing that the prosthetic limb seen via the trailer was in fact _period authentic_ in order to defend this travesty of a game! Not exactly the _crux_ of the furore really.... Also, Patrick Soderlund’s (paraphrased) ‘my daughter can’t play a violent, age restricted game she’s far too young for anyway coz no female character’ justification for B5’s box-ticking overkill was total bullshit too. So there. ;)

[@AizakkuAnalysis]

Gosh, still see that flappy bird arcade machine in so many UK malls.

[@Dr0dd]

I just saw it this weekend the first time and judging by the pound symbols on it, it was probably directly imported from the UK.

[@AizakkuAnalysis]

@@Dr0dd Oh, seriously. It doesn't seem like something worth importing. I don't know what it is with the UK and turning mobile games into arcade machines. We've got crossy roads too.

[@OmarAlikaj]

@@AizakkuAnalysis I was surprised when I found one at Twin Water(?), some mall here in Lagos.

[@TBoneTony]

Lesson of the day. Don't buy this Game was a success because it was making people curious about the game and if it was that bad. While Battlefield in 2018 was just wanting to insult their own audience so consumers decided to NOT buy it. The lesson should be don't insult your own consumers unless if you really didn't want them to buy your game.

[@soulechelon2643]

I like that you pointed out not just EA's derpiness surrounding Battlefield 5, but the community as well. That was just one great big cesspool of stupidity and ignorance.

[@Ars-Nova258]

Abby doesn’t look plain. She looks like she eats 3000 calories per meal, which is totally possible in The last of Us games.

[@SuperLlama42]

She also looks ugly as sin, and not because she's buff. There are ways to make appealing-looking buff tomboys, even in a dingy post-apocalyptic setting.

[@Joel-oy5zc]

To this day i still dont really believe the flappy bird dev actually removed the game out of some dumb "guilt" that he "couldnt take anymore". It just sounded like he removed it as a stunt to get more attention on him and the game. Even if he really WAS guilty about making millions off of people's addictions, he clearly isn't very smart, since the game was completely free. Which meant the money wasn't from addicts, it was from advertisers. And even dumber was that the removal of the game caused addicts to ACTUALLY go and lose thousands on ebay. What a naive loser.

[@Bullet731108]

That "Hello you" caught me off guard from how short it was.

[@sagacious03]

Decent list! Although, I feel a bit uncertain about how ideal the entries here were. Many of the games just had controversy or the devs being apprehensive to controversy; For this list, I was expecting more examples where it would somehow be detrimental to the publishers if the game was bought, or they wanted it to fail. Still, thanks for uploading!

[@MatMadikGCA]

Thanks for another great video, Larry - even the sponsor speaks to me as I slept in my blue light glasses for the same reason. 😄 Keep it up, mate 🔥.

[@Larry]

thanks bud :)

[@SuperSpeed21]

My only issue with Lou2 was how I had to play as Abby for the second half because they wanted me to feel bad and understand Abby feelings. But come on, you can't expect me to easily move on, the short backstory was just bad. If they wanted me to feel for Abby I should have been playing as her when she lost her father to her growing up to how she is now, then go into Lou3, play it off how it does. At least then I could feel bad about how both girls had the anger for revenge then let it go, to where Ellie couldn't slightly let it go then at the end finally let it go. It sucks that she was left alone with no wife and kid. But it would have been a better way for a bitter ending.

[@AurelioTaloko]

Hello Larry, I'm from Brazil and I always read the subtitles. Its the only way I can watch your videos, please continue making them^^

[@Larry]

ah thanks dude, will so! Also, if you ever feel like translating any of mine in future let me know!

[@Jackalblade9]

Awesome video as always, Larry. Made my day!

[@SUPERROSS1000]

I hope ea and Battlefield 5 are on this list, that didn't go well for them

[@MaxiemumKarnage]

It is, but it's a very... Liberal take on the whole disaster

[@kexxrulz]

@@MaxiemumKarnage Seemed pretty neutral.

[@Donn66]

@@kexxrulz it wasnt. literally revised history.

[@shukterhousejive]

@@Donn66 What did Larry revise my good man? Please, tell us!

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

@@MaxiemumKarnage Lareey is kinda on the other side, sadly. Did not really get into why the whole thing was just not era appropriate.

[@WraithTDK]

I honestly suspect that a lot of times companies do a poor job of including diversity (as in, they add diversity but do it in a crappy, poorly-thought-out, ham-fisted way) as a kind of criticism shield. They count on their being a back-lash against it, and when there is, they make sure that only the most frothing at the mouth extremist comments are highlighted. Not only does this get them free publicity, but it creates a win-win scenario for their PR department: if the game/movie/show fails, then they can completely hand-wave any and all legitimate criticism and point out the extremist comments as the soul (or at least primary) reason it failed. "No, it wasn't all the bugs, it wasn't that we promised a bunch of stuff that never materialized, it wasn't that we killed off or didn't include characters and features loved by fans, it failed because of prejudice, look at all these comments!" And if it succeeds, they can tote their dedication to progressive representation. They expect that fans of a series will buy it because they're fans, and a whole slew of new people will buy it just to thumb their nose at internet trolls. It's insidious but kind of brilliant.

[@makara80]

“ It's insidious but kind of brilliant.” Well, “brilliant” in a strictly relative sense of course considering that it’s never been particularly difficult to provoke the ardent by denigrating that which they hold so dear! For what’s it’s worth though you’re absolutely right in that unscrupulous game developers, film directors et al now often _deliberately_ seek to provoke their audience in order to secure both victimhood and kudos from the ‘in’ crowd. What a time to be alive...

[@saskatoonguy]

Well dang Larry, haven't seen ya in a while... looking great brother!

[@rayceeya8659]

I grew up with someone who had one of those "cyborg arms". The hook is actuated by cables that fasten to the shoulders. That was back in the 80s.

[@MiamiSunrise]

Such great vids Larry!

[@Larry]

Thank you!