What’s a Game Studio REALLY Like? - Monolith Productions Tour

[@lufycz.]

I guess the server room DLC was too expensive

[@hemangchauhan2864]

They have to maintain professional curtsy

[@notapplicable7292]

expensive*

[@lufycz.]

Not Applicable yup, sry, autocorrect

[@MrBiky]

kek

[@blandinus_8683]

Not Applicable u literally spelt it the same lmao

[@MrDiarukia]

Monolith: "We have 800 TB storage" Linus: "Beginners"

[@brutalpony1331]

"you gotta pump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers!"

[@Mr_i_o]

+2 points!

[@MaximNightFury]

Add another petabyte... Then we'll consider you pros

[@asandax6]

Future Update 800TB to Linus is now Baby numbers.

[@ThatRandomDude914]

@@asandax6future update it broke :p

[@JimmyTriesWorld]

The motion capture has probably be one of the most interesting parts of this. It's crazy how well it can translate inside the game when done well.

[@basshead.]

That's very true. The Witcher 3 is an awesome game.

[@VeryHealthable]

if you get a chance, another channel called Rooster Teeth had a couple of their Animators go down to New Zealand and Tour the MOCAP studio for Planet of the Apes, it is Super Interesting to watch if you like the motion capture tech

[@unoriginalyoutubename8761]

VeryHealthable RT became stale a long time ago.

[@hk07666]

Right?! Now I know why shields/weapons sometimes clip through characters even in big triple A games *coughEAcough*

[@ACIDBURN6661]

I love mocap. There is a fairly new software that tracks facial features called faceware, it does a good job! Look it up

[@Malik-jt8hi]

"No photography... Especially Linus" I'm dead my dude

[@danielonenut1864]

lmao I just noticed that

[@natedunn51]

Don't mess with the sound department

[@dev2340]

Andrew Dunn wdym? That's nothing compared to the micro transactions department. You fuck with them and you'll be sleeping with da fishes

[@NeoVoodooTech]

Please don't let Linus around sharp, pointy and dangerous implements. Your studio can't afford the insurance.

[@raiden3087]

hahaha 7:22"Thats almost as much as we've got"

[@Andy-uk9bw]

I think he mentioned during the WAN show that he said this to their IT guys and they weren't very happy lol

[@sydestar]

The latest one?

[@Andy-uk9bw]

Think it was the latest one yeah.

[@kieranhall1998]

It was in the last one of October right at the beginning. Link here if you need kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZS0gpemlrSgetU

[@Andy-uk9bw]

Psychopath Ahh sorry my bad

[@shasterdhari]

I love that it's always dark. Hate that typical, bright white office lighting.

[@blackham7]

I miss the 90s beige office look though

[@christianjamesguevarra6257]

wow so edgy...

[@joshuamaldonado1721]

@@christianjamesguevarra6257 not really, dark is Easier on the eyes

[@user-kq1zh4io7o]

@@christianjamesguevarra6257 no dude just accept the fact that someone likes working in the dark

[@vastcosmos4887]

Linus is really proud about having more storage than the other companies huh 😂

[@gridcoregilry666]

how much does he have? And what does he use it for?

[@Grundoko]

I don't know how much he has, but it's likely used for super high res video storage of all their raw footage, as well as hosting for floatplane club.

[@vastcosmos4887]

He has a petabyte of storage which is 1024 terabytes that he uses to store 8k footage i think

[@mcdowe245]

Yup he has a petabtye in one server. You should watch that video its a really good one

[@WhyteLis21]

linus tech team has a $56,000 8k red camera. so they definitely can brag about data storages like it's nothing. 😁

[@saqlainhyder5412]

This is amazing! You guys should do more videos like this!

[@id104335409]

What’s a Game Studio REALLY Like (while being filmed)

[@curtislin6637]

Most of the time it's nerds and artists getting yelled at by Corporate to MAKE CHEAPER GAMES, WORK HARDER, MAKE MORE, SELL MORE GAMES, and MORE FREEMIUM CONTENT YASSS YASSSSSSS MONEYYYYYYYYY DEMONS

[@emusaurus6669]

*writes down time of death*

[@voidmasterone8373]

Well since they were all working and none of them said a word during the entire video... what's your point ?

[@josephattwell1006]

And while being sponsored by Xbox (notice the lack of PS4's).

[@DarkRaptor99]

It's probably not too bad until crunch time, or a horribly managed studio/office.

[@Matthew-.-]

Did the tour have microtransactions too?

[@Puremindgames]

No, it was a tour of Monolith not WBGames.

[@shaky5754]

roasted

[@MaximNightFury]

Puremindgames it wasn't _pays 2 dollars for the rest of the comment_ EA either

[@TheUmnez]

They should've gone to valve headquarters and the devs would've been like : "Yeah we don't really know what we are doing sometimes we delete or change random lines of code and like to see people react to it on twitter it's pretty funny xd"

[@ss2smallhours]

correct me if im wrong, but as far as i know, Valve game dev is not really working on the same one office space, their workflow environment is pretty "schedule-free", and i think most of them even work from home and just do annual meetup once in a month ?

[@timtjtim]

"annual meetup once a month"

[@infomaniac50]

Time Compression. They force their devs to work in 12x time bubbles. Worker deaths due to old age is a common problem.

[@ss2smallhours]

oh shit, doesnt know annual means once in a year, thought annual means once in a certain times, my bad

[@tenchuZsenran]

Svhons bruh I am dead thanks for the laugh

[@madkvideo]

"known for making shadow of mordor and... shadow of mordor" COME ON How about Blood? F.E.A.R.? Shogo?

[@MrRoeltej]

Playing F.E.A.R. now, played Shogo a long tim ago, also played Blood2 and NOLF afaik... Have last one on cd somewhere (or was it NOLF2)

[@MelbourneArchviz]

I thought the same thing then I thought this is all marketing at that time that game was to be marketed.

[@w415800]

No One Lives Forever!!! AHHHHHHHHH!!!

[@w415800]

00:25 The most important moment in this video, a studio should be celebrated for all of it's portfolio, Monolith has always been my hero.

[@yasinemreozturk09]

Blood 2 was shit

[@foist101]

Monolith is an amazingly talented group, it's just a shame they are presided over by one of the most anti-consumer publishers.

[@sapporohaust]

Stop thinking that the devs are the good guys and the publishers are the bad ones. When you see the devs promoting their shitty pay to win loot box system, when you see the greedy orc animation then you know the devs are also part of the problem. Seeing the devs as the good guys is what publishers want you to think. Because you'll buy the game to 'support' the good guys but in the end the money will go into the bad guys pockets. Publishers don't care that you perceive them as the bad guys as long as you pay.

[@goovy3]

You know that publishers often push developers into doing that kind of shit right?

[@sapporohaust]

Yes I'm well aware of that. But last time I checked developers were not dumb robots. I don't think it's as straightforward as 'We order, you execute'. Even more when you have developed a successful game like Shadow of Mordor where the publisher would be well advised to listen to the developers.

[@RXOBANSH33]

Well 'devs' for the most part don't really have any say in the loot box systems. You think the animators, sound guys, modelers, lighting artists, coders and so on decide on the loot box stuff? Definitely not, that's not their job.

[@sapporohaust]

You don't need to insult someone (Sterling) just because you disagree with him. You thinking that since Sterling and I share the same opinion is making me unable to use my own brain is just as absurd as thinking that you've formed your opinion just by yourself. Everyone's opinion takes form in a given context and never from a vacuum. As for using my own brain, I'm a (casual) gamer at heart and passionate enough about my hobby to CLEARLY SEE that pay to win MC are not good. Oh and btw sometimes I say NO to my boss, we have discussion where I try to make my point. Sometimes my boss agrees to my point and the other times I will do what I was tasked for. As I said it's not as simple as "I order, you obey".

[@Blankaa]

8:32 When you cant find the g-spot

[@jokerpandroidc9807]

This deserve more likes

[@DevoidFX]

That windows sound effect at 8:15 though :D

[@notapplicable7292]

that killed me lol

[@CanadaBud23]

You know I've been hearing a lot of that lately. In videos across KZbin, in the news/weather and even in stores, or on the radio! Such an annoying sound. Didn't have that BS in the XP days lol.

[@VaNDaL253]

ive been a play tester for Monolith at Kirkland WA. THEY HAVE AN AMAZING STUDIO

[@remirms2239]

This video was genuinely interesting!

[@Amocoru]

I'd love more of these if studios would let you in. This was such great fun.

[@cameronbowden2909]

"Good for Monolith. That's almost as much as we got" Damn Linus Ruthless

[@VardhanShrivastava]

he kinda spoiled this on one of the recent wan shows..lol

[@zzxzz-666-thedevil9]

5:38 They glitched in IRL hahahaha xD

[@aadesh_kale]

8:17 I'm really impressed by the creativity. Those guys are really honest and cool.

[@MyUnknown54321]

You gotta do Bethesda Softworks, Id Software, and Naughty Dog.....Basically you gotta do more of these.

[@crystalsoulslayer]

Bethesda Game Studios, not Bethesda Softworks. Softworks is the publisher. But yes, I would love to see that.

[@300Xeon]

Cloud Imperium Games!

[@MyUnknown54321]

Crystal Soulslayer Yeah I forgot about that...any other game studios?

[@crystalsoulslayer]

Someone mentioned CD Projekt Red, though I think their production offices are in Poland. I'd be interested to see what goes on at Mojang. Minecraft is a weird game in many ways, so I always wonder if Mojang works substantially differently from most studios.

[@notapplicable7292]

CD Project Red sounds interesting but the rest can die in a fire

[@7thBatallion]

They're three blocks from my house. So happy they're still local. Kirkland proud!

[@TetrisChemist]

did you need to buy lootboxes in order to get deeper into their studio?

[@tareqalsalem4768]

Tetris_Chemist up up up up, up you gooooo

[@Finkaisar]

Tetris_Chemist he just needed to buy dlc

[@michaelvdbgd]

That's not monolith's fault

[@joejoe4games]

I pity the developers having pouring their heart blood into such an awesome project just to have an overbearing publisher force some f****** microtransaction into the project.

[@arzolt4765]

+michaelvdbgd That's not monolith's fault, that's Microsoft's, and they are sponsoring this video. Hence this section comment is absolutely the right place to rant about it, even if its not really the subject of the video.

[@WMW989]

That ad for the X-box Play Anywhere was one of the cleanest integrations I've ever seen, nicely done.

[@gitech7450]

Shadow of Mordollars... lol

[@brad2300]

Not going to lie, that was a pretty awesome video. Good job LMG crew.

[@janedelmueller]

Linus still in Halloween Mood :D

[@niklas7816]

Jan Beat They made the Video on Halloween day

[@TannerFarrand]

This was filmed like a week and a half ago

[@eol251]

But it feels like linus is the type of guy who is 1 week late after halloween..

[@KanaalMTS]

I love FEAR2. Monolith is amazing.

[@_mew]

Personally I think Valve's headquarters is one of the nicest ones, also some of Microsoft's internal development studios are really nice aswell :D

[@WhyteLis21]

valve can't get anything done because their too busy making money off steams from other studios.

[@WhyteLis21]

valve can't get anything done because their too busy making money off steams from other studios. 😆

[@Malus1531]

+Mew [Jacob/PwnAzn] How do you know? Have you toured many studios/offices?

[@R0ndras]

Its shit. Their stupid studio has no jerarchy thats why they need 10 years to fix a bug known for the beta(team fortress). Their devs work on whatever they want, literally Gabe Newell doesnt care because he still gets money

[@MrWizardjr9]

+Bruh doesnt valve make games also so they are a game studio

[@chasharper]

Linus Really Appreciate the behind the scenes look at Monolith. Awesome Sir . Love seeing the motion capture studio that was a highlight. Keep up the great work .

[@DanielRichards644]

#StudioTour

[@TheEpicFace007]

Why?

[@DanielRichards644]

Vini Dalvino because I can

[@TheEpicFace007]

DanielRichards644 I mean why you put #StudioTour cuz we freaking don't care of your comments and also it is in top comments 😵

[@DanielRichards644]

Vini Dalvino had to come up with something fast to be first comment

[@TheEpicFace007]

DanielRichards644 * Face palm *

[@AfroDrifter]

I'm so glad i found this channel again, just needed to make that clear.

[@MyLittleMagneton]

No love for the programmers ;(

[@epiphenomenon]

fr though. that's the main thing i was interested in.

[@HoshinoMirai]

Oh well next time I'll not fix your computer.

[@epiphenomenon]

Kusakabe that's not what programmers do

[@ristopaasivirta9770]

Disregard media exposure. Learn assembler.

[@maxbarcon]

MatchWojo Not all of them do what they want :(

[@MrBlackdragon1230]

Really enjoyed this, like seeing behind the scenes things. Game studios have always been interesting to me.

[@TheMrGoncharov]

Nice video :-)

[@MAtukulis]

This was one of the most interesting video of LTT! Please, more of behind the scenes game studio tours!

[@cftyckct]

I would love to see a new Blood game! It's my favourite shooter from the 90's!

[@MrStranger1944]

This was a really cool video. I've been playing Shadow of War since it was released and I was really impressed with the Monolith Firebird engine. They did a great job with high resolution textures and photogrammetry. It looks almost as good as modern UE4 games.

[@umeng2002]

Where do they make the loot boxes?

[@RonWolfHowl]

in the dungeon

[@xzaviastreet]

In your wallet

[@vertsabre]

Loot boxes don't actually exist. It's all a trick. Open your eyes sheeple . . .

[@Orinslayer]

Marketing and Finances departments.

[@elbuhdai605]

This video is incredible. I would LOVE to have the same type of video for Dice, the makers of the Battlefield franchise. Their games are so impressive...

[@dustinm2717]

"No photography (especially linus)" lol

[@wesbutler4866]

This is literally what I am going to college to do. So happy to see the inside look at one of these studios!

[@AstroTrain100]

Now go to Valve and check out their new head office and while your there beat the shit out of Gabe until he comes clean about HL3!

[@fayadkevin]

AstroTrain100 That should definitly be done

[@jeffreypeters5578]

AstroTrain100. Haha i second this motion!

[@jake_halo]

Love the motion capture part seems like so much fun (: this was just great

[@TechDunk]

When Linus doesn't have a ton of video ideas anymore

[@UmmarFarooqMahroof]

Definitely a lot more interesting and fascinating than regular videos. Thanks Linus and Microsoft and Monolith

[@CaptnDeadpool]

But where is the microtransactions room?

[@Maxwaehrens]

Monolith just got that much more epic, very nice video LTT.

[@AHAuwuOK]

Monolith? We need SHOGO 2

[@frankb5728]

YES and Blood 3, nolf 3, tron 3.0

[@invaderHUNK]

A good FEAR would be wonderful.

[@RonWolfHowl]

BIF:SAS IV would also be a good addition

[@untouchable0106]

Omfg yes!

[@GLDragon93]

Oh Blood... I would be happy even for a quality remake/reboot like doom

[@Daehawk]

Always loved Monolith.!! ..Blood, Shogo, Septerra Core, Gorky 17, NOLF 1&2, AvsP2, Contract Jack...some of the best games ever. Still waiting on NOLF 3.

[@samevans515]

I know *Monolith* from the F.E.A.R series later they transitioned from Monolith to *Monetized*

[@potatonite2340]

someone better punish you for that joke

[@ArtisChronicles]

IDIOT NOOB I first knew them from xenosaga. loved those games

[@Grey77777]

thats monolithsoft, a different company. I was confused at first aswell

[@jesselioce]

Grayson Wallace no both game series are made by the same company. I looked it up

[@jesselioce]

The only little girl to ever scare the shit out of me

[@cmarkham]

Great video Linus! I love that you mentioned PBR. It's made a huge difference in visuals :)

[@anvar4718]

WHAT A LIBRARIAN SAYS TO A KZbinR: 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞

[@samuelkwok960]

I don't understand how this gets me every goddamn time.

[@2022_temporary]

Underrated video, no comments even after the latest video from this channel LTT. Such a rare and interesting video. Yet only 954,586 views : this much views till now. And 41k likes. These deserve to be in the 10 million range. Now i will appreciate and value games that i see even if it's just another video game just for the effort Also related but not to highlight this company, no company does things for the good and curiosity of the people. Even LTT. Even if good. Rare to be really good. But never amazingly satisfactory.

[@MarkoHR]

But can it host crysis tournaments

[@hardware_geek8136]

Marko420 first can it host mindsweeper

[@LannnR]

Crysis

[@matthewsorensen4303]

They'd be in a pretty big crysis if they couldn't

[@hardware_geek8136]

xD

[@MarkoHR]

Shidou :3 HAH

[@siemvermeulen6941]

I wanna give a huge shoutout to both Monolith for being so open about everything today and Microsoft sexbox team for sponsoring this video. -LTT 2017

[@warmachine2k]

"Roughing up some deadbeat who hasn't paid you" holy crap linus were you a loan shark collector in a previous life? lol

[@LukeWatch]

Lol when Linus picks up an Uruk-hai sword and doesn't realize that it's not just a "machete on a pipe". I WISH I HAD ONE OF THOSE!

[@SamSto]

When linus says a reasonable resolution is 6k downscaled to 4k 😢

[@CanadaBud23]

Don't cry, 1080P is still good! Looking at the ultra high res is still trash compared to RL. Might as well sit in the cheapie 1080P isle for a bit longer.

[@Halskitchen]

Linus, I really want to thank you, and LMG as a whole, for making these videos so family friendly. Its so hard to find good videos on the internet for tech and video game enthusiasts that aren't choc-a-block full of swearing and rude language, and all that ever does is reduce your viewer appeal! You guys make some fantastic videos that are highly educational and interesting, and I appreciate it from the deepest part of my brain(cos lets be serious, my heart has nothing to do with my feelings :P).

[@dvrkplayer]

swipe left, can you do cd project reds tour

[@crystalsoulslayer]

I don't think LTT has the budget to go to Poland. That'd be damn cool to see, though.

[@krzylew]

They can afford 100k RED 8k cameras and you think they cant afford to go to Poland? Im Polish and you can get a flight ticket to US/Canada for just just few hundred dollars :) so it's more about time and feasibility than money

[@crystalsoulslayer]

Krzysztof Lewicki, cameras don't have the same cost to them as travel. They use those cameras constantly, so they can make that money back. If they travel somewhere, they can't work on anything else while they're away, and the video(s) they produce might not cover the cost of going there. Which is a shame, because I'd love to know how CDPR's sorcery works.

[@yasserosama3405]

this was really enjoyable , please do more tours in other studios & make the video a bit longer I love these kind of documentary videos

[@HudsonGTV]

7:40 That moment when Linus has more storage than a huge company has...

[@Drakey_Fenix]

I think they are most known for F.E.A.R. What a masterpiece that was!

[@jenklefritz6583]

I'm still waiting on that RGB thermal compound.

[@casekocsk]

Awesome! More videos like this please, I mean studio or office tours.

[@polishguy8495]

Did you have to pay to open the door? And talk to people? Any lootboxes?

[@Gajbotron]

RECONSTRUCTOR* is the software that work all the post-production of the RAW mocap shots and he is able to find and define all the markers on the actors suits... Developed in Serbia around 2002, used first on Tomb Raider 3... Cheers! o/

[@WorstCommenter2008]

Wow nice, so what prototype you stole this time?

[@steinkoloss7320]

and destroyed

[@cefkaseph]

Awesome video! More of these please! Visiting game company videos are usually boring but this was informative and interesting.

[@Miseric0rde]

"Best known for Shadow of series" No, Linus. SHOGO, Blood, FEAR, NOLF. This is what they are best known for.

[@texasdeeslinglead2401]

That's some very creative talent working there. Very surprising . I'm impressed

[@vermillion4138]

No photography Especially Linus 10:19

[@KennyKennTV]

I love these games, was awesome to see how the studio worked. Crazy how the animators are doing the stunts. I wouldnt think that would be in the job description when signing up to be a video game animator

[@Halarue]

Linus : "Best known for..." Me : N.O.L.F. AND F.E.A.R. ! ! ! ! Linus : "Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor" I should game more...

[@vskye1]

Thanks for the tour Monolith / Linus. Although, getting a glimpse of the server hardware and network would have been better.

[@jesse-dg8yx]

7:48 didn't you nearly have a go at deadmou5 for having like 200tb thinking audio doesn't take up much storage

[@IMOBSSD]

I could watch Linus doing studio tours all day :)

[@Compufreak]

So, according to this video, there are lighting engineers, graphic artists, animators and sound designers involved in making a game - but no programmers at all? I'm quite sad the most interesting part for me got left out :/

[@Ainalom]

These walk throughs are amazing LTT! Please keep those schedules open for more of these in the future!!!

[@Youdrongo]

Sponsored by loot [totally legal & unregulated gambling] boxes

[@xMahzii]

Stfu

[@Malus1531]

^^ Found the whale

[@Nicolas-zo6rg]

You're guaranteed to get something sooooo technically it isn't gambling, but at the same time you might get some weeaboo shit so fuck it, it's gambling 😂

[@xMahzii]

Malus1531 the what?

[@crystalsoulslayer]

WasBucci, "whale" is the incredibly insulting term that marketing types use to describe the people who spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on microtransactions and loot boxes. It came from the free-to-play side of games, where "whales" are basically the entire source of income for a lot of games.

[@GameplayandTalk]

Nice tour. Looks like Monolith has a pretty nice setup!

[@Fillinyourname]

*Especially Linus

[@MistaJones89]

This was cool to see behind the scenes of a gaming studio!

[@frim3647]

You should've gone to EA or Ubisoft and seen how bad their working conditions are

[@levelling2]

They're actually one of the better companies to work for. Go figure.

[@crystalsoulslayer]

EA and Ubisoft are publishers, not developers. From what I understand, how "nice" it is to work for them depends entirely on what team you're part of. If you asked DICE or the FIFA people how much they like EA, you'll probably get a very different answer than if you asked the people who used to work for Maxis or Volition.

[@abhisheksuper20]

Awesome video. Keep the game dev studio tours coming

[@Vanpotheosis]

3:05 Is that Laura Bailey? I.e. The voice of Shin-Chyan? xD

[@untouchable0106]

Med Otaku looked like her!

[@DrathVader]

I''m pretty sure that's her. She absolutely smashed the voice of Kaine in Nier.

[@ss2smallhours]

She's literally the voice of any female character ever, she is everywhere!

[@Gadget-Walkmen]

Svhons I would say that but she’s very prominent.

[@nationalmaverick]

Right on time, just finishing up my playthrough of SOW on PC. Fascinating stuff.

[@ziiichu]

excuse me Linus its "shadow of more dollars"

[@spacejamgaming]

This game studio tour videos are amazing to watch!!! ❤️

[@fuadmakesfilms]

3:05 IS THAT LAURA BAILEY????

[@egilgloersen1562]

Most likely. I think she's one of the voice actors.

[@freddiebootleg]

I have to watch this on loop. Thanks you, THUMBS UP.

[@jeffreypeters5578]

God please let them redo shogo mobile armor divsion

[@Zionrezort]

Ill always remember monolith for f.e.a.r., amazing game

[@TasmanianHillBilly]

Whats a computer?

[@JoeriSmit123]

Tasmanian Hill Billy a device that does computery stuff

[@fetB]

it makes beep beep boop sounds

[@atomm4675]

A device for masturbation.

[@imamalox]

A hentai projector

[@JoeriSmit123]

Atom M no, that's a phone

[@gohomermouth]

I don't know if many people know about the game "Shogo" which was developed and published by Monolith. It was my most loved game at that time which kept me hooked up for years! (7 years to be precise xD )

[@Ziimbiian]

Yeah but do they run Crysis

[@liamkinnaird8229]

Ziimbiian. No

[@morganminecraftlegion9101]

Pretty rockin' to see that your channel is large enough for a mass corporation to sponsor a "field trip" type of event. It is very easily a promotion for Xbox, but it's still cool to see.