Towers of Altrac Review - Worth a Buy?

[@ashlittle4545]

Love your "angle" on reviews. Hilarious stuff bud.

[@snappyskillz4477]

Mack please can you do a video on your life story, I think it would be very entertaining.

[@biohyde6039]

"Sit down, shut the fuck up and watch my review" This reminds me of my Physics teacher, I am wondering how the old fart's doing...

[@SoftExo]

"Maybe this isn't as good as me uncle Ronny says it is." Mack, 07/01/2015

[@paradoxacres1063]

The old Tower Defense maps in Warcraft 3 look better.

[@XnecromungerX]

When a tower is searching for a target it should check if an enemy has a project on the way to it already. If it is going to do enough damage to kill the unit it should ignore that target, and look for another one. This would prevent towers from shooting at units that are already about to die from another tower. This one change would have made it look much better as far as shooting goes. I have made a few tower defence games before but never released them. The graphics issues mack mentioned could be fixed by some larger texture maps and re styled UI. Also if the game was sped up a bit. The maps look really bad, only experience/practice can fix that.

[@Whyamibzsdmh]

Shit I thought it was Towers of Alcatraz

[@lobocroatia]

Good idea for tower defense game! Alcatraz inmates are trying to escape from prison and you are building towers to stop them!

[@Foxgemini]

10/10 would buy

[@throbberikk]

Walks in the room, kicks them square in the nuts and then explains why they're on the floor rolling in pools of their own vomit. Fair play. Good review Mac. :)

[@JoeTootsProductions]

Didn't know you was a teacher.. Well you learn something new everyday.

[@DLTA64]

Will you do a video about GRAV?

[@ArcangelGamingEntertainment]

Whats the name or is there a download link for the music you use in the background of your videos?

[@Zekn69]

Great review man keep it up!!laughed my ass off the hole way through :D

[@SSchithFoo]

Ground textures are tiling like crazy. I'm starting out with game dev and even I know a few tricks to make those tiles look less apparent.

[@jayehuu]

What TD games would you guys recommend? I have Sanctum 2, Kingdom Rush, Orcs Must Die, Dungeon Defenders (I like OMD better IMO).. I also have defence grid but haven't played it yet. Oh I played Toy Soldiers... I think thats the name. its put out by Microsoft.

[@SSchithFoo]

This looks more like a proof of concept you show to a potential investor rather than an actual finished product. Hopefully they are working to make it better with future versions.

[@DatGamingKid1]

0:19 next gen effects overhere!

[@collbn]

2:55 It looks like ants crawling across a stained green carpet on which someone spilled some coffee grounds. The "towers" are chocolate Hershey's Kisses wearing witch hats. No.. really.

[@berenscott8999]

Come on Mack, it's a good start, all the things you've put down about this game, are things that can be easily changed over time. If you are talking about people who aren't in the industry and don't have all the resources, dude, that is good effort! I've seen a lot of open source games with a lot more people make worse games. :P

[@WeAreSoPredictable]

"It's a good start" is what one should say, perhaps, of a game in Alpha - not a game at final release. Open source games aren't really relevant, as they're not expecting money for their product. Is Towers of Altrac better than a bunch of free game that disparate groups of people worked on in their spare time? It probably is. Is it better than a complete free game like Cursed Treasure: Don't Touch My Gems! ? I highly doubt it. Major spelling/grammar mistakes every other sentence is just sloppiness. You don't need be part of a big gaming studio to do some basic proofreading. The advertising screenshots and video on Steam completely misrepresent the look and feel of the game, I feel, by carefully hiding that sloppy black nothingness at the edge of the maps. Admittedly Mack did show a couple of the worst maps, but having done my due diligence and looked at other recent KZbin videos, the black nothingness is conspicuously present, and to frame every picture or piece of footage to hide it misrepresents the game as much prettier and more professional-looking than it really is. Once again, I must admit that I don't know - perhaps Steam is solely responsible, perhaps the developers, or perhaps a 3rd-party PR firm they used. Regardless, it's not Mack's job to delicately encourage developers with some namby pamby "Yay, everyone's a winner" speech, and give them a pat on the back for making a good effort. It's hit job to fairly criticise a game in the context of its genre and direct competition, on its own merits, and whether that adds up to being worth a buy. He did all that. He also, you must concede, endeavours to come back to all games at a later date to re-assess their worth-a-buyliness if the product actually develops significantly. In other words, if "all the things [he's] put down about this game, are things that can be easily changed over time," and they actually DO change them, he'll give them the chance to redeem themselves. My rant is done. I feel better now.

[@berenscott8999]

***** How about your grammar? :P

[@WeAreSoPredictable]

Beren Scott , if that's the best you can do, just piss off and quit wasting my time. Morons pick on people's poor grammar when they lack a decent argument. So if the best you can do is try to pick on the occasional mistake I might make, then I guess you lie somewhere between a moron and a Young Earth Creationist. Mack's target audience doesn't include morons or worse, so please move on.

[@berenscott8999]

***** I think the game is not worth a buy, true, but the rest? I can see the start of something great, the next big project could have potential. The decision to sell that game is just terrible.

[@WeAreSoPredictable]

Beren Scott I agree that it's a terrible decision to sell the game in its current state, especially for the price they're asking. They seem to have a decent grasp on the principles of throwing together an almost pretty-looking game, but I don't see this as the start of something great simply because it looks to be lacking any heart and soul - the key essence that makes the handful of good tower defence games stand out from the horde of mediocre ones.

[@CodeBroRob]

what's next on the list? I hope to see stronghold crusaders 2, i heard of some ppl it was shit .

[@CorDharel]

Haha I love when you start ranting awesome video!

[@Oerknalx]

Best review ever 10/10

[@eastcoasteric]

$10.99 for this? God, I hope that's not £10.99, because that's even worse. I love me a good tower defense game too, but the moment you started reading the description...and I looked at the game, I knew it was going to be complete shit. Mac(k), you should do a top 5-10 Tower Defense list one day, especially with games like Sanctum, Orcs Must Die and Grid Defense, there are many more out there that go unheard of and TD's (good ones that is) need some more love, as to me...they're like an RTS without the stress of micromanagement.

[@WorthABuyreviews]

I am reviewing a TD today, should be on the channel soon.

[@DullHarry]

YOU ARE THE BEST AROUND!

[@Mr-R.R.]

Will you we checking if GRAV is a worthy game to buy?

[@WorthABuyreviews]

Just started playing it tonight so expect something in a few days

[@SSchithFoo]

If a game is one of those all ages ones, best thing to do is letting kids play it coz they usually don't hold back giving you honest feedback. This is probably because they are not yet brainwashed by societies expectations of courtesy.

[@SSchithFoo]

Of course giving it to Mack also works. Hopefully he will not make a video about it, if they ask nicely.

[@iamcreepy4936]

Hey Mack if you like tower defence games you should take a look at Death-trap, that's if you haven't already. Personally, i find it really enjoyable.:D

[@RossGeller2142]

Nothing like a game about Iceblood and Frostwolf towers! Oh, Altrac. They dropped the 'e' :(

[@MrJoeyWheeler]

A collegemate of mine is going into games development, and he recognises that you should never release a game that isn't good enough - all his beginning projects are purely for development purposes.

[@TomCMFGamingChannel]

Verdun worth a buy??

[@justinberrisford3107]

Only if it's on special.. my opinion haha. It's really challenging (one hit kills basically), and it's really team based, but its decent, but worth it only if it's on special.

[@TomCMFGamingChannel]

okay thanks

[@Supreme-Emperor-Mittens]

MACK, WHAT IS YOUR NEXT BUSINESS ??? Besides KZbin of course.

[@chase36chase]

being sexy and awesome. not enough for u?

[@batwimp]

He's a video producer/editor.

[@KurisuKun]

Ugh. I feel sorry for you, I wouldn't play it even if they paid me :D

[@djdano92]

bloons tower defence will always be the best in TD games

[@angelar4004]

I absolutly agree with everything you say, but I still love to play his game. Duh.

[@chroniccynic8459]

If I ever Released a game I would most likely slash the price for 24 hours on release day, 1 to boast sales, 2 to increase interest as many people buy high sale stuff on reflex. I have a few ideas for games but I tend to start and then not finish, and I don't want to cut and run on people :/ So I most likely won't ever release. let alone finish a game.

[@SkySpiderGirl]

Worth a buy : Shift + Tab to begin

[@RobvilleVirtualRealisations]

This video should be on the header of Steam Greenlight. "Beautiful 3D Environments" Hello Unity3D stock environment assets! If you can recognize that stuff the game is clearly lacking a visual style.

[@wcoyote79]

favorite steam comment; "Spend 4 bucks feeding the homeless or buying this game? I think you know the answer."

[@viva_pica]

It looks cack.

[@zergfed8008]

This guy is a human please developers he cant handle so much shit, jezuz!

[@XGunnerX]

Dungeon of the Endless is better tower defense game, and it's a hybrid of multiple genres

[@davidcopper6960]

Seam store ...

[@kinggamez2667]

I only buy games you recommend

[@vytah]

I forgot you're British and I though it's €/$10.99. Nope. £10.99.

[@gamesforfun9620]

Weeeeeeeee

[@Jorendo]

It always amazes me when developers pretend like their game is the next step in gaming. Why brag about graphics when its utter shit. Even if its your first made game you still can be realistic...you have eyes...you see what other games are out there and look better. Don't brag about stuff that is simply not in there. And for the love of gaming people...stop making games you done with a tutorial on youtube and then put it on steam. Why do people insist on asking money for their shitty first made game? Tower defence is a genre that is easy to make. There are tons of them...why even ask money for this when people can play tower defence games for free online in a browser that looks better?

[@bunnyfreakz]

Game is ass, seriously steam need stop published game like this

[@lawrenceb4954]

Those maps look like photoshop tutorial crap... kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3-Qe6ycaaabj5o

[@nintendsoad]

That description of the game is reason enough to never buy anything these morons have to offer. The only thing unique about this game is that instead of a few friends trying to get rich quick, its three brothers trying to get rich quick.

[@noksookao]

This makes me feel sick.

[@GroupFi5e]

Your video is out of date.