You did call it with how little marketing they put into the game

Angry Joe Scream: FIVE HOURS!?

Psychosis simulator isn't pleasant...really? What did you expect?

If you're getting through this game in 5-6 hours, you're clearly going in with the wrong mindset. The dark, gory, psychotic mindset of the game isn't meant to be 'fun' in the way you think of a game. It's not 'arcady'. You feel the fatigue when you get knocked down, swing a sword, fight for your life etc. The game is meant to be a slog in this way. You aren't meant to 'enjoy' it the same way you enjoy other action / adventure games. You clearly went in with the wrong mindset or expectation. It's a polarising game to be sure. You love it or hate it. There is no middle to be found here

I’ll play it for myself… thanks

Who's we? What did we lose? Against whom did we lose?

​@@octavianpopescu4776We lost our marbles.

@@octavianpopescu4776 The game could have been great. Now its just another mess thats probably gonna get people laid off. no good game for us, and loss of jobs for others. that's a L

@@Akain777 Have you actually played it?

I'm playing the game and i like it. I was looking for a game that was presenting me with a story and immersion. I'm getting this from the game. It's people's own fault for going off the high end and expecting something more that was never aimed at. The game tells a story and your in it for the ride.

I recommend the 1st hellblade. I can't recommend this.

Some interstellar meme in there

just like goodbye volcano high

When this inevitably comes to ps, thats going to be wild to think about while playing.

Since when 6. Hours of gameplay is bad? I take it you don't watch movies or tv series? Simply unbelievable.. finally a polished game with no glitches

Pretty much.

Reminds me of The Order 1886 but worse.

Also going through a whole video without saying, “tremendous”

And here it doesn't even make sense. If he played the game his thoughts are no longer skeptical smh.

And yet disappointing would have been more appropriate given he uses that qualifier multiple times, but i guess it was too overly negative for a title. Skeptical is for when you are not sure about something, and havent really had fully experienced it, this isnt it.

Owning an xbox is depressing……..

No cap

Assassins Creed Origins & Odyssey also got ripped apart for being too long and drawn out. I prefer shorter games myself.

​@@DP12321well it's not that black and white. You get short and underwhelming and you get short and awesome ( like Nfs The Run or Heavy Rain which i played multiple times and will definitely play again ) and you get long and worthwhile like The Witcher 3 and long and boring like Odyssey. For longer games I'd say Ubisoft is the worst, not only is it filled with shite that no one suffer through but they've turned all their franchises into a samey experience. So for Ubisoft it's pretty much played one played them all.

@@shalindelta7 Good point. Witcher 3 is the antithesis to another copy/paste Ubisoft snorefest.

Yeah but that at least had fun gameplay lol. This is a walking sim. Honestly embarrassing imo.

DAMN TRUE BRO IF NOT BECAUSE THAT BACKLASH SHORT GAME NONE SENSE WE WILL GOT A SEQUEL TODAY

Lets hope so

Ninja theory is done for. Microsoft def shutting them down

These glorified interactive movies need to die sooner or later, there's so little gameplay in these games that they really aren't games anymore. If I wanted to invest myself in a plotline I'd simply watch a movie. Big game studios have forgotten that videogames need to be FUN TO PLAY before anything else to be worth playing, and if a game isn't exactly fun to play then it isn't a game worth playing.

Walking sims can be great if done right

Atleast death stranding was amusing and beautiful.

This made me skept all over my hands and chest

Memes been dead for 5 million years holy shit

@@jdg1251 Normies, bro.

@@XablazedX People who call other people normies or npc's are cringe af! grow up, lad.

Just a reminder Microsoft Xbox acquired Bethesda studios they didnt want Ninja theory studio it was just forced bundled in. The Very founder of Ninja Theory studios the CEO during the Bethesda studios sale sold Ninja Theory and ran off with his money the state of the studio was a mess as it seems to be a quick pump and dump type of studio where they make one semi good game then sell the company as soon as possible. Microsoft was left with the IP but not all of the original devs including the old CEO who ran off with his money.

Xboxera 10/10 LOLOLOL what a joke

Considering the game is 3.5 hours of cutscenes and 1.5 hours of gameplay, they did 18 minutes per year of actual gameplay.

Its 5 hours long?

​@@homem-pobrethey started making the game 2019..

@@dusermiginte4647 Yes, that's 5 years.

the dev team for BG3 is about.. 6 times bigger than the one for Senua's Saga?

@@speider thats not the point. It’s about over promising. I don’t care how big the dev team is.

@@speider it is 6 times bigger NOW, during the majority of developement they had less than 100.

BG3 isn't even that good. Its just accessible to people who don't play RPGs and it doesn't do anything better than a game like Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous or Wasteland 3. Its a mediocre game dressed up for a crowd that doesn't know anything better, which isn't too far off the mark for the kind of pretentious slop that Ninja Theory games tend to be. If you want to compare dev sizes as if that matters, Pathfinder had a far lower budget and a smaller dev team and a smaller dev cycle than BG3 and ends up have far, far more content than BG3. Smaller teams don't mean that you necessarily make less fulfilling games, not that time really matters. There are plenty of great short games out there, its just that 5 hours is a hard ask for 70 dollar unless you have some replayability like Resident Evil.

@@GetterRay what is pathfinder?

Agreed

They already greenlight another game from that studio

@@MR3DDevyeah the game is called “The death of ninja theory”

Who actually cares honestly? Hopefully they redistribute the devs into Bethesda or Activision

@@MR3DDev Good, let’s just hope Xbox doesn’t have a change of mind

@@lordxeno8270whoa whoa… why do we want Bethesda to be invested in?

Gamepass doesn't cost $50. Why would you give $50?

@@danthelambboyGP costs more the longer you have it. It’s a subscription service. People think they’re getting games for free but you’re eventually paying for them.

That’s literally the price tag for buying the game. 😆👎🏼

​@@theprowler18which they want to you to do.

@@cjmk5923nah they want you to play it on gamepass

This is a great comment. The story is still massively immersive as hellblade is supposed to be. I love how they made combat on characters way more life like and fluid. The finishes and the cuts and animations are 10/10. Fighting the slavemaster is extremely detailed and smooth gameplay that really makes you feel like you are there watching. I have no problem with interactive movie games as long as it has a interesting world and keeps you on your toes as this truly does. Great intro with disturbing voices and the breathing and screaming from the dead bodies being washed around on the shore. Its way more immersive than the first one, but i really wish it was longer because the higher quality really makes you want more

Right, because they spend 5 years worth of manpower and money to create a demo reel. 🤦

@@LostHope1982 they actually did

yea, they seem to have focused primarily on showcasing the Unreal engine's abilities

Been the driving force behind all AAA game development since the early 2010s. Everyone just makes games to show off to other companies and potential employers/employees. The actual audience for the product is entirely taken for granted. Happens in every creative 'industry' eventually. Music, for example, has been operating this way since the 90s.

yep they knew it

​@alfredmitchcock8518 doubt that there wasnt any press on the first as well. Not to mention everyone hated the first on release as well.

@@Name.......... at least back then it was Ninja Theory on it's own, now it has Xbox brand on it which draws a lot of negative attention.

Fudge even Alan wake II has more gameplay and you do a lot of walking in the game at least there the environments we did have were great specially coffee world I can navigate it like the back of my hand

Last of us 2 at least has 20 hours of gameplay rushed

This is an imaginary walking, fighting simulator all going through a in-game character thoughts.

It still is

From what it seems it's a watered down version of every other similar game. It lacks the decent to good gameplay of TLOU, and lacking the narrative impact of other "walking sims" like Life is Strange or A Plague Tale. So it just ends up kinda meh.

That’s how I felt watching the reviews. No way I’m buying this for 50€.

The voices also loose their luster pretty quick due to them never being quiet, even during cutscenes with other characters WHILE THIER TALKING their just blathering on, it grates on your nerves quickly, and starts to become more a nuisance than an interesting gameplay component like it was in the first game.

If you played the first game and don't like it you wouldn't like this one either and this game is not for everyone

​@@zigghie8285your right that this game is not for everyone, nothing is. But a sequel should improve upon the first. The only thing that this game improves upon is graphics everything else is lesser. There's less puzzle and combat and more walking than gameplay. Story? I'd say about the same as Hellblade 1.

@@x0Fang0x no, if you're a fan of the original you will also like this game and it will have a cult following just like the original

​@@zigghie8285he liked the first one, but didn't like the second one.

@@pocketglove he's lying

nice graphics only sell games for inexperienced players and family members as gifts to capital G Gamers. graphics are marketing and marketing is only effective on those who are not that familiar with the industry the marketing is in

​@@foreignuser_A Plague Tale : Requiem has more beauty than this Hellblade game. It's better in every way and has the graphics to boot!

You know not what you speak of

@@nicholasnajibi3082he right I know

This ‘game’ really should have just been a film.

Yes but Hellblade 2 has lesser gameplay so it's almost the same thing.

Lots of fart huffing at Ninja Theory for sure

kojima is the same why but at least his games are still games.

​​​@@thesagaofblitz kojima is way overated too. if spawning one good franchise is enough for endless praise then the creators of cod argueably deserve more praise and genious status than him since cod 4 had more of an impact and reach than mgs selling almost 2 sixths of the entire mgs franchise combined. everything he does past mgs is pretentious and boring.

@@TheErikjsmso are you saying Metal gear series are overrated 😂

@@TheErikjsmat least kojima has the brass to back up his name, opening a studio named after yourself is no small feat. He’s earned his spot as a legend in this industry.

Idk man, indie walking Sims are a genre that has existed for years.. this one has a sizeable budget attached but it definitely has a niche, whether it is a big enough niche to be profitable remains to be seen.

Well, it's better than David Cage games, which are mostly just composed of interactive cutscenes linked by brief sequences of third-person gameplay. Besides, Soma has pretty much the same level of gameplay, with lots of walking and relatively simple puzzles, and people think that's a good game. Granted, there are a number of differences (lesser budget, first-person perspective, etc.), but the fact remains that Soma also could've been a movie/book. It's not whether this story works for the medium, it's about how the medium shapes our experience of the story, and there are a number of advantages a video game has in this regard over a film.

It's basically the order 1886 but with somehow less gameplay

​@@gman7497The difference is is that all of the good walking simulator games were still engaging as games and them existing as games fed into the narrative. The issue is that this game has so limited barely qualifiable gameplay And that it's so incredibly linear even by linear video game standards that it should have just been a TV show or a movie. Which honestly I think Microsoft should invested that with the IP considering the success of the Fallout show.

Yeah the game pushes the limits of laser scanned environments and objects and motion capture but for no reason if the actual experience isn't fun or long enough

Yea……the voices that would sound off in Senua’s mind were really interesting in the first game, but in the second, they are constantly going off, even in effing cutscenes where characters are talking, and it just starts to grate on you after awhile. I mean I get what they’re trying to do but man…..going through hours of uninteresting combat encounters, walking sections either exposition dumps, and uninteresting cutscenes for a story I find really hard to care about, only to constantly have the voices yammering in my ear…..at every waking moment……c’mon.

​@@Qballiz2koolthe most hurtful part is we all loved the first one flaws and all. It feels such a huge punch to the gut of the fans to be letdown like this. Especially when they took their time and budget for things this time. Just a shame

I guess you don't remember big Sony hits like flower, Journey and Heavy Rain?

​@ManiLink if you are really trying to compare Heavy rain to hell blade 2 then you truly are delusional.

@@123cornflakeman Heavy rain was seen as "not a game" at the time and it was good graphics and little gameplay and the performances were awful. It was saved by its graphics which at the time were cutting edge on PS3.

​@@ManiLink At least Heavy rain had some semblance of choice and slightly branching plot

Slash slash dodge is literally every souls game...

Games so short any marketing would be considered too much of the percentage of playtime shown I guess.

@@SKHYJINX A game could be 4 hours for all I care, as long as I get a good experience I'm happy. Nowadays I honestly find that games being 20+ hours long is detrimental to the experience. It's a tremendous time investment and I rarely find myself finishing these games.

⁠@@CanIHasThisNameThis should be priced at around $30. 5 hours for $50 is crazy. And y’all gonna excuse it by saying wait for a sale. Another Xbox L

@@CanIHasThisNamebro please stop defending nonsense. You sound insane

​@@CanIHasThisNameI agree, but not for anything above $20. Like Farcry 3: Blood Dragon, now that was an excellent 4 hours for what I paid. This might be too, I am interested, but not for that. This is a Game Pass exclusive

Dude it's game pass £13 it's not that deep

​@@johngray6215that will be the fall for this game. It's too expensive for the playtime to be purchased at full price and playing through gamepass will generate significantly less revenue.

@@johngray6215 That's the problem, "Oh at least it was on gamepass" When everyone of their games on Xbox Game Pass sucks. Phil Spencer needs to go, Playstation isn't any better with their movie simulator games as well.

ACG in his video said it's 9 hours long with "a Lil bit of extra puzzles". It's a huge disrepency between his and Luke's experience

I wouldn't mind 5 hours for 40 bucks if the game's narrative and themes were extremely gripping. But 99% of writers in the media business seemingly cannot write anymore and nothing is worth it.

Pretty much

No really. It is keep your subscription for months on anticipation of the game. It's a psychological trick, people won't disable their subscription because of what's to come, as unrational as that is.

@@band0lero yup, maybe en 7 more years they give an excuse to have you for 5 more hours or a few months, top business model

💀

@@band0lero that's pretty dumb

Graphics is not everything.

@@PeterKoperdan but it is SOMETHING. And since the facial capture is the number one feature of this game, it should be mentioned in more detail than just "graphics good." It is genuinely setting a gold standard in video games.

​@@wck yeah the standard of "sacrifice everything for pretty graphics". Plenty og games have great motion capture, senuas is great but is not a selling point. If it was a cgi movie then fair enough, but it is a game not a movie.

lmao, who cares about the facial capture. It's a game first and foremost, if it's boring to play - why bother?

video games make so much money now, that people that have no genuine love or interest in gaming are ending up taking jobs in the industry.

Then don't play video games old man, or play older ones instead. Story is debatably the most important thing

​@@bubalfred260I wouldn't say it's the most important thing, but for a lot of games it does help give the player a motivation to keep playing, but the gameplay is also capable of doing this. It all depends on the what game is trying to accomplish, honestly. If I had to choose though, I would want to play a game with better gameplay than story instead of one with a better story than gameplay. Ideally, I'd want an even balance of both because together they are capable of making overall amazing experiences, when done right. There have games I've played that I question why they even had to be in a video game format when they focused way more on telling a story and expected that to make up for the barebones gameplay. But again, it all depends on the game itself, and it's approach.

@@bubalfred260story isn’t everything in a medium where the products you’re making are literally called video games gameplay is and always will be more important if you don’t like that then don’t try to pass off an interactive movie as a game🤷‍♂️

there are a lot of story based videogames that are walk around and read+listen while looking at pretty settings not every video game has to make you sweat through puzzles or mechanics

If you slow walk everywhere, discover all of the voicelines, and take an hour lunch while it's running I think you could sqeeze 7 out of it.

​@@DMTuefel That's still baffling they should've called it tech demo instead.

@@nabieladrian I seriously believe Microsoft forced them to release an incomplete game.

I left the game running around 2/3 through the game, went to walk my dog, clean the kitchen, did my room, and some other housework. Came back, completed the game " I literally didn't comprehend the fact that the ending credits actually rolled", and the time I got was 9 hours, 9 fucking hours with literally going through my day and coming back to the game while it was running. I love a lot of stuff about this game and I enjoyed most of it, but it is actually really short.

Amen to that

Yea……I’m pushing to finish it now, and I’ve almost dozed off twice from just outright boredom. The game is just an uninteresting graphical showcase with no substance.

This is deep

Couldn't hold anymore true than modern day.

With that analogy, this review sounds like a guy that said, “I was in love with this girl when we were kids. She had such a unique personality. Then we grew up and she became incredibly pretty, and I was disappointed that she was still quirky in all the ways I loved when we were kids. Gosh she’s such a loser.”

​@somethingyouhave i mean, naturally you're supposed to grow and change as a person. So an adult acting like a child IS a problem.

@@somethingyouhave I think you’re thinking about this a little too deeply. I was merely saying good graphics don’t make up for bad or boring gameplay.

Only way to explain the utter lack of marketing

Don't think that's the case, they probably planned a short playable movie. Waste of potential.

The first one did too, honestly. That's why I was hoping for them to expand on the combat/gameplay for the sequel, but I guess not.

If you don't like the first game you wouldn't like this one either, this game is not for everyone but it will have a cult following just like the original

@@zigghie8285 I actually like the first game, but you can tell they prioritized story way more than gameplay which makes you question why it's a game in the first place. Half-baked combat and puzzles that hardly evolve over time make the parts you're actually playing feel like filler. Studios have definitely made great strides in making video games a more cinematic experience, but they also understand that it's still a game that needs more than pretty graphics and amazing performances by actors. There needs to be fun and fulfilling gameplay that evolves throughout, showing progression in the character and the player. Watching a cutscene, or an "interactive cutscene" where you walk forward and watch something happen doesn't exactly warrant it being a game. Even if it does effectively help you understand the character(s) more, it doesn't make overall compelling gameplay. I was expecting more emphasis on combat and better puzzles for the sequel, but it's clear that they wanted to still keep it just as simple as the first. That's okay, it's just not my kind of game I guess. Also, I always see cult followings as people thinking they're somehow special because they don't have the same mentality as "casuals" and they "get it". A cult following for something doesn't inherently mean it's good.

@@Damianator77 I personally liked it. I was right at home with the controls and it felt familiar. I found myself using the mirror more this time around.

​@@zigghie8285Cult followings wont help a game sell(unless you're FS, but even then, most buyers quit their games). This game being disappointing is not a good look for Ninja Theory.

Shit game contrasted by a vastly superior game's OST.

Amazing game for real people.

@@sladelius6174 Hellblade was supposed to have an OST by Heilung, but it turned out they did 1 song and some ambience. So that was also a disappointment.

Interactive movie maybe...if its going to be like that, isnt it better to do something Heavy Rain?

Ya for sure, his review is amazing and direct. No shilling at all unlike other reviewers.

@@webbie7503 Or it could be that they actually liked the game? The game is currently sitting on 86% positive on steam, clearly there are people who like it.

Saw IGN's review of this game on Twitter and they gave it an 8/10 for having good visuals and audio. IGN is a fucking embarrassing joke.

A movie is a movie 😅

Can't make a 3 minute trailer when it's short like this game. People not seeing this coming after devs said it was this short is baffling to me. If they made a trailer it would be worse. Look at that gameplay, she is walking.

@@majorshepard2 I don't mind the length, or anything about this game. From the consumer perspective, this is just another cool game you can play on Gamepass. The business side is what's unfortunate, because you know they're not going to make their money back, and we all saw what happened to those studios who didn't make their money back.

@@jassykat players like different things. I just wanted to comment on the reason to why there is no trailer probably. It would spoil too much. For me personally I have a golden rule of 1$ per hour I play when I buy it myself. But if I would get it through gamepass I don't mind it. Yeah they can't even get hit with layoffs by only 80 devs, so they will shut them down probably. Let's hope they move them to Bethesda and teach them how to use ue5 for elder scrolls 6 so there won't be a starfield again.

@@majorshepard2 I've seen a couple of trailers, but yeah, they're pretty short. It would be crazy to see a Bethesda game on UE5. Closest thing on the horizon would be The Witcher 4? The problem with Starfield is that the Action RPG formula they used for decades didn't changed much, and it's starting to feel old. You could argue that the Technical Limitations played a role on that, but I think that weight carries over the the whole team across all areas, quest design, narrative, and gameplay. But for what it is, I actually enjoyed Starfield quite a lot. It can be very inmersive if you choose to play it in specific ways.

@@jassykat I never played it. I don't have xbox or pc so my closest thing to starfield is no mans sky. And that has all the same problems despite them making big steps every update. Their formula is a big part of it, but I think they are limited in what they can do in their engine and they don't know how to utilise it, otherwise ai would not be worse than skyrim or fallout. You are totally right that their design decisions feel old and outdated and the setting makes it even worse. Their decisions are not futuristic, they are outdated. It's like they are stuck in 2012. I totally forgot about cdpr switching to ue5, thanks for reminding me

I can only imagine how good it looks on PC if it's a good port. I took way too many screenshots when I played it just from getting cool shots.

​@@XerodmReviews say it s one of best ports on pc😊

​@@Xerodmwait till the graphics mods comes out 😅

@@Xerodm It looks incredible on PC even tho i have no idea how it looks on PS. But thats only image quality. The world, story, main character, minimalism in menu design, combat, actually made emotional for a moment. You PS guys are actually really lucky to have experienced it so long ago. This made want to buy a PS lol

Gonna have to add it to my Steam wishlist with those replies in mind.

5% on audio/programming? You've got no idea what you're saying buddy.

That's definitely want the end result makes it feel like, yeah.

This is, probably, going to go down like Fairweather Johnson, "Johnson, I like the Braves in '95."

Nah not really. The audio is world class. I agree that the price is outrageous for 5 hours of gameplay. If they cut it down to around 15 - 20 dollars it would not have gotten this backlash. I personally enjoy that some companies make these type of ''experience'' games where you dont have to worry too much about choices or a skill gap. A game with a nice story and kind of a ''lay back and enjoy'' feeling

What is crazy exactly? If you want senseless padding, you can just take your time with it, no one is pushing you.

​@@vdochevare you being intentionally obtuse lol

@@keithmichael112 What makes you think I'm obtuse?

@@vdochev it just seemed like anyone would see this much time and money for this is absurd on it's face. But what do I know

@@keithmichael112 I think the length of the game is really good. In my opinion the intention was to play it in one sitting to get the full experience without any distractions. This is not a type of game that will give you side quests, missions, etc. The focus here, like in the first part, is the story, the characters and the experience. If we're talking about length it took me 7 hours, not 5 and I was rushing through it. Maybe you're a speed-running god and can solve all the puzzles right away without any guide, whatever, I'll not argue, but I'll gladly pay for a great 5 hour game than a 45hrs+ mess. I got what I expected and I'm happy. What difference does it make if it took 5 or 10 years of development? I don't understand. If we are using this measurement, Duke Nukem Forever, for example, should be 20 centuries long. And like I said, I can easily clock in 20-30 hrs in it if I want to explore and find every tree and every story in it. No one's rushing you to speedrun the game. If you don't like it, that's why reviews exist. I'm sure you'll find many other great games that will satisfy your taste.

I do miss the kick...but combat feels more realistic & challenging, especially on hard mode

​@@wu-bangya4486 Hard disagree. she lost her combat abilities between games which shows it wasnt even made for fans of the first. Also like i said she is WAY less responsive to your inputs. That isnt realistic. IRL you respond to your own inputs from your brain, pretty much instantly. Thats why all the games that feel the best to play are the most responsive ones. Hellblade 1 was actually decently responsive for this type of game. Hellblade 2 is one the least responsive games of this type ever made. 90% of the fans of the first game wanted the combat expanded a bit more, not cut down. Same with the puzzles. We wanted more variance, not just more of the same. Hellblade 1 was a good starting block, but instead of expanding the actual game elements in 2, they cut them down and made more of the game interactive cutscenes. YAY lets hold up for 15 minutes at the start of the game. Forced walking sections are also last gen AF. They basically added the stuff from the Tomb Raider square enix trilogy that aged the worst, the forced walking and interactive cutscene sections. Sometimes i was just sat there not realising i was meant press something. Couldnt tell if she was worn out and stopping or i was mean to press something. Voices were talking so it seemed like she had to stopped to listen, but no, had to move the rocks out the way in the interactive custscene. Im also British, so this series was important me on a deeper level and i want to support British game devs, but I cant overlook the gameplay. It is worse, full stop.

@@wu-bangya4486 oh also, its now obvious how they made the game look like a cutscene in the ''gameplay' trailors whilst claiming it was gameplay. They were just interactive cutscenes and they claimed it was gameplay because it wasnt just a plain cutscene. Thats just dishonest and basically a lie. Holding up on the analog doesnt make it a gameplay section no matter how they try to swing it. Oh and the build up videos , they said they had spent ages on the combat to make it better. Well, in my opinion, whoever did the combat for 2, failed miserably.

They also got rid of the voices telling you when there was an enemy attacking you behind. It was a cool feature because it gave you the ability to parry it. It was also cool because sometimes they’d tell you to watch out or look behind you and there was nothing there. It really added to the psychosis and immersed you. I wish that wasn’t cut.

And they promised the combat was going to be more in-depth and this was the opposite of that

Too busy partying and living it up on Iceland and other trips

They made it 1 hour per year

Lol, probably spent a lot of time dealing with their self-diagnosed "mental health" issues, I bet.

I guess it's true, M$ did really made a pub *inside* Ninja's Theory's office!!

I think that of so many games these days. Like Halo Infinite, how the FUCK was all that time and money spent, for what we ended up with? For that amount of money and time we should have had an incredible boundary pushing halo game, massive explorable cities on a scale we haven't seen yet, etc. It's insane how underwhelming and shit these games end up, when they have record breaking funding, resources, manpower, decades of previous games industry knowledge, etc. And at launch after years and years we get a barely functioning game, a bland open world that can't even touch any far cry's even from a decade ago. like 3 multiplayer playlists which the most popular gametype slayer is missing.... and... can't be added? Because the UI won't allow it? And this is HALO. Xbox's fucking FLAGSHIP. Lolllll. This industry is a fucking joke and a scam. All the funds are being mismanaged, pocketed, and funneled to the top. The talent and passion is gone. It's a circus of overpaid clowns in the AAA space.

Just like how PS fanboys hated GAAS but suddenly loved them when Helldivers 2 dropped

@@bstaples8726 Which is an insanely good live service game, at $40 with reasonable microtransactions, rewarding gameplay loop and no nickel and diming as opposed to let's say, most other live service games? Come on. Blank statements like "all live service game sucks" or "x game is a walking simulator" are stupid, but so is comparing an enormously successful game done right by almost every metric to almost every other unfinished live-service crap that reaches end of life in 6 months.

​@@bstaples8726helldrivers 2 actually made GAAS fun and not a rip off of the players money in comparison to the market While hellblade 2 is a $50 game that lasts 5hrs Make your point make sense

@@chriscollins3225 Fun is subjective and they had paid options day 1 in which you could take out your wallet to get ahead of everyone else in the game.

​@@bstaples8726Also, to be honest about this, most of the sales and hype has been around the PC gaming side and barely the PlayStation side.

“How many times will Luke say “baffling?” Answer: “Yes.”

“tremendous”

The games i have played with DOF in the cutscenes had nice bokeh, so i idk what you're talking about. Can't stand DOF while playing though.

I have to turn off multiple graphics settings for every game before I start it. Motion blur and the grain filter are what annoy me the most. Whoever thought those were good ideas were wrong.

What's your opinion on the use of lens flare in videogames? It's been bothering me for years

@@marcdwonn9772 I'm talking about in-game. The original Dragon's Dogma is one in particular that is terrible. Newer games have gotten somewhat better, but there's still just a difference between in-camera bokeh caused by the lens build and someone blurring the background. That's the problem, there's no subtlety to it. It's basically just a blur filter. I'd rather see the work they put in on the world and environment than see a bad filter covering it all up.

@@Ascendedninja6 Same here.

If they did you'd see most of the game before playing it

What were they gonna advertise, walking?

Damn unc you been on KZfaq for 17 yrs

​@@Harry-tm3ckyhh that crazy like WTF 😂

Haya how was KZfaq like during 2007😭

Seems to be a recurring theme. Look at Rare for just one example

Insomniac also has 3x the amount of staff and couldn't make enough money to avoid layoffs.

before xbox bought bethesda they are already underperforming. they produced fallout goty. microsoft keep funding shit games and dying devs

​@Lead_Foot pretty obvious that layoffs have nothing to do with the success of the studio at this point

They didnt even buy insomniac for 100 million...

People who like the first game will definitely buy it and if you don't like the first game you wouldn't like this one either, this game is not for everyone but it will have a cult following just like the original

I think $10 for a month of game pass is OK. It's not like you'll need more than a month to finish the game.

Gamepass?

They won’t miss your money…they already got alot from us gamers. There will be a senua 3. You’ll see ❤ 🙏🏼

@@nicholasnajibi3082 Cope.

Microsoft has to erase Ninja and bring back Tango

it looks great for ninja theory. if HB2 is the kind of trash they are making, it seems like they would all be better off split up and looking for a better fit for their skills and mindset

Crazy how your easily swayed buy some KZfaqr's opinion. Did not even bother to play the game first lmao.

@@aynrandom3004this KZfaqr is a good one so honestly probably right

If you’re referring to DmC: Devil May Cry - then yes, I agree that it was a shocking game helmed by a director that “hated Devil May Cry.” But the bitter irony there is that he’s now living some rockstar life - having completely shat on DmC - and his old studio is the one dealing with all the shit now. The wrong guy won that battle, imo.

Yeah, a lot of people are blaming this inevitable trashfire on Microsoft already (which i get the temptation, i'm still not quite over the xbone reveal) but lets not pretend that Ninja Theory aren't the ones that actually made this boring walking simulator.

But DmC was actually good, though.

Agreed, the environments in the 2nd game are very bland compared to the first.

@@Qballiz2kool yeah I hope u like rocks and caves cos that is all Hellblade 2 has. Original Hellblade had forests, beaches, caves, forts, burning village’s, cliff sides, oceans, and tons of psychedelic imagery and environmental variety.

@@DragonBallG69 yea, the prolonged cave section in the second game with the blue light was cool at first, but quickly outstayed its welcome because it seemed to last SO long.

I would have taken the sequel to their version of DMC Devil may cry too.

Those people who made DmC are long gone

Those people who made DmC are long gone

​@@Alex-bw3jjyeah all the existing employees are "new hires" now

Sony owns that ip

It's actually a character study of schizophrenia and or psychosis. At least the first one. The first one was short too. If you play with headphones on you can hear disembodied voices talking to you saying both positive and negative things. She sees things that aren't real. I thought the first was great. It disappoints me to hear this about the 2nd. I was hoping to play 2.

@@HegoDamaskll yeah...so basically a poor excuse for a movie disguised as a game where it's 99% movie 1% gameplay which is mostly pressing forward on the controller. ...so a boring walking sim tech demo...

​@@HegoDamaskllThe 1st game portrayed it better than this one. Apart from graphics everything feels downgraded,if you actually played the 1st game. Even the combat in the 1st is way better even tho they seem similar

​@HegoDamaskll It's a very neat concept and a very interesting way to make a game about mental health, I'll agree there. But neat concepts aren't enough to make a game great It's also treading pretty much the same ground the original was doing back in 2017 without much updates to any of the gameplay systems. It's cool if you like this, but you have to understand why many are disappointed after waiting so many years for a sequel.

The order 1886 2015 game have more gameplay

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Its not the gwent music but Novigrad music

Overdone chromatic aberration and DoF are videogame's equivalent to Zack Snyder's overuse of slow motion. It's good when used properly but once it became kind of a "visual trademark" of pseudoartistic content things went downhill.

I blame Instagram. It's really popular to do these "glitch" effects on any kind of art and especially anime illustrations that are mega popular. Undoubtedly these devs have rotted their brain with pop-aesthetics to the point they want to put these elements everywhere. It's kinda like putting ridiculous amounts of motion blur in your pre-alpha build.

It's the biggest thing that's going to stick out when you go back and play them after a few years.....like that Xbox 360 generation yellow/beige haze on everything

@@w3bbi3bloom era

I always turn that stuff on whenever I boot up a new game. The extra bells and whistles devs put into making their games look "realistic" is unnecessary and pretentious.

Yeah but keep in mind a lot of these guys are a bunch of sweats that can't really appreciate anything like this, they been sweating on CoD for too many years so it's hard to appreciate anything that isn't tryhard and competitive, dude finished the game in 5hrs are you kidding me? Sounds like he spent the entire play session trying to beat the game like it's competitive or something

@@wolfstorm5394 good points however, this is his job and I'm sure he is busy which necessitates him completing these playthroughs in a reasonable time. Videos like this help me develop an idea if the game is for my subjective taste. Which all of this is subjective. If paying $50 for an experience like this is your cup of tea then more power to ya my man 🤙.

@@canyunhicks1587but also he slaps disappointment in a title and gets more clicks. He’s gotta put food on his own table as well

that almost never happens very few things actually get blank checks and i don't remember a game ever getting a blank check Riots MMO was theorized to be a blank check and they almost cancelled the project a few months ago

Fumbled