"You offered to the shrine but gain nothing" yep, sounds about right

Crashing your game is the secret 4th ending of the game

That "You offered to the shrine but gain nothing" Was the first review i saw for the game before deciding to play it After seeing that review i had no other choice but to play. And after getting an entire chat box filled with "You offered to the shrine but gain nothing" I understood

My favorite part of RoR2 is when your friend offers to the shrine 12 time and you walk up and it works first try. The amount of salt generated is beautiful.

"Strange music" That killed me. How can someone not absolutely vibe out to The rain formerly known as Purple? Also it was stated by the devs GB gives them full creative freedom and even helped with the release of SOTV.

Played in vr and mithrix running at you while tonic is on cool down and you have affliction is one of the scariest things in vr

I think the reason so many deaths seem unfair is because it's practically impossible to be aware of everything the game is currently throwing at you, either because there's just too much happening at once or because an enemy was behind you, making it feel like a devastating attack just came out of nowhere.

honestly, one shot protection is a false idol (quote from one of the devs btw); most of the attacks that one shot you hit you multiple times, including elder lemurian blasts, imp overlord teleport and most of mithrix's attacks also, playeverywhere made the console port, gearbox was assigned to fix it. hopoo games already weren't going to be working on risk of rain 2 anymore so, while I can understand gearbox's negative reputation, people are blowing the problem massively out of the water

"nothing can oneshot you" the void jailer who pulled me into his deathrattle:

I find it quite interesting how most of the negative reviews you show in this video have actual good feedback. Meanwhile in your other videos on this topic you usually show reviews that are making quite awful or lackluster criticism.

One thing that people often forget about the gearbox buyout is that Hopoo games stated when talking about the buyout, that they (after the survivors of the void dlc) didn’t really have any more plans for additions to RoR2, so this likely made their decision much easier as at least this way there would likely something for them, as opposed to nothing, so them accepting the buyout of RoR2 wasn’t purely money based.

As a Risk of Rain fan, you simply cannot tolerate the Chris Christodoulou slander

I felt that last review over the chance shrine.

the Stockholm syndrome is crazy

All I have to say is Chris stays winning. Man really knows how to pump out bangers on a near constant basis

I gotta admit, I think Nier and Nier Automata's soundtracks are the best in video games, but Risk of Rain 1 and 2 comes in a close second, with TF2 being a very close third. EDIT: Risk of Rain 2 is a great game (though I haven't had friends to play it with for a while >.>) but Risk of Rain 1 will always hold an extremely special place in my heart. When it came out, it was a totally new concept, made by a tiny team of indie devs. To a guy in college FOR game development, it was a great example of why indie games were such a neat niche. I put hundreds of hours in to RoR 1, playing the god awful online with my friends, or playing via LAN when we could. I still remember one of my favorite runs ever where I looped so many times that I got SO many monster teeth that when I instantly 1 shot the worm boss at the end of the game, it spawned SO many of the healing orbs that my game literally dropped to less than a frame per second for almost a minute.

“One shot protection” The 40 unneccesary multi hit enemies in the game:

I love risk of rain 2, its one of the only games where if you are lagging you at least know you are doing something right

as an avid viewer of Htwo and someone who picked up risk of rain 2 about a week ago im starting to realize how much risk of rain 2 music is in your videos. good game btw

saying "it's your fault you died" made me think of pre patch collapse on wisps, clay templars & probes

that con lentitud montage with the areas being in sync with the music gave me goosebumps, this is a good game

bro dropped the hardest risk of rain two edit in the middle of the video and thought we wouldn’t notice

good video. ror2 controlled my life for a time in 2019 and i still adore the soundtrack. hoping gearbox treats it well going forwards

“Every single death you ever have is, in one way or another, your fault” Well I guess you’re not wrong, nobody forced me to play a survivor without an escape pod with Artifact of Glass, but the fact remains that I’ve been dead before I’ve been actionable on a handful of occasions That aside though your point stands, the monsters are all well-designed and it almost never becomes totally impossible to dodge

I like ror2, but my main complaint is that it lacks the run variety that other roguelikes/lites have, like enter the gungeon or dead cells, as nearly all the items in ror2 are passive upgrades, which are just overall less interesting than a new gun or sword

This game’s music is absolutely awesome. I can’t wait for RoRR since Christ will be coming back for even more killer stuff like what we already have right now. (Once in a lullaby, They might as well be dead, Con Lentitud Poderosa, The rain formerly known as purple, and coalescence are all really good). My favorite part of the entire soundtrack, has to be the guitar solo at the end of con lentitud poderosa. It’s just so good.

Ok but like how is having 3 elite elder lumarians prefiring me off spawn on a stage my fault

The review at 4:02 is probably ironic because the guy has 950 HOURS

4:10 . They have a point. The game is strange, artwork and music too. I say this yet I have almost 300 hours total in it.

I think the “developed by lazy weaklings” was a meme cause they got 900+ hrs in the game. I think it’s either a jab at the void update/dlc or simply saying the game is too ez

That last review really spoke to me because I love making enough money to get through a level and then losing it all on a shrine that I’m sure will totally give me a good item worth $2000

Okay I have no clue what hit me there because of the 700,000 projectiles on screen (mostly rockets and bands probably lmao), so what killed me? Ah. “The planet”

RoR2 is honestly one of my favorite games of all time. I have been trying to get one achievement for a month or two, but that hasn't stopped me. The way the game keeps me coming back, even after countless failures, is a testament to how well everything is done.

Absolutely, I remember dying to a hermit crab and that immediately taught me to keep moving. I only improved continuously after runs.

The game is a gamble with it's major rng factor, I still remember beginner runs of mine where I used the shrine of order because "Oh what's this?" and suddenly had 22 stacked teddy bears and my build was suddenly dogshit. A lot of the stuff is not blatantly obvious but was mit my fault? Well, I could have not taken it so yes. Could the game have warned me about what I was about to do? Absolutely! The game is hard because a lot of things are non-descriptive and you have to find out and make your own mistakes. It can feel like absolute bullshit at times but that's just the learning curve.

6:48 I can't wait for their new game Chance of Precipitation!!

Good news! Console dlc is coming on nov 8! (Hopefully it isnt terribly buggy)

I remember finding out about that risk of rain nsfw comics because one guy was ranting about it in reviews

I offer to the shrine, but gain nothing... Nothing but a void that can only be filled by offering more to the shrine...

the way you put that little montage with Con Lentitud Poderosa literally gave me chills, wth

I JUST had my closest monsoon run ever and I died in Mythrix phase 3 and that was the best gaming experience I've had all week. For real. This game's difficulty gets more perfect and addictive the more I play and learn.

that one callout review does kind of have a point, if you die early on and your friends take too long on a given stage, you can get power-scaled quick. the lack of XP and items can sometimes make it impossible to catch up, keeping you in a loop of dying and spectating everywhere but the Bazaar. that's why me and my friends play with a mod that respawns players after a given amount of time (I think base is like 90 seconds) that scales with time spent, amount of times the player has died, stage number, and difficulty

Great video, really well done. Similar comedic timing and humour as Barny64, huge props

The "Gearbox bad" reviews have aged pretty poorly because the new DLC looks like ABSOLUTE FIRE! Also, apparently they completely redid the codebase for the SoTV console update, to match the PC version. No wonder it took so long.

bros a massive meat rider, this whole video is him unironically saying git gud, instead of admitting that this game isnt perfect lol

I love the artifacts of command and sacrifice those two are the key for looping or kicking the sh*t out of mithrix

4:06 I agree with the game being strange with strange art and music but that’s what makes it so fucking great with 95 hours in this game every area still fills me with amazement

Great video, just picked up the game since the DLC and have run into all of these problems only to realize it was just me being bad LOL, now I can't stop playing though and looping 20 times only to have my eyes screwed up for the next two hours

not every death is own foult... i even saw i death in a ternament that wasnt his foult becouse he just got fell trought the floor and was stuck in there and instantly died without him behing abled to do anything. or what just happend to me a few seconds ago... the voidling boss killed me with the big laser wile i was standing behind a pillar

It's a hassle to do but if you are worried about the game crashing you can use mods to remove some of the extra visual effects and cut down on entities. From something as simple as removing the tails on the various rockets and the chests after they are opened. To more extreme things like extra particles and area of effect indicators.

Yo dude, since i found your channel you have gained so many subscribers, and in a weird way i see a older version of myself in your channel it also gaves me a litle bit of hope and determination because i wish to become a youtuber myself.

About the crashing, I have a lot of fun stacking Glowing Meteorite, Gesture of the Drowned and Soulbound Catalyst, which always ensures a crash.

I remember once I did a run (obviously on command) where I got 255 clovers and right before I finished my game almost crashed and I had to wait 10 minutes for the game to load, good times

Htwo turning into a gorilla when the frames drop is hilarious.

That clip at the beginning of accidentally tackling yourself to a wall as merc hurt man. I lost an eclipse 7 run like that once.

"Almost every death in this game is your fault" Sometimes your only crime is being on the same side of the map as a scavenger, but by that point you really should have enough movement to remedy that problem.

Thank you for teaching me about the one shot protection, always wondered what that lil part of the healthbar was for and now it makes so much sense.

"you offered to the shrine but gain nothing" fun fact! My friend got the achievement for getting nothing 3 times in a row whilst I had to actively work for several days to try as many shrines as I could to finally get that achievement. I guess I had to make up for my good luck after, because now I rarely get imposter in among us

Now that you mention the gearbox deal I'll look up what Hopoo is cooking up, thanks for the reminder.

You offer to the shrine, but gain nothing. Shout out Risk of Rain 2 for fueling my gambling addiction.

I think my favorite brainless defense of RoR2's complete lack of respect for the player's time and effort put into it is from the people who abuse game mechanics into performing in ways never intended, abuse glitches, and pretend the one shot protection does literally anything at all in any way shape or form, when every single enemy in the game can completely ignore it in every scenario. "The game is fun when you break every possible mechanic you can in order to make it vaugely fun, just git good lul" Don't get me wrong, there's a fun value to the game, but taking it as a personal offense when people bring up real issues with a game that still haven't been fixed? That's helping nobody fam, especially when the shitshow is now owned by gearbox, and will never be fixed. Let's not also ignore the fact the game is TERRIBLY optimized, the entire game is supposedly built around modifying your attacks and build via items that can sometimes drastically change how they function.... but when you do that in any way shape or form beyond a single item, your framerate tanks from 120 to fucking 3, regardless of the fact you have a 3090 32 gigs of ram

I may or may not have spent two years getting 400 hours in this game… Man, I love this game

I was surprised when there werent any "I cant find the teteporter" reviews

I feel like the lag spikes makes it 12x funnier. It'd already be goofy if you start the teleporter and everything just dies instantly... But the fact everything freezes for a bit then suddenly everything's dead once your frames return is so entertaining.

"RIsk of Rain 2 is hard" Clueless

I didn't understand why people haven't figured out yet that there is One Shot Protection (osp for short) in the game so despite being a glass cannon you don't instantly die in the endgame. But the caveat is that it affects the first instance of damage that would 100 to 0 you leaving you at 10% health. ANY damage that happens after will deplete the remaining 10% instantly finishing you if you do not heal it back to 100% or beyond. But if the mobs are able to actually trigger osp, then you've reached a point in the run where you SHOULD have either barrier, health and armour stacks or insane lifesteal and healing. There is no excuse for having reached that far into a run and not min maxed at least some of your item builds. At which point it's the players fault for having the tools to deal with osp's downsides but choosing not to. Past the first 2 rotations you will have come across at least 2 guaranteed legendary items, and a plethora of green items/item printers and at the very least 1 stage that has a scrapper.

I literally started playing ror2 because i was watching your tf2 video and I heard a kickass soundtrack in the background, and I thought "Wow, what a good soundtrack, I should check the description". The next thing I know, I have 80 hours on the game

I find it very interesting that you chose The raindrop that fell to the sky as your outro music, most people look at its length, slow buildup, and emotional melody and find it boring, glad to see that the best piece of music I've ever heard is getting some love! :)

The only problems I have with Risk of Rain 2 and Hopoo is that they: - Rigged the captain character poll, Captain and his cutscene already being well under development about a month and a half before 1.0's launch - When Captain (mystery character) started losing to RoR1 legacy characters, they took down the poll, blaming it on an "outage" - When the poll came back online, the "mystery character" had mysteriously gained thousands of votes, catapulting it to 1st place by a comfortable margin. - Hopoo and the mod team immediately began muting and banning people in the Discord server if they pointed out this really obvious discrepancy. - They never implemented any of the RoR1 legacy characters. Also, in many of their dev thoughts posts, they mentioned supporting the game with free content updates with the *possibility* of paid DLC. After 1.0 dropped, they went back and retroactively, and silently, edited ALL of those dev thought blogs where they scrubbed ANY mention of free content updates from the face of the Earth, and either replaced them with more talk of paid DLC as if it was always the plan, or simply cut out the section entirely. I don't blame them for selling out to Gearbox, I definitely would have done the same. I *do* blame them for using shady and deceptive marketing and PR strategies to build undue consumer good will, *while* masquerading as an "indie company" *while* having the backing and support of one of the biggest AAA publishers on the market.

u should do the Witcher 3: Wild Hunt next

I will say, I have light sensitivity issues, after playing for a couple hours I do need to walk away, but after 5-10 minutes I’m normally fine. Though I have been playing the game since it came out so I could just be used to it

I mostly agree, there are a few total bs things that you really cant avoid... like getting nothing but garbage items on stage one and getting mobbed with wisps while trying to kill beetle queen, is it possible? Yeah ofc it is but with zero movement or damage items its almost a 100% fatality rate right there. Thats why there is no such thing as a "100% win rate" bc no matter how good you are there will always be the occasional unavoidable death

even if i never heard of risk of rain, i watched the video and now i like it even without playing it

"Every death is your fault." Seriously...as so many other comments have basically mentioned, can we collectively agree to just..stop fucking saying this? Ever? There has not been a single game in existence that has a death state that does not have something in it that can unfairly kill you with no reasonable way for you to avoid it, and it is only ever used as an argument to justify bullshit in people's favorite games because they can't stand the mechanics being criticized. Yes, very often, the thing that killed the person complaining was their fault. But that does not mean that literally every single person has always died because of their own skill level, so jsut.......can we stop using this elitist bullshit as an excuse for calling people shit at games? There are way more justifiable ways to do that.

Honestly the criticism is pretty fair, my only issue is collapse in the later runs, its not hard managing the multiple enemies but it feels like if you get hit once or twice and catch collapse, your death is sealed. Outside of that and some of the blinding lights i love the game

Look i love this game, but even the game itself sometimes agrees that “that was absolutely not your fault” you can absolutely get rng that is basically unwinnable. But the next run might just start you off with 3 red items.

I don't know how I was still alive without knowing about this masterpiece thank you man for mention this game multiple times

The being left behind by not aggressively picking up items must be a personal problem because when I play with friends we always let each other pick up things we either don't need, want, or think would be better with someone else. That's even what happens when i play with randoms

Getting left behind is KINDA valid. If you die in the mid-game, your friends will have WAY more survivability that you and you're most likely never recover. But dying is also the player's fault and it's pretty easy to say "hey, can you open a few extra chests for me so I don't eat ass again?" One of my friends died early on and was super behind in power--it was as easy as letting him have a few extra chests in the next area.

Remember: when gambling, the house always wins

4:30 Windette said the music was designed to make you feel like you're on a hostile planet that does not like you. He was right, and it's really well made

Didn't Gearbox make the new levels for the Void DLC? Those turned out pretty good.

huntress' legs make the [BLAZING BRASS CONTRAPTION: HORDE OF MANY] worth it

4:05 strange artwork, yes. But that is what make Risk of Rain feel unique, and I love it . Man those guy really not wanna change

ngl risk of rain 2 music sounds pretty bad outside of the game but inside of it it makes it one of the best songs ever it mataches the game perfectly

Saying risk of rain 2 has probably "the best video game soundtrack of all time" is fucking insane, I don't care how good it is there is always a better soundtrack. You are free to say one of then you are not discrediting all music in video games a whole.

The absolutely visceral reaction I had to the “strange music” review must have been a sight to see

this video is incredible i have never heard of you, Htwo. But goodness gracious this was AMAZING Im gonna go redownload RoR2 now because my computer reset. Thanks and CYA

0:58 "The game gets harder and harder the longer your run goes on, and eventually, enemies can oneshot you just like you can oneshot them. So the later your runs go, the more careful you have to be." Careful? at 0:49 you get instakilled by something that literally appeared from behind you. I have 130 hours in ROR2 and I still can't figure out what killed you in the clip before that. Well, I can tell that after you got hit once, there was nothing you could've done about it, because you had 80% slow and the malachite healing disabled effect. 1:10 "The game forces you to play smart and have good movement." As one of the reviews just described, there is little actual movement in this game for many characters. Unless you have something that changes that like Artificer kit or Loader kit, you can run and jump, and that's it. You also demonstrate this in the clip that was playing as you said this sentence. 1:40 "The game has an unexplained mechanic called oneshot protection." The fact that this bandaid mechanic has to exist singlehandedly proves their point that there is an ungodly amount of oneshotting in this game, and you're certainly not helping it by then showing several examples of it not solving the issue because you effectively get hit by 1 thing and then die. Also, there are things that directly ignore oneshot protection. 2:38 "The more you play, the more you realize that every time you die, it really was your own fault, because you start seeing all the things that you could've done differently that would've made you live just a little bit longer." An actual example would've been great here, rather than you saying that if you immediately sprint after shooting, you can move slightly faster. 3:54 "This game has a surprisingly high skill ceiling, and of course, when a difficult game has a high skill ceiling, you get negative reviews like this one." Yeah, you failed to demonstrate this during this entire section. Explaining specific, reasonable ways that you could've avoided attacks (such as the instakills you got hit with) would've been valuable to the discussion, unlike the techniques you just pointed out. As cool as those were, I'm sure you're not legitimately saying that you need to abuse glitches like that in order to play the game.

Are we just going to ignore the fact that most of these reviews have 200+ hours on them

Risk of Rain 2, the game where you can turn strange gelatinous monsters into CLUSTER BOMBS

I don’t know why I keep coming back to this video I love this video and I love risk of rain but there are so many videos on risk of rain but I keep coming back to this one

this guys sounds like that femboy friend that scolds you for having a slight opinion on something that ultimately doesnt matter and is not that important. Cringe

i would instal it but the graphics looks weird

0:38 2 metal birds spawned right in front of me and instantly killed me with Frisbees I highly doubt it so anyway I started another with the new guy I unlocked

i love how much the gearbox complaint has aged, the only dislikeable thing to coe out from gearbox is hostile worlds, which is in itelf an entire new ror game, despite its genre. with the sotv release on console being throughly made, to make it perfect and better, with the new dlc coming to risk of rain 2 and the claim of eentertaining the community for 5-10 years

Most overrated game of all time

Blind pests when I have 19477384747 rockets every quarter of a second as Mul-T

“I died in one shot”. Catching a stray that does Your Hp + 13 damage is a staple in all roguelikes

90% of gamblers quit before their big win You offer to the shrine, you gain nothing...