Death of a Game: Overkill's The Walking Dead 

Haha drunk

LMAO

Take a SIP, and you’d STILL get annihilated

best water down the drink then.

For real though, was there EVER a game in which a mid development engine switch didn't absolutely fumble the resulting game?

Damn, sounds like he's right at home with a bunch of other crooks who like to dodge taxes and the consequences of their crimes.

Literally did a hesit on the Payday 2 company

*whistles*

I can't wait@@nerdSlayerstudioss 🍿

That's the little clip for the next case at the end of the video.

They already rebranded. They will be back.

i swear starbreeze fuck up more than then anything. as vet of PD2, PD3 feel like a deja vu of first year of PD2 but with new coat of paint. Meh at best.

Im not sure one can do a video on something that was already dead on arrival

Aidan, he looks a hell of a lot like the The Day Before cover guy, too

Wait why?

@@alostbaron781 Let's make a short list, shall we? 1) Tonedeaf "better than you" behavior; infamously captured by the introduction of flashbangs which was almost universally hated (and slated)... and then CEO Bo Andersson LITERALLY told players "your opinion, my choice" and pushed it through, even made the damned things more obnoxious. Also included lots of "well our "fans" love it" style comments, whenever they did something controversial (spoiler alert : loud people on twitter doesn't equal paying audience, something many media companies are slow to accept, much to their detriment). While nerdSlayer touched on how the CEO was a negative influence, what he failed to capture is that his toxic mindset had permeated the entire company well before development of OTWD was even announced, from the Community manager Almir Listo down to composer Simon Viklund (who acted like such an absolute Cunt to people with valid criticism that it cost him a large swath of followers on twitter at the time). Or that time that Overkill decided to fund youtube creators H3H3, who had been hit with a (spurious) copyright lawsuit meant to silence their criticism (of a videogame, I think). Almir Listo claimed Overkill was "deeply in favor of free speech"... except weeks before he'd put out a community message for Payday 2, following the inclusion of Microtransactions in the game that Overkill had promised would never happen (and shame on us for thinking otherwise!), stating that community negativity would "lead to temporary or permanent bans". _So much for "free speech" then, eh, Almir?_ I need to stop on this point, but the sad fact is that I can keep going about tonedeaf behavior for a while, well into 2023. 2) Lots of handwaving on in-game issues, and general incompetence put on display; best summarized by the arm and leg hitboxes debacle. Developers stated making enemy AI have arm and leg hitboxes was impossible... two weeks later someone modded it into the game, no muss, no fuss. Or David Goldfarb (former project lead/creative director) getting many innovative ideas he'd debut on twitter shot down by Developers, only to see them implemented after his departure from the company. Another great one is the recent switch from Steam P2P matchmaking to a reliance on Epic Online Services... something no one asked for, and which has been extremely detrimental to the game and community. Overkill's response "we're sorry to hear people aren't having a good experience, but we're working on it!". Meanwhile, six months later it's still a mess. 3) Toxic cronyism from the company, defended to the death; best captured by many, MANY instances when Fanboy "Clans" would get beta access, would be instrumental in getting (detrimental) new things added to the game, excessive kowtowing to said "Clans" in terms of game balance, getting free stuff seemingly for no reason other than their fawning over the company and game, excessive mentions and "easter eggs" mentioning these "Clans" in-game... And that's ignoring the nonsense with various Influencers (Starbreeze and Overkill like to call them "Creative Partners" or some other contrived shit) shilling the game. That was the short version (and yet still a wall of text). The long version would cover a LOT more of the previous points (think six to seven paragraphs EACH!), and would delve into Overkill outright trolling people on twitter... with community retaliation that was just such an epic bombardment of memes, gotchas and insults that it would take nerdSlayer twenty minutes just to detail what was once dubbed "the battle of the memes".

@@alostbaron781 Overkill Amir had promised that Payday 2 would never have Pay2Win DLC or stat buffs through mystery boxes. Later on they implemented exactly both of those two things. The entire community for Payday 2 was OUTRAGED. I genuinely gave up the game after they did that because I was so detested. Eventually they relented and skins no longer have stat buffs for their guns, but I still have a very bad taste in my mouth over the entire saga.

Kinda hard bringing people back with dlc that is more than double the price of the last dlc they released 6months ago.

cause it was so popular companies view as easy money instead of making a compelling game they dont really see in putting in effort telltale to an extent does care but we even saw from three games there wasnt as much effort or care compared to season 1. cause higer ups thinking oh walking dead mega popular we make bad games and still get a ton of money but it backfires like overkill

There is brilliant Walking dead game, but it is in VR The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners - one of the best VR games I ever played.

​@@Revolt112233It's a GOATed vr game regardless of you like TWD or not. I had so much fun playing it

Thanks for that!

oh yes Space Lords, i love the art direction but sadly the game is annoying to play with their rock paper scissor system / MMR system and the lack of contents really kill the mood for me. aside from their 20~30$ for a skin

I miss when it was still called Journey to the Broken Planet

I agree

This needs to happen more, nearly every mp game comes out broken and bare and fixes itself later, some of these getting consequences could fix this trend

@@christopherrapczynski204Overkill proven with PAYDAY 2 that they can improve game over time, as much as they proven that they are not good at launching games in enjoyable state.

The video has to be at least an hour long. There is soooooo much to talk about.

Nice detective work!

15:25

Happy holidays

Oh hello, you

I'll do it q1 next year

So you could play it offline but without the full features like bots? That seems so strange.

its out

Bruh, I guess i didnt get the notification for some reason @@nerdSlayerstudioss

He was talking about Grin, not Starbreeze.

new series coming up "scam of the year" lol but that episode should be funny....or it's just too easy to kick a blind man when he's fallen off a mountain lol [meaning it's easy pickings for that one]

SHILL! payday 3 is shit, the entire IP sucks ass! and they've milked the fukk out of players in Payday 2's nonsense fukk em man!

more riding the success of riddick...that's their real legacy, that was the on;y time they were true heroes... payday a heist game of sheer chaos?? fukk off with that series....kudos if you like it but I hate playing the criminal!!! it's one thing whrh it's GTA but even those games have become fukking boring since GTASA [that game being the last decent one in my eyes] it's the modern setting that destroyes em, I want an escape not a reminder of modern woes.... yest GTA4 the american dream isn;t what we all signed up for, yes GTA5 beoing poor sucks yes gta 6 woke siucks [i assume that's the theme] it's obvious crap lol it was more fun mowing down idiots to like i ran so far away than being bored out of my mind wishing I had just watched Sopranos or Breaking bad for the 10'th time....lol [gta 4 and 5 were partly inspired by those shows]

It may have played a small part in the failure, but almost certainly wasn't even in the top 10 reasons. (Below engine switching from an already terrible engine that wasn't even finished, executive meddling, reckless company acquisitions one after another that ended up not paying off, take your pick.)

I'm willing to bet most of that hype was primarily because of the premise: A zombie survival game set in Washington D.C made by the creators of Payday. Sometimes a concept can overpower just about everything else, especially prior to release. (Hell, even I think this concept had some potential, especially because of the setting: You can count on one hand the number of games set in the District of Columbia in the last 10 years that were even fun and still have at least 2-3 fingers left over. The number gets even smaller once you narrow it down to zombie games: At BEST one or two that were even remotely mediocre. You get the point about the power of a concept?)