At the end, Act man sounded like that one drunk friend that always ends up saying how good of a friend you are, and how much he loves everyone he's with xD.
Seeing asmon and Act Man talk in discord has been the highlight of Asmons content for me. I hope we get more recorded convos like this, just two nerds shooting the shit
It's worth pointing out that the developer of Legend of Grimrock was on their forum on day and saw a gamer asking about adding arrow keys for navigation, as he was disabled and used a mouth stick to type. They could play otherwise, but it was easier that way. The dev said it wasn't on the list of things to work on. And hour later, they left another message saying it was added to the game. They said after thinking for a couple minutes, they realized it would be pretty easy, so they just went ahead and did it. That's what decent devs do. They make the game as good as they can for their players.
Problem is Blizzard is one of those developers who drags their heels on things purely because the poorly paid devs at the studio are terrified of being made redundant for making mistakes and being blamed for them, so cost-to-risk and fear of breaking something by adding something is so high that they take weeks just to approve a single change to something. Meanwhile they employ diversity hire interns who barely passed their corporate brainwashing video game school majors. The leads act like they have zero desire to be on camera when forced to make progress videos to show the customer base and the interns have no idea what they're talking about when they do a let's play and get asked questions on subjects they're not experts in by customers because the higher ups thought it would be a grand idea to make the let's play a Q&A on Twitch, making said interns look like idiots when they're not, they're just new. The whole sham is a mess.
Asmongold's analogy for local government fixing roads actually reminded me of something I wanted to share. If you have a serious pothole problem in your city you wanna know what's going to get it fixed asap? You spray paint a slur inside it. The city will try to cover that shit up at lightning speed.
This was incredibly sweet. You could tell both of them were a tad nervous and also kinda fans of each other. It became this genuine, slightly awkward but not in a bad way conversation
They need to have a group stream one of these days that's just The Roast of Blizzard. Actman has covered so many Blizzard controversies and Asmon and others have lived them so it would just be a great group rant/therapy session.
Glad y'all liked my Diablo 4 stats list. The funny thing is I missed some like reduced trap setting time and potion drop chance. Such a great video from y'all.
Like Josh Strife Hayes' idea I hope Asmon talks to the video's creator more often like this. This is the way forward for react content, I hope it becomes the norm.
Another scummy excuse for the use of premium currency I discovered a while ago from a World of Warships criticism was that the currency provides a buffer to deny access for a refund. Predatory publishers would argue that you cannot file for a refund of an item you paid with premium currency because of how it was way below your expectation because what you paid for with real money was the premium currency and not the thing you bought with it, and the currency works as intended. Add the obfuscation of real-world price is just dirty and very anti-consumer.
Man, Asmon and Act Man gushing about their favorite parts of old Blizzard games is so nice. It really takes me back to my days in high school where my friends and I talk about CoD Zombies for the entire lunch break.
1:20:51 To clarify. The “separate service” you refer to is a dial up modem. I literally had to disconnect the phone from the line, plug it into my computer, and call my friend whom had to manually answer the call. That was the way you played multiplayer at the time. You had to actually call the person you wanted to play with. Ahhh, memories
The bad thing about dark patterns is that it takes advantage of the habits the game industry has instilled in us. Things like "Skipping TOS to play the game" or "pressing yes button repeatedly to skip through the boring stuff" just to then jumpscare you with one-click payments conveniently placed where you will accidentally accept them.
This is why I use a prepaid credit card for online use, I can ensure they can't scam. But I'm having to hop through extra hoops to protect myself from them.
My favorite thing about Asmon Reacts is he'll pause a video and contribute, then people scream "PREWATCHED!" at him while other streamers are (rightfully so) getting lambasted for just reacting and eating/drinking while profitting from other people's content.
Seeing Diablo's stat page made me realize that PoE has a better stat system overall which isn't complicated by item drop chance but with specific gem leveling that also levels alongside you so you never feel weaker as you progress the story/end-game.
Man who would have known that the best content on the internet is Rambling with Friends Ft.Asmon, I'd love to see more content of asmon just doing his than and hanging with the homies this was fuckin delightful to listen to
its depressing seeing how far Blizzard has fallen since I was a kid. I remember when anytime Blizzard was releasing a new game it was a guarantee Banger, I also feel like they were known to take forever to release a new game because they wanted to make sure it was as good as it could be.
So glad he uploaded this. I was watching it live but it was like 5am and he wasn’t done reacting and I had to sleep. God bless you asmons editors you’re kings
@@LifeandMore7033yeah steve jobs is the LITERAL DEFINITION TEXTBOOK EXAMPLE, that I have been shown in college while studying marketing, of the guy that is Marketing and branding oriented, he is literally THE GUY
The button thing was on PC too when playing with a controller, not only on consoles. Also, as a developer, you choose where the focus goes. You have to, literally, code where the focus goes. So yes, it was on porpoise and not "by accident"
I'm not a game dev, but I'm a dev. Asking for confirmation for purchasing/deleting something is basic. The Blizzard devs knew very well what they were doing, if they implemented it this way is because someone specifically asked them to do it.
@@ronin1648 yeah I can totally see how this is a 'user story': As a user I want the button that immediately does something irrevocably costly to be the first focus upon opening the game so that our stakeholders can buy more yachts. No joke though I CAN totally see that happening.
People getting together to discuss inspirational foundations for their content and taste in gaming is something I feel like we as a gaming community don't get to share enough of. I'm so glad that I've had moments like the end of this video, sitting up until 4am in discord with my buddies talking about gaming memories while simultaneously making new ones. The formula for "modern" gaming isn't complicated. It's that exact discord call we all just watched here, and it hasn't changed in decades.
Okay, I almost fell out of my chair laughing when Asmongold mentioned daily damage at 43:16. Act Man's run down of the damage calculation starting around 41:10 already makes me laugh so hard.
Glad you reacted to this. TheActMan's video is great. The part with the accidental activation of the battlepass is disgusting. Blizzard should be ashamed of themselves. We won't stand for these predatory practices any longer. Boycott all Activision-Blizzard products.
I've never really played any blizzard titles and the actions they keep taking just ensure I and all new potential players/buyers never will. Activision is the same I played CoD as a kid I stopped after Advanced Warfare that game was just who had the best loot box guns.
Meanwhile blizzard's games are like some of the most played throughout the history and even now xD Good luck with that. People will play the game that makes them feel good. When the alternatives are garbage games like new world and lost ark ( and those are like.. the "good" "Famous" Alternatives, the others are much worse)... then what do u expect? For people to truly leave blizzard's games, they need to have GOOD games to play. Apparently, they don't. Good luck finding another MMORPG to absorb your teenage or your adult soul like WoW did...And no, ashes of creation won't do it either... we will be here a few years from now when they realise it, we will be here for the first overhyped month, and we will be here the next months, when the problems will start taking over the internet.
Asmon, I know it is hard dealing with the declining health of a parent and what may come next, I have been there twice and at the bedside of my mom at her end, it's rough, it can eat you up and break you, don't let it man, don't hold it in. You got this and your community has you and understands. in the end, things are as they should be and even the darkness will pass. Let me know if you need a guide I know that road well by now. Hope to see you making content again.
The moment when he realized a free-to-play game has a better Battle Pass with fair rewards that help you get a BP for free later on, over a game you pay for with a BP was hilarious.
Act Man is such a good friend to Asmongold. Encouraging him to get out of his comfort zone and make videos again because he knows Asmon will enjoy it. Inviting him to play D2. Chatting about nostalgic gaming. When are we getting Act Man on Steak and Eggs?
Did Act Man really say: "if you depend too much on other people's content for your own content the you forget what it is to make videos" to freaking Asmongold? lol
Act Man is right. I'm 53 years old only just starting to play games but your content really helps when my mental health falls off a cliff. They are fun but with a serious edge.
That's probably the best reaction fomat I've ever seen, having a conversation with the creator at the end was so interesting ! You guys should definitely do that more often
So amazing how a random ranting talk turned into a nostalgic talk then somehow turned into a wholesome talk about how good of a content creator Amon is. Truely unexpected and really wholesome of you two.
No cringe at all. U r beautiful, no u r, no u r, no u r, no u r. U have a rare Talent. No u have a rare talent. I just love seeing u. No I love seeing u.
Listening to Asmon and Actman talk about games brought back memories of high school when me and my friends were talking about games and shit... good times.
The entire point of battle passes is to keep your players numbers high. You give them their money back because you get to say there were 2 million people playing at once, and it gets them to stick around and keep your whales happy with chum to fight. It also keeps the queues nice and full so your players get into the game faster and it looks better on stream. It's the main reason overwatch was so popular. Win or lose you get a reward and it's a gamble so it activates the skinner box.
Everyone should have seen this coming. It’s not even the same people making the games anymore so I’m not surprised their games have become trash. It’s become a company to easily forget about.
"Not same people" is bad argument. Baldur's Gate 3 were made by different team entirely, but they surpassed expectations. The dice system also entirely new mechanic, but implemented perfectly to the gameplay. Yeah, Larian made Divinity series but that's the point, they are experienced and passionate on their projects. Rambling a bit there, my point is Blizzard games seems only good on surface level, while not bad entirely they're keep getting more monetization and useless gimmick. Even if they use same team, it's useless if their upper managements and developers still neglecting players/ gamers UX.
Speaking of devs playing their games, i remember reading a while back that during the development of a Castlevania game (it could have been Symphony of the Night, i don't remember), to have a boss added to the game, the developers who wanted to add it had to beat that boss with the Dagger (aka the weapon with the lowest damage in the game), no armor and at lvl 1, to show that it was possible to beat regardless of player power. And this was before going to beta tester and getting their input on the boss
What everybody forgets is that the ceo of blizzard frequented an island where everyone that lived on the islands next to it knew what was going on there.
One stupid thing in game currencies that exists in general is that you see 100 bucks gets you 8000+1860 currencies instead of 9860 even tho its never below that. They wanna make you feel like your getting extra on top of your 8000 when in reality its always 9860.
@@Zack-fu4lo I don't care because I'm not getting any of the profits from this video. All I was doing was pointing out how this video became longer than 24 minutes.
@@Triforcebro weird right? almost as if when responding you shouldn't have another voice on top of it? Like the video should be longer because you are "transforming" it. Odd concept, I know. I hope XQC hasn't tainted your idea of reacting to videos, because that would be a shame. He is the prime example of "things not to do" in terms of speaking, reacting, and responding. XQC is someone that talks at 2x speed and still manages to say nothing, but at the same time cannot react outside of "what?" "What the fuck?" "Whoa, that is crazy!"
You're spot on; secondary currencies to hide the true cost to the customer and leave you short by a 100 (whatever the 2nd currency is) to influence you into a second purchase and buying yet another set of exchanges should def be made illegal in games, truly deceptive and aimed at kids and adults alike.
Life of a Blizzard fanboy that only thinks about the good old days of blizzard instead of actually judging at what we are now getting. Blizzard is dead.
Not everything they do is the most horrible thing ever. They do good stuff and Asmon defends that. If you hate Blizzard and watch Actman you'll only ever get the negative side of it.
An overall bad company can still make good decisions. I'd be more suspicious of someone who only ever praises or trashes a company, since they clearly have a slant and are likely preaching to an echo chamber.
Oh wow you just explained logical thinking, it's like even bad companies/people can make good things occasionally. It's like every good company/people can fk up sometimes. I guess it's hard to understand for people blinded by anger and rage. Try to not put your emotions first sometimes, might help you in life.
Another funny thing to add onto the timing of PoE's release around when D3 released + PoE2 vs D4, I remember what got me to hop onto the PoE train in the first place was how after the infamous Blizzcon that announced Diablo Immortal, PoE announced its next league called Betrayal which resonated with how Diablo fans felt and it only became funnier when you found out the name of the faction in the new league was the Immortal Syndicate. Purely coincidental but still I fuckin loved that league and it helped me get over the pain and pure disdain I had for Blizz shitting on Diablo fans.
It's weird to hear people say Baldur's Gate wasn't a major franchise. It's the game that put Bioware and Black Isle on the map. It's just been a *really* long time since those games came out, that people now look upon them as cult classics. But for their time, they were some of the best PC RPGs.
one thing about the stash is that its exactly how d2 was ur bag is basically filled w/ items for passive buffs, and then u have a cube of 3*4 to load item drops. and u have to create stash characters one after another to keep shit until u don't care anymore and move on to rarer items.
One of the most important takeaways from this is that most of the companies you used to care about because of their creative endeavors indeed are being run almost exclusively by marketing people. People who don't care about the product, but only about the brand, and who see no direct connection between the two. People who are exclusively interested in what they can convince you to buy, not what they're selling. You should expect everything they say to be untrue.
The moment we hit the day companies blamed their own customers for not liking their games, I knew it was gonna be a bad time. Imagine doing what you *think* your customer wants you to do, rather than doing what they said they wanted you to do. And then when they get frustrated, you act all "I don't understand why you're upset."
I was a Diablo 4 defending shill. I genuinely enjoyed the game for the first 25 hours. I was someone who held onto hope. I haven’t logged in since 11 days ago.
Gonna be honest with ya, I don't feel the same about him. I noticed when he is actually talking durning video's and I caught him several times filling in things beforehand and yet acting like he saw the video for the first time. Sometimes I do think he does this to boost his own ego in the sake of "See! told you guys!!! " its like taking credit away from others that actually thought and said things before he even said it.
@@TheKarenBot Because of the originality of the conversation? The reaction part had nothing to do with it. It was the original content of the conversation.. as I said.
@@Anglleos id rather watch the original video. These “commentators” are quite annoying. Asmongold is irrelevant when it comes to the original video. What is the point of this video? There is no point
8:13: I would like to add on this; this happens IRL too. Mostly at festivals and night clubs, they make you buy these pesky little plastic coins, which you can split in 2 or 4 pieces, and each drink and food stand charge 1/4, 1/2, 1 or more plastic coins. Same story, i fking hate it. 54:30: Wow, Actman made me blast to the past real quick right there, now i remember why BG3 sounded so familiar everytime i saw it in the store.
Blizzard still got there money. People still bought the game in record amount, and when the next blizzard game comes out everyone will buy it again in record numbers. The red flags about diablo 4 were right in our faces and yet people still bought it.
Not me ..this game introduced me to POE…I’ve been having a blast for 3 weeks..and today the new season drops… I’ll be playing that then Poe 2 when it rolls out …kinda sucks I wanted to like d4 but it’s just so bad and so boring
Nah, you're not taking in account those of us who knew the game was gonna be fked but we attempted it anyways. Thats the last dollar blizz will get from me or any of my friends
Blizzard is like that ex-junkie that could turn their life around, but keeps going back to ruining it. I swear that D4 had so much hope and they managed to ruin it in a few weeks. Also just read reviews on Wayfinders, they have the same issue. Someone wrote that 1100 currency is $10, but a weapon cost 1150..
That's Blizzard's fanboys. Blizzard itself is more like the drug dealer that will always give you that quick fix when you're on withdrawal to get you buying more.
I didn't follow all the drama surrounding Blizzard and when my bro asked me why I bought the game he asked in a way that made it sound like I made a mistake which I didn't understand but after a while I felt like the game was dragging really bad. After watching Actman's video, it all made sense. Now whenever I logged it's like I can see how the made things intentionally inconvenient in EVERYTHING!😅
As a software QE I would have highlighted this in testing. Web apps do this too. Set browser focus on something you want the user to press. But to not get confirmation for a permanent transaction would definitely be something that would get brought up.
@@ahiowehfiowjit actman reacting content ok buddy, apparentely you never watched a single video of his, i recommend you watch his reviews which are really good.
The worst thing is that i am ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN thatQA testers gave a TON of useful data, that was probably ignored by everyone else in the company cause the job is super undervalued.
Every time I play WC3 the Arthas culling Strathome, I always feel like if Blizzard wanted that to be an evil event, they shouldn't have turned the villagers into zombies before they died. Arthas never killed an innocent citizen in that culling if you don't attack the villagers before they turn into zombies. I forget if you could even attack the villagers before they turn.
It wasn't supposed to be just evil, more of a lesser of two evils that he felt he had to make. You can attack them and honestly just standing by and watching the villagers die to kill them again is almost as messed up.
The problem with the Culling is that they didn't show us all that happened, only retroactively told us - Arthas purged EVERYONE, not just the infected (think about Last of Us, not everyone got infected right off the bat, the cases have similarities), and torched the buildings, which turned into cursed flames which never extinguished, forever damning the city. While it's horrible, it probably was still the best thing he could do due to the circumstances, Uther was wrong - but understandble too, the last thing a good leader wants to do is bomb their own people, and it's not like Arthas was in his right mind to explain anything to him in a coherent manner (which is also why he was able to make that decision on the spot).
I was excited about Diablo 4 and bought two for my 17 year old granddaughter and myself because she loves video games! We played together but she quit last week. She wasn't interested and although it brought us together I suspect the game was the problem. I'm 77 so I hope we can find another game to play together.
Yeah, the game might be it... maybe. Well, if you believe the game to be the problem then what you're looking for may be Baldurs Gate 3, amazing game with glowing reviews and it has coop and it might be right up her alley if she enjoys RPG games(with turn-based combat systems of course). Divinity: Original Sin 2 is of the same genre and pretty good too, it's also coop.
Damn, I just got back into gaming and I found your channel and then started listening to the act mans takes though your channel, I just want to say you seem like two of the most down to earth cool dudes on RU-vid, respect
Talking about the always online model... People are mad that the devs for nightingale decided to move up the priority of an offline mode after the HUGE backlash they received from their always online model (after their ads and trailers so often showed players be ALONE, by themselves... how stupid to assume that kind of game with that kind of marketing would have an offline mode, like all of its kind)... People are actively asking for the devs to "stop that" and leave the game as "always online". Some people seem to have difficulties breathing and thinking at the same time, what is wrong with them.
It didn't get worse, it just has never gotten better. Rebalancing classes over and over and increasing monster density does nothing for a game that nobody wants to play since there is no actual content in the game to play for. The loot and gearing is terrible, your character power is meaningless the entire time until perhaps Lv100 against Lilith, the open world is pointless and re-running endless chaos dungeons only works if you are actively doing so for a purpose behind garbage collecting back to town. D4 has failed on every single aspect that makes an ARPG compelling and also failed on every single aspect that makes an MMO compelling, while trying to marry the two.
Blizzard slowly destroys the Diablo legacy with an unfinished game and with no foundation. They had the time and resources to create something godly! D4's return to darkness theme paired with D2's extraordinary itemization system and addictive grind circle would have achieved what most players were dreaming of.
i didn't really play D2 but i want to ask. What's the difference between Running 50 baal runs per day compared to 50 nightmare dungeons per day. What's the REAL difference that breaks the deal here? is it the rewards? the gameplay? What is it exactly that made Running baal runs for years good, but running nightmare dungeons not good. You can also add Rifts in the mix as well. From what i hear, Diablo was always about.. doing the same thing over and over.
@@akhsdenlew1861well for one you could easily join other ppl by just finding the lobby you want and joining...i can't even matchmake or group find in d4.. crazy. From a rather casual arpg player who usually just does campaign and a little after...i was burnt out and bored by the end of d4 campaign. Zones n enemies all felt similar. I hardly got gear upgrades. And my skill upgrades were already feeling lame and i wasn't even 50 yet. I always have a blast on a d2 campaign playthrough. That doesnt answer your question exactly i know. I do agree with you on the point you're making. I was bored doing the same shit in the other two. That's why I usually quit before. I do know the bell runs were nice, quick n easy. There wasn't a lot of roadblock stopping you from having fun though like there is in d4
If you haven't played divinity original sin 2, I strongly recommend it. It is at the same time similar and different from bg3. I specially liked the class builds and how much you could mix classes.
Yes and a unique party system if you want co-op. *Laughs pure Physical-pyro geomancer (dabbling in scoundrel for adrenaline) build as a Lizard with human skeleton super druid style lone wolves mage. Proceeds to do over 1000 damage as well as moves to knock down as well AS WELL AS both of us having morph wings. Have fun running from the two of us*
During that time Might and Magic VII was the game to play along side Age of Empires II. When Battlenet came with Diablo and AOL dial up internet was accessible. That was the combo that made me into the 30+ year old gamer that I am. What a time to be alive! Anyone remember when they had to manually download and run the installer for patches to games? I remember when I figured out how to install the Diablo 1 Hellfire expansion and install the patch from the website. I was a computer genius in the eyes of my friends of the time.
They really need to summarize affixes. Just like he said everything that is cc is one affix. Depending on class all those +dmg to x element should be simply +elemental dmg. For rogues u could simply put shadow, poison, frost into + imbuement dmg.
That's actually fucked. They need to lose a lawsuit over this. It is deserved. Selecting by default the redeem button without any confirmation. That's so malicious towards the consumer. They deserve to lose a lawsuit.
