Earth Defense Force 4.1 Critique & Commentary 

Wow this quality is actually kinda blurry and blotchy. I got the right codec and the compressed video I have pre-upload looks fine. Gee thanks youtube for making this look like poop, awesome. Not a huge deal I guess, but just know that this game looks way better than this video demonstrates.

My favourite thing about 4.1 is how grim the radio chatter is, between mission 50 - 80 you find out that the artillery of the edf was wiped out to a single man who now does all the artillery stuff himself

I can't wait for EDF 6. This is probably the best arcade game to play with friends to me

I'm at work, and hearing the EDF troopers banter and sing is making me tear up. Need to get back to the boys

I wish this series was more popular. I love it to pieces. I think most people look at the graphics and don't give it a chance.

It is so cool to see a franchise continue to iterate and improve on themselves over time. That (as you said) is really what players want and what very few seem to be able to deliver on! The group chats is easily what i would spend waaaay too much time doing xD Ha ha loved the wrong trousers reference!! As always a very in depth and well done review great job!!

Glad someone finally started making videos about this series.

Can't wait to watch this while I work tomorrow, these long form videos are an honest life saver during work and I appreciate everyone who puts the time in to make them

Listening to a review of EDF that I don't play whilst playing EDF 5. Nioce

I've only just recently stumbled across your channel from your Star Wars Battlefront content, but I absolutely love seeing some EDF goodness! Excellent videos, and I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of the EDF franchise alongside whatever else you make. I think they are top games that deserve more love and recognition for just being good dumb fun, but with a surprising amount of depth.

To add to getting stuck in a Retarius web even more annoying, you deal half damage to everything while you're caught, so it takes even longer to break it than normal. For some strange reason this also applies to the rangers healing guns too, so you heal for half the amount.

Dorkaxe for president ❤️

Excellent as always dorkaxe!

Oh great, I just watched your reviews on 2017 and IA, I was waiting for this one!

Amazing job on these retrospective videos you put up man!

Man, this review was so good I think I might buy this one!

Entertaining and informative, thanks another great review! Even though I'm not that interested in EDF, your reviews almost makes me want to reconsider.

This vid truly is a godsend for me rn. Thank you for talking about this series and general appeal of it, I, like many others presumed it's just a funny trashy japanese game that is a good laugh for an hour a two. Now I played freaking 17 hours in two days and crave for more.

I bought both EDF 4.1 and 5 on Winter Sale 23 on Steam and I can’t wait to play them when I build a PC, I sneakily watched your videos beforehand as a prepper and they are very, very good! You’ve made me more eager to play, and I can’t wait for the EDF 6 video.

I’m subbing goddamn I been lookin for someone who covered EDF 💪🏾🔥

Man, you really dig deep in games very few people know. But what about the Mighty and perfect Dead Rising 3 DLC?

another fact to point out about the DLC missions, is that only the HOST has to buy the DLC missions, once there, even if you don't have the DLC yourself, as long as the host has it, you can play them.

1:09:57 This is often how I approach games with adjustable difficulty, ever since I heard Halo's "Heroic" difficulty was the canon difficulty, I assume most games hardest or second hardest difficulties are canon as well. Personally I think "Hardest" is the canon difficulty, as "Inferno" is simply unfair most of the time, even with like 9999 armor you'd still get obliterated in a few hits, so realistically the Ravagers would win the war by mission 3. Inferno usually demands the player know things like spawn triggers ahead of time and almost always requires fiddling with your loadout to have the perfect one, where I find that "Hardest" difficulty can still be tackled in a single attempt most of the time if you're skilled enough, even if you get surprised by spawns. Hardest seems doable for the in universe EDF, Inferno seems like the challenge mode.

Can confirm on PS4/PS4P this game turned into a slideshow during the major events like the tiles filling the sky and then all shooting. It runs so much better on the PC. You do replay the same area... the 1st time you were there you retreated. The next time you go back you are testing a new weapon. Last time you are there you are crushing the enemy force. Or a major boss has entered the area and you return to deal with it. It was a hell of a way to recycle maps without making it feel repetitive.

I came to this video entirely for the thumbnail.

Thankfully I am early and I am already seeing people singing lmao EDF EDF!!!

Luv your vids❤

Finally

If dorkaxe releases a video, I'm a fan If a dorkaxe video only has one view, it's me If a dorkaxe video has no views, it means I'm dead

This video has made me excited to play through the game myself.

Thanks for the vid

A lot of the fun of EDF is playing on inferno, i played 2025 on my xbox on normal with my brother and was incredibly boring and repetitive. Now on the PS4 i played on the harder difficulties and it was a lot of fun. The dlcs missions especially must be played on hardest or inferno to truly enjoy their contents

Love this game ,I still play it the odd time on Xbox.

played through this game a few years ago pretty fun playing as the wing diver is the way to go imo adds a lot to the gameplay

Wingdiver lore describes how the women who undergo the process are robbed of all emotion. Since singing is typically tied to emotion (see every Macross series ever), not having them join in on the military songs could be a simple way of conveying that lore.

I'm normally not one for long videos as my ADHD doesn't like them lol. But I love your coverage of the EDF franchise! Such a good video, I look forward to seeing you cover EDF 5 (the best game hands down), Iron Rain, World Brothers, and eventually EDF 6... if they ever release it in the UK/US lol!

edf needs more players

Be glad you were able to at least partly enjoy the DLC. I was reliant on the multiplayer population, which, by several months after the game's launch, simply did not exist. The entire purchase was effectively a complete waste and I didn't even have the opportunity to discover how shallow it all was. By all accounts, at least one of the DLC packs for EDF6 is actually a continuation of the game's plot and progression... but it's not going to matter because the online PC population will once again be too sparse for me to be able to actually play the content.

Thanks for the video. I think you should give Wing Diver The Shooter an other try. It gets better on harder difficulties when you are stronger and get better weapons. I felt the same way as you but when I tried to 100% it, it was much more fun.

I’m looking to get an edf game to play with my friends and mess around in, and while I appreciate the sentiment that 5 is better than 4.1, 5 is also 5x the price. Should I get 4.1 or is 5 worth the price? Or should I wait for 6 and get 5 then when the price drops?

Alright, your video about EDF 2017 and this one has convinced me to get one of these games. Going to wait until a sale though! Also two questions, 1. I’m going to post a comment on your last community about some game suggestions for either a critique or a live stream. Are there any consoles or handhelds you can’t get footage from? Just asking because I don’t want to recommend something you wouldn’t have access to lol. 2 would be any news on streaming again? Just thought of a question 3! What is your Steam account name and maybe you could make a Discord for the channel? Somewhere all the fans can talk and chill! 😊

I love this game.

I used both wing divers and rangers when i played this game

Enemy damage doesn't scale exponantionaly, they just shoot more. Grey Ants on easy/normal shoot a few acid balls while on hardest/inferno they shoot over a dozen and they deal more damage per shoot

Retiarius like the Rome Gladiator that uses a fishing net to fight also i bet realistically the webs are hard to see thats how the npc wing divers get caught in the webs Hardest is probably canon difficulty cause Inferno gives you goofy equipment and maybe stuff thatll only be usable after 90% of the game or after the game if you think about it, but Hardest is harder than Inferno to play because you are restricted in what to bring while the enemies gets new variants and are harder EDF protagonists are legendary because of their weaponry and infinite ammo lol

They fly now?

Have you ever though about making devil may cry videos

I'm pretty sure you can dash cancel in EDF5.

That Glory parody song was so funny and depressing to listen too

I am going to guess that the tanks and helicopters are preferred over the mechs because they have greater mobility, which is honestly the best defense in this game after stun locking enemies. I personally have found that vehicles will die very quickly, especially to the spiders, so being able to rapidly reposition if the enemies get to close is very useful. This is the main reason I never call in the large vehicles in either 4.1 or 5. It has been a while since I played 4.1 as the air raider so I could be wrong.

I do appreciate when a computer game remembers to be just that and not some pseudo-realistic virtual reality simulator because we have way too many of them at present. I am not a fan of walking around a large city full of NPC's who serve no utility.

Would love for you to review the Batman Arkham games

REMEMBER. GIANT INSECTS CAN'T FLY.

Do edf 5…!!!!!

I want the edf dev's to make a actual starship troopers IP

JOGUEI O EDF 2025 NO PS3 ONDE CONHECI ESSA FRANQUIA DE JOGOS E GOSTEI BASTANTE JA ZEREI VARIAS VEZES TENHO UMS 160 HORAS DE JOGO NO PS3 ,AGORA COMPREI A VERSAO DE PC A 4.1 E JA ZEREI ALGUMAS VEZES TAMBEM JOGO ONLINE JA TENHO MAIS DE 80 HORAS DE JOGO NO PC

As an xbox player, where the sereis only goes up to 2025... Can confirm, the underground levels are awful as an air raider, no artillery/air raids and no vehicles. That's why i ended up maining the fencer, being the most agile class...

EDF 5 review when? 😘

I would love to play the series more… buuut since Xbox I only get up to 2025

One thing I will say is that I disagree completely with the weapon and armour limits in multiplayer however. To me it just kills the enjoyment of online as I work so hard for good weapons only to not be able to use them online and it makes those missions really tedious. I think players should have the option to turn on weapon limits rather than it being forced on you and having to beat most the game online just to remove it.

It’s not pvp? Some Air Raiders would disagree

15:50 Has been a gripe of mine for close to 20 years. Players should start out on an even playing field. If anything they should remove better gear from players the higher they rank. I do not want that either, but it makes a lot more sense than making the players with the most experience have all the best gear, too.

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Why does it feel less like a talk and more like a FOMO session to buy all the other games

literally military propaganda, and he looks at it and is like "well since this game doesn't have anything bad to say about capitalism, so there's no meaningin in it sadly" like wtf. Why do you think it's always aliens that you are fighting in those types of games, or movies too? So that you can see the "good" side of soldier's life, without all those stupid moral questions about why are you even doing it, and that you are given literal license to kill just because your goverment decided to profit from it happening in some way, that war suddenly flips certain specific crimes and not only makes them legal, but praises ppl for it, and then those ppl will return home and will expect others to respect them for being such a good murderers. But if it's aliens, well then, none of that aplies. just shoot robots and bugs and don't worry about it. Support your local military btw!