I recommend half of: Marvel's Midnight Suns (Review) [PC 4k]

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@SkillUp Год назад

@JulesNekro Год назад

@Jpcraque Год назад

Have to love the "big bucks" from Steelseries am i right?!

@MintBerryCrunch Год назад

You can’t say the characters are not true to their comics then say captain marvel is the strongest and should be… she was weak in the comics and was only turned into a Mary Sue in the movie for political reasons…now I wonder if you only know the characters based on the movies or if you actually read a comic before and based your idea of the characters on that

@Battleneter Год назад

eeeeeew you run a PC on a TV, disgusting!

@MintBerryCrunch Год назад

You claim to have collected the comics then you would know captain marvel was one shot by thanos and even in binary mode has limits that leave her weaker than Thor or hulk or even Iran man… just can’t get over your comments about her that she should be powerful

@ramseylandry1876 Год назад

Imagine if this game would have taken place at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters with NON-A-LIST superheros. That alone would have at least given context for the weird relationship situation and timid personalities.

@SkillUp Год назад

Actually had the exact same thought while playing. That would have totally worked imo

@heromjh Год назад

great idea for a game tbh

@bradhaines3142 Год назад

deadpool a b list?

@amunago080 Год назад

Should of used payer created characters, go with the tried and true xcom route with a marvel skin.

@playahsan Год назад

It doesn't even need to be about X-men, you can just have a game about the young heroes, period. So New Mutants, Young X-Men, Young Avengers, Runaways, Champions, Power Pack etc.The story could be something about an evil entity that corrupts adults, hence why the villains are actually core heroes and the theme of the game is "new generation has to step up and save the old gen from themselves". And all of a sudden all the friendship missions seem way more plausible.

@FatControllerOfficial Год назад

Man, it hurts to hear that basically half of the game was an enormous waste of development time. I'm looking forward to getting this for half price.

@AlexClementTV Год назад

Oh yes very much agreed with you there Fat. Half of it being good means it's only worth it at half price at the least.

@bigelowjames Год назад

Bingo

@Army1601 Год назад

It would make Thanos happy

@XProjectHunterX Год назад

Ya the price tag is a big turn off for me. $70 for this isn't worth it and that's not even counting the fact that the last gen versions were delayed indefinitely so God knows what kind of state those are in.

@razvanzamfir1545 Год назад

You mean you don't like to have a 60hrs game instead of a 30hrs game without any extra enjoyment?!

@tyger223 Год назад

I want shillup to do a whole breakdown of all of the relationships in the game. Especially with the same tone that he described Blade with.

@lfemomo77 Год назад

Or have Internet Historian cover it all on his Storymode channel

@soaringspoon Год назад

@@lfemomo77 After the Blade bit it actually sounds like something for Storymode. The blade bit could absolutely see Zuck and friends explaining it to us lol. Fingers crossed!

@tillist1 Год назад

100% it made me excited for the story some how lol.

@Siao222 Год назад

Yes please. I was laughing so hard in the middle of the night my wife had to shut me up.

@Thedownliner2015 Год назад

Shillup is becoming an apt name for him.

@AquaticBagpipe Год назад

Ralph's telling of the book club saga was absolute comedy gold.

@godminnette2 Год назад

It's fascinating to me, because it really seems like they were trying to "humanize" the characters and make them seem more "down-to-earth" with the hang-out sessions. The thing is, it will always feel like high-school if they don't mix some genuinely adult experience into the mix as part of the humanization. I could imagine a version of Blade who is a hardened badass in every facet of life, but struggles with past grief (Blade commonly is a character consumed by grief for fallen allies/love interests). I could see a game where you slowly get Blade to open up about his grief and lost loved ones, and hints about how he might have caught feelings for another hero, but feeling like it may be betraying his lost loved one, whether it's someone who died or was turned (such as Glory), or having a hard time being vulnerable in that way you must be in a romantic relationship again after what has happened to him the last time he let himself love. It's tropey and not particularly ground-breaking or deep, but it's something; this high-school nonsense just sounds infuriating.

@yordaman17 Год назад

how about killing monsters during missions, is that not adult enough? or are you talking about going to a strip bar or having an orgy?

@iancruz6617 Год назад

Also blade in the first film after launching stab pin a vampire to the wall he does a weird smile fish bump.

@nickblomgren Год назад

_"I could see a game where you slowly get Blade to open up about his grief and lost loved ones, and hints about how he might have caught feelings for another hero-"_ *"YOU'LL GET SUPER HERO BOOK CLUB AND YOU WILL LIKE IT!"*

@iomar90 Год назад

If it's the same writers they had for the nuXCOM games, the terrible writing isn't a surprise.

@kylele23 Год назад

@@yordaman17Wow you really did not read anything in the comment.

@0Gumpy0 Год назад

That book club high school drama was hilarious. It is almost so bad it's good territory. I imagine there will be some audience out there that is more than happy to go on a picnic with Wolverine, too. Reminds me a bit of Sonic Forces custom character for hardcore fans to insert their sonic fursona into the game and get told they are a badass by Sonic

@Dionyzos Год назад

It looks like it's heavily inspired by the part of Mass Effect where you run around the Normandy getting to know the crew. It looks oddly interesting to me because I loved that shit.

@tofo7151 Год назад

This might be campy enough to be really entertaining

@brucevandermescht6957 Год назад

Yeah the audience you're referring to here is the "modern audience". For everyone else this is pure crap.

@FuzzyDlop Год назад

@@brucevandermescht6957 Nope, this is objectively good and well written. Also necessary to the scope of the game. Been playing Midnight Suns for 2 days and the stories, characters and dialogues are well written and it's actually a pleasure to experience a Bioware-like structure for the first time since 2010.

@Kepesk Год назад

This sounds hilarious to me.

@pendantblade6361 Год назад

The friendship thing is exactly the sort of thing fanfic writers want. This is gonna be a big hit amongst them.

@tovbyte Год назад

Yeh lol that’s me😂😂😂

@brendanwilliamson4248 Год назад

Same here lol, that whole scenario between Blade and Steve sounds HILARIOUS 🤣

@Hugsloth Год назад

for some reason mods think they are noble knights who can protect an adult game writer from being criticized and won't allow their names to be posted

@moojoy1920 Год назад

@@Hugsloth what are you talking about.

@RariettyC Год назад

It's basically a high school AU you'd find easily on Archive of Our Own, except all the characters are said to be older than 18 (even if they're written like teenagers) so the writer is less likely to be called out if they include a self-insert who dates a bunch of the cast

@jonah3985 Год назад

Your description of the book club sounds utterly hilarious. I'm legit looking forward to these interactions in a "I'm watching a train-wreck unfold" kind of way. Bird watching with Wolverine? Oh my goodness! It's almost as if Firaxis was like: "You've seen Tony Stark sacrifice himself to throw a nuke into outer space... now see him catch a large mouth bass!".

@clickingonchaos3741 Год назад

Commander, the aliens continue to make progress on the Avatar project. If we're going to slow them down, we need to move fast.-nico probably

@Souredsoup Год назад

22:15 To be fair, Robbie Reyes is exactly the same in the comics. He just sees himself as a kid from the hood who isn't in the same league as the rest of the Avengers, so this is actually accurate in the game.

@yordaman17 Год назад

no, in his "real life", he also has to act like someone who has a flaming skull for a head' half the time /s

@iancruz6617 Год назад

His not Johnny blaze ghost rider that already is a bad ass

@GhostRiderLSOV Год назад

Johnny's a badass. Danny's a badass (whines more though). Robbie...eh...I don't know. He was a badass in the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. TV Series, which was a welcome surprise. Hell, I start to miss Alejandra, she was nuts, but no game ever used her, except as for an alternate skin and voice for Ghost Rider in Marvel Heroes.

@UFCWWE69 Год назад

I haven’t even heard of this guy up till now. What happened to Nicolas cage?

@ArseneGray Год назад

thank you

@frankmalditx Год назад

Captain America being too shy to tell Blade he wants to be friends is the funniest thing I’ve seen come out of marvel

@halstonconnally1367 Год назад

"You can still enjoy a game even if large parts of it suck" Welcome to the life of a JRPG fan

@jhsrpg Год назад

Literally

@blackhammer5035 Год назад

I've played every Xeno game since Xenogears and cannot agree more. Xenoblade 2 left me a broken man.

@iancruz6617 Год назад

It's rpg.

@iancruz6617 Год назад

Jrpg reminds me why I hate this games when looking back at Gameboy games and I remember seeing recommended games and an jrpg show up they attack not even enemies move just shows a slice attack and that's it brings back why I hated it.

@WebstarGaming Год назад

Yeah definitely not an jrpg

@Matthimeo Год назад

I’m a huge fan of fire emblem, but the slice of life relationship aspect of it is deceptively difficult, and I think part of why it works is that the characters are original to that story and developing them in those interactions is important, while here they can’t really change or develop much about characters everyone already knows.

@ExtraordinaryFate Год назад

Fire Emblem struggles with it too. It wasn’t exactly fun to play tea party with students in Three Houses unless you loved that character.

@shadowjoey777 Год назад

@@ExtraordinaryFate Also to be fair, you can easily earn enough support with students who you don't like just by playing normally and have more than enough time to make your favorite units as busted as possible.

@codybellar1584 Год назад

The book club thing might have sold me on this game. Hilarious.

@matthewcarpenter7393 Год назад

Was gonna say the same 😂

@taylorstenhouse6168 Месяц назад

It’s such perfect characterization, for Steve especially. It’s a shame that the reviewers understanding of these characters is so bad that he actually uses that specifically as a negative

@Hotshot2k4 Год назад

Honestly the Blade Captain Marvel Steve Rogers _thing_ sounds hilarious when you tell it, but that's probably because we experienced that middle school rollercoaster in the span of a minute or two whereas you probably had to get through half an hour of cutscenes with no sense of irony in order to tell us about it. Very entertaining review overall. I think I'll try to pick this up when it's on sale at a good discount.

@Yunglex313 Год назад

Feels more like a role for James Rhodes rather than Blade...cause Rhodey actually dated Carol Danvers...and all of them are former US Military. Blade I can see being yoga, but not telling a woman he's into her? That guy is Wesley Snipes energy codified, no way he has to work that hard for a date.

@jeffcarrier9808 Год назад

Like I said in the preview, games like this should have a REPLAY option after battle that plays out real time for viewing pleasure (optional of course)

@rustyshakkleford Год назад

Finally the Marvel X Sweet Valley High mashup we were all asking for.

@Juju-cm7ge Год назад

😂

@justicaar Год назад

I expected this after watching your impressions video, but the "recommend half of" in the title makes me laugh. Thanks for yet another thoughtful, in-depth review! I was really looking forward to this game and still think I'll personally enjoy it, but will wait for a sale.

@ShiningArmor Год назад

If you were looking forward to it, you should still buy it. I hesitated after this review and I’m very glad I ended up ignoring him. I disagree with almost every negative point he makes.

@ZeklorWGD Год назад

I was on the fence until I heard about the Captain America book club story arc. Now I'm all in.

@bonus8885 Год назад

I fought it hard, but I finally burst out laughing when you got to Steve Rogers somehow being unable to tell Blade he wants to be friends.

@galinuva1538 Год назад

22:50 I lost it there 😂 it’s like someone on the development team inserted their own fanfiction.

@Xero_Kaiser Год назад

The term "lol" gets thrown around a lot, but I legit busting out laughing at that part.

@Fachewachewa Год назад

That's called writing

@CasasPlays Год назад

The combat and animations look *amazing* but man its a huge bummer to hear about the RPG mechanics. Especially with a franchise that has so so much history and material on how to showcase that character. Either way, I'm still really looking forward to getting my hands on the game.

@solidghost4525 Год назад

I’m having a lot of fun here. I like the dialog and cutscenes too. It’s just like watching a Marvel movie. I really like all the characters. To be fair ive only played for 23 hours and I’ve done 3 story missions so i haven’t really seen the story play out. But I think it’s really good so far. Running around the Abby is fun and a good exploration feels like fable 1. But yeah running around the Abby grounds is pretty darn “no smooth”

@Scrys Год назад

Appreciate you always bringing up the playability on Deck as well. :)

@Hounlaiga Год назад

Is it weird that I kind of sold on the book club story? I mean I genuinely smile as I listen to Skill Up getting increasingly angry at the story, but I really want to know how the drama end!

@CJKhaos Год назад

Same. Did Blade and Carol get together, does Cap make a Friend and will Logan discover a new favourite book

@Hugsloth Год назад

It's a storyline that would work well in a "Teen Titans Go" style of Marvel cartoon or comic, where the intent IS to be a child-friendly version of the Avengers hanging out.

@MrGgabber Год назад

@@CJKhaos I must know!

@casulrekr6340 Год назад

The book club stuff actually sounds hilarious. I kinda want to see it through after your description

@tovbyte Год назад

lol same

@mvhess Год назад

I just read a review that completely praised the story as being authentic to the characters. I have no idea how they came to that conclusion based on what was shown here. But I trust Skillup because he's more than often right on the nose. And he provided actual examples.

@gellister Год назад

If there is one thing that has been proven by things like phase four MCU or Zack Snyder's DC films, people have very different ideas what makes the essence of hero characters... And not all ideas have equal value.

@Hugsloth Год назад

I feel like anyone who says these characters are 'authentic' to the comics, could probably be fed burgers made of grilled cardboard and not even notice.

@TheBigJame_ Год назад

Unless he’s talking about Lost Judgement

@metallicfingers Год назад

@@Hugsloth nah thats a Wyoming delicacy 💯

@Crazetex Год назад

people love to be Right about characters and violently "over-"analyze them while not really digging past the surface, leading to "oh i know that character trait" Eye-Spy. tumblr-ass writing is the epitome of this

@NidorinoAlliance 9 месяцев назад

It feels weird he didn’t mention the whole other chunk of the game: exploring the Abbey. It’s not just the home base. There’s all these new areas in it where you’re uncovering mysteries about your character, the Caretaker and Agatha. It’s the most engaging story part of the game imo.

@AardvarkPaysOff Год назад

"There are certain lines you don't cross and Marvel's Midnight Sons commits the cardinal sin of taking some of the most badass characters in the MCU and turning them all into fucking pussies" HOLY SHIT HE SAID IT

@iancruz6617 Год назад

Confuse because this is not even part of the mcu?!?!

@Joel-wx7zk Год назад

@@iancruz6617 He meant the Marvel Universe as a whole, in no version will Blade, the guy who regularly goes to war with Vampires, be too afraid to ask a girl out or run a book club. He might be into yoga due to his acrobatics but that's about it.

@fkyfky0208 Год назад

Don't worry. The actual MCU already did that.

@iancruz6617 Год назад

@@Joel-wx7zk MCU he literally stand for Marvel Cinematic Universe. Not the actual Marvel comic universe. Plus I been seeing a lot of idiots mention phase 4 this and that and act like it's part of the mcu when idiots not everything is part of the mcu and that should be obvious

@Joel-wx7zk Год назад

@@iancruz6617 And? Most general people don't really seperate the two, when they say MCU, they're refering to the entire Marvel universe.

@andrewjozay Год назад

That Blade scenario you described sounds so awesome

@KingsNJenssons Год назад

all the compaints about the characters in the relationship parts are acutally comic accurate at times wolverine is a nice dude, if he likes you. that is basically captain marvel when she isnt being the worst character like in civil war 2, tbf robbie is a kid and he is basically that he is a honorary ghost rider so i can see him being like that

@wiper7000 Год назад

Hey @SkillUp. Minor suggestion. When ever you do the technical part, could you (or Austin if he's the editor) perhaps include in text what you're using when you're talking about it. I dunno about others but i tend to get that blank glance over look instantly when i hear those very technical names for things "...I tested this out on a RTX4090 with a Ryzen 9 5950X..." I would really appreciate if that would appear as text in the video so it doesn't just seem as white noise. Love the channel and content so I hope I don't come across too nickpicky ^^'

@TJ-vh2ps Год назад

Your description of the book club and friendship conversations between Wolverine and Blade had me literally laugh-crying! 😂 Ghost Rider talking about his feelings! 🤣 I have to play the game just to hear this for myself! The combat will just be a bonus! 😅

@FlameHAZE2010 Год назад

Not the same ghost rider, just putting that out there.

@theweddingsinger1970 Год назад

Give them credit, the writing is going to fuel memes for years to come

@rottenborn2292 Год назад

X man destiny all over again.

@crazymachinima1 Год назад

Naah, everyone will forget about this game after 3 weeks.

@rottenborn2292 Год назад

@@crazymachinima1 Yk what’s funny. I actually did till your comment popped up.

@NoMercy13567 Год назад

I think that the non-combat parts of this game could have been better if they had the characters fit their personality and threw in some of the of the wall stuff. Like imagine Blade actually being a badass, but then he tells you that he does yoga. It would add just enough humor to the super serious characters

@CrocvsGator Год назад

It sounds like Firaxis was inspired by something like Fire Emblem Three Houses. Except, the issue is that Fire Emblem characters aren't usually already established entities. Plus, they are written with interesting personalities, due in no small part to permadeath. But you can't have, say Wolverine, be subject to that, because that wouldn't make sense with his powers.

@blackhammer5035 Год назад

Fire Emblem characters are also designed to be one-dimensional. That sounds bad, but remember: they're mostly built to be optional (they can die or simply not be recruited) as well as background to more important characters. Bernadetta needs to share the supporting cast role with like thirty other characters as well. So she has to be fairly simple from a design perspective. Meanwhile, Captain America and Wolverine are showing up with decades of character development in narratives where they are the main character. Now put that legacy in the hands of the people who thought "Indian Man Eats Curry" was character development. Yeah, that's the Firaxis writing team on Chimera Squad.

@CrocvsGator Год назад

@@blackhammer5035 I mean, I'd say Bernadetta is pretty three dinensional compared to some of the other characters from other FE games. A lot of other FE games have way more than 30 characters though. Even still, I find Bernadetta pretty well developed compared to say Cyril or even Hubert.

@blackhammer5035 Год назад

Hubert's got some surprising depth to him, though it comes out in weird places. He's oddly friendly to Petra, for instance, and almost sympathetic to her situation as a political hostage. He's still probably the least interesting dark mage in the series, and one of the only ones where they never address his role as a dark mage (though to be fair, FE3H's freeform classes means nobody is guaranteed to be anything).

@CrocvsGator Год назад

@@blackhammer5035 See, the thing is Blue Lions is my favorite route, so I'm kind of biased admittedly. And admittedly I find Bernadetta somewhat relatable due to my own social anxiety and....unpleasant events in the past we'll say. But I'm glad you brought up Dark Mages though, because it riles me up to no end that Tharja is used in crossovers as the Awakening Dark Mage rep when Henry is right there, and is way more entertaining as a character. Seriously, Tharja is in Tokyo Mirage Sessions, FE Warriors, and gets reincarnated as Rhajat in Fates. But Tharja is hot* while Henry I guess looks too much like default male Robin, which sucks because I am way more interested in Henry's brand of crazy than Tharja's. *according to a lot of people online, not me personally.

@CrocvsGator Год назад

@@blackhammer5035 And admittedly, we've come along way from Shadow Dragon where they gave us a bunch of identical characters because they were literally intended to be cannon fodder. Bord, Cord, and Barst....the bald guys...those cavalry members who aren't Cain and Abel.

@mandolorian9893 Год назад

OK the story about the bookclub with cap america being friends with Blade actually makes me want to unironically play this even more just to see what happens.

@rottenborn2292 Год назад

Spoilers. Nothing. Nothing happens.

@Wol1427 Год назад

Same, it's just too hilarious to pass up.

@konczdavid Год назад

I'm sorry but I have to completely disagree with you on Mass Effect. I like the first game the most and a huge reason for that was its gameplay and its deeper RPG systems.

@jdoggydogg Год назад

Same, honestly.

@user-if3os9sd6z Год назад

I liked Mass Effect 3 and Andromeda gameplay the most (ME1 is still the best and everything else about Andromeda is terrible) but I get it. It gives you freedom and the weapon sfx and customization still holds up. I have actually been using mods that port ME1 weapons, power and mechanics over to ME2 and the experience is fuller znd funner for it.

@marcusclark1339 Год назад

this, first game had a good balance of it and made the progress to use guns a long term investment where newer just streamlined it cause wider appeal

@christopherglasper9224 Год назад

It doesn't take much for gameplay to appease, so I liked M.E. 1 gameplay and didn't realize it was a thing till others made it a thing

@ciaranunderwood6963 Год назад

i am so glad you included all your praise for the comabt cause my god the character interactions sound like an actual fan fic

@CK-lt6jl Год назад

the good fanfics are many times better than this. jesus, this is worse than Andromeda

@Wafelkowiec Год назад

Seems like someone wanted a piece of that Persona pie. And seeing those characters I can tell that whoever the writer is, they would fit into modern-day Marvel perfectly. It's elevator music level of writing.

@Texelion3Dprints Год назад

Apparently there are like 6 or 7 writers for this, including people who worked on the Telltale games... And I'm just like... how ?

@BackwardsPancake Год назад

@@Texelion3Dprints If I had to guess, it's because they're doing exactly what they intended, to target a very specific audience. It may leave you cold, but this type of presentation and storytelling dynamic is like crack for two demographics: The fanfic crowd and the incredibly basic modern mainstream Marvel fans.

@blackhammer5035 Год назад

Having six or seven writers probably means everything was designed by committee to committee standards. AKA pointless and soulless.

@iancruz6617 Год назад

Man I seen better written of this character interact and matches there personality in the comics that I wish I took some screen shot of a few to show a good examples of it.

@FuzzyDlop Год назад

Nope, this is not inspired by Persona, this is inspired by old school Bioware and it worked great. The Abbey part of the game is great and the reletionship/friendship stuff is really good and well written overall. It's also necessary which makes everything better. Sometimes the combat is more enjoyable than the Abbey stuff and sometimes it's the other way around. Good stuff. Don't listen to moronic youtubers with zero attention span.

@BradyPartain Год назад

When's the Callisto embargo up?? Can't wait

@STEVENXO Год назад

Hopefully they add a combat-only mode similar to ME3 which had a mode that let the game go through the dialog for you, so you could just focus on combat.

@iknothatukno Год назад

The way you described the blade story inspired me to buy this game, it sounded hilarious!

@wbgeek Год назад

Your description of Blade's book club made me break out laughing. I was planning on playing this for the gameplay and enduring the story, but now you've made me excited for the story too, albeit in a "so bad it's good" kind of way.

@mickeymouse7726 Год назад

I'm honestly genuinely excited about playing as Morbius

@Lost_In_Neverwhere Год назад

Man, I laughed my butt off when you talked about the relationship stuff. Amazing!

@BaseSteve Год назад

This is the perfect game for me and my girlfriend who doesn’t like games much, but loves romantic dramas and dating Sims. I’ll play the action, fun part and she’ll play the marvels sitcom.

@BainesMkII Год назад

Some would argue the criticism of the story side of the game reflects the state of modern Marvel Comics. But that gets into a whole lot of controversial debates and topics. Mind, people have also criticize the "current state" of the writing and editorial of Marvel Comics for decades, long before it developed into a larger political debate.

@Ceece20 Год назад

I honestly wish it didn’t turn into a political debate thing because the Marvel dialogue writing is objectively terrible. I honestly will compare this dialogue with Wolfenstien Youngblood but without the Marvel façade. It’s terrible dialogue with mediocre gag jokes that someone locked in a room for 15 hours of work would come up with. Marvel just does that same thing but with Superheroes instead of forgettable daughters.

@gebi151 Год назад

KING Skill Up back at it again, love your work bro. Also I’m curious where you got your steam deck. Where did you purchase it from? I’m looking at importing one and I’m in Australia too.

@tombuben Год назад

Afaik Valve sent it out to reviewers and developers world wide, but don't have proper distribution channels to sell them to regular customers.

@QOBRA Год назад

I think he got it from Valve at launch

@warakateng Год назад

Hey man thanks, most of the time I don't think about the real talent and passion that goes into making these videos.

@gabrielrodriguez463 Год назад

the book club part was soooo funny, thanks!!! :)

@nbf-fb1xs Год назад

I think the RPG angle is going to be very divisive among players. Hopefully if they revisit this format in another game they smooth it out, as this is the biggest departure from their last few games.

@ramonserna8089 Год назад

As long has the gameplay is solid I will bear the story. Its not like I played XCOM for the cinematic storytelling anyways.

@Sstrayz Год назад

Thanks for the amazing review SkillUp!! :)

@OniLink99999 Год назад

Loved the Cheez TV call-out! =D Great review - definitely gave me a lot to think about. Especially as I was hoping to get into this via the big Marvel ensemble story, not just the gameplay.

@arax20 Год назад

I can see how the book club stuff would be bad for some but honestly it sounds a little endearing and refreshing. Kinda like the hangout missions you go on in genshin. Probably not for everyone but the Blade stans probably enjoy it.

@BossXAOC Год назад

TBH The story wasnt that great in XCOM 2 as well but the premise was very cool and gameplay wise the the premise was extremly good. But of course XCOM 1 & 2 didnt really focus on a narrative told story with much cutscenes and dialogues. Gameplaywise Firaxis a top notch round based strategy devolper. If they also want to be a top notch story driven developer they surely have to hire new and better writers.

@razvanzamfir1545 Год назад

Well, the story didn't have to be great, but just enough there to move things along - which is what it did.

@Dja05 Год назад

The story in the XCOM games was absolutely non intrusive. A 2 minutes cutscenes every 5 hours and some optional flavor text. Here, it's basically half of the game. Shame :/.

@amunago080 Год назад

@@Dja05 ^this 100%. It's a huge part of the game here, Xcom kept it to the side or delivered while you were fighting on a mission.

@chrishansenwithdatelinenbc5080 Год назад

@@amunago080 even when it was to the side, the writing was kinda bad.

@rottenborn2292 Год назад

@@chrishansenwithdatelinenbc5080 You’re missing the point.

@Luckysquirrel1256 Год назад

Thank you for including the Steam Deck in your technical portion!

@ThePokestopPapi Год назад

The book club love triangle segment between Blade/Captain Marvel/Steve Rogers was absolute gold.

@Nigmare191 Год назад

I've played Persona 5 royal so my standards for character interaction are usually a bit higher than what I have seen from Marvel midnight Sons.. however with that being said seeing this game is like what 60 hours. The combat looks fun and it's got DLC coming in the form of Deadpool Venom morbius and storm. I think this will be a perfect game to at least hold me over until Spider-Man 2 comes out. Now that's a game that I'm really looking forward to so I guess I don't mind buying and playing this until that game comes out a little something to do. Also to anyone reading this shout out to you if you watch the'90s Spider-Man animated TV show. If you watch the reruns of it that counts too that was my shit!

@Grim_Pinata Год назад

The way you describe the characters and the way they're written sounds like a description of what someone who really loves Persona 5 but has never, ever seen a single Marvel movie or read a single comic would conjure up I know this because I AM that exact person, and if I was contracted to write a narrative-driven RPG-lite tactics game about Marvel characters, despite not being very familiar with them, I'd probably go for a tone and dialogue style very similar to this one. I'm not saying Firaxis didn't do their research when it comes to the heroes or their personalities, but that's just the vibe I'm getting from the way the dialogue is described here; a team known for making really great strategy games with generally pretty barebones plots and unexciting characters where the stories you create through your own emergent gameplay scenarios are more important than the actual plot, being contracted to write enormous amounts of dialogue and story content for some of popular culture's most beloved and widely dissected characters ever

@dimebag667 Год назад

Your whole "bookclub" section was hilarious 😆 Well done 👍

@linkinpark15 Год назад

Thank you for the comprehensive review. I still want to support Firaxis since they are very good developers and make good to great games. Hopefully they can improve on their writing or at least hire new writers with new ideas. XCOM probably would have been ruined with this relationship building aspect to the game. At least there is a tangible benefit to the relationship building, but I do not think anyone wants gameplay to feel like a chore. Unless your a masochist that loves the grind (pun intended).

@ronok2057 10 месяцев назад

I don’t understand why they didn’t go full in with relationships and more personal friendships and Ong having to walk to your room every single night just to be able to do another mission is mind blowing. At least make it so that you can blow through 5 side missions in a row without having to waste days

@Wooki3 Год назад

The writing, characters and character models feel like ME Andromeda all over again. For me an RPG with bad writing is a deal breaker. It is crucial in these kind of games. It's funny that it goes out of it's way to give us the most sanitized and non offensive version of these characters ever created and at the same time the trailers are all about heavy metal, flames and demons.

@JewTube001 Год назад

"trailers are all about heavy metal, flames and demons" that's actually a really good point. whats up with these conflicting themes.

@Wooki3 Год назад

@@JewTube001 My theory is that at first they wanted to go darker more like the comics but they were stopped by Marvel/Disney activ...I mean story group and all that was left were these early promotional materials. I was really looking forward to the dark, tactical RPG set in Marvel Universe but this is modern MCU level shitfest. I hope one day we are going to get the game more in line with Divinity Original Sin 2 or Freedom Force.

@brightenblack207 Год назад

Funny that the sponsor this time is Steel Series. I just bought some after hearing about them from your videos before

@spicydeath82 Год назад

took me awhile to figure out you were saying firaxis and not far access. gotta love the accent.

@jibbersdelight1616 Год назад

If Skill Up recommend this game half-way, then im willing to buy this game for half the price.

@rottenborn2292 Год назад

😆 Yup. I’ll probably wait till its a free ps monthly game before I buy it.

@jibbersdelight1616 Год назад

@@rottenborn2292 that might take a while though 😅

@DazeOfWar Год назад

Ya it’s definitely a half price or less game now. I was looking forward to a story in this but after seeing this I can wait a while for it to get cheap.

@colinclement2752 Год назад

This is honestly the first time I have heard of this game

@geddonjr 11 месяцев назад

I agree with your take on the dialogue sequences. What made it worse is I'm OCD, so I save scummed to check ALL the different dialogue options to see all the different responses and the Friendship/Light/Dark changes they affected. I'm over 150 hours, and close to 2/3 of that would be the dialogue/Friendship/Hangouts/Abbey stuff. The battles and mod crafting was what kept me hooked.

@Sorain1 Год назад

Wow, you really hit the nail on the head with the "Why isn't it one activity per character that is unique to and fits them?" question. Because that sounds like the immediate thought that comes to mind to me. About the only good news about this game is that, taking the formula and doing better on the half that fails, potentially via an expansion pack? That is plausible. (It's not LIKELY, but it is plausible.)

@juans0l0 Год назад

I know you’re trying to sell that blade scene as terrible and that is an extremely condensed version of events, but it also sounded wildly hilarious and now I just need to experience it

@KasukeSadiki Год назад

Right?? This just makes me want to play even more lmao

@thaddeusgenhelm8979 Год назад

I mean, I imagine the compression makes it sound way funnier than it is, since the dead air is extracted and all =P

@fairmonkey4786 Год назад

Yea blade teaching yoga just sounds hilarious and entertaining to me

@expertb6348 Год назад

I'm 30 hours into Persona 5 Royal. And I love hanging out with other characters outside of combat. But since the writing here seems to be what I don't enjoy out of marvel I don't think I'm going to play it. Maybe in the future if there are mods that speed things up so I can focus on the combat side of the game.

@rottenborn2292 Год назад

Persona is the gold standard and I personally dont expect that kind of writing in a Marvel game, but yeah same. If you’ve shoving dialogue down our throat you better write them to be entertaining. So off putting thinking half the game is garbage writing.

@infamous6283 Год назад

Guardians of the Galaxy managed to have some very well written characters and pretty engaging story.

@rottenborn2292 Год назад

@@infamous6283 That game was lightening in a bootle.

@RedBeer Год назад

8:35 I love that enemy doing an impression of MC Hammer Can't Touch This

@dayven4424 Год назад

Your explantion of 'book club' had me in tears. Like, just thinking Movie blade being like, "Alright everyone come around and listen dammit!....Who wants to read motha-fuckin' My little pony with me? I need answers people! Fluttershy won't express her feelings!...and...I-I can relate..." Proceeds to go off to cry; clutching his precious stuffed unicorn. Won't you join the book club for Blade?

@Cbb88dragonborn Год назад

I’ve never heard of this game before you covered it. Man, there’s tons of interesting ideas here but it’s sad to see that it’s bogged down by bad design choices

@FuzzyDlop Год назад

It's not, SkillUp is just one of the many garbage and incompetent youtubers. Been playing this game for 2 days and the "second half" of the game is not bogged down by any major design choices. The writing of the characters and the dialogues is good and all those parts inspired by old school real Bioware games are necessary. The only bland design choice is the exploration of the environments of the Abbey. Other than that, this video is a complete lie and complete dogshit, made by someone with no critical skills and ZERO attention span.

@robind8526 Год назад

Don't be silly, you don't kill bosses. You just down them. No character in the Marvel Universe really dies.

@bradhaines3142 Год назад

a headless thanos disagrees

@Insan1tyW0lf Год назад

@@bradhaines3142 "Characters in the Marvel Universe rarely actually die"?

@robind8526 Год назад

@@bradhaines3142 One word: Retcon!

@paulszki Год назад

I don't have these performance issues (micro stutters and frame drops) during battle. So I don't think this is GPU related. I'm playing on 4k with all settings on ultra/maxed on an RTX3090 so if it is a streaming/bandwith issue, then I don't experience that. Could be a RAM issue? Though I'd assume that a system with a 4090 in it will have fast RAM with really good timings and transfer rates , a decent NVME SSD and a good CPU to facilitate the high transferrates? The only time where I get a bit of stutter, weirdly enough, is when I start up the game and midnight suns logo intro is playing but that hardly matters at all. I think I have a pretty well tuned "last year's higher end system" with an unvervolted RTX3090 via MSI Afterburner, a 5800x3D (running PBO Runer 2) and decent DDR4 RAM with 3600MT/s at 14-15-15-35 timings. So if you have a RTX4090 (or 4080) or an AMD RX7900(XT) and somehow get stutter during Ghost Rider's "Hell Ride" animation, there is either something off with your system or it's an issue with the game specific to your setup that should be patchable.

@nathangillmore5064 Год назад

Great review, will pick this up on the cheap, however, that near-constant mouse pointer, my gawd!!!!!

@eeleye7075 Год назад

Will wait for a sale but the combat half looks so good

@kingc1331 Год назад

Turn based 🗑

@arthurdent9281 Год назад

Same. This looks like it will be fun, but not deserving of a full price purchase.

@michaeldearth6327 Год назад

It’s between this and Callisto protocol for me

@RickRate Год назад

go for callisto and wait for a sale for this game

@QaysarZ94 Год назад

@@RickRate exactly

@saniakshay12 Год назад

@@RickRate Gonna do the same. As per ACG the game is very buggy as well. Better to wait a few months

@aznjay94 Год назад

Just wait for reviews and look at gameplay. Form your opinion dude. Half of this game wasn't skillup's cup of tea, but that doesn't mean it won't be enjoyable for you

@Juju-cm7ge Год назад

Calisto Protocol is a day one

@chaosmirco Год назад

God I loved your breakdown of these characters!

@prototype8137 Год назад

The stutters seem to be mostly caused by the 2k launcher. Disable it through steam and it should help eliminate them. Helped me.

@Michael-bm2ll Год назад

This translates so well to modern marvel. Empty vapid husks of their former characters but the CGI fight scenes look nice.

@lary3709 Год назад

"Wolverine is a nice guy" 😆 I don't think I have ever heard anyone describe wolverine like that before ever.

@walkerg.6961 Год назад

Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, I like the idea of the heroes being mundane. Blade doing yoga and running the book club because he has a crush on Captain Marvel is the kind of every day tribulation anyone would go through. I understand that these are comic book heroes that are turned up to 11, but I can appreciate the slice of life kind of stuff..

@Seoul_Soldier Год назад

I'll be waiting for a deep steam sale. Appreciate the review.

@dtanobo Год назад

I actually enjoyed the Mass Effect 1 combat at the time lol

@ilikecats45648 Год назад

I still do it today

@CrimsonFIame Год назад

The writing for the story and characters reminds me of the current state of the MCU

@DougieMonster Год назад

I just reached the section of the video on Blade's book club. I'm howling. Please do more videos explaining the "story" of this game... Honestly, it just kinda makes me want to buy it more! 🤣

@d34rth Год назад

Okay, I spewed my drink when you did Magik's accent 🤣

@CuloHole Год назад

I want the other half

@xiozen Год назад

1/2 of this review is spot on... the 2nd half, not so much. It would have been better, IMHO, if the reviewer prefaced his criticism of the 2nd half of his review to the fact that he apparently doesn't care for narrative focused game play. I LOVED IT!!! Developing the friendship for all of my team mates, getting to know their varying personalities, then unlocking their Midnight Suns ultimate ability and costume... VERY VERY well done game ALL around and completely enjoyable. HIGHLY recommend it.

@alexnclips6790 Год назад

💯 Agree

@piegineer9130 Год назад

Why you think he doesn't care for narrative focused gameplay when he said he like Mass effect 1 the game that heavy narrative focus with friendship team build but combat is medicore?

@luisdaniel6611 Год назад

22:51 Dammmn Skill Up, you went hard hahahahaha

@Tharukan Год назад

21:40 "Most aliens you're better off avoiding, but there's a few good ones out there." ... Wolverine sure knows how to blow that dog-whistle!

@EastyyBlogspot Год назад

Dunno if this has happened to anyone else....the 20 year old me would love this but the 42 year old me with so much less free time has lost interest with turn paced games

@PlagueInjected Год назад

Nice to see the Neighbours writers landed on their feet by scoring a job writing this game.

@Zathurious Год назад

Man, your making my decision about this game harder... I guess I'll wait for a sale since it's clear, the relationships don't go into cheesy romance territory. The hilarity that brings on is one of the reasons I get so heavily vested in conversational RPGs. Oh, but thank you for taking the time to do this. I appreciate it.