They are Billions Review 2019 - Worthabuy? 

I gave this the middle thumb due to the custom maps being brilliant, it allows you to play as many different maps as you like, UNLIKE the devs game where most of you will not beat the first survival map or want to even progress through the campaign of boredom. This game is literally brilliant in concept and I love playing it (custom maps) everything else is garbage imo so it's only really worth buying for the custom maps.

Maybe the “they” in the game title refers to tents

"when you've done your eight hours in the office, or digging holes in the road, whatever you do..."

Steel Division 2 up next

Man, this game sounds pretty... in tents...

It seems the game did not explain that Cottages can be unlocked early in the game. I had them by the 3rd build-up Mission. So only the first 2 with tents.

Seems like the developers haven't watched the latest episode of Extra Credits on Save Scumming.

i was laughing so hard throughout this review, love it!

They are Billions: Tropico slumlord edition

Middle mouse button removes rocks/trees so you can see everywhere. Not done much campaign yet but the survival mode is fun.

Hey I’ve been looking at Hell let Loose and was wondering if it’s on your radar or not? I’ll holdout if you’ve got a review planned.

When is macs corner coming back? I love those old videos.

Wish we'd get more rts games. I'm still pissed at Relic for turning Dawn of War into a cartoon-looking moba inspired kids game.

The forum mods have gone bananas over the criticism and they're banning people left and right

i spent 13 hours and 7 retries on this when it first released and thought i had the winning strategy in hand... then the final wave absolutely butt fu*#ed me... after that i used a trainer and guess what!? more butt fu*#ing... so i fired up C&C red alert 2 out of spite and ended the soviet union single handed.

Failure to identify the strengths of their burgeoning product is quite common in game development. Shame.

4:50 uh, can't build where units stand. For twenty years, RTS units could move away from a freshly set up construction site...

Sorry if this is a naive question, as I haven't played the game, but couldn't you build interior walls to partition your tents so one outbreak doesn't spread to the rest of the colony?

"I'd rather blowtorch my nipples off!" I almost fucking died laughing.

Would be interested in seeing a review on Empyrion for 2019. I'm sure HWS would be jaw dropping server wise but also core game. hope to see you in Mordhau again in game wise lol

I remember that they promised an "engaging campaign with unique missions and mechanics". I played the first mission today... Like you, I died to 1 zombie who snuck past me...restart the whole mission again...completed all objectives on day 15 or so...then I had to wait until day 24 to complete the mission...and then I was afraid I'd die again with my 20 hunters, because I didn't realize that you could build gates over the fucking tracks, because the game never told me and I just didn't check...yeah. If almost every mission is really just the "survival" start, then I guess this game is undead to me.

Why people say it's hard is because of the survival mode. Which is very hard! The campaign isn't considered hard, mostly just incredibly flawed.

Steel division 2 worth a buy?

Hi! I've watched your first preview on this game, so (yesterday) I decided to go for it. Now I'm seeing this review and I'm getting second thoughts. Did I make a horrible mistake by buying this game? Or is is still worth the money for the survivalmode alone? I did not sign up for a tentsimulator!

Hi all of you and hi @Worth A Buy ! My name is KarEssMoua and I'm the creator of the Leyba' campaign in They Are Billions. I would like to share my point of view for people who haven't buy this game (and also those who already have it). TAB (They Are Billions), is my favorite RTS game. I have spent more than 1 000 hours on it (especially on the editor). This game is a REALLY good game and also VERY hard. The community is one of the best I have ever seen, and the devs are listening to us to improve the game. BUT Actually, what you have said about the campaign is true. 1) The campaign is quite unbalanced in some points, and the devs are already working on balancing stuff. I agree this is not enough, but still, they are working hard on it. As a map creator, I can tell you that balancing a game is a pain in the a** as everyone doesn't play at the same level. 2) Yes the missions are repetitive, and I am disappointed as much as you. The lore is lacking (imo) and the gameplay still the same BUT there are 3 different types of mission : Tactical missions, where you play a hero that discovers a new area. Swarm missions, where you have to settle defenses and units in order to hold and clear a path to advance to the next mission and the Building missions where you have to build your own colony. The devs made a huge work on the map design that is clearly well made. All the campaign is lacking is a bit more advanced script to improve the gameplay as we already have seen with several custom maps, like trading with other colonies, hope, and other cool stuff. The thing is, the devs didn't want to take risk on advanced scripts, and that's for me a mistake. 3) The lore of the campaign is basic yes, but new players who haven't play any custom map might like it as they didn't play any other custom campaigns. 4) I disagree with you with the tech tree. It gives new possibilities of gameplay, but sadly the difficulty is highly related on your research, so one mistake and you cannot play all the mission on brutal (I'm playing on brutal and swarm missions are just impossible to beat as I didn't pick up the "right" researches). About the game and the community : The game is rich in terms of maps as there a LOT of custom maps that are enjoyable, and imo, havemore interesting gameplay than the campaign. People are also very nice with you and can give you tips on the game. The game is beautiful and nicely designed, more assets will come later as the devs are balancing the campaign. But still, if you want to know if the game is worth to buy I would give you a honest answer. If you want a game that challenges you, go for it. Sometimes it's fustrating (especially on survival maps), BUT you have an objective to reach and you know if you don't pay attention, you gonna restart to 0 and that makes you nervous and focus on the game. So... Should you buy it ? YES, do it !

It is refreshing to hear such a no sugar coated game review

How do you join the WorthABuy Steam group? Page says invite only, but how do you get an invite?

"When you die, you GO BACK to the beginning. Oh yeah! It's one of THOSE games!"

Feel like i haven't come across a vid from you in ages! Missed it. Glad to hear you again!

I bought this game on sale before this review. I haven't had a chance to play it yet. Should I get a refund before the 2 hours or is it still worth having for the other modes?

“That’s a lot of f*cking tents m8”

The difficulty spike in final waves from rank 1 missions to rank 2 missions was insane.

cant you copy and paste the savegame ? im kinda sad because I wanted to get this game

Are you doing hell let lose?

Hey Mac, do you ever plan on doing a review of Mafia 2?

Please tell me what game does not repeat it self ?

You diamond Mac! I was really hoping you was going to revisit this as I've been iching to buy it but it seems you are saying exactly what the recent reviews/fourm users on steam are saying so my wallet thanks you .

It'll be a cold day when Mac breaks the bell.

so is the game worth the buy if you don't intend on playing the campaign?

What devise can you play it.

Will you do a Review of Amid Evil, it's like Dusk, but a throwback to Hexen instead of Quake :)

No saves? No checkpoints? Wow! Good, funny review. Thank you!

have the fixed the tent spamming in 2022?

Hard games are tedious without regular saves. Tedious games are not forgivable without saves. I own the game but havent played in ages. Random maps were sorta fun. Its so strange though, the devs seemed to have the right idea with the pause being the first thing in the game.

I always appreciated how you always pit a games quality vs the actual price it is being sold for, hence the channel title. But actually visualizing the value of the gameplay assuming we all work a hard 8 hours a day at least, and what we should expect from trying to relax for a couple hours and what we might get out of that is super helpful and just awesome. I've always loved how you always look at the value for the customer above all else. Also love the tag at the end lol "most players won't see half the content". First thing I thought is wow 60 hours is a little long for a campaign in a game like this. Why overstay your welcome so much just to pad the game out with all this bullshit to make it that long? Reduce it down to just the very best parts and have an amazing 15 hour campaign of ridiculously edge of your seat action.

is this like a Tower defense type of game ? can someone please tell

Let's live in a tent and try to survive the zombies

I gotta say watching the subtitles trying to guess what hes saying is amazing

Agree with everything sadly. I was at something like 24% in the campaign (300%, brutal diff) and despite being able to beat it till that point, i was bored to tears to the point that ive just not gone back to it and instead uninstalled. Every single mission was spam tents, spam food building, now you need energy, get a couple more mills, now spam more tents (or cottages, whatever), now build towers/ballistas/stakes and maybe think about defending....but don't forget to spam tents because most the "campaign" is nothing but meeting some silly population goal (in X days) for no apparent reason. And the swarm missions inbetween were so mind numbingly boring that you could just afk for the next 10 minutes. Hard Pass.

hey do you think you would do a review a my friend pedro (yeah this is completely derivative to the video and still a good one at that)

so guys do you think the devs will try to improve the game or abandon it ?

Don't know why I keep hearing it as "the Arbellions" lol

Steel Division 2 review coming?

I love the game, survival gives you a random map which always gives you a new challenge, but i also expected more sophisticated objectives in the campaign missions, instead of just building up a city from the ground up everytime, same goes for the hero missions, they are so slowpaced and also lack more sophisticated objkectives. Like you said Map Editor is the best part you can create literally anything you imagine and let players play it. Also the game is highly moddable, you can create texture packs, soundpacks and modify gamefiles to change unit stats etc. Modding is not officially supported, yet, but that will open up a whole new avenue then.

i just force quit if i die, it reloads at last save point. Stupid that you have to do this though

Why only using tents??

When Kenshi, Mack?

Played in early access and thought it needed some more polish and gameplay fixes. Looks like the issues are still apparent.

I'm surprised there hasn't been a video on this channel about the "Surprise Mechanics" yet. I'll be looking forward to another new bell when that happens.

"Is it worth a BAAAYYY" "Come out to the coast, have a few laughs.

I was about to buy that game and i clicked on this video for a final reassuring check. I laughed so much and unexpectedly, my cheeks still hurt. I didn't buy the game but i subscribed here.

my city was randomly mentioned in a game review...

You've saved me some cash - thanks Mack 😀 Awesome ending 😂

i love his honesty more then he will ever know

I love you Mac!! hahahaha. I feel for you... more tents... more tents!

Maybe in the future the developers will change a little the mechanics to add some depth and posibilities. I agree that the game is brilliant in concept and I love playing it the first 15-20 hours

Great review but I wish you would have reviewed the scrimmage or custom map mode and not just the campaign. The gameplay looks fun, campaign does not. Is regular survival any good?

Advice according running naked around streets Aberdeen (Scotland) go between 4 and 6 morning streets are pretty much empty.

I swear about 80 to 90 percent of the time I'm merely listening/watching because your reviews are just damned funny! I had no interest in this game, but a new "Worth A Buy" video? Yeah that's worth a click! This was great stuff as always!

How does this happen after years of early access and thousands of hours of free play testing

Actually had me in tears!! Was going buy for ps4 but honestly rather just watch your video's for entertainment. Great work appreciate the video .

Your discription of the gameplay sounds like it is pretty in tents ;)

Going to buy this tonight..I hope it gets a good review

Choo Choo. 3 tents, here my workers! Choo Choo, 3 tents here my workers! 😂. Please someone put this on a loop. It's already ringing in my head. Thanks for the review man. I'll avoid this

It this the new tent building simulator?

Mack review the steam controller

choo choo! 🤣 lol been playing shadow tactics... there's some good pay off right there

I had a lot of fun with this last year. Are the voice lines still laughably bad?

Outer Wilds, Mack. It's got the challenging, but not too challenging, puzzles as Jedi Outcast

Great video Mack, way to keep it 100

Hey Mac, are you going to review Bloodstained?

I resorted to alt tabbing and copying the save file so I didn't have to spend an hour rebuilding to learn from each mistake. It would be such an awesome game if they just added saving.

Ironman is a great idea for XCOM games because it forces you to REALLY do your risk-assessment and decide what potential rewards are worth how much exposure of your invaluable units. But in a build-up strategy game where the "Early game" is THIS limited? That's just straightup not a good match for the mechanic.

F1 2019 has been getting some tasty reviews, you gonna give it a review?

Tents?

Great review Mack, please review Halo Reach when it comes out on PC next month!

...you upgrade the tents. wherever you place a tent, thats a "residential" spot. you just upgrade that spot to the higher level buildings

dunno why Sir Davos is talking to me about fookin tents, but i get his point.

Hey Mack, when you were talking about the game not being hard, were you talking specifically about campaign? Because I agree with you there, the normal gamemode is very hard tho, it's not just building tents there. I only played a single campaign mission so far and quit because it was so boring, the thing is I think they made the campaign for new players, so they slowly get introduced to units/buildings/waves. I have 80 hours in the normal modes and those are very hard (even on the lowest difficulty it took me like 5 tries to get my first win). So because the game doesn't have a tutorial I found the first 10 hours or so very difficult, I didn't know to keep space in my housing area for a market/bank. Didn't know when to expand or when the first waves came etc. so I think the campaign sort of acts like a tutorial.

Why Aberdeen?

4:50 and 5:20 I died. This is sooo funny !! Choo-choo here comes the workers xPP TENTS!

Tropico 6 review?

I didn't know Davos Seaworth did game reviews. Cool!

Im 2 years late to this review but that God that I checked back with you before I wasted my money. Its July 2021 and it's on sale. After your review... I will surely F#$*&! pass on this one! Thank you. Been subscribed for a while and always appreciate you.

Really really wish I had seen your review BEFORE I bought this game after specifically waiting for a Campaign. Liked it for all of a couple hours before I got to the 'fishing town' just a couple missions in. Did pretty darn good right up until I get to the third and presumably final horde. Warning they are coming from the East! Okay! Move all my troops to the East. BAM! Four separate hordes from both East AND West without the slightest bit of warning, some 1-2 hours of 'play' completely negated in a split second. Uninstalled. Here's hoping things improve one day but I'm not holding out any hope at this point. Played a total of 9 hours, kept restarting to try both Hero Units. So no refund for me. You got a subscriber though for this review. :3

2 years lqte to the party, but had been skirting with picking this up... thanks for saving me the arse ache!

Tent. Tent. Tent. Hunter Cabin. Choo Choo!

The opening - I'd rather stick my hand in a barrel of shit...I almost died! Choking on my tea!!

Does this great game support mouse and keyboard on Xbox X? I looks like so funny. Thank you Worth a Buy, for your great video, greetings from Germany.

Just realised your whining about Tents, once you get farming and cottages (which is after about 2 missions) then getting the amount of colonists you need is very easy. I do agree to some extent about the campaign, compared to the challenge of the survival game it doesnt quite meet the hype and expectation.