Avowed Looks Bland & Generic, Stop Thinking Of Devs As Your Friends.
The moment I saw Avowed, I 100% did not care about the game because of how generically bland & dull the game looked. Then I saw the poster art for it & it 100% is Ai Art. I called them out for it & I got trashed. I know cheap Ai when I see it because I use it all the time. I even pulled up the proof with my own Ai Midjourney V4.2 skulls & look at that thumbnail, you can almost trace over it. Look at the exact placing of the teeth & nasal cavity. Sure they might have added stuff to it in photoshop, post production but the base is Ai generated. My proof picture is from a year ago, before the Avowed poster was revealed.
Anyways, in this video I also react to a major fan of the company making Avowed & he is deeply conflicted about Avowed based on their dev history with games he loved. There is no need to be conflicted, you already know the game is not going to be what you want. Especially when they apparently blasted the price of the game. Look at the characters of the game. They all look instantly forgettable. Nothing unique about them at all.
The monsters look goofy & comical. Why do western studios think this is a good look for their games. Look at Dragon Age Veilguard, they look hilariously stupid & goofy. The action is poorly rigged & animated, look how they kick & watch the rag doll of the target getting kicked lol.
I hate watching a guy reacting or reviewing a franchise or company he loved feel bad about criticizing their next game. I support games that are good & I will pay them money to continue to support them. But let’s say Stellar Blade 2 comes out & we are playing as an unappealing gender whatever & the team slams the audience that made them MILLIONS of dollars, you better believe, I will throw them under the bus, full speed. It’s business, not family. Look at how people finally realized we were right about Dragon Age Veilguard, the customer is NEVER wrong. Thank you to spellandshield for the video I reacted to.
Thank you for watching & as always stay stellar & stay tuned for more great content.
Alright guys, this is my 1st ever (unpaid) review copy I ever accepted.
They did not pay me or control the content or reaction. This is all me. Ok, I think that should be enough lol So Smells Like A Mushroom had been on my watch list on the Playstation 5 for a while. It looked unique enough to get my attention. So when I got a chance to play the game & review it, I had to do it. I am pleased to announce that the game is actually very good. The studio behind it is Red Limb Studio. I don’t know how big the team is but they did a great job.
So here are my thoughts.
Opening mission is a bit rough on the eyes with the severe over saturation & color watches. It was rough. It was hard to see what was going on. But I kept playing. That’s it right now for the negative. I have been playing this for about 4hrs according to my playstation record…it does not feel like it. In a good way.
The graphics are very basic but it is unique enough to stand out. I wouldn’t say they look generic but they are funny to look at, pleasant.
The controls are spot on. Your character will stop when you release the analogue stick, no sliding or extra steps which is crucial for the later parts of the video for the platforming. Man that was tough, not because I could not control my guy but because it wanted you to do it a specific way. I got it on my 4th attempt.
The music is chill & BIG when required, like the Boss fight. Man, that boss fight. We’ll get there.
The writing is legitimately funny, it is quirky & weird at times but not cringe from the 4hrs I have played, I laughed a bunch of times. The game’s description say “Boomer Humor” This is like playing a game from like 10 years ago & I loved it.
Now that boss battle in the thumbnail, it the 2nd official boss & man was it insane, look at it (thumbnail) ! Lasers everywhere, enemies everywhere, explosions everywhere…SO MUCH GOING ON!!! But you know what? I beat him in 1 try. I did almost die a few times but, when you realize the enemies he spawns are not there to just kill you but to provide much needed ammo & health refills, you start putting 2 & 2 together. Make sure you take out the large crystals especially in his 3rd phase as they will kill you quickly. Yes the boss has 3 phases & each 1 requires a different strategy & he has completely different attack patterns.
I am telling you, the game is excellent especially for an indie game. It is available on Steam & Playstation & should be under 20$ I highly recommend Smells Like A Mushroom & I give it an 8/10, you know irate things fairly.
Thanks for watching & hopefully I get some more offers.
There are a lot of similar looking Sci-Fi movies out there. Stuck on a moon. Stuck on a planet. Stuck in a ship etc.
Moon looks like one of those. But I gave it a shot because the actor in it (Sam Rockwell) is insanely good.
I watched it and within 10mins I was sucked in. I watched it to the end and I wanted more.
There was 1 thing that could have been explained that wasn’t and then they threw a smidgen of politics at the end but if you like a good Sci-Fi this movie is great.
This movie fools you into thinking it is a run of the mill scifi movie. And then it shifts. And then you HAVE to watch.
9/10 for me.
Because Of Sweet Baby Inc Games Like Tales Of Kenzera Zau Will.
Fail I absolutely hate the state of video games today.
We have activists that have completely ruined the experience of EVERYBODY & NOBODY is playing the games that get ruined by the likes of Sweet Baby Inc. I have been hyped for a game called Tales Of Kenzera Zau that was revealed last summer & it’s finally coming out in a month. I will be buying the game because I like the look & idea behind the game. What I don’t like however is that the game has been touched Sweet Baby Inc. Thus getting it put on the Sweet Baby Inc Detected Curator page. What this means is that the game is most certain to fail JUST because of SBI. I 100% understand why people do this & I support them for protesting the agenda.
But things are a bit complicated because based on everything I have seen & my interactions with Tales Of Kenzera Zau’s creator Abubakar Salim, I do not think he was aware of Sweet Baby Inc’s behavior & history. SBI did not work on the game, the screenshot from SBI did not give any indication of what they did on the game & they are open about what they worked on. Abubakar is an African man, he made a game about his African culture & the mythology of Africa.
He also made the game to honor his father. So tell me, what narrative could these French Canadians, black, white, whatever, what could they teach him about blackness, being African or his culture, what can they “Enlighten” him on or about? NOTHING. I think all they did was help him get seen & published by EA. Further evidence of his cutting ties (to an extent) is that if you go to the Sweet Baby Inc website, his game is not listed & they scrubbed all existence of Tales Of Kenzera Zau. I checked other sites like ICO that is another SBI company, no traces. I have also communicated with Abubakar & got his permission to publish our short communication history.
I want this game to succeed & hopefully that will get other games devs to see that we do want diversity in games, but we do not want agendas & activists to harass, attack & slander us. I am playing a game called WANTED:DEAD & it is incredibly diverse & the game is so fun & there is no brow beating or activism going on. I did not talk about all the evil that has been happening such as the Corporate bullying & harassments & threats of violence & attempts at doxing & most recently the lawsuit threats for people that discuss the evil. I did not want their evil energy any more on me, but I recommend you guys check out a friend of the channel, that has been speaking more on the details in a very balanced & level head, @saladinho1st Lastly, I am a Montreal Canadian & most of the big players on the Activist’s side have blocked me including Kim who is the owner of Sweet Baby Inc, Alyssa Mercan’t & a bunch of other Corporate bullies have blocked me. It is dangerous for my future to discuss them because they are aware of me & they keep tabs on who they consider their enemies & all I did was call them Corporate bullies that are now protected by the Canadian Government. If you are protected by the government, you are already on the wrong side. There are also lists going around to get people blacklisted so they do not work in the entertainment & gaming industry & that is pure evil & is 100% corporate bullying.
Things are already crazy & every day we see something new & absurd like they now want to ban Review channels?! WTH, they want 100% censorship & they think they are the good guys lol.
Thank you for watching & reading.
Thoughts?
In light of the recent push to make Geeksandgamers.com the place to be, I wanted to make a thread on how the website could be improved to help get people engaging more. I know some of this stuff may already be happening internally and under consideration, but I wanted to blather about it and maybe other people have ideas/ thoughts on the matter! Exciting times in these parts for sure.
Consolidation:
My main problem with this site currently is it’s a little bloated, it’s hard to find where the action is. Instead of having to go to the forum dropdown and select recent topics, it would be great if there was just “FORUMS” and it was one buttons, and from there it shows you just Four Forums: General, Games, Sports, Reviews. Having lots of forums and lots of links just makes things muddy and makes the site seem hard to navigate and not feel very alive. Also the forum button could be moved to the left to make it more prominent. Seems like the meat and potatoes of this website and why people come here are for the front page news and for the forums, those should be easy to get to and they should feel alive! No one wants to feel like they’re in a ghost town, see forums with posts that are 6 months old, it makes you think the website is old news.
As opposed to an “entertainment” tab why not make reviews for products all in one place and put it in the forum so there’s more engagement. This feels like it would be more in line with the communal aspect of this organization. Reviewers could still make quality content but it would all be more easily found and feel more alive if it was in a forum where people are more likely to engage with the content and have their say.
The sports tab could be tucked away somewhere as that doesn’t seem to have much energy these days, this site is great about talking modern day cultural drama, that’s the real strength here. Social button could be done away with, the front page does a better job of showing what’s trending. Contribute could be put under “support us”.
So if the forums were greatly consolidated, easier to find, and a lot of the “fluff” that kinda fell off was done away with this site would be a lot slicker and more fun to use.
Also the site is slow as balls but that goes without saying and hopefully that gets fixed :P
Just some ideas, if anything on this site has annoyed you or think could be better feel free to share your thoughts.
Minor Nitpick: The “keep log of this edit” feature is kinda annoying, i’ll keep that checked just to show that it kinda just bloats this whole posting experience and then you feel like a moron for having this log of all the edits you’ve made shown to the world. Also not sure the tags are necessary when making any post. Again, just a lot of bloat. Lots of hard work went into this site and that’s commendable, but it’s just gotta be a bit more streamlined and fun to get into.
P.S. I know fixing this stuff isn’t as easy as waving a wand and everyone’s a critic, and the current setups at one point made a lot more sense, but just putting my 2 cents out there!