VoloundThe inside story of a $100M trainwreck "Super Game" project. One of the most expensive games ever, one of the absolute most expensive games ever cancelled. SEGA's most expensive game ever. EVER. Imagine if all of this money went into a new Total War engine instead of being burned.
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HYENAS: Inside Story of Creative Assemblys $100M FAILUREVolound2023-10-03 | The inside story of a $100M trainwreck "Super Game" project. One of the most expensive games ever, one of the absolute most expensive games ever cancelled. SEGA's most expensive game ever. EVER. Imagine if all of this money went into a new Total War engine instead of being burned.
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Never forget.
NOTE: I edited the video in the youtube editor tool to remove a presuming comment about Juno being 40k. Juno and 40k are different projects. Had it clarified (thanks again).
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My FB Page for ranty longposts: facebook.com/Volound My Twitter shitterings: twitter.com/volound My Twitch: twitch.tv/voloundHomeworld 3 has BIG PROBLEMS (gameplay analysis and critique)Volound2024-02-17 | PROCLAIMER: This video is not a paid ad, unlike most of the others. I'd never take a bribe to shill a game or otherwise give preferential or censored coverage. I'm a Homeworld player of 25 years since the demo of the first game, and I wanted to make this to evaluate Homeworld 3 and give my findings impartially and with basis in my expertise and history with the games.
And I really hope they get addressed and this game launches in a far better state than this. People waited years or even decades for this. They really deserve better. Part of me hopes that this demo was someone at the company trying to get proof from the fans that the game needed to be delayed, to get more time for it. But it already had so much time. It already got delayed over and over again. And now there are even more layoffs. What can they even do in 3 months? Do they even have enough people left to do the patching?
0:00 intro - delays and layoffs 1:35 no rebinding 2:30 ability buttons 15:40 dragged selection boxes 16:55 dragged target boxes 17:55 no ATTACK MOVE 26:50 flanking bonuses absent (?) 28:20 big explosions are muted, played down 31:00 ion cannons are a bit weird 32:15 no modules now? ok 35:50 no unit veterancy that DoK introduced? ok 36:20 the mothership design is weird man
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My FB Page for ranty longposts: facebook.com/Volound My Twitter shitterings: twitter.com/volound My Twitch: twitch.tv/voloundI waited 20 years for a Homeworld 3 (and it just got a demo)Volound2024-02-12 | PROCLAIMER: This video is not a paid ad, unlike most of the others. I'd never take a bribe to shill a game or otherwise give preferential or censored coverage. I'm a Homeworld player of 25 years since the demo of the first game, and I wanted to make this to evaluate Homeworld 3 and give my findings impartially and with basis in my expertise and history with the games.
Totally unedited other than a brief video glitch at about 54m that I cut out. My first 2 hours of Homeworld 3. Warts and all. No punches pulled. No holds barred. Feels like a zoomed in and slowed down Homeworld 2 (but somehow sped up so ships die really fast). And the camera and controls are a unique mess. It's yet another game that doesn't permit proper rebinding, which is especially bad for lefties who are anywhere from 10-15% of all players, because it just makes playing miserable for them.... ...but at least it's still just a demo: gyazo.com/9e859fb981d02527ce1683ee6718ceb6
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0:00 intro 1:50 splash screen settings 3:45 customising settings including controls 6:50 tutorial 53:30 advanced tutorial 1:07:30 war games quick play
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My FB Page for ranty longposts: facebook.com/Volound My Twitter shitterings: twitter.com/volound My Twitch: twitch.tv/voloundLEAKED: Alien: Isolation’s Development HellVolound2024-01-21 | Another video that's more of a whistleblowing than a leak - the absolute shambles of a development process of Alien: Isolation, arguably the one good thing CA has managed to put out over the past decade, nonetheless mired in apparent gross misconduct, with bullying rampant and incompetence being utterly rife.
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#alienisolation #creativeassembly #leaked
0:00 Intro and context 6:50 Initial leaks 10:30 Senior developer
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My FB Page for ranty longposts: facebook.com/Volound My Twitter shitterings: twitter.com/volound My Twitch: twitch.tv/voloundCreative Nonpology (even more shallow, incomplete, broken and buggy than the games)Volound2023-12-15 | A reminder of the last time they attempted a strategic nonpology: youtube.com/watch?v=aOH9UtYczis That one was also pure insincere damage control, because the day before the apology came I caught them memory-holing an abuser and predator that they were reported to have enabled for years and actually promoted AFTER he was complained about to HR. And there's also the fact that the whole scandal has been hush hushed ever since, with no "outcome" for the supposed 3rd party investigation. We have heard nothing since their boilerplate acknowledgement.
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My FB Page for ranty longposts: facebook.com/Volound My Twitter shitterings: twitter.com/volound My Twitch: twitch.tv/voloundThe Path Not TakenVolound2023-11-27 | This is Total War in 2012. A year later we had the Siege of Carthage false marketing and claims of "Saving Private Ryan" feelings being imbued into Total War. How far short we have fallen ever since.
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My FB Page for ranty longposts: facebook.com/Volound My Twitter shitterings: twitter.com/volound My Twitch: twitch.tv/voloundThe Battle of Ueno - Fall of the Samurai: Historical BattlesVolound2023-11-24 | The Battle of Ueno (1868). Modern weapons meticulously laying waste to elite Shogunate troops, including Shogitai.
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My FB Page for ranty longposts: facebook.com/Volound My Twitter shitterings: twitter.com/volound My Twitch: twitch.tv/voloundLEAKED: Pharaoh WAS just a Troy DLCVolound2023-10-31 | I remember hearing bit of a massive ruckus around this. Am I right or does @TheGreatBookofGrudges deserve an apology now too? Was this guy openly gaslit? Am I getting that right?
More leaks included here as well as what's going to happen with Warhammer 3 DLC development.
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Corporate bootlicker forumites internet-wide are on life support. Forum mods and CA community staff are now considering hibernating offline until 2025.
Guardian angels are real. Cheers Gareth. Good shout. The #ClownAssembly mess is sorting itself out slowly but surely.
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My FB Page for ranty longposts: facebook.com/Volound My Twitter shitterings: twitter.com/volound My Twitch: twitch.tv/voloundNed Arrives at Shills Landing #NotMyTotalWar #Shillfluencers #ClownAssemblyVolound2023-10-24 | "Now, I, Genuinely enjoyed this blacklisting. And for any example you can give me, I can promise you there was a logic, reasonable explanation for why I was a contemptible shill."
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My FB Page for ranty longposts: facebook.com/Volound My Twitter shitterings: twitter.com/volound My Twitch: twitch.tv/voloundLEAKED: Total War’s Total Decline - Developer ExposéVolound2023-10-22 | The fall of Total War explained, from current and former Creative Assembly developers themselves.
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My FB Page for ranty longposts: facebook.com/Volound My Twitter shitterings: twitter.com/volound My Twitch: twitch.tv/voloundCreative Assemblys Copyright Takedown FAILS MISERABLYVolound2023-10-15 | Small Family Company Creative Assembly learns what fair use is the hard way with a frivolous (or even outright fraudulent) complaint, surely not realising that as the accused, I'm entitled to a full report on the complaint and the outcome.
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My FB Page for ranty longposts: facebook.com/Volound My Twitter shitterings: twitter.com/volound My Twitch: twitch.tv/voloundTotal Snore: Pharaoh™Volound2023-09-20 | Imagine being a Total War youtuber for years and actively participating in Creative Assembly's marketing for their latest game as they hoped, and then 3 weeks before launch you see only 4% of your audience intends to even buy the thing. At least you can always still #jointhepack and loot epic merch for that yeenacoin.
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My FB Page for ranty longposts: facebook.com/Volound My Twitter shitterings: twitter.com/volound My Twitch: twitch.tv/voloundShillfluencers of Change - A response to @milkandcookiesTWVolound2023-09-04 | Warhammer is on life support. The /r/totalwar fanbase is rioting. The shills are panicking. "Shadows of Change" is getting trash player numbers. At least we can always #jointhepack
0:00 boop 4:30 Shilling then 7:15 Shilling now 11:20 Pre-order links 24:30 Learning from previous busted flushes 34:30 "It's my job to be a used car salesmen and huckster" 39:25 Mr. Gotcha 46:30 Advocating pre-orders is unethical and plenty of people have never done it. 49:00 TINECUC 57:00 "It's my job to huck off games I don't care about with pre-order links" 1:01:40 A stick without a carrot 1:03:20 Dropping the ball completely. 1:09:00 "I've been too negative before" 1:14:25 "CA are professionals and expect professionalism" 1:23:40 Example of a real authentic reaction of a TW Youtuber living through 2023
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0:00 boop 1:40 Game Director and Creative Director 13:10 Game Director and Game Designer 23:00 Battle Game Designer and Lead Battle Team 42:35 Game Director and Game Writer 50:00 The absolutely grotesque armour change 56:10 Genuinely unhappy 1:04:00 Flaccid charges, impactless melee, Rome 2 gameplay and Troy gameplay
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My FB Page for ranty longposts: facebook.com/Volound My Twitter shitterings: twitter.com/volound My Twitch: twitch.tv/voloundThe Mummification of Total Wars CorpseVolound2023-05-25 | The sisyphean task of making an actually good Total War game, will likely never again be attempted. Instead, they'll just keep making balls of dung and letting bugs fight over them. Let's see if I'm wrong this time. Would be delighted if that were the case (being 100% wrong), as TW would return to being one of the games I can cover properly - by actually playing it.
The described example of MOW:AS2 with RobZ mod - showing the engaging and competitive gameplay that's possible with Men of War (9 year old game...): youtube.com/watch?v=oJYmDYY9hV0
"Soldiers: Arena", the pay to win version of Men of War from 2019 that got cancelled. Look at how similar this is to that: youtube.com/watch?v=V3BSHgoNG5M
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My FB Page for ranty longposts: facebook.com/Volound My Twitter shitterings: twitter.com/volound My Twitch: twitch.tv/voloundWarhammer 3 Multiplayer is Dead - and CA killed it.Volound2022-12-28 | This could be the moment the largely grassroots bottom-up Warhammer TW MP scene gets killed, and the decision to have that happen was entirely in CA's hands, and their choice was largely enabled by the TW community at large, with its under-the-thumb youtubers largely responsible. I wonder if anything will change, or if this is it. Months have now passed since the decision was seemingly made. Hope for their community dwindles by the day. Good luck, folks, but you get only what you're willing to accept and usually no more.
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0:00 context 2:25 "systemically bullied and harassed" 3:05 "reported a lot, he used to joke about it publically" 3:25 "so many of the people in various departments at that company were and are rotten" 3:45 "the stuff about baj" 4:20 former employee offering sympathies 5:30 disappearing tweets, "memory-holing" 7:20 edited web archives, more memory-holing 9:20 former community manager: "maybe there's something wrong going on"
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My FB Page for ranty longposts: facebook.com/Volound My Twitter shitterings: twitter.com/volound My Twitch: twitch.tv/voloundManor Lords - The Banished Successor (not The Total War Killer)Volound2022-10-06 | Finally playing one of the most anticipated indie games I've ever seen; the demo for it, at least.
0:00 boop 1:00 First real city. Food-security achieved. 1:44:10 Running around the village on foot 1:54:25 My second city. Achieving everything possible in the demo. 2:17:00 Running around on foot again
0:00 boop 1:04:25 Der Prophet vs. Kanu (Game 2) 1:13:00 Der Prophet vs. Kanu (Game 3) 1:28:50 Chaos Blade vs. Der Prophet (Game 1) 1:36:20 Chaos Blade vs. Der Prophet (Game 2) 1:53:30 Chaos Blade vs. Der Prophet (Game 3) 2:06:25 Rebi vs. Pike (Game 4) 2:17:35 Rebi vs. Pike (Game 5) 2:29:00 Pike vs. Der Prophet (Game 1) 2:42:00 Pike vs. Der Prophet (Game 2) 2:54:30 Pike vs. Der Prophet (Game 3) 3:07:30 Pike vs. Der Prophet (Game 4) 3:22:45 Pike vs. Der Prophet (Game 5) 3:34:55 Chaos Blade vs. Rebi (Game 1) 3:48:30 Chaos Blade vs. Rebi (Game 2) 4:02:50 Chaos Blade vs. Rebi (Game 3) 4:15:55 Chaos Blade vs. Rebi (Game 4) 4:33:25 Chaos Blade vs. Rebi (Game 5)
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P.S. part of why there are so few clips of Rome 2 slingers firing is that it just looks so flimsy and crappy. It's just a waste of screen time to show more than a few instances of absolutely nothing. Also, something I didn't show here (but remarked on in my Flaccidification video) is that Rome 1 slingers rotate backwards. Have to look very closely and carefully (and be familiar with how slinging works) to even notice it.