Well well welcome ladies and gentlemen to another episode
of right click as always Birdman here and we're
coming a couple different topics today and somehow politics
is just wound up making its way back in
to gaming on the forefront and it always in
the dumbest ways possible I want to talk about two
things today I wanna talk about about a game
called mine 's eye and I wanna talk about
a game called split gate no I'm just gonna
go ahead and start with mine 's eye because
this has been a very interesting it's been a
very interesting development process here's why I wanna talk
about mine 's eye for though there's there's a
specific reason so mines I was created by former
rockstar developers Rockstars is a development company and rockstar
is known for some of the biggest games most
well loved games potentially ever created or at least up
there we're talking to likes of red dead redemption
grand theft auto those are two of just massive
massive names well they left and they they created
a developer called build a rocket boy which kind
of a funny name but also it's one of
those things with with those kinds of those kind
with that kind of résumé and repertoire you would
think OK this game is gonna be impressive now
it's built on our unreal engine five and we've
kind of talked about unroll engine five before I
mean EE five is one of those unique it's
unique because one it's free I have I actually
have it on this computer I've done some development
on UV five and it's it's a fantastic engine
now there is a curse amongst people who use
EE five and don't personalize it let's say where
a lot of the games look very similar to each other it
has a particular graphics engine already built into it
that you don't really have to mess with to make
beautiful landscapes and that's kind of that's kind of
the whole gist is that you don't really you
don't have to have a lot of programming knowledge and it's allowed
Indie development to become very big very prosperous this
is the same thing that Claire obscure expedition 3
3 was built on which to this day I
have mold this over this is one of them
that's one of the best games I've ever played
I'm actually looking forward to starting a new game
on that soon because it's just it's so so
good and I've say all this because mines eyes
built off of EE five and that's such an
important distinction if you look at something like mines
eyes let's let's just jump in I'm not gonna
spend a ton of time on this this is
on my actual steam account so for whatever reason
I can't like zoom in so you can see
it better has nothing to do with anything a
couple of things I wanna point out minds I
appear is a narrative driven single player action adventure
thriller set in the near future fictional desert of
the city of red rock featuring best in class
cinematic high octane driving and explosive combat from games
Director Leslie Benzies now you'll see here this is a
$60 game if you want the deluxe version it's
$80 or you can buy it separately here and
just to kind of get a fill for it
this is what some of the some of the
screenshots of the game look like at first Lance
you'd say OK that actually looks good and I
would agree it looks very good it looks very
unreligious 5 foot I don't have a problem with
it's great graphics to me it has a real
like metal gear filled to it at least to me
it kinda has that look it kinda looks like
a mix between like Black ops two and metal
gear solid but with updated graphics now this game
is obviously more than just looks you have to have
you have to have all the stuff that makes a
game a game in and I think that's the
problem now I'm gonna go ahead and forewarn you
I don't have this game I can only speak
to it about what's happening out there but you
can see at first glance it's it's a good
looking game now right now it's mixed reviews and
a lot of these are as of recent very negative now
again I don't have the game I'm not gonna
sit here and I talk about it as if
I do but there are a lot of things that can
be discussed because the game has had a very
poor reception it's a $60 game right we covered
that from base from Ground Zero a $60 game has to
have at least some content if you haven't watched there's
a YouTube channel called called game ranks they've been
around forever I mean absolutely forever and they do
they do a series called before you buy and
it's they do like 10 to 15 minute videos
breaking down like hey here's what our honest opinions
and they're very good at keeping bias out of it
even on very politically motivated games they're very good
at just talking about the video game that's why
they're so popular OK Jake Baldino is the guy
who voices all of them and and does all
the commentary for it and he played the game
and it is the first time to my knowledge
I'm and I've been watching this and I've seen
this comment as well that game rank is the
first one where the entire thing the entire video
was just openly negative and he is not a
negative individual he even posted on his own YouTube
channel kind of a background story of why it's
so terrible to to a detail where he didn't
have to mince words on them on the business page
if you if that makes sense and the game
is full of things like let's say let's see
this game has a really severe stuttering problem so
you get in something or you start an action
and the game will just start chugging along it
will start skipping it will start stuttering it's a
little the way Twitter and codes videos is very
rough but as time goes on this video it
gets very itchy so what is it advertised as
a 60 frames per second or a 60 FPS
game on PlayStation Pro people have been struggling to
actually get that there is a lot of issues with this
games optimization and just pure performance and this goes
on you can see it freezing like that's not
me doing that that's that's the game doing that
and if you play a game if you're not
if you're not a gamer you may be thinking
so like what it kind of holds up every
now and then it's like yeah but put yourself
in the actual playing of it and you realize
oh this is a very unpleasant it's actually very
unpleasant to your eyes too it's very uncomfortable and
you can see this game what you're saying right
here yes it's very terrible and yeah you get
a failure like OK that's terrible that's that kind
of Segway into another big issue with the game
because the game ends up being so lifeless people
have realize that the AI and I don't mean
AI artificial intelligence in the in the way that
you think now that's what I always the name
for like NPC or non- playable characters you know
when they when they add Agro to you and
they start attacking or whatever that that's an AI
anyways the AI is terrible in this game and
so far is like if you go on a
mission and you know it's an enemy they'll just
sit there and stare at you they won't actually
fight you and you can just do whatever you
want and there is a lot of a lot of gameplay coming out
I mean it's this game has has been a
complete disaster everything about the launch of this game
I mean you can see he can't even aim
because it's stuttering if you go in harmed civilians
the police won't do anything the other civilians won't
do anything there's nothing that happens the game gets
locked in its own functionality I mean it's a
traffic jam in a parking lot why you see
what I'm saying one of the things that's very
interesting to point out and again very granular video
and I'm not I'm gonna stop here yeah I
can it's just so annoying Twitter and coding is
terrible and the top left you can see where
the excuse me where the text turns it like
salmon paint color the first one is FPS and
you see to the right of that it's 40
FPS and I wanna make something very clear here
the green is his graphics card that's the new
AMD rayon RX 90 70 XT that's that is
not that is that is a good card he's
also running a 9 8 00 X 3-D that's
the newest CPU it's that's like arguably the best
CPO on the market or at least top three and
he's barely hitting 40 FPS and his things gone
it's it's just sitting there jumping he's up to
4 9 great what I'm getting at is this
game is a mix of really really bad optimization
and performance and lifeless it's built that red rock
or whatever they're calling the the town is built
around Las Vegas it's that's kind of their whole stick
is that is Las Vegas great sure whatever but the
problem is it's a pretty city but you can't
interact with anything in it and that's the one
thing that keeps coming up is that it's just
there's nothing to do the combat is purely guns
and you just kind of rotate through them in
your inventory there's no Malay to my knowledge I
don't even think you can crouch it's got a
system where you can like a cover system where
you can butt up against like a wall and
shoot around it and that's it I keep hearing
that the AI is repetitive there's there's nothing here
that stands out and why am I bringing this
up as a topic well it all leads to
really this one little nugget I talk about passionate
development and these are people who have the credentials
that have the résumé to make world class games
and this game isn't anything but and it's out of
it it's not at a premium price but $60
is not chump change it's just not it's not
fair to ask people for $60 when the game
fundamentally doesn't work well OK this is how far
it's gotten I'll make this last point before we
move on this game has gotten so much feedback
and so much flack and it's not people just
saying like OK this game just isn't good the
game doesn't perform to a degree where it's almost
false advertisement I have never seen this to this
degree Sony is allowing on PlayStation refunds for mine
's eye I am I am sorry I am
stunned by this master mug posted on the minds
I read it they believe a day ago PlayStation
support have refunded the game was zero issues and
they said that they're aware of the games optimization
and our investigating the situation the only other game
they've ever said this for cyberpunk 2 7 seven
which was due listed for six months and this
is this is screenshot from a PlayStation support conversation
the game is at and this is what the
player said the game is advertised on the official
PlayStation launch trailer with 60 FPS footage as pro
enhanced but that's incorrect the sport agent response with
it seems you were correct regarding optimization for this
game the situation is currently under investigation but in
the meantime let's proceed with your refund request OK
seriously it's gotta be said if your game is
so bad it's so poorly optimized that it cannot
stay on PlayStation store who Sony has a ferry
very very very strict refund policy Xbox is not
as strict steam is definitely not as strict Sony
to have this reaction is extremely telling on the
quality of game that make a rocket boy made
these people had every tool in their arsenal and
this was just a passionless game and it's really
hard to see that especially for me considering red
dead redemption who's one of my favorite games of
all time on Challenger gaming network I did a
video breaking down it was kind of a love
letter to to red dead redemption two because in
my opinion it is one of the best games
if not the best game ever created and I'm
not here and I'm not turning this into a
red dead redemption two review or anything like that
but when you compare and contrast the same obviously
it's not the exact same individual individuals but the
same credentials of the individuals then you start to
realize OK there is there's a disconnect here and
this is why MD development is becoming so popular
and these guys are losing that indie title to
some degree because their former rockstar employees now they
did it independently don't give me wrong but that's
not really the point they've taken advantage of people
who expect better to be honest with you and
it's just it is hard it is hard to
see it is anyways I wanna move on here
because this one is very interesting to me so
there's a game that came out years ago called
split gate split gate was it's a first person
shooter you know me first person shooters are my
bread and butter their whole gist of it was
it was a mix between Call of Duty® and Halo and
then they brought in portals from like the game
portal so you have two portals certain areas in
the map you can put them on you can
put one here one here and then you can
go through it and come out the other side
OK great it's very simple concept the game didn't
last long I really liked it but it was
they didn't put a lot of content into it and that
was a huge bummer for me because that game
was I found it to be fun but again
it needed it needed something and it gave practically
nothing OK well split gate two came out and
I got to tell you I've had an absolute
blast playing this game and I mean I have
thoroughly enjoyed it especially with X defiant shutting down
this game has been a breath of fresh air
especially because that right now I pretty much refused
to play Call of Duty® especially considering I plan PC and
the hacker problem is just it's gotten bad enough
that people can like get into your computer remote
into your computer through the lobbies it's insanity I
don't even know Activision should be ashamed of themselves
anyways they're not they're shameless split gate has kind
of picked up a lot of that that mantle because they
are frankly the only other FPS option out there
other than the finals and kind of rainbow six
where it's just it's just the first person arena
shooter and that to be fair they did it
very well now I'm not here to break down
the game that's my little opinion that I'll throw
out because it has some great stuff but in the
summer games fast last last week or this Monday
I'm this Monday no it was last week it
was last week anyways summer game fast is where
a lot of big name companies announced the new stuff that
they're working on and the new game that they're
coming out I think black ops seven the new
Call of Duty® was announced at the end of that it
doesn't matter pro I don't know how to pronounce
his name he's got like a K anyways Cajun
name or something like that Ian the CEO and
cofounder took the stage at summer games fest and
this is where this drama rolls in because this
is so stupid he wore a hat that's a
mag like the make America great again parody hat
which there's a butt load of these mind you
he wore this and it says make FPS crate
again and I saw that and because I wasn't
directly just thinking politically I found that to be
freaking hilarious because it's true I wanna see I
saw ex defiant die and it was a good
game I love the finals it's a great FPS
what are we doing anyways they announced that they
launched a battle Royale which is good and he
did to be fair kind of slam a lot of slammed
Call of Duty® and stuff like that he said I grew
up playing Halo but I'm tired of playing the
same Call of Duty® every year and I wish we could
have Titan fall three and then he announced a
battle Royale now I wanna make something very clear
before we move on because I'm not gonna spend
a whole bunch of time on this cause this
is honestly retarded two things I genuinely like genuinely
love split gate too I have had a blast
playing at their new state I played the beta
season where you got a bunch of stuff for
it and and then it rolled over into the
official release I've had a blast playing this game
and on its face make FPS great again I
agree with the wholeheartedly has nothing to do with
mag if that's what your first inclination is to
you need genuine therapy or straight jacket anyways this
game is fantastic however this is a multifaceted issue
and here's here's why I say that Ian went
out there with his hat on which I agree
with and he said so he had 30 seconds
to say what he wanted to say and he
said he had a lot to say and couldn't get
it all out I grew up playing Halo I'm
tired of playing the same call of duty every
year and I wish we could have Titan fall
three and he talks about how unoriginal the the
industry is in now to be fair in a
first person shooter having the portals thing having that
kind of halo movement and stuff like that he's
right like that that's that's that's good that's good
alteration to a winning formula but you cannot go
out and bash the industry or at least this FPS
section of the industry and then on its tail
go so we've released a battle Royale and if
you don't understand why that's kind of ridiculous battle
Royale 's are have been the hype train four
years now it started really with Fortnite because the
gist of a battle Royale is let's say 1
00 people spawn in on one giant map and
you loot and fight until one person remains that's
the whole stick I mean Fortnite back Lord when
I was in high school or no college college I
mean they did it big they did I mean
some of the biggest numbers ever for a video
game and then Call of Duty® did it in Black ops
four with blackout and then they Warzone is the
big thing it's still the big thing everybody in
their brother got battlefield five had to had a
battle Royale mode and it was awful like it
was genuinely terrible it could've been great my point
with this is that like this is not a
new thing now to their credit the way that
they did this battle Royale is unique but it's
still a battle Royale like it's not that unique
you can't sit here and bash the industry and
go oh well here's about a real cause we're
unique so we did the same thing everybody else
is doing Halo 's been talking about putting money
on obviously call of duty got one Fortnite I
mean the list goes on and on and on
and on and and I it's very hard to
sit here and try to defend this guy when
he's doing stuff that I agree with like to
make up FPS great again like that's freaking hilarious
and and of course what happens regardless of everything else
people immediately try to go into this making it
political thing and obviously we're talking about PC gamer
here which I've talked about PC gamer this is
trashy I mean genuinely is a trashy and I
mean these people should be ashamed of the garbage
in trouble that they put out unfortunately we're using
them welcome to the state of gaming journalism if
you even can call it that here's why I'm
busting on this so hard I'm not here Ian
says I'm not here to apologize but to clarify
this is not a political statement it's quite literally
what it said to take it that face value
and that's what I did and only the people
who want to hate Trump took it as anything
other than that and he's right the state of
multiplayer FPS games is tragically still we have to fix
that whether you want Arena battle Royale on slot
or map creators OK fine now again making it
hard to defend as soon as this update came
out people went into the store this is a
free to play game mind you the shop refreshed
and an $80 bundle was there and it's it
was bizarre I mean it was super bizarre cause
it was just like a regular scan with some
gun skins and stuff like that I was like
OK it's cool $80 for this even and free to play game is
insane Call of Duty® is not even doing that and Call of Duty®
is exploiting their player base through the store with
zero question and you do this they ultimately after
all the apology came out dropped it down to
$45 OK Ian the split gate boss kept saying
I'm not apologizing for this I'm not apologizing for
this and then three days ago he apologized for
this split gate two boss apologizes for the division
calls by his Maga style hat but still exist
it wasn't meant to be political there's division and
community and for that I'm truly sorry and this
is exactly what you think it is people being
really mad that his hat had a Maga connection
and people are just and this is why PC
gamers is trash he did not say one way
or another way whether he personally supports Trump and
the Maga ideology but apologized for creating division in
the split gate community dude what in the name
of God are we doing if this is seriously
where the route of gaming has gone we are
screwed and I'm sorry we really are because this
is so obnoxious this has absolutely nothing to do
with anything they are people who are focusing on
this hat are so damn delusional that they have
completely lost touch with reality if this is genuinely
your concern oh my God man seriously and here's
the crazy part there are a lot of people that came
to his defense and said exactly what I was
saying and people were very proud of him for
not for not apologizing and you know what happened
the moment he apologized if you're on steam charts
right now the game oh my God the game
immediately dropped in player base because people were banking
on him not apologizing because it's such a stupid
thing to apologize for cause it has absolutely nothing
to do with politics and the dude apologized anyways
and people were banking on him not doing that
and he did it anyways this is the problem
with making absolutely everything in there everything political or
or not being able to separate yourself from politics
because you were so conceited and delusional and everything
has to be that way and that's why this friggin
podcast exist and I wish it didn't and that's
the crazy part I wish it didn't solely because
the entire point is to discuss garbage like this
and we will never reach a point where we
don't have to talk about this kind of stuff so
we can fight back against it it's the same
thing Riley Gaines is doing with men and women's
sports it's the same fundamental mentality you don't have to
make everything political you don't have to make everything delusional
but if you cannot separate reality from delusion you
get well exactly what's happening with the riots in
LA right now yes let's let's loot the Nike
and Apple stores for immigration like you're out of your
friggin mind this is so ridiculous on every single
standpoint of this this is ridiculous because there's absolutely
no reason on God 's green earth that a
genuinely solid game should be steep in political controversy
because a guy wanted to make fun of the
industry for being stale and trying to go against
it whether or not he is he is successful
doesn't matter it does matter in the grand scheme
but conversationally it absolutely doesn't matter because what matters
is exactly what we talk about all the time
on here somebody has to speak up somebody has to grow
a pair and somebody has to get out there and
do something about it even if it's pissing off
the right people nobody black ops seven was just
announce nobody is looking at that and going OK
yay it's the savior of call of duty everybody
sitting there going oh God I don't is anything
gonna come of this nobody trust it nobody has
any confidence or any faith in the gaming industry
to actually do something that's a political and passionate
none nobody does nobody and when somebody tries to
do it people try to find ways to cancel
them because they try to get politics involved the
dude didn't even make a political statement people are
just so strung up on trying to justify they're
very loose moral and an intellectual standing that they
use this to justify that and it's pathetic this
is why granite we see it a lot on the
right but this is why the left is so
mean done it's to be honest with you because
this level of delusion takes effort this is malignant
narcissism to the in the degree and it's pathetic
because it's a freaking game it doesn't have to be
this way but it is this way and for
what to what quality to what end there's none
there's none that was a little soapbox that got
me geared up but seriously what are we what
are we doing and why cause it's a good
game and it's what this industry needs and it
look at where it's gone I have to leave it
I'm gonna sit here I'm a hemorrhage but seriously
it's pathetic and honestly I don't know that this
guy dropping a battle Royale and doing some things
that are not exactly revolutionary are going to prove
his point I think he's done some stuff that
actually is proving his point I think the portal
Arena is fantastic and it is a fresh take
on a Estelle industry but dude if everybody is
so keyed up on making everything hyper political no
industry nowhere is gonna make any strides for improvement
that's just how I feel I'mma leave it at
that I'm gonna call it there thank you for watching
as always go check us out right side media
or a bunch of cool stuff that's come up
recently and man there's been some great content let's
come out you guys need to go check it
out if you haven't already but for now as
always Birdman here thank you all for watching I'll see
you all in the next one can be a
fun one but for now I'm calling it thank you
guys y'all have a great day