The Cseekly Recap #8

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Hello there. Welcome to The Cseekly Recap. I’m your host, Csomm and here I'm going a bit deeper into the topics that I’ve covered in my shorts.   #thecseeklyrecap  #gamingnews  #opinion  #discussion    https://youtu.be/nC_mcyXdqJ4?si=mL9LaTzPc-daWE0B  Like, share, subscribe and all that good stuff!  Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:16 Starfield will become "legendary" 05:04 Subnautica Legal Drama Intensifies 10:12 Crimson Desert Situation 15:05 Outro  Sources:  Article 1: https://gamingbolt.com/starfield-will-become-legendary-says-composer-who-believes-people-werent-ready-for-its-launch Article 2: https://gamingbolt.com/subnautica-2-studio-ceo-reinstated-by-judge-who-says-krafton-fired-without-valid-cause Article 3: https://www.gamesradar.com/games/survival/subnautica-2-owner-constantly-relied-on-chatgpt-for-legal-strategy-judge-says-in-scathing-order-krafton-followed-most-of-chatgpts-recommendations/ Article 4: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/survival-crafting/subnautica-2-set-for-early-access-release-in-may-as-krafton-signals-surrender-we-look-forward-to-working-with-ted-gill-to-support-a-smooth-transition-and-work-toward-a-successful-launch/ Article 5: https://www.eurogamer.net/more-subnautica-2-legal-trouble-brewing Article 6: https://wccftech.com/pearl-abyss-stock-crumbles-30-percent-reviews/ Article 7: https://www.tweaktown.com/news/110586/pearl-abyss-promises-to-fix-crimson-deserts-awkward-controls-new-patch-on-the-way/index.html

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00:00Hey hey hey, it's time for another edition of the Cheekly Recap.

00:04I'm your host Chom and I'm here to go a bit deeper into the topics that I've covered in my

00:09shorts. The footage behind is from the game Diablo 4. Let's get this show on the road.

00:16Our first topic is all about Starfield. So Starfield might not be done yet,

00:21at least if you ask its composer Inon Xur. In a recent interview he said he genuinely

00:26believes the game will one day be seen as legendary, arguing that the lukewarm reception

00:31at launch wasn't because the game failed, but because players simply weren't ready for what

00:36it was trying to do. He points to Todd Howard as a visionary whose ideas often take time to

00:42fully click with audiences, suggesting that Starfield could follow the same path as Bethesda's

00:48older titles that grew in reputation over time. Unfortunately for Mr. Xur, the reality right now

00:54is a bit less flattering. If you remember the game launched to mixed reactions and still hasn't

01:00reached the cultural or critical impact of something like Skyrim. So what he's really trying

01:05to say that Starfield isn't misunderstood garbage, and to be honest I would never classify that game

01:11as garbage. He is saying that it's potentially a slow burn. The question is whether players will

01:16actually come back around to it or if this is just wishful thinking from someone close to the project.

01:22And I would say that the latter is true, because he seems to be biased as fuck. I don't know

01:30how

01:30slow burn the game needs to be in order to people figure out whether or not it's okay or not

01:37okay,

01:37or in another words whether it makes you feel fun or you're just bored to death. But it's very obvious

01:45that Starfield has a lot of issues, and even if you look at the game objectively speaking,

01:51there are certain things that absolutely make no sense whatsoever. My favorite one is you doing New

01:57Game Plus, where the whole game is absolutely the same. The only thing that you do is you transfer your

02:04armor, weapons and your skill points and all that good stuff. But then you remember that in this game,

02:11you have now become a Starborn, and you have deep knowledge about the game, the plot, the characters,

02:18the world, you know, you're basically playing with cheats. And why not use that knowledge to push the

02:23story forward? I've said many times that this is such a missed opportunity that they didn't introduce

02:30these things in the game. And all we had left was, well, one dialogue option, and that's about it. And

02:36that dialogue option works only when you're trying to save your buddies from the lodge. The rest is just

02:43like, you know, an interesting remark, and people kind of get a bit confused by what you're saying,

02:48like you're on drugs or something like that, and then you move forward. And I'm not gonna even go

02:52with issues like loading screens, empty planets, mediocre plot, or stuff like that. This story has

03:00a continuation, and that's basically Bethesda saying that you should kind of tone down a bit,

03:07don't overhype things, because after Inon Zur said that people weren't ready, Bethesda responded

03:13in a more cautious, slightly tongue-in-cheek way, trying to cool things down. They pretty much said

03:18that he isn't wrong, but they let the narrative exist just without doubling down aggressively.

03:24So even there you can kind of see that they're not very comfortable, because deep down they know

03:29what they made. There's no two ways about it, they just don't wanna overhype things even more.

03:34Not to mention, with the recent update that I think already released, they specifically said that

03:40if you don't like Starfield's formula from the get-go, this new update is not going to be

03:45Starfield 2.0, we are just going to refine certain things. And to be honest, that's the best thing that

03:51they can do, because changing the whole game, especially how the planets work in terms of them

03:56being barren and filled with different points of interest, that's basically making a different game,

04:01so the best thing that you can do is try to support the game, fix things that are inherently bad,

04:07or they are not really logical, and then allow players to kinda come back in and see

04:13from a different point of view with all these fixes implemented. I could try to see what they did,

04:19but as far as I'm concerned, I have already been exposed to the Starfield experience,

04:23and there is a very unlikely chance for me to go back and see what they did. Not because I

04:30don't

04:30have the saves, I do have the saves, but I just don't see any point. But also, I would like

04:35to try

04:35the game from scratch, because I already have a save, like I said, where I'm so overpowered,

04:40I think I'm level 250 or something like that, so trying it from the fresh perspective would be the

04:46way to go. But then I ask myself, do I have the time to do this? There are other projects

04:51that I

04:51want to do. So yeah, maybe in the future where I have absolutely nothing to do, I would go and

04:57sink

04:5760 hours in Starfield and then see what happens. However, it's very unlikely, but you know what

05:03they say, never say never. Speaking about never say never, there has been a significant development

05:08when it comes to Subnautica 2 situation. Now, I made several shorts, because stuff was coming out

05:15like there's no tomorrow, so I'm gonna try to make some kind of a summary what was happening

05:20in that particular situation. So the first big news was that a Delaware judge ruled that Crafton

05:26wrongfully fired Ted Gill, CEO of Unknown Worlds Entertainment, and now Gill has been reinstated

05:32and will regain authority over the game's early access launch, while the legal battle between the

05:36studio founders and Crafton continues. When that news landed, everybody was like, oh my god,

05:42we are back boys, we're not gonna pirate the game again, we're gonna buy it, and all that good stuff.

05:47At least, that's what I saw when I was checking through my Instagram feed and what my viewers were

05:52pointing out. Then another news landed that Crafton was using ChatGPT for legal strategy,

05:58and it backfired big time, because the ruling claims the company followed many of the AI's

06:04recommendations while attempting to avoid a 250 million payout. And that was complete madness,

06:10because if you want to escape this particular deal or agreement that you had with Unknown Worlds by

06:17using ChatGPT as your legal advisor, at this point I don't even feel pity for you. I would in this

06:24instance actively go against you so you lose, because using a chatbot in order to get out of this

06:32particular, well, you could say conundrum, is complete and total madness. And the next story

06:39was all about Subnautica 2 hitting early access in May, after Crafton backed down based on the

06:46lawsuit that I already explained to you guys. The publisher basically signaled a shift in tone,

06:51stating that it will work with reinstated CEO Ted Gill as development continues at Unknown

06:57Worlds Entertainment. And finally, after all this happened, when the court reinstated the original

07:04CEO, Crafton allegedly announced a release date without his approval, and now things are escalating

07:11again. Because apparently, as far as Crafton is concerned, they did this before, but the CEO that

07:18was reinstated says that from that particular date, when he was reinstated, he is the one that's making

07:24all the decisions, and now Crafton basically undermined him, or rather undermined the potential

07:30250 million dollar payoff. So at this point, it's safe to say that this whole situation is just a huge

07:38shitshow. There's no two ways about that. I did make a video about this whole situation where I kinda

07:44went through all the details, what was happening, so I get up the speed, and then this basically blew up.

07:50But before all of these things blew up, I made a prediction, or rather, I chose that I should

07:57support the original developers, because it made sense to me that all what they were saying is true

08:04in comparison to what Crafton was claiming. So I reckon I made a good call, which kinda makes me happy.

08:09And now you can actually see that everything they were claiming is absolutely 100% accurate in comparison

08:16what Crafton was trying to do. How will this situation end pretty much depends on the player

08:23base at this particular point. Why? Well, if the player base decides to support the developers,

08:30that is the original developers, not the publisher, then they will have a lot of pre-orders, they will

08:35have a lot of early access copies sold, and that potentially will give the developers that 250 million

08:43dollar payoff. But then we have another problem, which is, if you support the developers, you are

08:50indirectly supporting the publisher. So what do you do in this particular situation? Well, as far as I'm

08:56concerned, I would still go and support the developers, because no matter how you look at it, even if the

09:02publisher gets some money from all that particular situation, they will still have to pay 250 million

09:09dollars, which when you look at the things as a whole, it's a win. So I reckon the best course

09:16of

09:16action is to go and buy the game. Will the people do that? Or will they be conflicted what to

09:22do and

09:22how to approach the situation? Well, only time will tell. If the intentions of developers are clear in this

09:29particular sense, which is that they will going to give this money to all of their employees, so share the

09:35booty, so to speak, then everything is going to be amazing. And these people who are working their ass

09:41off are probably going to be a bit more happier than they are. But yeah, this whole situation with

09:47Subnautica 2 is completely mental. I don't think this should have been the case at all if the publisher

09:53wasn't greedy fuck as they are. But that's the reality of situation and you really cannot escape from

09:59it. Like I said, hopefully stuff is going to be okay at the end. And let's hope that this

10:05shit never happens again. Not only for Subnautica 2 developers, but the general situation in the

10:11industry, so to speak. And for my final news, or rather story, we are going to talk about Crimson

10:18Desert. Because of course we are going to talk about Crimson Desert. Everybody's talking about it,

10:23so might as well do the same. Well, this all started with an article that Pearl Abyss saw its

10:29stock drop nearly 30% after reviews for Crimson Desert failed to meet high expectations. The score

10:35was solid around 78, which for every normal person is a decent score, but the game's reception wasn't

10:42strong enough to match the hype, highlighting how risky blockbusters expectations can be. Basically,

10:48corporate expected 85 and above and it didn't happen, so now everybody is sad and the stock tanked.

10:55To me, that's completely mental because you should be judged based on the copies sold and the total

11:00revenue gained, not by, you know, some kind of a arbitrary number or whatever Metacritic is doing,

11:07an aggregate of a sort. I was like, okay, you know, maybe people didn't like what they saw,

11:13maybe there are some other things in the game, maybe this is something that's normal and stuff

11:18is going to be better when you look at user score. But then when the user score started piling up,

11:24you could see that situation is kind of the same what the critic score was. And that, to me,

11:30is a good indicator that these two parties are kind of aligned with each other. Again,

11:37good representation that the score is valid. So what the hell happened with Crimson Desert being

11:43so much hype that at one point I thought it's going to be the second coming of Christ.

11:48Well, turns out the game has serious problems. One of the problems that I mentioned was all about

11:55controls. Overcomplicated inputs, input lag and frustrating design choices are turning players

12:02away fast. Coincidentally, I tried the game afterwards because I was doing some other stuff,

12:07namely playing Diablo 4. I was trying to finish up the season as much as I could. And also I

12:12had a

12:13conundrum whether or not to try Crimson Desert or go play Death Stranding 2. Well, after playing the

12:19game for two hours, which was yesterday, I believe, I actually noticed these things as well. And it's

12:25not just the controls that I'm having issues. There are other elements of the game that are very

12:31questionable to me. But that's something I'm going to talk about in my review. So if you manage to get

12:36this

12:37far, I guess you will have to wait for my first impressions to figure out what other issues I had

12:43with the game. Anyway, safe to say that people who are fanboying about the game immediately attacked

12:48the other party who had issues with the controls. However, Crimson Desert devs are already apologizing

12:55after the backlash over controls and they said or rather they confirmed a patch is coming. But again,

13:02is this going to be enough to fix stuff in the game? I don't think so because we are only

13:07talking

13:07about controls here. What about combat? What about story? What about this? What about that? Inventory,

13:12all those things. You don't really fix the controls and then hope that everything else is going to be

13:18okay. So what to do with this particular game? Should you wait till they patch the shit out of it

13:24or

13:24you get exposed even more and then try soldiering through hoping that you will get used to controls

13:30and then after seven, eight hours of playing, at least according to some reviewers, the game opens

13:36up and everything is, you know, rainbows and sunshine? I don't know because first impressions matter and

13:42if you feel that you're not vibing with the game immediately, then I don't think there is a good

13:48chance you will be coming back unless something major happens in a sense that they put a patch or they

13:54fix things or whatever else you can conjure in your mind. I have decided that I will go more

14:00in the game as in play it more and see what happens and figure out whether or not there are

14:05more issues

14:06or maybe I will get over the issues and essentially vibe with the game. But knowing myself, I think I'll

14:14probably get annoyed more or something along the lines. Anyway, I'm keeping my mind open as much as I

14:20can because it would be a shame not to dig deeper in that game but at the same time it

14:25would also be

14:26a good idea to let go because I don't want to scar myself more and start to hate the game

14:33when there

14:34is a good chance that things might be better in the future, provided that I don't really like what I'm

14:39seeing in those initial couple hours. One thing is for certain, I definitely did not expect that this

14:45game is going to be so divisive and I really hope that I would have something that I can lose

14:51myself

14:52in for 100-200 hours, doesn't matter, but apparently the reality of situation is what it is and I

14:59definitely look forward seeing how the development around this game is going to transpire. And that's

15:05basically it when it comes to the news that I covered this week. Thank you very much for watching

15:10and as always, I encourage you to leave comments. I read all of them and I'm very happy to interact

15:16there with you guys. If you enjoy this content, consider liking it and subscribing for more discussions

15:21like this. That's it from me, until the next one.

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