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Looks fun as  more so with the raft, is this going to be on PC. It's interesting that (apart from storing explosive, which seems like it'll be fairly limited) there's no "direct" way of defeating enemies, but you instead need to rely on objects in the environment. Makes combat a bit more of a puzzle and a little more of a challenge.

It does look like a decent game that has some interesting mechanics but if all you're doing is exploring, it's going to get quite repetitive. Couldn't they have monsters roaming the island and like you have to craft things like catapults to deal with them or those huge siege weapons of the medieval age.

Looks really fun. I like the exploration side of it myself. Whenever I play something like GTA for example, I like to explore the world first and see what I can find before tackling the story. I feel like this is exactly that type of game where you can go right into exploring the world. Kinda like what Minecraft was. 
I think if done right, it could be good. I think we've gotten too used to games showing us exactly where we need to go. I mean, RDR2 for example had waypoints, essentially a GPS, but if you wanted to, you could turn that off and use road signs and NPCs would sometimes tell you where to go. I thought that was cool, considering it made it feel more realistic. 
I have a feeling they will guide you in some way, like at the start, they might say "Find land" or "Find shelter" or something. As well, it looks like maps eventually get filled in, so maybe the character builds up the map as you play, marking important landmarks, sights, and treasures, similar to how Arthur does in RDR2 when he discovers a new area. That would be my guess anyway, since they show a waypoint pinned on the map. 
It might also work how Fortnite does, where when you land in an area that you have yet to go, it'll show up as blank & darkened on the map, and then once you go there, it reveals the location. 

With YouTube being so overly saturated now it does take a lot more than it used to for you to get discovered on YouTube. With their release of YouTube Shorts though, I myself and also many others that I know who stream and also upload to YouTube have found working both shorts and also longer videos works best to get discovered. So for example, post your usual longer videos like you would normally but try to incorporate in some shorts if you are able to. If you are consistent you will start to notice a difference. I hope that helps 🙂

Of the 3 channels I have (two of which are several years old) it's pure luck if you gain any kind of following. One channel I have is nothing more than my YouTube account. I uploaded a couple videos just for the hell of it. The other is just a bunch of rants and goofy stories from my past. The third, is a gaming channel that @Rain Dew and I both run together.
We're not looking for any kind of following, we just do it for fun. If we start getting subscribers, great. If not, oh freaking well.

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@Rain Dew has a couple videos up live, but I'm a bit too much of a perfectionist, so none of mine are uploaded yet.
Here's a direct link to our channel.

Welcome aboard, Sean! I hope you enjoy this place 🙂 .

As this isn't strictly a gaming topic, I'm moving this thread to general chat.
 
As for the question, there isn't much that I can honestly say. I've only really uploaded to YouTube for practical reasons (living having clips to embed into my game reviews, for example) and never really sought a following. Honestly, I think Youtubers are at the mercy of luck and the algorithm and have very little control over thier own success. I suppose being very active on social media and the aforementioned Discord wouldn't hurt.

I don't know - it does look really unique but it's quite a bit over the top for my liking. Not sure they are running out of ideas yet and the Series S does sell pretty well (obviously when compared to the X, it's totally outmatched but still has decent sales).

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There are a few YouTube creators here as well. An exchange of ideas and pointers with those more experienced with YouTube and those less experienced could be a fun conversation.

I honestly think you should put weapons in the game like rock Lee using his nun chucks after transforming, same for other characters if you could add some details like that. I’ve had this idea for storm 4 and I honestly hope you guys see this and think about something like that just to make the game somewhat new. But hey I’m buying the game regardless because I’m a huge Naruto fan but that idea would be awesome in the game

I don't think this is a case of the game being fake. I think it's real too. What I think the issue is, is that they don't have nearly enough finished, so they went the route of copying other games for their reveal trailer they did a while back. At least they were accused of copying various games like COD, Battlefield (I think) and a few other games. 
If it turns out to be real, I hope it's a success, but I'm not seeing anything that tells me this release is going to go good. But It'd be great to see it release and actually be a good game. 

I will say, the scripted gameplay thing doesn’t feel like a meaningful critique. Tons of game devs script their gameplay for trailers. You see it in Apex Legends trailers all the time. It helps devs control the variables so that they can show everything they want to show without the potential for embarrassing goofs on the part of the player.

It's funny how people compare this game with Sekiro. On the one hand you have a golden treasure one of the best games of all time with the best combat ever created and an awesome art direction and music (Sekiro) and on the other hand (this game) you have a luckluster effort with dogshit level design, terrible art direction/graphics and bad bosses

I wanted to try out Nioh myself, but I feared I wouldn't be able to handle the difficulty of it, and if this is much of the same I assume I probably won't be touching this either. Not saying it's a bad game by any means, I'm sure both of these games are awesome, I just don't have the patience anymore for overly tough games. It's why I rarely touch stuff like Dark Souls, as I just don't have the patience for it.

As described in more detail here, my experience with Nioh was brief and terrible. First, I could barely get the game to run because of a glitch with the resolution compatibility, so it took me an hour just to even get started. Worse, I only ended quitting on the game completely after about 10 minutes because another bug displayed the controller UI when I was using M/K (I didn't even have a controller plugged in, so it made no sense.) and game killed me while I was in the settings trying to fix it. And this was years after the game launched, so there is absolutely no excuse for this. I already hate the "From Software" ideology with the sluggish melee combat and cryptic, "trial and error" approach to difficulty, but I would have at least given the game a fair chance if it didn't copy what is by far that philosophy's most stupid aspect.
 
Seriously, who do these games and dev's think they are to be so arrogant as to not allow such a basic feature of convenance as the pause function? It's like the game is penalising you for being a human being will inevitably need to use the toilet or eat something eventually, not to mention more life priorities like answering the phone, answering the door or your child walking in with tears in thier eye and one of thier arms missing. "Sorry son, you're going to half to walk to the hospital. According to team NINJA, Nioh takes priory.". There is no force in heaven, on earth, or residing in the fiery pits of with by far the music of the music of three that can convince me that this is anything other than fucking stupid.
 
Now obviously, there are time when games not allowing a pause or anything to disrupt the real time of the game world makes sense, mostly refering to sustained multiplayer worlds like MMO's, Fortnite, COD multiplayer and so on, but I will always see this as serious flaw in a single player game. The fact they implement it on purpose doesn't justify it, it only makes it worse and the dev's even more wanting of common sense.
 
Anyway, I apologise  for the rant, it's over now. I'll finally get to the topic. I have had my eye on this as a Day 1 Gamepass launch, but my heart sank when I saw who was behind it as I have never had a good experience with these "Soulsborne" games (With the possible expectation of Jedi: Fallen Order, if that counts). So I'll wait and see with this one, even though I'm don't exactly trust other people's opinions on these types of games. I want to be wrong, I want to enjoy these games, but I find them tedious and frustrating. It's not like I don't enjoy challenging games, Horizon Zero Dawn/Forbidden West on Ultra Hard are amongst my favourite gaming experiences, I just hate the way that "Soulsborne" games go about it. But rather than break out into another rant, I'll just say please share what you think of the game when it comes and I'll see if it's it's worth playing for me.

Hitman 3 will be changing to Hitman: World of Assassination that combines all three games into one box. Much like the third game already did, it's saying this new version will include the first two game sat no additional cost. 
My hope going forward, is that they keep making this system better by constantly updating and adding new missions. I may pick up Hitman again because of it. Also I really want to try it in VR one of these days. :D
Source - https://www.ioi.dk/hitman-3-to-world-of-assassination/

Welcome to VGR!

Yo guys,
Greetings from the U.K.

My name is Sean gaming persona Bang Em and I've just landed in this gaming forum! I'm a content creator on YouTube and I love to share my gaming experiences with others. My channel mainly focuses on playthroughs of different games with occasional live streams. I also enjoy unboxing new tech that I purchase and sharing my thoughts about it with my audience. I'm passionate about all types of games and enjoy exploring different genres. I look forward to connecting with other gamers on this forum and sharing my love for gaming with like-minded individuals.

Also lowkey an Anime nerd...old school anime... Violence Jack, Ninja Scroll, Guyver, Fist Of The North Star, Wicked City type of Animes! i mess with some of the new school stuff too!

 

Hey @shagger
thanks man, still feeling around the forum but thanks for the warm welcome bro. looking forward to adding a good few talk points within this community 🙂

Well, I'll never unsee that. Thanks for the nightmares, Bandai Namco.
 
I know less than nothing about Naruto Storm, but when it comes to Bandai Namco I'm used to thier games, especially their JRPGs and anime licenced titles, looking a little "last gen" if you know what I mean. However, If you're right and this is made up of scenes, stories and assets from the older games that is pretty shady. That would be fine if they were being upfront about it, but I'm not the one to know.

Honestly, like so many indie games (except this technically isn't an indie game, but lets face it, it may as well be) with questionable motives, I find the controversy more interesting than the game itself. Even the controversy is mostly stuff we've heard before with the delays, lack of communication and so on, but it only really got very interesting in the last few weeks. The game disappeared from Steam just weeks before it launching and a reveal gameplay being delayed because the people who are behind this apparently didn't thing to trademark the name. A year and a half since they announced the game, and they never filed a copyright for the name. I mean what the fuck?
 
I don't see it as a scam like some people do. It's not like Star Citizen that charges thousands of dollars for ships and pay-to-win bullshit for a game that even after over a decade is still not out of alpha, but I do think the people behind this have bitten off more than they can chew.

We have briefly introduced already, but welcome to VGR. I'm having a look at you channel (Here it is for everyone else and just so you @BangEm linking to your channel as part of your introduction would been have OK) and it looks like a lot of fun.

Hello, all! I am Progrumz, and I have been playing games for nearly thirty years, the vast majority of my life. I gravitate more toward older and more obscure titles. I hope to get to know all of you well. :)