To be fair, his review of beyond earth was pretty bad. I like his stuff in general though.
It was? I agree. "Shit follow-up to CiV but still okay because civ" <--- I agree. There ain't much to say about Beyond Earth IMO. It's a pretty mediocre game and thus boring to talk about.
There's enough to say about it to make his criticism video actually interesting. The biggest sin of his video is that he didn't post video clips of wonders vs Alpha Centauri's secret projects, to kind of clue the ignorant audience in to what they're actually missing out on, but here are a couple of things I would've touched on:
- The writing either being awful, or trying to be too funny. "Children should think of infrastructure, not candy." Fuck you.
- The general, politically correct theme of the entire game. Everything is too happy, bright, cartoony, and diverse. The "Spiritual Successor" to SMAC needs to be brooding and edgy, like SMAC was. It also needs to be fun.
- The horrible VA by the Indian woman who reads everyone's quotes for some crazy reason.
- All of the initial bases start out visually the same, unlike SMAC or EL where every single base is different and has it's own personality.
- Siege Worms just sitting there when you hit them with base artillery.
- Base artillery is handholding dog shit, just patently un-fun.
He touched on most of the other stuff, but he didn't go in to enough detail about everything.
