You Must Accept Wolverine...
Clinic
39,762 views
Marvel’s Wolverine is bad. But the bigger problem is what it represents.
The game has become one of the clearest examples of how modern AAA games are increasingly designed to remove frustration, handholding the player through exploration, combat, puzzles and even basic navigation.
And somehow, we’re supposed to accept it.
In this video I talk about Wolverine’s painfully excessive handholding, its shallow gameplay, the bizarre defence of the game from its fans, the reaction from reviewers, Sweet Baby Inc.’s involvement, and why we need to stop treating studios like Insomniac as if they’re permanent artistic entities.
2018 Insomniac doesn’t make this game.
Maybe the problem isn’t that gamers have become too demanding. Maybe the games have become too afraid to demand anything from us.
#marvelswolverine #wolverine #insomniacgames #wolverineps5
0:00 Intro
0:35 It's Not For You
1:11 Delusion
4:30 Modern Gaming Isn't For Us
8:04 Modern Story/SBI
11:03 Insomniac Not The Same Studio
Background Music:
Losing Your Marbles - The Soundlings
Brain Trust - Wayne Jones
Russian Dance - Joey Pecoraro
Gaiety in the Golden Age - Aaron Kenny
Got Him From Behind - The Soundlings
TipToes - Myuu
Investigations - Kevin MacLeod
I Don't Want To Do This Without You - Late Night Feeler
Marty Gots a Plan - Kevin MacLeod
From Russia With Love - Huma-Huma
20 Comments
Sorry for my voice and my energy not being 100%, I'm not feeling so good. See you in the next one!
Nope. I can think for myself and decide I will most likely not like it BEFORE I play it for myself.
I don't need to eat a bag of shit flavored potato chips to decide I probably won't like them.
What they did was trick you into buying the whole bag, eating it then telling other people no but they are good though. Buy your own bag to see for yourself.
When I have seen person after person take a bite and go.... Nah. Probably not.
Just "complete experience fallacy". You don't have a say unless you play it for yourself. Nope. I have a very large sample size of both people that didn't like it talk about what they didn't like, and people that liked it.... Unable to ignore the obvious flaws to say what they did like about it.
I got enough data points TO make up my own mind without eating the shit for myself.
"But people are just hating on Sony right now". Nope. I think that is actually leading to deserved criticism. The bloom is off the rose, so people are no longer glazing games that don't deserve to be glazed.
Exactly! But it's not the gamers' issue, it's Insomniac's issue people didn't buy their game.
I love how they're always so close to truth it breathes in their neck, and they still completely oblivious it's there.
You Must Accept Wolverine...
Clinic
39,762 views
Marvel’s Wolverine is bad. But the bigger problem is what it represents.
The game has become one of the clearest examples of how modern AAA games are increasingly designed to remove frustration, handholding the player through exploration, combat, puzzles and even basic navigation.
And somehow, we’re supposed to accept it.
In this video I talk about Wolverine’s painfully excessive handholding, its shallow gameplay, the bizarre defence of the game from its fans, the reaction from reviewers, Sweet Baby Inc.’s involvement, and why we need to stop treating studios like Insomniac as if they’re permanent artistic entities.
2018 Insomniac doesn’t make this game.
Maybe the problem isn’t that gamers have become too demanding. Maybe the games have become too afraid to demand anything from us.
#marvelswolverine #wolverine #insomniacgames #wolverineps5
0:00 Intro
0:35 It's Not For You
1:11 Delusion
4:30 Modern Gaming Isn't For Us
8:04 Modern Story/SBI
11:03 Insomniac Not The Same Studio
Background Music:
Losing Your Marbles - The Soundlings
Brain Trust - Wayne Jones
Russian Dance - Joey Pecoraro
Gaiety in the Golden Age - Aaron Kenny
Got Him From Behind - The Soundlings
TipToes - Myuu
Investigations - Kevin MacLeod
I Don't Want To Do This Without You - Late Night Feeler
Marty Gots a Plan - Kevin MacLeod
From Russia With Love - Huma-Huma