WTF is... Apex Legends

Hello and welcome to this video where I'm

going to tell you why Apex Legends isn't a

very good game. And right off from the

bat, we can see that this game has a

terrible flaw where I can't even start the

game. I can't even show you any gameplay

because I can't even get the game to load.

It's been spinning around— this circle has

been spinning around and round and round

for the past several hours now, and I, I

just cannot get into the game. So not a

great start. I only started playing it

yesterday, and I played it for most of

yesterday, and this is actually the second

bug that I've discovered. There was

another bug where I couldn't get into the

matchmaking thing because it kept saying

that my party wasn't ready when I wasn't

even in a party. And I had to restart the

whole game to fix that problem. But

unfortunately, I can't find a way to fix

this problem. Okay, so we've gotten the

bugs out of the way. Let me tell you what

this game is about if you don't already

know. Basically, it's a first-person

battle royale game that rips off the

mechanics of several other games. It

doesn't really do anything special or

unique or original on its own. It kind of

feels as though the developers just went,

oh look, that game has a pretty cool

mechanic, let's just rip it off and then

shove it into our own game, and then call

it Apex Legends. It's just weird. This

game kind of feels like a bunch of other

games have just been mashed into one game.

So for example, it kind of feels like

you're playing Fortnite, but it's

first-person and there's no building. And

it also kind of feels like you're playing

Titanfall because of the parkour running

and jumping aspect, but there are no

Titans or mechs. So what happens is it's

very much like Fortnite. There's, there's

20 squads of 3 people totaling to about 60

people per game, and you drop from the sky

just like you do in Fortnite, and you pick

a place to land on the map, and then you

have to look for weapons and gear and try

and survive and try and be the last squad

surviving. If you don't really like battle

royale games, then you probably won't like

this because it's just like every single

other battle royale game. Now I have to

say, it's a very nice looking game. It

feels very well polished, well made, the

jumping and moving and gunplay mechanics

feels very fluid and responsive, which is

nice. But unfortunately, that's all the

praise that I can give this game because

all the other areas are just very lacking,

and I'm going to explain to you why.

Now, my first problem with the game is it

just takes way too long for a game to

actually get started. First, you have to

start matchmaking, and then you have to

wait to get put into a squad, and then you

choose their characters, and finally

when that's all finished, you have to wait

until your character falls from the sky

and reaches the ground. I'm really

starting to get fed up with these games

where you start off the round falling from

the sky and then you have to pick a

location on the map to land in. It was fun

for about the first 5 times, and then

after that it just gets repetitive. I just

want the game to start so I can start

playing. I don't want to have to spend a

minute falling from the sky to choose a

location on the map. Why can't it just

randomly place people? On the ground and

then get the game going faster. It just

feels like it takes a very long time from

pressing the play button until you can

actually start playing. I timed it and it

came to around 3 minutes before you can

actually start moving around and playing

the game. I'm a very impatient person and

I don't want to be sitting here waiting

for 3 minutes each time until I can

actually start playing the game. Now my

next problem is the map is way too big and

there aren't enough players. There's a

total of 60 players. You get 20 squads,

3 people per squad, so that's 60 players,

and 60 players for the map of that size is

just not enough. So what happens is you

end up spending 90% of the game just

running around picking up loot and guns

without even encountering enemy teams. So

picture the scenario: you've just pressed

play, you've clicked on play, you've

chosen your character, you fell from the

sky and landed on the ground finally after

3 minutes, and now you have to spend the

next 15 or 20 minutes just running around

this huge empty map picking up guns and

armor and loot, and it's just very

unlikely that you'll run into an enemy

team. So what happens is you have to wait

until the ring gets smaller and smaller,

which is pretty much the same mechanic

that all these other battle royale games

have. There's a ring and the time limit,

and after about 5 or 8 minutes, the ring

gets smaller and smaller and smaller,

increasing your chances of running into

the enemy team. And then you'll probably

die because the only teams remaining would

be the best teams who came out on top and

managed to survive that long. And then you

would have realized that you just wasted

half an hour watching loading screens,

falling from the sky, running around

picking up stuff, only to be destroyed by

the last remaining squads left in the

game. Another thing I don't like about the

map is it's just very boring. You're in

some kind of desert valley canyon sort of

location, and everything's just different

shades of brown. There's sand, there's

rocks, there's mud. It's just very brown

looking, and brown is a very boring colour

to be staring at for half an hour. I think

it would have been nicer if it was a snowy

map or maybe a big forest. Why, why a

desert of all places? Possibly one of the

most boring locations or scenery that they

could have chosen for this game. I don't

like how small the squad size is. It's

only 3 members, so it means you're only

playing with 2 other people. I would have

preferred a larger squad. Squads of 5 to

10 would have been much better. Having to

depend on 2 other people is pretty risky

because if they suck or they go AFK or

they're just not very good, then it means

you're not going to win the game. In the

game, there are different classes that you

can choose from. They all do different

things. They don't do anything special or

unique that you haven't seen in any other

game. All of these special skills of each

character are all so generic that you've

probably seen 100 times before in 100

different games. For example, there's a

tank class which has a shield and he can

do some kind of force field which looks

just like the one in Halo, and there's one

that goes invisible, and there's one that

has a grappling hook, and there's one that

heals, and it's just, just so unoriginal.

I want to go back to the problem of the

map being too big. Now the problem with

this is there's just not really much to do

apart from running around picking up guns

and armor. At least in Fortnite you could

collect wood and metal and stone and you

could build stuff. In Apex Legends, you

don't really have anything else to do

apart from running around collecting gear,

waiting until you encounter a squad,

which takes forever. So what I usually do

is I just make sure I stay inside of the

ring and I just go AFK until it starts

shrinking again, and then I just wait and

then pick up some guns and try and finish

off the remaining squads. It sometimes

works. Also, the guns are kind of boring

and there's just way too many of them.

There's several types of guns that

basically do the same thing, only slightly

different. There's, you know, your

bog-standard sniper rifles, shotguns,

machine guns, submachine guns, pistols.

It's all just so bog-standard and

unoriginal. There's no interesting weapons

at all. I swear there's at least 5

different types of machine guns that all

do the same thing except for they have

slightly different magazine sizes or they

have slightly different rates of fire.

Now, if I were to make improvements to

this game, number one, I would recommend

having a smaller map. Or having more

players to fill up this big map. And I

would prefer it if the squad size was at

least 5 people minimum, maybe 5 to 8.

I think a larger squad would be much more

fun to play. Number 2, I would get rid of

a lot of the weapons that basically do the

same thing as other weapons do. I feel as

though certain weapon types are missing

from the game. For example, missile

launchers, grenade launchers,

flamethrowers, You can't find these

weapons in the game. Also, I think melee

weapons would be a nice addition. And I

also think there should be vehicles.

Since the map is so big, it would be nice

to have some kind of jeep or motorbike or

something that you could use to get around

the map a bit faster. And the game

definitely needs some extra game modes.

Currently there's only one where you have

squads of 3 people. I think it would be a

nice addition if they had squads of 50,

so you can have 2 squads. 50 versus 50

would be pretty fun. And I think in

conclusion, I would give this game a 4.1

out of 10 because it is a nice-looking

game, it plays well, it's fun to jump

around. It is a fun game. The problem is

you have to be very patient and you have

to be willing to wait for the fun to

happen. You can spend about 20 to 25

minutes waiting around for the action to

actually begin, so it feels like 90% of

the time you're just standing around,

running around this big empty map, and

then 10% of the time is actually having

fun and shooting and action. And for me

personally, as a pretty impatient person,

that's just not good enough.