My thoughts on New World after 2 weeks playing

So it's been 2 weeks now since I made my

scathing review of New World. And if

you're a longtime, long-term follower of

the channel, you'll know why I make these

negative reviews of games. It's because

they get views. It doesn't always get

views. Sometimes they just get a couple

thousand, but sometimes they get a lot of

views. And this time the YouTube algorithm

has blessed me because my New World video

game review has 43,000 views now after 2

weeks. And in my opinion, in my eyes,

that is a massive success. And the video

made a total of $148, which easily

paid for the game, plus I made an extra

$100 on top of the initial price of buying

the game. Don't you just love it when you

don't have to pay for games anymore

because all you have to do is make a video

about it and then YouTube will pay the

game for you? So thanks for that. And

usually I don't bother wasting my time

making a positive video about a game that

I actually liked because The algorithm

just seems to favor negativity over

positivity. I've tried making 2 types of

videos on the same topic, you know, one

super negative, one super positive, and

always the negative one gets 10 times more

views. But this time I want to make a real

video about my actual thoughts on the game

because I really, really like the game.

I've been playing it every single day

since I bought the game, which was 2 weeks

ago now, and I have about 200 hours of

playtime in total, which comes down to

about 14 hours a day. I play the game from

the moment I wake up up until the moment I

go to sleep every single day, and it's

been great. I love it. So I'll make a

whole video this time talking about why

it's probably the best game I've ever

played. Yeah, I think I would even go as

far as to say that this is the best game

I've played in my whole life. And usually

I would say Rainbow Six is my favorite

game, but I have lost all interest in

Rainbow Six ever since I started playing

New World. So there's a few requirements

for a video game to meet my standards.

Number one, they have to be an online game

that involves some kind of team play and

some kind of social interaction, because

in my real life I don't have any friends,

I don't have a girlfriend, I don't really

meet people, I don't really interact with

anyone, so I feel pretty lonely on a

day-to-day basis. So online games really

help me. Number 2, the game has to look

good and I have to like the graphic design

and the art design and the visual design.

Yeah, Rainbow Six used to be my favorite

game of all time, but I think New World is

now my new favorite game because it ticks

all those boxes. Plus it has that

addictive MMO kind of quality to it that

Rainbow Six didn't really have. Rainbow

Six, I would get bored after a few hours

because you could play the game for hours

and hours and hours. You don't really make

much. You don't really make any progress

in the game. There's nothing to unlock

apart from skins and costumes that I

really don't care about. There's, there's

like an in-game currency in Rainbow Six

that you use to unlock weapon skins, but

that's it. There's no like character

upgrades or leveling system where your

character becomes more powerful. Someone

completely new to the game could pick up

Rainbow Six today and then be on an equal

footing with someone who's played the game

for 5 years. And that makes perfect sense

if it's an FPS shooter like Rainbow Six.

However, the problem was I was kind of

missing this feeling of leveling up and

progressing in a game that I haven't

really felt since my World of Warcraft

days. And I thought my MMO World of

Warcraft days were well behind me. I

didn't feel like I had the energy or the

interest to put so much work and effort

into a video game anymore. I thought I had

become too lazy, but it seems like I was

completely wrong because I am completely

addicted to New World now. And I think

that's mainly because of the feeling of

progressing and working towards something

and improving your character. Now, I may

have failed to do that in real life. My

real life situation has kind of stagnated

and You know, I've hit a low point in my

life. I just feel like I had no sense of

purpose. I didn't know what to do all day.

I would wake up in the morning and think,

okay, so now what do I have to do? I don't

really have to do anything. I don't really

want to do anything. And I just felt kind

of miserable. And maybe this sounds kind

of sad, but ever since I got into New

World, I suddenly feel like I have

something to do now. I've got all these

tasks, like an endless list of tasks to do

in the game. I've got to level up my

skinning, my mining, my logging. I've got

to do quests. I've got to level up I've

got to get new gear. I've got all these

different weapons to try out and level up,

and all of these new areas and regions to

explore. And I wake up in the morning and

I feel, I feel excited again. And recently

I just haven't felt very excited to wake

up. I haven't really felt excited about

anything really, because I've got nothing

to do. Maybe most people don't relate to

this because most people probably are

really busy and they wake up and they get

out of bed and they've got loads of things

to do and they've got a huge list of

things they need to finish and get done,

and they probably think there's not enough

hours in the day. But I was the opposite.

I had too many hours in the day. I didn't

know what to do with my time. And to be

honest, I kind of missed having this

feeling in my life, even if it means being

addicted to an MMO like back when I was

addicted to World of Warcraft. At least

back then, I, I got excited to wake up in

the morning and log in and do some quests

and make some progress on my character.

Work on something, even if it's just a

game. The feeling of working on something

really kind of gives you a sense of

purpose in life and makes you feel less

miserable. And the game looks amazing.

The world in the game is really beautiful.

The lighting effects, the way the sun sets

and rises and casts shadows, it looks

really, really good. It actually looks

better than real life. And maybe I'm just

saying that because I haven't played any

recent modern games. The only game I was

mainly playing was Rainbow Six, which is a

6, 7-year-old game now. The graphics

aren't the best in it, didn't really have

dynamic lighting, and the dynamic lighting

in New World is just amazing. You sit next

to a fireplace and the glow of the

fireplace hits your character and reflects

off your character and different surfaces.

The sunlight and the moonlight reflects

off different surfaces and your

characters. It just looks so good, and I'm

only playing it on the 17-inch laptop

screen. It would look so much better on a

proper 36-inch curved gaming monitor. I

think everything in the game just looks

really good. The way the trees sway in the

wind, the way you can chop down the trees

and they fall down and there's like proper

ragdoll physics. And the reflections in

the water and the weather effects, the

rain, the way when it rains the surfaces

kind of glisten. I really feel like I can

just get lost in the game and feel really

immersed. And the game is just— it looks

great. A lot of people complain about it

being a walking simulator because you have

to do a lot of walking to get from certain

places, but I actually find it quite

relaxing how you have to run for such a

long distance. You get to travel across

the map, you get to see the different

places. You get to collect resources on

the way and hunt and do stuff like that

and encounter other players, maybe help

them out if they're having trouble. I find

the game to be really relaxing. You can

just explore the nature and pick up rocks

and chop trees and do a bit of hunting and

gather materials. And if you feel like

something else, then the game caters to

every kind of mood. If you want something

more exciting, you can do some PvP. If you

want to do some socializing, you can do a

PvE dungeon and have like a group play

experience in a dungeon and get really

good gear and level up and get money. And

I find the gameplay, the combat in the

game is really good. It's not boring like

World of Warcraft where you just click on

the enemy and you auto attack and you

click on some spells. It's got a very

action-oriented gameplay mechanic, kind of

like The Witcher or Assassin's Creed or

any kind of third-person action game where

you block and parry and you roll around.

Yeah, it is a bit simple because you only

have 3 abilities that you can use at any

time, but it feels more than enough. If

you had like 10 different abilities to

choose from whilst also having to actively

block and parry and roll around and aim

for headshots, it would be a bit too much.

I like how there's lots of different

weapons to choose from and there's 2

talent trees for each weapon, so each

weapon plays differently depending on what

kind of talent tree specs you've chosen.

And out of curiosity, I ended up leveling

almost every weapon up to a decent level

and filling out the talent trees in each

and every weapon category. And there's

also ranged weapons like muskets and bows

and magical staves and staffs which add

nice variety to the game. So if you get

bored just using melee weapons, you can

switch to ranged weapons, or you can

switch to a magical weapon and start

leveling that up. And the dungeons are

really fun. I really enjoy playing in a

team and chatting with people and doing

the dungeons and defeating the bosses and

getting epic gear. It's, it's really

addictive, but I like it because now I

feel like I have something to do with my

time. And yeah, so servers are down right

now because of maintenance, and I'm just

really bored and really looking forward to

being able to log back in and get some

quests done and do some dungeoning. The

quests are pretty boring. It's just like

kill 10 of this, collect 5 of that, but

The fun isn't from doing the quest. The

fun is from completing a load of boring

tasks and having that feeling of

completion and handing in the quest and

being rewarded. It's kind of a weird way

to play games because the actual playing

the game is not the fun bit. The finishing

of the boring, tedious tasks is the fun

part. And maybe there's a life lesson

there. Maybe life is like that as well.

Games like New World and World of Warcraft

and MMOs, it's not a kind of instant

gratification kind of fun. You've got to

put work and effort into the game to level

up, learn how to play the game, become

good, and that is where you get the

satisfaction and the fulfillment from.

It's after you put the work in and the

effort in, um, that's where

the fun comes from. When you've done

something that was kind of tedious or

boring and then you get rewarded for it.

And maybe having a job is like that in

real life too. It's not the actual job

that's fun or rewarding, it's getting the

job done and then being paid. That is the

rewarding part of it. You know, these days

young people, they have such short

attention spans. They expect and want

everything to just be fun and feeling good

straight away from the beginning without

knowing what it means to put work and

effort into something. And maybe the

rewards from putting work and effort and

having patience in something, maybe the

rewards from that outweigh the rewards

from short-term pleasures and fun. Kind of

like the stock market. So you get people

who try and do swing trading and day

trading, and they're trying to make as

much money in the shortest amount of time.

But in the end of the day, people like

Warren Buffett, long-term investors who

have invested for decades, they have more

returns and profits than all of those day

traders and swing traders and short-term

traders. That's why Warren Buffett is the

most successful investor in the entire

world. It's why he's in the top 5 richest

people in the world. I don't know what

number he is now, maybe below 5, but he's

one of the richest people in the entire

world. And it's because he plays the long

game. He doesn't swing trade and he

doesn't get all excited about getting a

60% gain on some stock and then selling

it. No, he, he holds it for decades,

60 years, 70 years. And that is why

he is the GOAT of investing, and there's,

there's probably a profound life lesson in

there that I can't really be bothered to

extrapolate. So yeah, those were my real

genuine thoughts on New World. I think

it's probably the best game I've ever

played in my entire life. It has

everything I love from World of Warcraft,

but it looks way, way better. It's a

modern game for the modern era. It's got

an amazing UI and interface that so clean

and good. Doesn't look tacky, doesn't look

rushed. It looks like a professional

proper game that some developer team

has put a lot of effort and care into

designing. I think it looks great, it

feels great, it sounds great, the music is

great, and my character, she is

hot, and I think I'm falling in love with

her. I think Amazon did a really good job

at making this game, and I just, I hope it

gets better from here onwards.