why I HATE Chivalry 2

Hello and welcome back to a new video game

review. So today I'm going to be reviewing

Chivalry 2 and talking

about why it's a really annoying game and

what I don't like about it. But I also

want to talk about what I do like about

it, because even though it's kind of

annoying— see this? Look at this combat

system. Oh my God. Oh. It is a pretty

annoying game, but on the other hand,

it's also pretty fun. So first, I'll just

get out the good things. I really like the

setting. I like this medieval historic

castles, knights, and siege stuff.

I think it's really refreshing. I'm so

sick and tired of all these Japan games,

you know, all these games trying to—

what's the word? What's that haunting

sound? So sick and tired of all

these Japanese games trying to please

weebs and those, you know, the Japan

crowd. So it's nice to see this medieval

theme have a resurgence. So basically this

game is like Battlefield but set in the

olden times. And, um, yeah, you have 32

players versus 32 players, so it's a

pretty massive match here. Look at this

carnage and chaos. And you might think,

wow, that sounds really fun, sounds really

interesting. And it is quite fun in the

beginning, but then you start to realize

it's very repetitive, it's very

frustrating. The gameplay is very clunky

and slow and kind of annoying to deal

with. So as you can see, we have different

classes. We have archers at the bottom. I

can't click on it because it's It's 4,

it's too many. And then you've got the

Vanguard, the Footman, the Knight. So they

all do different things. Uh, the Vanguard

is like an offensive 2-handed weapon guy.

The Footman's like a shield and sword,

polearm kind of guy. And then the Knight

is like a defensive shield, fully plated,

fully armored person. I might show you

him. And even though the game is really

fun in the beginning, it starts to get

really tedious and And then you start to

realize you're basically just doing the

same thing over and over and over again.

You spawn, you rush towards the enemy,

you probably last 2 seconds. Maybe if

you're lucky you get 1 or 2 kills, but you

really don't last very long in these

battles because look at the battles,

they're so full of people. Your chances of

survival are very low. Look at this, I can

barely even get off a few swings before I

just end up getting ganged up on like

that. And the combat system is not really

hack and slash. It seems like it's hack

and slash, but if you try and hack and

slash, you're not really going to get very

far. You've got different buttons for

different attacks. So you've got the—

you've got sideways slash, you've got

overhead slash, you've got a kind of

stabbing thrust, and you've also got a

kick and you've got a push. And you've

got— what else you have? You've got block,

and then you can dodge side to side. So

there's quite a lot of buttons and attacks

you have to remember. Can be a bit

overwhelming in the beginning, and you

really have to be good at using all of

them to be able to be any good in 1v1s or

1v2s. You see that? Didn't even last 5

seconds, and now I've got to wait to

respawn, and then you just do the same

thing. It's like the same thing over and

over again, very repetitive. And there's

only a few maps, and the maps just kind of

play themselves over and over and over.

There's no end to this. You can play this

for hours and hours, and it will just keep

going on to the next stage and the next

stage and the next stage. There's no end.

You can even go AFK for hours, come back,

and you're still in the same game and it's

still going on, which is kind of bad

because I don't know if they fixed it. I

think they might have. But you end up

getting loads of AFK people just standing

around not getting kicked. Also, the

friendly fire damage, team damage thing is

really broken. There was this one game

where this guy was trolling and he was

just attacking all of the team members and

then killing us when we were down, and

there was nothing we could do about it.

We tried to vote kick him, but in order to

get a vote kick, you need everyone to

agree to it. And if someone doesn't vote,

then the vote doesn't pass, and then he

doesn't get kicked. And he was just in the

match the whole time, just team-killing us

the whole time. It's really annoying.

And each class has a special ability. So

this guy has a banner that heals people.

Some have an oil pot, which is like a

napalm bomb. Other people have medic kits.

It's pretty bog-standard stuff. And

there's different objectives you have to

do, like you have to defend the castle,

you have to attack a castle, or you need

to capture loot from a village and

then you're supposed to defend the loot.

Um, yeah, pretty bog-standard stuff,

but my problem with the game is I feel

kind of bored with it already. I've only

been playing it for a few days. After a

few days, you kind of feel like it's just

the same thing over and over again,

and it gets boring very quickly. There are

things I like about it. I think the

graphics are not bad,

uh, but the gameplay is just— it either

feels very satisfying or it feels really

annoying. So it's either very satisfying

because you get a nice heavy attack that

you can charge up and you get a one-shot

kill. Or it can be really annoying and

frustrating where you're just swinging and

then none of the swings hit, and then

enemy swings keep hitting you, and then

you're trying to block and dodge but

they're running circles around you.

And it, it can get very annoying.

Sometimes they just keep swinging at you,

you can't really do anything apart from

holding down the block button, which you

can't do forever because you run out of

stamina eventually. You can also do a

counter and a riposte, but they're not

easy to pull off. So the combat is just,

yeah, a little bit annoying.

My other complaint is I think the game is

intended to be played first-person mode

like this. That's the impression I gather.

I think it's supposed to be a first-person

slasher, and maybe there's benefits of

playing in first person, like you can,

you can aim better if you want to do stabs

like that. You can aim more accurately,

but I think playing first-person view just

really gives you a handicap. I prefer

third-person view because you can see

what's going on around you. You've got a

better field of view. You can see if

people sneaking up behind you, whereas if

you're playing first person view, you

can't see what's behind you. So you get a

massive disadvantage if you're playing the

game how it was intended to be played. I

prefer third person like this. You can

easily see what's around you, you can time

swings and attacks better like that. So I

don't really know how you're supposed to

play it. I think they wanted you to play

it first person, but Look at this, it's

just really claustrophobic. And then when

the enemy's right in front of you,

they're way too close in your face, and

it's— just gives me a bit of a headache.

I prefer this mode.

So that was stage 4, and then the stages

just keep going on and on and on. Yeah,

it's kind of a tricky game to evaluate

because on one hand I do find it very fun

at times. I guess it depends on your mood.

If you're in the right mood, it can be

very enjoyable, but then after a few hours

it gets really tedious and a bit boring,

and the combat system just doesn't really

feel very engaging at some points.

So this is like one of the set cutscenes

where it begins. He does a speech. It's

very Game of Thrones-esque, and if you

love Game of Thrones, I think you'd love

this game. Um, but I don't know if I could

recommend it. It is quite an expensive

game, £35, it's about $50,

and that's quite a lot of money if you're

gonna end up playing a couple days and

then you feel bored.

Sometimes it is pretty funny though. You

can do some pretty fun stuff like just

picking up random objects and throwing

them at enemies and The ragdoll physics

are pretty entertaining at times, and I've

turned off the gore because I don't want

to get— I don't know if I get demonetized,

but it is a very gory game. A lot of

blood, a lot of dismemberment. I've

disabled it for video purposes, maximum

monetization purposes and all that. Uh,

but yeah, it's a very visceral game.

See, I just Sometimes

these, these fights just take way too much

time. You can slash those plate-armored

knight guys like 10 times, they still

don't go down. So yeah, I don't know if

I'd recommend this game. Depends what

you're looking for, I guess. Well, that's

all I have to say. Uh,