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DO NOT BUY Remnant 2 - AVOID this game!

2023-07-26 · 8 min

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  1. Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

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  2. recently I've been playing the brand new

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  3. Remnant 2, and as an avid fan of action

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  4. RPG games, I knew I just had to play this

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  5. game. Unfortunately, so far it's been kind

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  6. of bland, boring, uninspired, and

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  7. extremely lacking in luster. I don't think

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  8. I've played a game more boring than this

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  9. in a very long time, and that's saying

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  10. something. This game is just so extremely

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  11. boring, I couldn't even finish my Twitch

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  12. stream where I was supposed to be playing

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  13. this game to show my viewers what it's

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  14. like. It was just so dull and boring. It

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  15. was like a very generic third-person

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  16. shooter. It's kind of like, imagine if

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  17. Fortnite had a baby with Resident Evil 4

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  18. or Resident Evil 3, the remakes, and just

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  19. taking away any of the fun gameplay

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  20. mechanics from either of those games. And

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  21. what you're left with is like a very

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  22. boring over-the-shoulder third-person

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  23. shooter game with some RPG elements. So

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  24. you begin the game with a very basic

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  25. character creation menu. You can choose

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  26. from several presets, some tattoos and

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  27. makeup. I don't know why game developers

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  28. think us players really care about what

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  29. kind of tattoos our character has. I

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  30. really couldn't care less what tattoos my

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  31. character has on his bum or something.

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  32. You start the game and you're presented

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  33. with this extremely dull and tedious

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  34. tutorial level where it's just trying to

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  35. tell you, press this button to open a

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  36. door, and then press this button to use

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  37. your healing, press this button to reload,

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  38. as if us gamers who have been playing

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  39. games for years or decades even, can't

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  40. figure out how to reload a gun by either

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  41. pressing X or the R button. Feels like it

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  42. needs to give us a tutorial how to do

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  43. basic movement and fighting actions. The

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  44. setting looks kind of cool, I guess. It's

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  45. kind of like a post-apocalyptic American

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  46. city, but everything's so dreary and dull

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  47. and drab, and just following this NPC

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  48. around while she blah blah blahs for a few

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  49. minutes, and then you finally get to the

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  50. main hub of the game, which is like the

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  51. village hub, you get a bunch of vendors

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  52. that do stuff like crafting. You can learn

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  53. stuff and buy and sell stuff and upgrade

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  54. your character there. But the game is so

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  55. boring, I couldn't get far enough into the

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  56. game to even get to the point where any of

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  57. that would even matter. There's something

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  58. very janky feeling, very cheap feeling

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  59. about the quality of the movement

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  60. animations. It just feels very

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  61. unresponsive and kind of laggy and

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  62. stuttery. Very bad optimization on the PC.

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  63. I don't know if it's like this on other

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  64. platforms, but Using a PC with my pro

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  65. gaming laptop, 17-inch Razer Blade RTX

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  66. 3060 laptop, which should be easily able

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  67. to run this game, the game just felt

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  68. stuttery and not very smooth, and the

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  69. animations just didn't look very great or

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  70. feel very great. As for the combat of the

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  71. game, it's not much better. The combat is

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  72. very basic. It's just like hold down right

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  73. mouse button to aim and then shoot your

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  74. very boring slow firing weapon, which is

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  75. like a like a rifle, some kind of musket,

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  76. and you also get like a pistol as a

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  77. sidearm. And then you shoot these very

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  78. weird-looking, boring-looking alien demon

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  79. things that look like something a

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  80. university student would be working on as

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  81. like a game design project for his

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  82. homework. The game looks bad and feels

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  83. bad. The enemy models look really boring

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  84. and very basic looking and not very

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  85. creative. It's just like something very

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  86. generic. It kind of looks like a mobile

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  87. game. I'd even go as far as to say that

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  88. there's probably mobile games on the App

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  89. Store that look and play better than this.

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  90. I mean, Fortnite plays a lot better than

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  91. this, and that runs on a mobile, and this

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  92. is supposed to be a modern PC game.

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  93. Come on, this game is so bad I couldn't

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  94. even stand playing it for longer than half

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  95. an hour. The weapons are so boring, the

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  96. gameplay is really dull, and the shooting

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  97. action and gameplay mechanics are

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  98. weapon at the enemy and do damage. I just

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  99. feel so disappointed with this game

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  100. because before I played it and after

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  101. watching the videos and trailers and

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  102. screenshots, the game looked kind of cool.

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  103. I thought it was going to be like Elden

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  104. Ring but with guns and some kind of like,

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  105. uh, cyberpunk medieval kind of themes or

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  106. atmosphere, kind of like a Dark Souls game

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  107. but with guns. But it's nothing like that.

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  108. It feels like— imagine if Fortnite looks

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  109. like Resident Evil but just didn't have

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  110. any of the interesting gameplay mechanics

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  111. that those games have, and it's just like

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  112. a very generic bog-standard run-and-gun

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  113. shooter where you fight against these

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  114. monsters, and then there's like an outpost

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  115. of survivors hiding out in an abandoned

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  116. building, grouping together to try and

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  117. survive and fight back. Form of

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  118. resistance. It's just so— everything about

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  119. this game is super generic and boring. So

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  120. unfortunately, for those reasons, I really

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  121. cannot recommend this game. I don't know

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  122. how it's on the front page of Steam and

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  123. how it's like the top seller game of

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  124. Steam. I guess July is a pretty slow

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  125. month, but can you imagine wasting £40 on

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  126. this load of rubbish? This is probably one

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  127. of the worst games I've ever played. I

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  128. give it a 0.5 out of 10.

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  129. But I just, I feel like gambling's a waste

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  130. of time because either you're gonna win

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  131. money and then you're gonna think, oh my

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  132. God, I'm so good at this roulette,

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  133. and then you're gonna keep doing it trying

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  134. to make more money, and then you just end

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  135. up losing your money, and then you get

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  136. angry, and then you'll start trying to win

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  137. back the money you lost. So and then you

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  138. just lose even more. So I don't

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  139. see the point of gambling because you're

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  140. never gonna make consistent money, are

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  141. you? You'll win, maybe you'll get lucky

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  142. once or twice,

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  143. and then that feeling when you lose the

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  144. money is so horrible. It's like Fortnite

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  145. had a baby with Resident Evil.

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  146. What the hell am I supposed to do?

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  147. This is the worst game I've ever played.

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  148. I thought it looked kind of interesting in

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  149. the videos. I thought it was going to be

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  150. like Elden Ring but with guns.

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  151. This is so rubbish.

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  152. I think I'm done. I really can't play

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  153. this. It's so—

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  154. why is this on the front page of Steam?

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  155. Imagine a team of people actually spent

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  156. hours and hours making this.

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  157. Why even bother?

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  158. This would have been impressive back in

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  159. Like 2002,

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  160. you'd be like, oh wow, look at the

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  161. lighting, oh look at the shadows. But

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  162. 2023, this is so bad.

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  163. Oh my, I can't play this anymore. It's so—

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  164. oh my God, this is the worst game I've

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  165. ever played. Oh my

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  166. God, oh my God.

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  167. There's no way I could play this for 2

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  168. hours. I think I'm done. Oh my God.

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  169. Okay, well, I'll go and make my review and

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  170. let my girlfriend come back, I guess. So,

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