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Worst MMO Ever? – Ryzom
Hardcore open world MMO, doesn’t hold your hand, not for casuals!
and, as always happens to those games, it died.
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41 Comments
@luheartswarm4573
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 amto be fair, when I was a kid back in 2007~
I used to play my old emulators using the arrow keys for movements, however in my early teens I changed to wasd and never looked back
@joseph6426
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 amI feel like josh is kinda just looking for reasons to be angry in this one
@robneale9297
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 amannnd this has been the harshest BUT honest review, RYZOM could be good if more effort was put in, considering the devs are a small team and are not making anything from the game, that I know of, it was actually several players that put it back online. I do miss it AS IT WAS but …….. I will leave the memories as they were…..
@robneale9297
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 amRYZOM was good in the day, and there was more info around for it floating around. I got back into it last year (2023) and felt sad, there had been so many changes that I had troubles getting back into it.
@theyellowmeaning7507
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 ammovement keys in a fully 2d no-mouse experience, i.e. maplestory back in the day.
@AkameGaKen
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 amthere are only 3 ways to learn. seeing, hearing, and doing. everyone has a % of each one of these but are clearly better at one of them. personally i learn better from watching someone else do things and then doing them myself. i often struggle to learn things from listening. roughly 50% seeing, 35% doing, 15% listening.
@youmukonpaku3168
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 am@14:30 hey to be fair Civilization IV (yes, the one with the legendary main menu background music) has a built in MP3 player too. It just doesn't have controls; you turn on a custom music folder which defaults to the Windows XP music library. It was once a popular feature for games that expected you to spend literally hours and hours playing them.
@bebobo1
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 amsubscribe
@poika22
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 amOh look, it's yet another episode of "Josh Hayes can't accept that he isn't the target audience of every single video game so he'll spend 20 minutes doing mental gymnastics about how his preferred level of hand-holding is "good design" and everything else is "bad design"."
@Flackon
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 amI love how the mp3 player statement reveals how at this time Josh still thought MMORPGs were some sort of products aiming for artistic excellence or something
@q306005
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 amI'm honestly amazed Josh doesn't know what Desura was. Desura was Steam or Gog before those things existed. It was the original way to get indie games. But it died. The thing that exists now is like the Gameforge version of it.
@tarvod4855
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 amwhy was josh gettin angry at imaginary people in this video?
@Badusername2000
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 am"Who uses arrow keys" josh just casually forgetting left handed people exist, my right hand is useless on a mouse, so all my key binds need to be on the right side of the keyboard, most mmos are a nightmare for me
@parmesanzero7678
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 am25:07 “keeping everything up to a reasonable level”
This is completely not understanding a system. In a classless system, you’re not meant to level every skill. That would be like maxing a character of every class in another game.
@jotarokujo3603
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 amYou can dance if you want to. You can leave your friends behind.
@fitchlekvoda8721
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 amRecently started binging on these, very fun! This game though, reminded me of an encounter when I used to do computer training for the visually impaired and blind.
This one person kept saying how computers are hard, so I asked him how so. He went on to demonstrate how deleting a document from My Documents was hard… He started by opening Internet Explorer, clicking the file menu, selecting save web page, and since the default location was My Documents, delete his document from there. Ryzom sounds like they've taken this approach in how they think "hard" works.
@Bookcheekspreader
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 amLeft handed folk use the arrow keys
@wungblake6678
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 amWas just listening while playing a game and heard the part about Mr Hayes being a teacher. of martial arts. you mean to tell me my well spoken, informative, relaxing video producing British man could also kick my arse. great.
@bledathehun328
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 amthis games are eat shitting clubs: you have to eat shit so everyone who got there before can laugh at you eatting shit. after eating it, you are part of the club and can now laugh at everyone else having to eat shit to join the shit eatting club.
@cliffreintzel9836
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 amI use the arrow keys for a good bit of games, as I'm left handed.
@LibersPertz
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 amWell it's not me but i know people that instantly mute every mmo and listen to music while playing so mp3 may not be the lack of confidence from their side but a may be clever addition knowing there are players that are going to like the feature.
@jonathanbreckenridge4758
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 amI really wanted to enjoy this game. I played for roughly 24 hours and still could not get past the UI, and overly complex systems. Not to mention there's no players…
@StevenKellyBelly
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 amMan, that is the dumbest reasoning for why "hardcore" open world is actually maybe bad >:( actors who act out instructions falsely instruct
@LuckyDuvet
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 amJust in case anyone is wondering, Ryzom responded to this review two years ago by saying they intended to improve their tutorial. If you take a look at their channel (or try the game for yourself) you'll see that not only did they do as they said they would, but they're still hosting events and uploading new content 🏆
@LWolf12
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 amI used arrow, or numpad movement control layouts, back before the mouse was used more commonly in games. Then again, a lot of those were old DOS games, when having a mouse wans't as common & loading a mouse driver had real effects on performance.
@zephyrstrife4668
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 amAt the point where you were reading the review about the different magic types branching off at specific levels… while it is excessively complicated, in a game that is interested in the players added a complex system like that… It could be explained as the simplest magic is the easiest, then the branches begin to show a build specialization. Because the game doesn't take the time to explain that though, it feels like it sneaks up on you.
@catlovingtrio
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 am"Who uses arrow keys for movement?"
Left-handed people: I guess I don't exist.
@Keevacom
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 amI like “hardcore” games. Not for MMOs though. Dark Souls and Elden Ring or just all From Software games, great hardcore games. Hardcore MMOs are just “hey do you want to grind so hard you prefer actual work to playing this? You know, such that in about a year you won’t die immediately?” and of course I/you don’t but then you’re hit with “well in that case would you like to very slowly traverse the game that isn’t fun to play?” and unsurprisingly I do not but then you’re hit with “well don’t worry because there’s no world building, not just no main quests but nothing” and then I/you as the player get ready to shoot for the head and paint the walls a nice new shade of crimson until remembering the uninstall button exists and then never look back.
@DavidSchiess
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 am..out of 10.
@surg23
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 amNever played this game or even heard of it. By the looks of it I'd say ambiguity was the least of its problems. Many of the most successful games have these mechanics you criticise. Dark souls 1 didn't tell you anything at all, gave you no direction despite having a high level of interconnectivity. Guild wars had death penalty, one of the most popular old school MMO's. None of these things by itself ruins a game to the point of complete failure. I think it's pretty clear that this game never gained traction because WoW is a much more polished game in every regard. There is no structure in world design like there is in WoW, the music and sound design is miles better, the combat better, animations better, it had VA, mounts, auction house, PvP landscapes, raids, fleshed-out towns and hubs. You can't compare this game to wow at all. It's not even in the same league.
@mriananderson
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 amisnt this a free open source linux game? if it was built by the community then abandoned it would make sense why nothing has been updated in forever
@tomwalker8944
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 amThe lack of a boxing classes that makes you fight the biggest fastest guy on your first day… is why people are such wimps that need so much handholding now.
@Scabbybob
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 ama left handed person for arrow over wasd
@explodingtoilet6711
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 amI am playing a mmo while listening about anouther mmo, truly a mmo of all time
@snowstorm9310
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 amI can give you an explanation.
Frogger (He's Back) Pc Port. 3 Years old, Right Handed.
That's when you use the arrow keys for movement.
@Lightwish4K
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 amI was so ready for all that review score talk to end with bla bla bla……… out of 10 XD
@Dzyan
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 amOh wow, ok. So I played Eve for years, I was and am a HUGE dwarf fortress fan. I picked up Ryzom because I had been a big fan of gathering and crafting in Star wars Galaxies. I would say I like deep complex systems in these games, but what I don't like is huge amounts of mindless grinding. So in Ryzom I managed to grind to the point where I could make guns. Then I realized I was going to have to craft thousands of rounds to gain any real amount of skill points in using them. Well, gathering the materials and crafting the ammo wasn't any less of a process than crafting anything else in the game was. So after spending hours just to make a few mags, and wow being such a huge hit that basically all of my friends started playing it, I just couldn't justify spending any more time on this game. I also found vanilla wow too grindy and got heavily into eve online instead. Yes, I am an odd person.
@Fenrisson
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 am2:25 – I don't. Unless I can't change it. Then I use the arrow keys with my left hand and put my right hand over to the rest of the keyboard, as nature taught me since 1992. LEFT HAND IS FOR DIRECTIONS.
@shemsuhor8763
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 amWhat the hell is ZQSD? What kind of cursed configuration is that?
@BruklinBridge
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 amI ised arrow keys back in the day. I learned on quake and had to ise arrow keys because I have really big fingers and the original Microsoft Natural keyboard jad big arrow keys with nothing else around them. I never recovered from that setup, even going as far as to buy a stack of keyboards so i would have some when they were discontinued, which they eventually were for a time.
@jaymevdwesthuizen7744
July 17, 2024 - 7:34 amI actually use arrows, but just because I am left handed and didn't think to train myself righthandedly with mouse control
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