10 WEIRD Gaming Stories of October 2019

the weird world of gaming always gets weirder always and every month game ranks chronicles it for you right here hi folks its Falcon and today on game ranks the weirdest gaming stories of October 2019 coming in at number 10 at this absolutely wild arcade in Japan is unfortunately closing the arcade basically looks like a place you might get murdered in and it's meant to basically be kind of a cyberpunk dystopian take on a place called kowloon walled city which was a tenement in Hong Kong that was ended in 1994 possibly because it looked awful but they embellished all of the awfulness and made it into this absolutely just amazingly cool place that is unfortunately closing forever I mean it sucks a lot that this is happening if you ask me this arcade is basically one big work of art and you don't see that very much with business unfortunately it's just not a sustainable business for them as it's a very large space and arcade games cost even less to play in Japan than they do here which sucks because even though most of us don't really have the opportunity to go see something like that we know that maybe someday but it's not that case anymore moving on to number 9 a game by paradox who by the way is published tons of great games over the years the game we want to talk about today is called stellaris though and it's a Forex game people liked it and they wanted to release it for mobile not an abnormal strategy nothing weird so far right well hey guess what some art inside the game is actually literally just directly stolen from a three-for-three artist by the name of Kenny Magnuson which was just literally concept art for Halo 4 now the artist did modify it they removed a spaceship added some crates some windows and seemed to have done that autofill that they have in some imaging software now in a few places and it looks really weird and the game had to be pulled from mobile stores immediately of course paradox did not want to get sued and it's not because they like deliberately like we're going to steal art from halo haha it's because some artist was probably lazy honestly just as a warning to any video game artist out there you probably gonna lose your job if you do something like this and people are gonna be pissed at you understand this somebody will remember the thing you stole from somewhere from the original place it doesn't matter it does not matter what it is I don't really care from a moral perspective it can get you in trouble it can get your boss in trouble it can get your company in trouble and all of those people have power over individual developers of every kind moving on at number eight some PlayStation fan got their ceiling remodeled to have the PlayStation circle triangle X and square as inlets with LED lights being put in and wow it's cool like don't get me wrong it's very cool but I also have this sneaking suspicion it cost a lot of money the ceiling is not a cheap material in the room like looking at it it looks like some kind of stone it may not be but it looks like it looks like a stone tile ceiling in the photo that was uploaded and to do this with a custom stone tile design would be well a rich person's prospect let's just say that's not to say is not awesome but I couldn't do this at least if it is as detailed and using the materials that it seems like it is to me so congratulations to this person I mean it's really cool what you did you're rich bastard moving on to number seven fallout first happened and well we talked about it elsewhere but you know what Bethesda forgot to do when they launched register fallout first dot-com which what is wrong with them are they the laziest company that's ever existed or what I don't get it so anyway some guy registered it and made a website that's basically just taking a huge dump on fallout first rightfully so it deserves all of the dumps it deserves more dumps than a truck truck truck sorry I had to make that joke speaking of dumps did you know that fallout first he is itself basically a dump the private servers for instance aren't private people are logging onto them and finding that areas of them have already been raided cool stuff right and the unlimited scrap box you know the thing where you were gonna dump all of your stuff well it dumped all of your stuff when you've dumped your stuff into it you could put a bunch of stuff in it and it would just delete it it would be gone forever did they test nothing at all it seems like there's no way they could have Bethesda just repeatedly shocks me I don't get it how moving on to number six someone bought a Nintendo switch light with two Y buttons now this isn't outwardly wild in any way are not pretending that this is going to light the world on fire or anything like that in fact it's an oculus enough that you might ask yourself why did Falcon talk about this oh I will show myself out I'm sorry about that now obviously this doesn't affect how you play games I mean it might be a little bit confusing sometimes but I think we all know that the B button is where the second Y button should be so when you press that Y you're actually pressing B do I will say from time to time I do get disoriented didn't have to look but somewhere out there there's a Nintendo switch with two B buttons coming in at number five a winner of a hearthstone tournament received his trophy as well as about ninety five thousand dollars in prize money and had to be feeling pretty good about himself but as he lifted up his hearthstone trophy presented to him by Blizzard themselves it just flat-out fell apart just fell apart like a cheap toy he also could not keep his composure it made him laugh of course it made him laugh it would make anyone laugh in his mind he's celebrating and just made himself look very silly but Blizzard was kind enough to come out and say actually the trophies in two pieces it's supposed to do that well it's not supposed to do that specifically but you're supposed to be able to take the second piece off of the first piece it just so happens that the way he moved caused it to come off I mean you generally don't move with the trophy you generally put it on a shelf it's still a really funny moment but a big congratulations to Eddy Lua for winning that coming in at number four epic the creators of port and I got embroiled in a couple of lawsuits by a couple of parents of some 15 and ten year old children who believe that fortnight is like cocaine in that it releases the chemical dopamine into the brain and addicts children to it which uh maybe not necessarily true it's certainly addictive yes that's not untrue but I kind of think it's impossible for a video game to specifically be chemically addicting call me crazy you might have trouble with that one guys it probably would have been a better move to sue them over just the time lost and behavioral addiction that can happen if that's what you were going to sue over my prediction is that one won't pan out they're basically alleging that the game is chemically addicting and I don't see that working out but the second lawsuit is actually one that epic themselves are doing they're suing the leaker who leaked chapter 2 as if that changed anything at all the gentleman who leaked was a fortnight user experience tester and I'm sure he had an agreement which sets a precedent but I'm gonna go ahead and say and this is one they might be able to win because of the agreement that they have with testers and they're also a company with basically unlimited resources but let's just be completely honest leaks don't ruin a game like fortnight no one cares they're not playing fortnight for story reasons or suspense that has been built in fact I think a lot of people actually view that as a hindrance coming in at number three somebody spent two hundred and twenty thousand dollars in microtransactions on transformers specifically transformers earth wars which by the way isn't a bad game well let's just go ahead and say what Beck in September a player spent ninety thousand dollars in runescape which in my opinion kind of amazing obviously its runescape what two hundred and twenty thousand dollars in transformers I don't even know what to say like I don't blame whatever person spends that kind of money obviously they have that kind of money and they're free to choose what to do with it but there's something very wrong with a game that accepts that kind of money from a single person and no I'm not saying the game isn't doing its job either obviously they make these games to make money so technically it is doing its job it's just that it kind of seems like that shouldn't exist and I cannot imagine how awkward that feels to find out as a developer not as a publisher but as a developer that the thing you made managed to extract two hundred and twenty thousand dollars out of an individual person and it's wrong that games do this and at number two much less outraging and much more just purely weird Hideo Kojima posted a video of Conan O'Brien and deaths training as a guy who gives you an otter hat yeah that seems to be his primary function in the game that and to say weird things as he gives you the otter hat but I'm there I am absolutely there his character is called the wandering emcee but he does say some pretty funny lines he better I mean I don't know why else he would be there but it is I mean it's very strange that Hideo Kojima saw it necessary to like promote the game with this and finally at number one in EVE Online players black hated all of the mission giving NPCs so they could make the game purely about a very large war this is actually how war kind of works in real life they just make it impossible for you to do the things that you're trying to do and then you have to pledge fealty to a side and go into battle listen depriving everybody of ways to make money so that you can force them into a war is a good way to get the war going sure but you're gonna need to get out of the way and let people do that stuff otherwise the war is literally going to be about the fact that you're doing this people play this damn game for more than one reason so hey new players enjoy the game couple of quick bonuses for you we missed this last month but we really wanted to bring it up a monkey was sitting on the shoulders of a sea of thieves developer and well just couldn't keep his composure and vomited all over him the point of the stream that they were on was to promote the purchasable pets which include monkeys and either the monkey took offense to that or ate some bad mealworms and finally somebody what the goose from untitled goose came into the Resident Evil to remake as mr. X and it's very enjoyable I don't have a lot to say about it other than play the goose game that's it for this month leave us a comment let us know what you're thinking if you liked this video please click the button labeled like if you're not subscribed now's a great time to do so we upload brand new videos every day of the week and the best way to see them first is of course a subscription so click subscribe and don't forget to click the notification bell as always we thank you very much for watching this video I'm Falcon you can follow me on Twitter at Falcon hero and we'll see you next time right here on game ranks

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Length: 11min 45sec (705 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 31 2019