Worst MMO Ever? - SoulWorker

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Soulworker is to MMO's what Gibiate is to anime.

Soulworker is a fast, flashy, ultimately shallow experience, looks great but is extremely repetitive.

Also contains far too many questionably costumes for the questionably old female characters.

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[GcYoshi]

Definitely dropping "the female figure is a feast I couldn't bear to forego" line on my next date.

[TheKarishi]

It would be genuinely hilarious if you had a videogame with a bunch of characters and one of them is an absolute sociopath like this kid and then that character specifically can't pet the dog but petting the dog was available to the rest of the characters.

[little_leo_john]

Fun fact! I worked as a QA on the mobile version of the game. We were talking to people from Game Forge and they did NOT KNOW HOW THE GAME IS EVEN SUPPOSED TO WORK. Developers were in Korea, and we weren't allowed to contact them directly. Localization was so painfully broken, we couldn't even figure what some systems do. I left pretty quickly, but it was a fun experience :D

[ranggasetya]

the plot and characters made me appreciate what real life offers

[canard]

"The oldest character is 19 year old Lee Nabi who as we can see has huge caliber guns... she also uses a rifle"
Just BRILLIANT

[snakeinthereeds]

Rather than "power" fantasy, it's a "power trip" fantasy, because while your character is overwhelmingly powerful, even that power is overshadowed by their even more overwhelmingly inflated ego.

[meghanhenderson]

The more you hate the character, the more you can decide the other people around him are building up his ego so they can watch him take on a challenge too big for him so they can watch him get eaten.

[bannerturtoise]

I saw that the character selection screen had one other male character so I wanted to look into them. Jin Seipatsu is his name, and based on what I read so far, he is an absoulute chad. He took on part time jobs to help his family, became part of a rescue group to help people, and then only went into the void because he wanted to save those lost. Does that make him a bit of a gary stu? Probably, but I'd take that over Neckbeard fantasy anyday.

[hansjurgen]

"She also uses a rifle" that killed me

[Dreznin]

When you said that the game probably had a good difficulty curve and interesting mechanics once upon a time before they decided to give everyone OP gear and negate the challenge, that is 100% what Vindictus was too... you nailed it - this is Anime Vindictus.

[freshairsnipe]

I'm so glad I picked the gauntlet guy when I tried this game out because that character he chose seems insufferable.

[frtzkng]

"The female figure is a feast I couldn't bear to forgo!"

I find it baffling how this sentence manages to put women on an enormous pedestal while also being incredibly degrading towards them.

[rinwolfcren]

"You cannot pet the dog / 10..." Dang, that's gotta be the harshest rating he's ever given a game.

[grantsamson]

Imagine a game that tested the player in some simulation for some space war. The gameplay was all trivially easy while the operators praise you the entire time for your overwhelming power. After beating the "final boss", you are told you that you were super high rated and that no one had ever matched your score, then sent you on a mission with a bunch of other guys on an aerial transport. On the troop carrier one of your fellows tells you not to worry, because he had the highest simulator rating in history and he'd take care of you. Then another guy speaks up saying he was told essentially same thing, that no one had scored such a high power rating. There's some confusion as the people on the transport start debating what this could mean, when outside a window you see another transport get shot out of the sky, killing everyone on board instantly. There's a sense of silent panic as the ship lands amid sounds of gunfire and explosions. The doors open and 3 of the guys who ran out are instantly shot down... then the game begins.

That would be hilarious.

[gerardbufushanananananana]

"Never before have I ever wanted to reach through the screen and strangle the main character quite so badly." And this is why I absolutely hate Erwin. His attitude doesn't get any better the farther you go. Screw being one of the top dps for bosses, I can't enjoy the game wanting to choke the life out of the character I'm playing with my own two hands.

[rirururu]

I love how this video kind of turned into an analysis on difficulty curves and how a ton of modern MMO's have been screwing them up recently. I remember over 10 years ago, there was an MMO that I played for hours every day. It took me about 2 years to make it even close to the highest level and I was proud of my accomplishments. A few weeks later, the devs decided to introduce a tree that lets newbies get all their levels just by sitting and afk-ing under it. We're talking about a year of grinding levels condensed into a few hours of doing nothing. I'm sad to say that that was NOT the only MMO I played that suffered that problem months/years after I joined. Devs need to learn that giving people everything instead of letting them work for it by actually playing the game just kills any retention they could've had for it.

[CharlesGriswold]

"You cannot pet the dog. Out of ten." That's just about the harshest rating I have ever witnessed.

[Nyghtking]

"I studied the blade"
*plays a character that only uses a gun.
I just found that to be funnier then you may have intended.

[beyondnomore]

You'd have a polar opposite experience story-wise if you had chosen Jin as your character.

He is super polite and humble

[yanisqwertyuiop]

There's also the fact that there is one way to reliably get more inventory space, and that is inside your welcome back package, which you can only get after 30 days without playing, and not in the daily login reward, you are LITERALLY compelled to stay away as far as possible from the game.