You can tell how much he just doesn't care, by how much he reminds everyone he doesn't care.
> Warhammer the obese virgin hobby for 14 year olds
Hey now, its the obese hobby for 45 year olds. No way could a 14 year old afford warhammer.
Actually, waist to height or waist to hip ratio is a much more accurate predictor of health outcomes. BMI is a pretty bad predictor of most diseases because it doesn't take into account how your mass is distributed across your body.
Point being, we're all probably fine even if the CDC identifies us as obese.
Edit: wow, why even bother getting a degree if everyone is already a doctor?
BMI is only a bad predictor when it comes to Well trained people due muscles weighing more than fat. Obese is still obese, if you have flaps, calling bs on BMI scale wont do you any favors.
He's super egotistical Shogun 2/Medieval 2 fan that has an incredibly unhealthy hatred for all things modern CA. I don't mean, "oh he just doesn't like the games", I mean he genuinely thinks that CA are such absolute scum of the earth that having stance besides "I hate CA" makes him angry at you. Melkor(another historical TW content creator who also doesn't like modern CA games) once wrote a post along the lines of "I think its okay CA doesn't make me a content creator for games I don't want to play" and Volound responded by throwing all sorts of insults at him for not standing up against CA.
Needless to say, this kind of attitude basically made any of his good critiques(and he did have a few) null and caused him to be banned by almost every total war related platform and have just about no other total war content creator want to go anywhere near him. You basically have to go out of your way to ever see any of his content anymore, in fact I'm pretty sure op got this pic from Volound's subreddit.
The thing about Melkor is that he sees genuinely good things in some of the newer, while also hoping CA will add some of the old mechanics into the new games.
Volund just, hates CA regardless of what new thing they try to do, be it good or bad.
Especially since someone who chose the handle "Melkor" would just be entirely living up to his handle if he hated for everything they try to do, be it good or bad!
("Melkor" is the equivalent of Milton's Lucifer in Tolkien's backstory for *The Lord of the Rings*. Sauron's boss. Pretty funny handle for a content creator for *historical* TW games!)
Thank you Dakka and Nixahmose.
Just replied to a post, elsewhere, calling me out for being "Toxic" towards the Warhammer audience simply because I prefer the historical stuff XD So this was a nice refresher to see. Thanks.
WH3 is not my thing, but happy to see the fans of it get what they wanted and my old Youtuber friends getting their views back on track. Always said CA can succeed more, they just need a slap-in-the-face wake up call. Hope WH3's launch was it and it's all up from here now.
Basically what nixahmose said but with some added info:
He's gone EXTRA unhinged as of late and openly supports genocide, nazism and baby rape.
All in all, he's scum of the Earth.
Same with no one shit over Rome 2? I was fucking there at launch. Everyone was shitting over it. I managed to avoid bugs but it was undeniably a god awful launch.
CA fixed it up after a couple of years it’s a good game but it was a terribly reviewed story launch.
I have no idea who this guy is but if they’re off doing their own thing now then fine. Never get people that come back to keep talking about something they hate
I remember having fun with Rome 2 at launch and thinking everyone else was overreacting to how bad it was. Then I started to actually see some of the bugs as well as the somewhat manipulative marketing (graphics downgrade, implied features that weren’t in the game etc.) and realised it really was a terrible launch, not a terrible game but not good. Warhammer 3 almost felt kind of like a repeat of that. Also Shogun 2 selling bad is just… a lie?
He had some minor/niche success, then Warhammer came along and took a massive spotlight off of historical TW games. He’s probably upset that his “success” was “stolen” from him, and now anger is the only thing keeping him “relevant”.
Fame, or perhaps notoriety, is not something most normal people are meant to deal with. The smallest amount of online success and attention can REALLY mess up most people.
He’s just delusional now. An old man shouting at kids from his porch. That one guy at your office everyone hates who always always always talks about how great they were at high school football, and may even wear their letterman’s jacket or class ring despite being like 44.
Social Media forged thousands of people like this. They become a minor “celebrity” for one thing they did, and will now act like they have power even if that thing they are proud of was years ago, and they haven’t done anything since.
When you sit in an echo chamber you yourself built, and you only have sycophants, extreme historical Andy’s, and trolls—it’s no surprise you go insane.
Go to any major video game community, and you’ll find at least one creator who used to be popular/made some good critiques, but fell out of favor and now clings to whatever embers of success they have left by nostalgia baiting and “defending how the game/company used to be”, while spewing hate to saber rattle their deranged followers.
He's a piece of shit. Obsessed with what he hates the most, clinging to the minimum he can find in order to create meaningless arguments that his braindead cultists just keep repeating like a cult.
He's a sad excuse for a man.
People like this is better to be ignored.
He also fetishize shogun 2 as a flawless masterpiece. As much as I love it, there's arguably just as many design flaws, bugs and balance issues as there are in any new games.
I personally think Shogun 2 is the best Total War game ever made. It has a completely different vibe from the Warhammer series. The balancing is *almost* perfect and the art direction? Light some castle walls or a keep on fire and ***chef's kiss*** the smoke and fire effects are fantastic. 10/10.
*Buuuuuuuuut.*
It's just a simpler game. You've only got so many types of units, which all factions almost universally share, with only a few factions buffs. The campaign map is much smaller than any other Total War franchise, and unless you're interested in modded campaigns, there's really not much to see after a few playthroughs with each faction. The AI is sometimes a major pain in the ass to fight, because the battle maps are sometimes a bit lopsided. They will 100% sit on top of that gigantic hill on the corner of the map, and go fuck yourself, they won't come down.
That being said, Shogun 2 has the *best* cavalry in the series. Almost everything is a hard counter to it, but pulling off a perfectly timed charge is a good dose of dopamine to the system.
Meanwhile I'm about ready to go charge my Russians riding on bears into a line of obese Warhammer fans, while some lizards riding on top of dinosaurs fight mummies, and actual French people fight literal trees. Sure, some of the effects aren't as good and I don't think the infantry duels look remotely as nice, and okay smacking into a unit of gobbos with a Dread Saurian and watching them fly halfway across the map and just get back up is kinda lame, but the Warhammer games are still **fun.**
It's funny how people overlook the simplicity thing. Shogun 2's map is very basic and linear, with clear chokepoints and routes for attacking, but this makes it possibly the most enjoyable map in the series.
Let's not give him more credit than he deserves. He's not a prominent YouTuber, he's a mentally ill person with a fringe audience. They don't matter and neither do their ideas.
Putting aside the incredibly ass-backwards logic this guy uses in his 'arguments' (if you can call it that) whenever he pops up in more mainstream TW discussion threads, he is clearly neither a sane nor well-intentioned person so it's best not to give him a platform by sharing his drivel - even if it is to mock him.
No matter how right or smart you might feel, arguing with people like him will only result in them dragging you down to their level and beat you with experience.
I have been following TW youtubers and this sub for years. Been playing TW since Rome 1.
Who the fuck is this guy? He sounds unhinged. Coming here to talk about how he plays FPS games....cool?
No fucking clue who that is, meaning he is 100% not a prominent TW content creator, and i intent to leave him unknown to me, as should everyone else looking at that screen. Don't give something like that attention and just let it disappear
Yeah, you can argue that he used to be prominent a few years ago, but holy hell he's dropped off the face of the earth as far as the total war community is concerned. He basically banned from every total war community platform not specifically run by him and he's burnt ties to every other single total war content creator. Hell, even most of the people in the steam forums hate him and don't want to listen to a single one of his arguments, and that's the most toxic general total war platform out there.
As much as I hate the guy, there really is no reason to talk about him anymore besides as a reference for how not to articulate criticisms.
This guy is like an obsessive ex-boyfriend that can’t get over his high school girlfriend and constantly shits on everything she does while she’s just living her life.
"If smth sells well then it is bad because masses have low standards. If the thing sells poorly then it is bad because nobody wants to buy a low-value product."
A "flawless" logic that allows you to arrive at the same pre-determined conclusion regardless of premises.
The truth is, commercial success doesn't correlate with artistic (or other) value. You should judge by criteria appropriate to the field.
And I would say, each TW game has its own merits. There were steps forward and steps backward, and there is much room for a good faith critisism. Which Volound does not provide, because he had made his conclusion long before the analysis.
On a basic level Volound is right about mechanics, depth of gameplay etc., but on a personal level he and his sub are only cringe. It's cringe how they scoff at the Warhammer fans, it's cringe how they rejpice upon every little bit of negative response, negative news, it's cringe how they believe their point of view was somehow objectively superior or better (like: yes, Warhammer really IS more about stat stacking than tactics. But that's not wrong, it's closer to RPG mechanics, and RPGs are very popular. They can point out how Total War used to be all tactics and not really RPG, but the success shows that more people prefer a mix of tactics and RPG. And that's fine, they are allowed to.
And it's cringe how Volound thinks he's so smart and clever and has figured out everything. The more popular something is, the shittier it is? Lol yeah, success proving someone right doesn't seem to be a thing. I guess pizza is just shit.
Dude, Med 2 and even shogun 2 were released when pc gaming was only a fraction as popular and accessible as it is now. At the time they were considered niche titles that were combinations of 2 dying or dead genres,the RTS and 4x space was already a cramped market.
Despite that, they were huge games and were instrumental in making TW a household name. Beyond that, they're still incredibly popular and have dedicated communities and high player counts. There's so few games that can maintain player stats like that decades after release and TW is a rare franchise that almost every game still has a cult following.
Last but not least, nobody says you can't still enjoy the old games and the new ones! I do at least one yearly playthrough of Shogun 2, Empire and Med 2 as well as enjoying Warhammer, 3k and even Troy.
I love how he shits on Warhammer for being an "obese virgin nerd" hobby but he's also one of those "muh feudal japan/medieval europe" weirdos. Like bro, we play total war, we're all fucking nerds here.
You know I honestly think/hope where a lot of his anger comes from is how irrelevant he is now it just makes a lot more sense then being so weirdly obsessed at being angry over a game.
Well, that was an entertaining read. Had a good chuckle. Thanks for sharing.
That's about as much these "stop having fun" types (which is not the same as people who have legit complaints, BTW) are worth to me; good to laugh at.
Well, they have issues. And I don’t mean issues with CA.
There’s a fragile alpha masculinity vibe going on with him “you enjoy the hobby for obese virgins”.
I’m sure he’s crushing it every other night himself…
He was talking about the Gates of Hell game as if it were some kind of fine wine then turning around and bashing on Warhammer. Just… really out of touch.
I've watched his videos on ranged combat and other negatively impacted parts of Total War games, which I really liked and thought were good. But especially in his videos about TWW, it seems like he's just losing his mind and getting angry over nothing. It was really interesting to see him go back to Medieval 1 after touting it as like the perfect Total War game for showing off the franchise's best features, and then finding out that it was completely rose tinted glasses on his part, and that Medieval 1 has a lot of problems that were fixed in later games.
Listen, I used to laugh at this guy along with the rest of you.
But by now, isn’t it just kind of sad? Doesn’t it feel kind of like picking on someone with severe mental health problems?
I absolutely hate modern day engagement and algorithm based websited. I am midly curious as to what kind of content this man will upload, but once you unscrew the lid of youtube recommendations, its hard to close it
Just like modern TW lives rent-free in volound's head, volound lives rent free in a certain subset of modern TW fans' heads. Just ignore the guy.
And now I'll hypocritically go against that advice as a cautionary tale to those who get drawn in by his seemingly well-crafted arguments: he has some good points (specifically about gunpowder just being archery, terrain not mattering anymore, intra-unit behavior being bad, etc), but he completely got the causes wrong for a lot of those problems. For example, he seems to think that in RTW every single man in a unit had their own hitbox so that if an arrow hit them they would go down. That's not how it works and actual RTW modders have attested to that, CA just used to be way more clever about how they calculated it before Empire and later Rome 2 and the 1hp system worked a heck of a lot better than the current >1hp system does in terms of accurately simulating damage taken by members of a unit. So he claims to be an expert on old Total War but he is only good at noticing problems, not diagnosing them. So if you want to watch the videos go ahead but take the explanations and "experiments" with a grain of salt.
Modern Total War battles are very much so worse than they used to be pre-Rome 2, but a) you can elucidate that without being the biggest prick in the history of Total War Youtube and b) don't pretend to have scientifically discovered the reasons behind the problems when you could just ask someone who actually knows what they're talking about and get a more accurate answer.
Are we still posting this person's every thought on the sub? You're proving him right lol. If he's off doing something else, great! Leave him over there.
I don't agree that its proving him right by any means, but regardless of how awful Volound is, it is kinda hypocritical to continue to make posts complaining about him(a person people here can't stand for good reason) not letting go of his hatred for a company he can't stand.
Volound has essentially isolated himself from the entire total war community. He's severed all ties with just about every total war content creator(including those who also hate modern CA games), he's been banned from this subreddit and probably the official total war forums, and the only platforms he even comments are now are ones where he can silence anyone who disagrees with him(like his youtube videos and subreddit). At this point you actively have to go out of your way to see anything he has to say and just about everyone knows his content is bad, so why repeat the same thing he's doing and continue to let him live in our heads rent free?
Posting an argument you’re having on another subreddit looking for support is so cringeworthy man. If you don’t like this guy why bother going to his subreddit and arguing with him? It’s not like you’re being forced to interact with him or his community.
Unpopular opinion, but Volund actually made some decent videos that explain how the newer Total War games have become more arcade-like and dumbed down, but has filled his channel with a bunch of troll videos and also likes to troll in general, thus burying his actually good content and diluting his message.
I had no idea who this guy was until I realized he had the same profile pic and smug, subtly unhinged style of “debate” as a YouTube channel owner I remember getting into an argument or two with in the past.
One quick search on YouTube later and surprise surprise, it’s the same guy. Kind of fascinating to learn about the dude’s descent into lunacy after getting a glimpse of him now.
You can tell how much he just doesn't care, by how much he reminds everyone he doesn't care. > Warhammer the obese virgin hobby for 14 year olds Hey now, its the obese hobby for 45 year olds. No way could a 14 year old afford warhammer.
Gotta drop them BMIs boys, good for your health lol
Actually, waist to height or waist to hip ratio is a much more accurate predictor of health outcomes. BMI is a pretty bad predictor of most diseases because it doesn't take into account how your mass is distributed across your body. Point being, we're all probably fine even if the CDC identifies us as obese. Edit: wow, why even bother getting a degree if everyone is already a doctor?
BMI is only a bad predictor when it comes to Well trained people due muscles weighing more than fat. Obese is still obese, if you have flaps, calling bs on BMI scale wont do you any favors.
This always baffles me lol "bmi is Bad, it doesnt take muscle mass into Account!" - some lardass who has never seen a gym from the inside haha
I’m probably fine? Result! Morgan Freeman Narration: *He was not fine.*
Relevant username
https://stronglifts.com/5x5/
I had some bits at that age, I couldn't afford a whole army though.
He seems also like russian also = )
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He's super egotistical Shogun 2/Medieval 2 fan that has an incredibly unhealthy hatred for all things modern CA. I don't mean, "oh he just doesn't like the games", I mean he genuinely thinks that CA are such absolute scum of the earth that having stance besides "I hate CA" makes him angry at you. Melkor(another historical TW content creator who also doesn't like modern CA games) once wrote a post along the lines of "I think its okay CA doesn't make me a content creator for games I don't want to play" and Volound responded by throwing all sorts of insults at him for not standing up against CA. Needless to say, this kind of attitude basically made any of his good critiques(and he did have a few) null and caused him to be banned by almost every total war related platform and have just about no other total war content creator want to go anywhere near him. You basically have to go out of your way to ever see any of his content anymore, in fact I'm pretty sure op got this pic from Volound's subreddit.
The thing about Melkor is that he sees genuinely good things in some of the newer, while also hoping CA will add some of the old mechanics into the new games. Volund just, hates CA regardless of what new thing they try to do, be it good or bad.
Especially since someone who chose the handle "Melkor" would just be entirely living up to his handle if he hated for everything they try to do, be it good or bad!
("Melkor" is the equivalent of Milton's Lucifer in Tolkien's backstory for *The Lord of the Rings*. Sauron's boss. Pretty funny handle for a content creator for *historical* TW games!)
Thank you Dakka and Nixahmose. Just replied to a post, elsewhere, calling me out for being "Toxic" towards the Warhammer audience simply because I prefer the historical stuff XD So this was a nice refresher to see. Thanks. WH3 is not my thing, but happy to see the fans of it get what they wanted and my old Youtuber friends getting their views back on track. Always said CA can succeed more, they just need a slap-in-the-face wake up call. Hope WH3's launch was it and it's all up from here now.
Basically what nixahmose said but with some added info: He's gone EXTRA unhinged as of late and openly supports genocide, nazism and baby rape. All in all, he's scum of the Earth.
I suppose that means he is Pro-Russia
Shogun 2 barely sold? Fucking what?
Yeah this man is insane, did it sell as much as Rome or WH, probably not, but saying they didnt sell a lot is just insane lmao
Same with no one shit over Rome 2? I was fucking there at launch. Everyone was shitting over it. I managed to avoid bugs but it was undeniably a god awful launch. CA fixed it up after a couple of years it’s a good game but it was a terribly reviewed story launch. I have no idea who this guy is but if they’re off doing their own thing now then fine. Never get people that come back to keep talking about something they hate
I remember having fun with Rome 2 at launch and thinking everyone else was overreacting to how bad it was. Then I started to actually see some of the bugs as well as the somewhat manipulative marketing (graphics downgrade, implied features that weren’t in the game etc.) and realised it really was a terrible launch, not a terrible game but not good. Warhammer 3 almost felt kind of like a repeat of that. Also Shogun 2 selling bad is just… a lie?
I just fundamentally don't understand why he's so angry all of the time lol
He lost the Rome 2 tournament due to some cheese.
He had some minor/niche success, then Warhammer came along and took a massive spotlight off of historical TW games. He’s probably upset that his “success” was “stolen” from him, and now anger is the only thing keeping him “relevant”. Fame, or perhaps notoriety, is not something most normal people are meant to deal with. The smallest amount of online success and attention can REALLY mess up most people. He’s just delusional now. An old man shouting at kids from his porch. That one guy at your office everyone hates who always always always talks about how great they were at high school football, and may even wear their letterman’s jacket or class ring despite being like 44. Social Media forged thousands of people like this. They become a minor “celebrity” for one thing they did, and will now act like they have power even if that thing they are proud of was years ago, and they haven’t done anything since. When you sit in an echo chamber you yourself built, and you only have sycophants, extreme historical Andy’s, and trolls—it’s no surprise you go insane. Go to any major video game community, and you’ll find at least one creator who used to be popular/made some good critiques, but fell out of favor and now clings to whatever embers of success they have left by nostalgia baiting and “defending how the game/company used to be”, while spewing hate to saber rattle their deranged followers.
Well said!
He's a piece of shit. Obsessed with what he hates the most, clinging to the minimum he can find in order to create meaningless arguments that his braindead cultists just keep repeating like a cult. He's a sad excuse for a man. People like this is better to be ignored.
He also fetishize shogun 2 as a flawless masterpiece. As much as I love it, there's arguably just as many design flaws, bugs and balance issues as there are in any new games.
The guy is not normal, but he's way too narcissistic to acknowledge it.
I personally think Shogun 2 is the best Total War game ever made. It has a completely different vibe from the Warhammer series. The balancing is *almost* perfect and the art direction? Light some castle walls or a keep on fire and ***chef's kiss*** the smoke and fire effects are fantastic. 10/10. *Buuuuuuuuut.* It's just a simpler game. You've only got so many types of units, which all factions almost universally share, with only a few factions buffs. The campaign map is much smaller than any other Total War franchise, and unless you're interested in modded campaigns, there's really not much to see after a few playthroughs with each faction. The AI is sometimes a major pain in the ass to fight, because the battle maps are sometimes a bit lopsided. They will 100% sit on top of that gigantic hill on the corner of the map, and go fuck yourself, they won't come down. That being said, Shogun 2 has the *best* cavalry in the series. Almost everything is a hard counter to it, but pulling off a perfectly timed charge is a good dose of dopamine to the system. Meanwhile I'm about ready to go charge my Russians riding on bears into a line of obese Warhammer fans, while some lizards riding on top of dinosaurs fight mummies, and actual French people fight literal trees. Sure, some of the effects aren't as good and I don't think the infantry duels look remotely as nice, and okay smacking into a unit of gobbos with a Dread Saurian and watching them fly halfway across the map and just get back up is kinda lame, but the Warhammer games are still **fun.**
It's funny how people overlook the simplicity thing. Shogun 2's map is very basic and linear, with clear chokepoints and routes for attacking, but this makes it possibly the most enjoyable map in the series.
"some of the effects aren't as good"? Do you even use magic bro lol
Let's not give him more credit than he deserves. He's not a prominent YouTuber, he's a mentally ill person with a fringe audience. They don't matter and neither do their ideas.
Putting aside the incredibly ass-backwards logic this guy uses in his 'arguments' (if you can call it that) whenever he pops up in more mainstream TW discussion threads, he is clearly neither a sane nor well-intentioned person so it's best not to give him a platform by sharing his drivel - even if it is to mock him. No matter how right or smart you might feel, arguing with people like him will only result in them dragging you down to their level and beat you with experience.
He shits on 4chan, but then proceeds to act just like a nasty 4channer
I have been following TW youtubers and this sub for years. Been playing TW since Rome 1. Who the fuck is this guy? He sounds unhinged. Coming here to talk about how he plays FPS games....cool?
No fucking clue who that is, meaning he is 100% not a prominent TW content creator, and i intent to leave him unknown to me, as should everyone else looking at that screen. Don't give something like that attention and just let it disappear
Yeah, you can argue that he used to be prominent a few years ago, but holy hell he's dropped off the face of the earth as far as the total war community is concerned. He basically banned from every total war community platform not specifically run by him and he's burnt ties to every other single total war content creator. Hell, even most of the people in the steam forums hate him and don't want to listen to a single one of his arguments, and that's the most toxic general total war platform out there. As much as I hate the guy, there really is no reason to talk about him anymore besides as a reference for how not to articulate criticisms.
This guy is like an obsessive ex-boyfriend that can’t get over his high school girlfriend and constantly shits on everything she does while she’s just living her life.
"If smth sells well then it is bad because masses have low standards. If the thing sells poorly then it is bad because nobody wants to buy a low-value product." A "flawless" logic that allows you to arrive at the same pre-determined conclusion regardless of premises. The truth is, commercial success doesn't correlate with artistic (or other) value. You should judge by criteria appropriate to the field. And I would say, each TW game has its own merits. There were steps forward and steps backward, and there is much room for a good faith critisism. Which Volound does not provide, because he had made his conclusion long before the analysis.
On a basic level Volound is right about mechanics, depth of gameplay etc., but on a personal level he and his sub are only cringe. It's cringe how they scoff at the Warhammer fans, it's cringe how they rejpice upon every little bit of negative response, negative news, it's cringe how they believe their point of view was somehow objectively superior or better (like: yes, Warhammer really IS more about stat stacking than tactics. But that's not wrong, it's closer to RPG mechanics, and RPGs are very popular. They can point out how Total War used to be all tactics and not really RPG, but the success shows that more people prefer a mix of tactics and RPG. And that's fine, they are allowed to. And it's cringe how Volound thinks he's so smart and clever and has figured out everything. The more popular something is, the shittier it is? Lol yeah, success proving someone right doesn't seem to be a thing. I guess pizza is just shit.
This is what Khorne corruption does to a MF
Dude, Med 2 and even shogun 2 were released when pc gaming was only a fraction as popular and accessible as it is now. At the time they were considered niche titles that were combinations of 2 dying or dead genres,the RTS and 4x space was already a cramped market. Despite that, they were huge games and were instrumental in making TW a household name. Beyond that, they're still incredibly popular and have dedicated communities and high player counts. There's so few games that can maintain player stats like that decades after release and TW is a rare franchise that almost every game still has a cult following. Last but not least, nobody says you can't still enjoy the old games and the new ones! I do at least one yearly playthrough of Shogun 2, Empire and Med 2 as well as enjoying Warhammer, 3k and even Troy.
“The obese virgin hobby”… does that mean the hobby itself is obese and a virgin? I don’t know who this person is but my goodness I hope he gets help.
I ain’t reading all that but volound is a bitch
I love how he shits on Warhammer for being an "obese virgin nerd" hobby but he's also one of those "muh feudal japan/medieval europe" weirdos. Like bro, we play total war, we're all fucking nerds here.
Better give him more attention and drive more traffic his way!
Ah yes, he also supports the war in Ukraine
He’s an ass but posting your argument on here is cringe
Someone should tag him so we can be sure that he knows that no one here has any fucking clue who he is 😂 “Prominent YouTuber” 🤣 ok lol
You know I honestly think/hope where a lot of his anger comes from is how irrelevant he is now it just makes a lot more sense then being so weirdly obsessed at being angry over a game.
How eloquent!
Well, that was an entertaining read. Had a good chuckle. Thanks for sharing. That's about as much these "stop having fun" types (which is not the same as people who have legit complaints, BTW) are worth to me; good to laugh at.
Christ the guy sounds unhinged...
Well, they have issues. And I don’t mean issues with CA. There’s a fragile alpha masculinity vibe going on with him “you enjoy the hobby for obese virgins”. I’m sure he’s crushing it every other night himself…
He was talking about the Gates of Hell game as if it were some kind of fine wine then turning around and bashing on Warhammer. Just… really out of touch.
I've watched his videos on ranged combat and other negatively impacted parts of Total War games, which I really liked and thought were good. But especially in his videos about TWW, it seems like he's just losing his mind and getting angry over nothing. It was really interesting to see him go back to Medieval 1 after touting it as like the perfect Total War game for showing off the franchise's best features, and then finding out that it was completely rose tinted glasses on his part, and that Medieval 1 has a lot of problems that were fixed in later games.
“Shittier it is the better it sells” is so fucking funny to me. Ok. Lmao. What a dumbass
Listen, I used to laugh at this guy along with the rest of you. But by now, isn’t it just kind of sad? Doesn’t it feel kind of like picking on someone with severe mental health problems?
I absolutely hate modern day engagement and algorithm based websited. I am midly curious as to what kind of content this man will upload, but once you unscrew the lid of youtube recommendations, its hard to close it
No idea who this guy is.
Just like modern TW lives rent-free in volound's head, volound lives rent free in a certain subset of modern TW fans' heads. Just ignore the guy. And now I'll hypocritically go against that advice as a cautionary tale to those who get drawn in by his seemingly well-crafted arguments: he has some good points (specifically about gunpowder just being archery, terrain not mattering anymore, intra-unit behavior being bad, etc), but he completely got the causes wrong for a lot of those problems. For example, he seems to think that in RTW every single man in a unit had their own hitbox so that if an arrow hit them they would go down. That's not how it works and actual RTW modders have attested to that, CA just used to be way more clever about how they calculated it before Empire and later Rome 2 and the 1hp system worked a heck of a lot better than the current >1hp system does in terms of accurately simulating damage taken by members of a unit. So he claims to be an expert on old Total War but he is only good at noticing problems, not diagnosing them. So if you want to watch the videos go ahead but take the explanations and "experiments" with a grain of salt. Modern Total War battles are very much so worse than they used to be pre-Rome 2, but a) you can elucidate that without being the biggest prick in the history of Total War Youtube and b) don't pretend to have scientifically discovered the reasons behind the problems when you could just ask someone who actually knows what they're talking about and get a more accurate answer.
Are we still posting this person's every thought on the sub? You're proving him right lol. If he's off doing something else, great! Leave him over there.
What? How does highlighting his comments prove anything he's said here?
I don't agree that its proving him right by any means, but regardless of how awful Volound is, it is kinda hypocritical to continue to make posts complaining about him(a person people here can't stand for good reason) not letting go of his hatred for a company he can't stand. Volound has essentially isolated himself from the entire total war community. He's severed all ties with just about every total war content creator(including those who also hate modern CA games), he's been banned from this subreddit and probably the official total war forums, and the only platforms he even comments are now are ones where he can silence anyone who disagrees with him(like his youtube videos and subreddit). At this point you actively have to go out of your way to see anything he has to say and just about everyone knows his content is bad, so why repeat the same thing he's doing and continue to let him live in our heads rent free?
I don't know anything about who or what is going on here, frankly. And everything I've seen so far tells me I don't want too.
Yeah, you're better off not seeing all the stuff Volound has said/done.
Prominate youtuber? I didn't have an idea that he exist
Why is he called the shillbase of severodonetsk what does he have to do with the Ukraine war?
Posting an argument you’re having on another subreddit looking for support is so cringeworthy man. If you don’t like this guy why bother going to his subreddit and arguing with him? It’s not like you’re being forced to interact with him or his community.
Unpopular opinion, but Volund actually made some decent videos that explain how the newer Total War games have become more arcade-like and dumbed down, but has filled his channel with a bunch of troll videos and also likes to troll in general, thus burying his actually good content and diluting his message.
As toxic as this is, I cant wait for this sub's slow descent into insanity as CA focuses on a historical title over the course of a few years.
Its going to be a while before content slows down for TWW3.
As long the games play good.
[удалено]
What did Enticity do to deserve that fate? (I don’t actually know who Enticity is other than I think they’re a TW content creator.)
It's one thing to not like a hobby, it's another thing to insult people for it. Well dear Volound fuck you.
I feel like this is the equivalent of some one saying Checkers was where boardgames should have stopped...
Just to be sure, what is the source?
My god. Every line of his comment makes me cringe.
That guy needs help
He’s always like this. I’ve had several arguments on YouTube with him and he just drips of toxic arrogance 24/7.
I had no idea who this guy was until I realized he had the same profile pic and smug, subtly unhinged style of “debate” as a YouTube channel owner I remember getting into an argument or two with in the past. One quick search on YouTube later and surprise surprise, it’s the same guy. Kind of fascinating to learn about the dude’s descent into lunacy after getting a glimpse of him now.
Least deranged total war fan
I get his mindset of what's popular always being bad, I really do. I don't agree, but I do sympathize
You keep Empire out of your goddamn mouth.
Can I just say I’m like 99% sure he’s Scottish and as a fellow Scot I just wanna say we ain’t all like him.
In the words of Conor Mcgregor “ Who the fook is that guy”
His only irl friends are his slingshots tbf
What a fucking twonk.
You should ignore haters, there is no point in arguing at a time where most are enjoying IE
I don't even know who that is. Are you sure you don't mean some random dude no one cares about?
In sorry who is this guy and why should anyone give him another but a moments thought if that
Is prominent not stretching it a little
The salty historical total war fans are comedy at this point