Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "MARVEL RIVALS - SALES & REVIEW ROUND-UP"

Episode Date: December 23, 2024

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AnalyticIn this segment, Analytic Dreamz delves into the remarkable achievement of Marvel Rivals reaching 20 million players. Launched as a free-to-play title across PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, the game has captivated players with its 33-character roster, featuring both iconic heroes like Spider-Man and unique additions like Jeff the Land Shark. The gameplay is highlighted by innovative "Team-Up" skills and destructible environments, adding layers of strategy. The ranked system offers eight tiers, with hero bans introduced at Diamond III, enhancing competitive play. However, the journey isn't without hurdles; Analytic Dreamz discusses the community's concerns over cheating, privacy issues related to NetEase's kernel-level anti-cheat, and balance disputes, particularly with characters perceived as overpowered. The segment also covers the game's holiday event, "Jeff’s Winter Splash Festival," and the introduction of a free Galacta-themed spray. Despite crossplay support, the absence of cross-progression is noted, with ongoing development efforts acknowledged. Marvel Rivals has garnered positive reviews for its engaging gameplay, though sustaining player interest in the live-service arena remains a challenge. This segment provides a comprehensive look at Marvel Rivals' rapid growth, current issues, and future prospects in the gaming landscape.Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

One of my favorite games in the past three years as Marvel rivals and as far as what it has accomplished gives me the same feeling as far as potential when it comes to longevity similar to the other Marvel game but on the mobile platforms as far as Marvel contests of champions. But now as far as console players like myself, I think they have. have a foundation laid, of course, kudos to net ease as far as developing the game. And ultimately, the foundation laid gives it the possibility to have Marvel contest or champions type of success, but now for console. So with the high praise out of the way, I do want to point out, this specific game is very intriguing to me because if you've listened throughout the podcast you know i'm a huge marvel fanatic as far as marvel characters and everything mccc everything comic book that you know

of course came before the emce you i was diving deep into a lot of different just marvel stories and characters and i in overall uh behind the scenes creations to the point where i would call myself a marvel stand so when this game comes out And automatically, I mean, instantly, you see that this is essentially Overwatch for Marvel fans. Now, of course, NetEase would not like that comparison as literally before this game came out and they had like a close behind the scenes beta. And people started to put their first impressions out as far as behind the scenes beta. Specifically in the contract they had do not compare this game to other games in the same. genre right I wonder what game they didn't want to get compared to but here we are

because it's just blatant playing as day as far as Marvel rivals literally just being overwatch for Marvel fans as the 6v6 is there the ultimate hero abilities and ultimates are there the map designs which a lot of people in the community are starting to notice there's a lot of reminisce type of pathways that are in other Overwatch maps. But now you have way more popular IP to put these routes in high grounds and alleyways that only is pro strats to get the flank on the opposing team. But now instead of a random Overwatch map, it's Asgard or it's Wakanda, right?

The overall IP recognition is through the roof. reminds me of what Mota Versus could have did, but I would like to warn NetEase that Mota versus, I believe, could have been still popular today, but I don't know what happened. Actually, I do know what happened. As far as the bare bones of Mota versus, a lot of people just stopped playing the game because when it initially came out as far as Motaverses, people enjoyed it for what it was, but then they realize there's not much here

we can't really do too much besides play this one game mode or play against the computer it really was no story mode the training was bare bones basically just giving you the overall basics of the mechanics

literally for Marvel rivals I think they have counteracted that type of falloff by having a website that details all the frame data as far as each and every character having a very character having a very extensive training module where you get you get put on the map there's multiple

different areas where you can test out multiple different team up abilities maybe you want to try a healer and one of the robot the friendly robots are getting shot by the enemy robot in like one of the areas so now you can practice healing like it's all different uh situation situational positioning as far as the training map that makes me understand that they really took their time as far as diving deep into giving the fans what they wanted as far as a robust option well a robust amount of options as far as counteracting that fall off of having bare bones at the beginning as far as a multiverses as far as a mk 11 i mean there's a lot of games that the initial gameplay loop no matter how fun it is if there's not enough behind the scenes to get

people intrigued they will stop playing it and it seems like net ease have been watching and taking notes as this is the ultimate w for marvel because of course the mc u's not one but i have my fault my fault so anyways um but that being said of course i wanted to get into marvel rivals i mean like i said it's a six v six battle across various destructible environments is PVP but also you can play against the computer which I will tell y'all

if you're a new player playing Marvel rivals please play the computer first now I have a squad that I play with but I'm not trying to be with randoms like imagine you need one or two randoms to run some games right like maybe the whole squad is not there one day

and you need one or two randoms I'm not trying to go on to a match and basically have a rookie Spider-Man going all over the place, not knowing the setting, so now he just swinging all over the place because he can't directly swing, right? You know, nerd stuff, but very, very frustrating, which is why I like ranked at this point, but still, even a rank randoms, you know, like a famous content creator once said, is ran dums d umb s all right so anyways with that being said of course besides the free to play model uh besides the free to play model we also have 33 characters at launch which seems

like a lot because it is it's so many characters and most of them are dps which god forbid somebody chooses to play healer or tank because that never happens, right? So there's like a bunch of DPS characters, which I, which basically for people who don't know what that is, as far as damage characters in the video game, you have damage,

you have tank, which, you know, can take more damage. And then, of course, you have healers, which,

for me personally, having put 15 to 20 plus hours into the game, my favorite character currently is, of course, Spider-Man, because I was going to get good, at Spider-Man no matter what so once I got proficient at using Spider-Man

effectively I branched over until a healing factor you know what I mean because I realized nobody wanted to heal so I was learning the healing characters and cloak and dagger I'm not gonna lie to you definitely grew on me now as far as Dr. Umar's least favorite character in Marvel rivals I think we can confidently assume what that might be because cloak and dagger let me tell you one thing that character is phenomenal i love playing cloak and dagger because it's two characters and one so not only are you healing but there's once you get good you get to actually damage in ways that lets you play damage and healer and still be super effective it's more of an 80-20 split

though anyways um so with that being said i enjoy spider-man i've enjoyed uh i've enjoyed spider-man as my DPS. I've enjoyed cloaking dagger as my healer. And then as far as for a tank, my favorite tank currently, which it may change, but currently, I'm not going to lie to you. Running people down with Captain America is super O.P. If you know what you're doing. There's no escaping Captain America if you're a healer. And if that cap knows what they're doing, because if you're going to run away, cap runs a four flat. Actually, he runs a three flat. I forgot, you know, the super soldier. zero you know what I'm saying can't compare him to regular humans right so mr. three flat out here just hawking people down and you trying to get away from and he has unlimited sprint so

he's running after you and then god forbid you create some distance now he's throwing your shield into a shield dash or a shield uh what's it called i think a shield dash or whatever the shooting star whatever they call it and he's going to hit you with the shield close all that distance and now you're right back to being honked down by Captain America. That man is phenomenal. And the whole time he's a tank and he's moving around like a DPS. So I love Captain America as far as a tank and Spider-Man as far as DPS just because that's my favorite character. So I'm so glad I was able to get good with him.

He's actually not that difficult. He has like a five, four-five star rating as far as difficulty. But personally, you just got to learn combos. And then at that point, it's really just situational awareness. I'm so glad I found a game that I'm actually good at competitively as far as it involving shooting because let me tell you every FPS game I struggle with. So as far as this game having specifically shooting characters, I can completely torture and dominate. It brings joy to my heart. Because if somebody playing Punisher, I'm telling you, cloak and dagger, it's easy to pop a shield.

And now your DPS is literally taking them out from a distance. they're just healing you know what i mean it's really nothing they can do after that so um what's i going with that obviously i've enjoyed marvel rivals right so one of the things i wanted to get into was basically overwatch coming out because if you don't know marvel marvel rivals has reached 20 million players uh shortly after launching and basically as far as uh marvel rivals it reached over 10 million players within 72 hours of release you know this is analytic dreams over here at notorious massifay you already knew we was going to get into the analytics as as far as the overall platforms if you look at it on xbox is currently the seventh most play game yeah so as far as because

sometimes they count bundles so i try to take those out so yes the seventh most play game on xbox and then as far no no it's the seventh most play game on PlayStation and then as far as Xbox I don't see it on the list at all but you know that's what that's why I cover specific platforms

and then of course on Steam it is the fifth most play game on Steam so I'm not going to lie to you when it comes to Xbox not having any games y'all having Marvel rivals and choosing as far as a majority

right choosing to play other games when this new IP not new IP but basically a new video game starring marvel characters in an overwatch setting i'm not saying everybody and the mom has to play it but as far as it not to be in the top 10 when it's the seventh most play game on playstation the fifth most play game on steam you can see why a lot of gaming conversations center around PlayStation's dominance on the gaming console war right because at the end of the day we do that we do that the end of the day we do want them to be competitive as far as Xbox and PlayStation. But with the most popular game out, everybody seems to be playing on PlayStation. So anyways, that was just a little side tidbit.

So as far as Marvel rivals, of course, DLC is soon to come. There's been a lot of leaks as far as Fantastic Four. Apparently, Ultron is coming soon. He's going to be a healer from what I've heard. More of a strategist, that was the label used. So think of like a Loki. Loki's technically a healer, but he has a lot of different abilities

for you to use on the battleground. So Ultron would probably be boosting and healing a lot of different enemies. Well, no, a lot of different, as far as his teammates, he'll be healing them. And as far as the enemy, obviously he'll be damaging and then boosting the damage of his teammates.

All right. So with that being said, I think there was something else I was one to get into. or maybe that was it so yeah Marvel rivals is definitely going to continue

to dominate because it's really showing no sign of falling off I mean it just recently hit 20 million players everybody seeming to love it I love it I mean as far as finding time to play video games isn't it funny how when a game is straight up fire

that you will find time to play it so with that being said this game is phenomenal. Net ease who developed this specific game was receiving a lot of conspiracy theory type of narratives for the simple fact that they were, or they are a Chinese video game company. And a lot of people have their 10-4-year hat song when it comes to that and the success of this game. But all I want to tell you is if net ease out of China,

makes a phenomenal game, then that's just what it is. Like, maybe if in the future reports come out that they've been abusing data as far as collecting data from the public, but as far as right now, I think all of this conspiracy theories, because this is a real thing,

that's the only reason I'm addressing it. The overall conspiracy theory of naïse being the devil because they're a Chinese company and they're going to steal all your data. That's a very interesting narrative when meta exists that was created in America, right? So with that being said, NetEase also has a history of developing games, of course, for both mobile and PC platforms, the most popular developments were Naraka Blade Point and Knives out.

They developed that and they're known for collaborating with a lot of Western IPs, obviously bringing a unique perspective into the market. which we see how unique it is now. Like, I'm not going to lie to you. Marvel Rivals is so fire. If it had his own TV show on Netflix, on Disney, we'll probably have to go to Disney Plus.

It would sell like hotcakes, because overall, the premise of every single character model in this video game is ultimately fantastic. Trying to see what else is. as far as I wanted to cover. As far as Marvel rivals and the specific characters, obviously Jeff,

the shark is the best character in the game by far. It's not even close. He swallows up everybody and spits him out of the map and kills the whole team. The only way you get around it is if, once again, you play like a cloak and dagger type character that if an ultimate happens,

you can put a shield around your team or you could just straight up block as far as, I don't know, can Captain America block the shark? I'm not sure. Anyways, the shark is O.P. That's how you need to know. Jeff DeShark is the most O.P. character in the game. And he's definitely getting a nerve because him swallowing up and spitting out everybody.

And then he just takes out the whole team. That has to stop. As far as Scarlet Witch, I hear a lot of her being O.P., but playing the game, her all literally takes forever to go off. And you can either take her out or you could just run away. is very easy. As far as Jeff's Ultimate is very quick and he swallows you up in a huge radius.

So it's not as as slow of a startup as Scarlet Witches. But yeah, just the most popular character with the most OP character in the game, definitely Scarlet Witch. But this game emphasizes a lot of team-up ability. So definitely run some

team-up comps as far as Captain America and Thor as far as Magic and Black Panther Spider-Man, Venom, and Penny Parker. There's a lot of different team-ups in the game that gives you an extra ability,

which is probably a game changer if you really think about it, and you want to, you know, Coral, just collaborate and picking your characters. You're going to pick Captain America? Well, I'll probably go forward

to give you that extra ability. Or if you're going to, that's only if you lose enough. If you're winning, then you know it's really no problem but overall it definitely does help so with that being said the game did receive criticism about the kernel level anti-cheat software because apparently the data security due to net ease is chinese origin once again i told you all this was a big deal this is just this was another tidbit that people were pointing out that objectively speaking

there have been a lot of caught cheaters on Marvel rivals. So they've been talking about criticism about the kernel level anti-cheat software. So with that being said, I think that's pretty much it. You know, there's a lot coming for this game. Oh, the winner costumes, as far as the Winter Splash Festival, includes new 4V. Oh, there's a 4V4 mode coming.

Wow, that's going to be fired. And Christmas theme skins for Rocket Raccoon. magic venom and gru i've seen them venoms and grutes outfit is gonna feed nations because those outfits are fire with this being a free to play game i'm not gonna lie to you i'm gonna be i'm gonna have to spend something because i'm having too much enjoyment to play a game for free like this i'm at to spend at least something to just support the developers because when a game is free to play and you see that they didn't give you a half you you you know what type of effort you have to support them because these type of games don't come around

too often usually free to play locks one two three four or five characters at launch so that it entices you to buy you know stuff on the on the game literally every single one of the 33 characters is available at launch imagine because imagine if it was another company EA developing this game man Spider-Man Iron Man and Captain America would have been locked at the start you would have had at least spend five dollars at least ten fifteen dollars to unlock those characters So with that being said I think when that ease has done as far as cultivating such a Quality type of game for free this is literally a seven Let me not let me chew once again. I am consumer friendly so I'm not giving them any ideas We appreciate the free content

But I will be supporting them by buying some skins So, yeah, that's basically it. What else? Marvel rivals, like I said, is doing phenomenal as far as sales right now. Had 10 million players in the 72 hours of launch, and then now it's currently around the, you know, it actually reached and surpassed the 20 million players' achievement. And with that being said, this game is free to play on PS5,

Xbox Series X and PC. And yeah, I could talk about it. about this game all day. So what I'm going to do is basically, let's see if I can find this right quick. Okay, so basically I've been playing this game, right? So now we're getting into the portion of shameless plugs. Ladies and gentlemen, I want you to, let me see. Okay, part three. Let's go to part three. Okay, let's see. I don't know if this is going to play. It's probably not going to play. i read it is okay well it's spotify so it probably won't play but anyways let me just pull this up right quick just so y'all can see it so all right as far as all right so analytic dreams video

on spot to see the video along with the audio because basically i have i've been playing this game for quite uh some time at this point and i've been putting it up on uh different platforms obviously so you can see right here um see it's the video so on spotify the reason why i plug this all the time because it's the video so as you can see i can move it over a little bit as you can see right there that's me right so when you go to analytic dreams videos on spotify you can watch it you can watch the video along with the audio and then as far as uh live right because i do go live nowadays and twitter kick Twitch and both of my YouTube channels is what I'm currently going live on.

And basically to be notified when I go live, I would just follow my Twitter and click the bell icon to be notified when I go live. Because those, well, that platform specifically is the best that sending out notifications, especially when you go live to your audience. It doesn't really pick and choose when to notify your audience like, you know, some other platforms. But we ain't going to say no names, right? So anyways, if you. want to see me play this game in full this is part three obviously there's other two parts but i'm

just showing you the latest one and this is me playing with the homies basically taken out so at the beginning i'm like taking out the computer you know practicing a little bit hopping with the homies go against the uh go against the competition and you know just dominate you know what we do you know me so anyways um that's basically just a little shameless plug because yeah i think that's pretty much it so yeah with that being said click my link tree in my bio let me know one of my social media is what do you think about one of the best games in my opinion of 2024 and ultimately will you be giving this game a try and if you have who's your favorite character to play as