Dissecting Blood Bowl 3
44A bit of an odd one to be the subject of a video essay but I had quite a few things to say about Blood Bowl 3 as it turns out!
00:00 Intro
02:31 Part 1 - A Brief History of Blood Bowl Games
06:13 Part 2 - The Blood Bowl 3 Closed Beta
11:48 Part 3 - Delayed Release
13:49 Part 4 - An Unfinished Launch
20:21 Part 5 - Micro-Transactions
27:35 Part 6 - Story
34:21 Part 7 - Staying the Course
38:12 Part 8 - Cautious Optimism
43:17 Part 9 - To Conclude
If you aren't familiar with the game: Blood Bowl 3 is a turn-based fantasy sports video game developed by Cyanide Studios and published by Nacon. It is a sequel to the 2015 video game Blood Bowl 2, based on the Blood Bowl board game by Games Workshop and is the third Blood Bowl game created by Cyanide. The game was released on 23 February 2023 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S[2], with a Nintendo Switch port planned to be released at a later date.
The game uses the newly updated Second Edition ruleset.
The game was announced in August 2020 but had numerous delays and postponement to its release date. The launch was met with criticism over the new monetization system introduced into the game, bugs and crashes, poor AI, readability, as well as server issues and a lack of tools and features present in the previous game.
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