How treasure piles work in games
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- This treasure pile only has HOW MUCH gold??
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Fun fact: Smaug was actually guarding 200 gold in total
wow was it so? when I was child reading about Bilbo Baggins adventures I somehow cannot recall if there was any specific number provided by Tolkien
he did provide that info just recently tbf
I am lucky enough to have one of Smaug's coins from the Hobbit but unfortunately its only made from tin.
@@wadysawkostrzewski8557 it was said to be mountains of gold in Erebor before Smaug took over.
So yeah, 200 gold wouldn’t be much of a stretch xD
Now it makes so much more sense that he didnt want to part with a single coin.
‘Split my ass, Rowan’. 😂
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Was not expecting that
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"Split my ass Rowan!" Careful, dangerous thing to say when you're walking ahead of him.
Was looking for this comment cuz I thought the same.
Especially considering we have no idea how big of a sword Rowan has in his inventory.
@@Veelasiren he may not have a sword, he might have a ladder. oh wait maybe he doesnt. opps i forgot or did rowan forget?
Knowing Rowan he would literally split his ass and take the gold 😂😂😂😂😂
😆😆😆@@zerodawn09
Ben finally took the sensible response to Rowan: let him learn the hard way instead of trying to argue with a brick wall.
that assumes that he learns
Ine can assume after watching the entire campaign so far, rowan wont...lol
I mean you can get just get rid of some other useless items so you can make more space for the gold or maybe it doesn’t work like that in this game
@@badreedinebedro There was only 100 gold, the pile was only for show lol you're just as bad as Rowen
This is way too accurate, especially when you're looting and you can clearly see there's some cool items there, but you can only 'loot' some dusty rags, a bone and 3 coins.
They need to follow up with Rowan finding a lootable potato sack with like 400 gold.
Venjamin Bandelier, bandit king wins again!
@@michaellane5381Or the Skull from an empty-looking platform.
They actually made a video about that
Then i remember how rowan math works
Tax collector: "Give us your gold!"
Rich person: "Sorry man, my gold pile is empty."
Don't care. They still want something
@@dominicharvey6048If you're rich enough, peasant rules such as "taxes" don't apply to you the same
Rich Person: See, I spent all the gold on gold, so therefore the expenses cancel out all the income.
Tax collector: Ah, carry on then. Oi, you, poor person! You didn't report an Uber run you made 7 bucks on! Get over here!
@@manictiger I spent my gold on silver, then I spent my silver on gold. No taxes 😎
*sigh*
People who evade tax and contribute nothing to the society and then expect that they should be serviced by the same society. Just pay the tax, folks.
I love how Rowan seems to magically forget EVERY other time he has been wrong on stuff.. health potions, horse pocket... etc etc
Hold on. Horse pocket? I hope that's something to do with mount summoning...
@@DGneoseeker1it's a classic! Definitely look it up!
But he was right about not casting fireball when he's melee'ing the boss. That's basically being right 100% of the time.
@DGneoseeker1 yes mount summoning!!! 😅
@@NukeMarine true dat
I half-expected the pile to remain there as an elaborate cosmetic 'chest'.
I actually thought rowan would turn to face it and it would have disappeared because Ben picked it all up
@@Poppy_is_my_dogThis.
@@Poppy_is_my_dogExact same thought.
@@Poppy_is_my_dognah cause Rowan would’ve thought Ben took all the gold that wasn’t there
I will never get sick of Ben and rowan arguing about video game nonsense. The Health Potion one is still one of my all time favorites.
Horse pocket.
@@DellikkilleDBackpacks
The one where Rowan fell off the game world
PUBG arguments as well
The health potion is one I never fully understood. Does any game imply that you consume it whole?
For me it is too non-related to be funny.
Straight out of The Witcher 3. Huge pile and only 22 crowns in it.
BG3 is bad about this too.
Sea of thieves!
@@rettbull9100 That gold pile in the sanctuary god damn it
Right, how frustrating. Same on sea of thieves. And i love both, but... Damn 🤬
Oh yeah, I am always completely broke in that game. 😅
We need the opposite version of this now, the one that happens in games like fallout where you're able to pull a gun, 36 bullets, 12 caps, 4 pieces of armor, a hat, their shirt, a note, a desk fan, and a bowl of noodles out of a chunk of dead guy's arm that fell off the building he was shooting from
Equally absurd is being able to loot all nearby dead bodies from that one tiny chunk of flesh. Comes in handy though when you kill an enemy in an area that can be annoying to reach. Just have to kill a nearby enemy that you can reach and use it to loot the guy on top of the building that only has roof access from the stairs behind another building, two blocks down. (I should really start running with a jetpack! lol)
Don't forget mirelurks that for some fucking reason have a legendary Fatman launcher when they are a CRAB
Play Kingdom Come: Deliverance and then you'll start to love having 5 apples on the table and not having to pick them up one by one with a custom picking animation, plus you have to have your hands free to pick them up or just open the door, which even Skyrim doesn't have.
The most realistic games are the most annoying and you've probably never heard of them because no one enjoys watching a game character kneel down every time they pick herbs.
Flashback to that moment in Skyrim when you realize the coin piles are all individual coins you can pick up 👌
In Kingdom Come: Deliverance, it's far worse in terms of realism. What you see on the merchant's table are real in-game items with stats that you have to collect manually. There's an animation for picking things up, even picking up herbs has its own picking animation. It's realistic, but so horribly annoying, you really don't want to see real things in games.
my dnd party did this joke sooo often
"you find an empty pile of gold"
thanks divinity OS 2
Split my ass Rowan definitely caught me off guard lmao
Hopefully for Ben, he won't split it horizontaly 😉
It'd be really funny if Ben ad libbed that and Rowan was as surprised as we were😆
Rowan really needs to get his game sense fine-tuned. Can't believe he missed that mountain of gold! Good one Ben playing him like that!
Rowan gut good tho.. he basically is the rollie pollie!
That was really brave of Ben to turn his back on Rowan after saying "Split my arse" to him.
It's like in the movies when someone is slowly walking away from a huge explosion. They're just too confident and cool to care. Massive boss move. 😁
that explains alot actually, Rowan having never played any games before . it all makes sense now
2:13 - "Split my arse, Rowan".
Coming up in tonight's episode of VLDL Up Late... 😂
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@@VivaLaDirtLeague - "Hey Rowan, is that a massive pay cut in your pants, or are you just pleased to see me?" 😂
Have to say out of all you guys Ben is massively the MOST TALENTED, like seriously he changes his whole demeanor for each character, his voice is different, his actions are different, his WHOLE personality is unique in all his characters, WHAT A GEM!
His look at the end of the female armor skit is just iconic 🤣🤣🤣
I would say Hamish is just as great as Ben. He is able to express so damn many completely opposite emotions and roles insanely well.
Don't forget Byron
@@Ajar37Brian?
Byron and Ben are the absolute best. Especially in DnD logic videos.
Holy shit Ben willing to split the loot? That’s character development.
The painful truth about video games you working hard to beat a dungeon only to find out the loot worth less the what you spend
But you still manage to end up with loads of crap you can't carry 😂
The only thing there is spare change.
Still worth it for the xp and the progression
dungeons are for xp, and maybe upgrades. you want gold? go grind some repeatables
it's usually painful truth about life as well
And now they regret letting the "Split my ass" line get into the final skit. Rowan and Ben relationship was never the same
And neither was Ben's ass.
I never get bored watching Rowan trying to apply real life common sense in video games. Ben's victories are just outrageous!
I have to go with Ben on this one. Not his fault that Rowan doesn’t listen
They really need to follow this up with Rowan searching the room and finding 600 gold in the Tin cup on the mantle.
or bother to look at the loot in the actual ui 😂
@@Jamieboi1989"hey where did this ladder come from?" would be a great line to add.
Rowan NEVER listens, especially when Ben is right!😂😂
@@disturbedpyro4511 OUTRAGEOUS! 🤣
I love this goddamn tavern. Well worth it!
It costed 100 gold to build
Bro I literally died. I wish that when Rowan interacted , it raised a notification +38000gp
I bet Ben hid the rest in his "horse pocket"
This is how they actually talk to each other when they’re playing PUBG. It’s a friendship thing.
Bickering like an old married couple 😄
It would really be frustrating to play with someone like that! 😂😂😂😂
Only the best of friends talk to each other this way ❤
You hear people fighting like that, and think 'aww besties!' It's nice to see people feel so safe around each other@@VivaLaDirtLeague
One thing I love about the Overlord games is that the size of your pile of gold varies w/ the amount of gold in it.
is that a good game?
@@forevermyanmar8076It's kinda like Pikmin, but in a high fantasy setting.
Same in Skyrim, sure piles are never bigger than maybe 12 coins but they are all there.
@@LtCunninghamoh, that Overlord. I'm on Anime brain, and couldn't place it. Plus, I only owned Nintendo back then, so I played that game like one time for a couple hours at someone else's house.
Yeah, they're fun, but pretty dated. There's bound to be better games by now made by a team of two people in the same genre.
If I recall correctly, it was somewhere between Pikmen and an RTS or Dungeon/City builder, where you rescued or summoned imps, then sent them to mine gold or channel mana for you.
Fable 3 did that too. There was a gold room to store your loot and it would grow till it reached the ceiling.
Larian does this all the time. I've been conditioned to see a pile of gold as an "interactable object" and not, well, a pile of gold. Thanks, Larian, you bastards.
They're for sure not the only ones but yeah, I genuinely have a love-hate relationship with Larian's productions because of the damn loot. It nearly ruins the vibe of all their games for me. Like potion bottles the size of my head? No thanks.
Pile of gold (empty)
Yeah screw baldurs gate... the story sucked and people just keep telling me if I mod it then it is fine.
I'm convinced that Rowan is actually an NPC pretending to be a player, or a player who doesn't realise he's an NPC 😂
Literally had this situation in "divinity 2"
Came to a place with like 8 mountains of that amount of gold
And there was a sword...
And a zero gold...
As a person who played the dragon age games, I deal with this a lot
The place with all the Soul Jars in Act 1, I remember it well.
Literally mountains of gold, and you can't even take enough to buy a new piece of Armour
Or in divinity 1 where there is a cave full of gold of troll king but you only get 50 gold each heap
@@Trojianmaru there also was that "clown" guy, trickster was it his name?
@@Andrei-if1dr funny thing is, in the first two dragon age games, 50 gold is practically a fortune.
This happens all the time in every open world game. I really wonder where all the NPC's weapons and other items disappear to, seconds after I defeated them.
That's normal, just like it's normal for a rat to drop a full suit of armour
Haha, that's true.@@overbored1337
In GW1 you can encounter a huge pile of treasure, you pick around 2000 gold from it and then interacting tells you "a powerful magic prevent you from touching the gold". Well at least they kept it logical (it was a djinn treasure).
And then GW2 you get dumped into the Mystic Forge and are actual mountains of treasure there, some of which is raining on your head and you can't touch any ofnit
Same when you find an armory and see tones of weapons and armor all around and all you can loot is 1 broken straight sword
I'm in the same boat with Rowan actually. We need to blame the developer for this logic.
Yes! Like games are visual media! We're supposed to take things at sort of face value, and it's not like I A: will see the reward before I get there - it's the layout that tells me where to go, and B: I will know what I'm getting in a second anyway! Give me a pouch if it's a small thing, make it a covered weapon rack if it's a weapon. Don't make it literal piles of gold if it's not piles of gold!
@@M.Datura It's especially annoying when a game suddenly puts visual cues in the background as part of a puzzle solution. Like... you've just spent hours teaching my brain to IGNORE all those details.
the atmosphere on this set is amazing! love what you guys have done with the tavern
a MASSIVE hoard of gold = 5 gold pieces. "It checks out"
Gotta love it, when you are coming by benches with the sickest gear ever, but nothing of it can be interacted with, you are only allowed to take a flashlight or a knife whatever it is that they placed there within loads of stuff, that would be infinately more helpful. Hammers, crowbars, nail guns, it all certainly has no purpose when being in a situation, where crafting is essential for survival.
@marcfuchs6938 Worse is the games where you have to craft all those things, and they're crap items.
Meanwhile in minecraft you can construct a crafting table that has various metal tools on it, using only wooden planks.
And Rowan proceeded to split Ben's ass
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@@DellikkilleD 🤣
Of course only on onlyfans 😂
Joke's on him, it was already split!
"Aight bet just Ben over"
This is such a heartwarming friendship. Maybe not for Ben, but for us who get to watch...it just warms my heart.
This reminds me of the gold piles in the Spanish forts in Sea of Thieves, where you can only grab 2 or 3 piles and the rest is just visuals
"Split my ass..." This had me spray the morning coffee all over the screen.. thanks for that.
That one time in Resident evil 4 that the merchant had sh1t ton of ammo in front of his sale stand yet he won't let me buy some.
They are all blanks
"Split my ass, Rowan" is one of the best lines ever on this channel
This is genuinely like the goblin camp treasure room in Baldurs gate 3
This skit is 100% based on that exact treasure room 😂
"You actual child" How long have you wanted to say that Ben? Asking for a friend
Edit: huzzah! VLDL liked my comment I feel seen! It may not mean much to most but idc!
Yay people like me! Self high five
Have you actually played a video game? Yeap, that nails it.
@@arrowghost agreed lol so much truth coming from Ben. The messenger of the Horse Pocket, the potion vial eater, the double jumper and known as the "OUTRAGEOUS" one. Feel free to add what I missed (including bored because, reasons) much love friends!
And now you get to learn that editing your comment causes the like to disappear 😉
@@ndazzaSo true, so sad.
"Split my ass rowen" had me crying
Something I loved about Titan Quest was how loot was literally the things you saw. Even when it came to weapons and armor that monsters used, the very same weapon or armor dropped when dead
Reminds me of all those games where they just have gold coins scattered around chests, on floors and tables, or the worst ones where the floor is literally made out of gold coins. Yet you can't pick them up.
First time I saw Ben look so defeated even though he won the argument
Can't believe that I was actually hoping that Rowan somehow managed to punch that mountain of fake gold and split them into a LOOTABLE mountain of gold.
How are these 2 even still friends, still playing together and most shockingly, actually making progress with anything together.
Ben: this is my annotation and Rowan's crowding my style! *camera pans to the right cutting out Rowan*
Ben: I have one question for you have you ever played a game before or was this your first time
Rowan: f*ck you ben
I love you guys! You should maybe make your own game
One day 😍
waiting for the reveal that Rowan turned off all of his HUD displays for immersion sake in the very beginning and therefore never had tutorial messages or action prompts etc
My favorite is at the end of the big Sea of Thieves quest, you end up in a room absolutely covered with piles of gold, probably hundreds of millions of coins. Then after you fight the boss, your guide shows up and is like “Wow, great job! You should leave the treasure, it’s corrupted too many pirates already.” and then you can’t actually loot any of it.
Imagine if Rowan walk a few step further and there's more than 100 gold stacks behind 😂
I think I actually remember this happening in a game. I believe it was Neverwinter Nights 2 and in a dragon's lair. Lots of individual gold and treasure piles you had to loot one by one.
When will Rowan start listening to Ben he is always right... (Except that one Time) 😂
Also, anyone remember playing Fabled and you could literally see the pile of gold in the gold vault grow as you add to it?? it was so satisfying to me seeing a visual representation of my efforts.
In a video game that allowed purchasing of houses, one in particular was pretty close to this. Winter-frozen north setting, sturdy constructions from full-on tree trunks...A cave nearby (part of the property you bought) with a literal dragon sleeping on a pile of gold & jewels. The treasure pile, considered in relative size-scale, had to be at least 3x the size of the pile in this video. Dragon is presumed to be some kind of pet but it never wakes up & the whole pile of loot was only cosmetic, in that you couldn't even grab a single coin out of it.
...Even though you've already paid for the property as a whole, the treasure was still untouchable...
Will poor Rowan ever learn to trust what Ben says ? probably not !
you mean like with the hellfire?
The tricks they play with amounts are so devious
These never get old. No matter how many times Ben shows Rowan something he NEVER trusts him. Horse Pocket is still one of my favorites.
This may just be my single greatest video game pet peeve ever.
Rowan Was Mugged !
Rowan mugged himself lol
When it comes to loot piles it would be better if the games actually show what they have, we have the technology to do that easily now, you don't even need that much processing power to rending in a gold pile in games now adays, and what i mean is you don't have to animate every piece of gold we have ways to simulate it easily.
I've come to understand that a lot of game developers actually don't know that much about how to streamline things so that rendering loot for example remains visible and also not taking up literally all your RAM constantly. But I do agree that this is a fixable issue, even if they want to have like set loot cosmetics to keep things familiar.
Problem is can player see 3 pieces of gold coins? Piles of gold are there so players can see them easily. Even real sized 100 gold coins in the corner of the room may be hard to be seen.
Wouldn't that bog down the game with all the unnecessary added assets?
@@Wiggleattacks no it won't because the assets would would be used to make a bigger bound together object which would act as one entity, you would only need one coin asset per coin type and then use said assets to make the shapes you want for fix structures
@@Serlock4869 you would be surprised what gamers notice
I love it when you defeat an enemy and can clearly see his gear still intact on and around his body, but you can't pick any of it up because.....reasons.
"It's not about gold, but about glory." - The pirate lord (HELL NO! WHERE IS MY GOLD!!! -Most pirates in SoT)
Rowan really never learns. You can tell this is the same guy who doesn't know who someone is if they're wearing a different shirt.
Gold piles in Sea of Thieves…
If I had a gold piece for every time Ben has been exasperated by Rowan it would look bigger than that pile.
The same thing happens when collecting plants. You can see like 20 flowers on the bush and you pick it and get like 1 - 3 petals.
The one time Ben is actually smart they still, somehow how still are end up in a argument .😂
What do you mean? Ben is always the smart one.
It's even worse when the pile does not actually vanish after you've looted it but it just says "empty". So you're actually leaving a massive pile of gold behind when you leave the area....
As soon as I saw Rowan and Ben at the thumbnail I thought "What are they gonna bicker about now?" 😂
Love how this time, Ben didn’t flat out disagree with Rowan’s point of view, he just held out so Rowan could discover the bitter truth himself 😂
There's a horde of gold in a goblin-infested temple in Baldur's Gate 3, but when you go to loot it, it's about 500. It's a decent haul, but just not the amount that's visually insinuated by the mountain larger than your character.
I see this happen in anime also.
A party will finish a dungeon with heaps of gold at the end, and the next scene they are complaining they don't have money for food.
It’s like looting a dead dragon only for them to have 1-3 “dragon scale” items. We’ve all had that moment where we’re like “ummm, no, I see plenty more scales on that thing, maybe look again so I don’t have to keep grinding”, and I’m sure plenty of us have also had moments where we’re killing small things like deer and get 2 hearts, 6 legs, and 2 heads as trophies and we’re left wondering what the hell kind of deer we killed.
This is the same incident when Adam once try to buy Bodger's weapons but all he got was daggers when the background got spears & swords.
I love when they have a video together. They work off each other so well.
As me and my fiancee were watching this i literally said to her "is this the first video game rowan has ever played? He never knows how anything works" and then ben said that exact thing lmao i love it
Perfect timing for splitting ass
Rowan learned lesson he'll remember for life and he only had to pay 50 gold to learn it! It's a _steal_ if you ask me
Well, at least it had gold in the pile - some games will have you find a +1 Axe aimed for a class you don't play, some chicken, etc. Or even make it purely decoration for a battle (Where I assume the gold is an illusion cast by the boss of the area that is really committed to the bit?)
This is so true guys! Those piles of gold were always making me sad in Skyrim
In Diablo 2, when there were rooms full of gold, they were scattered in small piles. Would have been funny if Ben accidently only clicked on the first small pile thinking it represented everything, so R. started rapid clicking the rest and got thousands of gold.
That moment when a random horse has more gold in it than a literal pile of treasure
This is Horst Borsodi's treasure vault in Witcher 3. I was more angry and feel more robbed than Rowan here.
Thank you for making this one! I think this every single time I see "heaps" of gold in games. There's literally an entire pile, right there! 😟
"Split my ass, Rowan" Is now my favorite sentence, I think in the history of the universe. So, thank you, for that.
Some things Ben has said that pop up in my mind every now and again, "Outrageous", "Horse pocket", and now a new competitor "Split my ass". Funny as hell guys!
So true. Whenever you do a dragon raid, there’s mountains of golds and treasures but you cant grab them lol
I clearly remember running around on several massive piles of gold and treasure in WoW, trying to somehow obtain it, and I never could.
Ben should have said, "Rowan, You give me 150 gold and you can have everything in the pile".
This is something that has been a pet peeve of mine since the dawn of games putting gold pile graphics in games.
Amusingly, the last DLC of Skyrim subverted this little trope by having you find a treasure room with piles of gold and actually having a LOT of gold in each of those piles. Sure, by that point in the game the amount that it gives you is peanuts beside what you can get with other methods... but its still what you would normally expect from piles of gold of that size.
I have never been got by one liners as I don’t find them funny. So when I say “split my ass Rowan” had me in tears, it really means something
The giant gold piles with only a little in it have always been so silly to me, great to see a skit about it