I Forced my friends to play EVOLVE
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No you
@@nemoo9257 Nou
I got it for 5 bucks but since I was a gamestop account user I got it for free so yeah go to gamestop it was xbox though. Didnt get the dlc monsters and characters though.
ok
You should message the devs and tell em to bring it back for us
I will always love the “I forced my friends…” saga can’t wait for the next Arc where they are forced to play Dragon Age Inquisition multiplayer
As much as I liked Inquisition, that multiplayer is very forgettable
Edit: Guys below are proving my point
Inquisition has multiplayer?
I also did not know this was a thing.
I blocked it out
@EaselBlank Because EA... doesn't matter the question. The answer is always the same xD
I miss Evolve it was fun being the monster
Playing the Wraith was the best man, loved my spooky monster boi.
Fr man, It sucks when games like these die
@@boostmefujumoto yeah I really miss A-symmetrical games where both sides could fight each other and now all we have is Dead By Daylight… that gets so boring.. there aren’t any good games it seems now… BUT I did see a game called VHS so hopefully that’ll be fun when it comes out! This game was so so fun and it really was scary playing as the monster cause you could be chillin and get trapped and gunned down the next. The true monsters are the humans 😂
The volcano guy was where the shit is at that was my fucking man, it was so fun just lobbing rocks at people like a pumped up gorilla
@@DarkStarGames. Dude right man, at first glance the monster seem very powerful but damn the humans was waaay more annoying to deal with lmao. My friend and I would always go in lobbies and just trade off as humans and monsters, we would play for hours.
Evolve is genuinely such a great game, its such a shame corporate greed killed it like it did
ow so thats why
@@florkiler6242 No what killed it is you couldn't choose hunter or killer. It forced you into a random role.
That’s not true, you could queue up for what role you wanted. The game just wasn’t balanced well. Wraith dominated every game and premade hunters stomp most other monsters easily.
@@nahmate6584 It was a shit money grab. Not surprised, given that it was developed by TRS. What a shit company.
@@CoreyHack not even remotely true
Instantly died when they dropped dlc characters but before then it was some of the best coop experiences I've had.
Parnell Caira combo made insanely good monster players useless. Very sad to see how slow updates came.
Dude unlocking the wraith was so dope. Most op monster
Loved this game but it literally instantly died just like Battleborn
battleborn was so good too...also Paragon...all these good games killed
@@UP_ALL_KNIGHT247 Paragon is coming back
@@JustSippingTea whattt ?!
@@wankers-corner yeah look up Paragon returning
@Red of the Man yeah it really came out a bad time. Got drowned out by everything else coming out :(
Man I miss evolve. I wish it didn't die.
The concept was amazing. The monsters were varied, and the various hunters were fum to try out
Shame 2k strangled it from the get go with stupid decisions relating to DLC, the concept held so much potential.
Griffin was my first main in this game, loved his arpoon gun to fish the monster and hold it
Yea. Problem was that they made it way to strict as the only real way to take down the monster is to work together. So that means playing with randoms isn’t going to work out. That and they didn’t have a real campaign mode with varied maps. I would have loved to see Evolve maps based in Desert or Ocean Biomes. Hell, an Urban setting would work too if done right.
i agree i was so fun and actually a really good game i played it solo a couple months ago and its still very fun
@@TheGary108 an ocean biome with diving equipment and a unique monster would’ve been super sick
I remember watching my brother play this game, my favourite part? The monster compleately tearing the team apart one by one. The designs of the monsters were so cool and the concept was brilliant. Man...what happened
You changed genders and your brother went to college
I loved Evolve back in the day and am still grieving whenever I see a video about it. Also, it seems like you and your friends actually enjoyed the game, which is nice to watch.
yeah they didnt have to pay an addition 200$ to enjoy every part of the game. They also were all first time players. If you were a first timer and went into this game solo, you aint havin fun.
do you have da game on PlayStation disc or digital?
@@austintruly I understand about the hunter and monster DLC, but do you really need the cosmetics? no!
@@drivanradosivic1357 everything has cosmetics anymore.
@@coltindingdodd6516 we were talking about the DLC cosmetics, which are not needed, not something like "complete Challenges XYZ to get cosmetics for your characters" sort of deal.
Evolve: what everyone thought the game would do, but sadly it didn't.
The F2P version on steam (before the company shut it down) was exactly what it was ment to be
After it went F2P the dev diden't care about the game , I mean after just few hourse of game I was finding a lot of hackers , wall hack , aim hack , you name it thei had it . The dev just tried to grab some fast cash from the store skins then vanished. I did loved the game and Wraith was my fav monster.
@@lordexilon2926 Yeah, I was into it for awhile but I bailed before it went F2P, it was already going downhill and picking up speed
@@Eazyrider707 They didn’t vanish sadly. They instead made Back 4 Blood. What they did to Evolve is exactly why I don’t trust them with their new game.
@@ro-337 well if I'm not mistaken 2K was one of the main reasons it went down least that's what I know but understandable and B4B is meh as well and shall be a live service game making it semi unfinished for the moment.
This series perfect for telling tales of failed games that you vaguely remember, but completely forgot about.
Correction, failed devs/publishers.
Yeah.
Speak for urself, I love this game
I never forgot about it. I still sometimes play
I have memories from this game during the worst parts of my life. Me and a friend (who owned the game) around 2015 used to play this in the back room of a restaurant that my dad and his parents worked at/owned. It was terrible cause my parents just got divorced, my brother had died, and more. I was depressed and honestly, this game and my friend (who I don’t remember his name) were some of the few things that brought me happiness
I loved the little period of a couple months when it was released. I had a blast with my friends and actually enjoyed hunters more. It's a shame it died so fast and corprorate/publisher disagreements basically prematurely killed it.
This game was actually so fun to play......... I still have the disc to
Ayyy same here, I remember getting it from a GameStop nobody went to and the cashier looking at me like I didn’t mean to buy the game
yeah i have it digital and it is not even that bad when you had a full squad of friends its fun af
One of my favorite games all time I still got my Xbox copy.
@@falloutlupus2135 gamers will literally play anything, utterly pathetic
@@Amfortas okay what’s your opinion on cyberpunk
Fun fact elder kraken was actually op because the devs miss input his damage numbers making him do far more damage than he should have and didn't fix it till stage 2
It still ain't fixed in legacy version even Gorgon is still op unless you use Hank's shield glitch which cancels the poison reducing her ridiculous damage by a lot. She then becomes very weak.
I remember this game as being one of my favorites. Sad enough they took the servers down. Would still play it if I could. Nice video btw. Was fun and a little nostalgic to watch. Thank you for that.
Yeah i would play this game too. I even still have my phisical copy of it
It should still be possible if you have it on Console, I have a physical copy of it and it still works for Private games I believe
@@Shadowangel615 im gonna check it but i dont think that it will work
@@Shadowangel615 i just checked it and it works😃
@@szymonj9377 glad I could help!
I miss this game. I really do think it came out before it’s time, along with some really shady marketing.
But damn it was so much fun and great for that ‘I have 30-40 minutes to burn’ itch.
Super late reply but yea I agree. Idk who officially holds the rights for it but id love to see somebody take another crack at this idea and make it free to play from the start.
@@jeremyroberts8822 2k brought the servers back online after fan request this june
This game was extremely underrated. I think now in the era of live-service games this would succeed very well. Just imagining skins/weapon cosmetics, and seasonal content drop from monsters - hunters
Not just underrated but tragically ahead of its time... if this game came out as f2p today it would be do pretty good. Tbh I've always felt like the Apex legends and some overwatch characters were inspired by this game's cast.
@@_Eric._ bangalore especially she felt like she was from this game to me
@@_Eric._ it would die the same way
wdym? The game had a insane amount of microtransactions, and overall was shit (netcode, lack of ballance etc.). It died bcs of all those problems. If it would get created now it would die the same way.
Yeah the biggest complaint about the game was purchasable cosmetics. Lol
Evolve could have been so good, perhaps even being still updated today. It's a shame, I liked it. It just needed a little more love.
They ruined it by putting everything behind a pay wall
@@stevenjohnson2037 yea, 2K got too greedy
it needs to be free to play and selling monster skins
The devs did a great job but 2k's dlc BS killed the game in it's crib.
It was such a good game, the devs fucked it into the dirt. It didn’t deserve that and it could have been so much better
This was honestly one of my favorite games of all time, the only game that I would honestly consider myself Pro at. My friends and I all consistently held at least Top 3 Global in our respective roles, I was Assault, Hyde as my main. Took pride in holding Top 3 until the hackers took over the leaderboards and scores just showed as 9,999,999,999. This game will always hold a special place in my heart.
my friend group was the same way, me being top 3 as abe, we had a top 5 bucket and so on, we mostly fought against our friend SourceTV so he could practice for tournaments. I miss those times so much
damn must have been insane being the top out of all the 100 people who would play the game
@@austintruly The game was insanely popular for the two months it was around. It didn't die off in the traditional sense, it was killed. Maintained a steady of roughly 20,ooo players, I believe.
@@zazi5305 No way it maintained steady 20k players, it literally started dying from the release, and none of the "dlc and cosmetics" pricing and practices had anything to do with it. Honestly, the game just got stale, when it was only actually fun and playable with friends, so majority of players instantly moved on.
Stage2 is back again :) community is growing again
"It's a horror game for the person playing the monster." This is way too accurate
> forces friends to play evolve
"You monster!"
"Precisely"
I miss this game and the hidden lore was awesome to sort through and some character designs were really good
Imagine if the devs saw this video and thought to themselves, "if people are still managing to play this and are having fun, maybe shutting it down wasn't a good idea". probably never happen but would be cool to have evolve back in some capacity.
Does trs still have the rights? I thought it was forfeited as a condition for funding
I think Matthew Colville would be very happy to see this game being enjoyed, but it seems like TRS has a real bad habit of sticking in really shitty monetization. Or at least their publisher. Just look at Back 4 Blood lol
@@alexthering6615
Nope, 2K has the full rights to the Evolve IP.
I was never a die hard Evolve fan but I had quite some fun playing it and as far as I can tell it was how players in general felt about it too. The idea is really cool and the delivery is top tier, plus it has very advanced attention to detail. To be honest I'm completely unable to tell what went wrong with it while other (sometimes far worse) titles keep living on.
The new cosmetic and DLC pricing was a huge factor in it dying, and i think that also lead to them running out of money to fund the game. Also balancing was completely screwed like Cabbot (i think his name is) had an ability to mark or debuff the monster where you damaged health and not armor. Some aspects were very unfair. Including Gorgon too
@@ironikz4006 Not to mention turtle Rock was only allowed to patch the game every 3 months as a part of their contract with 2k, so any balance issues or bugs would take 3 months to get fixed, even if TR had a fix that day.
The single biggest factor in its death was the massively power creeped dlc monsters afaik.
@@Tracker947 oh fuck yeah the first one from the trailers, Goliath, was fun to play but just overall worse than the stealthy wraith or super tanky Behemoth. The devs made the first one jack of all trades but overall way worse than when they started leaning hard into monster gimics which only got more powerful over time.
Scummy monetisation practices
$2 for a gun that you already have but it's fucking blue
It also lacked content and quickly became repetitive
My heart weeps every time Evolve is mentioned...
The original EVOLVE was amazing. I remember playing the beta before the official release. Then it released. And for a short time, you had one of the greatest multiplayer experiences ever.
Then bad decision after bad decision, wrong turn after wrong turn, it destroyed itself. Watching this brings back some good memories.
This is one of those games that I really wished didn't die highkey it's one of the few games my old group of mates played all together casually before something pretty tragic happened, and you know what I really just wish I could get all my buddies back to play it again
IT LIVES
Yep peer to peer matchmaking is being supported by 2k again
i remember pre-ordering evolve, i played every single day this game, was fcking awesome, and the content was pretty good, sad that the game died
It was just Risk of Rain 2.5
@@gaddiusgaddium9082 what does Evolve has to do with Risk of Rain 2?
@@Rosa_0000 absolutely nothing
Same here, I loved this game so much
@@gaddiusgaddium9082 How?
Ah yes, Evolve. It was a really fun and interesting game. But I fully understand why it died. The unbalanced nature of it really became clear in the matches, where the hunters would find the monster in stage one and kill it easily, barely after the match started, or the monster would manage to get to stage 3 and murder the hunters with ease. The best balance and fun gameplay was always at stage 2.
Another issue was that with the unbalanced nature of the matches there were always more monster players sitting around, waiting for a match than there were hunters for them to compete against. The wait times for matches were awful if you were a dedicated monster player.
I hope that one day we will see an Evolve 2, as the idea itself is really good. Perhaps a change up to a 4v2 gameplay model instead of a 4v1 would help, giving the monsters more tactical options etc. One can only hope.
Hopefully they don't fuck it up at launch like the first one where it sorely lacked content and had like 300 dollars worth of micro transactions day 1.
Video games that bomb rarely get a sequel, so don't get your hopes up too much.
The game wasn't as unbalanced as you claim, people just didn't fucking understand how to play the monster and were terrible at who to prioritize. Just because you'd think pressuring the medic would be the best option, most of the time it was extremely dependent on who the characters were.
There was a game use counter strike as base game to make it into a human vs zombie games. It’s still on steam. It changes the name into something else I cannot remember. Players got random selected become zombies in the beginning of the game. It was a fun idea but it was one of those P2W game. You have to pay to become unique zombie. Or you just one of those Normal zombies can only slash and run. And human players need to pay to get better weapon to counter zombies. It would be so nice to have one of those games that have this type of gameplay while not p2w. Killing floor2 was one of the game I enjoy the most now. And after all these years they still adding more weapons and maps.
@@Relhio Yeah, it really wasn't that bad in terms of over all balance.
I loved this game, I put so many hours into it, played it pretty much everyday till the servers shutdown, it will always hold a special place in my heart
I absolutely loved this game. For me the downfall was that a lot of people couldn't handle the learning phase of it where you needed to track and cut off monsters, then work in a team to kill them. The Devs then started to dumb-down a lot of the hunting part and buff hunters more vs monsters (at the top end monsters were already pretty weak vs hunters). Evolve will always have a special place in my heart as a game with great potential that died before its time could fully come.
I liked evolve, it was really fun, one time this guy had a crazy build and just told everyone else to relax while he killed the monster.
Haha blitz markov go brrr
@juter4397 it takes an especially bad monster player to loose a 1v1 tbf. A monster can pounce a player down them for free if no one intervenes
there are no 'builds' for hunters...
@@nelsonhill4625 yea idk if this guy even really played
M8 there are no builds for hunters...
This fills me with such joy to see this game again. I remember having a blast with friends all the time playing this and it was just gut wrenching for it to then be taken down.
The story of it was that Turtle Rock was the developer but 2K the distributors wouldn’t allow them to update the game regularly and it just killed the game from there. That and the $60 dollar pricing and the dlc sadly sealed its fate.
I really hope one day it comes back in an amazing fashion
People have been talking about going to college so they could build up a company to buy Evolve’s IP actually so they could bring it back, there’s also a group making a game based on Evolve as well, just goes to show how much people loved the game
Remember when the servers came back live again for a short time and people were making fundraisers to get it back fully? THAT'S how loved this Game was and still is.
I remember I platinumed this game all way back in 2015 , it was a fucken amazing game even better when you had a full group of hunters , oh the memories
I’d be so down for an Evolve 2
Thats called "stage 2"
@@everythingpony no stage two is literally the same game with different mechanics
@@everythingpony evolve stage to isn’t a sequel it’s almost identical but a more boring version.
The devs are doing more stuff recently, they made “Back 4 Blood”. I don’t know how well that’s doing, but who knows, if they find a lot of success, they might give something like this another try.
@@s.bregnest2857 ow fuck they made that dumpster fire
Evolve is one of those games that I thoroughly enjoyed back in the day and miss so very much
Devotion to the cause, sacrifice, persistence, that's all I can about kevduit in this situation. MAGNIFICENT
this was the first game i ever pre ordered and it is so sad to watch footage of it but at the same time im happy that there are still people out there that may be playing it
I loved evolve i wish it would get a revive....its sad what happened. I played it and it was alot of fun
well it got revived and then died too xd
When I suggested Evolve a while ago I did not know it'd spawn a whole ass odyssey to even find the game. I thought it still existed since it didn't disappear from my Steam or anything.
On console mainly PlayStation it still exists
Can't get it on Playstation store, though it's still possible to find matches certain times.
evolve was released in the wrong time , the gamers weren't ready for it
Man this game was insane, loved playing it for the longest time! wish they kept the online up and the game avaliable tho as it was a blast to play with friends
Please be gentle, EVOLVE is one of my fav games, I own multiple discs myself to play with friends, (with mixed results). I found a discord server that plays it pretty consistently. Its a corpse of a game but it's heartbeat still beats every so often...
What server? I've always wanted to give this game a shot again.
Weird
How do they still play id give anything to play again
Got it with PS4 release and still play it today, although online takes a while to find players.
@@polysincronize854 Look at Steam Community Discussions. The First Topic is a Link to the Discord.
I wanted to play It. Its honestly a great Game concept and visually nice. But discontinued because they tried to milk It too early
Funny thing is that on all counts, it was ahead of its time. It released with about as many maps and characters that you expect today, more microtransactions than games today, but at a cheaper price (at least bundled better), a community as whiny but not as toxic as the ones we come to know, the asymmetric gameplay that has been popular in the past few years, and i think less buggy than games released recently.
@@xdarkskylordx2806 yeah... Its really a shame What happened to It. I think It would have been greatly received with the DbD comunity because of its similarities. And It seems to have different gamemodes which Still feels relevant to the plot of hunting the Monster
@@gabrielpineirogarcia2078 Agreed.
If it released today in it's initial state people would've been more receptive due to how desensitized people are to microtransactions. If it did seasonal passes the game probably wouldn't have died so quickly or maybe it would, who knows...
@@wildspirewarrior211 It did do "seasonal passes", they were a bit different though. I do agree that if it were released today, it'd probably compete with DBD to a good extent or at the very least be widely streamed.
This was one of my favorite games ever. So much fun. Played in the PS4 competitive scene for most of its lifespan
BRO SOMEBODY SHOULD HAVE TOLD ME U MADE A VIDEO OF THIS I LOVE THIS
I was unfortunately the 1# healer for this game on PS4 for months and then it died. Time well spent.
Are you still #1?
@@everythingpony I guess he's #1 forever now. Sounds happy on the most surface level, but is extremely fucking depressing once you think about it
Only the dead know now
I was #9 Lazarus, this is the only game I was ever really good at :/
@@AaronTheC Same
I really loved the atmosphere of all the apps feeling like an neat ecosystem of its own, cool an unique characters an abilities with some personality an the little conversations at the start of the match were cool details.
The monsters I hold dear to my heart since they were cool an creative.
Ngl, really glad Back 4 Blood doesn't have death hanging over it's head like Evolve did. The gameplay is good, the level design is on point, and I can see that TRS has some GREAT minds working for them. Even if they ended the dev cycle for it, people acting like a game dies the instant it stops getting big content drops are gonna kill it. Sucks because it, like Evolve, is an awesome game.
i completely loved this game when it came out and played tons of it and enjoyed ever second glad to see the game actually played again even if it is through some scuffed means thanks for the content
The peer to peer servers actually got fixed like 12 days ago. You can now play Evolve Stage 2 through matchmaking now! No more custom games!
Man I loved playing This game when it first came out. The fear of getting caught in the early stages of your monster to the absolute satisfaction or dismay of getting demolished or just destroying the hunters at level 3… so much fun
I played stage 2 extensively, and I can agree with "It's a horror game for those who play monster". You gotta be helluva more skillful as monster to win against a team of average hunters. I barely communicated beyond in-game callouts and still had like 90% win ratio.
Until you get the monster to level 3 and basically you one shot everything that lives
You could just go kraken or gorgon and it was pretty much a guaranteed win if you knew what to do. Unless the hunters were all good and had the best hunters, if you knew fast routes to eat and evolve fast, you could get kraken or gorgon to stage 2 before even fighting once, then fight and down some hunters because honestly it was really easy to get kills with the kraken mines and the gorgon filling everything with acid and the small spider that grabbed hunters, then run and get stage 3 and win. Other monsters couldn't do that, wraith required precise movements and speed to get to stage 3 as fast as you could, goliath was a 50/50 and behemoth was a roulette
wraith main here i demolished hunters at lvl 2 - let alone 3 , if the monster is good unless you have a good tracker you are not going to see him in the whole game till its stage 3 and melts you all
Such a fascinating game. I remember having a blast in coop back in the day. Shame that the lack of day 1 content put the whole game in a coffin.
I remember Evolve, it had such an amazing time bro, I don’t know why it died, probably lack of content updates, I remember that all new characters costed a lot of money tho.
I will always love Evolve. My buddy and I spent countless nights playing this game. Trapper was always my go to. I miss ol Abe. What I don't miss is goliaths 100% accuracy rock.
Fond memories
I loved being a Trapper. But Electro Griffin was my man.
No matter what anyone says, this was an impressive investment of trolling your friends that i very much admire
God this game was so good, I remember buying it because it was on sale and had HOURS of fun just playing with randoms and holding out in the strong positions and the monsters were insanely cool to fight against and it had a decent amount of character progression and customization, wish it didn’t die
I remember playing this game a couple years ago on Xbox game pass. It was well after the game already died but I was able to connect to the online servers. It was actually pretty fun for what it was.
I'm definitely gonna subscribe after this
Man I haven’t played evolve in the longest time it was fun
Emmet the medic bot is still one of my favorite characters of all time, specifically for one voice line he has.
I just remember finally playing EMET in stage 2 and him instantly becoming my fav medic when I had been running Caira primarily for weeks. The first time using healing bouys and reviving my downed teammates while running away with the healing burst (or myself twice which was kinda busted) and feeling like I did more than ping on occasion and heal VERY ineffectively. Easily the best character
The unthinkable had happened, Stage 2 is getting peer to peer servers. The legacy ones were down for a month and we asked for them to be fixed, didn't expect to see stage 2 back also.
This is my new favorite series on TH-cam
There was a lot of elements that killed this game, most of which has been talked about but I wanna compress it here. I don't think Evolve was entirely bad, but all of these problems eventually lead to its poor lifespan:
The price:
On launch, this was a full priced game for what was effectively just a minigame. There wasn't a whole lot of variety between the different gamemodes, it all boiled down to teams vs monster. The variety was with the monsters and team combinations, but its pretty limited. Had this game been cheaper or even free to play on launch, it would have done better. Instead they made it f2p after the game was dying, which at that point was far too late, people felt like they wasted their money by not waiting and well, hindsight 20/20.
Retention: Brings back to the next point, the lack of variety. Evolved really leaned into the schtick of team vs monster, which isn't inherently bad, but this meant that all of their game modes boiled down to the same loop. Monsters had to hide and grind until they were strong enough to hunt down the players, while the team had to track down the monster and run around the map before that happens. You'd get games where players succeed in stomping a stage 1 beast, an interesting catch and mouse skirmish in stage 2, and a horror survival in stage 3. These were fine, but this all the game had to offer. Its a kind of game mode that might be fun, if unbalanced, for a few rounds, but quickly wears on you. With a lack of any other unique game modes or content it wasn't really a game where an individual player would want to spend a lot of time on. The hero system I think also hurts customization because it limits your loadout options to the playstyle of your hero, where as other games that let you freely customize your equipment probably would have been better here. Its hard to come up with alternative game modes, but a simple pvp hero shooter and even a monster brawl would have been examples of more interesting variety, you could probably come up with more like an actual campaign mode. A game mode where the monster starts at stage 3 and the team has to escape an area before they are all killed would have been an interesting set up too, stuff like that. There's a lot they could have done with the base game to give more variety. The game was also exclusive to multiplayer. I mean sure, you could play with Ai, but that's no fun. Had their been a campaign mode or something that could have at least prolonged the game a bit more with population as even in a dying server people could still get some enjoyment from the singleplayer aspect.
Unbalanced: not the biggest complaint IMO, the imbalanced of the cat and mouse game had its charms again, but for a lot of people its really frustrating when a competent team stomps on a newbie monster or vice versa.
Greed: aside from the launch price, the in game market really didn't help players want to stick around. DLC monsters might be acceptable, but the cosmetic and item store thrown right in your face was rather a turn off. If the game was f2p at launch it would be a bit more forgiven, but locking new contnet behind a pay wall felt dirty.
Marketing: Another big issue with the game was the hype and let down. Its a classic case with a lot of games where the hype surrounding a launch doesn't live up to expectations and quickly kills interest. Had there been a no man's sky-esq dedication to completely overhaul and expand the content like what was said in the retention point alongside their f2p change, it might have recovered.
I think this a completely accurate depiction of what happened so thank you for writing it and educating others as well as myself on what occurred
I've always wanted to try it but it was dead in the water quickly after launch. So do you need other players since there's an ai now? Is it worth trying it
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@@lazarusbooth8898 at the price you can get it for, yeah.
@@lazarusbooth8898 I haven't touched the game ina while so i wouldn't know if its a shut down. Presumably if you had a hard copy I think you can still do the Ai matches, but its really just 'practice' games and I don't think they really spent a lot of time working the AI. I don't know if when they plugged the game's servers that they'd even let you play it, I'd have to check my hard xbox copy later. But generally, I wouldn't say its worth it. If you pull something like the video here and get some friends for a rather rare and expensive experience well, maybe, but seeing how rare those beta keys were I'm not sure it'd be worth it to scour for five keys to play with.
This game is extremely tragic as the gameplay is great like actually great and it died way too soon
Thank you for playing this, I miss it soo much, the game was amazing, too bad the devs killed it
This does bring a tear to my eye.
I loved this game and thought it was fun hope they remake it one day
When you have people to play this game with it's really amazing
Bro I loved playing behemoth back in the day, his abilities made it so easy to single out targets and slap them about. Really good for taking out medics quickly.
Kraken was probably the most OP one, especially on release, it was soo broken that it was all most people used. There was some glitches where it could fly forever at the top of the skybox. And at stage 3 it did massive damage, could end a team quickly even out in the open in face to face battle with the entire team. Goliath was probably the worst of them all, the noob monster pretty much. Skilled people could use it, but skilled people didn't want to bother. Wraith was fun but you also had to be a sweaty try hard with it, but used in the right way it could destroy.
I loved evolve so much, that game was so much fun with friends
Evolve was actually great. It was something different, I always appreciate getting to play as monsters in games
Still have it installed and get some friends together nearly every weekend to play together! This game wasn’t amazing, but it was good and it’s a shame they shut it down. Especially with today’s age of games and cosmetics, the service would have been AMAZING. Hoping one day they decide to turn the servers back on! Definitely a great game that was failed by the developers.
Your wish has been granted
i love having the knowledge that i have in my posession one of the only physical copies of evolve left. it was such a fun game too
god this games concept is so god damn good. its such a tragic tale of a game destined for greatness
I remember playing this when it actually did have a mini story mode where it finished out with the monster starting at lvl 3 with a horde of smaller ones. That was always intense
They actually played a set of this in the vid. It was evacuation mode. The monster ends up destroying the ship at the end.
Man, I genuinely miss this game.... Im glad you had fun with my old friend.
I remember loving this game when I first played it, and I mastered so much the support class that somehow I managed to win a game without taking damage
(it's an achievement on the ps and no it was an online game and the monster had more than 5 brain cells)
I subscribed just for the shear effort you put into this, goddamn.
Kev, if you wanna do another thing like this, you should check out Lawbreakers. it was a massively overhyped game just like this one, in which the guy who lead development somehow made it a toxic community before the fans could. like this one the servers are defunct and it's shut down, but you could recount the story to your friends and wish you got the chance. or you could work your magic and somehow get it to work.
I actually really loved this game. I used to play it all the time. RIP
However, can we use this as an opportunity to try to find some people who actually have this game and want to play it together?
Honestly, such a fun game with friends, especially with the spider or wraith where you could jump scare TF out of them😂 gooood times
So many good memories of evolved when it released then I quit playing for some reason and forgot all about it until now. Wish it hadn’t died
i absolutely loved the game intention, design and gameplay. so sad to see the game die..
You know Kevduit, while you played some really wierd stuff before, I still can't believe you and your friends are playing a game that _literally ceased to exist_ by now
I loved Evolve, me and my friends played it during the whole summer a while back
I’ve had this game for years and I still love playing this game. At least on PS4 it’s easy to start games and custom games.
This game couldn't been a gem if it was balanced 😂💀
And the netcode wasn't butt.
And the microtransactions weren't utterly disgusting.
And if Angry Joe hadn't murdered it.
playing it in beta version mode probably didn't help:D
The game was reasonably well balanced with high skill players.
Arguably the best asymmetric competitive game ever created. Turtle rock studios did an amazing job with this.
It was such a good game and I still have a copy I play to this day, but it was murdered in it’s sleep before it could go big-time.
I love your persistence.
I remember having a lot of fun with this when Stage 2 came out. Although I ended up making a friend angry at me because I was a little too good at playing the monster.
Heh I remember playing this game drunk af on my ps4, sad times.
I loved this game. I played it with my mates and it was always fun. I always played the trapped Jack. I remember my mate unlocked the wraith monster before us and he was actually really good with it.
I remember this game! I played it when it first came out and had a blast. So sad that it died
Always loved this game I really don´t know why all the players left, it was always so much fun.
9:34 when he says “You should do it” you’re voice sounds EXACTLY like Chills Top 5.
You should play more evolve! Fun to watch!
The creativity as the monster was insane! Miss this masterpiece.