I never in a thousand, million, BILLION years thought I'd be saying this, but can we PLEASE go back to every protagonist being a boring generic shaved head white guy? He doesn't even need to be white or a guy. Just make something generic and stop being too clever for your own good. If anything, all these wacky designs blend together and look generic but with waaaay more effort.
A stark reminder that "studio pedigree" means nothing when the PEOPLE responsible for the games we loved have moved on. Studios don't make great games, the people do.
Also pertinent when the people in charge were despicable, talentless frauds all along. See: Casey Hudson, Randy Pitchford, Yoshio Sakamoto, anyone in charge at Blizzard.
"Follow the people, not the studio." Yep, that's a far more interesting way to get games. It's how I got Torchlight I & II(from creators and lead designers of Diablo I & II), Dungeon Siege & SupCom Forged Alliance(Total Annihilation Team), Dying Light (Dead Island 1/Call of Juarez devs), Ground Branch(O.G. Rainbow Six), C&C Remastered Collection(EA actually made the rare, smart move of letting ex-Westwood devs at the helm of remastering their own games). Of course, it's not a perfect way, there are also some missteps and failures along the way("Phoenix Point" on release, and "Underworld Ascendant" to this day comes to mind). So for alternative, my next bet are "fanboy games", games that are clearly made by folks that love the game they're aping. From this I got Xenonauts(X-Com), Aragami 1 & 2(Tenchu), Brigador(Crusader No Remorse), Broforce(Contra), Veloren(CubeWorld Alpha), etc...
Yep. This game has looked like a chore ever since it was revealed. I got flak for saying it looks like the typical mediocre coop experience I've come to expect from the games industry of 2023. Feels good to be correct, and sad to see the Arkane I used to love is no more.
@@NickHunter a variety of things, but what nobody wants in this day and age is another shitty live service looter shooter built around micro transactions. Now you might say that "there are no micro transactions" but the damage has already been done to the game as they were included originally, and it was announced later that they removed them
"Telekinetic Threat in Student Debt" I'm sure someone in their late 30s thought that was the most clever and quirky thing in the world when they came up with that.
I feel like what a lot of reviewers miss, is the fact that these are not the same studios we remember anymore. most of the talent has gone on to other studios or started their own. whats left, are good devs struggling to make a good product, and incompetent dev's running departments.
@@NeverSaySandwich1 yep not enough people are talking about how terrible diversity hiring is over merit. It's literally killing western AAA gaming studios that were once competent. Mostly nowadays these studios are full of incompetent devs who care about pushing political agendas with video games.
@@ezzwah You market your horror action FPS with a smug looking black lady with a big afro on the cover. The target audience is still overwhelmingly men (mostly white men). They just don't get who these games are made for. That millennials are writing dialogue for characters who are Zoomers and it's so cringy/reddit
@@ezzwah Exactly, remember they massacred borderlands 3 with their woke ideas and stories and forced strong tomboyish female characters and weak beta male characters. Myself an old gamer and a borderlands fan had to resort to piracy as a mark of protest. And after bl3, I stopped consuming anything coming out of mainland usa and west in general be it novels, tv series, games etc. Indie is the way to go if you want to enjoy gaming. Maybe games by small studios which are made by passion and not with any agenda in mind. Last year, I played the ascent, wierd west, mutant year zero, biomutant. This year I played atomic heart, dead island 2. These are gems.
You just made me think about it.. and.. Yea I've been watching his videos for some time as well. I know it was not the earliest but I know for sure I was watching his videos back when he first released his Land of the Dead game review.. ( Was one of the people who worked on the patches for the PC version.. The devs left it in such a mess. On the bright side I ended up learning how to make maps with Unreal as well due to it so there is that. )
Might be about the same for me. Pretty sure I started watching him around 2014-2015 ish? He's one of the only TH-camrs I've watched this long and STILL watch.
I was born in 1990 and grew up watching cable TV. I've probably watched more internet videos on TH-cam than I have cable TV by now. Some youtubers I have been following since 2007.
Probably a good reason for that. also not really. the laziest of tv shows do one season a year. back in the day was different, not only were tv shows more consistent, but they made a lot more episodes per season, not as much people watching tv these days. i think you might be able to thank 2008 High Definition Mandate for some of that. Definitely made me write "watching tv" off my books. or at least write in an asterisk. i honestly don't know how long it's been since i watched free network tv. if i did, it was through a satellite or a cable. more recently through Pluto tv, but that's only CBS (and paramount, but that's not network)
The enemy AI does actually have some lore to it... The vampire lords are actually puppeteers and controlling how smart AI is which is why it is so hit or miss. A note at the end of the game states that the vampire lords eventually left the island and started a company known as Arkane Austin with the intention of sucking the life out of hard working programmers who want to make good games.
Regarding the DLSS thing; I feel like many bigger games nowadays rely way too much on it, with developers trying to save time and neglecting optimization.
At the same time when a game is well optimized DLSS can wring even more performance out. I went from getting 68 FPS with everything but Raytracing turned on in RE4 with the AMD's software version of DLSS, but when I installed a DLSS mod my FPS rarely dipped below 100.
@@PinkManGuy It always does. People hate nVidia but they always have the better choice, if you are willing to pay. But having anyone buy any GPU with less than 12 GB VRAM in 2023 is straight-up dumb.
yeah like for cyberpunks issues you can tell that it needs the DLSS because it has raytracing and some overall nutty visuals but why does this game need it lol
@@obsidiancrow450 it's not necessary. if they properly optimize and implement there is no need for DLSS. it's a gimmick that was created by nvidia just to say we have "higher" fps. but the quality of the frames goes to sh*t
Recently replaying Prey from Arkane Austin for the third time, and I can't wrap my head around how the same team would develop THIS. What a SHITTY time to be alive...
@@Gonzalo_105 Ah, that would explain why they went from making Arx Fatalis, Dark Messiah, Dishonored and Prey 2017 to making Young Blood and Deathloop...
This is it. The only way you can change your own relation to this is to stop buying these games. That will not make video game development better, though. That is a wet dream.
Imagine hiring a studio like Arkane, who created unique immersive sims like Dishonored, Deathloop, and Prey 2017 and having them make a generic looter shooter overflowing with terrible dialogue.
Nobody from arkane wanted to work on redfall AT ALL. Coupled with the fact that they were given ASTHONISHINGLY low money and time to complete it. Lack of money, no passion whatsoever and time crunch? What did we expect
I'm convinced the "only the host makes campaign progress" thing is a deliberate choice: it basically means that if you are a group of 4 friends you'll have to replay each level 4 times with a different host, so everyone makes progress. A great way to create artificial playtime value.
Only for the achievement sluts. I played through with a friend as he hosted and once we beat it I uninstalled. It had some fun parts but very low replay value as it’s buggy and short.
World War Z is actually pretty good, it goes more into its own thing with the character classes and general progression systems, but it has a lot of cool content.
Is Arkane in some kind of financial trouble after years of kickass single player ISIMs? Like, when a studio like that starts to poop out a 4 player looter shooter, we need to start looking for a good burial plot.
Twisted Metal: Black had partial slideshows in its cutscenes due to lack of time to make fully animated ones and it's so incredibly seamless and well done. They really used the limitations to their advantage whereas this game's cutscenes could've executed that concept better.
Helicopters and other air vehicles get zapped out of the sky, literally not even 20 mins into playing the game you watch 2 military helicopters get taken down almost instantly.
@@AOIU982 yeah how did this happen with Arkane? They were one of the only good ones left.... Even deathloop was decent but this is completely unacceptable
I told myself awhile ago now that anything with “___fall” is probably gonna be some generic junk. Funny enough I still feel correct, and it definitely feels like a focus group title choice.
The comparison to Terminator resistance really showed how this game could've been better. I was downright scared of the terminators in the beginning of that game and then by the end you had a real awesome and deserved power fantasy of a game
On the contrary, I saw the concept trailer like last year or something, forgot I saw the trailer, and only randomly remembered the game a few months back. I had zero interest and thus zero expectations for Redfall. I'm _still_ somehow disappointed. In action, it looks less interesting than even what the trailer was showing. That's pretty impressive. Add the bugs and performance issues, and it's downright remarkable just how disappointing a game you weren't anticipating can be.
Yup. Shit looked generic and boring AF. Just shows how great art style can fool a lot of people. It almost shuts people's brains of so they can only say "cool" and not even consider how the game is going to play.
I really do love how you're fair with your critiques. A lot of developers these days haven't been told about, "garbage in, garbage out", and being rushed into production with bugs and other things that would've made developers from our era cringe at their mere mention seems to be laisse faire these days. Thanks for being a reliable source with who put effort into their art and their products and who isn't.
I genuinely want to know if this is what Arkane really wanted to make or if it's Bethesda who told them to make this. I'm afraid of what the answer is.
i honestly barely even heard of it till like a few weeks ago and ever trailer i saw looked generic as fuck, i feel like they didnt even try with this one
@@_Rick___Grimes_ The dialogue from each of the trailers wasn't even that good either. It just felt so annoying and cringeworthy to listen to, almost as if the marketing was deliberately aiming for zoomers who seriously thinks that MCU's style of writing is the peak of comedy. For real, why does everything tries to be like MCU these days?
It screamed because 60% of our audience are in the 12-15 age group, which has shown preference for screaming as a style of humor However, 40% is nothing to be scoffed at, so the screaming was kept at reasonable decibels
I would say Alan Wake looks more like what it's supposed to be based off than these other's. It definitely looks and feels like the PNW just like Twin Peaks (which I believe it's based off of) and I would know as I live 30 minutes from the diner that Twin Peaks is based off of (not sure if they filmed in there) and I believe is what inspired the Alan Wake opening cafe. But definitely agree with the other sentiments haha
I can't believe you actually got the stealth kill to work at the beginning. I tried hitting one enemy for so long and no hit registered until they turned around and saw me lol. So glad I got a recording of that.
@@ElderSnowball It just means PlayStation owners who were upset about not being able to play Redfall probably don’t have to be upset about missing out on it. That seems relevant to me…which leads me to wonder if you are an Xbox player who is sort of upset about a big Xbox exclusive possibly being a big disappointment? (I don’t know how to ask that question without sounding like a prick but I’m genuinely curious)
You just described one of the major problems with design of many modern games. They devolve into the same loop and give you too many overpowered ability's too quickly. whilst having lots of cool powers is fun they need to feel earned to be satisfying. Isn't it more satisfying to struggle against a few really tuff enemy's then come back and destroy them a few hours later after you've gotten better at the game and found some stronger tools?
Arkane’s decline makes a lot more sense when you remember that most of those who worked on dishonored or prey ain’t there anymore. These are NOT the same people that made those games, a dev studio is more then just the name. It would be like expecting modern bioware or blizzard to be up to par with old bioware or blizzard.
I swear as time goes on big names have started to forget how to make good games….somehow not staying the same but moving backwards. Dishonoured has such a unique feeling and look. This just looks like a ai prompt….in everything “make spooky landscape” “a vampire” “design combat using xxxxxx and xxxxx”
Fellow gamers, we stand on the brink of a revolution. A revolution against the corporate greed and corruption that has infected the gaming industry for far too long. We must take a stand and demand change. The time has come for us to rise up and say "enough is enough." We cannot continue to let game developers and publishers take advantage of us with overpriced DLC, microtransactions, and loot boxes. We must take back our gaming experience and demand that games be created with our enjoyment and satisfaction in mind, not just to make a quick profit. But this revolution is not just about the gaming industry. It's about standing up against the larger systems of oppression and inequality that plague our society. We must fight for a world where everyone has access to quality games, regardless of their financial situation or social status. Together, we can create a new gaming landscape, one where creativity and passion are the driving forces behind game development, not just profits. So let us band together, gamers of all kinds, and demand a better future for our industry and for ourselves. Let us start a revolution that will change the gaming world forever. And if any corporate death squads ask, i'm a handicapped small child.
This is the result of video games going from passion projects to corporate moneymaking schemes. That and twitch and e-sports are the three worst things to happen to gaming
they didnt forget but already made them. no creativity in gaming is whats going on...u think they had fun building this cashtrash? but as long as u have a large enough pool of peopel who even defend stuff like nomanssky or cyberpunk...the money will keep flowing and gaming is trash. now that i think about it, thats probably why i mostly play tekken nowdays lol
If it was up to me, the vampires would be an elite unit in a swarm of cultists. Give them supernatural ways to avoid being shot or UV rayed to death and a challenging counter offensive. If you still want the fast unit, make thralls which are just expendable cannon fodder for the players power fantasy. At least they seemed to make the characters interesting, which seems to be a bane of modern game design.
They are not vampires. At several points they are outside during DAYTIME IN THE SUN. That is not up for debate; if it can walk in the sun, it is not a vampire.
@@Zelix678 they give some shitty excuse that the sun is being blocked by vampire magic or something, which is stupid when you consider that it doesn't make the island perpetually dark or anything, just gives it a red hue in the day time.
Man I was really hoping that redfall would be good because I love vampires. But after seeing that it would be stuck in 30fps I had a feeling that it was going to get worse. I didn’t want to believe it, but deep down I knew
Doubt very much that the frame rate is going to be the important factor here. People are absolutely obsessing over that now. Framerate doesn't equal a good game. It equals a framerate.
Obviously, but once that got revealed I had this small feeling in the back of my mind that said “what if that’s not the only problem it has”. Then boom, it turned out to have bugs and it feels low effort
@@Ivegotsomewater81 Frame rate is an easy indicator of how well optimized or finished a game is, on pc a game going below 60 is considered unplayable for most as any game on modern hardware can run 60+ easily but the devs are too lazy to put the effort into optimizing prior to launch
Seems like on top of technical problems Arkane took a more light-hearted approach recently. You know, instead of some quite deep, thoughtful, serious games like Dishonored and Prey they switched to more fun-oriented tone in Deathloop and Redfall. It also shows the games have lost their depth along the way, and in my mind those bugs and other misfortunes have somehow followed suit.
Sad too, as I loved Dishonored and Prey, but couldn’t get into Deathloop, despite liking how it plays. As far as Redfall, I knew from the first glimpse I would be avoiding it.
Even if Deathloop wasn't a masterpiece, at least that tried to be on par with Arkane's titles in terms of style. This looks like something created by an entirely different development studio, nothing of Arkane's style stands out in this, minus a few exceptions.
It's weird how during the last 6-7 years the majority of games haven't improved graphically at all, but their performance has become increasingly worse. Like, I'm not a fan of putting on my tin foil hat, but honestly, why and how? Physics have become very bare bones, nothing amazing on the effects department either, some improvements on hair and lighting, but minimal stuff when you compare how much these games are demanding.
everyone publisher these days thinks they're CD project RED and believe they can absorb the bad press from a shitty launch cause people will buy it anyway
because games like this aren't given enough time to be optimized or finished. Games that are actually given enough time, like doom eternal or the last of us part 2 (regardless of what you think about the game itself) look and run great because of this.
We're at a point where graphical improvements can't be done by a single person, and giant companies like Nvidia are needed to push things forward. Unreal Engine 5 is peak graphics, hands down, and everyone who uses them will be generally stuck with whichever version they start with (upgrading can be costly).
Then there's the fact the game feels rushed. Performance can always be fixed, but if the devs don't get enough time, or management is fucking up, then you'll get a game with shitty performance.
My gf was really looking forward to this since she loves vampires, but I convinced her to just try the gamepass version instead. Its seems like its worth a "rental" price for the month.
this makes me so sad. I can't believe what epic did to that game. Such wasted potential. You can't even fucking buy it anymore. and now, like tencent ruined epic, microsoft is ruining arkane, and probably all of bethesda. anyways hop on ut.
Not if Epic has anything to say about that, sadly. Can't even buy the games on Steam/digital storefronts anymore since they've been delisted. Like, sure, UT probably isn't making that much money now-in-days, but to just outright remove them from storefronts and essentially deny anyone who hadn't already bought them before, along with removing the master servers from the games, seems unbelievably anti-consumer. But I agree, we all should play some more Unreal Tournament. :3
i remember spending time with devs. pitching ideas. until the devs eventually cut contact with the whole fanbase. and let the new unreal die off... i still love to play ut99 from time to time. hell i even wanted to get friends into 2003. as the graphics are still decent. but everyone i ask says : graphics suck. gameplay sucks. its a shit game :(
I’m fully subscribed to the idea the gaming industry has become like the film and music industries where now large corporations can afford to chuck money at companies to make games, rush them out for the quarters and then abandon them when they dont do well in the first month and dissolve studio and teams for profit
Yeah but it was the second weakest power armor and the minigun later gets outclassed by other weapons. The whole sequence was meant to show off the new rules for using power armor.
I had literally never heard of Redfall until after I saw the controversy about it start to circulate. That's pretty shocking given it's Arkane developed title and I usually am quite excited by those from early announcement. Somehow this just slipped under the radar for me, and I'm kinda glad because this looks nothing like what I'd expect from that studio.
Gman, your edits are always so spot on. I don't know if you still edit your own vids or if you have an editor, but either way: the subtle (or not so subtle) humor is always great. Love your work man.
He got into an argument with some idiot on twitter not long ago who was making fun of him for editing his own videos instead of 'expanding his business' or some such nonsense.
The 30 seconds of Unreal Tournament at the end of the video had more heart, soul, and energy to it than the entire 20-something minutes of Redfall gameplay that came before. It reminds me of how, whenever I try to play Cyberpunk, I just wish I was playing Deus Ex instead.
I like that right at the end you just finish off with rather a clip from Unreal Tournament a game from 1999...which still looks way more fun in its gameplay than Redfall
@@uspaint Nah. It might seem like a surprise to someone with your level of intelligence but some people have enough brain capacity that allows them to rate games between just "amazing" and "trash".
Yeah this actually pissed me off. That bird was actually an important part about Mordecai's backstory and in BL2 and here it's like "Well Snipers always have birds". The people who made this basically copied every single aspect of the game from something else.
the tank is literally athena to xD but yeah sniper =/= bird person. is gonna be a funny stereotype now. i think quite a few games have done this ever since bl1 did it.
I remember seeing this ages ago, and the big thing that made me feel weird about the whole, is that for having such a vibe of "small town gets monsters, locals fight back", the backstory of all of the characters make them out to be hyper competent. Which just feels odd.
My friend and I played for a solid hour and half and we had to check that we were on the hardest difficulty multiple times, there is just no challenge at all. Most of our damage was from falling when we missed a platform lol
I'm kinda sad there wasn't a single John Carpenter's Vampires reference in this video, love that movie. When you were talking about collecting the vampire heads would have been perfect for the clip of Montoya saying "Nothin like a little head, eh Padre?" at least that's the first thing that came to my mind
Honestly to me the most baffling aspect is going from the Typhon Phantoms and Nightmare to these Vampires and somehow losing all threat and gravitas in the process.
@@saltysumo7991 the character designs already prefaced the game sucking. I didn't even need to play it to know it was a bag of shite, the reviews are just confirmation of my hypothesis.
About power creep, I think thats one of the reasons why I love Piranha Bytes (Gothic, Risen Elex etc.) games, it makes exploration and levelling worth it as it gives you power progressively.
Larian is great with this too. In Original Sun 2 it literally takes hours to even get proper weapons and armour, but it’s so satisfying when you finally do.
For most triple a games yes but at least indie games are still trying to pick up the slack by still trying to be more creative which I appreciate I own tons of indie games and all of them are still fun to play 🙂
@@paulovinasrocha6166 that’s true of literally everything, not just games. The only difference is the crappy ones don’t blend into the background on Steam like a book would in a library.
@@daksans6764 David Cage has some unflattering stories and Life is Strange is from France so they're honestly hit or miss as a country. Also David has some plain not great games. Hilarious, but not really great. Godamn Omicron nomad soul.
@@cameronroy2129 I don't care what people say about David Cage. He is a legend. Allegedly he said something like he doesn't make games for f**s. So what? He has right to make games for whoever and however he wants. Woke people will never reach to the level as David Cage.
Thanks Gman for another awesome review, love your content! The fact doors don't have a knob, it's a feature of the game, so vampires don't come in, see, they must be invited ;-)
It would be great if you did another video on Redfall since Arkane Austin closed down and they gave it a final update which made the game much better now.
"It's run of the mill, but functional and works as intended" is how I have felt about a lot of "AAA" games over the last 5 years. When I saw the announcement trailer at E3, I immediately wrote this off because I expected the bog standard looter-shooter games-as-a-service model that launches broken. Sad to hear I was correct. Appreciate Arkane trying something new, they're my fav studio, but I think most people aren't very surprised to see all the negative sentiment
Fellow gamers, we stand on the brink of a revolution. A revolution against the corporate greed and corruption that has infected the gaming industry for far too long. We must take a stand and demand change. The time has come for us to rise up and say "enough is enough." We cannot continue to let game developers and publishers take advantage of us with overpriced DLC, microtransactions, and loot boxes. We must take back our gaming experience and demand that games be created with our enjoyment and satisfaction in mind, not just to make a quick profit. But this revolution is not just about the gaming industry. It's about standing up against the larger systems of oppression and inequality that plague our society. We must fight for a world where everyone has access to quality games, regardless of their financial situation or social status. Together, we can create a new gaming landscape, one where creativity and passion are the driving forces behind game development, not just profits. So let us band together, gamers of all kinds, and demand a better future for our industry and for ourselves. Let us start a revolution that will change the gaming world forever. And if any corporate death squads ask, i'm a handicapped small child.
I kind of figured.. if you want a shooter vampire game that is multiplayer.. you should give Bloodhunt a try, takes place in the Vampire the Masquerade world, Nosferatu, Toreador, Brujah, Ventrue and very recently The Tremere are playable clans
Did Arkane lost their A-talent recently? Because they went from an amazing studio that developed flawed but masterful titles like Arx Fatalis, Dark Messiah, Dishonored and Prey 2017 to making disappointment like Dishonored 2, outright embarrassing crap like that co-op Wolfenstein, the "just barely able to graze the lofty heights of 'mediocre'"" Deathloop, and now this crap... What the hell happened to them?
I really have to be honest with you all, I actually went out of my way and bought myself a PS3 simply for the fact that modern games as a whole just don't seem to get their shit together anymore Playing classics like Asura's Wrath, Brütal Legends, Infamous, Alice: Madness Returns, Lollipop Chainsaw, Dante's Inferno, Castlevania 1 and 2 and many, many more had me smiling like a little child getting it's first electric quad, trust me, I should now Either way, it's honestly such a shame that devs and publishers think shit like this is ok
Glad you're taking one for the team, Gman. I became quite skeptical about this game over the past few months and you just confirm my suspicions. Hard pass for me m8!
At this rate, I'll stick to indie titles as least those people are putting their hearts and souls into making good games or find a classic game from the past. The AAA game industry is becoming a joke! Trying to cut corners and cost, not putting enough effort into their games, or failing to deliver what they said they would and I'm sick of the remakes/reboots! And holy shit! $160 dollars for one game?! The number of times I buy a brand game only to be disappointed with it and not getting a refund or half of my money back. I find it so strange that today's game industry is going down hill as I was sure the future would have better games than shit like this, but hey at least we got the indie scene to help us.
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A game that's like every other live service multiplayer in existence turns out to be dissapointing? What a shocker.
Facts!
And that’s why it’s in the gamepass😂 they know it’s terrible
I fucking hate Bethesda for making Arkane push out such garbage, they made some of the best immersive sims, the ubergenre of games.
It's not a live service game at least.
@@brianharelick4962 actually it is. Unfortunately.
I think we're ready as a society to move past player characters who all look like they're twitch streamers or wannabe trap artists.
So ready
I feel like that started with black ops 3
Dead island 2 has this shit and I hate it
We were ready the day twitch was released
I never in a thousand, million, BILLION years thought I'd be saying this, but can we PLEASE go back to every protagonist being a boring generic shaved head white guy? He doesn't even need to be white or a guy. Just make something generic and stop being too clever for your own good. If anything, all these wacky designs blend together and look generic but with waaaay more effort.
A stark reminder that "studio pedigree" means nothing when the PEOPLE responsible for the games we loved have moved on. Studios don't make great games, the people do.
Glad I figured that out before the release of Battlefield V.
It’s something that needs to be pointed out. And it can be a motivator for the studio as a whole to make a game that lives up to the expectations
Also pertinent when the people in charge were despicable, talentless frauds all along.
See: Casey Hudson, Randy Pitchford, Yoshio Sakamoto, anyone in charge at Blizzard.
Once Raphael left, that was it.
"Follow the people, not the studio."
Yep, that's a far more interesting way to get games. It's how I got Torchlight I & II(from creators and lead designers of Diablo I & II), Dungeon Siege & SupCom Forged Alliance(Total Annihilation Team), Dying Light (Dead Island 1/Call of Juarez devs), Ground Branch(O.G. Rainbow Six), C&C Remastered Collection(EA actually made the rare, smart move of letting ex-Westwood devs at the helm of remastering their own games).
Of course, it's not a perfect way, there are also some missteps and failures along the way("Phoenix Point" on release, and "Underworld Ascendant" to this day comes to mind).
So for alternative, my next bet are "fanboy games", games that are clearly made by folks that love the game they're aping. From this I got Xenonauts(X-Com), Aragami 1 & 2(Tenchu), Brigador(Crusader No Remorse), Broforce(Contra), Veloren(CubeWorld Alpha), etc...
Literally exactly what I expected, nothing looked good from the trailers
First trailer was pretty cool. Everything since has been trash.
was about to say the exact same thing red flags all over the thing
Retard voice: You can’t judge a game by its trailer! You gotta pay $70 and play it to the end to give valid criticism!!!
Yep. This game has looked like a chore ever since it was revealed. I got flak for saying it looks like the typical mediocre coop experience I've come to expect from the games industry of 2023. Feels good to be correct, and sad to see the Arkane I used to love is no more.
Yup. Saw this being DOA from the first trailer I saw. I was certain once the IGN marketing came out
The disconnect between what people want and what developers are making is way off
What do people want?
@@NickHunter a variety of things, but what nobody wants in this day and age is another shitty live service looter shooter built around micro transactions. Now you might say that "there are no micro transactions" but the damage has already been done to the game as they were included originally, and it was announced later that they removed them
@@NickHunter Quality...its simple as that. Games seem to devolve over the years it seems.
But they won't stop buying overpriced crap. We have thousands of games from the late 90s, 2000s and 2010s we haven't played
@@NickHunter Everyone gave you a different answer, so this is actually a really clever gotcha.
"Telekinetic Threat in Student Debt"
I'm sure someone in their late 30s thought that was the most clever and quirky thing in the world when they came up with that.
Soon as I read this I wanted to uninstall my ears. Most cringe-pipe rupturing 5 letter sentence fragment I've ever read.
But not so much debt that she can't afford gold bling and hair five times the size of her head.
The ever-present "student debt" reference. Ugh, can't they think of anything else ???
the average millennial writer when they haven't put a reference to student debt in the game for 5 minutes:
Gives the same vibes as that new Saints Row. Just absolutely hacky.
Reminder, everyone from these legendary game studios who made them legendary have moved on. There's no point in believing in studio pedigree
Bungie, Epic, DICE, and Konami are proof of that statement.
RIP Blizzard, Bioware
@Darth Cinema I mean Destiny came back, even tho the latest dlc sucks.
@@porkerpete7722 Yeah but their glory days are long gone.
@@darthcinema4262 Well, Konami isnt a studio, and they actually dissolved the good studios.
Co op games with host only progressions in 2023 is such a comical thing, I can’t remember a game that did that in a long while.
Dying Light 2 or not?
@@lorevaga822 dying light 1 let’s you keep your progress and that game came out 8 years ago
Pretty sure dying light 2 let’s you as well haven’t played it in a whole
Yeah, games from 10+ years ago had progression for everyone. Borderlands 1 and 2 come to mind. What are they thinking leaving that out
State of decay 2, it’s even worse, only the host can complete quest…
From Corvo sticking up a sword down an enemies neck to an elbow assassination. Such finesse.
Wokeness
Archane died after prey...At least their last few main games were top notch.
@@XenoWalkerEVE Yup. Prey was a masterpiece. Everything after that has been shit.
@@SolarisKane prey is so fucking good
@@Guilherme-ms3ub fragile incel 😂
I feel like what a lot of reviewers miss, is the fact that these are not the same studios we remember anymore. most of the talent has gone on to other studios or started their own. whats left, are good devs struggling to make a good product, and incompetent dev's running departments.
And diversity being prioritized over talent
@@NeverSaySandwich1 yep not enough people are talking about how terrible diversity hiring is over merit. It's literally killing western AAA gaming studios that were once competent. Mostly nowadays these studios are full of incompetent devs who care about pushing political agendas with video games.
@@ezzwah You market your horror action FPS with a smug looking black lady with a big afro on the cover. The target audience is still overwhelmingly men (mostly white men). They just don't get who these games are made for. That millennials are writing dialogue for characters who are Zoomers and it's so cringy/reddit
@@ezzwah Exactly, remember they massacred borderlands 3 with their woke ideas and stories and forced strong tomboyish female characters and weak beta male characters. Myself an old gamer and a borderlands fan had to resort to piracy as a mark of protest. And after bl3, I stopped consuming anything coming out of mainland usa and west in general be it novels, tv series, games etc.
Indie is the way to go if you want to enjoy gaming. Maybe games by small studios which are made by passion and not with any agenda in mind.
Last year, I played the ascent, wierd west, mutant year zero, biomutant. This year I played atomic heart, dead island 2. These are gems.
@@lordgallo4213everything is made with AGENDA in mind.
Gman, just realized I've been watching your channel 8 years. That's longer than most tv series last
You just made me think about it.. and.. Yea I've been watching his videos for some time as well. I know it was not the earliest but I know for sure I was watching his videos back when he first released his Land of the Dead game review.. ( Was one of the people who worked on the patches for the PC version.. The devs left it in such a mess. On the bright side I ended up learning how to make maps with Unreal as well due to it so there is that. )
Me when the inevitable and inescapable passage of time
Might be about the same for me. Pretty sure I started watching him around 2014-2015 ish? He's one of the only TH-camrs I've watched this long and STILL watch.
I was born in 1990 and grew up watching cable TV. I've probably watched more internet videos on TH-cam than I have cable TV by now. Some youtubers I have been following since 2007.
Probably a good reason for that. also not really. the laziest of tv shows do one season a year. back in the day was different, not only were tv shows more consistent, but they made a lot more episodes per season, not as much people watching tv these days. i think you might be able to thank 2008 High Definition Mandate for some of that. Definitely made me write "watching tv" off my books. or at least write in an asterisk. i honestly don't know how long it's been since i watched free network tv. if i did, it was through a satellite or a cable. more recently through Pluto tv, but that's only CBS (and paramount, but that's not network)
The moment I heard the dialogue in the trailer I kinda expected it to be like this
It screams "I'm 47 and work in a game dev studio, how do the kids speak these days?"
The player's gun takes up an absurd amount of screen space.
Is there no FOV adjustment?
@@Jago-pl7op Unfortunately, I don't think so.
It’s the current year and gayme developers still don’t put in FOV sliders
@@trenaceandblackmetal5621Totalbiscuit is spinning in his grave over this.
@@Jago-pl7op I don't think it's an FOV thing. It's just straight up the scale of the first person models
The title Redfall is a subtle reference to the line graph of the game's player count a month from now
HA!
Lmfao
Nice.
This comment is underrated haha
Lol
The enemy AI does actually have some lore to it...
The vampire lords are actually puppeteers and controlling how smart AI is which is why it is so hit or miss. A note at the end of the game states that the vampire lords eventually left the island and started a company known as Arkane Austin with the intention of sucking the life out of hard working programmers who want to make good games.
Who's laughing now
@@Zack-vi7is honestly, I didn't know that. Thanks.
Regarding the DLSS thing; I feel like many bigger games nowadays rely way too much on it, with developers trying to save time and neglecting optimization.
At the same time when a game is well optimized DLSS can wring even more performance out.
I went from getting 68 FPS with everything but Raytracing turned on in RE4 with the AMD's software version of DLSS, but when I installed a DLSS mod my FPS rarely dipped below 100.
@@PinkManGuy It always does. People hate nVidia but they always have the better choice, if you are willing to pay. But having anyone buy any GPU with less than 12 GB VRAM in 2023 is straight-up dumb.
yeah like for cyberpunks issues you can tell that it needs the DLSS because it has raytracing and some overall nutty visuals but why does this game need it lol
@@obsidiancrow450 it's not necessary. if they properly optimize and implement there is no need for DLSS. it's a gimmick that was created by nvidia just to say we have "higher" fps. but the quality of the frames goes to sh*t
@@benedictjajo If it ever comes down to this, I am going console.
Recently replaying Prey from Arkane Austin for the third time, and I can't wrap my head around how the same team would develop THIS. What a SHITTY time to be alive...
colantonio and others escaping arkane is being felt
@@circlesnare3671 but Harvey Smith is still there, dude's making games since the ancient times (System Shock, Deus Ex, Thief, Dishonored etc.).
they are not the same team, not even the same studio. arkane died when it was sold.
@@Gonzalo_105 the f you're talking about
@@Gonzalo_105 Ah, that would explain why they went from making Arx Fatalis, Dark Messiah, Dishonored and Prey 2017 to making Young Blood and Deathloop...
Always suspected it from the moment it was revealed, sadly.
I had absolutely zero high expectations for this game when it was first announced, and yet I still find myself underwhelmed at the end.
Too bad that won't stop me from playing it
Looked like Back 4 Blood. Same reception too.
@@SIC-zh3bl too bad, could've bought actually great Indie games.
@@SIC-zh3bl Play it and youll see just how mediocre it is.
This game is the epitome of what most triple AAA games are turning into these days.
Thank god I can fall back to previous gen consoles to avoid disappointment
Boring and lifeless.
This is it. The only way you can change your own relation to this is to stop buying these games.
That will not make video game development better, though. That is a wet dream.
@@shawklan27 previous gen console games are crap as any other console game. you are not gaining by playing console games.
And then they're going to want $70 now for the games as well
Imagine hiring a studio like Arkane, who created unique immersive sims like Dishonored, Deathloop, and Prey 2017 and having them make a generic looter shooter overflowing with terrible dialogue.
Nobody told them to make it generic or anything like that. Them making a bad game is on them, don’t get it twisted
Nobody from arkane wanted to work on redfall AT ALL. Coupled with the fact that they were given ASTHONISHINGLY low money and time to complete it. Lack of money, no passion whatsoever and time crunch? What did we expect
I'm convinced the "only the host makes campaign progress" thing is a deliberate choice: it basically means that if you are a group of 4 friends you'll have to replay each level 4 times with a different host, so everyone makes progress. A great way to create artificial playtime value.
Only for the achievement sluts. I played through with a friend as he hosted and once we beat it I uninstalled. It had some fun parts but very low replay value as it’s buggy and short.
Or to unistall the game faster.
I got back 4 blood vibes from this game believe me thats not a good thing
If you squint your eyes enough, they look the same game.
@@adrielklein189 ah so my asshole then
They really look like the same game which is just generic these days
It looks like back for blood and that Soviet bio shock clone whatever it was called
It literally was always Back4Blood with vampires. It was destined to be shit.
Gaming in 2023 is like being in that twilight zone episode where the guy can finally read anything but is now somehow blind
Yeah, like you can play any game you want but every single one of them is a generic live service looter shooter
Even after all this time, still nothing compares to the 4 player cohesiveness of L4D2
L4D2 is still a great game and shits on both this, and B4B
World War Z is actually pretty good, it goes more into its own thing with the character classes and general progression systems, but it has a lot of cool content.
Killing floor 1
Vermintide 2 is up there as one of the better L4D-likes
Deep rock would like to have a drink with you.
Is Arkane in some kind of financial trouble after years of kickass single player ISIMs? Like, when a studio like that starts to poop out a 4 player looter shooter, we need to start looking for a good burial plot.
All the people who made the studio great are long gone as always.
The IMSIM curse strikes again.
I'm pretty sure their last few games had underwhelming sales.
I wonder if they have a lot of human resource debt -- over expanded and hired people who shouldn't have been hired.
Well, they have been trying to do one of this since 2007 with The Crossing.
Twisted Metal: Black had partial slideshows in its cutscenes due to lack of time to make fully animated ones and it's so incredibly seamless and well done. They really used the limitations to their advantage whereas this game's cutscenes could've executed that concept better.
The Sly Trilogy made its cutscenes like animated comic strips instead of full animation good direction and talent goes a long way
Bruh.... Twisted Metal Black came out over 20 years ago. 🤦♂️😂🤦♂️
@@4partmedia Yep, that makes it extra sad.
Wait a minute, the vampires put up water walls to keep people out? Do helicopters not exist in this universe? 😂
Or nukes? Or AC 130s?
Helicopters and other air vehicles get zapped out of the sky, literally not even 20 mins into playing the game you watch 2 military helicopters get taken down almost instantly.
@@caviey again all it'd take is a High enough altitude to go unnoticed (gunship) or a nuke that a zap would only exterminate them faster
@@AOIU982 yeah how did this happen with Arkane? They were one of the only good ones left.... Even deathloop was decent but this is completely unacceptable
@@AOIU982 both were 80% or more garbage and you lot still asked for more-->here it is...
Wait, you’re telling me Focus Group The Game isn’t good? Who could’ve guessed?
I told myself awhile ago now that anything with “___fall” is probably gonna be some generic junk. Funny enough I still feel correct, and it definitely feels like a focus group title choice.
@@SasquatchOni exceeeeeept Titanfall, if only they could release a third one
@@SasquatchOni Greedfall is an exception. 👌
@@BakerLegate-zh6bh I know nothing about that gane except for the tehsnakerer video on it
@@juaja1 yes, absolutely gets a pass
The comparison to Terminator resistance really showed how this game could've been better. I was downright scared of the terminators in the beginning of that game and then by the end you had a real awesome and deserved power fantasy of a game
You can't be dissapointed when you have zero expectations. I know this was gona happend the moment they announced this game.
Not the moment 😅
it looked so bland and half baked. like at least put some unique spin on a horde shooter. Especially when you have to compete with games like darktide
On the contrary, I saw the concept trailer like last year or something, forgot I saw the trailer, and only randomly remembered the game a few months back. I had zero interest and thus zero expectations for Redfall.
I'm _still_ somehow disappointed. In action, it looks less interesting than even what the trailer was showing. That's pretty impressive. Add the bugs and performance issues, and it's downright remarkable just how disappointing a game you weren't anticipating can be.
Yup. Shit looked generic and boring AF. Just shows how great art style can fool a lot of people. It almost shuts people's brains of so they can only say "cool" and not even consider how the game is going to play.
This. I know a game isn't for me when I see multiple protagonists fighting enemies at the same time.
Genuinely makes me sad, I really love Arkane and it sucks to see them miss.
This ain’t the Arkane who made the dishonored games or even the decently good deathloop but the Austin studio, which made prey.
@@melcorchancla9431 that burns even more cause prey is awesome
Name 1 good game they have made in the past decade, apart from dishonored 2
@@durchfaII Prey, what the hell does it matter if it's in the last decade or not? what is your point?
@@friedoysterskins prey is a decent game, not one many would csll "good"
I really do love how you're fair with your critiques. A lot of developers these days haven't been told about, "garbage in, garbage out", and being rushed into production with bugs and other things that would've made developers from our era cringe at their mere mention seems to be laisse faire these days. Thanks for being a reliable source with who put effort into their art and their products and who isn't.
I genuinely want to know if this is what Arkane really wanted to make or if it's Bethesda who told them to make this. I'm afraid of what the answer is.
I think this is what Arkane wanted.
Arkane but I imagine you’re too far in when you realise it’s shit
@ラテちゃん Dishonored is god tier
Arkansas has control
I'm pretty sure it was being made before xbox bought Bethesda
The marketing for this game screamed "Stinker"
i honestly barely even heard of it till like a few weeks ago and ever trailer i saw looked generic as fuck, i feel like they didnt even try with this one
Didn't help with that "gaming journalist" cuphead tutorial level of First Impression gameplay that came out from IGN... AGAIN!
@@_Rick___Grimes_ The dialogue from each of the trailers wasn't even that good either. It just felt so annoying and cringeworthy to listen to, almost as if the marketing was deliberately aiming for zoomers who seriously thinks that MCU's style of writing is the peak of comedy. For real, why does everything tries to be like MCU these days?
It screamed because 60% of our audience are in the 12-15 age group, which has shown preference for screaming as a style of humor
However, 40% is nothing to be scoffed at, so the screaming was kept at reasonable decibels
What marketing? I dont recall ever seeing a single advertisement for this thing.
The best part about Redfall is that it made me want to play some actually good vampire games such as Vampyr and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
Don't forget about Darkwatch, a way better vampire FPS than this.
@@ethanmarley678 Damn, you're right! Darkwatch was great! Too bad it never had a PC port
Vampyr’s vastly underrated
I had to play Soul Reaver to forget about this bad game.
Vampyr is trash. On thr lelvel of Dark.
Just play Bloodlines and not the wannabes.
Some of the environments looked ripped straight from Evil Within 2's town, which is also a Bethesda game.
Now that you mention it the game really does look like Evil Within 2's first big sandbox area.
It reminded me of Alan Wake and The Secret World. (Yeah, they are all ripping off the same source material, but still. Surprisingly similar.)
I thought EXACTLY the same thing man
Yes the hubworld is VERY similar to EW2. It's like they remade it into an FPS.
I would say Alan Wake looks more like what it's supposed to be based off than these other's. It definitely looks and feels like the PNW just like Twin Peaks (which I believe it's based off of) and I would know as I live 30 minutes from the diner that Twin Peaks is based off of (not sure if they filmed in there) and I believe is what inspired the Alan Wake opening cafe. But definitely agree with the other sentiments haha
I can't believe you actually got the stealth kill to work at the beginning. I tried hitting one enemy for so long and no hit registered until they turned around and saw me lol.
So glad I got a recording of that.
Whole industry failed the challenge to simply make a game that's not cringe
Seeing how this game looks, I don't think PS5 players are missing out on anything.
Other than a snorefest and a headache
I don’t see what that has to do with anything lol. Same can be said about bad Sony games. It’s just how gaming is now sadly.
@@ElderSnowball It just means PlayStation owners who were upset about not being able to play Redfall probably don’t have to be upset about missing out on it.
That seems relevant to me…which leads me to wonder if you are an Xbox player who is sort of upset about a big Xbox exclusive possibly being a big disappointment? (I don’t know how to ask that question without sounding like a prick but I’m genuinely curious)
@@ElderSnowball It's a response to a remark that Gman makes in the video. Yes, Sony has made bad games but that doesn't excuse how bad Redfall is.
Stay on topic Elder. The game is sub par. No need to bring Sony into it. Microsoft is catching hell and they deserve it!
You just described one of the major problems with design of many modern games. They devolve into the same loop and give you too many overpowered ability's too quickly. whilst having lots of cool powers is fun they need to feel earned to be satisfying. Isn't it more satisfying to struggle against a few really tuff enemy's then come back and destroy them a few hours later after you've gotten better at the game and found some stronger tools?
eh you unlock the 3 abilities fairly quick but they all have upgrade trees that take like 20+ hours to fully flesh out.
Arkane’s decline makes a lot more sense when you remember that most of those who worked on dishonored or prey ain’t there anymore.
These are NOT the same people that made those games, a dev studio is more then just the name. It would be like expecting modern bioware or blizzard to be up to par with old bioware or blizzard.
I swear as time goes on big names have started to forget how to make good games….somehow not staying the same but moving backwards. Dishonoured has such a unique feeling and look. This just looks like a ai prompt….in everything “make spooky landscape” “a vampire” “design combat using xxxxxx and xxxxx”
Fellow gamers, we stand on the brink of a revolution. A revolution against the corporate greed and corruption that has infected the gaming industry for far too long. We must take a stand and demand change.
The time has come for us to rise up and say "enough is enough." We cannot continue to let game developers and publishers take advantage of us with overpriced DLC, microtransactions, and loot boxes. We must take back our gaming experience and demand that games be created with our enjoyment and satisfaction in mind, not just to make a quick profit.
But this revolution is not just about the gaming industry. It's about standing up against the larger systems of oppression and inequality that plague our society. We must fight for a world where everyone has access to quality games, regardless of their financial situation or social status.
Together, we can create a new gaming landscape, one where creativity and passion are the driving forces behind game development, not just profits. So let us band together, gamers of all kinds, and demand a better future for our industry and for ourselves. Let us start a revolution that will change the gaming world forever.
And if any corporate death squads ask, i'm a handicapped small child.
This is the result of video games going from passion projects to corporate moneymaking schemes. That and twitch and e-sports are the three worst things to happen to gaming
they didnt forget but already made them. no creativity in gaming is whats going on...u think they had fun building this cashtrash? but as long as u have a large enough pool of peopel who even defend stuff like nomanssky or cyberpunk...the money will keep flowing and gaming is trash. now that i think about it, thats probably why i mostly play tekken nowdays lol
If it was up to me, the vampires would be an elite unit in a swarm of cultists. Give them supernatural ways to avoid being shot or UV rayed to death and a challenging counter offensive. If you still want the fast unit, make thralls which are just expendable cannon fodder for the players power fantasy.
At least they seemed to make the characters interesting, which seems to be a bane of modern game design.
They still tried but unfortunately still failed 😪
They are not vampires.
At several points they are outside during DAYTIME IN THE SUN.
That is not up for debate; if it can walk in the sun, it is not a vampire.
@@Zelix678 they give some shitty excuse that the sun is being blocked by vampire magic or something, which is stupid when you consider that it doesn't make the island perpetually dark or anything, just gives it a red hue in the day time.
@@Zelix678 These vampires aren't obsessed with counting, they're not real vampires!
@@PhoenicopterusR true. Pisses me off
Another horde shooter co-op live service game? wow, we totally needed more of these.
The only one we'll ever need is Deep Rock Galactic, because they actually know what players want.
@@FrahdChikun RRRRRRock and stone forever!
How does a studio go from making prey to this?
Change of staff, greed, and lack of time
MS: make us a live service game worthy of Mordor
$$$$$$$$
@@ExileHeretic MS had nothing to do with this tho, Arkane was making this game before the acquisition. That's on the devs 100 percent
@@ExileHeretic not in MS though.
Man I was really hoping that redfall would be good because I love vampires. But after seeing that it would be stuck in 30fps I had a feeling that it was going to get worse. I didn’t want to believe it, but deep down I knew
Doubt very much that the frame rate is going to be the important factor here. People are absolutely obsessing over that now.
Framerate doesn't equal a good game. It equals a framerate.
Obviously, but once that got revealed I had this small feeling in the back of my mind that said “what if that’s not the only problem it has”. Then boom, it turned out to have bugs and it feels low effort
I don’t care if a game is 30fps. Why do people care about whether or not a game is 30fps?
@@Ivegotsomewater81 Frame rate is an easy indicator of how well optimized or finished a game is, on pc a game going below 60 is considered unplayable for most as any game on modern hardware can run 60+ easily but the devs are too lazy to put the effort into optimizing prior to launch
@@iceman9204 Interesting point. But I still stand by my opinion.
Seems like on top of technical problems Arkane took a more light-hearted approach recently. You know, instead of some quite deep, thoughtful, serious games like Dishonored and Prey they switched to more fun-oriented tone in Deathloop and Redfall. It also shows the games have lost their depth along the way, and in my mind those bugs and other misfortunes have somehow followed suit.
Sad too, as I loved Dishonored and Prey, but couldn’t get into Deathloop, despite liking how it plays. As far as Redfall, I knew from the first glimpse I would be avoiding it.
Even if Deathloop wasn't a masterpiece, at least that tried to be on par with Arkane's titles in terms of style.
This looks like something created by an entirely different development studio, nothing of Arkane's style stands out in this, minus a few exceptions.
@@ethanmarley678 animations seem like it ends there
I don't get this
Because you made a bunch of really dark games, that doesn't mean you can't make a light hearted game
It's weird how during the last 6-7 years the majority of games haven't improved graphically at all, but their performance has become increasingly worse. Like, I'm not a fan of putting on my tin foil hat, but honestly, why and how? Physics have become very bare bones, nothing amazing on the effects department either, some improvements on hair and lighting, but minimal stuff when you compare how much these games are demanding.
everyone publisher these days thinks they're CD project RED and believe they can absorb the bad press from a shitty launch cause people will buy it anyway
because games like this aren't given enough time to be optimized or finished. Games that are actually given enough time, like doom eternal or the last of us part 2 (regardless of what you think about the game itself) look and run great because of this.
We're at a point where graphical improvements can't be done by a single person, and giant companies like Nvidia are needed to push things forward. Unreal Engine 5 is peak graphics, hands down, and everyone who uses them will be generally stuck with whichever version they start with (upgrading can be costly).
Then there's the fact the game feels rushed. Performance can always be fixed, but if the devs don't get enough time, or management is fucking up, then you'll get a game with shitty performance.
*tin.
Tbh I saw this coming from light-years away. How did they think this was ok.
The unreal tournament edits were stellar - those sounds are just perfection
My gf was really looking forward to this since she loves vampires, but I convinced her to just try the gamepass version instead. Its seems like its worth a "rental" price for the month.
Definitely a gamepass only game.
W
You know what I SHOULD play more Unreal Tournament.
this makes me so sad. I can't believe what epic did to that game. Such wasted potential. You can't even fucking buy it anymore. and now, like tencent ruined epic, microsoft is ruining arkane, and probably all of bethesda. anyways hop on ut.
Not if Epic has anything to say about that, sadly. Can't even buy the games on Steam/digital storefronts anymore since they've been delisted. Like, sure, UT probably isn't making that much money now-in-days, but to just outright remove them from storefronts and essentially deny anyone who hadn't already bought them before, along with removing the master servers from the games, seems unbelievably anti-consumer.
But I agree, we all should play some more Unreal Tournament. :3
i remember spending time with devs. pitching ideas.
until the devs eventually cut contact with the whole fanbase. and let the new unreal die off...
i still love to play ut99 from time to time. hell i even wanted to get friends into 2003. as the graphics are still decent.
but everyone i ask says : graphics suck. gameplay sucks. its a shit game :(
I’m fully subscribed to the idea the gaming industry has become like the film and music industries where now large corporations can afford to chuck money at companies to make games, rush them out for the quarters and then abandon them when they dont do well in the first month and dissolve studio and teams for profit
You would be right
Couldn't be less surprised.
18:02 Like getting Power Armour and fighting a Death Claw in the first couple of hours in Fallout 4.
Yeah but it was the second weakest power armor and the minigun later gets outclassed by other weapons. The whole sequence was meant to show off the new rules for using power armor.
I had literally never heard of Redfall until after I saw the controversy about it start to circulate. That's pretty shocking given it's Arkane developed title and I usually am quite excited by those from early announcement. Somehow this just slipped under the radar for me, and I'm kinda glad because this looks nothing like what I'd expect from that studio.
This is the kind of game that actors play on tv when theyre pretending to play
Love hearing “what is that?” from Full Metal Jacket on Gman’s videos
Gman, your edits are always so spot on. I don't know if you still edit your own vids or if you have an editor, but either way: the subtle (or not so subtle) humor is always great. Love your work man.
He got into an argument with some idiot on twitter not long ago who was making fun of him for editing his own videos instead of 'expanding his business' or some such nonsense.
@@91MRJ lol that’s rich
The Chief Wiggum clip made my girlfriend lose her shit
The 30 seconds of Unreal Tournament at the end of the video had more heart, soul, and energy to it than the entire 20-something minutes of Redfall gameplay that came before. It reminds me of how, whenever I try to play Cyberpunk, I just wish I was playing Deus Ex instead.
Looks like we’ve found this year’s “Babylon’s fall”
It doesn't look anywhere near as bad as that.
This year's Babylon's Fall is Forspoken from same publisher
How long do think Redfall will last. Babylons fail died within less than a year.
This year’s Babylon’s Fall is Jedi Survivor.
@@zephyr8072 not even close. Survivor is a good game held back by a bad pc port.
I like that right at the end you just finish off with rather a clip from Unreal Tournament a game from 1999...which still looks way more fun in its gameplay than Redfall
If I can define the word average into a video game… this would definitely be it.
This is certainly one of the games ever made.
You forgot to add below. 😂😂😂
Just wait until Suicide Squad drops
@@uspaint Nah. It might seem like a surprise to someone with your level of intelligence but some people have enough brain capacity that allows them to rate games between just "amazing" and "trash".
Mediocre is more like it.
Got to Jacob the Sniper can send out a bird to attack enemies and my brain immediately went "Ah, he's the Mordicai of the group, gotcha."
Yeah this actually pissed me off. That bird was actually an important part about Mordecai's backstory and in BL2 and here it's like "Well Snipers always have birds". The people who made this basically copied every single aspect of the game from something else.
the tank is literally athena to xD
but yeah sniper =/= bird person. is gonna be a funny stereotype now.
i think quite a few games have done this ever since bl1 did it.
So loud
So angry
...So dead
@@miciso666 It goes beyond BL 1, MGS 3 had The End use his pet parrot as his spotter.
I really do like the idea and look of the vampires just lifting up the water so you can't leave.
But they aren't vampires.
If they can walk in the sun light, they are not vampires.
This is not up for debate.
@@Zelix678 Vampires can do anything, because they aren't real.
@@Zelix678 ...you think the overused stereotypical vampires are the only ones who can fucking exist or what ?
@@Zelix678 Dracula isn't a vampire by your logic then.
Welp, good to know I'm not missing out on much. Been saying that about a lot more games lately and that's really unfortunate.
From Arx Fatalis, Dishonored, Prey to ... this. Never ever go full live service.
To be fair, not the same studio. The French guys made Dishonored and Deathloop.
Arkane Austin made Prey, though.
Arx Fatalis wasn't exactly an amazing game, honestly.
I remember seeing this ages ago, and the big thing that made me feel weird about the whole, is that for having such a vibe of "small town gets monsters, locals fight back", the backstory of all of the characters make them out to be hyper competent.
Which just feels odd.
Props to the review that dropped six days early.
I 'had' it on my wishlist - available May 1st.
Half of the development was spent on the giant waves surrounding the map
My friend and I played for a solid hour and half and we had to check that we were on the hardest difficulty multiple times, there is just no challenge at all. Most of our damage was from falling when we missed a platform lol
That UT99 3:07 transition made me emotional.
I really wish that arena shooters would make a comeback. 😢
Shame Epic would rather forget about its history and legacy these days. 😑
I'm kinda sad there wasn't a single John Carpenter's Vampires reference in this video, love that movie. When you were talking about collecting the vampire heads would have been perfect for the clip of Montoya saying "Nothin like a little head, eh Padre?" at least that's the first thing that came to my mind
That movie is underrated
The 2nd one has Bon Jovi but it's not as good as the 1st.
Honestly to me the most baffling aspect is going from the Typhon Phantoms and Nightmare to these Vampires and somehow losing all threat and gravitas in the process.
Look at the characters 😂
How were you disappointed? Its exactly as expected
we're disappointed because the gameplay sucks. we couldn't give 2 shits about how the characters look because we're not 12 lmao
@@saltysumo7991 _"I'm excited for how its tastes; I don't care that it says_ *POISON* _on the label..."_
Red flags shouldn't be ignored 👍🏻
Indeed
@@unbearifiedbear1885 the gameplay is a lot more stronger indicator of why the game is disappointing than the character designs.
@@saltysumo7991 the character designs already prefaced the game sucking. I didn't even need to play it to know it was a bag of shite, the reviews are just confirmation of my hypothesis.
What kind of rookie vampires are those, they didn’t even bother to cast an endless night over the town they are inhabiting
who was seriously thinking to themselves 'i'm excited for redfall, i reckon this will be a phenomenal game.'
About power creep, I think thats one of the reasons why I love Piranha Bytes (Gothic, Risen Elex etc.) games, it makes exploration and levelling worth it as it gives you power progressively.
Larian is great with this too. In Original Sun 2 it literally takes hours to even get proper weapons and armour, but it’s so satisfying when you finally do.
Redfall? No, Redfail.
Even the name is lame. 😂😂😂
"Undercooked and Unfinished" really sums up virtually all modern video games.
For most triple a games yes but at least indie games are still trying to pick up the slack by still trying to be more creative which I appreciate I own tons of indie games and all of them are still fun to play 🙂
@@aaronatkinson177 the majority are crap tho.
@@paulovinasrocha6166 that’s true of literally everything, not just games. The only difference is the crappy ones don’t blend into the background on Steam like a book would in a library.
And black/lgbt filled too. As if that shit is neccessary to have a good, enjoyable game these days.
Obviously not surprised, since the ads for it made it look extremely lame.
The absolute state of Arkane. That studio lost its soul after Raphael Colantonio left.
Is Raphael Colantonio French or Italian or both or none?
@@daksans6764 He's french.
@@miller42 French people are legends in gaming. David Cage is another French legend
@@daksans6764 David Cage has some unflattering stories and Life is Strange is from France so they're honestly hit or miss as a country.
Also David has some plain not great games. Hilarious, but not really great. Godamn Omicron nomad soul.
@@cameronroy2129 I don't care what people say about David Cage. He is a legend. Allegedly he said something like he doesn't make games for f**s. So what? He has right to make games for whoever and however he wants. Woke people will never reach to the level as David Cage.
Thanks Gman for another awesome review, love your content!
The fact doors don't have a knob, it's a feature of the game, so vampires don't come in, see, they must be invited ;-)
Love the Lock, Stock and Two Smokin' Barrels clip! Great movie. "If you find its a job worth doing, you'll find your share improving" - Dog
"YOU FIRE THAT GUN AGAIN, YOU'RE A DEAD MAN! NO IFS NO BUTS. DEAD"
Can you fight Morbius in this game? Do the vampires morb on you?
None of the characters are 15 so you're safe from leto morb
They walk in sunlight.
They are not vampires.
It would be great if you did another video on Redfall since Arkane Austin closed down and they gave it a final update which made the game much better now.
"Redfall, a game about vampires, really sucks." So easy.
The Unreal Tournament footage at the end was honestly the most exciting part of the video.
I know right?
deck 16!
Railgunning Necroth is everything this game wants to be and fails at
I was expecting them to throw the translocator out again in UT, and end up back in Redfall. Either way, great gag.
yeah redfall is pure ass, rather be playing or watching something else
This inspired me to play FF7(original) and be more patient for Witchspring R to be fully released.
"It's run of the mill, but functional and works as intended" is how I have felt about a lot of "AAA" games over the last 5 years. When I saw the announcement trailer at E3, I immediately wrote this off because I expected the bog standard looter-shooter games-as-a-service model that launches broken. Sad to hear I was correct. Appreciate Arkane trying something new, they're my fav studio, but I think most people aren't very surprised to see all the negative sentiment
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I kind of figured.. if you want a shooter vampire game that is multiplayer.. you should give Bloodhunt a try, takes place in the Vampire the Masquerade world, Nosferatu, Toreador, Brujah, Ventrue and very recently The Tremere are playable clans
Guess it’s on the list of fps that seemed somewhat ambitious initially.
Did Arkane lost their A-talent recently? Because they went from an amazing studio that developed flawed but masterful titles like Arx Fatalis, Dark Messiah, Dishonored and Prey 2017 to making disappointment like Dishonored 2, outright embarrassing crap like that co-op Wolfenstein, the "just barely able to graze the lofty heights of 'mediocre'"" Deathloop, and now this crap... What the hell happened to them?
Arkane went downhill after Prey and Death of the outsider. Deathloop was fine, but nowhere near as good as dishonored
Yes. Because control of the ocean tides has always been a major troupe of vampires 😂
HE'S MR NIMBUS!
Gotta get that closed circle setting somehow.
I really have to be honest with you all, I actually went out of my way and bought myself a PS3 simply for the fact that modern games as a whole just don't seem to get their shit together anymore
Playing classics like Asura's Wrath, Brütal Legends, Infamous, Alice: Madness Returns, Lollipop Chainsaw, Dante's Inferno, Castlevania 1 and 2 and many, many more had me smiling like a little child getting it's first electric quad, trust me, I should now
Either way, it's honestly such a shame that devs and publishers think shit like this is ok
Glad you're taking one for the team, Gman. I became quite skeptical about this game over the past few months and you just confirm my suspicions. Hard pass for me m8!
Taking one for the team? It's literally his job lol.
@@XxgoodbudsxX Playing this trash so we don't have to, that's the point Chaos is trying to make i believe.
Somehow, even without seeing any footage nor following the game, I kind of expected this.
At this rate, I'll stick to indie titles as least those people are putting their hearts and souls into making good games or find a classic game from the past.
The AAA game industry is becoming a joke! Trying to cut corners and cost, not putting enough effort into their games, or failing to deliver what they said they would and I'm sick of the remakes/reboots!
And holy shit! $160 dollars for one game?! The number of times I buy a brand game only to be disappointed with it and not getting a refund or half of my money back. I find it so strange that today's game industry is going down hill as I was sure the future would have better games than shit like this, but hey at least we got the indie scene to help us.
Never once expected this to be good.