Redfall is a major departure from what Arkane Studios' is known for, and just like BioWare's Anthem, fails to live up to expectations.
Paul Tassi: "Sony recently reiterated its commitment to live service games with one big hit last year (Helldivers 2), one big cancellation (The Last of Us Factions) and one big failure (Concord). It’s no great surprise it is continuing down this road, given the way the industry is trending and the limited shelf life of its famed single player games. But it immediately made me think of a game that Sony is allegedly releasing that I have to believe is pre-destined to fail, Fairgame$."
Fairgame$ feels like it's destined to flop out the gate- that initial trailer felt full of that same instantly-dated 'fight The Man with a ragtag team of weirdos' energy that was prevalent in Sega's Hyenas (which they wisely cancelled.) Unlike Marathon I just don't see this standing a chance.
It will definitely flop, missed the boat by a couple of years. Agreed that Marathon has a decent chance of succeeding it looks genuinely good and interesting.
It can't be sustainable having all these expensive GaaS being DOA being balanced by the odd modest success like Helldivers. The aim is to find the new Fortnite or whatever but it's highly unlikely and seems to be a massive waste of money.
Some of the biggest success stories in the history of gaming have happened during this generation of gaming. At the same time, some of the biggest flops in the history of gaming have also happened during this generation of gaming. To this end, a few games particularly stick out as, unfortunately, disastrous flops for those who made the games, sold the games, and ultimately, for many that played the games.
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What a strange, short list. There have been many more games that arrived DOA, were never released, didn’t make their budget back, etc. Why cherry pick these games? Is this list based on the size of internet hate boners?
Replies(2)Skull and Bones gets my vote, at this point just completely remake AC Black Flag. If the Concord developers had made the game free to play, and toned down the in your face messaging via the mods and design choices, this game could have been serviceable eventually. I never understand why pandering to 5% of your audience and giving the finger to the other 95% seems like a good idea to these people. They never seem to learn. Disney has lost 1/3rd of its value and they keep doubling down on political messaging. I don’t get it.
Some of these companies are paid huge amounts of money to do this stuff. They get truck loads of money to give “the message”
By blackrock and vanguards and multiple other venture capitalists even though it’s been proven over and over they fail.
Arkane Austin has just released Game Update 4, the final patch for Redfall which is 16GB in size and adds an Offline Mode.
I'm not interested in this game but i think it's great they added the offline mode for those who are.
It was okay at first... once they added the performance update it was definitely better.
I don't think it's close. There was hype behind anthem. There wasn't behind redfall. The concept of anthem was cool. Redfall is a generic, repetitive. Incomplete and dated game.
I don't see Redfall lasting as long as Anthem.
Anthem was expected to be good and was a shock when it launched. Redfall was expected to be 'fine', but turned out sub-par and full of bugs. All eyes will be on Starfield now if xbox is your only gaming option. If you're a multplatform gamer, chances are you didn't care about Redfall anyway after the pre-launch gameplay showed what was coming our way.
If the idea of this piece is 'hyped games that fail to deliver'... sure, they can be compared. However there is a big difference between the two in question. One was published by Bethesda, the other by EA. Bethesda had a hands off approach, they let Arkane do their own thing while that was not the case with Anthem. Bioware had ambitions and then EA came in to make changes for all the wrong reasons. It was no wonder that Anthem was canned so quickly as all the EA mandates really turned the fans off. They never really showed up so of course EA was not going to let Bioware put any more time into trying to fix it.
At least Arkane has plans to address the issues people have reported, and Bethesda (and MS) are letting them tackle them. I feel it should not have released in the state it's in. But it's here now. We'll see if it can go the distance (at least longer than two years of support like Anthem had)
Anthem over promised, Redfall underwhelmed from the start.
I played close to 2 hrs of Redfall solo & for me it wasn't a bad experience. I didn't experience any hiccups in my playing. It seems Redfall is one of those games you either like it or you hate it. It's like one of those average budget shooters that one don't mind playing & find some fun in it. I'm going to continue playing & see how it goes. Hopefully Arkane starts rolling out updates to iron out the kinks people are complaining about.