"Imagine saving $70 of your hard-earned money to buy a cool new video game from Steam and mistakenly buying Redfall instead."
Paul Tassi: "Sony recently reiterated its commitment to live service games with one big hit last year (Helldivers 2), one big cancellation (The Last of Us Factions) and one big failure (Concord). It’s no great surprise it is continuing down this road, given the way the industry is trending and the limited shelf life of its famed single player games. But it immediately made me think of a game that Sony is allegedly releasing that I have to believe is pre-destined to fail, Fairgame$."
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.
Don't worry, Redfall 2 will have new rendering, lighting, and landscape technology.
+ 16* the detail 😏
"Imagine saving up $70 of your hard-earned money to buy a cool new video game from Steam and mistakenly buying Redfall instead."
If you were foolhardy enough to do this after knowing "years ago ... that Redfall was going to be a terrible game," you could get a refund and save yourself the time it takes to write shill articles trying to convince us Xbox still wins when it loses.
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Before anyone tries to come with "you didn't read the article," yes I did. I don't care about his made up scenario in which the game gets played for over two hours that is even more ridiculous than the the reality that he could only stomach it for one hour. It seems like being on Game Pass is the only reason he wasted an hour of his life he says "I’m never going to get back."
You’re grateful for something enabling low quality games… because you got a low quality game. There’s a lot of thought going into these posts now-a-days..
Imagine researching things you spend your money on. Or just imagine buying xbox games during a Steam Sale and getting to play them whenever you want with free online play.
It's a great demo service for indy games though....that I buy on other platforms.
Redfall, good enough for Gamepass.