On Wednesday, Arkane generated an intense amount of backlash when they announced that Redfall, their upcoming co-op loot shooter, would be launching only with "Quality Mode," meaning it would maximize visuals but only run at 30 FPS on both the Xbox Series S and Series X.
Redfall seems like a different case where it’s not traversing 1,000 planets, but is a single map and stylized graphics that at least make it seem like hitting that FPS mark shouldn’t be hard (albeit this is a bit of armchair game dev-ing). Regardless, the end result is a lot of angry people and calls for a delay.
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.
well they are pretty good at it, sooo.
i dont see a lot of love for this game, nothing ive seen makes it look amazing, this will be sort of sleeper hit where it delivers or it will be DOA, im guessing the latter.
Tbh a delayed product is better than a rushed product
I honestly don’t know the ins and outs of industry finance and whether this has to come out in 2nd fiscal quarter, but I think with all the releases why would you risk putting out a next-gen game with only a 30fps? 1) you’re going to get bad publicity that will harm sales, 2) I’m curious if this will have an impact on reviews similar to Gotham Knights, which will harm sales, 3) you announce to people that the performance mode is coming, which will make some people who don’t have Game Pass wait until the mode is patched in, which will also harm sales.
There’s also a bunch of massive hitters coming out this month, next month, and the month after. I feel like you’re setting your game up for failure releasing it like this.
But, again, I don’t know if it’s like Microsoft has to absolutely push this out for this quarter or what. Just seems like a dumb decision otherwise, to me.
Yes and make sure when it launches everything is fixed
60FPS mode (must be ready at launch)
Single player offline mode (must be ready at launch)
1440-120 mode (this is the only thing that can be done after game launch)