Arkane takes a stab at infusing the genre du jour with its signature style, but the end results are a bloody mess.
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.
You know what’s funny, I've made comments on here in the past about how they never showed off a long play walk through of a single player mission, something meaty you could watch to see how you could go about missions playing solo similar to the huge focus on the co-op playthroughs they've showed off of the game and I was called out a few times.
Now with these reviews coming out it's pretty much confirmed one of my main suspicions that it's another game which clearly has been ruined by co-op and overall online play.
The single player side of it is talked about being so disappointing and it's a huge deal here because for Arkane this is their bread and butter. We have a single player driven developer dipping their toes into online play and it just hasn't worked for them. I loved Deathloop but even then I felt with the small additions of online features it wasn't something you really needed or good enopugh to make a huge splash however despite that it was still smaller in comparison. Here it seems they've bitten off more than they can chew within a development time that was clearly not realistic enough given their lack of knowledge on the subject.
The issue overall with Redfalls online direction is that the game clearly doesn’t know what it wants to be so while on one hand it's shown as this "work together, team based" shooter the other gives off a "fun looter shooter" vibe. I mean remember how many people were confused after the big reveal we saw last year over the games direction? We had L4D comparisons on one side and then Borderlands ones were on the other.
This game could have been amazing if it was built up as a single player driven open world game (or hubs like past Arkane games) and the abilities the 4 players have are "paths" for one single character within the game you could go down towards when spending skill points in that chosen skill path. It's just crazy that they've done Vampires who are bursting with a variety of different interesting lore’s they could have taken inspiration from and it feels like it was the last thing on their mind.
Holy Moly, it's worse than I thought. 70 bucks, or 100 for a 'special' version? What were they thinking?
This game was rushed out to die for the sake of Gamepass filler.
Xbox gamers need to stop bragging their gaming is cheap and start demanding their gaming be high quality.