Redfall - open world vampire slaying co-op FPS from Arkane Austin

[Alienman]

A brave new (clown) world.

 

[Great Deceiver]

Looks laughably terrible, as expected. Every aspect of this turd could be made by a middling AI, it's that generic.

Can you at least play as the vamps to gorge on zoomer blood?

 

[adddeed]

How did they go from Arx Fatalis to this?

 

[Siel]

How did they go from Arx Fatalis to this?

With Harvey Smith.

 

[hayst]

I quite liked Prey 2017. Following Deathloop this decline is depressing.

 

[Vlajdermen]

Is there a word for this phenomenon where new media is just a jumbled mix of bad hip hop beats, quirky characters, bright colors for clothes and weapons, and a thick sheen of shit over everything?

To quote Beavis and Butthead: ''There is. It's called crap.''

 

[AscendedFlames]

New trailer dropped.

I fucking hate it.

Is there a word for this phenomenon where new media is just a jumbled mix of bad hip hop beats, quirky characters, bright colors for clothes and weapons, and a thick sheen of shit over everything?

It's been fortnighted. Everything's fortnighted now.

I'm going to ramble. I've said this before and I'll say it again, every form of media these days seem to follow this trend of pure unadulterated cringe and weakness. You could argue that video games are mostly made by nerds, but looking back before all the clownery began, you can see that developers tried and succeeded many times in creating games that had grit, virility, potency, intensity, even past decline games had it, before all this shit began. It's the culture of "chill bro", lo-fi, nothing can be taken seriously and my absolute favorite is the cringe dialogue à la Joss Whedon. It encompasses everything, from artstyle, aesthetics, dialogue even to how the goddamn mechanics work. Compare games like Quake, 1.6, Unreal to how GAY Overwatch, Fortnite and Valorant looks, you can't tell me none of you see it.

Instead of this game having some Arkane DNA and letting the player have player-agency in how they tackle each situation which could be different and could require some creativity, it's just another Borderlands where people are going to powergame the hell out of it and find the highest DPS weapon to do big numbers and kill things the fastest way possible.

 

[Tyranicon]

New trailer dropped.

I fucking hate it.

Is there a word for this phenomenon where new media is just a jumbled mix of bad hip hop beats, quirky characters, bright colors for clothes and weapons, and a thick sheen of shit over everything?

It's been fortnighted. Everything's fortnighted now.

I'm going to ramble. I've said this before and I'll say it again, every form of media these days seem to follow this trend of pure unadulterated cringe and weakness. You could argue that video games are mostly made by nerds, but looking back before all the clownery began, you can see that developers tried and succeeded many times in creating games that had grit, virility, potency, intensity, even past decline games had it, before all this shit began. It's the culture of "chill bro", lo-fi, nothing can be taken seriously and my absolute favorite is the cringe dialogue à la Joss Whedon. It encompasses everything, from artstyle, aesthetics, dialogue even to how the goddamn mechanics work. Compare games like Quake, 1.6, Unreal to how GAY Overwatch, Fortnite and Valorant looks, you can't tell me none of you see it.

Instead of this game having some Arkane DNA and letting the player have player-agency in how they tackle each situation which could be different and could require some creativity, it's just another Borderlands where people are going to powergame the hell out of it and find the highest DPS weapon to do big numbers and kill things the fastest way possible.

I think it's called "we're not the primary audience anymore."

And you know what, it was better when we were the desired audience.

 

[AscendedFlames]

New trailer dropped.

I fucking hate it.

Is there a word for this phenomenon where new media is just a jumbled mix of bad hip hop beats, quirky characters, bright colors for clothes and weapons, and a thick sheen of shit over everything?

It's been fortnighted. Everything's fortnighted now.

I'm going to ramble. I've said this before and I'll say it again, every form of media these days seem to follow this trend of pure unadulterated cringe and weakness. You could argue that video games are mostly made by nerds, but looking back before all the clownery began, you can see that developers tried and succeeded many times in creating games that had grit, virility, potency, intensity, even past decline games had it, before all this shit began. It's the culture of "chill bro", lo-fi, nothing can be taken seriously and my absolute favorite is the cringe dialogue à la Joss Whedon. It encompasses everything, from artstyle, aesthetics, dialogue even to how the goddamn mechanics work. Compare games like Quake, 1.6, Unreal to how GAY Overwatch, Fortnite and Valorant looks, you can't tell me none of you see it.

Instead of this game having some Arkane DNA and letting the player have player-agency in how they tackle each situation which could be different and could require some creativity, it's just another Borderlands where people are going to powergame the hell out of it and find the highest DPS weapon to do big numbers and kill things the fastest way possible.

I think it's called "we're not the primary audience anymore."

And you know what, it was better when we were the desired audience.

100%. It's just amazing how it shifted this quick within our lifetime. We definitely need independent developers to keep the torch lit, because I don't see AAA ever catering to our tastes.

 

[sosmoflux]

Remember when the AI bots in Unreal & Quake 3 would bully you?
Think about how problematic that would be these days

 

[Ivan]

Remember when the AI bots in Unreal & Quake 3 would bully you?
Think about how problematic that would be these days

Doom Eternal did this and they got shit for it from softies. Glad to see the DLC three two of them at you at once

 

[sosmoflux]

Bump lol now you have to remember this game is coming out

 

[vortex]

Bump lol now you have to remember this game is coming out

But it's going to to be live service shared world coop experience .

 

[HoboForEternity]

I quite liked Prey 2017. Following Deathloop this decline is depressing.

prey is one of the best games ever made. deahtloop was ok. this looks downright terrible

 

[Child of Malkav]

prey is one of the best games ever made.

Agreed.

deahtloop was ok.

Disagree. Deathloop was shit.

this looks downright terrible

Agreed. Arkane is dead.

As you can see, I was conflicted. I couldn't just react with agree when there were parts I disagreed with so I took the time to properly respond.

 

[Tyranicon]

Prey is very good but the last 30% or so was of a drastically lower quality.

I am interested in a sequel, although with the sequel hook they set up, I have no idea where they would actually set the game.

 

[Tweed]

Wasn't Nigloop made of up wasted Prey 2 assets?

 

[Child of Malkav]

I have no idea where they would actually set the game.

On Earth, against Typhon. Then in the 3rd game on the Typhon homeworld.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Fedora Master]

Reminder that Arkane have never made a good game and Infinitron has never shilled a good game.

 

[Slaver1]

Some nice touches there with the blatant upside down cross and negress vampire adding an extra dose of post-modern decay to Clownworldia Left For Dead. The dead-eyed, medicated hordes who anticipate this title have already had their souls sucked out of them. Only sick and twisted beings not dissimilar to Dracula Shaneequa will be able to glean any satisfaction from a product such as this.

 

[Cyberarmy]

This game is going to fail so hard, probably Forspoken levels of fail.

 

[Lyric Suite]

How did they go from Arx Fatalis to this?

Diversity, equity and inclusion.

 

[Tyranicon]

Each of these trailers is worse than the last.

 

[sosmoflux]

Wasn't the worst trailer tbh
The levels of cringe were noticeably lower
I'm mostly surprised that they haven't been able to show a single gameplay moment that looks even remotely novel or interesting
Shooting
Press X to killing
Doing a jump on that stupid purple phone booth for no reason
They're so blatantly aiming for an audience that will never play the game they actually want to make but aren't