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

[mord]

The review embargo is 3 hours after release, someone should have corrected them, steam refunds end at 2 hour mark.

 

[Spukrian]

Funny, the game was accidentally released early, some are already streaming it on twitch.

 

[Child of Malkav]

Were there any people here who actually had hope that this will be good?

I might hazard a guess......

Spoiler

the author of the post above the current one

 

[Fargus]

For me this is the evolution of AAA industry. We just watch retarded diversity hires fail to entertain ourselves.

 

[Ivan]

Who is ACG?

karat

 

[Siel]

Redfall is an anomaly because a game with this good of a team behind can’t possibly be this bad, and yet, it is. There are these drips of looter shooter, RPG, and multiplayer elements sprinkled throughout, but none of them work together, delivering a messy and almost incomprehensible experience. Still, gunplay and exploration stay consistently fun, thanks to the satisfaction of taking down enemies and the level design. That being said, the single-player campaign is dull, but the multiplayer campaign could provide bouts of fun comprised of laughing at the strange AI behavior or the fact that no one can find keys to a door.

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[Siel]

TLDR: it's shit

 

[Child of Malkav]

These cunts are really starting to get on my tits

to get on my tits

tits

 

[Child of Malkav]

 

[KIss My Ass]

Goodbye Arkane. M$ kills another studio almost like clockwork. If they ever purchase From Software god forbid I will go on a fucking rampage. Sick of the useless fucking cunts.

 

[Ivan]

booting this dumpster fire

 

[fizzelopeguss]

12 hours to clock the campaign, apparently...

 

[Dodo1610]

Shocking, combining the boring Ubisoft open-world structure with the soulless Borderlands loot shooter gameplay does not result in a good game.

 

[BLOBERT]

BROS BORDERLANDS WAS JUST SUCH A LEVEL SCALED PEACE OF SHIT I COULDNT TOLERATE IT

I DOBT THIS IS EVEN WORTH MY TIME TO DOWNLOAD ON FAGPASS

PLAY ATOMIC HEART BROS MANY FUN TO BE HAVING

 

[Cricket McBangle]

Well I played about an hour courtesy of GamePass.

This game is terrible in strange ways. Due to the 30 FPS lock (which the game can't maintain), the controls feel sluggish and amateurish. Before we even get to that, the cutscenes just look bizarrely cheap? Did the project's budget get slashed midway through development and Microsoft or Bethesda told them to finish up whatever they had and shoved it out the door? Most of the information you get is from pop-up notifications. I don't mean like quick tutorial hints, I mean, the actual "story."

The Enemy AI doesn't work. I've lost count the amount of times Cultists ran right by me as I was slaughtering them and really not trying any sort of stealthy approach whatsoever.

I fired my dinky pistol at some cultists in a church parking lot, shot the car behind them and it blew up right away.

I was most interested in the Vampires because that's the big hook of this game, right? They probably get more "interesting" to fight when they get more powerful but 4 shotgun blasts and then staking them, they're really not that interesting to fight. The game dropped FPS hard when I was fighting them inside some house, one of which glitched through a wall.

The environments too are all sterile and generic looking as well, nothing feels like it's been remotely lived in. It's two notches above an an Unreal Engine asset flip.

However much you believe Redfall to suck ass, I assure you, it's worse than you think

 

[POOPERSCOOPER]

I get more satisfaction from watching games fail than I do seeing them succeeded.

 

[KIss My Ass]

OOF, only a 64 metacritic rating. Arkane couldn't even outscore Dead Island 2, a game that spent a decade in development hell!

 

[DemonKing]

I get more satisfaction from watching games fail than I do seeing them succeeded.

After the disappointment of Deathloop it seems like Arkane are circling the drain now with this release.

Glad I didn't bother wasting the bandwidth to download it on Gamepass.

 

[Ivan]

gunplay is reminiscent of VTMB

 

[Roguey]

Goodbye Arkane. M$ kills another studio almost like clockwork. If they ever purchase From Software god forbid I will go on a fucking rampage. Sick of the useless fucking cunts.

Other than paying for it, Microsoft had nothing to do with this project. It's all Bethesda and Arkane. Raph quit in 2017 because he saw the writing on the wall.

 

[KIss My Ass]

Goodbye Arkane. M$ kills another studio almost like clockwork. If they ever purchase From Software god forbid I will go on a fucking rampage. Sick of the useless fucking cunts.

Other than paying for it, Microsoft had nothing to do with this project. It's all Bethesda and Arkane. Raph quit in 2017 because he saw the writing on the wall.

I will continue blaming M$ because it makes me feel better.

 

[CyberModuled]

After trying it out for a few hours out of morbid curiosity on Gamepass, all I can say is wow, Forspoken now has stiff competition for "Worst game of 2023". I didn't even think that would be possible but here we are.

 

[onemananadhisdroid]

Seems like Colantonio left a s(t)inking ship -- and he knew it.

And the blockbusting games industry has finally done it. Finally surpassing Hollywood for good. Steering studios such as Arkane into the direction of the likes of Redfall is akin to Hollywood forcing its better talent to do video game adaptations of Assassin's Creed Whatever or Marvel Blockbusters for eternity.

 

[Ivan]

Wow, I'd never thought I'd see an Arkane game with such weak characterization, systems, combat. While I disliked Deathloop, at least in that game it had the puzzle thing going for it. Here...it feels like a bastardization of Borderlands and Far Cry. YUCK
-cheesy one-liner you'll hear over and over again
-cheap-o animated cutscenes
-laughably bad combat
-forced skill tree

an absolute joke they're charging 60/70 USD for this. Gamepass it if you're morbidly curious like I was

 

[KIss My Ass]

Wow, I'd never thought I'd see an Arkane game with such weak characterization, systems, combat. While I disliked Deathloop, at least in that game it had the puzzle thing going for it. Here...it feels like a bastardization of Borderlands and Far Cry. YUCK
-cheesy one-liner you'll hear over and over again
-cheap-o animated cutscenes
-laughably bad combat
-forced skill tree

an absolute joke they're charging 60/70 USD for this. Gamepass it if you're morbidly curious like I was

The only thing they had on their mind throughout the entire development cycle was representing all the black and brown people. Mission accomplished.