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

[Blaine]

Left: brooding white male school shooter carrying extended AR-15 with power nozzle and scope that automatically targets prepubescents; psychopomp perched on shoulder to shepherd the souls of his victims to the afterlife

Left Center: strawng and sassy transgender wombyn of colour wearing purple and carrying a rifle incorrectly, as black people do (handling firearms incorrectly sticks it to the colonialists)

Right: "Asian" (Arab) man, carrying no weapon because Islam is a religion of peace, although he does wear a small suicide-bomb shoulder bandolier as a cultural accoutrement; the mask helps to locate Shia Muslims for religious debate

 

[Morgoth]

Left: brooding white male school shooter carrying extended AR-15 with power nozzle and scope that automatically targets prepubescents; psychopomp perched on shoulder to shepherd the souls of his victims to the afterlife

Left Center: strawng and sassy transgender wombyn of colour wearing purple and carrying a rifle incorrectly, as black people do (handling firearms incorrectly sticks it to the colonialists)

Right: "Asian" (Arab) man, carrying no weapon because Islam is a religion of peace, although he does wear a small suicide-bomb shoulder bandolier as a cultural accoutrement; the mask helps to locate Shia Muslims for religious debate

Fascinating scrutinization, José.

 

[anvi]

Inclusivity = no white guys

 

[d1r]

The "sassy black woman with the huge afro character"-character type is the worst shit that has happened when it comes to character design in the last 10 years in the video game industry.

 

[Blaine]

The "sassy black woman with the huge afro character"-character type is the worst shit that has happened when it comes to character design in the last 10 years in the video game industry.

I've explained this before in multi-paragraph soapbox tirades, but what it boils down to is that while black Americans are very far from the most oppressed people living in this country/the world (see: Native Americans; Aleutians; Australian aborigines; ethnic minorities in China, India, the Middle East; actual Africans living in Africa; etc.), they are the loudest and most populous minority, with the most marketable poor-us accoutrements (muh chains and whips and the KKK)—so corrupt Hollywood child groomers and AAA game studio no-talent hacks get the most bang for their buck putting black people in everything.

It's also just plain simpler to spam black people everywhere, because nuance and thoughtfulness might lead to self-reflection and exercises in actual critical thinking, and that's the last thing wokeoids want.

 

[Zombra]

Vampire hunting is a great theme - not sure how this sets itself apart in gameplay though. At a glance it looks like just another co-op FPS with wacky powers. I want more stalking, detection, stealth etc. Also not thrilled by "hit point bar" based play - watching the protagonist get slashed 6 or 7 times in the preview but not even mentioning she's wounded ... I guess this isn't the game to attack for it but more and more I feel like hit point bars have to go in general.

 

[SomeGuyWithAnOpinion]

Well this thread escalated quickly

 

[sosmoflux]

[trailer]

This is cracking me up.

They've copped a lot of blowback from the previous cringey woke trailers so far. Let's count the ways they've backpedaled for this one;

- Specifically avoids showing any of the main characters every other trailer has sucked off so much
- First trailer to not have some dumbass urban rap background music
- Name drops both Dishonored AND Prey, as if the quadruple vaccinated new normal normies they're appealing to have ever heard of those games
- "Story- Driven"
- "Slay Alone"
- "W-Well... it's fun with friends!"
- Reduced the Diversity Power Quip voice lines by a factor of 95%

Reeks of desperation. Please white man! Buy our propaganda!

And damn, you can smell the outsourcing. A truly woeful collection of gameplay clips showing nothing interesting, and all the combat is against tiny enemies running around like their AI is broken.

 

[Roguey]

Left: brooding white male school shooter carrying extended AR-15 with power nozzle and scope that automatically targets prepubescents; psychopomp perched on shoulder to shepherd the souls of his victims to the afterlife

Yeah, this guy isn't white.

I liked playing a hapa in Prey and the color of the protagonist didn't matter to me in Deathloop, a game I had no interest in playing regardless, but these character choices are a deliberate snub.

 

[Zombra]

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[Lazing Dirk]

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I figured it out

"Y'all I discovered an amazing new codex feature I believe: they call it the "looking things up" function, it's called search and I was astonished to learn that there is a whole thread about the Redfall game already. Click here now!"

 

[Silverfish]

Nah, it makes sense to keep all Arkane discussion in one thread, since, like Bethesda and Fromsoft, they only make one game.

 

[Zlaja]

Borderlands gameplay + the art style of the new Saints Row is like a mix of turd and sandwich.

From Dishonored/Prey (and Dark Messiah before that) to this soulless crap. It's so sad. It's like they're actively trying to fail and get shut down, OR they're just following orders on what to produce from the higher ups and have to comply.

 

[attention_deprived]

Another Arkane game? Watch me never hear about it ever again hours after release, like that gun loop or something.

Did Prey not sell? they seem to completely abandon that path.

 

[SomeGuyWithAnOpinion]

Did Prey not sell? they seem to completely abandon that path.

From what I understand, Prey didn't sell all that well.

It's a shame really, Prey was a nice blend of oldschool imsim elements and normie modern AAA gameplay. It had a lot of problems though, but Mooncrash was basically peak Prey, which makes me think they were learning and improving.

I think a hypothetical Prey 2 would be an awesome game, since I would think it's Prey but with less mistakes, which is a good solid core to build off.

But as I said, it didn't sell, so they are probably going to go back to making super lightweight """RPGs""" that sell pretty well. Games like Dishonored where the RPG elements are so barebones it can't really be called one.

It really doesn't help that, in the modern AAA market, you have to make your game accessible, and traditional imsim fans are so elitist and autistic that any and all modernisation of any imsim mechanic is automatically seen as "shitty pandering to casuls". I get why people are angry - we have seen imsims be reduced down to garbage first person shooters like Bioshock and a veritable army of idiot normies saying "wow it's such an amazing imsim" when it's not an imsim and is a betrayal of everything an imsim represents, but when a company genuinely tries to make an imsim accessible to normies while retaining the core design, I think more imsim fans need to get on board or we will see less of them overall when everyone snubs them.

 

[gaussgunner]

"Redfall, Massachusetts"

There's only one island in Massachusetts with this much D-I-V-E-R-S-I-T-Y and that's Martha's Vineyard, home of the Obamas 'n' shiet.

 

[Modron]

"Redfall, Massachusetts"

There's only one island in Massachusetts with this much D-I-V-E-R-S-I-T-Y and that's Martha's Vineyard, home of the Obamas 'n' shiet.

Don't worry most of the people in game are wuhites they just happen to all be racist red neck militia types that these brave warriors of diversity will put down in droves.

 

[Morgoth]

 

[Drop Duck]

So little diversity there, it's unbelievable that in 2022 people like these are allowed to make blackface games. Yeah, they can make the characters BIPOCs but when it comes to positions of power that matters like sitting there it's shockingly white. That fat bearded guy should resign and let someone who is trans or Black have a voice.

 

[sosmoflux]

I've never seen a more miserable group of people working on a fucking videogame. Watching this gave me second hand depression.
Harv looks like he's about to go postal throughout the whole video too lol. What's he so angry about?

 

[Silverfish]

I've never seen a more miserable group of people working on a fucking videogame. Watching this gave me second hand depression.
Harv looks like he's about to go postal throughout the whole video too lol. What's he so angry about?

Isn't this like Arkane's third game in a row that's being marched out to die? Can't say I blame him.

 

[ferratilis]

You know the game is going to be shit when they're advertising quantity over quality.
https://www.gamesradar.com/redfall-has-a-single-farm-that-dwarfs-preys-entire-map/

Redfall has a single farm that dwarfs Prey's entire map​

By Jordan Gerblick published about 6 hours ago
Redfall's map size is apparently a "hold my beer" moment compared to Prey

 

[Child of Malkav]

What's he so angry about?

Cus he can't make immersive sims anymore and he's trying so hard to convince everyone (himself included) that this game is still one.

 

[Morgoth]

I was under the impression that this was one of Bethesda's retarded decision years back then to veer into multiplayer, after Dishonored 2 and Prey dived sales-wise. Harvey very much wanted to make a Prey 2 straight away, but had to comply with management. That's why we got Deathloop and Redfall instead of Dishonored 3 and Prey 2.

But now with the Microsoft buyout there's always hope they can return to that.

 

[Lagole Gon]

Man.

It really makes me want to replay Dark Messiah!

(instead of playing this)