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The Disaster of Redfall
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The popularity of multiplayer experiences such as Overwatch and Fortnite awoke in the gaming industry a sudden interest in live-service endeavors capable of generating recurring revenue streams. Even publishers and developers that seldom dabbled in online titles wanted a share of the spoils. However, as with several other trends in the multibillion-dollar business, pursuing these ends often proves a gamble-this ZeniMax Media and its subsidiaries learned the hard way upon releasing Redfall.
Developed by Arkane’s Austin, Texas branch, the team behind Dishonored and Prey, Redfall promised an open-world, co-op adventure with “capitalistic vampires” as the antagonists. The game tasked players with beating back the supernatural threat by using specialized weapons, stakes, and abilities. But at launch, greedy bloodsuckers hardly seemed the primary cause for concern. Day-one adopters on PC and Xbox consoles found the experience beset by copious technical errors affecting performance, enemy AI, texture pop-ins, character animations, and multiplayer connectivity. Worst still, while it could host up to four players, the cooperative shooter lacked matchmaking functionality. The storied Arkane Austin lost years of established goodwill in a matter of days, and Redfall’s player-base rapidly dwindled alongside it.
Fans and non-fans of the Dishonored creator wasted no time blaming Redfall’s failures on the fact that an outfit best known for story-centric immersive sims had tried its hand at conquering unfamiliar territory. Meanwhile, executives at parent company Xbox Game Studios stood before the slings and arrows, ready to accept the lion’s share of fault for the disappointing launch. The truth is-nothing is ever as simple as it seems when it comes to game development.
This is the tragedy of Redfall.
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  • @amnril
    @amnril 57 хвилин тому

    Why do devs feel the need to apologize because a computer character is a normal person and doesn’t bat for the other team. If I was upset that the character wasn’t bald or ginger, 1. That’d make me a right saddo and two, the devs would quite rightly ignore me. The world has gone mad.

  • @ThePhysicalReaction
    @ThePhysicalReaction 2 години тому

    When the game came out, it had a ton of cross platform server issues. If someone had a ps4 they were stuck in ps4 world. Game died quickly.

  • @eugeneswanson7508
    @eugeneswanson7508 2 години тому

    GVMERS how much did this video cost to make?😂 Any desire to beg for donations?

  • @tebander956
    @tebander956 4 години тому

    Sooooo many HS in AO2 sequels vs mode, pretty good map designs too

  • @guitarsnstrings4things677
    @guitarsnstrings4things677 5 годин тому

    You have created videos of professional quality. I am sorry to hear; I will look into a Patreon when I am able to do so

  • @kylepatrick113
    @kylepatrick113 6 годин тому

    Didn’t know it was so controversial, my mom used to take me to the store to buy all the gta’s the manhunts, bully, resident evil. Lol I was also 15-17 back then so didn’t really matter. Parents need to worry more ab there kids now compared to back then.

  • @jaredperkins6291
    @jaredperkins6291 6 годин тому

    This game was sooo beautiful, until you got 20 mins in..... kept it on my system hoping they would fix it , should have been single player

  • @snakeplissken111
    @snakeplissken111 12 годин тому

    Do you remember when Hollywood encouraged Sofia Coppola to knock out a sequel to Fast? Reason given: It's just more popular than the stuff she's been doing? Yeah, me neither. That's Redfall in a nutshell. That's this industry in a nutshell. To add insult to idiocy, a couple years later Bethesda aquired the rights to do a game based on Indiana Jones. Now that would have been a perfect fit. Both commercially. As well as with what Arkane people had specialized in for decades -- check Thief's grave robbery missions for a start. Luckily the indies have arrived to the rescue: Wolfeye Studios. Gloomwood. Fallen Aces. Ctrl Alt Ego. Shadows Of Doubt. 0451 is gonna live long after the decision makers responsible for this have turned to dust.

  • @theinstrumentals
    @theinstrumentals 14 годин тому

    "the ability to pause the game in single player mode" i DIED 🤣🤣🤣😭😭

  • @paulknowles7624
    @paulknowles7624 19 годин тому

    The Xbox Execs "took the blame" so why didn't they lose their jobs and the actual developers did?😅

    • @paulknowles7624
      @paulknowles7624 19 годин тому

      It all comes down to the fact that big name video games aren't video games anymore, they are just investment opportunities. They aren't meant to really "last" they are just meant to make money

  • @seanaguilar1637
    @seanaguilar1637 21 годину тому

    A reboot is wayyyyyyy overdue 🙏🙏🙏

  • @scottgordon4077
    @scottgordon4077 День тому

    what it really came down to is micro transactions

  • @tomasz9429
    @tomasz9429 День тому

    This is a great example of how CORPORATE ruins the gaming industry. The developers didn't want to make this game. They got told to suck it up and get to work. People who only know how to operate Excel spreadsheets, and look good during morning meetings have no business making decisions on direction of the games. Remember how Blumhouse announced they will be making video games now? Everybody clapped, while I just shook my head and thought: "This is what the industry needs? More people with no experience or interest in video games making games?"

  • @doyouthinkitsdead
    @doyouthinkitsdead День тому

    It got so hard i had to give up on the higher difficulties

  • @RoxieParadox
    @RoxieParadox День тому

    I met the love of my life in APB. We were together for 8 years. Lots of great memories from the APB days that I will forever cherish.

  • @xlixity
    @xlixity День тому

    > _Xbox leaders refused to pin the blame on anyone but themselves_ Cool. Were they fired? Fined? No? Oh, they got bonuses and even more job security for their failures? Heh...

  • @printisdead1983
    @printisdead1983 День тому

    No rushing mission?

  • @billzco6137
    @billzco6137 День тому

    Crazy it's been almost 4 years since release.

  • @Wavy_Gravy
    @Wavy_Gravy День тому

    The true sibling game.

  • @user-cx5qi1mx6p
    @user-cx5qi1mx6p День тому

    👙

  • @tiffanywyatt5137
    @tiffanywyatt5137 День тому

    Ill never donate to people who beg for money like this. Just pathetic.

  • @Moonstalker
    @Moonstalker День тому

    I loved the cartoonish weapons in this game, you have the microwave gun, the slugthrower, and even the flamethrower. For me the fact the first game lacked of realism was more about power fantasy than real warefare which very few games do well in that area. while something unrealistic pretty much any military shooter does it. I kind of like what the first game was going for, it was james bond minus the gadgets and sexy wemen with more gore and violence....

  • @tehMonarch
    @tehMonarch 2 дні тому

    I wanted this game to be good, I really enjoyed previous arcane tiles like dishonored and prey... I tried to like it, i really did. Hope arcane survives and goes back to making the kind of games they're good at... it would be a shame if the studio went away...

  • @egads3696
    @egads3696 2 дні тому

    Im kinda glad the game was terrible.i was gonna buy an Xbox.

  • @mohammadhussien5223
    @mohammadhussien5223 2 дні тому

    The thing that made Watch Dogs special is it's dark tone and it's anti hero Aiden Pearce. When ubislob took those 2 factors away the series became a series without a direction.

  • @Shade_91
    @Shade_91 2 дні тому

    this guy sounds like the "How its Made" narrator lol

  • @Wike1991
    @Wike1991 2 дні тому

    Rip arkane 😢

  • @sk1ppman
    @sk1ppman 2 дні тому

    Arkane making a Looter/Shooter makes as much sense as id making a SimCity knockoff.

  • @projekt_tats
    @projekt_tats 2 дні тому

    i dont know whats worse, that we might never have another game quite like prey, or that this game literally became a spiritual sequel to blacksite area 51

  • @User_182jabaj
    @User_182jabaj 3 дні тому

    Shall i push the Button💔

  • @doyouthinkitsdead
    @doyouthinkitsdead 3 дні тому

    Noice!

  • @alejandrosantos64
    @alejandrosantos64 3 дні тому

    Halo whoops resistance forsure if anything

    • @Shade_91
      @Shade_91 2 дні тому

      Halos not whooping any modern shooter these days sadly

    • @alejandrosantos64
      @alejandrosantos64 2 дні тому

      @@Shade_91 halo outlasted most of these games they’re dead halo still out there just with gears of war doom

  • @bernienugget3506
    @bernienugget3506 3 дні тому

    Awesome Game doc channel

  • @ozthebeeman
    @ozthebeeman 3 дні тому

    Red alert 2 is genuinely a master piece

  • @Wavy_Gravy
    @Wavy_Gravy 3 дні тому

    Every single one of these vids, "they lost their soul, ans copied whatever was popular at the time." Great channel, bad video games, lol.

  • @harryshuman9637
    @harryshuman9637 3 дні тому

    Bro bro, imagine Raven links up Call of Duty Black Ops and Singularity in the same universe....

  • @judeau9151
    @judeau9151 3 дні тому

    I want Steve to be the new voice of AI. Voiceover goat

  • @DxrthKrypton
    @DxrthKrypton 3 дні тому

    This video actually made interesting in playing and then y'all dropped the bomb. My god the potential of this game was amazing. So sad Ms fumbled another project like they did with Scale bound

  • @roboticgentlemen1970
    @roboticgentlemen1970 3 дні тому

    They lost me the second you described the character backstories

  • @BizarreDrivers
    @BizarreDrivers 3 дні тому

    Bioware was never the same developer. All the good people left.

  • @phil_firestorm
    @phil_firestorm 3 дні тому

    I don't think stadia deserved the phantom liberty dlc as the platform was more buggy than both cyberpunk 2077 and fallout 76 combined and ended up dying as a result also stadia shut down 18th Jan 2023 way before the dlc came out

  • @FrankScutti
    @FrankScutti 3 дні тому

    Lucky I got this game before it was pulled off of Steam!

  • @AmandaBurger-wd4lw
    @AmandaBurger-wd4lw 4 дні тому

    Fear games and newer games of Doom the best games ever ❤❤❤

  • @KieranHarris44
    @KieranHarris44 4 дні тому

    It'd be nice to see them use scientifically accurate dinosaurs in a remake. Probably won't happen because giant chikens are less marketable, but that'd still be cool to see.

  • @GZP1023
    @GZP1023 4 дні тому

    This franchise is so repetitive and boring.

  • @austintoler820
    @austintoler820 4 дні тому

    I loved all 3 brothers in arms games. It was just so fresh at the time. Nothing we have ever experienced before. A 1st person shooter and stragedy game. Loved the realism and story. I loved the gameplay. It was so dark and grim. I loved how isolated the game made you feel and what it must have been like for the paratroopers going behind enemy lines the d day week. It's you and your squad against a whole bunch of nazi platoons. Using real stragedies that they would use to find cover, provide support fire, while you outflank them. The enemy A.I. was so on point and dangerous too. I loved the weapon swaying and sounds of gunfire and bombs going off. There is no epic patriotic music...just the sound of beating drums telling you, you survived through some patrols and gained some yards to the next nazi occupied piece of land. Clearing out one France country land after another. While other games gives you all this loot and reward for getting to the next level...you feel the reward for outsmarting the enemy, clearing your sectors, and making it to the checkpoint knowing you were smarter and more resourceful then the enemy. I love brothers in arms and really wish we got that sequel to Hells Highway. What a tragedy. I say we start a petition to remake these games to last and current Gen graphics at least. Then another for proper sequel to Brothers In Arms 3. 😔🫡

    • @austintoler820
      @austintoler820 4 дні тому

      Only talking about Brothers In Arms: Road To Hill 30, Earned In Blood, and Hell's Highway btw. Lol the others ones is a negative for me.

  • @cthulhu888
    @cthulhu888 4 дні тому

    SF2 has always been one of my favorite games, if anything im glad (albeit baffled) that we managed to get the original trilogy as the first ps+ classics available. I cant say its in the realm of possibility, but a similar remaster like the recent tomb raider trilogy would be perfect for the original sf trilogy imo!

  • @herrzimm
    @herrzimm 4 дні тому

    The "Saints" fell due to going TOO WOKE with the reboot. Once you lost the "thumb the nose at GTA" vibe and allowing players to go more "sarcastic/adult-focused", it just wasn't a "Saints Row" anymore. They wanted to BE a GTA-clone, NOT their own thing anymore. And TOO afraid of offending people by pulling back into more "woke mentality" and ended up offending EVERYONE who was looking for a GOOD Saints Row experience.

  • @iLoveBread260
    @iLoveBread260 4 дні тому

    The WiiU was not a mistake, Nintendo was WiiU's mistake

  • @UToobUsername01
    @UToobUsername01 4 дні тому

    Good documentary. Redfall would have been better as a single player title.