Revisiting The Disaster That Was Evolve - Luke Reacts

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[@umarabbasi7941]

It still baffles me that they never even tried to do a single player campaign. It could have been a nice 10 hour campaign split between the hunters and the monsters perspective. It could have been something like Titanfall 2

[@dudebruh8534]

It felt like there was 5 devs trying to create a story, 50 making the multiplayer, and 500 more creating microtransactions.

[@williamedwards4151]

The lore for that universe is crazy too. All kinds of amazing stuff they could have played with.

[@Andrew-ry9be]

@@williamedwards4151 that’s what gets me. The lore is some of my favorite in all of gaming honestly, and the direction that the devs wanted to take it in would have been so interesting had they gotten to put it out.

[@dftknight]

Single player campaigns are expensive to create and I doubt it would have moved the needle sales wise.

[@spectredeadgaming7874]

A campaign like from Battlefield 5 where it’s just short stories from the POV of the monsters then some as the hunters would’ve done wonders for the lore capabilities of this game.

[@6O8gamer07]

The problem wasn’t the core gameplay which was in fact a lot of fun with friends. In fact the most fun with friends. The problem was DLC, micro transactions, lack of content and it just wasn’t as fun with randos.

[@gdept88]

He explained the gameplay loop without knowing the gameplay loop lol

[@nekaTsaWepoH]

Yeah i don't think he ever played evolve

[@makhina8839]

Evolve was Dead by Daylight but Monster Hunter monsters instead of iconic horror archetypes

[@caliginousmoira8565]

yes.... funny thing is that i would play a monster vs hunters mode in monster hunter.

[@soknheith3259]

DBD is a lot more simple in concept, and you can't really threat killer with anything.

[@fren111]

No....the It was much bigger map, the monster was vulnerable early and mid game, and the "victim" is the Aggressor for 2/3 of the game

[@stephenrego6065]

Evolve walked so Dead by Daylight could run

[@unafflictedgaming]

evolve was a good game. People are just whiny bitches. The microtransactions and price were absolutely fucking retarded though no disagreement there. I really did enjoy the gameplay though. Especially as a monster, brain dead players that didn't work together were basically just fodder. hence the "OMG THIS GAMES IMBALANCED"

[@TheFO3God]

The DLC strategy was 100% what killed this game, the gameplay was actually pretty solid. The argument of "Its just running in circles" is just not good, like of course if you never double-back or take sound clues you will of course only run in circles, just like in any CoD map. The gatekeeping of the variety of playstyles of monsters and hunters is 100% what killed engagement and community of the game.

[@Ashbrash1998]

I found that so funny because we have games that pretty much do the same thing. Dead by Daylight, Among us, etc Running around in circles can be fun.

[@Avrodin93]

Was coming to say just this, glad I checked! I'm old enough to remember when a live service game was a "new" concept for mainstream gaming, excluding MMOs. I hate 95% of them and would argue they are all doing the same crap over and over. Evolved was very fun with friends. Hit and run tactics with Behemoth, or Snatch and kill with Wraith. It definitely died from monetization, which is funny looking at gaming today it would've fit right in.

[@dragonheart967]

I get where you're coming from, but the difference between this and let's day dead by daylight is that it's players running from a single monster, which creates the tension of playing smart, and your chances of survival going down as the match goes on. With Evolve, it's not a horror or suspense game, it's an action/hunt game where it's a race against the clock for the hunters to find and trap the monster before it gets to its max level, where it's game over. It creates a situation where a skilled enough monster player is gonna just build the distance and avoid the humans nearly the entire game, leaving the hunters with just about nothing but running for a 10-15 minute period with a most likely loss waiting for them at the end. The concept is great, but something was missing in the execution that left a hole in the gameplay loop. Either situations that forced more encounters between the two or a 3rd party enemy that one group could use to their advantage to defeat the other, like a lvl 1 monster leading the hunters into a creature that is tough to take down and let's the monster jump in and attack, giving it a chance to deal significant damage or even get an early win if they play it smart, and the hunters could do the same thing, baiting a max lvl monster into aggroing the same creature and making it choose to run or push for the win at the risk of loosing. As it is, it's just a mouse hunt where the hunters win if they catch you before you lvl up, or you win because you're too powerful to stop. The entire strategy is based around chasing the monster or running from the hunters, none of the actual hunting or fighting.

[@ThePandaSupreme]

Totally agree I had so many matches where the people didn’t follow the clues at all and just ran in circles while I’m trying to get them to follow tracks or sounds… I liked the game but there was one monster that was broken I’m not sure if it was a dlc monster though I can’t remember

[@NaldoRed21]

100% agree. Im not sure he actually played Evolve, you were supposed to work as a team finding the monster not split up and if you couldnt find the monster you needed to sit down and have a chat with your trapper. gameplay was great DLC and microtransactions did them in for sure

[@deadhawk1212]

Evolve made me so sad back in the day. I remember thinking the idea had so much potential, but it launched with barely any content and literally hundreds of dollars in DLC, killing the game overnight. I cannot comprehend why Turtle Rock thought they could be so brazen as to squeeze a game that had *barely* even come out yet for every little penny, but they did, and it never recovered. It's why I didn't trust them at all for Back 4 Blood and never bothered to pick that game up. Talk about ruining your reputation as a studio.

[@albanier8426]

Oh trust me, it was not Turtle Rock who wanted to squeeze that game, but 2k, the publisher, who is known to be even more greedy than EA when it comes to MTX in their sports games.

[@appleflutter]

Yeah I loved the game but it didn't have enuf and they changed things in the wrong direction after launch

[@Someone-lg6di]

2k changed it

[@LimmeLimbo]

@@albanier8426Nahhh thats a pretty big accusation. EA wanted to make reloading a microtransaction. Reloading. Your gun. You would’ve needed to pay money for that. You can’t top that level of greedy. You just can’t. Not unless they go into even more irrational greedy territory and start wanting to charge people 50 cents for every half hour that they’re on the game or something. Which even then is still somebow not nearly as greedy as paying to RELOAD.

[@jeremycarlos9853]

@@LimmeLimbo you’ve obviously never played a NBA 2k game and it shows😂

[@0o-0o694]

"10 dollars for fcking blue?!?!?". AnGrY JoE SaId, CaLmLy.

[@Igoreshkin]

ARE YOU OUT OFF YOUR MIND???

[@TinyGremolin]

I personally LOVED Evolve. So sad it got ruined by 2K and absolutely awful monetization, and gave up instantly.

[@tomhanke7703]

Yes gsme Was amazing alone Aa Monster and together with my brother as hunter Hella fun

[@whylekat]

Game was so boring. Spend endless time chasing the monster around and then it wipes the team in the last 5 minutes. It's like they didn't play test it at all.

[@soknheith3259]

@@whylekat bro, you should have just played the game the way it was intended to play, rather than just running around in hopes of what? People's laziness killed so many unique competitive multiplayer games already, when are you gonna learn...

[@the_schmoopsie]

@@whylekat Sounds like you just sucked at the game lil bro

[@r.k845]

@@whylekatThis only happened if you were shit at the game buddy.

[@mateokrile5671]

This was my favorite game for a long while before they shut it down, such shame

[@MonkSupra]

Same 😭 such a good game and so many ideas and mechanics ended up in other games like overwatch.

[@jefflukey123]

Evolve had so much potential. It’ll stay as one of my favorite games that released for OG One. If they did a PC release and fostered an Esport scene it’d be a comeback. Smfh

[@Balkoth07]

The first time I played as the Monster I crouched in a river and the whole hunter team ran really close by me without noticing me. It was kinda funny.

[@KarazolaX]

The worst thing about the live service era, to me, is the fact that you are so very keenly aware when a game fails and it shuts down. It's sad. Really, really sad. Even if the game is bad, you know that there's a ton of work that's gone into the game, and there's some people who genuinely enjoyed it. It's like seeing the end of someone's dream, for me.

[@mrsasquatch4828]

Ya know there is still a community on discord that play this still, we love it still to this day.

[@sirpiggythe3rd135]

EVOLVE was SUPER FUN, like genuenly. The only problem was (as the IGN review stated) that it is fun IF THE HUNTERS (and specifically the “TRACKER”) knew what they were doing. It required map knowledge, once u knew the general direction you HAD TO go in front of the monster, and the trapper/tracker had to deploy the DOME that boxed it in for a time. Problem people in generally are lets say not good at most games (look at any rank distribution of any competitive online game) PLUS u had the handicap of matchmade randoms, and that meant that OFTEN it DEVOLVED (hahh see what I did there?) into running circles around eachother, untill the monster won. Can’t tell you how many times I didn’t get trapper, but managed to cut off the monster MULTIPLE times, only to not be able to dome it and it running away while my tracker caught up xdxd

[@Someone-lg6di]

5hey changed it so any hunter could dome

[@soknheith3259]

I was blessed to play it with my buddies. So I never had to endure the pain of teaming up with brainless randoms.

[@maxsoundandmusic]

Evolve was a really good game that had lots of potential. It really is a shame how it got abandoned.

[@robertsilva7158]

This is a game I wish would come back I loved this game

[@MrJagermeister]

I wish people got to experience EVOLVE the way that I did. After the initial exodus of people left, everyone that was left KNEW HOW TO PLAY THE GAME. It suffered from people in roles that had no idea what they were doing that would absolutely cripple the experience for the rest of the hunters even if they were world class players in those roles. It was the type of game where you couldn’t carry a bad player dragging down a team and everyone had to play their role perfectly. Assault not doing damage? Monster grows to Stage 3 and kills you. Medic isn’t healing? Everyone’s dead. Tracker running in circles for 15 minutes thinking they can run as fast as the giant monster instead of anticipating their path and cutting them off? The hunters might as well have played as the monster and waited until friends logged on to play as a team. I ended up in the top 15 in North America on one of the monsters, and played with a few friends that also rose to the top (because of our playtime, not skill, it should be said). Their mistake was not having a system in place to hotfix at launch, and had to wait for PS/XBOX to approve a balance patch. Once they added hotfixing, they could tweak damage, healing, speed, movement etc. values and adjust the balance on the fly. The Wraith was too OP (it actually wasn’t, but a team that wasn’t communicating, coordinating, and skilled that was working together didn’t have much of a chance against this monster more than most). I’ve never played a game that was so satisfying as both a video game and a mind game. Especially playing against friends, who know which character you’re best with (and whether they make a team to combat that or you fake them out and pick something else) and what your strategy is (do you run far and then feed or stealth around and leave a fake set of tracks, or like me, be there waiting and fight them as they drop as a stage 1 monster). Too many monster players were afraid to fight early. I miss this game and wish the F2P conversion happened for consoles. I’m not sure if it’s still possible but all I need is to get 4 other friends together and a private lobby and we just swap out who gets to play the monster and it was endless fun. Their marketing team f**ked them with the cosmetics and back then a persistent online game with no single player campaign was unheard of (look at Fortnite now). They did have a good deal for ppl that knew they were in to save money on buying monsters early, but back then, microtransactions were the dirtiest of words and the conversation became more about them than the game itself. Once the Arena mode was added and it gave people a chance to just learn combat, it also dramatically increased the matchups you would have. I miss that game so much.

[@nicholaskinkaid]

"no single player campaign was unheard of (look at Fortnite now)" uh wtf are you talking about? You must not have even played the 'save the world' PVE part of the game in order to make that inaccurate statement. While it is designed to be a co-op pve, it can still 100% be played solo with a bot squad (which I have played plenty of matches like that). Though even if playing the single player pve campaign, it is still a persistent online game.

[@DedHedZed]

I'm with you, this game got so addictive later

[@tanork47]

I miss Evolve it was fun for me and it was in the last little era of people having mics and games ENCOURAGED voice communication. We are all now silent team members trying to speak through pings and taunts. The amount of times I found good hunters and or a good monster was always fun. Also those were the warning signs of the skins. Man do I wish skins were 2.99 again and not $30-500 dollars.

[@Scrooge.1]

Very much disagree that Evolve's problem was overhype and bad gameplay. The gameplay itself *could* be really fun, but if you had a bad Tracker the Monster was almost guaranteed to win. So while there would be plenty of fun games, there would be plenty that just felt like a huge waste of time. All that is if you could find a match given that the matchmaking was horrible. Then you had the DLC/monetization issue which just made things worse.

[@-mako-6018]

with how the shop was set up it would've probably lasted longer if it was released in the last 5 years which is fucking hilarious to me cause paying 10 bucks to have a solid color skin is the norm now

[@makani9004]

If this channel just becomes watching crowbcat videos, I'm down like a clown, Charlie Brown.

[@TobeWilsonNetwork]

Crowbcat makes good stuff

[@nuffingwong]

One of the worst feelings i ever had in gaming was when the behemoth released and i couldnt play with the new creature because i didnt have the version that came with it i told them i bought the hundred dollar edition and the rep told me that didnt include any of the monsters....none nada and if i remember i dont think i got many of the new hunters either....i have never forgotten that sunk feeling of knowing i got GOT by a company and how they could confuse you by the editions and whats in them....ugh still hurts dude no lie

[@ArcangelGamingEntertainment]

Man I loved this game so much. Such an actual good idea.

[@nickr0425]

Evolve was probably my favorite multi-player game ever. I still go back and watch tourneys from 5 years ago. It was FANTASTIC. I was a kraken and Goliath beast, or for hunters Hyde, Lazarus, and markov mains. God it was just so much fun. Biggest disappointment that it died.

[@R3dScythe]

As of recent games I can't believe how many people are excited for the new call of duty. They have been saying we are going back to our roots since ghost but have failed at every turn.

[@zacharybecker8228]

Bad players ran circles around the map good players cut corners to trap the monster

[@airborne19j]

I remember this game. I absolutely loved it for about 2 weeks. They needed a single player game and tutorials for how to play all the hunters. As it stood matches would be 1 of 2 things. Either the hunters no how to work as a team. If they do they'll quickly find the monster and tear him to shreds. Or they don't know how to work as a team in which case the monster just gets full powered and tears the hunters apart. It was no in between.

[@Eramidas]

I think it could've been fixed by having the monster evolve by killing hunters and hunters collect trophies from monster parts by damaging it, maybe by finding relics on the map or something. If the monster only evolves from killing hunters, there will be lots of action.

[@frightenedmule194]

evolve dropped so others could fall

[@TheBlargMarg]

Funny that Ubisofts Starlink had better seamless space to planet transitions than Starfield. Also, i liked Starlink, especially the switch version. Too bad Ubisoft did another Ubisoft and didnt support it well.

[@Someone-lg6di]

No man's sky

[@kingreynoso]

Bro, Evolve had so much potential but the low player count killed it

[@swainblaine1609]

if game is good it would have high player count

[@dudebruh8534]

That's a funny way to pronounce Microtransactions.

[@nerobiblios4086]

Seems like a cyclical loop, low player count leads to less people staying/buying which loops back to low player counts.

[@nickhard7615]

It was too shallow anf unbalanced. Every game was either the monster player gets caught on a wall or messes up somehow and then you just jump them right at the very start or it turns into like a solid 30 minutes straight of running in circles around the map chasing the monster, following footsteps, birds, and whatever until they got level 3 and, depending on what monster they picked (I remember there being one in particular that like pretty much always won, it was so blatantly overpowered, but I can't remember the name) it could actually maybe turn into a decent clash or you just get murdered and like neither winner or loser really get to have that much active fun with the game bc of how short the altercation really ended up being

[@kingreynoso]

@@swainblaine1609 Bud, call of duty is dog sh*t but look at the player counts 😂 Look at the latest battlefield, still full lobbies despite how bad it is.

[@kingjaffe9339]

The problem with this type of asymmetrical type game is that it can be basically unplayable solo. Unlike a dead by daylight or even a game like left 4 dead, a game which the same people made, you can definitely have some fun solo queuing, but in evolve one solo queuing player can just can ruin it for the whole hunter squad

[@tymoore253]

Gotta love hearing Angry Joe complain about being sold blue for the first time! What a classic

[@soknheith3259]

I guess if you tried to play online with randoms, it would be like that, running around, no one knows wtf to do, the guy that suppose to track doesn't track, etc. But I've played Evolve with my buddies, and we knew WTF to do. You could corner monster up relevantly fast if he didn't know the map, and even then, if your team knows how to move around, he's fucked. Hunting him down wasn't a problem 80% of the time, the issue was to lock him down in place and eliminate him at once 'cause all the monsters had the ability to escape far and quick. But at this point, he's a mere prey. The game was fun, a bit difficult 'cause of all the coordination and tactical role play, but I think devs killed it with their greed first and foremost. Then people's fatigue of constantly running circles played a part. And, eventually, Evolve's player count degraded to unsustainable numbers. RIP another unique multiplayer experience. Long live generic easy to pick up and play garbage games suitable for everyone!

[@brapstein]

"rich family history" got me too lmfaoo

[@Amadeus_A]

On a side note, shoutout to the board game, Beast. It's like Evolve but in a board game form.

[@AgostinhoRenner]

"Makes you think about: 'why did you became a gamer'". That guy was really paid a lot speak praises of the game.

[@MyNegaJay]

I'm glad I'm an old school gamer. I saw how this was going to play out from a mile away. I was shocked so many fell for it.

[@autumnleafa4152]

As someone who played the game the day it released and up until it died. The ongoing sentiment with my friends and myself is that they kept "balancing" the game to death. Every other week some major update dropped for balancing and it just drove players away faster and faster. Very unfortunate. Loved the game to bits.

[@InquisitorAstelon]

There's a feature you didn't mention in the summary. The monster starts off weak and powers up. It actually was possible for one hunter up fight the monster early game, but the monster is also avoiding hunters early game. People just chose to play wrong.

[@newagecinematics]

Video game reviews are largely subjective, with around 90% based on personal opinions and experiences. The remaining 10% focuses on objective facts, covering aspects that are universally true, such as graphics quality, technical performance, and gameplay features. Balancing these elements offers a well-rounded review, though individual preferences and biases inevitably influence the overall assessment. that’s why I do my own reviews for my own sake, i don’t listen to anyone else’s crsp until i personally played it, THEN, i will go back and listen to a review of someone to see there thoughts and so my own personal opinion won’t get construed of his feelings on it

[@bharv2309]

Ever since Cyberpunk 2077 launched to amazing critical reviews, I do not trust a single word anyone in that field say.

[@SpaghettiYOLOKing]

The MTs were definitely ill advised, especially with so much on day 1. So much of it was generic, it should have been unlockable in game. That said, I still put a good amount of time into this game. Over 9 months, I unlocked 40 of 50 trophies. Played monster mostly as hunter was frustrating because the majority of people didn't understand their team role and how to use their abilities. There were tons of hunters that didn't use their abilities at all. And then there were the lone wolf hunters, which yeah, you could go out on your own, but the idea was to find the monster and try not to be detected before you pinned the monster for the rest of your team. But most lone wolves would open fire on a monster as soon as they found them. Even at level 1, a monster is going to win that fight. Bad DLC practices combined with a lot of bad players trying to play it like COD and then complaining about how that didn't work at all and complaining about having to hunt the monster... which is what the damn game was about.

[@xandrixcreed]

I was the #1 Abe in the world for 3 days. It was one of the most fun, memorable experiences I ever had and I played that game even when servers were shit. I feel like it was unjustly perceived because of the microtransactions which were completely optional. I personally loved the different Kraken skins. Only ever bought Kraken microtransactions. But yeah, great game. One of the best. It was so immersive and I enjoyed who I met in the community.

[@awakenthechosen]

Evolve was such a good concept, it hurt when the game got shafted as hard as it did

[@AndrewRyan-zv7zb]

Evolve is the first game i ever saw the progression system and thought to myself "why does this game not want me to play it?"

[@Jobboka]

This is what..... "Boss, we need to spend some money on marketing, we are 2 weeks to launch! "Don't worry Steve, I know some people at IGN!" ... gets you

[@Sam-ve4tx]

What's hilarious is that compared to modern live service games those microtransactions aren't even that bad, including inflation.

[@feestinn]

You missed the part where the monster had to circle the map killing and gathering resorces to level up THEN you can 1v4. Thats why i liked this game the build up to the end game was really fun. The longer it goes, the stronger the monster is becoming

[@sharlockshacolmes9381]

The difference between Evolve and modern live service, is that Evolve actually had a cool and original (at the time) concept

[@xMontorix]

Bleeding Edge was/is actually a great game. And there are no microtransactions. Then they abandoned it to work on Hellblade 2. Now the games out and it seems they dont plan to return to Bleeding Edge which is unfortunate.

[@jamesk7335]

I miss evolve. The monsters, the voice acting, the cat n mouse shift. Genuine fun for me

[@NotWav_]

This game was ahead of its time by 10 years and would absolutely kill it now with proper support

[@nathanlaleff4273]

Havn't watched the vid yet but i wanted to play evolve when it first came out. It looked extremely good from what i'd seen people play. My big thing is that it released around the time overwat h became popular thus driving the "esport" era. If i recall correctly, the evolve devs explicitly said they wouldn't turn it into an esport... less than like 3 months later, they were pushing for an esport scene...

[@dialatedtechnology]

I’ll always remember when on one of IGN’s podcast, everyone on the panel even admitted that it was way more fun when they played it together for preview/review than when they played it individually after release online.

[@GeraltORivia]

Evolve was such a cool concept

[@linderofhyrule]

My husband used to play this daily. It lasted like not even 2 months, and then he never played again.

[@Jonathan02937]

Turtle Creek created an amazing game. What killed Evolve was the greed from Take 2 and the Dlc causing a lot of ppl to nope right on out. A technical issue of not getting full player matches also hurt this game. Evolve was ahead it's time in many ways. But it's publisher and network issues is what did them in.

[@luckymenace3816]

Battleborn is another one that comes to mind

[@midnight4669]

I really did enjoy Evolve. The levels were gorgeous and so, sooo vertical. I honestly loved playing as trappers in general.

[@Gunnumn]

I hated being a monster in Evolve. Most times, players would find you before you get a chance to evolve.

[@zyron4190]

I love how unique the concept is too

[@TobeWilsonNetwork]

I swear Crowbcat makes 60 Minutes level videos

[@mikesgmail896]

Evolve was an early game that is great for streamers or anyone playing with a core group of a dozen friends. But the solo experience was one of the most miserable chores.

[@thedankswordsmantm]

Oh don't forget, there was a game mode that happened in stages. The devs kept going on about how you can make decisions in one stage that would bear fruit in later stages. They kept going on about how many possibilities there were, billions of outcomes, no game will feel like another. But then every match felt the same and those decisions felt inconsequential.

[@nick191088]

Evolve was like if halo only had juggernaut on blood gulch and sidewinder.

[@Gunsblazin94]

Absolutely phenomenal game to play, and nothing else feels like it. I miss it to this day, and wish more people gave it a chance

[@Mandingy24]

The point WAS to hunt as a group, that's why you had 4 distinct roles with Assault, Trapper, Medic, and Support. Things fell apart when hunters would split up and worked substantially better when the 4 stuck together. Dead by Daylight has a similar game structure but doesn't require coordination even at the lowest level and that's where i think that game has been able to be much more successful

[@captaindestruction9332]

What's interesting is that this game was considered meh by many because it was a team running around a map hunting one person or a monster but a game like Dead by Daylight has done very well and lasted for years when the roles are reversed. DbD is essentially Evolve but the hunters are now a single killer or monster hunting multiple survivors. I guess the fact that its one vs a team really does change the dynamic or feel of the game.

[@Tampafan33]

That game is much smaller in scope dude. It’s not people running around a big map chasing their own tales lol

[@captaindestruction9332]

@@Tampafan33 I agree in that the bigger maps exaggerate the issues of Evolve in a way that Dead by Daylight doesn't. However the maps are still big enough to cause some similar situations of chasing survivors or survivors being great at hiding and escaping dragging things out. Ultimately though I think even if you put DbD on much bigger maps its still one person looking for a group vs a group looking for one person. The amount of action and ability to have run ins when its one vs multiple people is far higher than the reverse even if the reverse has a huge character running around.

[@gyp3871]

dbd is dogshit too

[@darkstarmedia]

5:30 Dude, this is SO FUCKING TRUE. It wasn't with a game, but I was telling people that DC Studios and James Gunn explaining a 10 year plan for DC content with two movies a year with multiple TV shows isn't really something to get excited about because it seems like explaining your 10 year plan is more for shareholders and investors than the actual fans who grew up loving DC. And I got fucking quartered for it.

[@KarazolaX]

The horrifying realization that the video game industry evolved into, well, Evolve.

[@danielhance3325]

Happy to see some positive comments here regarding the gameplay. This game remains one of my favorite games of the Xbox One/PS4 era. Super fun with friends and an incredibly high learning curve and skill gap. At the time I didn't really pay attention to the predatory microtransactions. Now I can see the flaws in the game but I will always look back fondly on trapping and blasting monsters with my best friends.

[@jeezycreezy4220]

I was a hard core Monster Hunter player when Evolve was first announced. I remember thinking how cool it sounded, basicly Monster Hunter where the monster was controlled by another human. Yet something told me to hold back, and I'm so glad I listened to that instinct.

[@jibjub7047]

I freaking loved Evolve. I still think about it to this day. I was ranked #2 for the Kraken on the leaderboard. I think there's a KZbinr named GhostRobo that still plays this game to this day or until recently at least...

[@Jadedpanthermatt]

This was my introduction to pc gaming … I think it was second game I got … tons of potential and really showed off the graphics differences from what I was used to on console …

[@edandollie]

$2 for fuggin' blue sounds like a bargain these days...

[@harrisonhonda3745]

It’s a shame they didn’t think to make an aliens game, you and your team travel the galaxy landing on different colonies to fight the alien infestation, then go to the next planet, unless an alien sneaks onboard then you have to fight in the ship.

[@Buletproofcoffee]

The Angry joe shouts really sent me back dude

[@user-yv3zh8zc1o]

This game was my most favorite. Played for 2 years off for one. Then when I went to reignite my addiction for this game. It was dead. I was really heart broken cause I honestly loved this game. Still to this day. I have the first copy still.

[@belltolls1984]

Can't wait for your Starfield Critique! One of the worst games I have ever played in my life.

[@jimmyv3170]

2015 to now reminds me of how we were at the very end of the Cliffy B, popped collar polo shirt, tilted hat, hype machine era of gaming to now the gaming industry being run by mostly mentally unwell people on Twitter/Reddit

[@Ashbrash1998]

I think most of it is run by big companies putting their ha ds in something they don't understand to squeeze every dollar they can

[@xWILDx_88]

My friend and I were obsessed with this game. It was so fun. Still hoping for a proper Evolve 2 someday (will never happen lol)

[@gdept88]

The monster didn't start out strong enough to take on a squad of players. It had to eat other monsters the map and... evolve... Exploring individually, or in say pairs, was absolutely a viable strategy because a player could find the monster early and call for reinforcements.

[@zacharybecker8228]

its still wild this was the game everyone put their foot down on when there have been plenty of worse games in monetization after who have flourished. The mtx was cheap like 2-3 bucks for a color nowadays we have shit for like 15+ dollars

[@Ashbrash1998]

I know right? Like its crazy to see people lose their minds over the prices compared to how they are now

[@Lampoluke]

This game started the "pay 2$ for color blue" meme

[@angrymokyuu9475]

Evolve came out right as this shift was beginning, with its DLC was comparable only to free-to-play games at the time. This made it an easy target for revolt, much the same way that Oblivion's horse armor got clowned on(and, like with horse armor, people ended up accepting the model anyway).

[@jaxsonburch-eo1vz]

This was during a time where a bunch of games were doing the same thing. Releasing online games with little content but solid gameplay. Battlefront, evolve, destiny 1, etc.

[@nightshadeii9248]

I had so so so so much fun with this game. Got to the Top 10 Global Monsters. RIP Evolve.

[@Rumariss]

Speaking for my rich family history, I never believed in this game.

[@ryenjimenez4172]

Evolve was an insanely fun game, being a monster was much more fun than being the humans in my opinion, as for why it died i wanna say it might have been because of lack of content

[@bradleycranch8294]

Me and my mates were addicted to this game. Was so fun, I never understood the hate

[@Fascists4Palestine]

This brings back memories. I had those shitty little wristbands with the different class logos and names on em.

[@NasKillerTV]

Nah, we were all just happy back then.

[@chickendragon8526]

Turtle Rock Studio is one of those studios I wish was good. They are innovative, evolve was basically the same formula as Dead By daylight, but they never stick the landing. They have good ideas, for other studios. There were some excellent people behind Evolve. One of the largest D&D youtubers is Matt Colville, who did the writing for Evolve. His writing is good. When he left the company to make RPG content he brought some of Turtle Rock with him. They appear to be very good, and very competent people as well. Its just that Turtle Rock itself can't seem to pull together something that ties innovation, style, and gameplay.

[@morgancyrus2605]

All this game truly needed was some balance man, balance and decent game mode updates. So sad it died

[@kingweb11]

I remember this game being super fun. Mostly because of the visuals and it was something truly unique and the Monsters and environments provided for some good horror moments. But this video did remind me that playing as a hunter was at times pointless. I wish they would bring it back at least the bones of it and rebuild it or make it into a single player game. It was an era in of itself.

[@TheZenChii]

Not gonna lie, evolve was my game. I absolutely loved it and had so much fun in that game.

[@Scribbles69]

I miss evolve man imagine it now days thr crazy crossovers they could've had

[@affarinoxa]

It was too expensive to play the bonus characters. Plus the paid for monsters were legitimately stronger. The core gameplay is genuinely pretty fun and I kinda miss it.

[@iigeminiii3754]

This is the era where gaming journalism died.

[@benarmstrong3768]

Me and my friends were so obsessed with evolve not cause it was amazing but we just enjoyed it and we played it to the bitter end and still reminse about it we made it fun for ourselves and miss it

[@JustinMartinshrapnel]

Moral of the story. Don't buy turtle rock

[@dylonlord4784]

I absolutely loved evolve i was so into it when it came out and then one day it just died