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.

[@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

[@0o-0o694]

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

[@Igoreshkin]

ARE YOU OUT OFF YOUR MIND???

[@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

[@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"

[@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.

[@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😂

[@mateokrile5671]

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

[@ezrapost8561]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@robertsilva7158]

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

[@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.

[@ArcangelGamingEntertainment]

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

[@EJ-ff1zs]

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.

[@makani9004]

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

[@TobeWilsonNetwork]

Crowbcat makes good stuff

[@mrsasquatch4828]

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

[@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).

[@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.

[@Amadeus_A]

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

[@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.

[@zacharybecker8228]

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

[@AgostinhoRenner]

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

[@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

[@zyron4190]

I love how unique the concept is too

[@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.

[@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.

[@bharv2309]

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

[@bradleycranch8294]

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

[@frightenedmule194]

evolve dropped so others could fall

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@TobeWilsonNetwork]

I swear Crowbcat makes 60 Minutes level videos

[@nickr0425]

There were a dozen ways to find the monster. Running as a 4man was a noob trap. There was a dome you could trap the monster in and it lasted for like 2 min. You could kill most monsters in 30 seconds if they are trapped in the open. If you landed a dome in the first half of the match while the monster was level 1 or 2 it's totally screwed. Then they got greedy and charged 10 bucks for a different shade of color for the monster or the price of the entire game for each season, and the power creep. If you didn't unlock the new season of hunters but the monster was one of the new ones, the game became really unfair.

[@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.

[@awakenthechosen]

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

[@Gunnumn]

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

[@GeraltORivia]

Evolve was such a cool concept

[@gavinmccree6330]

I really enjoyed it. It was definitely missing things.

[@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.

[@Bwoodlyy]

This could’ve changed the landscape of Multiplayer games. The hype to launch was crazy high, the betas were promising, but then the final launch was so absolutely baffling that it instantly killed any chance the game had. Tragic.

[@maxsoundandmusic]

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

[@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

[@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!

[@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

[@chrismcmeekin8470]

Every creator featured in the video sounds like they have a decent microphone, at the very least it sounds like they care about the quality. Then you have DSP who sounds like he's recording his audio from a public restroom, like he set his camera down on the toilet paper dispenser and is just shouting at it while he wipes.

[@linderofhyrule]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@TheKasikaasu]

Evolve actually legitimately was quite fun game in it's core, it just didn't manage to keep it alive and the monetization was horrible. There was a really fun and good game behind all the 💩

[@Buletproofcoffee]

The Angry joe shouts really sent me back dude

[@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.

[@TrueRedRain]

I love this game. I played it offline against bots but sadly i was to late to play on servers to unlock the 2 last monsters.

[@nihren2406]

So the balance was that at Stage 1 the Monster is weaker than the Humans, at Stage 2 the Monster can fight evenly with a group of Hunters, and Stage 3 the Monster is too powerful for the Hunters. The problem with Stage 1 is that the group of Hunters always had a tracker of some type and no matter how hard you tried to hide your tracks someone would find you. And when they released the Hunter that an energy cage, it was basically over for the Monster because the cooldown on the ability was the length that the ability lasts. So they'd just throw it up again and continuously trap you. I loved being the Monster, but it was so ridiculously one sided unless the Hunters were incompetent.

[@edandollie]

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

[@NasKillerTV]

Nah, we were all just happy back then.

[@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.

[@Fascists4Palestine]

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

[@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

[@jarrellabram]

Never played but loveeed watching this game

[@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.

[@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

[@Goobzor]

i think the main issue with evolve was that monster being able to see the hunters though walls at all times. this made it so someone trying to win will run when they are close and the hunters never see the monster till the end when its fully evolved and ready to kill the hunters. if they had no ablity to see the hunters they would have found the monster more leading to a much more fun game. also making the game more scary for the monster early game.

[@JustinMartinshrapnel]

Moral of the story. Don't buy turtle rock

[@snack_bar2474]

I wanted Evolve to thrive but it never did, I miss it.

[@JinzoTK]

I kept hoping for a single player monster campaign. I even played alone after the game basically died but it never came. The microtransactions and unbalanced sides (either monsters or hunters were fun, usually never both at the same) killed this game.

[@burntwhal3]

I don't think the game was ever designed for hunters to split up and find the monster. It doesn't really make sense. There's a class that's specifically made to track it. So it would make sense to follow them. Also, thus game is completely different if you have a competent tracker.

[@silvangold007]

I would have absolutely LOVED evolve if you could play against an A.I monster and maybe a couple A.I teammates

[@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

[@EM0RYTATEllll]

Still love evolve and still play it

[@Scribbles69]

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

[@nickcanzoneri3012]

the unboxing vids lol

[@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.

[@Abox-hh9ib]

I miss this game, I had fun playing it.

[@CruelDwarf]

It is just weird for me that Evolve is not considered 'modern' anymore. It was like yesterday.

[@davideduardogonzalezcaball3364]

What really killed Evolve was not the game itself but the insane micro transactions and awful business model by Take Two.

[@kwattigor]

i loved evolve but man the monetization was so trash day 1 had like 35 dollers of dlc the predators were 15$ for each and hunters were like 8 or 9 each and some of them were clearly pay to win torvold was strongest hunter at launch but behind pay wall as well as the predator that was locked behind 15 at launch the rolling one cant remember name theyu later nerfed them but that showed their intent release new stuff pay to win to force people to buy or get crapped on by people who did then nerf it later

[@noeenriquez9822]

I loved this game so much wish I could still play it on PlayStation

[@ckaldariaq5904]

Evolve was actually really good on release. They did a big update to a F2P Model and changed the balanced that THAT is what killed the game imo.

[@ZenOne7]

Titanfall 1 and Evolve were so under appreciated.

[@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.

[@neoangelo606]

I wish Evolve had better monsters. Banshee was my go to

[@jremigio24]

Man I freaking loved this game, what made me stop playing was how expensive the dlc and what not was. And then the game just died and rereleased in pc. Couldn’t play it anymore.

[@musestarlight1]

Original well natural selection mod from Half-Life 1 says hello

[@ZombieGojira]

I completely forgot about this game. Had a good time when I played it.

[@ruinvixi]

evolve was a banger imo. i was a broke kid when i got it so i could never play online but damn was it still a fun concept

[@mannybarajas7458]

There was an ad for a Galaxy S5. That's how long ago that was.

[@siholland3349]

The absolute worst part is the dlc for the game. The characters are in the game but you have to pay to unlock them, however the store has been shut down which means you can no longer play the characters that are in the game. If your going to shut down the store you might as well make them free. I emailed 2k about this issue and they said they can do nothing about it. Even the physical disks of which I bought the ultimate edition because I thought they would have a code in which you could unlock the dlc characters. Does not work as once again the store no longer exists. Tldr very sad

[@grundged]

And people wonder why E3 failed.

[@pb2325]

I remember this flop. I forgot how big of a fail Evolve was. This reminds me of the MMO fails of the later 2000s (Vanguard, Age of Conan, etc.)

[@jond7691]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="890">14:50</a> Is that the robot from Concord? That can’t be right, Concord is witty and original.

[@grantlawrence4600]

Evolve was a great game with SO much potential. Blame the monetary schemes.

[@cloverraven]

It’s a great game. That was mismanaged. And when they pivoted it was even worse. Skins were like 25$ until the end.

[@wilhelmbecknee5870]

Funnily enough if they just put a descent number of descently weak AI for each side (some ai controlled humans and some ai mini monsters) it mightve solved the core problem, something fun to do while youre hunting your enemy

[@MattJ3enning]

I remember playing this on gamepass ages ago

[@darkstarmedia]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="330">5:30</a> 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.

[@ArcangelGamingEntertainment]

I agree with many of your points, but one of the things about evolve is that it was actually unique and did something different. I think gamers ultimately don't want a game where they ever feel less powerful than other players and so in a game like evolve where it's inherently asymmetric people aren't going to enjoy it because they don't feel like the main character. I think the last thing that really put the Nile in the coffin for revolve was the horrible monetization and the sheer lack of variety within the game. There were only so many combinations of enemies and hunters that you could use and with such a steep unlock curve it just meant the gameplay did get stale I miss it though