Redfall is an absolute catastrophe of a videogame (Review)

[@SkillUp]

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[@-Scrapper-]

I like Shillseries. It feels pretty dope to the ears. and the balls.

[@caloss2]

Redfall is Dreadful ? come on that was low-hanging fruit right there ;)

[@iHaveTheDocuments]

I've never seen anyone with a steel series mouse in my life

[@markthompson4567]

all bethsda games have wooden clunky controls how do you not know this as a games reviewer

[@MightyMase04]

I recommend their Arctis 5 wired headset. Good 7.1 surround, decent boom mic, long wire, and a chatmix dial

[@highmileage145]

When you have to apologize to an IGN game reviewer because it's not actually their fault that their gameplay footage is shit, you know the game handles pretty poorly.

[@Vario69]

You know the game is steaming hot garbage*

[@sinwithagrin4243]

Why are all these idiots playing on console? Play on PC. You have NONE of these problems

[@beefcake7275]

Aim assist :D Dude learn to play "game journalist".

[@topgamer101]

@@beefcake7275 Learn to listen to the fucking video properly and you'll realize why you are making yourself out to look like a complete idiot. Good job.

[@Tyrany42]

“If a developer can’t be bothered to finish a game, then why should I?” Quote of the decade right there.

[@minatoEd]

Because you are spending money on it? I do get the meaning of it, however, unless refunding a bad product is the norm in the Video game industry, is sort of a gamble and not a cheap one and at that point the sunken cost fallacy kicks in...

[@Frank-li8uj]

@@minatoEdthat’s why game trails are good

[@IonoTheFanatics]

@@minatoEd That's no reason to finish a terrible game, because doing so waste something more valuable... your time. Sunken cost fallacy in this case is really non sensical because wasting time on a terrible game makes no sense when you could do it for something else like... playing a good game. That and refund for games within X amount of time is not uncommon. Steam allows that (and you bet we make full use of it for games like these if for some reason we didn't wait for review of it), and depending on where you buy your console games, they have similar policy for certain store front (primarily the online store).

[@minatoEd]

@@IonoTheFanatics Ok.

[@jhank0cean]

@@minatoEd Do you eat all of your food every time you spend money on it? Games aren't "not cheap" btw, our perspective on them is however. Most people voluntarily spend way more money on things they spend way less time with.

[@IknowIamkindagreat]

I am now convinced whoever played that IGN demo was TRYING to warn us how bad the game was...but we were too busy mocking them to realize

[@adnanasif9538]

That ign player: "they called me a madman."

[@21stcenturyrambo16]

they hated him because he spoke the truth

[@elderscrolls8442]

@@adnanasif9538 Both replies to this are on point. based

[@RoachChaddjr]

@@adnanasif9538 "Perhaps I treated you too harshly"

[@danang5]

its kinda fair after that atrocious doom(2016) gameplay

[@axocopan42]

13:16 what an absolute legend, not only taking advantage of the vampires penchant for sucking but t-posing to establish dominance whilst doing so.

[@donovanjoseph737]

In the spotlight, no less. What a chad

[@LadyDoomsinger]

I don't blame that vampire - I'd go down on a guy that confident too.

[@Wez633]

Okay that”I refuse to finish this game. If a developer can’t finish this game. Why should I?” Got a real good chuckle out of me and is so true.

[@Quandrix]

I doubt they care, neither do i

[@exodus941]

Best line!

[@Rizziculous]

They got his money. It’s all good

[@morgantriplett9918]

​@@Rizziculous no they didn't I'm sure he played on gamepass

[@peekz25]

unfortunately you already lost your money man might as well see it through

[@xristosdragonas7225]

''I refuse to finish this game, because if a developer can't be bothered to finish their game, then why should i ?'' BEST thing I've heard all year.

[@lucasLSD]

@@Y-sq3xz That's the publisher

[@cesarmigueldasilvacaraccio2297]

​@@Y-sq3xz i think devs do expect for the guy to finish the Game before the review

[@nnamdiokechukwu9778]

when this game was previewed some time ago by some youtubers they all had glowing remarks about it, I was puzzled considering how unispiring the game looked. Apparently Arkane flew them out and hosted them, I guess these youtubers wanted to keep the invites coming. I usually trust Jake Baldino but he flunked this one.

[@aerosw1ft]

@@nnamdiokechukwu9778 considering jake is probably one of the softest/most polite for reviews, him saying "this isn't it for me" is probably as bad as you'll get from him

[@r.b4889]

yeah u already paid for it though lol

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

A vampire saying "Stop me if you can" while being stuck (stopped) behind a chair is hilarious.

[@takethisoops]

Lmao it's like something out of What we do in the shadows

[@Pokefan220195]

I think the vampire was actually talking to the chair who was his arch nemesis

[@joshuakim5240]

Plot twist: the vampire is actually pleading for the player to stop him to free him from the perpetual torment of being frozen in time via terrible lag.

[@adnanasif9538]

​@@Pokefan220195 The chair is made of wood. So not surprised.

[@viderevero1338]

​@@joshuakim5240 Damn. Redfall was deep and depressing all along huh...

[@KarazolaX]

Are we sure this $70 experience isn't actually a cry for help from a team of kidnapped developers forced to work on a game in a locked basement somewhere? That's what it feels like to me.

[@justinstoll4955]

It's amazing how accurate how initial thought was.

[@ericlamb4501]

From what I've heard in passing, and honestly what this video says, nobody at Arkane wanted this... at all. And now they might be on the chopping block because some dickhead at Bethesda, probably Todd Howard, forced them to make this. Just like a good actor can only do their best to try and salvage a shit script and still get burned. Same thing that happened to Bioware with Anthem honestly. Corporate publisher fucks just don't care

[@ShermTank7272]

@@ericlamb4501Anthem was also BioWare's fault. EA probably didn't make things any better, but BioWare (or at least the higher ups there) wanted to make Anthem.

[@TheSilentHeel]

@@ericlamb4501 No. It didnt. Bioware WANTED to make Anthem and EA actually made the game better. Bioware took out flying and an EA Executive convinced them to keep it in after they gave him a demo with it. Flying was the ONLY good thing about Anthem. Im so sick of this idea that publishers force developers to make these games. Its just not true. 99% of the time its the DEVELOPER who wants microtransactions in their game. Its the dev who wants to make their game live service. Why? Because they need money too. The publisher does NOT cover their bills. They foot the bill for an agreed amount for the development of the game. Thats it.

[@ericlamb4501]

@@ShermTank7272From the story I've heard, Anthem also ended up being completely remade 5 times before they even had a demo for the suits, and by that point there was still nothing solid either. Honestly should have just fully dropped it or moved it on the furthest backburner.

[@quiet6088]

I hope the arkane team that worked on this got their families back safe and sound.

[@truecaliber1995]

Right!? 😂 It's like they were held at gunpoint to make Redfall.

[@khoanguyentranang1802]

After seeing the result, I dont think they will unfortunately 😂

[@Dionyzos]

I honestly doubt that they can develop anything decent anymore even if they were given full creative freedom. Raphael Colantonio left the studio after Prey and went on to make Weird West. Weird West is not amazing but definitely not terrible and it has the Soul of an Arkane game. I think the separation of Colantonio and the rest of the dev team has destroyed most of the synergies between those people that made Arkane games great.

[@melcorchancla9431]

@@Dionyzos nah arkane austin barely worked on dishonored 1, didn’t work on dishonored 2. The only game they made is prey. Arkane Lyon got is deathloop which was fine while Made this piece of garbage.

[@athejbaka7084]

Stop making excuses for the developers they are just as much a problem

[@MightyManotaur22]

I feel like a complete sicko for how excited I am to watch this video

[@amayreka]

It's nice seeing something burn down

[@Xavier-lc1ih]

Some men just want to watch the world burn 😉

[@GeorgeForeman2]

No just a skid mark pony boy

[@danielgrezda3339]

Bethesda and Microsoft need to learn a lesson: don't force people to make a game they aren't passionate about. This review will help them learn.

[@bizmonkey007]

@@leeroy1986 Forspoken looks like a masterpiece compared to this turd.

[@Valium762]

The behind the scenes story on this game is going to be so much more interesting than Redfall could ever hope to be.

[@readyforlol]

I'm expecting a tear-jerking No Clip documentary on this in the coming years. It's gonna be painful. A cathartic kind of painful. Like documentaries about plane crashes or marine accidents, where the families of victims finally get closure after years of investigation.

[@anthonyf616]

WHA HAPPUN

[@stevep25]

@InternetHistorian where you at?

[@KharaChmiel]

@@stevep25 I'm hoping we get a @internethistorian mega-video on the state of games coming out broken as fuck lol.

[@MichaelDoesLife]

That a clear indication that you don't actually play video games and are more interested in talking about games---which IS NOT gaming

[@CookiesFTA]

One of the biggest immersion killers for me was the "sucking" noise that the vampires make constantly that doesn't sound anything like sucking. Literally just the sound of a takeaway cup that's nearly empty with a straw in it would have sounded better.

[@jonathandawson3091]

The game sucks.

[@Tzilandi]

When the game sucks so bad, even the sound of sucking sucks.

[@СергейСердюк94]

Biggest immersion killer is dying over and over again

[@Tr_Fast]

one of the biggest immersion killers for me in my half of play through was the t posing vampires

[@MrRoflWaffles]

what sucks even more about all this is I got to play the game a few months ago with Harvey Smith right behind me at a preview event, and had a meeting with him afterwards where I *told him* so many of the issues you covered here. Somehow none of that feedback landed, nobody else raised these issues, or nobody thought it might be necessary to fix this stuff before releasing the game. I don't understand it - Harvey was lovely but he and his team are so much better than this.

[@jorgeadame5019]

Hello mrwaffles miss the zombie guide lest hope the new black ops doesn’t suck!

[@WinXitheP00h]

Spoiled westerners, in Africa we just got the Atari 2600 last week

[@jorgeadame5019]

@@WinXitheP00h I thought u guys didn’t even have light 💡

[@arandom35yearold]

Clearly they arent as good as you expected them to be anymore

[@cactuss33ds]

​@@WinXitheP00h oh man. wait till you guys get to the SNES. I'm sure you could get some HUGE antelope trades for super mario world

[@FrenchyMcToast]

You know a game is bad when Skill Up turns into Dunkey.

[@0uttaS1TE]

Bro said "Austin. Take a break. Lemme handle this."

[@rockymachine]

Can't wait for the actual Dunkey dunk on this turd of a game!

[@xiRePeNTx]

@@rockymachine oh boy my mouth is salivating i hope he makes it lmao

[@ActNasty5]

@@rockymachine he already did. He posted a blade 2 video instead lol

[@mehdigeek]

huh?

[@justanormalcat1839]

it is honestly terrifying how Ralph can somehow manage to sneak Destiny into every single video he makes.

[@grasshopper9220]

Maybe video game studios should stop sneaking Destiny into every video game they make then

[@judgedrekk2981]

it is unavoidable..it is his DESTINY [puts on shades]

[@andrewterry8661]

Destiny 1 was the start of this shit, for me anyway. Walking around at light level 19 or whatever it's called doing repeat mission and killing the same enemies with nothing getting anywhere and basically thinking about something else completely.....then it hit me "what the f%ck is this???". Never played it again.

[@noarmsnolife6665]

@petah Destiny is actually a dogshit money laundering scheme designed to suck as much money out of its stupid, dim-witted fans as possible. It hasn't been good since taken king and even that was really just an "okay" expansion.

[@andrewterry8661]

@petah no it's left me more salty than a dophins arse hole. It doesn't deserve ripping the unbelievably amazing game from my imagination and never delivering.

[@carolineshore1094]

Another anti-vampire technique which I like to call, “chair” 😭

[@Xhaleon]

When IGN and the game reviewer weren't at fault. Damn, we've reached that point.

[@nick7544]

He was that bored

[@kosmosfan01]

Who's gonna make that guy an apology cake? 😆

[@Dr.Akakia]

Look like a dream😅

[@Dan016]

Based, lol

[@ACameronUK]

I can only assume Arkane had family members held captive and were forced to develop this travesty at gun point to guarantee their safe return? 😳

[@PayThePiperr]

Does that explain Deathloop as well?

[@pajmic666]

@@PayThePiperr And Wolfenstein Youngblood?

[@bigdaddydzzzzzz]

Redfall was in development before they were bought out. This is 1000% Arkanes fault and due to all of their good senior leadership leaving.

[@ACameronUK]

@@PayThePiperrfor me Deathloop had major issues, and I think some of the reviews for it were borderline worrying (IGN’s 10 😳) however, I still think it’s worlds ahead of Redfall. I don’t have anything positive to say about this game…it’s just really sad.

[@speedforce8970]

​@@pajmic666 that wasn't arkane though.

[@luciferdern]

The editorial comedy here with the super underwhelming titles screens and transitions to match the game is masterful. Love it. Love to Austin.

[@gavo7911]

This is the first Skill Up review I’ve seen that doesn’t have an eloquent intro or heavily stylized format. This is just a brutal tear down with nothing more than raw gameplay.

[@coolremedy6969]

I really appreciated the "very high quality stealth kill animation" bit

[@Moleculor]

If the game doesn't want to put effort into how it's made, why put effort into the video? I love it.

[@datboivenom]

I am pretty sure he's doing a Joseph Anderson bit.

[@vincentthendean7713]

​@@datboivenom not every lethargic presentation is a reference to Anderson, bud.

[@SickDnA]

Dishonored is the game that got me into gaming with its sheer brilliance. Now seeing Arkane being reduced to this really hurts

[@talynhastime9343]

Same. I love the exaggerated features and clay-like texture of the faces, the amount of lore and environmental detail. I hate how these talented studios get roped into making games this stupid.

[@spanishnameisjesus]

I just finished Prey a few weeks ago, and been wanting to play Deathloop for a while now, and this is so disappointing. I get it, not every game can be incredible, but this is SO bad. And you know, if this were made by some indie studio, it would still be a bad game, but it would be understandably bad. Like yeah, for $15 or $20 it would be acceptable. but for ARKANE? For a AAA game from a studio that has nothing but hits behind them? I don't think this is the "death note" of the studio like some people claim, they have too many fantastic games to let this bring them down. I'm hoping this is just a fluke, and that they've been putting more time, effort, and money into something else; or maybe this was just the B team.

[@Machiave11i]

@@spanishnameisjesus Prey is great. Deathloop is pure garbage.

[@HowItsEvenPossible]

@@spanishnameisjesus Deathloop is great, it was made by Arkane Lyon, and Redfall is a product of Arkane Austin

[@fullauto86]

Prey was that game for me, deathloop was rough but I thought it was a one off. Something drastic must have happened I can’t believe Arkane made this of their own free will and their own ideas, it feels too…false, idk.

[@CriticalNobody]

Redfall's empty world is the perfect allegory for the player base a month from now

[@kristoffer8609]

Also, a perfect allegory for Arkane Studios future.

[@ShadowWolfQc]

I remember playing Perfect Dark Zero on 360 and how awful it was... but that game was designed better, looked better, had more attention than detail and gameplay... on a 0 teraflops machine... than a "next gen" series X first party exclusive. Thank God for PC and PS5... And hell with the state of PC ports even my 4080 is struggling to get a steady 60fps at 1440p. Modern gaming is the real horror game here.

[@baumchel]

The player base a week from now***

[@nailinthefashion]

Instead of vampires, it's zombiez

[@simonrockstream]

Not even a month bro. Nobody is buying this game. No one.

[@AstonishingRed]

You know you’re just in for a bad time when you owe IGN an apology for their gameplay showcase criticism.

[@perceivedvelocity9914]

Hahaha. I'm not ready to apologize to IGN yet. IGN should have talked about why their gameplay was pure S. They are such shills that they refused to criticize a broken game.

[@hihihi1q23]

@@perceivedvelocity9914 I mean, 99.9% of people who cover games are shills. KZbinrs especially. They can't criticize games too harshly or they'll get their access cut off.

[@fabolousjada5070]

@@hihihi1q23 facts

[@GameoftheYear-fx4mq]

​@@perceivedvelocity9914 if a business is dependant on early game copies to make reviews and content, their #1 rule is to not get that access revoked. That includes criticizing a game.

[@joshuayung5158]

IGN redemption arc is wild

[@thesean161]

I like that he put as much effort into the graphics and transitions , as redfall put into their game.

[@MichaelDoesLife]

Cringe

[@dblundz]

I was just thinking this haha

[@spike5499]

​@@MichaelDoesLife corny

[@secretagentkarve9431]

I like that you put in as much effort to make this comment as you did to get up this morning to shit

[@spike5499]

​@@secretagentkarve9431 LMFAO FAX 🗣

[@Xorthis]

Since you didn't really play multiplayer, I would like to present to you the multiplayer experience. 1) You can't see your teammate's shots. When they shoot, nothing happens. It looks like they are force users and enemies just die for no reason from their force choke move. I thought I'd made an error and set the game to low detail, but nope. Arkane seem to have decided teammate bullet animations are going to be too system heavy. 2) Teammates often animation glitch, and for a good part of one session, my friend's character decided he'd prefer to live in the floor for my view, strobe glitching in and out of it. After we fast traveled to try fix this, his character turned into a vampire and decided to float everywhere instead. I tried to exit to fix it, and that's where I discovered point 3." 3) If you quit a multiplayer session, it quits EVERYONE and progress to that point is sometimes totally lost. Their matchmaking system is from the early 2000s. You have to invite a player before you enter the game, and enter together. You can't just jump in and out of your friend's session, you either start together, or you have to get them to start it with you. There was a bug at some point which force disconnected me, and everyone else was quit out. We lost 2 hours of progress too since upon realoading, it hadn't saved for some reason. It was at that point, everyone involved uninstalled the game since we were all playing it on the PC gamepass, and were done with it's bullshit. If you've paid $80 for this alpha release game, I'm so sorry. I hope you can refund it.

[@2Siders]

It’s fascinating really. After Dishonored this is unbelievable

[@harleycynofficial]

Holy cow. Wow. Sorry you had to experience that, but I sure do appreciate the detailed (and funny) review.

[@Nico78Not]

I just want to add onto your points 1 and 3 : 1)You can't actually see your teammate's shots because, for some reason, the bullets in Redfall exist only as particle effects. Every shot is hitscan à la OG Doom (no bullet drop off, no bullet travel distance), meaning the devs either forgot to add the particle effects from other people's guns when they fire or they didn't bother. 3) The progress made within the game is only saved on the host's side. If you wanted to continue a game because your friend who hosted the lobby stopped playing, you would be stuck replaying everything that you already had completed.

[@Xorthis]

@@Nico78Not Oh god it's worse than I imagined. We didn't play enough to get to the point where we swapped hosts. That would have been horrible!

[@directAction3389]

Too bad you can't refund your wasted time though :\

[@MightyMattTM]

I love the lifeless intro to each section “I’d like to now talk about the combat in Redfall” 😂😂😂 Perfection.

[@thegreatpoo2electricboogal318]

That was my favorite part lol

[@TheSergio1021]

Gotta match the effort and care that the devs put into this game, you know?

[@ЄвгенКорякін]

Reminds me of old TotalBiscuit video titles. "I will now talk about FOV sliders for 20 minutes" and the likes.

[@THESouthernBuckeye87]

“If a developer can’t be bothered to finish their game, then why should I?” …brutal 😂

[@ShadowRoadX]

This review was genuinely more entertaining than actual Redfall gameplay.

[@lenaistalar8032]

The best thing with the stealth kill animation is how you punch them in the back and then they fall back onto you, the opposite direction of the force applied by the punch xD

[@drakeau497]

The 32 minutes I spent watching this was far more entertaining then the 30 minutes I spent playing Redfall.

[@systemrecords9708]

Did you actually pay 70$ for this garbage tho?

[@cowel8734]

Sorta glad to hear it after I just found out recently that it's not on my console(ps5) Jedi Survivor is way more fun for $70

[@akmal94ibrahim]

​@@systemrecords9708It's on Gamepass. I'd say that's the sensible thing to do, but you are wasting your bandwith downloading this garbage.

[@MrAndysalgado]

That’s longer then I could play and I couldn’t really even tell you why I didn’t like it

[@Dan016]

Pardon, I think you meant RedFail

[@humbleservant7797]

If you played any Dishonored game you know just how tragic that part Skillup mentions about the key is. No opening on the roof and no way in through a window is baffling for arkane.

[@delix8869]

Most people who worked on Dishonored are no longer at Arkane. Most of them left after Prey. Now it’s just filled with talentless zoomers.

[@humbleservant7797]

@@delix8869 them getting bought by xbox was already a death sentence but that happened as well ? Well damn, glad i still have all the Dishonored games, might be time to replay some.

[@lamlelamatsiliza8550]

@@humbleservant7797 Me too, I even though about completing the whole thing as i finished getting the pacifist achievement and now trying the get the ghost one.

[@BlackWidowMac]

you can with some of the characters, who have abilities allowing you to travel to elevated areas. The guy skillup uses just has no way to do it, which reinforces the idea they intended this to be played online primarily. completely locks out two characters in single player right off the bat. Which is boggling because story progression is locked to the host player.

[@blueprint7]

@@delix8869 ok boomer

[@malek0093]

I think Arkane's co-founder Rapahel Colantonio said it best when he left the studio after Bethesda sabotaged Prey 2017 and set it up for commercial failure, "You're not making a videogame anymore, you're making a product".

[@Joe-rq9td]

How did Bethesda sabotage Prey?

[@YouDeserveToDie666]

@@Joe-rq9td by improperly marketing it. They knew it was a more niche game and they treated it like dogsh*t. Many players were let down because they expected a more streamlined FPS (as it was marketed, kinda), and what they got was a pretty deep immersive sim instead

[@MilkPudding]

It's still a failed product even if they don't make video games anymore.

[@nailinthefashion]

Ohhhhhhh no wonder there's so little soul. He's a visionary lol has he announced ne projects yet?

[@Levsonn]

@@nailinthefashion he has founded WolfEye Studios and already released his first game Weird West. They're currently working on new game too!

[@cee_ves]

Hearing you say that the enemies are actually difficult to keep up with and kept teleporting surprised me. Because in every other piece of footage I’ve seen they get stuck on a car and don’t move for 5 minutes

[@Matt7R]

Dude, way to take a boring game and turn it into a fucking hilarious and entertaining review. Absolute GOAT reviewer, massive respect!

[@jon-umber]

Probably the harshest Skillup review I've seen in 5+ years of following this channel, wow. Never would've expected such a fall from Arkane. Deathloop had polish but didn't totally work for me, either.

[@MichaelDoesLife]

If it were on PlayStation, he likely would've been more positive

[@devak45167]

@@MichaelDoesLife PlayStation would’ve never put out a game this bad so that scenario is unrealistic

[@hihihi1q23]

@@MichaelDoesLife If it was Playstation, this game wouldn't have even been published. Playstation cancelled the sequel to Days Gone because the OG wasn't polished enough on release.

[@lozothebrozo]

@@MichaelDoesLife if it were a decent game he’d be more positive.

[@AlekTrev006]

Even worse than his Fallout-76 ‘beta’ one ? 😅

[@kosmonument2682]

I can't believe this last 12 months. Every time I think we got the worst game of the year, someone comes along and makes an even worse one.

[@Dan016]

It’s “hold my beer” for AAA gaming for the last few years…or even the last decade of gaming, tbh

[@JerryCanTheThird]

brace for Starfield 😬

[@Skybreaker1337]

They saw the direction the movie industry is going and decided they need to step up their game.

[@culo9999]

​@@Dan016 Yeah, honestly, between increasing responsibilities, less excitement for AAA titles, increasing prices of "mid tier" GPUs, an ever expanding back catalog, and the increasing convenience of APUs, particularly in handhelds... I'm kind of over the desktop PC thing. I could build a solid 1000-1500 desktop OR I could buy a framework laptop and steam deck.

[@JABelms]

@@culo9999 Nah, people are just too hyped for shit that doesn't really matter. Like all of these new videogame releases won't match the games I'm still playing to his day (Warhammer TW/XCOM2/and more recently Atomic Heart, way more games than these tho). Also you don't need recent "mid tier GPUs", me and my friends still use 3 year old GPUs and worry more about office chairs and peripherals more than our rigs. A single good AAA is good for me once a year, with the amount of games I have I would be busy for maybe even 5 more years not buying these new games.

[@C24U_]

Why the fuck did Bethesda give this a marketing budget yet didn’t give Hi-Fi Rush a freaking dime for marketing despite it clearly being a better game?

[@2good4name]

That stealth kill animation at 10:59 is absolute comedy. Just a whack in the butt and immediately prat falling to the ground.

[@0lionheart]

I was gonna say it's got that Halo 2 backsmack going, but idk Halo still had more weight and the enemies really went down hard so it always felt good

[@moistloaf3854]

I dunno, a good hard pound in the behind normally sends me to straight to sleep

[@R3TR0JVN]

Classic "-jank" fps stealth kills back 2009

[@Krackerjax]

It's insane, go watch a Deathloop compilation of stealth kills. They are SO nice in that game, what happened? Even Dishonored 1 from 2012 outclasses this game. Technically a different studio made those two games, but cmon man how are you losing this hard to an 11-year-old game?

[@jordanmcminn998]

It's actually depressing the state the gaming industry is in right now and we have been saying that for years. It's insane how games like this are released

[@Sublimeoo]

Welcome to capitalism and all it's minimum viable product, rush to publish because shareholders bullshit. you must be new here

[@turnerflorence9658]

There are plenty of other good games out there, especially coming this year. This is an embarrassment for Microsoft considering this is a first party title.

[@slappydoodle]

My honest opinion for that falls in line with the popularity of online multi-player games. Creative stories or fun gameplay were no longer front an center. It became about playing with people and dlc's

[@muhammedalitoya1505]

​@@turnerflorence9658 What good games are coming exactly? Gollum? 🤣

[@jeronimojosemontalvovasque6105]

​@@muhammedalitoya1505 idk, I'm just waiting for armored core 6

[@TheGreatTave]

Redfall may be a failure, but it gave us a 30 minute video by Skill Up that will live on forever. Thank you Redfall, at least you made KZbin a little more fun for me today.

[@jijenikkke]

Haha true!

[@makoto4418]

just TODAY？😂

[@BeetsBeetsBeetsBeets]

It's a decent consolation prize. I was pretty excited for this game.

[@SpicyChimkinSammie]

Dishonored is one of my favourite games of all time. Its hard to believe that the studio that made such a masterpiece had devolved into this... Ralph's last point was incredibly valid as well. This is 100% on Microsoft. When Sony or Nintendo announces an exclusive, people get hyped. And the reason for that is because they maintain a standard of quality that is expected of them. There is a certain guarantee that comes with the first party exclusive stamp. How could anyone not be skeptical of XBox after they have clearly shown that they can't even judge if a video game is playable or not, let alone whether or not if it's good?

[@lubnaaslamm4725]

Sony exclusives r just movies at this point..."wAlK aRoUnd pREtTy wOrLd hiGh gFx dEtAilS haNd hOldUnG gAmeplay"

[@olotocolo]

@@lubnaaslamm4725 We too are sorry about your mom sleeping with her brother But keep your fanboism at bay

[@Benefits]

"If a developer can't be bothered to finish their game, why should I?" That quote sums up my AAA gaming experience from the past 5 years.

[@JamienautMark2]

Honestly, yeah. I felt insane because I hadn’t beaten a game in like 4 months last year. But I’ve beaten like 5 indie games this year. Part of it is that all the indie games had unique premises and were like 20-30 hours long. While all the AAA games get grindy and and are made to last for what feels like forever. And to top it off you got to put up with them being unpolished.

[@technoviking2415]

I don't think the devs even have a say in it tbh

[@maxdavenport9355]

Have you considered that video games are arguably more difficult to develop and rising costs change the landscape of development every 5 years? Seems like there's a fundamental misunderstanding here.

[@OGBanditGaming]

Why should you be bothered to buy it in the first place? I havent bought a game day one since cyberpunk. That was the last straw for me.

[@darkconsole]

only five? damn. being nice today. triple-a been a meme for almost ten to me.

[@paladindoesd2]

when you said "Why should I bother to finish a game that the developers didn't bother to" that hit me like a truck. Such a depressing yet true statement for a lot of game that have come out recently

[@Syntax.error.]

This looks like the first fully AI generated video game.

[@thomasneal9291]

huh. interesting thought.

[@bullymaquire8797]

To think where those games are actually headed through ai though. In the future they’ll be virtually perfect and limitless. Been thinking about it a bit lately aha

[@flow185]

@@bullymaquire8797 endless limitless games sounds like a nightmare

[@jacobhollback2879]

Two guys with no game developer experience can put together something better than this using Unreal marketplace assets and code bundles. Hell, you could even do that on unity. Game development has gotten so streamlined with quality asset bundles and code prefabs

[@hassathunter2464]

Its a NPC generated video game. Close enough?

[@bardofhighrenown]

The core of the story is actually a cool idea. It would have been a neat base to build a 'Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth' spiritual successor on and Arkane should have been the studio to build that game as a cool immersive sim/detective game, exploring this town and uncovering that something is going on with the town's residents and the mystery surrounding the town's strange goings-on. It actually reminds me a lot of Dark Corners in that it feels like a game that was originally supposed to be one thing, then was forced to become another thing and then shoved out the door half-baked and unfinished.

[@Matruchus]

To be fair Arkane was developing Redfall as a MP title two years before they sold themselves out to Microsoft.

[@robinstheles]

For someone who put dozens of hours into the Dishonored games (Including death of the outsider) its so unbelievable sad to what happened to Arkane Studios. Like what the hell even is this

[@lukeyspooky611]

I know right? The Dishonoreds and Prey were fucking masterpieces. Deathloop was alright, but I figured that’d just be a small dip in quality. But Redfall, man it just hurts to see Arkane fall so far.

[@robinstheles]

@@lukeyspooky611 how could I forget, Prey is also such a masterpiece (It even is my profile pic) I think the main problem with Deathloop was just how dumb the A.I was, in a game like dishonored the A.I doesn't have to be good since they are enough of a challenge by detecting you and attacking you with their swords But in a game like Deathloop that is mostly about shooting you just need a good A.I Thars why games like S.T.A.L.K.E.R remain so popular, because they also feature a great A.I that quickly kills you if you are not careful. Atleast Deathloop was a very charming game tho, I really did love the protagonist But Redfall is just....damn, I don't want to say that this is Microsofts fault or anything but it's a damn bad coincidence that their first game under the direction of Microsoft is the worst they have ever made.

[@meeekeeey]

Maybe all the talent behind their great games aren't there anymore?

[@MichaelDoesLife]

Prey was a very buggy mess when it launched

[@HelloWorld-fg2nm]

Bro I put not kidding 100 hours into Dishonored 2... This game has me disappointed on so many levels

[@AllegedAllergen]

I really appreciated the random "how to explode a car in Redfall" segment. Really speaks for itself 3:58

[@KeyT3ch]

Dude this video itself has WAY more story telling than this game ever does. I lost it when you did the monotonous transition of "showing how to blow up a car" and "how to deal with watchers" part. Those shit were hilarious

[@omar200x]

The sad thing about the glitches was that some of them I thought were special features in the game.😅

[@TheHodeman]

"I do not consider post-it notes stuck to fridges proper storytelling." This needs to be either, like, a bumper sticker or a pledge or something. Not sure what to do with it exactly but we HAVE to make it famous somehow.

[@RolledDie]

That's basically just saying "I don't like how Arkane has always told stories" though. Every Arkane game you have to read little notes and papers found around to get the full scope of the setting and story.

[@spartankittygames]

​@@RolledDie that's true, it seemed like this seemed like the type of game that would need more personality in their characters and world though. Dishonored worked so well because you were an assassin stealthing around and finding things. This seems to be a more high action game so I feel there shoulda been more centric storytelling

[@Crayonnzz]

Would love to have it as a fridge magnet

[@mitchh5596]

​@B Frie while you're 100% correct, it's ridiculously predominant in redfall, much more so than in Arkane's other games, it's utilised quite poorly in comparison.

[@sehnsuchtmann3538]

Calm down dude

[@drunkenwoodelf]

I just wanna say that it's a REAL shame that every time there's a game like this with vampires as an underpinning theme, they NEVER do anything interesting with the thousands of years of lore humanity have written about vampires. Edit: Spelling mistakes lul.

[@Facepalm9]

Vampire: The Masquerade- Bloodlines would like SEVERAL strong words with you.

[@UnBR0k3enAngel]

@@Facepalm9 that game is almost 20 years old. It would be like using Vice City as a counterargument to people saying games based in Miami tend to suck. You're correct, but the fact that we have to go back that far speaks volumes

[@stormreach1234]

RIP Nosgoth, you will be remembered as loads of fun and with neat lore before you got shut down...

[@keskes1338]

@@stormreach1234 I loved Nosgoth so much, I still have it installed! However, Nosgoth is the perfect example of a company making the same mistake Arkane just made - they made an always online, pvp focused action shooter for the audience that had long enjoyed the 'Legacy' series for it's single player, story driven focus. I would never have touched it if I wasn't so desperate for more of that particular world and lore.

[@IzunaSlap]

Nothing's beaten Vampire TMB in the vampire lore department imo. There's Game of Thrones level depth behind all of the factions, history and how everything interacts.

[@Dimuscul]

What really makes me angry is the fact that they did know. They did every trick in the book so people couldn't review and see the game before it's released. They knew it was a turd, but pushed anyway asking full price for it. It should be punishable by law.

[@derryksandiford5434]

FACTS.

[@Astaticembrace]

It's on the consumer though to wait and read reviews on anything they buy. If the product is bad, and no one buys it, then the shareholders and publishers change up their strategy to a (hopefully) better one.

[@italianspiderman5012]

@@Astaticembracewhile it’s true, as a consumer it’s also your responsibility, but as company they shouldn’t be allowed to deceive their customers, knowingly selling a faulty product, that’s why we have customer protection laws, if you’d just let corporations to do whatever they want because “it’s on you if you don’t like it don’t buy it” or other excuse, well we would be in much deeper s*it than we are.

[@Buttersaemmel]

@@Astaticembrace but that's exactly the point. if they create an actual good game they probably wont sell enough additional copies to justify the additional work or even delays. simply because the consumer will still pre-order the game or buy it at day one even if (i know that isn't the case here) that developer/publisher ripped them off 10 times before. and they know that as well as the shareholders. so publishing an unfinished game makes way more sense for them than to actually finish it. and to be fair: if you sold someone your faeces a million times after telling them "it's chocolate" and they still want to buy chocolate from you, then where should your motivation be comming from to sell actual chocolate?

[@ryanmurray2531]

​@@Astaticembrace That's an awful excuse. Even if it is bad and no one buys it, it's still gross from a AAA publisher under Microsoft's wing to intentionally misrepresent their game, and having review embargoes as late as possible so it's impossible to cancel for some pre-orders even if you can get a refund after the fact. Blaming the player is valid to a degree, but not at the cost of letting the developer get away with murder.

[@whatupguys1]

It's really odd that this turned out the way it did, because the concept of "immersive sim" is something Arkane had nailed down perfectly in Dishonored. There were so many ways to tackle a task, from the micro to the macro level. You could kill an enemy 50 different ways, be with the tools and weapons you're given or some indirect interaction with the environment. And you could take a myriad different combinations of paths, strategies and approaches to complete a mission it almost felt like an open world game despite the somewhat linear nature of the game. I seriously want to know what went behind the scenes during the development of Redfall.

[@sevennvd]

Disappointed Skill Up videos are my favourite, this was 30 minutes of pure joy. The " I would now like to talk about" cuts with black screen, white letters, no caps and the monotone voice where such a brilliant thing! Thank you Ralph

[@naunghtonwilliams6946]

I feel the same. "Video game is good" I usually get most of the way through the review and end up getting the game myself. "Video game is horrific" I enjoy every minute of it and how he presents it

[@reincarN8ed]

He put the same amount effort into the transitions as Arkane put into the cutscenes.

[@dylanmiller1140]

There’s got to be more to this story, I can’t believe arkane wanted to make this, or are happy they made this

[@nanashiryuu5630]

It's called money Nd that was what they were tasked to do. Can't defend them they made it, they released it.

[@timothyholloway9517]

I agree something went array in the development cycle, this game is awful. I can't believe Microsoft let this release like this

[@christianyaerger1751]

I guarantee production was rushed to meet some arbitrary corporate metric.

[@Perry....]

Money money money! 🤪 That's all any studio gives 2 fucks about anymore

[@quebon2]

@@Perry.... I guarantee you that's not what the developers themselves care most about. Maybe Bethesda and Microsoft pushed them to just finish it so they could make money off of it but I'm damn sure Arkane wasn't happy about the "finished" result.

[@Sean_Callahan]

I'd like to know how a cutscene like at 1:21, with so little going on, still manages to have texture pop-in that egregious.

[@thecatattheend2250]

You saw the heal animation, I'm impressed. In three days of playing, I only saw it twice; usually you just get a blank screen while you have no weapons and your health goes up. I also can't open the map without going through the menu. It's sad because I adore the New England coastal town setting and the concept is one of the coolest around, it would have been great with more polish.

[@Zood94]

Dishonored >Prey > Deathloop > Redfall It's Evolving, Just Backwards..

[@jameshall01]

I LOVE the intentional low effort titles and semi-monotone voice , as if to say no effs were given because no effs were give from the game. Bravo, 10/10. I appreciated that.

[@Old_Gil_Gunderson]

Something I'll never forget back when I played prey 2017 if i remember correctly I came across this room locked from the inside I had no idea how to get in there for ages I could see through a crack in the window a switch on the inside to unlock the door but no idea how to reach it. I then remembered I had a toy gun that fired foam bullets, completely useless against enemies but worked perfectly at shooting that switch, I'll never forget that moment. So what the hell happend here.😢

[@jcaashby3]

I honestly was expecting red fall to at least have that same vibe going for it. Areas that can be entered more than one way. In Prey I used that goo gun to get into a few areas that needed keys or similar.

[@mafiacat88]

Exactly! So often you could use the foam darts, or the goo gun, or transform into a mug or something, or hack the panel, or lift some boxes, or find the code in one of a hundred different sneaky ways, or deconstruct what was blocking the way with a grenade. It felt like every door had a dozen ways to get by, and they thought of *everything*. It's a shame redfall is...this instead.

[@soapiedoapie]

the people who made prey left the studio

[@candycabngfl]

What was in the room ?

[@Sci-Fi_Freak_YT]

I stacked boxes and transformed into a mug to get in there because my dumb ass didn’t see the button 😂

[@julyshadowtunes1]

That story of how Arkane went from Mooncrash to this, all that corporate debauchery, that is the real entertainment. I would buy that book.

[@onerxowns2202]

CORPORATE shitholes only caring about MONEY. This kind is what KILLING good games for "quck buck" or PROFIT, it only work couple of times before people stop bying game, than they crash Company and find another... Rince and repeat. Unfortunately people are naive in need of money and fall in this trap all the time. And we, gamers are one to suffered consenqueses

[@Deleteyourself83]

What happened?

[@eddythefool]

They got Anthemed. Essentially everything that went wrong with Anthem also went wrong here.

[@Jeremy-morin]

I always thought the opening in Prey 2017 was one of the coolest most cinematic openings I’ve ever seen in a video game

[@apocMTL]

I could replay this game just for the opening

[@TheHighborn]

So, i guess it averages out LMAO

[@strymoon]

I still listen to that track from time to time. the entire opening of prey is such a masterpiece, every moment there is jaw-dropping. helicopter’s blades synchronised with the beat, letters on the buildings foreshadowing the simulation, breaking the glass with a wrench..

[@ABIADAB]

bioshock infinite to me is still the best intro sequence

[@AvatarSnake]

The best part of this game is the part all the way back a few years ago when we learned that Bethesda trademarked "Redfall" and everyone assumed that was going to be the subtitle of Elder Scrolls 6. We never reached that peak of hype or quality again....

[@samreddig8819]

Watch as that's the case and this is a cheaply shat out distraction.

[@Nico78Not]

@L.M.L Could have been associated with a Redguard centered region and storyline at that I feel

[@matthewroman5520]

I recently picked up my first ever Arkane Studios game, Dishonored. What an absolutely marvelous game. I cannot believe the SAME studio made this.

[@arutzuki2491]

The Dishonored series was developed by Arkane Studios Lyon. Redfall was made by Arkane Studios Austin.

[@HelloKolla]

​​​​@@arutzuki2491 you're sorta right. D1 was co-deved by both Austin and Lyon, D2 and Deathloop was made by Lyon, and Prey and Redfall were done by Austin. The actual 'X factor' that was behind all of Arkane's hits was director and co-founder Raphael Colantonio. He directed D1, which is a classic, but not D2, which is not as good. He then directed Prey, literally one of the greatest games ever made, and left Arkane. And every game after his departure proceeded to be bad in some way. Make of that what you will.

[@gatorarman12]

@@HelloKolla Exactly. Video game, like movie development is a team sport. But having a directorial vision is hugely important.

[@arutzuki2491]

@@HelloKolla Oh, you're right. I prefer D2 to the first game tbh. The level design is fantastic.

[@josephgarfield3363]

Highly recommend PREY as well.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

My perfect example of how an immersive sim works: You have to cross a river, over the river spans a bridge, but there are three orcs that want a toll. - You can fight them - You can simply pay them - You can use your strong physique to intimidate them - You can use your charisma to convince them to let you pass - You can use your bartering skills to lower the toll - You can use your crafting and engineering skills to build a raft to cross the river - You can use your magic to put them to sleep - You can wait for night and sneak past them - You can use the fact that you helped their chief last week and they let you pass because you are a friend of their tribe - You can use alcohol to get them drunk - You can use bardic music to charm them - You can use your superhuman endurance and just swim over - You can jump over the river - You can use frost magic to freeze the river and walk over the ice - You can show them a writ from the king that you are on a super important quest, and they let you pass, because the goal of that quest is in their best interest The challenge is not "defeat the orcs to cross the river" The challenge is "find a way to cross the river"

[@electric.fishin.mk1]

That’s a good way of putting it. You might make a better game than most AAA games

[@pafunciobatista8244]

You pretty much just described baldurs gate 3, which isnt even an immersive sim, and now arcane just got gutted

[@mcbill7352]

Arkane never managed to put this amount of choice into their games lmao

[@eleanorgreywolfe5142]

I like how Arkane is known for immersive games and then they make this game where you get a film reel, and when you bring it to the cinema to view it, it's a slideshow like the rest of the games "cutscenes" truly immersive.

[@nootmcscairy]

I was LMAO and Crying at same time

[@Ryan-nm8pw]

The entire time I was thinking about how in Prey 2016 you had all the "looking glass" animations that weren't just animated video, they were these elaborate 3d illusions designed to look like mirrors. It's sickening how a game made by Arkane seven years ago outclasses Redfall in every single way imaginable.

[@WiteXRan]

The main guy of Arkane that contributed to all of their games have left after Prey. There is more to this story, but in a nutshell Arkane hasn't made single immersive game (or imho good game) after he left.

[@Jesse__H]

We're definitely going to get an exposé on the development of this game at some point. I can only imagine how many talented developers are just aching to anonymously explain wtf happened with this train wreck.

[@marksu0616]

Probably just Arkane trying to piece together something that could be more mainstream. Nothing about this game says Arkane. Prey and dishonored are excellent but they didn’t sell that much.

[@Lumineszenz]

I'm gonna cut it short for you: Dipshit CEO tells studio with no experience in making multiplayer shooters to make a multiplayer shooter because he was bitten by the recurring monetisation bug. Project has no coherent vision, no unique ideas, devs slog through years of an exhausting development process full of overtime and crunch, senior staff leave the studio because they just can't take this shit show anymore, project is an utterly broken mess 5 years into development so management pulls the plug and tells the studio to shit it onto the market in it's current state. Studio has most of it's staff laid off and is relegated to aid other studios under the publisher, then gets dissolved entirely while the braindead cunt who drove it all into the ground grants himself another 10 million dollar bonus for all the hard work he did this year - granted that last part is a prediction of mine but c'mon, how many times before have you heard that story? You know it'll happen.

[@kneelb4chevelle]

I said this exact same thing to my brother. Give it a few months.

[@malazan6004]

@@marksu0616 I have a gut feeling MS was gently shoving them in that mainstream direction

[@rosecity_chris]

It definitely reeks of out of touch suits forcing devs to make the game they think will make them the most money.

[@keeparguing611]

"if a developer can't be bothered to finish their game then why should i" damn thats a good one

[@TsunamiWombat]

It should honestly be applied to many more reviews when people 'call out' reviewers for not finishing or rushing through the product. Sometimes it is just genuine lack of craft, but sometimes it's blatant slop being dropped on their plate

[@NeutralGuyDoubleZero]

Hearing someone so quickly shut down the "we have a high bar of quality and our roadmap will get redfall th- no no stop" was so perfect and succinct. Your honesty is appreciated as always

[@aaronlord5066]

I downloaded redfall last night and played for about 3 hours. Got all my abilities unlocked, did a couple missions, roamed around the map, and unlocked fast travel points. The whole time I was playing with its clunky ahh gunplay and less than desirable world design all I kept thinking was “man skill up’s review is gonna be a doozy”.

[@davidbondy2250]

Man, watching this review is making me want to go back and play Prey. That game was so amazing. It wasn't a financial success, it was niche, but it was an absolute masterpiece crafted with so much care and detail. It's such a shame that six years later, that same studio has put out this.

[@d_ruggs]

same

[@rawallon]

That's the thing, right? A company can only keep existing as long as it is profitable, (before redfall) they released a couple of barely profitable games, they did the logical move of "make thing that has proven is profitable", except video game market doesnt quite work like that. Also, one thing I completely forgot was that this game was suposed to be released last year and they delayed it.

[@MortiefiedBear]

It makes me want to play Dishonored

[@anaguma90]

Prey had been on my backlog for ages, finally dusted it off and played it earlier this year. It was incredible, can't believe more people don't hype it up.

[@kostasbousbouras2654]

Are they still the same studio though?...

[@BaseStation]

So many reviewers will just say this game sucks and list 20 things about the game that are disappointing. And I wonder if this reviewer maybe just doesn't get it… But Ralph spells it out element by element showing everything element by element. There's no room left for doubt. You're awesome, Ralph.

[@argel1200]

Ralph really puts a lot of work into these reviews (scripting them). It's why he's one of the top reviewers out there. My first go to for reviews.

[@thebodykeepsthescore2828]

How sore is your throat now?😂

[@LotsChrono]

@@thebodykeepsthescore2828 He’s “d*ck riding” just because he’s saying he likes the way Skill Up formats his reviews over other reviewers? Odd take but alright.

[@Tim-ZX6R]

I totally agree! I also watched a comparison video with Redfall vs Perfect Dark (original) - Perfect Dark was so much more detailed. Truly embarrassing when this is apparently AAA on the most powerful console in the world!

[@joshwhite557]

Just speaking on the bird ability alone because its such a huge oversight out of a 1000 but they literally could have just made the bird only attack enemies if the enemy gets alerted. Such a simple solution to a problem that allows you to continue using your bird and remain in stealth until you get caught or whatever.

[@jayleno2192]

I can't wait to hear the story of how this disaster happened. My bet is that it was similar to Anthem, where despite being in development for ages the game was actually thrown together in a year.

[@CorvoFG]

This is what happenes when youre shotgun married to a studio that is the master at buggy half-assery.

[@nailinthefashion]

Anthem is still my most fabourite game mechanically lol. Personalized Iron Man Co op game = my ideal so armored core 6 will be aight It's sad cuz the people at Bioware at the time were just as passionate as anyone but then deadlines and profit took priority. Redfall looked sssoooooo interesting especially the girl who's friends with her ex

[@damienlee1165]

Should call the game breadfall cause their bread levels gonna fall. This games trash.

[@weaverquest]

The amount of marketing Redfall got in relation to what the game ended up being is truly ridiculous. Just to put it in perspective how ridiculous it is, Redfall got a physical release as an online only unfinished mess of a game, full single player well polished experience Hi-Fi Rush did not.

[@wolfkane1986]

Anthem is better then this shit

[@Endymion429]

Legend says skill up put more time into making this video than Arkane did on their whole game

[@tigerlike7472]

You firing your weapon when you hadn't seen an enemy in awhile was literally me on the way to mission. I couldn't believe it. Like...I just don't quite understand why the humans can't get off this island when there doesn't seem to be any enemies anywhere aside from object markers.

[@tigerlike7472]

Also, as someone who used to test for Xbox, yeah. They do not care. I mean, I was there 5 years ago, but there were so many CFRs that I personally submitted that did not get fixed until after launch. So, unlike a lot of people, I was concerned when Xbox purchased Bethesda. What little (if any) quality control was going on at ZeniMax was about to get wayyyyyyy more lax during the QA and Cert process with Microsoft at the helm.

[@zHawkC]

​@@tigerlike7472I met someone from Bethesda who was weirdly grumpy with me when I talked about games. They mentioned an oblivion remake/remaster and when I got excited (Oblivion, despite its flaws is one of my favourite games) they were really dismissive. Basically came down to well it would go on gamepass, it won't make much money and so it's not going to be made. It wasn't until this review I put 2+2 together, is gamepass actively hindering game development on Xbox? If the Devs know it's going on gamepass maybe they have the same attitude the person I met did and it filters through the entire game. Why fix bugs or improve gameplay, it's on gamepass anyway so won't make them enough $$$. Sad attitude to have and worrying for the future of Xbox exclusives.

[@tigerlike7472]

@@zHawkC I don't know if it's Gamepass necessarily, but there's definitely a ton of apathy over in that camp. When I used to live on the east coast I would often and regularly run into devs and people who worked for Bethesda and Firaxis. I remember when Dishonored came out I happened to run into a group of people at Target who were picking up Funko Pops of Corvo. We talked excitedly about the upcoming release of Dishonored and how cool it looked, etc etc. Turns out that group worked for Arkhaine and it was so cool seeing devs that were just as excited for release as I was! Fast forward a decade later, I'm working for Xbox, and all the other FTEs and leads that I talk to are just...worn out. Heck, I became one of those worn out leads. Killed any passion I had for game development, that's for sure.

[@luscinius2933]

@@tigerlike7472 Quality control at ZeniMax? You do remember that Bethesda's games were memed as buggy mess since Oblivion (maybe even earlier, my memories of Morrowind are quite foggy)? Hell, I remember a few bugs that carried from Oblivion all through to the latest Skyrim whatever edition. Even though those bugs were fixed multiple times by unofficial patches.

[@zozihn8047]

A great example was the paintbrush glitch. I'm pretty sure the final verdict from Bethesda in regards to Oblivion was "we don't know why it's happening, oh well".

[@wolfgangspiper]

I actually wouldn't mind the long stretches of walking around with no enemies, if it had more life in general to take in. Just atmospheric stuff.

[@sayantanchatterjee3626]

this comment aged well actually, Alan Wake 2 was one of those games and it's incredibly immersive

[@Jane-qh2yd]

Stories told through writing and audio is not a bad thing. Take Arkham Asylum for example. The audio logs are some of the best parts of that game. However, it should COMPLIMENT traditional storytelling, NOT replace it

[@ignispurgatorius5297]

Agreed, It can be an immersive way to unravel a mystery, but it needs to be used in a concise manner, not as a replacement for the whole story. Truly sad to see how arkane has fallen, I was hoping to see the next deus ex from them, instead we seem to have gotten a worse dead island.. :(

[@captaincrunch1707]

Or much of Borderlands(1,2tps) had excellent narrative delivered via audio logs. I prefer gameplay over fancy cutscenes personally. Just sucks the gameplay isn’t good here atm

[@aureateseigneur5317]

Well actually it can, games like Bioshock, System Shock, Fromsofts general story telling style, these are all untraditional methods of story telling that have been very effective. It just has to actually be compelling enough to support that narrative style.

[@michaelmillar7315]

As an Australian I'm surprised you didn't mention the insane $120 base game price tag on Steam, which is the equivalent of $80 US. What were they thinking? I made a thread in the Redfall discussions and a Canadian commented and said it's $130 over there which is $94 US.

[@systemrecords9708]

Yeah seriously, it's another giant slap in the face with this game. They want to punish the very people stupid or foolish enough to purchase this dumpster fire of a game. What on God's green earth were they thinking? Let's make an absolute shit game, and try to recoup our money by charging an insane price for it too. You have to be doubly stupid to buy this game, and the game deff shows your stupidity to you.

[@Shaderox]

It's 70 here in Japan too, and because i looked up the prices, i noticed how weird the deluxe edition is too, since then the cost goes up to 100 but all it gives is a few skins and a season pass A bit pricy but kinda normal for todays AAA games... but here's the kicker, the season pass isn't actually a collection of upcoming story or big content DLCs or anything like they normally are, just 2 characters.

[@MinosML]

Not a problem for reviewers who get free copies every time 💀

[@aflyingcowboy31]

@@Shaderox yea I just looked it up as well as I wasn't believing what the OP said, I also live in Australia and the base redfall game is $120 with the deluxe edition costing $164, that isn't normal, that means the base price of redfall costs the same amount as STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor deluxe edition, with the base game for Star Wars costing $100 aud.

[@Dan016]

@@Shaderoxthis “game”….has a season pass??? HAHAHAHAHA *inhales* AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[@nachobear5100]

Hi publishers who are making these 70$ games. Keep it up you're really showing the kind of quality we can expect of these new games.

[@Zanbatoss]

Beta test our games with a low price of $70 😂

[@yeppumm1192]

No one’s gonna buy it it’s on game pass

[@cowel8734]

It's brutal right now. Even when a great game is made, people will heavily trash it, and then, with all the crappy, buggy games, they get it even harder. We not only need to stop taking their crap, we should also give extra support for stuff we love as many people are unpleasable/miserable.

[@akmal94ibrahim]

​@@ZanbatossOr get the finished game with DLCs for $5 a year later. I know which deal I'd choose.

[@bipolarexpress9827]

Sure thing. You keep buying them, they’ll keep making them.

[@quentonlyles619]

Here after the death of Arkane. Even as bad as Redfall was, it still doesn't feel like the studios only dud should've ended them like this.

[@powwowken2760]

This is "one of those" right? A game where the developers were told, "You have to make this first and only then will we greenlight the stuff you actually WANT to make".

[@seef4966]

And now that it didn't do well they probably won't get as much creative freedom. Huzzah!

[@CatalepticHunter]

Yeah nah... Youngblood wasn't exactly top shelf material either, and Deathloop was supposed to be 'that game'. This is Arkane's third attempt at a AAA release. They're stumbling badly.

[@ihatevnecks7015]

Nah I think this is all on Arkane.

[@xTheCrispyNinjax]

Arkane have shown they can make excellent video games in the past. Bethesda are historically a difficult publisher to work under, this is most likely their fault.

[@kellz9972]

That was actually Deathloop. Deathloop was their "keep busy" game and Redfall was the "big" game.

[@speedracer2please]

This is so sad, but it makes for your funniest review yet. The barebones titles and delivery of them really make me appreciate how much more effort you guys put into these reviews than some developers do

[@paulelliott3056]

“I discovered another anti-vampire technique which I like to call….chair” could be one of the best video game review lines of all time 😂

[@MichaelDoesLife]

We love being toxic about video gamez!

[@qinlongfei]

Turns out you didn't need a super powered teenage girl to kill vampires. All anyone ever needed was the ability to walk backwards slightly to the left, and a single chair.

[@Bassboi0609]

‘Stop me if you can’ really added to it too 😂

[@channingtaintum]

@@MichaelDoesLife It's not "toxic" to give criticism about a poor product that you're charging $70 for.

[@likebubba]

29:01 thank me later- peek a boo 😂

[@ashu21]

What a sad end to an incredible streak by Arkane Austin. Thank you for Dishonoured, and Prey. You will be missed

[@thomadan000]

This is why I love your reviews. Not only do you talk about the game itself, but you touch on the meta narrative, and what the game you’re reviewing means for the industry.

[@whitelotuschief9321]

i love how absolutely fatigued everyone is by the video game industry B.S. right now. you can totally hear in Shill's voice and the presentation style. this is my favorite review that you've done and i never had any intention of checking Redfall out because it looked totally stupid from the moment i saw it.

[@moeses__4256]

It’s like all games release incomplete now or in a terrible state

[@KetsalEynon]

My brother and I spent last night playing this on co-op. Game crashed about every hour, soft-locked twice, and 80% of the time was searching for the altars to place those underboss skulls. We cleared three districts before finishing the first mission and fought maybe 50 enemies total.

[@chillhour6155]

Hope you got you're money back

[@KetsalEynon]

@@chillhour6155 thankfully, we played on gamepass. No harm, no foul... except for the hours I'll never get back XD

[@theharvestfloor1]

Deathloop was garbage too, not sure why people say otherwise.

[@panchri]

"Walking backwards and to the left slightly": Another one to add on the long list of vampire weaknesses.

[@judgedrekk2981]

I just wanna stake a blood bag.....even if he's like oohh eeeh aaahhh oohh oohhh eeeh ahhh in a hallway for 5 minutes LMFAO gods one of the best bits Paul Rubens ever did lolz [Buffy the Vampire Slayer the movie]

[@neil1982]

sometimes a game needs to be the sacrificial lamb for positive change in the industry, seeing as I had no interest in redfall anyway, i'm more than happy for this to be it this year.

[@tchanthaphaeng]

This is oddly my favorite review you’ve done. I honestly didn’t want it to end just imagining your silent reactions to the disappointing gameplay.

[@lip4973]

You should watch skill upp fallout 76 review. Same type of energy

[@sosukelele]

​@@lip4973 to be fair, most people's reaction to 76 were disappointment or shock

[@Indomitus_X]

It’s scary when you can tell he doesn’t just dislike a game, he HATES it. Especially when there was some potential there that was completely wasted

[@bradypierce7564]

It is often said that comedy is tragedy plus time. With that in mind, this is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. Presentation and editing definitely helped push it further

[@kingswirly]

Unparalleled restraint skillup shows here, able to hold off destiny references for nearly 2 minutes. This may be a personal record.

[@perfectpotato_eu4129]

I'd really like to know who is to blame for this mess. It does so many things wrong on so many levels. Simply unbelievable.

[@roberthesser6402]

@@MoistDampRat how bad is it?

[@JeroenvanSteijn]

@@MoistDampRat Can you post a link?

[@PhaRoaH87]

I'm no expert, but I'm guessing the Developers are to blame for it 😅

[@chapstikc]

Arkane was better before Microsoft. Could be the differance.

[@MoistDampRat]

@@sirjazz1268 Nope. The devs have made no comment. They barely talk about games at all. It's all politics.

[@lunanacomet]

Watching the film reel section, having played both Dishonored games, after the promising open-door-by-climbing-through-hole part which is just classic Arkane, I expected enemies to spawn in endlessly as you fight your way through to the film room, then have to go fetch a bulb, but the enemies are gone, some are in the basement and some slowly fill in the film room that you've just left from, pondering this magnificent tool as if some parts of their humanity is still there. Then reality hit XD

[@kanon951]

When news got released that this game was only 30 FPS, I knew things were bad but I didn't imagine THIS bad.

[@stevenesbitt3528]

If only frame rate was even in the top 100 issues….

[@MisterMayhem108]

Legitimately the funniest review I’ve seen in years. It’s a shame. I love Arkane; and hopefully they can learn from whatever went so wrong here.

[@Ashtarte3D]

At the start of this video I was like "wow, this is really low effort Ralph," but then as I continued on and saw how little effort clearly went into this game, I respect the choice to not put effort into the video. Well played.

[@TheMordgan]

That's where you're wrong kiddo. Ralph put a lot of effort to look like he didn't put any effort. Mastermind play. hahah.,