We found out why 'Redfall' sucked so bad...

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Luke Stephens

Luke Stephens

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@LukeStephensTV
@LukeStephensTV Жыл бұрын
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@Punisher_the_bot
@Punisher_the_bot Жыл бұрын
Wow! 70% of the staff left. That’s a bad sign. The saddest part is that online games get pulled of the servers within 8-10 yes. So we pay for a game that we will never have.
@CrimsonScar-1
@CrimsonScar-1 Жыл бұрын
What’s your take on LOTR:Gollum and Forspoken? With the news article you shared, it seems like they’ve both had some similar issues to Redfall. I’d love to see a video on your perspective of these, and the elephant in the room. The Day Before, as well. Greed is killing gaming.
@fba90130
@fba90130 Жыл бұрын
The question, of course, is why would companies acquiring developers not do due diligence before making their purchase? It is understood that companies seeking to be bought out will do varying amounts of window dressing. But as a buyer, it is your duty to your shareholders to make sure that the window dressing doesn't come at the cost of brand destructive behaviour. Either the purchasing company has no business valuing and purchasing game development companies or they're only interested in buying out competition so that they can make even shittier games to sell at higher prices.
@danielcalabrese5769
@danielcalabrese5769 Жыл бұрын
Talent retention the opposite to talent loss is a massive part of the reason why supergiant has always made top quality games even when the mechanics in each of them may change drastically.
@danielcalabrese5769
@danielcalabrese5769 Жыл бұрын
Honestly your explanation about boost numbers for a big pay day makes sense and I think most people in their position would do the same because why would they care about anything else other than their own families and setting themselves up to never work another day including their kids. By doing what they did all that happens is some bad games are made and companies that they no longer have anything to do with suffer. As long as no one was getting hurt or dying then why not cash out? As a gamer and a fan of arkane especially it sucks and I hate seeing this but my life isn't in danger and my life won't change a bit so while I wish none of this happened in the first place we have to expect this kind of behaviour in a society and system that places massive profits over anything else.
@rouhollahseyfi
@rouhollahseyfi Жыл бұрын
The fact that 70% of devs working on Prey would not be in the company anymore, because of a single shitty game, sends shivers down my spine. That’s devastating. We might not see anything like Dishonored or Prey for a long time because of this.
@DubberRucks
@DubberRucks Жыл бұрын
I bet we will. Out of sheer corporate greed to milk a franchise. So they'll be a vast shadow of their former selves.
@ghostlegit
@ghostlegit Жыл бұрын
70 percent devs information is cap. It was made by Jason who hates xbox.
@rosecity_chris
@rosecity_chris Жыл бұрын
Feels like the same thing that has happened at Rockstar over the years, and im sure a lot of other studios.
@Krondon-SSR
@Krondon-SSR Жыл бұрын
Well austin made Prey not Dishonored
@JustSkram
@JustSkram Жыл бұрын
​@@DubberRucks Neither dishonored 2 nor prey sold well (mainly due to betheada putting no marketing behind them) so no, they won't be milked
@KamiKai
@KamiKai Жыл бұрын
It's always the corporate idiots thinking they're the smartest in the room, and ruining it for the rest of us.
@Heisen_burger-dude
@Heisen_burger-dude Жыл бұрын
They dont think we are dumb, they know allot of us are predictable. They know gamers complain and then buy the game anyways. In case of redfall, even the head of the developer knew its not gonna work. Thats why they released the game, to get rid of the bad game all along to work on something else. They tried at the end to make as much money as possible
@hazelcrisp
@hazelcrisp Жыл бұрын
@@Heisen_burger-dude Feels similar to the Gollum game. If I was a dev I wouldn't want to work on these games either. I hope these devs are able to move on to something better
@URLforme
@URLforme Жыл бұрын
They're almost all older than us by like 10-15 years
@DubberRucks
@DubberRucks Жыл бұрын
​@@URLforme In years maybe but clearly not intellect lol
@socratese5
@socratese5 Жыл бұрын
They just don’t really care about anything but making money, and that mindset gets greatly rewarded in the industry unfortunately but it’s funny that they ignore the advice from the creatives who’s actual job it is to know if the game is good or not.
@FadedXLoCk
@FadedXLoCk Жыл бұрын
Valve is not a perfect company, but they are a great example of how really deep internal play testing with honest feedback matters to the overall vibe of the game
@ronthorn3
@ronthorn3 Жыл бұрын
Yeah when they decide to make a game very 10 years lol.
@mateoreyes6921
@mateoreyes6921 Жыл бұрын
​@@ronthorn3 Better that making a game for year with no new things
@gstellar96
@gstellar96 Жыл бұрын
​​@@ronthorn3d rather a game every decade that's a banger then a mid-bad one every 3
@1vaultdweller
@1vaultdweller Жыл бұрын
​@@gstellar96Id rather have 3 great games instead of 333 mediocre games
@Lilbee730
@Lilbee730 Жыл бұрын
​@@ronthorn3I'd rather one game of that level of quality every 10 years than pushing out cash grabs every 2 personally. That, and Valve gets to have their cake and eat it. CSGO and TF2 monetisation is HUGE and nobody really complains about it. Hell, CSGO still has straight up loot boxes, but CSGO is such a well made, beloved game that it gets a pass. Kinda telling, right? If a game is genuinely excellent, people will not only forgive lootboxes and excessive monetization, but buy into it and like it. The problem for people is that the mtx comes at the expense of the quality of the games.
@kritikalgamer
@kritikalgamer Жыл бұрын
The devs for Prey also came out later and mentioned that Prey was not the original title of the game and a corporate decision made them change it to Prey. Which of course led to some gamers being like, "this is not prey" and not want to buy it.
@Kintabl
@Kintabl Жыл бұрын
No shit! The prey game has nothing to do with a original prey.
@kritikalgamer
@kritikalgamer Жыл бұрын
@Jernej Blatnik Yes, I just mentioned another fact that the devs didn't like. I have no clue why you are getting mad.
@Soulache
@Soulache Жыл бұрын
I was just going to say that. The upper ups always find a way to f*ck with the project and when it goes wrong, the first thing they blame is the studio/devs.
@endlesstrash4718
@endlesstrash4718 Жыл бұрын
​@@kritikalgamerThe second sentence reads like you are calling out the gamers saying "this is not prey". If you had written something like "No shit they are gonna say it's not prey" or "They were absolutely justified in saying it's not prey" it wouldn't read like a callout.
@kritikalgamer
@kritikalgamer Жыл бұрын
@EndlessTrash It isn't. I explained the Devs reason & and then gamers. If gamers are gonna make that assumption, that's on them, not me.
@bishbosh4815
@bishbosh4815 Жыл бұрын
"Gaming as a service" is the death of real gaming
@CubanB1978
@CubanB1978 Жыл бұрын
Destiny 2 is a service game. Every game should not strive to follow that model. Just be the best EXPERIENCE that you can be.
@ZarChasmOfficial
@ZarChasmOfficial Жыл бұрын
​@@CubanB1978 There are definitely worse models than that. I was so hyped for Anthem, and we all know how that turned out.
@Redappolyon87
@Redappolyon87 Жыл бұрын
They are attempting to do the same thing with features in cars. BMW is leading the charge and i have heard Ford is looking into doing this with the Electric F150 and the Mach E.
@DonXardas
@DonXardas Жыл бұрын
@@HennyVenny It is not a problem of capitalism. It is the problem of stupid people. If life service games were not profitable, no studio would develop them. But because there are enough money cows/whales who are willing to pay in games like Fortnite, Diablo Immortal and similar crap, studios decide to do that. But hey, this is nothing new. Star Wars Episode 9 managed to make over a billion while being a steaming pile of garbage. And even after that people were waiting for new Star Wars movies/series wiling to pay for even more of the same.
@Lukas_Seidl_1
@Lukas_Seidl_1 Жыл бұрын
@@Redappolyon87That‘s the reason why I won‘t buy a BMW again, I don‘t want what‘s essentially DLC for my car.
@DogKacique
@DogKacique Жыл бұрын
Redfall managed to have the problems of Anthem (intense intervention by execs leading devs not knowing what the game even was), Babylon Fall (a single player studio being forced to make something outside their skillset) and Battlefield (massive exodus of employees) at the same time, it's almost impressive how bad management was
@GaryMood10
@GaryMood10 Жыл бұрын
343 industries
@bearerofbadnews1375
@bearerofbadnews1375 Жыл бұрын
It’s all those problems rolled into one abomination of a video game that costs 70 dollars plus tax fucking hell man.
@018FLP
@018FLP Жыл бұрын
Corporate Fail Speedrun Any%
@hugotarga
@hugotarga Жыл бұрын
Execs didn't intervene with Anthem's concept, the devs were stuck for years thinking what the game should be and not making any progress, until it came to a point of EA financing the non-existent development for countless years and having to release a cobbled together game in less than 2 years, in this case it was actually Bioware's Anthem team's fault mostly
@tHeWasTeDYouTh
@tHeWasTeDYouTh Жыл бұрын
one thing you got wrong. Platinum Games was the one that wanted to make a live service game. Even though it failed Platinum themselves said they are going to try and keep making live service games. that is insane
@FlobsterforLobster
@FlobsterforLobster Жыл бұрын
I didn’t realize Dishonored 2 and Prey where financial flops. Both of those games are just phenomenal. And hearing how Arkane got fucked over hard is heartbreaking. Hopefully they get a chance to make another immersive sim on the scale of Dishonored and Prey.
@Blackemperess
@Blackemperess Жыл бұрын
I remember people throwing tantrums because the Prey remake wasn't exactly like the original. Seemed rather childish when the remake was pretty damn good.
@sagephil
@sagephil Жыл бұрын
Prey had zero to awful marketing.
@unfortunately_fortunate2000
@unfortunately_fortunate2000 Жыл бұрын
they almost certainly wont, it'll be a slow, painful death for Arkane where they are forced to make games that they never intended to.
@doltBmB
@doltBmB Жыл бұрын
@@Blackemperess Naw, waiting for a sequel for years and then reacting to getting shit in your mouth isn't childish, it's normal. It's the sycophants defending bethesda's horrible practices that are childish.
@Kijinn
@Kijinn Жыл бұрын
Sad truth is that a significant number (if not all?) of the important people who worked at Arkane have left. Including the studio's founder Raphaël Colantonio. Not a great chance we'll ever see another good immersive sim from them. Also because I doubt that Bethesda will ever fund another IS.
@strikeforce1500
@strikeforce1500 Жыл бұрын
I imagine the feeling of 'hating what we are building' is more common nowadays inside developer studious. Especially with so many news of Publisher's having piles and piles of abusive leadership in every possible way
@Icetea-2000
@Icetea-2000 Жыл бұрын
"Abusive" is pretty disingenious, suggesting that they forced them to make this game exactly how it is. They made that terrible game bad themselves. Sure, maybe you were provided faulty train tracks with cracks and all but you didn't have to lay the tracks in front of a cliff.
@WokioWolfy
@WokioWolfy Жыл бұрын
@@Icetea-2000 i've been noticing that most of the issues with AAA videogames nowadays have been caused by the big shots at the top demanding what to do to the game the devs are making, causing the entire thing to break down like a skyscraper build with rly faulty support beams.
@Icetea-2000
@Icetea-2000 Жыл бұрын
@@WokioWolfy But is that actually true or is it just your feeling? It’s easy to say that because they’re at the forefront of the project and and take responsibility for it with leadership they ruin AAA games, but is it that easy? I think what it really is is the changing societal landscape in general, the decisions made by companies, on all managerial levels from top to bottom, are a result of the changing environment they find themselves in
@mrshadowduh9394
@mrshadowduh9394 Жыл бұрын
@@Icetea-2000 Certainly plays a role sure, but just about everything you hear regarding completely dumbshit decisions that baffle everyone its always the fault of upper management, like the recent cancelation of Overwatch 2s PvE mode.
@Icetea-2000
@Icetea-2000 Жыл бұрын
@@mrshadowduh9394 Do we know that? Yeah they announce it, because that’s their job, but do we know that it wasn’t some developer teams being too incompetent or the middle management team leaders being too incompetent? Idk
@NostalgiaNet8
@NostalgiaNet8 Жыл бұрын
This definitely explains Wolfenstein Young Blood, Fallout 76, and Redfall.
@Hawk7886
@Hawk7886 Жыл бұрын
Fallout 76 was Todd being Todd. The sad part is how many people are still going to pre-order Starfield. "It just works!"
@prezzeruk4054
@prezzeruk4054 Жыл бұрын
As soon as todd said 16 times the detail, i got worried!! I mean u just dont set such high expectations!! 3 times the detail is more believable, 4 times 5 times is a more manageable amount to imagine. 16 times is just laughable and it turns out it was laughable.
@TheMrComentarista
@TheMrComentarista Жыл бұрын
What's wrong with young blood?
@nickremer6142
@nickremer6142 Жыл бұрын
​@@TheMrComentaristaIts full of microtransactions and hella cringe in its writing
@TheMrComentarista
@TheMrComentarista Жыл бұрын
@@nickremer6142 I played it and the writing do be shit but I didn't even notice microtransactions, I feel like if you someone play the game without even noticing it's not that big of a deal
@williamcrms
@williamcrms Жыл бұрын
Seems like Arkane itself has lost it’s identity with 70% of the Prey devs leaving. Hard to see how a company can come back to greatness with that sort of loss. This seems to happen with lots of studios (DICE, Bioware come to mind) and they never really recover.
@Krondon-SSR
@Krondon-SSR Жыл бұрын
Austin made Prey Lyon made Dishonored
@Jim26D
@Jim26D Жыл бұрын
Death loop was terrible. I knew they lost the way once I started playing it
@zcrawford81
@zcrawford81 Жыл бұрын
@@Jim26D same company, different studio.
@Sumunuhriginal
@Sumunuhriginal Жыл бұрын
@@Jim26D definitely not terrible. Not Arkanes best work but to call it terrible is crazy. So many worse games have been released
@Jim26D
@Jim26D Жыл бұрын
@@Sumunuhriginal yes many worse games out there but coming from their past games it was really a let down. It just wasn't fun and should have taken a lot from prey moon crash for how the time loop could have worked. The ai was really bad as well.
@Sammo212
@Sammo212 Жыл бұрын
I just have to admit that Arkane doesn't exist anymore outside of name only...this is the case for so many developers these days including Bungie.
@EmergencyChannel
@EmergencyChannel Жыл бұрын
Most of the studios we love have bleed talent because of mismanagement, so they become empty shells with names only used to make profit off nostalgia.
@Fazeshyft
@Fazeshyft Жыл бұрын
So goes the flow of time. Giants fall and new saplings sprout from their fallen seeds.
@sultanmahfries6402
@sultanmahfries6402 Жыл бұрын
@@Fazeshyft lets hope the new saplings grow to great big trees... it will take a lot of time but im hopeful
@Fazeshyft
@Fazeshyft Жыл бұрын
@@sultanmahfries6402 There's always hope because new seeds always sprout.
@GoodfellasX21
@GoodfellasX21 Жыл бұрын
Bioware and Bethesda, along with Bungie. Sad to say. At one point, these were my 3 favorite developers.
@dictater_tots
@dictater_tots Жыл бұрын
The only point i disagree on is publicly traded companies being less likely to engage in harmful monetization because their goal is to maximize shareholder wealth. To me, that makes it even more likely that they would start an exploitative live service money printing machine because shareholders don't necessarily care to make less today so they can make more 5-10 years from now. Its a constant pusher of unsustainable limitless growth OR ELSE and results in some of the worst customer and game developer experiences in the video game industry.
@wilczus222
@wilczus222 Жыл бұрын
You are correct, this is what happened with Duolingo!
@shmel3689
@shmel3689 Жыл бұрын
This is what happened with world economy, lol. Closing subdivisions (profitable ones!) for tax cuts, firing employees to maximize profits... Just so investors at the top would be happy even if it doesn't make sense and ruins lives
@yellowscarlightningscream8347
@yellowscarlightningscream8347 Жыл бұрын
The problem of greedy managers exists throughout the IT Industry. Every IT company whether a simple dev shop or game studio has managers who are not passionate about their work at all and just wants to maximize their bottom line.
@DubberRucks
@DubberRucks Жыл бұрын
Let's be fair. It doesn't just stop at IT. Every sector has its dark and dingy ivory towers
@yellowscarlightningscream8347
@yellowscarlightningscream8347 Жыл бұрын
@@DubberRucks yes I know but it is most obvious in the IT industry. In just one group meeting you can pretty much tell which manager is just there for a pay day and nothing else
@Macheako
@Macheako Жыл бұрын
@@DubberRucks it’s a just a LITTLE different with IT, but it does generally apply to “Technical Fields” You can be motivated by money or whatevs, but like, there’s really a “mountain of information” a person HAS to know in order to manage these depts. but big uppers keep hiring these guys who literally know fudging nothin about the technology they’re managing 😂 Actually, it DOES kinda happen in every field lol u right ❤
@themosin1852
@themosin1852 Жыл бұрын
Meat industry is like this as well. People who have never picked up a knife making rules up on how to cut.
@scottdove7358
@scottdove7358 Жыл бұрын
Let's be really fair. The worst is the healthcare and insurance industry
@TalkingRaven_
@TalkingRaven_ Жыл бұрын
Since Arkane is practically a dead body of a great studios reanimated by the souls of greed, I think we should support WolfEye studios, look them up, they made Weird West. The game shows it's "new studio" cracks but it's got an unwavering dedication to their creative direction and I hope to see more from the studio.
@VNdoug
@VNdoug Жыл бұрын
Weird West was a bit unfocused and had a mixture of great and awful parts, but I don't regret playing it. I'm looking forward to their next game
@Ploskkky
@Ploskkky Жыл бұрын
Arkane should have developed a single player vampire game like Bloodlines. I bet that would have been a fantastic success. All vampire lore lovers are waiting for a new Bloodlines-like game.
@howdoyoudo5949
@howdoyoudo5949 Жыл бұрын
Vampire the Masquerade is the only Bloodlines
@Ploskkky
@Ploskkky Жыл бұрын
@@howdoyoudo5949 It currently is. The point is.. I desperately want another game like that. I have played bloodlines at least 13 times, beginning to end. :) Just imagine what a game like Bloodlines could be like with current technology. Or imagine a free roaming open world rpg Bloodlines game. I would pay almost anything for that.
@Quothmorgan
@Quothmorgan Жыл бұрын
Good news is there is a Bloodlines 2 game supposedly releasing this year. Bad news is there isn't much news on it lately and no set release date
@Ploskkky
@Ploskkky Жыл бұрын
@@Quothmorgan The development of that game failed. It was halted last year. I am not sure where it is at right now. The fact that we have heard nothing new about it does not give me confidence.
@JewTube001
@JewTube001 Жыл бұрын
@@Quothmorgan There's no good news, only bad news. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has been out of development for multiple years. There's no game, no alpha build or anything. It's just a trailer and some teaser images. It might eventually come out like Duke Nukem Forever and Dead Island 3 but at the moment the release date is going to be years away.
@StayFractalesque
@StayFractalesque Жыл бұрын
When you got to that bit about "Arcane Magic" my jaw dropped.. i knew exactly what you were gonna say next, and its so incredible, you know its true.. cdpr magic.. bioware magic.. lmao, executives are so worthless, siphoning money away from the project to themselves, and they just blame the devs for their utter lack of everything necessary to create a good game.. its like you said man.. Evil.. i mean, what is there to say.. narcissists gonna narc?
@ariannanightingale4054
@ariannanightingale4054 Жыл бұрын
I think a couple of years from now the same "magic" sentence is going to be used for Rockstar. And that I will be excited to see
@GigiBranconi
@GigiBranconi 28 күн бұрын
That's not what narc means xD
@xslowdivex
@xslowdivex Жыл бұрын
Great video, Luke. Prey is such an incredible game. Nothing better than climbing up a wall with the Gloo gun. The exploration and the worldbuilding is second to none. I’ve noticed the game getting a lot of love online over the years. It’s definitely developed a cult following. It’s sad and unfortunate that when it comes to games like this that have a slow burn that spreads through word of mouth over time like Alien Isolation or Mad Max, corporate executives will rarely ever see pass those launch sales figures. How disappointing to see this studio go this route.
@novarat4089
@novarat4089 Жыл бұрын
god i love that mad max game, no one ever talks about it :(
@billywashere6965
@billywashere6965 Жыл бұрын
Deus Ex had far better world building, and the reality is that the gameplay wasn't anything special. People are fond of it because it's one of the few games they've played but not because it's a game that stands out or stands through the test of time. I agree that Alien Isolation and Mad Max were done a bit dirty on the marketing side, especially Mad Max, but to their credit that had unique enough gameplay to stand out and stand apart from the crowd, and hold up even to today's standards, especially Mad Max, which I wholly adore.
@mbaron4311
@mbaron4311 Жыл бұрын
@LTNetjak money in hand now is literally more valuable than future potential earnings.
@asscheeks3212
@asscheeks3212 Жыл бұрын
I love the game but I refuse to call it prey, I want to respect Arcanes original dream by calling it NeuroShock. Prey will always be Tommy's adventures back at 2006.
@brycedonelan1937
@brycedonelan1937 Жыл бұрын
​. I love that game Mad max I have played it 4 or 5 times and playing it for the first time on my Xbox Series X and I love it.
@OhNoTwisted
@OhNoTwisted Жыл бұрын
Minecraft. The purchase of Minecraft by Microsoft was the big driver in how it managed its game development studios, which let Arkane have enough rope to hang themself. Microsoft learned that by letting a studio be independent, it usually flourished. Mojang even uses open source in key areas more than Microsoft stack. But it also makes insane amounts of money/growth. After that success, Microsoft let off the reins on dev studios and allowed them to operate almost independently. They aren't even forced to use MS stacks (but I think Mojang was nudged off AWS to Azure...not sure) Concerned the RedFall fiasco might change that, but they also have successful studios flourishing under this approach.
@shmel3689
@shmel3689 Жыл бұрын
Arkane doesn't seem to be that big to leave large enough impression on microsoft with their failure. At least I hope so
@shmel3689
@shmel3689 Жыл бұрын
Like microsoft has much bigger fish to herd than arkane
@PhailRaptor
@PhailRaptor Жыл бұрын
There's a very delicate balance that must be achieved. You have to be involved enough in the project to ensure it is coming together smoothly and appropriately, but you have to stay far enough away to let it grow organically and "simmer" on it's own. The overwhelming majority of business management owner types are fundamentally incapable of achieving this, because they can only see things in terms of how many dollar signs are attached to it. They are completely oblivious to the fact a balance scale exists, nevermind what it means to be off the balance point on it.
@EvilTim1911
@EvilTim1911 Жыл бұрын
Few things make me more sad than Prey's bad sales. I adore the game, one of my favorite of all time.
@corruptjet6134
@corruptjet6134 Жыл бұрын
Nothing better then accidentally killing a quest npc because you had the "mind blast" ability bound while looking at them. 10/10 would fry a man's brain again.
@DubberRucks
@DubberRucks Жыл бұрын
​@@corruptjet6134 😂😮💥
@awesome3139
@awesome3139 Жыл бұрын
I loved the game, but I’ll never play it again. Got all the way to the final section of the game before I hit a game-breaker, and I was never able to finish. Sucked, because it was such a unique experience until then.
@EvilTim1911
@EvilTim1911 Жыл бұрын
@@awesome3139 That's a damn shame. I'd be lying if I said I didn't have some technical issues with it myself but then again I did put a couple hundred hours in the game and rarely were they game breaking.
@maxburrill6192
@maxburrill6192 Жыл бұрын
​@@awesome3139 what was the game-breaker?
@cheenuchari
@cheenuchari Жыл бұрын
Side note: My friend who was a Level Architect at Arkane Austin left around 2019. Also incidentally I noticed some of their devs like Level and Environment Designers and Artists left Arkane Austin for other studios like Retro Studios, Bluepoint Games, and Archetype Entertainment in Austin to name a few...
@zenksren8206
@zenksren8206 Жыл бұрын
I'm sure the guys who left for Retro totally don't regret being stuck working on Metroid Prime Forever assuming Retro still even exists
@chrisrook21
@chrisrook21 Жыл бұрын
This situation has me wondering if the Last of Us live service Multiplayer game was truly Naughty Dog’s vision or if Sony tried to force it on them like what happened to Arkane here
@bladelazoe
@bladelazoe Жыл бұрын
Considering Sony's current investment model leaning more toweards Live-Service/Games as a Service....It might be. All I think is Sony is doing very good, please don't get comfortable and fuck it up for the sake of greed. Just because you made legendary games doesn't meant you can't make shitty games.
@SinisterPlauges
@SinisterPlauges Жыл бұрын
@@bladelazoe GOW for sure is live service right? So is Horizon, Spiderman, and FF16, def live service game model games there.... smh
@scottdove7358
@scottdove7358 Жыл бұрын
I would say that's not the case. Actually probably quite the opposite since ND made factions 1 probably just was a much better version of that, but it wouldn't be great sticking power or much to monetize off of.
@wisdoom9153
@wisdoom9153 Жыл бұрын
​@@SinisterPlaugesyeah man, its almost like those games were made BEFORE Sony made the decision, crazy. Also, i heard their focus is shifted from 50:50 (single:multi), into 40:60; and the funnier thing is, out of (allegedly) 12 multi game, 2 is already in shambles...and naughty dog, on of their top dog, is also still in muddy water with their game. So yeah, thats that, I guess.
@bladelazoe
@bladelazoe Жыл бұрын
@@SinisterPlauges live service games are built on a foundation of nickel and dining the consumer and generally the quality is much lower. GOW is a single player driven experience, same with horizon, Spider-Man. They do have expansions with extra content but they don’t rely solely on the extra content. Halo infinite is a live service and look how that turned out. A game released in pieces and barely any content.
@silverheart7964
@silverheart7964 Жыл бұрын
Management (or lack of) seems to be the recurring theme with a lot of the major failures in recent times. The guys that did the level design on Gollum literally said (on video) that their managing director gave them "buzzwords" to go off of when designing the levels of the game. Very similar situation here,where the management were like "oh like Borderlands" or whatever. No clear direction and lack of identity, combined with tight deadlines and crunch is always going to be trouble. Just like in any walk of life, game developement is the same-everybody's manager is either incompetent or not very good to work for. Or both.
@ourlordandsavioredupes4102
@ourlordandsavioredupes4102 Жыл бұрын
Shame prey sold poorly. Such a great game
@asscheeks3212
@asscheeks3212 Жыл бұрын
It would have been a major success if it's just called NeuroShock just like the devs wanted. Fans of the cancel game Prey 2 felt like executives are dancing on their dead games grave, which did not help Arcane at all
@carlosortiz8764
@carlosortiz8764 Жыл бұрын
It's a great game, fucked over by terrible marketing
@daniell5740
@daniell5740 Жыл бұрын
Wasn't prey
@amberbaum4079
@amberbaum4079 Жыл бұрын
@@carlosortiz8764 Eh, that's not the only problem. It was an immersive sim. And immersive sims don't sell well, despite their complexity and creativity.
@martyfromnebraska1045
@martyfromnebraska1045 7 ай бұрын
​@@amberbaum4079 Dishonored sold well. I think Deus Ex HR did too. People like them when they know they exist.
@budthecyborg4575
@budthecyborg4575 Жыл бұрын
20:02 "If Zenimax had been publicly traded" They would have done this 10 years ago.
@Cofla0
@Cofla0 Жыл бұрын
It's almost like this is a industry problem. This kind of failure we keep seeing will never stop until the employees have actual power over the production of the games they make. Unionizing all of these companies is a must before any kind of change can be made.
@sukhoifockewulf
@sukhoifockewulf Жыл бұрын
Or, somehow convince the morons actually buying these games and buying loot boxes and skins to stop giving companies money for sub par games. Won't happen but whatever.
@cheenuchari
@cheenuchari Жыл бұрын
Prey is my most favorite game from Arkane. The intricate Metroidvania esque level design, the gloo cannon, environmental storytelling, and player choice. Such a criminally underrated title. Such a far cry from the utter dumpster fire of Redfall...
@elibrainless90
@elibrainless90 Жыл бұрын
My only complaint about prey is how boring the enemy designs are. I will always hate shadow monsters because its such a lazy simple design. Instead of somthing intimidating trying to kill you, you get a black fart cloud
@plugshirt1762
@plugshirt1762 Жыл бұрын
Yeah the fact that prey is talked about so little when it’s an utter masterpiece is such a shame. When games as amazing as prey flop and then propel question why devs only make soulless cash grabs the irony is just too funny
@Enzar17
@Enzar17 Жыл бұрын
This is the EXACT story I expected. You can't look at Redfall and think there's any level of joy or passion on display, or even a reason to get up in the morning. It's not just hollow, it's literally lifeless. Not a single dev actually wanted this game to exist. As soon as I realized that, I understood what had happened.
@ThisChannelIsAbandoned300
@ThisChannelIsAbandoned300 Жыл бұрын
At least we have games like Rdr2. Which has a world brimming with Life.
@fireboythestar3455
@fireboythestar3455 Жыл бұрын
​@@ThisChannelIsAbandoned300Lmao 💀
@GetAwesomeGaming
@GetAwesomeGaming Жыл бұрын
Honestly it's good to get this news but I suspected about 90% of this before the story ever came out. The only thing i think is that MS likely allowed this game to release knowing full well how bad it was (which means phil lied) and decided for GP sake it was going to come out anyways
@DubberRucks
@DubberRucks Жыл бұрын
Plus he could say "hey, it wasn't our idea to make in the first place" having already been in process when they were acquired.
@GetAwesomeGaming
@GetAwesomeGaming Жыл бұрын
@@DubberRucks i think the major problem is MS clearly knew that this game wasn't worth the 70 dollar price tag but to put it out for less would be admitting it was an inferior product. I don't blame MS for it's existence but at some point the decision should have been made that "we can't sell this game at 70" had they done that then it's condition would have been completely on Zenimax. This whole Idea that they spent 7 billion and didn't bother to see what products they were getting for that price tag is absolute horse shit
@vault29a
@vault29a Жыл бұрын
@@DubberRucks dont forget that ms came in and cancelled the Ps5 version of the game (which costed time and manpower aswell).
@lrock48
@lrock48 Жыл бұрын
You really see the shift in management's attitude toward their employees and products in the early 2000s, as those who obtained their business degree in the 90s climbed the corporate ladder with the idea of perpetual growth that has been pushed in business schools since the late 80s came into fruition.
@backstabbath1986
@backstabbath1986 Жыл бұрын
People should remember that game studios/devs aren’t to blame for bad games like this, it’s the suits making the calls and forcing them to monetize. Yet, fans give them the most shit
@calculator91
@calculator91 Жыл бұрын
Whether you blame the hitman or his employer you're still minecraft'd.
@Alex-444x94
@Alex-444x94 Жыл бұрын
@@calculator91 huh?
@UnoLeonJay
@UnoLeonJay Жыл бұрын
​​​@bobduckington68Corporate forced them to change the type of game they had to make, if they'd made another immersive sim then it probably would have been good. Corporate also forced them to change their last games name to "Prey" implying it was a sequel to another game that it had no relationship with, which caused a lot of controversy around that game and shot it in the foot despite the fact it was amazing.
@jandamz1119
@jandamz1119 Жыл бұрын
@bobduckington68 This analogy is reversed. The person pulling the trigger would be the suits as they are what caused the gun to actively do it's task. The devs would be the gun as they are what projects the owner's intentions. Also if you actually did pay attention to the video, you would know the cause of why the studio couldn't come together was because of management's choice on the matter. One side wanted to make a multiplayer coop live service, the other wanted a singleplayer immersive experience; so is it not the management's job to make it so both sides find a compromise or find cohesion? They are called _management_ after all. A production problem would be the devs all contacting a flu for example, something that management has little influence in. A side note, team problems almost always lead back to management and it's really just how severe the problem is and how much management could've done to prevent such problem that would determine how much blame is put on them. In the example of the flu, if for example management forced sick workers to continue working which caused the flu then the blame is put all on management. Also, Corpo/execs/management include the higher ups of Arkane taking the orders from the greater higher ups (Bethesda) who also take orders from even greater higher ups (Zenimax/Microsoft). The actual devs who coded and created assets for the game are just taking orders.
@AstarionWifey
@AstarionWifey Жыл бұрын
@@calculator91 touch grass 😅
@holyheretic3185
@holyheretic3185 Жыл бұрын
We need games like redfall to happen. Hopefully the bigger studios take notice that one bad game can sink your company because all your talent will leave.
@MaynardMeiring
@MaynardMeiring Жыл бұрын
You're right, Luke. Just wishing for Prey 2 is just not realistic at this point; as much as we all would like it to be. Hopefully they can be given some autonomy and make something they actually want to make.
@DubberRucks
@DubberRucks Жыл бұрын
Yeah plus anything called Prey 2 would be that in name only with most of the team's departure
@kevinbaumhoer7359
@kevinbaumhoer7359 Жыл бұрын
Dou mean pray 3 not 2. The first one was released in the mid 2000s the second game was it 2017 ans the Next would be Pray 3
@MaynardMeiring
@MaynardMeiring Жыл бұрын
@@kevinbaumhoer7359 Technically you're right, yes. I always wondered why nobody really talks about that mid-2000's Prey anymore. I rather enjoyed it.
@RunePonyRamblings
@RunePonyRamblings Жыл бұрын
I'm not sure I follow the whole "public vs. private" thing. The goal of a publicly-traded company is to maximize shareholder value _for that quarter._ It's a pretty well-known fact that shareholders don't care about the long-term health or sustainability of a company, in fact it's _illegal_ for a public company to prioritize their own health or reputation over increasing quarterly value. Honestly, this whole mess wouldn't have avoided if Zenimax were public. In fact, it probably would've started a decade ago back when all the other publicly-traded AAA companies were milking MTX and laying the groundwork the GaaS. Zenimax being private is probably the reason Skyrim, Fallout 4, and Dishonored didn't launch with in-game shops or forced multiplayer.
@izzyhope58
@izzyhope58 Жыл бұрын
I feel like this is happening so much recently. Crystal Dynamics went from amazing single player Tomb Raider games, to live service Avengers. Bathesda with Fallout 76, now Arkane with this game, and presumably rock steady with Suicide Squad. Why are so many studios who are amazing at single player being forced to make crappy live service games. I feel like most people want good single player games and are tired of everything trying to be live service multiplayer with microtranctions crap.
@BladeOfSteel-Sword_Saint
@BladeOfSteel-Sword_Saint Жыл бұрын
It’s amazing that studios constantly want live service games, even though they are a consistent track record of fuck ups.
@dasLumpi
@dasLumpi Жыл бұрын
I wonder why, from a certain level of "the ladder" in these Companies, you never read or hear their names.
@DubberRucks
@DubberRucks Жыл бұрын
Probably because the company always has to have a face so that they can be the first out when it goes a.o.t. instead of the bigwigs
@dasLumpi
@dasLumpi Жыл бұрын
Agree. But i also mean the people who are investigating such things, like the news or even youtubers. As If they do not want to tell the names out of fear or something. Its not like their names are secret ...
@natemiller6130
@natemiller6130 Жыл бұрын
im new to you but i really enjoy your content, its weird to call it professional but i like how you detail all the shit i want to know without spending 10 min of the video giving extremely opinionated rants about the topic; you manage to make a long video engage my attention, without filler, every time i watch
@belltolls1984
@belltolls1984 Жыл бұрын
That 70% of the Prey team left is so depressing, I love that game. Looking forward to Starfield, but it looks like I'll never see anything like Prey again. I don't blame them for leaving at all, hopefully they can come together & make another great game.
@adventuresingamedevelopment
@adventuresingamedevelopment Жыл бұрын
They sort of did. Some of the team that left went and made "weird west"
@belltolls1984
@belltolls1984 Жыл бұрын
@@adventuresingamedevelopment I'll have to check that out then, don't know much about it but I've heard about it, didn't know that some of that team worked on it.
@IAmLeMonke
@IAmLeMonke Жыл бұрын
If you like ImSims, go give System Shock a try. Beautiful remake
@belltolls1984
@belltolls1984 Жыл бұрын
@@IAmLeMonke hell yeah I’m picking that up, the gameplay looks like something I’ll definitely enjoy. Thanks!
@kvltizt
@kvltizt Жыл бұрын
@@IAmLeMonkeOne of the best remakes ever tbh
@EricMalette
@EricMalette Жыл бұрын
My heart sank the moment I saw that red fall was being developed by Arkane. At that moment I just knew that something was wrong. They are supposed to be the antithesis of loot and shoot. No wonder Ralph left.
@bigtone7824
@bigtone7824 Жыл бұрын
Wow the real story is how the success of Destiny set back videos games by 10 years as money hungry companies chased that live service money
@bwatson77
@bwatson77 Жыл бұрын
Watching one AAA studio after another rot from within due to unsustainable greed is almost a perfect microcosm of Late Stage Capitalism.
@Blackemperess
@Blackemperess Жыл бұрын
The problem is they will continue to acquire and kill more companies in an attempt to fill the space left behind by the other failures.
@highcouncil1302
@highcouncil1302 Жыл бұрын
More like late stage corporatism
@bwatson77
@bwatson77 Жыл бұрын
​​@@highcouncil1302 Any appreciable difference between the two seems to be have vanished along with the reputation your former favorite AAA studio that was ruined by greed
@LilFeralGangrel
@LilFeralGangrel Жыл бұрын
@@highcouncil1302 literally the same thing.
@highcouncil1302
@highcouncil1302 Жыл бұрын
@@bwatson77 disagree there is a difference
@JosephEllis-ep7sg
@JosephEllis-ep7sg Жыл бұрын
Prey flopped because of the name of the game .. everybody was disgusted and disappointed that it wasn't anything to do with the 2006 game.. it's the reason I didn't buy it until it was in the bargain bin
@fredEVOIX
@fredEVOIX Жыл бұрын
found you because of your gollum review and I must say none of the others told well enough how bad it was the pause you took to just let us see how boring slow and painful it was, was 10/10 subscribed
@thelordoftime803
@thelordoftime803 Жыл бұрын
Arkane was among my last few hopes from AAA developers. Really sad to see the same old greed ruin them too. At this point, are there any big companies that didn't rot from the inside?
@richierich9943
@richierich9943 Жыл бұрын
From Software?
@EmergencyChannel
@EmergencyChannel Жыл бұрын
FromSoft? It's only a matter of time until the rot takes hold in all studios though.
@tim.noonan
@tim.noonan Жыл бұрын
Just get a playstation dude. Insomniac, Naughty Dog, Sucker Punch, Santa Monica, Guerilla all deliver great AAA titles. Plus FromSoft will always develop for Sony, Bloodborne was the start of their ascension.
@thelordoftime803
@thelordoftime803 Жыл бұрын
@@richierich9943 Yeah, that's true, for now. Hopefully they stay that way.
@headlesschickenfarm
@headlesschickenfarm Жыл бұрын
It's a pity that nobody wanted to play their games and that they were financial failures. Greed is the result of what people will pay for. What people pay for is Diablo Immortal, not Prey and Dishonored II.
@arenkai
@arenkai Жыл бұрын
Wow... As someone close to Arkane, I'm blown away by the thoroughness of this video. You take time to explain everything down to the separation between Lyon and Austin. LukiePoo has grown so much while I wasn't looking !
@Fabulist
@Fabulist Жыл бұрын
“Hype makes you stupid” indeed. Looking at you, Starfield.
@DarranKern
@DarranKern Жыл бұрын
There hasnt really been a legitimate hype beast in the industry in a long time
@RhianKristen
@RhianKristen Жыл бұрын
The Dishonoured series and Prey are absolutely amazing games and some of my favourites of all time. If you can, I would suggest playing them, they're fantastic. The intro to Prey alone... is awesome. This is incredibly sad... Yet another reminder that it's not the developers, it's always the execs. Always.
@pmtoner9852
@pmtoner9852 Жыл бұрын
Nothing like jumping on last Year's trend to guide a game that takes 5 years to develop
@krookedvulture
@krookedvulture Жыл бұрын
_"We do mock reviews for every game that we launch, and this is double digits lower than where we thought we would be with this game"_ ~ Phil Spencer Complete lies.
@kenmck7802
@kenmck7802 Жыл бұрын
Riddle me this Batman, How in the hell do you make a good game, ANY game good when the people MAKING it hate it? You're so smart Batman, answer me...that.
@thechugg4372
@thechugg4372 Жыл бұрын
Love the irony, redfall devs were annoyed the game was being compared to every other game, while the anthem devs had to deal with higher ups that wanted to never talk about every other similar game.
@omarsabeur9039
@omarsabeur9039 Жыл бұрын
The talent has quite literally left the building
@DubberRucks
@DubberRucks Жыл бұрын
Quite literally. Exactly.
@SplashingMANGO
@SplashingMANGO Жыл бұрын
Oddly reminiscent of Bioware and Anthem: Management wouldn't make up their mind what the game should be, they tried to capitalize on trends and how they could make money, were forcing a team that made single player games to make a pile of dogshit, and in the end the majority of the talent that made the company what it was have left, making the company a shell of it's former self.
@anderskronquist9750
@anderskronquist9750 Жыл бұрын
Well, management did know what the game should be - immensely profitable! Or at least, plausibly profitable. That whole thing about gameplay, fun and other stuff can surely be added in later, once the pay piggies have given their credit cards to the store, right? Seriously, though, do I need to set up some LinkedIn scraping to be able to see when devs abandon a certain company in order to foretell when the game isn't going to be good? Why can't companies decide to just, I dunno, sell a good game and make a bunch of money, instead of aiming to be the next Candy Crush or Fortnite? At least aim to be Call of Duty, that seems to make money and still be fun for people to play. Why settle for these lifeless, hollowed out zombies of games? I finished Redfall (on the Game Pass) because I wanted to see the story. Seeing how it 'ended' just made me shake my head and shrug. From a certain point of view, a Game Pass game is an excellent vehicle to deliver episodic content (gotta keep the gamers subscribing) but doing it with this lacklustre shell of a game? It's more sad and disappointing than it is an appallingly bad game, but then again I played it solo so I got to avoid a lot of bugs. YMMV. Don't buy Redfall.
@HintsV2
@HintsV2 Жыл бұрын
I wouldn't really say they're similar. One from the get-go was designed with the intention to focus purely on sales using an established formula while the other struggled to find any sort of identity. Iirc, the identity crisis of Anthem also partially stemmed from the Frostbite engine, which was near impossible for devs to many any sort of progress on. I recall that it was one of the few rare cases where higher ups gave them as much time as they want to make anything, but ended up delivering nothing.
@CoffeeFiend1
@CoffeeFiend1 Жыл бұрын
Reminiscent of Bioware and Anthem you say? That is QUITE a statement. *Arkane:* Hold my brain.
@TomTrval
@TomTrval Жыл бұрын
The people who can destroy a thing, they control it.
@chandlereitreim2501
@chandlereitreim2501 Жыл бұрын
Best casual game reviewer out there! Keep the grind going!
@MichaelDoesLife
@MichaelDoesLife Жыл бұрын
Bot comment. So sad!
@reethardio6432
@reethardio6432 Жыл бұрын
@@MichaelDoesLifebro calls someone else a bot yet you name yourself starfield is life even tho the game aint even out 🤡
@ohhadivist
@ohhadivist Жыл бұрын
It's just insane to me to think that executives really believe microtransactions in shitty soulless games that no one will play for more than a month could ever make more money for them than a good, well marketed game that people fall in love with, share with all their friends, and buy all the DLCs for for the next decade.
@jchowe07
@jchowe07 Жыл бұрын
It's really quite sad. Prey was a fantastic game, harkening back to System Shock with a twist. It takes a very strong team to make a game like that...all basically gone now, and for what... Edit: Congrats and good luck with the new addition to the family!
@pulpcorner9420
@pulpcorner9420 Жыл бұрын
I'm french and I'm livin' in Lyon. Despite the fact that I love the way you say the name of the city, I have met some Arkane's employees when Deathloop came out. These people are incredible and are passionnate by their work. Clearly, the Arkane's actual problem is not their team !
@mr.irrelevent8956
@mr.irrelevent8956 Жыл бұрын
How hard is it for publishers to let devs make the type of game they want to make??
@mr.irrelevent8956
@mr.irrelevent8956 Жыл бұрын
@@micshazam842 ok but if you’re are forcing a dev to make a game they don’t want to make 90% of the time that is flushing money down the drain.
@darthplagueis13
@darthplagueis13 Жыл бұрын
You know what would probably be a good policy to adopt when acquiring studios? Ask every member of that studio to fill out an anonymous questionaire on the state of the studio and current projects. That would allow devs to warn you if a project is just a desaster waiting to happen and if a majority of devs shares that sentiment, even if management claims that all is fine and dandy, then you could put the project on ice, put the studio under new management, decide whether to reboot or scrap it entirely and so on. I'd argue that the long term cost of having a catastrophic launch after a studio was freshly acquired is higher than the cost of abandoning a project that someone else started.
@cozymonk
@cozymonk Жыл бұрын
It's so frustrating that prey probably would have done twice as well if they just used a different name.
@MrOakridge
@MrOakridge Жыл бұрын
As with pretty much 100% of these kinds of stories, it boils down to executives being useless and being exactly the wrong people to lead a game. What really makes my blood boil is that I can virtually guarantee that this will be blamed on the devs, who will be laid off while the executives make bank and learn nothing.
@frankkent5567
@frankkent5567 Жыл бұрын
Redfall needed to be cancelled before it was even announced. Instead, Xbox took a bad game, marketed it as AAA in 2021, delayed it out of 2022 for "polish," and released it in 2023 to disastrous results. Xbox fails again.
@zema9401
@zema9401 Жыл бұрын
"Let the devs cook!" *Microsoft lets the devs cook* "No, not like that!"
@lekarabbit5181
@lekarabbit5181 Жыл бұрын
I hate micro transactions but there is proof that they can be removed from a game with out destroying it look at shadow of war and battle front 2
@Awesomewithaz
@Awesomewithaz Жыл бұрын
Dishonored 2 not making Emily the only player character made the story weaker. That and the whole emotional backstory is reserved for the tutorial.
@victoriaevelyn3953
@victoriaevelyn3953 Жыл бұрын
I saved money by not even knowing this game was coming out the money I've saved by not bothering with games anymore is amazing
@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan
@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan Жыл бұрын
Same happened with Bioware. The founders sold to EA and retired with hundreds of millions in the bank. Zeschuk & Muzyka cashed after Mass Effect 3. Drew Karpyshyn, who wrote the stories left after ME2 (now you know why ME3's story was subpar)
@CBadger
@CBadger Жыл бұрын
I forever remind people to not be mad at developers, but to be mad at the CEO's and management staff. But sadly, developers get the hate because people only see things at the basic level.
@jarotheboar8398
@jarotheboar8398 Жыл бұрын
Im getting sick and tired of these higher-ups ruining potential, not long was that the reason Overwatch 2 pve was canceled was because brain damage bobby cumstain didn't see it profitable We're at a point where we'll be throwing out money to indies
@D0NU75
@D0NU75 Жыл бұрын
You know what? good on those developers. We need more of them not taking greedy ass publisher's bs.
@ChiaraKeating
@ChiaraKeating Жыл бұрын
I saw all the job openings popping up at Arkane Lyon and knew something mental had happened 😂
@matthewrichardson2533
@matthewrichardson2533 Жыл бұрын
I knew it. I felt like Arkane's management in a way "took xbox's money and ran"
@FrostRare
@FrostRare Жыл бұрын
_”An open world Far Cry game”_ Imagine going into a gaming studio and pitching your idea with that as your hook.
@Landscape_
@Landscape_ Жыл бұрын
Zenimax lost the people who made Dishonored and Prey forever, this is a big loss for my favourite type of games. Now without it's original devs the name of "Arkane" is the same as nothing. The same thing happend to battlefield, all of the best developers at DICE left, and now the new team is constantly trying to discover how to make a battlefield game. Hopefully Vince Zampella will make things right at Dice, but Arkane studios is now under Microsoft and even if they didn't like the game they have said no backlash will strike to the studio. what a shame :|
@awdrifter3394
@awdrifter3394 Жыл бұрын
Yep. The original talents are gone, replaced by diversity hires.
@mattdabeast315
@mattdabeast315 Жыл бұрын
This makes me so sad and mad that corporate greed is so prominent in not just gaming but all industries but they don’t fix it and they end up suffering from moral, ethical and financially woe like, we have seen this happen over and over and over again but corporations never do anything about it.
@sauceinmyface9302
@sauceinmyface9302 Жыл бұрын
Too bad that good intentions and artistic vision aren't enough to make money.
@matthewstorm4135
@matthewstorm4135 Жыл бұрын
And this is why I have been moving away from the big 3xA games to games from smaller indie devs. The games may not be as flashy, but I prefer to love given to passion projects because the quality is there.
@ThisChannelIsAbandoned300
@ThisChannelIsAbandoned300 Жыл бұрын
I would recommend you return to AAA, we have amazing games like Rdr2 and Doom Eternal
@SuppenhansLP
@SuppenhansLP Жыл бұрын
I guess the main problem with Studios (normally developing single player games) changing to multiplayer is a disconnected management. The hired staff is hired for single player games. And if you are going to develop a multiplayer game you need to train your staff for this new technology as well as hire many more workers for everything thats needed in mulitiplayer. But more people and more training of existing staff is very expensive. So it doesn't matter, because the management does not understand how underlying technology works or that not every employee is a specialist on every subject needed.
@Tate_THG
@Tate_THG Жыл бұрын
You should really start reviewing the non 1% of gaming , I feel like people are so hyper focused on the big triple A games that make up a fraction of the games that are out there.
@Laocoon283
@Laocoon283 Жыл бұрын
I can't play indie games the physics is always so bad.
@Laocoon283
@Laocoon283 Жыл бұрын
@ashy idk man I would take Re4make, Elden Ring, and the upcoming ff16 over any indie game I can think of... Didn't even mean to make it a competition but whatever.
@rapkaizell
@rapkaizell Жыл бұрын
Who is to say the same thing isn't happening in Activision right now? The mass talent loss, the over monetization. This could be why things are bad right now for Activision.
@ThaGavMan999
@ThaGavMan999 Жыл бұрын
I really wanted to like red fall for some reason but after putting like 2 hours into it I don't think I'm gonna be playing much more unless it gets a massive overhaul of some sort. If I had actually bought this game instead of just playing it on game pass I would be absolutely livid.
@GoodfellasX21
@GoodfellasX21 Жыл бұрын
For me I didn't give a fuck about it. Installed it anyway since it didn't cost anything extra (a simple install since I have gp). I actually got more into it after the first couple of hours and near the end now. Feel like I'm the only person who doesn't hate it lol. Which is fine with me btw.
@webbyoyster
@webbyoyster Жыл бұрын
Looking at that Dishonoured gameplay at 60 fov hurts my eyes
@Juliett-A
@Juliett-A Жыл бұрын
It's actually not the same team though. From what I understand, most of the talent left. So it's "Arcane" in name only the same as Bioware.
@ghostlegit
@ghostlegit Жыл бұрын
Source?
@DubberRucks
@DubberRucks Жыл бұрын
Luke says this in the video. It helps me understand that the hate doesn't always need to go to developers but instead to corporate.
@TheN9nth
@TheN9nth Жыл бұрын
Why are you repeating what he already covered in the video?
@haiperbus
@haiperbus Жыл бұрын
Prey wasn't even suppsoed to be called Prey, it was only done by Zenimax in order to keep the copyright of the name.
@MrHoll87
@MrHoll87 Жыл бұрын
22:42 - 48 Don't juggle the baby, dude! What is wrong with you. 😅 Okay but seriously, congrats and best wishes for you and your little family. Praying mom and baby are both healthy!
@mrbigglezworth42
@mrbigglezworth42 Жыл бұрын
In hindsight, being great with critics means you're getting positive feedback from games journalists. IE the absolute most idiotic people ever tasked with playing, reviewing, or even talking about games. So that should've been a red flag from the start.
@issahumps
@issahumps Жыл бұрын
Suicide squad going through same thing. Made at the peak of live service. Finally releases when everybody has moved on lol
@r1nzzlr
@r1nzzlr Жыл бұрын
Things They ruined by "Gaming as service" : Fallout Franchise, Wolfenstein franchise with youngblood,and Arkane rep
@cyrusstokes1017
@cyrusstokes1017 Жыл бұрын
You are by far one of the most underrated channels. Keep up the good work and good luck with the baby!
@TheKennyboy92
@TheKennyboy92 Жыл бұрын
I think we are seeing a slew of games being shown now that were planned as live service games four or five years ago but now the mood around them has completely shifted and developers don't know what to do.
@akmal94ibrahim
@akmal94ibrahim Жыл бұрын
Zenimax' greed eventually won. They boosted the value of their assets by setting these studios towards this live service failures that would've been pitched as potential endless revenue stream for whichever investor they were pitching. Microsoft got duped and bought them up. Microsoft can still fix this issue though but that talent loss is a huge problem.
@Ryzard
@Ryzard Жыл бұрын
To me, Redfall seemed (via what I heard) to be very similar to what Fortnite Save the World (the original PvE before battle Royale) can be summarized as.
@abloshow91
@abloshow91 Жыл бұрын
Its not just pride its the weird current gaming culture of not scoping shit out and trying to manage projects. Ehoever is in project management for all these guys is either stupid or non existent. It forces crunch and releasing unfinished un-stress tested games.
@kennysheng5333
@kennysheng5333 Жыл бұрын
I think also it's consumers fault. They make great games like dishonored, prey and deathloop but they don't sell. I am not surprised corporate decision force them to try live service game...
@endertuber8300
@endertuber8300 Жыл бұрын
I REALLY appreciate your take on how studios fall apart and how it's affected by the individual creatives that make the studio. Too often people don't realize that the big conglomerate called software house is still made of peoples and teams that work well together to create an experience, and that while the name remains, the individuals may not and so the games they develop later on will inevitably change for better or for worse... we should really start appreciate more the developers and creatives behind games and less the conglomerate brand they work for/rapresent. I really hope Arkane Lyon will hold up, because Deathloop was a really good game imo, it just suffered what I would call "first game syndrome"
@tHeWasTeDYouTh
@tHeWasTeDYouTh Жыл бұрын
one of the owners of Zenimax was Trump's brother who passed away. The CEO of Zenimax was this super shady lawyer guy and he also passed away at a young age. Zenimax was so shady
@The_Primary_Axiom
@The_Primary_Axiom Жыл бұрын
Fucking suits man, fucking suits. They never fail to fail. In defense of cyberpunk, it was only a bad launch because they made the stupid decision to launch it on old Gen hardware. I played it day 1 on PC and I was not seeing the bug and fuck ups like people were seeing at all. It wasn’t perfect but it no where near as bad on old Gen. If they would’ve just kept it for nextgen hardware they wouldn’t have gotten so much backlash.
@alanalb1449
@alanalb1449 Жыл бұрын
Weird how every studio bought by microsoft lose what they made them great
@Ashbrash1998
@Ashbrash1998 Жыл бұрын
I believe a main problem with games (big ones mainly) is money hungry companies vs passionate creators. Before people who had experience in the work would work hard to make the game and story/gameplay and the companypeople would work in hand. Now we have nepotism or unexperienced people in the room whose main goal is to make a cash cow while the creatives are pushed aside and overruled if they care at that point. I've seen a similar mindset in like tv shows and movies where they just check boxes to get the demographic to pay up and not actual have any respect or care for thwur craft.
@ThisChannelIsAbandoned300
@ThisChannelIsAbandoned300 Жыл бұрын
At least we have GOOD AAA games out here, like Ghost Of Tsushima and Elden Ring.
@Foxador
@Foxador Жыл бұрын
Pride came before the "Red" fall, you could say
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