Why Is Redfall SO BAD?! (Ft. Zanny)

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Redfall is one of the worst Triple A video games I've EVER played. And that is saying a whole lot! How could Phil Spencer and Bethesda release something so terrible and broken? Why is Redfall SO BAD?! Only one way to find out...
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___TIME STAMPS___
Introduction - 0:00
How Bad Is Redfall? - 1:53
Terrible Animations, Even Worse Story - 5:14
The Continued Decline of Xbox - 9:59
Redfall isn’t Fun - 14:09
The Most Annoying Glitch - 20:46
Conclusion - 22:49
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[@TheActMan]

Play War Thunder now with my link, and get a massive, free bonus pack including vehicles, boosters and more: playwt.link/theactman2023 Every Red has it's Fall and every Dark has it's Soul. This game has no soul, goddamn it's awful. Feels good to finally do another 'SO BAD' review.

[@C.A._Old]

*What a Act Man!*

[@adityathapa844]

Waiting for RDR2 review!

[@deltazeta5506]

I hate the sponsor....there is so much wrong and broken with the game. And the fact they just made the game's grind even longer just makes me not recommend it

[@jaxtonboyle7046]

What do you do if you already have the game? do you still get the stuff?

[@adityathapa844]

​@@deltazeta5506if you are a tank player, then you should try world of tanks!

[@theonlyzanny]

my favorite AI-generated video game

[@stratnexus]

I agree

[@perseverance7259]

indeed

[@BigManTom31740]

My favourite ai generated KZbinr

[@bambblamb3734]

The Rivals in Deep Rock Galactic be like:

[@srai5333]

i think i have to agree with you Mr Zanny

[@elkosins1686]

I think a worst game of the year would be some incentive for companies to make good games cuz execs know they can be actively called out

[@TheActMan]

They should add it to the official Game Awards, but they likely never will because they might be too buddy buddy with the game publishers and whatnot. Still, would make for a really funny time

[@jajasking9652]

To be honest, gollum is even worst, is straight Up insulting and embarracing to release a Game like that, redfall is terrible, but gollum is Up there with the worst games of history

[@elkosins1686]

@@TheActMan make it like the island where at the end one developer just gets voted off and they can’t make video games anymore

[@andrewfeistner3384]

Hollywood has it but they still make bad movies and shows

[@SurroundedSita]

@@jajasking9652 If you havent, you should give oboeshoegames a watch for his play of Gollum. He points out several times where they just straight up FORGOT Gollum is the bad one not smeagul >.>;

[@senormarston3283]

The fact that the devs were actually expecting for the game to be cancel just tells you everything we need to know

[@Dr.Oofers]

Well, it was a disaster from the start.

[@puppetstudio4989]

@@Dr.Oofers there was giant turnovers throughout this game's development and still stuff is coming out at what happened while the game is low-key abandoned

[@wolfshade5020]

Arkane honestly didn’t want to make this game but they were obligated to because “LiVE SeRvICe mAKeS MOnEy”

[@Subaru69420]

At 11:00 in the video, you can see the AI fail to keep up while rotating around him. I had the same issue when I was making a FPS game for a school project, and I just went "I hope no one rotates around an enemy and finds this bug". I think this is exactly what the redfall devs were saying to themselves...

[@mr.s9783]

In case you're wondering, the senior Prey devs all left Arkane during development of Redfall. That's why it's like this. Like BF2042, the talent jumped ship and then the interns made the game.

[@tatzecom]

hmm in that case, for some interns the game isnt that bad. Like, as a side project ~10-15 hours a week while they finish school, its actually quite good. not as a tripple A title, of course.

[@maruf7956]

it would be decent indie game

[@alecmcchesney6841]

​@@tatzecom i highly doubt thats the case but i really want it to be

[@marcusknight5170]

​@Maruf yeah indie game that charges 70 dollars. Ultrakill one of the best fps indie game charges only 8 dollars.

[@ConfirmedZer0]

@@marcusknight5170 Hypothetically speaking.

[@BigManTom31740]

You know it’s a good day when the acting male uploads a video ft zanny

[@db_524]

True

[@xcorga198]

Fucking goats

[@cadetleo1696]

Always good to see a new vid from the Mact Man

[@user-bv7zo6vd4m]

yeah, theese two make a good duo

[@lj6284]

Very specific, but i think you’re onto something.

[@chiefinasmith]

Redfall is one of my favorite games. It was so bad that it made me go play Prey for the first time, which turned out to actually be one of my favorite games.

[@user-ok3yw7bx2h]

Pray is extremely underrated, and its kinda living in the shadow of dishonored, which is sad because prey is one of my favorite games. Truly the most underrated immersive sim with countless ways to complete an objective.

[@Drixiem]

this video made me play Prey

[@sosa0]

Prey 2017 is easily one of the most underrated games of all time

[@Drixiem]

@@sosa0 it really is

[@4bschaum]

thatz one is still in my pile of shame but i heard its really good i'm gonna install it

[@frostyleech3167]

Oof kind of felt that three round burst. Back when the M16 was still in use, a lot of guys complained that the 3 round burst was piece of shit because you had to squeeze the trigger till you shot 3 rounds, otherwise the mechanism isn't gonna reset itself to shoot another 3 rounds. Don't recommend

[@mrstorch5068]

So it was basically full auto but with more finger control?

[@no-legjohnny3691]

​@@mrstorch5068 Yeah, they implemented it on the M16A4 because it was meant to be the longer range equivalent to the M4. They didn't want soldiers to go gung ho and dump huge amounts of ammo at a target a long ways away because not only did it waste ammo, but it usually meant fewer rounds hit the target. The 3-round burst was made so that the soldiers had semi-fully-automatic fire still, but couldn't do longer bursts. However, this just basically meant that they used a mechanical issue to solve an issue that came because of a lack in training.

[@someretardontheinternet]

@@no-legjohnny3691"Semi-fully-automatic" makes no sense lol The M16 had 3 round burst since the A2 til the A4 (A3 was full auto because that's what the Navy wanted so that weapon system was almost exclusive to the Navy) You're kinda right about dudes wasting ammo in a firefight, but at least nowadays, it's taught that you should send as much lead down range as you can accurately. If need be, you could fire off a round every 2 seconds consistently (unless you're an MG). Keep the enemy's head down while a flanking element can get around and take em out if you haven't already done so with arty or air support

[@no-legjohnny3691]

@@someretardontheinternet I say "semi-fully-automatic" because they wanted troops to be able to have a full-auto function of sorts, but not 'full' full-auto if you get what I mean. I guess I was also under the impression that the A2 was full-auto thanks to the horrible representation of that model has in the media (Left 4 Dead and a few movies come to mind). But to be fair the A2 and A3 really aren't as notorious as the original Vietnam A1 or modern A4.

[@someretardontheinternet]

​@@no-legjohnny3691 I get what you mean, but I still wouldn't use that 'term.' Semi automatic implies one round is fired after every trigger pull. Automatic implies more than one round is fired after the trigger has been pulled. Technically, 3 round burst is automatic although limited to how many rounds can be sent while holding the trigger. It's weird, Ik lol. Maybe depending on the year you were born and how much you're interested in guns, the A2 may have not been that well known to you. I was born in the early 2000s and I've seen many movies, shows, and even a few books where the M16A2 was used. It might be hard to figure out which is which at a quick glance so I wouldn't really put it past anyone. Best way to figure out if it's an A2 if you're not familiar with guns or a certain family of guns is the handguard and mag. It gets even easier if there's an M203 attached that sexy ass heat shield. It was definitely very well known and notorious in the early 80s, 90s and early 2000s during GWOT. In the early 2000s, it was still being used extensively by the USMC and maybe some parts of the Army until they completely switched to the A4 and the M4 (USMC didn't really start to use the M4 and M4A1 until around 2010).

[@thegrandwizard1700]

It’s not about the graphics or the gameplay, it’s about the friends we saw phase half-way through the floor along the way.

[@The_whales]

To be honest if you put a zombie rifle soldier from the original doom, it would soloing the whole of redfall without a single point of hp lost

[@pogethedoge]

I genuinely can't think anyone would think "Good job guys, this game is amazing. That extra year of work was so worth it." WHAT WERE THEY DOING THAT WHOLE YEAR

[@thatoneguy8146]

Same thing with Halo Infinite what where they doing with that extra year

[@IndyMiraaga]

They had no money to actually fix anything and nobody at Arkane wanted to make the game in the first place. Forcing a company that excels in single-player linear experiences to make a co-op open-world title was a massive mistake, lmao

[@IndyMiraaga]

@@thatoneguy8146 Infinite was pretty much made completely in that one year from the murmurs I hear. It went through dev hell where they wanted a bunch of different things in the game like a crafting system or a hero shooter for the multiplayer, Joe Staten had to go in and tell them how to do it. And it's not even exactly 343's fault (excluding upper management, they dropped the oddball hard) because most of Infinite's main employees were just temporary contractors. The fact we got a product as okayish as Infinite was at launch was a miracle, and it's come a pretty long way. Still has massive issues for sure but at least it's not like Siege or No Man's Sky at launch.

[@Leg1503]

Making the game in the first place

[@thatoneguy8146]

@@IndyMiraaga it just the game is already 2 years old called a live service. But there’s fuck all content

[@dominvernetti6394]

the burst rifle in redfall is based on the M16A2. among other things, one of the big complaints about the rifle was holding down the trigger for a full burst. if you didnt complete a burst, the mechanism wouldn't reset, and so it would fire 1 or 2 rounds. idk why bethesda decided to implement this in an arcade shooter, but they did

[@n1njachikin]

Knowing how abysmal Bethesda’s weapons design team has been, I doubt this was intended.

[@SiphonRayzar]

I know this is late, but I gotta say. As much as I wish this was deliberate attention to detail, it's far more likely that this was a bug, which is why it feels so odd in gameplay. But that is neat to know about the M16A2, so thank you for sharing that.

[@VGBrothers]

You know it's bad when watching Redfall gameplay makes people appreciate Back 4 Blood more

[@theshadowking9626]

I was literally thinking that while watching this video

[@Dr.Oofers]

God, that just makes me wish Evolve (made by turtle rock studios too) was given a second chance by 2k.

[@ericmoreau4568]

For all of its pitfalls B4B had its moments, unlike this lousy excuse for a game.

[@christiamcruz7454]

​@@Dr.Oofers i Dispise Evolve with a passion, but if a get to choose to play this over Evolve i would go for tha ladder and head for Evolve instead.

[@jamesvalkyrie7469]

Have to admit, the Actman slideshow movie was really well done and hilarious. 😂

[@Clementinewoofwoof]

Was done better than black ops four zombies ending

[@gh0stfrm36double0]

@@Clementinewoofwoof idc what ppl think bo4 zombies was fun af

[@pilot778spartan3]

The finest piece of comedy I’ve ever seen

[@jct0064]

Ya but now I have to live with the knowledge that he eats skippy.

[@Bicorn711]

That empty toilet roll killed me 🤣

[@endplanets]

Being trapped in the menu is brilliant game design as it mirrors how the protags are trapped in the town.

[@memelover6917]

IT'S GENIUS DEEP LORE

[@engagingweirdo]

The town of Hell!! Brilliant thought btw

[@T800123]

About the burst fire trigger thing... That is legit how the M16A2 and M4 triggers work. If you are fast enough you can consistently only fire 1 round by pulling and releasing the trigger fast enough. It gets worse though, it remembers where you were and if you fire a 2 round burst and then try and hold it down for a 3 round it'll only fire one. But that's no excuse, as it was so annoying and useless that the military has began mostly moving away from burst to just full auto with the M4A1, the M27 and now the XM7.

[@dieharden]

Hey, found your account a couple months ago and just started binging alot of your content, never a disappointment everytime I see a new video, keep up the good work, man.

[@rogen8094]

Act Man never misses!

[@Jake-up3wh]

@@rogen8094 apart from the mw2 2022 but we won’t talk about that

[@rogen8094]

@@Jake-up3wh yeah, I didn't see his take on that, tbh.

[@argkitsune]

Apparently the devs at Arkane didn’t even want to make Redfall, and they were hoping that Microsoft would shelve the project after the acquisition of Zenimax. Unfortunately for them, Microsoft took a hands-off approach to the studio and the Arkane higher-ups forced the developers to continue working on Redfall.

[@Deliveredmean42]

A blessing and a curse of hands-off approaches...

[@stormhought]

Microsoft was doing the hands-off approach for Halo for years. 343 was basically a separate company

[@MrNinja543]

​@@stormhoughtyes apparently it's always Microsoft. Developers are incapable of doing wrong according to the internet

[@AHeroAlmost]

Devs still have to take responsibility when selling a product … You can’t just throw your toys out of the pram & expect people to pay for it ..

[@silkpursuit]

@@AHeroAlmost I hate when people like you throw all the blame on the developers. They are the most overworked people in this industry, they get used and shit on just to turn a profit. Then mindless masses blame them for the game being rushed, buggy, or not finished. Stop blaming developers and start directing your abhorrence towards the suits that give them these terrible IP's and impossibly tight deadlines.

[@binary1045]

The worst part about Redfall is that it was made by the same guys who made Prey, an incredibly underrated and amazing experience. Most of the Prey devs actually left during Redfall's development and those who stayed actually hoped it would be cancelled.

[@drxavier1870]

Daaaamn thats sad

[@DogeickBateman]

Lived long enough to become the villain

[@SL4PSH0CK]

since development before the acuquistion and after w/ the lack of support from microsoft, yea i can see why its hoping toget cancelled

[@ghostlegit]

I'm sorry but that article by Jason is cap. Majority of devs did not leave

[@r.e.z9428]

Which Prey?

[@rumplstiltztinkerstein]

13:47 they put the sticker because they can be sued for false advertisement for it

[@acojsx]

your slide show story, really hit me in the feels. a tear formed of the memories flooding in

[@draven1471]

I actually had a lot of fun with Redfall. Going through the settings and uninstalling were definitely the highlights.

[@abdullahmalik7217]

I nearly had a heart attack when I saw how customizable the brightness was

[@TheActMan]

LOOOL

[@LarryPigeon1]

Based but atleast i didnt buy shit like that

[@Eva01-jy2qu7pu9r]

The fact that Prey 2 was canned for this trasheap really hones in how Arkane has changed for the worst.

[@alexlyster3459]

​@thelastpersonwhosaidyouwer182770% of the Devs at Arkane Austin who made Prey have left. The team has literally changed.

[@Smallerexia]

@alex lyster you are both right. The team has changed, but it is the fault of the higher-ups for pushing a live service multiplayer game on developers with no interest, so they all quit

[@ni9274]

nobody bought prey 1, in the end if ppl don't want to buy good games studios won't make good games

[@alexlyster3459]

@thelastpersonwhosaidyouwer1827 Oh I do absolutely agree with you in that regard.

[@inpusket]

​@The last cat with a Milky Mustache devs made this game,not execs...

[@kambamrocks]

you had me crying with the power point story mode this is pure comedy

[@ryanarp415]

Love the *splash noise* with every transition you added. I'm guessing on their side it was the default screen transition behavior in their tools and they didn't know how to change it.

[@Amber_the_Floof]

The fact that you can circle around an enemy and they will just lose you is absolutely insane

[@thepeps101]

For real, not even skyrim ai is this stupid, hell probably not even morrowind ai

[@LuisPerez-129]

Lol yeah, the ai is very very bad from what I have seen, they can’t even go around objects to get you sometimes. The Ai fights the environment more than the player.

[@____Carnage____]

⁠@@thepeps101 Paradox could probably make better Ai

[@ryujin9568]

@@____Carnage____ Woah hold up, let's not get too ahead of ourselves :P

[@paulovinasrocha6166]

​@@____Carnage____ what games did they make

[@penge85]

I'm a diehard fan of your channel but this storytelling- cutscene parody was one of the best scenes you've ever made. Using such a wide scale of tools of humour absolutely becomes your trademark, and it just gets better. Well played Sir!

[@TheActMan]

Glad you enjoyed it hahaha

[@Spartan-001BladeHunter]

​@@TheActMan Had Redfall been a great game, the cutscenes would've been novelty. But in the state that it is, they come off as low effort.

[@uncensoredmaverick4455]

What is a diehard fan?

[@SoVega301]

@@uncensoredmaverick4455 When their on the brink of death they will remember the person their a fan of and get hard. Thus being a "diehard fan"

[@theirishorange22]

@@SoVega301 couldnt of said it better myself

[@zerozone5848]

Rise of Kong: Amateurs... Redfall: what did you just say pal? Rise of Kong: *_AMATEURS!_*

[@nuh_uh210]

Thanks for the collab review, Theatre Guy and Zan-man!

[@void-creature]

If most studios roll a dice on how good their new game will turn out, *Arkane throws a coin.*

[@battlion507]

Heads: game is so good, it will be a cash cow franchise akin to Halo and Gears of War. Tails: YOUR A WINNER! Ride to Hell salutes you!

[@RipRLeeErmey]

​@@battlion507 *YOU'RE WINNER!

[@battlion507]

@@RipRLeeErmey Aww, my bad... I will not laugh nor will I cry...

[@marksmanmerc1]

Whoever tf thought it'd be a good idea to get Arkane to make a co-op looter shooter should just be fired cause that is some next level brain rot. That'd be like grabbing Bethesda to make a competitive movement based shooter.

[@jafaral-z1090]

@@marksmanmerc1 except they made doom and doom eternal, which could've been a resurgence for the b00m3r shooters of old

[@hydrosmusic]

So proud of Act Man for featuring small creators like Zanny

[@n1njachikin]

@@ayelynxz8787 that’s the joke doofus

[@brandonnelson94]

@@n1njachikin what a truly hilarious and original joke!

[@sadchild9478]

@@brandonnelson94 it may be unoriginal, but people are still not getting it no matter how many times it’s used. Case in point: the first reply.

[@OldSch00lGaMER32X]

​@@ayelynxz8787 r/ Whoosh to you and the 2 people who liked your comment

[@futuristicfire3378]

@@brandonnelson94 shush

[@guranyann]

6:30 fun fact code vein has the same cutscene, but in that game, they let you skip them and walk around the environment

[@tryeasy1634]

Insane to know we have a 3 way fight for worst game of the year in 2023. Redfall v rise of Kong v Gollum

[@CriticalNobody]

My friends and I did one session of Redfall cause Game Pass. We played for about 3 hours during which time we did several missions that involved walking somewhere and shooting a handful of brain dead enemies. One of my friends asked when we were going to start doing the main missions...not realizing we'd been doing them the entire time. My game crashed soon after and we all uninstalled.

[@ax0l297]

critical :O

[@camoking3609]

"When do we get to the ride?" " *this is the ride!!* "

[@cattysplat]

Certified Gamepuss experience.

[@drphdmd7064]

Having Zanny with you needs to happen more often. The dude is funny and you guys have great chemistry. Another great video, my dude.

[@The1just12]

Yes 09:15 shows why they are so great together

[@DeeAyeOh85]

When he said the "are we the bad guys" comment I laughed so hard!

[@apk4381]

He uses the term "dog water" like a 13 year old whose parents don't let him swear. He should be banned from the internet for being so cringe.

[@annesmith9070]

I know! I found Zanny several months ago when my little brother introduced me (an utter video game noob except for a year or two of Atari back in the 80s) to Elden Ring. I had to work myself up to picking up the controller the thing made me so damn nervous. Zanny's pure, contagious joie de vivre and hilarity while getting stomped by the worst that FromSoftware could dish out showed me the right attitude :-). Months later I discover TheActMan - another stellar creator, keeping me informed, entertained and giggling - and boom, Zanny pops up! It figures - two very smart creators with positive attitudes who generate tons of fun back into the community.

[@peet404]

at 10:50pm on august 8th there's 20 ppl in game on steam with the 24hr peak at 44 players

[@RusticRonnie]

Game’s running at a lower FPS doesn’t mean less frames. Video games use IK to fill in tweens of key frames (like the Anime AI upscale to 60 FPS) Even motion capture uses some IK

[@LordSleepy99]

It’s beyond infuriating to see how far Arkane has fallen since Prey

[@WERTYBD]

This is a different arcane

[@zero3556]

*Cries in Dishonored*

[@wahwahwah6690]

Dishonored and Prey are some of the best immersive sims ever made. It's honestly baffling

[@spamfolder8562]

I’ve seen people point out that the reason for their worsening game quality may be because they do not specialize in making multiplayer/live-service experiences. The good games Arcane has produced are mainly single-player experiences.

[@gatorarman12]

Different Arkane studios division made Dishonored than Redfall and Deathloop. More importantly, the connecting thread that made Dishonored and Prey both great was Raphaël Colantonio the original founder of Arcane. His absence is clearly noticeable when looking at Deathloop and Redfall. He does have a new studio now, WolfEye studios. Their most recent game was Evil West which was a pretty decent AA game.

[@prossnip42]

Listen...developers...the reason why the static, non moving cutscenes worked for Elden Ring's intro is because that game's intro was told in a manner of someone telling you a fairytale, or a bard in a tavern signing you a poem. It mythologises the characters which fits perfectly in the world of Elden Ring. Also, they are drawings. Very exceptionally done drawings clearly drawn by talented artists, not stills from 3D models of your engine

[@tatzecom]

Also the rest of Elden Bling was finished. And the other cutscenes in the game were actual cut scenes. Rendered in-game too. With dialogue.

[@user-yj1ov2yu8e]

Dishonred 2 has a similar intro with drawnings. This game was made by Harvey Smith, just like Redfall😢

[@captaintoast4675]

​@@tatzecom also Elden ring is good lol

[@scotginger4690]

Another thing Elden Ring did right was be a finished product.

[@sonnguyen-iv7gv]

ER has full animated cutscence and drawing cutscene that makes the drawing cutscene feels like a choice of art style. Redfall in the other hand....

[@massive_6562]

Bro did not expect the day before to even drop ☠☠☠☠☠☠☠

[@An_Average_Idiot]

Didnt get the critical reception that they wanted?! How did they expect this dumpsterfire to be received? With open arms and a damn parade?

[@gabrielmorga2326]

Yes

[@Kastafore]

It just goes to show that no one involved with Redfall cares about video games beyond $$$. Anyone who is a game enthusiast looking at the product would say that it's absolutely unacceptable.

[@Spielername]

And again, never buy a new game. Wait until you have a review from a trusted source. It's just not worth it. What do you pay for a new game nowadays? $70-$80? It's so not worth it!

[@romancatholicgameing]

​@@Kastafore blame the execs not the devs

[@Kastafore]

@@romancatholicgameing Nah I absolutely blame devs as well.

[@skyandstars]

i didnt expect this collab but their personalities mesh really well tf

[@KaptifLaDistillerie]

Well it's still surprising to see Zanny not being unhinged

[@andrewmeyer3599]

The collab they did for Revenge of the Sith is also a good video to watch if ya haven't

[@harrymillar4193]

@@andrewmeyer3599 That’s a much better video… but probably because it’s a much better game XD

[@harrymillar4193]

They’ve been friends for years

[@alfredotill353]

10:37 the masculine urge to play oblivion a 100 hours more.

[@CaptainPricevsMakarov]

Your PowerPoint cutscene is way better than Redfall cutscenes.

[@TheAlanReviews]

I agree!

[@theFreddyFighter]

Arkane studios is one of the few gaming studios I feel the most sorry for, as when prey and Dishonored death of the outsider they were at the top of their game and after being dragged through terrible game after terrible game and receiving some redemption with Deathloop is being dragged back in by this junk that they didn’t want to make. It’s truely heart wrenching

[@metalgeardull8279]

I feel you, I'm going through the same thing. Arkane's Redfall to me was what Betheada's Fallout 76 was to AngryJoe. Luckily, Arkane's previous video-games are still great when replayed. I'm still playing Dishonored 1 and 2, and just got into PREY recently (due to my hardware limitations and lack of marketing on Arkane's part).

[@JvpiterJvzz]

​@MetalGearDull yea. I played Dishonored 1 a long time ago and remember liking it, just didn't finish it. I think I'll play em both over the next couple of weekends

[@metalgeardull8279]

@@JvpiterJvzz If you have Game Pass, give PREY a try!

[@baunchus3479]

@@JvpiterJvzz please do i did the same thing only playing 1 or 2 levels but when I figured out the stealth system I played the whole game in one night

[@SchierkeVerdant]

Deathloop is not what I'd call a redemption. The whole game was half baked at best and the AI was on par with Redfall with its quality. It only had a vaguely novel concept going for it.

[@d33pblu3]

I love how they made the choice of showing the magazine tube of the shotgun but you can clearly see that the shells are inserted into the pice of metal between the tube and the barrel.

[@atomic...]

The burst on certain models of M16 did indeed operate like what's depicted in game, requiring the user to hold the trigger till the burst stops to fire all 3 rounds, but they might see this comment and call what defiantly is a bug an "intentional feature" of the game, even if it was intentional, its a stupid detail to replicate in game as you need consistency when using a gun, Not constantly guessing if you'll fire a full burst

[@STFUppercut69]

Great video. Now you need a follow-up with all the new information that came out from Jason Schreier. At one point the devs were hoping Microsoft would cancel the game. That's crazy to me.

[@SpartanSouls256]

Man I sure love seeing my boys Zanny and ActMan together, I need more of these two together

[@themeltingpoint3867]

In defence of the burst rifle, that's how 3 round burst works in real life, you could single shot or double shot them if your fast enough and you'd have to hold down the trigger for the entire cycle of the 3 rounds for the sear to reset.

[@deadboyo2773]

Almost 1000% sure that's not the reason it's like that in redfall

[@saxdude01]

that's really only the M16 that works that way. Most burst capable firearms work more like how most video games do: you pull the trigger for a single shot but it still fires off a full burst.

[@nyxranobody3690]

For the guy that covers a lot of FPS games you’d think he’s know. Actman becoming falling off man

[@GTAVALE]

@@nyxranobody3690 how could he know if 99% of games make burst rifles fire burst as soon as you fire

[@ongthuctran4992]

​@@nyxranobody3690 he knows about guns in game, not alot in real life lol

[@estebangarcia7677]

When talking about the burst fire rifle, Im guessin Redfall was goin for a M4 approach. Burst fire on the M4 requires the user to hold down on the trigger for the full 3 rounds. Not sure why they would implement it in the game though

[@zxjacksterxz]

The reason the game doesn't have 60fps is because all of the money that they were going to put towards 60fps went towards printing out all of the stickers for the physical copies of the game saying it didn't have 60fps.

[@LiamGoulding-mo2lv]

Underrated comment 😅😅

[@P.H691]

You really roasted Redfall’s quality with that PowerPoint sequence. You had more emotion there than Redfall had in its entirety

[@di9465]

You know, I didn’t want Microsoft to be able to buy Activision because of monopoly but now I hope that will happen. They deserve each other

[@mpowerness92]

I would be all for it if it didn’t mean THPS, Crash and Spyro were destined to be mothballed…AGAIN

[@xerothereaper4158]

Let them buy it! Because it’s going to cause MOOOOORE problem

[@mohdamin6641]

Same bro sony got the best live service games studio which is bungie they made halo and from a leak about last of us multiplayer they made bungie the leaders of the live service games bungie know how to make you spend money and put time in there stuff I have been playing destiny 2 for 4 years now and didn't get bored of the game of course I take 1-2 weeks as a break but I don't feel bored even If I didn't take a break and sometimes I don't know what to do cuz the game have so much stuff and after OW story mod was canceled I knew that ABK and xbox are match mad in heaven both like to cancel there stuff amd lieing a lot and like false promises its not about the titles its about who's making them its about the developers not the publisher but the ppl who actually making the games

[@mightyraptor01]

Another Cyberpunk. But it doesn't make me want to play Sony Games either.

[@technoir2216]

@@mightyraptor01 90% of Sony games work on release.

[@higeisler8203]

The whole thing with the burst gun firing weird is an actual quirk of the M16 in real life. So I guess they were going Uber realistic with this one gun but even mil-sims don’t go into this depth with the M16 because they know it would be very frustrating

[@sasquatchproductions9088]

Man, coming back to this video is still a delight! I love seeing The Act Man experiencing Zanny's instant comedic quips firsthand.

[@ChaosAOE]

Man the "are you sure about that?" with Gollum was so on point to my current thought process lol

[@TheActMan]

Actually went back to make that edit after the Gollum game came out

[@ChaosAOE]

@@TheActMan I commend the dedication good sir

[@Aargo999]

Companies actively competing for worst game of the year lol, was waiting for that insert at the beginning too

[@RichardRichardRichardRichardRi]

That smile that Act Man had when he figured out that he couldn't ride the quad is the look on my face when I play most modern games. Just the "I'm so un-surprised by this, yet it's still so baffling that all I can do is laugh" face.

[@joju5849]

Time stamp, please and thank you?

[@JH-zo7rb]

​@@joju5849 15:18

[@SHAdow98V]

I could read this on his face "my dissapointment was already immesurable and my day was already ruined when i started this game,but now?! now it's beyond that." XD

[@italianspiderman5012]

Whenever there’s a puzzle in a game or a quest that doesn’t point you exactly where you need to go and it takes me a minute to figure it out, I immediately think “is it a bug? Is the game bugged or am I not getting it” and honestly, trying to figure out what’s a bug and what’s not is a puzzle in itself.

[@EgoreTR13]

Too bad this came out way before "The Day Before" launched...

[@nathanhohman7825]

Just came across your content Act Man and you're my new favorite gaming critic, look forward to being subscribed to the channel.

[@SirBirbTheFirst]

A zanny collab is the furthest thing from what I expected

[@user-bv7zo6vd4m]

he has done it a couple of times before

[@catodes1295]

​@@user-bv7zo6vd4m the last one was like 2 years ago? With Valheim?

[@xenolithic9691]

Always love when The Man and Zanny get together.

[@LEXICON-DEVIL]

.....Who???

[@chrisa8863]

​@@kingsrevenge9234yes drop out of school

[@coryjohnson2486]

Lol these dudes sound like your run of the mill DORKS

[@duk6897]

15:18 they even highlighted it to bait you 😭

[@justhere4637]

I think it is highlighted because it explodes.

[@squirrelsyrup1921]

So tragic what was done to the studio tbh. Imagine OLD Arkane making a vampire slayer campaign game like an immersive sim. I played Eldritch earlier this year and absolutely loved it - it was something like the solo dev's 3rd game. His first one was like a practice game: a terrible, janky unfinished vampire FPS where you played as a sort of Buffy completing objectives around a city block. That's exactly what Redfall reminds me of, except it wasn't made by one guy in his spare time.

[@SirJarOfBricks]

This is the funniest and saddest shit ive seen in a while, great video Actman, also the toilet papper story was more emotional than any emotion I felt playing this game.

[@yappertron2010]

I love how he used the splash transition throughout the video after saying he would do so once like 10 minutes into the game

[@OutrageousDragon]

7:25 Lmao the music kills me 💀

[@nixiedreamstar]

After 'The Day Before'. I find it funny that this is a video that certainly didn't age well, on the most hilarious of ways. xD

[@odstthorne]

Actman's slide show cutscene was super funny and entertaining, unlike most modern games

[@redmetroid743]

Yea the toilet part had me dead lol 😂

[@The_whales]

Atleast he got the thing finished

[@r3dr4te963]

Joke aside, that what missing from Redfall slideshows. There's no story on them, they feel like random static pictures. Like some powerpoint presentation where they put cliparts because they forgot to take pictures

[@willwunsche6940]

I don't know if you guys heard, but apparently the developers were praying the game would get cancelled or rebooted as a single player title when Microsoft bought them 😂 but Microsoft kept a complete hands off approach, let acclaimed studios work their magic. That's a twist you don't hear often

[@camoking3609]

So basically Microsoft for once put their trust and faith completely in the studio and got fucked for it Which means they'll probably never trust another studio again... Just great....

[@adamburch1296]

​@@camoking3609Not really, microsoft has been hands off with a lot of the companies they've acquired for like 10 years. Look at Halo and 343 Studios, ouch😢

[@bearerofbadnews1375]

So Arkane was force to make live service trash. It’s Babylons fall all over again.

[@DoubleDOwnage]

​@@bearerofbadnews1375 they were not forced, the game was already under development, they did what lazy underachievers do and just phoned in their job for 3 additional years of pay and now want to cry so they don't all get fired.

[@skye_music]

I heard that too and 70% of the original devs have left

[@adamc117]

16:40 Hey I’m not taking this Sea of Thieves slander! You said you would go back and revisit that game 2 years ago and you still haven’t

[@aytch3624]

The first time I launched this, the model for every single object I could interact with was not there. I started it up multiplayer and my friend could play fine but I couldn't see wall mounted medkits, the pistol on the floor, lockboxes, nothing. The objects weren't there so I couldn't interact.

[@Dranx9031]

I miss good video games, just finished fallout new Vegas and the sheer difference of fun compared to modern games is crazy

[@TheActMan]

Bro, Fallout New Vegas is also pretty dang buggy too. But the story and world is so damn good it offsets a lot of the bugginess IMO

[@SL4PSH0CK]

great americanjank, that struggle throughout the bethesda heritage of bugs

[@dampking]

There’s still plenty of good games just look past AAA ( and tons of great AAA games as well.)

[@andrewgreen77]

​@@TheActMan Game that was released over a decade ago that was made in 18 monthes is still less buggy than this trash lmao

[@erykaldo2l270]

Fallout new Vegas is extrmely janky too. But man, what an amazing game it is.

[@MoonLight-zj8iu]

The best part of the burst rifle is that while you were testing it out, you put rounds in the dirt next to a vampire and it just.... floated there

[@afonsolisboa6600]

6:58 Mfs stole my audio Can't have crap in Detroit

[@TheAlanReviews]

This is a good video. I find the statement: "if you have a game pass subscription and hop on with a bunch of buddies drink some beer and play the worst modern gaming has to offer" contradicts the final conclusion to stay far away. I will stay far away from Redfall. I will not review it on my KZbin channel.

[@TheNexDude]

I actually would love a razzie event. The industry takes itself too seriously to do something like that but it is great to be humble sometimes.

[@wilsonjonah]

Have Todd Howard be the host and it'd be a good time 😆

[@gunmunz]

If we made it so the game has to be judge when it comes out instead of at a certain time would fix the infuriating trend of 'ship it now, patch later'

[@nonapplicable8817]

​@@wilsonjonahWould be kind of boring for the host to get most of the awards.

[@wilsonjonah]

@@nonapplicable8817 no, that would be if Bobby Kotick (Activision) was on the stand. He's an embarrassment to business in general, not just gaming

[@badbeen5279]

Not the Zanny collab we deserved, but the Zanny collab we needed.

[@joesomebody3365]

The slideshow you did was pretty funny. Also I thought using the "splash" sound effect on transitions like the game did was a nice touch (glad you didn't use it on every transition though).

[@kaischiemann4766]

Love these videos, I was screaming when you ran around that enemy for a minute 😂

[@manzac112]

Quick little story: I actually met 3 of the developers that worked on this game when I was working at the Houston Museum of Natural Science(Still work there) and they admitted it wasn't up to even mediocre standards.

[@christinagonzales9172]

Picture or it didn't happen

[@manzac112]

@@christinagonzales9172 I was a concierge at the time and I couldn't have my phone out at where I was.

[@lordravenblade]

The "character models standing around with narration" thing worked pretty well in Dishonored but was used very sparingly. I'm pretty sure mostly just the endings and sorta the dream sequences but in those you were moving around the frozen ones as you progressed through the area rather than just having the camera pointed at them.

[@John-Doe-Yo]

I remember that’s how cod zombies did some cutscenes like that early on but that wasn’t a big deal because you didn’t pay $60 just for zombies you had the campaign and multiplayer. If this game wasn’t such a mess it could be overlooked but man this is just sad.

[@puppetstudio4989]

sparingly, it was used in the ending lol

[@badasscrusader]

@@puppetstudio4989 ok would you prefer every single cut scene?

[@CrNcHyFROG5]

Wish I could have been in the board meetings about this game during the last few weeks before launch. I want to see the disappointed faces of the execs who knew they were about to unleash an absolute turd on the gaming community. Just to see who got yelled at and what the overall sentiment was

[@VeryProfessionalGamer]

Oh fuck no, you KNOW they didn’t care what state the game was gonna release in. They only looked at the pre-order numbers and how much money it was gonna make them. Publishers buy game studios that have built trust to their player base, release a few shitty titles with big marketing, just playable enough to not get them class-actioned, to make a quick buck for the execs. Money doesn’t care about reviews. You already have them your money, that’s all they wanted from you. And you know what? If you’re not gonna buy the next title, they don’t care, they can just buy the next studio if profits fall off. They basically butcher the company that was built on dreams and passion for money. Publishers have become meat grinders for studios. EA, Microsoft, you name it.

[@PandaMan-xy1he]

Here's something interesting; the burst fire rifle is based off an M16 of some variety, and that's actually how it works. If you play shooters more focused on accuracy, like Squad, Insurgency etc, you'll notice that. However, this game is not trying to do that, and so I would put this up to "the devs screwed up the coding somehow" rather than "the devs cared"

[@SixthUsername]

The thing you said at the beginning about the "razzies of videogames" is exactly a thought I had last week. The game awards absolutely needs to add a "worst game of the year" award. We need to name and shame these terrible games. We shouldn't let people just brush past and forget about them, only to immediately preorder the next game by the company with false promises. These companies need to feel the effect of releasing terrible, unfinished cash grabs.

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

Why Is Redfall SO BAD?! (Ft. Zanny)

[@mikeharris6429]

Game developers would probably sue for defamation

[@SixthUsername]

@@mikeharris6429 That's not even close to what defamation is

[@Furyfrags]

I like how a fucking roblox game i play(rise of the dead) at least interesting things to do plus walk cycles and stuff. Sure no va's and all but hell at least its better than redfall. Like how can a game with a SINGLE dev be better than a studio with multiple devs and the same amount of dev time? Plus more money and plus better equipment to work with? AND THEY ARE CHARGING HUMAN MONEY FOR IT? 60 WHOLE DOLLARS?(in rotd total gamepasses are like 7 bucks total) id rather buy ace combat with that money. What is happenning to this world

[@elastichedgehog6339]

Geoff would never go for that in my opinion.

[@uforocker1488]

You know the video is going to be 2x entertaining when you got Zanny with you

[@jamesgames3969]

Act Man and Zanny collabs is something i never knew i needed

[@Shunpon77]

Not only did the "worst game of the year" drop age poorly, the insert "are you sure about that" ages even worse! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@dontshootmex5588]

For all it's flaws, at least Redfall gave us a legendary Act Man slideshow cutscene. 10/10 Haven't laughed that much in weeks.

[@MichaeltheORIGINAL1]

I almost died in my chair lol

[@TheActMan]

Gotta look on the bright side of things 😂

[@kingjaffe9339]

It’s sad when we’re at a point in gaming where we are more shocked when a game is actually good instead of being ass

[@nihaalsandim9986]

Lmao , enter modern day gaming

[@Lenariet]

Play indie.

[@brandonhaag52]

Love the amount of people hanging out with Zanny!

[@mirrorglassgames]

I myself have actually made a still-image slideshow cutscene using unreal engine. It took less than a day to make, and all they did was modify the Post processing and fog volume on UE4 to add the blue tint to their cutscenes. In fact, you could learn how to do it in less than a day with a couple of youtube tutorials

[@rasengdori13]

Jason Schreier’s expose article on this game’s development only shows that Modern Gaming needs a complete shakeup of higher ups and management. Most developers are quite literally trying their best, but are getting screwed over by the decisions of their bosses.

[@Marksman3434]

It’s unfortunately too late unless the entire system changes. Video game studios are just another example of their industry becoming too corporate and MBA-driven just like almost every industry has in the last 40 years since the deregulation of corporatism has exploded and anti-Unionization has become the norm. A shake-up in the entire system is needed across ALL industries, not just video games. A stand has to be taken against all these ignorant-ass business suits who just care about profits for the lowest amount of effort and investment possible and don’t know shit about creativity and game development

[@rasengdori13]

@@Marksman3434 Yep. Socialist restructuring and government intervention is the only way to fix it at this point. Game devs need to unionize, and federal regulation needs to be applied against companies and executives that release games in this state as an incentive to stop doing it. There needs to be REAL consequences and accountability when a game like RedFall is allowed to release.

[@freddyfazbear1334]

“We are concerned that Redfall may be replicating the experience for which the Callisto Protocol is known for”

[@demonsmoke1788]

I love how you added the "splash" noise when you transitioned between the shots you made, just like the game lmao

[@LogMeInGoddamnit]

I think the worst problem the game had was that it tried to be a Borderlands type of loot & shoot but made none of the guns fun or satisfying enough that you'd want to find legendary versions of them. If you're going to have a loot table, make it mean something. And the skills! How can you make none of the skills interesting enough to want to level them up!? Just a flat experience that could have been so much more. :/

[@dominicscreativefilms]

YongYea did a video recently about how the behind the scenes for redfall surfaced and it sounds like they already felt the writing on the wall years before this game’s release. Due to the lacking sales of their recent titles, upper management wanted to due something more broad and mainstream (aka coop live service shooter), but Arkane didn’t have much experience in that (Kinda like Bioware with Anthem). Apparently they were even hoping the game would be canceled or at least changed to a single player experience but the upper management actually thought it looked neat ☠️

[@kemalrizaldy8307]

And 70% OG employee of Arkane already left the studio before Redfall's release because of how hostile the workplace environment become Correct me if i'm wrong...

[@kosrules1884]

​@Kemal Rizaldy Kind of can't blame them considering how Bethesda screwed up with fallout 76, and this was in development before microsoft even acquired them.And Bethesda had pissided off the the guy how made the music for the doom games.

[@IgorSantos-im1nr]

Anthem was worse. Dev during game show: “wow that game looks cool, which studio is making?” “In theory, it is us. That’s our game and you’ll program it” “Oh…” They made a trailer with 0 gameplay, with no ideia of what they could actually do.

[@silvialuzmia]

​@@IgorSantos-im1nridk why this is so funny to me

[@ItsMrAssholeToYou]

7:11 Anyone else notice the pop-in...IN A PRE-RENDERED, LOW-FI CUTSCENE?!! Holy hell...

[@darthplagueis13]

From my understanding, the issue was that the old Zenimax executives insisted on pushing Arkane into making a live service multiplayer game and gave them contradictive reference material. Redfall was supposed to do all the popular things because that would help inflate the price in a future acquisition, even though it was nothing like the kind of game that the devs at Arkane would have wanted to make to the point where 70% of the devs that had worked on Prey straight-up left. So the game was already a hot mess in the hands of a gutted studio when Microsoft bought them and that's where their policy of letting studios do their own thing came back to bite them, because Redfall really would have needed a soft reboot to become something even remotely playable.

[@finnfin]

This! this is now my headcanon about the events behind the scenes of redfall. It just clicks and makes the most sense.

[@Dr.Oofers]

⁠​⁠@@finnfinI think it *is* cannon. Arkane is the result of publishers/execs being the problem. Giving contradicting references can make devs confused and make them constantly ask the execs for approval or just be nervous to do anything. I think I remember reading an article about the game’s development, apparently Arkane devs were asking for Microsoft (during the acquisition) to step in and either set the record straight so they don’t have to worry about making the “wrong game”, or cancel the game so they can work on something else.

[@mravg79]

I hope this will be the last of games with such approach we got fallout 76, wolfenstein the young blood and redfall. I get that in some cases owners (MS) in this case give the subsidiaries creative freedom, but this does not always produce a good result. On the other hand studios should have some (I know some is not very precise term) degree of freedom in what they want to create. Without it we would most probably not see games like Pentiment or HiFi Rush.

[@sobble_p]

please do more AVGN quotes for the games you review. the quotes are always surprisingly relevant and hilarious despite a decent amount of the older episodes approaching over 15 years old now