Jeesh
Jeesh
It's 5 pts lower than my score. I didn't say shit about their review or the score.They don't know what they're talking about, clearly.
Quoting and posting again because it's too important not to. This industry has to have higher standards again, and we as consumers have the power to change it.The no standards crew are truly the worst group of people that are involved in this medium (or any entertainment medium for that matter). What these attitudes result in is many a great studio and individual lowering the standards for the work they are willing to produce despite them having once strived for (and reached/exceeded) greatness. They were once studios who only sought to produce excellence but now they are more than willing to produce crap. Why and how does that happen? Because at one point in time, we didn't demand better, we accepted and excused work that is not of the standard we had come to expect up until that point. Everything gets dragged down by you, look in the mirror.
Both Xbox and Arkane should and need to be held to higher standards than this. The former because of the financial resources available and the latter because of the talent and innovation they have demonstrated and delivered for decades.
This poster has been accidentally playing Prey all along, what a Chad.Atmosphere is 10/10
Gunplay is 8/10
Music is 9/10
Level design is 9/10.
Holy mackerel there's a lot of arguing about a shit game.Upon taking the advice of some people here this is now how I wish to consume my spaghetti:
Taste buds? What tastebuds? Food is food.
Perfect timing for this video and perfect game.
Perfect timing for this video and perfect game.
I refuse to pump up any sales/engagement numbers - they do not deserve to be rewarded for what has been produced (sorry not sorry for having standards), I've seen and heard enough. This is not the standard that I've come to expect from Arkane, nor do I want this to be the benchmark for them going forward ("oh, at least it's better than Redfall").
The no standards crew are truly the worst group of people that are involved in this medium (or any entertainment medium for that matter). What these attitudes result in is many a great studio and individual lowering the standards for the work they are willing to produce despite them having once strived for (and reached/exceeded) greatness. They were once studios who only sought to produce excellence but now they are more than willing to produce crap. Why and how does that happen? Because at one point in time, we didn't demand better, we accepted and excused work that is not of the standard we had come to expect up until that point. Everything gets dragged down by you, look in the mirror.
Both Xbox and Arkane should and need to be held to higher standards than this. The former because of the financial resources available and the latter because of the talent and innovation they have demonstrated and delivered for decades.
Good thing you are sticking to the high standards you set for yourself, Arkane and all of us gamers and fighting the good fight!The games Arkane typically make are not "FPS games". At this point I could be curt, but I'll refrain and simply state that you should play their previous work starting with dark messiah of might and magic if possible (if not then dishonored). You will then understand what I mean by my first sentence.
Which brings me nicely to my next point - you clearly don't have to be playing and defending Redfall so what exactly is going on here? By your own admission you don't really buy "fps games", so why are you wasting your time with this when it's pretty much the only game they have ever made that is exactly that without anything else present that went into their previous work? And why would you opt to play this over their previous work when all are of much better quality and you have access to pretty much all of them on gamepass?
Make it make sense.
Based on what you've demonstrated regarding this game, probably all of them.
I will say the most depressing part about Redfall to me is the fact that Arkane were one of the few mainstream-ish studios left that had faith in their players' intelligence. Playing Redfall felt like I was mourning another studio that was holding onto a specific old-school vision of gaming getting steamrolled. Watching Arkane double-down on perceived modernisms and just totally failing was even sadder than the game just being shit in general. It's like you can see Arkane's spirit exit their body when you play this game.
Yes, but a 6/10 game this is not.
Good thing you are sticking to the high standards you set for yourself, Arkane and all of us gamers and fighting the good fight!
Ahhh, but wait, I see you can like a game that doesn't get stellar reviews as well, and even recommend that game to another gamer. And it's an Arkane game!
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (PC): 72% Link
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (X360): 52% Link
Other high standard Arkane games:
Wolfenstein Youngblood: 63, 69, 68 (PS4, PC & XB1)
Arx Fatalis: 77, 71 (PC & XB)
So ya, Arkane games are a crap shoot, so buyer beware. BTW, I personally enjoyed Arx Fatalis, so if a gamer likes dungeon crawler RPGs, they may enjoy Arx Fatalis.
People should have standards. It's a basic principle of life and I'm not going to be a bystander watching people excuse substandard crap which only has the net effect of dragging standards down across the whole industry.
When companies get excused and rewarded for this kind of work it sends the wrong signal - "Redfall did it, they got away with it and still made money so who cares".
Some of us were here to try and push back on DLC, microtransactions, lootboxes, crappy PC ports, etc and look at how all of that has turned out.
When a small proportion of people live in mud huts and shit on the street it makes the whole neighbourhood smell.
I'm not "man and woman of the people", far from it.
If you told me 3 years ago that Microsoft would open up their cheque book and have Arkane make a AAA game for them this is not what I or anyone else who has appreciated Arkane's previous work would expect.
That's a different issue entirely.
No, this is like Nolan releasing a movie that is of the style and standard of a Sandler movie and then people saying "this is fine". You think Nolan is still going to bother with his painstaking attention to detail from that point forward?
Typical xbox fans always fling the “console fanboy” mud. Now you are playing victim. Grow a pair.So you have no answer. Before I move on from this, let's just highlight the fact that your whole theory that supposedly justifies your bullying and arrogant attitude is based on this theory that makes literally no sense. When pushed back even the slightest bit, you just throw out a generalized bullshit non-answer that says nothing.
Well good, because your whole entire premise was ridiculous and it was impossible to answer sanely. If you can come up with the specific games I played that ruined gaming and led to the downfall of Arkane, let us all know. Otherwise just leave me alone because you're confidently repeating complete crap that makes no sense.
I know the general style of what they make. I intend to play them all since they're on GP. Have Deathloop installed and I know Dishonored are their best ones.
I'm playing Redfall because I wanted to try it out. I like vampires. Turns out the game is a decent mid-tier AA shooter with a lot of issues. I'm having fun with it despite some bugs and definite lack of optimization graphically, and I'll be finished in time for Zelda.
Typical cowardly bully bullshit. Constantly insult people over and over because you're too stupid to have a normal conversation, and then call people weaklings when they point out your constant trash posting. You can always spot the cowards because they can only argue with people when they're getting dog piled. They don't tend to have an original thought very often.Typical xbox fans always fling the “console fanboy” mud. Now you are playing victim. Grow a pair.
We haven't gotten a MS funded project yet. What we've gotten was a MS inherited project that almost surely was a multi-platform live service game that got pigeonholed into a SP "console exclusive" because MS needed bodies on the beach.
No it isn't. Your premise is that these nuclear-hot games that get released are a "net drag" (paraphrasing your words) on the industry as a whole. I just tossed out three games I've personally been playing the shart out of (as well as not a small amount of time in REDFALL), two of which are not "niche" in the slightest (AOW4 is doing good bidness on STEAM and is on consoles for goodness sake) and neither of which get neatly tucked into this gloom and doom about industry gaming standards.
Creatives do this all the time. Sandler himself has done UNCUT GEMS and PUNCHDRUNK LOVE. Both fantastic films sandwiched between a ton of trash films that no one put a gun to Sandler's head to make.
I was really confused by Death Stranding before release. It really did seem like this bizarre sci-fi post office simulator leading up to release. And it actually is a bizarre sci-fi post office simulator. Except, it's amazing. But it's also the exception that proves the rule - there are no games like it, and you really had to play it to see how it works.G, I get what you're trying to say but...let's use Death Stranding in this case, a game which had :
- State of the art graphics
- Excellent OST
- Interesting new mechanics/tried new things
- Bonkers story which also tried some new things/strayed from normal video game cliches
- Had ACTUAL gameplay and not only "walking" like stealth and action bits plus, ginormous boss-battles.
...and what happened ? the usual hate circle jerking with people spouting "Kojima is a hack ! " / "Kojima lost it ! " / "60 Eurodollars Walking simulator LOL " / " Enjoy your 50 hour walking sim Sony ponies LMFAO !1!1 " ad infinitum...
Even if you dared to reply "have you actually played the fucking game ? " ('cause 99% were drawing their "opinion" from YouTube videos) you were met with replies in the vein of "LOL why/how are you even enjoying it?" it's like...you weren't even allowed by these people to actually enjoy the game - the same "low standards" excuse was used by them, like, it was impossible for them to even comprehend that the game was enjoyable and/or that you actually were having fun with it...
Just the other day, a "warrior" in this very forum used DS in a "warZ list" as to "demonstrate" how shit some Sony releases have been in the past also
What I'm trying to say is...some times there's assholes and trolls, sometimes circle jerking and hate brigades are inevitable when it comes to "shit game of the month" (most recently Forspoken and Redfall) and sometimes is all a matter of perspective.
You can enjoy mediocre games , telling others though that they should or shouldn't like something is no bueno though, just saying bro...
Cheers
Who’s insulting who? Oh wait you called GHG a fucking psycho. You sure you want to still play that bully card?Typical cowardly bully bullshit. Constantly insult people over and over because you're too stupid to have a normal conversation, and then call people weaklings when they point out your constant trash posting. You can always spot the cowards because they can only argue with people when they're getting dog piled. They don't tend to have an original thought very often.
Let it go and shut the fuck up. Another person I literally never initiate a conversation with.Who’s insulting who? Oh wait you called GHG a fucking psycho. You sure you want to still play that bully card?
Who’s insulting who? Oh wait you called GHG a fucking psycho. You sure you want to still play that bully card?
I mean I legitimately think Deathloop sucks, yeah. Is it a hot mess? No, I think Redfall is a hot mess. But Deathloop is just kind of a lame, bungled Dishonored offshoot.Deathloop was far more guilty of this. First 5 hrs are basically tutorial.
Perfect timing for this video and perfect game.
Typical cowardly bully bullshit. Constantly insult people over and over because you're too stupid to have a normal conversation, and then call people weaklings when they point out your constant trash posting. You can always spot the cowards because they can only argue with people when they're getting dog piled. They don't tend to have an original thought very often.
I get that Death Stranding is not everyone's cup of tea, it's an acquired taste, for sure.People talking about Death Stranding in a redfall thread triggers me and makes me cringe.
I ate like five plates of crow with Death Stranding. I was absolutely laughing at the early game footage like where's the fucking gameplay guyz. First time I sat down with it with my eyes already rolling, I ended up playing something like 5 or 6 hours straight until the sun came up and I had to step away.I was really confused by Death Stranding before release. It really did seem like this bizarre sci-fi post office simulator leading up to release. And it actually is a bizarre sci-fi post office simulator. Except, it's amazing. But it's also the exception that proves the rule - there are no games like it, and you really had to play it to see how it works.
There is nothing unique about Redfall, it's just a crappy, buggy, open world action game. Games like Division and Far Cry do everything it does and way better. Now if you are in the mood to play a crappy open world action game, I'm not going to stop you, it's your life, but sometimes crap is crap.
People talking about Death Stranding in a redfall thread triggers me and makes me cringe.
I ate like five plates of crow with Death Stranding. I was absolutely laughing at the early game footage like where's the fucking gameplay guyz. First time I sat down with it with my eyes already rolling, I ended up playing something like 5 or 6 hours straight until the sun came up and I had to step away.
It's one of my games of the gen and I absolutely love it, warts and all, and I still have a hard time quantifying what it so damn addictive and captivating about it. I'm the first to bitch about "open world busy work bullshit" and all that too. Such a satisfying and addictive game.
dude you’re better than this, hopefully you come back more like the poster you were before all this insanityTypical cowardly bully bullshit. Constantly insult people over and over because you're too stupid to have a normal conversation, and then call people weaklings when they point out your constant trash posting. You can always spot the cowards because they can only argue with people when they're getting dog piled. They don't tend to have an original thought very often.
In defence of Miku, at least he actually plays these games unlike Mage and Sage.Unfortunately, this is the pattern my friend:
If you want better (maybe you don't?) then you need to demand better.
As it has already been brought to your attention, Youngblood is Machine Games with help from Arkane.Good thing you are sticking to the high standards you set for yourself, Arkane and all of us gamers and fighting the good fight!
Ahhh, but wait, I see you can like a game that doesn't get stellar reviews as well, and even recommend that game to another gamer. And it's an Arkane game!
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (PC): 72% Link
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (X360): 52% Link
Other high standard Arkane games:
Wolfenstein Youngblood: 63, 69, 68 (PS4, PC & XB1)
Arx Fatalis: 77, 71 (PC & XB)
So ya, Arkane games are a crap shoot, so buyer beware. BTW, I personally enjoyed Arx Fatalis, so if a gamer likes dungeon crawler RPGs, they may enjoy Arx Fatalis.
No it isn't "a good thing".It seems Gamepass allows that at a relatively low cost of engagement, and that's a good thing.
Let it go and shut the fuck up. Another person I literally never initiate a conversation with.
Punished Miku , for what it's worth, I enjoy reading your assessments of games, including overall bad games that turn out to have some redeeming qualities. It seems Gamepass allows that at a relatively low cost of engagement, and that's a good thing. For myself, I couldn't get past the first couple of hours with Redfall, but I'm still looking forward to your assessment of it when you're done.
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Like I said, I love that game and even I can't fault people for bouncing off...or bouncing off hard. It's a really weird and super-specific game in terms of the itch it scratches imo.Told you guys this shill was an A-hole ...and you still tried to defend him ...
On the side topic... man I wish i liked death stranding ... played a couple of hours on the ps5 version and couldn't get into it ... maybe ill try another time ...
Damn, not Punished Miku!??
As a FedEx Driver during the pandemic in LA after a 10-12 hour shift, I would come home and relax playing Death Stranding.I ate like five plates of crow with Death Stranding. I was absolutely laughing at the early game footage like where's the fucking gameplay guyz. First time I sat down with it with my eyes already rolling, I ended up playing something like 5 or 6 hours straight until the sun came up and I had to step away.
It's one of my games of the gen and I absolutely love it, warts and all, and I still have a hard time quantifying what it so damn addictive and captivating about it. I'm the first to bitch about "open world busy work bullshit" and all that too. Such a satisfying and addictive game.
He'll be back. It was just temporary.Damn, not Punished Miku!??
Worth a Buy raises an important point!
My favorite part is how I have a stressful-ass day, get home and want to relax and instantly start playing Hunt: Showdown for hours.As a FedEx Driver during the pandemic in LA after a 10-12 hour shift, I would come home and relax playing Death Stranding.
Basically me:
Raph was the studio founder but I would caution against giving him or any one person primary visionary credit for Arkane's body of work. He was more of the executive producer than a guy was directing games.I just found out one of the main guys at Arkane left after Prey and before Deathloop.
I'm not sure how you felt about Deathloop, but I didn't like it
I'm not even gonna play Redfall now.
The Arkane we know and love may be gone.
Because it's a crappy game.I get that Death Stranding is not everyone's cup of tea, it's an acquired taste, for sure.
But how the hell can it be possibly brought up in this trash tiered, downright insulting in current year launch of a game's thread?
Redfall, true.Because it's a crappy game.