Funny when I fought that one it’s went through it mist form no problem honestly this games good and all the negative reviews are really whining about ai the ai are civilians ones that were enslaved they are terrified each weopan has a effective range they try to move into to maximize their damage but at the end of the day Im a soldier trained to kill they are civilians expecting military grade intelligence from cultists who are terrified and have to bring you in alive(something I noticed the reviews never mentioned it’s literally said within the first ten minutes of the game the queen vamp says it herself) they have to bring you in alive or the vampires won’t take their offering and let them participate in something called a blood trance I’ve been eavesdropping on vampires and cultists what ever it is, it has some kind of religious importance and to their thralls at least seems to be the first step towards being a vampire, this game has so much lore in the environment and it is good I recommend playing it on new gen Xbox because what he’s encountering I haven’t seen once
As someone brand new to game design in unreal engine, an AI that can’t even route a path to the player is INSANE. That’s like a 15 minute UA-cam tutorial.
It's not the pathfinding, it's that when the vampire raycasts to the player to figure out if the range is correct, it doesn't check if there's an object in between, so it just gets stuck in an agro loop. Or something like that.
Still pretty generic, but code can get much more complicated to implement in full games than in a UE project lmao. Still arcane shouldn't release unfinished games.
@@fujtkrisztian in the words of DJ Khalid, “congratulations, you played yourself.” Yes you just reiterated my point perfectly. Something as small as an unreal hobby project can successfully pull off proper path finding (possibly through raytracing, nav mesh, etc.) whereas this released title created in Unreal by a team of people can’t seem to sort it out. Thanks for your comment and the added clarity it provided!
@@InkFold I just said that it's not the pathfinding and the fact that you can pull it off in an unreal project don't mean shit. 💀 Not how it works bro 😂
The issue is that "gamers" spend this amount of money routinely on games that are not worth it. The kind of morons who dip into the cash shop of a game that they already pay monthly for and are always keeping up with the battlepass. If consumers didn't enable this behavior it wouldn't be profitable and therefore wouldn't exist. Looking at you, mobile games.
I don't think we can put the blame on mobile games here. Horse Armor from oblivion, Maps packs from CoD, card packs (loot boxes) from FIFA, all of that enabled this behavior and we let them get away with it. Mobile games just adopted what already worked.@@AdamOwenBrowning
I didn't know that the only factor for a game was Cutscenes. You could, despite this, look at Arkane's work in Dishonored. The scenes are slide sequences too.
I like how they made sure the protagonist sounds as wooden as possible to stave off vampires. Very smart move, and it really shows how deep and thoughtful the writing is. Deadass.
12:29, the comedic timing of searching the whole room, turning around to see a clueless vampire, and being greeted with "I know where you are" is comedy gold
@@douglasdalini4932 i read his comment and saw he had a reply, thinking it would agree on a similar level or offer other scenarios, no i get the funniest word from this game and laughing my ass off. The amount of “deadass” comments is hilarious, this game flopped hard. Edit: So this is what its like to get likes on a comment. I only get 1 or 2 a comment, here UA-cam stopped telling me about likes.
It baffles me how they still not learn people dislike that kind of snarky/sarcastic cool-wannabe speaking. Just look how Back 4 Blood, Forspoken, Gotham Knight, Borderlands 3, Saints Row Reboot turn out, almost nobody likes them..
Actually the vampires lack of ability to move around forklifts is a subtle storytelling trick. You see, the vampire ancestor never finished his forklift certification and so all the vampires were cursed to become confused whenever humans use forklifts as cover. Trust me, it’s in the lore.
I like how the vampire yelled "No" when it literally got disintegrated. Weird. It can't find its way around a box, but it can find the words to say as it turns to nothing. 10/10 GOAT
Source engine I thought was a super solid changed over the years type engine that came from goldSRC and that came from quake. But as I'm typing this.... I'm remembering the backwards bunny hopping and air strafing and other things lol
also funny that they did most of the games on passion and desire to experiment, since every their game has an game's theme in it (l4d2 - horde simulation and ripping, tf2 - artstyle, character creation, csgo - competitive settings). while modern games just try to have cool graphics and an "compelling" story
Wow this looks like a solid indie game demo. Can’t wait for the dev to finish it. Wait, what? It’s a $70 game made by the same people who made Prey? Where did we go wrong?
Honestly makes me embarrassed to be an Unreal Engine developer. AI is pretty difficult to do well but like... seeing them not being able to walk around objects just makes me wonder what the heck they are doing, path finding is literally built into the engine.
It always hurts to think that for every bad game out there, someone had a vision. Someone had a cool idea for a vampire game they wanted to make, and they had to watch slowly turn into this. Ouch
@@TheGLaDOSvideoCore it’s sad that AAA games from over 10 years ago (Skyrim for example) were not only cheaper but far more enjoyable to play than the trash that gets released today, what is going on?
@@deadphilix1671 Shitty corporate management combined with shitty corporate culture invading the development process. The Developer's used to have significantly more leeway for their projects than they do today, where every marketing executive who thinks he or she understands what makes a good product because they did some entirely useless marketing (for product development) focused degree and their daddy knows somebody high enough up to get them employed at a high level immediately. They start shoving elements, usually based on some boardroom meeting checklists about what's popular in the industry or seems to be trending in the public mind (obviously taken from social media trends now), into the dev process in order to make a more "marketable product" no matter if they fit the project or even worsen the concept significantly by their inclusion. If you think about this alongside the fact that developer's are constantly forced to crunch because management arbitrarily shortens deadline's no matter what the estimated development time is given to them as, the fact that none of these upper management ever see consequences for their inability to do their job properly, and that the development studio's are usually gutted after a less successful release to ensure executive bonuses, it doesn't really seem preposterous that games would SIGNIFICANTLY decline in quality. There's no place for creativity and passion in an industry dominated by corporate culture and which is steadily being monopolized by mega publishers like Blizzard Activision or Bethesda as we speak. We saw this occur early on with EA (the studio killer themselves) and titles like Dead Space 3 that were ruined because the original design concept was cut apart and sewn back together with NTX, Coop mechanics (thank the success of Gears for that), and other out of place mechanics combined with a lack of development time and arbitrary changes to the story and mechanics of the game (like an unnecessary love triangle and the ending being cut short), and you have a game that effectively kill's a franchise. But are the upper management held responsible? Nope, the studio dissolves, most are fired or absorbed into other studios, and over time creativity is replaced with stock game development as management dictates that their other studio's make carbon copies of whatever seemed successful to those ever tumorous marketing executives. It's really the same in every industry. Film has been seeing this recently with, say, the Disney franchises just being a dumpster fire in most cases and simply stagnant and unappealing at best, so they shake up the infrastructure, but the people really responsible, like Kathleen Kennedy, aren't going anywhere. This is why extremely talented studio's like Raven are stuck churning out mediocre and bland products by their corporate overlord's. Because the latter are incompetent and can't see anything past the promise of immediate profits.
except that we have seen 1 mad lad making a product 10 to the power of 10 times better than this crap, so the bar cannot be set low enough for Red Fall garbage to pass.
Extremely unlikely they still have the same talent from 10-years ago. Even 5-years is a long time in the industry. This game screams too many corporate interests trying to make a game to sell but never really having an identity or target audience.
I'm very thankful for the protagonist, constantly telling me how I should feel during story scenes. Without that kind of input I wouldn't know what to think.
I remember, in Half-Life 1, I was astounded by the marvel of AI that, rather than rushing me blindly, was capable of realizing I was in cover and throwing grenades to flush me out. It feels like it was just yesterday... *November 19, 1998.*
And the enemies were a real danger by themselves - if you're not careful with soldiers, they will easily destroy you even on Normal difficulty, and every fight felt like a real fight, escpecially because of the amount of ammo on the map.
@@xevenxaver4759 they advertised the game incorrectly and marketed it like it was legit but its not, cant blame customers for being mislead by a company with a good track record
Good luck getting the judge to even understand what the lawsuit is about. That's probably the only reason companies get to get away with this. They know judges are too old to understand how video games even work.
@@lacuna3894 how about consoomers actually wait until reviews are out instead of pre-ordering as soon as they see their favorite AAA dev pop up at the beginning of the trailer
Or that the writers aren't going to be held responsible for their shitty writing, they'll just get to keep shitting out turds because of the writer's union
The vast majority of AAA games are that way these days. Just unfinished husks taped together with promises of what they game may eventually be like - or maybe not.
Dude I swear, they just had an AI code this shit and never tested it. They had to have. How the fuck could ANYONE thats EVER played a video game think this is acceptable.
me and my buddies had to restart the game 3 goddamn times because one time the first quest perma bugged and the other time i could never pick up any guns LOL
You know you've got a gem on your hands when you get dialogue like "Oh shit, not these guys. They're legit evil." or "But now they're sacrificing their neighbors to those monsters, deadass."
Normal version of playing stealth: mostly melee attacks Sir Charles version of stealth, or as he calls it stelth: punch the living hell out of the enemy
As long as the AI is good enough to find you when you stand 1 meter away from the enemy without any obstacles in-between, the AI is too difficult for modern game journalists.
it isnt the highest dif highest dif is unlocked way later this doesnt even look like normal to me since vampires allways teleport behind u and humans constantly swarm so yeah nice try
Difficulty just decreases the players attack while increasing the enemies defence and attack. the ai never improves with difficulty in the vast majority of games.
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This honestly looks like a game you would find in a game exchange deal that has been dead for 9 years but since you're bored you decide to play it and complete it in 4 hours to then realize youve lost those 4 hours and then leaving the game in a drawer for ever
The "cutscenes" are seriously stripped right out of infamous 2. They somehow made a nostalgia piece making us remember a time where a box was the most op tool in the game 😂
"So, let me get this straight. I’m somewhere trapped inside a mysterious island that doesn't look like my world, I’m seeing freaking vampires, and oh yeah, my ex-boyfriend is a vampire too! Yeah, okay, that is something I do now. I use my telekinetic powers, kill jacked-up cultists, I’ll probably go to my next mission."
“now they’re sacrificing their neighbors to those monsters, DEADASS” it sounds like they hired some boomer to study off of Urban dictionary to create the dialogue for this game.
As someone right on the verge of going into the game industry as an underling this 70$ peak game design masterpiece gives me hope that the entry bar won't be as high as I thought
Eh.. theres so many good indie and AA game studios making amazing stuff. Its dumb to let trash like this take away our faith in the good industry that is most definitely still there.
Well the $70 price tag on dogshit titles still takes tons of man hours, which instead of putting it into quality control, they just force people to work on the games to get them done and on shelves as quickly as possible. So expect looooong days, tight schedules, depression, anxiety, and bad pay.
I know, I was just playing Left 4 Dead 2 before this review came out and that beats this hands down when it comes to animations. Dishonored 1 looks newer than this
It's the devils bargain that comes from being a big, publicly traded company. Eventually you stop growing and the investors get pissy so you have to either raise your prices or cut costs.
The Virgin Vampire: Can’t even find their way around a car No Rizz Pathetic even on highest difficulty The Chad Power Cable: Waits for his enemies to come to him Is a literal stationary object, yet can evaporate his enemies in seconds Can kill more people than a legion of vampires and armed cultists (1 is greater than 0)
At this point. I’m not even surprised anymore. There’s a reason I never pre order anything triple A and wait for reviews. Just endless failures have left me numb
This isnt just a last gen problem i think its going to be an ongoing thing untill people as consumers start to force change but at the same time its hard to just tell everyone one stop buying ,playing and making video games
Feels like they put all their developers with burnout in one team and went "You have a year to make a 70$ game or your fired" and this is just malicious compliance.
Which is extra weird since I distinctly recall when the name "Redfall" was trademarked by Bethesda and how people were freaking out since it wasn't too long after the tease for TES VI and people were speculating it was the name they gave to it (a bit weird in terms of naming convention but it was a really cool title regardless which would have some neat lore interpretation between fall of the Redguard or fall of the Empire etc), so much so that until very recently I still didn't know Redfall was the name given to another game. But all of that means that they already had the title set quite a few years ago, which means that they realistically should have been on the final stages of pre production at that time (the definitive title is rarely the first thing you find for a project unless it's something that already had an idea behind that needed to be greenlit; but seeing how the game turned out I really doubt it was the passion project of someone at the studio that they pitched to see it come through, or if it was, the people in question left a long time ago). There is something deeply wrong with this game, I wouldn't be surprised if we learn that there has been some massive drama behind the scenes, it really looks like the result of constant redraft that strained ressources thin and not a single vision coming through
@@sephikong8323 considering all that happened around the time 76 was being made I'm guessing it was the big brain IQs at Zenimax deciding every game was going to be live service because having 2 mobile apps and a whole MMO wasn't enough. They also made quake a shitty hero shooter to compete with the overwatch/eSports scene. Hopefully with the Microsoft buyout all future projects will be something the devs actually want to make but we'll see
The most compelling line of monologue I've ever heard in a...cutscene? Am I allowed to call that a cutscene?...was "This is getting so weird. Well. Weirder." Amazing, that gave me chills! Tears! These game devs are based, deadass.
I couldn’t help but notice the “deadass” line, they really know how to reach out to the audience and say “Hey we get it, we are just like you, dead ass”
@patchmoulton5438 Right?! That was truly momentous, and her delivery of that line deserves an award! Did you hear the part where she says "Seriously? I mean, seriously?! Ugh..." Absolutely stellar performance, move aside Tara Strong there's a new voice actress on the throne
The vampire being unable to get around or through the forklift boils down to it not being Forklift Certified.
Let's say someone like me who is forklift certified, gets turned into a vampire, would my vampire-self be able to get through?
@@hedmeddig Once forklift certified, always forklift certified.
@@hedmeddig you wouldn't be a vampire. Cause vampires no better than to mess with someone forklift certified
blessed be the Osha regulations
Funny when I fought that one it’s went through it mist form no problem honestly this games good and all the negative reviews are really whining about ai the ai are civilians ones that were enslaved they are terrified each weopan has a effective range they try to move into to maximize their damage but at the end of the day Im a soldier trained to kill they are civilians expecting military grade intelligence from cultists who are terrified and have to bring you in alive(something I noticed the reviews never mentioned it’s literally said within the first ten minutes of the game the queen vamp says it herself) they have to bring you in alive or the vampires won’t take their offering and let them participate in something called a blood trance I’ve been eavesdropping on vampires and cultists what ever it is, it has some kind of religious importance and to their thralls at least seems to be the first step towards being a vampire, this game has so much lore in the environment and it is good I recommend playing it on new gen Xbox because what he’s encountering I haven’t seen once
Imagine paying $70 for a character to say "Deadass" in the most corporate-speak voice youve ever heard during a cutscene
80euros in Eu.This shit should be illegal.
timestamp?
Deadass
@@alejandrososa3168 dead ass*
@@skipthefox4858 7:40
As someone brand new to game design in unreal engine, an AI that can’t even route a path to the player is INSANE. That’s like a 15 minute UA-cam tutorial.
Yeah I think they messed up some code
It's not the pathfinding, it's that when the vampire raycasts to the player to figure out if the range is correct, it doesn't check if there's an object in between, so it just gets stuck in an agro loop. Or something like that.
Still pretty generic, but code can get much more complicated to implement in full games than in a UE project lmao.
Still arcane shouldn't release unfinished games.
@@fujtkrisztian in the words of DJ Khalid, “congratulations, you played yourself.”
Yes you just reiterated my point perfectly. Something as small as an unreal hobby project can successfully pull off proper path finding (possibly through raytracing, nav mesh, etc.) whereas this released title created in Unreal by a team of people can’t seem to sort it out. Thanks for your comment and the added clarity it provided!
@@InkFold I just said that it's not the pathfinding and the fact that you can pull it off in an unreal project don't mean shit. 💀
Not how it works bro 😂
The fact that this game has mobile games level of cutscene and it demands you to pay 70 dollars for it is incredibly hillarious.
Hell even some mobile game have cutscene doe
The issue is that "gamers" spend this amount of money routinely on games that are not worth it. The kind of morons who dip into the cash shop of a game that they already pay monthly for and are always keeping up with the battlepass.
If consumers didn't enable this behavior it wouldn't be profitable and therefore wouldn't exist. Looking at you, mobile games.
I don't think we can put the blame on mobile games here. Horse Armor from oblivion, Maps packs from CoD, card packs (loot boxes) from FIFA, all of that enabled this behavior and we let them get away with it. Mobile games just adopted what already worked.@@AdamOwenBrowning
I didn't know that the only factor for a game was Cutscenes. You could, despite this, look at Arkane's work in Dishonored. The scenes are slide sequences too.
Have you seen some mobile games? That's an insult to mobile games.
Okay the idea of a vampire being scared of boxes due them being made out of wood is legit a rather funny concept. Wood anxiety.
I wonder if they seem to have a problem with pantry doors
My farts are better than Charlie's farts.
Xylophobia, fear of wooden objects or forests.
@@annalarsen6059 That seems to be more wooded areas, then wood in general but it does sound like it should e the fear of Xylophones. haha
stake baits in VTM be like :
I like how they made sure the protagonist sounds as wooden as possible to stave off vampires. Very smart move, and it really shows how deep and thoughtful the writing is. Deadass.
love the "deadass"
There are 4 protags and jacob is thankfully much better, but still a mad average game
Perchance.
I wouldn't even be surprised if Arkane actually hired ChatGPT to write most of the game's dialogue.
@@Noelle_Holiday chatgtp would do a better job, deadass
12:29, the comedic timing of searching the whole room, turning around to see a clueless vampire, and being greeted with "I know where you are" is comedy gold
Can you actually read xd
@@RatKing2137 what do you even mean by this? what message are you trying to convey?
@@JarvisTDP Can you actually read xd
@@leobriccocola8141 Oh thanks
I love how the turret can't detect Charlie an inch behind but the moment he hacks it, it does a perfect 180 and perfectly locks onto a vampire.
That raycast line from the front does positively nothing but be a decoration.
Wow this game sucks. I say its worth 10 bucks tops. Even at that price I would just rather shop around for something older on steam.
This game would be really impressive if it was a single dev project being sold for 10$
deadass
@@douglasdalini4932 i read his comment and saw he had a reply, thinking it would agree on a similar level or offer other scenarios, no i get the funniest word from this game and laughing my ass off. The amount of “deadass” comments is hilarious, this game flopped hard.
Edit: So this is what its like to get likes on a comment. I only get 1 or 2 a comment, here UA-cam stopped telling me about likes.
Was thinking the same thing
@@douglasdalini4932 7:29
@@itsoctotv that’s exactly how I read it in my head, lol
I'm glad she let me know they're "legit" evil, I was curious to how evil they actually were.
😅😅😅😅
deadass
Cringed at that line
I was confused if they were really even that bad to being with.
It baffles me how they still not learn people dislike that kind of snarky/sarcastic cool-wannabe speaking.
Just look how Back 4 Blood, Forspoken, Gotham Knight, Borderlands 3, Saints Row Reboot turn out, almost nobody likes them..
"They've blocked out the sun" ... daylight everywhere 🤷
I like how I never have to worry about Charlie sugarcoating literally anything 😂
Why would he? Dude became mega rich by doing nothing other than stating the extreme obvious
@@bruceleesfat Wow that's almost like most entertainment youtubers. Stop being jealous
@@bruceleesfatthats pretty much what youtube is, you’ll get over it little man
@@stephaniejohnson5361 little man is CRAZY, me personally, I could never take that level of disrespect.
@@varshasoneji3134 and what exactly would you do over the internet lil baby girl
Actually the vampires lack of ability to move around forklifts is a subtle storytelling trick. You see, the vampire ancestor never finished his forklift certification and so all the vampires were cursed to become confused whenever humans use forklifts as cover. Trust me, it’s in the lore.
LMFAOOOOO, im stoned man.. this legit made ma laugh !
😂😂😂
Lol
That's some legit lore.
Ok
Only enemy Charlie died to was a stationary power cable. Let that sink in.
While on the hardest difficulty
a sink is standing at your front door
@@James_3000 et that bathtub in
You better not! I put it out for a reason!
Is there any time that I should let the sink out?
I like how the vampire yelled "No" when it literally got disintegrated. Weird. It can't find its way around a box, but it can find the words to say as it turns to nothing. 10/10 GOAT
As a vampire I can confirm that wood terrifies me.
WAIT, VAMPIRES ARE REAL
🪵
What is wood but a bunch of stakes that haven't been carved yet?
Are you Romanian?
@@thesovietduck2121 nO
Amazing how valve was able to make enemies climb over obstacles 15 years ago in an engine held together by bubblegum and shoestrings.
Source engine I thought was a super solid changed over the years type engine that came from goldSRC and that came from quake. But as I'm typing this.... I'm remembering the backwards bunny hopping and air strafing and other things lol
also funny that they did most of the games on passion and desire to experiment, since every their game has an game's theme in it (l4d2 - horde simulation and ripping, tf2 - artstyle, character creation, csgo - competitive settings).
while modern games just try to have cool graphics and an "compelling" story
@@fedorb9286 Are you speaking English?
Valve code is one of the most dogshit things in existence and it's still better than most modern games. Take TF2 for example.
@@ahall9839bro you understood exactly what he said, don’t be rude
I like how she said dead ass
as two separate, distinct words. Very revolutionary and totally subverted my expectations.
Wow this looks like a solid indie game demo. Can’t wait for the dev to finish it.
Wait, what? It’s a $70 game made by the same people who made Prey?
Where did we go wrong?
it is sad that the two last games that arcane released were a flop, i love prey and i think this companny can do better than this
you sure it was made by the same people?
@thename2138 I mean the producer didn't want to release it, at least they had a bit of love to the game, but the publisher had already a contract
I enjoyed prey, dont really like games that forced choices and if you make the wrong one well your whole game is ruined now
@@DavidRamirez-lq2coi thought deathloop sold well?? Idk I was almost praying on its downfall so they go back to dishonored but who knows
I love how the entire main characters personality can be boiled down to “well, that was a little quirky”
That just about the depth of modern humor
The dialogue in this game reminds me of "Forspoken"...which is to say it makes me cringe.
certified Marvel moment
Feels like quirky teen lead in a chick flick
I fucking cringed when she said "deadass" it felt so out of place
This games makes me go "Man, I wish we had more silent protagonists".
Forspoken moment
@@Astro986 If you told me Forspoken was a sequel to this, I would believe you lol
@@adolphin9348 please tell me they don't actually say that last sentence
It’s why books are sneakily advantageous to films and shows and games, you get to fill in the missing details as you see fit.
starting to appreciate deputy/security captain a bit more
Honestly makes me embarrassed to be an Unreal Engine developer. AI is pretty difficult to do well but like... seeing them not being able to walk around objects just makes me wonder what the heck they are doing, path finding is literally built into the engine.
Beginning java game dev courses have better pathfinding xD
Man i miss when AAA game’s actually had good gameplay, story, and characters
That's over 10 years go brudda
Damn, Morbius finally got an appropriate videogame adaptation.
Deadass
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That first mission being called “Dead in the Water” is objectively hilarious
YOU DO NOT RECOGNIZE THE BODIES IN THE WATER
@@psyc840 banger
@@psyc840 Oh hey that looks like my brother, what is he doing in there?
@@psyc840 YOU DO RECOGNIZE THE BODIES IN THE WATER
6:42 npc gets shot: "mh"
closed captions: *INTENSE CRY OF PAIN*
16:00
I cant believe System Shock 2, a game released in 1999, has more animation put into their Talking-Ghosts than a game released in 2023
It always hurts to think that for every bad game out there, someone had a vision. Someone had a cool idea for a vampire game they wanted to make, and they had to watch slowly turn into this. Ouch
Or they just wanted to make trash for quick cash💀
@@deadphilix1671 it's almost always the producers who are forcing the creative minds to make trash. we need to stop blaming the artists
@@TheGLaDOSvideoCore it’s sad that AAA games from over 10 years ago (Skyrim for example) were not only cheaper but far more enjoyable to play than the trash that gets released today, what is going on?
@@deadphilix1671
Shitty corporate management combined with shitty corporate culture invading the development process. The Developer's used to have significantly more leeway for their projects than they do today, where every marketing executive who thinks he or she understands what makes a good product because they did some entirely useless marketing (for product development) focused degree and their daddy knows somebody high enough up to get them employed at a high level immediately. They start shoving elements, usually based on some boardroom meeting checklists about what's popular in the industry or seems to be trending in the public mind (obviously taken from social media trends now), into the dev process in order to make a more "marketable product" no matter if they fit the project or even worsen the concept significantly by their inclusion. If you think about this alongside the fact that developer's are constantly forced to crunch because management arbitrarily shortens deadline's no matter what the estimated development time is given to them as, the fact that none of these upper management ever see consequences for their inability to do their job properly, and that the development studio's are usually gutted after a less successful release to ensure executive bonuses, it doesn't really seem preposterous that games would SIGNIFICANTLY decline in quality. There's no place for creativity and passion in an industry dominated by corporate culture and which is steadily being monopolized by mega publishers like Blizzard Activision or Bethesda as we speak.
We saw this occur early on with EA (the studio killer themselves) and titles like Dead Space 3 that were ruined because the original design concept was cut apart and sewn back together with NTX, Coop mechanics (thank the success of Gears for that), and other out of place mechanics combined with a lack of development time and arbitrary changes to the story and mechanics of the game (like an unnecessary love triangle and the ending being cut short), and you have a game that effectively kill's a franchise. But are the upper management held responsible? Nope, the studio dissolves, most are fired or absorbed into other studios, and over time creativity is replaced with stock game development as management dictates that their other studio's make carbon copies of whatever seemed successful to those ever tumorous marketing executives.
It's really the same in every industry. Film has been seeing this recently with, say, the Disney franchises just being a dumpster fire in most cases and simply stagnant and unappealing at best, so they shake up the infrastructure, but the people really responsible, like Kathleen Kennedy, aren't going anywhere.
This is why extremely talented studio's like Raven are stuck churning out mediocre and bland products by their corporate overlord's. Because the latter are incompetent and can't see anything past the promise of immediate profits.
@@AveSicarius thank you for the profound explanation.
This literally feels like a 6 month fanmade project by 4 fresh out of school best friends.
Pretend that’s the case and this game becomes at least 50% better.
@@merusharkfin1787 usually those games are only 20 bucks though
LOL even the assets look purchased... yikes
@@merusharkfin1787 yes but usually they don’t sell those kind of games for 70 dollars
except that we have seen 1 mad lad making a product 10 to the power of 10 times better than this crap, so the bar cannot be set low enough for Red Fall garbage to pass.
AAA Gaming Industry saying they need 70$ for games now has to be the biggest scam I have seen for awhile.
they can't see you because they're locked at 30fps
the fact that this game was created by the studio that made dishonored, which is one of the best stealth games of all time, is actually insane
More and more it becomes super obvious that these studios do NOT retain their talent.
that's what happens when there's no love and budget
Extremely unlikely they still have the same talent from 10-years ago. Even 5-years is a long time in the industry. This game screams too many corporate interests trying to make a game to sell but never really having an identity or target audience.
@@poeticalbliss7882 Unfortunately it's often the corporate publishers who own the studios that cause such departures.
Dishonored 1 & 2 and Prey were fantastic so this is just maddening
I'm very thankful for the protagonist, constantly telling me how I should feel during story scenes. Without that kind of input I wouldn't know what to think.
And telling me what happened right after the story cutscenes in case I didn't quite understand them.
"You can't just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!"
Do you have no choice but to play as that annoying bird-platform user?
@@hilowguy12345 where's that quote from
@@hilowguy12345it’s just bad story telling. Ya remember “show not tell” from English class?
Edit: I feel dumb lol. Very obvious futurama quote hahahah
The player character NEVER STOPS TALKING
I just bust out laughing when he hacked the turret and it just started immediately unloading into a wall
I remember, in Half-Life 1, I was astounded by the marvel of AI that, rather than rushing me blindly, was capable of realizing I was in cover and throwing grenades to flush me out.
It feels like it was just yesterday...
*November 19, 1998.*
And the enemies were a real danger by themselves - if you're not careful with soldiers, they will easily destroy you even on Normal difficulty, and every fight felt like a real fight, escpecially because of the amount of ammo on the map.
F.E.A.R. still has some of the best enemy AI I've ever seen, and that came out in 2005.
I still go back and play F.E.A.R., nothing like it
Half Life is timeless. I love everything about it. Thank god Crowbar Collective made Black Mesa.
Even cockroach scatters immediately when exposed to light after idling in dark environment. And thats so insignificant to gameplay
These companies should start facing legal issues for selling unfinished products.
Its why I would rather MS stop trying to buy more companies they don't release anything and when they do it sucks
The customers should face public shaming for playing unfinished products
@@xevenxaver4759 they advertised the game incorrectly and marketed it like it was legit but its not, cant blame customers for being mislead by a company with a good track record
Good luck getting the judge to even understand what the lawsuit is about. That's probably the only reason companies get to get away with this. They know judges are too old to understand how video games even work.
@@lacuna3894 how about consoomers actually wait until reviews are out instead of pre-ordering as soon as they see their favorite AAA dev pop up at the beginning of the trailer
I've watched other people play, but Charlie's strat of exploiting the weak AI was something else.
The forklift vampire made me die 😂😂 you were SO OBVIOUSLY not hiding 😂
The only scary thing about this game is the cost
Or that the writers aren't going to be held responsible for their shitty writing, they'll just get to keep shitting out turds because of the writer's union
Lmao game pass. Go cheap also Free DLC? Yes please.
@@YeetCannon666 even on gamepass that hot garbage is inexcusable. You guys keep damage controlling is why games come out unfinished.🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️
Apparently a power cable is the most scary thing.
It’s suppose to be scary?
It looks like a prototype that you would make to show to your bosses for approval to make the real game.
The vast majority of AAA games are that way these days. Just unfinished husks taped together with promises of what they game may eventually be like - or maybe not.
@@MechMK1 Sometimes hidden by the excuse of it being in 'Alpha' after 3 years of development lmao
Funny, it looks like one of those games you see being played in the background of a movie or a tv show.
@@Garnilator Doom ? Doom eternal
Curb stomp the devs into the void
I wonder what the developers were thinking when they test ran their combat.
“Ahh, this is challenging enough.” Couldn’t have been it.
Dude I swear, they just had an AI code this shit and never tested it. They had to have. How the fuck could ANYONE thats EVER played a video game think this is acceptable.
“Deadass.” Is actually pretty ironic when you think about it.
Upon hearing that, I died a bit.
It's amazing how the enemies are supposed to be sentient vampires but are more braindead than literally any zombies in a zombie game lmao
Zomboid shamblers with blind and deaf settings have better tracking lmao
back4blood levels of zombie ai
Dude the Zombie AI in Dead Island 2 has better pathing and getting around then this game!
deadass
Deadass bro
me and my buddies had to restart the game 3 goddamn times because one time the first quest perma bugged and the other time i could never pick up any guns LOL
Got busted with that bug too, did ya? I couldn’t pick up any of the guns in the first game either. Fun.
definitely one of the games of all time
the real embarrassing part is buying the game at all
@@thadpeud3057Wouldn’t expect anything less from a UA-camr.
At least you can make a next video from this game experience.
Thank you for going through this labor of pain for us all ❤
Being right behind a vampire that can’t sense you due to sheer incompetence is such a funny concept. The double take kills me
"They broke the sun" top level brain activity going on in the writers' room
Somebody get the IT guy in here they broke the sun again
"sacrificing their friends, deadass!" and the entire monolog from that cutscene just drilled a hole into my cringe receptors
When they said "they broke the sun" my eyes rolled back to the Medieval times.
"Cmon we gotta go kill the sun!" - yunglimabean
Prolly the Chinese artificial sun
Game gives Charlie options for stealth. Charlie doesn’t even try to be stealthy and half the enemies didn’t see him anyway
Lmao was stealth even a feature in this game because it seems like u can just walk right through everything
Charlie doesn't understand anything but run and gun
I'm not defending the game either, it looks pretty mid
This will win GOTY.
@@OokPuddin The fact that he didn’t get punished for playing the way he did lmfao.
*Starts reloading mid fight while vampire does nothing*
¨Thanks for waiting that was so noble c: ¨
14:16 the enemies dont even try yelling its like you flipped an off switch
A game journalist was barely able to play this game without dying while the AI was this braindead. Wow
I actualy thought that the semi-aimbot would be marvelous for those game journalist. not a gamer , never a gamer i guess.
Game Journalists are somewhere between Mushroom's and Amoeba's skill wise, they don't count
@@Jumbo58067😂
same thing happened when ign first showed sonic frontiers lol
Journalist only play candy crush on their phone. They write reviews on video games to make money. They honestly don’t even own a console or anything!
You know you've got a gem on your hands when you get dialogue like "Oh shit, not these guys. They're legit evil." or "But now they're sacrificing their neighbors to those monsters, deadass."
the dialogue was the most cringe "how do you do fellow kids?" shit I heard in a long time in a video game.
The dialogue in this game just reeks of "Hey, there fellow kids!"
Guys believe me I swear they are 💯 evil
I hope he’s joking
@@tornadodee148 What do you mean in a long time? That happens every Tuesday with AAA titles nowadays. Forespoken exists.
That turret was putting in some work on that wall😂 13:39
Normal version of playing stealth: mostly melee attacks Sir Charles version of stealth, or as he calls it stelth: punch the living hell out of the enemy
They made a game that the IGN journalist’s can enjoy. Props to their efforts
Even then they still managed to fuck it up and release gameplay footage everyone laughed at.
With the intelligence the enemies have, their AI was probably based off the average IGN reviewer
Still too hard for polygon journalists tho
As long as the AI is good enough to find you when you stand 1 meter away from the enemy without any obstacles in-between, the AI is too difficult for modern game journalists.
IGN gave it a 4/10. NPC detected!
The raise to the $70 price tag for sure did solve all of the problems of AAA games…
Yeah they made a game to show exactly what you shouldnt put in AAA games
This game is a steal at $70, they need to price it higher
@@marcogenovesi8570 no, they're already stealing people's wallets
Now I'm never buying an AAA game again
Who tf is paying $70 for a piece of shit.
Raised the price tag and gave up on compressing games so everything takes over 100 gigs of space. Genius
It seems half-life had better AI in 1999
Not surprising considering half life is always really, really good.
4:56 that bird chirp sounds just straight outta skyrim
"This is the highest difficulty still" made my jaw drop i didnt realize the games AI was that bad and underpowered
it isnt the highest dif highest dif is unlocked way later this doesnt even look like normal to me since vampires allways teleport behind u and humans constantly swarm so yeah nice try
@@miceatah9359 0:19
Difficulty just decreases the players attack while increasing the enemies defence and attack. the ai never improves with difficulty in the vast majority of games.
@@miceatah9359 u tried it
@@miceatah9359lol troll
Man, can't believe they finally made Morbius into a game! They even reproduced its fabled mediocrity to the perfection!
I loved the part when he said "It's Morbin time", then got stuck behind a wooden box
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The time has come for us to rise up and say "enough is enough." We cannot continue to let game developers and publishers take advantage of us with overpriced DLC, microtransactions, and loot boxes. We must take back our gaming experience and demand that games be created with our enjoyment and satisfaction in mind, not just to make a quick profit.
But this revolution is not just about the gaming industry. It's about standing up against the larger systems of oppression and inequality that plague our society. We must fight for a world where everyone has access to quality games, regardless of their financial situation or social status.
Together, we can create a new gaming landscape, one where creativity and passion are the driving forces behind game development, not just profits. So let us band together, gamers of all kinds, and demand a better future for our industry and for ourselves. Let us start a revolution that will change the gaming world forever.
And if any corporate death squads ask, i'm a handicapped small child.
I loved it when Dracula came in and was like: "I will destroy you puny humans!!!"
This game is sure to sell 10 morbillions units.
👏🤣👍
I loved how the guy you snuck up on at the end waited, reloaded his gun, then keyboard turned to face you.
It feels like the same level of polish as when you just imported your first 3D model in Unreal and boot up the “In Engine Test” or whatever.
This honestly looks like a game you would find in a game exchange deal that has been dead for 9 years but since you're bored you decide to play it and complete it in 4 hours to then realize youve lost those 4 hours and then leaving the game in a drawer for ever
The "cutscenes" are seriously stripped right out of infamous 2. They somehow made a nostalgia piece making us remember a time where a box was the most op tool in the game 😂
"Dead ass" @7:30 had me in stitches, the delivery has such a "hello fellow kids" charm to it.
It made me shove pencils in my ear
They're straight up sacrificing people, dead ass! That is so not with it, my fellow youths! Totally not hashtag lit, am i right?
"So, let me get this straight. I’m somewhere trapped inside a mysterious island that doesn't look like my world, I’m seeing freaking vampires, and oh yeah, my ex-boyfriend is a vampire too! Yeah, okay, that is something I do now. I use my telekinetic powers, kill jacked-up cultists, I’ll probably go to my next mission."
Guys an ass died
dead _ass_
8:17 that casual "thanks nosferatu" was funny af
This is why i'm subscribed... Charlie holding a cup while owning a boss at 2:43
It's legitimately heartbreaking to see my favorite studio go from making genuine masterpieces like prey and dishonored to this
I loved prey!!!!
Prey and Dishonored both barely made profit. So they tried to make Death loop and this piece of shit.
It's a shame to see Arkane releasing shooters like this instead of another Dark Messiah or giving them Thief franchise.
Studios have different teams for development
deathloop was great!
For 70 DOLLARS those 'cutscenes' are unforgivable 😂
Deadass
They really are cut though. Cutted scenes.
Max Payne didn't have cutscenes so your comment makes no sense
@Patrick39 You really think you (mere mortal) can even scale to the power and authority of Jesus Christ himself?
The only slide show cut scene i will ever accept is the end cut scene of dishonored
16:21
upper left corner
that looks like the notification you get in Genshin impact when there's a quest.
redfall is like trying to explore a super flat world in minecraft
“now they’re sacrificing their neighbors to those monsters, DEADASS” it sounds like they hired some boomer to study off of Urban dictionary to create the dialogue for this game.
From how many years ago? Who says "deadass" anymore?
@@BWMagus yeah we all know it's no cap now
That’s literally how some people sound, especially when they can’t think for themselves and pick up all of their vernacular from tiktok
@@ant6441nah my mom says no cap its a beyond cringe word!!! Same with adulting eww
@@frankmundo4300 yeah but that's just what ppl gonna say till there's something new, we like using slang instead of formal English nowadays lol
These are some of the best graphics I've ever seen! 2010 is shaping up to be a great year for gaming.
my pancreas burns
Good graphics don’t make a good game
Edit: I’m dyslexic and can’t read, sorry. But I stand by my statement anyways
Fr
@@RedF0XDelta use your brain
@@RedF0XDelta You missed the joke there, little bro.
You see the reason vampires can get around obstacles is because you haven’t invited them to the other side of them
Arkane is like the "Theseus ship" of a company.
I refuse to believe they are the same devs that made the previous titles.
They more than likely aren't.
Probably a whole new team fresh out of college.
Crazy how $70 has become the default for game prices, but they've yet to settle on a default for game quality... priorities, right?
The default for game quality is No.
@@Gestersmek that is triple a
It’s called fuck you consumer slave you exist to be somebody’s victim
You can pay $100 for the Bite Back edition as well, what a steal!
Dude you get more out of free games now adays
As someone right on the verge of going into the game industry as an underling this 70$ peak game design masterpiece gives me hope that the entry bar won't be as high as I thought
The more stuff like this happens the more I believe it's actually possible to make a stride in the field even as a solo developer.
as i though
Despite that it’s INCREDIBLY hard to get in. Unless you already have a lot of knowledge and skill you won’t get in...
Eh.. theres so many good indie and AA game studios making amazing stuff. Its dumb to let trash like this take away our faith in the good industry that is most definitely still there.
Well the $70 price tag on dogshit titles still takes tons of man hours, which instead of putting it into quality control, they just force people to work on the games to get them done and on shelves as quickly as possible.
So expect looooong days, tight schedules, depression, anxiety, and bad pay.
Somebody had to have tortured Arkane’s family members for this.
Had a feeling this was going to be dumpsters fire
Can't get over how unimpactful every animation looks and that's when they aren't getting cancelled or ending abruptly
I know, I was just playing Left 4 Dead 2 before this review came out and that beats this hands down when it comes to animations. Dishonored 1 looks newer than this
The prices keep rising and the quality keeps dropping. What a world we live in
It's the devils bargain that comes from being a big, publicly traded company. Eventually you stop growing and the investors get pissy so you have to either raise your prices or cut costs.
Thank you china
At least a lot of indie games are still good
"That's capitalism bro, love it or else you're woke" - chuds
There’s Fromsoft, thank god
15:43 he utters his famous catch phrase, "of All Time"
When I told my mom about this game, she said "...if you want to play it, rent it.
The protagonist’s dialogue is proof hell exists
It sounds like a 40 year old lady trying to speak like a teenager
I found Jacob's dialogue to be better. No offense but you can tell the one Charlie player as is a bit of a... Without being rude... Odd person
DeaDAsS
@@liszt646 not even said as one word it was more like some facebook mom hearing it for the first time like "dead! ass!?"
dead... ass.
This is Xbox's Forspoken.
The fact that enemy AI cant get around objects in a game in 2023 is mind blowing
Even roblox has it in most of the games now
@@Domestic_Abuse most major games have their own developed pathfinding system.
@@Miwhe yeah but if your game has worse pathfinding AI than roblox you should be ashamed of yourself genuinely
@@Domestic_Abuse Well, roblox also supports child labor to keep their "game" alive, so...
@@allthenamesiwantedweretaken you mean roblox as the company or companies that make roblox games like gamefam
i like the fact that you can get on the other side of an obstacle to get away from the vamps!! thats a good feature :D
the difficulty in this looks like this was made for video game journalists
The writing of some of those cutscenes is crazy. The spirit of the Forspoken writers has possessed the Arkane crew.
Like the character saying "Dead ass" lmao
@@Bloodhurl67 that’s hilarious
@@Bloodhurl67 that's pretty realistic. Alot of people talk like that
@@ghostlegit deadass
I legit had to double check who Arkane studios were, bc i refused to believe it was the same who made Prey and Dishonored
Everyone knows a true vampire has to be invited to gain entry, and Charlie is just exploiting this by denying them entry. Very faithful game design.
@@sunderedsoul6495 Bot, dude. Just report'em and move on.
@@allthenamesiwantedweretaken That’s not a bot That’s Patrick
Redfall is for me the definiton of someone hiring an italien cuisine chef for a sushi restaurant.
Ooof, the vampire not being able to navigate a CAR is just embarrassing.
The Virgin Vampire:
Can’t even find their way around a car
No Rizz
Pathetic even on highest difficulty
The Chad Power Cable:
Waits for his enemies to come to him
Is a literal stationary object, yet can evaporate his enemies in seconds
Can kill more people than a legion of vampires and armed cultists (1 is greater than 0)
You spend way too much time in tiktok bud, your rizz and chad sh*t sounds dumb af
W comment
probably 10000x cheaper than a vampire as well, THD was selling 10 ft extension cords for 1 buck today, not to mention plain wire costs.
Ok
Couldn't you just say charisma?
if I paid $5 and got this game, I'd still feel like I got robbed
frfr😂
I'd ask for a refund after pirating this game
If I GOT $5 to play this game I would feel robbed
You think dude is joking, but l4d2 costs the same and does anything better
I downloaded it free on game pass, pretty sure I still got robbed
At this point. I’m not even surprised anymore. There’s a reason I never pre order anything triple A and wait for reviews. Just endless failures have left me numb
This isnt just a last gen problem i think its going to be an ongoing thing untill people as consumers start to force change but at the same time its hard to just tell everyone one stop buying ,playing and making video games
Feels like they put all their developers with burnout in one team and went "You have a year to make a 70$ game or your fired" and this is just malicious compliance.
I feel like they tasked a couple people on their development team to make a fps game and this is what they came up with.
Which is extra weird since I distinctly recall when the name "Redfall" was trademarked by Bethesda and how people were freaking out since it wasn't too long after the tease for TES VI and people were speculating it was the name they gave to it (a bit weird in terms of naming convention but it was a really cool title regardless which would have some neat lore interpretation between fall of the Redguard or fall of the Empire etc), so much so that until very recently I still didn't know Redfall was the name given to another game.
But all of that means that they already had the title set quite a few years ago, which means that they realistically should have been on the final stages of pre production at that time (the definitive title is rarely the first thing you find for a project unless it's something that already had an idea behind that needed to be greenlit; but seeing how the game turned out I really doubt it was the passion project of someone at the studio that they pitched to see it come through, or if it was, the people in question left a long time ago).
There is something deeply wrong with this game, I wouldn't be surprised if we learn that there has been some massive drama behind the scenes, it really looks like the result of constant redraft that strained ressources thin and not a single vision coming through
@@sephikong8323 considering all that happened around the time 76 was being made I'm guessing it was the big brain IQs at Zenimax deciding every game was going to be live service because having 2 mobile apps and a whole MMO wasn't enough. They also made quake a shitty hero shooter to compete with the overwatch/eSports scene.
Hopefully with the Microsoft buyout all future projects will be something the devs actually want to make but we'll see
Arkane usually churns out pure fire so that's probably the case. I smell crunchtime and bad corporate decision making
He stood still for about 45 whole seconds against dudes with guns. And took 2 hits. Amazing.
Deadass
Still better than stormtroopers
On the highest difficulty.
@@god-zilla4233 Honestly, that's debatable lmao
I like how all the enemies lack object permanence and dispite you being completely in the open behind a box they just forget you exist
It’s just crazy that games like Halo CE or Half-Life that came out over 20 years ago have more complex AI with more emotive animations.
The most compelling line of monologue I've ever heard in a...cutscene? Am I allowed to call that a cutscene?...was "This is getting so weird. Well. Weirder." Amazing, that gave me chills! Tears! These game devs are based, deadass.
I stood up and clapped when she said "deadass." Truly a stunning and brave moment.
I couldn’t help but notice the “deadass” line, they really know how to reach out to the audience and say “Hey we get it, we are just like you, dead ass”
@patchmoulton5438 Right?! That was truly momentous, and her delivery of that line deserves an award! Did you hear the part where she says "Seriously? I mean, seriously?! Ugh..." Absolutely stellar performance, move aside Tara Strong there's a new voice actress on the throne
I deadass couldn't believe they said deadass, feels so good having some deadass representation, deadass
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