I Just Tried Hi-Fi Rush... And Now I'm Mad
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Hi-Fi Rush was a game that seemed to have all the hall marks of a successful game... until Xbox decided to kill it. So I finally tried the game out for the first time and honestly? I'm beyond upset.
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Honestly Xbox could've made Tango Gameworks go remote to save a few coin rather than throwing out that raw talent, I hope the team reunites and forms a new studio, possibly going Indie and prove to both Xbox and Microsoft they made a big mistake.
XBOX isnt at fault here, Microsoft is. The bint who is CEO of microsoft decided to buy and kill tango gameworks and Arkane Studios
@@ts7844 the one theyve already showcased with this game
So…essentially the heads over at Xbox don’t like the fact that Vandalay is based on them XD
Like how PIXAR based BNL off of Disney.
Well Korsica definitely isn’t based on anyone at Xbox, cause she actually became a better person.
I was so angry when I heard the news about the studio closing. Microsoft has so many teams that constantly flop, *cough cough* 343, and they just let them piss money away. Yet here we have a dedicated team earning dozens of awards and they just get shoved out.
@@ts7844 what you talking about? That game is good
@@ts7844You tell yourself that everyday when playing your Call of Duty and Fallout
Keep wasting your time
@@ts7844 Can you at least give some criticism instead of just saying, "it garbage"
@@ts7844 Are the graphics being cel-shaded a negative for you? What do you mean the music is brutal? How is the voice acting grating? Guess it just isn't your thing or taste, which is fine.
keep in mind that Hi-Fi Rush is basically shadow dropped after Xbox Developer Direct, which almost like they didn't expect this game to be this massive of a hit, compared a game they keeps hyping up called Redfall
Microsoft struck gold with Hi-Fi Rush, and they blew up their mine for no reason.
Only Xbox
I was telling people when microsoft bought a bunch of companies that it wasn't a good thing specifically because they had a track record of doing this crap. I feared personally for crash bandicoot and spyro and I still have my doubts that toy's for bob's next game is going to be a spyro game.
Like you have to understand that microsoft as it is now is literally the kind of company that preaches about innovation and imagination but does not give 2 craps about it at all. They have always been that way, its part of the reason I never liked them as a platform and why I haven't bought a single xbox. I love the gaming industry, abosolutely love it. and you know that for years they have just had a track record of people that work for microsoft literally tell people that no one cares about them there. Gabe Newell literally started Steam specifically to get away from them, and people want microsoft to buy steam like... are you crazy? Gabe literally made steam store linux based to avoid their framework. Like I need windows alot of people doo... but I don't think people truly understand just how awful microsoft is... their ceos are out of touch and want to reach truly unrealistic goals.
@@chaosdirge4906 THIS!
For God's sake, shouldn't you listen to their explanation for why they did it instead of making up weird theories?
They found what they asked for & got rid of it.
This team would've been perfect for a Sly game. Its just seema like they would be a good fit for a thrid party studio besides for Sanzaru (if they didnt get bought at by meta/facebook)
PLEASE don't make us even sadder.
I recently finished the game and when I heard the studio is shutting down and also was planning a sequel I was so sad and mad at the same time. This game was amazing and I'm saddened that we aren't going to get a sequel from the same studio😢.
We will, but it will be handled by a different developer
@@joshuasebsebe1047 it will either be handled well or a complete disaster, which I'm betting the latter. Either way it's not like Tango Gameworks couldn't reunite under a new name, there's been devs that have done that for years like the old Rare team and Playtonic Games or the Twisted Metal devs.
Either way I think the Hi-Fi Rush team should reunite to spite Xbox to prove they made a big mistake. Same with those Dishonored devs that got their studio closed down with them.
@@joshuasebsebe1047We won't, they shut down the studio for a reason
Despite their lazy dumbass attempts to "promote" their games, they weren't satisfied with it's sales so the IP will just lay dormant to die
That is.. unless Microsoft gives members of the old team access to the IP
We were even going to get a sequel that was going to be pitched...
Why... just fucking WHY...
Also, the devs of HFR confirmed that Chai's disabled in his arm!
what could have been...
Apparently Ghostwire Tokyo was also supposed to get a sequel at some point based on the Bethesda leak that happened. Evil Within 3 might've been made too.
But of course Microsoft hates fun.
Most likely, Xbox was probably ready to can the company. Like had it set and ready to torpedo Tango Gameworks and probably was going to use the assumed 'failure' of Hi-Fi Rush as their prime example of why the company had to go. Which is why the game was stealth released with as little fanfare the way they did. Unfortunately for them Hi-Fi Rush wasn't a failure, it was a success. It won awards. It got people commending the company and really loving the game. So they (Xbox) were screwed, but they still wanted to get rid of this company regardless and they did.
Honestly wish Tango went with the Toys 4 Bob route n go independent. That way Microsoft could still partner with Tango n make Hi Fi Rush 2. I get everything cost more n the gaming industry is in a dumpster fire now, but it’s still wild how this is Microsoft few successful ips now yet Tango studios only award from them is “Thxs now get shutdown”.
They could still do that 🤔
That and some combined crowd funding would be legendary, I know Hi-Fi Rush took them 4 years to make so all of this might take a decade to get figured out
But if it's for HiFi Rush 2 I would be overjoyed
I love Sarah Bond’s whole comment on the whole thing cuz you could tell it was just: “I know what the reason is. But if I say it it will sound stupid and/or petty so… here’s some corporate jargon. Don’t think about it.”
Fun fact: this game has TWO SEPARATE soundtracks. The default mode with licensed music, and a streamer mode, with ALL ORIGIONAL SONGS. And some of the original songs are BETTER than the licensed music!
As a music nerd, that alone makes Hi-Fi Rush stick out compared to other modern games. They were so dedicated to their game to the point of having two separate soundtracks (with one being _completely_ original) and I think that deserves more attention than it's getting currently.
Guess they should've sent those Christmas cards earlier, huh?
At the end of the day, studios like these get shut down for the exact same reason: the shareholders want to make money and not accept any losses when stocks go down.
They’re complete Percys.
Because it didn't make money. Blame it being shadow dropped and on gamepass.
I had a blast getting 100% on this game and I’m so pissed that the studio behind this got shut down!
What makes a successful game is not being on Gamepass Day One, because it then doesn't make enough money even though it reached 3+ Million Players.
Xbox/Microsoft also just needs to stop throwing around money to buy studios instead of just having the studios they do own make games.
They also need to stop throwing money at studios that don't deserve it.
343 now that it's been completely restructured is now a pretty competent studio, but they never should've gotten the support from Xbox they did in the first place.
The launch of MCC was terrible, Halo 5 was botched, then Infinite fell off hard, and had abysmal updates until last year(but still never recovered it's player base).
Arkane Austin shouldn't have been forced to make a Live Service Game(a good studio forced to make something that no one wanted, and it turned out to be utter garbage).
Bethesda should've been told that they needed to scale back Starfield in order to make it on par with their other games(1000 Empty Planets was not a good idea).
Game pass should be renamed to game graveyard
@nman551 True.
Gamepass is a good service, but putting new games on it day one is just not a healthy model.
New Games coming to gamepass 3-6 months later would be better.
@@Sir_Slimbread right? Like how ps plus does it
The devs who worked in that studio should all jump ship to playstation to make the sequel, where the plot starts off with a person getting fired in the same fashion:
CEO: "Thanks for making us soooo much money! Also, you're fired! Bye Bye!" *Pulls Lever*
Worker: What??" *Trapdoor opens up beneath them*
And then the game is about uncovering some kind of corporate conspiracy or something.
Capcom would help them out since they make stuff like devil may cry.
Tango Gameworks also did the Evil Within series, one of my favorite horror video games, and they would have made a 3rd evil within game but xbox just crush that dream 😢
DUUUUDE, I KNOW. Evil Within 2 is one of my favorite horror games of all time.
I actually got into the Evil Within series more recently and cleared a run for the second game when Tango Gameworks was shutdown, however I will bring up one thing, it's the talent that makes the studio, not the studio that makes the talent, it's just a name at the end of the day.
So if the Tango Gameworks team wanted to reunite under a new title, they could do that. It's what the Twisted Metal devs did for years, didn't let a studio closure or two stop them from making the games they wanted to make and it's amazing, if they can do that, then any other group of devs could, keep the spirit fighting and live on with or without their original name being present.
You'd think Xbox would keep it going after it won something at the Game Awards
Its not poorly made halo game so
Hi-fi Rush was great, then Xbox decided "Nah, we don't do great around here."
"What's this? A good video game for our video game console? Trash. We only want Forza where the cars literally drive themselves and the player doesn't have to do a thing in the game to win"
easy. Hi-Fi Rush didnt make a billion gajillion dollars. Thats literally all it comes down to. Capitalistic greed absolutely ruined the gaming industry.
The explanation I heard was that the 3 studios Xbox suddenly killed were conveniently in between games. So, closing them down was the easiest out of the swath of studios Microsoft owned. Easy profit boost on paper without cancelling any major projects.
I 100% blame gamepass. The game released day one on game pass and stayed on there for a majority of the time. This means the game didn't get any sales as people were playing it for essentially free, Yes it got over 3 million downloads but a majority of which were gotten with no purchase. Microsoft got no money for it. Gamepass hurts games and studios
Game pass kills smaller studios unironically
Male version of Tracer.
I enjoyed Hi-Fi Rush. I didn't absolutely love it, but I very much enjoyed it. It is currently an absolute mystery as to why the studio that made it shut down. Like if that's what they do with a game that was Hi-ly successful...I couldn't imagine what they would've done if the game failed.
Apparently the studio and IP have been acquired by Krafton
Sadly Tango Studios committed the crime of not being a big enough studio to be saved from the chopping block DESPITE all of it's success. The most logical reason anyone can come up with is this. Microsoft is now feeling the fallout of the Pandemic Spending and acquiring studios. Sadly Micosoft hasn't made most of the money back spending BILLIONS on getting Bethesda, Double Fine, Activision Blizzard and more. Sadly when the fiscal year reports came in it was either close down small studios until they make up the losses or CEOs and director members could take a pay cut.... We know which one happened. So thats how all this went down we surmise. Tango Gameworks is sadly another victim of big business eating smaller businesses and turning them into shit.
In other words they pulled a Warner bros and went crazy with the buyouts
@@mattkugelman4369 The sad part is I've heard their diverting more funds to Activision/Blizzard and Bethesda to keep making more of the crap their doing.
@@decusq not surprised, after activision was bought it became clear where the focus in the future would be
I encountered this game in much the same way you did and frankly put I appreciate that you made this video. It is not only INFURIATING that the studio behind a game with as much character and quality would be met with being dissolved like this, but also just beyond upsetting from a player perspective. I would have loved to play this in isolation, but knowing there will never be a sequel as well as what Xbox did to these devs more or less kills any motivation I have in giving this otherwise banger game a try
Don’t get me started
the riling
I’ve heard this story that Xbox shutdown some game studios such as Tango Gameworks is mostly because of money and management. It really sucks considering that the game studio that made Hi-Fi Rush is the best rhythm game and I agree, I really wished that Xbox didn’t have do that because of the support and the fans….. You have every right to be mad at Xbox for doing that because without shutting down studios like Tango Gameworks, we wouldn’t had more creative potential games like Hi-Fi Rush 2 and such in the future now that it is gone….. Whatever Xbox is doing now in management, we can only speculate if it will be in good or bad terms…… Only TIME will tell………
I might be wrong but I’m convinced Game Pass killed this game
Its really hard to tell if any single game is successful when all revenue is diluted into a single $10-20/month revenue stream
There is a reason why this game studio was closed. And that reason is Game Pass, there is almost no one who has actually bought the game
You what sucks even more? This game has potential in getting representation in Smash Bros in a potential future game, now Microsoft shut off the game studio who made the game…
Can't see Chai really working in Smash seeing as fighting and moving to beat is his central gimmick in universe. Smash is way too chaotic for that gameplay to translate to smash.
@@sammalone7881 I never said representation as just a fighter. Just in general, Assist Trophy, Mii Costumes, Spirit or Trophies, not just as a Fighter
@@sammalone7881It can be done. You could give Chai some rekka attacks with their own rhythm gimmick and follow ups that have to be just framed for extra damage and hand waive it by saying the beat is only in his head. Just a general idea.
@@sammalone7881 have you forgot what type of fighting game smash brothers is
I was Mad when I heard they were closing tango gameworks since I already bought Hi-Fi Rush looking at all the reviews and amazing animations. I held off playing until after the closure and now IM EXTREMELY MAD there will never be a sequel even reportedly was pitched
The dance dance revolution comment had me rolling🤣☠️🪦
What I also find sad is that No Straight Roads was what Hifi Rush could've been. NSR is a similar game that came out back in 2020 with a similar concentration around music and fighting along side the soudtrack, but given that it was an indie project it wasn't very polished and now has fallen into obscurity.
im glad it came to PS5 to play this gem of a game.... which makes it sad that Tango got shut down....like what the comment section mentioned i do hope the old team decides to go make a indie team
I played Hi-Fi Rush for the same exact reasons as you have. Because it went to PS5, and was on sale, I wanted to finally see all the hype with the game. And upon playing the game it hit me how good the game was. And how sad for the studio to get shut down.
I Got 120% on Spyro the Dragon and 100% on Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage in Spyro Reignited Trilogy.
The Flight Levels are Really Hard, But It's a Good Thing I Focus.
Gamepass has made developing games for Microsoft so much more harder for a development team that wants to make good games and survive in the industry
It feels like the MAIN metric that matters is if the game makes its budget plus some. Awards, and such are added 'bonuses'.
Now we know why Toys for bob left Xbox
In essence Hi-Fi Rush might as well have never been made. Like RWBY after 9 volumes after what happened with Rooster Teeth. At least that IP can find a new home.
“Give us your password”
Liked the game enough to platinum it despite the difficulty.
Tango Gameworks pitch a sequel before they shut down and Xbox shut them down to keep their successful IP which is Hi Fi rush so the sequel will maybe be handled by a different developer
Only Tango can make it work it’s just the truth
The title of this video pretty much explain everything: despite the Great reception, players started caring and tryng HiFi Rush only after the closure...
WE'RE BACK!
I enjoyed ghostwire for what it was. It was different, unique, something games have been missing lately. Also a fan of the evil within series. Just started playing HI fi rush this weekend, and as a drummer, I love it. Once again, a fresh, unique take on a game. Tango was a fantastic studio and Xbox shutting them down proves they have no idea what people actually want.
The reason is simple.
"Its not call of duty."
Hell they had it shadowdropped they didnt want it to succeed anyways
Anyway why is sea of thieves still a thing ?
I don’t know
This game was a breeze of fresh air in gaming in my opinion and made me feel like a kid on Saturday again.I loved 🥰 it and “Tango gameworks”deserves to be around.I even would drop a kickstarter donation for a “Hifi Rush 2”.
Hi everybody (:
Hi!
Hello
Everyone should give this game a shot. Production value, personality, and addictive gameplay in equal measure
Honestly this game isn't my cup of tea but considering what this game managed to achieve the devs clearly did well and getting shut down was outright wrong
Microsoft is a cancer. They did not deserve to own tango game works. I hope that the team goes independent and makes games that are on the xbox platform.
*ALERT!* *ALERT!* THIS IS NOT A DRILL! ⚡🎵TANGO🐌 IS BACK BABY!🎵⚡
At this point, players will start a Riot so big and violent, Xbox will not recover from it.
They were planning a sequel when they got shut down which makes it worse.
AND THE BEAT GOES ON
I also love Hi-Fi Rush. Imagine if Toys For Bob would work on a sequel for Hi-Fi Rush. I know it wouldn't be Tango anymore, but at least the game series would be still alive.
GOD NOOO!! Anyone but them, they would just over exaggerate everything like “you need to move/attack on 100% perfect sync to pass the level” or some stupid crap like with crash trying to hard to emulate the original
@@TheDarknash NOOO, I'm not God!! I think you might overreact with this statement. Just because Crash 4 was full of these kinds of hard achievements doesn't mean that they put it into a sequel of Hi-Fi Rush. I personally don't intend to get every achievement/trophy in every game, anyways. Especially when achieving is over the top.
@@BlueSeaSharkTFB isn't the best dev for every IP out there. Sometimes its best to let a franchise go if the devs behind it are no longer around. Too many tomes we've seen what happens when a new dev take on an established franchise, with disastrous results.
@@BlueSeaSharkTFB isn't the best dev for every IP out there. Sometimes its best to let a franchise go if the devs behind it are no longer around. Too many tomes we've seen what happens when a new dev take on an established franchise, with disastrous results.
@@sammalone7881 It was mainly a suggestion of mine that Toys For Bob would take over. Not a must, but a kind of wishful idea. You people don't have to like the way I see things, but I'm not forcing you to change your mind either. I would have loved to play a second part of Hi-Fi Rush because I really like the first game.
With Crash Bandicoot 4 and Crash Team Rumble, TFB have proven to me personally that they can keep IPs alive when they are at work with their favorite games.
I have a theory for the ACTUALY REASON for the studio getting shut down. The plot of the game carries an anticorporate message. As in buy all our stuff and dont think is the main motivation of the main villian. This gets people to think. A second game would get them to think more. Pretty sure this is a case of too little damage control to late.
The worst part is that the ip will just get absorbed into Microsoft, so now even an independently reopened Tango or any kind of serious fan project to revive the game could be cease-and-desisted at any moment. I really wish there was some law that media that was cancelled for business expenses or tax write offs or whatever would become public domain.
Xbox saw dollar signs after they got Activision Blizzard and said, “now we can clean house pack it up smaller studios!”
8:10 Did you mean April or August here? 🤔
Anyway, I think all game studio heads who make these types of stupid decisions need to resign. It's so shameful and hypocritical what they're doing.
sorry but why are we calling hi fi rush a platformer? it’s a 3d beat ‘em up my dude. same genre as sky landers and the like
I have a petition going for Sony to buy the IP of Hi-Fi Rush from Xbox. They DON’T deserve this game.
I think I speak for everyone when I say that Xbox has hit a whole new low, one almost as if not even bigger than the Xbox One launch, and trust, thats saying a lot!
It's so depressing that TangoWorks made one of the only purely profitable games and purely positive ganesfor Xbox in the last year of there releases and they got shut down as a fucking reward. Really hope that the team that made the game at least get to make the sequel under Bethesda Studios, because of do believe that's where they got reshuffled into after the shutdown.
This is why I’m so glad toys for bob is going indie so this won’t happen to them
It's a great game then they shut down the studio. They are mad for this
That was the problem game oass doesn't make the tango money.
Yes, be sorry that nobody bought the game to save the studio. Game launched on playstation 5 and didn't sell well
This is Microsoft's fault though and I'm fucking tired of having to explain it thoroughly when you causals come to these comments sections trying to have a reason for everything
THEY DON'T ADVERTISE their games AND THEN THEY COMPLAIN when one doesn't sell well
@@jacobporter419RIGHT
The game had no advertisement until the day it released and it was released on Gamepass, the service where people don't have to pay for games. What a shock that it wasn't a huge financial success. Who could've seen that coming?
@@coltonwilkie241 Xbox is relying way too hard on game pass.
i finished it today it is a great game
I was waiting for this video
Amazing news thank you
Canadian Guy Beat Eh
So happy you covered this!!
Tango nooo
Hey no1
Are u worried you’re gonna look like a fool the longer it goes on without any spyro announcement?
Tbh this game holds zero appeal to me. Don't like the gameplay or the art style. If you enjoyed the game my condolences due to the fact the studio was shut down
This game sucks. I played it and couldn't stand that being off rhythm at any point in time would stop by progress in the game. Even when pressing buttons. It's dumb.
Skill issue
Nobody bought the game they lost money they shut it down. I heard of this game because of the closure of the studio.
The game didn't even sale with all those awards showing that awards from critics mean nothing.
How much of a causal are you?
@@jacobporter419 nice buzzword "causal" I'm so offended your shit game went under now you pretend you are a fan but you never played it
Am I the only one that hates this game? It's so annoying. Stops you every 7 seconds for some unnecessary, unfunny cutscene.
Plus I can't keep a beat to save my life, so there's that
Its really not overly vital to constantly be on beat. You can simply play it like another action game. You just rank higher if you're on beat. As for dialogue, it hardly stops your progress that often, pass the first 10 minutes. I don't know where you got that idea. The car . can me of as charming and likeable so the dialogue didn't hurt the experience IMO.
You sound like you hate fun go outside
@@nman551 boohoo somebody has an opinion. touch grass
@@expanddong9413 I did but have you? No I didn’t think so
@@nman551 funny joke, just like your whole life
Tbh i dint played yet it i will try play it
Have fun with your AAA open world game number #69 then.
@@FloofPuppy idk i just dint liked that much tbh its just my opnion
@@sackboygames381 You're missing out but whatever I guess lol
@@sackboygames381 Your opinion is wrong just saying
@FloofPuppy He just doesn't have rhythm. There's a lot of people who have no rhythm.
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Subscriptions to UA-cam channels aren’t airports you don’t have to announce your departure
Watch the video, bruh
Oh no,anyway.....
bye
@@CanadianGuyEhthe man who cant catch a brake with Xbox
You’re a little late with the support. This game got the majority of fan support once Xbox decided to close the studio. You also admitted that you only tried it because it went to PlayStation. Grow up.
Why do you have to be rude? Any support is good support honestly. Still sucks the studio closed down though.
It’s okay to not support a game from day 1. what about cases where you haven’t heard of said game until years later until it becomes really popular?
You’re too uptight.
I’m sure there are examples of you having supported games that have come out decades ago, but you didn’t play them once they were more readily available to a wider audience.
calm down.
you don’t have to gatekeep. it’s an annoying practice.
@@Dragonsrcool12my exact thoughts.
Ngl if folks only got Hi Fi Rush because of game pass, then technically yall also didn’t really support Hi Fi Rush since u pay $10 month or less n played Hi Fi Rush for free. Also what’s wrong with someone getting Hi Fi Rush on a different system? What are they supposed to get a $300 or $500 Xbox system for just one game? Not everyone will attention to Hi Fi Rush day 0, especially if they got other stuff to do in life. And tbh, even if CGE wasn’t late to the party, I doubt Tango’s fate would change much since Microsoft still has to clear up payment from Activision n putting COD on gamepass. No rudeness, but be appreciative that there are more folks who were late to Hi Fi Rush party are supporting Tango Studio instead of putting them down.
God forbid somebody doesn't own an Xbox to play the game at release. Grow up, Xbot.
It’s misguided to blame Microsoft directly here tbh. The shareholders they have to appease are the real problem. They see everything in dollars and nothing more, and this is why we can’t have nice things.
Yeah, but Microsoft also shadow dropped this game.. like they do for most of their titles
No it isn’t this is Microsoft’s fault not Tango’s