Redfall Impressions

[Frindis]

@mainer Hopefully they'll be on their best behavior on the upcoming Xbox Games Showcase that is followed by Starfield info on June 11th, 10 am PT.

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[Colif]

I meant Dishonored, not Prey...

Dishonored was their last good game series. Seems they forgot everything they knew back then. I wonder what the devs who left ended up doing.

Oh, I know, I will call it Star failed 🙂

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

I meant Dishonored, not Prey...

Dishonored was their last good game series. Seems they forgot everything they knew back then. I wonder what the devs who left ended up doing.

Oh, I know, I will call it Star failed 🙂

Arkane split into two studios based in Lyon France and Austin US, as I understand it they work independently of each other on games in the last 10 years or so.

Austin made Redfall, and Prey. Dishonored, Deathloop, Wolfenstein Youngblood came from the Lyon team.

Prey was a very good game, but they screwed up the marketing which didnt help. Bethesda management made them change the name to Prey, people thought it was something to do with the old shooter Prey from like 2006.

Bethesda forced Arkane to call its game Prey, which studio founder says was 'very, very hurtful'

Raphael Colantonio said nobody at Arkane wanted to use the title, but Bethesda gave it no choice—which is part of why he left.

www.pcgamer.com

Creatives annoyed, market confused, top level management clueless as to anything other than the immediate bottom line. Sounds about right, we're seeing the fruits of that now.

 

[Brian Boru]

I wonder what the devs who left ended up doing.

Weird West.

 

[Colif]

sounds like it was a miss

 

[Brian Boru]

sounds like it was a miss

Generally around the 75% approval range, which is pretty good. PCG gave 79, IGN 80.

 

[Colif]

could be the two studios were better off together.

 

[Rolfil]

I was prepared to give this a chance but after playing it for three hours I cancelled my PC Game Pass subscription. It's just a terrible game. There's no crafting in a game that cries out for it. The shooting is barely passable and the missions are awful.

Until Starfield and Cities Skylines 2 comes out there really isn't anything being released that I want to play.

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

Redfall reportedly dealt with unclear direction and staffing issues

A new report on Arkane Austin's Redfall details staffing issues, unclear direction, and more that marred development.

www.destructoid.com

Whaddayaknow. Original article by Jason Schreier on Bloomberg.

70% of staff left during development, management interference causing creative confusion. Developers were hoping the game would be cancelled.