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With Mixed Reviews - Who Should Play Redfall? | MMORPG.com
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With Mixed Reviews - Who Should Play Redfall? | MMORPG.com
It's clear that opinions are split on whether Redfall is worth playing, or whether it's not quite ready to sink your teeth into. That begs the question, "Who should play Redfall?"
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I personally think the reviews have been a bit over the top to be honest. It seems like everyone has now jumped on the "REDFALL IS BAD" bandwagon just to try and be cool because they see everyone else saying it. Same as how it's now cool to hate Blizzard, hate Bethesda, hate Bioware etc.
I'm not denying the game has its issues, as that would be ignorant of me to just completely disregard them, but it's still a fun game. Not EVERY game that comes out has to be a contender for GOTY, which seems to be what everyone wants nowadays. Back in the day you'd be content with several average games coming out throughout the year until you finally found that one amazing game that DID deserve the GOTY status. Redfall's not gonna win any awards, but to bash it as hard as it's been bashed recently is really over the top. It's not THAT bad.The game has basically broken AI that can not even detect you if you are standing right next to it, or is unable to attack you if you stand on a chair.
The game is basically pre alpha state. And I mean pre being playable even.
There is many older games that do Redfall far better, and work. For example Dying Light is basically Redfall but many many times better. And its dirt cheap all times on sale.
I dont think you played it enough.
At first it seems fun because you seem pretty powerful. But then you realize its because AI is basically unable to pathfind or even see you for most of times.
And once you realise that you are able to cheese whole game without effort. Even the thoughest of bosses
Its basically broken game
The game is definitely worth a play on game pass 100%
They are pricing them that way so people buy game pass imho.
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The fact that this 70€-pre-alpha-state-game get's mixed and not overwhelmingly negative reviews and there's so many people defending it just shows why AAA gaming is the way it is nowadays and why this probably won't change in the near future.
I get it that some people have fun with it because fun is completely subjective and bad taste exists but this dillusional state some people show is just mind-boggling. But who knows, maybe that 20+ YouTube reviews I saw and articles I've read are all staged with cool and edgy haters.
Anyways now that I hopped on the bandwagon I suddenly feel a lot cooler...
I'm just so glad indie-games exist
And damn, seems the Humble Bundle also just dropped WH40K Chaos Gate in my library….
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
Going back and looking at the critic scores for fallout 76, they were even worse than redfall.
But fallout 76 is one of the few games I go back to every year and has gotten pretty good.
There was a lot of doom and gloom back then about the game but it's come a long way.
I'm not even a little mad about the scores people can think what they want. I've enjoyed playing it, and it probably won't last me more than a month of play time, but there's nothing else out right now even remotely interesting to me.
No, a game cannot be bad and still worth playing. People have been too ready to write it off, but it is not the game for anyone now, play it when it is fit to play. This is just another game that has released too early, wait for a solid game and give two fingers to developers who think it is alright to put out games like this.
From the article:
"or whether it’s not quite ready to sink your teeth into" Surely this is common sense, wait for the game is fit to play?
"Most notably, if you’re already a subscriber of Xbox Game Pass, you have nothing to lose in giving this game a shot." Game passes are pushing unfinished games upon gamers, this is just the beginning, "unfinished" could become the norm on a game pass.
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Coined the phrase "Role-Playing a Development Team" January 2018
"Oddly Slap is the main reason I stay in these forums." - Mystichaze April 9th 2018
If a game is bad, in todays world, thats REALLY REALLY bad to me.
To me most everything coming out is trash, so anything lower than average is going to be a heaping pile of it.
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100% agree. With Bing and Gaming on Xbox earning point. I have 3 years of Gamepass saved up for free. MS Gaming maybe jinky at times but I have played allot of AAA games for the cost of a free sub. I think I paid for my first few months.
And everyday people are giving early access titles a pass on everything wrong under the sun simply because of an early access designation. Even when half the time those same games launch just as buggy. But it doesn't matter if you have fun with it.
The reviewer scores are everywhere from 9 to 4 on this game. It means some people really like it and some people really hate it. Do you believe the 9s or the 4s or the majority of the mixed reviews in between where everyone has their own opinion that can't be quantified as great or terrible?
I'm just saying that I played the game and really enjoyed it. I have my own opinions on what they could fix, but I doubt others would feel the same way. So yeah it's all relative to your experience and what you like.
It's not because people like "bad games" which people quoted what I said and must not have realized bad was in quotations, but I've seen people find fun in games I wouldn't touch if you paid me. It doesn't mean they just have poor standards or like terrible games, it means they see something you don't. Just like all these clown early access gamers that swear by indies... Can't tell you how many of those I've tried and have the same reaction. But they are allowed to like what they like, no crusade needed to prove them wrong.
The enemies, the combat, the loot the lack of ingame systems and the way the world feels empty no matter how much of it you explore and do side missions in.
I wanted an atmospheric looter shooter that was enjoyable to explore in a grim almost secretworld esq vibe.
What I got
A tech demo for a looter shooter without the AI implimented, boring loot systems dull progression, plenty of boxes to open but 0 reason to open most of them.
Everything it does, other games do better.
Want gun play, go play Destiny, Halo, Borderlands
Want to explore a city on the bring of collapse, go Play The Division (1 or 2) or FO 76
Want interesting loot, go play any of the above over this.
Want a crafting system, good luck.
Want to slowly take back a town from undead while building up the settlements and making them safer for the townsfolk, go play State of Decay 2.
Want interesting traversal systems go play dying light.
Want some brutal 4 player combat, Vermintide, B4Blood or L4Dead have you covered better than this.
Nothing this game does is well executed, except the atmosphere which took me back to wandering Kingsmouth when it was at its best.
I wanted to really enjoy this game, I wanted to give it a chance.
I am just glad I have gamepass anyway so I didnt pay for it, but its no longer on my hard disk, if they actually try and fix it and give it a year or so of love build out its systems and content put some actual AI and maybe a bit of challenge, I will give it another look in 9 or 12 months.
Otherwise this is deadder on arrival than Squares Avengers game....
One word "Haggis"
The AI is absolutely terrible, the characters are lifeless, the graphics are horrible, the progression is about as lackluster as you can get, the gunplay feels terrible (also built in mouth smoothing that you cannot disable,yay), it runs like crap on even some of the best systems out there, it runs at 30 fps on console while sporting scaled down graphics, and the game has loads of bugs (mostly ai related) To add insult to injury, the game is a massive 130 gigabytes.
This game is a waste of bandwidth, time, and money. Avoid it at all costs. If you want to play a good Arkane game: play Prey or Dishonored 1/2