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Redfall | Review Thread

What score do you think Redfall will get?

  • 0 -10%

    Votes: 8 1.3%
  • 10-20%

    Votes: 1 0.2%
  • 20-30%

    Votes: 2 0.3%
  • 30-40%

    Votes: 7 1.2%
  • 40-50%

    Votes: 27 4.5%
  • 50-60%

    Votes: 81 13.4%
  • 60-70%

    Votes: 239 39.6%
  • 70-80%

    Votes: 173 28.7%
  • 80-85%

    Votes: 44 7.3%
  • 85-90%

    Votes: 9 1.5%
  • 90-95%

    Votes: 1 0.2%
  • 95-100%

    Votes: 11 1.8%

  • Total voters
    603
  • Poll closed .

ProtoByte

Member
Sadly alot of of people do just check out the activision thread. Sony fanboys don't seem to realize competition is good and should want all 3 companies to do well
No, I don't want a console manufacturer that begrudges consoles and doesn't understand or care to understand how to make good games, and wants to turn this industry into a subscription/cloud service mess to succeed. Sue me.
 

Jaybe

Member
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demigod

Member
Sites like xboxera intentionally inflating these scores for xbox is actually hurting the brand more than helping. They are deceiving the folks that actually check meta scores. Not only that, they are telling ms/Bethesda it’s ok to release below mediocre/buggy games like this meanwhile charging $15 a month for GPU or $70 full price. They should ask them to “do better”.
 
Given the leaks for Zelda - it is everything people have been waiting for/asking for with all the improvements people wanted for BotW. Just still on the OG switch and not a successor platform.
It is, been playing for the last four hours or so now. I swear it shows the limitations of the switch in full force but also the prowess of Nintendos devs. I cannot believe some of this is running on a switch.
 

AmuroChan

Member
Sites like xboxera intentionally inflating these scores for xbox is actually hurting the brand more than helping. They are deceiving the folks that actually check meta scores. Not only that, they are telling ms/Bethesda it’s ok to release below mediocre/buggy games like this meanwhile charging $15 a month for GPU or $70 full price. They should ask them to “do better”.

They don't care about the health of the brand though. They're doing this for access and clicks.
 

ProtoByte

Member
Lebron James No GIF by Uninterrupted


imo Arkane never made a good game, Dishonored and Prey was they best shot and those game were OK at best.
Yeah, the funniest part about the hype leading up to this game was people making reference to Arkane's "prestige in immersive sims". How Redfall was totally "an immersive sim through and through bro, trust me it's Far Cry, not 3rd rate Back4Blood." Puh-lease. These guys wouldn't know a Looking Glass game if it was gained sentience and installed itself into their machines.
 
Hope you all enjoy the stream of mediocre "free" games you about to get from now on sprinkled with the occasional good game and a unicorn great game ... the Netflix way of life ... but is "free" right
i still love my li'l series s, but, yeah, it's eerie how quickly game pass's managed to devolve into this. again, i say starfield will be tha game that decides how viable the 'netfix for games' model really is - can the large expenditure invested in a triple-a title earn a return on that investment...
 

supernova8

Banned
You know it's bad when even Colt Eastwood is struggling to be positive.

Having watched a few of the reviews so far, it kinda seems like the game would be a solid 7/10 if:

1) there were no bugs
2) it was 60fps at launch
3) the gunplay and camera/weapon movement were much smoother
4) there was less motion blur when you move the camera

ie, not amazing but possibly fun enough to play for a while.
Besides, even the jankiest games can be fun in co-op so if they just fixed the above issues they could have received much better reviews.
 
I have a grand total of zero posts in the forspoken review thread, you can do better 🤷‍♂️

lol...I can! But I won't. Not talking about the review thread, but between here and Icon-Era you were on fire! Don't deny it bro :messenger_winking:
Anyway, I was actually rooting for Redfall. I'll fairly give it a shot just like I did Forspoken.

Y'all think this deserves a second round of reviews once the eventual game-changing 60 FPS patch goes live ?

Only if Forspoken gets one too for it's performance patch. :messenger_winking:
 
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LegendOfKage

Gold Member
That settles it for me. I'm getting a PS5. I thought xbox would be enough for my gaming needs, however I'm tired of the mediocrity with their first party output and most 3rd party games being superior on PS. Redfall is the straw that broke the camels back. I'll hang onto my Xbox as I want to believe they can release bangers, plus Gamepass really is the best deal in gaming, but so far it's disappointment after disappointment and I want the best gaming experience for my hard earned dollars. Feels like last Xbox One vs PS4 all over again.

If you get a PS5 before the 9th of May, you can claim the 19 games in the PS Plus Collection. Especially if you missed them on PS4, or if you would like to play a lot of them with improvements on PS5, there are definitely some good games here.

 

adamsapple

Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
lol...I can! But I won't. Not talking about the review thread, but between here and Icon-Era you were on fire! Don't deny it bro :messenger_winking:
Anyway, I was actually rooting for Redfall. I'll fairly give it a shot just like I did Forspoken.

Not denying I wasn't doing my share of trolling but I kept it to a minimum here lol.

Anyway, I'm probably gonna hold back on the game until it gets the performance patch. First person games in 30 FPS with motion blur are not kosher to me and there's a lot of other stuff to tide over.

No. Sadly, being a first person shooter running at 30fps is the least of this game's problems, apparently.

Launch window bugs will be fixed in the first couple of patches, that's pretty much par for course for almost every game releasing these days.
 
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LordCBH

Member
Worth keeping in mind for future reference that this game was originally planned for a Summer 2022 release. If a one-year delay gave us this and a one-year delay didn't do much for Halo... pray for Starfield.

God I wonder just how fucking shit this was when it’s original release windows came and went.
 

nemiroff

Gold Member
My first 20 minutes of Redfall wasn't that bad.. I couldn't stand Deathloop so ironically I like Redfall more - So far. With that said, the stuttering is making me sick..
 

James Sawyer Ford

Gold Member
Y'all think this deserves a second round of reviews once the eventual game-changing 60 FPS patch goes live ?

Frankly, I think this game just needs to die.

Don't spend a second polishing it much further. There's no use in polishing a turd.

Have them go back to what they are good at pronto. I fear Suicide Squad is going to be in the same fate but they're just going to waste another year trying to make Fetch a thing when it's never going to happen. I want them to go make another Batman game.

FFS, I do not understand these guys managing studios that make totally ridiculous decisions. Avengers. Gotham Knights. Redfall. Suicide Squad. How many examples of this shit do we need? These used to be good studios that made good games. These studio execs just got greedy AF.
 

zomboden

Banned
Looked at some early Series S gameplay on Youtube. Game looks like it's using low graphics preset at a reconstructed 1080p image. Doesn't even get screen space reflections on the S. No reflections on anything as far as I can tell.

Very rough... and imagining that there's more Xbox users with S than X, is this really the experience that people want for a "next gen console". Holy moly. We're not even half way through the generation. We're already getting sub 720p internal images for 60 fps modes on the more powerful consoles as it is. (Jedi Survivor)
 

Justin9mm

Member
I got a Series X at launch in 2020. Decided to get a PS5 and got it in January of this year because of so many great games on it. I know that it depends on a person's taste in games, but the PS5 feels like a premium blockbuster machine while the Xbox just feels very average. I still have the Series X, but the PS5 is significantly better primarily due to the games it offers. It's sad, because I loved the OG Xbox and Xbox 360 so much.
I'm the same, have XSX, PS5 and 3080 gaming PC. Series X collects the most dust but it is a beast of a console with lacklustre content. PS5 is the most premium experience, putting games aside, the controller alone is great, and the UI just feels more alive to me. It seems Xbox thought giving people access to more games with Gamepass was better than having AAA exclusives. We all know how that is turning out. Sony still selling PS5's like hot cakes.
 

James Sawyer Ford

Gold Member
And a follow up which a lot of people have heard Xbox is starting to push games out the door at all costs



Sometimes you need to know when to move on.

The concept of Redfall just isn't very appealing. A delay wouldn't have helped it.

Starfield on the other hand? Has a lot of potential appeal. But it can't be another Cyberpunk situation. Needs a delay to make a strong first impression
 

MarkMe2525

Member
WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH PUTTING ACHIEVEMENTS THAT HAVE A POINT VALUE THAT DOES NOT END IN A 5 OR 0!!!! I just unlocked an achievement that was worth 17 MOTHERFUCKING POINTS! For real, it's some god damn bullshit. Who thinks that is a good idea? Now I have a God damn 2 at the end of my score and will have to literally hunt for an achievement that can get me back to a number that ends in 5 or 0. I feel bad for wasting the coal that burned to power the server to host this good forsaken piece of shit game.
 

adamsapple

Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
And a follow up which a lot of people have heard Xbox is starting to push games out the door at all costs

The game was already given a full calendar year extension from its original summer '22 launch.

If they push it 'early' that's an issue, if they delay it again, that'd have been an issue.

What would you have done in this case?
 
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