Redfall’s long awaited update is finally here, and by all accounts it’s quite good. The game is now capable of 60 frames per second on 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xbox Series X and S, while Arkane has also made a number of changes to the mission structure and open world which strives to make the town of Redfall feel more alive, bustling, and a place you’d actually want to explore. But no matter how good Arkane is capable of making this flawed shooter, I’m not sure if it will ever climb out of the𓄧 hole it dug for itself. Not enough of us care, so perhaps it’s time it moved on.
Dishonored 3 entered production years ago, if rumours prove a๊ccurate, meaning Arkane is now pursuing a purely single player effort instead of trying to shoehorn multiplayer ambitions into a studio that clearly isn’t meant to accommodate them. When previews of Redfall dropped, a number of media outlets tried to connect the empty world design of Redfall to Dishonored, comparing the ways both games tackle environmental storytelling across its disparate locations. If I squint, I can see it, but the harsh truthཧ is that we saw the writing on the wall and did everything in our power to deny it. A studio known for richly detailed immersive sims had💎 jumped on the loot shooter train, and it was always going to end in tears. We all knew it, but it wasn’t until embargo that it finally hit home.
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168澳洲幸运5开奖网:False hope and Arkane magic aren’t going to fix a game that was flawed from the start🍷. Redfall should be taken as a harsh but necessary lesson in modern video game development and how not every developer is suited to chasing trends thrown at them by ignorant executives. Especially when even a cursory glimpse at Arkane’s reputation would show that it’s the last studio you’d want to paint into a corner. I’m positive that game director Harvey Smith and the team under him hoped to create something that challenged what a looter shooter can be, incorporating immersive sim elements into a genre which has been stubborn to embrace more experimental narrative ideas in fear of taking away from the economic draw of seasonal live service profits. Redfall was different, or could have been.
Microsoft’s response to its critical failure was surprisingly honest too, although given it was one of the platform’s only major exclusives in a very empty year, it had to be. Phil Spencer was quick to admit that he failed to offer enough guidance to Arkane after it became a first party studio, believing it🐈 w♛as best left alone even if those within were hopeful Microsoft would see the state Redfall was in, cancel it, and put them on a project worth the hard work.
That didn’t happen, so the months leading up to release must have been a gruelling path to acceptance that Redfall wasn’t what Arkane wanted it to be, and the weeks following would be a bitter 𒈔gauntlet of rough reviews, player criticism, and confusion as to why a game such as this came to be in the first place. It went radio silent for months as player counts dwindled to the single digits, with barely enough people for a single team playing o🍌n Steam last time I checked. Even major updates at this point are only going to bring back either professionals like me, the morbidly curious, or superfans who want so badly for Redfall to be something
more.
I don’t envy them, since all the performance modes and open world refinements in the land can’t shake what is ultimately a boring loot shooter at its core. It begs whether the game needs to make a comeback at all, or if Microsoft and Arkane are trying to make good on a game whose life support has already been switched off. I say swallow your pride, say goodbye, and strive to make up for it on wh♓atever comes next. Let it become a relic you strive to never repeat, taking everything good about it and applying what you can to a game🃏 that aims to surpass all its failings.
By the time you bring it back to life, the tr✃ends Redfall tried to replicate will have moved on anyway. It saddens me to say it, but Redfall is now a lost cause which is considered too much of a joke by the mainstream, and too much of a pipe dream by enthusiasts to ever entertain success🎃. I wish things could be different, but I’m not ignorant of the harsh reality.
