I’m sticking with low 70s.
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All I see is another account that needs a blockin’!
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If this game goes from getting mostly positive previews to scoring in the 50s that would be kinda crazy, but everything that’s leaked out so far has been extremely negative so I guess it could be possible.
I never use their site or any other like it so nothing really changes for me. The obsession with OC and MC needs to go away. Been around since the 90’s but seems like nobody cared about this stuff until last gen. The fact that sites like Metro UK are counted in Metacritic is reason enough for me to wholly dismiss it. It’s not some barometer or quality for a game. Never was. Sadly it’s up there with Social Media and Digital Foundry as being a detriment to gaming IMO.
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I played redfall for only first 20 minutes with NZ tricks, not such a bad game. looking forward to playing more of this game, so I dont care about reviews
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The problem is that everyone overestimates Arkane lol
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Metacritic has always been a thing in the industry. Bethesda literally denied Obsidian a bonus check because they didn’t get a 85 on Metacritic which led to Obsidian laying off a bunch of their team.
Craziest part is, these gaming companies take Metacritic more seriously than we do lol.
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I have seen how people put Arkane in the top 5 at least of Xbox studios, also that they are the dark horse, the next big thing, that their games are good for people who know about video games, etc. Arkane is the worst Microsoft studio.
We’ll have to wait and see what all the other reviews say, and the upcoming tech analysis by DF as well. We’ve talked about it before, but too much of a hands off approach isn’t necessarily a good thing. MS gave them the delay, that’s a good thing but then still to release this way? After what seems to have been six years in development? Just…damn.
Several things that have happened now has me believe MS/Xbox needs to change a few things. Not forcing a studio to make something is a good thing, as long as someone still keeps an eye on things. Hopefully they are aware of this.
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Nah Arkane isn’t bad when they stick to their lane who told them to make an open world looter shooter only god knows
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This is rather reactionary
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We have to be honest other companies like Sony or Nintendo wouldn’t release their games in this state on their consoles. They’d either delay it indefinitely or cancel it. Microsoft needs a firmer hand. This just hurts the brand
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well maybe xbox shouldnt putthem selves in that position to be made fun of. I feel like redfall is not goingto review well. the first full exclusive from bethesda purchase(I think) they have nobody to blame but themselves
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Some of y’all flip flop back and forth with being negative Nancy’s to cheering them on Jesus Christ
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I really don’t get what is supposed to look so bad about Redfall. Except for people posting some random screenshots on Twitter of random bad textures and the like in the game (which is something you’ll find in all games anyway), I don’t feel like it looks bad or plays bad at all from what I am seeing on Twitch.
I feel like narratives are being pushed by the fan base of the white plastic box in order to push a narrative that this game is bad when it definitely doesn’t look anything like it. Same with all the bad narrative about Starfield looking bad/full of bugs, delayed so coming in hot, etc.
And then I go around in Xbox circles online and it seems like people eat it up. This is getting ridiculous imo.
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Jim Ryan himself ordered the Code Red….
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Tbh I’m not surprised that this game is unpolished. From the moment they revealed that the game wouldn’t even run at 60 fps, I basically lost hope. This game needed another delay.
It is not a question of overestimating a studio but of having an opinion and expectations in relation to past experiences with this studio, as could be the case with any studio. Each person has an opinion. You obviously have yours and I respect it, you should do the same with others. A ranking is very subjective and everyone can choose to place any studio in the place they want based on their affinity and experience with the games they have played. That shouldn’t be judged with contempt, right?
Whatever happens with Redfall doesn’t really make me mad, the game is what it is. Xbox probably knows how well the game would review and probably did what they could to help Arkane but it looks like the game pivoted a lot through development, when the game director says that this was a 1-time foray into this type of open world co-op game you know that things were not all right through development maybe they got forced into making it during Bethesdas bad times in a hope of having a good Gaas game.
Cancelling the game outright would send a wrong message to the newly acquired studios, especially when gamepass exists, even if it’s a poor game, that would be like 6 years of dev time down the drain. Redfall and Starfield are game that didn’t originate under Xbox at the end of the day.
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Please define unpolished. I’m looking at the launch live stream right now and that doesn’t look unpolished to me. Are people expecting 200 million AAA production value out of every Xbox game now? I’ve played prey and dishonoured and they were far from being the greatest looking games; Redfall looks to be the level of polish you’d expect from an Arcane game, which is low end AAA dev in terms of visuals but with a good gameplay loop and a great concept behind the game.
It seems like people expected something of a much higher production value out of nowhere from this studio.