I find it hilarious those imbeciles thought that would be a thing. As much as it appealed to me as a kid to want to suplex a thug that would come after me, or jump into the crowd a bad guys and start shouting like Axel with the "Grand Uppa!", I would never go out of my way to hurt somebody to fufill that fantasy.
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Hilarious timing to be honest...
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Yoshi commit tax fraud and now Sonic does insider trading, what's next, Kratos does gran theft auto?
Pro move, Capcom, pro move! Could've easily charged extra as a stand-alone game. And while they can still do that, they chose to release it as a free add-on
Capcom is out here just winning lately, I dunno what they got in their Kool-Aid but they need to keep that shit topped up.
Once again, it's the failure of management and I'm not shocked in the slightest. What is with the video game industry fucking up so hard on this? I just talked about this earlier in the morning in the Game Articles Thread.Redfall's Development Was Reportedly So Troubled That Devs Hoped Microsoft Would Cancel It - IGN
Arkane Studios' development of Redfall was reportedly so troubled that its developers hoped Microsoft would cancel it after acquiring the company in 2020.www.ign.com
TL;DR
The upper management had no clear vision on whether the game should've been a single player or multiplayer. No one on Arkane really wanted to work on it. The upper management hoped to pull their version of "Bioware-magic" near the end of the development. 70% of the staff who worked on Prey 2017 left. The company did try to hire for more, but they were looking for people working on the multiplayer aspect rather than the singleplayer that Arkane has become known for. And thus, some people wanted MS to cancel the project.
Managers are tools of corporate structures which are beholden to stockholders, who want the company to create "products" and couldn't care less about the quality of the games being made.
Believe or not, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 has a similar issue, but not to the extent of Redfall. UA3 does get really grind heavy around late game. It's what keeps me from buying and playing the game. I don't have time for that shit.
It's not hard, but too many decently competent people have left or are not in charge in most of these Western AAA games. I find it ironic the roles have reversed. It was usually RPGs or certain action games with RPG elements on the Japanese side that suffered from too much grinding during the 6th generation. Not that Western games couldn't have grinding issues, but has gotten worse since the mid 7th generation.
This reminded me of one of Jim Stephanie Sterling's older videos where she points out that all "industry leaders" in the video game space don't just want money - they want ALL the money ever made... Not that I always agree with Sterling's views and overly dramatic criticism videos, but that one is 110% correct. And what a colossal shame it is since video games really remained unscathed by the wills of smirking managers who rub their hands before releasing the next "product" for a long time... Much longer than the movie or music industry
In other words: "when it's done". I know the game is supposed to be out by the end of the year, but if you guys don't have a release date, then just say it. This is why I don't care for the ambiguous were setting on a release date nonsense. Or coming out whatever season with no specified date.
