Doing some spooky themed gaming for Halloween this year. I'm about halfway through The Callisto Protocol, which I am enjoying a great deal. The environments are so well done, everything looks great. Definitely one of the better looking games of the generation so far. Sad that it was not well received because I think the devs do a good job with it. Played a little Redfall this weekend two. Performance and texture loading have been addressed by the last two patches. AI seems better as I found Eclipse difficulty a bit harder than I cared for as opposed to when I mostly cruised through on Midnight in my first play through. I will be curious to see if Arkane Austin does any more content releases or if they'll move on once they've shipped the promised new classes or if they'll move on to their next project.
@majorlinux I had hoped this would be good co-op game for a friend and I to play, but never even tried it on release given the reviews. Then Diablo 4 came out just a few weeks later. I want to give it a try, but there are other co-op games like Gotham Knights and DarkTide now on game pass as well. I also want to go back and play Dying Light 2, Remnant 2, and Dead Island 2 with my friend as well.
I'd like to read the room on what you folks think of #Redfall so far?
Getting ready to put a review together. I absolutely do not hate this game, in fact, I have had an absolute blast despite the issues.
Would I recommend it? No. Probably not to anyone except for game design folks to show them what it looks like when a game has so much potential and fails to get there in any meaningful ways.
But I do really enjoy the setting. The small bits of lore that really make Redfall feel like this magical suburban town, a setting we rarely get in video games.
But those things are few and far between, and I think I can look past the issues because I've been on the other side of game dev. I know a game looks like trash until those final moments when it all comes together.
Conflicted feelings, which is good. Rarely when putting together a review is it not black and white.