Play War Thunder now with my link, and get a massive, free bonus pack including vehicles, boosters and more: playwt.link/theactman2023 Every Red has it's Fall and every Dark has it's Soul. This game has no soul, goddamn it's awful. Feels good to finally do another 'SO BAD' review.

@C.A._Old

Жыл бұрын

*What a Act Man!*

@adityathapa844

Жыл бұрын

Waiting for RDR2 review!

@deltazeta5506

Жыл бұрын

I hate the sponsor....there is so much wrong and broken with the game. And the fact they just made the game's grind even longer just makes me not recommend it

@jaxtonboyle7046

Жыл бұрын

What do you do if you already have the game? do you still get the stuff?

@adityathapa844

Жыл бұрын

​@@deltazeta5506if you are a tank player, then you should try world of tanks!

my favorite AI-generated video game

@Stratnexus

Жыл бұрын

I agree

@perseverance7259

Жыл бұрын

indeed

@BigManTom31740

Жыл бұрын

My favourite ai generated KZreadr

@bambblamb3734

Жыл бұрын

The Rivals in Deep Rock Galactic be like:

@srai5333

Жыл бұрын

i think i have to agree with you Mr Zanny

I think a worst game of the year would be some incentive for companies to make good games cuz execs know they can be actively called out

@TheActMan

Жыл бұрын

They should add it to the official Game Awards, but they likely never will because they might be too buddy buddy with the game publishers and whatnot. Still, would make for a really funny time

@jajasking9652

Жыл бұрын

To be honest, gollum is even worst, is straight Up insulting and embarracing to release a Game like that, redfall is terrible, but gollum is Up there with the worst games of history

@elkosins1686

Жыл бұрын

@@TheActMan make it like the island where at the end one developer just gets voted off and they can’t make video games anymore

@andrewfeistner3384

Жыл бұрын

Hollywood has it but they still make bad movies and shows

@SurroundedSita

Жыл бұрын

@@jajasking9652 If you havent, you should give oboeshoegames a watch for his play of Gollum. He points out several times where they just straight up FORGOT Gollum is the bad one not smeagul >.>;

The fact that the devs were actually expecting for the game to be cancel just tells you everything we need to know

@Dr.Oofers

11 ай бұрын

Well, it was a disaster from the start.

@puppetstudio4989

7 ай бұрын

@@Dr.Oofers there was giant turnovers throughout this game's development and still stuff is coming out at what happened while the game is low-key abandoned

@wolfshade5020

5 ай бұрын

Arkane honestly didn’t want to make this game but they were obligated to because “LiVE SeRvICe mAKeS MOnEy”

Redfall is one of my favorite games. It was so bad that it made me go play Prey for the first time, which turned out to actually be one of my favorite games.

@user-ok3yw7bx2h

10 ай бұрын

Pray is extremely underrated, and its kinda living in the shadow of dishonored, which is sad because prey is one of my favorite games. Truly the most underrated immersive sim with countless ways to complete an objective.

@Drixiem

9 ай бұрын

this video made me play Prey

@sosa0

8 ай бұрын

Prey 2017 is easily one of the most underrated games of all time

@Drixiem

8 ай бұрын

@@sosa0 it really is

@4bschaum

7 ай бұрын

thatz one is still in my pile of shame but i heard its really good i'm gonna install it

I genuinely can't think anyone would think "Good job guys, this game is amazing. That extra year of work was so worth it." WHAT WERE THEY DOING THAT WHOLE YEAR

@thatoneguy8146

Жыл бұрын

Same thing with Halo Infinite what where they doing with that extra year

@IndyMiraaga

Жыл бұрын

They had no money to actually fix anything and nobody at Arkane wanted to make the game in the first place. Forcing a company that excels in single-player linear experiences to make a co-op open-world title was a massive mistake, lmao

@IndyMiraaga

Жыл бұрын

@@thatoneguy8146 Infinite was pretty much made completely in that one year from the murmurs I hear. It went through dev hell where they wanted a bunch of different things in the game like a crafting system or a hero shooter for the multiplayer, Joe Staten had to go in and tell them how to do it. And it's not even exactly 343's fault (excluding upper management, they dropped the oddball hard) because most of Infinite's main employees were just temporary contractors. The fact we got a product as okayish as Infinite was at launch was a miracle, and it's come a pretty long way. Still has massive issues for sure but at least it's not like Siege or No Man's Sky at launch.

@Leg1503

Жыл бұрын

Making the game in the first place

@thatoneguy8146

Жыл бұрын

@@IndyMiraaga it just the game is already 2 years old called a live service. But there’s fuck all content

It’s not about the graphics or the gameplay, it’s about the friends we saw phase half-way through the floor along the way.

@The_whales

Жыл бұрын

To be honest if you put a zombie rifle soldier from the original doom, it would soloing the whole of redfall without a single point of hp lost

Oof kind of felt that three round burst. Back when the M16 was still in use, a lot of guys complained that the 3 round burst was piece of shit because you had to squeeze the trigger till you shot 3 rounds, otherwise the mechanism isn't gonna reset itself to shoot another 3 rounds. Don't recommend

@mrstorch5068

11 ай бұрын

So it was basically full auto but with more finger control?

@no-legjohnny3691

10 ай бұрын

​@@mrstorch5068 Yeah, they implemented it on the M16A4 because it was meant to be the longer range equivalent to the M4. They didn't want soldiers to go gung ho and dump huge amounts of ammo at a target a long ways away because not only did it waste ammo, but it usually meant fewer rounds hit the target. The 3-round burst was made so that the soldiers had semi-fully-automatic fire still, but couldn't do longer bursts. However, this just basically meant that they used a mechanical issue to solve an issue that came because of a lack in training.

@someretardontheinternet

10 ай бұрын

@@no-legjohnny3691"Semi-fully-automatic" makes no sense lol The M16 had 3 round burst since the A2 til the A4 (A3 was full auto because that's what the Navy wanted so that weapon system was almost exclusive to the Navy) You're kinda right about dudes wasting ammo in a firefight, but at least nowadays, it's taught that you should send as much lead down range as you can accurately. If need be, you could fire off a round every 2 seconds consistently (unless you're an MG). Keep the enemy's head down while a flanking element can get around and take em out if you haven't already done so with arty or air support

@no-legjohnny3691

10 ай бұрын

@@someretardontheinternet I say "semi-fully-automatic" because they wanted troops to be able to have a full-auto function of sorts, but not 'full' full-auto if you get what I mean. I guess I was also under the impression that the A2 was full-auto thanks to the horrible representation of that model has in the media (Left 4 Dead and a few movies come to mind). But to be fair the A2 and A3 really aren't as notorious as the original Vietnam A1 or modern A4.

@someretardontheinternet

10 ай бұрын

​@@no-legjohnny3691 I get what you mean, but I still wouldn't use that 'term.' Semi automatic implies one round is fired after every trigger pull. Automatic implies more than one round is fired after the trigger has been pulled. Technically, 3 round burst is automatic although limited to how many rounds can be sent while holding the trigger. It's weird, Ik lol. Maybe depending on the year you were born and how much you're interested in guns, the A2 may have not been that well known to you. I was born in the early 2000s and I've seen many movies, shows, and even a few books where the M16A2 was used. It might be hard to figure out which is which at a quick glance so I wouldn't really put it past anyone. Best way to figure out if it's an A2 if you're not familiar with guns or a certain family of guns is the handguard and mag. It gets even easier if there's an M203 attached that sexy ass heat shield. It was definitely very well known and notorious in the early 80s, 90s and early 2000s during GWOT. In the early 2000s, it was still being used extensively by the USMC and maybe some parts of the Army until they completely switched to the A4 and the M4 (USMC didn't really start to use the M4 and M4A1 until around 2010).

At 11:00 in the video, you can see the AI fail to keep up while rotating around him. I had the same issue when I was making a FPS game for a school project, and I just went "I hope no one rotates around an enemy and finds this bug". I think this is exactly what the redfall devs were saying to themselves...

You know it’s a good day when the acting male uploads a video ft zanny

@db_524

Жыл бұрын

True

@xcorga198

Жыл бұрын

Fucking goats

@cadetleo1696

Жыл бұрын

Always good to see a new vid from the Mact Man

@user-bv7zo6vd4m

Жыл бұрын

yeah, theese two make a good duo

@lj6284

Жыл бұрын

Very specific, but i think you’re onto something.

Have to admit, the Actman slideshow movie was really well done and hilarious. 😂

@Clementinewoofwoof

Жыл бұрын

Was done better than black ops four zombies ending

@gh0stfrm36double0

Жыл бұрын

@@Clementinewoofwoof idc what ppl think bo4 zombies was fun af

@pilot778spartan3

Жыл бұрын

The finest piece of comedy I’ve ever seen

@jct0064

Жыл бұрын

Ya but now I have to live with the knowledge that he eats skippy.

@Bicorn711

Жыл бұрын

That empty toilet roll killed me 🤣

the burst rifle in redfall is based on the M16A2. among other things, one of the big complaints about the rifle was holding down the trigger for a full burst. if you didnt complete a burst, the mechanism wouldn't reset, and so it would fire 1 or 2 rounds. idk why bethesda decided to implement this in an arcade shooter, but they did

@n1njachikin

5 ай бұрын

Knowing how abysmal Bethesda’s weapons design team has been, I doubt this was intended.

@SiphonRayzar

3 ай бұрын

I know this is late, but I gotta say. As much as I wish this was deliberate attention to detail, it's far more likely that this was a bug, which is why it feels so odd in gameplay. But that is neat to know about the M16A2, so thank you for sharing that.

@gameragodzilla

18 күн бұрын

Yeah, it was one of the biggest criticisms of the M16A2. The burst mechanism is only valuable if you don’t have sufficient training standards and have to mechanically limit the full auto. The burst mechanism also changed the trigger pull feel in semi auto too, depending on where the ratchet was. That’s why Delta Force always sourced full auto receivers for their guns even though they used semi-auto 99.99999% of the time, since an inconsistent trigger pull would affect marksmanship. All that is why the M4A1 eventually just went back to normal full auto after the M4 kept the burst mode from the M16.

You know it's bad when watching Redfall gameplay makes people appreciate Back 4 Blood more

@theshadowking9626

Жыл бұрын

I was literally thinking that while watching this video

@Dr.Oofers

11 ай бұрын

God, that just makes me wish Evolve (made by turtle rock studios too) was given a second chance by 2k.

@ericmoreau4568

10 ай бұрын

For all of its pitfalls B4B had its moments, unlike this lousy excuse for a game.

@christiamcruz7454

2 ай бұрын

​@@Dr.Oofers i Dispise Evolve with a passion, but if a get to choose to play this over Evolve i would go for tha ladder and head for Evolve instead.

@quentinhans4755

12 күн бұрын

I remember seeing this game revealed and leaving a comment saying it looked like back 4 blood with vampires. I seriously thought it was Back 4 Blood DLC at first.

Being trapped in the menu is brilliant game design as it mirrors how the protags are trapped in the town.

@memelover6917

Жыл бұрын

IT'S GENIUS DEEP LORE

@engagingweirdo

Жыл бұрын

The town of Hell!! Brilliant thought btw

Apparently the devs at Arkane didn’t even want to make Redfall, and they were hoping that Microsoft would shelve the project after the acquisition of Zenimax. Unfortunately for them, Microsoft took a hands-off approach to the studio and the Arkane higher-ups forced the developers to continue working on Redfall.

@Deliveredmean42

Жыл бұрын

A blessing and a curse of hands-off approaches...

@stormhought

Жыл бұрын

Microsoft was doing the hands-off approach for Halo for years. 343 was basically a separate company

@MrNinja543

Жыл бұрын

​@@stormhoughtyes apparently it's always Microsoft. Developers are incapable of doing wrong according to the internet

@AHeroAlmost

Жыл бұрын

Devs still have to take responsibility when selling a product … You can’t just throw your toys out of the pram & expect people to pay for it ..

@silkpursuit

Жыл бұрын

@@AHeroAlmost I hate when people like you throw all the blame on the developers. They are the most overworked people in this industry, they get used and shit on just to turn a profit. Then mindless masses blame them for the game being rushed, buggy, or not finished. Stop blaming developers and start directing your abhorrence towards the suits that give them these terrible IP's and impossibly tight deadlines.

Hey, found your account a couple months ago and just started binging alot of your content, never a disappointment everytime I see a new video, keep up the good work, man.

@rogen8094

10 ай бұрын

Act Man never misses!

@Jake-up3wh

10 ай бұрын

@@rogen8094 apart from the mw2 2022 but we won’t talk about that

@rogen8094

10 ай бұрын

@@Jake-up3wh yeah, I didn't see his take on that, tbh.

The reason the game doesn't have 60fps is because all of the money that they were going to put towards 60fps went towards printing out all of the stickers for the physical copies of the game saying it didn't have 60fps.

@LiamGoulding-mo2lv

2 ай бұрын

Underrated comment 😅😅

In case you're wondering, the senior Prey devs all left Arkane during development of Redfall. That's why it's like this. Like BF2042, the talent jumped ship and then the interns made the game.

@tatzecom

Жыл бұрын

hmm in that case, for some interns the game isnt that bad. Like, as a side project ~10-15 hours a week while they finish school, its actually quite good. not as a tripple A title, of course.

@maruf7956

Жыл бұрын

it would be decent indie game

@alecmcchesney6841

Жыл бұрын

​@@tatzecom i highly doubt thats the case but i really want it to be

@marcusknight5170

Жыл бұрын

​@Maruf yeah indie game that charges 70 dollars. Ultrakill one of the best fps indie game charges only 8 dollars.

@ConfirmedZer0

Жыл бұрын

@@marcusknight5170 Hypothetically speaking.

The worst part about Redfall is that it was made by the same guys who made Prey, an incredibly underrated and amazing experience. Most of the Prey devs actually left during Redfall's development and those who stayed actually hoped it would be cancelled.

@drxavier1870

Жыл бұрын

Daaaamn thats sad

@DogeickBateman

Жыл бұрын

Lived long enough to become the villain

@SL4PSH0CK

Жыл бұрын

since development before the acuquistion and after w/ the lack of support from microsoft, yea i can see why its hoping toget cancelled

@ghostlegit

Жыл бұрын

I'm sorry but that article by Jason is cap. Majority of devs did not leave

@r.e.z9428

Жыл бұрын

Which Prey?

you had me crying with the power point story mode this is pure comedy

About the burst fire trigger thing... That is legit how the M16A2 and M4 triggers work. If you are fast enough you can consistently only fire 1 round by pulling and releasing the trigger fast enough. It gets worse though, it remembers where you were and if you fire a 2 round burst and then try and hold it down for a 3 round it'll only fire one. But that's no excuse, as it was so annoying and useless that the military has began mostly moving away from burst to just full auto with the M4A1, the M27 and now the XM7.

The fact that Prey 2 was canned for this trasheap really hones in how Arkane has changed for the worst.

@alexlyster3459

Жыл бұрын

​@thelastpersonwhosaidyouwer182770% of the Devs at Arkane Austin who made Prey have left. The team has literally changed.

@Smallerexia

Жыл бұрын

@alex lyster you are both right. The team has changed, but it is the fault of the higher-ups for pushing a live service multiplayer game on developers with no interest, so they all quit

@ni9274

Жыл бұрын

nobody bought prey 1, in the end if ppl don't want to buy good games studios won't make good games

@alexlyster3459

Жыл бұрын

@thelastpersonwhosaidyouwer1827 Oh I do absolutely agree with you in that regard.

@inpusket

Жыл бұрын

​@The last cat with a Milky Mustache devs made this game,not execs...

I actually had a lot of fun with Redfall. Going through the settings and uninstalling were definitely the highlights.

@abdullahmalik7217

Жыл бұрын

I nearly had a heart attack when I saw how customizable the brightness was

@TheActMan

Жыл бұрын

LOOOL

@LarryPigeon1

9 ай бұрын

Based but atleast i didnt buy shit like that

Love the *splash noise* with every transition you added. I'm guessing on their side it was the default screen transition behavior in their tools and they didn't know how to change it.

your slide show story, really hit me in the feels. a tear formed of the memories flooding in

I love how they made the choice of showing the magazine tube of the shotgun but you can clearly see that the shells are inserted into the pice of metal between the tube and the barrel.

The fact that you can circle around an enemy and they will just lose you is absolutely insane

@thepeps101

Жыл бұрын

For real, not even skyrim ai is this stupid, hell probably not even morrowind ai

@Siul_987

Жыл бұрын

Lol yeah, the ai is very very bad from what I have seen, they can’t even go around objects to get you sometimes. The Ai fights the environment more than the player.

@____Carnage____

Жыл бұрын

⁠@@thepeps101 Paradox could probably make better Ai

@ryujin9568

Жыл бұрын

@@____Carnage____ Woah hold up, let's not get too ahead of ourselves :P

@paulovinasrocha6166

Жыл бұрын

​@@____Carnage____ what games did they make

13:47 they put the sticker because they can be sued for false advertisement for it

6:30 fun fact code vein has the same cutscene, but in that game, they let you skip them and walk around the environment

It’s beyond infuriating to see how far Arkane has fallen since Prey

@WERTYBD

Жыл бұрын

This is a different arcane

@zero3556

Жыл бұрын

*Cries in Dishonored*

@wahwahwah6690

Жыл бұрын

Dishonored and Prey are some of the best immersive sims ever made. It's honestly baffling

@spamfolder8562

Жыл бұрын

I’ve seen people point out that the reason for their worsening game quality may be because they do not specialize in making multiplayer/live-service experiences. The good games Arcane has produced are mainly single-player experiences.

@gatorarman12

Жыл бұрын

Different Arkane studios division made Dishonored than Redfall and Deathloop. More importantly, the connecting thread that made Dishonored and Prey both great was Raphaël Colantonio the original founder of Arcane. His absence is clearly noticeable when looking at Deathloop and Redfall. He does have a new studio now, WolfEye studios. Their most recent game was Evil West which was a pretty decent AA game.

Man I sure love seeing my boys Zanny and ActMan together, I need more of these two together

When talking about the burst fire rifle, Im guessin Redfall was goin for a M4 approach. Burst fire on the M4 requires the user to hold down on the trigger for the full 3 rounds. Not sure why they would implement it in the game though

Man, coming back to this video is still a delight! I love seeing The Act Man experiencing Zanny's instant comedic quips firsthand.

If most studios roll a dice on how good their new game will turn out, *Arkane throws a coin.*

@battlion507

Жыл бұрын

Heads: game is so good, it will be a cash cow franchise akin to Halo and Gears of War. Tails: YOUR A WINNER! Ride to Hell salutes you!

@RipRLeeErmey

Жыл бұрын

​@@battlion507 *YOU'RE WINNER!

@battlion507

11 ай бұрын

@@RipRLeeErmey Aww, my bad... I will not laugh nor will I cry...

@marksmanmerc1

11 ай бұрын

Whoever tf thought it'd be a good idea to get Arkane to make a co-op looter shooter should just be fired cause that is some next level brain rot. That'd be like grabbing Bethesda to make a competitive movement based shooter.

@jafaral-z1090

11 ай бұрын

@@marksmanmerc1 except they made doom and doom eternal, which could've been a resurgence for the b00m3r shooters of old

Having Zanny with you needs to happen more often. The dude is funny and you guys have great chemistry. Another great video, my dude.

@The1just12

11 ай бұрын

Yes 09:15 shows why they are so great together

@DeeAyeOh85

10 ай бұрын

When he said the "are we the bad guys" comment I laughed so hard!

@apk4381

9 ай бұрын

He uses the term "dog water" like a 13 year old whose parents don't let him swear. He should be banned from the internet for being so cringe.

@annesmith9070

9 ай бұрын

I know! I found Zanny several months ago when my little brother introduced me (an utter video game noob except for a year or two of Atari back in the 80s) to Elden Ring. I had to work myself up to picking up the controller the thing made me so damn nervous. Zanny's pure, contagious joie de vivre and hilarity while getting stomped by the worst that FromSoftware could dish out showed me the right attitude :-). Months later I discover TheActMan - another stellar creator, keeping me informed, entertained and giggling - and boom, Zanny pops up! It figures - two very smart creators with positive attitudes who generate tons of fun back into the community.

Wish I could have been in the board meetings about this game during the last few weeks before launch. I want to see the disappointed faces of the execs who knew they were about to unleash an absolute turd on the gaming community. Just to see who got yelled at and what the overall sentiment was

@VeryProfessionalGamer

9 ай бұрын

Oh fuck no, you KNOW they didn’t care what state the game was gonna release in. They only looked at the pre-order numbers and how much money it was gonna make them. Publishers buy game studios that have built trust to their player base, release a few shitty titles with big marketing, just playable enough to not get them class-actioned, to make a quick buck for the execs. Money doesn’t care about reviews. You already have them your money, that’s all they wanted from you. And you know what? If you’re not gonna buy the next title, they don’t care, they can just buy the next studio if profits fall off. They basically butcher the company that was built on dreams and passion for money. Publishers have become meat grinders for studios. EA, Microsoft, you name it.

Insane to know we have a 3 way fight for worst game of the year in 2023. Redfall v rise of Kong v Gollum

My friends and I did one session of Redfall cause Game Pass. We played for about 3 hours during which time we did several missions that involved walking somewhere and shooting a handful of brain dead enemies. One of my friends asked when we were going to start doing the main missions...not realizing we'd been doing them the entire time. My game crashed soon after and we all uninstalled.

@ax0l297

Жыл бұрын

critical :O

@camoking3609

Жыл бұрын

"When do we get to the ride?" " *this is the ride!!* "

@cattysplat

Жыл бұрын

Certified Gamepuss experience.

So proud of Act Man for featuring small creators like Zanny

@n1njachikin

Жыл бұрын

@@ayelynxz8787 that’s the joke doofus

@brandonnelson94

Жыл бұрын

@@n1njachikin what a truly hilarious and original joke!

@sadchild9478

Жыл бұрын

@@brandonnelson94 it may be unoriginal, but people are still not getting it no matter how many times it’s used. Case in point: the first reply.

@futuristicfire3378

Жыл бұрын

@@brandonnelson94 shush

@outlavv

Жыл бұрын

​@@ayelynxz8787 "wow really?🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓" Edit: he was being scientist about sub number count

The burst on certain models of M16 did indeed operate like what's depicted in game, requiring the user to hold the trigger till the burst stops to fire all 3 rounds, but they might see this comment and call what defiantly is a bug an "intentional feature" of the game, even if it was intentional, its a stupid detail to replicate in game as you need consistency when using a gun, Not constantly guessing if you'll fire a full burst

Game’s running at a lower FPS doesn’t mean less frames. Video games use IK to fill in tweens of key frames (like the Anime AI upscale to 60 FPS) Even motion capture uses some IK

Listen...developers...the reason why the static, non moving cutscenes worked for Elden Ring's intro is because that game's intro was told in a manner of someone telling you a fairytale, or a bard in a tavern signing you a poem. It mythologises the characters which fits perfectly in the world of Elden Ring. Also, they are drawings. Very exceptionally done drawings clearly drawn by talented artists, not stills from 3D models of your engine

@tatzecom

Жыл бұрын

Also the rest of Elden Bling was finished. And the other cutscenes in the game were actual cut scenes. Rendered in-game too. With dialogue.

@user-yj1ov2yu8e

Жыл бұрын

Dishonred 2 has a similar intro with drawnings. This game was made by Harvey Smith, just like Redfall😢

@captaintoast4675

Жыл бұрын

​@@tatzecom also Elden ring is good lol

@scotginger4690

Жыл бұрын

Another thing Elden Ring did right was be a finished product.

@sonnguyen-iv7gv

Жыл бұрын

ER has full animated cutscence and drawing cutscene that makes the drawing cutscene feels like a choice of art style. Redfall in the other hand....

Didnt get the critical reception that they wanted?! How did they expect this dumpsterfire to be received? With open arms and a damn parade?

@gabrielmorga2326

Жыл бұрын

Yes

@Kastafore

Жыл бұрын

It just goes to show that no one involved with Redfall cares about video games beyond $$$. Anyone who is a game enthusiast looking at the product would say that it's absolutely unacceptable.

@Spielername

Жыл бұрын

And again, never buy a new game. Wait until you have a review from a trusted source. It's just not worth it. What do you pay for a new game nowadays? $70-$80? It's so not worth it!

@romancatholicgameing

Жыл бұрын

​@@Kastafore blame the execs not the devs

@Kastafore

Жыл бұрын

@@romancatholicgameing Nah I absolutely blame devs as well.

Bro did not expect the day before to even drop ☠☠☠☠☠☠☠

at 10:50pm on august 8th there's 20 ppl in game on steam with the 24hr peak at 44 players

In defence of the burst rifle, that's how 3 round burst works in real life, you could single shot or double shot them if your fast enough and you'd have to hold down the trigger for the entire cycle of the 3 rounds for the sear to reset.

@deadboyo2773

Жыл бұрын

Almost 1000% sure that's not the reason it's like that in redfall

@saxdude01

Жыл бұрын

that's really only the M16 that works that way. Most burst capable firearms work more like how most video games do: you pull the trigger for a single shot but it still fires off a full burst.

@nyxranobody3690

Жыл бұрын

For the guy that covers a lot of FPS games you’d think he’s know. Actman becoming falling off man

@GTAVALE

Жыл бұрын

@@nyxranobody3690 how could he know if 99% of games make burst rifles fire burst as soon as you fire

@ongthuctran4992

Жыл бұрын

​@@nyxranobody3690 he knows about guns in game, not alot in real life lol

I'm a diehard fan of your channel but this storytelling- cutscene parody was one of the best scenes you've ever made. Using such a wide scale of tools of humour absolutely becomes your trademark, and it just gets better. Well played Sir!

@TheActMan

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it hahaha

@Spartan-001BladeHunter

Жыл бұрын

​@@TheActMan Had Redfall been a great game, the cutscenes would've been novelty. But in the state that it is, they come off as low effort.

@uncensoredmaverick4455

Жыл бұрын

What is a diehard fan?

@SoVega301

Жыл бұрын

@@uncensoredmaverick4455 When their on the brink of death they will remember the person their a fan of and get hard. Thus being a "diehard fan"

@theirishorange22

Жыл бұрын

@@SoVega301 couldnt of said it better myself

Dude, this game had so much potential. I was super stoked for this game when they announced it last year.

@R-SXX

8 ай бұрын

As a Fan of lovecrafts work and especially innsmouths story, redfall sounded really promising and reminded me of it a lot. Shame how it turned out.

The first time I launched this, the model for every single object I could interact with was not there. I started it up multiplayer and my friend could play fine but I couldn't see wall mounted medkits, the pistol on the floor, lockboxes, nothing. The objects weren't there so I couldn't interact.

Arkane studios is one of the few gaming studios I feel the most sorry for, as when prey and Dishonored death of the outsider they were at the top of their game and after being dragged through terrible game after terrible game and receiving some redemption with Deathloop is being dragged back in by this junk that they didn’t want to make. It’s truely heart wrenching

@metalgeardull8279

Жыл бұрын

I feel you, I'm going through the same thing. Arkane's Redfall to me was what Betheada's Fallout 76 was to AngryJoe. Luckily, Arkane's previous video-games are still great when replayed. I'm still playing Dishonored 1 and 2, and just got into PREY recently (due to my hardware limitations and lack of marketing on Arkane's part).

@JvpiterJvzz

Жыл бұрын

​@MetalGearDull yea. I played Dishonored 1 a long time ago and remember liking it, just didn't finish it. I think I'll play em both over the next couple of weekends

@metalgeardull8279

Жыл бұрын

@@JvpiterJvzz If you have Game Pass, give PREY a try!

@baunchus3479

Жыл бұрын

@@JvpiterJvzz please do i did the same thing only playing 1 or 2 levels but when I figured out the stealth system I played the whole game in one night

@SchierkeVerdant

Жыл бұрын

Deathloop is not what I'd call a redemption. The whole game was half baked at best and the AI was on par with Redfall with its quality. It only had a vaguely novel concept going for it.

You know, I didn’t want Microsoft to be able to buy Activision because of monopoly but now I hope that will happen. They deserve each other

@mpowerness92

Жыл бұрын

I would be all for it if it didn’t mean THPS, Crash and Spyro were destined to be mothballed…AGAIN

@xerothereaper4158

Жыл бұрын

Let them buy it! Because it’s going to cause MOOOOORE problem

@mohdamin6641

Жыл бұрын

Same bro sony got the best live service games studio which is bungie they made halo and from a leak about last of us multiplayer they made bungie the leaders of the live service games bungie know how to make you spend money and put time in there stuff I have been playing destiny 2 for 4 years now and didn't get bored of the game of course I take 1-2 weeks as a break but I don't feel bored even If I didn't take a break and sometimes I don't know what to do cuz the game have so much stuff and after OW story mod was canceled I knew that ABK and xbox are match mad in heaven both like to cancel there stuff amd lieing a lot and like false promises its not about the titles its about who's making them its about the developers not the publisher but the ppl who actually making the games

@mightyraptor01

Жыл бұрын

Another Cyberpunk. But it doesn't make me want to play Sony Games either.

@technoir2216

Жыл бұрын

@@mightyraptor01 90% of Sony games work on release.

Love these videos, I was screaming when you ran around that enemy for a minute 😂

Rise of Kong: Amateurs... Redfall: what did you just say pal? Rise of Kong: *_AMATEURS!_*

i didnt expect this collab but their personalities mesh really well tf

@KaptifLaDistillerie

Жыл бұрын

Well it's still surprising to see Zanny not being unhinged

@andrewmeyer3599

Жыл бұрын

The collab they did for Revenge of the Sith is also a good video to watch if ya haven't

@harrymillar4193

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewmeyer3599 That’s a much better video… but probably because it’s a much better game XD

@harrymillar4193

Жыл бұрын

They’ve been friends for years

That smile that Act Man had when he figured out that he couldn't ride the quad is the look on my face when I play most modern games. Just the "I'm so un-surprised by this, yet it's still so baffling that all I can do is laugh" face.

@joju5849

Жыл бұрын

Time stamp, please and thank you?

@JH-zo7rb

Жыл бұрын

​@@joju5849 15:18

@SHAdow98V

Жыл бұрын

I could read this on his face "my dissapointment was already immesurable and my day was already ruined when i started this game,but now?! now it's beyond that." XD

@italianspiderman5012

Жыл бұрын

Whenever there’s a puzzle in a game or a quest that doesn’t point you exactly where you need to go and it takes me a minute to figure it out, I immediately think “is it a bug? Is the game bugged or am I not getting it” and honestly, trying to figure out what’s a bug and what’s not is a puzzle in itself.

The whole thing with the burst gun firing weird is an actual quirk of the M16 in real life. So I guess they were going Uber realistic with this one gun but even mil-sims don’t go into this depth with the M16 because they know it would be very frustrating

7:25 Lmao the music kills me 💀

Always love when The Man and Zanny get together.

@LEXICON-DEVIL

Жыл бұрын

.....Who???

@chrisa8863

Жыл бұрын

​@@kingsrevenge9234yes drop out of school

@coryjohnson2486

Жыл бұрын

Lol these dudes sound like your run of the mill DORKS

You really roasted Redfall’s quality with that PowerPoint sequence. You had more emotion there than Redfall had in its entirety

Act Man and Zanny collabs is something i never knew i needed

Love the amount of people hanging out with Zanny!

This is the funniest and saddest shit ive seen in a while, great video Actman, also the toilet papper story was more emotional than any emotion I felt playing this game.

Man the "are you sure about that?" with Gollum was so on point to my current thought process lol

@TheActMan

Жыл бұрын

Actually went back to make that edit after the Gollum game came out

@ChaosAOE

Жыл бұрын

@@TheActMan I commend the dedication good sir

@Aargo999

Жыл бұрын

Companies actively competing for worst game of the year lol, was waiting for that insert at the beginning too

Just came across your content Act Man and you're my new favorite gaming critic, look forward to being subscribed to the channel.

The weird 3 round burst mechanism actually matches how an M16 burst cam works. You can get partial bursts if you let off the trigger, then the next trigger pull just finishes the unfinished burst.

Actman's slide show cutscene was super funny and entertaining, unlike most modern games

@redmetroid743

11 ай бұрын

Yea the toilet part had me dead lol 😂

@The_whales

10 ай бұрын

Atleast he got the thing finished

@r3dr4te963

9 ай бұрын

Joke aside, that what missing from Redfall slideshows. There's no story on them, they feel like random static pictures. Like some powerpoint presentation where they put cliparts because they forgot to take pictures

I miss good video games, just finished fallout new Vegas and the sheer difference of fun compared to modern games is crazy

@TheActMan

Жыл бұрын

Bro, Fallout New Vegas is also pretty dang buggy too. But the story and world is so damn good it offsets a lot of the bugginess IMO

@SL4PSH0CK

Жыл бұрын

great americanjank, that struggle throughout the bethesda heritage of bugs

@dampking

Жыл бұрын

There’s still plenty of good games just look past AAA ( and tons of great AAA games as well.)

@andrewgreen77

Жыл бұрын

​@@TheActMan Game that was released over a decade ago that was made in 18 monthes is still less buggy than this trash lmao

@erykaldo2l270

Жыл бұрын

Fallout new Vegas is extrmely janky too. But man, what an amazing game it is.

please do more AVGN quotes for the games you review. the quotes are always surprisingly relevant and hilarious despite a decent amount of the older episodes approaching over 15 years old now

I think the worst problem the game had was that it tried to be a Borderlands type of loot & shoot but made none of the guns fun or satisfying enough that you'd want to find legendary versions of them. If you're going to have a loot table, make it mean something. And the skills! How can you make none of the skills interesting enough to want to level them up!? Just a flat experience that could have been so much more. :/

I love how he used the splash transition throughout the video after saying he would do so once like 10 minutes into the game

I don't know if you guys heard, but apparently the developers were praying the game would get cancelled or rebooted as a single player title when Microsoft bought them 😂 but Microsoft kept a complete hands off approach, let acclaimed studios work their magic. That's a twist you don't hear often

@camoking3609

Жыл бұрын

So basically Microsoft for once put their trust and faith completely in the studio and got fucked for it Which means they'll probably never trust another studio again... Just great....

@adamburch1296

Жыл бұрын

​@@camoking3609Not really, microsoft has been hands off with a lot of the companies they've acquired for like 10 years. Look at Halo and 343 Studios, ouch😢

@bearerofbadnews1375

Жыл бұрын

So Arkane was force to make live service trash. It’s Babylons fall all over again.

@DoubleDOwnage

Жыл бұрын

​@@bearerofbadnews1375 they were not forced, the game was already under development, they did what lazy underachievers do and just phoned in their job for 3 additional years of pay and now want to cry so they don't all get fired.

@skye_music

Жыл бұрын

I heard that too and 70% of the original devs have left

Your PowerPoint cutscene is way better than Redfall cutscenes.

@TheAlanReviews

6 ай бұрын

I agree!

Thanks for the collab review, Theatre Guy and Zan-man!

The best part of the burst rifle is that while you were testing it out, you put rounds in the dirt next to a vampire and it just.... floated there

I actually would love a razzie event. The industry takes itself too seriously to do something like that but it is great to be humble sometimes.

@wilsonjonah

11 ай бұрын

Have Todd Howard be the host and it'd be a good time 😆

@gunmunz

10 ай бұрын

If we made it so the game has to be judge when it comes out instead of at a certain time would fix the infuriating trend of 'ship it now, patch later'

@nonapplicable8817

10 ай бұрын

​@@wilsonjonahWould be kind of boring for the host to get most of the awards.

@wilsonjonah

10 ай бұрын

@@nonapplicable8817 no, that would be if Bobby Kotick (Activision) was on the stand. He's an embarrassment to business in general, not just gaming

16:40 Hey I’m not taking this Sea of Thieves slander! You said you would go back and revisit that game 2 years ago and you still haven’t

That looks like the bug in Destiny 2 when if you switch your gun there was a small chance for the run animation to not work and the gun would just point to the side

Quick little story: I actually met 3 of the developers that worked on this game when I was working at the Houston Museum of Natural Science(Still work there) and they admitted it wasn't up to even mediocre standards.

@christinagonzales9172

Жыл бұрын

Picture or it didn't happen

@manzac112

Жыл бұрын

@@christinagonzales9172 I was a concierge at the time and I couldn't have my phone out at where I was.

A zanny collab is the furthest thing from what I expected

@user-bv7zo6vd4m

Жыл бұрын

he has done it a couple of times before

@catodes1295

Жыл бұрын

​@@user-bv7zo6vd4m the last one was like 2 years ago? With Valheim?

you and zanny working together on this review is the only good thing to come out of this game lmao

Awesome video as always keep up the great work♥

The "character models standing around with narration" thing worked pretty well in Dishonored but was used very sparingly. I'm pretty sure mostly just the endings and sorta the dream sequences but in those you were moving around the frozen ones as you progressed through the area rather than just having the camera pointed at them.

@John-Doe-Yo

Жыл бұрын

I remember that’s how cod zombies did some cutscenes like that early on but that wasn’t a big deal because you didn’t pay $60 just for zombies you had the campaign and multiplayer. If this game wasn’t such a mess it could be overlooked but man this is just sad.

@puppetstudio4989

Жыл бұрын

sparingly, it was used in the ending lol

@badasscrusader

Жыл бұрын

@@puppetstudio4989 ok would you prefer every single cut scene?

For all it's flaws, at least Redfall gave us a legendary Act Man slideshow cutscene. 10/10 Haven't laughed that much in weeks.

@MichaeltheORIGINAL1

Жыл бұрын

I almost died in my chair lol

@TheActMan

Жыл бұрын

Gotta look on the bright side of things 😂

So tragic what was done to the studio tbh. Imagine OLD Arkane making a vampire slayer campaign game like an immersive sim. I played Eldritch earlier this year and absolutely loved it - it was something like the solo dev's 3rd game. His first one was like a practice game: a terrible, janky unfinished vampire FPS where you played as a sort of Buffy completing objectives around a city block. That's exactly what Redfall reminds me of, except it wasn't made by one guy in his spare time.

Too bad this came out way before "The Day Before" launched...

Jason Schreier’s expose article on this game’s development only shows that Modern Gaming needs a complete shakeup of higher ups and management. Most developers are quite literally trying their best, but are getting screwed over by the decisions of their bosses.

@Marksman3434

Жыл бұрын

It’s unfortunately too late unless the entire system changes. Video game studios are just another example of their industry becoming too corporate and MBA-driven just like almost every industry has in the last 40 years since the deregulation of corporatism has exploded and anti-Unionization has become the norm. A shake-up in the entire system is needed across ALL industries, not just video games. A stand has to be taken against all these ignorant-ass business suits who just care about profits for the lowest amount of effort and investment possible and don’t know shit about creativity and game development

@rasengdori13

Жыл бұрын

@@Marksman3434 Yep. Socialist restructuring and government intervention is the only way to fix it at this point. Game devs need to unionize, and federal regulation needs to be applied against companies and executives that release games in this state as an incentive to stop doing it. There needs to be REAL consequences and accountability when a game like RedFall is allowed to release.

Not the Zanny collab we deserved, but the Zanny collab we needed.

I played this for like 3 weeks, and it got so old so fast. Cool concept with a lackluster execution. Maybe with a few years of tweaking, and it could become pretty okay

Here's something interesting; the burst fire rifle is based off an M16 of some variety, and that's actually how it works. If you play shooters more focused on accuracy, like Squad, Insurgency etc, you'll notice that. However, this game is not trying to do that, and so I would put this up to "the devs screwed up the coding somehow" rather than "the devs cared"

YongYea did a video recently about how the behind the scenes for redfall surfaced and it sounds like they already felt the writing on the wall years before this game’s release. Due to the lacking sales of their recent titles, upper management wanted to due something more broad and mainstream (aka coop live service shooter), but Arkane didn’t have much experience in that (Kinda like Bioware with Anthem). Apparently they were even hoping the game would be canceled or at least changed to a single player experience but the upper management actually thought it looked neat ☠️

@kemalrizaldy8307

Жыл бұрын

And 70% OG employee of Arkane already left the studio before Redfall's release because of how hostile the workplace environment become Correct me if i'm wrong...

@kosrules1884

Жыл бұрын

​@Kemal Rizaldy Kind of can't blame them considering how Bethesda screwed up with fallout 76, and this was in development before microsoft even acquired them.And Bethesda had pissided off the the guy how made the music for the doom games.

@IgorSantos-im1nr

Жыл бұрын

Anthem was worse. Dev during game show: “wow that game looks cool, which studio is making?” “In theory, it is us. That’s our game and you’ll program it” “Oh…” They made a trailer with 0 gameplay, with no ideia of what they could actually do.

@silvialuzmia

Жыл бұрын

​@@IgorSantos-im1nridk why this is so funny to me

You know the video is going to be 2x entertaining when you got Zanny with you

The slideshow you did was pretty funny. Also I thought using the "splash" sound effect on transitions like the game did was a nice touch (glad you didn't use it on every transition though).

I love how you added the "splash" noise when you transitioned between the shots you made, just like the game lmao

From my understanding, the issue was that the old Zenimax executives insisted on pushing Arkane into making a live service multiplayer game and gave them contradictive reference material. Redfall was supposed to do all the popular things because that would help inflate the price in a future acquisition, even though it was nothing like the kind of game that the devs at Arkane would have wanted to make to the point where 70% of the devs that had worked on Prey straight-up left. So the game was already a hot mess in the hands of a gutted studio when Microsoft bought them and that's where their policy of letting studios do their own thing came back to bite them, because Redfall really would have needed a soft reboot to become something even remotely playable.

@finnfin

Жыл бұрын

This! this is now my headcanon about the events behind the scenes of redfall. It just clicks and makes the most sense.

@Dr.Oofers

11 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠@@finnfinI think it *is* cannon. Arkane is the result of publishers/execs being the problem. Giving contradicting references can make devs confused and make them constantly ask the execs for approval or just be nervous to do anything. I think I remember reading an article about the game’s development, apparently Arkane devs were asking for Microsoft (during the acquisition) to step in and either set the record straight so they don’t have to worry about making the “wrong game”, or cancel the game so they can work on something else.

@mravg79

10 ай бұрын

I hope this will be the last of games with such approach we got fallout 76, wolfenstein the young blood and redfall. I get that in some cases owners (MS) in this case give the subsidiaries creative freedom, but this does not always produce a good result. On the other hand studios should have some (I know some is not very precise term) degree of freedom in what they want to create. Without it we would most probably not see games like Pentiment or HiFi Rush.

The thing you said at the beginning about the "razzies of videogames" is exactly a thought I had last week. The game awards absolutely needs to add a "worst game of the year" award. We need to name and shame these terrible games. We shouldn't let people just brush past and forget about them, only to immediately preorder the next game by the company with false promises. These companies need to feel the effect of releasing terrible, unfinished cash grabs.

@LavaCreeperPeople

Жыл бұрын

Why Is Redfall SO BAD?! (Ft. Zanny)

@mikeharris6429

Жыл бұрын

Game developers would probably sue for defamation

@TheScavv

Жыл бұрын

@@mikeharris6429 That's not even close to what defamation is

@Furyfrags

Жыл бұрын

I like how a fucking roblox game i play(rise of the dead) at least interesting things to do plus walk cycles and stuff. Sure no va's and all but hell at least its better than redfall. Like how can a game with a SINGLE dev be better than a studio with multiple devs and the same amount of dev time? Plus more money and plus better equipment to work with? AND THEY ARE CHARGING HUMAN MONEY FOR IT? 60 WHOLE DOLLARS?(in rotd total gamepasses are like 7 bucks total) id rather buy ace combat with that money. What is happenning to this world

@elastichedgehog6339

Жыл бұрын

Geoff would never go for that in my opinion.

12:00 the performance there reminds me exactly of Black Ops 2 Mob of the Dead on the 360, 3 person splitscreen, when two of us had the Tommy Gun and tried to use it at the same time

15:18 they even highlighted it to bait you 😭

@justhere4637

11 ай бұрын

I think it is highlighted because it explodes.

Wtf, Zanny and Act Man. This is a gift from the gods

@oliverdowning1543

Жыл бұрын

Lemme guess, either sarcasm or you're a PC player? (Who doesn't care about performance and really likes imsims and small open world shooters, yeah I'm guessing it's the former, although the PC game is still decent).

@batmanvsuperman_

Жыл бұрын

@@oliverdowning1543 2023 💀 People are so quick to aggression, bro misread 💀

@oliverdowning1543

Жыл бұрын

@@batmanvsuperman_ ?? I wasn't being or trying to be aggressive I actually quite like the game on PC myself too. If I came across that way I'm sorry I really didn't mean to.

@oliverdowning1543

Жыл бұрын

@@kabosui oh darn, I thought (based on the "wtf" although now I see that was surprise at the Collab not a statement of disagreement) that you disagreed and thought the game was acc good therefore I thought I'd found a fellow PC player who also enjoyed the game. From there it was clearly downhill. I was not trying at all to be aggressive, I again apologize for coming across that way. I imagine there was probably a little bit of autistic bluntness in there too that won't have helped. Either way I apologize and reiterate that I didn't at all intend to come off as aggressive in the slightest.

I just want to point out that the only reason Tears of the Kingdom was delayed was because the devs wanted more time to make sure the game was polished. They had the game finished, but they delayed it to perfect it. We need more studios that does this.

@dmaxwell910901

Жыл бұрын

Also very recently 'Amnesia The Bunker'. They delayed it two weeks because of a 'rare crash' issue. More devs should be prepared to do that.

@willwunsche6940

Жыл бұрын

Based take from my favorite Pokémon

two worlds colliding...I never thought I'd see an Act Man and Zanny collab in my time on this Earth.

@thomasdascombe4939

6 ай бұрын

They’ve done it multiple times