10 Upcoming 2023 Video Games We're REALLY Worried About
2. Redfall
Honestly, what worries us so much about Redfall isn't the game itself. What we've seen of the game makes it look like a passably entertaining riff on the Left 4 Dead forumla,and one that ought to provide a few weeks amusement before we gravitate back to Valve's timeless masterpiece. Rather, our worries are over what Redfall represents.
Put simply, we're getting a bit fed up of publishers taking developers with proven track records in single-player games and throwing them into the pit of wolves that is always-online gaming. This obsession with catering to the multiplayer, live-service crowd wrecked Anthem; it destroyed Marvel's Avengers; and it is absolutely the cause of all the problems of the next entry in this list.
It's getting a bit wearing seeing developers flagrantly attempting to create the next Destiny. Destiny only works because it's made by the best FPS combat designers in gaming, and even they make mistakes from time to time (as seen with its latest expansion, the dire Lightfall).
You'd think seeing colossal duds like Babylon's Fall and the aforementioned Marvel's Avengers would stem the tide of live-service effluence, but it seems it'll be a while yet before that stream mercifully dries up.
On that note...