Redfall will eventually “be a good game”, Pete Hines says
Redfall “didn’t get the start we wanted”, Hines admits
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Bethesda’s head of publishing, Pete Hines, has affirmed that Arkane’s co-op FPSRedfallwon’t be abandoned, and that “we’re going to get it to be a good game”.
Redfallreleased onXbox Series X|S and PC back in May, and was heavily criticized by players and reviewers alike. TechRadar Gaming’s hardware editor, Aleksha McLoughlin, described it as“one of the worst games of the year”, and “the first black mark in an otherwise flawless body of work in the immersive sim developer’s 20+ year history”. Needless to say, compared to many impressive game releases of 2023 likeBaldur’s Gate 3andThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Redfallis, at least at the moment, far from a must-play.
However, Hines is determined that this will change - eventually, at least. In aninterviewwith GamesIndustry.biz, he was asked howRedfall’s less-than-stellar reception impacted Bethesda internally.
“We are always in a process of learning, so that’s not new for us. We don’t like failing to meet our players' expectations,” Hines responded. “At the same time, we are the same company that has had launches that didn’t go the way we wanted, and we don’t quit or abandon stuff just because it didn’t start right.”
Hines continued, referencing the fact that bothFallout76and the PC version ofThe Elder Scrolls Onlinewere “not flawless” when they first released, going on to emphasize that both have ended up being popular games after receiving post-launch support.
“Redfallis no different for us,” he said. “Okay, we didn’t get the start we wanted, but it’s still a fun game… and we’re going to keep working on it. We’re going to do 60fps. We’re going to get it to be a good game because we know, as a first-party studio, thatGame Passlives forever. There will be people ten years from now who are going to join Game Pass, andRedfallwill be there.”
For now, it remains to be seen whether or notRedfallwill get to the point where it’s universally enjoyed amongst the gaming community, but, at least those who bought the game back at release might have something to look forward to.
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Catherine is a News Writer for TechRadar Gaming. Armed with a journalism degree from The University of Sheffield, she was sucked into the games media industry after spending far too much time on her university newspaper writing about Pokémon and cool indie games, and realising that was a very cool job, actually. She previously spent 19 months working at GAMINGbible as a full-time journalist. She loves all things Nintendo, and will never stop talking about Xenoblade Chronicles.
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