Is Evolve a game for connoisseurs?

My friends, as we exist, we are constantly changing by rewiring our neurons with each passing seconds. You'll literally become a different person once you have finished reading this piece.

The same could be applied for my relationship with Evolve after having played both Alpha and Beta to very limited enjoyment, however admittedly it was more fun second time around. Now the shit's legit.

The game is definitely a grower. You cannot expect to get a full grasp of its rules and mechanics within your first hour, thus you might initally become very frustrated. However, boy does it pay off later on.

The best thing about it is that EVERYTHING is so strange, intangible and alien: from game's environment to creatures and certain abilities / gadgets. Defamiliarized, in short.

The game requires a lot of patience and skill. It is extremely satisfying to become a badass monster like Kraken and truly feel like a solitary creature, especially when you can use a variety of techniques to fool those who track you.

On the other hand, the co-op aspect is as satisfying as ever. However, with the game being a lot more sophisticated than Left 4 Dead in this department, it also requires a better squad play, and sometimes you come across pathetic teams. This is a double-edged sword. But when it fires on all cylinders, it truly delivers.

I think Turtle Rock had the right business intuition to paywall additional monsters, because this element is what I'm interested in the most, as much as it sucks. However, I got the game for free, so I might get some when they'll be discounted.

Anyway, what's your thoughts?

Connoisseurs of getting buttfucked with DLC.

Seriously though, the game is boring when you don't have a full party of friends to play it with, plus it's insulting how they handled the whole pricing and DLC issues.

So no, i don't agree.

Connoisseurs? No

Evolve is a game for suckers.

It's for people who haven't evolved.

Evolve is a game for nobody.

Doesn't matter game is dead on PC

Good to hear.

It did poorly on Steam, almost nobody is playing the game. I think our answer to the DLC dreadnaught is no.

Agreed. This stinker rightfully bombed.

I saw it on sale for on the X1 digital storefront. I was thinking of getting it, but then I thought "is anybody even playing it?" Maybe I'll wait for more of a price drop, an all DLC edition, and maybe word of mouth that it's worth playing, as well as confirmation that people are actually online playing it.

Great game, you need a good group of people who communicate.....it's unlike anything I played before and I totally understand why the mainstream didn't get this game(other than the dlc thing), which for me actually adds to the appeal of it. I think we are getting free maps in a few days.

In the Demo all I saw was four dudes spamming everyrhing at the Kraken and the Kraken Spamming everything back....... didn't see a single ounce of sophistication.

Yes, there will be two new maps for Xbone users first, and then they'll be made available for PS4 and PC.

It's a great game and I have no problems finding matches on Xbox. Everybody wants to bash if for cosmetic DLC like they invented it or the only game that has it. I say picked it up if you're really interested in it.

i'll just stick with l4d2

Evolve is a game for people whose purchasing decisions were not intelligently designed.

Good riddance that it didnt do all that too well either. Hopefully the AAA studios learned a lesson from this.

I dont think so either.

No they'll probably go: asymmetrical MP games just don't sell well.

They won't think the fault lays with the massive amounts of DLC.

The DLC policy deterred a lot of people from even buying the game. However, most of the people who already bought the game left simply because the game is simply boring, lacking replay value and the devs are very very slow and unresponsive with their support.

It's a game for the publisher. They took the concept and broke the entire thing down to milk it for all it's worth the instant it hits shelves, knowing that it's too small and simple of a base game to hold up for more than a couple weeks.

No

Have you played it?

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People are way too butthurt about the DLC.

It's a good game.

I am buying the Evolve GOTY with half DLC included for $40 this fall.

Good concept for a much broader and more expansive game that they didn't create and what they did create was horribly executed.

I'm loving evolve, I also played the alpha and beta. And if my friends are not online I play monster, simple.

i think they knew this thing had no legs and they front loaded the hell out of it to make some dough while they had the chance.

there is only so much running in circles people can do before they say screw this shit and move on.

Carnosaurs?

Evolve = lame

Cool game they should have handled the monster dlc better though. Should be like a pack of 3 new monsters for $20.

Too expensive - doesn't matter if it's good or not.

The beta was boring as shit, its half the game Natural Selection 2 was for 3 times the price.

this warms my heart