I can totally agree. There was even hints that the hunters would go back to the planet to take it back. You have any good monster ideas they should’ve done?
Wasn't really, this was already a formula of games. The big thing that fucked it was lack of content which even by modern standards, is non existent. Game came out with over $1200 of DLC day 1, and it was literally all palette swaps for things already in the game. Then balance became a serious issue, with 3/4ths of the monster roster being absolutely useless and the other remaining quarter being OP as fuck (I was top 56 Kraken player globally on PS4 and top 45 on PC). You pretty much couldn't lose as the Kraken for example.
No amount of balance was going to fix it. Ya know why? Asymmetric multiplayer. Take all the usual gripes about balance etc. and realize that it's now on a knife edge so sharp it might as well be molecular. Human team is actually half decent and tracks the monster down and does significant health damage stage one? "Monster sucks hunters OP" Monster actually manages to avoid hunters and even manages a cheeky stealth pin here and there? "Hunters suck Monster OP" Watch that violent seesaw happen enough times and it's no surprise evolve's player base sublimated like dry ice.
Gotta say this game was fun even with its problems.. I still remember playing with friends on the day of the servers shut down and being booted mid match! This game was a real gem.
@@aguyontheinternet9095 Yeah man, but they just gave up. I know it’s probably almost impossible to have a perfectly balanced asymmetric multiplayer game. But you can try to make it as balanced as possible. Even games like overwatch are hard to balance, but they didn’t just give and shut down the servers right away. At least, if all the multiplayer plans failed they still have all the back stories, heroes and monsters that they could have created a coop PVE mode of some kind, which really won’t need balance, and made with fun loop or challenges to play with friends. I really love most of characters and their backstory and unique playstyle.
2 main issues with evolve were 1: the game was heavily monetized before MTX was normally accepted; basic reskins had cost about 5-10 dollars, there was two season passes; the second one dropped six months after the game dropped (mind you there was no meaningful updates in that span) 2: The game was unbalanced as hell in the beginning also there was only 8 hunters and 3 monsters (which you had to do levels with a hunter/monster before you could unlock the next or you could pay. but you would only ever play wraith as a monster because it was dumb OP Decoy did full dmg and you didnt know which one was which. Maggie the hunter was the most useful out of all the hunters because her dog constantly tracked the monster no matter what. overall game was good just the monetization and balance killed it as they didnt update alot of it till the player base already split.
Pretty much. I refused to get the game when it launched as it was so heavily monetized. Got it when it went f2p. I loved the game. Had trouble getting a match going due to low pop and balanced was still kinda screwed. But the concept was great, the level design was awesome.
I remember the skin issues. I think that with how the game was mishandled really (especially for this genre) hurt it in the long run. I can understand to trying to make money but if you do try that at least have daily updates and constant flow of content. I never got to play the other monsters such as behemoth or gorgon.
real sad thing is there's interviews with the devs where they said they saw the exploits and balance issues quickly as they were discovered, could fix them within hours or days in the studio...and then couldn't put out a patch rapidly because 2K.
it was just a 60 dollar game with mtx. shouldve been f2p. or they couldve made a single player, and focused more on story and some multiplayer. instead, they did multi player online + 60 dollars + mtx. 2015-2016 MTX was accepted. MTX was accepted in mass in 2011-2013~.
I remember just playing this with my mates for hours, i don't know what it was about the game that made us love it but we still talk about it every now and then.
This will forever be one of my favorite games of all time. The memories I have with it are next level. Not to mention the monster designs and uniqueness in between them and each of the hunters was fun. It’s sad to say goodbye to and I really hope someone takes up the mantle and does this game justice.
Me and my homeboy have taken it upon ourselves to recreate Evolve in a Roblox game. We got like 3 monsters planned and hunter classes, I hope it goes well in the long term lol
I mean it's a good idea but unity would be a better idea. Because with every update roblox releases almost every game on there breaks and they constantly need bug fixes. But it's up to you.
I liked Evolve and what it could have been. In the beginning I played it a lot, but seemed like something was missing from it. Like, they should have really put more into the game itself. idk...RIP Evolve; I loved being the Monster. I hope in the future we could have this game revived.
Evolve was a good game but by the time it was good enough to play the servers where basically already gone. I wish they tried to revive the game but I think after failing at first their popularity was hit really hard.
The game was so cool I wouldve loved to continue playing when it was released. I remember playing it every weekend after school and then one day I took a break because I got bored. Its so sad seeing that I will never get another chance to play this game. It was a brilliant idea but with the market at the time no one wanted a 1v4 game. Anyways rest in piece Evolve I will never forget this great game
Absolutely loved this game. Being able to play a 4v1 as a Monster vs 4 Hunters was such an adrenaline rush; and having friends made it a wild ride. The Maps were beautiful and really set the stage/environment for the setting of the game. Each of the Monsters and Hunters, while some needed balancing over others, had a clear "Skill Ceiling". As a Monster, you knew which Hunter was a threat based off how well they played, and vice versa. Some of my fondest memories would be engaging in guerilla warfare as the Goliath to chip and scatter them, then run off and sneak away; running away, leaving Tracks heading in a direction, then changing into a sneak to hide on a rock over their heads, making them think you leap from the cliff; or using the Hunter that had a Harpoon, so when the Monsters wanted to turn tail, you tossed a Dome down while reeling them back inside a forced fight. Such a good game. The downfall being terribly sad Publisher/Developer handling. Killing it with little communication, light patches/unbalanced implementations(Like some of the Meta strats - certain Wraith Builds, or just playing ambush and hardcore focusing the Hunter Healer{They had 3 "I can go down/die" chips, hard focus them to ruin those and by the time you're stage 3 they game is over}, and the absurd MTX. Game released and within the first few months, the new Hunters/Monsters or even cosmetics would be $5 - $10(or more) each, individually. Wishing some very good and dedicated Company out there can pick it all back up as an Evolve II, or something.
The game was my childhood too. I remember playing it for hours. But unfortunately I deleted the game from my Xbox. That was the biggest regret of my life when I realized that you can't get the game anymore even If you owned you it previously. I'm glad you didn't make the same mistake I did. P.s I fucking hate my life😫
@@vinzilla9486feel bad for you 😢 The game is still active people still play the game not too many people the only way you could get the game is eBay but it's probably going to cost 60$ or more Sad fact: my dad sold a legendary Pokemon card he sold it for 15$ but you could sell it for 400$ or more lol
favorite xbox game and one of my pivotal childhood classics, just left middle school as this one came out and graduated in 2020. Next to the peter jackson's king kong game this was my favorite game.
I got it right when it came out. Phenomenal concept but company greed, lack of foresight and power creep utterly destroyed it. It's one of those "Keep them in the game long enough to be unable to refund the game" games on Steam.
I remember the pro scene of the game. Especially the point where the spider monster was released. Definitely was a bizarre time for evolve but I welcome any competitive mode for any game. What was your favorite monster?
@@EP_Vega Goliath by far my gametag was blue panthers9 I had the highest win rate on him in the world with like 237 wins and like 3-5 losses. I didn’t use the disconnect Ethernet truck to avoid losses like the number one Goliath who was like 800-0 I miss playing it so bad. Do you think it failed because of the dlc at launch or something else
@@hut5hut6 Failed because (1) MTX: no one wanted to spend $10 for a monster after $60 for the game, but even more so (2) patching: 2K wouldn't authorize rapid patching because that is expensive on consoles, so the game became known as a buggy exploity mess.
To this day, Evolve is perhaps the most sad I ever was about the game. Literally, the first time I experienced the gameplay and saw the way it works, I was hooked. It was literally the hot shit back then, it was such an anticipated title, it was so unique in premise and design. It's literally the most unfortunate thing to see how such a game with so much potential became a forgotten gem.
I hate that there are games that can only be played when servers are active. There has got to be a way to make this playable with player-side servers. I know when I was involved with the community, people were clamoring for dedicated server capability. This really sucks, because this game could have been so cool. 😕
the two games i miss playing the most, happy wars and evolve. evolve had its drawback sure, but each match was fun even when we lost. just tracking was fun. the different combos of hunters was so unique in the game space. plus whats her face had that big donk :D
Bro this game was so good, im mad about that news. literally bought it last month and played it at least 100 hours in about 20 days, it does me a lot of good and reminds me of the hours spent on xbox 😌
I really wish this gamed stayed afloat, it came out when i was too young to buy my own games but now that i can it's been a game on my list. so sad to see it go
Definitely a head of its time. If they released it now with proximity chat (like lethal company), god tier graphics, mods/ai, it would be one fucking hell of a game
when i first saw this game i was immediately got captrured by it but my pc was not good enough then years pass and i remembered the game only to see its removed from the steam...
Yeah. Seems like for a lot of people it kinda disappeared out of nowhere. Just getting back on to not see anymore feels like a punch in the guy in its own right.
this game came out a lot ago, but i remember it well, i remeber asking my mom if i could play it, she told me that no..because we didnt have an xbox one and we really didnt have the money..but i remember seeing so much videos , feeling happy for each new monster, this game was not a lifechanging experience, but is a good memory, most of the mosters i create and draw have been isnpired in the desing of the evolve monsters, because everyone can admit they were really cool, is sad that it didnt turn out to be such a good game, and that it died, but someday i will be a game developer (hopefully) so i will make a game that leans from the errors of this game to make a better one to honor it, is not a promise..but i will try , it might be a little bit childish or naive but well i will still try you cant stop me , only the futre will tell for now goodbye evolve...it was good while it lasted
I never got to play the game myself. By the time i was ready to jump in, the game died, pulled a phoenix, then was prepping to die again. I do collect funko pop figures though, and to my utter surprise, this game got a full set of figures to go along with it. I found the Trapper "Maggie" in a local antique store for only $3! Fourth cheapest figure i've acquired; no regrets! (they also had a goliath for ~30 or so, but i left it there. It sold to someone eventually,,,)
I played it once or twice in 2016 and today (5.7.23) I checked it on yt and found your video. Sad to see the game go away but there is nothing to be done really. All the people once played it moved forward. Rip.
I've never be able to play this game because I have a toaster for computer, but before I didnt even have a computer, the only way to "play" the game was seeing gameplays, and I loved this game, and I will never gonna play it. Sad.😢
I liked evolve. The problem was balancing a 1v4 game at the time. If the game came out after the pandemic or just before it would’ve had more time to get feedback and learn to balance the game. Rip evolve
An epic bomb of a game. DLC was announced before we'd seen more than the first preview image, more effort was put into monetisation than development, the balance was a JOKE, completely killing any long-term gameplay prospects. You could even highlight Evolve as Patient Zero for the plague of overhyped, undercooked, over-monetised "live service" bullshit that would drag the entire "triple-AEYYY" games industry down into the mud over the last few years.
It was a very fun game for a minute. Never reached a great critical mass of players to ensure it would last for very long and the pay to win upgrades were BS and VERY expensive.
Bro this game died TWICE. First time people got sick of the violent seesaw between monsters and hunters getting advantage. Second time was because the only thing that brought it back was the diehard playerbase that still wasn't big enough to actually KEEP IT alive. It had potential, but that's about all it had.
If you downloaded it for steam and got the updates before it delisted, it still works to an extent with peer-to-peer. Someone will likely patch it someday, but a few people are still playing, much like AvP 2010 before they killed servers. (PS: Who owns the rights to this IP, were they tax written off, and how much do you think it'd be worth?)
Loved the game so much, i have over 1k playhour on it. It was amazing but balancing and crying hunter noobs killed the game. Nonsters got so op that even a pro team i was part of had NO chwnce against kraken. That thing was way too op in the end
Evolve stage 2 was where I was hoping the devs would work and continue this game series, I had my hopes to high. RIP Kraken my favorite monster and RIP Abe my favorite hunter.
I can fully make this game a masterpiece if i had control. I have the exact fixes it needs to be an extreme extreme hit. And they are free to anyone willing to do it.
awesome game wish I got to play it but I was too young and had no cash, unfortunately games like this and lawbreakers are super cool but there are just too many games and so much content especially right now with all the 60+ hour games coming out really good games are gonna die without any real noise to them.
Evolve was great, but it just suffered from much the same issue that Back 4 Blood did. There just wasnt enough content to carry the game at launch, and while the game got to a decent state by the end, it just was too late by then.
it shutted down in 2018 randomly came back online with a coming soon for new updates which never came and devs had plans to realease stage 2 on console b4 they got gutted by 2k the barely any updates was all on 2 limiting how much they can update the game theyd have an bug fix done in a day and couldnt hotfix it till 2 weeks later cuz of 2k
I absolutely love this game but it was repetitive to the point of exhaustion with no new content, maybe if they included different game modes and more monsters had a Godzilla monsterverse crossover or something it could have survived. Even games like Dead by Daylight are repetitive in the same sense but they keep adding new characters
Really loved this game! I’m so sad it died. One night many years ago I could not find a match period. Like the whole entire night! I think the biggest problem was too many people didn’t want to play the hunters which would make extremely long queues.
part of that problem is that if a group of friends wanted to play it, they all had to pay 60 dollars. 1 guy can love the game, but its hard to convince 3 friends to buy a 60 dollar game to just "Try out".
2K owns all the rights and is thinking about how in 10-30 years, "Evolve" will be worth billions when Evolve 2 becomes a global masterpiece. No other developer or publisher is willing to buy the rights to make the game for nearly that investment cost. So nothing happens.
Evolved was the only one that was Made up On its own design and didnt make it look like any other game because of that its fun nowadays all games are the same of eachother which makes them overall boring even if you play a new one we need more games like Evolved nowadays
TF2 already had working servers but fans made more to be faster and more reliable, also the game can't be downloaded anymore. And a few years before they removed the online options.
Was it really downed because of Turtle Rock Studio dev team OR the publisher 2K ? 2K forced the devs to make the game have Day 0 DLC, paid DLC characters and paywalled map and mode content. Am pretty sure if 2K wasnt the publisher none of these greedy corporate choices wouldve been made and the game wouldve been a total success. The game ran flawless nearly bugless on day one, with that alone you should build these devs a monument because there just isnt any Early Access game ever launch this smooth almost bugfree incredibly immersive gameplay. Add to that the unique genre of player or AI controlled single monster that gets hunted by a team of players. The idea (not well executed) of a dangerous world that would eat you alive and would go hand in hand on the monsters advantage was also another root for potential. Graphics? Dont need to say anything just look at the footage of all the beautiful detailed maps and characters. On the dev side just needed to make the world more dangerous than it was and some rebalance of the classes.
@@rusticwarriorck I dont think 10 years later is ripoff. I wasnt aware that theres a prequel to MHW though. I stand by my claim. You honestly think Evolve devs looked at MHW and then said "ah lets look at the previous game" MHW isnt popular enough. I dont believe MH was very popular, I wasnt even aware of its existence. Im turning 45 and played videogames since they was invented, I only had 1 console tho (NES) so Im prolly very wrong. I just never heard of MH. Do you think Evolve would have been developed if MHW didnt exist? I highly doubt it. MHW was/is successful. MH wasnt, at least to the same extent as MHW. Edit: Actually the first game was invented in 1958, Pong'ish game "Tennis for Two". Im not THAT old lol Let me rephrase: Ive played videogames since I was like 8-10 yo. Asteroids, Frogger and Space Invaders. Commodore VIC-20 games. Then 64. NES. PC
Really wish it wasn't made to be just multiplayer. It has so many awesome qualities, but basing the game on ONLY multiplayer is so risky. Like I don't trust strangers to play the game to show its abilities. You can play and multiplayer games and there is so much griefing and just bad playing that can literally make a game AWFUL despite being mechanically great. Leaving it up to the players to basically dictate the quality of the actual game by how they play is a bad idea. And obviously it kills all future sales that you'd have from just being a campaign game with randomized elements for longevity. Game design has so little RNG these days but they underestimate how awesome it can be when done right to increase the length and progression of a game if designed right. My point being that I think a different structure for this game would have seen it be way more successful than it was as just a multiplayer game.
Ah I remember this one. Very unfortunate, had a lot of potential. A prime example of how corporate greed can kill a product. They monetized the living shit out of it and put only very sparse free content in an already expensive game. Plus it was unbalanced as hell when it came out, their play testers must have been drugged. They made so many mistakes, and to top it off they abandoned the game quickly too.
your VO was trash. evolve has been dead for years barely months after release. and they even asked steam to delist a game that costed many people 40$+.
I agree with the devs they were ahead of their time with 4v1 content like dead by day light play style and didn't choose to balance fuck all but chose to nickel and dime everything a person did on their game and that ultimately lead to their death with the small community they had. Sensational has this is, I think you have a great voice to really cover things just do and discover more before you release. Good luck, bud.
This game was ahead of it’s time tbh. Had it released 2 years later it would have been a success story.
I can totally agree. There was even hints that the hunters would go back to the planet to take it back. You have any good monster ideas they should’ve done?
Yeah same here
Wasn't really, this was already a formula of games. The big thing that fucked it was lack of content which even by modern standards, is non existent. Game came out with over $1200 of DLC day 1, and it was literally all palette swaps for things already in the game. Then balance became a serious issue, with 3/4ths of the monster roster being absolutely useless and the other remaining quarter being OP as fuck (I was top 56 Kraken player globally on PS4 and top 45 on PC). You pretty much couldn't lose as the Kraken for example.
@@Sleazy-Skuzzy I think that was one of several main factors
my opinon 1 of them was balanceing issues
I really loved this game, sad that the developers gave up on it so easily. The game just needed some balance and time.
No amount of balance was going to fix it. Ya know why? Asymmetric multiplayer.
Take all the usual gripes about balance etc. and realize that it's now on a knife edge so sharp it might as well be molecular.
Human team is actually half decent and tracks the monster down and does significant health damage stage one? "Monster sucks hunters OP"
Monster actually manages to avoid hunters and even manages a cheeky stealth pin here and there? "Hunters suck Monster OP"
Watch that violent seesaw happen enough times and it's no surprise evolve's player base sublimated like dry ice.
Gotta say this game was fun even with its problems.. I still remember playing with friends on the day of the servers shut down and being booted mid match! This game was a real gem.
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Yeah man, but they just gave up. I know it’s probably almost impossible to have a perfectly balanced asymmetric multiplayer game. But you can try to make it as balanced as possible. Even games like overwatch are hard to balance, but they didn’t just give and shut down the servers right away.
At least, if all the multiplayer plans failed they still have all the back stories, heroes and monsters that they could have created a coop PVE mode of some kind, which really won’t need balance, and made with fun loop or challenges to play with friends.
I really love most of characters and their backstory and unique playstyle.
Balancing is always gonna be tough for games like this. Maybe it should've been a PVE rather than PVP. Unfortunately we'll never see that now.
@@Majorx93 They didn’t give up? 2K forced them to leave.
2 main issues with evolve were 1: the game was heavily monetized before MTX was normally accepted; basic reskins had cost about 5-10 dollars, there was two season passes; the second one dropped six months after the game dropped (mind you there was no meaningful updates in that span) 2: The game was unbalanced as hell in the beginning also there was only 8 hunters and 3 monsters (which you had to do levels with a hunter/monster before you could unlock the next or you could pay. but you would only ever play wraith as a monster because it was dumb OP Decoy did full dmg and you didnt know which one was which. Maggie the hunter was the most useful out of all the hunters because her dog constantly tracked the monster no matter what. overall game was good just the monetization and balance killed it as they didnt update alot of it till the player base already split.
Pretty much. I refused to get the game when it launched as it was so heavily monetized. Got it when it went f2p. I loved the game. Had trouble getting a match going due to low pop and balanced was still kinda screwed. But the concept was great, the level design was awesome.
I remember the skin issues. I think that with how the game was mishandled really (especially for this genre) hurt it in the long run. I can understand to trying to make money but if you do try that at least have daily updates and constant flow of content. I never got to play the other monsters such as behemoth or gorgon.
real sad thing is there's interviews with the devs where they said they saw the exploits and balance issues quickly as they were discovered, could fix them within hours or days in the studio...and then couldn't put out a patch rapidly because 2K.
@@EP_Vegathe monetization wouldve made sense if the game was f2p, but it wasnt, it cost 60€
it was just a 60 dollar game with mtx. shouldve been f2p. or they couldve made a single player, and focused more on story and some multiplayer. instead, they did multi player online + 60 dollars + mtx.
2015-2016 MTX was accepted. MTX was accepted in mass in 2011-2013~.
I remember just playing this with my mates for hours, i don't know what it was about the game that made us love it but we still talk about it every now and then.
Miss it so much tbh
It was just pure fun and chaos. Seeing my friends get grabbed by random creatures always had me dying of laughter!
This will forever be one of my favorite games of all time. The memories I have with it are next level. Not to mention the monster designs and uniqueness in between them and each of the hunters was fun. It’s sad to say goodbye to and I really hope someone takes up the mantle and does this game justice.
Me and my homeboy have taken it upon ourselves to recreate Evolve in a Roblox game. We got like 3 monsters planned and hunter classes, I hope it goes well in the long term lol
I wish you luck in that endeavor! It will be tough but I’ll definitely have to keep an eye out on it. Just be careful with the shop lmao!
I mean it's a good idea but unity would be a better idea. Because with every update roblox releases almost every game on there breaks and they constantly need bug fixes. But it's up to you.
did you quit
pls tell me you did i want that game idk how to find it god damit : (
Keep us posted
I completely forgot this game existed. RIP Evolve, you sure was a game.
Good times
still playable
Evolve is not dead. It is still alive, including MP. I play it till these days. You need to download tools that allow it. Fans resurrected it.
I liked Evolve and what it could have been. In the beginning I played it a lot, but seemed like something was missing from it. Like, they should have really put more into the game itself. idk...RIP Evolve; I loved being the Monster. I hope in the future we could have this game revived.
That's exactly how I felt. A missed opportunity and potentially, a game ahead of its time.
Evolve was a good game but by the time it was good enough to play the servers where basically already gone. I wish they tried to revive the game but I think after failing at first their popularity was hit really hard.
The game was so cool I wouldve loved to continue playing when it was released. I remember playing it every weekend after school and then one day I took a break because I got bored. Its so sad seeing that I will never get another chance to play this game. It was a brilliant idea but with the market at the time no one wanted a 1v4 game. Anyways rest in piece Evolve I will never forget this great game
Absolutely loved this game. Being able to play a 4v1 as a Monster vs 4 Hunters was such an adrenaline rush; and having friends made it a wild ride. The Maps were beautiful and really set the stage/environment for the setting of the game. Each of the Monsters and Hunters, while some needed balancing over others, had a clear "Skill Ceiling". As a Monster, you knew which Hunter was a threat based off how well they played, and vice versa. Some of my fondest memories would be engaging in guerilla warfare as the Goliath to chip and scatter them, then run off and sneak away; running away, leaving Tracks heading in a direction, then changing into a sneak to hide on a rock over their heads, making them think you leap from the cliff; or using the Hunter that had a Harpoon, so when the Monsters wanted to turn tail, you tossed a Dome down while reeling them back inside a forced fight. Such a good game.
The downfall being terribly sad Publisher/Developer handling. Killing it with little communication, light patches/unbalanced implementations(Like some of the Meta strats - certain Wraith Builds, or just playing ambush and hardcore focusing the Hunter Healer{They had 3 "I can go down/die" chips, hard focus them to ruin those and by the time you're stage 3 they game is over}, and the absurd MTX. Game released and within the first few months, the new Hunters/Monsters or even cosmetics would be $5 - $10(or more) each, individually. Wishing some very good and dedicated Company out there can pick it all back up as an Evolve II, or something.
Hopefully some recreates this amazing game
Such a unique game… Someone needs to pick this game up and make more monsters and more unique game modes…
Welp, at least the most reasuring thing is that Evolve's monters will live on past their failed game...
As SFM models.
This game was my childhood
:fun fact:
have the game still
It's still fun as hell
The game was my childhood too. I remember playing it for hours. But unfortunately I deleted the game from my Xbox. That was the biggest regret of my life when I realized that you can't get the game anymore even If you owned you it previously. I'm glad you didn't make the same mistake I did. P.s I fucking hate my life😫
@@vinzilla9486feel bad for you 😢
The game is still active people still play the game not too many people the only way you could get the game is eBay but it's probably going to cost 60$ or more
Sad fact: my dad sold a legendary Pokemon card he sold it for 15$ but you could sell it for 400$ or more lol
Multiplayer servers were shut down so your forced to play with bots which is sad, also the card being sold for $15 is ultra sad. @@sandygutier271
There needs to be new games that come out and let you play as a big ass monster.
favorite xbox game and one of my pivotal childhood classics, just left middle school as this one came out and graduated in 2020. Next to the peter jackson's king kong game this was my favorite game.
I got it right when it came out. Phenomenal concept but company greed, lack of foresight and power creep utterly destroyed it. It's one of those "Keep them in the game long enough to be unable to refund the game" games on Steam.
I played professionally and was an insane monster main. Ask me anything about the pro scene
I remember the pro scene of the game. Especially the point where the spider monster was released. Definitely was a bizarre time for evolve but I welcome any competitive mode for any game. What was your favorite monster?
@@EP_Vega Goliath by far my gametag was blue panthers9 I had the highest win rate on him in the world with like 237 wins and like 3-5 losses. I didn’t use the disconnect Ethernet truck to avoid losses like the number one Goliath who was like 800-0 I miss playing it so bad. Do you think it failed because of the dlc at launch or something else
@@hut5hut6 Failed because (1) MTX: no one wanted to spend $10 for a monster after $60 for the game, but even more so (2) patching: 2K wouldn't authorize rapid patching because that is expensive on consoles, so the game became known as a buggy exploity mess.
To this day, Evolve is perhaps the most sad I ever was about the game. Literally, the first time I experienced the gameplay and saw the way it works, I was hooked. It was literally the hot shit back then, it was such an anticipated title, it was so unique in premise and design. It's literally the most unfortunate thing to see how such a game with so much potential became a forgotten gem.
Through many decisions that would not yet have been popularised by COD reboots.
I hate that there are games that can only be played when servers are active. There has got to be a way to make this playable with player-side servers. I know when I was involved with the community, people were clamoring for dedicated server capability. This really sucks, because this game could have been so cool. 😕
the two games i miss playing the most, happy wars and evolve. evolve had its drawback sure, but each match was fun even when we lost. just tracking was fun. the different combos of hunters was so unique in the game space. plus whats her face had that big donk :D
Evolve did not die yet, something big is coming.
maby one day we will be able to play it again
Will always remember all the great times playing this one with friends in alpha and beta and after
Ppl say rip but I still be downloading it time to time
Hi I would just like to say I can still play evolve past July 6th
Bro this game was so good, im mad about that news.
literally bought it last month and played it at least 100 hours in about 20 days, it does me a lot of good and reminds me of the hours spent on xbox 😌
I feel that. Keep it on disk so that way you can remember the good times!
Evolve unfortunately by then didn't have multiplayer anymore which made the game feel weird to me personally.
This game was a passion project.
Could've been so much more. But this is why you do put MTX with insane prices on a 60 dollar game with no story.
Loved this game upset its shutting down.
Man I miss this game, still hoping someone will pick up something akin to it for development.
I miss Evolve
Yall can still play it. Just have to use a simple work around and you can still play with your friends in peer to peer lobbies
If you have friends to play with
I really wish this gamed stayed afloat, it came out when i was too young to buy my own games but now that i can it's been a game on my list. so sad to see it go
With all the monetization in games now, a five dollar skin is a deal. Easily one of the best and unique games the past decade
I really loved this game. Sad to say goodbye
Great video man
Definitely a head of its time. If they released it now with proximity chat (like lethal company), god tier graphics, mods/ai, it would be one fucking hell of a game
I hired that game from Blockbuster. I remember enjoying the game. it was fun.
when i first saw this game i was immediately got captrured by it but my pc was not good enough then years pass and i remembered the game only to see its removed from the steam...
Yeah. Seems like for a lot of people it kinda disappeared out of nowhere. Just getting back on to not see anymore feels like a punch in the guy in its own right.
@@EP_Vega though the game might not be popular among new people, as i see it, among its own community it was very much liked
I put 500 hours in this game when it first game out it was so fun, its a shame what take2 did to it
That especially hurts since the game BioShock was also made by them.
I mean, if this game released now free to play and crossplay I don't doubt this would be huge again.
Not free to play, but maybe if they actually had multiplayer as an option it would be fun again.
this game came out a lot ago, but i remember it well, i remeber asking my mom if i could play it, she told me that no..because we didnt have an xbox one and we really didnt have the money..but i remember seeing so much videos , feeling happy for each new monster, this game was not a lifechanging experience, but is a good memory, most of the mosters i create and draw have been isnpired in the desing of the evolve monsters, because everyone can admit they were really cool, is sad that it didnt turn out to be such a good game, and that it died, but someday i will be a game developer (hopefully) so i will make a game that leans from the errors of this game to make a better one to honor it, is not a promise..but i will try , it might be a little bit childish or naive but well i will still try you cant stop me , only the futre will tell
for now goodbye evolve...it was good while it lasted
Still play on Xbox until the shutdown on July 6th. If anyone wants to play put up a group post I'll probably see it.
Nice!
I never got to play the game myself. By the time i was ready to jump in, the game died, pulled a phoenix, then was prepping to die again. I do collect funko pop figures though, and to my utter surprise, this game got a full set of figures to go along with it. I found the Trapper "Maggie" in a local antique store for only $3! Fourth cheapest figure i've acquired; no regrets! (they also had a goliath for ~30 or so, but i left it there. It sold to someone eventually,,,)
Man I remember the funky pops. I still go back to this game from time to time. For mainly nostalgia reasons
I wish I could play one last time😢
Same!
I played it once or twice in 2016 and today (5.7.23) I checked it on yt and found your video. Sad to see the game go away but there is nothing to be done really. All the people once played it moved forward. Rip.
Glad you found the video! It definitely a real case of a game being way to ahead of its time and being mishandled.
I've never be able to play this game because I have a toaster for computer, but before I didnt even have a computer, the only way to "play" the game was seeing gameplays, and I loved this game, and I will never gonna play it. Sad.😢
It really sucks. I really feel like this game was so ahead of the time. Especially that intro cut scene was lit.
I always played as trapper, the characters were the coolest and the weapons were too
Epic dog
I liked evolve. The problem was balancing a 1v4 game at the time. If the game came out after the pandemic or just before it would’ve had more time to get feedback and learn to balance the game. Rip evolve
If the game cooked in the oven for a bit longer we could have gotten a Godzilla and kingkong dlc.
An epic bomb of a game. DLC was announced before we'd seen more than the first preview image, more effort was put into monetisation than development, the balance was a JOKE, completely killing any long-term gameplay prospects. You could even highlight Evolve as Patient Zero for the plague of overhyped, undercooked, over-monetised "live service" bullshit that would drag the entire "triple-AEYYY" games industry down into the mud over the last few years.
Right the industry should have learned and copied the 4v1 concept that everyone who played loved, not the MTX shit that killed it.
i always wanted to play this since i was a teen still havnt yet
And you never will, sad it really was something else when you had a couple friends
is there offline mode?@@azzy9293
still fun alone, just weird@@azzy9293
Can you still play it because I getting it on eBay please let me know
I miss this game I played as a Wraith
but u can still pay it if u activate stem key right?
yes
discord server has a legacy version thats still playable
It was a very fun game for a minute. Never reached a great critical mass of players to ensure it would last for very long and the pay to win upgrades were BS and VERY expensive.
one of the coolest game I have ever played at the time. As you said, they gave up the game too early.
Bro this game died TWICE.
First time people got sick of the violent seesaw between monsters and hunters getting advantage.
Second time was because the only thing that brought it back was the diehard playerbase that still wasn't big enough to actually KEEP IT alive.
It had potential, but that's about all it had.
That’s the crazy part. I thought the game was already done but then read an article talking about the official shut down.
How can Evolve be one of yyour favourite games lol
I just found it so unique and the idea was just awesome and killer, plus was fairly dark at moments based on outcomes of the monster winning.
If you downloaded it for steam and got the updates before it delisted, it still works to an extent with peer-to-peer. Someone will likely patch it someday, but a few people are still playing, much like AvP 2010 before they killed servers.
(PS: Who owns the rights to this IP, were they tax written off, and how much do you think it'd be worth?)
Great vid but the volume is a bit low
then turn your volume up
I liked Evolve couldnt get into it because the community was already far too advanced and I was stomped everytime, sad
It was a tough game but when you got the bois. It was a blast of a time
I’d have loved to watch more but good lord that audio popping is atrocious.
Are the servers still up?
The game is gone, as in no game and the servers have been shut down for a long time
Loved the game so much, i have over 1k playhour on it. It was amazing but balancing and crying hunter noobs killed the game.
Nonsters got so op that even a pro team i was part of had NO chwnce against kraken. That thing was way too op in the end
Evolve stage 2 was where I was hoping the devs would work and continue this game series, I had my hopes to high. RIP Kraken my favorite monster and RIP Abe my favorite hunter.
Sadly I never got around to trying this before it died.
same. bought it, pc couldnt run it. also had "8 hours played" due to leaving main menu on with 2 fps. so i couldnt refund it
I can fully make this game a masterpiece if i had control. I have the exact fixes it needs to be an extreme extreme hit. And they are free to anyone willing to do it.
awesome game wish I got to play it but I was too young and had no cash, unfortunately games like this and lawbreakers are super cool but there are just too many games and so much content especially right now with all the 60+ hour games coming out really good games are gonna die without any real noise to them.
This game could of been peak, it's sad that it ran straight into the ground.
What if everyone who played this game each just gave someone $100 to buy the game from them to force it to come back???
Evolve was great, but it just suffered from much the same issue that Back 4 Blood did. There just wasnt enough content to carry the game at launch, and while the game got to a decent state by the end, it just was too late by then.
it shutted down in 2018 randomly came back online with a coming soon for new updates which never came and devs had plans to realease stage 2 on console b4 they got gutted by 2k the barely any updates was all on 2 limiting how much they can update the game theyd have an bug fix done in a day and couldnt hotfix it till 2 weeks later cuz of 2k
I absolutely love this game but it was repetitive to the point of exhaustion with no new content, maybe if they included different game modes and more monsters had a Godzilla monsterverse crossover or something it could have survived. Even games like Dead by Daylight are repetitive in the same sense but they keep adding new characters
who can buy this game ?
Really loved this game! I’m so sad it died. One night many years ago I could not find a match period. Like the whole entire night! I think the biggest problem was too many people didn’t want to play the hunters which would make extremely long queues.
part of that problem is that if a group of friends wanted to play it, they all had to pay 60 dollars. 1 guy can love the game, but its hard to convince 3 friends to buy a 60 dollar game to just "Try out".
This game is so underrated ..maybe if they make it f2p maybe could have revived the game.
They did make it F2P, it didn’t work out
It went to F2P but the damage was done. The heavy monetization, lack of support killed the game
I don't get why the company don't just sell the fucking game title to someone else revive it.
Unfortunately welcome to the company of turtlerock. A company that refuses to die and let others have the chance at making their own.
2K owns all the rights and is thinking about how in 10-30 years, "Evolve" will be worth billions when Evolve 2 becomes a global masterpiece. No other developer or publisher is willing to buy the rights to make the game for nearly that investment cost. So nothing happens.
Evolved was the only one that was Made up On its own design and didnt make it look like any other game because of that its fun nowadays all games are the same of eachother which makes them overall boring even if you play a new one we need more games like Evolved nowadays
The game isnt already unplayable??
Partially. A lot of online functions were removed but could still play the OG if you had disk
After using AI to make essay outlines for the last semester that's a hella AI generated video description lol
lawl!
Abe sounds like McCree in Overwatch
Wasn’t fan-servers for titanfall 2 made?….we could do the same (quality modding might save it)
TF2 already had working servers but fans made more to be faster and more reliable, also the game can't be downloaded anymore. And a few years before they removed the online options.
Was it really downed because of Turtle Rock Studio dev team OR the publisher 2K ? 2K forced the devs to make the game have Day 0 DLC, paid DLC characters and paywalled map and mode content. Am pretty sure if 2K wasnt the publisher none of these greedy corporate choices wouldve been made and the game wouldve been a total success. The game ran flawless nearly bugless on day one, with that alone you should build these devs a monument because there just isnt any Early Access game ever launch this smooth almost bugfree incredibly immersive gameplay. Add to that the unique genre of player or AI controlled single monster that gets hunted by a team of players. The idea (not well executed) of a dangerous world that would eat you alive and would go hand in hand on the monsters advantage was also another root for potential. Graphics? Dont need to say anything just look at the footage of all the beautiful detailed maps and characters. On the dev side just needed to make the world more dangerous than it was and some rebalance of the classes.
It’s hard to say honestly, especially with back 4 blood ending in the same situation
holy shit that mic
Evolve was a pretty good game, wish it would have came out at a different time
Y'all dont know evolve like I do.
Ah so this is where Monster Hunter World got their inspiration. I knew it wasnt an original idea.
Monster Hunter came out in 2004 in the PlayStation 2 era. evolved ripped it off of Monster Hunter.
@@rusticwarriorck I dont think 10 years later is ripoff. I wasnt aware that theres a prequel to MHW though. I stand by my claim. You honestly think Evolve devs looked at MHW and then said "ah lets look at the previous game" MHW isnt popular enough. I dont believe MH was very popular, I wasnt even aware of its existence. Im turning 45 and played videogames since they was invented, I only had 1 console tho (NES) so Im prolly very wrong. I just never heard of MH.
Do you think Evolve would have been developed if MHW didnt exist? I highly doubt it. MHW was/is successful. MH wasnt, at least to the same extent as MHW.
Edit: Actually the first game was invented in 1958, Pong'ish game "Tennis for Two". Im not THAT old lol Let me rephrase: Ive played videogames since I was like 8-10 yo. Asteroids, Frogger and Space Invaders. Commodore VIC-20 games. Then 64. NES. PC
First Battlefront 2 now Evolve, Jesus people waste good things for a living
This was an amazing idea for game, but online multi-player games die with sequels.
Sad to say but totally true
Same thing with back 4 blood
Really wish it wasn't made to be just multiplayer.
It has so many awesome qualities, but basing the game on ONLY multiplayer is so risky. Like I don't trust strangers to play the game to show its abilities.
You can play and multiplayer games and there is so much griefing and just bad playing that can literally make a game AWFUL despite being mechanically great.
Leaving it up to the players to basically dictate the quality of the actual game by how they play is a bad idea.
And obviously it kills all future sales that you'd have from just being a campaign game with randomized elements for longevity.
Game design has so little RNG these days but they underestimate how awesome it can be when done right to increase the length and progression of a game if designed right.
My point being that I think a different structure for this game would have seen it be way more successful than it was as just a multiplayer game.
It plays fine singleplayer.
It wasn't, it's just that they didn't have enough money i guess.
Ah I remember this one. Very unfortunate, had a lot of potential. A prime example of how corporate greed can kill a product. They monetized the living shit out of it and put only very sparse free content in an already expensive game. Plus it was unbalanced as hell when it came out, their play testers must have been drugged. They made so many mistakes, and to top it off they abandoned the game quickly too.
fix your mic cracking buddy
unplayable? like why? cant one just play vs bots just to have fu or somethign?
whats fun about vsing bots
your VO was trash. evolve has been dead for years barely months after release. and they even asked steam to delist a game that costed many people 40$+.
I agree with the devs they were ahead of their time with 4v1 content like dead by day light play style and didn't choose to balance fuck all but chose to nickel and dime everything a person did on their game and that ultimately lead to their death with the small community they had.
Sensational has this is, I think you have a great voice to really cover things just do and discover more before you release. Good luck, bud.