If it’s end times I just want to hear the final words of people without being too sappy or ordained to needless altruism, it’s no surprise to anyone, it’s not something people didn’t see coming, it’s succumbing to long term hemorrhaging wounds that was inevitable
What is your take on PHG?
how the fuck they ran out of money with the all the cheap cash and grab done over the years
what were they selling chocolate bars or cocaine? LOL. You sound like they were dealing in real-estate or something.
So Illfonic are shutting down?
Looks like they’re in a hole they can’t not address, obviously games are still going to continue to bleed out
Great concept poor execution, it was nice to see Arnold back in the role of Dutch again
Are servers gonna be shut off too?
Unknown
TBA
this is exactly the end that was expected to be honest
In there history they made what 5 games?
F13 PHG Arcadegeddon Ghostbusters Killer Klowns
Of these two of them were successful the first two F13 they got shafted due to wrong place wrong time
PHG they struck gold but didn’t have the means to capitalize on it because of a bad contract and lack of talent cause it was still early on in their time as a game dev studio
They wanted to do something original and noticed how successful PHG was so they used that money to work on other projects letting phg fall apart
They then release game after game that was just… Not good compared to what came before
Then they spent god knows how much money to go back to phg the one thing they had that was successful
And aren’t even able to do anything with it because for some fucking reason their management decided they didn’t want to change anything they just want to release some dlc and hope people buy it for some shortfall to hopefully push them through this financial ruin
If you want to make money in the gaming industry make good games
Listen to your customers to improve on said game
If you don’t and you choose to make bad games
I have no sympathy for you get out of my hobby there are other jobs for you
Damn well if they are jus glad i got to enjoy the shit outta this game (minus the short commings) unlike avp 2010 and colonial marines where i didnt play the online modes they had :/
This game was a trip for sure. When I first saw the teaser, I was naturally stoked as any long time Predator fan would be. When the beta dropped, it was… mostly disappointing. Without relying heavily on anecdotal accounts, I do remember it being unbalanced as fuck, but that hasn’t changed much anyway. Throughout the years it was just one issue after another, although it was as addicting as any other bad habit, so satisfying to wipe a good team, especially your first time around. But it got old fast, and without continued communication and no new notable content for months, even the drought between 2021 and early 2024 that only held DLC preds still held some attention. I do find it funny how many people took this game so seriously, forming teams as if it was some high stakes competitive league. On that note, the only competition most of these teams provided was the overuse and mastery of the meta, save for very few skilled players that came and went. There’s a handful still around though, and they’re good people. This game was not all bad, there’s never been a Predator game that truly captures the theme of the original movie, albeit Concrete Jungle came pretty damn close. There was nothing but fun to be had in private matches with your friends, but that can also apply to any game, so it’s not like Illfonic innovated much, if at all here. Even still, it was a fun ride, I met some great folks, some of them are lifelong friends. But it did not need to end this way… PHG could have been the next big thing for asymmetrical gaming. The pieces are all here, you’ve got a franchise that fundamentally matches identically to the asymmetrical concept, lovable and badass cast of characters for each faction, and the frame for execution. But Illfonic fumbled it, they shit the bed and never got around to changing their sheets. This game can work, it should have had a massive competitive scene, especially if balanced properly. But not in this timeline. Illfonic dropped the fucking ball
Now on a more positive note
I will always say that despite everything this was my favorite guilty pleasure game it’s simply the best Asymm game on teh market and probably always will be becuase it solved the major problem Evolve and DbD had
optional victory Obj must be for the survivors to complete
Killer must set the pace of the match through it’s interaction with the survivors
Both teams interact with each other through direct combat
PvE ai enemies to “Even” the odds for the killer to create opportunities to take advantage of
The major problem simply being a failure on illfonic’s part to get the game in a stable playable state
And balancing the game so it doesn’t always feel like as the predator your just having such a harder time than the other team
Sometimes feelings of a player matter as it will point you to solve the problem unfortunately Illfonic could not or simply would not solve this problem
it was at the very least the most fun AA game i’ve ever played
I was horribly put off by the free demo on Playstation. Had it only been a PlayStation exclusive game I would likely had avoided it much like those horrible naughy dog uncharted games. Now I have some thousands of hours on it since I decided RIGHT AWAY to just give it a shot on PC. go figure right?
Like myself, i realized there is a horrible but satisfying unbalanced hardware problem between a console and a PC. No matter how they try, it would still not get fixed.
The potential solver would have been a layer of AI generated terrain that allowed less “STUCK” moments and a turbo button to allow players to aim faster on controllers. But sadly nobody could figure that out.
‘It was about that time I noticed it weren’t a little girl, but a game developer from the paleolithic era.’
am i surprised about this? no. we all saw this coming miles away
i got PHG in 2021 after randomly clicking on a BTL video and getting hooked. bought the game, it was fun for a while.
and then…the exiled/night map update. the game was simply unplayable. when shit finally began to get back on its feet, illfonic couldn’t decide if they wanted to hold simba above their heads or chuck him off of pride rock.
when update 2.50 came out, nothing much really happened except more bugs and unchanged balance
when 3.00 came out we were all somewhat excited to see if illfonic finally fixed their damn product, but no they didn’t really. the only change was that pred got severely nerfed
nowadays the lobbies are full of sweaty teams and i almost always recognize someone i play against in pubs. game is truly dead now
illfonic, if you’re reading this: be ashamed of yourselves. you took an outstanding franchise and pissed all over it. sure, PHG had potential but instead of listening to the community you just continued to close your eyes and smash the keyboard and then press “release update.”
sure, being fired isn’t great, but honestly it’s kind of your own fault. for 4 years we’ve been giving you game changing advice but you didn’t listen.
rant over
you’re a …console player?
This is where the shit hits the fan. NOt only did you not even state what platform you’re on, your attitude doesn’t EVEN ONCE Make up for the rest of the audience. Its you. minus platform. Should this opinion be stated? No. Because @Samhain13 doesn’t play on console nor does BTL. 2.5 and 3.0 came out on the ass end of development when nobody is playing and you think that stating something about those releases make any difference to anyone?
Not only do you not know what the term being fired is vs lay off means it entertains the idea that you never really had a job.
soo like a rat, you should be dead and go into the trash. Its like were talking to a minor who isn’t of the age of drinking/driving/or consent lest we need to dich you in the ass.
i’m sorry mass, did i ask you? no, i didn’t. so shut your mouth please.
tell us, when was the last time you played PHG?
