We don't know how badly Red Faction: Armageddon sold, but it didn't chart in the top ten after it's release on June 7. THQ said it's one of the primary reasons the company experienced a poor quarter, and seems to mark the end of Red Faction.
"Red Faction: Armageddon did not meet our expectations," said THQ CEO Brian Farrell on an earnings call today. "While this title has a passionate niche following, the title did not resonate with the sufficiently broad console audience."
"In today's hit-driven core gaming business, even highly polished titles with a reasonable following like Red Faction face a bar that continues to move higher and higher," he continued.
Red Faction developer Volition is currently working on Saints Row: The Third for this November, in addition to the Guillermo del Toro horror production (and proposed trilogy), Insane.
It's unlikely it will be producing another major Red Faction game, however.
"Given that that title now in two successive versions has just found a niche, we do not intend to carry forward with that franchise in any meaningful way," he said.
it sold poorly because it was a shitty game that no one wanted. Nothing wrong with the franchise at all.
Sad
So depressing how quickly developers will throw out a franchise these days.
We took what everyone loved from the last game and threw it in the dumpster out back and made a shitty third person "stop and pop" corridor shooter! Why would that ever fail?!
Oh, it did? Screw it, shut it down!
"In today's hit-driven core gaming business, even highly polished titles [sic] with a reasonable following like Red Faction face a bar that continues to move higher and higher,"
Yo, dude. It failed. You aren't going to sell any more copies of that turd now. You can stop lying to us.
Armageddon was everything I didn't want in the series. Give me Guerrilla 2 and I'm all for it.
That's stupid, they need to go back and look at Guerrilla and build on what made that a great game, not just scrap the whole franchise.
These publishers don't know wtf they're doing anymore.
It's a shame. I loved Guerrilla, but the demo for Armageddon turned me off to the full game (at least at full price).
Oh, shitty games don't sell!
Lets quit the franchise for now.
Idiots.
rf:a is a shitty gears of war wannabe.
rf:g was a brilliant open world game.
released same day as Infamous 2 which was a better game
was a lame and shitty direction and went away from the better sandbox-y Guerrilla
story sucked
hm, I can't see why it wasn't selling in droves, really
@Grimmy616 said:
yup...it made no sense whatsoever that they changed it as much as they did...such a shame!
Ouch, that is really too bad. I didn't think this game looked great either, but it's too bad they just couldn't build something better on top of Red Faction Guerilla. I think they also mistook just how interesting their fiction and universe was.
If anything, they should have known that Red Faction's merit was in it's destructible gameplay, not it's universe.
Sad news either way.
I don't think any of the games were complete AAA tier games - but I did really enjoy the first game, and Guerilla.
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Man, that sucks. Guerilla was awesome and Armageddon was just so-so. :(