I put way too much effort into getting friends to play this game with me, so you should absolutely follow me on twitch www.twitch.tv/kevduit

I miss Evolve it was fun being the monster

I will always love the “I forced my friends…” saga can’t wait for the next Arc where they are forced to play Dragon Age Inquisition multiplayer

Instantly died when they dropped dlc characters but before then it was some of the best coop experiences I've had.

Evolve is genuinely such a great game, its such a shame corporate greed killed it like it did

Man I miss evolve. I wish it didn't die. The concept was amazing. The monsters were varied, and the various hunters were fum to try out

Evolve: what everyone thought the game would do, but sadly it didn't.

I loved Evolve back in the day and am still grieving whenever I see a video about it. Also, it seems like you and your friends actually enjoyed the game, which is nice to watch.

I remember watching my brother play this game, my favourite part? The monster compleately tearing the team apart one by one. The designs of the monsters were so cool and the concept was brilliant. Man...what happened

This game was actually so fun to play......... I still have the disc to

Loved this game but it literally instantly died just like Battleborn

I have memories from this game during the worst parts of my life. Me and a friend (who owned the game) around 2015 used to play this in the back room of a restaurant that my dad and his parents worked at/owned. It was terrible cause my parents just got divorced, my brother had died, and more. I was depressed and honestly, this game and my friend (who I don’t remember his name) were some of the few things that brought me happiness

I remember this game as being one of my favorites. Sad enough they took the servers down. Would still play it if I could. Nice video btw. Was fun and a little nostalgic to watch. Thank you for that.

This series perfect for telling tales of failed games that you vaguely remember, but completely forgot about.

Fun fact elder kraken was actually op because the devs miss input his damage numbers making him do far more damage than he should have and didn't fix it till stage 2

I loved the little period of a couple months when it was released. I had a blast with my friends and actually enjoyed hunters more. It's a shame it died so fast and corprorate/publisher disagreements basically prematurely killed it.

The original EVOLVE was amazing. I remember playing the beta before the official release. Then it released. And for a short time, you had one of the greatest multiplayer experiences ever. Then bad decision after bad decision, wrong turn after wrong turn, it destroyed itself. Watching this brings back some good memories.

This game was extremely underrated. I think now in the era of live-service games this would succeed very well. Just imagining skins/weapon cosmetics, and seasonal content drop from monsters - hunters

Evolve could have been so good, perhaps even being still updated today. It's a shame, I liked it. It just needed a little more love.

I miss this game. I really do think it came out before it’s time, along with some really shady marketing. But damn it was so much fun and great for that ‘I have 30-40 minutes to burn’ itch.

I miss this game and the hidden lore was awesome to sort through and some character designs were really good

I was never a die hard Evolve fan but I had quite some fun playing it and as far as I can tell it was how players in general felt about it too. The idea is really cool and the delivery is top tier, plus it has very advanced attention to detail. To be honest I'm completely unable to tell what went wrong with it while other (sometimes far worse) titles keep living on.

> forces friends to play evolve "You monster!" "Precisely"

This was honestly one of my favorite games of all time, the only game that I would honestly consider myself Pro at. My friends and I all consistently held at least Top 3 Global in our respective roles, I was Assault, Hyde as my main. Took pride in holding Top 3 until the hackers took over the leaderboards and scores just showed as 9,999,999,999. This game will always hold a special place in my heart.

"It's a horror game for the person playing the monster." This is way too accurate

My heart weeps every time Evolve is mentioned...

This is one of those games that I really wished didn't die highkey it's one of the few games my old group of mates played all together casually before something pretty tragic happened, and you know what I really just wish I could get all my buddies back to play it again

I loved this game, I put so many hours into it, played it pretty much everyday till the servers shutdown, it will always hold a special place in my heart

i remember pre-ordering evolve, i played every single day this game, was fcking awesome, and the content was pretty good, sad that the game died

This fills me with such joy to see this game again. I remember having a blast with friends all the time playing this and it was just gut wrenching for it to then be taken down. The story of it was that Turtle Rock was the developer but 2K the distributors wouldn’t allow them to update the game regularly and it just killed the game from there. That and the $60 dollar pricing and the dlc sadly sealed its fate. I really hope one day it comes back in an amazing fashion

Imagine if the devs saw this video and thought to themselves, "if people are still managing to play this and are having fun, maybe shutting it down wasn't a good idea". probably never happen but would be cool to have evolve back in some capacity.

Man this game was insane, loved playing it for the longest time! wish they kept the online up and the game avaliable tho as it was a blast to play with friends

I liked evolve, it was really fun, one time this guy had a crazy build and just told everyone else to relax while he killed the monster.

Ah yes, Evolve. It was a really fun and interesting game. But I fully understand why it died. The unbalanced nature of it really became clear in the matches, where the hunters would find the monster in stage one and kill it easily, barely after the match started, or the monster would manage to get to stage 3 and murder the hunters with ease. The best balance and fun gameplay was always at stage 2. Another issue was that with the unbalanced nature of the matches there were always more monster players sitting around, waiting for a match than there were hunters for them to compete against. The wait times for matches were awful if you were a dedicated monster player. I hope that one day we will see an Evolve 2, as the idea itself is really good. Perhaps a change up to a 4v2 gameplay model instead of a 4v1 would help, giving the monsters more tactical options etc. One can only hope.

Remember when the servers came back live again for a short time and people were making fundraisers to get it back fully? THAT'S how loved this Game was and still is.

Devotion to the cause, sacrifice, persistence, that's all I can about kevduit in this situation. MAGNIFICENT

I’d be so down for an Evolve 2

I loved evolve i wish it would get a revive....its sad what happened. I played it and it was alot of fun

this was the first game i ever pre ordered and it is so sad to watch footage of it but at the same time im happy that there are still people out there that may be playing it

BRO SOMEBODY SHOULD HAVE TOLD ME U MADE A VIDEO OF THIS I LOVE THIS

Evolve is one of those games that I thoroughly enjoyed back in the day and miss so very much

When I suggested Evolve a while ago I did not know it'd spawn a whole ass odyssey to even find the game. I thought it still existed since it didn't disappear from my Steam or anything.

Thank you for playing this, I miss it soo much, the game was amazing, too bad the devs killed it

This was one of my favorite games ever. So much fun. Played in the PS4 competitive scene for most of its lifespan

I really loved the atmosphere of all the apps feeling like an neat ecosystem of its own, cool an unique characters an abilities with some personality an the little conversations at the start of the match were cool details. The monsters I hold dear to my heart since they were cool an creative.

I was unfortunately the 1# healer for this game on PS4 for months and then it died. Time well spent.

Such a fascinating game. I remember having a blast in coop back in the day. Shame that the lack of day 1 content put the whole game in a coffin.

I remember Evolve, it had such an amazing time bro, I don’t know why it died, probably lack of content updates, I remember that all new characters costed a lot of money tho.

I wanted to play It. Its honestly a great Game concept and visually nice. But discontinued because they tried to milk It too early

Please be gentle, EVOLVE is one of my fav games, I own multiple discs myself to play with friends, (with mixed results). I found a discord server that plays it pretty consistently. Its a corpse of a game but it's heartbeat still beats every so often...

This is my new favorite series on KZfaq

evolve was released in the wrong time , the gamers weren't ready for it

I played stage 2 extensively, and I can agree with "It's a horror game for those who play monster". You gotta be helluva more skillful as monster to win against a team of average hunters. I barely communicated beyond in-game callouts and still had like 90% win ratio.

Man I loved playing This game when it first came out. The fear of getting caught in the early stages of your monster to the absolute satisfaction or dismay of getting demolished or just destroying the hunters at level 3… so much fun

God this game was so good, I remember buying it because it was on sale and had HOURS of fun just playing with randoms and holding out in the strong positions and the monsters were insanely cool to fight against and it had a decent amount of character progression and customization, wish it didn’t die

I remember I platinumed this game all way back in 2015 , it was a fucken amazing game even better when you had a full group of hunters , oh the memories

I will always love Evolve. My buddy and I spent countless nights playing this game. Trapper was always my go to. I miss ol Abe. What I don't miss is goliaths 100% accuracy rock. Fond memories

No matter what anyone says, this was an impressive investment of trolling your friends that i very much admire

god this games concept is so god damn good. its such a tragic tale of a game destined for greatness

I subscribed just for the shear effort you put into this, goddamn.

Man I haven’t played evolve in the longest time it was fun

I loved this game and thought it was fun hope they remake it one day

I’ve had this game for years and I still love playing this game. At least on PS4 it’s easy to start games and custom games.

This does bring a tear to my eye.

This game is extremely tragic as the gameplay is great like actually great and it died way too soon

When you have people to play this game with it's really amazing

Man, I genuinely miss this game.... Im glad you had fun with my old friend.

I can’t believe it took you so long to get this game. I got the game on Amazon because I thought it looked fun. Popped it in my Xbox and I liked it. I still play it when I’m bored.

I absolutely loved this game. For me the downfall was that a lot of people couldn't handle the learning phase of it where you needed to track and cut off monsters, then work in a team to kill them. The Devs then started to dumb-down a lot of the hunting part and buff hunters more vs monsters (at the top end monsters were already pretty weak vs hunters). Evolve will always have a special place in my heart as a game with great potential that died before its time could fully come.

Evolve was actually great. It was something different, I always appreciate getting to play as monsters in games

The creativity as the monster was insane! Miss this masterpiece.

The unthinkable had happened, Stage 2 is getting peer to peer servers. The legacy ones were down for a month and we asked for them to be fixed, didn't expect to see stage 2 back also.

I actually really loved this game. I used to play it all the time. RIP However, can we use this as an opportunity to try to find some people who actually have this game and want to play it together?

Emmet the medic bot is still one of my favorite characters of all time, specifically for one voice line he has.

You guys made this look like a lot of fun! I'm sorry I missed out on playing this one.

I remember playing this game a couple years ago on Xbox game pass. It was well after the game already died but I was able to connect to the online servers. It was actually pretty fun for what it was. I'm definitely gonna subscribe after this

Kev, if you wanna do another thing like this, you should check out Lawbreakers. it was a massively overhyped game just like this one, in which the guy who lead development somehow made it a toxic community before the fans could. like this one the servers are defunct and it's shut down, but you could recount the story to your friends and wish you got the chance. or you could work your magic and somehow get it to work.

Still have it installed and get some friends together nearly every weekend to play together! This game wasn’t amazing, but it was good and it’s a shame they shut it down. Especially with today’s age of games and cosmetics, the service would have been AMAZING. Hoping one day they decide to turn the servers back on! Definitely a great game that was failed by the developers.

Ngl, really glad Back 4 Blood doesn't have death hanging over it's head like Evolve did. The gameplay is good, the level design is on point, and I can see that TRS has some GREAT minds working for them. Even if they ended the dev cycle for it, people acting like a game dies the instant it stops getting big content drops are gonna kill it. Sucks because it, like Evolve, is an awesome game.

I love your persistence.

You know Kevduit, while you played some really wierd stuff before, I still can't believe you and your friends are playing a game that _literally ceased to exist_ by now

i absolutely loved the game intention, design and gameplay. so sad to see the game die..

I loved evolve so much, that game was so much fun with friends

You should play more evolve! Fun to watch!

This game couldn't been a gem if it was balanced 😂💀

I remember playing this when it actually did have a mini story mode where it finished out with the monster starting at lvl 3 with a horde of smaller ones. That was always intense

I remember loving this game when I first played it, and I mastered so much the support class that somehow I managed to win a game without taking damage (it's an achievement on the ps and no it was an online game and the monster had more than 5 brain cells)

Honestly, such a fun game with friends, especially with the spider or wraith where you could jump scare TF out of them😂 gooood times

Heh I remember playing this game drunk af on my ps4, sad times.

I remember having a lot of fun with this when Stage 2 came out. Although I ended up making a friend angry at me because I was a little too good at playing the monster.

i love having the knowledge that i have in my posession one of the only physical copies of evolve left. it was such a fun game too

Good to see i am not the only one who loved this game

Arguably the best asymmetric competitive game ever created. Turtle rock studios did an amazing job with this.

Always loved this game I really don´t know why all the players left, it was always so much fun.

I loved this game. I played it with my mates and it was always fun. I always played the trapped Jack. I remember my mate unlocked the wraith monster before us and he was actually really good with it.

thanks for making a video of evolve i still play this game daily online (you can still play online )

There was a lot of elements that killed this game, most of which has been talked about but I wanna compress it here. I don't think Evolve was entirely bad, but all of these problems eventually lead to its poor lifespan: The price: On launch, this was a full priced game for what was effectively just a minigame. There wasn't a whole lot of variety between the different gamemodes, it all boiled down to teams vs monster. The variety was with the monsters and team combinations, but its pretty limited. Had this game been cheaper or even free to play on launch, it would have done better. Instead they made it f2p after the game was dying, which at that point was far too late, people felt like they wasted their money by not waiting and well, hindsight 20/20. Retention: Brings back to the next point, the lack of variety. Evolved really leaned into the schtick of team vs monster, which isn't inherently bad, but this meant that all of their game modes boiled down to the same loop. Monsters had to hide and grind until they were strong enough to hunt down the players, while the team had to track down the monster and run around the map before that happens. You'd get games where players succeed in stomping a stage 1 beast, an interesting catch and mouse skirmish in stage 2, and a horror survival in stage 3. These were fine, but this all the game had to offer. Its a kind of game mode that might be fun, if unbalanced, for a few rounds, but quickly wears on you. With a lack of any other unique game modes or content it wasn't really a game where an individual player would want to spend a lot of time on. The hero system I think also hurts customization because it limits your loadout options to the playstyle of your hero, where as other games that let you freely customize your equipment probably would have been better here. Its hard to come up with alternative game modes, but a simple pvp hero shooter and even a monster brawl would have been examples of more interesting variety, you could probably come up with more like an actual campaign mode. A game mode where the monster starts at stage 3 and the team has to escape an area before they are all killed would have been an interesting set up too, stuff like that. There's a lot they could have done with the base game to give more variety. The game was also exclusive to multiplayer. I mean sure, you could play with Ai, but that's no fun. Had their been a campaign mode or something that could have at least prolonged the game a bit more with population as even in a dying server people could still get some enjoyment from the singleplayer aspect. Unbalanced: not the biggest complaint IMO, the imbalanced of the cat and mouse game had its charms again, but for a lot of people its really frustrating when a competent team stomps on a newbie monster or vice versa. Greed: aside from the launch price, the in game market really didn't help players want to stick around. DLC monsters might be acceptable, but the cosmetic and item store thrown right in your face was rather a turn off. If the game was f2p at launch it would be a bit more forgiven, but locking new contnet behind a pay wall felt dirty. Marketing: Another big issue with the game was the hype and let down. Its a classic case with a lot of games where the hype surrounding a launch doesn't live up to expectations and quickly kills interest. Had there been a no man's sky-esq dedication to completely overhaul and expand the content like what was said in the retention point alongside their f2p change, it might have recovered.

9:34 when he says “You should do it” you’re voice sounds EXACTLY like Chills Top 5.

I miss evolve so much. it was such a fun game and I loved the concept.

I loved Evolve, me and my friends played it during the whole summer a while back