A lot of games do this actually, some more subtly than others. Mirror’s Edge does this with the color red guiding you forward

The thing Evolve really had over all the other 1v4 style games is that mid game switch of who’s hunting who. Like in DBD, the killer is always chasing down the survivors. In Evolve, if you play as the monster, you are absolutely terrified of the hunters in the beginning, but then it completely flips on its head and the monster is terrifying to the hunters.

Adding a shit ton of loot drops that only improve your stats by like .5% each time does not make your game an RPG

I really really thought they were gonna do this in Arkham Knight. Like each villains gang would have their own hierarchy and each small gang of goons would have like a leader with them