Concord - robots with pronouns

[Burd Turglar]

Aw shucks, i just about to buy me a copy. I swears it!

 

[Oilspill Battery]

(it won't be Concord-level bad, there will be at least some interest in it).

Extremely big X to doubt on this one. Marathon is a hero extraction shooter in a market where hero shooters are mostly dead and extraction shooters never took off, banking off a dead IP from a company who's own customers hate it.

Extraction shooters aren't a gold rush, its literally a battle royale survival of the fittest highlander style.

Normies don't give a fuck, tarkov fans aren't going anywhere, destiny fans already hate it for parasitizing destiny so the only thing marathon can hope is that it poaches players from hunt showdown, which lmao.

Showdown has polished mechanics and such but above all it has a unique aesthetic people love that stands out (western vodoo louisiana bayu) and I don't think globohomo technicolor robonegro is gonna poach very many of them.

Its gonna require divine intervention for marathon to not crash and burn even if DEI wasn't kneeling on its neck.

 

[Caligura]

Nah, women wanna play characters that have pretty skins. If D.VA wasn’t a cute Korean gamer girl and instead looked like Zarya, she would have no female mains.

Zarya wasn't that bad in my opinion. What really fucks up her entire design is her dumb pink haircut because the devs apparently have a Pussy Riot fetish and didn't want to go into 'negative Russian stereotypes' even though actual Russians think those stereotypes are cool. Much in the same way Americans love characters like Senator Armstrong from MGS or Kay from GUP.
IMO, Zarya looks 50% better if you slap a bob cut on her with a natural haircolor and maybe redesign her outfit to resemble a Soviet take on Space Marine or Halo Spartain power armor.

 

[Hermiöne Granger]

This message allegedly comes from Amanda Kiefer, she is Senior Concept artist at FirewalkStudios.

Sounds like a win if they no longer want to work on games any longer. We need to go back to the glory days of heavy gatekeeping in the gaming hobby and industry.

 

[Peru oso donas]

Nah, women wanna play characters that have pretty skins. If D.VA wasn’t a cute Korean gamer girl and instead looked like Zarya, she would have no female mains.

No, you niggerfaggot.

Women who PLAY videogames like cute characters, the ones who don't and are the ones making the games do not want to include them out of spite against "the gamers"

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

I went to my local Best Buy to see if there was a copy laying around.

Nothing. I even tried to check if they had thr controller for some reason.

Nope.

It was funny to see the newest Saint's Row game for 20 bucks.

 

[Evil Peter Griffin]

 

[biggacracka]

I'ma be real - the design of these characters could have worked. If - if - you weren't retarded. Imagine them drawn in Jamie Hewlett's style - the Gorillaz and Tank Girl guy. Or maybe a bit of Sam Keith - The Maxx guy. Stylized ugly.

The really dumb, weird outfits could benefit massively from a shakeup that thick shadow could afford them, and ugly mugs with weird proportions can really come alive with some beefy contours.

You'd want to embrace that they're all ugly and weird as shit, and shove them in an ugly and weird-as-shit universe. You'd want the future to look like a ragtag hand-me-down thrift shoppe universe. For example, Daw's retarded goggles - big, thick fucking straps on either side visible from outer-fucking-space, make those suckers look goofy as shit and give the lad gigantic fucking eyes when they're on. Poofy-ass coat, take those stupid fucking shoulderpads off, trailing down to the fat fuck's knees and flying out every time tubby took a jump and shook the earth on landing.

Instead, they blew about $150M dollars more than they needed on those stupidly-realistic, crisp animations and the hard-realism style, and it's fucking dead.

I see the vision, that would have been awesome

 

[Big moth tiddies]

They didn't even put in a thank you, just a generic maintenance error, lazy bastards.

Sounds like a win if they no longer want to work on games any longer.

I only have one thing to say to this miserable cunt and her shitty friends who should be hanging themselves.

 

[Mikoyan]

CODE: Sodium 4. Yeah, I bet they're fuckin' salty as hell over there.

Extremely big X to doubt on this one. Marathon is a hero extraction shooter in a market where hero shooters are mostly dead and extraction shooters never took off, banking off a dead IP from a company who's own customers hate it.

Even worse, it has Syndicate Disease: Anyone into the OG lore will loudly tell everyone around them that it has fucking nothing to do with the original and it's awful. Banking off a dead IP isn't just a 'who cares' it's an active detriment.

 

[skunt]

ACK!

 

[30+GameOvers]

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What are the 12 people even doing there? Having a chibi-esque memorial service for the game? LMFAO

 

[Thomas Talus]

Destiny as a franchise has made a few billion dollars on an (alleged) budget of $500m, before any money they got from Activision as part of whatever the fuck that contract was. Destiny 2 was part of Steam's public "Top 12 games that made the most money on this platform all year" in the most recent 2023 list - putting it in the company of GOTY Baldur's Gate 3 and absurd money makers Counter Strike 2, DOTA, and Apex Legends.

The money was there - but it was mismanaged and pissed away. It's not a bad bet to think that a successful game franchise will continue to be successful. It's more a shame that a studio like Bungie has fallen down so badly - but that seems to be how it is in the current envrionment.

Microsoft had considered buying Bungie a couple years back, but decided not to because of (among other reasons like lack of executive accountability that rings even truer today) the huge cash burn rate of the studio.

There's also the end of the main Destiny storyline, which just happened (and was supposed to happen a year earlier) and was a point at which you should be expecting your playerbase to drop off, in addition to several years' worth of notably declining player morale.

 

[AnOminous]

I really hate that its even called bisexual lighting, I always found its more reminiscent of synth-wave aesthetic.

That and Hotline Miami that also had a lot of that kind of stuff in its soundtrack.

LOL HOLY SHIT THEY'RE KILLING IT ALREADY

Imagine making a game so trooned out that the game itself commits suicide in less than two weeks.

 

[Cucktry Roads]

 

[Hooked on phobics]

Found another article not posted.
Apparently yesterday they called it a "success" for even shipping.

LINK / archive


This logic isn't far off giving birth to an absolute mutant baby and saying "its amazing it actually was born alive at all".
This really goes to show the companies culture was some real participation trophy shit.
Also theres STILL 12 online in this bricked game. https://steamcharts.com/app/2443720#All

 

[Super Dilator Duel 3D]

So does this mean that Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing is no longer the worst game ever made and sold?

Big Rigs was an amateur, buggy, unfinished mess, but unlike Concord it wasn’t worthless slop. Get together with a few friends and you could squeeze a significant amount of entertainment value from fucking around and seeing how badly you can break it. The AVGN video was also hilarious.

Concord’s only entertainment value is in the financial failure and the extent to which it was riddled with DEI shit and even that’s hard to mock now that the game is completely unplayable. Big Rigs might be shit but it’s fun shit. Concord is just shit.

 

[BoomerSperg1922]

This message allegedly comes from Amanda Kiefer, she is Senior Concept artist at FirewalkStudios.

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Sounds like a win if they no longer want to work on games any longer. We need to go back to the glory days of heavy gatekeeping in the gaming hobby and industry.

half her art on instagram is of ugly nogs but yeah sure it's all the fault of "muh executives"

Bitch, shut up and never work on a video game ever again.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

Perhaps the coder monkeys and such are faultless, but the art directors should get this as a black mark on their careers. The game didn't die because it was badly coded or buggy. It died because it was genuinely ass ugly.

I doubt anyone will face lasting consequences, denying reality is the norm. But it's funny to see industry shill Paul Tassi denying the woke narrative but admitting it's ugly:

The Ten Reasons PlayStation’s ‘Concord’ Has Failed Disastrously (archive)

4. Extremely Poor Hero Design And Aesthetics – A core problem with the game is that it’s just…viscerally unappealing. The game attempts to channel ‘70s sci-fi, an era that existed 30-40 years before its target audience was born, and even then, it still just looks terrible. The main issue here is not character “diversity” as some have said, just that they look so bad. You can head over to Overwatch to see let’s say, not traditionally attractive characters like Junkrat, Roadhog and a damn gorilla and see how the aesthetic alone is the difference. So few of these designs are appealing and without solid heroes, a hero shooter cannot exist.

5. The Anti-Woke Crusade – Some are citing the game with its character design and pronouns in their bios as being the “woke” reason the game failed. That does somewhat link into the above, but not for “the characters aren’t hot enough” reasons, the real issue here is that yes, Concord did instantly launch with an internet hate campaign attached to it. That is not the reason the game failed, but it’s just another thing dragging it down, and now the loudest people on the internet are of course saying the game went woke and as such, went broke. While this is an industry that awarded 50 GOTY trophies to the hyper-woke Baldur’s Gate 3 last year, it has still remained an unavoidable, distracting part of Concord discussion since moment one.

 

[just Reading a post]

I doubt anyone will face lasting consequences, denying reality is the norm. But it's funny to see industry shill Paul Tassi denying the woke narrative but admitting it's ugly:

The fact that they have to address the anti-woke side at all in these asspatting puff journoscum rambles. Means that they know the Chud's sunk it. Remember these guys love using the "You are alone, you are a minority".
Everyone saw how shit the game was. All they are doing now is trying to minimize the role, youtubers and chuds had in pissing on the game.(And some will claim they always hated the game)
"They were there, but everyone hated them and they had a small effect" is going to be the big cope in write ups.