The real thing you can't get away with is no compelling gameplay at all in a highly competitive field. You can dump $200 lmao lmao $200 fucking MILLION dollars into it but if you offer nothing competitive, people won't pay for it.
I'm pretty sure I already said this but it's baffling they chose this route. For a hero shooter in the year of our lord 2024 to be a $40 buy to play title, but also be a live service... you'd have to give players a reason to jump ship from Overwatch. If they launched Concord, F2P, with seasonal battle passes, right when Overwatch announced that they cancelled the campaign shit, we wouldn't be having this discussion. The wokeshit would be still an annoying thing and the troon devs chimping out on twitter wouldnt change at all. But they'd at least have a stable enough playerbase to justify funding it for at least 2 years.
The thing is, even if they were forced (as the artists are now claiming) to make the characters gay and lame that doesn't explain the other design issues like complete ignorance of color theory and how boring the core concepts are.
I don't have a problem with edgy content in games but I do have a problem with games whose entire USP is being edgy just to shift copies. Postal is a fun game with edgy content, Hatred existed purely to offend people so it would sell. Although apparently it worked so who am I to judge.
These are terrible, Asuka looks like she has downs and Morrigan looks like a troon. Heather Mason looks decent but I'm guessing that is a 1:1 copy of official Silent Hill art.
I guess it depends how you are defining artist, and who did what : I'm presuming the character concepts were pushed heavily by professor and perhaps lead artistic director (or whatever) and not the people actually assembling models as their job.
Ftfy, the Hog's actually from New Zealand. Even then, his girth communicates that he's meant to soak up damage.
I don't blame anyone on this who just produced what they were given. I'm sure we've all worked jobs where we know what we're doing is stupid/wrong but it's more than our job's worth to try and argue with management.
Concord was a failure at every level of management, but the whole reason you hire an art team is because they're supposed to know what they're doing and correct these mistakes before they make it in front of anyone with the final say. Someone like Jim Ryan isn't going to understand artistic concepts, so even if he thinks something looks dumb he puts his trust in the art director that they know why this is a good idea.
The black sniper lady is one of the better designs in that cast (not great, but serviceable) becuase I can get the gist of her class by looking, she is a sniper and from the exo leg armor with toe splits (some IRL athletic shoes do this) she is supposed to be very mobile.
Goggles are ALWAYS shit Design, fight me.
Except they always do this. Look back to any woke garbage that failed to the point that they couldn't possibly present it as a success. These sites always come out with their "Why did it fail?" articles, and they never ever mention that people don't like leftist propaganda in their stuff. Or if they do, it's always presented in a manner that tries to pass it off as some sort of "hate campaign that drove everyone away." They are always dishonest. Always.
My guess is they're trying to be cool like the people that kept their Halo 2 games running after the servers went offline. Except they are androgynous fucking blob people so they are incapable of being cool, plus it's Concord, so nobody outside their playerbase of <100 people give a shit.
You're not wrong, but the problem is that should have been the starting point, not where they put the pencil down and called it job done. As it stands she just looks like Default Sniper 12 in some random Ubisoft spec ops game like The Division or Ghost Recon.
They're almost always shit design because they rarely are added for a reason. The original Naruto design is a good example of this, Kishimoto added them because he thought they looked cool then used the headband storyline to immediately drop them after the first chapter because they were a pain to draw.
Jak, cid highwind, and Baird from gears looked pretty great with goggles
THEY NEVER PUT THEM ON! WAKE UP SHEEPLE! THEY ARE GROOMING YOU TO BECOME STEAMPUNK POSERS!
From the same people who went out of their way to get people fired for not sucking the trannydick.
it helps that TF2 came out in 2007, if TF2 came out today that there'd be a horde of faggots out there complaining about the "disabled black Scottish" character as some sort of formulaic DEI inclusion.
Yes they did!... Once or twice. (Although Jak put his on in 3 every time he drove in the desert so that was cool.)
Half of them are just shitposts tho, and im pretty sure the other half is just the same 3 images posted like 4 times each
