Concord - robots with pronouns

[Waifuwars]

I see overlapping gameplay ideas, but not so much themes. The Finals setting looks to be a televised blood sport where players are contestants fighting over prize money, which is much more thematically appropriate than gangs of thieves "eating the rich" by fighting each other over rich people's table scraps.

Honestly, The Final's televised bloodsport angle was giving me a Radical Heights flashback. Cliffy B's Fortnight clone that was thankfully aborted after a failed beta.
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Fucking Radical Heights had 20x more peak players than Concord.

Damn it's already been 6 years since Radical Heights. They don't make flops like it anymore.

 

[FILTH Tourist]

Damn it's already been 6 years since Radical Heights. They don't make flops like it anymore.

A desperate has been developer trying to save his career and studio by rushing out a game that is supposed to cash in on all the tends of the year is almost quaint and wholesome compared to a game floping because corpos and governments infected it with DEI aids no one asked for.

 

[DickMain]

Ah, then there might be some mix-up with the new troon witch character then because some people have been saying that BH's VA is actually a man identifying as a woman.

Regardless, I found the lip-service and enforcement of pronouns Respawn and the voice actress around the character pretty annoying, to the point that Bloodhound 'ambiguous gender' is not because they're a mysterious character in the way that is interesting for a sci-fi setting, but rather to make a point for our current day ideology. In futuristic setting, you can do a lot more interesting storytelling with gender and identity due to technology and cultural changes we don't have today. I don't know how capable of biotech APEX lore is, but for a setting with space travel and robots, I'm sure you can alter your sexual characteristics beyond the magic word of 'I identify as' and mainlining horse piss.

I've made a similar point regarding Joan Lambert in Alien, it's set in the future, actual sex change might be possible, people will do that and move on with their lives - but nah, troons gotta claim her as another trans representation. Hell, you can actually create physiological profile that doesn't fit typical male or female too if the technology allows, but the focus on representation means that any gender deviations in fiction has to be framed through early 21st century western country lenses.

The logical conclusion of this type of setting is something like Ghost in the Shell; where exactly do you draw the line at humanity? They're dealing with an actual brain-in-a-jar future, which brings up a whole host of interesting questions to explore. A scene that always stuck out to me was in the shooting range when the Major floats the idea of augmentation to the non-augmented human operator of the group, and something about that scene gets you thinking 'wait, any of these cyborg people could have been anything besides what we see here before they were stuck into these bodies', not the least of which is of course the individual's sex. There's room to explore interesting stuff in these settings, but like everything else with the pronoun police they ironically take it skin-deep and leave it to the magic of he/she/they bullshit. I wouldn't call them a creative bunch.

 

[Thiletonomics]

It appears that at least 69 players have Platinum'd Concord, before its shutdown:



The 1500 or so people, even if this doesn't count all PS5 players, as well as not counting Steam/EGS players, really amplifies how badly Concord shit the bed.

And this redditor who got a Concord poster from GameStop (and note the other very standout thing to the right) is clearly the "modern audience" that Concord was going after:

 

[Counterfeit Obol]

It appears that at least 69 players have Platinum'd Concord, before its shutdown:

Nice.

 

[cybertoaster]

And this redditor who got a Concord poster from GameStop (and note the other very standout thing to the right) is clearly the "modern audience" that Concord was going after:

TF? who made this shitty poster? why is that character half-cut like that?

As for the tranny flag, clearly shows that audience its nothing and not worth appeasing/appealing to, they are a handful of people and most of them are too broke to buy this.

 

[Baraadmirer]

Not sure if this has been posted yet, but I had a feeling that the Concord character designs was made by a Tumblrite art "fixer".

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My gut feeling was right, this is some advanced form of physiognomy.

Speaking of designs, a YouTuber went and redid some of the characters along with giving them renders:

PreserveTube

 

[cybertoaster]

Speaking of designs, a YouTuber went and redid some of the characters along with giving them renders:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ksyqqojCNJI
PreserveTube

Hire this vato to redesign all the characters and then some other guy to rewrite the gay shit backstories out, keep the rest of the assets and relaunch it as F2P.

 

[Hermiöne Granger]

Is Concord truly gone for good? Even with its servers gone offline, it still shows 11 players in the game. Have the surviving developers been locked up by Sony and forced to play it 24/7 until they die

 

[BTS4Lyfe]

Is Concord truly gone for good? Even with its servers gone offline, it still shows 11 players in the game.

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Just gives more credence to the opinion that the diversity spazos are npcs and bots.

 

[Battlecruiser3000ad]

Is Concord truly gone for good? Even with its servers gone offline, it still shows 11 players in the game. Have the surviving developers been locked up by Sony and forced to play it 24/7 until they die

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in-game on Steam just means that the .exe is running. Can also be spoofed so you are "in-game" but not waste resources on having a bloated game running. I imagine having a recently dead meme game shown as being played rn on your profile is done as a joke by the 11 people.

Of course they still have to own the game, so the joke's on them.

 

[Shinkai]

in-game on Steam just means that the .exe is running. Can also be spoofed so you are "in-game" but not waste resources on having a bloated game running. I imagine having a recently dead meme game shown as being played rn on your profile is done as a joke by the 11 people.

Of course they still have to own the game, so the joke's on them.

Is the joke on them if they're still getting full refunds? Or did only playstation users get it?

Not defending them just seems like absolutely nobody but the developers lost in the end

 

[PieceofShet]

Hire this vato to redesign all the characters and then some other guy to rewrite the gay shit backstories out, keep the rest of the assets and relaunch it as F2P.

Looks good. One thing that I think would help is make their clothes... darker. I mean these supposed to be badass bountyhunters no? How about not wearing red and green and baby blue.

 

[ZMOT]

Honestly, The Final's televised bloodsport angle was giving me a Radical Heights flashback. Cliffy B's Fortnight clone that was thankfully aborted after a failed beta.

apparently the game itself wasn't that bad (for a BR), the only competition at that point was early fortnite and poopg.

It wouldn't even be hard to clone a new body and transplant your brain into it, and boom, you're legit true and honest women or men or whatever you like. You can probably gene mod your brain for chromosome consistency too.

But no, SRS ritual and telling people to use your pronouns is what it is.

because it's not about becoming the other gender, but gaining special status. otherwise we wouldn't need "trans"-anything, just either/or (and no one gives enough of a shit about nonbinary and other shit to give them separate toilets etc.).

 

[FILTH Tourist]

Looks good. One thing that I think would help is make their clothes... darker. I mean these supposed to be badass bountyhunters no? How about not wearing red and green and baby blue.

A badass bounty hunter wearing bright colors like red and green?

Or heaven forbid baby blue!


SAY IT AIN'T SO!

You usually want to have colorful outfits in hero shooters to make the characters distinct and easily identifiable. Them being bounty hunters with no uniform code gives plenty of in universe explanation to why they dress like retards.

apparently the game itself wasn't that bad (for a BR), the only competition at that point was early fortnite and poopg.

It was a day late and a dollar short like his last game Lawbreakers (who was going head-to-head with Overwatch and Battleborn). Maybe if it had more time in the oven before coming out to early access it would have been successful, because it was pretty clear it was a desperate rush job.

 

[FieldPiece]

I seriously can't believe that CoD, the franchise that used to be stereotyped with dudebro fans has tons of fujos now. I know some existed back in the og CoD:MW days but it's super surreal to see. I guess pandering to fags roped in the women?

That's not really surprising. Gears Of War for example has a huge female fan base. Which is funny because the devs of 5 probably thought "oh we have a huge female playerbase, let's make the protag a chick!" Then the female players hated it. They want muscled up fratbros with melodrama and gore, not teenage girl angst.

 

[jje100010001]

For shits and giggles decided to see which overwatch characters felt the most equivalent design-wise to the concord slop

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Even when missing some of the most popular characters, the overwatch cast still looks significantly cooler and more fun than concords, and their outfits are way better and know how to utilise colour in a way that isnt overwhelming.

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Could of course still use some major adjustments like evening out the gender ratio, but this makes me have even less sympathy for whoever designed these things. I really dont think corporate suits can be blamed for everything that makes them ugly.

All I can say is that the Concord characters all look lumpy and uncool, perfectly fitting into the whole 'quirk-as-compensation' lumpenprole aesthetic of the modern left.

In the end I think the comparison that Concord characters all look like bad comicon cosplays of far better designs is spot-on.

Could of course still use some major adjustments like evening out the gender ratio, but this makes me have even less sympathy for whoever designed these things. I really dont think corporate suits can be blamed for everything that makes them ugly.

It's amazing how much better the AI siluettes, colors and general design competency is. You almost don't realize how absolutely talentless the Concord concept artists are until you see it side by side like this. Especially when it's not about sex/aesthetics and just simple composition, look at teal nigga, same character just done by a robot instead of a retard. Imagine being the 3D guy tasked with rendering this trash.

I definitely think some radical Tumblrina hire without any knowledge of character design managed to worm their way in pretty high and dictated these designs to the rest of the team, it's clear that these are bad character design with excellent technical production (perhaps overcompensating).

A lot of the designs almost fit into the 'New Weird' comic style. Again, where ugly quirks compensate for effortless coolness and beauty.

 

[Pissmaster]

And this redditor who got a Concord poster from GameStop (and note the other very standout thing to the right) is clearly the "modern audience" that Concord was going after:

He's started a nice collection on his wall representing awful things that deservedly die young.

 

[AnOminous]

In the end I think the comparison that Concord characters all look like bad comicon cosplays of far better designs is spot-on.

They're the vidya character equivalents of the fat chicks at anime conventions stuffed into far too small costumes that are about to burst at the seams.

 

[800 Chupacabras]

Speaking of designs, a YouTuber went and redid some of the characters along with giving them renders:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ksyqqojCNJI
PreserveTube

Watching this video, I can now see some logic and reasoning behind the character designs, especially the armored mini gun chick. It’s tainted with the pretense of realism, like I could hear some dangerhair arguing “Well, she needs that heavy puffy-looking armor to protect from space lasers.”

But logic, reasoning, and realism only make a good game if that game is an autistic map simulator of the Bronze Age Collapse. Ffs, the most well-recognized video game of all time is about a plumber who jumps on sentient Italians mushrooms and turtles on his way to rescue a princess from a fire-breathing, bipedal Ankylosaurus.