Concord - robots with pronouns

[Sharpeteer]

Microsoft/Xbox seem to be on a mission to hire the worst people for their gaming division...

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Spoiler: Halo/343i Rant

Oh great, just what Halo needs - more people who do not even remotely understand what made the Bungie Halo games so special, and clearly thinks DEI is the answer to what people want based on this hire. As if their rebranding/UE5 reveal wasn't bad enough.

The entire 343i rebranding was completely pointless if they're just going to continue to shit out tone-deaf Halo product that continues to be incompetent, and so impotent that they don't even have faith in their own storytelling (wrote themselves into a corner with Halo 5, then just completely ignored it in Infinite with the most generic nothing-plot ever, wowie what a great conclusion). Looking forward to super diverse characters in the next Halo, along with the usual broken, incomplete game that tries to chase trends again just like one can reasonably expect from 343iHalo Studios.

We're talking about a company that didn't realize Co-Op was important to Halo fans.

Thread tax: any of these companies considering hiring anyone that was responsible for Concord really doesn't get it. How can you look at one of the biggest gaming failures EVER, and say "that person would be great for my next project in an industry that is already known for all the recent layoffs.

 

[p1138]

Spoiler: Halo/343i Rant

Oh great, just what Halo needs - more people who do not even remotely understand what made the Bungie Halo games so special, and clearly thinks DEI is the answer to what people want based on this hire. As if their rebranding/UE5 reveal wasn't bad enough.

The entire 343i rebranding was completely pointless if they're just going to continue to shit out tone-deaf Halo product that continues to be incompetent, and so impotent that they don't even have faith in their own storytelling (wrote themselves into a corner with Halo 5, then just completely ignored it in Infinite with the most generic nothing-plot ever, wowie what a great conclusion). Looking forward to super diverse characters in the next Halo, along with the usual broken, incomplete game that tries to chase trends again just like one can reasonably expect from 343iHalo Studios.

We're talking about a company that didn't realize Co-Op was important to Halo fans.

Thread tax: any of these companies considering hiring anyone that was responsible for Concord really doesn't get it. How can you look at one of the biggest gaming failures EVER, and say "that person would be great for my next project in an industry that is already known for all the recent layoffs.

This is the same "Halo Studios" known for having a dev on staff that hates guns in video games, at a company named after a first person shooter, and then promoted him to a producer position.

 

[Sharpeteer]

This is the same "Halo Studios" known for having a dev on staff that hates guns in video games, at a company named after a first person shooter, and then promoted him to a producer position.

Sounds about right. And that reminds me of something - this could be tin foil hatty and perhaps I'm overthinking it, but I remember when Halo Infinite was about to finally release, and a good number of the cardboard standees of Master Chief that got sent to stores used the image of him standing there holding the gun, but they obviously edited it out, so he's just standing awkwardly and you can clearly see where a gun is supposed to be in his hand. Weird decision that makes no sense to me. You could say because of marketing to kids, but Halo has always been a "Mature" franchise, and that's never been an issue in the past.

Currently, I say Sony of today is still way more woke than Microsoft, but they're clearly trying to get there.

 

[Oliver Onions]

You could say because of marketing to kids, but Halo has always been a "Mature" franchise, and that's never been an issue in the past.

It also makes no sense because Ratchet & Clank is targeted at kids and he gets a portable nuke gun in every game; as well as a lot of the old games having innuendo subtitles like 'Up Your Arsenal' and 'Going Commando'.

Feels more like some stuffed shirt executive being terrified of negative publicity affecting sales of what was already a money sink.

 

[Sharpeteer]

Feels more like some stuffed shirt executive being terrified of negative publicity affecting sales of what was already a money sink.

I'm so glad Halo Infinite was by all accounts a failure. It is the worst handled and most mismanaged Halo game of all time imo. And this is after having several failed attempts to get a Halo game right, and they still failed.

Bonnie left 343i, and they rebranded, but their UE5 presentation video speaks more of the same, and they apparently just hired a Concord marketing person for a senior position. These people are the Lucasfilm of video games.

 

[Oliver Onions]

I'm so glad Halo Infinite was by all accounts a failure. It is the worst handled and most mismanaged Halo game of all time imo. And this is after having several failed attempts to get a Halo game right, but they still failed.

Bonnie left 343i, and they rebranded, but their UE5 presentation video speaks more of the same, and they apparently just hired a Concord marketing person. These people are the Lucasfilm of video games.

I've never been into Halo so I had no skin in that game, but I did watch a lot of the content documenting its continued fumbling. The fact it launched with so many core features from previous games totally absent was astonishing to me.

I fully expect the UE5 transition to be a total disaster, so I'm excited to see how they fuck up the franchise next.

 

[Miller]

This is the same "Halo Studios" known for having a dev on staff that hates guns in video games, at a company named after a first person shooter, and then promoted him to a producer position.

And before the generic rebranding, the studio was named after an enemy of the main protagonist of their IP.

 

[The Last Stand]

It also makes no sense because Ratchet & Clank is targeted at kids and he gets a portable nuke gun in every game; as well as a lot of the old games having innuendo subtitles like 'Up Your Arsenal' and 'Going Commando'.

Feels more like some stuffed shirt executive being terrified of negative publicity affecting sales of what was already a money sink.

I wouldn't say R&C was marketed "for kids," more like it was marketed for those kids that grew up with Banjo-Kazooie and other similar platformers. The innuendos within the subtitles was Insomniac humor that an older audience could appreciate the play on words.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

 

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

Damn was just about to post that lol. THE UNSHAVED ARMPITS AHAHAHA. What's funnier is that there's more news about the shooting that happened in Concord than this fucking "video game." The fact that they even thought Concord was a good idea to make a Secret Level episode of when they were already failing ratings wise further shows how completely out of touch they are.

 

[p1138]

The fact that they even thought Concord was a good idea to make a Secret Level episode of when they were already failing ratings wise further shows how completely out of touch they are.

The secret level series thing was announced months before Concord was released, odds are that was a deal setup a year in advance. And with the production done and paid for... might as well post it.

 

[Hooked on phobics]

THE UNSHAVED ARMPITS AHAHAHA.

Unshaven itself wouldn't be a problem, olgavitch from MGS2 had unshaved pits, but it was less a "intentionally gross" thing, and more like shes a soldier first and foremost, so unshaved pits made sense
The BLUE LIPS however, yeah, thats 100% intentional ugly, plus if someone has time to put on makeup but NOT shave armpits, even more so

 

[Slur Generator]

Unshaven itself wouldn't be a problem, olgavitch from MGS2 had unshaved pits, but it was less a "intentionally gross" thing, and more like shes a soldier first and foremost, so unshaved pits made sense
The BLUE LIPS however, yeah, thats 100% intentional ugly, plus if someone has time to put on makeup but NOT shave armpits, even more so

There are shots specifically to show off her armpit hair.

 

[NerdShamer]

There are shots specifically to show off her armpit hair.

I'm half convinced that the filmmakers did that just to showcase just how retarded Concord was

 

[BScCollateral]

One niggle I've had for a while: most, if not all, fictional (and some real) robots have pronouns.
Ah well.

 

[Oliver Onions]

The secret level series thing was announced months before Concord was released, odds are that was a deal setup a year in advance. And with the production done and paid for... might as well post it.

It's still funny because it suggests a hilarious level of over-confidence in the IP. They should have given Astrobot a Secret Level episode instead, that could have been cute.

 

[Fatsuit Shinji]

It's still funny because it suggests a hilarious level of over-confidence in the IP. They should have given Astrobot a Secret Level episode instead, that could have been cute.

Might've after Astrobot became a massive world wide hit. But before Astrobot even released, high chances they would've fuck with its short.

 

[Oliver Onions]

Might've after Astrobot became a massive world wide hit. But before Astrobot even released, high chances they would've fuck with its short.

I wasn't talking from a business perspective, but a creative one. You could do a lot with an Astrobot short, along the lines of the ones Pixar used to do.

Much more than you can do with diet Guardians of the Galaxy, any way.

 

[Fatsuit Shinji]

I was talking about the creative perspective for Astrobot. After seeing what they creatively did to Helldiver 2 in the last short, I would not trust them with Astrobot.

 

[p1138]

It's still funny because it suggests a hilarious level of over-confidence in the IP. They should have given Astrobot a Secret Level episode instead, that could have been cute.

Well remember, they wanted concord to be their billion dollar "star wars" IP and allagedly had a bunch of other videos and shit for it ready to release after the launch. Even the sane gamers who identified it as shit when they saw it probably didn't think the game would bomb anywhere near as hard as it did. Even failguard managed to allegedly sell a bit over a million copies(and still be a massive loss) but this shit not even doing 50,000? That's an order of magnitude worse than something like ET for the Atari 2600.

I wasn't talking from a business perspective, but a creative one. You could do a lot with an Astrobot short, along the lines of the ones Pixar used to do.

Much more than you can do with diet Guardians of the Galaxy, any way.

Astrobot itself was a hilarious exercise in showing how Sony seems to give zero fucks about the IPs it either owns or people associate with playstation. Like a greatest hits walk down memory lane reminding everyone of when Sony wasn't shit.