Highguard - Concord 2.0?

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The state of gaming is so bad that I was pleasantly surprised to see some pretty nice character designs in the game. An attractive fit redhead with some traditional Pictish/Celtic theming? Cool. The entire roster really isn't bad. No one is a DEI character or woketard self-insert. I'm still not going to play it, but I guess I don't hate it.
they didn't look overtly DEI, but they looked like total shit, none of them screamed cool.
 
The state of gaming is so bad that I was pleasantly surprised to see some pretty nice character designs in the game. An attractive fit redhead with some traditional Pictish/Celtic theming? Cool. The entire roster really isn't bad. No one is a DEI character or woketard self-insert. I'm still not going to play it, but I guess I don't hate it.
The 7 foot tall muscle dommy mommy isn't some DEI woketard bullshit? You're kidding, right?
 
he isn't an idiot, he's very very "in the know" with everything in the industry, so this one is baffling.
maybe he's just an agent of chaos and wanted to knife them, maybe one of the dev's slighted him so he put a spotlight on their game.
100% Geoff isn't someone who's out of the gaming "in the know" sphere. He probably knows more about all notable unannounced or WIP projects in the industry right now out of any person in the world, so he had to know this game was getting setup for failure.

Like if the team didn't take Geoff putting attention on it and shadow dropped it instead, I wouldn't think the game would get this much heat as it is right now. Yeah people would still find it generic and boring, but it wouldn't be at this level of heat.

Like this feels like a late season April fools joke, and highguard is just a prank game for an actual thing that's being developed but who knows except gods chosen dorito pope Geoff! :stress:
 
A fact many devs desperately want to ignore is that the multiplayer market is pretty fucked right now. Every multiplayer game has set its self up to be a forever commitment game. While you used to just play a game when you felt like it, a quake deathmatch here, a tribes ctf there, now you pick one game like fortnite, counter strike, seige or your flavor of gatcha and play nothing but it. If you play something else you'll miss the Limited event that you can only play RIGHT NOW or you'll miss the daily missions or you'll lose your rank or miss the entire game being rebalanced. When making a multiplayer game now you're not just competing to get a little bit of someone's afternoon free time, you have to compete with the overwhelming feeling of FOMO that these games are scientifically designed to create.
 
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The 7 foot tall muscle dommy mommy isn't some DEI woketard bullshit? You're kidding, right?
I just perused like a 60 second trailer that showed them and the mounts. You mean this lady?
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Kind of dyke-y, I guess, maybe even canonically a lesbian (I have no idea). But a self-insert? Definitely not. Woke? Meh, she's got a great body and not quite my type, but I wouldn't say she's unattractive. If that's the most 'woke' character, it's better than most games.
 
I just perused like a 60 second trailer that showed them and the mounts. You mean this lady?
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Kind of dyke-y, I guess, maybe even canonically a lesbian (I have no idea). But a self-insert? Definitely not. Woke? Meh, she's got a great body and not quite my type, but I wouldn't say she's unattractive. If that's the most 'woke' character, it's better than most games.
No, I mean the 7 foot tall 350 pound all muscle dommy mommy character with the mask with 2 horns that they can use to peg 2 soyboys at once. Yeah, the character that looks so manly you can't tell it's supposed to be a woman until you look at their alt skins.

 
A fact many devs desperately want to ignore is that the multiplayer market is pretty fucked right now. Every multiplayer game has set its self up to be forever commitment game. While you used to just a play a game when you felt like it, a quake deathmatch here, a tribes card there, now you pick one game like fortnite, counter strike, seige or your flavor of gatcha and play nothing but it. If you play something else you'll miss the Limited event that you can only play RIGHT NOW or you'll miss the daily missions or you'll lose your rank or miss the entire game being rebalanced. When making a multiplayer game now your not just competing to get a little bit of someone's afternoon free time, you have to compete with the overwhelming feeling of FOMO that these games are scientifically designed to create.
It's a huge risk to make a simple arena shooter. I'd love to play classic UT again. It won't happen in my lifetime. I got stuck on split gate 2 for a while, had plenty of fun, then they closed it and brought it back w/ split gate 1+2. Wasn't as fun. Game felt different. 2+ weeks of not playing it made me not want to play it anymore.

A good game gauge for me is if I'm busy working on a project and can't play for 3+ days, and when it's all good and done and I go back and it just doesn't feel the same, it get uninstalled.

Sometimes I reinstall classic dod for good fun, but the servers I used to frequent are all gone and it's all people vs insane valve AI.
 
No, I mean the 7 foot tall 350 pound all muscle dommy mommy character with the mask with 2 horns that they can use to peg 2 soyboys at once. Yeah, the character that looks so manly you can't tell it's supposed to be a woman until you look at their alt skins.
Ooh, gotcha. Yea... I did notice that actually. I thought at first it was a chick because it seemed there was a hint of boobs and then it went through the rest of the skins and I was like "Nah, bodybuilder dude, but they modeled the pecs a bit fucked up." Well, okay, if that is a chick, it's pretty fucking gross, I grant you.
 
Quick hype, cash in on steam hoping players exceed the magical 2 hour deadline for refunds
Apparently people need to play more than 2 hours to be able to decide if they like a game, yet 2 hours is also the benchmark for Steam's refund policy for purchased games.
Free to Play. So no, this has nothing to do with it. The devs are fucked if this doesn't get an audience willing to buy cash shop cosmetics or battle passes and shit.

Also the two hour limit just means your refund gets reviewed by a human instead of auto-approved. I've gotten plenty of refunds after 2+ hours on Steam as long as I justify why. I've refunded probably 20+ games over the years and never been denied as long as I give a valid reason.

I wouldn't think the game would get this much heat as it is right now. Yeah people would still find it generic and boring, but it wouldn't be at this level of heat.
Agreed. I think a lot of reviews are because as mentioned, free to play, and now it is the popular thing to hate. I'd imagine a lot of the reviews are just people installing it for free, playing a round or two, then give a funny negative review.

On the contrary, while it wouldn't have gotten so much hate, it also would have just been forgotten. Let's be real, the only reason anyone in this thread knows this game exists at all was the trailer being shown at the Game Awards and then mocked.
 
No, I mean the 7 foot tall 350 pound all muscle dommy mommy character with the mask with 2 horns that they can use to peg 2 soyboys at once. Yeah, the character that looks so manly you can't tell it's supposed to be a woman until you look at their alt skins.

God damn this is designer's hyper-specific fetish even Zarya from Overwatch wasn't this Lesnarmaxxed
 
I just perused like a 60 second trailer that showed them and the mounts. You mean this lady?
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Kind of dyke-y, I guess, maybe even canonically a lesbian (I have no idea). But a self-insert? Definitely not. Woke? Meh, she's got a great body and not quite my type, but I wouldn't say she's unattractive. If that's the most 'woke' character, it's better than most games.
that outfit and color setup is fucking awful.
 
Free to Play. So no, this has nothing to do with it. The devs are fucked if this doesn't get an audience willing to buy cash shop cosmetics or battle passes and shit.

Also the two hour limit just means your refund gets reviewed by a human instead of auto-approved. I've gotten plenty of refunds after 2+ hours on Steam as long as I justify why. I've refunded probably 20+ games over the years and never been denied as long as I give a valid reason.
Of course you can get manual refunds after 2 hours, but that still means Valve believes 2 hours is plenty enough time for people to decide if they don't like most games. If you can refund a shitty game in 2 hours, you can leave a justified bad review in 2 hours. ALl of the DEI developer cope in the world doesn't change people having legitimate complaints about crashing, shit performance, empty maps, and so on.
 
How were there 90k goys who played this. It doesn’t appeal to anyone, its aesthetic is disgusting and it’s over a decade late to the hero shooter garbage trend.
 
Wait its free to play why do the 2 hours even matter to anyone, its free.
Imagine the playercount if this costed money, it might be sub-1000
 
Wait its free to play why do the 2 hours even matter to anyone, its free.
Imagine the playercount if this costed money, it might be sub-1000
Because it's idiots using any excuse to claim that a shitty game was "reviewbombed" instead of just being a shitty game.
 
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