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[Neon Xenon]

Watched the trailer for Highguard today. I feel like I was unintentionally avoiding it when I had heard about it.

No, I don't think it looks terrible, but I do think what was shown makes it look very average and doesn't have anything to get me hype about it. I might even call it "Mid." It does give the impression that it's "yet another hero shooter", so I also don't blame people at all for being dismissive just from looking at the trailer.

No, I don't think that Highguard is already a "Concord 2.0", because the game really has to be a real moneysink of a failure post launch for that, and unlike that game, at least Highguard is free to play...in spite of everything that comes with that. It's not great when you watch a trailer and think "How is this going to be monetized?" It's hard to overstate the amount of damage that Concord's failure did, so I also understand people even just being reminded of it.

No, I definitely don't think it should have been the closer for game announcements at this year's TGAs. That really should have been thrown somewhere in the middle. This honestly did way more harm than anything else the trailer itself could have done.

On that last point, maybe Geoff just saw Highguard and actually thought it was worth getting a lot more eyes on it. What was shown just makes the whole thing sound oversold. For this to be the last game premiere before the GOTY Award was given out really shows a lack of reading the room from whoever make that call.

I'm willing to give Highguard a shot when it launches on January 28th, but there are NO favors being done for this game right now.

 

[Bert Big Balls]

Undefined "sci-fi" and generic "fantasy" smooshed together into a tasteless paste that lacks any kind of meaningful identity. That'll make it hard for anyone to gravitate towards it naturally and super easy for everyone to ignore.
Recycled gameplay elements from over-the-hill shooters with the added stupidity of "maps so big in our PvP game that you need mounts!" as a selling point. The issues with that design are so painfully obvious that they're not even worth writing because you already know what I mean.

It's already dead. The only question is how long before the developers realise it.

You've put this into words better than I could. The mishmash of the blandest looking Sci fi and fantasy shit I've seen in years. Everything about this looks horrible.

 

[Arsic]

If we get another hero shooter for it to be truly successful like marvel rivals, it would need to be that but DC heroes lol.

I'll try this game even though it looks like shit because free is fine if there is good word of mouth,

 

[Dorago]

Completely out of touch and out to lunch.

At least the C-suite will walk away with millions each.

 

[mdkirby]

I actually thought it looked pretty fun and somewhat different. Not that I'm the target audience, I don't really play online except some helldivers now and then.

The art style is certainly derivative tho, all this stuff looks like that now . Despite some criticism the characters didn't seem "woke" to me, they did however seem pretty boring and not at all memorable, just "meh", but not actively/intentionally offensive to the senses.

Leaving zero time for any player feedback between announcement and launch on a game like this seems a pretty terrible idea tho.

 

[apocaliptic]

It looks better than 90% of the reveals at the show.

Damn, the rest was crapier than this? What has happened to gaming

 

[Mengy]

Damn, the rest was crapier than this? What has happened to gaming

They weren't, Men_in_Boxes just has certain preferences which .... impact his viewpoints somewhat.

 

[Thanati]

So...what is this game about? A fantasy shooter on horeseback with western gunfighting?

Seriously. What the hell is it?

 

[Success]

People are losing their shit primarily because this was the "one last thing" reveal. If it showed up earlier or in the middle, it would have been much better received for sure. Not saying it would have been received 100% positively, but definitely better.

The game is going to be free and it's out next month. I'll try it. You've got nothing to lose and who knows, it might be a surprise.

There are a couple multiplayer games that people immediately saw or heard of and thought they were going to immediately flop. Two recent ones that come to mind are Marvel Rivals and Arc Raiders. Both those games became VERY successful. I still remember the first reactions to Marvel Rivals...so many people saying shit like: "great, another hero shooter...who asked for this?". Same with Arc Raiders...people immediately saying it was going to fail as soon as it went from PvE only to a PvPvE Extraction Shooter.

Both those games are very fun in their own ways and offered a good amount of content to experience right out of launch. This is where Highguard needs to not miss. It needs to be fun right out the door with a good amount of content to experience.

Dynasty8 , you must be new here or using your sister's GAF account.

News Trailer  Post in thread 'Marvel: Rivals Officialy Announced'

Mar 27, 2024

The game looks legit amazing.

I am concerned with GAF with how out of touch it is becoming with mainstream gaming.

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News Trailer  Post in thread 'Marvel: Rivals Officialy Announced'

Mar 28, 2024

It looks like every dime a dozen co-op MP shooter out. Just with Marvel characters.

Faust, I respect you and what you do for the community here at NeoGAF. You are helping to keep this site running and focused.

We have been in gaming for a long time and this does not look like a regular shooter. Just look at the Hulk and Spiderman gameplay. The focus is on meele for them. Plus the level of verticality is really good.

This is not some single player game trying to shoe-in a GaaS.

This is an multiplayer game which looks more like a MOBA like Smite than a shooter like Overwatch.

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[Shtof]

Looks pretty good? But I thought Concord looked pretty good too.

 

[Felessan]

Game looks Warcraft'ish
Not a fan of this style but some like it.

It's just so weird seeing people that worked on Titanfall and Apex make something that looks like a mobile game ad cinematic.

They seems to want maximum reach, targeting very affordable hardware with that level of graphics. An indie of GaaS.
Kinda different to east that already in arms race for graphics in gaas.

Damn, the rest was crapier than this? What has happened to gaming

Arknights with OneRepublic was certainly better

 

[STARSBarry]

I just realised, you know how Concord looked like rip off Marvel Guardians of the galaxy?

Highguard looks like rip off Marvel Thor, thats why it feels so similair.

 

[DerivedDataCache]

This or Marathon?

 

[Branded]

Looks pretty good? But I thought Concord looked pretty good too.

Despite the AWFUL character designs of Concord I still wanted to give it a try as there's always room for any type of game in any genre (despite people on here pretending that we can only have an X amount of games release in any given genre lol) but yeah it just wasn't very engaging, dare I say it offered the bare minimum as to what a multiplayer shooter should provide - which isn't enough.

I just don't get the instant hate for this game though, people have become so incredibly jaded. Yes I too dislike the broccoli-hair cut of the first character we see but geez... It's the Titanfall people behind this thing! Purely based on that I'm intrigued.

Sometimes games don't need to tick ALL the boxes. It might look like an 'esports ready' title at first glance but perhaps it has some very satisfying mechanics that we can have fun with. I am keeping my expectations in check but to instantly write this off is a bit silly to me.

 

[Kikorin]

This looks generic, boring and horrible from a design perspective. You can already see is a game made to works on mobile if for some reason it become a success.

 

[Lupin3]

Thanks, Twitter.