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Is Concord headed to be Sony's biggest first party flop ever?
- Thread starter LakeOf9
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ResilientBanana
Member
No one wants it.
Bloobs
Al Pachinko, Konami President
Hayabusabruh
Member
It should sale pretty well in Paris.
ViciousAgenda
Member
Perhaps my ballsac will migrate north with the birds.
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
Still operating???????
- Volition Games closed
- Luminous Productions closed (was absorbed).
- Ascendant Studios furloughed more than half the staff. (if they dont get investment i bet they close soon)
- Mimimi Games closed, but Shadow Gambit was a good game.
- Ivory Tower is doing well......Ubisoft games dont sell well on Steam so using SteamCharts to gauge success is pointless.
- When Concord bombs Sony are gonna turn Firewalk into a support studio for Bungie and Haven.
- When Havens game bombs they are gonna turn Haven into a support studio for Bungie.
- A44 Games basically self publishes and the success of Tchia, Sifu, Scorn and their Gamepass/Playstation payday means they are already funding Expedition 33.
- Rocksteady...............
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Mobilemofo
Member
I did exactly the same. Watched some YouTube videos on it, about 5 or 6, and decided to not make my ps5 waste its time, and mine. It looks so incredibly average. Maybe it's my age.
ArtHands
Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
Sony cares for this game a lot, so i say players can check out this game to see why this game is so important
ChorizoPicozo
Member
age, gender and pronouns
peek
Member
You know... hats off to them for creating their OWN game with these weirdo elements in it. That way, we can all see how it will either sink or swim in the market.
Much better than the usual: take a beloved IP and inject blatant bullshit no one actually wants, but rather just the devs way of inserting their world views into the game.
Bravo! XD
Edit: oh also, probably already been said before, but how the hell you gonna make a HERO shooter and all the heroes look like absolute shit?? Like come on now.
Much better than the usual: take a beloved IP and inject blatant bullshit no one actually wants, but rather just the devs way of inserting their world views into the game.
Bravo! XD
Edit: oh also, probably already been said before, but how the hell you gonna make a HERO shooter and all the heroes look like absolute shit?? Like come on now.
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Hrk69
Gold Member
Or thinking this design enough to warrant $10 fee.
I knew it was bad. But this bad? Holy shit
Revolutionary
Member
ViciousAgenda
Member
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
Yes! I fucking love One-Punch Man.Or thinking this design enough to warrant $10 fee.
Negotiator101
Member
Oh god no.
peek
Member
Brooooo xD
Lambogenie
Member
It's like they all tried to make every hero look bland, average, boring and shit.
Anyone that tells you "I related to [famous hero]" is full of shit. Cool, fantastical characters are appealing and thats why you like it first and foremost. Black Panther has a sick outfit and does sick things. Dante (DMC) looks cool and does cool things. Sora (KH) looks weirdly appealing and does cool shit with Donald Duck. The list goes on. Average looking person with boring outfit isn't appealing. I'll even say, forget diversity ticking, the visual look of them are all atrocious.
Concord is: your average 5/10 friend dressed thinking they're uniqur doing boring shit + blatant diversity tick boxing while some keeps rubbing the dial hoping it goes higher. It's not good looking, they're not doing anything cool or exciting. It's boring as hell character designs with almost no direction other than "make everyone look and be as average and mundane as possible".
I give properties like My Hero Academia flack for quite boring powers/characters but at least most of them look appealing!
There is nothing cool about any of the way Concord's heroes look. It deserves to fail.
Edit: comparing to Overwatch, you can say that tries to tick diversity as well. But it does it arguably well. The characters look coherent and well put together. Mei is cute as a button, and she's chubby. Hamster guy is a bloody hamster. Cute. Zarya, butch lesbian (?), looks and acts cool. Later characters even fit in visually but clearly take a dose of "make 'em average and boring looking".
Anyone that tells you "I related to [famous hero]" is full of shit. Cool, fantastical characters are appealing and thats why you like it first and foremost. Black Panther has a sick outfit and does sick things. Dante (DMC) looks cool and does cool things. Sora (KH) looks weirdly appealing and does cool shit with Donald Duck. The list goes on. Average looking person with boring outfit isn't appealing. I'll even say, forget diversity ticking, the visual look of them are all atrocious.
Concord is: your average 5/10 friend dressed thinking they're uniqur doing boring shit + blatant diversity tick boxing while some keeps rubbing the dial hoping it goes higher. It's not good looking, they're not doing anything cool or exciting. It's boring as hell character designs with almost no direction other than "make everyone look and be as average and mundane as possible".
I give properties like My Hero Academia flack for quite boring powers/characters but at least most of them look appealing!
There is nothing cool about any of the way Concord's heroes look. It deserves to fail.
Edit: comparing to Overwatch, you can say that tries to tick diversity as well. But it does it arguably well. The characters look coherent and well put together. Mei is cute as a button, and she's chubby. Hamster guy is a bloody hamster. Cute. Zarya, butch lesbian (?), looks and acts cool. Later characters even fit in visually but clearly take a dose of "make 'em average and boring looking".
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Herbspiceguy
Member
A well deserved roast of the roster, although I feel there are a few missed opportunities.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
On the one hand, yeah isn’t it wonderful to see how the woke shit does when it’s forced to sink or swim by its own merits, rather than leeching off an established franchise?
On the other hand, these parasites have already sucked all the life out of so many beloved classic IPs, they’re running out of hosts to feed off of.
ResilientBanana
Member
What the Fuck?
MayauMiao
Member
Who leaked the Concord future DLCs?
PeteBull
Gold Member
Speaking of parasites, any1 still remember aya brea from parasite eve?
Thats how intro to that game looked, back in 1998, highly recommend btw
The Mad Draklor
Member
I think we should consider doing a Gaming LOLcow of the Year award. This game, AC Shadows, SBI, etc., there's a plethora of incompetence this year.
I know how this website skews but this isn’t what’s wrong with the game. If it was a single player AAA Sony FPS with a robust campaign and more interesting multiplayer it would be killing. The staff is made up of a ton of veteran FPS devs. The game itself is fun. Picking one staff member out to bully them based off of some right wing Twitter narrative is so shitty. The game is suffering because it’s just doing Overwatch when people are sick of Overwatch. This is like saying Guardians of the Galaxy is woke or pretending Overwatch didn’t make a killing the same way. It’s just too derivative. Probably because they pitched the game half a decade ago, and by the time it’s out the market has shifted.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
Meanwhile Marvel’s Overwatch clone is getting over 20x the player count in their closed beta. You’re being very disingenuous claiming that it’s only problem is that it’s too derivative.
laynelane
Member
Dislike of the the characters is far beyond "how this website skews". The reason it's being brought up by many people on different platforms is because the characters are unappealing. You can invent some conspiracy theory for why this is or you can just accept that the characters are an issue.
GermanZepp
Member
Holy shiiiiit
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Plague Doctor
Member
This is far too stunning and brave for humanity. This will never be topped. This is the fabled modern audience.
I need a moment to soak this all in.
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BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
As crazy as it seems Suicide Squad looks like a king compared to the other DEI-ish games.
ResilientBanana
Member
Left 4 Dead would make a really good GaaS game, honestly. Just as-is with a new currency feature to unlock skins.
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diffusionx
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Mobilemofo
Member
Shit.
I identify as a fuckin lamp (nod to brick) if that helps?
FunkMiller
Gold Member
I agree with you to a certain extent that the main issue with this game appears to be how incredibly tired, stale, corporate and uninspired it is.
But if you’re character hero shooter is full of characters nobody wants to play as - that’s a very big problem too.
Angry_Megalodon
Member
Your strawman is the only shitty thing here.
Hero shooters need COOL HEROES or else they die. Stop your "MAGA this, MAGA that" bullshit and accept basic facts.
Comparing this to Overwatch should grant a permaban.
StueyDuck
Member
To be fair this was meant to be sonys "breakaway hit in the gaas genre".
I'd say they are both adequately equally bad flops.
At the end of the day it comes down to sales and you know for sure the speshalboy and jezzydoodoo are just F5ing that steamdb page from now until launch, so we'll find out soon enough who the biggest flop ends up being
Killjoy-NL
Member
Was it? Never heard Sony or anyone else make such a claim.
Fair enough. Lol
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StueyDuck
Member
You just have to read the tea leaves. They (sony) poured tons of money into things like mocap, voice actors and offline rendering for cinematics, bespoke controllers, let alone buying an entire studio and funding their escapades. Needless to say they expected this to smash.
This didn't get the destruction all stars treatment where they just farted it out on plus.
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StereoVsn
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Suicide Squad developers - hold my half a bottle of Jack.
PeteBull
Gold Member
Sony isnt immune to making mistakes, i remember back in ps3 days they didnt even publish demons souls in the US(atlus) or Europe(bandai namco) but customers can make them correct their ways, hence bloodborne exclusive on ps4 and demons souls remaster exclusive on ps5, not to mention whole dark souls series and super succesful elden ring
We just gotta keep rewarding good/promising games with sales and terrible games with no sales and market will correct itself despite woke bubble ppl agenda- capitalism is much stronger coz human greed is much stronger from any fake woke iniciatives xD
Killjoy-NL
Member
Maybe, to me it always seemed like a B-tier title, like Infamous was, or Warhawk.
Doesn't really matter though, I just think it stole the spotlight for all the wrong reasons after the reveal and thus people made it seem like it is more than it was supposed to be.
Likely in part due to the unexpected success of HD2.
MayauMiao
Member
Please explain the recent Marvel Rivals, a game that is doing an Overwatch:
And when it comes to "people are sick of Overwatch", the game still maintains a steady amount of players:
Gamer_By_Proxy
Member
When Sweet Baby hears you want the game to have more balls.
PeteBull
Gold Member
Beached whale in the very middle sweating balls from just standing, thought olimpics was supposed to promote sports/healthy lifestyle instead, but fk all that, whats most bizzare is, they put lil girl right next to all those weirdos, looks maybe 12yo but who really knows, some adults are late bloomers so i hope im wrong there.
Plague Doctor
Member
Concord character introduction managed to get about 23k viewers in 4 days.
Meanwhile, The First Descendant update featuring a new character with an incredibly short dress managed to get 48k views in 7 hours.
Not Concord , but someone made a comment on Mrs Freeze in the Suicide Squad game that I wish I came up with:
"So he/she/it is the Western Modern Day equivalent of TFD's Valby"
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