Today is Concord's 2 year anniversary.Remember the good old times.
This game died so horrifically that other games were also killed by it
I remember the Thugnificent memes.
>>745980824>Concord came out 2 years ago
this game was a blast but you chuds just had to woke it to death
>>745980824Bazz's design grew on me. Maybe I was a bit too harsh on this game.
>>745980824I kinda don't care
Fuck, it has been 2 years already?
>it's trueit felt a lot more recent
>>745981182i wasn't harsh enough, shits ugly as fuck.
>>745980824Here's to many more years of spiritual successors!
>>745981468COVID19/CERN fucked everyone's sense of time.
>>745980824This game could have been funny if they played it for jokes instead of trying to be serious.>Bazz is an assassin from Space Amazon and was heir to the CEO throne of it, but he gave it up to become a woman>got super knife assassin skills from cutting up boxes in the Space Amazon warehouse>Dad (CEO) didn't approve of Bazz becoming a woman and disowned himLike this is the literal background lore from the game itself, and they want you to take this as some sort of serious tragic backstory.
>>745981468it feels recent because of highgaurd and marathon
>>745981182Bazz is iconic.
>>745980824the queen of /v/...
>>745981182I liked the fat black woman in teal armor. I wouldn’t want to have sex with her, but I thought her design was cool.
https://youtu.be/Vfv3l0mVi0Q?si=T1bwDjmAmZq94aqo
>>745982062riiiiiiight
I bought it lol, the gameplay itself wasnt awful
>>745980824imagine making all your marketing material about the storylines, weekly animated lore episodes and the cinematic universeonly to release a mediocre shooter with zero story componentssony actually got robbed
>>745980824MY KWEEN!
>>745980824>>745981182The intestine jacket was a bold move
Do woke people even play video games?Didn't they take that into account while designing this game around a nonexistent audience?
Man how does a failed GAAS live rent free in your guys head like this I'll never know.
>>745981182We were too harsh on the game, it wasn't a bad game, it was just "a game" and it was playable.
>>745983153It wasn't just neutrally bad, it was audaciously bad.
>>745981582I miss IT-Z so much bros.
Bazz would unironically work well in Jojo
>>745980824
>>745983153the people making these thread are just actually special ed retards.
Did any of you even play it? It really wasn't awful, who did you main as?
>>745981182It grew on you because it's comical and meme'd, specifically because of how obnoxious and ugly it is. It's like being a Morbius 'fan'.
>>745981737You got it wrong though, it's even funnier>Father fully accepts Bazz as a woman>Only men can inherit the family business
>>745983347Bazz is already in Jojo
Glad this one died so Sony Japan regain the control from the amerilard golems.
>>745983153there's nothing wrong if you can't appreciate comedy, but you really are missing out
>>745983368I wonder if Concord also could have been saved if they pivoted from generic sci-fi to urban fantasy.
>>745980947Somehow Concord managed to kill Horizon: Hunters Gathering two years later.
>>745983987I doubt it. There just doesn't seem to be demand for simple hero shooters like it currently. It wasn't the graphics or tone that were the main problem, even if they played a part in it.
>>745983223I was surprised at how hard this game crashed for how unremarkable it was. I thought it'd just die a slow death after a year or two and then fade into obscurity. I didn't expect it to be a 50 megaton explosion.
>>745983987>>745984452I think it could have been successful if it were an entirely different genre. Like a space adventure or action rpg.
>>745984780And ironically now it will never be forgotten and this pisses off Sony.
>>745983153>rent freeHow else would Concord live? It made no fucking money.
>>745980824MyKWEENofVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>745983223okay let's not get ahead of ourselves, lgbt dev
>>745983142That wasn't the point of the progressive stack era. This was a social conditioning vehicle, no more.
>>745984840Maybe. But they only got so much money because they were making a live service FPS because live service shooters are king of the market. Sony probably wouldn't have even bothered giving them the time of day if the elevator pitch wasn't "former Bungie devs want to make a live service hero shooter"
>>745983153woke trannies made a game and the majority of the playerbase played it by literally killing themselves every match as fast as possible to get trophies from XP faster.The tranny game's gameplay was largely just suicide because of how worthless the game was.
>>745981182Bazz is Sony's mascot. Concord might be dead but she'll live on
We love Bazz here
>>745985726Based, she wasn’t the most fun character to play though
>>745983987Probably not.Arguably Deadlock team lucked out that Neon Prime was bashed for their style and had the time to do a full revamp into something that's been done a lot recently, yet Neon Prime was still a good game to play. Even Rivals proved that the Hero Shooter wasn't as dead as people thought.Concord was just plain bad with no real reason to change course, they were set in stone to do what they did, and thus payed the price
>>745981468It feels more recent because flopsloppers can't stop name dropping it and hoping for more
>>745980824was Concord underrated?
Poor Baz didn't take it well and that cop had to put her down.
>>745982127how did this even become a meme in korea in the first place?
>>745981182I like it for how fucking shit it is. Concord is a masterclass in bad character designAlso I need more gook shitposts, I don't have them saved
>>745985726this!
>>745980824Fuck you mean it's already 2 years?!Goddamn Anon
>>745983368Bazz skin for Calico when? Their bodyshapes are probably too different, maybe for Abrams?
>>745983153/v/ is famous for the intelligence of its posters
>>745981182Bazz's design is just so fucking funny, it's like a blaxploitation movie character but designed by woketards.
>>745983252Describe anything about the actual gameplay
>>745981182Its not good looking, but she was comical, thats why I always liked her. She would have been fine in a game that wasnt wokeslop
>>745980824>>745981182>people will $400 million to spend really looked at this and thought they had a generational winnerdude woke 1 was crazy
>>745981182every time I remember her weapon is a literal boxcutter i can't help but laugh
>>745983223Im not going to suffer such revisionism. The game felt like it was made by people who dont play games but have the notes on successful games.>maps were way too wide open then corridors>characters move too slow>everyone has a lot of health>none of the characters really felt they did their role>servers were awful, game ran poorly for seemingly no reason>felt bad to do anything because it was so laborious. Jumping was floating, movement was slow, shooting had no feedback and you would get tied into animations for abilitiesApex Legends has a shitty roster, that game does well because the game is so responsive, this game suffered on all fronts.Again, it felt like a game made by people who never played games, I would go so far as to say they were wanting to use the game as a vehicle to launch their own "Universe" and the game came second, but the fucking characters were so lame it couldnt stand on its own, and even with a game it couldnt stand either. This is the same shit as Highguard, and shit like Hyenas. Do not make a franchise before you make the first success., they ran so far in front of their vision that they forgot to make the foundation for why people should even care. "a game" is something people play and isnt popular, a BAD GAME is a game that couldnt even get 1000 active players on the whole of planet earth, people couldnt even play it for a joke, it was just not a good experience.
>>745981182WHAT THE FUCK
>>745980824>Concord's 2 year anniversary.WHAT ITS TRUE WTF
>>745983134Is this the /toxic positivity/ I heard so much about? or was it a cry for help?
>>745987673it was marketing
>>745987407kek
>>745983153The game is the biggest failure in video game history. It was a $400 million loss with no return at all since they refunded even the pitiful number of copies it sold. The game was hyped up, Sony calling it a new Star Wars, paying for an episode on that one program to advertise for season 2 that never was going to happen anymore. Just get used to people bringing it up. People still talk about ET from decades ago and it is less of a failure than this game.
>>745981182>look out! the disgruntled amazon employee has box cutters!
>>745983153It's the biggest flop in video game history and emblematic of how making every character ugly and/or stupid looking turns people away from playing.
>>745987338did they really think there was a market for black LGPTQ gamers?
I'd forgotten how awful some (all) of the designs were.
>>745981182Bazz is the most iconic Sony character of the PS5 generation.
>>745980824This is one of those games everyone who knows anything about video games would have told you, this is going to bomb.Unfortunately the person who pushed for this gabrage was most likely not fired but continued failing upwards.
One good thing did come from Concord. I picked up one of these babies for cheap right after the flop and still use it today.
>>745987673they're all backed financially by sony
>>745988419This game is fascinating top to bottom. Reminder, part of the art design team of Concord went on to work on fucking Wolverine. People complain about layoffs, Im more pissed at failing upwards and these people keep getting hired by an incestuous industry.I swear to god, these people will have found a way to get involved in the next Elder Scrolls or some shit. Just watch, youre going to see itl
>>745983417>the people making these thread are just actually special ed retards.No, that would be subhumans like you and the guy you're replying to
>>745989332fmk
>>745989332>Think of the hecking poor deverinos... they deserved better, how will they find a job in this hecking industry? :(((>End up working at another big blockbuster Sony project anyway despite being responsible for the biggest flop in media.You don't hate these people enough.I
>>745989332>these people will have found a way to get involved in the next Elder Scrolls or some shit.bethesda doesn't need woke ESG faggots from concord. they already have their own.
>>745988347>>745988187>>745983252>explaining things that the retard already knows He's just being dishonest.
>>745989332The only one I could even see being in ANY project you could call successful, is the purple cyborg wearing swim goggles and a suit. That one design could pass as a low-budget indie game protagonist. No others could work in any game no matter what, they would be scrapped and redone even if they were the lowest tier grunt designs for ugly aliens in any other game.
>>745987673Internet has taught me that whenever someone is claiming to be having a blast they are actually doing the opposite
>>745989332i don't mind if they get involved with the elder scrolls.just release the damn game and let modders do the actual work.
>>745983279she still lives as an AI model in civitai
(_)'-o^o-'(_)That's right!
>no one posted the stardew valley editGrim
>>745984452the cat seems like the kind of thing that SHOULDN'T have trigger discipline
>>745989332>AIIEEEE HE'S GOT A LAZER TAG GUN IN HIS LAZER TAG GEAR
>>745988419>>745989332Something I want to give a weird amount of credit is that it's ugliness is not bland and sincerly unique. Looking a lot of the characters they gave off very DIY 50's-60's cheapo films and tv. Like the OG Doctor Who or where they had such little budgets they used a literal plunger as a prop for the, now famous, Daleks. Problem is at the exact same time they also decided to go for a hyper realistic style. And it made what was an intentionally goofy and cheap look really, really ugly to boot. It basically tried to aim for what I can only describe as "Cardboard Punk".And if it WAS stylized I actually think it could have pulled it off. But they combined two extremes and it's so jarring. I think it'd be interesting seeing "Cardboard Punk" done by a more sensible art team. It also doesn't help the actual environmental design looks a lot more advance and complex so it muddles the art direction more.
>>745980947Yup. Certainly Highguard had its own problems but getting caught in the wake of Concord was a very real part of the EoS speedrun.
>>745985726Sony was so confident, they released the game in August because they thought people would be cosplaying the characters by Halloween. But I wouldn’t be surprised at all if people were cosplaying Baz ironically to mock Sony.
>>745983153It's fun to make fun of it
>>745993295Some stuff just does not translate well to realism at all, most things will look great in a more stylized aesthetic, the funny thing is, this has an animated episode that is stylized, and it still looks ugly...I know its going for Mobius, but people saying that have never touched Mobius, they are not Jean Giraud. They completely miss the flare of his art and just made something ugly as sin.People say we were too harsh on Concord, but the sheer fucking hubris to think all this was worthy of a movie franchise, a TV show AND a game before anything was even out there, was actually so insane that it shouldve been investigated further. The development of this seems like an anomaly, but its an anomaly that keeps getting repeated, this sort of thing should not be happening, but Concord took it to levels that have not been seen before and will probably not be seen again. Like, Sony have success stories, look at Helldivers 2 which has basically become a self sustaining meme factory, wheres the animated shows and spinoffs for that? They dont exist, because they focused on the videogame, the other shit around it is made by fans because they actually like the thing, they didnt need to produce it all in tandem to insist it should be a thing.HOW did Concord happen, I genuinely want to know.
i can't find bazz's backstory anywheresomeone post it, it always makes me chuckle
>>745993831why is she 10 feet tall?
>>745980947>a flop so bad that people calling your game "concord" is an actual studio ending threat Reality sure is absurd at times.
>>745980824Thanks for all the memories Bazz. <3 I can't wait for the next installment of the Concordian cinematic universe.
>>745994198*are they
>>745994169learned knife skills at Space Amazon, got mad at family because they accepted them transitioning but only boys could inherit the company
>>745993831Nah, I agree. A lot of it just feels wrong even if I got what they were going. I just lament because as common Future Retroism is nowadays- I don't think I've ever seen something that tried to replicate the exact "cheapness" that the origonal aesthetic was beholden to due to technological and economical limitations. Future Retroism isn't remotly a unique style but it's one that has been so perfected that most people are able to get down the version of it in comics and posters. But this game was the first time I see it almost captured the "reality" of what that style often was at the time- limitations and all. It makes me wonder if an actual talented team could pull off something like that. A game that is intentionally ugly in a hyperspecific way to the medium but still managing to capture the charm of this specific moment in time. The same way so many indie games now activily try to capture older generation of consoles like PS1, Nintendo 64 games or NES/SNES a decade ago when everyone wanted to be Shovel Knight.
>>745980824Feels like we were only mocking this a few months ago what the fuck
>>745994345I can't wait to see what our qveen has in store for Fairgame$, I bet she is going to kill it with her new heister role <3
>>745993831Going for Mobius but sticking to run-of-the-mill, realistic colors is surely choice.
>>745993831>that little gay flag
>>745982947She’s a gal that’s got guts
>>745980824RIP our beloved Bazz
>>745994714Im entirely sure its possible, I think you have to go in with an honest intention to do that though. See a big problem with Concord was that it is blatantly and outspokenly trying to move a political needle with how it chose to iconise characters. Everyone has their pronouns clearly listed next to their class, you can tell where their minds were at when making the characters with shit like this. Fat fuck Daw was not made that way because they wanted to make an interesting retro futurist character design, its because they wanted to have a fat indian. They did not make Bazz look like an assassin or anything fitting that background, because they wanted to design a trans black character first and foremost. That design is fucking bonkers with what the backstory is.Like, this is a setting that has catgirls, and they fucked that up by giving them a crackheads hairstyles, why? Because thats what the creators look like. It has nothing to do with retro futurism as an aesthetic, its wearing it as a costume for really shitty ideas to be at the forefront. Its why all thsee Concord likes feel "off", you cant put your finger on it, its this shit. You can tell why everyone is black and gay immediately, its not because it would be best for the character/design, they are less interested in making something interesting and are more interested in putting their ideology into the thing, they that moving the needle is good design itself.You give them something like "make something punk rock", expecting spikes, jackets, rock music with big boots and mohawks with Union Jack badges and etc, and they come back with "fat black lesbian with a burkha who talks about fighting nazis and the pronouns are they/them and theyre really nice". These people are just lame, to them this is rad, the mere inclusion of this stuff is cause for celebration and is cool, and that exactly why they are so fucking lame.
>>745995507Are there more Bazz memes than there ever were Concord players? We gotta be getting close.
>>745980824Can you name them all?
>>745981182That "intestine-like" motiff a lot of characters have is so unnerving.
>>745993831>Sony have success stories, look at Helldivers 2Which they almost killed off with an extremely unpopular decision.
>>745980824THE GOOD TIMES!
>>745980824Jesus FUCK its been 2 years already?Feels like it shut down a few months ago
>>745983153Man I don't get posts like these. Pretty much everyone would have dogpiled on a gigantic flop like this and made a gazillion memes about it. But now making fun of shitty products is apparently "toxic" now or whatever? Am we not allowed to point and laugh at companies for fucking up anymore?
>>745987338>>745983223Concord on gameplay level was serviceable. It was bland and generic, but it didnt have performance or network problems.Its pretty much everything else that was such a colossal fuckup that we might never see anything like this ever again.
Bazz singlehandedly set brown girls with purple hair in video games back 200 years.
>>745981182The design is shit in the game that it's in. If her design was tweaked a tiny bit and put into a game with a zany artstyle, it actually would work. But the industry loves to chase realism.
>>745981182You can't convince me that our tax dollars aren't going towards these demoralization projects in some kind of way, through some degree of separation. There's no way the people bankrolling this didn't know they were putting out a stinker. They really thought the goyim would slop this shit up. I'd love to have an insight on the boardroom meeting during the launch and a week later when they decided to shut the game down.
>>745981182
>>745995645>the only normal male is the most boring, generic, nondescript, white-adjacent character design ever conceived
Why didn’t (You) vote for her when you had the chance?
>>745987086Why would you ask a question that not even the people who worked on the game could answer?
>>745996106>now i'm dickriding rockstar games, rockstar games
>journo rag publishes that infamous "a moment of silence for concord, a good FPS sent out to die" article>look up gameplay out of curiosity >movement is bizarrely slow and the way the ranked mode worked meant you spent the vast majority of the match on the character select screeneven if it was mechanically great like they claimed it would have still struggled a lot bc of how generic it wasthe ranked mode in particular felt very focus grouped, like they wanted the overwatch audience bc it was objective based but then they also wanted the CS audience so uhhh make it last team standing too so the rounds end the moment a team fight happens
>>745989332the entire industry recycles utter hackfrauds like that way more often than people are awareonce you get into one of those senior positions you just have permanent job security
Main thing I am morbidly curious of is just how much stuff they had prepared ahead of time that we never got to see.
>>745995645>Its why all thsee Concord likes feel "off", you cant put your finger on it, its this shit.you might not have noticed it, but your brain did
>>745996106Does someone have this with Baz? I remember seeing it.
failure
>>745996037No he didn't, we still want to fuck Iris (lovingly)
I'd rather celebrate the anniversary of the flopACK-nniversary, if you will
>>745981182Baz looks good but the rest were wtf tier
>>745996453The Level Up Anthology show centered around characters that was never seen before as it was meant to have a season released alongside it with said characters. The other gimick I'm surprised nobody mentioned was that every two weeks or so the game would release a 2-4 minutes short that was meant to expand the story.These short/cutscenes were super detailed and had to be done way in advanced so there is likely a full hour of Concord cutscenes that was meant to set-up an overarching plot is lost media- not to mention script writing and development of other shorts during the lead up of the games release before the releaizie they released a sinking ship and likely stop all development.
Has there ever been a game more leveraged by a failure than this astroturfed piece of turd?
>>745996961Reminds me of that pajeeta game that had several different media planned before the game even had a release date. This habit by execs of trying to make things a thing before they're a thing always seems to lead to failure.
>>745980824>2 yearsI genuinely, sincerely, believed it was a year ago. I am officially losing it.
see you in 2 weeks
One day we wll look back with fondness at the concord era. Kids and teens of the future will emulate these styles ftom Concord and similar games and media. Concordpunk, it will be called
>>745996106I remember Heavenly Father making this comparassion on Jabroni Mike's gameshow.
will we ever see a failure like it again?even highguard people at least tried before quickly coming to the conclusion that it was very bland
>>745997806>will we ever see a failure like it again?The whole Bungie/Marathon is infinitely worse than Concord in every way possible, it's just very drawn out rather than being instant. Concord was "just" $400 million down the drain. The Bungie/Marathon situation is literally $4 billion down the drain and it's going to end with Bungie getting closed.
>>745989332this is a mess
>>745983684>I'm a misogynist not a transphobe
>>745993831the fuck /our/ bazz is a manlet?
>>745980824The good ol' times are ongoing. The Concordian saga will continue until everyone who wants to dictate to gamers that this is the future of their hobby is a pariah within the industry.>>745981182Bazz is only funny because his game is the biggest financial disaster in media history. They legitimately wanted you to take this ridiculous creature seriously to the point where catering to his narcissism is mandated by law.
I think is hilarious that Concord did end up becoming legendary and will never be forgotten...for all the wrong reasons.
>>745998375>"I want my game to be a banner for change in the industry!">monkey's paw curls
>>745995850I miss those days...
>>745996961>The Level Up Anthology show centered around characters that was never seen before as it was meant to have a season released alongside it with said characters.I am so fucking tired of being the only one in /v/ that knows that this is wrong, it feels like w cursed. Those characters weren't new characters to be introduced in the game, they are from the distant past in universe as they are the ones that stole the star charts and leaked them to everyone before jumping to some storm to escape knowing it may kill them...which it did because the Yondu's knock off keeps talking about his stupid toy being "a legic relic from the Implacable ship".
Has someone bothered to actually look up who the character designers were for this game? Was this some massive nepobaby plant and no one could say no?
>>745983153They killed everything I had ever loved and it all culminated in making THIS
>>745998387>Pronouns is character selectThis game is even more retarded than I remember
>>745998387100% odds that he either would have been gay or been some Karen's unthreatening, inept punching bag boyfriend if this had lasted longer than two weeks. And he would have been updated to be the weakest as revenge for players playing as him.
>>745996961Its actually fascinating Either Sony is so out of touch they actually approved these ideas and designs as good, or theyre absurdly detached from an IP theyre dumping insane amounts of cash into and not checking in on it at allI feel like theyre equally insane possibilities
Anyone post the webm of Bazz and her tranny actor going into a Gamestop? It was cringe kino
>>745998387How did classes work in this game? Did they really need 6?
>>745998818Herman Hulst (who's still a high ranking executive at Sony) thought that this was going to be Sony's Star Wars.
>>745998658Not just on the character select, its right next to their classThese retards think important information for playing the game is on the same level as knowing their pronouns
>>745981182Bazz is so unforgettable because she is the final form of woke.
What are you putting on your Mount Rushmore of wokeslop failures?>Concord>Dragon Age: The Veilguard ???
>>745998936add Hyenas
>>745998936>Concord>ET >Highguard>Anthem
>>745999000hyenas is less of a failure and more of an abortion
>>745998936>Concord>Highguard>Marathon>Fairgame$
post more BAZZ
>>745980824Love bazz
>>745998545Jon Weisnewski was the lead character designer. He's part of the small hat tribe, of course, and after Concord failed he immediately went to Blizzard.
>>745998904>he doesn't know about the misgendered debuff
>>745999280>Weisnewski This explains everything
>>745999280Always hear mixed shit on this guy. Some say he designed the characters some that he only designed the gameplay of the characters.
>>745999000Nice trips and Hyenas was thankfully aborted before it could properly see the light of day. Shame that Total War continues to suck to this day and I’m surprised Sega didn’t backhand Creative Assembly when they checked in on them and saw TW tanking in favor of something no one but CA really wanted.
>>745983153People have to keep laughing at shit like this, so that the industry avoids the risk of repeating it
Watching some gameplay videos. It's hideous to look at but the game itself doesn't seem that bad. But I don't play hero shooters so I dunno
>>745999860Gameplay is king, but a king without subjects is just some faggot sitting in a chair. It's important to nail the art direction.
>>745980947This game will kill off a whole fucking company at this rate lmao
>>745987407KEK
>>745981468no fuck that shit, now i'm convinced someone is out there editing the dates on articles for everything to make us think shit happened further back than it didthat shit did NOT fucking release in 2024
>>745995850Concord being dumb enough for a schizo who has no idea what he's talking about to build and destroy a channel around talking about its character designs was quite something.
Going back in time and checking their social media posts and seeing everyone agree that IT-Z was the best and most fun character hits me right in the feels, she was in the wrong game...
>>746000582methinks she should've been furrier, and more dog-like
>wanna check the threads when Concord's shutdown was announced.>The archive site is downDammit.
>>746000582She was in the wrong place and the wrong time and got executed because of it. IT-Z and Bazz will live on forever in /v/.>>746000890It might be because of leaks, I just checked, and the site is down for me too.
>>745998543None of that would actually keep them from being in the game though. They coulda been brought back with time travel, cloning, hologram, or they’re just fucking playable and the game itself never acknowledges that it doesn’t really make sense for them to be here, like how a lot of fighting games handle their post launch DLC. They would’ve been stupid not to have done that too, considering how much better those designs were compared to the base game (don’t get me wrong, none of them are amazing but at least shit like this amphibian girl doesn’t fill me with revulsion like every base game character did)
>>745997075Half of Sonic the Hedgehog's existance
I'm still voting for Bazz in queen/king of /v/. Bazz shitposting is evergreen, and if it ever makes it to round 2... let's just say whoever xhe beats will never live it down.
>>745981182I love her so much...
>>745982062The gigantic one? Emira? >>745983142The objective was to control the industry so hard that no non woke big budget games could exist. See the current Oscar casting rules for an example.
>>745983153Rent free? This was a AAAA class bomb, and it ties in directly to the current ongoing Bungie disaster. They were in about 400k on this game alone, and well above 4 billion for Bungie total. They paid for their ride and they're going to get it.
>>745983153It's amazing how much of leftist discourse is just them pretending not to understand things, making discourse impossible
>>745983987Too many other problems. Finals and Foamstars and splitgate had better looks, and still couldn't quite land it. I miss melt-T.
it-z gets no love
>>746003029The funniest part about that was them removing the games from people's accounts, taking the trophies away as well.
>>745980824Genuinely what the fuck were they thinking? The marketing material had a neat animated art style and then they went for realismslop with character designs that look objectively fucking terrible in such an aesthetic.
>>745983153TORtanic Syndrome. /v/ is convinced that they're the ones responsible for sinking the game so they will hold it over everyone for all time.
>>746003445responsible? but I did nothing
>>745984840The designs have a vibe, but none are cool enough to grab hero attention, except for maybe bazz, and that's the wrong kind of attention for most games.But they'd fit right in as background characters in some mass effect or star wars space opera. Actually, imagine a bazz centered game where they're all space wagies and space truckers.
>>745986236I'm going to say yes. The game is forgettable like last flag. Not a ET level unplayable disaster. Most people never gave it a chance.
>>745987338Don't forget the thing where you need to go in pairs to cover weaknesses but you ALSO want to switch characters for passives. And only 2 game modes, none of which were a payload type that would have actually fit the move together in pairs play.
>>745993295it's amazing the amount of sheer effort manpower and some talent they went into polishing that turd. And each character has a different failure mode of why it fucking sucks.
Bazznificent.
>>746003445We are frequently told we're responsible because we didn't buy it or we because we were spreading toxic negativity. Now we're supposed to believe we're not responsible after all despite clarifying that we didn't do anything? Which is it?
>>745994424*Is they
>>745993831Firewalk was made of ex bungie. Bungie got bought by sony and given a mandate to improve sony's live service. Was called in to evaluate all projects. Sony wanted a big, splashy live service game to launch with their PS5pro. Foamstars was weak. Bungie suggested buying Firewalk, and doubling the budget to accelerate and polish.They go from a 200m budget to a 400m budget, and go fuck yeah, we ball.
>>746003915If you think anybody needed /v/tards to tell them that game looked bad, you're really overselling yourself.
>>745995665Is this right?Helldivers 2.Fairgames now Break In.Twisted Metal live. canceled.The Last of Us together, canceled. Hunters Horizon, slashed to multiplayer. ConcordFoamstarsBluepoint's god of war. Dead and so is the studio.Gummy Bears. No sign of it yet.Destruction derby all starsSPiderverse.Marathon.Destiny 3?
>>746003029i remember people were racing to kill themselves as fast as possible in the game to grind achievements of some variety
>>745995920It's industry fucks trying to protect the narrative. If you've been following only the big media, you wouldn't even know about the big woke failures. Just some mismanagement.
>>745980947it basically started the total collapse of the video game industry
>>745996098Of course tax dollars go for this. In the case of Dustborn, you can directly see the government grants. For the inbetween shit, you can see government support of the mainstream press that was pushing for more of this shit.
>>745997806playstation has a bunch of flops lined up
>>745996658I definitely remember it too, as well as a bazz pimp my ride.
>>745998545a lot of them got new jobs at bungie
>>745997931Considering Firewalk was ex bungie, and bungie was running strategy to boost Concord, I consider Concord's failure to be part of Bungie's massive disaster.
>>746004219does 4loop count? sony is publishing but I don't know shit about the developer
>>745998545Of course. The funny thing is that there's a HUGE list of people who worked on design, texture, ect, including some very expensive outside consultant's from goddam WETA of all peopel.
>>745995920They didn't just fuck up. The reason why these games are so ugly is because they're made with pure malice towards the customers, and the end goal is to make it so that these are the only types of games that are allowed to be made. There was a major Concord dev who was openly bragging about it.Their idea of being "kind and empathetic" is that they get to slander you, slap you around, and destroy everything that you love and you get a choice between either praising them or being quiet. That's why we should aim to end these people's careers and we shouldn't feel even a little bit bad about it.
>>745998387It looks like they set out to create a cast of the most unappealing characters ever probably because they literally did. This era of games had the worst character design, happy it’s over
>>745980947we will never see a billion dollar vidya's plug pulled like 2 weeks after launch againto be a fly on the sony boardroom's wall at the time would have been wild
>>745995665>>746004219Here's a list of Sony's live service games over the last 3 years that they cancelled.>[Naughty Dog] Last of Us live service game - Cancelled December 2023 - Bungie leadership convinced Naughty Dog + Sony that it would be "too hard" for them to launch a live service game, so they canned it, despite the game being 80-90% done>[Insomniac] Spider-Man live service game - Cancelled December 2023>[Firesprite Studios] Project Copper/Twisted Metal battle royale live service game - Cancelled February 2024>[Deviation Games] Draconis/Ooze, live service game - Cancelled early 2024 and studio shut down March 2024>[PlayStation Studios' London Studio] Project Camden, live service game - Cancelled February 2024, studio shut down May 2024>[Bungie] Operation Payback, 3rd person Destiny live service game - Cancelled June 2024>[Firewalk Studios] Concord, live service game - Shut down 11 days after release in August 2024, studio shut down October 2024>[Savage Game Studios/Neon Koi] Unknown AAA live-service mobile action game - Studio shut down October 2024>[Bend Studios] Mirror Pond, live service game - Cancelled January 2025>[Bluepoint Games] God of War live service game - Cancelled January 2025, studio shut down March 2026>[Dark Outlaw Games] Unknown name, live service game - Cancelled and studio shut down in March 2026Upcoming live service games that will either be cancelled or failures:>[Haven Games] Br€ak In(Fairgame$), live service game>[NCSoft/Guerilla Games] Horizon Steel Frontiers, live service MMO>[Guerrilla Games] Horizon Hunters Gathering, live service co-op game>[teamLFG] Gummy Bears, live service MOBA
>>745998936Ubisoft needs a rep. My choice is the legendary Yasuke. Concord has Bazz, obviously.DA veilguard has Taash,.I'm going to get a little abstract for my last pick. Aitana Bonmati. EA soccer went woke by including the female placers, and NOT scalling them to the male scores, so this woman has higher stats than ronaldo and Messi, and is tied with Mbappe as having the highest stats of all players. It was such a fucking disaster it reduced gacha buy in, and was critical in allowing the Sauds to step in and buy EA.
>>745999860Gameplay was bad, but not, biggest disaster of all time bad.
>>746004687>EA soccer went woke by including the female placers, and NOT scalling them to the male scores, so this woman has higher stats than ronaldo and Messi, and is tied with Mbappe as having the highest stats of all players.lol I can just imagine the thought process behind this shit>we already have a ton of male gamers, we need female gamers too so lets add female athletes and make them strong as fuck so people play them and make our metrics look good>surely this cannot backfire
>>746004260The xp awards were such that the fastest way to gain them was to immediately suicide.
>>746004448I'm not inclined to toranic the thing. Is not prostitutue until FUCK.
>>746004796i feel like there's an allegory here
>>745998543Hell, the actual upcoming characters, some old dude with a grappling hook and a green alien gremlin with a rifle and bombs, already got leaked ages ago.
>>746001168The amphibian was great and looked like a normalish character.So of course her thing was that she hid inside mascot costumes...The character design is just an absolute trainwreck at every point.I feel they couldn't have done a worse job is they tried to make bad characters.
>>745983153biggest video game failure of all time
>>745998387>My pronouns are Ranger/he/him>My class is Ranger/he/him
>>745980824Nobody remembers HYENAS.or Brink.
I miss it /v/ros.
>Bungie convinced Sony to acquire them for $3.6 billion>Bungie convinced Sony to go all-in on Concord, losing them $400 million>Bungie convinced Sony to cancel The Last of Us: Factions, losing them $??? million>Bungie convinced Sony to fund Marathon, losing them $200-300 million>Sony realizes that Bungie is fucking clueless and shuts down "Operation Payback" which was meant to be a 3rd person Destiny spin-off live service game>Bungie convinced Sony to shut down Destiny 2>Bungie convinced Sony to fund a new studio where they are currently making a kid-friendly MOBA for consoles that's obviously going to be a gigantic failureWhat an absolute fucking disaster Sony has had on their hands just because of Bungie. And that's not even going into all the dozen other live service failures Sony have been chasing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dBN3q72lws
>>746005421Don’t worry though. The new Playstation president assured everyone they are still committed to the live service game push.
>>745999524i wish bazz's lore was that he had a congential defect where his left thumb was on the wrong side of his hand
>>746005292>only way we can get an established western studio to make girls with boobs is if the "girl" is a trannyThis industry deserves its ongoing destruction.
>>746005292Brink was before any of this woke crap existed and hyenas actually had a successful beta test but sega had enough sense to pull the plug on it even at that point
>>746005480>The new Playstation president assured everyone they are still committed to the live service game push.Ah yes, the president who claims that Marathon player retention is "strong" and "reception to the game has been great".Meanwhile, pic related.
>>745980967Post them brudda
>>746005563When was the new season supposed to be? A couple weeks?
>>746005292>>746005498Sega spent 100 millions on making HYENAS. Was going to come out in 2023, after a closed beta just before release they decided that there was no saving that dumpster fire and canceled it.Anybody have a better version of pic related?
>>746005421Someone at Bungie is a very smooth talker and/or bullshitter
>>746005608Nevermind just looked it up. That shit is still a month away. They’re fucked.
>>746003445TOR is still going though.It might not have been the kind of succes they wanted from it, but it's making enough money for new content every now and then.For all its many flaws (and it has many) it turned out to be a pretty decent mmo with some great characters and locations.
>>746005421and Bungie didn't even come with Halo
>>746005639Or the execs at Sony Playstation just aren’t very smart? Given everything I am leaning toward that.
>>746004948Multiple angles, especially with Baz.
>>746005550I think Brink was woke as well, just can't remember what it was, but>hyenas actually had a successful beta testthis isn't true, it was the failure of the beta that made them cancel the whole thing. to my understanding. i mean if the beta was successful why wouldn't they have released?
>>746005292Maybe people will forget buttercup as well.
>>746005563Concord 3Concord 3Concord 3Concord 3Speaking words of wisdom, Concord 3
>>746005345I remember this. It had fucking Samir Fisher. The indian knockoff of Splinter cell.
>>746005550>>746005809https://store.steampowered.com/app/22350/BRINK/I think this is the game, it was older than I thought (2011), nothing in the trailer I reacted on so maybe I misremembered about it being woke. I think they said it was going to become bigger than Team Fortress 2 at the time.
>>746005563They could literally hit under 3k peak at this rate.
>>746005639The best. He took the money intended for retention and bought classic cars on public auction, then mass fired people. You can see the cars he bought.
>>746005809I mean it was a technically successful beta test and you can find videos of plenty of people playing it and having fun but the more exposure it got the more backlash the game got and it was cancelled immediately after the beta >>746005292I would have gone wiht lawbreakers
>>746006053Very good chance it will be below 3k peaks in the next 2 days. And there's still an entire month until season 3, so it will just continue to go down.
>>746006151>lawbreakersAnother forgotten lulzgem.
>>746005563Remember when they were trying to get Steam playercounts removed over this because the industry is allergic to transparency?
>>746006196Given past performance, there's no reason to believe that an update will save it, either.Maybe it'll bump it up 7K for a day or two and then it'll settle right back into its usual trajectory.
Concord has more memes than it ever had players and that's funny to me
>>746006278I remember when YouTube removed visible downvotes because Biden had terrible ratio on every video.At least Steam held their ground.
>>746006391i don't know why they even bothered launching the game if they were going to shut it down so quickly. surely they can't have been that surprised about the playercount?
>>745989332Every single one evokes >what were they thinking??
>>746006415>I remember when YouTube removed visible downvotes because Biden had terrible ratio on every video.What the fuck are you talking about? They removed it because YouTube Rewind 2018 got 19 million dislikes and then for the next 1-2 years afterwards it became popular to dislike videos from big corporations, and all those corporations whined like bitches to Youtube until they finally removed it.It had nothing to do with Biden, stop being a schizo.
>>746006473>theyThis is Jon Weisnowski, the lead character designer of Concord.
>>745981182My favorite part is that he's like 5'4
>>746006584You don't have to tell me anon, I know what the Concord logo is already.
>>746006648Did you know he went on to work at blizzard as a lead designer? He even came with glowing references for his previous work, not for anything he did, mind you, just based on his relationships with his previous employers.
>>746006584
>>746006778One can easily imagine from what kind of group those "relationships" come from.
>>745980824https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etOrYtQ3EGc
>>746006464The little we know of the studio situation paints the picture that they really thought they had a hit and anyone that said otherwise was a troll.
>>745986236it was pretty bad
>>745999524SLOWER
>>745998387Sooooo ugly man.
>>745986236>I can very easily see this game and its reaction being something that art historians/anthropologists/sociologists in the distant future look at as a reflection of the culturehehehehe
>>745991596>”If Starfield feels diverse to you, that’s the reason. The future = hope. For everyone.”This fuckin faggot piece of shit. The future isn’t very hopeful for my teenage sister whenever some 40 year old creep wearing a dress and mascara insists on sharing a locker room shower with her. The future, according this fuck, has determined that if my teen sister is uncomfortable with the situation and suspicious of this strange man’s motives, or if she fears getting raped, than she ought to suppress her emotions lest the progressive thought police detain her on charges of “transphobic bigotry and hate crimes”.Btw if any of you thinks the next ES will be a well made game, you are totally fucking delusional. At least as delusional as anyone who thinks a man can become a woman, or that there is such a thing as a “non-binary” gender because “biology doesn’t matter.”
>>745981737I remember back then telling people that we would look back on the Peak Woke era and cringe. Now you got AOC saying Woke 1 was crazy. It’s nice to feel vindicated
>>745996961How the fuck did they not see this disaster coming?You can’t just throw money at something.
So which one do you consider the worst among them all?My vote goes to the tupperware intestine one.
>>7459808242 YEARS?wasn't it just at the beginning of the ye- oh no that was Highguardfuck
>>746004687Interesting
>>746007343either one of the fatties
>>745980824I still got so many fond memories of not playing Concord. Coming home after a hard day of work and turning on my PC to not select Concord and play any other game was such a great experience.
>>746007343grandma > obese doctor > forklift thing
>>745986236I can't even being to imagine what it would be like to be face to face with that person. They are so insanely delusional it's actually crazy. The game was just a fucking copy/paste of Destiny 2 PvP, except they somehow made it even worse and slowed everything down.
>>746005292BRINK.Brink had potential.Came out at the wrong time.
did they ever air that episode of secret level or whatever the fuck it's called?
>>745986236>as an ultracasual who only even plays 2 or 3 games per year, i have a true eye for quality and "good taste"
Concord is almost the perfect microcosm of everything that's been wrong with Sony since the PS3 days. I couldn't have dreamed of a better game to emblemize all of AAA development's failings, up to and including the developer doing literally nothing before their company was formed and they started taking pokes at this game (development started in earnest in 2023), and the developer being killed instantly after launch.
>>746007343The old Asian woman isn't even funny now that the game has failed. Just a character for maybe 0.5% of the potential customer base of a hero shooter if we're being generous and a pure expression of how out-of-touch they are.The most ridiculous is either Bazz, the woman with a box on her head and intestines for armor, or the obese black turtle woman.
>>746004640Why the fuck does Sony keep trying to make Horizon a thing? Was the assraping it received in 2017 from BotW and 2022 from Elden Ring not enough of a clue for these people that no one wants or needs this crap?
>>746007467They’re not all there.Iv met people like this, and when they put their thoughts in text your read it in a coherent way.In real life they have some speech impediment, and serious autism.They only like it for political reasons, and in real life you would just write them off as not all there.
>>746007506yes, the episode was made to hype up a new set of characters that were coming in an upcoming seasonit also released after the game was already dead
>>746007654Take a random guess as to which one is an evil whiny traitor.
>>745993295>And if it WAS stylized I actually think it could have pulled it off. you can see this from some of the concept art they showed off in the ingame index, it all looked 1000x less retarded than the actual ingame models
>>746007582*started in earnest in 2022>>746007616It's somebody at Playstation's baby, and Playstation doesn't really have anything else in the fantasy or sci-fi-fantasy genres that isn't God of War due to its own incestuous and stunted IP diversity. Once upon a time any ideas they had for Horizon might have been shoved into Jak & Daxter instead.
>>746006510You're wrong but keep believing that, that era is behind us. Schizo.
>>746007654i wonder what happened to all the execs responsible for greenlighting this game?
>>746007474looking at gameplay footage it needed another 10 years in the oven
>>746007730Failed upward
>>746007692I watched it and I don't even remember lol
>>746007698It's sort-of still not a strong design, but at least the fucking helmet matches the rest of the armor instead of just being Doom 2016's helmet without a visor.>>746007730Jim Ryan was fired but Herman Hulst took his position, so basically nothing changed.
>>745991596why wont these people notice that the common denominator for failure is that there wasn't a common denominator
>>746007291Gaming press was 100 percent sucking them off. They had zero fucking visibility.
>>746007792it's not just that, the transition to 3d really completely fucked up the whole mood of the armor and it went from looking like grimy old handed-down scrap to a rounded plastic happy meal toy
>>746006391It also had like 10x more people defending it on social media than who actually bought the game.It's just further proof that the modern audience is tiny and largely comprised of non-customers. And bots.
>>746007245I doubt anyone here is that delusional after Starfield. Anons just want to see how bad it isRedditors will have a blast though
>>746007291>How the fuck did they not see this disaster coming?Playstation gets so high off their own fucking farts that Insomniac begged for *less* budget, or to at least turn the mega-budget of Spider-Man 2 into three or more games. If that company had good taste Concord would have been scrapped instead of not only adopted, but basically banking Playstation's future on its success.
>>746007754The idea of it is good.Character creator centric parkour shooter.It would do well today if it played well(it didn’t)
>>7460072454chan poster making a metaphor: "imagine my sister being raped by a transsexual. game's not so good now, huh"
>>746004774You read it precisely.. Going in you had feminists celebrating.https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ea-explains-its-decision-to-add-women-to-ultimate-team-for-the-first-time/They heard complaints, and went Battlefield 5. Don't like it, go play the other mode.https://www.ign.com/articles/eas-message-to-people-upset-women-can-play-with-men-in-fc-24-ultimate-team-kick-off-mode-is-right-thereThen, down 13 fucking percent on rev, and going ahead with the Sauds.https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/electronic-arts-sales-down-earnings-private-1236563695/
>>746008006Hey, at least this one didnt' involve floor tiles.
>>745980824What is his endgame?
>>745983153>noooooooooooo you can't make fun of my shitty woke game!!!!!
>>746007343The giant black bitch in the green suit that's like 25 feet tall. It looked absolutely retarded in the actual gameplay.
>>746008110Trying to hit it big on a subscription-model or microtransaction model game so that he can take the credit for it internally and fail upwards into permanent job security
>>746008110>What is his endgame?I don't even think he has one.
>>745997446It wasn't just planned, some of it was already released. They had a yt channel with a bunch of videos that couldn't even break 1k views iirc
>>745981182BAZZINGA!
>>746007343It has to be the fat sidekick-looking one belowThat aside, the "aliens" here stick out like a sore thumb, they don't even look SW or James Avatar-adjacent to justify being in a sci-fi setting. The girl with the crossbow too, all look like they're from a different project. Not even mentioning the Jesus herself that is Bazz, it's so all over the place lmao you don't need to be a design expert to see it.
>>746007343Least effort: old hag in purple Ugliest: el americano (blue suit fatty)
>>746007698This is still a design for nobody. The amount of actual gamers (not random activists on social media who don't buy many videogames and won't be buying yours) who would be influenced to buy the game because of left is tiny.People like attractive, feminine women. Feminists are in a situation where they don't like competition for men's attention but they also don't really like the designs that they advocate for, which is why the industry should completely ignore them and push forward with appealing designs. They're treating the wrong group like background noise.>Muh realismThe reason why the girlboss doesn't connect with people and has been the biggest financial blackhole in entertainment history is because deep down, everyone knows that women are not mentally wired or physically built to be tough, stoic warriors. You have to cherrypick one-in-a-million to find very niche exceptions that still aren't what people find charming about women.If you're going to have a tough, stoic female warrior, you have to do what anime does and counterbalance it with hyperfeminine attributes and male-oriented sex appeal. THICC with huge tits is a safe bet that's produced a ton of popular characters. And she should be like your big sister, not a feminist parody of masculinity.
>>746005615In Western games, it is strictly permissible for a character to have big tits only if said character is literally a man. Fucking unbelievable. What the fuck happened to our civilization?Anyway, what fraction of a fraction of gamers in the world have any interest in playing as not only a drag queen, but a drag queen with one of the worst origin stories ever written in the history of mankind? I will venture something like .01% of 1% of actual gamers would ever choose this character over another. What the hell is wrong with this industry?
>>745989332>Reminder, part of the art design team of Concord went on to work on fucking Wolverine. People complain about layoffs, Im more pissed at failing upwards and these people keep getting hired by an incestuous industry.Tbf the people are who seem attached to the gaming industry like a barnacle despite lack of talent are rich/nepobabies.There's no way a regular person would create those characters, watch a game bomb and then immediately move onto the next AAA game with no period of self-reflection.
sometimes i wish i was born a bazz
>>746008778just get the bottom surgery
>>746008637>Least effort: old hag in purple if I remember correctly, at least she had some kind of powers where she could summon turrets and shields, meanwhile the hispanic guy was literally just some dude without any powers and completely normal military gear.
Unironically, did Concord have ANY good design?
>>746008923The robot, but only because you have to try really fucking hard to mess up a robot compared to a humanoid
>>746008006Your depth of hopeless retardation speaks for itself.
>>746005279He/him is his spec. It stands for Heavy Explosives/High Impact Munitions
>>746008923Nope.Best was generic soldier guy, and even his design was discarded concept art-tier. 5/10.
>>745980824It shouldn't have been a gaas, it should have been an action game starting baaz, it would have sold unironically
>>745981182It shouldn't have been a Bazz only game where she uses her amazon skills to hunt chuds. It's the only woke game that would sell just for absurdity of it
>>745986452what an upgrade
>>746009343It absolutely wouldn't have sold. There's no character in the cast that people actually want to play as.Having an appealing protagonist is one of the most important things for a game's success. You can possibly get by with an unappealing protagonist if you're making a sequel to a successful game, but you'll see sharp diminishing returns.
I came to this thread just to mention the 6 millionBuss is cool btw
>>746008923i liekd teh cat girl
>>746007245>if any of you thinks the next ES will be a well made gameThis could be said about any game studio you know of not based in Asia.
>>746009442But bazz is hilarious
>>746009581He's only funny because he's the face of the biggest financial disaster in media history.They unironically wanted you to take him seriously, wanted this to be the future of character design in videogames, and would want you arrested if you laughed at an IRL Bazz. He'd be about as funny as Aloy if the game had done what Sony expected.
>>746008743>What the fuck happened to our civilization?Communist subversion.
>>746009864jewish*always ask "who profits from this"
>>745988187>no return at all since they refunded even the pitiful number of copies it soldOh no, it's even worse. Refunds cost the company money. Concord didn't just make no money. It literally made NEGATIVE money.
>>746005563>24 hour peak under 4k>they killed destiny 2 for thisJesus Christ Bungie.
What the fuck where the character designers smoking because it must have been something fierce. Bunch of unappealing metrosexuals all around, even the more "normal" designs were still so fucking bad. You don't even have to have hot women in your vidya to do well and sell cosmetics, see tf2, but how did they delude themself into thinking this could become this big multimedia franchise? The fucking trashcan robot was hailed as the best hero because everyone else was just that unappealing to look at lol
>>746008053These people don't learn at all. Good luck pulling this shit with the Saudis now.
>>745988187Can't they just flip that shit as a tax write-off?
>>746008714>This is still a design for nobodyIt's a design for a background character that you don't put too much thought into.As I said in a different thread, it's like as if you took the random assholes from the Star Wars 7 rip-off cantina and said "Here, those are the protags".
Fuck, Marry, Kill
>>745997931Marathon is probably worse for Sony overall thanks to the Bungie deal, but Concord was a much more impressive failure considering that Marathon peaked 127 times higher than Concord with CCUs on Steam.
>>746006464Recently I found out that publishers will pay mock reviewers before a game's launch to give them a list of pros and cons of the game and predict the Metascore. Apparently they predicted Mass Effect Andromeda would be in the 80s. Yes, these people are that delusional.
>>746008923I remember someone posting the design documents and the ones that the concept artists made actually looked better than what was produced which makes me think that a bunch of corporate shits probably interfered with the designs
>>746004358FUCKING KEK!
>>746010387
>>745980824Fun fact, Marvel Tokon, the Arcsys made, sony published fighting game that recently released with a shitty unplayable PC port? It got cracked and it runs perfectly well even on toasters, and guess what DRM they removed from it to make it work?That's right, the same DRM found in CONCORD baby! Two years on and its still making other games total shit just for having existed! Sony learned nothing!
>>745983223bring back the facebook grafitti wall, I know I abused it but I miss it.
>>746010221If this was how it worked, people would just sit around for five years, cancel the game, take the write off, and then repeat. There wouldn't be layoffs. And the state would also have no income.I'm not a tax expert, but it's obvious from the fact that shutting down the project and taking the writeoff is a last ditch resort that the amount that you save is a pittance.
>>746009913Fuck off dialectical retard
>>746004640>Sony going all in on shitty live service gamesI understand that if you get the right formula down it would do gangbusters but how do you continue to fail at it and keep pulling the lever for another spin on the slots?
>>746005292we could have got medieval total war 3 at this point but gott this tranny crap instead
>>746008923I mean the catgirl is kinda hot
>>746010221They don't have the dollars or structure to do that. They're already paying effectively no taxes as it is.
>>746010387https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6e5z6BYs4E
>>746010781Cat non binary. iz it.
>>745989332>This game is fascinatingIt sure is. Let's take bottom-left of your pic for example:>woman in skin tight suit>jetpack>rocket launcherThese ingredients should be a foolproof recipe for something exciting, but by some work of magic they managed to make a character design that is boring and utterly forgettable.
>>746010879Wrong >>745998387
>>745998936dustborn
>>746010927>These ingredients should be a foolproof recipe for something exciting, but by some work of magic they managed to make a character design that is boring and utterly forgettable.HR entered the room one day.The leaked beta even had select screen animations that suspiciously focused on her ass.
>>746005292>or Brink.i enjoyed brink because i never liked competitive shooters and it was just simple shooter fun with some parkour shitat least you could unlock cosmetics by just playing the game instead of what we get now
I actually really like the third one.
Does anyone still have that Jas and Jahy edits? I lost mine
>>746011126lemme guesstali was your waifu
>>745980824This is what the chuds took from you!
>>746011126Ivara fucker spotted
Sad that it died because gameplay was superior to Overwatch.
>>745988187>The game is the biggest failure in video game historyFuckin hell you losers talk just like comic book guy
>>746011334Honestly, the only Bioware game I've ever played was MDK2.
>>745981182every time i see a post like this it reminds me i have to share this board with absolute braindead retards who gaslight themselves into being even more retarded by pure shitposting
>>745980824>>746004640I don't like the gambling comparison for Sony's live service push.If you're doing slots, you have a set chance at winning, and the results are random (at least from your perspective). This is more like walking up to Tyrone the 65 IQ crackhead with empty eyes on the street, handing him $20, and telling him to keep it safe until you come back for it in a month. You're never going to see that $20 again, and a random warehouse worker is more qualified to be a Sony executive than anyone who believed that gamers wanted to play as a fat black turtle woman or an old Asian lady.
>>745987464God I want to fuck that retard
>>746011440That statement is objectievly true. Whats your problem, faggot?
>>745981182She has become greater than her own game... And developers. She should have her own, separate franchise.
>>745993295This. Highguard and the rest had no soul. Concord does. Now, its an ugly, hideous stunted soul, an objectievly bad one. But its there. You can tell they put their hearts into making it kek.
>>746011841>>746011796This does show that Daw is unsalvageable.
>>745988419does anyone have the profile showing the ridiculous long brim?
>>745981182Solo Bazz game when?>>746008191>Scripted PodcastKek
Probably the most interesting part: I still haven't come across any EARLY-early concept art for Bazz and Emari, the two that looked suspiciously like their trans-VAs.
>>745988419Wtf, he looks exactly like an asparagus
Like, this is the best I could find but IIRC that's still mostly well in development and some got turned into alternative skins or were going to be.
bazz spinoff game whenwe love bazz
>>746007698>intestine design againi didn't notice it until recent threads but what's up with that
>>746008923The robot and the furry alien girl were legitimately good 6 out of 10 designs.
>>746012181That's actually not bad, what the fuck happened?
>>746012181The second-to-left design is mindblowingly good, considering how awful the entire rest of the game is
>>745980824Its amazing how little Sony has learned in those 2 years
>>745995850It was the turning of the tide, when the star of the Chud reached its zenith.
>>745987338The female/"female" characters here actually are equally as terrible and in some sense more infuriating than the ones in Concord.
>>746007343they guy(?) in the blue coat. he's suppose to be a medic but you can't tell by just looking.
>>746004358True, but those are "only" 100-300mil games and will sell more than Concord. Obscure indie games sell more than concord.
>>745998010Thats literally what they went with.
>>745981182>See people talk about an attractive transgender character on /v/>without fail there’s always a good number of people misgendering them, usually most people>See people talk about Baz, the ugliest tranny character in gaming history>Every single reply respects her pronounsWhat the fuck
i wish they'd keep the game up like they're doing with marathon. we need playstation to lose enough money that all these people get fired.
>>746005292Brink was what mind broke me on videogames. It was my first time learning that new doesn't always equal good, and that I should never preorder anything.
>>746012181first two on the left actually communicate "assassin with a noble background" very well.the actual concept art shows talent and vision, it's insane how much hr will sand it down into the most boring slop possible>>746012564ruined by the human face, holy shit.
>>745996961>Either Sony is so out of touch they actually approved these ideas and designs as good, or theyre absurdly detached from an IP theyre dumping insane amounts of cash into and not checking in on it at allIt's both.
Did you chuds kill the horizon game?!??
>>746013025They always get fired, they just fail sideways or up
>>746001168Someone looked at this and thought this was cool.
>>745998936Suicide Squad and AC shadows.
>>746013159It's not killed yet, Sony just realized after extremely poor feedback to the testing of the game that they have to reboot it and remove all the live service shit.
>>745983223Didn’t the game passively punish having a main by limiting exp or rewards or some such shit if you weren’t willing to swap characters or roles on the fly?
>>746012653They're trying to figure out the absolute bare minimum number of concessions to those toxic gamers that they can get away with.>Maybe if we throw them scraps with three characters who look kinda normal (but not TOO appealing to men; that would trigger our Karens, who are the center of the universe), they'll overlook the freaks! Don't worry, we can bait and switch as soon as we have their money!It'd be a little bit of a shame if Sony went bankrupt given their legacy, but it'd be a net positive given what they've turned into. They've had two years to process and adjust to Concord's failure already.
>>746011159they removed her ass in the cartoon
>>745983153It helps that it's called concord which associates it with the concorde disaster and the sinking costa concordia in my head.
>>745980824I still love how defensive certain "people" become when you talk shit about this game or even mention its name in conversations relating to the crumbling industry and all the flops, as if it isn't totally representative of that. Same kinds of "people" that angrily froth at the mouth because you say old games are simply better.
>>746007730i wish this is what happened to CEOs and other higher ups when they fuck up big team.
>>746013321Every time you died the game would bring up the character selection screen. If you switched, you'd be able to stack multiple passives across characters. If you didn't, you'd basically just become gimped throughout the match. Oh and there were some game modes where it literally forced you to switch by not even allowing you to pick the same one again.
>>745980824Xhe will never be forgotten
>>746013272Let's be honest, they're not going to fix the thing that will actually kill the game, which is the character designs and probably the writing.People don't want to deal with ugly, obnoxious, hateful (hate towards men is still hate; they want their natural audience's money but they don't want their natural audience) shit when they're trying to have fun playing videogames. This is apparently too complicated for the geniuses who are running the industry.
>>746013515I forgot about Concord until this thread though, to tell it true.
they made baby cook book art and no one thought to remove it. the studio was all leftist freaks.
>>746013508That sounds incredibly retarded. Wouldn’t that basically encourage retards to try and feed to juice the shit out of their main at the cost of potentially throwing the match?
>>746013691>That sounds incredibly retardedIt was incredibly retarded. Basically like a completely clueless attempt at trying to promote playing different heroes.>Wouldn’t that basically encourage retards to try and feed to juice the shit out of their main at the cost of potentially throwing the match?Probably, but the game died instantly so people didn't even get to the usual tryharding stage of FPS games.
>>746011623They don't care. One Fortnite can make up for 50 failed live services so they will keep rolling the dies. Meanwhile a succesful solo game will just pay itself back and maybe fund one or two other games. A lot more goes into this of course but these people are pretty shortsighted, the see anything that's not live service as a waste of time
>>745983153>Why does a board named vidya care about literally and objectively the biggest vidya financial failure of all time?
>>746005292Thats a man!
>>746005615Remember: THIS is what they wanted to turn all of vidya into. We can't hate these people enough.
>>746005421>Bungie convinced Sony to cancel The Last of Us: Factions, losing them $??? million>Bungie convinced Sony to shut down Destiny 2Bungie getting their projects funded is one thing but how are they stretching their tendrils to Sony's other projects? This can't be real.
>>746013941If you're operating under the assumption that you're going to get a Fortnite, you're too stupid to be a media executive. Fortnite didn't know that it was going to be Fortnite. It's more realistic to try to create a Wuthering Waves or Warframe, and you'd need several of those to succeed for several years to make back these costs.But even leaving that aside, there are things that are far more likely to lead to failure than success, and they keep doing them. They weren't rolling the dice with Concord, Marathon, Fairgame$, and Horizon. The first three are guaranteed failures that obviously have no market, and the latter is a likely failure. You know what unites all of the live service successes? A coherent target audience. Anime girls and fantasy action-drama for guys. Badass shooters for guys. Mechs with fat asses for guys. Cute dresses and sparkles for girls. Anime guys for girls. Casual puzzle games for grandma.>It's easy to say from your computer chair!It'd be easy to say in the boardroom, too, if not for the fact that you have no place in that boardroom if you state the obvious.
>>746014224>literally and objectively the biggest vidya financial failure of all time?For now. The Bungie purchase is about to be the biggest financial failure of all time once they shut down Marathon and the studio. $4 billion out the window for literally nothing in return.
>>746006584At this point, anyone not antisemitic is either ignorant or dishonest.
>>746006778>not for anything he did, mind you, just based on his relationships with his previous employersFucking kill this industry already
>>746014458Shuhei Yoshida even confirmed the rumors that Naughty Dog didn't release the game because of Bungie - https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2025/02/yoshida-i-played-the-last-of-us-online-and-it-was-great
>>746014496True, but as long as they've got the IP, they technically still own the potential for good games (yeah it's not gonna happen but it's theoretically possible), Concord was a cut and dry literal 0$ revenue game after 400 millions in developing and marketing it, and 0 possible ways to make more money later. Bungie is undead, but Concord is just dead.
>>745995645Sex with Aisha Clan Clan
I'm sad Concord overshadowed the disaster of Hyenas. Concord just shut down a studio by Hyenas destroyed the money printer of Total War: Warhammer and nearly too the studio with it. The only upside is CA had to pivot hard and started focussing on TW:W again and finally announced Alien Isolation 2.
>>746007343The buckethead
>>745987338It's such a tragedy Hyenas was cancelled.
>>745981182Hehe isn't that unique? I actually like the gay retarded shit
>>746005421How the fuck can a Japanese studio be so retarded? I thought they still had somewhat of a meritocracy there.
I wonder how much Concord has contributed to Sony's decision to kill physical media.Obviously, the fact that Sony can keep all the money when they sell digital is the biggest factor, but I wouldn't count out the impact of making discs for a game that did not sell, and then having to recall those discs on your own dime.
Speaking of Concord. Marathon is now reaching triple digit numbers.>here's that game from that studio you paid $3.6 billion dollars for
>>746015151Very, very little, I'd imagine. At most, it contributed to them thinking that they need to save money.But the biggest factor is that physical media just doesn't sell anymore.
>>746012181Lmao wtf is that
>>746015184We can go lower
>>746015247Oh it's definitely going to go lower. There's still 29 days until season 3 launches.
>>746015184God I wish Steam charts would record All-time Lows.
>>746013354>They're trying to figure out the absolute bare minimum number of concessions to those toxic gamers that they can get away withAfter all the flops, I expect that the entire western industry will do this. Fable already did so, with changing the hideous brown tranny poster char to a white tranny.
>>746006510Kek. I've seen youtube likes/dislikes being actively manipulated in real time (and don't blame the extension, it was before dislikes were removed). The US 2020 election was Africa dictatorship tier rigging, anyone who's not a rabid normie cultist could see it clear as day, Biden was extremely unpopular and getting massively ratioed on every video was a bad look. We're also talking about the same platform that at the same time censored literally millions of videos denouncing the scamdemic.
>>746015037Sony hasn't been Japanese for a while.
The thing that puzzles me is that they simply can't be this dumb right? They couldn't have seriously thought millions of people were gonna play this shitty game. I genuinely think there is something behind this game like some extreme money laundering scam or whatever.
>>746015247Oh we will
>>746015484>The thing that puzzles me is that they simply can't be this dumb right?It's what happens when you live entirely in a hugbox safespace and don't get anything or anyone challenging your views. Same exact shit happened with Highguard where all their family, friends, coworkers, etc. told them it was "lightning in a bottle" and they all convinced each other that it was going to become THE next big thing.
What if >we made a Bazz fangame? Or at least modded her into an existing game like Streets of Rage?
>>746015484I’m convinced that this was either corporate jewery, someone having a suit that runs shit by the balls, or someone vastly overestimating the power of woke support despite literal years of catering to wokies only for them never to spend a single cent on the product pandering to them. No force on this planet could convince me that someone greenlit this clowncar of a game with genuine intent to make an enjoyable product.
>>746015484Its not stupidity, but ignorance. The decision makers have zero communication with end users.
>>745980947Concord died so other games could die even harder.
>>746015484Since the early 2010s, the industry has been using training wheels to try to normalize feminist character designs. TLOU (people played for Joel), Mortal Kombat (people played for the male cast), Ghost of Tsushima (people played for the male protagonist, then GoY piggybacked on it and got half of the sales), Horizon (rigged as shit), etc.So yes, they had looked at their own jerrymandering and convinced themselves that this is what people wanted, and Concord was when they finally took the training wheels off and tried to let wokeshit fly on its own. We see the end result.
>>745983134blast-havers, Assemble
>>746015379>We're also talking about the same platform that at the same time censored literally millions of videos denouncing the scamdemic.Not even denouncing. If you were even the slightest bit critical of the idea of taking a vaccination that was practically rushed out the door and the multiple boosters that came with it you got hit with a shadow ban or worse.
>>746015935I'm glad (((she))) and her son are rotting in hell.
>>746015484They're informed entirely by consultants who are actively lying to them about what does and doesn't sell because they are actually activists trying to change society, not predict it
>>745985347> make game for trannies> they just kill themselves nonstop in gamehuh...
>>745986330Koreans are unironically based, the men in particular.
>>745983134>other studios owned by Sony are contractually obligated to shill new releases, regardless of their qualityYeah?
>>746016148Our societies would tremendously improve if every person outside a 50% area square in the middle were locked up in work camps for the rest of their lives.
>>746015752They're not ignorant. They're choosing to not hear things that they don't want to hear.The end user actively tries to communicate with them but they regard it, in their own words several times at this point, as "just noise".
>>745999280Do execs at those companies go >"Wow, the audience hated your designs and you helped Sony lose over 400 million dollars, You're Hired! Welcome aboard!"
>>746016667>We'd have a better society if the only people left were easily manipulated fence sitters with no strong convictions
>>746016861What we have right now is a cabal of the weak and evil.Thanks for being so proud of letting these people in, so scared of wielding your own power, and so eager to prove that you're open-minded and happy to compromise that you're willing to throw your own under the bus, conservatives. The lunatics, snakes, and foreigners couldn't have taken over without your commitment to not favoring your own.
