>>1005109 >CEO of Firewalk Studios is old Bungie CEO Hmmmmmmmm.......

I honestly had no idea this game even existed until the drama with the devs and, memes surrounding how bad its showed up here. I'm looking at steam currently and it's $39.99/49.99 USD/CAD, for what amounts to a poor man's Overwatch but even more pozzed.

>>1005115 It's Bungie management types doing another facefuck with Sony since they can.

>>1005112 Wasn't Harold Ryan the actual CEO of Bungie during that time? Because from what I could gather, Ryan Ellis was the Creative Game Director for Destiny.

>>1005117 Well if you look at the anon who is allegedly friends with a former Bunge dev, the whole company is a self sabotaging bucket of crabs.

>>1005109 >budget estimated at well over $100,000,000 Where did you get this number?

>>997232 >>997315 >>998490 Take with a grain of salt, but Marty O'Donnell was saying similar things in recent interviews with content creators

>>1005121 The studio has 145 employees and has had this game in development for 8 years. Average gamedev salary is $106,000 in the region. Do the math and it comes out to about $122,000,000. Some estimates are higher if you account for C-suite executives who can easily be paid 7 figures annually, some are lower if you assume they didn't have that many at the studio during its entire development. It's also not counting the game's expensive CGI marketing nor any outsourcing for things like mocap and VA work.

>>1005109 I hope it keeps on happening. I hope they all crash and burn. The rot has reached a point where the only solution for them is total annihilation. >>1005124 Sounds about right. >>1005129 >145 employees and has had this game in development for 8 years I'm reminded of the Age of Empires 2 taunt >You played two hours to die like this? I can't imagine the feeling of that. Spending 8 years of your fucking life working on something that is dead on arrival.

>>1005115 >the drama with the devs Explain?

>>1005133 They had a massive spergout over people not wanting, to play this pozzed mess.

>Firewalk has 170 employees >Average salary in Bellevue, WA is $93,000 >game was in development for 8 years >that alone would put costs around 126 million >that doesn't count literally anything done outside the studio (like the CGI trailer, voice acting, etc.), middleware licenses, the cost of the office/its equipment itself etc. just employee salary I hope we'll get a real budget number before the end of the year, because this might just beat The Acolyte for the year's biggest bomb.

Fat Alberta HEY HEY HEY

>>1005136 >Concord and The Acolyte flop in a cataclysmic level >chinese funky monkey and Ketchup and Mustard are swimming in money and cheered by everyone What crazy two months.

>>1005138 >Ketchup and Mustard are swimming in money and cheered by everyone Who? The Mortal Kombat brothers?

>>1005138 Cant beat the monke

>>1005140 >Who? The Mortal Kombat brothers? >>1005141 The DK rap knew what was up.

>>1005142 Sees French on the bottles are you a leaf?

>>1005144 I didnt take that picture, anon.

>>1005138 In the umpteenth instance of me plugging Amazing Seasun Games on here, you can straight up recreate the EVA pilots in Mecha Break (you can make nogs as well but obviously that's for Westerners and to get the censors to fuck off). This has mostly flown under the radar because as soon as you insert schnozs people focus on those and not the jiggle physics. Idk how much they spent on MB in comparison but probably a whole hell lot less. They conned the >>>/m/ demographic and the Twitch esport sweaties into sneaking the curves past them.

>>1005144 Pretty much everything sold in US has French on packaging because economics of scale mean making a Qubec specific package impractical. Even my defensive ammo has French on the box (my carry gun and standard cap mags are the only things I can think of that don't)).

>>1005129 Can't see shit cap'n now I know nobody wants to look at that crap but I am a stickler for maximizing video compression

>>1005149 I ask because here in Canada we have french on everything and, last time I was in the USA. Things had English and Spanish.

>>1005151 Plenty of stuff is tri+ lingual, but I can't think of portable goods that's just English+Spanish. Signage, sure, but I can't recall that on products.

>Concorde crashes, kills the future of the jet >Concord crashes, kills the future of the studio It's like pottery

>>1005154 The difference is that the jet Concord's crash wasn't its fault. It was just an unlucky chain of events caused by a huge chunk of runway FOD, and could have happened to any plane. Meanwhile I know nothing about this game but I already know from this thread that it 100% deserved to crash.

>>1005150 It's like a nonstop shitty movie.

>>1005156 >The difference is that the jet Concord's crash wasn't its fault. It was just an unlucky chain of events caused by a huge chunk of runway FOD, and could have happened to any plane. What happened is the persons in charge of the whole Concorde shit on the French side did not want to implement physical changes and security measures to prevent this specific scenario that had almost happened already because the US had just agreed for the thing to fly to their country and doing that right after would've "looked bad".

DID YOU BUY YOUR GOTY CONTROLLER ANONS?! Sony seriously thought this game would be big enough to justify a fucking limited edition controller.

>>1005160 You're off by over 23 years. It was approved to fly to the US in 1977, months after it was introduced at all, and the crash was in 2000.

>>1005162 Maybe it was access to a specific airport or something regardless, the accident could've been prevented but wasn't because adding shielding to the fuel tanks would've looked bad in regards of said decision.

>Sony bought the studio after it had spent 5 years developing this and had literally never made a game before Why? >>1005147 Too bad mecha break's height sldier barely does anything.

>>1005136 You think they'll be dissolved for this like how Square-Enix punished Luminous Studios for Forspoken?

>>1005152 >but I can't think of portable goods that's just English+Spanish I have hand moisturizer that has everything from French to fucking Japanese listed on the little bottle.

>>1005150 Lawbreakers+Guardians of the galaxy+Saints Row... Auto referential humor, deprecating, a rag tag group of ethnically diverse characters where the woman is the mastermind, she also has no sex appeal whatsoever just like the other rest of women in the game (but the men are bare chested and jacked) not to mention she is a massive cunt that you don't feel like protecting, no white men in sight, in its place there is an alien that is clearly supposed to be the white guy that is just as stupid and impulsive as most portrayals of Caucasian males in media... And this is only a cinematic. This failure shouldn't even surprise its developers.

>>1005147 Went to check out this game because it looked fun, they're accepting playtest applications even though the playtest is over and all the servers are down. That was disappointing. >>1005161 How did they convince anyone to make this controller? What kinds of game sales were they projecting? Or did the marketing team not even care and just assumed there would be sales just because the game took a long time to produce?

>>1005150 I want every subhuman who participated in making this to die painfully in Minecraft.

>>1005171 The question isn't if, it's when. Are they going to let it flounder for 6 months before going FtP, then shut it down when people still don't care, or is Sony going to shut them down ASAP?

>>1005176 >How did they convince anyone to make this controller? What kinds of game sales were they projecting? Or did the marketing team not even care and just assumed there would be sales just because the game took a long time to produce? Soyny is totally out of touch with reality.

>>1005176 >How did they convince anyone to make this controller? I have NFI about any of it anon. This game shouldn't have gotten passed the pitch phase, much less the merchandising phase and yet somehow, some-fucking-how, here we are.

>>1005208 I mean 8 years ago making an Overwatch clone sounded like a good idea if you wanted normalfag money. not that it was actually a good one because anyone with two braincells would have realized everyone had the same idea, and OW had pretty much cornered the market by itself.

>>1005210 >and OW had pretty much cornered the market by itself Isn't that almost entirely due to the porn and excellent marketing of the game? Two factors that it seems like EVERY clone as failed to follow-up with.

>>1005233 The porn did all the marketing for them. Whoever designed the girls deserves more recognition.

>>1005210 Players have probably been looking for an Overwatch replacement since it committed suicide, it's amazing how all these fucking clones choose fugly UCLA gender studies students instead of babes. I actually looked up UCLA gender studies people and they are significantly more attractive than the grease ogres in this game

>>1005233 >Two factors that it seems like EVERY clone as failed to follow-up with. Paladins (the HiRez OW clone) honestly wasn't too bad at riding the OW hype for what it was.

>>1005210 Good point. At the start of development, they made the dubious decision to make an OW clone, and as they years went on and they got deeper in, they felt like they should just finish the game instead of stop and shelve their work due to the decreasing chances of making a profit. >>1005238 >Whoever designed the girls deserves more recognition I don't disagree anon, but the designer really didn't do anything revolutionary either. He or she seems to be skilled in knowing what makes women appealing, as well as knowing how not to overdo it. The archetype of the tall, cool, leggy French woman is popular, so they just made that into Widowmaker and gave her purplish skin for lore reasons. It's clear that people like the idea of the spunky, cute, energetic Asian girl, so the designer just took all of that and put her in a bodysuit. What character designers for other games struggle with is trying to cram too much into a character's design, along with making them look unappealing in general. They don't let the voice lines, written lore, and even the playstyle demonstrate the character's personality or motives.

>>1005241 Speaking of OW clones. Remember Battle Borne? Yeah me neither but it was stupid of them to strangle themselves challenging OW

Well you see anons, the situation might look dire, but this is just the beginning of a massive success. You see, hating and loving a game, are just two degrees apart, the fact that there is this much hatred and vitriol against the game, means that gamers are extremely passionate about it, and want good things from the game. Now the current position might not look good, but as I always say, velocity is more important than position. As long as they keep on releasing content, not too good mind you, wouldn't want the cattle to have too high of an expectation, at a rapid pace, the people will flock back to Concord. First we gain their trust, by releasing a lot of good content, make it free if necessary, then we lock them up in the game loop by having high retention rate, and then we start squeezing them up for money. It's how I saved Destiny 2, and if they follow my guidelines, I am sure Concord will be just as good. Remember, a game can be shit at launch, but as long as we keep on working and fixing it, it will eventually be good. If you want to hear more about my revolutionary ideas and how I saved Bungie with Destiny 2, check out my GDC talk. https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ZLbvMWEAoyY

>>1005161 They really thought they did something with this

>>1005185 >Are they going to let it flounder for 6 months before going FtP, then shut it down when people still don't care, or is Sony going to shut them down ASAP? My money's on "flounder". These sorts of disasters have people trying desperately to recoup losses and zombie the project on in a bid to convince (((stockholders))) the losses aren't quite as bad as the media says while those who can get their parachutes ready. It's rarely "quick and easy axing".

>>1005161 >>1005176 >>1005208 Consider the 2 following situations: >You sell hamburgers at a specif price point >Lots of people buy the burgers and you make your money Scenario 2: >You sell hamburgers at the same price point >Not many people buy the burgers >You can't raise the price point on the burgers or else less people will buy it >You start selling french fries to the limited number of people who already buy your burgers >You make more money this way. If you have a smaller consumer base and cannot grow that consumer base, the only way to make more money is to get those consumers to buy more things from you. The concord controllers are selling for 84.99 A standard black controller sells for 69.99 The cost differences for manufacturing are likely negligible so thats over 15 dollars of additional income plus the existing profits margins on controllers from the few people who buy that controller. The costs of making the game is sunk. You cannot do anything about it. All decisions moving forward have to ignore the costs of developing the game and look at any additional costs incurred and the margins on those new costs. Controllers margins are likely very good, over 100% mark up I would wager so its a no-brainer.

Man i miss this type of threads Not everyday you see AAA release that is pozzed up the ass with pronouns, filled with ugly as sin characters and completely banked as the next big thing™ completely FLOP and went under the first Chink AAA game. In any case i can't wait till the pendulum completely swung back against the pervailing leftist culture. We're already seeing it first hand with this game and another woke walking sim by David Cage underperforming on their release date. I for one, welcome our new chink AAA overlords

>>1005261 Fuck that guy, he killed Bungie.

Ok, fuck it. I didn't write anything. I think i'm having a fucking stroke right now. Fuck this shit.

These fashion choices kill me.

>>1005306 Even from a gameplay prospective it's bad. Giving everyone a long coat means nobody has a clear silhouette.

>>1005150 This reminds me I need to watch Cowboy Bebop

>>1005314 >here you go bro

>>1005316 I wish this show wasn't utter dogshit, I enjoyed the production and design.

>>1005150 Why are guns shown as being completely fucking useless in a promo for a game about shooting people???

I always assumed these people were nuts, but god damn. https://archive.is/CT0Rb

>>1005352 Honestly this sounds like fanfiction. I doubt it.

>>1005353 It really doesn't sound real, it sounds like a fake employee. Either way all of this stupid shit is for money.

>>1005353 The "professor" is a real person (check the archive). Which makes me wonder what bits might also be real.

>>1005354 I also just noticed the source is SmashJT. Guy is a complete grifter, one of those "Don't you just hate woke SJW libtard soyboy cuckold lefty betas? Then donate to my Patreon!" people. He make this shit up then charges people access to read it. Those accusations are absolutely fiction crafted specifically to appease the Musk Twitter crowd.

>>1005355 Past a certain point it doesn't matter if there's a photograph unless you see this person yourself irl. >>1005356 It's been like that since 'gamergate' started really.

>>1005233 you can add juno to it now >>1005256 >>1005240 the latest slop to be fed now seems to be valve's deadlock, and its most likely to be a huge success because its actual game mechanics seems very solid plus its just different enough to get people to try it as something new (even if underneath its not). If only they have good art characters...

>>1005316 That was so fucking awful holy shit.

>>1005161 >Sony seriously thought this game would be big enough to justify a fucking limited edition controller. Game failing and betting all on scalpers who will resell this in 10 years for 1500 buckaroos >>1005249 >the designer really didn't do anything revolutionary either He inadvertently created a couple of memorable Vidya characters (90's mascots can attest to the fact that it’s not easy to do). The "archetype" is just the base he is working on. It's up to his good or bad judgment to create something aesthetically pleasing and harmonious-looking. Look at how bland, uninspired and ugly the Concord characters look, even though the archetypes are easily identifiable.

>>1005376 Are these retards actually trying to follow some clearly outlined design aesthetic, or are they just throwing random bits and bobs together cargo cult style and then not understanding why it doesn't work. Are they going for the "monied homeless" look on purpose?

>>1005316 Looks like a scene from Spy Kids.

>>1005390 Nigger don't insult Spy Kids like that.

>>1005129 I hate this kind of writing so fucking much. No one acts or talks like an adult, it's all just snark and quipping non-stop. It's like a 12-year old wrote a script based on how he thinks adults talk. No one understand order, hierarchy or takes anything seriously. There is a time for goofing around, but there is also a time to shut the fuck up and get serious when shit hits the fan.

>>1005406 Yeah, the creator of Spy Kids is infamous for just how good he is at keeping budget low. He spent $7,000 of his own money to make a film that got 2 million at the box office, becoming the lowest budget film to gross a million and lowest budget film (that isn't just on the list because it's one of the oldest surviving pieces of film) on the National Film Registry. I'm sure Netflix has nothing on Robert Rodriguez

>>1005420 I imagine it's what Marvelshit is like and what they're aping, but I don't really know.

>>1005425 They are trying to apre guardians of the galaxy in particular, and while that works for that particular group, it fails whenever they try to apply it to something else.

>>1005353 >>1005356 Anon GJ are that fucking crazy and this has been the case for 10 years.

>Sony's quarterly financials were earlier this month I wonder if they knew this would bomb horribly and chose to release it right after their regular reports.

>>1005109 Man, Diego really let himself go.

>>1005472 笑

>>1005472 Diego's dead bruh

>>1005256 I've been seeing a lot of revisionism in regards to Battleborn, people saying "it's a shame what happened to it, it was actually good!" forgetting that it was basically that era's Concord in every way possible.

>>1005486 Some people are desperate to be contrarian, even when it doesn't make any sense to do so.

>>1005486 Anon every few years you get these types trying to defend horrid games as, "misunderstood" or other excuse. Now every then you will get a game that while not good, wasn't nearly as bad as remembered.

>>1005486 Stop talking about Battleborn, you're making me hungry for some turkey burritos slapped together by the absolute cheapest catering service that passes the health inspections, dipped in gravy. Oh wait, no, that was LawBreakers. Haha. Get fucked Cliff. It's getting hard to keep track of all these absolute turds

>>1005138 >chinese funky monkey >cheered by everyone Huge, regular peaks and valleys in player count aren't exactly "cheered by everyone". The game is almost definitely botted or played almost exclusively by a Chinese audience that wants to increase its social credit. >Ketchup and Mustard Capeshit Movie #3000: Double Dose of Nostalgia is praised, what a shock. >>1005147 Chinese and looks like shit. Plus, it's a multiplayer mech game, which is always bad sans-Titanfall. >>1005150 >all of these replies acting like the trailer was a shock What is this, the /gg/ thread? The trailer looks like it's for a singleplayer game. Anons discussed it this when it premiered. >>1005233 >>1005367 >not including Brigitte or Kiriko Overwatch 2 fucked up all of the old designs, but it looks like whoever made them is in control again, based on Juno and Kiriko. Overwatch 2 should have been a major update to 1 like WoW expansions and Siege DLCs.

>>1005494 >Huge, regular peaks and valleys in player count aren't exactly "cheered by everyone" Anon people go to sleep then wake up, and play the game. Don't act like a fucking retarded Journo, I'm not super keen on the Chinks but that take is awful. >>1005496 I've been seeing this so much the past five years, I think the worst recently is the fags trying to pretend Prometheus was good.

>>1005494 Even normies have enough with the dumb useless white male estereotipe, in this case portrayed inna yellow alienoid hibrid I find it ironic that it can actually work as a movie, like Suicide Squad bit more scifi only if they´ll show some respect to the actual material, such sad cases

>>1005492 This isn't unique to gaming, the "It's Good, Actually" phenomenon is something you'll see a lot in regards to bad media, especially media that's baffling or makes strange artistic choices. It's called reevaluation. There's an album called My Teenage Dream Ended that's truly something else. The story behind it is actually quite tragic and I won't make fun of it, it's about the actual story of the singer's accidental pregnancy as a minor, the abuse she received from her family, and the death of the unborn baby's father in a violent car crash. The actual music however is indescribable, dubstep noise pop is the closest genre salad I can fit to it. The album was widely mocked on its release and considered one of the worst albums of the year, but only a few years later it was seen as an avant-garde masterpiece. Go listen to it for yourself, it's only 26 minutes. You'll also see this "reevaluation" with the Kane & Lynch games, which are awful and never let video essayists convince you otherwise. >>1005498 Sorry for deleting my post, I needed to fix it. It's so annoying, isn't it? The main defence I see relates to the games being anaesthetically unique, but there's a good fucking reason nothing else looks like Kane & Lynch.

>anaesthetically Fuck me. I'm not deleting it again, I meant aesthetically. I'm killing myself right now

>>1005498 >Don't act like a fucking retarded Journo Yeah, because noticing the regular, daily ~2 million player increase, which shouldn't happen at all if it really has global popularity, is such an "awful take". There are tons of "I'm Chinese but using English" positive reviews and revisionist reviews about the game being "China's first AAA". It's unnatural unless the Chinese market really is carrying the game on its back. Of regular Western players, I predict maybe 200k-to-500k, nowhere near one million.

>>1005505 The game is hugely popular in the Chinksphere and, that's whose's mostly been buying/playing it.

>>1005314 Why the fuck hipsters have a hard on over Cowboy Bepop when it's not EVA? Same thing with the medieval elf girl with a midget chef and Spy X Family. >>1005478 And the pathologist got killed because the photo resemblances that Maradonna was his most valued trophy

>>1005515 Cowboy Bebop is entry level because Toonami would show it nonstop back in the day. >Medieval Elf girl with a midget chef Hey, Dungeon Meshi is pretty good, normalfags only like it now because it finally got an anime. The manga only finished last year yet I'm sure they refuse to read it. >SpyxFamily Because it's so heckin' wholesome Keanu chungus 100, my fellow redditer. (The humor is also decent, I will admit)

>>1005515 Are you sure it's not the other way around? Cowboy Bebop was THE gateway anime for normies in the 2000's and Eva was the 'oh my gawd so deeeeeep brooooooo theres 1231312 references to christianity and muh depresshun!!!' >Dungeon Meshi Hey fuck you pal, dont lump us loyal manga readers in with the anime tourists. We were there back when it was just scanlated by EHscans. But seriously, Dungeon Meshi is just great, Ryoko Kui truly loves playing WRPGs and it really shows here. >Spy x Family It's probably the closest thing to a 'western' animated show compared to the deluge of school romcom anime. Really makes you think. Otherwise, it's mostly harmless slice-of-life / shonen despite the author definitely holding back from writing darker stories

>>1005524 >Eva Azuka SUCKS Rei SUCKS Misato SUCKS Shinji is Gay and SUCKS Everyone SUCKS

>>1005525 Congratulations.

>>1005524 Gundam X>"anime was a mistake"-tier pioneering of taking out your personal problems on your audience.

>>1005296 What was David de Grutola's game? I didn't even know he was still making games.

>>1005499 >normies Die an agonizing death, plebbitor.

>>1005543 Anon is referring to Dustborn >>1004383 >>1004640 He didn't develop it but published it.

Who greenlit this garbage?

>>1005583 A lot of people will say Sony, but that's wrong. Firewalker greenlit the game. For some reason, Sony liked the game so much they BOUGHT THE STUDIO This only strengthens the theory that Jim Ryan was asked to step down in my mind. The board must have gotten sick of his bafflingly terrible decisions.

>>1005524 Wasn't that supposed to be Naruto? >>1005525

>>1005571 Yeah i was referring to that piece of shit and yes it's as pozzed as it gets and it turns out to not being a walking sim to my surprise Still shit though. >76 peak players >>1005615 Anon, what the fuck are you talking about?

>>1005109 The game that got cancelled in OPEN BETA is still probably a bigger flop. We need to weigh the categories against each other to determine what the largest failure is, though. Cost: highest cost:return ratio is worst Players: lowest max active players is worst Lifespan: shortest lifespan is worst

>>1005109 Any contender for "flop of the decade" needs to come with the caveat that you're not counting Hyenas flopping before release.

>>1005637 It can be worse, this game got cancelled right after it's Closed Beta had ended. It didn't even survive to Open Beta.

>>1005644 >>1005642 HYENAS pulled the same numbers in open beta as Concord, they just canned it to spare the costs and turn up some good PR / ward bad PR.

I just booted up OpenJK and found 253 players across all public servers (this server list screenshot was taken after adding everything, so likely changed a bit). >game is 20 years old >has good single player that likely has dozens more people playing >has hidden private service, local games (against bots), LAN/P2P that aren't showing up >still beats Concord on launch week without even trying

>>1005655 Lol, lmao even. Also, Stop trying to make me horny over Mission, you dick.

>>1005644 Oh, I think that's the one I'm thinking of. There can't have been that many, particularly recently. I just remembered Paradox completely cancelled its Sims clone TWO WEEKS before full release (no beta or anything; it was just going to come out). I want someone to leak that shit.

>Diversity and Inclusion saves lives, and we're proud of the work we've done. >660 peak concurrent players >It's the gamers who are wrong. >Meanwhile... at Firewalk Studios

>>1005684 Given Cities Skylines 2 and the trashfire that Bloodlines 2 is shapping up to be, I wonder if it was too much a shitshow even for Paradox.

>>1005547 >plebbitor Oh, the irony

Just realized this is an Unreal engine title. I wonder if Sony got the default deal (don't pay anything to Epic until you make X amount of money, then royalty) or if they negotiated into paying upfront instead of a royalty. It would be hilarious either way.

One funny thing I heard, the character you selected for one round is locked out for you on the next round. Totally not frustrating development decision at all.

CONcord

>>1005376 4th pic Jesus Christ they castrated Thugnificient.

>>1005955 He found out why those niggas were that mad.

>>1005376 Stylish Niggas Buff Niggas Freezing Niggas Thriller Niggas

>>1005958 Lmao

>>1005844 Die an agonizing death, plebbitor.

it requires a psn account

>>1005109 NO PORNS? Are lewd artists bigoted enough not to touch this pozfest game or their messiahs are busy jerking off to other trendy shit at reddit. >>1005644 >Concord >Hyenas >Dustborn The holy trinity of AIDS

>>1005696 >Bloodlines 2 Seriously, how do you buy an entire tabletop IP like World of Darkness solely to leech off the rising popularity of a cult classic like Vamprie The Masquerade Bloodlines, and then do the EXAC opposite of everything that made the original work when making a sequel?

>>1005486 Haven't seen anyone who thought Battleborn was good (or better than OW), but plenty of ppl thought it was pretty shitty that Battleborn was the original idea, Overwatch got developed and published faster and hit the market first. Some say the game idea was sold to both companies by the same entity.

>>1005696 Paradox actually alluded to Skylines 2 in its reason for cancelling it. https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/media/press-releases/press-release/paradox-interactive-cancels-the-release-of-life-by-you-which-impacts-the-second-quarter-with-msek-208-in-a-write-down >We’ve performed poorly in recent releases

>>1006487 Doesn't Paladins predate both of them? It also has some decent characters and porn

>>1005486 Yeah I've seen a few of those anytime it's mentioned. > forgetting that it was basically that era's Concord in every way possible. Sort of, but not really, the main difference is that at the time there was no indication that a hero shooter / FPS moba was gonna fail purely through one game achieving full market saturation by itself, so it could have succeeded, whereas Concord has nothing new and is 8 years late. >>1006499 Nah it released latter the same year as OW, it also somehow still has more active players than Concord had at its peak.

I sleep

>>1006507 This game is getting a cinematic short in the upcoming anthology series Secret Level (same producers as love death and robots) and it looks like it might genuinely be dead before the december release of the series.

Battleborn really was something special.

>>1006507 Good Night, Mr. Ellis!!

>>1006510 The art style looks like that shitty corporate art style where every character looks like a piece of abstract art

>>1006344 >so irrelevant that you don't even see anyone revolting about this like with helldivers

>>1006513 Flat design?

>>1006513 Alegria/Corporate Memphis?

>>1006597 >flat design I wish. It's forbidden by Sony and random Valve jannies.

>>1006603 >and random Valve jannies. this is the one big thing stoppoing the industry healing we need to go back to disks in the mail drm free downloads from the devs site or a Japanese steam competitor.

>>1006597 >>1006599 These three are synonyms, I think.

>>1006511 >former creative director at bungie I can really imagine this guy hitting 40 or 50 and going "man, I made my life and a decade of the FPS genre off the back of Master Chief, now to totally ignore why people liked those games and make my magnum opus, Concord." Really fumbled his mid-life crisis there huh

>>1006654 According to Mobygames and IMDB, the only Halo he worked on was Reach, where he's only credited as "The Rest of Bungie". Literally all his credits are testing, special thanks or some kind of art position until Destiny 2 other than the 2004 "Stunt Hamsters" (which I've literally never heard of).

>>1006613 >Japanese steam competitor That's just not gonna happen, outside of vidga japan is notorious at being shit at programming and even then everyone here knows how shit japs are with PC ports and netcode. This is partly because nippon's M.O. is to reverse engineer someone else's work and refine the shit out of it to be superior to original product or at cheaper price to your competitors. That strategy doesn't work well with software.

>>1005958 Sensitive Niggas

>>1006679 Understand almost none of these posts are genuine. Socjus leftists aren't generally defeatists; they get angry instead of doomposting. People post this stuff to farm jester awards and get Steam points. Seriously, the forums are full of this engagement bait.

>>1006679 they really dont seem to get that we never started this fight, we just wanted to game in peace but no they constantly attack our shit for years getting it censored or banned in the west and now we fight back they cry.

>>1006679 as pointed out by >>1006681 most of these threads are award bait farms, notice how the faggot doesn't have a mouse icon next to their name which is the mark of a game owner.

>>1006679 Nah that shit's bait 100%. People do that shit all the time on steam forums. Hell you can have a game just ghost drop and immediately 10 seconds later people will just shit on it for no reason to get those jester awards. Or call a game that has peak 1 mil people in 24 hours playing it "dead game".

>>1006595 >game devs act like cunts all the time on social media >trying to propagandize shit for various reasons >demonize anyone who dares to criticize no matter how polite or constructive >ship increasingly unfinished games and sell them the rest later (if at all) >live service cancer out the butt >trend chasing and feature checklisting >abusing whales with gambling and fomo cancer >charging more for substantially less content than you used to get in the past >always online and DRM aids Gee I really can't figure out why people are so happy to dance on their graves.

>>1006681 Steam forums are basically Reddit at this point. Steam Awards were a mistake. What is even the point of Steam points - aside from game-theme'd profile customization? The vast majority of the stuff on offer is garbage or hyper-niche. Did someone find a way to make money or earn free games with them or something?

It seems part of the reason Concord looks so weird is because its characters were designed for a completely different art style.

>>1006740 For context, these are for a shorts series called Freegunner Adventures which appear to have been from before a radical shift in art direction.

>>1006740 >>1006741 Its still bland an uncreative, specially for a project with such a high budget. I can't find who the concept artist for the game is, Josh Hamrick is credited as the "design director" so i'll go with him. What the fuck are those credits? There has to be a reason you can't find who the concept artist for this piece of shit is.

>>1006749 (this game is also on Switch, PS4 and PS5 by the way)

>>1005494 And the "lesson" Disney will learn from Deadpool 3's success won't be "more movies focused on white dudes" but "more MCU movies crossing over with pre-MCU movies"

>>1005524 > despite the author definitely holding back from writing darker stories A lot of the darker stuff is subtext, or more visible in the manga. (Yor's brother definitely torturing people in his job for the not-Stasi, Loid's whole backstory of losing all his friends and family to the war as a child, then joining the army and slaughtering enemy soldiers en mass for revenge, showing an all female battalion on the Eastern side in the war being either shot to pieces in a charge, captured by the enemy with rape heavily implied, or making it back to their army only to be executed for cowardice because they dared retreat.)

I wish I was a porn animator/artist so I could go up to Firewalk/Sony and strongarm them to commission me for porn under the pretext it would make their game more popular, could even use Overshite as an example.

>>1006783 There's no way to make anything out of concord sexy, unless you take so many liberties they might as well different characters.

>>1006785 Of course it would be shit anon, but since PR managers of studios are so inept at their jobs, by the time they realize their gamble isn't going to work you'd skedaddle off with the money. Then again, there are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see. Someone would get their rocks off.

Even normalfag media picked up on the failure. https://notthebee.com/article/sony-set-to-lose-200-million-on-game-that-lets-you-play-as-super-diverse-women-of-color https://archive.ph/wip/jw1vx

>>1006785 >unless you take so many liberties they might as well different characters. Not a problem for modern (((artists.)))

>>1006805 >babylon bee >normalfag media Eh, that's more twitter millenial shit than normalfag media.

>>1006815 What is normalfag media then? It's not like people watch the establishment media anymore.

>>1005150 The CGI is nice. Always makes me sad that this kind of effort isn't used to create something worthwhile.

>>1006744 Creepy black preacher isn't a bad character concept, but the execution needs some work to punch it up a bit with some New Orleans inspired and very subtle voodoo elements. Instead, they just punched it to death.

>>1006599 That's the one, they all look fucked up.

>>1006727 Number go up make brain feel good. I guess is the reason for clown farmers. You can't sell any of the points shop items on the community market, so it's not like you can make profit off of them through that. >>1006741 That's interesting. Maybe this is one of the reasons why development took so long. Scrapping the artstyle in favor of the legally distinct Guardians of the Galaxy look and reworking a lot of the assets and character backgrounds in the process? I don't think Voodoo preacher here is still a preacher in the final release, I would've seen it at least mentioned ONCE somewhere at this point and it makes little sense for these Californian faggots to depict Christianity even slightly positively. I just don't understand how a company can spend eight years on a project this simple without either some major reworks happening (Any Valve game), the project being put on hold for a few years and restarted/continued with a new team (GFB Relink, for a recent example), or the studio getting ping-ponged around between different companies. The only other theory I have is the game was basically finished and all this dev time was spent making these 3DCG animations and lore videos to have a bunch to release on a schedule after the game releases to keep hype going, but that seems kind of counter-intuitive, as you would probably want to release at least some of those prior to launch and the marketing department did none of that. This shit is just baffling.

>>1006740 >>1006741 >>1006744 I wouldn't say it's "good", but it's a whole fuckton better. The designs don't look anywhere near as silly in this style. The characters looking so odd makes so much more sense knowing they were designed for an almost Killer7 aesthetic, the girl in the red suit honestly looks really great in this style, compare that to her finished appearance >>1005376

>>1006679 >stupid bigots >you can't whack off to 'ugly' characters design and cry about 'woke' games all the time >this game wasn't for you in the first place This is like >stupid snails >you can't walk off to 'salt' rock minerals and cry about 'hurt' tastes all the time >this taste wasn't for you in the first place

>>1006964 >I just don't understand how a company can spend eight years on a project this simple without either some major reworks happening Yeah that's the 200 miliion dollar question. At least with hyenas we have a partial answer with an engine swap mid dev. An understandable but costly mistake, you attemp save dev time with an engine you used for your last game, turns out it isn't suited for a muliplayer game. So you end up wasting even more time than just if you committed to swapping in the first place. The ye old firearm conversion mistake but vidga form.

>>1006974 I didn’t think the problem was that they looked silly, but that they looked souless. Soulless in the same way the anthem robots did, despite not being robots. Not really sure how to put it into words.

>>1006977 Nigger did you not read the following posts that that OP was bait? you just took the clown bait hook line and sinker you fucking retard!

>>1007035 >engine swap mid dev That's what fucked DNF over. Have mid-project engine swaps (excluding direct successors like UE and id engines for simplicitly) ever gone well in game dev?

>>1006815 That's literally what "normalfag media" is. You're talking about a jewish organization.

>>1006815 Also, you didn't even read the URL correctly.

>>1006813 How dare you criticize the finger painting kind

>>1007167 >Disney Renaissance All it was a period of time where Disney discovered the formula to make bank. The Disney Renaissance were not particularly good, just famous and lucrative.

>>1007135 >Soulless in the same way the anthem robots did, despite not being robots. Okay, but still would

>>1007310 looks familiar

>>1007310 >>1007320 What an interesting and unique creature. Clearly breeding efforts are in order to ensure its continued survival.

>>1005352 >One of the higher-ups identifies as "non-binary", decided their pronoun was "Professor" despite not having a PhD nor having taught formally ever in their life. Proceeded to force everyone to call them by their pronoun of choice at risk of having them fired. I would do this just to troll, like the "transgender" teacher with triple Z tits.

>>1007430 That was trolling? I can no longer tell parody from reality.

>>1006859 Ok i finally got around finding someone responsible for the character creation and overall design. Apparently "Amanda" is the "Senior Concept Artist" at Firewalk studios. She is definitely a DEI hire. The characters look so bland because that's just her stile. Mediocre and bland.

>>1007514 She's also behind this tripe

>>1007514 >Amanda >A man duh What did they mean by this?

>>1007522 I disliked that game. Didn't even get far enough into it to hate the character design. I am so fucking sick of lazy crafting mechanics and brittle weapons in games. Melee didn't feel satisfactory either, and maybe it was down to the poor tracking on Sony's Move controllers, but it was a crap shoot half the time whether or not your swing would have enough momentum to do any damage, or if your weapon would just plink off the enemy's head like dog's chew toy.

>>1007526 >pic 1 Dull surprise!

>>1007514 Never hire women.

>>1006789 great bread >>1007320 the classic designs were so dang cool

>>1005515 >the pathologist got killed because the photo resemblances that Maradonna was his most valued trophy made me check, fake news

>>1005515 >>1007707 I can't even tell what that sentence is trying to say.

Concord is set to appear on Amazon Prime's video game advertisement called Secret Level on December 10, 2024, directed by Deadpool director Tim Miller. Think the game will be alive by the time it airs? https:// archive.is/vEYhT Also, I'm surprised ProbablyMonsters is not getting shat on nearly as much. It is basically a refuge of Destiny and Bungie pals, a giant money laundering operation. ProbablyMonsters raised $200 million to create three studios and the only product so far is Concord. https:// archive.is/bE5qB The other two studios funded by that money are Cauldron Studios for a single player adventure game, and Battle Barge, which is the Torchlight devs. ProbablyMonsters created another studio in April 2024 called Hidden Grove with Destiny/Bungie losers. https:// archive.is/5u8Bg If one looks at the original partnership announcement for Firewalk with Sony, it is the same song and dance about experienced devs. https:// archive.is/SZx0N

>>1007862 > Think the game will be alive by the time it airs? It'll probably be on life support with the PS5 players or F2P >the rest Can't wait for more blunders of that level.

>>1007862 The other thing not being mentioned is the involvement of the Chinese in all of this. NetEase invested $100 million into Bungie in 2018. https:// archive.is/BlYvY NetEase bought Quantic Dream, the publisher of DustBorn, in 2022: https:// archive.is/PEvBk NetEase also owns BulletFarm and Jackalope Games. NetEase invested $120 million into Kepler Interactive, which is involved with A44, the maker of Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn of Sweet Baby Inc fame. https:// archive.is/lAZtb https:// archive.is/QhnFh https:// archive.is/vd8HA Alexis Garavaryan of Kepler Interactive worked for Tencent, which owns TiMi Studio Group, which works with Xbox Game Studios, Pokemon Unite, Call of Duty Mobile, etc. TiMi opened a studio in Montreal and has hired many former Ubisoft employees. China is making a large push into the video games industry. They are buying up Western devs and pozzing them, while opening their own studios in America to push games. I find the timing of the release of the monkey game, made by former Tencent devs, to coincide with Concord and Dustborn, very interesting considering the ties of both studios to China. From Red Thread Games about page, creator of Dustborn: >Why “Red Thread”? The concept of the red thread is universal, and signifies a deep connection between things: thematically, emotionally, physically. In Chinese legend, the gods would connect certain individuals with an invisible red thread — and these individuals were thus destined to meet, form a connection and help each other. Initial funding announcement of ProbablyMonsters incuding the dev team formation: https:// archive.is/Hx355 >In July 2019, ProbablyMonsters closed a private $18.8 million Series A round led by Jerry Jones, Owner / President / General Manager of the Dallas Cowboys, and John Goff, Founder and Chairman of Crescent Real Estate and Goff Capital; Luther King Capital Management affiliates; gaming executive and venture capitalist David Oxford; among other private investors, to fund its ongoing growth.

>>1007897 NetEase may as well be a branch of China's central bank given how much money they shit out.

Concord allegedly only sold 25k copies, 15k on PS5 and 10k on steam.

>>1007963 Source? I'm surprised it's even that high, and that PS5 sales were at all higher than PC.

>>1007965 You can find an article on IGN

>>1007970 Then post the archive https://archive.ph/X4jMZ

So source is "a literally who took a guess"

>>1007983 Sadly, making a fun, high-quality shooter is not enough in the oversaturated live-service space these days.

>>1007983 Seems so. Most interesting part is even the IGN comments are pointing out how full of shit IGN's excuses are.

>>1008065 If IGN told me the sky's blue I'd look up to check

>>1007989 I sure do love Concord™ by Firewalk Studios, the hot new high-quality hero shooter we all adore and we're all playing. Now available on the PlayStation® 5 or Steam for the low, low price of $39.99. JOIN THE CREW OF THE NORTHSTAR. Assemble your crew of Freegunner space outlaws and team up with friends online!

>>1008103 Hard to fuck up a robot. Look at Valve's FPASSFAG: The robots don't fit in the world at all, being leftovers from Neon Prime, but they're still the best part.

How even could you diversify a robot? Make its bellybox fat and put its headbox in a hijab? It's too ridiculous even for normalfaggots.

2024 is a real treat.

>>1007963 Nowhere near 25k. PSN first kill achievement only has 1200 achievers. https:// archive.is/JbRrs

>>1008582 >So they've been lying I'm shocked truly.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=l1Jp4K02L1I Concord 2.0 already. It's accelerating.

The funniest shit is hearing Bungie work on a game with the dev title 'Gummy Bears'.

>>1008689 >already That game was announced a year before Concord was. That trailer is from May 2023.

>>1008696 Something cause it to pop up again. A bunch of the top comments are recent.

>>1008689 Seems more like Hyenas 2.

>>1008689 (((THEY))) NEED TO BE STOPPED

>>1008707 The market will work it out. Concord went woke and went broke.

>>1005636 That was on another generation, during the mid 2000's, Bebop was like pre-9/11 kinda like Dragon Ball Gateway animes periodically changes based on what's popular, kinda like Demon Slayer a few years back.

>>1009137 I hate how 9/11 meant Gundam had to stop airing in America. The series was just getting popular and all of a sudden that tidal wave of knee-jerk censorship hit. Younger Americans will never understand how awful the 9/11 years were for media, (and everything else of course) mountains of muhreen worship and toothless terrorism analogies. Censorship not seen since the height of the Cold War. All the dogshit music. Oh god, the music.

>>1008582 On one hand, you have to remind yourself that there are people who buy and collect games without playing them. On the other hand, they usually are about 10-20% of the buyers, so having only a fraction of people playing the game is definitely suspicious at best.

>>1005636 Also what is up with that piss filter? Are you a Mexican? >>1006779 Yeah i keep forgetting that the manga is one of the new big Shonen Jump hits despite the original (for a manga setting) premise. The manga is supposed to be aimed at kids - teens but it seems to have a surprisingly large adult fanbase owing to the Espionage themed setting in a fictional cold war. The author having to juggle between kiddie slapstick and a war survivor story in a single work is amazing when you think about it. I wasn't kidding about that last part btw it happened twice in the story

How can you call it a flop when you haven't even played it? I have been playing the game and I think it's pretty great

>>1009151 My dick flops when I see it

>>1009152 >>1009153 Seriously, how is the game bad? It's probably the most fun game I've played in the last decade. I already have over 200 hours on it

I was curious, so I checked. Concord currently has 31 players.

>>1009158 That's because its a week day and no one plays during week days.

>>1009158 That's because it's a week day and everyone is playing Deadlock.

Sorry, that was an outdated pic.

>>1009158 Deadlock has literally ZERO players on PS5 though while Concord probably has millions. So Concord wins AGAIN.

>>1005109 https://blog.playstation.com/2024/09/03/an-important-update-on-concord/

>>1009215 Archive, screenshot or both you useless fag. https://archive.ph/4TGaq >going offline on September 6 >full refunds WEW LAD 150 gorillion down the drain.

>>1009215 >>1009216

>>1009215 archive your shit nigger lover

>>1009155 >>1009151 >>1009160 Enjoy your refund faggot.

>>1009215 >>1009216 Hilarious. Sometimes it's good to live in historical times.

>>1009215 >>1009216 Wow. I didn't expect Sony would admit its failure that quickly.

Went to see if there were any funny Steam reviews about the refunds, and they outright delisted the game. You can't find it via internal search. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2443720/Concord/ https://archive.ph/wip/HtN2e

>>1009216 Next time, give the female characters some fat tits and ass, the game might last an extra week or two.

Has a real game (in sense of not a virus, totally non-functional program, etc.) ever been discontinued this fast without the legal system being involved (e.g., Limbo of the Lost)?

>>1009230 If we don't count all the games that got cancelled before release, Sony did remove Cyberpunk 2077 from it's online store and offered full refunds, because of how broken it's initial launch was, however, unlike Concord, Cyberpunk had it's "redemption arc".

>>1009230 Remember Hyenas? The $100M shooter game from Sega and Creative Assembly that got shut down after the FUCKING OPEN BETA? The one with the drag queen?

>>1009232 I excluding games that actually got release. Otherwise we could fill an entire thread with unreleased games.

>>1009151 ///loser\\\ spotted. We all laugh at the failure of your woketard companies. Get woke, go broke.

>>1009222 (checked) I heard the news and when I saw these images I knew that word had been spread

>>1009230 I'm sure there's a couple.

>>1009232 Every fucking time I see this image I mistake what it is

>>1009215 >>1009216 1 FUCKING WEEK AFTER RELEASE! HOWS THAT LIVE SERVICE WORKING OUT FOR YOU SONY???

>>1009239 Someone's making money from it.

>>1009216 >>1009215 Holy fucking shit, that was fast.

People keep saying this is a modern day E.T. the video game. In a month from now you'll still be able to play E.T.

>>1009216 And Sony will learn absolutely fucking nothing from this disaster and continue pushing live service shit.

>>1009243 What's the better game, E.T or Concord?

>>1009244 Unironically this, they'll look at Helldivers 2 and think they can still make money per release/major content update.

>>1009244 >Sony will lose another $120+ million from their own actions Okay!

>>1009216 >Concord fans LOL! There are none.

>>1009225 >>1009242 Honestly I more surprised they didn't cancel the game like hyenas, the reaction to the game was practically a repeat of it. The only difference was the subgenre, hyenas, was an extraction shooter, and concord was a 'hero shooter'. At least we now know what would of happened if sega didn't cancel hyenas,

>>1009251 One does have to wonder how much longer they can keep pissing money down the drain before it finally catches up to them. Has anything besides Helldivers 2 made them any money lately?

>>1009266 >2020 >end 2021 That's short, but not nearly as short

>>1009268 I was just trying to remember recent blunders

>>1009230 >>1009231 Does anyone remember how many days it took for them to remove Cyberpunk 2077? Because while others games have been removed like this, Concord may really be the fasted to be discontinued.

>>1009216 You could say this game is the first an hero shooter.

>>1009247 E.T. actually sold quite well (though it was noted for having possibly the highest return rate in history at the time: 26%), Atari just had absurd predictions for the game. Concord reportedly only sold around 20k~ copies. There are niche eroge on Itch that have sold better. A truly astounding failure. >>1009266 >>1009268 At least Anthem gave and still gives us Warframe-esque lewds, I'm not sure what Concord will the world.

>>1009274 According to kikepedia, the game got released on the 10th of December, and 2 articles mentioning how the game got pulled out of the store by Sony were on the 18th, so about 8 days. https://archive.ph/h5iu9 https://archive.ph/P0n3R

>>1009231 >(((redemption arc))) There are still retards falling for this marketing scam. A shitty product is shitty forever. It never gets better and never improves.

>>1009299 >>1009231 They're 100% going to try it with that gay tv show that's coming out soon. Unless they make it F2P it'll bomb, and even then, they'll have 1-2 months of 1-2k playerbase before they fuck off back to deadlock or whatever flavour of the week game is currently out.

>>1009299 There's a reason I put in in quotes. With that said from what I have seen the game is less buggy and they did overhaul the gameplay, plus releasing an expansion pack for it, so I disagree on the notion that it never gets better and never improves, considering how buggy it was at launch.

>>1009299 Normalfags were gaslit into thinking the only problem with the game were the bugs and not the excessively bland and empty open world with 0 depth to anything.

>>1009277 Someone give this beaner a green card, that was pretty funny.

>>1009306 That's a symptom of open world games in general though, the ones with 'content' are copypasted to shit usually, tes helped start this shit.

>>1009240 t. desperate shill. Everyone involved will go bankrupt.

>>1009247 People tend to rag on about E.T. as being "the worst game ever" because it caused the game crash but that had little to do with the quality of the game. It's actually not that bad of a game. If anything it's a bit too ambitious for a second generation console game, particularly one that lacks enough memory to hold an entire screens worth of data at once. The problem is that Atari expected it to be the 2600's Bloodborne. They printed more copies than there were 2600s in existance in the hopes that it would be a system seller. It crashed Atari and then subsequently the western game industry not because it was bad but because they fucked up the economics of the whole situation.

>>1009311 >tes helped start this shit. And Minecraft contributed to it. I hope we can soon get past the open world meme.

>>1009316 Someone in management probably just wanted to cash out since that's fucking retarded in general, employees have mentioned drug parties before.

>>1009286 >There are niche eroge on Itch that have sold better I spent yesterday fapping to RJ01062825, and in the circle's devblog for the sequel it mentions that it sold 24k.

>>1009326 I thought it was strange how the game got popular after they released the Trigger anime, although I guess I shouldn't have been surprised since the company didn't just pocket the money when they made it.

>>1009342 It's nothing unusual or controversial, it's just how people act: they watch a movie/tv show that is popular, find out that it's based on other type of media, they then go buy that type of media. It's what toy companies did with cartoons and anime. It also worked with the Fallout TV show, it made some people play Fallout 76, until they quickly dropped that piece of shit.

>>1009286 >though it was noted for having possibly the highest return rate in history at the time: 26% At the time? Something has beaten it outside of mandatory recalls?

>>1009349 Fallout 76 was also given out for free around when the show came out, that also got people trying it and attempting to gaslight a "redemption arc" onto it.

>>1009277 You can stay on our side of the wall.

>>1009277 CARLOS I'M COMING TO KILL YOU

>>1009349 >It's what toy companies did with cartoons and anime. And still works, swear, it's like every marketer got fucking fired post 2007

>>1009384 In Minecraft?

>>1009316 >>1009320 There's a couple other factors that people leave out: >Pac-Man for the Atari 2600 was actually the game that "started" Atari's downfall due to, again, overambition as it was a "code-accurate" port to the original arcade game and the "most accurate" home version of the game until consoles were finally able to emulate 1980's arcade machines >Atari was already riding high with Spielberg after the massive success of the Raiders of the Lost Ark video game, which was THE killer app back in 1982, and were expecting a repeat >Atari was owned by Warner Bros. at the time (Practically everyone forgets this), and WB had already been kneecapping Atari's gaming division (Preventing the release of several successor systems) for years because the 2600 almost literally "printed money" until it didn't and then they couldn't get rid of the company fast enough >>1009358 >Something has beaten it outside of mandatory recalls? Probably Myth 2

>>1005524 >despite the author definitely holding back from writing darker stories Um… >young women conscripted to go to the front because they ran out of men >get shot in the head by their own commander on screen for panicking in a trench because they're women >utterly destroys the psyche of the character relaying the story of her life to a younger kid <holding back wew

>>1009358 I'm thinking about Steam refunds, I have definitely heard of games with higher refund rates. For physical releases though I wouldn't be surprised if E.T. remains unbeaten.

>>1009316 I have a hard time believing that Bubsy 3D or Superman 64 are the still the worst games ever when stuff like Garten of Banban 2 or Redfall exists. >>1009244 I wish Sony could be bullied back into being a japanese company. Just how like all the bullying with the launch of the PS3 forced them to become more western and dedicate themselves to 'mature cinematic experiences'.

>>1009504 There's different tiers of bad, Superman 64 falls within the rushed and uninspired and Bubsy 3D in the experiment gone wrong Concord had 8 years to stop development and failed under every single aspect that isn't graphical fidelity, as a game is better than both Bubsy 3D and Superman 64 but as a commercial product it (alongside Dustborn and Goodbye Volcano High) will have to be studied by devs and economists for generations. It's not an exaggeration to say that it will have the same cultural impact as Gone Homo or Doom in the gaming industry (not necessarily gamers but rather devs and investors who aren't too indoctrinated yet)

>>1011212 Sorry I got distracted mid sentence, ignore the Doom part, I was going on a different tangent

>>1011214 Don't worry anon, I also always have Doom on my mind.

>>1011212 >failed under every single aspect that isn't graphical fidelity I've seen videos showcasing even the graphics fall apart once any kind of interaction is needed. There's tiny objects placed around the maps and they're completely static, being as static and indestructible as a wall, while every surface has the same poor looking and quickly vanishing bullet hole decal pasted on it when shot. GoldenEye 007 was 27 years ago and had better object physics, and those were considered comedic even then: Objects shot would get better looking bullet decals, darken as they lost health, then eventually explode leaving behind a wrecked model (some of which could be destroyed further).

>>1005109 >mfw >/pol/ was right BLAAACKROOOOOOCKKKK

>>1006821 wHAT EVEN IS NORMALFAG ANYMORE?

>>1006821 >>1011388 This is interesting, because when the term normalfag was coined there was something people call the "monoculture". It was that broadly shared culture across the US; everybody knew what the #1 song was, everybody watched the same shows, and everybody knew the same artists. Example I see noticed is how the Cheers season finale had over 90 million people watch it. You would never see that for anything today. Since the early 2000s "monoculture" has been slowly dissolving and culture has atomized into niches and subcultures, and the pandemic effectively ended it. Do you know what the #1 song is at the moment? Do you know what any #1 song from this entire decade has been? Even the concept of the "popstar" is dying, Taylor Swift is one of the only big ones but she's mostly popular with white women, artists like Michael Jackson who were popular with basically everybody are gone. One of the last real remnants of monoculture are blockbuster movies, specifically Marvel, but even that looks like it's fading. The monoculture doesn't fully exist anymore and with that there are fewer "normalfags", too. I guess MrBeast and Marvel are normalfag media?

>>1011411 >Do you know what the #1 song is at the moment? Without using Google I'll say a Taylor Swift song? I don't know the names of them.

>>1011557 maybe it's that song people reference whenever they call an eceleb a pdf file

>>1008582 >PSNProfiles For future reference, it's opt in to be tracked on there. They label GTA5 on PS4 as having 1.8 million owners (most owned game on the website), where most sales data I can see on places like VGChartz are 10 times that. 1200 people who would willingly confess to owning that shit times 10 would be approx. 12000 copies on PS5. >>1011411 >monoculture The only recent (within ~4-5 years) Film Theory video I watched covered the exact same concept, he cites it as a big reason why there's so much divisiveness in society today. It was inevitable considering how much media gets produced and how easy it is to access, still hard to determine how good that is overall though. >Do you know what any #1 song from this entire decade has been I looked at a list, recognized 9 song names total, and of those only 3 I'd actually heard. >I guess MrBeast and Marvel are normalfag media? Arguably it would still be whatever's the most popular/most in the public conscious, so yeah those two would be a good barometer for "peak normalfaggotry"

>>1011646 >where most sales data I can see on places like VGChartz are 10 times that. VGChartz estimates their numbers, they're not a reliable source.

>>1005109 The sad thing is that this garbage would have sold better if it had taken two years to develop instead of eight, and had come out when Guardians of the Galaxy was still relevant and Cheeto-man was president. These days, to appeal to its "modern audience", the modern audience has to ask themselves whether the game is pro-Antisemitism or pro-"bombing Palestinian children".

>>1009216 WEW LAAA-AAAAACK

>>1011653 Even NiggerERA can't stomach the designs.

>>1011653 >refreshing So the tactic is to just say the opposite of whatever the critics do without offering a explanation?

>>1011667 The term is gaslighting.

>>1011411 What an interesting observation, and it makes sense. There really is no pop culture anymore. Everything is sub-genres and niches.

>>1011761 The fall of monoculture inevitably follows the rise of diversity, which causes conflicts that alienate people from each other.

>>1011709 With playground insults and summoning bots to upvote and ratio the wrongthinkers, similar to a soundboard.

>>1011411 >Do you know what any #1 song from this entire decade has been? My guess is either Despacito, Old Town Road, Uptown Funk, or See You Again. >Even the concept of the "popstar" is dying, Taylor Swift is one of the only big ones but she's mostly popular with white women, artists like Michael Jackson who were popular with basically everybody are gone. While you're right that its definitely been on the decline, there are still plenty of prominent artists. For example Bruno Mars is still pretty huge. >One of the last real remnants of monoculture are blockbuster movies, specifically Marvel, but even that looks like it's fading. That's because Hollywood and Marvel keep shitting the bed with quality, but also keep in mind that it hit its popularity peak ever in 2016 with Endgame. They can still have huge successes though, just not on that level without putting in the effort. For example, the new Deadpool moviee made over a billion dollars recently. I personally think monoculture is shit anyways (not that it didn't have certain advantages), and I'm glad more things exist and cater to my personal interests nowadays, rather than being forced into shit I'm expected to pay attention to to "stay in the loop". Either way, there are still certain things that are clearly strong examples of American monoculture, like the NFL for example (even though it doesn't really deserve to be after all the anti-American bullshit they've been pulling).

>>1012150 Oh, also forgot to mention the impact of foreign cultures on America, with shit like the explosion of K-Pop, the rise of anime, foreign content creators and streamers (e.g. vtubers, mukbangs, etc.), and Japanese gaming giants like Nintendo, Sega and Playstation. The more interactions differing cultures have with each other, the more they can change and shift.

>>1012157 >The more interactions differing cultures have with each other, the more they can change and shift. Wouldn't it be the opposite? The more each culture blends, the more it creates a worldwide monoculture?

>>1012161 Eh, I've never heard of anything truly unifying or reaching across the entire world's cultures (unless you count what general American culture has done to the world, but that might be a solipsistic viewpoint). Maybe in the future, but we're not there yet.

Another journo going to bat for Concord. https://archive.is/AHVAV Read through it, it's a strange article. This line stuck out to me >If studio C-suites keep cutting all the buds that don’t instantly blossom, the golden age of gaming of the 2020s—a mix of AAA blockbusters like Elden Ring, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and Baldur’s Gate 3, alongside smaller-budget gems like Tunic, Chants of Sennar, and the reimagining of 1997’s Riven—could already be over. Girl what are you talking about

>>1012171 >generic live service hero shooter #245 failed >the age of the AAA roleplaying game is OVER ????? Who writes these articles, why are journos so fucking upset Concord flopped? This is so strange.

>>1012183 Same reason they were angry when people were laughing at the Last of Us 2: Senator Abbystrong's Joel in One edition. Because Soyny pays them to be.

>>1012171 >>1012183 >game journos finally embracing niggerpill

>>1012171 This is the jewboi who wrote it

>>1012171 >fans loved it WHAT FUCKING FANS

>>1012218 It had like 10 fans and they all loved it, m'kay.

Well this explains a lot. Check out how one of the lead artists for Concord drew Asuka and Rei. Specifically Amanda, the one mentioned here >>1007514 https://archive.is/RwcAu She also wants anyone who disagrees with her to eventually never play any video games again. https://archive.is/JsSjX Tried finding the original, but of course her tweets are protected now.

>>1012296 I hope she never works in games ever again since she clearly doesn't enjoy working on them and people don't enjoy playing her games.

>>1012296 She looks like she's wearing a diaper

>>1012217 That ain't a jewcyboi

>>1012171 >the golden age of gaming of the 2020s Fucking stupidest shit I've heard in a long time.

>>1012297 I hope so too, we'll just have to see. I suspect, as with others like her, that she does not work on video games because she enjoys video games. She wants to take over the space, drive out what she sees as "evil" without replacing it with anything "good." She wants to raze it all to the ground then walk away when there is no money left to be made. >>1012298 That's because the artist is afraid of drawing normal shaped asses. They intimidate and offend her. And even if she did attempt to make Asuka or Rei look remotely female in shape, she'd likely be canceled by her peers for "sexualizing" her.

>>1012171 >the golden age of gaming of the 2020s—a mix of AAA blockbusters like Elden Ring, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and Baldur’s Gate 3, alongside smaller-budget gems like Tunic, Chants of Sennar, and the reimagining of 1997’s Riven

>>1012183 >why are journos so fucking upset Concord flopped? This is so strange Butthurt that not even the normalfags wanted to play a gay-ass Guardians of the Galaxy knockoff game without any interesting spin on the hero shooter genre when Overwatch, Paladins or TF2 exist. Also >>1012184. What would bother me even more though is that some retarded suits/journos would suddenly say Concord flopped because it was a paid game with no MTX and season passes (from what I heard, but they would've made some should the game have succeded), and they decide to fund even more of this shit, this time with all the predatory practices you can think off. I'm pretty sure someone made that excuse already.

>>1012183 It's BAIT and people will fall for it over and over. They couldn't give a single solitary fuck for the people who worked on it and got shitcanned they just want their clicks so they can pay for their starbucks.

>>1012343 But how can journos write 30 articles per week without their daily Mocha Latte Supreme?

>>1012217 Ugly and no masculinity, like all jews.

Concord's director has resigned from Firewalker. https://archive.is/Z3LxQ Ryan Ellis was also a designer on Destiny, an artist on the Oddworld series. For being in the industry for 20 odd years, he doesn't have a lot of credits.

>>1016476 >For being in the industry for 20 odd years, he doesn't have a lot of credits. Almost half of it was spent on Concord.

>>1012217 real life soyjak

https://x.com/longislandviper/status/1837157796137030141 400 MILLION DAW SIZED CRATER

>>1016553 >download video >it's just barely above the size limit >have to re-encode it Half a fucking hour wasted. Anyway, here's the video for anybody that doesn't want to use shitter. It's roughly ten minutes. I strongly doubt the figure anyway. Colin isn't all that reliable for these kinds of things. Most put it at $200m, nowhere near the $400m figure claimed.

>>1016565 lol

>>1016553 >download video >it's just barely above the size limit >have to re-encode it Half a fucking hour wasted. Anyway, here's the video for anybody that doesn't want to use shitter. It's roughly ten minutes. I strongly doubt the figure anyway. Colin isn't all that reliable for these kinds of things. Most put it at $200m, nowhere near the $400m figure claimed.

>>1016567 Guess what? The site didn't like the header, so I had to fuck around with it again. It didn't tell me this of course, the post went through just fine. Instead, it decided to eat the file. Why is this site so weird with videos? I never bother to convert things anymore because of it.

>>1016553 >>1016568 And here is the archive for the tweet. https://archive.is/lw1mR

>>1016568 I'm just surprised they're not going full free to play with this game. >>1016572 It's already been restored.

>>1016573 The server maintenance would be further loss of money, they cut their losses.

>>1016571 >Why is this site so weird with videos? Codex does it 4free No bully

>>1016577 BILLY THE CODEXX

>>1016568 Nice, very nice. HOWEVER

>>1016573 >It's already been restored. The first anon I replied to posted a direct link to Xitter. That's why I posted an archive.

>>1016593 You've got to keep in mind this board has had an influx of newfags from cuckchan and retarddit who are still stuck in their backwards shithole mannerisms.