Who looked at this and said: "Good job"?
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silmarp@reddit
Wait a minute. Was it in the final version?
Like. Does this character have a cardiac arrest special power?
AdriSayne@reddit
Ok I got a sincere question. Why does this design makes everyone go "Hehe big fat person is fat, look he can kill you with his fatty fat belly" but everyone is fine with Roadhog who looks 10 times bigger ? Again it's a sincere question I don't care about this trash game I'm just trying to understand.
Fire2xdxd@reddit
Cartoony vs "realistic" design I think. Also Roadhog is just a cool and interesting character.
silmarp@reddit
I think it's more of a feeling stuff. Roadhog is more on the likes of cartoonish and dangerous. People can have fun with a character that is fat and dangerous.
It's the same with Pudge from Dota2. He's fat and he has a backstory of being fat and eating the enemies.
Now this one from Concord. It seems she's just like an overweight lady you see at Wallmart. Also she seems like an autoinsert and plain boring. A character can be fat and fun or fat and boring. The one from Concord seems fat and boring. It seems like a character that will get tired of running for for 3 minutes and lie on the ground to rest.
Doing fat is hard because people will want to make jokes so I guess the first rule of fat is that is has to be a male. Because it's hard to make fun of female characters.
Also the Roadhog has some cool features to booth. This one has nothing. Even her eye protectors are plain white with no particular distinction from any Karen you might find elsewhere. They could go the route of giving her a heavy weapon so it balances on her being fat and people could think that she's fat but shes strong but they gave her a common machine gun. Overwatch had a fat and good character that was cool. She used a heavy gun and it was really cool. I mean, there are two ways to treat a fat character. If it's male it can be cool or cartoonish, if its female it has to be cool. This one is not cool.
I mean, there are a lot of small decisions in design that made this one suck.
Toerbitz@reddit
Cap they dont have to be cool borderlands has fat cartoonish female characters
silmarp@reddit
Oh. I have seen the fat girl and she has a huge ass wrench at her hands. I think that counts as cool but also as a bit cartoonish so I think you are right.
PVetli@reddit
Also for consideration, OW's Mei character is pretty thiccc but well liked because she's 'cute'. This character is not cute
WhyAmIToxic@reddit
You have to buy the fancy eye protectors from thw cash shop, the players who dont spend any money get a randomized outfit from a goodwill bin.
LordVaderVader@reddit
Roadhog has muscles and big stomach like a powerlifter, his design screams badass mad max executioner, which will break you in half like Batman's spine.
This character is just fat and obese guy who looks like regular person in mcdonald, there is just nothing interesting or menacing going on in this design.
awesomedude4100@reddit
how u feel about bob, the beloved fat guy from tekken?
Simp_Red@reddit
Roadhog is a big guy with a gas mask, shotgun, and a big fucking hook. He looks like a horror movie villain, which makes him cool as fuck. This person looks like what I see at Walmart during the winter
StosifJalin@reddit
ITT: fat without reason is just sad
Frostygale2@reddit
Probably cause of the style choices.
You could see Roadhog being the villain of a mad-max spin off or something, or a jabba-esque bad dude in some gritty sci-fi. You can’t really see this fat man in the pic as anything special, since his size doesn’t add to his presence in any way unlike the other two examples.
Kinda like how in fantasy, a really fat bearded king is probably either evil or incompetent, fat-ness can be a good thing for designing when you actually use it to convey certain aspects of a character.
ismasbi@reddit
Road Hog kinda has a unique design, this is just a fat guy, that's it, that's all there is to it.
nosekexp@reddit
Probably cause RH looks more like a caricature and this looks like something they did for representation but idk.
Thatunhealthy@reddit
Soldier 76 Big Macs
BananaBully@reddit
Fucking kek
Vikerchu@reddit
what's a kek
ProRomanianThief@reddit
In World of Warcraft, there's a mechanic that prevents Horde and Alliance players from understanding eachother by translating their words into some made-up language. Lol is translated as kek.
IcyDrops@reddit
That's where it comes from? I've used it for years without knowing
KamikazeSexPilot@reddit
Alliance saying lol comes out as bur for horde players. And horde its kek.
Vikerchu@reddit
bur
House923@reddit
I love that, when meme things like this are used for so long that it just becomes part of a person's language without even knowing why.
silmarp@reddit
Not really comes from here. Kek is a representation of cake. Lex Luthor once stole 40 cakes. That's one more than 39 cakes. That's a lot of cakes.
Starbonius@reddit
Shhhhhh you're not supposed to tell them!
dudeatwork77@reddit
Then how top kek came to be
antpile11@reddit
Specifically, "kek" is "lol" when said in Orcish (default horde language) when viewed by an Alliance player.
CuddleScuffle@reddit
Lol essentially
HazelCheese@reddit
Lmao
Meteorstar101@reddit (OP)
Pre sure he's a healer
Substantial-Cat2896@reddit
Thats a woman
PlanBisBreakfastNbed@reddit
Is it?
Pugmaster-12@reddit
https://i.redd.it/6a9w83ig40od1.gif
DeveloperBRdotnet@reddit
It is it's special power, the gender changes to heal or to speed up the alies
Berkuts_Lance_Plus@reddit
"It is it is special power"
PlanBisBreakfastNbed@reddit
Are you trolling ?? This cannot be real. What's it's name ? Is there a wiki. This has to be a troll
frosch-reiniger@reddit
Pretty sure it’s she/it
WookerTBashington@reddit
well, shit, there must be a shorter way to say she/it...
DasBrewinator@reddit
Shit??
Neon_Ani@reddit
my pronouns are it/she cause why the fuck am i so goddamn itchy all the time
millsy98@reddit
Probably cause you’re full of she/it
pants-pooping-ape@reddit
After the sucess of diablo, meet Diabeto
bell37@reddit
Does his ability include absorbing people’s cholesterol?
StosifJalin@reddit
I'm tired boss
NovasTheVeliki@reddit
He guides others to a treasure he cant possess
Davian0@reddit
it*
Oh_its_that_asshole@reddit
He looks like he does his coat up and fiddles with himself outside schools.
Phendrana-Drifter@reddit
It is Ma'am!
ChadWestPaints@reddit
Wait, he?
lmay0000@reddit
Pediasure?
iNfANTcOMA@reddit
He?
Qverlord37@reddit
That's a guy?
pants-pooping-ape@reddit
That's a huge bitch
Suspicious_Leg4550@reddit
You actually need to crouch to access you pockets
Lord-Kibben@reddit
Broke: Concord died cause it’s woke
Woke: Concord died cause it’s a shitty, predatory live service game that, for some godforsaken reason, costs full retail price despite all its competitors being free to play
Bespoke: Concord died cause they didn’t hire anybody to make Machinima porn of it before release
tigerbait92@reddit
Actually true. Porn does so much for games, it isn't even funny.
Overwatch was big because it was a good game with good art direction. But then porn got a hold of it, and it became bigger than fucking call of duty. I mean, shit, no one likes a character like Kiriko, but you bet your ass they'll goon to her
J0lteoff@reddit
Also the character designs were incredible, apparently one of the character designers from Street Fighter lead for a lot of the OW character designs.
MetaCommando@reddit
Emphasis on "were"
Foxehh3@reddit
Rammatra is generic and ugly? That's a super hot fucking take, honestly.
MetaCommando@reddit
Rammatra looks like Raven Beak at home. You could tell me he was just a Predator crossover and I'd believe it.
MrPootisPow@reddit
So is his voice and his voice lines are just pure perfection
J0lteoff@reddit
You're completely wrong, the same character designer made at least Junker Queen's design in OW2
Rattenrukker@reddit
You can't tell me Rammatra and Junker queen are either ugly or generic
Channel_oreo@reddit
Paladins a copycat of Overwatch stays alive because of skins and new characters that appeal to it's players.
DarthGiorgi@reddit
Calling Paladins a copy cat is funny.
It was a successor to Hi-rez older game and tf2 inspiration, then ow happened and they slightly changed the modes.
OW on the other hand copies paladisn like there is ko tomorrow. Revork of hanzo, pretty mich sombrs in entirety, Mauga, all are overwatch copies of Paladins champions lmao.
Channel_oreo@reddit
lmao. you are right. god damn how did blizzard became so creatively bankrupt
MageArcher@reddit
Always were. Blizzard in its prime was always about finding what gamers loved about other games, then polishing that to a high sheen.
It's why the new WoW expansion's kinda interesting; they seem to have adopted a lot of alt-friendly and solo-play mechanics from other games, notably FFXIV's Trust system. They're getting back to what they were always best at.
plsdontlewdlolis@reddit
I seriously think ppl find out about overwatch nowadays from their porn
Fair_Palpitation7556@reddit
NEVER GOON!
HingleMcCringle_@reddit
choke: me. please
GoodTitrations@reddit
Or maybe those shit decisions you listed next to “Woke:” are correlated with what you said next to “Broke:”.
Hawaiian_Shirt12@reddit
woke is when execs make shitty live service games because "FORTNITE!!!"
CaptainWeekend@reddit
The live service obsession predates fortnite by at least 5 years, it's been a trend in gaming since at least the early to mid 2010s. After a certain point it seems that every game publisher had this idea that you only make money off of a single player game once, but live service games are infinite money printers, so there was a massive pivot away from single player games in favour of making live service versions, and most reprehensibly, trying to put live service features into single player games. This is why we haven't seen elder scrolls 6 in over a decade but we've recieved multiple elder scrolls live service games like ESO, blades, and legends. Similarly it's why most recent rockstar games feel like a single player campaign tacked on to a live service game, hell we even know that Rockstar scrapped additional single player content for GTA 5 and later recycled it for online.
tenlu@reddit
Combination of a few things, the shitty character design wasn’t doing it any favors
Jinxzy@reddit
Would need characters anyone wants to look at first for that.
And if it did... Wouldn't need to hire anyone, thirsty af R34 twitter "artists" would do it for free long before game even launches.
Tony_Khantana@reddit
Anyone seeing porn with this character in it will get so un-hard their dick will shoot back up onto their pelvis and they'll need ED medication just to get it to come back out long enough to take a piss
niTro_sMurph@reddit
Why would you put such a large, squishy target into combat?
mememan2995@reddit
This guy doesn't TF2
Jozef_Baca@reddit
Ok, but tbf, Heavy at least looks like he has muscle under that fat
Shas_Okar@reddit
He has a minigun, he must have muscle.
Pugmaster-12@reddit
Heavy is how you make a fat character correctly
niTro_sMurph@reddit
This guy is a bigger target than heavy
Sillvaro@reddit
With enough fat you can stop bullets
alguien99@reddit
Or burn it to get more speed
ShortTheseNuts@reddit
To stop a 9mm it takes 63cm/25inches of fat.
Starbonius@reddit
So she can stop at least a 36mm shot
soganox@reddit
At this point I’m fairly certain that requirement has been met by some people D:
OldManMoment@reddit
Kevlard
Advice2Anyone@reddit
No Neo, I am saying once you are fat enough you won't have too the bullets will simply enter your gravity and bend around you
rokomotto@reddit
He's a healer, so he'd be in the backline. Not that anything in his design communicates this. I mean ideally you want supports to be harder to hit but I guess that's unfathomable to these designers.
Advice2Anyone@reddit
Healer and damage sponge
ShortTheseNuts@reddit
Taric in League, the 🐐
Starbonius@reddit
But taric is hot and a Chad.
niTro_sMurph@reddit
A healer in the backline with a normal looking rifle that can't make better use of being farther from the enemy? I get that most other healers don't do this but with a healer so large you might as well make them double as an actual tank. Maybe give em a mortar/ grenade launcher
snipeie@reddit
For game design.
Every single team shooter game has a heavy chunky design.
It shows tankiness quite immediately.
Heavy from TF2.
Reinhardt bastion orisa d.va roadhog from OverWatch.
It's just what good design looks like
vpilled@reddit
But this isn't a tank. It's a healer with an impractical jacket.
niTro_sMurph@reddit
And a normal looking assault rifle that doesn't match their size
niTro_sMurph@reddit
As someone else pointed out, this is a healer not a tank. If they wanted it to double as a tank they should have given it a weapon that would signify that. Something bigger than the average rifle they gave him. Maybe a large machine gun with an under barrel launcher for launching area effect rounds to keep enemies away while you heal a teammate. They look nerdy so I could see them using grenade rounds that creates a large bulletproof (for balance purposes perhaps it would only reduce incoming damage after taking a certain amount of shots) energy shield to guard them and downed teammates, perhaps enemies that enter the shield could take damage over time.
I don't intend on touching this game so maybe this is how he works, but giving him a normal rifle looks stupid
EggNazrin@reddit
Anon vastly overestimates the intelligence and business-savvy of bosses.
UrMumVeryGayLul@reddit
The problem is almost always putting creative direction in the hands of suits, and people who could give less of a fuck about games. What they see is trends and opportunity to insert their opinions, not what makes games actually fun. These atrocities are what happens when you put gameplay last - the character could look like something that crawled out of the devil’s anus and people would still play it if the gameplay is that entertaining.
b__0@reddit
Wow. Why do you hate strong women? /s
GoodTitrations@reddit
I know you’re joking but this seems to be the actual play. Do something you know will rile up a small number of people and watch all the free PR roll in from places like Reddit and Twitter aggressively defending you.
girlgamerpoi@reddit
Yea but they actually gonna pay? They are just an actual minority who's less likely gonna pay versus the silent majority with more potential customers.
Dyldawg101@reddit
A loud minority. That's the key there. They are definitely a small audience, but they screech and cry so damn loud that you almost can't ignore them. And if you're a mindless suit, even if you have your demographics on hand, you're not ignoring that very vocal cluster saying all those buzzwords loud enough for anyone to take notice.
Gets even worse when those loud things are in suits alongside you.
girlgamerpoi@reddit
The weird thing is listening to gamers community's review or feed back is really rare. Makes me wonder if there's some weird groups sending out elite world class assassins like agent 47 to whoever big person that doesn't listen to them. This whole thing is really weird.
Dyldawg101@reddit
Those assassins are called Blackrock and Sweet Baby Inc.
And they're not really assassins either, they're more like Mafia.
HingleMcCringle_@reddit
(money laundering)
40isthenewconfused@reddit
That’s an incorrect statement. Been there. We know. We get told xxx regardless of facts. We do what we do to keep our jobs. You don’t (maybe very rarely) get to a high level without hard work and knowing a lot. There are games in the background you just have to nod your head to.
greektofuman4@reddit
The other day a higher up interjected between developers and artists discussing who they would handle a particle effect on lower end devices and he said “just do it like Star Wars”. It’s nepotism
404nocreativusername@reddit
And what's your experience with high level executive decision making regarding games in the background you've nodded your head to, while working very hard.
GoodTitrations@reddit
This sentence alone convinced me you have never had a job in your life lmao.
TeamBoeing@reddit
“We need character designs that 4channers can relate to”
AndrewTheSouless@reddit
The problem is that 4Channers hate themself
GoodTitrations@reddit
At least 4channers posses enough self-awareness to hate themselves.
Ledditors act like they are God’s gift to the internet with zero irony.
Blah132454675@reddit
Akshually so called "god" Is nothing more than your imaginary sky daddy friend. Before we end our conversation, would you by any chance like to rate my Funko pop collection?🤓
DagonG2021@reddit
In this moment, I am euphoric…
HamBlamBlam@reddit
They also don’t have any money
InkyLizard@reddit
The annoying thing is that they have no clue that no gamer wants to play as a body type that they relate to, it's a fantasy world so people want to be the best fantasy version of themselves. Forcing inclusion in games is frankly insane, and nobody wants that.
Kinda wish I was among the first to start the woke grift. The "advisors" for this game likely made millions, but studios still haven't realized that the actual cost is the whole profit of the game. Nobody wanted a pudgy-faced Aloy for example, but they just had to listen to the worst consults in the world, and it hurt their sales tremendously. People want believable heroes, did she just suddenly develop thyroid issues within lore or why did they need to make her so pudgy?
DinkleDonkerAAA@reddit
The game didn't fail because it was woke
It failed because it was a bland clone of free to play games being sold at full price while also being full of microtransactions
Believe it or not most people don't give a shit ifba character is fat or black or gay, or are actually happy to see someone like them
Karlaminal@reddit
Por que no Los dos
Available-Captain-20@reddit
because no game has ever failed because it was """woke""", games fail because they are bad or the launch/marketing is bad, not because it is "woke"
GoodTitrations@reddit
But they’re often bad because clearly the studio puts more emphasis on that than understanding what people actually want to play.
If your mindset on fantasy is at the level of “we need to make the characters and setting relatable to the average Tumblr user so they feel represented” then you’re already doomed.
J0lteoff@reddit
It's just writing lmao, well written "woke" games do just as well as any other well written game
insanenoodleguy@reddit
It’s a symptom so prominent it’s often used to describe the disease.
Baldurs gate said “okay. Necromancer runs a circus full of monsters. Runs skeletons through a dance routine. Sketch? Oh yeah! And the player has to find his murdered clowns body parts as a quest! Okay this is good shit. Also, I wanna make em trans.”
The “woke” BG3 that thankfully didn’t happen “We need a trans wizard! How are we getting that in here? Eh, a necromancer I guess? Oh but make sure they aren’t outright an enemy. And they’ll do something to give the character a quest so we end up talking to them. That’ll move sales!”
J0lteoff@reddit
Yeah that's good writing. That happens outside of things considered "woke" to characters all the time. Flanderization existed before balding youtubers cried about diversity
LordPeebis@reddit
Yeah just look at baldur’s gate 3
Available-Captain-20@reddit
Lmao there isn't a single true statement on this comment
Invoqwer@reddit
Also seemingly none of the characters had appealing character designs... like at all
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Clear lack of art direction. Most characters looked like what I would look like if I was playing Fallout4 and equipped random items I found on the ground into every inventory slot
https://i.imgur.com/hfUatpY.png
silmarp@reddit
To be fair the fight system doesn't pack a punch too, the shots look like a small light or something.
Weapons are meant to be fun.
leastemployableman@reddit
I'm having a hard time believing that the devs didn't just Use AI to create the character designs. They just look so unappealing that it's hard to imagine that a human being had a hand in it. Even most "outsider art" can have at least SOME appeal. I can't explain it, but there's a certain feeling I get when I look at AI images and these designs give me that exact feeling.
Invoqwer@reddit
I have a theory that they made a character creator (you know the ones for RPGs) and a bunch of clothing/armor items for some different game, and then someone had the bright idea of scrapping that game and using that character creator/designer as a baseline for all characters in Concord, to save them work, instead of creating each character asset from the ground up like most games (e.g. overwatch, TF2, dota2, League, etc).
leastemployableman@reddit
That actually seems pretty likely. Some of the characters look like a "weight slider" was used instead of actually shaping the character correctly. It's probably why the character in OP'S post looks like a pear instead of having natural looking proportions
DinkleDonkerAAA@reddit
Yeah the characters weren't bad because they were woke they are just bad
Darmok-on-the-Ocean@reddit
I'm sure plenty of black and gay people are happy when games include representation. But I have a hard time believing fat people are upset that they are underrepresented in action games.
DarthGiorgi@reddit
As a relatively fat person, I hate myself already for being fat.
What do you think I will think of that shit in the game???
Pancakewagon26@reddit
I literally didn't even hear anything about it until after it released and everyone was meming on it for only having 700 players.
I think it was a massive failure of marketing.
Ardalev@reddit
This.
People act as if Junkrat, Roadhog, the Heavy etc. don't exist.
Ok, sure, the characters being generally unattractive does play a part, but this pales in comparison to the real issue, which is that Concord is an uninteresting choice in an ocean of vastly better FPS team fighting games.
MetaCommando@reddit
wdym Heavy is hot, he's just a big guy
Rand_alThor_@reddit
Having a diverse set of characters is not the problem. Many successful games with them and they should keep going. But annoying woke characters are. Especially when it is all of them.
goodfisher88@reddit
It had microtransactions too? For real, how the hell did this get made?
DinkleDonkerAAA@reddit
Greed arrogance and panic
My theory on why this went from being an ideal that was ideally mulled over for 8 years to a game that Sony pumped millions into and promoted heavily is all the Microsoft acquisitions
Nintendo has always dominated the first party IP scene, and while Sony has some amazing games, their recent but franchises (God of War, Spider-Man, Horizon) are all very samey: cinematic mocapped action adventures with RPG progression meaning their player base is getting narrow. Meanwhile Microsoft has bought out so many studios and IP they're posed to rival Nintendo when it comes to first party IP variety. Sony freaked the fucked out that they're dropping into third so they pushed Concord out to try and get a foothold in a trendy genre
SPDXYT@reddit
Pudgy faced? Genuinely what are you on about?
neverbeenhereyet@reddit
who on earth can critisize how Aloy looks? i can't even understand ts, she's looking very unique and outsdanding, and not "thirst trap" looking too. every "gamer" wants women character looks like Ada Wong or it's woke, lmao
FB-22@reddit
Well I don’t think she looks bad but she is definitely less attractive than the face model they used for her character, which seems like probably an intentional choice
leastemployableman@reddit
Gamers just want Cortana feet, nothing more nothing less.
House923@reddit
Concord should have just made all their characters barefoot. Instant number one seller.
IANVS@reddit
She looks like an alcoholic trucker, man. I don't wanna spend the entire game looking at that.
poop-machines@reddit
Wtf no she doesn't. She looks normal, I actually think she's well designed and looks realistic instead of some cookie cutter hot girl.
GreatDayBG2@reddit
You've never been around truckers
GoodTitrations@reddit
People who probably don’t even play games whining about gamers liking “thirst traps” feels like a self-report.
neverbeenhereyet@reddit
huh? you want to compare how many hours we've spent on games this year? you start ;)
tigerbait92@reddit
Fr, Aloy is pretty as hell, idk why anyone got upsetti spaghetti over her
erickbaka@reddit
Out of sheer curiosity, you really don’t see this as pudgy? I’m not from the US and I can see it. That’s the facial structure of a well-fed 5-year-old on a grown woman.
GreatDayBG2@reddit
I am not from the USA either and she doesn't seem pudgy to me. She has a wide face that might give out that initial appearance but if you look at her features she doesn't have big cheeks or puffiness
turn1manacrypt@reddit
Speak for yourself dude I have fun playing as a big fat guy. I used to play Bo’Rai Cho in MK all the time and fart on people.
I’m not fat anymore but I still always pick the fat or weird looking characters.
InkyLizard@reddit
I mean yeah, Bo'Rai looks badass and I do love playing as built-fat bodytypes.
I just don't enjoy anything on the weight spectrum that doesn't look fitting for their role, I'm not gonna play as skinnybois either.
But I guess opinions are opinions, it just bothers me when consulting companies sell to game publishers this image of the "modern consumer" who is so insecure they cannot see a good-looking person or anyone with any muscle definition in a game without having an aneurysm.
Electronic-Hotel4911@reddit
if this lady was skinny concord would have flopped exactly the same
GoodTitrations@reddit
I don’t think people truly blame fat/ugly characters on games being shit, it’s the fact that these types of decisions are a pretty reliable indicator that the studio doesn’t give a shit about their product and are trying to compensate in other ways.
Electronic-Hotel4911@reddit
i wish everyone was that rational
cheater00@reddit
which is why all the girls in beer ads look exactly like her
mayhem93@reddit
the fuck are you talking about, Aloy is hot as hell in 1 and 2
InkyLizard@reddit
Compare 1 with 2 and you'll see the point, to be clear, I meant that the second game was tainted by "made for the modern audience" type bs from the "consultants", first one was great and sold really well
mayhem93@reddit
i might be wrong but i fail to see the pudgy face design here
FlashAttack@reddit
Right looks like my old high school bully fr
TheOneWhoReadsStuff@reddit
You’re showing the best possible angle of her.
Przedrzag@reddit
“Pudgy” in anti-Aloy speak means “cheekbones not as sharp as Bella Hadid’s”
KonamiKing@reddit
Fat face Aloy looks exactly like the main character from Bully.
damnumalone@reddit
I have to say I think declaring the pronouns of the characters is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard.
Half the value of a character is that you get to reflect whatever persona you want on to them. ie, their identity should be something the player themselves defines.
Also, an avatar is not going to be offended by being misgendered, so it is completely pointless virtue signalling — it kind of shows if this was what they thought was important in character design, no wonder this thing flopped harder than Professor Splash
leastemployableman@reddit
"An avatar is not going to be offended by being misgendered" well...not yet...
suppre55ion@reddit
Personally - I don’t care what body type i play with. It does not bother me. What bothers me is when it’s obviously being done for inclusion. “Hey look at the FAT body we have all kinds of people”
The intention shouldn’t be “we have different body types for gamers to relate to” and thats what companies are failing at. I just want to play a character that I like, no play them out of some weird inclusion suggestion
MangaIsekaiWeeb@reddit
I do want to play as a fat person, so I think you are wrong there. It doesn't mean I don't want to play a sexy person or a muscular person. I want to play the best version of myself and also the worst version of myself. I want to be a fat short dwarf, an ugly orc, a sexy elf, etc. I like choices.
Inclusion is fine for games with character creations. Fantasy games would be very boring if I could only create sexy characters and only paragon of justices.
Coakis@reddit
Exactly, I'm a unattractive piece of shit with health problems. You know what I don't want to play? An unattractive piece of shit with health problems. Why? BECAUSE I LIVE THAT DAILY.
darklightx117@reddit
To them translation: oh we need unattractive and unhealthy person so this guy can relate to and be happy with
lmay0000@reddit
Are you being serous?
redditisbadmkay9@reddit
Hey man, it worked for Steins;Gate and Paprika so who knows
lucasthebr2121@reddit
Dont you ever and i mean ever compare steins;gate to this shit this is like comparing actual dog shit mixed with pig piss to a fucking diamond worth a second world country its a fucking disrespect to steins;gate
Elkku26@reddit
I tried to play steins;gate but stopped after half an hour because it just felt so unambiguously, obviously bad. I guess there was something I was not getting because I honestly couldn't see how someone could take it seriously. Maybe I should try again sometime to see if it clicks because I know a lot of people find it amazing and I'm sure there's a good reason for that.
_Reicy_@reddit
vns are not for everyone but the story is actually really good - if you want you can try the anime, it has a lot less cringe and harem shit
fearlesspancake@reddit
New copypasta just dropped
I tried to have sex but stopped after half an hour because it just felt so unambiguously, obviously bad. I guess there was something I was not getting because I honestly couldn't see how someone could take it seriously. Maybe I should try again sometime to see if it clicks because I know a lot of people find it amazing and I'm sure there's a good reason for that.
Elkku26@reddit
That's actually quite funny, thank you for that lol
DokutahMostima@reddit
You would be surprised to know how many people had the same experience. I also dropped it after about 3-4 hours. Many people probably have said already that it is one of the games that actually gets better if you get to a certain part.
But if you cant stand the lingo and the "weeb" part (mind you I'm not judging, i get where you're coming from) I don't recommend the game, personally if I didn't like the main character I would probably have dropped it without getting to the first half
The_real_bandito@reddit
This was my same experience with Steins;gate
FAARAO@reddit
The story is pretty good if you can ignore all the cringe shit, it was pretty hard to do that though.
Foxehh3@reddit
Steins;gate is super average relax.
lucasthebr2121@reddit
And concord is absolute shit
Plus stein gate is on my top 25
Foxehh3@reddit
Holy fucking weeb
FinestCrusader@reddit
How do you remember 25 animes in the first place
Gearski@reddit
Not having a job is his super power, along with autism
momoreco@reddit
Isn't this the real question? And the top 25 just makes it worse
RedxHarlow@reddit
I mean he was wankin but thats not true either.
SlavicBlyat@reddit
Steins gate is good at least
silmarp@reddit
If they needed designs that 4channers could relate they would to My Little Pony or furry chars.
rstrstrs@reddit
I thought that was why OW had RoadHog?
lynxerious@reddit
"we need a character designs that 4channers and tumblr users can both relate to"
guiltyspaekle@reddit
Wait no gravity rush 3??
Pingaso21@reddit
There is one explanation. It started development 8 years ago. A modern Duke Nukem forever
Cheezeepants@reddit
that doesn't explain why every single character design sucks ass. the guy up there isn't even the worst offender. 8 years and they couldnt hire even one character designer who knew what they were doing?
Shirokuma247@reddit
8 years ago overwatch and guardians of the galaxy were trending. This game ran away with those two themes and locked themselves in a cave for eight years.
mikhel@reddit
It's truly incredible that in a game that has a literal walking barrel as a character they somehow managed to make someone with an even blander and uglier silhouette
Shirokuma247@reddit
I looked at the yellow barrel tank character and thought. “Yep. This is the epitome of concord’s character design.
Blasteth@reddit
Honest to god, that is one of the ugliest designs ever conceived. There's no sense of aesthetic whatsoever.
Cheezeepants@reddit
this isn't even one of the worst character designs in the game
LeAlthos@reddit
Not even close, that green-skinned girl has a "graphic design is my passion"-level color palette. I genuinely cannot understand how ANYONE could approve of that design, let alone the team behind a 200million dollars game.
I'm 99% certain that you could pick any random person from the street, give them an hour fucking around with color-filling tools and they would come up with a more pleasing result than whatever the fuck this atrocity was.
Shirokuma247@reddit
The ramona from scott pilgrim if she was a green wlf
Rizer0@reddit
Who the fuck willingly wants to please as a fatass in a video game? Like did they even think about that at all?
I thought video games were meant to help us escape reality, not reflect it.
Grim-N-Gruesome@reddit
My theory is that the budgets for these games are purposely bloated so that the ones in charge pocket a fuck ton of it. Writing a shit ton of it off as "business expenses"
Same goes for Hollywood and "modern art"
BonkeyKongthesecond@reddit
Never heard of the game before the drama around it and now I think it's another Psyop
Severe_Age1523@reddit
Like half the characters I’ve seen from this game built like an egg bro ong
_TLDR_Swinton@reddit
Concorp
Dyldawg101@reddit
The activists in charge. And because they're the bosses (or at least in positions of power) the people who have to work on the game don't really have a say. Not if they want to keep their paychecks of course.
Plus when you have a small but loud echo chamber constantly telling you it's the best thing ever any criticism can get easily drowned out.
5spikecelio@reddit
As a professional concept artist, you overweight and with same type of hair, this dude makes me furious. I hate this design in a way only comparable with the hatred i have for pyra from xenoblade. When designing a fat character you have 2 choices and 2 choices only: you either design it to make it look like him being fat is an advantage and is meant to look cool and powerful: example: road hog, bob (tekken), birdie sfV , thor (gow). Or you design it to be goofy and embrace the ridiculous aspect. Example: rufus (sfiv) , the duke resident evil, king k roo. This dude failed in the most spectacular way a design for fat people can fail. When you eant to be taken seriously but look stupid because you are fat. And the biggest problem to me is that they could easily maintain the same design , fix some minor things like the height of the belt, size of the gloves, hair style, and have a more presentable design. Fuck concord, fuck daw
thecryptohater@reddit
Should funded the miles morales movie instead.
GrandLewdWizard@reddit
It was a planned tax write off the failure will cover both wukong sales hell diver sales and Astro bot
gereffi@reddit
I don't think you understand how tax write offs work.
BrunesOvrBrauns@reddit
Found Linus Sebastian 🤣
GrandLewdWizard@reddit
If they spent 100 million dollars on it yes 8 years how can they use it this year? It’s because they shut the game down this year so they can use the loss this year. it’s business loss concrete business loss or really mega corp business loss EA did the same with battlefront 2
froz3nt@reddit
They'd earn more money if they didnt plow all the money into this game just to write it off for tax reasons.
GravityRusher12@reddit
I was not aware gravity rush’s studio was shut down. Endless agony
liamf10@reddit
Heavy on the gravity rush part. Sadly we will never get a third installment of this god tier ip, but im sure sony will keep shitting out whatever the fuck that is.
Tbkssom@reddit
No one spends $100 million and 8 years to make a game on purpose. I guarantee you something, or many things, went very wrong in development and there were many versions of this game that were worked on a ton and then scrapped for whatever reason. Concord as we know it was probably many steps down from whatever they initially intended, and these character designs were certainly scrapped together last-minute.
Paul6334@reddit
The character designs were conceived for a much more cartoony art style. Studio execs demanded a change to a more photorealistic one to show off what the engine was capable of, and by the time they did that, the designs were finalized and they weren’t given enough time to scrap and rework the designs.
LittleDuffy@reddit
Front-butt fatties are exactly what gamers want
SoupaMayo@reddit
I fail to see where is the problem because the resolution is so low but if it's because the chara is kinda fat, wait until they learn about Roadhog or that big whale girl from Borderlands
Ok_Schedule6703@reddit
The humans are visual beings, if you want to make a fat character, do it but make it pleasant, not even the police are like that, they have to have a certain weight to serve on the streets or do something like Mai in overwatch ,but that's looks ugly.
Waningcrescent3113@reddit
i think roadhog is a really solid design and i love seeing characters with diverse body types but there is just absolutely nothing visually appealing or even unique about this character. from looking at roadhog you can instantly tell he looks like some sort of biker, he's big and tough and can take a beating, and he's dangerous and a bit mysterious as to what's behind the mask but you wouldn't expect him to be very nimble
this character is just... right down the middle of everything? is he a scientist? a snowboarder? a dishwasher? he's not huge and intimidating like roadhog or cute and fluffy like mei... he indicates nothing about his personality in his movement or expression, his color composition just seems kind of random and flat. he looks like some kid picked up a nerf blaster and got into his parent's closet and dressed up how he thought looked "cool"
LobsterOfViolence@reddit
Fat kid whose mom dropped him off at paintball
Qverlord37@reddit
What I really like about roadhog's design is that you can actually see his bulging biceps. He wasn't unhealthy, as much as unhealthy go for an irradiated biker, vaping heal juice. The guy was like a sumo wrestler.
lqxpl@reddit
None of the above. This character is a potato.
RaidenYaeMiku@reddit
Roadhog is menacing fat, this guy was ugly fat
glugul@reddit
Also, roadhog looks like he could rip you in half
dagon_xdd@reddit
if you met roadhog irk you would legit shit yourself. hell, forget about his menace, he's fucking australian
dodolungs@reddit
People make fun of the character designs(rightfully so) but the game was just fundamentally flawed as a buy to play game with mid gameplay in a genre where most of their competitors (with arguably better games) are free to play with established fanbases.
wontonphooey@reddit
I need to see the original concept art. They might have been appealing characters before going through 15 billion rounds of inclusiveness committees.
PotentialSquirrel118@reddit
The worst part is Sony will probably ignore the customer feedback and continue to plow ahead into bankruptcy oblivion.
OmgJustLetMeExist@reddit
Honestly it’ll be for the best. Let the giants crumble under their own weight, and the smaller startups will feed from their remains.
lce_Fight@reddit
I hope their stock price plummets to the core like ubisofts
Wesley133777@reddit
At least ubisoft can make something good once in a while (R6E my beloved, died too soon)
RuneHearth@reddit
You liked that shit? Was it good after a year? Lol
Wesley133777@reddit
Completely dead honest, the game was actually good, there just wasn’t enough marketing towards anyone but R6S players (who wouldn’t know a good game if you shoved it up their ass), nor enough content to justify its price point.
I think R6S gamers saying “it should’ve stayed as a gamemode in R6S” should have their tongues cut out, because it was good enough as a stand-alone, and making it a gamemode in R6S, even permanent, would likely mean pvp.
I played everywhere from solo, to the lowest levels of matchmaking, all the way to playing with *the actual best players,* and it was a good time all around. It just got stale after a while.
xIceBET4@reddit
Brother that's such a dogshit take that I don't know if you're huffing on military grade cope or being ironic. The only people to blame for this shit is ubisoft not R6 players. Every single point you made is either ad hominem or something that Ubisoft is at fault. Look at GTFO and look at R6E now tell me in what world R6E isn't just a side mode or a cheap ass weekend game you play with your pals once.
Wesley133777@reddit
My guy, look at the player counts for coop games, they tend to die pretty quick after their trendy phase moves on. R6S players are notoriously *fucking awful,* maybe not valorant levels, but like come on. GTFO has a fairly low player count, all things considered, and R6E had 12 fairly large maps, a dozen enemy types, a couple bosses, a few gamemodes, and some interesting limited time events. Was it a full price game? No, but they didn’t even try. It was 40 bucks CAD on launch, and went on sale pretty early ln
Foxehh3@reddit
No you didn't lol
Wesley133777@reddit
Dude, I’m legit friends with some of the only motherfuckers to ever do multiple solo maelstroms, this game never had a large community and most of it was centralized on the official discord lmao
Foxehh3@reddit
No you're not lol
Wesley133777@reddit
…
Vikerchu@reddit
hmmmm starlink
HingleMcCringle_@reddit
sony? they're not going anywhere for a long time. they have a massive presence outside of funding games.
$200million flop will definitely rile up some executives, though.
leastemployableman@reddit
Only to have the taxpayers bail them out like they did with the auto industry and the banks
ChazMoonBeam@reddit
Do you pay taxes in Japan?
iz-Moff@reddit
On this particular issue, most big western studios seem to be dead set on ignoring customer feedback.
You can't be anywhere near any gaming communities and truly believe that this is the kind of characters people want to play. There's no extensive research required to find that out either, just pick literally any game with extensive character customization options, and look at users screenshots. Then maybe look at modding communities. Or fan art, or cosplay, or anything besides some feminists posts on social media, really.
They can't not know that these designs are not going to be popular with players, but they still insist on them. Though why they do that is a mystery to me.
leastemployableman@reddit
Larian actually figured out that the average player creates a 6ft tall white guy with short brown hair in bg3, which is absolutely hilarious to me. After all the pandering, the average person still creates a macho white guy avatar.
dude-why@reddit
Human Male Fighter moment.
MetaCommando@reddit
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?
SantaArriata@reddit
My theory is that they’re desperately trying to widen the appeal of gaming by marketing to literally everyone BUT gamers. They literally think gamers are a guaranteed market and therefore don’t need to actually target them when designing the games.
You know what they say: target everyone, appeal to no one
ChiefIndica@reddit
Not wrong though, are they? Have you seen some of the shit we gamers pay actual money for?
KingGraveth-@reddit
They are quite wrong, there is a reason these games flop.
In 2015, three Polish guys in a shed in the middle of the forest made the absolute masterpiece that is Witcher 3, the only reason these dumb games with the budget of a small country dont end up with sales in the couple hundreds is because people have low standards for gaming
MetaCommando@reddit
Witcher 3 started with 150 employees and ended with over 250 in-house alone and cost $81m to make. Cheap as hell compared to Concord but the Witcher is not le hidden indie gem
girlgamerpoi@reddit
They seem to pursuade the decision investors that the customers don't actually know what they want. And the investors should let the smart guys do their own thing and watch the magic happen bahhahahha
GoodTitrations@reddit
They’re following the recent trend of “piss off people and then rely on the counter-reaction to those people for PR,” except this time it didn’t work.
SkirtOne8519@reddit
Because these gaming communities are all cis white males who are racist and misogynistic so we can’t cater to them anymore
IANVS@reddit
Sony is not bankrupting any time soon. Their music venues make more than enough money to cover gaming losses and Blackrock/Vanguard have the deepest of pockets...
Junkraj1802@reddit
Yes, also let's not forget every single Playstation exclusive which tend to be pretty decent franchises.
Also let's not forget the fucking PlayStation itself. Sony is fine losing a few hundred million here or there.
Demens2137@reddit
Good, once they are close to bankrupcy they will be nice and polite again
JimmyBowen37@reddit
Nope. They canceled the game and refunded everyone
Odisius@reddit
These mfs really thought they could put out a shit game and be immune to bad sales cause they stuffed it full of gay black people. DO BETTER
Vimanys@reddit
Tell me, what is the general reaction among some groups and professions when you even hint at questionning things like this?
"What are you?! R*acist or f*tphobic?! Are you a Gamergater?! How dare you! HR! Now!"
So you end up with something like this.
Velocita84@reddit
WAIT A SECOND, THEY KILLED GRAVITY RUSH 3 FOR THIS??
EH042@reddit
Yes, Japan Studio is no more, put a bullet in my skull or we’re gonna party like it’s 2023
ConnorOfAstora@reddit
Gravity Rush 3 getting cancelled in favour of Multiplayer Only Hero Shooter #387617 hurts so fucking bad.
Shas_Okar@reddit
Velocita84@reddit
It's over... no more tanned gyaru superhero catgirl with banger soundtrack...
DimensionsIntertwine@reddit
No. They just replaced it with Gravy Rush.
Minimum_Reputation48@reddit
They also killed an Infamous X Prototype crossover game for this.
Pingushagger@reddit
I need a source to make sure I’m justified in roping
Ardalev@reddit
Wtf, for real?!
Are these people allergic to making money?!
Mean_Building911@reddit
Wow, I'm speechless.
BrunoBrook@reddit
WHAT THE FUCK?/
Advice2Anyone@reddit
Man I could really get behind a nice flowing sandbox super powers game I'm sick of all we get anymore is Spiderman it's well done but idk prototype just had that apocalyptic spice to it
Velocita84@reddit
Oh my fucking god
Remake12@reddit
People knew it was dumb. They knew it was a bad idea. They just knew it was better for them to keep their mouth shut and get their pay check.
The studio was captured by a totalitarian ideology that does not tolerate dissent or criticism, so people keep their mouths shut, just like people have in the past.
CorbinNZ@reddit
That trench coat is fucking stupid. Look at how low the pockets are. They’re below arms’ reach. You’d have to pull up the coat just to reach the pockets. Trash 100%
RedPillTears@reddit
I don’t think it’s a great character design but it did make sense to me that he was essentially a healer
UnacceptableUse@reddit
they'd never put a fat character into a shooter game
Cheezeepants@reddit
ok but he's actually interesting to look at, unlike any character from concord
UnacceptableUse@reddit
I think that's the real problem with the game, it just had nothing unique going for it
UncommittedBow@reddit
Legitimate question, why do people get butthurt over fat characters NOW?
What's wrong with this character that's not wrong with like, Heavy TF2?
LesserValkyrie@reddit
"Not a single person at the company thinks anything is wrong with it"
They made sure people who would think it's wrong would not get hired
The 95% good enough to hide thinking it is wrong didn't tell anything to not get fired
I know woke communities, it always work like that
reitenshi@reddit
Why didn't the "modern audience" show up to save the game?
jawrsh21@reddit
Who gives a fuck if a video game character is fat
ShakerGER@reddit
The entire game scream embezzlement
erratic_thought@reddit
They approved it for the same reason they approved the Acolyte and other bs moves and series. I think its good, those big companies losing money all the time, sooner or later it would change.
DaveSmith890@reddit
No one is keeping this shit alive more than the people who are happy it failed. Just let it die already
TheJReesW@reddit
It’s already dead, we can talk about it. It is an excellent case study of what not to do, so let’s discuss and learn from it
DaveSmith890@reddit
I’m not talking about player count. I don’t care for the whole scene. It is wildly uninteresting to dissect the failure of a game that failed due to a complete lack of advertising. Did anyone even know this shit came out before it flopped?
assbeeef@reddit
Anon is upset he doesn’t get to play as giant anime titty girl.
The_real_bandito@reddit
I think their main issue was that they tried to push one of those games that are heavily monetized with a digital store as a game you buy? Like, it was t release for free? Wasn’t this game just another Fortnite clone?
Hawt_Dawg_II@reddit
Many compelling arguments to be made and anon's argument is "female character is fat"
Komrade_Yuri@reddit
This game has to be some sort of money laundering scheme. There is just no fucking way.
Icy_Magician_9372@reddit
That's what I tend to think about games and movies that seem to deliberately bomb. Maybe the failure makes it easier to hide or something.
MetaCommando@reddit
I remember reading that due to tax reasons it's better for a movie to bomb somewhat badly than it is to break even.
CharlesEverettDekker@reddit
Maybe this game is just a massive tax write off.
snipeie@reddit
Tax write off doesn't mean the whole cost of the game goes away.
That's not how that works
CharlesEverettDekker@reddit
I mean of course it doesn't, but it's better to lose not that much money.
But I think that this game was Sony's attempt to make a big miltibillion game.
They're probably trying to make their own dota/csgo/lol/genshinimpact type of game, that would bring billions of dollars in revenue and Sony right now is like "throw it at the wall and see what sticks"
snipeie@reddit
8 years in development ruined its chances of being a good game.
The market has been filled and oversaturated thus it failed.
It was probably a fine idea 8 years ago but not anymore that's pretty much it.
Jinxzy@reddit
Something something Hanlon's Gilette partnership...
Atlaspooped@reddit
Doesn’t make much difference, but any chance of Gravity Rush 3 was dead well before Sony invested any money into firewalk/concord
SolidusAbe@reddit
absolute tragity- never got around to play the second one but the first gravity rush was awesome
Figoos@reddit
The ones who can make decisions are actually very few in a company like that
Hyperversum@reddit
Funniest shit is people defending this trash.
Deadlock is like in alpha and people are already eating it up and enjoying its weirdo/gonzo 20s aesthetic.
In the entire game there is one attractive female as of now (with bare feet, because of course).
Everyone else is a diverse cast of various kind of weirdos, creatures and whatever else. Christ, one is a robot that feels like a fat man, it's a great design and fun to play as well.
It's an absolute fake statement to say that "people only want attractive characters". Valve has proven it over and over and over that good design will be enjoyed regardless of your ability to fap to it.
Dd_8630@reddit
I'm confused - what's wrong with the character?
Their proportions are weird, I suppose; big torso, tiny head and arms?
Rusty1031@reddit
Everything in this game is so round. Even the people lol. This game had to be a tax write off of some sort. Watch it come back as F2P in a few weeks
SwimmingBench345@reddit
Hilarious that anon thinks game pitching is some fucking guy showing an executive a cool picture that they drew and asking for 200 million dollars
Jonthux@reddit
Character design does not mean hit the randomizer until something unique shows up
greektofuman4@reddit
These designs are “people want themselves depicted in media” which can work for television and movies. But games are a first person experience, even third person games have you control a character. Therefore, you’d should aim for what people want themselves to be. Most people aren’t Genji, hell most OW players can only match the belly of roadhog, not his tan or his arm muscles. But these characters are fantasies people take control of.
And when it comes to not anyone having an issue in the company. I’m sure several did. But at a company you don’t object to what you’re given on a large scale, you just do. It’s why big games are so designed by committee
And_Yet_I_Live@reddit
They also apparently deleted a Prototype/infamous crossover to make that shit btw
ShortTheseNuts@reddit
People really need to understand the difference between woke and corporations willingly taking a hit to comply with ESG quotas. You're DONE as a public company these days if you don't meet ESG. Why? Almost all the biggest funds like the Norwegian oil fund, the Swedish pension funds and others have a unnegotiable ESG-esque requiremt to be allowed to invest.
These people aren't stupid, at all. People wildly underestimate how difficult it is to make it to the top in these global corporations. Taking a ESG hit is just cost of doing business in this decade. This is why Ford will keep making rainbow pickups and why games like this will be pumped out regardless of success.
Yebi@reddit
ESG refers to hiring practices, ethics in supply chains (avoiding slaves and such), energy sustainability, and so on - all back-end business practices. It has literally nothing to do with the product.
MommyMilkersPIs@reddit
Soulless npcs jumping on the hate bandwagon because they can't think for themselves. The game genuinely looked fine, not amazing or terrible. There's just no room for another shooter these days, there's already a billion of them. And lots of them are "woke" with characters like this. Also for whatever reason everybody wants new ip's but everybody instantly hates new games
MangoGh0st@reddit
And they thought people would cosplay these characters lol
Still can’t believe they shut down SCE Japan so they could focus on making shit like this
TildeGunderson@reddit
It's not even just Daw being fat - there are dozens of characters that are fat in video games. It's the complete nothing burger of their entire design.
Big blue jacket, pants pulled up to their tits, ski goggles, orange gauntlets... What does any of that tell you? Are they a soldier? Explosives? Healer? Melee? Tank? Sniper? You don't know because
In comparison, look at any other hero shooter. Most of them tells you their set up and their combat style upon first glance. They do that so you know how to deal with them within a few moments, whether you've played with or against them.
Case and point: Rath, from Battleborn. I figured it'd be better to prove my point with a failed Hero Shooter. I've never played Battleborn nor know who Rath was, but I can instantly guess just from the name that they're some edgelord. Then, when I looked at his design, I knew instantly that he's a close-combat melee guy who's fast and deals lots of damage, but is a glass cannon.
But then you look at Daw, and like... what the fuck does Daw stand for? It means nothing, and tells you nothing, just like the name Concord. If I told you there were three characters named Emari, Teo, and DeVeers, which one's carrying a grenade launcher, a minigun, or an assault rifle just based on name alone?
They missed so hard at so many levels, it's hilarious. AI wouldn't have failed this hard.
dude-why@reddit
Some exec embezzling funds is what i think.
JerryUitDeBuurt@reddit
This game already lost when they tried to release a 5v5 hero shooter in 2024 with a 40$ or whatever it was pricetag. That market is so incredibly oversaturated and now you expect people to pay money for a game that's worse than a free Overwatch or Valorant? Bro.
IANVS@reddit
It's not about the money, it's about sending a message. And the message is "This is your life now, bigot. Get used to it."
gibbloki@reddit
This feels like the video game version of The Producers
Endeav0r_@reddit
Honestly this whole concord fiasco reads to me like devs wanted to make a zany cartoony hero shooter with very visually striking characters with very distinctive silhouettes, and then an exec late in development forced them to slap a very realistic art style on it
ThexanR@reddit
Slasher put it best but people are too focused on the “diversity and woke” part. The game was a decent idea 8 years ago when hero shooters were a trend and a good idea. Now it came out in a time where anyone that is interested in playing a hero shooter, is already playing one. The gameplay could have been the greatest shooter of all time but it wouldn’t have mattered. It’s a game that entered a market that’s over saturated and 8 years too old to enter. Game was going to fail regardless
M1THRR4L@reddit
What’s worse is exactly 8 years ago Overwatch was the top game with a $40 price tag and Guardians of the Galaxy was the hit cultural phenomenon. It’s like they started the project and shut themselves in a cave for 8 years.
zzzidkwhattoputhere@reddit
It’s more like everyone was too scared to say anything.
Conissocool@reddit
Now this is gender equality, complaining about the men's looks in a video game. I've never seen a guys looks talked about before a woman's
Cat_Of_Culture@reddit
Anon apparently doesn't know the meaning of what a soulless corporate cash grab is.
TrifleJumpy8081@reddit
No no wait, put the game out again. I promise I’ll concord hard as fuck this time
Okinomii@reddit
I’d watch a documentary from when they started this game until they shut it down.
Disco_Biscuit12@reddit
This shit didn’t happen before Biden. Just saying.
SaintSnow@reddit
They signed off on it bc this game would net Sony more good boy points with BlackRock.
200 million is piss change in the grand scheme of things.
HiverMalfunktion@reddit
a fallout 4 settler has more personality in its design than tthe entirety of concord
Iv0ry_Falcon@reddit
one reason, blackrock
PlanBisBreakfastNbed@reddit
My sides have left this earth
Frosty_Salamander856@reddit
Work lays me to do stupid shit. I protested and offered better solutions for two years straight. Solutions I was will to take charge of and make hapoen by doing them.
What I got was a threat to be fired. I stopped offering help and just keep my mouth shut and do all the stupid shit the stupid way the company wants. They pay me. I do it their way.
What has happened is, I not longer put up with bullshit in my personal life. I will and do at work because they pay me. But I no longer tolerate dumb fuckery in my personal life.
Frosty_Salamander856@reddit
Point being, the devs are like me after two years of legitimately and fervently trying to help. Now I just do what they ask. I cover my ass, but otherwise the problems they cause themselves is job security for me. Oh that needs to be fixed because it wasn't done correctly the first time?
Ok.
There is some confidence involved that the entire company won't tank, like what happened with the devs here. They just followed orders. The management said the slop was good. Who are the devs to disagree. It would suck working on a turd every day, but you're doing it for the paycheck until you can change IP.
undreamedgore@reddit
Beyond thr weight, thats just such a boring character design.
ReckAkira@reddit
Anon don't know the power rich woke liberal investors have over his boss.
Quintessentialviewer@reddit
And they will never learn because they don't want to learn
Literally_-_1984@reddit
Jews
SlapfuckMcGee@reddit
Make it ugly upfront so people feel compelled to buy skins.
TheQuantumTodd@reddit
At this point I'm pretty sure it was just a money laundering scheme
AscendantComic@reddit
all the characters look like homeless disney star wars background characters. the whole cast looks like a bad skin pack for an actual game with the real designs in it
A__Whisper@reddit
The blackrock money must be that good, apparently.
Morkhaz@reddit
Not even rule34 wanted to make it
MisterGoo@reddit
If you look at Sony's decisions across its history, you'll find one of the dumbest companies out there. Remember Ken Kutaragi had to fight EVERYONE in there to make the Playstation happen.
AndrewTheSouless@reddit
An out of touch executive most likely
Alohoe@reddit
We all know exactly what would happen to someone who tried to object to this.
fucccboii@reddit
bystander effect
FUGGuUp@reddit
She*
pamar456@reddit
Jesus at least over watch has qt’s before they dropped last creaturas on us
Leafeon523@reddit
The lack of GR3 is a travesty
SeaworthinessFew9971@reddit
honestly, most of the character designs are fine, but there's just no cohesive style that actually brings it together. they are backed by absolutely no soul or world design.
lce_Fight@reddit
What the hell were they thinking