Anon is gooner in economics
Posted by Robber_Baron44@reddit | 4chan | View on Reddit | 96 comments
Posted by Robber_Baron44@reddit | 4chan | View on Reddit | 96 comments
TheDestroyer630@reddit
I unironically agree, just think how people know ow characters without having never played the game
Paratrooper101x@reddit
All I know is the hot girl with angel wings that musk made amber heard dress up as and the gorilla
learn2midacc@reddit
HOLY SHIT HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS she did do a Mercy cosplay
NightOfTheLivingHam@reddit
that and nothing really stood out. They look like some free to play shovelware UE5 generic asset. None of them have eye catching features. They're also in the uncanny valley, they look too real.
They're worse than ugly. they're forgettable.
I can remember overwatch designs, I can't recall any of these characters.
Overwatch is a terrible game but has a loyal fanbase because of the sheer amount of ass and aesthetically pleasing characters. Junkrat is an ugly fuck but he's memorable at least and not hard to look at. These characters are hard to look at and you forget them once you look away.
TF2 has memorable designs, they arent sexualized (unless you're one of those fans..) but they are aesthetically pleasing, and moreso than the original designs they abandoned for the same reason Concord should have abandoned these designs.
sillyyun@reddit
You find Tracer sexy? Noted.
Saus06@reddit
Mercy’s better 😎
Kahlypso@reddit
Mei is the way
NightOfTheLivingHam@reddit
EXTRA THICC
smegmancer@reddit
One dude said it best weeks ago, they look like they're cosplaying as themselves.
keeleon@reddit
If a caricature artist were to draw most of them it would be lines and circles.
Big_Slop@reddit
You could make every character so fuckable that you’d have to struggle not to get hard whenever they’re on screen and this game still would have tanked.
reddit_has_fallenoff@reddit
Whats wild is apparently the character up top is supposed to be a dude lol.
Never-Preorder@reddit
Game flopped because although it's been supposedly developed for years, practically nobody knew about it's existence until few months ago in a playstation event, where they showed a cringy ass trailer and told us that it's yet another overwatch clone. Naturally, nobody cared afterwards. All those prononun bullshit and ugly ass characters wouldn't matter if they actually made a good game.
Robber_Baron44@reddit (OP)
Bullshit. Nobody knows how the game plays because nobody liked the aesthetics
bunker_man@reddit
It's not just that. It's that it cost $40 in a genre where the expected cost is $0.
brokelogic@reddit
lollipop chainsaw is already doing better and its a game that already exists
bunker_man@reddit
Huh? That's a totally different genre.
InquisitorMeow@reddit
Imo Apex Legends didn't have conventionally attractive characters and was diverse AF and people still loved it. It even had a they/them character on release. People just latch onto failed games like this because they have nothing better to do with their lives but complain about a game that was in existence for all of 3 days and blame it on the Jews.
AlfaSurgical@reddit
what if we were the jews at the first place
Never-Preorder@reddit
Lmao true
FalseTautology@reddit
I think you're almost right, if it was a FUCKING AMAZING OMFG game then people would put up with the fugly characters and the pronoun nonsense, they would become goofy memes or something. But you'd have to be a fucking incredible game, possibly pioneering a new genre like Minecraft or Vampire Survivors.
These characters are so fucking ugly that they absolutely make normal, uninvested people uninterested. Which is amazing, given all the focus groups that a modern AAA usually utilizes, that they would forget the simplest rule of media: people like to see pretty humans.
Never-Preorder@reddit
There are many factors a game can use to pull audiences towards it. Gameplay is the major factor, if your gameplay is good then all those political nonsense would melt away, only a minority will keep yapping about it (for example; BG3, Elden Ring, Hades 2) If your gameplay is meh, then you will need other factors like story, graphics, sexualised content etc. to sell it.
Concord failed the gameplay aspect (or at least failed to show us, because what i've seen from trailers only showed that it's just another overwatch clone with nothing interesting), failed the story (marvel tier storytelling), failed graphics (this and many other posts) and everything else.
MatejMadar@reddit
There are modern politics in Elden Ring?
Never-Preorder@reddit
ER was one of the first video games to change "male/female" to "type a/b" in character creation. When game was first launched, people screaming about this on almost every platform. You can still see occasional threads in steam forums before they get deleted.
Count_de_Mits@reddit
Also (spoilers?) the whole Marika also being Radagon thing as well as whatever the fuck is going on with Miquella amd Radahn in the dlc
Bullet2babomb@reddit
Its pretty clear at one point that Marika and Radagon are/were separate people that fused together at some point in the story. Miquella is a twink sorcerer that can use the power of bussy to steal peoples hearts.
FalseTautology@reddit
Hard agree.
Bobblefighterman@reddit
The deathblow was when they said you had to actually pay money for it straight up. Even Blizzard were smart enough to make Overwatch 2 free to play.
IWantToCobainMyself@reddit
Not true, games can have 0 marketing and still succeed
Deadlock has not even been announced or even acknowledged by valve, has a bunch of "woke" characters, only one or two attractive characters, and it's a blend between the two most competitive and hated game types on the market (MOBA and hero shooters)
Despite all this, the game is incredibly fun and it's peaking around 160k on steam on a closed alpha
If the game is good, people WILL play it, it doesn't matter how woke it is or how fuckable the characters are
batiwa@reddit
I agree, I've literally never heard about that game until it's release and still have no clue about the gameplay. Maybe making it free to play and with better looking characters would have slowed dow that crash though
flyinchipmunk5@reddit
It may not of been a hit but I believe that if it was a single player original story or even multi-player destiny esq game it would of sold way better
Halforthechump@reddit
A lot of companies are having issues because their focus testing and scraped data is telling them, point blank and unequivocally, that people want representation, meaning they want products with people that look like them. So being the dutiful soulless megacorps they are they give them that. It all breaks down because not only do obese people not view themselves as unattractive but most of the people they're listening to don't even consume that median of entertainment. That's before we even venture into ' people on social media say things they don't believe or mean ' territory.
StinkyRedditMod69@reddit
still waiting for a high quality coomer shooter, we all know it would make bank like you wouldn't believe
AnotherScoutTrooper@reddit
First Descendant literally had visible bush at one point I think
StormR7@reddit
My buddy’s gf is trying to get me to play it because I played a lot of warframe.
Some of those skins are hot as fuck but I’m not about to drop all my cash on a piece of virtual ass.
AnotherScoutTrooper@reddit
besides you can just use Google and see said virtual ass for free
StinkyRedditMod69@reddit
not enough, if i can't goon at my characters asshole while playing it hasn't been taken far enough
MrBummer@reddit
BG3 was also a true RPG and nothing in the story forced you to partake in any of the wokeness. You could be a degenerate gooner who chooses the bear in the woods or you could go full chud "billions must die" and the game did nothing to stop you. It was so beloved because you could actually choose where you wanted your story to go.
Brilliant-Mountain57@reddit
Bros I hate this shit so much.
Deimos_Aeternum@reddit
It has more genders than classes
patmoon97@reddit
It has more pronouns than players
Old-Today-2429@reddit
Makes you realize what were their priorities
smegmancer@reddit
to flop
Deimos_Aeternum@reddit
One look at those character designs is enough
HighDegree@reddit
Has the bar really fallen that low? Damn.
Cuntilever@reddit
I don't see any of the female characters attractive, but some male playable characters are hot... Ok I'm not gay but
ChadWolf98@reddit
Karlach mommy isnt hot? Also there is that demon chick who posesses the black guy.
You can also make a rather hot OC.
Jeez the people I have to share this planet
Sikhanddestroy77@reddit
This is your brain in western goyslop
ChadWolf98@reddit
Normally I'd agree with you, as western media is often shit, but why do you think there is 0 hot or at least non ugly women in bg3?
Most western devs still have some sanity regarding putting non swamp monster ugly women in their games.
Bg3 devs are one of the good guys. Their previous gamey divinity original sin 2 was noticably free from woke shit
keeleon@reddit
Shadowheart is basically just Krysten Ritter.
rustydingdong5@reddit
I mean they were all past the age of 25 so... Too old for you I suppose? Dw, I'll petition to add 2000 year old dragon loli waifu in the sequel.
Miloslolz@reddit
Can't believe people keep repeating that at least for female characters that's not true.
gatorgongitcha@reddit
Unattractive and the most Reddit characters I could think of.
Paratrooper101x@reddit
Jaheira the milfiest of milfs
AegisT_@reddit
Karlach slander will not be tolerated
Snazzle-Frazzle@reddit
The Githyussy shall not be infringed
pokemondude22@reddit
Wtf are himbos?
flyinchipmunk5@reddit
Basically guy bimbos. Hot fuckable stupid people
Kynandra@reddit
Whats the opposite of that cuz whatever it is, it's me.
Sikhanddestroy77@reddit
Engineer
ChadWolf98@reddit
Nerd? Geek? Oh, the best is Dork.
Ugly looking smart guys.
Kynandra@reddit
Ok now gimme one but for not smart guys.
ChadWolf98@reddit
Redditor
lifesnotperfect@reddit
They're called Kynandras
ChppedToofEnt@reddit
Characters being ugly doesn't mean shit, look at Wario,Trevor Phillips or Orks. These mfers are made to be ugly but they're still really cool, they fit into their respective games and stand out because of their aesthetic of crazy mfers who wanna make a bit of coin.
Whereas concords characters just look, idunno. Lame? It doesn't feel like they're ugliness is made to be built upon with the world rather they're a part of, they're just....ugly with no extra appeal, nothing that sticks out (Wario is rich and greedy,Trevor is a hillbilly meth head and Orks are all scrappunk)
keeleon@reddit
Name some good ugly female characters that aren't designed as a joke.
rustydingdong5@reddit
Iconic characters are tier 1 of game design. The point is, if your dev team lacks the talent to create tier 1 characters then just make them fuckable. It's nearly as effective and proven to work time and time again.
ChadWolf98@reddit
Mario is a kid friendly game and princess peach isnt ugly, nor any characters are pureposefully made ugly, except maybe the turtle villain, and its cartoonishly animated not realistic
Gta has tons of women, many of them hot
Orks are monsters, obviously they arent ugly. Space marines are handsome, they arent ugly on purpose
There is a fundamental problem with purposefully ugly characters. Its a dei invasion of gaming.
"Evil cannot create, only corrupt"
FinalFantasyer@reddit
FAT FUCK.jpg , I can'ttttt
TheRealBucketCrab@reddit
Looks matter. But it's not about uglyness or beauty. It's about standing out.
There are a fuckton of freeshit apps, games etc with characters that can easily be seen as "sexy" or fuckable or whatever. But who fucking cares, I've seen this shitty as Mercy-looking character in another 20 games. You fall in a hole like pigeons being sucked in a grain grinder developing this crap.
The problem with this game, for me at least which goes for too many games, is that I see nothing new. I see the image OP posted and I ask: is this Black Ops 6? Modern Warfare 10, Apex Legends season 35 like what the fuck is it? It looks like Call of Duty, Valorant and Overwatch had a trio-kid.
You want to know why games like TF2 and many other "lower class" (indie) games look more interesting or pleasing? Less noise, comprehensible, memorability, and *is a perfect fit for a specific demographic of players*. But you know, OBVIOUSLY, Team Fortress 2 as a 2007 game looks worse than a new triple A game?
You know what else looks worse? Brothers Karamasov, Shakespeare's Hamlet, my entire playlist, a pizza, and the warmth of taking a piss after holding it for 8 hours.
It's 2024, not 2008. People don't hunt the most realistic looking game anymore, they're hunting for the most clear and unique one. One that feels like they're REALLY inside, and not constantly trying to understand it. The same happened with art, we went from the Mona Lisa to Vincent Van Gogh to Picasso and to several other kinds of abstract, modern and post-modern art.
rustydingdong5@reddit
It's not that deep. Just make the characters fuckable. They don't have to look unique. See First Descendant: Bunch of generic waifus. Gamers don't want to look at fugly characters who only slightly mog them. They can't coom to that. If looking at a character doesn't automatically want to make a gamer goon then what's the point?
ChadWolf98@reddit
We went from the birth of venus to a fucking banana duct taped to a wall
Jinova47@reddit
Goonbros rise up
Cekeste@reddit
Mm, I hate western companies like Sony
Monsiuercontour@reddit
People who made the game were Washington based
Potatoboi17@reddit
DC or the state?
Mr_Paper@reddit
No, supporters of the president.
LemonPartyW0rldTour@reddit
I think you already know.
teor@reddit
SharkMilk44@reddit
They chose the most bland and inoffensive character design they possibly could. Everyone looks like a first draft, rather than a final design.
ChadWolf98@reddit
Its offensive to my eyes
Cumsocktornado@reddit
ignoring the cultural amplifier of the horny-on-mains and deliberately kneecapping your r34 appeal by making your characters as ugly as possible is a bold marketing strategy cotton- let's see if it pays off for em
ChadWolf98@reddit
8 year of development
11 days of life before pulled
Millions down the drain
More suicidal strategy than holding the line with 300 spartans agaist the whole Persian army, or the Japanese banzai charges
LemonPartyW0rldTour@reddit
Congrats to anon. They figured out what everyone else knew already.
fatfuck5@reddit
You will like the fat transformers or you are a bigot
ChadWolf98@reddit
If he keeps eating like that he will need to use the ability on himself lmao
FSUdank@reddit
Ability: mukbang
forward_only@reddit
Wait that character is a man?
SCV70656@reddit
Lmao holy shit it is a “man”
Sledgecrowbar@reddit
If you look closer in the upper right it has this fat/fucks pronouns.
I'm sure every fps gamer is just dying for pronouns in their outlet for using every ethnic, religioius and sexual slur known in any language.
AegisT_@reddit
Thinking it flopped because of muh woke is retarded
But no one likes to look at ugly characters, even if it's more "realistic". Cinema figured this out like a century ago lol
Kynandra@reddit
I bet in the future if you kill a them or whatever in game you get penalized and the police raid your house and shoot your dog.
Zarathustra124@reddit
After all the time and money wasted on developing the mechanics of a shooter, why not just replace the playermodels with big tiddy anime girls and re-release as F2P? Make at least a little money back, Overwatch is old news and their playerbase is up for grabs.
ExtremelyModerateMan@reddit
Can't tell if Based or Cringe. Hmmmm.
AtmosSpheric@reddit
It sold poorly bc they didn’t market it at all. I still don’t even know what genre the game is, I didn’t hear about it until hearing it sold terribly. Sure I like attractive characters, but I don’t need to be sexually attracted to the characters in every game. I do need to actually hear about a game to buy and play it though.
p4th_m4k3r@reddit
I agree wholeheartedly, I get enough of slobs irl, I don't play games anymore but the thought of having to play as a fat slob does not appeal to me. That's why when I played GTAV, I didn't play as Michael, who was a fat slob, or Trevor, who was a gross trashy slob, but instead exclusively as Franklin, the young, athletic, attractive, fertile bvll. Immediately I'd get a handfun (aka a gat) and raise his stamina to the max for quick getaways. Talk about fun. Going around doing muggins and runnins. I might have to bust out the old xbox 1 to give that a runback.