Thread 718219558

>third-person action/adventure
>brown female protagonist
>fantasy setting

how would you name this blooming genre?

>>718219558 (OP)
Loserbait?

>>718219558 (OP)
Banishers was the only one I ever checked out because it was on sale. I like black chicks and I thought the dude had a sick beard.

But she's nowhere near THICC enough like the rest of these bitches, so I passed.

>>718219558 (OP)
These are money laundry games, their other function is to ruin a company to buy it later. SE literally dedicated more marketing to fucking forspoken over advertise their other AA games while namco had to cancel a few games to ship the pajeeta game
It's about ruining the company you want to buy

>>718219558 (OP)
chudcore
it is well known that rightwingers and specifically white straight european males are lusting over chocolate women

>>718219558 (OP)
They thought Awakening was gonna be a huge hit and turn into a big franchise. They ordered and paid for webseries, novels, and comics before the game was even out.

>>718220296
And they thought Concord was gonna be the next Star Wars and made this exclusive PS5 controller. Probably the only decent thing they did, as I see collectors getting it, and it might be worth a bit in the future.

>>718219558 (OP)
Don't forget
>Extremely dour/grey-and-brown environments with zero color

>>718219558 (OP)
Floplike

>>718219558 (OP)
We already coined the term years ago: 'Finkcore'

>>718219558 (OP)
All these games probably spent 3-5 years in development while the BLM bullshit was going strong.

>>718220406
Sony's cinematic games probably also fooled devs and execs alike into thinking that there is a booming normalfag market for these narrative rich cinematic action-adventure games, but it turned out nobody really cares for them unless it has Last of Us or God of War written in the box.

>>718220559
Sony rid on old teams talent. Tlou was popular because people loved Jak and Uncharted, nuGOW was popular because people were expecting Kratos aka their wet dream edgelord they knew when they were kids, Horizon sold because open world adventure games with good graphics can do well, and even then Snoy keeps cucking themselves by making Aloy as fucking repulsive as possible

>>718220296
As an anecdote, that book trilogy has larger page count than the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
I hope the author at least got paid in advance and was not expecting royalties.

>>718220296
>scripted podcast
>web series
wtf are those

>>718220338
Corporations really got high and mighty with the expectation that their audience would just consoom anything no matter what.

>>718220650
Horizon did well because they bundled it with consoles. If you look at their release dates you'll see both games were overshadowed by bigger titles.

>>718220360
lost

>>718220829
what happened was they grew ENTITLED to success having seen customers throwing money at everything from dlc to subscriptions

>>718220338
Those conteollers will be collector's items

>>718219558 (OP)
>just fuck up my studio
>brown woman, pink slip
>my boss is a genders study major
>HR teampunk
>white coastal guilt
>San Francisco squirts

>>718219558 (OP)
Every middle aged brown woman gamer bought a copy, they're a huge success

>>718220296
>Concord vibes
>IT'S GUARANTEED TO BE HUGE HIT
Yeah, but... what if it isn't? I feel like more people should ask that question.

And if you're not allowed to ask that question by the higher-ups, you probably should get the fuck out of there.

>>718221165
Investors get swindled into bullshit by conmen all the time. Video game directors and studio leads are no different. He's absolutely, 100% convinced the game will be a success.

>>718219558 (OP)
Woke blackrocklikes

>>718220296
That's every single movieshit btw, Bandai Namco just announced these things too fast. All those failures in OP had auxiliary media planned out and canceled, one way or another, you just didn't learn about it.

>>718220679
I heard the later parts were AI generated. Wouldn't know, doubt anyone does really, as that might imply anyone even bought and read the damn thing.

>>718221165
The other guy replying to you is right. But there's more to it than that. You see investment is driven by greed. Investors are not interested in games with small budgets and profitable returns. They want to invest big money and get big money returns. To investors, every game is GTA or could be the next GTA. Money laundering magic portals that can turn their millions into billions. This is why gaming is dying. Everyone is trying to make hugely successful games without knowing what the buyer actually wants, yet investors are willing to give you half a billion upfront just by you wetting their lips with grandiose ideas of being the next star wars. Then it all collapses. But there will always be more investors and there will always be greed.

>>718221389
>Everyone is trying to make hugely successful games without knowing what the buyer actually wants, yet investors are willing to give you half a billion upfront just by you wetting their lips with grandiose ideas of being the next star wars.
It's even worse because they do market research and focus testing thinking those are absolute indicators of what players want. I think this is why many are just flabbergasted when games fail.

>>718221389
Pretty much. Rich and greedy people saw how popular Overwatch was in 2016 and wanted a game of their own. They also noticed that Guardians of the Galaxy was popular too, so why not combine the two and call it Concord. Had the game come years earlier, with less woke, with better character designs, and be cost less/free to play, it MAY have been a decent success. We'll never know.

>>718221470
Specifically, they're doing market research with people who DON'T play videogames, namely women, and giving them what they want, expecting to find the blue ocean meme. Turns out they don't want to play the custom tailored videogames we made them, oh well, time to do it again.

>>718221638
>namely women,
More than woman. Black women, or blacks in general. They really wanna appease the BLM crowds.

>>718219558 (OP)
just bring back times news roman and comic sans, those font are better than any post 2012 game title font.

>>718221470
Thing is about focus testing is that it's so easily manipulated. I saw this back in the day when game devs used to do their own focus testing in house. It was usually family and friends or people who were aligned with their artistic and political thinking.

>>718219558 (OP)
Someone really needs to expand this collage with shit like Concord, Marathon, Hyenas and the dozen other dead on arrival giga flops.

>>718221972
Those are a separate genere of floplikes

>>718222001
True, but I just want one big image of all the gigaflops in the last 2-3 years in one place