Thread 725529905

You guys just were not ready for modern vidya characters

This is the VA btw:
>Christine Rose Schermerhorn (She/They) is a black, non-binary, transgender woman who made her way to New York City
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ftyQh0aQkI

I find it amazing that to this day, not one person took responsibility of these absolutely trash character designs. They pointed fingers everywhere but at the most obvious reason no one wants to play their hero shooter.

its not even the characters, the game itself was just bad

>>725529905 (OP)
Isn't that just a copy-paste of heavy from TF2 but they just made it female and nigger so that it doesn't look like an obvious copy-paste?

No, I am not.

>>725530240
It was well made, as in it very polished and fluid. But the foundation was deeply flawed, since Concord's core presumption was that maining one or few characters is a problem, and incentivizing it is a design flaw. Concord's Crew System was all about a lot of character switching to lot of various roles, and stacking up bonuses from all of them. But it ran into the problem of people, even those who wanted to like Concord, not vibing with it since they still wanted to just main their favorites. I noticed that even plenty of professional reviews straight up did not even cover the Crew System properly, because engaging with it is so unintuitive and goes against the way players actually want to play.

Maybe it is one more symptom of the common toxic positivity in modern entertainment industry, where creators barricade themselves in bubbles and refuse to accept feedback or to even attempt to read the actual audience.

>>725530240
Of course it's the characters, the whole damn genre is based on people playing characters they like and obsess about. Then came Concord and gives you the choice of lame and gay characters that look like they were designed by big corp middle management just going through a checklist to cash in ESG target bonuses.

Concord was ahead of its time and gamers just weren't ready for it.

>>725529905 (OP)
The concept art was retarded. Lets use footy pads as armor against guns cause it looks cool.
Like how far detatched are you from the normal world to think that is an acceptable aesthetic?
Please convince me because before the woke shit their stupid fucking ideas is what turned me off. The entire LOOK they created was dumb.

>>725530484
Ghost in the Shell shooter was just as well made if you want to compare it to those standards and the game play was contrived.
The fact is the levels of Concord and pacing of the game was fucking awful. Pair that with abilities and lack lustre guns it was an easy miss from everyone.
They definetly hyperfocused on what made them happy and ignored everything else.

>>725530084
no gender but also the opposite gender?

>>725534106
stfu nazi

>>725529905 (OP)
There is a video I forget from who, some guy is talking about meeting with game producers and directors at some trade show or something, and he tells this story about how the directors would see some art of a character they liked but then asked whoever drew it if the character could be drawn doing kung fu poses and being "zen-like" or things like that, I feel like the person or persons he was talking about made this game.

>>725529905 (OP)
It's kinda their job to sell something people are ready for. Being market blind is kinda bad for a for profit business.

>>725535231
I got a feeling that a lot of modern marketing hacks just don't do even the most elementary focus group testing anymore, because they think they can get the same results quicker and cheaper from social media research. And basing any views on social media is not really that good of an idea.

>>725535446
Didn't it have an 8 year dev cycle? Even if they were up to date on trends when they first greenlit it a lot changes in 8 years.

>>725535618
Shit like this was absolutely never trendy in any way

We have but one question: Will you DEI, or will you DIE?

>>725534262
>stfu nazi

>>725529905 (OP)
imagine having a hero shooter without a dedicated healslut character
instantly lost 90% of the female audience right there

what is "modern character"?

>>725529905 (OP)
I'm amazed they actually went this far
This and veilguard was the peak desu

>>725540917
average american