Is This the PINNACLE of AAA Slop??? 

TBF Concord started development in 2018. Chat GPT came out in 2022

​@@Oppurtunafish it's a joke, though

​@@OppurtunafishWhen did gtp 1 come out?

@@OppurtunafishThanks for the correction, I almost believed that’s what actually happened here!

@@Oppurtunafish It's very generous of you to believe that Sony, renowned company with good morals and good ideas, wouldn't fire every single writer four years into the development cycle and replace them all with an untested, unfunctional, unimpressive word salad machine because "AI is hot right now."

It's not necessarily an insult to marvel. He just means it looks like a knock off marvel.

@@fernandosepulveda7297 thats what he meant yeah

I don’t like Marvel movies, so it is an insult to them

Modern Marvel *is* an insult.

I'm just waiting for a Marvel movie to come out and everyone to be like "This looks like Marvel" lol

Exactly this. Really couldn't have chosen a better quote, either.

It got us to a point, where you can't turn on the radio, unless you live in a major city that has some sort of left-field station. Music is being shoved out like never before, 99% of it awful paint by the numbers eat dirt you plebs BS. But thanks to that remaining 1% we have a never ending pool of great music for every taste imaginable. And honestly, I can live with that pretty well. If games go the same way - and it looks a lot like they will - I'll have nothing to complain about. Just gotta close my ears a lot and go LALALALALALALA

You should look up how CEO's actually get paid. You're almost spot on with your observation; They meddle not just because they think they know what will sell, they meddle to artificially inflate stock prices which directly increases their paycheck. Blizzard CEO even got a bonus based on MTX sales

Plus, the devs suck. Hardly anyone has backbone to push their ideas and passion (or lack of thereof) in 3A gaming industry. Cogs that are so ecstatic of nailing a well paid job in gaming industry they think they've made it and don't need to push no more.

Then you have Nintendo pulling original stuff 5 times a year.

This game is not even worth the effort to meme it

I'm personally thinking that this will just be another Lawbreakers - dead on arrival, remembered as a footnote in the history of the industry

The definition of made to please everybody and appealing to nobody.

Yeah, they've truly perfected their craft

Good people support any game that prioritizes diversity. Importance for me is diversity > > graphics >story >gameplay> music

@@radiantveggies9348bait used to be believable

@@radiantveggies9348 hilarious dude. Now say something you really mean.

I've noticed this weird aversion to blood and swearing all these games have. it's supposedly marketed as a game to older people who love epic open worlds or competitive shooters, but then they don't even say "shit" or show even the slightest blood splatter effect on an enemy kill, not even in a different alien color. imo, there's not even a point in super high, realistic-looking graphics and having characters say super violent things and threats if you aren't gonna have blood or let them swear. why even have them make these super-violent threats or have a realistic-looking world, then?

​@@pillowmint4622 It's because they're trying to steal the Fortnite kids. Target _all_ the demographics!

@@pillowmint4622 Hey, not all of us adults are potty-mouths.

@@NeilHaskins but you'd think at least one out of the numerous gun-toting bounty hunters would be...

“He’s right behind me, isn’t he?”

Glad I wasn't the only one.

ISP-ass logo

Lennox is a great name for a company that makes refrigerators.

Absolute garbage logo design, and im not even trying to be mean, just being honest.

@@yomanyo327 lennox is just the speedster guy's name

Who said that?

🤣😂😂😂🤣 i love this

My God that is GLORIOUS.

Who's that wise man?

Fromsoftware is japanese, they don't explain or think in the same way as americans, even when they do generic things

It’s not helped when a game is initially revealed with a cinematic trailer that features no gameplay, and we’re not even sure of the genre. It’s fine if it’s a sequel because the premise of the game is already established, but if this is the first or only installment in its franchise, then we need to see the game first, cinematics second.

Yup, can't wait for this whole development team to get fired! 😂 Y'all cooked

Its the video game equivelant of a "hacker" character in a movie that only speaks in buzzwords

@@chiquita683No need to be so gleeful.

You continued to support overwatch even after it became an obvious low effort cashgrab, that's what you did wrong. So now you get the low effort overwatch clones.

​@@rwberger6holy based.

​@@rwberger6 honestly, I don't get why people play overwatch, what about it makes it any different from games like concord? The only class based team shooter I think is genuinely great is Team Fortess 2, despite the current bot problems

​@@Irish_EndermanTHANK YOU! Everyone seems to forget about TF2 in these discussions. Or even TFC. They had soul because they were made not to be Overwatch, they were made to be Team Fortress. If anything it was inspired by Quake Arena.

@@Chlocean ikr? It's consistently one of the most popular games on steam yet it seems somewhat forgotten at the same time and I don't know how or why, it's one of my favourite fps games

gearbox tried almost this exact same thing with battleborn almost a decade ago, it’s been a thing for a little while

except open world+crafting system is normally decently fun hahahaha

@@hurgcatdepends, there was a point in time where literally EVERYBODY was trying to make “open world + crafting” because of Minecraft, but it turned out to be just a soulless cash grab with nothing new to say or offer

@blizyon30fps86 oh I was just talking in terms of shoe horned implementations, you can tack on crafting and open worlds tend to make games boring, but the 5v5 tf/ow style is so hard to pull off right it creates true shite

@@femboygorou Battleborn was more...MOBA meets Hero Shooter, kind of like Paragon, and at least Battleborn a Story Mode players could play through, instead of just "here you go, have fun with barebones PvP".

But they aren't wrong. They know this demographic doesn't like this, they just don't care. There are enough whales with enough money to spend on a whim that make this stuff profitable. It's similarly to the feeling the rest of the world often has for the USA's commercial habits driving so much of the market, because these consumers have more money.

@@aantony2001 The thing is, though, for most of these games it _isn't_ profitable. It is for a very small few of them that become wildly successful, but just look back to the past two years- there have been dozens upon dozens of live-service games made by major studios that have flopped just in that short time period alone. The companies want "live service" to mean "infinite money engine that runs forever," and what it actually means is "low-tier time waster." And players are _painfully_ aware of this fact, which is why most live-service games are bombing, hard. Whales can sustain stuff like microtransaction-ladden gacha games where the costs are low and there's plenty of churn in the player base. Relying on them for a huge AAA live-service multiplayer game like this is almost always a failure, though. And not just in the sense of not taking the top slot in the market, most of them are financial failures that overall lose the company money. They would literally have been better off burying the money in a hole than they would making this game.

@@aantony2001 that's not how it works though. You can't make a game that only whales will be interested in because people coming in intending to be whales are only interested in dominating other players and the other types of whales are regular players whose barriers they gradually break down using manipulative monetization. If you can't attract regular players then you can't attract whales.

​@@qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq704 you bring shame to the name of Da Roach Dogg Jr.

more like AM OUT OF TOUCH? NO! YOU'RE OUT OF TIMEEEEE

the [EVIL EMPIRE WHO OPPOSES INDIVIDUALITY] wants to take over the galaxy but the [MISFIT GROUP OF QUIRKY CHARACTERS] have to stop them

Don't forget that they all have to quip every ten seconds or else the low attention span audience will immediately log off.

At this point someone should just make a Hero Shooter with all of the bad alien costumes from early Doctor Who.

@@twilightgeneral777i would play that.

They copy how the characters started and it never goes beyond that. The growth they have is never acknowledged, it's like they only remember the start of the 1st movie and ignore the other 2 when they were far stronger.

It rode on the coattails of the previous MCU movies which is why it was instantly accepted and it contained a few funny jokes so it ended up being entertaining, but it is a very shallow movie that brings nothing to the table once you've already heard the jokes.

Tbh I had been really disappointed by Guardians of the Galaxy :/ I heard it was really good and was so excited to see it and it just felt flat. Maybe it’s cuz Chris Pratt’s character is a completely flavorless protagonist 😭 I wanted to like it so bad

Yeah, people focus too much on Drax being the "haha can't understand metaphor" guy and a lot less on the "scarred warrior who watched his family die in front of his eyes and knows he'll never feel that kind of love ever again". When they say "Rocket Raccoon" they immediately go to "scrappy inventor with a potty mouth" instead of "mad scientist experiment who sees himself as an abomination and hates himself above all". They treat these characters as if the first thing Rocket did once out of prison WASN'T getting himself drunk and screaming "I DIDN'T ASK TO BE MADE!" in the middle of a crowded bar. Peter was stolen from his family to become a living battery, and even if he was saved from that fate he grew up among pirates who, even if they cared about him, still threatened to eat him. Gamora was also ripped from her family, except she also got to watch half her planet being gunned down and was then forced to live as the right hand woman of the person who did it. These characters are only comedic when they're together because their coping mechanisms clash so well. Every time they're alone with their thoughts or with someone else they unravel into the ball of unresolved trauma they are. Drax with Mantis, Peter with Ego, Rocket with Yondu, Gamora with Nebula, all scenes from the second movie without an OUNCE of comedy. The only character who really doesn't fit in this is Groot, who is smartly introduced as a sidekick before becoming someone everyone else can bond over raising.

AI moment

And movies

To be fair some of those 'dudes in suits' are 32-year-old 'sensitivity consultants' intent on sucking the soul of of all they touch

To be fair, some of those 'dudes in suits' are 'sensitivity consultants' whose entire career is a make-work project

@@Shnarfbird whose entire career is *Ruin upcoming* projects

That's what they call it?

I thought it was called a Pixie Cut? Huh, the more you know, I guess. But I swear, if they add a Black guy with dreads + undercut, like they've been doing for EVERY Black character since Killmonger...well, I won't care, but it's gotten to see just like the women with undercuts.

Undercut’s specifically the shaven back, and it’s not just found in pixie cuts. Pixie cut is a top tier hair cut tho

@@XDarkEchoan undercut is basically a pixie cut except the sides are shaven

I gave my Cal Kestis an undercut in Jedi Survivor and immediately thought “wow, he looks like a complete d-bag now”. 😂

I feel like the suits are misunderstanding how ARG works. Some noteworthy indie horror series can drop a few hints and clues and the community will go nuts trying to decipher them or come up with a narrative that fits. I feel like the company thinks that a few seconds of trailer will give the same effect and they can just look at community feedback and pick whatever the community comes up with as the best answer for what to make without understanding that they don't fucking have a community for a game that doesn't exist and a few seconds of generic footage with nothing in it is a far cry from hiding clues in a pre-established setting.

@@bupkis72 I think it's corporate LARP, like if you tease a new Star Wars, Final Fantasy or Mass Effect, everyone would be interested because franchises are famous, but they are trying to roleplay announcing a new sequel to established franchise on a new one.

@@hakasek4052 not even for a second it occurred to me that it could have been an ARG, THAT'S how bad it was

Valve: "Did somebody say Hero Shooter?"

Blizzard-Activision: "I made two."

It's so awkward when two people where the same dress to the dance.

Everyone: you know we're over those, right?

​@@MattriixMoba but sure

At least actual shiny garbage has more appeal to me than this travesty of an MTX, Battle pass, Boring Daily quest ridden, FOMO, manipulative, Stationary bike grind time sink of a game.

"neon vomit" as a certain tall texan would say

@@AshleysBrother The vomit is a biproduct of seeing this game. And its not neon, Its only pretty and glows when im happy.

A polished turd is still a turd

You still have idiots coming out of the woodwork to say 'people can like what they like' and other useless statements that completely ignore the effects of lowering standards leading to worse and worse games and lower competition amongst developers.

@@KvltKommando exactly!

​@@KvltKommando I don't really see why it would be a bad statement? It's not like it's untrue. But, I really don't see why anyone would actually, genuinely like these kinds of games.

@@aperson9973 Because the implication is that we are atomistic beings where our individual actions (purchasing, reviewing, approving/disapproving of a game in public comments and content) don't have real results on the gaming industry as a whole. Yes, people "can" physically complete the actions of purchasing awful games and they "can" have bad taste and like those awful games, but (the people making those statements) they're not attempting to imply that those action can be completed, they're implying that nobody else should care nor criticize them for it when the reality is that if we are operating in a market, it absolutely DOES matter when people "like what they like" and if we allow the quality standards to drop so low by burying our heads in the sand all we've done is passively allow the bar to drop. There will always be idiots who will accept lower and lower quality products so if everyone remained as passive idiots with the "people can like what they like" mentality products would only drop in quality continuously.

Undercut as well it feels like we can’t have strong female character™️ without making them look as much like a male as possible

isn't that the same hairstyle, just for different ethnics?

False dychotomy

Killmonger

Triple negative

It’s $40

Honestly free live service game is the death of a game that isn’t Fortnite

Unless it’s Mario kart

@@tylerknutson1213except for league and Pokémon unite and Fzero 99

The difference is, they don't gamble with their own money, but with their employees. I raise you two indie-dev teams.

I think you nailed it

I think it's a combination of hoping to hit it big and wanting a steady income. I'm guessing that AAA games shifted into live services initially so they could have a stable income that looks good to investors rather than, "We had to delay our next game by 3 months to fix some bugs, so our income will be near zero next quarter." Even if the game sells like mad when it comes out, investors don't want that risk.

You’re spot on

Replace them with AI which doesn't believe in the gambler's fallacy. It's not like they can do worse

They all sucked. The first one contained a few funny scenes that gives it a pass, but that's it. No substance at all. James Gunn is a hack.

@@gregoryl.levitre9759 Damn. I went back and looked James Gunn up on Wikipedia and to my dismay, you’re right. ‘James Gunn, American director, screenwriter and talentless hack’. It’s right there in the first line of his bio. I had no idea. That’s so disappointing, I thought he’d done some alright stuff. I guess when I watched that live action Scooby Doo movie he made in 2004 and hated that, it should have been my sign. But no, I went ahead and enjoyed some of his later work. Shows what I know. Ah well. Thanks for giving me the heads up I suppose. Bummer.

@@joa1401 yep, it's a bummer not knowing who the hacks are, because then you waste a bunch of money and time on trash products. I feel for you.

@@gregoryl.levitre9759 I am, indeed a pitiful, tasteless creature and it is a wonder society continues to feed and clothe me

@@gregoryl.levitre9759 And i feel for you feeling for me. I am rather pathetic, it is true. Frittering away my meagre earnings on tickets to moving pictures not bearing the prestigious Gregory L. Levitre Stamp of Cinemagraphic Quality. Frankly, it is a wonder society continues to feed and clothe me…

I have a kneejerk reaction when I click some poster on Steam or whatnot and see words MULTIPLAYER MASSIVE ARENA ONLINE LOOT in description, tho respect for developers for immediately putting the neon "ignore this forever" sign on description. I don't think I played a multiplayer shooter more than once since CS 1.6

That story turns out was never some Native American proverb. It's just a bit of fakelore. Now me, I got two cows inside me, because I had a burger and shake earlier.

Ones excited, the other is a dog.

​@@mikejr7727I mean, the term "cynical" comes from dog after all

🤨

@@Dark_Jaguarwere people claiming it was? I thought it was just making fun of edgy shirts

Step 1: Make her a man

I always remember the guys from Always Sunny saying they changed how they wrote Dee after realising female characters are always cast as the boring, finger-wagging type that stops the male characters having fun. All the stoic Gamora rip offs very much fall into that trap.

I don't understand how this is still an issue, we're literally half the population 😭

It’s a very good point. The girl boss trope is so worn, and I get it that it’s a reaction to damsels in distress, but would be nice to have a woman who has weakness and a sense of humor.

@@livliveart I used to think it was something like another checkbox that they had to check off. I believe it was the devs for the Saints Row reboot that were genuinely shocked that people didn't like their characters and after learning that, I understood that they just can't write unique characters. The best they can do is a self insert of how they imagine themselves in said game.

Yes and it directly affects the person who is consuming that “slop” by forcing a sense of shame.Which it should

Its also just fun to say. Sllllopp. We needed a term for the kind of quality modern games develop. Huge budget, dei, focus groups, buzzwords, safe(tm) humor, microtransactionfilled, 70$ base edition, every person is at the very least a mildly ugly self insert for the devs etc.

Dunkey called Kingdom Hearts III "one of the biggest blumberfucks I have ever witnessed", that's a pretty good word too

Goyslop

Focus testing is one thing, but when their "focus" is the entire market and they don't look at the test results that's kind of a problem.

Here's thing thing, this game ISN'T an indie game, it's a AAA game...literally a OW clone. There's so many of them, so expect the SAME type of business with it as well (character/gun skins/loot box/Season passes/ etc.) it's tiring.

Can’t wait for people to call me a piece of excrement when my first indie release. Better than calling me or my game slop.

@@megamegaOYes dude, we're aware it's a AAA game. OW is also a TF2 clone, and Valve is making yet another OW clone while ignoring the TF2 fans.

Idk there's probably something out there that could take slop as a compliment

Yet somehow "slop" is accurate.

Nah, Ferengi would make good games. They'd kill you with microtransactions tho

​​@@Soul93Taker I mean Tongo does seem fun but expensive whenever it's on screen so ... Yea, that checks out

Honestly, Destiny's free to play, at the very least. I don't really like how you have to pay to play the campaigns minus each respective intro mission, but a fair amount of the content is free.

@@aperson9973 What? Does that have to do with what I said?

Truly, "AAA" is just a metric of a game's budget and not its quality anymore. Combine that with the abundance of tools that solo devs now have at their disposal, and it truly is the era of the Indie Dev.

Yeah it's capitalism, the problem is capitalism

I mean… if the devs stay in touch, then they could *potentially* go indie and “lay off” the execs through competition. They’d need to make their money *last* though. As well as figuring out who gets what when their thing is finally done.

Right, because gaming companies used to be smaller and ran by people who love video games. The suits came in when the money started rolling in and ruined everything. Thats what investors do. They ruin your business. Why any indie studio making a modicum of a successful game would sell their studios to one of the big slop factories hoping they’ll keep getting to make fun games is beyond me.

​@@saycapTo a lot of those indie studios, the money they are offered is a lot of money, and they can just leave and start a new studio if and when it all falls through

If it was a borderlands clone this could have been good. We don’t need more overwatch clones.

The original dream all gamers had for live services was an evolving and expanding story over a great length of time. Really, only MMOs have actually kept to and delivered on that, despite many of these "live ""service"" """games""" having plenty enough income and audience to do that too.

This game is just the epitome of generic slop.

​@@kjj26k Play limbus company, the characters genunely have development over the course of the chapters they release over time with interesting world building on top of it

I think Hoyoverse games are the exception You know, Chinese made games funded by their government!?!

How else would you be incentivised to buy €20 skins for your character?

If you look harder you'll notice they quite literally ripped icarus dash and the thermite grenade from destiny 2 😂 wow I wonder what the bungie devs are adding to this game.... hmmm

​@@johndoe1274They even got Marksman's dodge in this😭

I was so naive thinking Mirror's Edge set the new standart for first person movement... I mean, it DID but like, nothing followed. Now it's an "old game" and no new game learned how to do FPS moves. Meaning we didn't get a single game where BOTH shooting and moving feels satisfying outside of third person.

first three words tbh.

Which sucks because I am a sucker for hair physics.

@@z28yeti Titanfall dead on arrivals? really? both games sold millions and the spin off apex legends is one of the most profitable shooter EA ever produced.

​​@@z28yetiTitanfall (2 at least) was never dead and still isn't, it isnt exploding in popularity but people do play it

@@z28yeti You're an actual idiot if you consider Titanfall in the same camp as Suicide Squad and that stupid pirate game. Your opinion is worthless.

​@@z28yeti Really? You're using Titanfall as an example? Out of everything... Titanfall? Let me guess, you played it for a while, but sucked so bad that you now have to mock it to make yourself feel better? Either that or you just lack any connection to reality whatsoever...

That's _quite_ the statement. I've seen many many soulless games in the last five or so years. "I've never seen a more soulless game _this week."_ is about as far as I'd go. Plus, Xbox (the king of buying studios just to shut them down) has got a presentation in a couple of days. This might not even be the worst game this _month..._

That's the thing, Nintendo already has a successful team arena shooter franchise...Splatoon.

That would actually be fun NGL I know Nintendo isn’t perfect at making every game top notch, but I can imagine that an Overwatch-style game starring Miis made by Nintendo would work well if they go in a route that mixes Splatoon with TF2, Overwatch and Fortnite to an extent Obviously they’ve mastered the Number V Number Team-Based Shooter idea themselves with Splatoon even though the objectives to win are drastically different, but adding in different classes each with their own strengths and weaknesses depending on who you’re fighting and what classes you both are using like TF2 and Overwatch mixed with the customizability of the Miis, especially how Miitopia for Switch handled it would result in a game that gives each player their own identity and if they go the Fortnite route with collabing with other franchises, whether it’s games or not would really go a long way as long as there’s little to no microtransactions that are severe as Fortnite or Overwatch’s so everyone can get a chance to get the skins, stickers and taunts/emotes they want without having to waste too much real world money Plus, imagine how many more Mii costumes they could make without having to stick to Smash’s video game characters only rule

splatoon hero shooter when?

@@JaeleNistra You know when the gaming industry is going to hell when people countlessly mixing genres together in terms of terminology.

​@@JaeleNistra I mean, there are enough named characters by now. Question is, which characters are going to be relegated to Tank, who gets the vaunted Flank (to borrow Paladins' nomenclature) role, and who gets stuck as Support?

Really, they already got paid for it. Their talents don't deserve to be wasted on slop like this, and I really hope that they get to do something they actually want one day, but they're probably not in desperate need of money.

its like u didnt even watch the video

As someone who graduated from NHTI, I feel your pain

Yeah the name has no IP value and isn't easy to look up. It's somehow even more meaningless as a title than Anthem or Forspoken

When I hear Concord, I always think of...." welp gotta go save Preston Garvey"

I think of grapes

You mean from Fallout 4??

I actually enjoyed LawBreakers. The movement felt a bit stiff but that was certainly something that could have been smoothed out in time if the demand had been there. Nowadays, developers see Hero Shooters as easy cash-grabs because Team Fortress 2 is a bot-ridden mess and nobody on the face of the Earth is a fan of Overwatch's monetization system, so as far as they're concerned, the genre is ripe for the taking.

Lawbreakers was also created before overwatch came out but the actual release timing kinda doomed it.

The warning was there even earlier when Battleborn was sent out to die after being mis marketed as an overwatch clone. It was actually a first person MOBA in PvP and had online 4 player co op missions with a cool cast of characters. That had more creativity than any of these soulless cash grabs.

Not even overwatch is overwatch anymore honestly, blizzard as a company and overwatch killed any interest I had in the game. I'm also not interested in tf2, valorant or paladins. The only one I'm kinda interested in is marvel rivals and even with that game I'm having a wait and see approach cause marvel's avengers was trash and the controversy with early reviews and what genuine reviews I've seen have me a little spooked.

​@@DayFulngl, Battleborne was a dually pretty dope.

if a game is truly great, it’ll speak for itself. if the devs feel the need to hype up the marketing for the game by exemplifying every small feature, that should say something about the overall experience waiting to be released

*Only* after Starfield? lol

all developers in trailers read off of scripts

I don't trust a game trailer that has its devs in the trailer, period. Show the game.

​@@bam_bino__So close to getting it .

It also invokes a sense of shame for the consumer of said slop too.

It’s a particularly bad insult because you’re not just calling it bad you’re saying they put in no effort whatsoever, so it hurts even more.

Not to mention the Marvel one has already gotten some praise gameplay-wise, AND that it's going to be FREE against Concord's 70 buck entry fee.

Things when done right are either praised or have their faults pass by because they do it well Concord is not that

That is from the Spongebob episode when Squidward throws a Talent show and he gets booed while Spongebob got cheered.

@@FTChomp9980 correct, I don't remember the name of that episode, but that's exactly what I'm referring to

Fish in the Back: "Oh brother! This guy STINKS!!!"

*throws tomatoes at concord*

Quote Avengers: "I understood that reference"

He kinda hit the nail on the head with the GotG comparison. Yeah they got some.bright colors and thats just about it. Aside from the big yellow tin can theyre all too generic for words. And even the tin can is a trope played out to death

@@gabdraws7003the robot is literally just Omega from the Sonic series and that upsets me because i fucking love Omega and robot characters in general i dont want this to only become an overdone trope im so sad abt this man

@@exist4046 Hey! Don't compare Omega to that trash heap! Omega actually LOOKS like a robot.

@@hecklejack7726 entirely fair, Omega has a kickass design even if i cant draw him for my life lol.

A unique, defined artstyle will beat graphic fidelity any day. Just look at games like Team Fortress 2, literaly over a decade old and it still looks amazing.

and then they go and don't add any blood and write the characters to have no swearing and silly dialog, which would fit a cartoon style much better than a realistic one so *what is even the point-*

I'm in roughly the same boat. While I don't mind realism, I tend to lean towards stylization because it doesn't tire out my eyes. (That, and I dislike how hyper-realism tends to be the go-to when there's so much more you can do with that much power.) You could have all the graphic fidelity and power in the world but that doesn't automatically mean your game will look *good*. There's so much more to a good-looking game than how many pixels you can shove into a texture.

I just think about that Marvel Rivals game, and how despite it mainly being another hero shooter, the fact that it's a Marvel game that's actually somewhat trying to look like a comic instead of a movie immediately helps it look more interesting.

Realistic graphics just have the WORST particle effects when you wanna run a smooth, clear-to-read multiplaayer game. It's so much harder to figure out what's damaging me when everything is either glow/bloom effect-ing itself straight into my retinas OR appearing so subtly that it might as well be part of the map texture and I end up spinning around like an idiot while dying to fire damage because the floor has 5 specs of barely visible embers underneath my gloriously rendered boots.

That's saying something! O_O At least he didn't turn into Jim Sterling - that would be the worst thing ever!

After TB died, and the state games have gone to, we need more Yahtzee Croshaws than ever before.

​​@@sozajThere are worse things than Jim Sterling. Like doctor who rage bait review channels.

@@ArtyMartyD do you mean Doctor Doom-something-or-another(that suggests phallic subject matter)?

@@sozaj Not heard of that one yet but wow lol The one I know of the most is this guy who draws himself as a cartoon and basically just whines about problems in the show that no good thinking person really cares about. He'll also just make completely negative comments about Ncutis performance despite it being a good performance. You can basically say anything bad about anyone's acting capabilities if you tried even a little. Like how Keira Nightly has one face for everything or that Will Smith can only play Will Smith in any movie role.

Yeah these characters allows for a lot of creativity in writing imo, even if they are overdone. It would've worked as a single player adventure. However, unfortunately management sees the potential of live service and make a failure instead. Just to put this into perspective, when blizz made microtransactions for wow they made **MORE money from 1 (one) mount** as they made with starcraft 2. Thats an unbeatable return of investment. So its no wonder why management wants live service to work so much. Its the mythical golden goose they all chase.

@@rohamcsigusz they should just forbid microtransactions in full price paid games. They're already present in free games, which y'know what, fine, sure, ok, I guess, but in games I already paid for, it's just criminal to keep inserting other ways to drain people's wallets.

Well that would be expensive to make, properly expensive anyway. Cheaper to just record some hundred or so voice lines, make six or so maps, slap a main menu on it and call it a day.

​@@Mike14264 Yes! It's BS. Something like Destiny for example, yeah, there's microtransactions, but at least the game is free.

Me too man. They should scrap the whole game and instead make it all about him.

You aren't alone

I wanna buy an overpriced plushie of him

@@baconbitz7804 Me too man, me too...

Not only is it the only remotely interesting design, the vacuum thing seems like the only remotely interesting gameplay idea the game brings to the table.

So porn carried overwatch? I dunno if I should br impressed or depressed about that statement

@dandrecollier80 If you wanna hear something really depressing, Randy Pitchford tried to keep Battleborn alive by advertising - and possibly creating - a rule 34 subreddit. I can't see fanart as depressing in any context compared to *that*

@@jesfest damn that's even more depressing. When you have to resort to porn to keep a game alive

Never played Overwatch, but I was thankful for the porn.😄

@@dandrecollier800 _attempted_ to keep the game alive, it still failed! it's actually a shame too, I liked playing it.. but gearbox be gearbox and randy be randy, so what can you do but be wary, right?

It looks infinitly better!

Anything related to Astro Bot is fair game. Although the new one should get a new name by the time September rolls around, can't wait to see what they're gonna do. And yes, 3D platformers tend to do so well nowadays where we have great content to indulge for a good balance value at say 35-40$ at most.

To be fair, there were like two other games that looked pretty solid (God of War, and Silent Hill 2), but that's not saying much when the only game I own for PS5 is Demon's Souls, and I don't even have a PS5. I just play it whenever I visit my brother's house. Lmao

That's exactly why Astro Bot is going to get cancelled.

@@andyblanton6570 what for?

Surely, when they see the trend is going down the drain, they would still have time to add a twist, or something even vaguely unique? Or maybe, the corporate suits actually in charge of the project are a bunch of stubborn greedy idiots.

I don't think it's got anything to do with capitalism. If anything, at least these games are allowed to fail on the market instead of being forced on players by mandate

xDDD yeaaaah so true!!! omg you should totally catchy a jingly rope and join the 40% at your earliest convenience. 🔥🗣

⁠@@mtoffo2275The creators are being forced by the money-mandate of parasitic suits to create garbage that only benefits said suits.

@@dymaxion3988 why are they pushing communism in the games then?

​@@dymaxion3988 Honestly I'd argue it doesn't benefit the suits neither. Not that they deserve any benefit.

Live service = I can't play it at my pace.

Live service is a threat, not a promise

The big guy looks like drax, Winston from overwatch, and Star Wars aliens stuck into a blender, it’s definitely a chatgpt generation

chat gbt create me a redditor with no semblance of self

i eat my own shit

Going to be honest, I wish it was. At least then they would have an excuse. But development started before GPT was released to the public.

Your point makes sense but I think there's a larger force that isn't being accounted for here... The demonization of media criticism contributes heavily to the lack of creativity across the board, imo. I think it's definitely possible to take experiences from media and turn them into something new and interesting as long as you understand the elements you're working with. And honestly? Most don't. Looking any deeper than surface level is discouraged and people can't even begin to narrow down what it is that they like about a piece of media anymore. If you can't even do that then how can you take apart the elements you're working with to understand what about them works and what doesn't? Talking to most, it's almost always generic answers and vague "It's just good." over and over. I think your general point as well as Arlo's point about Old Guys in Suits are both close to the mark but I think general audiences can be blamed a little bit too. They know what they want but also *don't* know what they want at the same time. Concord looks generic and boring but I bet it'd have been received a lot better if the devs had switched around some of the roles and incorporated more popular but super simple tropes into each character. More bright colors, even if directionless and basic, also would've probably helped too, imo.

Seriously. It's going to become a slur in the industry.

New Hampshire fans crying rn

It’s this generation’s Superman 64

Gen X and older know that word was already one of international derision by the end of the last century. You’re not fooling anyone by dropping the final ‘e’, Sony 🙄

you can’t tell me the mushroom girl doesn’t look cool 11:28

@@yourehereforthatarentyou She'd be even cooler if she wasn't just a copy of a Battleborn character.

@@SamuelCatsy not even close

​@@yourehereforthatarentyouThe guy from Battleborn, Miko, actually looked better too. The mushroom has a really busy design imo.

@@Calvin_Coolage better is a matter of opinion but they’re much too different to say one is a copy of the other. it’s like saying they’re both copies of toad bc they’re all mushroom people

That just goes to show how powerful he is

They probably have hard plastic inside or something

i doubt he wears the puppet when doing audio recordings in post inb4 5heads who think they’re funny and original say “what puppet?” for the millionth time

...he has only one hand... ...that clapping... ...wasn't made with hands...

Gyatt ​@@enorma29

The same white noise that will not buy this game, thus making this game DOA

to be fair, when the game was announced in the state of play there was some serious L spam going on so i can't blame them for just seeing that and not realizing that there are actual serious issues with the game but its still a little crazy that the game got made at all lmao

.... They said that? Ugh, why I am not surprised? 🙄

from a dev perspective, it's visually impressive and the gameplay looks smooth. The problem is it's not what the people want.

What they were actually hearing was brown noise following by them pooping the bed.

Arlo should honestly talk about indie games more often considering how slow things are right now

I agree, so many wonderful Indie games out there! Aside from the select few, I notice I seem to play only indies lately.

The thing is people are stopping that's why these games fail Either executives don't know about the failures or they do but are desperate enough to do it anyways Either way they're dumb

every week is a pretty gross exaggeration, theres like 10 indie games at most that Indie game fans even play and talk about

It’s a great idea, but it’ll never catch on. Video games are mass market entertainment now… and 50% of the mass market are of below average intelligence.

Unless the name of the galaxy matters for gameplay, that's like naming your company The Service Department. It's intentionally misleading.

I can see why people would mistake that, but when I heard it I thought it was just referencing the lore of the game (doesn’t make up for how mid the game looks)

i think they just chose it to make the game sound cool, unless the game is actually about achieving harmony or whatever among the characters (doubt it though)

I love your pfp

@@lordtheodore13 Oh thanks, it's by MangoPopArt