Concord feels over-priced and unready (Beta impressions)
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- Опубликовано: 19 авг 2024
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Concord is the next big live service from Sony, but given how little buzz there is for it, given how unfinished some core aspects feel and given how high that $40 buy-in is, Concord feels like its sleep walking into its fate as the next live service cautionary tale.
Video written and voiced by Ralph P.
Edited by AustinB.
#Impressions #Concord #Sony
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You think a grown ass man kissing a toy is good writing? lol
How much were you paid off?
They scrapped days gone 2 and green-lit this haha Sony losing the plot.. this game is 5 years too late….
Is it better than rage 2??
99℅ sure they bought this studio for cheap to fold it into a new one, their kit is amazing, direction is lacking. This would make a great heist game for the characters
What's the ETA on the Final Shape review?
I clicked cause I had no idea what concord was.
Genuinely forgot Sony made a hero shooter.
Because its a game that was clearly made by a comitee and not bunch of devs that wanted to make this. Look at it, heroes all look like newest addition of modern marvel and star wars movies lol.
Also its woke as shit, numbers dont lie, if you make woke game that is this blatantly trying to pander to it, it never ends well. Just look at first descendant and tell me how its working for concord.
Too much to pay for grapes.
@lukas753331 what's 'woke' about this game?
@@UnBR0k3enAngel you´re kidding right ? Just look at character designs lol
@@lukas753331the characters look pretty generic, not what I would call woke. Is it the pronouns? Its the pronouns isn’t it?
The studio seriously should get an award. How the fuck do you make 16 characters and not ONE of them is actually cool. HOW?
Lol😂
They just used the Kotaku staff 🤣
Bro, we don’t get cool characters anymore in any of these woke games. It’s like cart man said, put a chick in it and make it lame and gay 😂
Get your poltical mumjo jumbo outta here @@cheehee808_
@@cheehee808_ ah yes, and you avoid making it lame and gay by... not putting women in it?
Yes, this makes sense, just men fighting against eachother, getting their blood, spit, and sweat all over each other.
Getting down and dirty and physical with each other.
With only men.
And that makes it not gay 😎totally
I still don't understand why they're going so heavy on story in a live service game that will inevitably die, meaning all their work will disappear for those who care; and for those who don't, they'll just scream at the one person who wants to watch a cutscene until they vote to skip it. If you're so focused on story, then just make some, any kind of single player offline mode. It could just be a botmatch with cutscenes even, at least it would give the story some kind of lasting impact or legacy.
probably this cutscenes were outsourced by sony not like dev team were actually doing them instead of the game
Wholeheartedly agree. This is what immediately puts me off these games. Expensive and with an expiry date.
100%, I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but I like the CoD games campaigns (as stupid as they might be) and all the work tied in with the stories, art, and effort (in any game) just going poof with the Live Service servers sucks. It's vehemently depressing. But I guess you can always just download the cutscenes off RUclips.
@@reevesT94 a good fps single player campaign is a fun time. Big set piece moments, fun variety of scenarios, and usually a short and sweet runtime!
It’s probably Bungie’s influence.
They are heavily focused on game story/lore - the founders believes this is why people play their games, not for their gunplay feel, design and mechanics but for the story 😅
It feels like Sony is an old man asking other old men what the kids like now days.
Honestly at this point Sony should just buy up mihoyo to get Genshin, star rail and zenless zone zero lmao 😄
The passive buffs don't actually apply to the whole team. They apply only to YOUR entire roster. So if you pick a reload buff first, every subsequent character you chose will have faster reload. Which makes it even more convoluted than you describe.
interesting, but what the heck.
@@sugarpolecat4781 yeah...
"Over-priced and Unready". Perfectly sums up the AAA gaming industry.
We call it corporate games now, not triple A
Meh. Imo pricing of video games is still super cheap compared to other media.
except nintendo
@@gavinderulo12what media are we talking here? CDs which nobody buys and are priced around £7, vinyl varies in price but no more than £30/£35, Blu Ray's are between £3 and £10 and 4Ks are like 15
Games are £70 not matter what console you're getting it on excluding PC and they're always unpredictable whether they'll be good or not, at least with the latter you know what you're getting into before you buy.
@@aliali-ce3yfNintendo games are very overpriced
The reveal trailer looked like some kind of co-op heist game where you'd wander a city getting into trouble. "Okay, this might be cool"
The game is a 5v5 arena shooter. "Moving on"
There's also a very good reason they put their least egregious character designs front and center in the cinematic rather than put a spotlight on the more "diverse" ones.
@@Ankaris "on the more "diverse" ones." what a weird fucking grievance to have with the game, mate.
@@Ankaris goofy ahhhh argument
@@Ankaris me when i can't help but reveal my deep, childish fear of people that are different
It really feels like they slept through the importance of unique silhouettes in Character Design class.
I'm not hearing this mentioned enough. Everyone looks the same beyond 10 meters except for the trashcan bot, big woman, and not-drax. Character silhouettes are very important for this type of game. Overwatch and the upcoming Marvel Rivals game have this nailed down
They spent too much focus on giving the characters correct pronouns. I'm not even kidding, it's in the character select screen. No way I'm supporting another woke garbage.
@@fred6907 you mad bro? Creating a UI element is cheap af. It's a focking shooter, you shoot people, why do you care about pronouns? R u another raging coomer gamer?
@@fred6907 Holy shit you did it, you solved the crime! It was the pronouns all along! Impressive work, detective.
@@JamfreeJamboree It sure was a part of it. Plot twist, this game is mostly for the male playerbase. Turns out most men don't give a shit about what pronouns the characters have. Kindly point out where I'm wrong about this, I'll wait.
Doesn't help the game is just another cookie cutter hero shooter.
It might be petty but something that bugged the hell out of me was the characters having their little quip and pose every time you respawn. I was playing the chick in the hazmat suit one map and having to keep hearing “hear comes to expert *tap tap*” as I kept dying while trying to learn the mechanics was so aggravating. Even my wife who was just hanging out in the room reading was getting annoyed hearing the same barks over and over. It’s a little thing that just wore me down
its cringe
"Catch phrase" - Rheindhart
Bro doesn't know how to read 🤣
That and every single match has a whole cutscene fade to black then cutscene of the ship landing, that gets old real quick, I dont even play OW anymore since the 2 BS but even OW has a quick load to insta pick your character, no wasted time
Sounds like youre just bad if youre dying that much
/s
With the failure of Overwatch 2's PvE mode, Concord could have carved out its place with PvE as a way to justify $40 pricepoint
It will have PvE, the credits confirmed it
@@sugs0377 the game launches in a month, if it's not there on launch nobody will care when it maybe arrives.
@@sugs0377I haven’t seen anything about this game having PvE outside of the weekly cutscenes. It’s only been shown and advertised as a PvP shooter, even by the devs themselves.
@@sugs0377 ah yes, me when I spread misinformation
So making Destiny it seems….
"Story-based 5v5 multiplayer hero shooter" sounds exactly like a word soup combo that only "market analysts" could come up with. You know, the people that think Game Design means "How the characters look". So from the get-go it reeks of being mandated by the upper management, not from some actual idea or passion.
WHY THE FUCK CAN YOU SEE NAMETAGS THROUGH SMOKE BRUH
Not a chance in hell they keep up that story cadence. Not even fortnite can keep up that much story production on their live service pvp game
Anyone with a clue knows they won’t be able to keep that up. The devs are fools for thinking they can and advertising it as such.
Imagine the story of Destiny's seasonal stories, and instead of giving it all at the start, I'm thinking they'll chop it up in 12 segments, so like a TV show.
Fortnite BR story is a mess, but that’s the natural outcome of a live-service game: It will never have a logical, emotional and compelling conclusion or ending.
@@Xyler94 except that in this case, the story bits have zero bearing on the actual game (because it’s a PvP arena shooter).
There is a small possibility that they have built a pipeline that allows them to produce those cutscenes (is just people talking into a room) for cheap. Like they build a system similar to what epic showed of Unreal using a iPhone camera to record the performance of a actor and them in minutes the engine translate that to a meta human character. If they didn't do something like that, there is really no way they can keep it up.
Imagine working years on a project and when you present it to the public, no one cares about it. The moral must be so low.
Anyone with half a brain could have told this dev team that their idea and timing of said idea was terrible. It’s an Overwatch clone that doesn’t do enough to differentiate itself and comes far too late into the game for people to care about it.
@@mriguy7989 Concord isn't an OW clone. If it was, people would actually play it.
I imagine a big part of it will be the devs probably gave suggestions or warnings through development.
But the decision makers decide, and now you’re releasing a half baked totally bland game to a saturated market
@@mriguy7989 it does enough but it's not f2p so people will not play it even if they like the concept, ideas or design because it's fkin 40 bucks.
Yea, you can't help but feel bad for the developers. Either this was their idea and they were genuinely excited about it, only to be met with complete indifference. Or they were forced to build this and are now watching everything they warned their publisher would happen unfold. In either case I can't imagine the studio is feeling good right now. And with how the industry is, if the game underperforms, it's entirely possible we're talking about the studio getting shut down this time next year.
Ralph's track record of calling games unready for launch, with those games proceeding to fail disastrously due to launching in an unfinished state, is pretty spot-on. I hope the studio hears this, listens and pivots quickly.
The Daw character model looks like a Walmart greeter who looks like shes struggling to move around without a motorized scooter.
Temu Guardians of the Galaxy is crazy 😂😂😂
Same
"We've got guardians of the galaxy at home":
That one really got me 👨🏻🍳🤌💋
It's just cheaper orientalism
From wish🤣
Lawbreakers 2: Morbin Edition
i just made a comment comparing this to Lawbreakers.
4:56 "So full credit where it's due, this is pretty good stuff."
That cutscene was only 15 seconds long and it was utter cringe. What are you talking about Skill up?
They don't call him shill up for nothing
@@wanderingwobb6300 I would understand that for other videos, but I don't think this one is a shill, he just likes marvel dialogues
Shill up
@@wanderingwobb6300 In his defense, the CGI work is excellent, including the animations.
Character design and writing is absolute freaking CRINGE and well... Lots of people have already said everything else had to be said about its projected longevity.
Every design philosophy and mechanic makes me think that the devs had a couple of men in suits on their team, constantly looking over their shoulders, making changes for them and always repeating, "But the chart says..."
Its calles sweet baby inc
"Men" in suits.
He's right behind me, isn't he?
THAT's gonna leave a mark!
Always has been.
What are we, some kinda concord?
Well this is awkward...
Ughhh... Guys, u gonna wanna see this.
40$, season pass and cash shop in a game that releases wholly unfinished?
What a classic
I didn’t see a cash shop and i thought the season passes were free to those who buy it…..people really makin shit up
Is it unfinished? Haven’t seen any complaints about bugs, glitches or performance, the game is just generic and boring
Ya its unfinished it's not even out yet lol. But people say that like it couldn't improve drom the beta. @@yonkocommander5531
Can you show me a cash shop? I didn’t see one
@wekraftyy5288 the only reason companies go balls deep for hero shooters is to sell skins and other pointless shitty cosmetics
Honestly the game play doesn’t pass the eyeball test. Lifeless and bland was a good description. Nice video.
A live service game that doesn't separate from other free games, costs 40.
Nice...
Its weird that fighting games have learned that if you are asking for a full box price your game needs actual single player content before shooters have
@@micshazam842 His point is that they are improving it and learn from it. Look at SF6,KOF,Guilty Gear,MK,Tekken. They all added and innovated so much with practice tool, story modes, extra modes to play that doesn't mean fighting other people, customization, arcade culture on game virtually. The FG genre had innovated and stpo being lazy with no single player content. They are packed with content nowadays.
FG understood their flaws and fix it.
Hahah man that’s true. Wild times.
40 dollars isn't full price, but I agree.
I still think it's kinda crazy that fighting games have out the ass cosmetic monetization while still charging for DLC characters while also charging for the base game but I guess the fighting game fans are just used to it.
“This is like a Temu version of Marvel’s iconic Guardians of the Galaxy franchise.”
Ok, tangent: it is still absolutely insane to me that the MCU was so successful that they pulled in a relatively unknown comic book run with sentient trees and cyborg “not raccoons” and gave it enough staying power that SkillUp’s calling it “iconic” and I’m in 100% agreement.
I mean even before the mcu, the guardians were still a big deal in comics and appeared in multiple TV shows and video games like avengers earth's mightiest heroes and marvel vs capcom 3. It does makes me miss the old version of the guardians before the mcu basically flipped their personalities.
That yellowish main character with the mohawkish hairstyle screams Michael Rooker’s GotG character - even though that’s just kind of a generic scifi/cyberpunk look, in my mind he owns it now
James Gunn put in his dues on nailing how to be a director of very entertaining films on low budgets. He and the team put a lot into GotG - it is the closest to a director driven experience in the MCU.
@@toledochristianmatthew9919 That's because Marvel was promoting them to the masses because they knew their movie was coming. So a talking raccoon and space tree are goofy concepts and massive risk for a blockbuster movie. Marvel does it all the time. Marvel Snap HEAVILY features America Chavez, a nobody character, because she was coming in Dr Strange. MvC had Capt Marvel before her movie, Dr Strange and Dormamu were in MvC3 before his movie. I agree pre mcu Drax being a brilliant savage tactician is better than the movie version. (It's clear Gunn doesn't care about character history/lore) But it's wild that a movie with a talking racoon and space tree made more money than Wonder Woman that year.
I remember being the only person pumped for the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy movie back in high school because I had just read Annihilation
When I went to tell about how cool the Guardians were to my friends everyone was like "lol a talking tree? 😂😂😂 a racoon? 😂😂😂 no one cares"
Wasn't the only time either, the same thing happened with Ant Man
looks like a game Michaels kid would play in gta 5
That game looked more fun lol
Don't diss jizzle like that man
I’d generally rather play Righteous Slaughter
Why did they model the characters after the average Reddit mod
That's their target audience
Because thats what they are.
@@taagsindeed art imitating life.
If I pre-ordered this game and gave beta keys out to 5 of my friends, I'd have 5 fewer friends.
And you'd have PAID to have 5 fewer friends! XD
lol,
“What the fuck is this”
13:45 There is a Mini Map in the top left, but it is quite small. and i think you only see enemies on your radar when there within visual range.
Yep this is what I meant but wasn’t clear about it.
@@SkillUp You're absolutely right about the sound design though. its indeed top notch and I'm glad that that's the case. coming from rainbow six siege and other tactical shooters, it's nice to be able to hear my enemies when they're around the corner.
lol. What’s the point of a minimap that only displays stuff within visual range? That kinda defeats the whole purpose of a minimap/radar in a shooter. 😂🤦🏻♂️
@@mriguy7989 Yeah, I don't really get it either. I'd understand it if there were some more easy to miss things (like your average breakable boxes in an open-world game) that you might miss otherwise and wouldn't want to and the map would show those as small dots or something, but a radar that shows your enemies only when you're looking at them is odd. Maybe it has some interaction that'd make you want to look at it (like if there's a clone character and the map shows which is real), but still just weird.
The hero pick system sounds like hell, who the fuck thought this was a good idea?
My brain immediately said "nope" when you started to break down the Crew Roster system.
It's a shame because it seems like there are solid ideas here but not enough to take the genre in a fresh direction.
Thanks for another banger video!
Really helps understand why SEGA canceled Hyenas even though it was basically ready to ship...
Hyenas was so much better than this
It literally doesnt at all. Wtf are you on about.
"Game about to ship when it's not ready to do so really helps you understand why another game that was 'basically ready to ship' was cancelled"
I'm sorry but that is just silly. I'm not saying Hyenas would've succeeded or anything like that necessarily, but one game targeted at a similar market releasing too early in its development doesn't say a thing about another game that didn't end up getting released at all. Maybe Hyenas was Overwatch (1) and it was absolutely ready and polished to excellency but SEGA decided to can it regardless. Most likely not, but it could've been.
Even though Hyenas was already more interesting.
You’re 100% right. Sega cut their losses and wrote it off. Sony about to feel the pain with this one.
Holy shit my eyes glazed over when you were talking about the variant stuff. That has to be the most over-designed system I've ever seen
When devs think they’re smart but are actually so dumb that they can’t even fathom how dumb they are.
he is also wrong on the variant thing
@@davidtronche875would you like to elaborate his mistake? I still dont understand it
@@jarurn_7326 do you really want a 5 paragraph essay elaboration on this nothing burger of an attempt at game design? 😭
@@davidtronche875 please. Don’t run away. Explain how he’s wrong. Because it’s obviously a convoluted system that’s very confusing. So you seem like a smart man. Explain. And if you can’t or won’t. Then you’re wrong obviously. At least this man tried. Unlike the game/devs itself.
Imagine cannon balling into the Hero shooter pool after Overwatch has been pissing and shitting in it for almost a decade.
"Firewalk is sleepwalking into its fate as another cautionary tale" ✍🔥
The fact that there's a description that says there's a tutorial mode on the main menu when there isn't a tutorial on the main menu is insane. This game has a TERRIBLE new player onboarding experience. That might be fixed in the game when it launches, but you'd think they'd want to give beta players a good experience to get them to BUY the game when it launches. Insane.
it's not the hard to learn the controls
@@14ElmStreet28 I'm not talking about running and aiming. When you have more than a dozen characters all with unique abilities and kits, it's a huge miss to not give players SOME kind of introduction to them besides just getting their asses kicked for several matches every time they want to try a new character.
I’m just so tired of these “characters” always being so quippy, smarmy, and just generally dickish towards each other. It’s fine once in awhile in a game here or there when it makes sense, but it’s just way too much and they’re insufferable lol.
I'm glad other people are starting to get tired of this kind of media where everyone is awful to each other for the "lolz."
Haymar is the only snarky one lol
reminds me of that video about millennial writing in games
Quirky millenial writing from people who didn't age past prom night.
Marvel ah writing
Honestly I think the buy-in kills this game in the womb. The current market just doesn't expect to pay for entry on multiplayer hero shooter. I'm definitely interested, but am debating whether it's even worth my time downloading to join the open beta knowing there's almost zero chance I'll actually buy it afterwards
I tried not to laugh when you called that character a little "fucked up mushroom freak." So good. I will never play this game but I still wanted to watch anyways. I'm glad I did.
I never liked how Hero Shooters have their story completely detached from the actual game, so these weekly story bits are the last thing that would get me to log on.
Yeah, like what do all these cutscenes and story have to do with why we're running around some random arena shooting at each other?
@@Highlander77Maybe it's about identification with the characters? Seems like a waste for a PvP shooter, but I guess many players don't like to be random, no-named grunts anymore either so some sort of character story is necessary.
@@Highlander77fun fact: They have absolutely nothing to do with it. Which is dumb that the devs thought this was a good idea to begin with.
@@Lenarietthis is it I think, a good example of this is valorant where the character building is such a big point of discussion within the community that adores that game. I know the riot universe is an absolute anomaly tho
My biggest issue is none of the characters look remotely interesting or appealing to play.
Same. Overweight women and pronoun robots. Even if the game was actually good, the design and direction feel so soulless that I have zero interest.
As much as everyone likes to make fun of Apex Legends and Overwatch, at least the character designers know how to make distinct designs. When looking at their characters, they ooze personality.
They forgot the memo that "sex" sells and decided to roll the dice with these character designs. Just look at the First Descendant while it isn't a 10/10 game they fucking know how to sell it and by god it is fucking raking it right now.
@@RedOctober375 I hate what Overwatch's gameplay became but yeah the artdesign of that game is unmatched compared to something like this
I actually disagree. While the pronouns are kinda irrelevant when it doesnt *play* like a story heavy game, the biggest pro for me is the variety and number of characters. Sadly that's the only positive thing i have to say about it.
What the fuck are theee character designs lol. Take me back man take me back
Tired of minorities in my games, Trump 2024!
This game should've been an action RPG coop shooter with a pvp arena
All I can think when I see these cutscenes and character designs is "man this would have been a dope Brothers in Arms/Republic Commando-style squad shooter game". Have a nice single player campaign with 13 or so missions, let you play as different members of the crew from mission to mission, give unique and interesting squad commands based on which crew members are currently assigned to your squad, that would have been cool and I probably would have bought it.
Yeah they made cutscenes showing the characters camaraderie and the gameplay is entirely them killing each other. 🙃
Never pre-order, never buy day 1, never purchase microtransactions, and never give money to companies that hate you.
They dont hate you. They dont even know you exist. They want your wallet.
Yep It’s just greed and many of us would fall into the exact same situation were we CEOs of a gigantic company. Capitalism is really showing its Achilles heel and its greed (obvious I know but don’t recall it being as blatant 30 years ago)
Much of the financial corruption they speak of in other countries is just called “lobbying” here Pay enough money to anyone or anything and they will listen to you
For example Our TV ads are mostly pharmaceuticals now even though the consumer can’t buy prescription medication, they have to first go through a doctor. Which SHOULD mean there is no real reason for pharmaceutical companies to advertise when locked behind a doctors decision, BUT they own the doctors now so that’s why it’s so important
Otherwise it makes no sense to advertise to people who cannot buy your product on their own
Hes right about the pre order and all of the other stuff
@@LinhLe-rs7frThese days it's becoming a bit different:
They do hate you. They wish you didn't exist. They want your wallet.
@@LinhLe-rs7frif you’re white, they don’t want you. That’s all you need to remember. They say it all the time. Xbox, studios, developers.
I dont agree with never pre-order or buy day 1. You just have to be very careful which games you buy day 1. For example, I bought Tears of the Kingdom and pre-ordered it and I got a wooden plaque for pre-ordering. Want to know what I did? I sold that plaque on Ebay for $40! Over HALF of what the game costs. I also bought Ragnarok day 1, Elden Ring, Returnal, etc. You just have to be smart and pick the right companies that have a good track record for polished games at release.
Honestly, if Concord war indeed Guardian of the Galaxy as a RPG or open world adventure where you play a bounty hunter, people would have been psyched. There's nothing like that in the AAA space, the closer we got was the cancelled Prey 2.
What added salt to the wound was that it was yet another 5v5 hero shooter...
"Concord is coming out in 5 weeks"
I genuinely didn't know that, nor cared.
No one cares about how much you care. Why watch a video about something you don't care about? Nothing better to do?
@@racingbeats1493 Because skill up is good at making videos, and sometimes my opinion on things can be swayed if someone has enough positive thing's to say about something.
This was not the case, and my opinion stand's That I didn't care before, and now still don't. And even since commenting helps the video, here we are.
oh, and 17 people liked my comment so far, so people kind of do care.
They’ll be talking about the servers shutting down within a year
The next Lawbreakers.
The next battleborn
I would love to see Battleborn or Lawbreakers revived
The next "Billion dollar franchise"! 🤑👍
@@Shzl47 well here you go
@@dominickjadon are you referring to Concord? It's not even close to being the same or similar game. Lawbreakers was a high-mobility arena shooter where every character has a movement ability. The maps also had movement structures built-in. Battleborn was more MOBA than shooter with upgrade trees and towers to attack/defend.
This is the only review I’ve watched that said the actually gameplay is fine. Everyone else says it’s clunky, the movement is slow, the TTK is waaaay too long, and that it feels like destiny map design with Rainbow 6 Siege movement.
I’m with that consensus opinion. I don’t know what Ralph saw that the rest of us didn’t but in the 10-12 hours I played of the beta on PS5, the gameplay was a clunky, slow, snoozefest. People could get into 1v3 firefights and have enough time/health to disengage and run away. Precision aiming with the DualSense was absolute ass compared to other shooters.
Skill up literally said everyone I have watched says the gameplay is great…
All I think is, you blocked anyone not as woke as you so all you heard was praise.
@14:00 “…That’s because there’s no minimap to rely on” while a minimap is literally sitting in the top left corner of the screen at the moment he says it 😂
I was thinking the same thing😭
I just don’t know what Sony is this thinking by launching a 5v5 FPS Hero shooter in such a saturated market. It seems so short sighted
And why the hell the game costs 40 dollars when the big hitters are all free to play.
Same reason they seem hellbent on releasing so many live service games in a saturated market that doesn’t need any more: they’re greedy and just see dollar signs.
That's sony these days. Like how they're still completely ok with blocking almost 180 territories from buying their games all because "muh data collection".
Fuck Sony
because you have to pay for the characters in a free to play game
@@14ElmStreet28 nah. All characters in the F2P competitors to Concord have every character accessible for free. It's getting that bad for Concord.
@@UnBR0k3enAngelim pretty sure new heroes in ow2 are locked behind the premium BP
This game can be summed up with two words “Hot Garbage”!
LITERALLY NO ONE ASKED FOR THIS NOR WANTED IT! We all wanted SOCOM, RESISTANCE, OR BLOODBORNE. Did they give us that? No! They gave us this trash. THANKS SONY! 😕😒🙁
So, $40 USD for a bog standard hero shooter with its only defining trait being weekly cutscenes that feature annoying characters dropping Marvel quips?
Yeah, I'll pass.
It's a shame that people will latch to the title of the video, and not the excellent analysis itself. Playing this made me sad. So much talent and technical skill, and for what?
I'm hoping it doesn't die early, but I can't see this working as a full priced game.
I'm starting to wonder if the triple A industry can make anything but first or third person action games or shooters and nothing else at this point.
Well, considering that pretty much all Sony puts out is action/adventure games, it comes as no surprise. They don’t really know how to do anything else.
Literally most games that anyone gives a shit about are that. Because those are the games that sell.
Action/adventure and shooters is what most people want.
@@kunimitsune177 yeah but that’s like saying that Sony pictures and Disney should only make superhero slop just because those sell well, I think the video game industry deserves better than that
There is so much potential for interesting gameplay ideas that are completely left out in the AAA space outside a few here and there. Although when something interesting comes out in the AAA/AA space like Kunitsu Gami, a lot of people are quick to write it off as strange and too different so...
@Realunmaker Small/independent creators are normally the people pushing the medium forward and giving the consumer better products. The big corporate backed stuff made for mass consumption will almost always be bland risk averse slop basically by necessity. Can’t take risks when the money guys are constantly hovering over you telling you that their market research is infallible.
You say 'weekly story drops'
I hear 'wait a year so I don't have to deal with weekly story drops'
It's disgusting how much money is wasted on this slop
I had 2 separate close friends tell me about this when the reveal happened and I still forgot it existed. Now that I am reminded, I will still pass
This has a strong Amazon Game Studio's Crucible vibe to it.
that is exactly what I thought. Oof, what a failure that was.
Man they wanted to be Garden Warfare 2 SO BAD with those variants lol
How to save concord:
1. Make it free to play
2. Redesign every character
seeing games try to do the overwatch thing right now is really weird, we already went through the "oh we need to make a super monetized small team PVP hero shooter! and make sure it's ALL ABOUT COMPETATIVE!" phase and those games basically died off due to a ton of issues, and one of the major ones that most people are NOT competative players. they play for fun.
and now they're just... doing this again? while overwatch 2 is mostly hated by the general gaming base and it seen as a joke? like this phase already flopped it's like if everyone started making halo killers again after infinite failed. what is the plan here?
OW2 flopped only because of an extremely anti consument monetization practises at first and then they tanked it even more by not adding promised PvE mode. Not because it wanted to be competitive, at all really.
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@@caseyhoward6638 I thought the first one in all caps was to be funny and then I kept reading 💀
Gameplay is a copy of destiny 2 moves and animations
The plan seemed to be some overwatch/Destiny-killer bullshit that was thought up back in 2017 and was only finalized into a product now. I love this new era of game development where games will need seven years in the oven only for it's entire concept to become woefully outdated by the time the game is introduced to the world.
I'll be honest, if Concord were a SP Immersive sim or an action adventure like the Guardians of Galaxy game I would be really hyped (I enjoyed the cinematic trailer) but as another MP hero shooter, especially so similar looking to Overwatch and the Marvel one, I have no interest in the game.
What's crazy is people complain that PlayStation does nothing but SP action adventure games.
@@thepews1511and it looks like they should just stick to that based on how terrible this game looks.
@@mriguy7989 did you even watch the video? There is no question the game is quality.
@@thepews1511 yeah, the uninspired Overwatch clone that looks like Temu Guardians of the Galaxy is “quality”. You Sony Ponies are hilarious. 😂🤦🏻♂️🤡
@@mriguy7989 not even the same game modes you obviously don't have an agenda at all 🤪
The only reason I remember this game is *specifically* because SkillUp called it a boring looking disappointment at Summer Game Fest where they were generally at least positive for everything else revealed. I can't even be bothered to remember it even though it's plastered all over the PS5 store
this game looks like if someone who absolutely fucking hate hero shooters were forced to make one lmao
The makers hate gamers.
The game feels like its played in slowmotion with uninspired characters, weapons, and locations. It brings nothing new to the table
Right. I feel like my biggest problem with the game is that it’s too slow
I played the beta, it felt like I was walking on molasses with how slow it felt, the TTK was absolutely horrendous too
40$ for nothing new and/or interesting, I don't see hope in this game
@@Reezy884If they are trying to incentivize players to spend time with Concord, they did an absolute crap job. I mean do you really want to play as Fat Joe, Mr. Clean, mushroom man, or Vacuum Cleaner?
it's also the unbearably quirky dialogue and reddit teir writing too.
they fumbled in the character design aspect
I like how Linus's news channel tried to frame this as "Oh it's just good haha" casually gaslighting people like they usually do
Developers need to start asking themselves, "who is our game for? Who are we appealing to?"
Nerdslayer can start writing up script for his series
Sometimes I think he prematurely creates videos for games that aren’t truly dead yet, but in this case, I think he would be ahead of himself lol
He's too busy finding people to argue with on the comment section and on reddit.
@@AzureRoxe Very true.
My friends told me to get the beta and I just laughed and continued playing monster hunter
Based response
it would have been fun regardless of the quality of the game. Don't take real friendships for granted.
@@wasteurtime5677very true
@nemmynemmy4767 get them into monster hunter
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The guy who looks like Yondu also collects bobble head type things…
I think you were a little mistaken about the crew bonuses. The Crew bonus only applies to your CREW in the match... not the other players.
This feels so behind the curve Ill be stunned if the story ISNT all about “the multiverse”
I would roll my eyes so fast lol
It does have multiple variants of the same characters...
@@karidyas00 bro 😂
If they're going to have variants, I don't understand why it isn't just: pick character -> pick variant passive -> spawn in. Why is it separated like that?? It's like they wanted to make it a bit like character selection in a MOBA but then chickened out.
Almost all of the cast look like regular ass cosplayers and rubber forehead aliens. Even the environments look like regular places scattered with sci fi props for a movie set. It feels like a knock off of a movie tie in game.
Fortnite, Genshin, every Gotcha game, CoD: puts popular/attractive characters in the game, make millions
Sony: lets introduce a few grandmas and a circus cast
Wow, who let half of these characters through? It's physically unpleasant to look at some of them
When the south east asian market is littered with sexy hot male/female characters to play as. This game is having none of that. Where is my sexy alien lady?
@@jarurn_7326 sexy Asian lady > Temu drax and grenade granny please and thank you
And none of these characters in the massive world of SPACE this game takes place in are aliens. All of these characters are basically humans with different skin colours. 0 actual xenomorphs.
No interesting character design.
All of these characters are just stand ins for the 500 pound blue and purple haired activists Sony calls developers
This game screams “game for everyone” which from the word of Arrowhead studio: “is a game for no one”
This game absolutely does not scream "game for everyone". It has no PvE (something that may have pulled me in). It doesn't have a realistic art style turning off a bunch of those folks. It's a shooter meaning the moba audience wouldn't get into it. And so on.
You just have "needless positivity brainrot" that keeps you thinking about milquetoast things Arrowhead and Larian figureheads have said.
Same! I checked out about a minute in XD
Helldivers 2 was a game for everyone bro it literally was the biggest game of the year. That guy is a fucking idiot
I mean it looks bad, but it is certainly not designed as a game for everyone
@@mechanicalmonk2020 it is a way of approaching a product, meaning all that effort and money can be focused on a strong foundation to make better product that at least “fun to play” rather than being over burdened by accessibilities and standards while your game development budget is severely restricted.
Which in return make the result painfully average with the slow clunky movement with high ttk, the only thing of interest came up is the game underlying passive system and everything else looks like every generic media that came out from the last 5 years.
It's weird how frustrated I am about the systems in place when I don't even play. Just apply the custom buffs to every variant of the same character but only allow one of that customization on your roster. You want green-Nightcrawler girl to have passive healing when not getting hit? Well now Not-Drax can't have it. Want armor on a sniper so they can take potshots better? Now all your tanks just have base health. It's maddening how close it is to ALMOST working but it not only doesn't work but it somehow makes the individual parts that are kinda good feel bad.
I can't wait for Concord's weekly still-frame cutscenes (because they won't stay full-motion for long), in which I get to learn which neo-pronouns the "undecided" mushroom mutant picks for zerself or if "Blueberry" Daw is going to finally hook up with the they/them robot monster (oh, sorry. The robot monster is a he/him. My bad! Didn't mean to be insensitive. 😛 ).
Guffaw. Oh, Sony. You drank too deep from the DEI pool. I wouldn't play Concord for free, let alone for $39.99.
Edit addition: only part of Concord that interested me in this whole video was waiting to see if Austin would play along with the neo-pronouns. And... yeah, he did. *shrug* Guffaw. That Sony access ain't gonna maintain itself, right?
Such a weird preview, truth be told. You note the lack of buzz or interest, but leave it there. There's an elephant in the room, but you don't dare acknowledge it. The mainstream market has NO interest in Blueberry Daw or the like. This was a game made for Blackrock, and it shows. Should have come out two years ago when this stuff was at its peak, not now at the tail end of lunacy.
of course one dumbass in the comments had to make it political
I seriously doubt this game would survive even a single year if it was free to play, let alone with a $40 entry fee. This is going to be DOA.
I could see it surviving a year, but it ultimately depends on how long Sony is willing to keep it on life support.
Very interested in seeing how this game will perform against the upcoming Marvel Rivals. Both are new hero shooters, but Rivals seems like it will be free to play and will feature characters people already like.
Don't see how Concord stands a chance against that, not to mention other multiplayer games that already exist.
Right tbh this isn’t gonn pull me from Val or overwatch
And like u said marvel rivals looks promising and can’t wait for that
But 40 bucks for this idk ,
I feel like skill ups teasers and early access videos are very optimistic (think suicide squad, saints row) so if even he is writing this scathingly this early on... it's joever
more like gaming journo tier overviews
He is way too optimistic in a lot of his previews. I get that he doesn’t want to judge the product until its final version, but the writing is on the wall a lot of the time with these games.
I thought it was a lot of fun. I also think “hero shooter saturated” is an opinion that does make much sense. We have yet to have a true Overwatch clone, it’s all battle royale or CS.
he wouldn't get that sweet shill money if he didn't partially appear positive.
That's a fair point. It often changes when the full game comes out and isn't good though
There's no way you called a 1:1 ripoff of the Hunter dodge, tripmine, and throwing knife (full animations included) "borrowing" Ralph LMAO
It’s pretty standard nowadays for anything Sony says or does to get a free pass from game journalists and content creators. 🤷🏻♂️
@@mriguy7989Oh really? How was the reception for the Knack games again?
Tbf aren’t these devs directly from Bungie? Maybe he meant they were borrowing from their previous selves 🤣
@@randomguy6679 apparently you don’t know what the word “nowadays” means. 😂🤦🏻♂️
@@mriguy7989 Didn’t Stellar Blade get mixed reviews and didn’t Ralph shit on The Last of Us 2?
Okay so you're essentially having a select your buffs convoluted behind a "class variant".
This could be so cool and dramatic. Like you pick your heroes and your set of bufs(lets make them crystal shards) after each won round, your used shard breaks with a nice dramatic animation. You pick your next shard (and optional class) for the next round. As you strive for that victory, your tools twindle and things get more intense. Oh and less convoluted to explain, too.
And if it's about restricting buffs, you could restrict the buff shards to roles so you can play those shards with specific classes only. You grind for new shard variants to expand your selection as you progress. Wouldn't that be fund? Oh, and did I mention.....LESS CONVOLUTED!
"glowing mushroom looking thing ?" Mushrooms must look different down under XD
So exhausted of these "quirky" characters. When did sarcastic adult-child become to so popular or likeable? Another fail that will be remembered as Wish GotG.
Typical millennial writing.
@pagatryx5451
It's comic book writing. Which started with people so old that most of them are dead.
@@pagatryx5451 I am a Millenial and I disavow these characters. Vehemently. They look more like Zoomer Brain creations to me.
Indiana Jones and the search for the 'modern audience'
@@kunimitsune177 Except for the fact people have been using the term 'millennial writing' for a while now. And whilst I'm not an avid comic book fan or anything, that is absolutely not what comic books are like. It may be how Marvel adapted them, but the comics I've read were not trying to be quirky, or lean on 'ironic comedy' so much.
The writing is pretty good? Are we listening to the same dialogue?
I know wtf was he on about 😭
Two things that I’ll speak into the void:
1) this game is very fun to play. The shooting is incredibly tight. The character kits allow for varied play styles and team synergies and abilities and their usage make them have purpose as opposed to just spamming them endlessly. Oh your abilities ran out of slot uses? Better get back in the action and get some kills to get some back. As someone who has played a lot of overwatch and destiny, this is a game that would pull off of overwatch (I’m never leaving destiny).
2) if Sony is married to the idea that they have to sell this game, they should at the very least make it free on PS+ for the first month to boost those initial numbers up risk free so word of mouth can spread afterwards
this game will be shut down in a year
Game: The Game - pre-order now for early access to the first season of content 'underwhelmed'.
Yikes, that means peak concurrent player count for Concord's beta was less than half that of Age of Mythology: Retold's beta over the same weekend, which is, very affectionately, a niche RTS that only nerds like myself have the premium edition preordered for. Not boding well for Concord's launch next month then, gameplay aside.
ehhh it's a paid beta for a new IP
@@chettlar212 True, but AoM:Retold was also a paid beta, and that's the (admittedly beloved) spin-off of a decades old RTS series, and it still got almost triple the numbers Concord did. However you spin it, only a thousand interested parties on PC (maybe less if you account for the 5 keys per pre-order) is and should be pretty worrying for the developer/publisher of such a high-budget game.
@@rioplats I suppose, but the same thing happened to Sea of Thieves. It's definitely not a good sign, but it's not definitive at all.
@@chettlar212 Sea of Thieves got 314k players in its closed beta in 2018.
@@rioplats That was the total amount of people including console.
SkillUp will review Doom running on a TX calculator before reviewing Final Shape
That sounds more exciting ngl
Destiny is dog shit no one plays that lol
@@Dezzy2178 is skill up no one??
@@Dezzy2178 final shape as dlc is banger though, the following stuff is bad though. Like what the fuck kind of bad
I’m genuinely wondering what’s taking him so long. Even with his trip to the states, he seems to be taking a really long time to review something that is very straight forward.
The best thing about this game will be it's Death of a Game episode made by nerdSlayer.
Flight... of.. the Concords?
This games problem is its too Late to the party and it doesnt pop or stick out. Its going to be DOA. The Character designs are laughable as well. Its literally looks like they are trying to tick as MANY boxes as possible and it honestly looks like "Modern Audience the Game"
Team Fortress
Overwatch
Paladins
Marvel Rivals
Star Wars Battlefront 2
Apex Legends
Rogue Company
Battleborn
Valorant
Rainbow Six Siege
Gigantic
Lawbreakers
Too Many
But he’s got a charming affinity for hot sauce!