Ngl, no 'artists perspective' was given here. Just a guy saying this is ugly, blah blah ugly color pallette. Could've added 'from a nasa astronauts perpesctive' and it would still be the same. As someone who took high school art class and have a natural talent for arts, I expected much much better. You dont even have an understanding of contemporary styles and why the designers made the choices they made here, not saying the dont suck, but I would expect and artists to have been able to add those views, as it stands you just made it seem like they chose randoms colors, which is far from the truth.
That’s why I’m making the video and not you. Number 1 this video is made to be entertaining first and foremost, nobody on a grand scale wants to hear me meticulously break down every single detail to an excruciating degree, it’s boring to watch lol. I’m simplifying terms so the general public can understand what they’re seeing so they can understand the basics of what’s wrong with this. I said it in the video, first impressions are everything
It's unbelievable that it took them 8 years to make this game and this is the best they could make, it proves the developers and designers for this aren't as talented as they pretend to be
The brief was to make them ugly, only using more convoluted words because ugly is an ugly word. At that point who cares what the rest of the brief was, nobody had a vision to make it different to more popular games, they didn't even try to throw in bigger game modes.
You are barking on the wrong tree. The developers and designers are talented as hell I don't doubt that. It's the higher ups who are to blame because they are in charge of the art direction and gave it the green light. These companies only care about producing DEI stuff to appease the minority so what does the developer and designers have to do when their hands are tied and force to do this shit for 8 years? I just hope they are well compensated to produce this slop.
Lead character designer was a former gameplay engineer for Bungie and had fuck all to do with visual designs, and the senior concept artists is a chick that uses an evolved Steven Universe style for her characters with mostly the exact same green, red and beige color palettes.
Literally looks like she just grabbed corpo slideshow pallets from the Colour Lovers website and just went with it. No alteration. So much pastel. Only big corporations use this much pastel in their designs.
@@Mhaakify Go to the website and check their trending pallets. You will see at least 3 entries with orange, cream, and blue or green. Same colors that this game used on most it's characters. You'll also notice that Concord uses a lot of similar yet clashing colors on the characters. The heavy tank girl had over 8 different colors, and they all clashed or slightly offset each other. Look at Diva from Overwatch and you got 3 colors, and then her skin and hair colors.
DAAAAAAAAAMN I looked at some of designs and asked myself - "why the hell are they trying to mix photo realism with character designs you'd seen in a cal-arts cartoon?" It all makes sense now. XD
Their color pallette was blood red, and diarrhea. Their casting choices were overweight, frumpy, boring and old. I can't believe anyone was surprised when this failed, I just don't think they knew the depth of the failure.
Who was surprised? The audience for these games aren't big enough and I'm certain this was known in 2016. The Demographics of video games has been known for longer then I've probably been alive, and the line of appealing to tumblr twits and the average gamer becomes thinner as time marches on.
Actually world record all time biggest failure in terms of game flops for ANY company, ever. Budget versus sales it's far, far, worse than anything from the video game crash.
Tbf, if anyone was to have stated pronouns it should be aliens. I mean i wouldnt be able to tell the difference between a male and female Trandoshan in Star Wars y'know what i mean? The problem in this game is that the aliens here make their gender apparent, like i dont need the game to tell me that Starchild is a male. Hes built like a fucking gorilla, i can come to that conclusion myself.
That color scheme is terrible. First thing I noticed when they reveal this game is all the ugly green and orange. It's not even like a good green or a vibrant orange. Just the ugliest color choices ever.
That same teal color is being used for so many different things that at some point it starts to look like a stand-in for an unfinished texture that they were too lazy to fill in.
Even the few times they use purple, it looks sickly as if it doesn't want to be involved. The greens are all something I coughed up yesterday. The blues are all a clashing turquoise. And so. Much. BEIGE. It hurts my eyes. Fashionistas, assemble. And bring 6 boxes of wine.
@@viscountrainbows2857 One approach to color design that I've picked up working with a paint manufacturing company is a dichromatic method of having one color be the "pop" color (red, blue, green, any color with strong saturation, etc.) and one "neutral" color (beige, black, white, gray, etc.). The rest of the color scheme will be complimentary, and built off of a pairing between these two colors, and all colors must remain within the same two-color dichotomy while not distracting from the pop color. In simpler terms, they should have picked one loud color to be their primary color, one secondary neutral that compliments well, and then the rest off of that. Too many of the same color is also across multiple people, they should have picked one color to be the character's personal motif color. This also helps them stand out from a gameplay perspective.
But to the point making people not want to play it?? I dont think so. It supposed to be cool enough design and the in game store armor supposed to be much cooler than that. If the bar set too low, no one will play the game...the in game store will have no customer. And somehow if they create the default costume like this...i dont think the in game store costume will be much better. If you have played Paladins, the earlier free overwatch alternatives...the character designs are much cooler than this.
@@St4rTr3v1Ut10nhaha true. In my opinion many games are showing the DEI spirit much better when they are not intentionally designed to be diverse and inclusive because it doesnt seems to be forced. Look at all the older games like older GTA, Final Fantasy, tekken, street fighters, etc. They have wide range of characters with all races and sizes, but sew in nicely inside the narrative, not forced like nowadays effort of showing diversity.
@dennygunawan208 That's because, and I've been saying this since 2013 when Anita Sarkeesian debuted and all this was still "just a conspiracy": GAMING/MOVIES/ENTERTAINMENT WAS ALWAYS DIVERSE. ALWAYS. _Especially_ gaming because nerds were ostracized. You'd get beat up and bullied if people even knew you had a console. There was NEVER a need for anything that is happening right now, but we are in a CULTURE WAR. Political activists, not people who genuinely think there's a lack of diversity, have taken control and installed useful idiots with gender studies degrees. Oh hey, that's also why everything is far lower quality than it used to be. You see it at every level. To say "it's a conspiracy" is to piss on your head and tell you it's raining.
@@leobuana7430Because it's too many colors and they are similar. Blue lips, pink strip, red flag. All around the same area on the color wheel but none complement each other. Then you have the mucus green with an off yellow top and another green around the face that does not match the other 2 colors. Bazz had the best color scheme because she was essentially just 3 colors. Not 8 like these other characters.
I'm an ex morbid obese. it's been hard to become a normal person again (yes, normal. weighing 160 kilos and being out of breath because you've just got up from the sofa isn't normal) and like ugly people, old people, disabled people and other “minorities”, I DON'T want to play that kind of character. I want to play an atomic bomb with fucking tits and a thigh to die for. I want to be a fucking warrior with 130 kilos of muscle who destroys everything in his path just by slapping it. I want a captivating story that makes me dream (I've read Lord of the Rings, Dune, The Odyssey, and a whole bunch of excellent Science Fiction books by the best authors of the 70s). I can't understand why these developers don't UNDERSTAND their player base.
because the woke-tivists are insecure a-holes that gets triggered by the world around them and needs to self-insert themselves into mainstream media to feel good now they made a game made for them, and nobody wants it. I feel like they just failed or rejected game bussiness 101 or even just don't even know the game dev process
These kinds of designs happen when you're never challenged in your beliefs, and said beliefs come from petty social media attention-whoring. You only see enemies around every corner, and because you lack the self-reflection to understand your own faults, you feel the need to constantly combat those perceived enemies at every corner. I see these people who make awful designs to celebrate bad life decisions, and they always try to shut you down and impose their views as the objectively correct. It gets even worse when they have a savior complex and treat you like you're too dumb to breathe, but never do anything to actually help. I don't know you, but I congratulate you for losing all that weight. It's not easy, and it gets undermined more and more by blinded fatties who try to demonize you for wanting to get in shape, so all the more respect to you for pulling it off!
Being morbid obese is the new normal. 75 percent is overweight and 40 percent of people in the US are obese. Congrats on your weight loss. Never be normal.
1st impressions matter. When we're introduced to non interesting characters with horrible designs, the numbers will speak for itself. Like the intro to Stellar Blade where Eve exits that pod and her suit materializes was an amazing 1st impression from that character. Also, The First Descendant where we're introduced to our 1st 3 starter Descendants. So much personality from the 3 and how they were explaining their abilities with how they will help Bunny on the mission. These characters on Concord suck and there's nothing interesting about them.
it makes me laugh that in both this game and Dustborn, they claim to be inclusive of all genders but only ever have he/him, she/her and they/them no neo-pronouns like xe/xim or genderfluid folks that go by he/she or she/they we love to see the lack of self-awareness 😆
This game is the very definition of "tone deaf". - Hero shooter being oversaturated - Costing $40 instead of being free to play - Released in a year where DEI practices are hugely frowned upon - Unappealing characters The developers failing to read the room contributed to the failure.
The woke-activist crowd has said time and time again said that thay HATE gamers These devs, who didnt even recieve any consulting from DEI consulting firms, and straight up chose DEI-centric game designs, are doomed from the beginning. These guys just created a high budget shovelware hero shooter that ticks all the DEI boxes first.
Well we may not have the talent for game coding or developing, but we do still have eyes and money needed to make their game at least break even. Why these devs have such guts to insult their targrt audience is beyond me...like if you are selling mexican food, its never a wise idea to insult mexicans on your social media if the business failing...on the contrary we as the business owner has to make them attracted to us by any means.
Something that really bothers me is the fact that all designs are inofensive AF, like the designers tried so hard to make everything "safe" (but in reality every character looks like an insufferable douchebag)
the worst part is now that they lost about $200m they might rise the prices of consoles and the plus subscriptions to make up for the losses. and it's messed up if they did because the customer will be the one to pay for their mistakes.
@denkerbosu3551 they did rise prices of consoles and they're talking about raising the subscription price I've drop my subscription cause of the bullshit with Helldivers
As an artist myself, My teacher would kill me and damn me to deepest part of hell If I ever design something so disgusting as these. Love your content bro keep doing it!
I also used the NPC analogy when referring to the the tank woman(?), Emari. To me she looks like one of those guard type characters you meet in a town that doesn't let you pass until you've done some menial task like killing 20 of some random critter. Her armor looks absolutely generic and uninteresting.
All of their armor are not interesting, not just Emari...like they intentionally avoid cool design or something. Even the robot can be designed better...if you play Outerworld, the cleaner robot team member look much cooler or like spider robot of Ghost in the Shell...both design also not humanoid and has no face but, one look and you are at least kinda hooked.
@@dennygunawan208 Not even the token white guy looks good and all they had to do was give him a generic soldier armor. Not gonna lie, to me the only salvageable character is the green cat girl, by virtue of being a cat girl, she only need a couple retouches and would be good enough, the rest leave a lot to be desired to say the least.
@@jtheconcept41431st off, great video. 2nd, whose the idiot at the beginning? I need to watch that vid to see what bullshit excuse he’s gonna make for what will be considered one of the greatest fuckups in history of gaming
This is the first channel criticizing these designs that pointed out the color pallette, and it answers all my questions why something about these designs were just unpleasant to look at. I didn't mind that the characters weren't conventionally attractive, but there was still something off.
When you're drawing a character that is conventionally not attractive, at least make sure that the design is unique and on point. Pretty face, big chest, wide hips-they're like the MSG of art. Concord cooks their characters with zero flavor to begin with and can't even be bothered to put MSG on them.
but naw. DEI-approved designs mean they need to be unl3wdable as possible. R34 dosent even want to make art of this game. but if it does have, its in the single digits.
@@personanonmaga5178if you change all the characters of concord's skin to white...it will still failing due to bad design, i mean there are no cool things with their design. Its not about skin color why the characters dont work...btw a white guy or girl characters are always welcomed to be addition in the game, inclusive means everybody should be there, right?
Hi, other guy who wanted to make art here. It's very fun and entertaining how you describe these characters. Although I slighty feel that the artist perspective is lacking, that's just me of course. But I am very curious at how you could change Concord's character to your vision. I wanted to see how you, as an artist, revised the Concord's characters. I'll be subscribing to you till then. Thank you for inspiring and made ke curious, Mr. J of The Concept.
Genuine question. What do those skull emojis mean? I see so many people use them and can't see a common factor into why. Asked many people and haven't got a reply.
@@kingwhisky7535 Ever heard the phrase "I'm dying from laugher"? Well the skull emoji represents the shorthanded version and past tense of that ie "I'm dead"😂
@no.1spidey-fan182 I appreciate the response. Maybe that's why I've never got it. People must use it sarcastically when they disagree too. Could never work it out because people use it when they agree with people as well as when they're at each others throats. So it's just a laughing emoji now basically. Thanks a lot, sincerely.
"Pay me 8$ to unhide your reply" So, basically announce to the world, "I'm not only a cowardly, spineless wuss, but I'm also greedy... AND I need a grammar lesson too" (putting the dollar sign after the number, not before, like you're supposed to).
Out of all the Concord bad videos, this one is my favorite out of the bunch and unlike most video, you actually break down in greater detail on how bad the character designs are. I can't wait to see you do a redesign video of Concord because as a future character designer, this video really helped me on what not to do when designing characters. I laughed super hard during the Daw section.
I agree with you on the complimentary colours. I too am an artist and feel the devs who made tis do not have basic understanding of colour theory. Nothing pops in a good way. There is no focal points and just looks like a hot mess.
To counter your point about the old lady character, overwatch has Ana. So designing an older character in a shooter can work, however they have 2 things going for them that makes Ana make sense. She's a support, not a DPs character, so she generally hangs back, and the artstyle of overwatch is a lot more comic styled which makes even a hamster in a ball or a genetically modified gorilla believable in that setting.
You forgot to include that those old female character usually don't look past 40,the one shown here literally look like grandmother to a 20 year old grandchildren
@@leobuana7430 ana is canonically 62 and at least with her base skin and voice lines/voice actress does appear like that to me. the only reason she does not look that old generally is again, because of the aforementioned art style, and her character design itself, which hides much of the body and her head. that is what i mean though, you can make appealing old characters if you know what you are doing
I really wonder out of the 697, how many are just Firewalk Studios employees. It's like a larger scale scenario of a group of friends who got together to make a game for themselves to enjoy., then patting each other on the back of a job well done, reminds me of the Rick and Morty meme of Jerry Smith shaking hands with himself.
Funny AF, you earned a sub Edit: Also, I have a bachelors in art and have been drawing my entire life. What else do you say when the characters are freakin face palm material. It would be like breaking down why a car alarm at 4am is annoying. It doesn't need malicious explanation. Keep doin' what you are doin'.
As someone who studied a character design course when I was in animation class: 1) These characters look like if your boss asked you for a character design, and you made one, then he asks you to build on that and make more iterations of it, like 20 different looks of this character. But then the first one you made is the one that gets picked as the end design. All Concord characters are like that. It’s like someone just took their early concepts and settled for it, never to improve on it. 2) I guess for the character “Roka,” they were trying to do something like “Celty Sturluson” from Durarara. But why Celty’s design works is because a) her silhouette, which is very identifiable because the character is stylized (stylized characters > realistic characters), and secondly, her helmet is big but not big enough to overshadow her neck or figure. Her figure is still defined. Plus, her helmet has a black color the same as her black catsuit and her black bike. So the black in her helmet completes the blackness of her suit and her bike, even though it has one primary color, which is yellow. 3)Concord’s designs don’t work because they threw every principle about the theory of colors out of the window. They took the most boring colors (beige, olive, greys) and made them the primary colors of the characters, while the vibrant colors (red, blue, yellow, green, etc.) took 10% of the character’s color scheme. And they “think” that using the primary color “red” and plastering it on the character’s head is going to make us gravitate and focus more on the character’s face. They are mistaken. If anything, it makes us look away to find if the same color is applied elsewhere. The design team of this game has obviously never taken a class in character design. They either copy/pasted from thousands of other better-designed characters and watered them down, or they used AI.
Honestly, I would like to see an in-depth teardown of these designs. There is much to learn from this massive artistic failure. And I know people like to see a guy go into autistic detail on why something sucks.
"Whoever designed these characters was clearly on meth." The sad part is that in that case the characters would propably look way better than what is in the game.
Yeah, that was my first thought with the big lady with the oven armour. "who designed this? are you guys an artist? because if you are, this is extremely bad colour design. Everything is clashing." As an artist myself, this game hurt my brain. because literally everything about ALL of these characters run counter to everything I have learnt about colour theory. Not just colour theory, but also proportions and ascetics. Literally nothing about any of these characters is appealing...
14:45 Now HOOOLD on now. Robot James Bond sounds AMAZING. I can't imagine putting that prompt in an AI generator and getting some hot garbage in return💀😭
Jeez, the color schemes on these characters are horrible. They making me nauseous just by looking at them. I would like to see a revamp of these characters. It would be interesting to see what they would look like. The top worst ones are Emori, Roka & Bazz for me.
I went to art school and think myself a bit of an artist, and yes the most glaring flaw is the color palette. It’s like they don’t understand basic color theory. Find a color wheel, pick two complementary colors (opposite sides of the wheel), alternate between dark and light tones, maybe a third color for highlights and accents. That’s all they had to do. Next, the major design flaw of these characters is that they’re too busy. Iconic characters are simplified to one or two key elements. Maybe that’s the color blue, or a red hat with an M on it, or a headband. You probably thought of 3 characters that applies to from just reading that. Concord designs fail to do this leading to generic designs that don’t even properly convey what the character does.
You’re a very wise smart you tuber ! Keep it going brother! Next make a chat about asasin creed black shadows, it coming out soon A woke DEI game about a Black Samurai in Japan Gay , with great Ratin in IGN.
This roster looks like a group project where every character got designed by a different amateur artist with the task to include "vomit green" in their color palette
I can’t wait to see these characters redesigned lol. Not even new characters nah, just these very same characters easily made to look better and appealing
Yeah, you right, Haymar is in charge of something, this roster. Horrible designs, though hers is good. Little cliche by this point, but one I'm not tired of yet, personally.
This breakdown was needed❤ 😊 The lack of self awareness The lack of ip integrity The lack of world building The surface level game design The lack of humility The lack of imagination and unconscious plagiarism.. Restaurant rules apply...
Ngl, no 'artists perspective' was given here. Just a guy saying this is ugly, blah blah ugly color pallette. Could've added 'from a nasa astronauts perpesctive' and it would still be the same. As someone who took high school art class and have a natural talent for arts, I expected much much better. You dont even have an understanding of contemporary styles and why the designers made the choices they made here, not saying the dont suck, but I would expect and artists to have been able to add those views, as it stands you just made it seem like they chose randoms colors, which is far from the truth.
Shill harder
That’s why I’m making the video and not you. Number 1 this video is made to be entertaining first and foremost, nobody on a grand scale wants to hear me meticulously break down every single detail to an excruciating degree, it’s boring to watch lol. I’m simplifying terms so the general public can understand what they’re seeing so they can understand the basics of what’s wrong with this. I said it in the video, first impressions are everything
“took high school art classes”
“natural talent for arts”
This smells like pure, unfiltered bullshit
Tell me you peaked in high school without telling me you peaked in high school...
@@jtheconcept4143 nothing you said was from an artists perspective mate. Nothing.
It's unbelievable that it took them 8 years to make this game and this is the best they could make, it proves the developers and designers for this aren't as talented as they pretend to be
The brief was to make them ugly, only using more convoluted words because ugly is an ugly word.
At that point who cares what the rest of the brief was, nobody had a vision to make it different to more popular games, they didn't even try to throw in bigger game modes.
Sometimes it isn't necessarily the developers, but the management deciding what the game must have.
You are barking on the wrong tree. The developers and designers are talented as hell I don't doubt that. It's the higher ups who are to blame because they are in charge of the art direction and gave it the green light. These companies only care about producing DEI stuff to appease the minority so what does the developer and designers have to do when their hands are tied and force to do this shit for 8 years? I just hope they are well compensated to produce this slop.
There used to be adults in the room who would look at these characters and would say NO, try again.
They got paid for 8 years
They're artists...con artists 😂
A video redesigning these characters would go so hard, even just minor touches like recolors would go a long way to making them look better
Bump agreed
More like total overhaul for like 75% of them
Lead character designer was a former gameplay engineer for Bungie and had fuck all to do with visual designs, and the senior concept artists is a chick that uses an evolved Steven Universe style for her characters with mostly the exact same green, red and beige color palettes.
Literally looks like she just grabbed corpo slideshow pallets from the Colour Lovers website and just went with it. No alteration. So much pastel. Only big corporations use this much pastel in their designs.
@@Urrelles You might be onto something, Corporate Memphis does have the same whacky color schemes.
@@Mhaakify Go to the website and check their trending pallets. You will see at least 3 entries with orange, cream, and blue or green. Same colors that this game used on most it's characters.
You'll also notice that Concord uses a lot of similar yet clashing colors on the characters. The heavy tank girl had over 8 different colors, and they all clashed or slightly offset each other.
Look at Diva from Overwatch and you got 3 colors, and then her skin and hair colors.
DAAAAAAAAAMN
I looked at some of designs and asked myself - "why the hell are they trying to mix photo realism with character designs you'd seen in a cal-arts cartoon?"
It all makes sense now. XD
I am almost certain the character Bazz (?) started life as a design for a humanised Garnet from Steven Universe, genuinely.
Their color pallette was blood red, and diarrhea. Their casting choices were overweight, frumpy, boring and old. I can't believe anyone was surprised when this failed, I just don't think they knew the depth of the failure.
Who was surprised? The audience for these games aren't big enough and I'm certain this was known in 2016. The Demographics of video games has been known for longer then I've probably been alive, and the line of appealing to tumblr twits and the average gamer becomes thinner as time marches on.
*blood red and yellow.
Commie colors. Look around, it's as real a checkbox, lately, as a 90% minority cast
My teacher taught me to avoid these "vomit" color, To be fair usually it can be use on disgusting character like zombie.
This game will go down in history as PlayStation’s biggest failure’s of all time lol 😂. And it’s deserved 👌
I just realized... this is the painfully inoffensive beige cube of hero shooters - $250 millions down the drain for a DOA title.
Actually world record all time biggest failure in terms of game flops for ANY company, ever. Budget versus sales it's far, far, worse than anything from the video game crash.
Yeah I didn’t even bother to buy this game
some say Day's gone - 2 was canned for this game
Don't worry, sony only start. Why did you stop? Did you see Wolverine leaked info?))
Why do aliens need pronouns.
are you being racist to aliens?
for not offending the hoomies.
Why do aliens care about mentally ill people, its what i dont get
And why does the robot need pronouns?
Tbf, if anyone was to have stated pronouns it should be aliens. I mean i wouldnt be able to tell the difference between a male and female Trandoshan in Star Wars y'know what i mean? The problem in this game is that the aliens here make their gender apparent, like i dont need the game to tell me that Starchild is a male. Hes built like a fucking gorilla, i can come to that conclusion myself.
That color scheme is terrible. First thing I noticed when they reveal this game is all the ugly green and orange. It's not even like a good green or a vibrant orange. Just the ugliest color choices ever.
They seem to really like the shade 'mucus green'.
bruh i spit my drink... im gonna call it that from now. a mucus green
The game's complete sputum, so that tracks lol
LGBTQ+ color pallets
Nurgle green. That color is offensive to greenskins like me. I demand reparations for the systemic racism in this game.
Genderqueer flag is chartreuse, white, and muted purple. May as well be a flag for the colorblind.
That same teal color is being used for so many different things that at some point it starts to look like a stand-in for an unfinished texture that they were too lazy to fill in.
Even the few times they use purple, it looks sickly as if it doesn't want to be involved. The greens are all something I coughed up yesterday. The blues are all a clashing turquoise. And so. Much. BEIGE. It hurts my eyes. Fashionistas, assemble. And bring 6 boxes of wine.
@@viscountrainbows2857 One approach to color design that I've picked up working with a paint manufacturing company is a dichromatic method of having one color be the "pop" color (red, blue, green, any color with strong saturation, etc.) and one "neutral" color (beige, black, white, gray, etc.). The rest of the color scheme will be complimentary, and built off of a pairing between these two colors, and all colors must remain within the same two-color dichotomy while not distracting from the pop color.
In simpler terms, they should have picked one loud color to be their primary color, one secondary neutral that compliments well, and then the rest off of that. Too many of the same color is also across multiple people, they should have picked one color to be the character's personal motif color. This also helps them stand out from a gameplay perspective.
I think the colors are intentionally bad so you're forced to buy better skins.
Seen this before but for default outfits. Make the main character look meh but the dlc outfits cool so you want to cash out for it.
I'd believe it
But to the point making people not want to play it?? I dont think so. It supposed to be cool enough design and the in game store armor supposed to be much cooler than that.
If the bar set too low, no one will play the game...the in game store will have no customer. And somehow if they create the default costume like this...i dont think the in game store costume will be much better.
If you have played Paladins, the earlier free overwatch alternatives...the character designs are much cooler than this.
How much you want to bet the white guy character is designed to be extremely bland so he doesn't outshine the other characters?
I would think it's a conspiracy, if the other characters weren't equally as bland and terrible
@@St4rTr3v1Ut10nhaha true. In my opinion many games are showing the DEI spirit much better when they are not intentionally designed to be diverse and inclusive because it doesnt seems to be forced. Look at all the older games like older GTA, Final Fantasy, tekken, street fighters, etc. They have wide range of characters with all races and sizes, but sew in nicely inside the narrative, not forced like nowadays effort of showing diversity.
@dennygunawan208 That's because, and I've been saying this since 2013 when Anita Sarkeesian debuted and all this was still "just a conspiracy": GAMING/MOVIES/ENTERTAINMENT WAS ALWAYS DIVERSE. ALWAYS. _Especially_ gaming because nerds were ostracized. You'd get beat up and bullied if people even knew you had a console. There was NEVER a need for anything that is happening right now, but we are in a CULTURE WAR. Political activists, not people who genuinely think there's a lack of diversity, have taken control and installed useful idiots with gender studies degrees. Oh hey, that's also why everything is far lower quality than it used to be. You see it at every level. To say "it's a conspiracy" is to piss on your head and tell you it's raining.
"Petty with a purpose" man I havent heard gold in a while, thas gold. Also 100% down for a character redesign.
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Concord is AAA? Haha wow 😂
More like triple F!😆😂🤣
triple gay
maybe if they made it a AAAA game it would've fared better?
triple AAAss
@personanonmaga5178 Haha nice
First time finding the channel.
Your unapologetic truth is a breathe of fresh air.
Subbed.
8:08 As an artist myself, as soon as I saw this character I had the same feeling. I wanted to have the designers of this game arrested for war crimes.
I know nothing about art and the colours look off on every one of their characters
@@leobuana7430Because it's too many colors and they are similar. Blue lips, pink strip, red flag. All around the same area on the color wheel but none complement each other.
Then you have the mucus green with an off yellow top and another green around the face that does not match the other 2 colors.
Bazz had the best color scheme because she was essentially just 3 colors. Not 8 like these other characters.
me too, as an amataur --- this is atrocious!! those devs have 00000000.0% creativity.
Indeed, the biggest insult we can give to those producers is to show them a character redesign.
If we wanna be petty J, you should do a stream where us talentless hacks redesign them for petty fun.
Sounds fun tbh
You might be on to something 🤔
Ngl that sounds like good idea.
Probably the only way to actually have fun with this game.
@@jtheconcept4143 Yo, I think a redesign stream is a good idea. Eric's cooking rn
I can't draw but if you tell me a character and description, i could create a better squetch.
Ive seen teletubbies episodes with more edge than concord
Bro I've seen some edits of teletubbies that has more edge
I'm an ex morbid obese. it's been hard to become a normal person again (yes, normal. weighing 160 kilos and being out of breath because you've just got up from the sofa isn't normal) and like ugly people, old people, disabled people and other “minorities”, I DON'T want to play that kind of character.
I want to play an atomic bomb with fucking tits and a thigh to die for. I want to be a fucking warrior with 130 kilos of muscle who destroys everything in his path just by slapping it.
I want a captivating story that makes me dream (I've read Lord of the Rings, Dune, The Odyssey, and a whole bunch of excellent Science Fiction books by the best authors of the 70s).
I can't understand why these developers don't UNDERSTAND their player base.
People who don't play games try to gaslight the world into why people play games.
because the woke-tivists are insecure a-holes that gets triggered by the world around them
and needs to self-insert themselves into mainstream media to feel good
now they made a game made for them, and nobody wants it.
I feel like they just failed or rejected game bussiness 101
or even just don't even know the game dev process
Don't transpeople also want to play the gender they pretend to be?
These kinds of designs happen when you're never challenged in your beliefs, and said beliefs come from petty social media attention-whoring. You only see enemies around every corner, and because you lack the self-reflection to understand your own faults, you feel the need to constantly combat those perceived enemies at every corner. I see these people who make awful designs to celebrate bad life decisions, and they always try to shut you down and impose their views as the objectively correct. It gets even worse when they have a savior complex and treat you like you're too dumb to breathe, but never do anything to actually help.
I don't know you, but I congratulate you for losing all that weight. It's not easy, and it gets undermined more and more by blinded fatties who try to demonize you for wanting to get in shape, so all the more respect to you for pulling it off!
Being morbid obese is the new normal. 75 percent is overweight and 40 percent of people in the US are obese. Congrats on your weight loss. Never be normal.
1st impressions matter. When we're introduced to non interesting characters with horrible designs, the numbers will speak for itself. Like the intro to Stellar Blade where Eve exits that pod and her suit materializes was an amazing 1st impression from that character. Also, The First Descendant where we're introduced to our 1st 3 starter Descendants. So much personality from the 3 and how they were explaining their abilities with how they will help Bunny on the mission. These characters on Concord suck and there's nothing interesting about them.
Your Emari impersonation absolutely killed me.
Honestly, just the he/him, she/her tags by their name made me pass on this. I don’t see the world that way nor do I want to play a game that does.
it makes me laugh that in both this game and Dustborn, they claim to be inclusive of all genders but only ever have he/him, she/her and they/them
no neo-pronouns like xe/xim or genderfluid folks that go by he/she or she/they
we love to see the lack of self-awareness 😆
This game is the very definition of "tone deaf".
- Hero shooter being oversaturated
- Costing $40 instead of being free to play
- Released in a year where DEI practices are hugely frowned upon
- Unappealing characters
The developers failing to read the room contributed to the failure.
The woke-activist crowd has said time and time again said that thay HATE gamers
These devs, who didnt even recieve any consulting from DEI consulting firms, and straight up chose DEI-centric game designs, are doomed from the beginning.
These guys just created a high budget shovelware hero shooter that ticks all the DEI boxes first.
And Deadlock coming out
@@TheTicain And that Marvel one as well.
@@richardduska1558 I don't think anybody cares.
a game still in development like deadlock (98k peak) has more playerbase then Concord (697 peak)
That person from twitter called us, people who make fun of Concord and its design, talentless freaks 😂 The irony
The projection more like. They always project - remember that.
@@bobmcbob4399 For you, perhaps. I don't know any programming except looking up the programming guidebook.
Well we may not have the talent for game coding or developing, but we do still have eyes and money needed to make their game at least break even. Why these devs have such guts to insult their targrt audience is beyond me...like if you are selling mexican food, its never a wise idea to insult mexicans on your social media if the business failing...on the contrary we as the business owner has to make them attracted to us by any means.
Something that really bothers me is the fact that all designs are inofensive AF, like the designers tried so hard to make everything "safe" (but in reality every character looks like an insufferable douchebag)
That's what marketing consultants get paid to do.
the worst part is now that they lost about $200m they might rise the prices of consoles and the plus subscriptions to make up for the losses. and it's messed up if they did because the customer will be the one to pay for their mistakes.
So, stop buying their consoles and subscriptions.
@denkerbosu3551 they did rise prices of consoles and they're talking about raising the subscription price I've drop my subscription cause of the bullshit with Helldivers
Don't buy their consoles
Don't buy their subscriptions
Bleed their profits
As an artist myself, My teacher would kill me and damn me to deepest part of hell If I ever design something so disgusting as these.
Love your content bro keep doing it!
Can you imagine if during a "Dodge reload" with that old lady you could break a hip and fall over if you press the button too hard!! 😂😂😂
I would laugh
I also used the NPC analogy when referring to the the tank woman(?), Emari. To me she looks like one of those guard type characters you meet in a town that doesn't let you pass until you've done some menial task like killing 20 of some random critter. Her armor looks absolutely generic and uninteresting.
All of their armor are not interesting, not just Emari...like they intentionally avoid cool design or something. Even the robot can be designed better...if you play Outerworld, the cleaner robot team member look much cooler or like spider robot of Ghost in the Shell...both design also not humanoid and has no face but, one look and you are at least kinda hooked.
@@dennygunawan208 Not even the token white guy looks good and all they had to do was give him a generic soldier armor.
Not gonna lie, to me the only salvageable character is the green cat girl, by virtue of being a cat girl, she only need a couple retouches and would be good enough, the rest leave a lot to be desired to say the least.
She looks like a kid wrapped up in pillows and mattresses so she wouldn't get hurt while playing street hockey
played the open beta for Concord despite headlines and I regret even trying the game for free
I did too lol
@@jtheconcept41431st off, great video. 2nd, whose the idiot at the beginning? I need to watch that vid to see what bullshit excuse he’s gonna make for what will be considered one of the greatest fuckups in history of gaming
This is the first channel criticizing these designs that pointed out the color pallette, and it answers all my questions why something about these designs were just unpleasant to look at. I didn't mind that the characters weren't conventionally attractive, but there was still something off.
Not just them being ugly, but also the clothing, like the goblin doom slayer.
18:19 this section destroyed my ribs!😂😂😂😂😂😭😭😭
Where the twinkies at? 😂
"How does the thing play?" Since when did these guys start caring about gameplay?
lmao, i love the pettiness, i completely approve!
When you're drawing a character that is conventionally not attractive, at least make sure that the design is unique and on point. Pretty face, big chest, wide hips-they're like the MSG of art. Concord cooks their characters with zero flavor to begin with and can't even be bothered to put MSG on them.
but naw. DEI-approved designs mean they need to be unl3wdable as possible.
R34 dosent even want to make art of this game.
but if it does have, its in the single digits.
you mean with the designs they were cooking. but like white people
Battleborn had characters like that and even though some of them look like they were on crack, were still visually interesting.
@@personanonmaga5178if you change all the characters of concord's skin to white...it will still failing due to bad design, i mean there are no cool things with their design. Its not about skin color why the characters dont work...btw a white guy or girl characters are always welcomed to be addition in the game, inclusive means everybody should be there, right?
@@dennygunawan208 it's okay. that's not what I meant at all, and explaining a joke takes the fun out of it
Bro was relentless on Daw lol
It's so funny
Hi, other guy who wanted to make art here. It's very fun and entertaining how you describe these characters.
Although I slighty feel that the artist perspective is lacking, that's just me of course. But I am very curious at how you could change Concord's character to your vision.
I wanted to see how you, as an artist, revised the Concord's characters. I'll be subscribing to you till then. Thank you for inspiring and made ke curious, Mr. J of The Concept.
17:14 Old woman CAN be bada$$es ...if EXECUTED WELL💀. Anime does it all the time...these people are just incompetent😭
Literally Ana and Soldier 76 from Overwatch lol. Granny and Gramps are badass.
Genuine question. What do those skull emojis mean? I see so many people use them and can't see a common factor into why. Asked many people and haven't got a reply.
@@kingwhisky7535 Ever heard the phrase "I'm dying from laugher"? Well the skull emoji represents the shorthanded version and past tense of that ie "I'm dead"😂
@no.1spidey-fan182 I appreciate the response.
Maybe that's why I've never got it. People must use it sarcastically when they disagree too. Could never work it out because people use it when they agree with people as well as when they're at each others throats.
So it's just a laughing emoji now basically.
Thanks a lot, sincerely.
Some of these characters remind me of those venomous toads from Amazon forest with exaggerated color palette in attempt to ward off predators ~
I'm kinda offended.... our toads are way more beautiful than this garbage.
@@holynightwingfan4510 agreed,those toad got better colour scheme and pattern
Yooo someone mentioned toaaadss! You thinking of bumble bee toads? Or poison dart frogs, or mantellas?
"Pay me 8$ to unhide your reply"
So, basically announce to the world, "I'm not only a cowardly, spineless wuss, but I'm also greedy... AND I need a grammar lesson too" (putting the dollar sign after the number, not before, like you're supposed to).
These are weak people
Holy Jesus those character designs are atrocious. I actively don’t want to play as any of those stupid designs.
Out of all the Concord bad videos, this one is my favorite out of the bunch and unlike most video, you actually break down in greater detail on how bad the character designs are. I can't wait to see you do a redesign video of Concord because as a future character designer, this video really helped me on what not to do when designing characters. I laughed super hard during the Daw section.
Can’t believe I’m just now finding your channel - this video was excellent. You’re funny as fuck. “This guy looks like he’s on a lunch box” 😂
lol thank you
Please do a redesign
I agree with you on the complimentary colours. I too am an artist and feel the devs who made tis do not have basic understanding of colour theory. Nothing pops in a good way. There is no focal points and just looks like a hot mess.
Ignoring "looks" the colors are awful for stealth or combat invoking fear.
9:25 Lmao I was literally saying to myself "Wow, this is the most creative-looking character so far..." Because everything else is humanoid lol
Broooo, Bazz looks like a villain from a Saturday morning cartoon. 😂
To counter your point about the old lady character, overwatch has Ana.
So designing an older character in a shooter can work, however they have 2 things going for them that makes Ana make sense.
She's a support, not a DPs character, so she generally hangs back, and the artstyle of overwatch is a lot more comic styled which makes even a hamster in a ball or a genetically modified gorilla believable in that setting.
You forgot to include that those old female character usually don't look past 40,the one shown here literally look like grandmother to a 20 year old grandchildren
@@leobuana7430 ana is canonically 62 and at least with her base skin and voice lines/voice actress does appear like that to me. the only reason she does not look that old generally is again, because of the aforementioned art style, and her character design itself, which hides much of the body and her head. that is what i mean though, you can make appealing old characters if you know what you are doing
@@eccomi21 that's exactly why I said "Look"
9:00 Lizzo wearing a 1950s refrigerator
Lmfao
DEI has made every character look like someone cosplaying as that character at a convention.
I really wonder out of the 697, how many are just Firewalk Studios employees. It's like a larger scale scenario of a group of friends who got together to make a game for themselves to enjoy., then patting each other on the back of a job well done, reminds me of the Rick and Morty meme of Jerry Smith shaking hands with himself.
Probably it’s all studio employees lmao 😂
Yes, PLEASE make your own versions of these characters 🤣
You know that Wukong probably has more environments too, not a few closed arenas. The difference is vision and art direction.
Funny AF, you earned a sub
Edit: Also, I have a bachelors in art and have been drawing my entire life. What else do you say when the characters are freakin face palm material. It would be like breaking down why a car alarm at 4am is annoying. It doesn't need malicious explanation. Keep doin' what you are doin'.
uglification, that's the ironclad style of the wokies.
the sad thing is they will learn nothing from this and just blame others for their failures
9:47 😂😂 man of culture i see 😅😂
The crazy thing is the artist who designed the characters is pretty good, just not here at all.
He needs to fire himself
When your whole game pitch is "We have no white characters and everyone is ugly", don't hope for success.
Dude you fixing these characters would be awesome! Five minutes is funny but I feel some of these going need a complete overhaul lol
As someone who studied a character design course when I was in animation class:
1) These characters look like if your boss asked you for a character design, and you made one, then he asks you to build on that and make more iterations of it, like 20 different looks of this character. But then the first one you made is the one that gets picked as the end design. All Concord characters are like that. It’s like someone just took their early concepts and settled for it, never to improve on it.
2) I guess for the character “Roka,” they were trying to do something like “Celty Sturluson” from Durarara. But why Celty’s design works is because a) her silhouette, which is very identifiable because the character is stylized (stylized characters > realistic characters), and secondly, her helmet is big but not big enough to overshadow her neck or figure. Her figure is still defined. Plus, her helmet has a black color the same as her black catsuit and her black bike. So the black in her helmet completes the blackness of her suit and her bike, even though it has one primary color, which is yellow.
3)Concord’s designs don’t work because they threw every principle about the theory of colors out of the window. They took the most boring colors (beige, olive, greys) and made them the primary colors of the characters, while the vibrant colors (red, blue, yellow, green, etc.) took 10% of the character’s color scheme. And they “think” that using the primary color “red” and plastering it on the character’s head is going to make us gravitate and focus more on the character’s face. They are mistaken. If anything, it makes us look away to find if the same color is applied elsewhere.
The design team of this game has obviously never taken a class in character design. They either copy/pasted from thousands of other better-designed characters and watered them down, or they used AI.
Telling yall we gotta bite back at these mfs 😂 gotta start leaving reviews saying these games aren’t masculine enough
Honestly, I would like to see an in-depth teardown of these designs. There is much to learn from this massive artistic failure. And I know people like to see a guy go into autistic detail on why something sucks.
"Whoever designed these characters was clearly on meth."
The sad part is that in that case the characters would propably look way better than what is in the game.
They weren’t on meth, they were on Soy 💀
I wonder what the original rejected designs looked like....
Yeah, that was my first thought with the big lady with the oven armour. "who designed this? are you guys an artist? because if you are, this is extremely bad colour design. Everything is clashing."
As an artist myself, this game hurt my brain. because literally everything about ALL of these characters run counter to everything I have learnt about colour theory. Not just colour theory, but also proportions and ascetics. Literally nothing about any of these characters is appealing...
Can’t sell colour packs and DLC outfits if the original colours and designs are half decent…
Don't blame the artist he was told if he used the colour black he was racist
I have no idea why they chose such an ugly character designs for all of them. It's like they wanted the game to be hideous on purpose.
That's what marketing consultants get paid for.
The outfit colors are bad to encourage the player to buy new outfits
19:52 High waist to make the gut even more ridiculous. They transcended fat shaming to full-on fat glorification, to our chagrin.
14:45 Now HOOOLD on now. Robot James Bond sounds AMAZING. I can't imagine putting that prompt in an AI generator and getting some hot garbage in return💀😭
Jeez, the color schemes on these characters are horrible. They making me nauseous just by looking at them. I would like to see a revamp of these characters. It would be interesting to see what they would look like. The top worst ones are Emori, Roka & Bazz for me.
They all look like dog ill. Ironically this DEI epic was advertised with characters eating slop...
Bazz is number 1 for me lol 😂
Showing your video to some wokies would make their head explode 🤣
You going “Jesus fucking Christ…” right as Vale popped made me laugh so much
I didn’t even realize you were at 9K subscribers. Happy to see it
🙏
When the colors are so loud you can't hear yourself think.
the ranger guy looks like a starfield quest giver npc
lol 😂😂😂
Ted is a case study in why font design is important too 😂
id love seeing your take on these characters
"Oh I bet black people gonna love that s***" 😂😂😂😂... But you speakin truth❤
I went to art school and think myself a bit of an artist, and yes the most glaring flaw is the color palette. It’s like they don’t understand basic color theory. Find a color wheel, pick two complementary colors (opposite sides of the wheel), alternate between dark and light tones, maybe a third color for highlights and accents. That’s all they had to do. Next, the major design flaw of these characters is that they’re too busy. Iconic characters are simplified to one or two key elements. Maybe that’s the color blue, or a red hat with an M on it, or a headband. You probably thought of 3 characters that applies to from just reading that. Concord designs fail to do this leading to generic designs that don’t even properly convey what the character does.
You’re a very wise smart you tuber ! Keep it going brother! Next make a chat about asasin creed black shadows, it coming out soon A woke DEI game about a Black Samurai in Japan Gay , with great Ratin in IGN.
This is FUCKING hilarious 😂 😂 😂
Really love your honest attitude :)
This roster looks like a group project where every character got designed by a different amateur artist with the task to include "vomit green" in their color palette
I’m embarrassed I used to watch that first RUclipsr’s channel :/
Don't be embarrassed we all have watched cringe RUclipsrs and grown up
You should be proud,you didn't get fooled forever like some others.
Who is that guy? Bro was malding
Who was he anyway?
Who is he? He looks familiar.
LMAO they intentionally made the white dude generic and everyone else cringe 😆😆😆
I can’t wait to see these characters redesigned lol. Not even new characters nah, just these very same characters easily made to look better and appealing
Yeah, you right, Haymar is in charge of something, this roster. Horrible designs, though hers is good. Little cliche by this point, but one I'm not tired of yet, personally.
13:24 it looks like she's wearing the Cover of my Elgoo Mars pro 3d printer as a helmet!
Will you redesign these characters?
I’m interested to see your take suppose you are the character designer of this game.
This breakdown was needed❤ 😊
The lack of self awareness
The lack of ip integrity
The lack of world building
The surface level game design
The lack of humility
The lack of imagination and unconscious plagiarism..
Restaurant rules apply...
Love you man. You should definitely try to make some of the characters more appealing.
"Guess what they gave it." My man, that was excellent. Such a breath of fresh air, your commentaries are.
This game look like a game that some random actor plays in background, on a movie
Lmao 🤣
Bazz is Thugnificent in drag.
Lmfao poor thugnificient man
The colors are horrible😭😭😭
There is no color balance.