You're completely right that this game is lacking anything indistinguishable from any other game. Plus, a hero shooter with boring heros is bad foundation lol.
very true the stellar animations make the ugly character design look even worse than they normally would. The one thing its missing is attractive characters almost every character in all the other hero shooters are hot AF. Also 40$ while the current and upcoming hero shooters are free.
First Helldivers and now this. Sony seems to be really keen on pushing out live service games that have "dangerously frequent" content updates. That didn't really work out for the Arrowhead devs with most of their community telling to stop with the content and focus on bug fixes.
The problem with Helldivers 2 is Arrowhead themselves, not anything else. They decided to move forward with an archaic and no longer supported engine, they failed to have proper testing methodology in place causing constant problems every time they drop an update, and they are the ones obsessed with balancing it like some kind of hardcore PVP game instead of PVE horde shooter. Releasing a few armor skins and a couple new weapons in monthly content drops is just a drop in the bucket compared to the level of tech debt they have on their hands.
What? I've barely encountered bugs and I've been playing HD2 since a few weeks after launch. Sony decided to boost this game like crazy, those of us who played HD1 know Arrowhead was just trying to make another small game that people would enjoy. The engine is fine because they know how to use it @Smathalgoth
@@jakel2837 Sights/scopes for a lot of weapons are misaligned, especially noticable with sniper rifles. Arc Thrower has been misfiring and inconsistent since launch. Bots are able to see and shoot through cover that the player can't. A lot of the ship upgrades either don't work or work in a bizarre fashion not aligned with the description. There have been many periods where the game would hard crash on the extract screen for weeks at a time before a hot fix finally came. There was a damage over time bug related to netcode that took months to fix, which erroneously led to fire damage being massively overtuned and as far as I know they never tuned it back after it was. This is all off the top of my head.
@@jakel2837 Oh here are a few more things that I've remembered. The completely unwarranted railgun nerf early in the game's life only happened because of a netcode issue on PS5 only which allowed for one shotting bile titans, even after this became clear the nerf was never reversed. There is a bug with enemy pathfinding that will cause multiple patrols to bunch up in the center of the map stacking on top of each other. In the base defense missions with the gates, ranged enemies are able to get up on top of the cliffs overlooking the base and shoot through the cliff walls while being untouchable themselves. The pathfinding for the colonists in evacuation defense missions is still terrible all this time after launch making those missions beyond frustrating to play. The entire Meridia Super Colony event was a technical disaster with the mission being broken in various ways for the entire duration. Performance on PC has also been slowly degrading over time.
@@Smathalgoth In AH's defense, the stingray engine actually was supported when development began, and was dropped afterwards, they had been developing the game for 2 years at that point. Also Railgun nerf was completely warranted and only scrubs thought it should've stayed as it was. Even without the PS5 bug, it so effortlessly handled every single enemy in the game at launch including BTs that it deserved it (but it took 3 shots instead of one so skillful), it carried shit players, I fail to see a reason not to nerf a weapon that handled 100% of enemy types with ease.
Y’know, I was going to say that the first thing most people saw was the blob in football pads, which was enough to kill their interest right there, but that’s unfair. That’s only hardcore gamers (who, admittedly, would be the most important to appeal to as the whales). For most people, their introduction was bland generic Guardians of the Galaxy ripoff trailer. Which still kills interest.
They cant do a tax write off on stock losses. Investors will voice their opinions. Expect management to change in many places that greenlit the game development.
I would like for it to succeed, but the market is satururated with shooters and live service games. Meanwhile, marketing really failed here because I didn't know about either beta until after they ended and I only heard of Concord ONCE before them thanks to a gaming news channel; they were talking about how nobody knew anything about the game. Lol
HD2 succeeded in spite of Sony's meddling. This is the first time ive heard of Concord and i have zero interest in a 2024 overwatch clone, i got bored of overwatch 4 years ago. This is the same mistake large corps make all the time in the media industry. They see a successful product that they leeched of of and think they can copy the formula and make the same amount of money again. In a sea of spreadsheets and financial data, they fail to see the soul of these successful games. Horizon forbidden west is another example. People loved Zero Dawn becausenit was new and had an intriguing story. They tried to just make the same game again and no one cared because it brought nothing new aside from changes people mostly seem to dislike.
Even if we go past the woke nonsence and focus on gameplay entirely, the game is EXTREMELY boring, would not touch it. Compared to Overwatch, which also has a ton of issues, it is MILES better than this crap! I have not played The Finals, but people who do say it's awesome. Concord should just be scrapped, it's pure trash, no one would actually have any reason to play it.
Watching the footage of gameplay it seems to me concord is slow. Like drunk snails trying to get it on slow. Maybe it was because it looked like controller play but it seems like they wanted the pacing to be able to be followed by someone who has never seen a competitive video game before.
Yeah it is slow, I wanted to mention that but I chose not to because yes, it was controller. I also heard after recording that changing FOV helps with that which I didn’t know. So while the game is definitely slow, I did some things wrong that made it look even slower tbh. So it felt unfair to include that complaint in the video
ahahahaha the characters seems creepy because the animations are too good? what a weird excuse. they won't look off-putting with the same animations IF they aren't ugly, that's the real problem. in fact, if a good-looking characters have good facial animations it would just make them look even better.
I think a big problem for this game is that this game tries to be a political message more then a game. I don't care about peoples political views, games are suppose to be for everyone and a thing to unite people no matter what they think politically. If you make a game just for a single group of people that cuts off a bunch of potential customers that wont want to support the game or your company I don't know why not just make a game that doesn't feature anything like that so no matter anyone's views they can get along just like Helldivers 2 did.
@@ZackLillipad There is no real world political messaging in Helldivers it doesn't put any real world politics into the game or try to appeal to any political side therefor everyone can enjoy and play the game together no matter their views or differences even if the devs have their own views and that's fine everyone should have their own opinions on stuff. Despite that they still focused on making a fun game instead of putting their views into the game. The whole game is satire and is escapism from the real world as games should be. (if it had political messaging i'm sure people on twitter would complain and that goes for both sides) This comment is really disingenuous since you know what I meant and still replied the way you did. Helldivers isn't pushing any agenda. If you tell people how to feel and they don't agree with it they will be upset and wont consume your product. Helldivers does none of that meanwhile Concord does all of it. (that's why you see so many videos of people hating on Concord without even giving it a fair shot)
@@SINCELEME Im saying that Helldivers had no real world politics anyone can enjoy that game. Its like saying Fallout is political, yes you do have politics in Fallout but its in game politics you have the NCR, the Brotherhood, the Legion, etc. But having in game politics is not the same as putting real life politics into the game. Last time I checked fascism isn't even at all relevant in real world politics and as you said its satire.
You really are naïve because this is not the reason why the game is failing. The game is failing because of the woke sweet baby in bull crap DEI that everyone is putting into their games that’s why it’s failing.
Nah, the game is just not that interesting compared to the competition. Why would I play Concord when I can play something far more engaging like The Finals? It's an arena shooter made by former DICE Devs and it is absolutely bonkers.
Multiple things can be true. Yes, ppl are put off by the DEI crap. But the gameplay IS serviceable, but if you’re familiar with other live service shooters, it’s more of the same. People have spent thousands of hours and large sums of money on its competitors. Why would they have a reason to switch when it’s mostly the same thing? Despite what many activists on Twitter say, appearances and first impressions matter. Nobody wants to spend hours looking at ugly DEI characters. All humans prefer to look at aesthetically pleasing things. For me, I think all the characters look weird and off-putting so I’d rather spend my time/money elsewhere. The characters completely violate the Color Theory making everything not feel harmonious; every color/tone feels out of place and messes with your mind. It’s like seeing a brown sky, green sun, and purple clouds. It just messes with you. It looks like the video game version of the generic and safe “corporate art style.” It’s good art style that draws people in, but it’s the unique and fun gameplay content that keeps people. Unfortunately, Concord doesn’t really have both.
The biggest problem with this game is that in 2024 there are way too many sensitive people complaining about small details that don’t really matter. The game is awesome!
There are just so many good games out there and so little time to play them, I’m not going to waste my time on an ugly, flawed game. I know it’s overly harsh, but that’s unfortunately the reality of this overly saturated market.
The only numbers you have are steam numbers and matchmaking was always fast with no bots. Also youre dead wrong about helldivers 2. @theoxymoron97 it seems my response to your comment below has been deleted.
@@theoxymoron97 sony bs didnt ruin Helldivers 2 from day one the free psn sccount was require it was literally on the steam page when you preorder. Gamers demanded Sony remove the game from countries that didnt support PSN and threatened to sue them. The game was riddled with bugs up til this day simple things like the social tab still dont work. There have been no significant updates to the game and every patch for the game fixed some things then broke others. The Major orders have become stale kill a million bugs over and over and over. The story is going nowhere they just announce the first real update hopefully it comes with a bug fix to bugs that are still there since day one. The game is fun but it has too many bugs and not enough content. There arent even armor upgrades. As for Concord if you just got self owned in the HD2 fiasco why would you turn around and play Concord? PSN linking is not going away and if PC gamers dont like it thats too bad. Now im not rooting for Concords success its not the game I want from Sony. I do hope that the reason ir does poorly is becauss PC gamers hate Sony. I want Sony to abandon all efforts to PC ports and new IP. Negatives about the game its too polished??? Models are animated too well??? 4 of the 16 characters are ripped from Guardians? The Beta is fun but why isnt the game F2P so I can pay for blue guns?? I can go on and on unfortunately.
"Unappealing characters and world is bland and weirdly similar to its inspiration" Nailed it!👌
You're completely right that this game is lacking anything indistinguishable from any other game. Plus, a hero shooter with boring heros is bad foundation lol.
very true the stellar animations make the ugly character design look even worse than they normally would. The one thing its missing is attractive characters almost every character in all the other hero shooters are hot AF. Also 40$ while the current and upcoming hero shooters are free.
First Helldivers and now this. Sony seems to be really keen on pushing out live service games that have "dangerously frequent" content updates. That didn't really work out for the Arrowhead devs with most of their community telling to stop with the content and focus on bug fixes.
The problem with Helldivers 2 is Arrowhead themselves, not anything else. They decided to move forward with an archaic and no longer supported engine, they failed to have proper testing methodology in place causing constant problems every time they drop an update, and they are the ones obsessed with balancing it like some kind of hardcore PVP game instead of PVE horde shooter. Releasing a few armor skins and a couple new weapons in monthly content drops is just a drop in the bucket compared to the level of tech debt they have on their hands.
What? I've barely encountered bugs and I've been playing HD2 since a few weeks after launch. Sony decided to boost this game like crazy, those of us who played HD1 know Arrowhead was just trying to make another small game that people would enjoy. The engine is fine because they know how to use it @Smathalgoth
@@jakel2837 Sights/scopes for a lot of weapons are misaligned, especially noticable with sniper rifles. Arc Thrower has been misfiring and inconsistent since launch. Bots are able to see and shoot through cover that the player can't. A lot of the ship upgrades either don't work or work in a bizarre fashion not aligned with the description. There have been many periods where the game would hard crash on the extract screen for weeks at a time before a hot fix finally came. There was a damage over time bug related to netcode that took months to fix, which erroneously led to fire damage being massively overtuned and as far as I know they never tuned it back after it was. This is all off the top of my head.
@@jakel2837 Oh here are a few more things that I've remembered. The completely unwarranted railgun nerf early in the game's life only happened because of a netcode issue on PS5 only which allowed for one shotting bile titans, even after this became clear the nerf was never reversed. There is a bug with enemy pathfinding that will cause multiple patrols to bunch up in the center of the map stacking on top of each other. In the base defense missions with the gates, ranged enemies are able to get up on top of the cliffs overlooking the base and shoot through the cliff walls while being untouchable themselves. The pathfinding for the colonists in evacuation defense missions is still terrible all this time after launch making those missions beyond frustrating to play. The entire Meridia Super Colony event was a technical disaster with the mission being broken in various ways for the entire duration. Performance on PC has also been slowly degrading over time.
@@Smathalgoth In AH's defense, the stingray engine actually was supported when development began, and was dropped afterwards, they had been developing the game for 2 years at that point. Also Railgun nerf was completely warranted and only scrubs thought it should've stayed as it was. Even without the PS5 bug, it so effortlessly handled every single enemy in the game at launch including BTs that it deserved it (but it took 3 shots instead of one so skillful), it carried shit players, I fail to see a reason not to nerf a weapon that handled 100% of enemy types with ease.
Completely failed, dead game.
Y’know, I was going to say that the first thing most people saw was the blob in football pads, which was enough to kill their interest right there, but that’s unfair. That’s only hardcore gamers (who, admittedly, would be the most important to appeal to as the whales). For most people, their introduction was bland generic Guardians of the Galaxy ripoff trailer. Which still kills interest.
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I think Sony is gonna be fine with Concord flopping. It's a new studio with a new IP, so no real dmg was made. They can tax write off the studio.
They cant do a tax write off on stock losses. Investors will voice their opinions. Expect management to change in many places that greenlit the game development.
I would like for it to succeed, but the market is satururated with shooters and live service games. Meanwhile, marketing really failed here because I didn't know about either beta until after they ended and I only heard of Concord ONCE before them thanks to a gaming news channel; they were talking about how nobody knew anything about the game. Lol
HD2 succeeded in spite of Sony's meddling. This is the first time ive heard of Concord and i have zero interest in a 2024 overwatch clone, i got bored of overwatch 4 years ago. This is the same mistake large corps make all the time in the media industry. They see a successful product that they leeched of of and think they can copy the formula and make the same amount of money again. In a sea of spreadsheets and financial data, they fail to see the soul of these successful games. Horizon forbidden west is another example. People loved Zero Dawn becausenit was new and had an intriguing story. They tried to just make the same game again and no one cared because it brought nothing new aside from changes people mostly seem to dislike.
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Like concord... crashed in a flaming inferno before being completely grounded.
There is nothing worse than having no personality as a game.
They should just make it completely free to play
Anyone surprised that Zenless Zone Zero is more popular than this game lol. It already made $50 million not including PC and PS.
I just want to say, I love your voice
They should have learned from the failure of Lawbreakers
Rest in peace Lawbreakers I actually liked that game 🙏
Sony has a woke problem
You have a touch grass problem
@@creeeamy7133 truly stunning and brave you go Queen 😂
Even if we go past the woke nonsence and focus on gameplay entirely, the game is EXTREMELY boring, would not touch it.
Compared to Overwatch, which also has a ton of issues, it is MILES better than this crap! I have not played The Finals, but people who do say it's awesome.
Concord should just be scrapped, it's pure trash, no one would actually have any reason to play it.
Watching the footage of gameplay it seems to me concord is slow. Like drunk snails trying to get it on slow. Maybe it was because it looked like controller play but it seems like they wanted the pacing to be able to be followed by someone who has never seen a competitive video game before.
Yeah it is slow, I wanted to mention that but I chose not to because yes, it was controller. I also heard after recording that changing FOV helps with that which I didn’t know. So while the game is definitely slow, I did some things wrong that made it look even slower tbh. So it felt unfair to include that complaint in the video
ahahahaha the characters seems creepy because the animations are too good? what a weird excuse.
they won't look off-putting with the same animations IF they aren't ugly, that's the real problem.
in fact, if a good-looking characters have good facial animations it would just make them look even better.
I think a big problem for this game is that this game tries to be a political message more then a game. I don't care about peoples political views, games are suppose to be for everyone and a thing to unite people no matter what they think politically. If you make a game just for a single group of people that cuts off a bunch of potential customers that wont want to support the game or your company I don't know why not just make a game that doesn't feature anything like that so no matter anyone's views they can get along just like Helldivers 2 did.
“We need games with no political messaging”
“Helldivers 2”
Helldivers 2? A game that is a fascist satire? Non-political you say? OK.
Don't throw the word "unite" around dude. You can't unite with fascists, how tf you gonna "unite" with people that actively want you dead?
@@ZackLillipad There is no real world political messaging in Helldivers it doesn't put any real world politics into the game or try to appeal to any political side therefor everyone can enjoy and play the game together no matter their views or differences even if the devs have their own views and that's fine everyone should have their own opinions on stuff. Despite that they still focused on making a fun game instead of putting their views into the game. The whole game is satire and is escapism from the real world as games should be. (if it had political messaging i'm sure people on twitter would complain and that goes for both sides)
This comment is really disingenuous since you know what I meant and still replied the way you did.
Helldivers isn't pushing any agenda. If you tell people how to feel and they don't agree with it they will be upset and wont consume your product. Helldivers does none of that meanwhile Concord does all of it. (that's why you see so many videos of people hating on Concord without even giving it a fair shot)
@@SINCELEME Im saying that Helldivers had no real world politics anyone can enjoy that game. Its like saying Fallout is political, yes you do have politics in Fallout but its in game politics you have the NCR, the Brotherhood, the Legion, etc.
But having in game politics is not the same as putting real life politics into the game. Last time I checked fascism isn't even at all relevant in real world politics and as you said its satire.
You really are naïve because this is not the reason why the game is failing. The game is failing because of the woke sweet baby in bull crap DEI that everyone is putting into their games that’s why it’s failing.
I chose to focus on real things for this video, hope that helps 👍
Nah, the game is just not that interesting compared to the competition.
Why would I play Concord when I can play something far more engaging like The Finals? It's an arena shooter made by former DICE Devs and it is absolutely bonkers.
Multiple things can be true. Yes, ppl are put off by the DEI crap. But the gameplay IS serviceable, but if you’re familiar with other live service shooters, it’s more of the same. People have spent thousands of hours and large sums of money on its competitors. Why would they have a reason to switch when it’s mostly the same thing?
Despite what many activists on Twitter say, appearances and first impressions matter. Nobody wants to spend hours looking at ugly DEI characters. All humans prefer to look at aesthetically pleasing things. For me, I think all the characters look weird and off-putting so I’d rather spend my time/money elsewhere. The characters completely violate the Color Theory making everything not feel harmonious; every color/tone feels out of place and messes with your mind. It’s like seeing a brown sky, green sun, and purple clouds. It just messes with you. It looks like the video game version of the generic and safe “corporate art style.”
It’s good art style that draws people in, but it’s the unique and fun gameplay content that keeps people. Unfortunately, Concord doesn’t really have both.
No gamers care about political dei crap. Helldivers 2 could been dei to hell and same amout people would have played it cause its fun as hell.
I don’t think anyone cares that this game has blue men or black women in it. You’re forcing this DEI angle too much.
The biggest problem with this game is that in 2024 there are way too many sensitive people complaining about small details that don’t really matter. The game is awesome!
There are just so many good games out there and so little time to play them, I’m not going to waste my time on an ugly, flawed game. I know it’s overly harsh, but that’s unfortunately the reality of this overly saturated market.
Don't think of it as a failed game. Think of it as a reason for PS to release Bloodborne on PC to recoup losses.
Flopcord, dead and ugly game.
No man sky was saved, maybe this one could be as well???? 😅
The only numbers you have are steam numbers and matchmaking was always fast with no bots. Also youre dead wrong about helldivers 2.
@theoxymoron97 it seems my response to your comment below has been deleted.
Helldivers 2 was a huge success and is very fun (for the first 50 hours) the unfortunate balance apocolypse and sony bs ruined its long run
@@theoxymoron97 sony bs didnt ruin Helldivers 2 from day one the free psn sccount was require it was literally on the steam page when you preorder. Gamers demanded Sony remove the game from countries that didnt support PSN and threatened to sue them. The game was riddled with bugs up til this day simple things like the social tab still dont work. There have been no significant updates to the game and every patch for the game fixed some things then broke others. The Major orders have become stale kill a million bugs over and over and over. The story is going nowhere they just announce the first real update hopefully it comes with a bug fix to bugs that are still there since day one. The game is fun but it has too many bugs and not enough content. There arent even armor upgrades.
As for Concord if you just got self owned in the HD2 fiasco why would you turn around and play Concord? PSN linking is not going away and if PC gamers dont like it thats too bad.
Now im not rooting for Concords success its not the game I want from Sony. I do hope that the reason ir does poorly is becauss PC gamers hate Sony. I want Sony to abandon all efforts to PC ports and new IP.
Negatives about the game its too polished??? Models are animated too well??? 4 of the 16 characters are ripped from Guardians? The Beta is fun but why isnt the game F2P so I can pay for blue guns?? I can go on and on unfortunately.