I tried 'Concord'...

🍆 All my links: linktr.ee/lukestephens 🍆
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Concord is an upcoming first-person hero shooter game developed by Firewalk Studios and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The game is scheduled to release for PlayStation 5 and Windows on August 23, 2024.
Concord is a sci-fi player-versus-player hero shooter video game played from a first-person perspective. The game features a variety of alien characters, each with different abilities such as robot legs for high jumps and diamond skin for enhanced damage absorption. One of the groups within the game is known as the Freegunners, who are mercenaries. Some of the game mechanics include special equipment like healing pads and trip mines, which persist not only between deaths but also across rounds.
~ Wikipedia
TIMESTAMPS:
Intro: 0:00
Gameplay: 0:52
Overall Thoughts: 17:36
-----------------------------------------------------------------
╔═╦╗╔╦╗╔═╦═╦╦╦╦╗╔═╗
║╚╣║║║╚╣╚╣╔╣╔╣║╚╣═╣
╠╗║╚╝║║╠╗║╚╣║║║║║═╣
╚═╩══╩═╩═╩═╩╝╚╩═╩═╝
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Subscribe and I'll be your bestest friend!
#gaming #playstation #ps5

[@kryppo4245]

The most accurate comment was when someone said "this looks like a game kids would play in the background of a movie"

[@applehazeva2739]

Jimmy before Micheal smashed his TV be like

[@bronzin1445]

While using a “QBox” controller that isn’t an Xbox controller but looks like an Xbox controller because licensing

[@ruok3351]

thats a good thing

[@unendingdeluge2545]

@@ruok3351is it?

[@WarFoxThunder]

LOL

[@thecaptain9496]

you know the character designs are bad when the best design is the robot and it’s a yellow michelin man

[@mojomitts]

Usually when it comes to Character Designs, Robots end up being the last chance if all other designs suck. They somehow screwed up the last chance.

[@un0riginal539]

For a sci-fi setting, all of the alien designs look so... uninspired.

[@DTDplays]

They just look like real humans cosplaying.

[@archersterling6726]

The pink haired one, jesus

[@quanlinglingdingle6122]

Not glazing OW but OW : has gorilla, hamster, robots and human as characters Concord : trash bin, human, fat human, human dipped in paint Which one is more diverse i wonder

[@DTDplays]

@@quanlinglingdingle6122 Yeah, OW always had great design. I'm just bored of the game after playing it for 2-3 years in OW1 so I don't play OW2.

[@bustanut5501]

Probably because the devs took too much inspiration from Guardians of the Galaxy.

[@patchedart]

"Nobody's questioning the art direction" I'm questioning the art direction

[@simond3292]

Yeah same here, characters look like shit

[@patchedart]

When a game is a hero shooter, they need to sell you on the characters and there's nothing interesting about this cast, like a collection of background star wars extras

[@Ungeboren1988]

@@patchedart A Guaridans of the Galaxy in Star Wars fanfic.

[@KaaneDragonShinobi]

all the aliens are just humans with non-human skin coloration it's hilarious, like watching 60's Star Trek

[@Jc-xf6cj]

How did they manage to make a robot look ugly

[@AzwraithPL]

All the designs in this game look like someone pressed the randomise button in the character creator.

[@19Marksman79]

The developers went to Walmart and selected people at random to be the characters

[@althegamer6606]

if you have not notice yet its the color of the gey rainbow flag

[@alexmurphy6574]

​@@19Marksman79it's an insult to Walmart people.

[@sticks7857]

I had to stop watching at 13:44 when he said that no one would doubt the art direction. It just feels like gaslighting at this point to try and make us accept these horrendous xe/xirs as being perfectly normal character design.

[@megadeth-1a885]

its DEI hire the game

[@mr.t107]

The biggest point is that the game costs $40 and has MTX. All of its competitors are free to play. I don't see this lasting

[@godot1785]

wait a frigging moment? for real? i thought this game is gonna be free 2 play lol that game is gonna die so hard and then they are gonna make it free 2 play anyway to save it lol

[@patrickbetar2943]

Yeah but it actually ships with content? Valorant came out with 3 maps and 6 heroes and 2 modes. OW came out with 7 maps and how many heroes? Not 16. Concord ships with 6 game modes, 12 maps and 16 characters. It's huge content that I'll always prefer over F2P. F2P completely killed quality in MP games.

[@BobBob-ye3gz]

​@patrickbetar2943 ain't that the truth, this game could definitely be ass but F2P games just feel flat.

[@leana339]

@@godot1785 Just play Destiny Pvp it's the same

[@Sedric93]

Which means it also requires PS+ subscription, unlike all of its main competitors. The only way for this game to have a somewhat decent player base on consoles is including it on PS+ catalog day one. Like they did with Destruction Allstars (remember that banger, guys? anyone?) or Foamstars (crickets...)

[@herbtube30]

I couldn't care if this game was the best shooter on earth, its character designs are easily the worst of all time.

[@barrenschnorreroffiziell9517]

The awesome Concord universe, where everyone is equally ugly.

[@fadlanibrahim9866]

...... (Im giggling)

[@Narko_Marko]

​@@fadlanibrahim9866I don't know why but the way i read your comment it sounded extremely cute. So, I love you.

[@markcollins2704]

It's just like communism! It's great

[@superyamchama5659]

"Overwatch had a chance to do it before anyone else." TF2: Am I a joke to you?

[@alejandrocoy5405]

TF1:

[@olegshkurenko-0448]

​@@alejandrocoy5405technically not a game by itself

[@cosmosofinfinity]

TF2 is not a hero shooter, it's class-based. Was Battlefield a hero shooter too?

[@superyamchama5659]

🤡

[@dynamitewolft4194]

tf2 is character based.just go look at the meet the team trailers that are heavily based on the characters.battlefield doesint have characters for its multiplayer

[@Blacksochs]

Tin foil hat is on: Sell for 40 beans, few months down the line turn it free to play and 'reward' early adopters some skins

[@ordo_draigo_assault_ham]

No need to wear that hat. Betting on a corpo to be that level of slime is always a winner.

[@ghosttactician403]

The Suicide Squad gambit, not bad

[@bluecat4802]

They did that with rocket league to.

[@_-Lx-_]

"Few months down the line" 2 weeks later:

[@Blacksochs]

@@_-Lx-_ 😂

[@drschwandi3687]

The main problem is that there seems to be nothing about this game that stands out. Nowhere you go, "oh that is a cool mechanic I have not seen before, I have to try this".

[@aledantih6524]

The dodging, on some characters it's like you're playing a souls game, it's pretty fun and not something I've seen from a hero shooter yet

[@omiewearnkhakis9780]

As a non hero shooter player all this is new to me and there are probably more like me out there than we think

[@maus6199]

​@@omiewearnkhakis9780 I mean, all those players can also try any other of the 10 hero shooters for free too

[@ranzu3138]

I would need to either play or watch abilities breakdowns to be sure but so far a lot of the abilities I saw look genuinely interesting. Gameplay wise it looks really good. What's holding it back for me is the live service aspect and it's art direction not being quite there yet.

[@raskolnikov6443]

@@Gerbil-vm1fpand they have their pronouns in bio. So a big plus for anyone who subscribes to radical gender theory.

[@mikaelolsson7246]

The character designs look like a bunch of cosplayers walked into a lobby.

[@Mark-sd4hv]

After eating an entire buffet

[@Saint_Wolf_]

Kinda look like ethnic rip-offs of more popular characters.

[@doublejumpvideogames....]

Family guy mexican superman vibes

[@brianestrada1993]

A bunch of cosplayers from California.

[@chilbiyito]

Cheap cosplayers

[@ToastyMcGrath]

"Talks in cursive" cracked me up the second I heard the guy speak.

[@CrunchyBrownie5]

Hearing it really helped because I was like 🤔 and then I heard it and cracked up

[@XanderFarrellAnimations]

Teo is a Spanish name, he speaks with a Spanish accent

[@cattysplat]

Spanish legit speak fast. Can be hard for English speakers to keep up.

[@robinthrush9672]

It's a nice metaphor for "talks with his mouth closed"

[@SnailHatan]

@@cattysplatThere’s nothing fast about how he speaks.

[@asmo8725]

For free to play games you do not need playstation+ so this game actually cost significantly more than 40$ compared to its competitors

[@CoDwithSwords]

These characters are insufferable

[@SuicidalChocolateSK]

$40 for a pvp fps that is gonna be monetized like a F2P game is crazy

[@vinniv6806]

Sony.

[@namelessking9068]

give it 3 months and it will be free 2 play

[@krazyd0nut404]

@@namelessking9068 3 months and it’s dead like foamstar & destruction all star. Needs to be F2P & on every damn platform @ launch to stand a chance. But I guess Sony like Failing at live service.

[@namelessking9068]

@@krazyd0nut404 maybe its better for playstation and the fans, that this game fails. i want AAA single player games like last of us, god of war and ghost of tsushima from sony. not games as a service like this

[@andrewhezekiahdaniel]

​@@krazyd0nut404I bet you said the exact same thing about Helldivers 🤦

[@stalkholm5227]

I know this is wholly subjective, but the gameplay and characters just don't look very *cool* to me; Concord's got all the aesthetic appeal of a saltine cracker.

[@xXxHUNG0VERxXx]

I dunno those crackers pretty sleek

[@Quandry1]

I'd argue the saltine is more appealing.

[@masterace9543]

​@@Quandry1Especially with a upset stomach 😅

[@SD78]

They were designed to fit diversity quotas and ideology.

[@stalkholm5227]

@@SD78 That's totally fine, I don't really care what race or gender or BMI my playable character is, but they could have at least made the characters look cool. The ugliness isn't from ideology, they're trying to sell skins.

[@Montesama314]

The characters kinda look like people in costumes. Maybe a little TOO realistic. Some "hero shooters" like Overwatch have a distinct silhouette and striking design (or some primary color you can associate the character with) that lets the opponent know at a glance who they're facing. Other than a few I'm seeing, all these guys just look like, well, people at a glance. Sure, in the real world, a shooter is just somebody with a gun and you might not know what they're doing until it's too late, but this is a video game and visual shorthand is needed for ease of play.

[@mistrkill]

Silhouettes are important in hero shooters, look at TF2 - at a glance you can tell what character you're shooting at, even if they're wearing 50 million cosmetics

[@MaMastoast]

Im not so much concerned with the gameplay implications, but I do agree that the character designs are very boring and lack personality. "People in costumes" is a pretty good summary, they dont look like individual unique characters.. They just look like people.

[@FlyingFocs]

As someone who doesn’t really play these kinds of games, I will say that OverWatch, League of Legends and even Apex Legends to an extent have good character designs. At worse, there’s the ODD character who looks generic. Here… everyone does

[@KaaneDragonShinobi]

Specifically for hero shooters, you need to get some inkling of the person you're fighting at a glance. Like COD, who cares, every operator has access to everything in that game before you head into a match. But every kit for a hero shooter character is different. If the sniper looks the same as the close-quarters brawler, it's just a recipe for confusion.

[@Plague_Doc22]

Making a game like this in 2024 and have it not be Free to play is a death sentence. It's become the standard for the genre at this point.

[@asdzxcz1360]

It's not f2p, but it has pronouns. You can't have everything.

[@NataliePine]

​@@asdzxcz1360It had one nonbinary character, it was hardly a defining characteristic of the game

[@asdzxcz1360]

@@NataliePine But they still puked this into all characters

[@NataliePine]

@@asdzxcz1360 All characters in every game have pronouns. All characters in every book and movie and TV series ever made have pronouns. C-3PO has pronouns. Macbeth had pronouns.

[@asdzxcz1360]

@@NataliePine Yeah, related to genxder. It's default and obvious, no need to inform anyone about it

[@ThePassablePlayer]

I didn't know companies were competing to create the ugliest game possible. Looks like a good way to burn 100 million dollars away.

[@Montesama314]

Paid AND with "micro" transactions because not even the game knows what it is.

[@cirescythe]

Thats why it has to state its pronouns.

[@craycoco7747]

dead/arrival

[@Brindlebrother]

It's a free-to-buy, buy-to-play, pay-to-use, transaction-to-win, corporate money-generating product. Or something like that.

[@m.dave2141]

@@craycoco7747 ok I dont mind the pronouns thing, but that joke was good

[@lucasLSD]

@@Brindlebrother or like sterling said: it's a fee-2-pay, you pay for the privilege of paying even more!

[@RomnysGonzalez]

We lived on a era where we have to pay money for a game and THEN have to pay for microtransactions,season passes, and daily challengers and some games even got in game ads

[@woldemunster9244]

And you have to pay for PSN to get access to multiplayer + internet bill

[@balexhtx]

@@woldemunster9244bad comparison

[@Slappaccino]

This is why I've been sticking to the many, many great boomer shooters that have been coming lately instead. Helldivers 2 is pretty solid too.

[@FlamespeedyAMV]

People let games play them now, rather than we play them

[@_Cetarial]

@@woldemunster9244 F2P games don't require PSN.

[@zacharytaylor5977]

The fact that this was PlayStations “big “ reveal of the summer

[@Mark-sd4hv]

Sony is a console for modern audiences. Aka no one. Too many LGBT games

[@coopstain1728]

@@Mark-sd4hv Funny considering PS5 has so many AMAZING games. Do I really need to name all the masterpieces they have?

[@Myinnerthoughts-88]

​@coopstain1728 yes name all the ps5 only exclusive games that are first party I'll wait lol

[@Pswayze23]

​@@Mark-sd4hvand Xbox is a console for no audience lol have you seen the sales?

[@Seoul_Soldier]

@@Myinnerthoughts-88 Name Xbox-only first party games. Oh, wait, Xbox is basically just a subscription at this point.

[@brightboar4421]

Jesus Christ. The roster screams Current year "Modern Audience" the game.

[@philnolan9903]

Yeah, this 🔼

[@Gakki_Aniki]

ah yes the classic "modern audience" that doesnt exist

[@MaMastoast]

Which would be fine if the designs were actually interesting, which they are not.

[@Billyitsangel2]

​@@MaMastoastno it wouldn't be fine.

[@luisruiz5045]

They ditched the fan service/ sexy and musclular characters for average/bloated looking ones. They are so bland and unappealing. No one wants to buy different skins for a 4/10 dude or girl or…… “them”

[@indestructible-today]

"Character models look really good" Do you have eyes?

[@kekkeke7374]

Character design is a joke, i don't even wanna look at those character, let alone play as them.

[@redninja3056]

What's wrong with them?

[@GleppaPigg]

​@@redninja3056 Generic cookie cutter personality. Doesn't matter how appealing the designs if each character feels like generic John Fallout.

[@RickSanch3z]

@kekeke7374 💯 I really like the gameplay and graphics, but those characters designs are really taking me out

[@resonmon]

That pink girl with uzi is the most disgusting and terrible design i have ever seen.

[@redninja3056]

@@GleppaPigg yeah that's not a good reason try again

[@sush7117]

characters look so bland. I can't even explain why. They're supposed to be cool and quirky considering amount of detail but they're just not. Feels like budget cosplay

[@cirescythe]

Because they are just there to check boxes. Not because of someone coming up with characters they deemed as cool as possible.

[@EH_1995]

But they have pronouns so that makes them more interesting right?!

[@Polomance862]

The major problem is the lack of any sort of thematic cohesion. None of these characters look like they actually belong together. From the alien pink haired girl to space bun galore. It's all a mess of themes with no unifying style or theme. Overwatch has this same problem, though there is still some cohesion. some characters are of the same crew. (Talon, Overwatch, Vishkar). Some are individual mercenaries of some caliber. They do recognize one another in some shape or form so it doesn't feel too weird. The characters are built around their combat style and talents. Some of Concord's characters.. if not majority of them just don't have anything that tells you enough about what they excel at. What does pink haired alien girl tells you when you look at her? How about the Prince-wannabe Mcree? Only the tank characters really scream "I'm a bullet sponge".

[@patsagonsaechin3006]

All of them look like background character or some mob enemy.

[@uSil031]

Because they are ugly by design. Like it or not, but humans like beauty no matter what ESG is trying to push.

[@yamaka71]

My pronums are not/buyng

[@spaceman2517]

my pronouns are Blue/berry

[@EH_1995]

🤣

[@jordanwhite352]

My pronouns are You're/Lame

[@lobstrosity7163]

​@@jordanwhite352Watch it with the ableism!

[@yamaka71]

@@jordanwhite352 my pronums are Who/care.

[@yupperdude1]

Soooooo, THIS is why we heard Sonys big bombastic plans of live service games and going “all in” blew up in their face. I think they could see the writing on the wall. In all honesty, Sony needs to stick to what they are good at and triple down on AAA singleplayer games, and let Bungie do their thing since they are proven with Destiny. This is 5 years to late.

[@johnm9893]

The scary thing is that this is one of the 6 out of 12 live service games that Sony thinks is good enough to go ahead, which makes you wonder how dogshit games like that live service TLOU must have been.

[@yupperdude1]

@@johnm9893 🤣

[@asherjohnston9166]

The ROBOT has he/him pronouns 💀

[@Gakki_Aniki]

lmao

[@Billyitsangel2]

That is why I won't play it. I don't care how crazy a character is.

[@therealMrA]

That’s how you know priorities were misplaced

[@strider3438]

TCP/IP

[@AmperahGaming]

@@strider3438UDP

[@r.e.z9428]

I just find the roster design too unappealing.

[@OMEKS_1]

That’s ok it just means you have good taste

[@Desmond-Dark]

Yea same. Blizzard does an amazing job with their roster.

[@redninja3056]

Whats wrong with it?

[@StratumPress]

@@redninja3056 Go get your eyes fixed.

[@ranzu3138]

​@@redninja3056 personally they all have really bland faces as in they have no distinctive features. I think their silhouettes and proportions should be pushed more for some characters. The ideas are there, I think they should commit more to them and exaggerate their traits a little more imho.

[@Briliantless]

I never seen any games with less appealing characters rosters until now, they even make big hulking robot looks boring The artstyle too realistic, making everyone looks dull and ugly

[@woldemunster9244]

When you got zero artistic talent, you do "realistic".

[@Mano7878]

You can go for a realistic artstyle and still be able to make interesting characters (look at the characters from paragon for examlple) The issue here are the designs themselves. Theres literally nothing that tells you about who the characters are and their personality. The most important thing for characters is the silohuette and here it doesnt tell you anything about them because they all look alike

[@VariantNode]

I really can't stand how the game is desperate to sell me on its characters with its Joss Whedon wannabe writing.

[@Saint_Wolf_]

Most games and media that aren't history based or comedies are just trying to be something Joss Whedon would do.

[@VariantNode]

@@Saint_Wolf_ They want that Disney money

[@Seoul_Soldier]

The Joss Whedon/Millenial writing has infected everything and I'm so tired of it.

[@kingPigify]

Joss whedon made one good avengers movie and tbh its mid compared to anything the ruso brothers did. He also ruined justice league. Maybe having whedon writing is why it sucks

[@_Cetarial]

@@kingPigify The Russo brothers are not good directors.

[@Icipher353]

I can't get over how stupendously ugly this game is. How did it ever go to release looking like this? Everything about it is aesthetically offensive. There is nothing remotely appealing about this game.

[@mAcroFaze]

The transition from matchmaking to actually landing in the arena gives you *just* about enough time to take a dump, fulfil your Duolingo lesson for the day, ponder your terrible life choices before realising being sat on the toilet's actually quite relaxing, wipe thoroughly, finish up, grab a beer and jump in!

[@skyeunknown8076]

This game is $40 Overwatch is free Tf2 is free Valorant is free Upcoming Fragpunk is free There is no way this game lasts

[@MattyFreedom]

They got away with it with hell divers. Someone at Sony wet themselves when they saw this and bought the studio. The question is what did they see that none of us seem to be?

[@wtfisgoingon535]

OW2 is free, but i guess we don't care about people that i've bought the first one.

[@lionzcrown1702]

Those games are free with iverpriced mtx. Helldivers was 40 with the msot respectabke mtx weve ever seen. If this game follows that logic, it would warrant the 40 like helldivers did.

[@mistrkill]

​@@lionzcrown1702the mtx price doesn't matter if they're purely cosmetic.

[@bopsie55]

you missed out apex, paladins, naraka bladepoint, halo, destiny, multiverses, brawlhalla, hell even rogue company. this game offers nothing new and is charging £40 with less content than its competitors

[@Manan_K]

If this was a free game, I still wouldn't play it.

[@ppsarrakis]

That's why it's 40 bucks

[@Pswayze23]

Its not a bad game. I'm having fun

[@Aioer-be6ys]

Same, we do not have psn here

[@jeremybrown9611]

​@@Pswayze23some folks like watching paint dry too

[@Pswayze23]

@Antek_S ps5

[@foreignuser_]

no chance this is ever getting installed on any machine i control

[@TheXeropax]

This is the way.

[@Y3llowBone]

Lies buddy 😂

[@cole5953]

​@@Y3llowBoneCope

[@asdzxcz1360]

I thought about testing it, but I don't want to make PSN account, especially that game is pretty bad...

[@strider3438]

"machine I control" 😅

[@SquattingSamurai]

I didn’t even know this game existed and I spend like 12 hours a day online. Can’t wait for it to go FTP in 2 months and then go on life support

[@KarasuMayonaka]

Idk how they expect people to care about these characters when they give them atrocious designs right from the beginning

[@lunasakara7306]

*tinfoil hat on* That's the point. to explain it more simply, didn't earn it is a thing because several large lending companies demand it as part of their loan agreements. Many large companies in entertainment operate for months on losses so they "need" those loans to not go into the red while working on their next project. Under US tax law, companies can write off losses in their taxes. and just like that, you have a cobra problem (more literally, perverse incentive). Rather than trying to make a GOOD game that MIGHT be successful on the market, you can make an absolutely terrible game, do a fucking shit job marketing it, ensure you hire the most pathetic (cheap) dev team that hate gamers; utterly ensuring the game will fail... Now you the game company can just churn out mediocre garbage, subsisting on didn't earn it loans, and tax writ offs... it's literally easier to make shit, ensure it fails, and cash out on your taxes than it is to try to make something good.

[@muhamadmuhamad-ky8gd]

@@lunasakara7306 tinfoil? are we really pretending that blackrock and vanguard are a conspiracy theory now?

[@m.dave2141]

@@lunasakara7306 that actually make sense *puts tinfoil hat on*

[@UrbanHymns]

“If you look past the blueberry” YOOOOOO 💀💀💀

[@swainblaine1609]

I'm surprised he also didn't say: "And the grapes to the left"

[@alexs_toy_barn]

Blueberry is a Destiny term for a random player you matched with, and the game looks like the crucible from destiny, made by former bungie devs. So blueberry is accurate here

[@slogZz60]

​@@alexs_toy_barnor its bc its a huge person in blue

[@jackofnotrades4350]

@@alexs_toy_barnHe deff was throwing shade at the body positivity token character

[@alexs_toy_barn]

@@slogZz60 yea that too

[@LordBathtub]

If it were F2P id at least give it a try. But $40 means ill never buy it.

[@EverydayTechSJB]

its free now so give it a try

[@dailyeffects1667]

@@EverydayTechSJBis it?

[@mr.cheese9571]

It’s only free to play on the beta for PlayStation plus users

[@LordBathtub]

@@EverydayTechSJB I'm on PC bud

[@TatoHaro]

@@LordBathtub youl be able to log in next weekend for open beta

[@henri2058]

When a game is a copy paste from a copy paste...

[@xxjwasxx4927]

A Xerox of a Xerox

[@Brindlebrother]

A bad meme crop of a bad meme crop

[@krazyd0nut404]

@@henri2058 u can’t even make this shit up, thx Sony

[@semmert]

that's the gaming industry as a whole right now.

[@enashimo]

​​@@semmertFym the industry has always been like that Minecraft is a copy from an old game, Tetris was a copy from a puzzle, Stardew Valley was a Harvest Moon copy, OW is a copy from TF There is no type of media that is 'original', either they are derived or inspired in something else

[@DanThe2nd]

5:44 this character's little animation right here made my skin crawl off my body and hide under my desk.

[@ewanfraser]

Right? She’s holding a firearm. Shes supposed to fighting to the death. She’s acting like she’s up for a dance competition.

[@samexoldx]

Its so cringe

[@Saint_Wolf_]

In Overwatch is just an establishing shot, here she's just basically the meme of "break it down" and the character starts dancing.

[@nightname6]

​@ewanfraser bit of a nitpick, overwatch has many emotes where characters behaviour stupidly and apex has funky inspect animations and emotes too...

[@a1000island]

Reminds me of Meave on Paladins

[@MrImmortal709]

This game will be on life support for 5 months before Sony pulls the plug, never going above 3k players.

[@ReaIistik]

The “Redfall” of arena shooters. Just looks boring

[@jimmyjames634]

Even if the game is decent the 40 dollar price tag is going to kill it. This isn’t COD, there is no pre established fanbase.

[@christonchev9762]

y and also COD has a SP mode into that 70$ prize

[@semmert]

It's sad you even have to mention CoD because CoD sucks.

[@semmert]

@@christonchev9762 CoD BARELY has a SP mode. And it's also free if you just want to play warzone, which is arguably the biggest mode the game offers.

[@semmert]

@@christonchev9762 But also, like the original comment says, CoD has like 2 decades worth of a fan base. So it's established. This game isn't.

[@gman7497]

You need to make it as easy as possible to on-board people with stuff like this. Making it free to play with reasonable cosmetic transactions is a good way to go. Lose a bit of money short term for more success later

[@chibiemo100]

None of the characters are rule34 material like OW. 100% DOA

[@458italiap]

You’re not wrong 💀

[@BasicSneedEducation]

This is the truth content creators don’t wanna say out loud.

[@BarryBlotto]

If the main cast of characters struggle to identify themselves; how the hell is the game ever going to have it's own identity?

[@YeetIsHere]

It won’t atp

[@HLDeadMan]

- soaked in woke - ugly characters - boring viscous gameplay - paid I think online will die within a couple of months. if the cancelled "Last of Us Online" was cancelled for this, I'm extremely interested in how much worse it was?...

[@jhaziinlefaible7902]

Why do you think it's 'soaked in woke'? Just because there's a girl with coloured hair you think it's rainbow capitalism?

[@UrbanHymns]

Thank you for saving us $40 Luke!

[@EH_1995]

Smart people didn’t need this video to do that lol

[@pensinseo7745]

Gameplay, art style, dialogue and the whole concept of live service hero shooter game is just a big let down from PlayStation

[@jesseshaver2262]

I love the artstyle but hate the character designs and dialogue

[@sumstuff6956]

Four years it took to make this 😂

[@doommaker4000]

@@jesseshaver2262 Some charachters are fine. Too bad its not even a 3rd of them

[@Pswayze23]

Gameplay is pretty good. Im having a good amount of fun

[@None38389]

@@jesseshaver2262 Agree, the title screen, the graphic design, the UI all look great but the characters aren't doing it for me.

[@nickcanzoneri3012]

looks like it takes an hour to kill one enemy

[@BasedNate]

Depends on the character you are shooting with and at. Different archetypes.

[@Pswayze23]

No it feels good.

[@bannedmann4469]

Team dependent game. Probably ruined by SBMM..

[@D1Hater2413]

​@@Pswayze23no it doesnt

[@_Cetarial]

That's every single multiplayer game out there.

[@krisstout2347]

2:22 Austin Butler literally had to go through vocal coaching to stop talking like Elvis, it wasnt an act lmao

[@aeroprime3322]

The game looks like it epitomizes "Meh".

[@ThoughtOuter]

Really wish they just made this game into a Co op shooter

[@VariantNode]

by the intro that's what I thought it was going to be lmao

[@wizzenberry]

but less pronouns man, come on you need to know a robots pronoun/sarcasm

[@chisphisto4633]

When i had first saw the game from the PlayStation showcase i thought it wax gonna a be a very cool single player story mode game not live service

[@Desmond-Dark]

I'm surprised at the lack of emphasis, from big game companies, on co op shooters.

[@phillemon7664]

@@wizzenberryevolve, develop, improve. The world is going to leave you in the dust

[@Bizcuitt]

EDIT- Told ya so. 3 things devs, big and small, need to understand. It's not 2018 anymore, people are tired of hero shooters and people are tired of battle royals.

[@redninja3056]

Marvel rivals prove you wrong cry and seeth

[@Bizcuitt]

@@redninja3056 Low quality bait lil bro

[@redninja3056]

@@Bizcuitt it's not bait if it's the truth tho

[@Bizcuitt]

@@redninja3056 lol goofy

[@Saint_Wolf_]

And that they need to aim it to the majority PS/XB/PC users when their budget surpasses the 8 digits. Majority male gamers. A game made for the rainbows and pronouns and the Y-chromosome-less is a game that's not made for the striaght male majority.

[@magnusequus]

Title reminds me of Kojima posts after he went to cinema where if he liked movie he writes several paragraphs about it and if he’s not he just says that he watched it

[@elsevillaart]

This universe feels like there is no corners on the tables....so any baby could survive alone.

[@soundrogue4472]

16:32 let me think of a number of different combo of weapon ideas you could give in order to make unique archetypes. Cassidy change up idea; trick shots, switch out different ammo types to perform different shot types to become a Utility/ DPS or even shoot to make temp cover. Windowmaker change up; Instead of a grappling hook give her the following; 1. Teleporter that allows her to have a point a to point b 2. A rope and hook you have to throw, allowing you to traverse only based on where you climb and make your own sniping points 3. Make a structure below you, making your own sniping nest 4. Super jump 5. Double jump 6. Flight BUT can't snipe while flying Tracer change up; 1. Shotgun like the scout from TF2 2. Needle gun 3. Daggers 4. Energy cannon like Megaman Oh wow that wasn't hard to do now was it. That took me like what less than 5 minutes to think of all of these changes? If you can't think of any creative ideas and only steal from existing archetypes then you might just need to quit being a game designer all together. 16:49 TF2 was able to come up with unique combination of heroes with guns. Stop licking the sack of the game and just accept the fact the team behind this game aren't all that creative.

[@PigeonGoGaming]

I tried it last night. It wants to focus on Overwatch style gameplay, where teams group up most of the time (for healing & DPS). But on Arena style maps (not lane maps)... So it doesn't flow well. It'll be DOA imo...

[@lionzcrown1702]

This is false. This is conpketely difrrent from overwatch style.

[@PigeonGoGaming]

It has characters that prioritise support, like healing others, focusing on team play & no health regen. Just to name a few. It has A LOT of similarities with Overwatch. It merges Overwatch elements with Arena shooters, and it fails at it...

[@polakuu]

Meh, Overwatch has gotten boring, curious to see where this game is going.. maybe they'll have a free version with a rotational free character

[@PigeonGoGaming]

@@polakuu Well if it flops, I can see SONY adding it to PS Plus

[@neillombardino5151]

“I don’t think anyone are going to doubt the art direction…”. Ummmm, I know you’re a busy guy but , you been under a rock?

[@ewanfraser]

The art looks good

[@chrisjerome4111]

The game looks bland af

[@MechaMan2012]

Yeah, he said that and I was just baffled. The art direction, both how the game is literally rendered and also the artistic choices for the aesthetic, looks bland at best and offputting at worst. My eyes aren't bleeding in my sockets, but I do indeed seriously doubt the art direction.

[@singmysin]

The art looks good it's the actual designs that are the issue

[@neillombardino5151]

@@singmysin I guess you could argue the environments look ok.

[@Me_Caveman]

You know which characters were interesting? Team Fortress 2 characters and their funny back stories. We need more of that.

[@Mrhouse-k1x]

And The game also has very inclusive and ptsd filled fan base...... (Tick-tock heavy like a brinks truck)

[@carlosmarrufo3362]

This game looks like was made by Kotaku´s journalis for Kotakus's journalist!

[@brandonlawrence8077]

I see a lot of comments bringing up Helldivers success but not realizing that Helldivers came out as a completely fleshed out and well-made game, and concord looks like a fanfiction of overwatch.

[@papapudding]

Save your money and don't touch that game.

[@Saint_Wolf_]

The fact that there is an entry fee to try is the hilarious part.

[@Pswayze23]

At least play the game guy

[@Saint_Wolf_]

@@Pswayze23 hey @papapudding, bro over here is saying he'll pay the 40 bucks for you to try it

[@14ElmStreet28]

@@Saint_Wolf_ you can try it in the beta

[@Saint_Wolf_]

@@14ElmStreet28 "Hello beta testers"

[@winj3r]

The art style looks really bad, especially for the characters. This one is a hard pass for me.

[@rellocozy]

lol, you’re joking 💀 there’s no way

[@jonasc1221]

The art style is one of the strongest parts of the game in my opinion.

[@TitusAndromadon]

​@rellocozy3261 well art is almost entirely subjective. I also don't care for the art design. Graphically it looks fine. I'm not interested in the characters.

[@Pswayze23]

Try the beta, it's fun to play

[@Montesama314]

Jesus, dumping almost two mags into someone without killing?

[@KidArkx]

Orisa in overwatch has 1500 effective health when using fortify. Mcree does 70 per damage with a 6 shooter. 70 x 6 is 420, mcree would take 3 mags and fortify negates headshot damage headshots.

[@ghkevilhd44]

@@KidArkx Orisa is arguably the tankiest Character in the whole game. Her whole kit is being a bullet sponge. And McCree is not the hero with the most damage. So this comparison is not really accurate. In this game, even the 220 HP characters eat like 2-3 mags

[@bopsie55]

@@ghkevilhd44 yeah its like claiming Titanfall's ttk is high because you cant 2 tap a titan as a pilot.

[@singmysin]

Ex bungie devs made this the ttk is probably akin to halo or destiny crucible

[@aaronadams4657]

@@singmysinno it’s higher than Destiny, coming from a Destiny player

[@frishter]

I don't think there's anything wrong with games that cost $40 so long as it doesn't have excessive f2p models on top of that. Still, I don't trust the "modern audience" design based on how the people who want it actually treat other people so I'm not interested. I'm glad that they didn't convert a franchise that is actually liked and tried something new though.

[@SpottedHares]

I remember a conversation about art design that when you have to broad of a concept and a consistent logic you can easily lack identity. Startreak is a great example as it’s alien deign is humans with funny head features, not the most specific but it works well enough. Like marvel this game seems to drawn it inspiration with from a lot of different places without much logic as to why they all exist together.

[@TheMordgan]

I'm a very simple person. I see ideology I don't agree with put in the center stage of a game... I'm out. Will not buy this even if it's the best game ever. I honestly want to understand how is it so important to put pronouns that big next to the class of the character. Like, who the hell cares its pronouns, it's a freaking video game character. But I get that, they put it there to fight the ideologic war on the internet. So, yeah, I'm not spending money to suport this studio.

[@akl2k7]

Especially if it's obvious the person's a guy or girl. Like, come on!

[@joedouglas6968]

I like how you say who cares about pronouns in a comment shouting about the fact that you can see pronouns on screen. It's not about ideology grow up

[@TheMordgan]

@@joedouglas6968 It's clear you didn't understand my comment. In a video game (especially a shooter), nobody cares if a character it's a "he/him" or a "it/its". Thats why it should not be put literally as a major information in the character selection. Doing that, is 100% about ideology. They are activists pandering to the woke people. To the progressive people. Virtue signaling. It lireally can't be more obvious with the pronouns right there, bro, come on. And I, basically, don't agree with that. So, for this reason, I'll not give this game a try.

[@cholula-y1q]

@@TheMordgan the lead character designer is giga woke. a "woke levels over 9000" type of person.

[@ReinEngel]

The concept of doing weekly story-driven cut scenes has piqued my interest, but you need actual characters to carry them and not DEI stereotype flashcards. Also, I bet that Bazz's pom-pom hair has a hitbox, doesn't it?

[@spoogtastic]

Hard pass. Only hero shooter im remotely interested in, is marvel rivals and thats a little different than the usual overwatch clone.

[@Shirou8492]

Marvel Rivals looks more like OW than this does

[@None38389]

Not by much, it's working only because it's marvel and the characters are conventionally attractive.

[@bloodrunsclear]

How can there even be cutscenes for a game where everyone is fighting for no reason? At least Overwatch sort of separated gameplay from story.

[@GutsOfRivia]

This is the game I point to when people tell me Im a crazy about how agenda pushing has ruined games.

[@ultimateDOOMPOOL]

T H E M E S S A G E

[@hernanipereira]

i might be wrong, but this looks a game that will fade out quickly into obscurity. Might have some initial attention, but quickly everyone forgetting it exists

[@sebastianamador2775]

Ah yes! “The Art Direction is pretty good” 3 minutes later “the character designs are funky” my brother in Christ you don’t know what Art Direction is then…

[@None38389]

Character is just one aspect of art direction, everything looks good except for the characters. The UI is some of the best looking UI I've seen in games for a while.

[@marcosdheleno]

in his defense, he spent ALOT of time playing destiny. so chances are, the fact he saw "space" was enough to make him belive the game had good art.

[@sebastianamador2775]

@@None38389 on a hero shooter game where characters are basically the end all be all of the hole ass game I would say fumbling the character designs is basically the one thing that matters the most, pretty backgrounds are just that if the characters don’t entice you into their world, UI is outside of Art Direction

[@SynthLizard8]

Characters move like they are in a cinematic E3 presentation.

[@TheIndulgers]

It is impressive to see a game make OW2 in its current state look decent by comparison.

[@martolod]

« He talks in cursive » lmao 🤣

[@Gharon]

These character designs... i just can't. There's like three or four that are somewhat "ok" but even then that would just be me picking them because all the other alternatives are WAY worse.

[@garygohmusic]

I am a freelance designer and I think the art style is great and it has amazing animations with a unique colour scheme that not many games dare to use. Still wouldn't pay to play something like that though.

[@isonic]

Luke I just wanna give some praise buddy. Not only are you one of the best youtuber's in your field but you are also by far the most likeable. Just very respectful in how you judge games with a side of witty humour. Comfort viewing bro. Just keep being yourself and we'll keep coming back 👍

[@andrewcoehoorn6505]

The thing I don't get about the narrative angle they're trying to use to separate this game from the pack is you don't have to play as those characters. So you might get a weekly mini movie about some people you might not care about and might not even play as... super fun.

[@bronzin1445]

It’s like they’re trying to emulate the Destiny formula without actually emulating Destiny formula …and even Destiny’s formula is questionable…

[@imnotryuu6391]

its like a Chinese clone mobile game of what a guardians of the galaxy hero shooter could be

[@Cyynapse]

fascinating how there are always like 2-or 3 overwatch clones announced at every conference and no one cares about any of them.

[@angrytheclown801]

Somebody needs to check Sony's pot. If they think this is good their pot is laced with drain cleaner.

[@Billyitsangel2]

It is worse than suicide squad. At least suicide squad has recognizable characters.

[@zappli45]

40 dollars. Lacks substance compared to its competitors. And chock full of DEI crap.

[@Trace153]

That’s design style is, “very inclusive” along with pricing and doing nothing to be special this game just makes me go how… How was someone convinced this would make money.

[@TheMaztercom]

These devs are like internet explorer, this game should have been released in 2020

[@marcosdheleno]

not 2020. 2017

[@mikerochburns4104]

Designed by committee = 0 passion. $40 is a piss-take too.

[@mohammadharrisabdullatif2076]

I don't play it yet, people say gameplay are fun but i think the main problem is the character design. They should make characters look like Overwatch or Valorant.

[@XxWolfxWaRioRxX]

The gunplay looked good and you can see the ex Bungie involvement but having payload esque modes without lane maps was a stupid idea

[@kcakiid]

lol where’s there a payload game mode in this game? It’s literally capture the flag or king of the hill. No payload at all

[@stock6600]

Not gonna lie dawg, i am not sure i d try it out for free, let alone pay 40 bucks for it.

[@-Luke--hn5uv]

The characters in this game look like they’re from Saints Row and Fortnite. (Not a good thing at all) what happened to having cool looking characters in games?

[@G4ns4n]

Every Heropic shows a Black Dude or a Black Women this game is so diverse and thats is the point why it´s so bad when you focus on the message instead of the gameplay the next DoA game. Layoffs incoming :D

[@riothead1240]

They did something never done before. They made the characters so unapealing they defeated rule 34

[@LuisMicrute]

*I never had played a Hero Shooter before* I liked the game, the graphics are great and i enjoyed the guns and diferent types of gameplay. I don't like all the characters designs, but there are 16 options, i think it's ok to dislike some of them. And i don't know how to explain but, this game looks like garbage on videos and gameplays, playing it, feels much better.