God Help Me, I Ranked The Concord Characters

Concord was a disaster.
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[@johnoneil9188]

"Concord failed because it was is a counter punch to a jab that has was thrown eight years ago." That was a damn good line actually.

[@pandagamer-hg5be]

You can tell he's gotten into boxing

[@lifeiscrap103]

​@@pandagamer-hg5beThanks, Woolie!

[@roryschussler]

"I'd like to find at least one character we can get behind" John, focus on more realistic dreams, like going back in time and beating Kathy.

[@ventrueinconnu3527]

I thought you said "realistic"? Now if you'd said "get topped by another strong female character", then yeah. 100% achievable.

[@Noodlesaurousrex]

@@ventrueinconnu3527 hard agree but also weird to say to a stranger

[@ventrueinconnu3527]

@@Noodlesaurousrex ya know, you're not wrong.

[@Pedun42]

The fact that EVERY character quips in the same way is so incredibly grating

[@yurifairy2969]

Guardians of the Galaxy, the thing this is ripping off, knew that there needed to be a straight man character that doesn't crack jokes (Gamora). And even the jokey characters had variety, Star-Lord is quippy, Rocket is crude and more mean-spirited, Drax and Mantis don't crack jokes and their comedy is derived from awkwardness, etc. They couldn't even be bothered to rip that off so everyone is Star-Lord.

[@screemingnott]

This is why I think Borderlands also fell from grace. Borderlands 2 was mind numbingly packed with high energy jokes, but at least every character was their own brand of crazy which made the experience still fun the same way eating a bowl of junk food is nice every now and then. Borderlands 3 onwards... every character just started sounding the same like we have here in Concord.

[@chrisdaughen5257]

I think I understand why I hate the writing. It’s like those events in elementary school where they bring in 30 year-olds to dance and sing about how not smoking is good for you. The vibe is so flat and happy, it doesn’t feel genuine. But that was at least for 8-year-olds. It feels wrong chasing that vibe for an older audience. They won’t buy into it.

[@ElvenSonic]

Yeah it’s very vacation bible school.

[@Hieronymous_Flex]

"How do you do fellow kids" ass writing.

[@Nereosis16]

Corporate cool

[@0uttaS1TE]

Youth pastor writing. I half expect Lennox to turn to the camera and say "You know who else advocated for freedom under the stars? That's right, the big J man."

[@gwynmoth3940]

@@0uttaS1TE That's what I called Borderlands 3 writing, except its way more likable.

[@rigelseybert9406]

It feels weird to hear you talk about following Concord because me and a bunch of people in my friend group just straight up didn’t know this game existed until the announcement that it was shutting down.

[@makito106]

Honestly I didn't know thing about this game until I saw people making fun of the Steam player count. If this game was an actual ps5 exclusive I bet it would have disappeared without fan fare

[@chero666]

Concord was a game I hear about and then immediate forget about as soon as it's off my screen.

[@rigelseybert9406]

@@makito106tbf it also didn’t help that on top of just all the issues demonstrated by the video, there was also like… zero marketing at all.

[@kellerharris2593]

Concord is some of the most, like, "art by committee" character design I can think of. All of this looks and sounds like it was sanded down to be as easy to consume, mass-market appeal as possible, and whatever character it could have had got carved out in the process

[@chero666]

Every design from the game looks like it was made in a room full of people who unironically use "spirit fingers" instead of clapping.

[@ObscuraDeCapra]

"You can't have the faces be human faces on alien bodies!" STAR TREK IN SHAMBLES

[@CanterlotCrusader]

Star Trek at least had an excuse since it was an old show and nobody expected it to be nearly as big as it became. Concord had plenty of time and money, and still couldn't make an appealing character design.

[@ObscuraDeCapra]

@@CanterlotCrusader No, they couldn't make an appealing character from these designs. Get the right writer and this collection of frickin' weirdos is way more interesting.

[@MiaCulpa24]

It-Z is one of the most painful, because the markings of a GREAT character design are there Her colouring works, purple hair is hard to pull off but it contrasts great against the green skin. Her more "animal-like" features imply shes a very jumpy movement based character. Like its very easy to get what the character is... BUT THEN THERES JUST NO SAUCE This sauceless game just drags the work of a good character, and goes "No, you WILL be budget Tracer"

[@Doomroar]

So what you are saying is that it is zip zap you done-so for It-z

[@biomonkey01]

It is painful how bad it is. So many people put so much effort into something that feels so hollow.

[@NavyPheonix]

She has a single drop of sauce. I like how she does the Sonic Adventure Split Kick pose on the frame she teleports.

[@makito106]

I feel the realistic art holds back a lot of the designs.

[@lunasperidot8760]

I got more budget neeko

[@biomonkey01]

It's pretty damning that, with a few exceptions, you could swap the characters intro voice lines around and couldn't tell the difference. Star Lord quips don't work when half the character roster is making them.

[@bryanburgess3950]

Concord has intense "yeah, I guess that's good enough" energy

[@thewordywarlock7159]

That first guy looks like if a generic raider from Fallout had access to soap, water, and clean clothes.

[@pandagamer-hg5be]

And was also boring

[@daevious_]

@@pandagamer-hg5be The radiation poisoning builds character.

[@adamruiz3683]

The first character in the line-up being John Concord really drives home how bland the whole cast is.

[@chrisdaughen5257]

I hate that guy’s design so much. He looks like he’s a comedic character that scavenged his gear from a sports store, but he acts like a professional soldier. They probably made it look so bad to force players to buy more appropriate-looking skins

[@pyd2215]

It really highlights how good Soldier 76 is as a generic white soldier man design

[@Champiness]

@@chrisdaughen5257Then you look at the primo sink-hours-into-this-game skin and it’s just a different stupid fucking antenna helmet

[@Samm815]

@@pyd2215 It's the Cyclops Viser and the white hair, man.

[@nathanielbradley9819]

​@@Samm815and the fact that he's gay, sorry but that's probably the only depth his character has

[@chero666]

Teo looks like he's playing Paintball, not going into battle.

[@ElvenSonic]

idk, he’s got those “i’m a sci-fi soldier man” plastic football shoulder pads and armor. Are we sure he didn’t just leave his helmet in the locker room?

[@ARStudios2000]

None of the characters look like professional killers. You know, what a mercenary is?

[@KTCoope]

The thing that drives me mad with this is they went so hard on boring photorealism and a bunch of greebling on the outfits when it’s a super chaotic, visually busy kind of a game and for that you want your characters to read really really well. Like the simpler visuals in stuff like Overwatch and TF2 aren’t just because of a lack of processing power, those simpler designs work in the games’ favour. There’s concepts in these characters that could be great if they had just any actual art direction instead of generic realism, it is infuriating.

[@halfmettlealchemist8076]

The Final Gamer meets The Final Game. The ultimate art has finally met its ultimate practitioner. Before the game industry was, Concord waited for it.

[@crediblesalamander8056]

your words will leave an interminable echo in the souls of those who've borne witness to their ethereal majesty. your poetry has transcended transcendence and become whole with that great big unconscious whole we call our collective humanity.

[@halfmettlealchemist8076]

@@crediblesalamander8056 I just copy-pasted that one quote from Blood Meridian for this but thanks I guess lol

[@JDMC13]

John's got that Dead Eyed Concord Stare in this video watching the character trailers.

[@calvinware7957]

The biggest thing concord did wrong was come out ten years too late and be way too average

[@TestAcct46]

Also charge $40 when there's already plenty of free hero shooters

[@calvinware7957]

@@TestAcct46 tens year ago that wouldn't have been a problem I don't think

[@brianbonn5733]

The fact that the robots' pronouns aren't he/him in binary code is so funny to me. Like, there are people who will be very annoyed by pronouns being visible at all. Why not have a bit of fun with it? It would bring the slightest bit of levity to something so benign.

[@SeekSeekLest]

A robot with their pronouns in binary and another with they/then would be a great pun. 'Cause they'd be non-binary (ba dum tish)

[@yurifairy2969]

im just wondering why the robot's pronouns aren't it/its

[@SeekSeekLest]

@yurifairy2969 In English at least, referring to someone as an 'it' tends to be dehumanizing. So it'd probably be pretty rare to use it/it's.

[@roryschussler]

​@@yurifairy2969 There's nothing unusual about that. C-3PO and Data were made in the 70s and 80s, and both of them are always referred to as "he".

[@TravenTalks]

What drives me nuts about the characters for Concord is that the concept art for them (or at least, what little has been released) has so much genuine charm and intrigue, especially with the moebius inspired aesthetic, and somehow NONE of it got translated into the final designs

[@Doomroar]

Crazy that the woman covered in trash with a bucket for a helmet managed to sneak herself into "Ok i guess"

[@pearperapare]

We want the trash, we want the slop.

[@Stad122]

CBRN/Hazmat suits can make pretty good costumes, so long as you're not scared to death of the player not being able to stare at your characters ugly mug in a select screen.

[@angrymushroom26]

The second video about video games that don't exist.

[@Airahn]

Haymar is so obviously a solar Warlock from Destiny it's insane how shamelessly they designed her.

[@0uttaS1TE]

To be fair, the game was made by ex-Bungie staff. To be unfair, tho, there is a good portion of these characters that are just Destiny kits cut and pasted onto the least charismatic designs this side of the Galaxy. Lennox and Vale were the ones that immediately sprung to mind

[@Dovoline3]

Honestly some of those gameplay kits actually seem pretty interesting to mess around with, but they are NOT helped by the demo trailers having like ZERO actual action. Feels like they were recorded in bot matches, when they really should have been recorded during internal playtesting.

[@chero666]

Now to see John's specific fetishes.

[@tylerkarnes2947]

It is so wild to me that you can SEE the straight destiny animation rips like the dodge rolls and knife/grenade throws.

[@earthbound9999]

Not defending the game at all, but asset reuse happens way more often than you think, and it's really not a big deal. No need to completely reinvent the wheel every single time you make a game.

[@mikaelm5367]

This is the most noodly-looking underwater-feeling shooter I have ever seen.

[@Schweigetherapie]

No, I disagree on the robot. His weapon is like this vaccuum, right, so him saying "I am going to clean house" is a nice little fun quip, makes him sounds light-hearted. I like this character, I'd like him in a game. Maybe different gameplay, but the design and even the voicelines are solid enough. I also kinda liked the idea of Duchess, but you could execute the concept to much better. Most characters here suffer from this.

[@NavyPheonix]

Unfortunately "Sadistically Happy Robot" is a character trait they straight up lifted from Pathfinder (Apex Legends). Similarly, at 11:40 John mentioned he'd like to see a "Giant Maui Space Marine" which is basically just Gibraltar (also from Apex Legends). Even their best design in the Robot just has a ton of ideas lifted from other, more fleshed out characters. At least his Ratchet and Clank Vacuum Gun is cool.

[@bldwldr]

“Woke is ruining games” is the most npc ass I download my opinion from the internet ass take. This game would not suddenly work if you replaced every character with a different flavor of monster energy man. I think the real frustration behind the take is with the inauthenticity of it all. I mean, a lot of these triple a titles struggle with the whedonisms, the inability to commit to a tone, the insufferable irony, etc. and that’s so fucking annoying it’s actually completely unbearable. But if you’re a little gamer duckling, and you don’t know why you feel this way, and some bigger gamer comes along and tells you it’s because the west has fallen or whatever, you believe that gamer. Simply because that’s the first gamer you met who has any kind of answer.

[@Seandeclanpatrick]

It's particularly funny with this kind of problem because it's like... You think LESS diversity would fix this roster? You think a hero shooter, where the appeal is for everyone to find a character that suits them, should be LACKING diversity? I'd call them idiots but that would be taking their complaints at face value.

[@KeDe1606]

I know people‘ve harked on this point more than enough, but I‘m still absolutely baffled by the „west = bad/broke/failing because woke; east = perfect because not woke“ narrative. Not just because of the obvious point that there are plenty of „woke“ eastern games out there (you could literally just grab five random games out of a bag, and you would be able to find some scathing critiques of modern capitalism/industrialism/colonization etc. in there, but I guess it’s not the right kind of „woke“, so these idiots don’t notice), but because western games, even the „woke“ ones, are still plenty successful. Before Blizzard decided to start a smear campaign against their own reputation, Overwatch was basically the frontman for an entire genre of games. And it’s diverse cast was one of it‘s main appeals, even if said diversity was smeared with corporate greed. Same can be said about games like League of Legends as well. And every year, when people start talking about what the best/most successful game of the year was, western games are always a part of the conversation. Again, I‘m just very confused by all this

[@odolowa1]

Why is every second character able to deploy a dome that looks like every other character's dome?

[@Chaoktarukto]

gameplay way to explain AOE limits

[@MagickGOATee]

The fact I see more videos about fixing the concord character designs than I ever did see talk about the game and base designs speaks volumes about the sheer disinterest people had

[@eguy8387]

Good video! Think the point about characters looking like a man in makeup made so much sense. Like alien, who is a lizard man, has completely normal human face and eyes. What a waste lol

[@pyd2215]

With none of the art flair that makes Hunters just so cool to watch

[@NavyPheonix]

When you design a bunch of alien races, but you still want to be able to cut corners in the animation by making sure their faces are still motion-capturable.

[@pattybatters2816]

concord is supposed to look like the 50s sci fi aesthetic? I didn't realize that

[@ElvenSonic]

Yeah it’s going for flash gordon pulp sci fi but what if it was a modern marvel movie. However it’s leaning too hard to the “modernized” side and could’ve found a voice if it fully stuck to the flash gordon stuff.

[@evilhomer250]

I keep hearing different dates, so that's not a good sign. I originally heard it was 80s scifi, then I heard it was 70s scifi

[@Samm815]

@@evilhomer250 Same.

[@0uttaS1TE]

​​@evilhomer250 70s was the one that I heard. In any case, it's not a bad idea on the face of it. Fallout is 50's atompunk, especially when you look at the robot designs and the weapons from 4 onwards. Then you have No Man's Sky with its 60s pulp sci-fi styling. It could work, but adhering to that period of sci-fi requires charisma on the creative staff's part. Unfortunately this just doesn't have it, presumably from the money men

[@Pandatege]

my main thing is that i wish they just went FULL TILT into the clear 1970s sci-fi inspirations they were using here in terms of design and also just actually gave the characters for their character shooter *some actual character*

[@MagicalTalkingPony]

"You cannot put any kind of goth girl lower than a C tier." Even the Emoji Movie one?

[@100racs]

I think the best way to put it about the effort that went into Concord is that there was a whole lot of ARTISTRY being put into something that expresses and inspires nothing, that doesn't amount to being ART.

[@RJPsabong]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1170">19:30</a>, sound like early 2015 cod showcase voices, kinda makes sense with the 8-9 year development

[@LotteBlueJays]

They were not recording voice lines for this game 8 years ago. The studio that made the game is only 6 years old anyway so "8 years of development" is already a half-truth at most.

[@dylangreen192]

The first character feels like the designers had to begrudgingly design a white guy to put into the game

[@TheGrades90]

Zip zap, ya donzo.

[@johnrivers3813]

Emari's character design is giving me red flags

[@fitandhappy42]

I’m wondering if there was something in the overarching character design document about cosplay. They wanted as many of these as possible to be easy to turn into costumes so none of them can be too alien

[@fitandhappy42]

The whole thing is thick with “suggestions from upper management”. Can’t lean into the 50’s sci-fi because kids won’t get it. Make it cosplayable. Relatable dialog! Remember Guardians of The Galaxy? I too would like to see the initial designs before the committee got to it.

[@0uttaS1TE]

I sort of get it, but if you've been to any convention in the past few years, it feels like a poor excuse. If people like a character, they will cosplay it, no matter how hard the designs are to recreate. Like, look at Genshin, or Halo or Overwatch. Those designs are infamously difficult, but people still do em

[@Rycluse]

The sniper lady's "there's no hiding from me" line is so emblematic of the "sandblast the personality off" style of writing when you compare it to Widowmaker's denotatively identical "no one can hide from my sight"

[@prof_parahelix2390]

Zip zap Concord's done-zo

[@Bonnythebest1]

I love these analysis videos, you can tell that you know your stuff and worked as an animator. Would love to see more videos like this one!

[@MalevolentFae]

Ya'll should watch Kinkymation's take on these character designs. A character designer's/artist's point of view on what a bland nothing this roster is.

[@FoboS_IX]

Teo looks like his girlfriend tells him not to worry about Oscar Mike from Battleborn.

[@Tleilaxu0]

The point about the voice acting reminds me of the aliens in XCOM: Chimera Squad. Perfectly serviceable performance by the VAs, but the director utterly failed at making them sound alien. Although at least the writing was half-decent enough to give them some quirks.

[@gentriggerTTRPG]

The combat flips at first seem interesting but then every other character has it and it's like "Daring today aren't we?" whenever it comes up again

[@randem_6503]

I never really saw any of the gameplay before but in these trailers it just looks so dull. Man with gun, lady with crossbow, man with shotgun, man with gun, maybe they have a shield or a smoke bomb. The way John was so surprised by the most basic recall/teleport ability for the mushroom guy is telling to how uninteresting they all are

[@clownsingularity]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2988">49:48</a> it could also be that the voice director didnt know what to do with them(which im willing to bet is the problem given its every character), people are to quick to blame the voice actors just because their name’s at the forefront, which isnt to say that voice actor cant be the problem but it’s usually what people blame first and foremost for a bad performance.

[@dunethewanderer8944]

It feels weird that the line my brain thought was a bridge too far was John trying to find a good character in Concord. Like, I saw the title, and my brain went "Okay, maybe we're taking the self-flagellating content a bit too far now" just as a knee-jerk reaction.

[@Izrl1]

If the LFAB podcast was still around, Concord would, without a doubt, win biggest shitshow.

[@amiralirashedi8614]

"How does every character get so much worse when you see their pants" Should be one of those endorsement quotes on the back of the box

[@kharyrobertson3579]

Thank you for this, I would have never found an entertaining way to see what this game was about with you John

[@JesseBakerH]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="62">1:02</a>:06 There's no way. I've seen SO. MUCH. TF2. YAOI. HeavyXMedic, Sniper, Spy, Scout, literally all of them shirtless, ripped, hairy, BRUH how has someone not seen this. Back in like 2009 that was one of my first times seeing gay ships 😭

[@shawnheatherly]

I love your insight on what does and doesn't work here.

[@michaelking7847]

the thing about Concords character designs to me is that while a lot of them are conceptually interesting or have interesting elements to them there's no apparent feeling they're meant to invoke in the viewer. no one is particularly cool or badass or sexy or cute or silly (these elements being what i personally look for in a design). some get close, but its all so watered down that they never quite get there. so you end up with a bunch of characters that dont quite make you feel anything while looking at them dialog wise its all confident vaguely affirmative barking. they all feel like their trying to sell you something. Starchild is the only character with any defining personality because hes the only one who doesn't seem like hes desperate to be liked by a potential player

[@jacobbjornberg2604]

Won't lie, I'd like if you did this for something you like instead of peak mid. SF6, Tekken, and Strive all have kickass designs and I imagine it'd be fun for you to chomp on that.

[@samwill7259]

I heard of this came within hours of its existence coming to an end. That is IMPRESSIVE in its catastrophe

[@Frank_Costanzas_Lawyer]

I didn't know they made a game out of Guardians of the Galaxy background extras.

[@NavyPheonix]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1548">25:48</a> Deadlock isn't even out of Alpha yet and every character has multiple callouts that are uniquely written, and also have 2-3 variants of the same line. Pinging an enemy makes your character point them out by name, and some characters give them nicknames or refer to them as "That *blank* guy". My favorites are Shiv referring to Seven as "Gigawatt", Vindicta calling Mo and Krill "The Mole Man" and McGinnis repeatedly accidentally calling Kelvin 'Kevin' in multiple different lines. A shooter with no story mode needs to take every opportunity it has to characterize. It's not going to happen anywhere else if it's not during gameplay.

[@kaarpiv375]

Okay so I'm not crazy for calling these shopkeeper/questgiver designs.

[@centuronstar8688]

You know when I think of character who is named "Star Child", I think of like maybe some being or character uses light, sun/star, or cosmic powers and abilities. Like the Silver Surfer, or Captain Marvel or Singularity...... I definitely did not expect so big strong blue furry alien dude with a shotgun and power charge/slam to be named Star Child.

[@Xick]

MAYBE in the 90s.

[@KeDe1606]

Both him and the uncanny Chris Pratt alien dude/possible molester scream „we want Guardians of the Galaxy at home“

[@MaxDrawsStuff]

This roster is a definition of "characters with all soul sucked out". Everyone feels like they made in a factory. And not in a good one.

[@zurielarana5299]

Oh man, please do deadlock. It would be such a fun comparison!

[@ArgentIcon]

4 minutes in and we're talking about a goth girl...

[@Reubel]

Welcome to Regular Eyepatch Wolf!

[@bangormc3rd562]

These characters look like they are cosplaying as Guardians of the Galaxy OCs with a $20 outfit budget.

[@RubberJohnny972]

I like John starting out optimistic and just getting more and more annoyed as the video goes on.

[@The5lacker]

A character boredly quipping "Plenty of firey rage to go around" sent me into a coma. We're only five minutes in.

[@mwalsh616]

Mom: “We have Guardians of the Galaxy at home.” GotG at home: …

[@dand1253]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2737">45:37</a> - Duchess earned points with me for looking like a Syndicate noble from _Age of Wonders: Planetfall,_ which is a profoundly me take. Her toting some kind of heavy-duty M3 grease gun also helps, since it feels weirdly apropos for a Flash Gordon sci-fantasy aesthetic.

[@dand1253]

57:23 - Okay, the robot giving his grenade a little wave goodbye was gold.

[@Stad122]

I don't get why they gave the rich, affluent character a Sten gun. That is literally the gun known for being put together with a shoestring and paperclip because it was designed to be as cheap as possible.

[@dand1253]

@@Stad122 In a better game, they could use that to make some kind of commentary - the obvious option being that she's down on her luck, assuming she was ever an actual aristocrat to begin with. Here, though, who knows?

[@requiemforameme1]

This game looks like all the low-rank heroes in MHA grew up, but never got any better.

[@SaiyanHeretic]

It-Z is the kind of person who unironically says "Bazinga!"

[@lukapitkanen3333]

Concord was just a Guardians of the Galaxy at home

[@tylerkarnes2947]

I really want John to tier list the designs for deadlock now, as a comparison. The game is only in alpha but the designs VASTLY beat this game both in gameplay and even more so in designs

[@L0LWTF1337]

The first time I heard of concord was when it was shut down. Which... kinda is the problem. I feel like there was no marketing behind this game. And ofc the usual suspects declared victory because there was a woman with dyed hair in it or whatever.

[@Dabednego]

CORDNUTTERS RISE UP

[@TheTurpleB]

It's killing me that no one has pointed out that the robot guy is like a worse version Levi from Scavengers Reign, design-wise and a little in the voice/personality.

[@UomoPolpetta]

I hate how every character has an attack that just throws a ball at the enemy. The balls have different effects but there's no visual or thematic flair to them, they're balls. Also the only character that doesn't use a firearm is the knife lady, which sucks because a lot of the designs feel like they weren't meant to use guns (like the mystical grandma character whose name I forgot).

[@SomeCameo]

the entire cast of concord looks like a bunch of Background characters.

[@JohnSmith-ef2rn]

“Zip-zap they’re bankrupt!”

[@pyd2215]

I suspect we will see one round of ironic Concord cosplay - a bunch of pros collating on a full roster would be iconic

[@williamheinbuch]

Back in 2010? I wanna say, I worked at a little studio called BlackBox in Vancouver, BC - it was a studio that went through MULTIPLE restructuring at the hands of a certain triple A developer/publisher ( I was QA, so no one important). During my time at BlackBox we were priveledged enough to attend some meetings where they showcased unreleased titles that did not have ANY media, like ALL game concepts and super alpha stage footage. People got to ask questions and figure out what type of games these even were before the studio devoted a SHIT ton of resources on before giving the green light. All this to say... I'm sure whoever made this game at some point had someone... maybe a programmer, maybe an artist, HELL, maybe even a QA ask... "So this is Overwatch but... shittier and HYPER realistic or some kind of off brand Guardians of the galaxy at home/destiny" and the studio head's answer was "yes", to a resounding sound of studio crickets where no one wanted lose their jobs. it's like you said, no gave a shit, all anyone saw with this was a payday, they all thought "hey, let's do a character shooter, those are popular right?". it's like how for an entire year straight in like 2017 or something all any indie dev ever made was fucking card battlers and deck builders.

[@apersonontheinternet9085]

To be 100% honest, Super Eyepatch Wolf rewriting all of Concord and working with the artists/storyboarders that he works with on the main channel to pitch Better Concord (like how he did Space Jam 2 but taken more seriously, or how he did the end of the Shenmue 3 vid). That would be AWESOME.

[@apersonontheinternet9085]

Also I love how MAD this makes him. There's a reason my favorite super eyepatch wolf videos are the one where he just DESPISES something SO MUCH. I want a concord video so much. This is so HATEFUL.

[@juanjuri6127]

i think chonky robot deserves a tiny bit of appreciation because i get the impression its "deal" was that it's a repurposed cleaning appliance, thus its vacuum-themed powers and "clean house" quips. it's almost a character! it still got a nice thick layer of corporate slop design on top, like everyone else, but that one was the closest the design team ever got to cooking, imo

[@MeonLights]

This is the first time I heard of Concord. I am excited for this video 😂

[@GooberFloober]

dude I went to gay city and everyone knew my name😢

[@smurgledarf]

i think the most generous compliment i could give concord is that it wants to be guardians of the galaxy for hero shooters

[@Decrystallizing]

John rating It-Z in F tier to overcompensate for how excited he was when he realized she was a furry >>

[@FrankenSteinsGate]

Every single character's dialogue could have been replaced by any other character's dialogue and I never would have been able to tell.

[@therealHLY]

I think the most damning thing I can say about concord is that we have a gunslinger character and he never spins his gun even once.

[@desertbat55]

reminder that sony thought this game was going to be their star wars

[@Telekrus]

It makes sense you're talking about Concord. We know you're into games that don't exist.

[@alexjedi13]

You know, for how much talk there's been about this game being a failure, this is the most I've ever seen of this game.

[@TevorTheThird]

I really like the notion that the dialog is being written by the Ubisoft multiplayer showcase demo team. Like, they were going for quippy Overwatch but the person who wrote it was the same person who wrote the E3 presentation for The Division. Good call. BTW; all these people saying do Deadlocked. Nah. Do Paragon. Another dead game. But I feel like they had an extremely similar design vibe to what Concord was going for, retro scifi, except good. Or at least I remember it being good. It'd be fun to revisit.

[@Khadharphak]

The lack of attention to detail really shows in the cinematic trailer when Haymar gets shot in the leg and yet it doesn't affect her for the rest of the cinematic, and she still has the hotsauce bottle at the end when _Lennox shot and destroyed it in the fight_

[@Th4tOn36uy]

This is exactly what i need as i have literally only seen the blue lipstick marshmallow women

[@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

Concord looks like what your uncle thinks Overwatch looks like.

[@TililioChaosLord]

Reminder than Awesomenauts exist since more than 10 years now? 2D moba with space mercenaries... With top tier designs.

[@killianseraphim]

These designs are giving me B or C-tier science fiction movie from the late 70’s early 80s that no one’s heard about.

[@OldyAlbert]

The funniest thing is that it's not just a game that happens to have bad character design, it's a game that was BANKING on it's characters charisma with big plans on releasing little stories of their interactions that you were supposed to be hyped about. It's not like you play a unmodded Bethesda game with bad faces, but it's whatever in a grand scheme of things of their games appeal, here it was supposed to be the main course.