Thoughts on Concord?

[Dead-Head-Ghost-2088]

I’ve never played it myself for I don’t have the money or time to do so. But from what videos I’ve watched of it, It seems like it was supposed to be a rival to Overwatch but failed due to several aspects like marketing and presentation. Not to mention being the lowest selling game there is at the time. Eventually being shutdown.

Another issue is that some of the criticism online comes from an Anti-woke perspective. Not knowing which is legitimate and which is nothing more than people disliking LGBTQ characters or themes for illegitimate reasons.

That’s all I have to say for now.

 

[Storm Angel]

From what I know about the game, it seems it failed largely because of a poor character design philosophy. Overwatch Characters are clearly superior in the aesthetics department: and players generally seem to prefer playing as beautiful characters. So a game that was meant to compete with Blizzard's title would have done well to avoid this new design trend of "uglifying" playable characters.

Concord lost a lot of money developing this game, and in my mind they deserved to. Commercial art should be appealing to the largest demographic possible. But this trend of making game characters plain looking, and even ugly, doesn't appeal to the largest game audience at all, but is rather very alienating. People feel they're being preached to, and that they're being judged for not liking an aesthetically inferior product.

 

[Captain Barnacles]

It's a 5-a-side hero shooter released years after those reached saturation point, filled with (as you say) ugly characters that nobody wants to use as their digital avatar. Who wants to present themselves to the world at large as being unattractive? Nobody, least of all the teens who play these things. It's escapism; people want to be slim, cool and pretty.

Apart from being munters, the characters are also tired clichés.

'Oh, look, it's the silly, easy-going dude who is weirdly focussed on one interest. This time, though, it's hot sauce (really?) rather than his Walkman and selection of '70s pop.

Yeah, no thanks.

It's not even in a genre I care for at all or keep up with and it still struck me as a dud from the start.