Funny how the axolotl character has a slightly better design than most of Concord's actual roster lol
Though I do find it funny how not a single character there seems to be from the game. I do recall seeing star child once in a promo image so I guess they might make a cameo?
They better not end the story with yet again another sequel bait with Lin escaping cause that final fight ANNOYED me to no end lol would have been great if Ryo managed to atleast land one blow to show how much he grew but alas...
Honestly, I'd rather take a full dark souls trilogy remaster for newer consoles.
And hey, if the rumors about the switch 2 are true, then maybe release the collection over there as well. It's still hilarious to me how the switch was capable to run skyrim, dragons dogma, doom, and the likes but can't with dark souls 2's vfx lol
Probably also unrelated but another questionable move they did was nominating multiversus again for fighting game of the year, even though Geoff stated that he wouldn't nominate it again.
Though I guess between this and jujutsu kaisen, better to go for the former.
The problem is that it's a hero shooter. Why lock all the stuff, from cool story moments to character interactions, behidn weekly cutscenes and walls of text while spend most of our time shooting the same characters over and over again? I said it before but a "No Man's Sky or Rogue Galaxy meets Borderlands" Concord game would have done wonders.
Personally, I would have preferred if the game wasn't exclusively set in the world of horizon. Considering they only have two or three Horizon ips to work with, it's no wonder why the game feels somewhat limited in other parts, kinda like what happened with the lego hobbit game.
If this was instead Lego Playstation Adventures that lets you play through levels based on iconic playstation worlds or landmarks like Greece from God of War or the mountains of Tibetan Plateau from Uncharted. It would have atleast provided some variety imo.
That one rumor of the game failing because of toxic positivity might hold some water now because what do you mean they never once thought of playtesting the game to see if it'll hit with the audience or not? Imagine if this was their mindset with all of theirblive service games 💀
What's strange is that months ago it was revealed through a debug mode that Beetle was being set up as the DLC villain. My guess is that they're probably saving it for either the sequel or the supposed venom game. That, or Insomniac just kinda gave up, and giving the amount of rewrites Spiderman 2 went through during the development as well as the unexpected hack, I can't really blame them, unfortunately. Still, some small continuation of the symbiote would've been nice. Hopefully, Sony will give them enough time for the 3rd game (and please don't force them to rush it, I don't care how impatient Spiderman fans will get)
If it does come back, then they have to do more than just making the game free to play. Whether it's improving the art style or diversifying player customization or adding PvE content or such. I don't think even the hardest PS fanboy would want to play the same matches over and over again just to see one uninteractable cutscene every week.
I'm taking the whole $400 million budget with a grain of salt but I can definitely believe Hermen's attitude. Who would have thought that not listening to feedback could become the straw that broke the camel's back. I genuinely wonder if Concord is even gonna come back. I mean, it IS Hermen's baby, and they're going through on airing a Secret Level episode.
I don't mind remasters but there's plenty of franchises out there that deserve actual remasters. I'm still surprised that we don't have a full Uncharted collection on the ps5, just Uncharted 4 with the standalone dlc. Imagine a remaster collection with all the uncharted games, including the Vita one.
Hell, I'm surprised they never bothered to make a God of war remaster collection, especially after Valhalla.
There's a lot of potential with Soul Sacrifice. Back in high school, I started to brainstorm archfiend ideas like one based on Ahab/Moby Dick. The concept of turning literature/mythological creatures into grotesque (and maybe depressing) monsters is pretty fun. And honestly? I can see Forspoken's combat system work much better with Soul Sacrifice's.
I can see Bandai getting the liscense for Soul Sacrifice, considering if we take in account with Freedom Wars, having both Marduk and Dionaia in SS makes it eadier for Bandai to seal the deal. However, they might have to ask permission of Tecmo if they could share the cthonian/abyssal fiend.
@ThomasHL That's what I thought as well. Atleast with Overwatch the story is your standard heroes vs villains, with playable characters from both sides. Even in Paladins, it's centered around the conflict between the magistrate and the resistance, as well as othe factions.
In Concord, freegunners are supposed to be like, mercenaries or something? Supposedly, accorisng to the story, it's focused on a conflict between them and some kind of organization, but we don't have any playable characters that are part of that side, so we just have freegunners fighting other freegunners because...well, it's a competitive 5v5 shooter game, don't think too hard on it. If it was just a singleplayer/co-op action adventure rpg a la Guardians of the Galaxy with multiple choices the player can make given they belong to no one but themselves, I can definitely see this become, at worst, a cult classic like Days Gone.
@thefourfoldroot1 funny enough, there's a concept design for Emari and it looks miles better while keeping some of the good elements of her final design. Makes me hope someone would leak the entire concept art of the game, cause I'm more interested what was behind the game's development process if anything.
@BamBamBaklava89 better to have style than to have none lol the base design was just a generic white dude but with green skin. Atleast this one's tries, unless you're one of the few rare people defending the game's art, in which...well, more power to you 😅
With the PS5 price hike, I wouldn't be surprised if the sales of Astrobot has to do with japanese players not financially stable enough to own the console yet. I've seen plenty of japanese gamers praising Astrobot online so it less has to do with people not caring it and more so of being forced to spend your entire allowance on a pricey console.
I feel kinda old hearing about New Gundam Breaker again for some reason lol glad to see tht we finally have a good localized Gundam Breaker game. Might definitely check it out in the future.
I'll take it with a grain of salt. I remember some of these insiders, and even Hermen himself, saying the same about Concord before its teaser was shown.
Also, he says that Sony left the game to die, but if that were the case, why spend millions of dollars for Secret Level to produce an episode for it? It just doesn't sit right with me, unless they are planning a big comeback in the future but only time will tell.
Can't help but feel bad for the developers. This is the first every live service title from Sony to be shut down this quickly, and literally before they would even air a Secret Level episode of Concord. I can only hope this could teach Sony a lesson about their focus on live service titles, but I also hope the developers will work on something better. Honestly, there's still a small chance for Concord to make a comeback if they turn the game into something we all wanted instead of another overpriced pvp shooter.
1) better character customization, particularly actually good looking skins that woudl convince me on continuing playing matches to get them (the ones we got aren't that great to say the least)
2) more variants. The fact that there's only one variant in this game is insane and makes me wonder if they only thought up this idea at the last second.
3) PvE content. This is their chance to do something that Blizzard failed to promise for OW2. Make us experience the adventures the characters are going through instead of making us wait each week for a cutscene we can just watch on youtube.
Additionally, i want to see more wacky characters. For a game that takes place in space, there's a big lack of "glup shiittos", something that even star wars hunters is somewhat nailing at better. There's only three characters in the game I would even consider unique base don their appearance while the rest are either human or too "human"-like.
It's a shame. This and Deep Down had me incredibly hyped back in middle school, and was hoping they woukd release at some point but after years passed with barely any updates, I sorta moved on and forgot abou them. Still, wish nothing but the best for the devs.
Shame to see them go but it had a good run. Thanks to them that I got more into gaming especially around middle school. Wish nothing but the best of luck to the staff.
Looks promising but man, what's with China Hero and their obsession with souls-likes lately lol I'm kinda glad that Lost Soul Aside is still gonna retain that ol' hack and slash goodness and not dumb it down to "souls-like". I love souls likes as much as the next guy but atleast spice it up.
On one hand, disappointing. On the other hand, at the very least it looks nowhere near as janky as that Jujutsu Kaisen game so atleast there's that lol I wouldn't mind arena fighter if they atleast offer some sort of side content that isn't just a barebones story mode using screencaps from the anime.
Sucks but not surprised. Knowing how Capcom treated their Resident Evil multiplayer titles, I figured this game wouldn't have lated that long. I don't think the game is bad but it really just cements the fact of how much everyone are desperate for a new Dino Crisis game.
I'm still annoyed taht the PSVR2 doesn't have backward compatibility. The fact that there are so many underrated games that are still locked on the first version felt like one step backwards for the hardware. I'm glad that third party and indie devs are still showing love but if Sony doesn't care, then what's the point? I would not be surprised if they pull a Vita move on this which is a shame because the system is actually pretty cool. Just wish it had more support from Sony themselves.
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Re: Secret Level's Concord Episode Has a Trailer, and It Feels Really Weird
Funny how the axolotl character has a slightly better design than most of Concord's actual roster lol
Though I do find it funny how not a single character there seems to be from the game. I do recall seeing star child once in a promo image so I guess they might make a cameo?
Re: The Story of Shenmue Is Far from Over, Says ININ
They better not end the story with yet again another sequel bait with Lin escaping cause that final fight ANNOYED me to no end lol would have been great if Ryo managed to atleast land one blow to show how much he grew but alas...
Re: Rumour: FromSoftware Classic Getting the Remaster Treatment
Honestly, I'd rather take a full dark souls trilogy remaster for newer consoles.
And hey, if the rumors about the switch 2 are true, then maybe release the collection over there as well. It's still hilarious to me how the switch was capable to run skyrim, dragons dogma, doom, and the likes but can't with dark souls 2's vfx lol
Re: The Game Awards Under Heavy Criticism for Elden Ring DLC's Game of the Year Nomination
Probably also unrelated but another questionable move they did was nominating multiversus again for fighting game of the year, even though Geoff stated that he wouldn't nominate it again.
Though I guess between this and jujutsu kaisen, better to go for the former.
Re: Awful PS3 Game Haze a Comparison for Black Ops 6 Fans Complaining About Ridiculous Character Skins
CoD is trying way too hard to be like Fortnite's competitor lol
Re: Play Has No Limits in Sony's Latest Live-Action PS5 Ad
Honestly it's pretty cute but the "Long Live Michael" will forever be the greatest Playstation ad imo.
Re: Secret Level Creator Comments on Concord's Awkward Anthology Inclusion
The problem is that it's a hero shooter. Why lock all the stuff, from cool story moments to character interactions, behidn weekly cutscenes and walls of text while spend most of our time shooting the same characters over and over again? I said it before but a "No Man's Sky or Rogue Galaxy meets Borderlands" Concord game would have done wonders.
Re: LEGO Horizon Adventures (PS5) - Dull Design Lets Down This Gorgeous Spin-Off
Personally, I would have preferred if the game wasn't exclusively set in the world of horizon. Considering they only have two or three Horizon ips to work with, it's no wonder why the game feels somewhat limited in other parts, kinda like what happened with the lego hobbit game.
If this was instead Lego Playstation Adventures that lets you play through levels based on iconic playstation worlds or landmarks like Greece from God of War or the mountains of Tibetan Plateau from Uncharted. It would have atleast provided some variety imo.
Re: Blizzard Hits Nostalgia Button, Overwatch: Classic Launches on PS5
It just makes it all the more obvious that the game did not need a sequel at all lol
Re: Sony Comments on Concord Disaster, Says Game Should Have Been Tested Earlier
That one rumor of the game failing because of toxic positivity might hold some water now because what do you mean they never once thought of playtesting the game to see if it'll hit with the audience or not? Imagine if this was their mindset with all of theirblive service games 💀
Re: Sony Shuts PS Studio Neon Koi without Ever Releasing a Game
"I want to express my gratitude to everyone at Neon Koi for their hard work and endless passion to innovate.”
I would have agreed on that if we actually had the chance to see their hard work come true. Either way, wish them the best on their careers.
Re: The Day Before Dev Cancels Kickstarter Bid, Brazenly Announces Another Game
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, and you're officially THAT guy.
Re: Spider-Man 2 Won't Receive Any PS5 Story DLC
What's strange is that months ago it was revealed through a debug mode that Beetle was being set up as the DLC villain. My guess is that they're probably saving it for either the sequel or the supposed venom game. That, or Insomniac just kinda gave up, and giving the amount of rewrites Spiderman 2 went through during the development as well as the unexpected hack, I can't really blame them, unfortunately. Still, some small continuation of the symbiote would've been nice. Hopefully, Sony will give them enough time for the 3rd game (and please don't force them to rush it, I don't care how impatient Spiderman fans will get)
Re: Fan-Made GTA Online Hamlet Production Coming to Cinemas, Streaming Services
Can't believe that I managed to live long enough to see a film done entirely on GTA online screened on theaters.
Re: Concord Devs Tinker with PC Files, Spurring Free-to-Play Speculation
If it does come back, then they have to do more than just making the game free to play. Whether it's improving the art style or diversifying player customization or adding PvE content or such. I don't think even the hardest PS fanboy would want to play the same matches over and over again just to see one uninteractable cutscene every week.
Re: Classic PS4 Racer DriveClub Is Now a Decade Old
I remember having a blast with the bikes expansion. Seriously, this game deserved better.
Re: PS5, PS4 Fans Think Something May Be Afoot with Sony's Siren Series
Still waiting for one day to see Siren Blood Curse playable with all the episodes but at this point, it's probably wishful thinking.
Re: Here Comes Two New Challengers! Ken, Chun-Li Join Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves
Finally, a SF collab without Ryu taking the spotlight lol
Re: The Biggest PS5, PS4 Winners from a Humongous State of Play
Imo the midnight walk deserves more views. Honestly one of my favorites from the stream.
Re: Capcom's Iconic PS1 Survival Horror Dino Crisis Coming to PS5, PS4
@PuppetMaster same here. I was lucky to buy the game on a flash sale almost a decade ago. Would love to replay the game with trophies.
Re: Rumour: Concord Cost $400 Million, Sony Believed It Was the 'Future of PlayStation'
I'm taking the whole $400 million budget with a grain of salt but I can definitely believe Hermen's attitude. Who would have thought that not listening to feedback could become the straw that broke the camel's back. I genuinely wonder if Concord is even gonna come back. I mean, it IS Hermen's baby, and they're going through on airing a Secret Level episode.
Re: Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii Might Be the Series' Most Insane Game Yet, Sailing to PS5, PS4 in February
Skulls and Bones if it was good
Re: Sony Priming 'Even Less Exciting' PS5 Remaster for State of Play
I don't mind remasters but there's plenty of franchises out there that deserve actual remasters. I'm still surprised that we don't have a full Uncharted collection on the ps5, just Uncharted 4 with the standalone dlc. Imagine a remaster collection with all the uncharted games, including the Vita one.
Hell, I'm surprised they never bothered to make a God of war remaster collection, especially after Valhalla.
Re: PS Vita Fans Want Soul Sacrifice to Return on PS5, PS4 Next
There's a lot of potential with Soul Sacrifice. Back in high school, I started to brainstorm archfiend ideas like one based on Ahab/Moby Dick. The concept of turning literature/mythological creatures into grotesque (and maybe depressing) monsters is pretty fun. And honestly? I can see Forspoken's combat system work much better with Soul Sacrifice's.
Re: In an Unprecedented Twist, Sony Is Licensing Freedom Wars to Bandai Namco
I can see Bandai getting the liscense for Soul Sacrifice, considering if we take in account with Freedom Wars, having both Marduk and Dionaia in SS makes it eadier for Bandai to seal the deal. However, they might have to ask permission of Tecmo if they could share the cthonian/abyssal fiend.
Re: Stone-Cold PS Vita Classic Returns in Freedom Wars Remastered PS5, PS4
Crossing my fingers for Marvelous AQL to do the same for Soul Sacrifice.
Re: Freelance Artist Attempts to Redesign PS5, PC Flop Concord's Cast
@ThomasHL That's what I thought as well. Atleast with Overwatch the story is your standard heroes vs villains, with playable characters from both sides. Even in Paladins, it's centered around the conflict between the magistrate and the resistance, as well as othe factions.
In Concord, freegunners are supposed to be like, mercenaries or something? Supposedly, accorisng to the story, it's focused on a conflict between them and some kind of organization, but we don't have any playable characters that are part of that side, so we just have freegunners fighting other freegunners because...well, it's a competitive 5v5 shooter game, don't think too hard on it. If it was just a singleplayer/co-op action adventure rpg a la Guardians of the Galaxy with multiple choices the player can make given they belong to no one but themselves, I can definitely see this become, at worst, a cult classic like Days Gone.
@thefourfoldroot1 funny enough, there's a concept design for Emari and it looks miles better while keeping some of the good elements of her final design. Makes me hope someone would leak the entire concept art of the game, cause I'm more interested what was behind the game's development process if anything.
Re: Freelance Artist Attempts to Redesign PS5, PC Flop Concord's Cast
@BamBamBaklava89 better to have style than to have none lol the base design was just a generic white dude but with green skin. Atleast this one's tries, unless you're one of the few rare people defending the game's art, in which...well, more power to you 😅
Re: Japan Sales Charts: Astro Bot Barely Registers at Retail, PS5 Numbers Plummet After Price Hike
With the PS5 price hike, I wouldn't be surprised if the sales of Astrobot has to do with japanese players not financially stable enough to own the console yet. I've seen plenty of japanese gamers praising Astrobot online so it less has to do with people not caring it and more so of being forced to spend your entire allowance on a pricey console.
Re: 13 More Games Join PS Plus Extra, Premium Next Week
Funny how they're adding mister mosquito right after astrobot where you can find one of the bots based on said game lol
Re: Freelance Artist Attempts to Redesign PS5, PC Flop Concord's Cast
I like how Lennox actually looks like a lizard and not some guy doing a Yondu cosplay.
Re: Days Gone Director Roasts 'Small Game' Astro Bot PS5 for Deacon St John Cameo
He should be grateful that his game still got acknowledged. Not every franchise had the same blessing like Resistance.
Re: Astro Bot (PS5) - One of the Greatest PlayStation Platformers of All Time
I just have one question: is there a demon's souls robot in the game?
Re: Mini Review: Gundam Breaker 4 (PS5) - An Impressively Addictive Return to Form
I feel kinda old hearing about New Gundam Breaker again for some reason lol glad to see tht we finally have a good localized Gundam Breaker game. Might definitely check it out in the future.
Re: Internal Sony Fairgame$ PS5, PC Chatter Is Reportedly Quite Positive
I'll take it with a grain of salt. I remember some of these insiders, and even Hermen himself, saying the same about Concord before its teaser was shown.
Also, he says that Sony left the game to die, but if that were the case, why spend millions of dollars for Secret Level to produce an episode for it? It just doesn't sit right with me, unless they are planning a big comeback in the future but only time will tell.
Re: PS5, PC Shooter Concord Dead on Arrival, Is Being Taken Offline This Week as Dev 'Explores Options'
Can't help but feel bad for the developers. This is the first every live service title from Sony to be shut down this quickly, and literally before they would even air a Secret Level episode of Concord. I can only hope this could teach Sony a lesson about their focus on live service titles, but I also hope the developers will work on something better. Honestly, there's still a small chance for Concord to make a comeback if they turn the game into something we all wanted instead of another overpriced pvp shooter.
Re: Talking Point: Can PS5, PC Shooter Concord Be Saved?
Imo, what the game desperately needa are:
1) better character customization, particularly actually good looking skins that woudl convince me on continuing playing matches to get them (the ones we got aren't that great to say the least)
2) more variants. The fact that there's only one variant in this game is insane and makes me wonder if they only thought up this idea at the last second.
3) PvE content. This is their chance to do something that Blizzard failed to promise for OW2. Make us experience the adventures the characters are going through instead of making us wait each week for a cutscene we can just watch on youtube.
Additionally, i want to see more wacky characters. For a game that takes place in space, there's a big lack of "glup shiittos", something that even star wars hunters is somewhat nailing at better. There's only three characters in the game I would even consider unique base don their appearance while the rest are either human or too "human"-like.
Re: Forgotten PS Plus Shooter Foamstars Goes Free-to-Play in October
I'll give them props for such move, even if it was too little too late. If only Sony did the same for Destruction All Stars though.
Re: Marvel vs Capcom Fighting Collection Still Includes Its Bizarre Comedian Crossover
Imagine if the western release also had their own exclusive odd guest character. My choice? Mr. Bean.
Re: A New Day, a New Bloodborne PS5 Rumour
How many times have they said this already?
Regardless, if From isn't available yet to work on a sequel, then I'll gladly take a 60fps remaster with quality of life changes/additions.
Re: Retro Homage Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind Will Make a Late Play for Game of the Year
This is definitely far better than the mega battle one. Still a shame that battle for the grid never got more characters though...
Re: Pour One Out for PS4 Exclusive WiLD, No Longer in Active Development
It's a shame. This and Deep Down had me incredibly hyped back in middle school, and was hoping they woukd release at some point but after years passed with barely any updates, I sorta moved on and forgot abou them. Still, wish nothing but the best for the devs.
Re: Pour One Out for Iconic US Gaming Mag Game Informer
Shame to see them go but it had a good run. Thanks to them that I got more into gaming especially around middle school. Wish nothing but the best of luck to the staff.
Re: PS Plus Premium Classic Thrillville Now Has Trophies on PS5, PS4
That's neat but I still had more fond memories with the sequel. Hopefully it'll come to PS Plus premium as well.
Re: PS5 Action Adventure Loulan Did Appear at ChinaJoy, But We Only Saw Some Artwork
Looks promising but man, what's with China Hero and their obsession with souls-likes lately lol I'm kinda glad that Lost Soul Aside is still gonna retain that ol' hack and slash goodness and not dumb it down to "souls-like". I love souls likes as much as the next guy but atleast spice it up.
Re: Bleach: Rebirth of Souls Announced for PS5, PS4, and Yes, It's an Arena Fighter
On one hand, disappointing. On the other hand, at the very least it looks nowhere near as janky as that Jujutsu Kaisen game so atleast there's that lol I wouldn't mind arena fighter if they atleast offer some sort of side content that isn't just a barebones story mode using screencaps from the anime.
Re: Capcom Ends New Content Support for Exoprimal
Sucks but not surprised. Knowing how Capcom treated their Resident Evil multiplayer titles, I figured this game wouldn't have lated that long. I don't think the game is bad but it really just cements the fact of how much everyone are desperate for a new Dino Crisis game.
Re: Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster Out for PS5 on 19th September
Curious if the soundtrack will remain the same as some of the songs are liscensed.
Re: Sony Is Allegedly Pulling PSVR2 Funding, Report Claims
I'm still annoyed taht the PSVR2 doesn't have backward compatibility. The fact that there are so many underrated games that are still locked on the first version felt like one step backwards for the hardware. I'm glad that third party and indie devs are still showing love but if Sony doesn't care, then what's the point? I would not be surprised if they pull a Vita move on this which is a shame because the system is actually pretty cool. Just wish it had more support from Sony themselves.
Re: Cancelled Over 10 Years Ago, PS2-Era Action Game Captain Blood Returns on PS5, PS4
You don't know how much I want this. I'm craving for more PS2/Xbox 2000s cheesy goodness.