Doesn't matter. Everything'everyoje does is magic evolution programming , so there is no choice or reason and it's all progressing for good , which is subjective and meaningless anyways.
What kind of backup are you even talking about? Nobody was really talking about this game, nobody cared about the trailers, nobody cared about the cinematics, and a lot of people cared about the upfront price tag, which is fair. A premium multiplayer only shooter isn’t really an option and hasn’t been since 2016. Unsurprisingly the game died.
Access Media and Corporate Fascism moving to globalist culture vs American for dubious reasons. The left thinks globalism is the future and the answer to war....
@lolimmune Exactly. There was this short period when I was like 10 that I actually thought they were objective, but then they just started rating everything between 7-9, and it was clear they were bought and paid for.
IGN reviews has been sketchy even way back, they hand out 9 and 10’s like candy. Gamespot was better than IGN back then, they gave lower scores and more strict dunno about now.
@@SWOTHDRA I think they are all the same. What I believe is happening is that these companies want both your money and the money from the taxpayers and investors, look at Dustborn and how it was funded by taxpayer money. What I believe is going on is that these companies want their cake and eat it at the same time but don't realize that such a demand is impossible.
Concord: 8 years, $200 million spent, 697 peak players, got a 7/10 from IGN. Black Myth wukong: 4 years, $100 million spent, 2.4 million peak player, 15 million copy sold, got a 8/10 from IGN.
@@dayyanshard3174 What's woke about them? What's your definition of 'woke'? I don't like IGN, but I dislike more people who use the word to just describe something they don't like. You can ask 10 people what woke means and you can get 10 different answers. So sick of it lol.
Yeah once you understand IGNs review scores it makes sense, they don't give anything under a 7, which means something getting a 7 is an incredibly low score and it's a terrible game. They do this to keep positive relationships with companies so they give them money.
"Charming characters" "Likeable characters" "Characters with potential" He's trying so hard to push this narrative. Alot of these journalist and official gaming reviewers are completely against gamers in every possible way. We will never benefit from having these people within the gaming space. For years I assumed they existed to get the word out for gaming companies and help advertise games that wouldn't normally reach many gamers but for years now all they do is slander games they don't approve of or doesn't match their political view point/personal world views and attempt to push the games that does fit their narrative but those games often fail.
Gatekeeping is necessary for all hobbies, including gaming. Otherwise you dilute your core audience in what is called "hobby tourists", AKA people _only_ using the hobby as either a propaganda piece toward the original core audience, a pretext for social meetings or dating opportunities, or just opportunistic power creeps seeking easy "wins" by lowering the standard of the hobbies' rules. An example of each categories, in order, would be gaming devs and journalists pushing leftist ideology, the complete 180 society has had toward "nerd/otaku/gaming" culture and its gatherings, and E-Sport ("""professional""" gamers are a plague on the development of game balance and I'm tired of pretending they're not)
@@VongolaXanxus I’m surprised he was always able to continuously find a match with such a small base of players, but than I remembered that most of the modern audience don’t have jobs…
to be fair, the reviewer didn't mention where he lost those dozens of hours. It could very well be "i lost dozens of hours to it's pvp charm (waiting in the queue)"
It’s pretty simple to understand, really. Hero shooters are, at their core, mascot games. When you have uninteresting, colorless, unappealing mascots, then your game isn’t gonna take off. There is no world where Concord does well no matter how much gameplay is changed because there is no appeal to the characters/character designs
And yet, the ammount of coping that "the charcaters aren't at fault", "being woke has nothing to do with it", "it's an oversaturated/dying genre" going around would fill a server farm. It'd only take off with such uninteresting characters if there was no competition at all or if the gameplay was leagues ahead of it (which it could never be because of the simple opportunity cost of "playing it safe" and focusing on dei meant time and resources taken away from these core elements). But even then, alienating their largest, most reliable consumer base in order to reach new (modern), more games-journalist-friendly demographics could only ever make that impossible job harder. Even people who don't oppose dei, hell, even people who avidly support it wouldn't play it. They just aren't be able to quite put their finger on the reason why.
@@Cam-nq8br its okay to be objectively wrong in multiple ways and still keep your opinion, next time keep it to yourself tho. The game is universally acclaimed by basically everyone. going against the grain because you have to be special
@@anon-y8w hahaha bro... ign doesnt have standards, they're a bunch of in and out hired and fired "people" (ai) script makers, nodoy at IGN is a known name and never will be, its why they're shutting down, they simply dont have a steady business and whoever is running that company should be replaced with someone that knows games.
IGN review : Pros - Has diversity, has pronouns, LGBTQ+, Fat characters, Ugly characters, colored hair characters, paid the DEI blackmail/tax, No Straight White Males: 10/10 Cons - The actual game: -3/10 Final 7/10
No. It is the pc way of saying "we got bribed, but we won't say we got bribed". 4 is the pc way of saying "we asked for a bribe but it was declined". 3 is the pc way of saying "I do not like a developer and am taking out my unreasonable anger at the game".
@@Xyler94 This WAS the next big thing! You guys just ruined it by not buying it! Think about all the hard work those developers put into this project only for it to flop /s Who would of ever seen this coming.... /s
IGN: "So this sucks shit, that sucks shit, that's boring and sucks shit, its only not-awful points are mediocre at best, and there's nothing interesting here at all" Also IGN: "7/10" Also IGN: "Why are we a joke?"
IGN reviewing Wukong: Immediatly talk about fake contraversy IGN reviewing Concord: Ignores the player base being in the 3 digits even in the open beta
@@MarcoBayod_MB And yet they also gave concord a 7, ignored the actual racist/sexist devs from Firewalk Studio, and whined about lack of diversity in wukong trying to paint them as sexist.. Crazy what you can see when u use 1% of your brain, right?
@@karlk7070 all the veterans that I have seen playing the game gave it an 8 or less, the game has pacing issues but they still have fun with it, so an 8
This reviewer has absolutely no enthusiasm in his voice, monotone the entire time, 100% reading from a script they constructed and were paid to read lol
Gaming journalism has to be the tightest, most concentrated echo chamber of all time. Only 2000 people but they're so determined to be right that they'd argue against 2 million
There are millions apon millions of gamers all over the world and a tiny cohort of mostly US/UK game journalists who deny reality and push the narrative in lock step.
Dude, it's sad. I'm a game journalist - not in the US though and all of these outlets had really good people - gamers, people who care deeply about games. But the majority were replaced with so called culture editors - Kotaku and Polygon especially have hired a ton of women who didn't had any gaming background, so they encounter games as movies and tv shows within the left bubble. You probably know that Amazon and other streaming services have really strict guidelines how they make tv shows now - certain percentage black, certain percentage Latin, certain percentage of characters need to be openly LGBTQ - if you deliver a script, you need to check a ton of boxes. And this is how they approach games - they don't know the mechanics or care about them, all that matters is that it checks a large list of diversity requirements.
And the overwhelming majority of them live on the same couple of cities. It's to be expected that their "lived experiences", priorities and tastes would be so lacking in diversity.
If you notice there's a pattern. Hogwarts. Palworld. Helldivers 2. Wukong. They immediately attacked them, and all of them were actually good games. Saints Row. Suicide Squad. Concord. Dustborn. Despite being massively unpopular with gamers they try to fluff them up and make them sound much better than they are, which doesn't work no matter how many times they've tried it before. If it's a good game they attack it. If it's a bad game they try to defend it like it's the last virgin princess. Hell. Squirrel with a Gun will probably out perform all of the bad games and it isn't even a big thing.
@@ahtalmachanation3831 It did and does have its issues but it was still a smash hit, one that " journalists " tried to tear down like the others. That was the point.
@@ahtalmachanation3831 idk i never had really bad bugs, the worst one was the one where pals would just spawn / clip outside of walls and get stuck there because they cant get back in. I only got like 350 hours and these were mostly recent, maybe most of the bad bugs already got fixed
As an artist myself - this game has some of the absolute worst visual design I've ever seen. The characters are terribly boring or just downright ugly, the color scheme looks like a technocolor Brady Bunch bedroom, and nothing really feels dynamic whatsoever.
All the characters looked washed out and muted. The color palettes are honestly kinda nauseating. The whole pale green/purple/teal/maroon palette is not interesting or flattering in any context. Even the models look very basic and lacking in anything unique or even appealing. You can tell they tried to a variety of races and body types into the characters, but they spent more time on that than trying to make the characters look actually interesting and make people want to play them. They lack the cool factor that Overwatch and other hero shooters have.
I agree. A lot of people say it's because they're woke but it's not even that, it's the colors and how they look like bad cosplayers in a comic convention. Their clothes don't belong to them. They weren't well-designed at all, and I feel it's so hard to fuck up colors this bad.
You dont need to be an artist to know when an ''art'' is shit lol, stop acting like your important by addressing your an artist, giving me ''Im a physician'' Vibes.
A couples chinese saying goes: "cover your ears while stealing the bell" and "cheating yourself to cheat others". Just because one fool themselves into believing certain things wont make others do the same, people are not stupid.
Ya~ they think if you cheat yourself, you can cheat the WORLD... genius. Good lock to IGN, hope they food, because their brain definitely need some nutritions
Yes! This is why I always call these people who say that a content creator saying something changes what people feel about a game dumb. So many people are trying to gaslight others in the Overwatch community by saying they only don’t enjoy the game because they’re being told so.
@CovenantoftheFatherland-e1w OK I know I'm not supposed to response to bots but I genuinely wanna know why some people waste there making these things because at this point everyone ignore them so there no pissing off anyone(which I'm pretty sure they can't see it with how many there are.) And it waste of time as there are other platforms they can go to that is easier to riled up people.
7 from their site’s scoring explanation means that it covers the checkboxes within the game’s genre, but either doesn’t innovate beyond that or fails in any new design added. Concord getting a 7 makes sense
Multi player game with 200 concurrent players is a 7, single player game with 2,000,000 concurrent players is an 8. Somebody please make it make sense.
He also claims to have spent "over 40 hours" playing a game that was released just 4 days prior... and averaged about 500 players during that timeframe. My guess? The reviewer didn't even play a single minute of this game
@@sarah42e clearly. . . they are a single person IGN is a corporation with millions of dollars. the individuals decide what's relevant it doesn't matter how relevant they are
@@MarcoBayod_MB And you also commenting here. i'm just stating facts, IGN is way more relevant than some random person that makes unintelligent comments on a youtube video.
One thing Asmon didn't mention about game comebacks, is that both Cyberpunk and No Man's Sky had lots of hype when they came out had massive sales and lots of people playing on day one. So even after the interest dropped there was still a lot of residual intrest and memory of the game, this means there was great number of people the comeback could appeal to. Concords peak player count is 697, it has no chance for big return, because there will be noone who could return.
Yup. The true first impressions of those games (the announcements that built a LOT of hype) are why those games were able to come back. Disappointment players wanted the game to be good and were willing to give it a second look. By comparison, this game went over like a fart in the wind from the onset. Its dead in the water and there's nothing they can do to change it.
Steam does not represent the total amount of players lmfao not defending the game but you can't say that's peak when thats not including the ps fanbase 😂🤦♂️ Learn what peak means please
@@SuperCaspermannobody is interested in numbers you can’t look into lol, also even you can’t see the ps player numbers why shouldn’t the steam player count be representive in this term of context?
@@SuperCasperman he was clearly talking about the peak of the pc player base since we dont know ps sales. and whoever believes that concord is really on 4th place in ps sales must be a bot
@@SuperCasperman Is there a reason for a significant gap in gameplay between PC and console? Don't think visuals are different, doesn't seem to have bugs on PC, same price. There's absolutely no reason to assume that Concord is having record breaking numbers on PlayStation right now.
I 100% believe the IGN staff has this rule that no matter how bad or broken a game is, if it has certain elements in it, they give it a 7. Dustborn 7 Star Wars Outlaws 7 Concord 7 Starfield 7
7/10 is the default, sometimes they will go lower. Remember Redfall? The entire article is talking shit about that game, final review: 4/10. Remember that a 5 is supposed to be average
@@oscardalmatiner8724 maybe Redfall was not woke enough, did not pay enough money to IGN or wasn't Mainstream/LGBTQ+- Friendly enough for IGN to give it a 7/10
"Immediately charming characters..." "I spend over 40 hours (38 of them in queue)" "Figuring out their tricks" is what a game reviewer calls learning the mechanics.👌 How can anyone take this guy and IGN seriously?😂
Lol no one takes IGN seriously. Everyone knows if you wanna have fun you do the exact opposite of what IGN recommends. They're basically rotten tomatoes now.
"charming characters" yeah except maybe 1 or 2 of them "the queue" takes about 90 seconds currently. seen gameplay & others that played it, & they thought its a fun game, with some good features that other games dont use, but will die anyway cuz its not a good game for 40 bucks. if it would be f2p it would be an actually good to play title "figuring out their tricks" is journalism that get used for almost every game. like figuring out boss attacks & skiills = mechanics - used by pretty much everyone when writing a script. -> its IGN (or if u listen to them, giving them a platform so they will keep going)
They are giving a bad review while praising it. I gotta give it to this IGN guy. He knows the games dog shit but he's trying to keep his job. The gaslighting techniques he's using, I havnt seen since dating a female sociopath. A positive followed up by a massive negative ending the sentence on a lower positive. Crazy af
I noticed that IGN always claims they've "sunk over 40 hours into the game", yet that's clearly always a lie, since their reviews always seem to miss shit that happens within the first 5 hours. They're the same morons who claimed after "40+ hours" they saw no female characters in Wukong...
Considering how bad ign reviewers seem to be at playing games, I can totally buy they spent 40 hours in Wukong without making it to Chapter 3. My favorite part about all that was their game impression article from a few months back where they said they saw no "femme coded" character models and asked the developers if any were in the game, to which the developers refused to answer. Turns out there were tons of them but game science knew exactly what ign was trying to do and refused to play their childish games. That infuriated them.
4:10 Seeing the gameplay, it looks very much like Destiny’s gameplay. So much so that it seems like it was taken from that and put into this, or at least modeled from that.
The reason IGN do this is because, although they are fully aware the game is trash, if the developers bend the knee regarding ‘the message’ and shoehorn a load of DEI into it, the legacy media will give them a pass. This is how the entire world works now
@@cattysplatand the easiest to implement. blatant laziness and “cookiecutterness” (if thats even a word) in this games design and mechanics is so commonplace its frightening
I still think it’s HILARIOUS how the MEDIC is a bigger (unhealthily obese) and slower target than some of the DPS and Tank characters and has no real means of defending himself aside from his blubber layer.
Isn't a medic supposed to be, I don't know, frail? One of the only upsides to this "diverse" cast is that everyone being fat translates to being "more tanky"
@@Mehiel-Sanctoria While that statement is true, it's also misleading. The main 2 options a healer has if positioning is bad and your allies aren't with you yet is to run away while attracting as little attention as possible or to fend someone off in the case of it being 1 glass cannon. But when your movement is awful and the only thing you're packing in combat is several hundred pounds, there's a design problem
What's left of the HotS community's competitive side still ahs a format called "Meta Madness" in which within each set of matches a hero can only be picked once, so if say red team picks Raynor in game 1, neither team gets to pick him in game 2-5. It's actually really cool because it leads to almost every character getting picked (basically 88/89 characters will be picked at least sometimes) and rare team comps and strategies are used, it's also the most fun format to watch. It is however not something you do as the main official ranked ladder, as Concord apparently wanted to.
@moongoalie2410 this $$$ The reason they gave Wukong a rating of 8 is because they thought it would raise their credibility in the eyes of the public... or CCP also gave them lots of $$$. Tho unlike Concorde or outlaws BMW is actually a good game made by people with passion for creating AAA gaming experience.
Yeah, I love how asmond didn't press that harder. But also really concerning as to why states are trying to pass age restriction laws on corn sites. I don't wanna give my ID but I'm pressed because I also don't want young kids on those sites. Sure, as a 13 year old I found sites for say looking at Misty pics, but I'm a Fd up adult because of that sooooo idk.
@@BoinkrNanis The problem is that it's not going to solve the issue. It's fighting the symptoms instead of the disease. The actual problem is parents not keeping enough of an eye on their children. Giving your kids a device with unfiltered access to the internet is like giving them a tour of the back alleys of Calcutta on a humid Saturday night. They're gonna be seeing some serious stuff. Adding ID requirement for specific corn sites won't stop that, because A) not all sites are based in the US and therefore not all sites will ever be subject to this regulation to begin with and B) new sites will pop up and allow access to adult material without that filter until some overworked and underpaid government agency gets around to sending that cease and desist even if they COULD enforce it. If the government had the sort of access and control they needed to actually make all adult sites lock content behind ID, we wouldn't still be able to pirate movies. The push to stop that was massive. Billion dollar multimedia giants pulled every lever they had to stop music and movie piracy any yet the newest movie release is just one google search away. What they NEED to do is to educate parents on how to limit and monitor what their children watch. To teach parents how to educate their children about the dangers of the internet the same way they would teach them to stay away from that one street corner where the dealers/hookers hang out. It's also not going to completely remove accidental exposure, but it's a damn sight more effective than trying to lock the internet away so parents don't have to parent. I'm pretty sure the government knows this and the reason they push for ID is to get a foot in the door of a more complete surveillance state. Right now the government can spy on your internet habits but needs probable cause to actually use anything they find. They can't let on just how much they know about your activities online because that information is supposed to be confidential. If they can push tying your IP or other login credentials to your ID, they suddenly have a lot more leeway to "become aware" of your activities online. Not necessarily terrible if you're somewhat internet savvy and can use proxies and burner devices to keep your activities unconnected to your government identity, but certainly a huge stride in locking down the access to information, behaviour and habits of the general population.
@@BoinkrNanisyou wanna trade something for that "safety". The politicians are using "safety" as a carrot, they want that something from you reaaaaal bad. But you're a free man from a free country, so I'm sure the mouse won't bite the piece of cheese
This reviewer is the guy that gave Diablo IV a 9/10 on release with the quote "Diablo 4 is a stunning sequel with near perfect endgame and progression design that makes it absolutely excruciating to put down."
@@TurdFerguson-td9nx Unless this is your first time playing ARPG, its below average and not worth the full price. No innovation, lack of storage because of useless materials, repetitive mechanics mobs and bosses, difficult to control mounts, predictable dull story after all the hype with Lilith, and cooler armor sets need to be purchased. This is just some of the cons which Blizzard needs to take seasons to fix. Its just a subpar at max 6-7 rating game at launch. I had more fun and immersion playing Diablo 1 or 2.
it's surprizing to me with all the coverage it's getting that the 178 high number includes whatever trolls that bought the game 200 million for 200 players, I guess each player is getting a 'million dollar experience'
When it comes to Concord, I knew INSTANTLY that it was gonna be DOA the moment the first cinematic trailer was shown. But let's say that I was interested into the game.... Just having the developer calling gamers that did not liked Concord as "talentless freaks" it would instantly put me off from buying and supporting the game even if that remark was not targeted at me. I hope this failure teach a lesson to Sony and other developers that people are fed up with live service garbage
20:26 "Concord's game modes are much less inspired than it's characters" That's a death sentence right there. I mean they're wrong and the game modes are fine, but DAMN.
@@Mehiel-Sanctoria Esports for a game that is already dead? What there gonna be 4 people left playing. They gonna be on stage waiting in que's for randoms lmao
"Charming characters" Dude, one of the upmost main reasons why the game failed is because of the characters. The first thing people saw wasn't the gameplay. People saw the characters, established that its just THAT bad, and then it took off from there lmao.
12:05 I think this point in particular goes to IGN. It's fair to say that pushing players outside their comfort zone is a good thing in some games. Just look at Doom's gunplay.
Last time i checked,this were the votes by some journalist: Gaming Nexus - 8,5 Checkpoint Gaming - 8 MGG - 7,5 Game Rant - 7 Push Square - 7 Gaming Age - 7 Hardcore Gamer - 7 IGN - 7 PlayStation Universe - 7 The others have given lower scores(how it should be),but I don't know what they saw in this videogame to give 7 or higher
@@OnionGod20 how do you make a law that outlaws finding loopholes when the entire point of a law is that you have to apply what is written, as is written. There should be a law against people saying there should be laws against things when they clearly know nothing about the law.
Travis Northump who reviewed Concord and gave it a 7, gave The First Descendant a 5. The First Descendant had 64k people playing it today with an all time peak over 250k. Concord currently has 64. Talk about being out of touch. And no. Being F2P won't help Concord. Its rot runs deep.
While I agree Concord isn't a great game, player count is the least credible way to judge them. There are plenty of amazing games that go under the radar and have low play count because of no publicity.
@@mtbarnes1In this particular context, Concord is a AAA live service game. The fact that it has this low of a player count is significant. The entire point of live service is to maintain a high playerbase for a long period of time.
That's actually part of the problem, they don't look like they belong in the same universe. Even aliens from different planets in games or shows share some similar design aesthetics. This game is all over the place
Regardless of any issues this game has, it's a multiplayer game with 100 total players. This review should be plastered with red flags like "this game may not survive the rest of the week, let alone a year, buyer beware." Getting even 1 person to waste 40$ with this review is shameful. I do not even care one iota whether this is a good or bad game. Not even warning people about this games dead player base should be criminal. If nothing else, this IGN review absolutely cements the notion that all IGN reviews should be thrown in the trash.
Most critics agree that the gameplay is not exactly bad. Problem is, that the gameplay is just medicore while asking for money for a type of game that has way too many free alternatives. I don't think, that anyone could make a paid hero shooter at this point, and win. No matter how great the gameplay is. To have any hope of doing something like that you need to create an alternative gamestyle. Like a great single player campaign with a great story, and maybe a CO-OP beside the hero shooter. Multiplayer focused games cannot live without players, and thus the players need to be pulled in. The number of players directly affect the experience for a game like this.
13:51 makes me think of Palworld's type variatipns where they change one of their typings and get a different colored variation of their texture, but I do think Palworld does it well because this doesn't guarantee that a pal will have their new typing's moveset in an arena, so maybe other games could do something similar. Something where you can tell there's a speciaty difference, but maybe something else to keep from making it too predictable like a massive pool of weapons available that don't have to correlate to the new variation but the new variation can still boost certain weapons or moves or whatever.
IGN: "Steller Blade has a lackluster story" = 7/10. IGN: "Wuthering Waves Story is Dull and Bland" = 7/10. IGN: "Concord Story is Non-Existent" = 7/10. Edit: As a Wuwa I admit the first half of the story was mid. But what I hate is the fact that the 7/10 will Never change even if the it gets better. And that 7/10 is slapped in your face when you google any game in general. Like Alien Isolation is still 5.9 when you google it, these people refuse to change it still after 10 years.
I saw one of the main Push Square writers trying to justify their 7/10 score basically saying "In the industry it's basically a game with more positives than negatives"...Like first, that's a 6/10, secondly you're justifying "more positives than negatives" with stuff like "It has no microtransactions...yet" "The game doesn't have alot of bugs" stuff that is literally expected of the game at a bare minimum is now considered weight on the positive side of the scale to give it 7/10 🤦♂ They'd get alot more respect if they said 7/10 (yes we are pandering to get future codes and access -2/-3 on any score we put out for this reason).
No. It is not a 6/10 since games like this have design problems and lots of bugs. Any game that does not have a clear design problem gets at least a 7.
@@paulodelima5705 I didn't say it's a 6/10, I said a review that has more positives than negatives by a small margin is a 6/10 because a game with the same positives and negatives would be a 5/10. A 7/10 would be a game with decent positives over negatives, not expected things every game should have as it's positives. Concord should be a 5/10.
So, I think the biggest problem with "games journalism" these days is something lots of people overlook. If you get paid to write a review of something, it isn't a review anymore...it's an ad. You didn't review the game, you were commissioned to write an advertisement. I can PROMISE you, that Kotaku, IGN and PC gamer would be dragging this game through the gutter like the rest of us if they weren't having money shoveled at them to fluff Concord's flagging erection. That whole "you can't play the same character twice in competitive" thing is just a fancy way of a developer saying "You don't get to play the way YOU want to, you have to play the way WE want you to"...which is shitty.
That or as mentioned in the video they're afraid of big daddy Sony not giving them benefits, such as early copies. Without them they'll fall behind other companies when it comes to getting their reviews up early and getting early clicks on the videos and articles on the website, which seem to be all these companies care about. Dunkey also mentioned these problems years ago, which is still relevant.
Sane and normal people would refuse the pay and say no. The only people who would say yes are those with similar mind. That being the case, these journos would still give positive review whether they got paid or not. Their solidarity is just that tight.
Probably Blackrock and other ideologically-biased investment groups giving venture capital with strings attached, though access journalism is a valid possiblility.
I lived through the 90s and 2000s, of official magazines being nothing but puff pieces for their respective format. This is WAY beyond that. This is the entirety of industrial games journalism in lock step to push a narrative that distorts reality to the viewer. They are telling you to ignore what your eyes see.
"charming" is now the soft word for uninteresting, ugly, and mediocre.
bravo IGN.
"Bless their hearts," as the soul-deadened Texan elite would say.
This game looks like it’s testosterone draining
raw untapped "bless your heart" energy
IGN reviews are charming
Doesn't matter. Everything'everyoje does is magic evolution programming , so there is no choice or reason and it's all progressing for good , which is subjective and meaningless anyways.
IGN rated the Last Jedi a 9.7…credibility is long gone
Looking back at Rise of Skywalker, idk... maybe i judged Last Jedi to harshly...
What do they even gain from doing that? Do they have business deals or something?
@@fabiopauli420No you didn't. The last Jedi could never ever be judged too harshly. You were 💯 correct in doing so.
Asmon said that they cut their credibility in half with those pieces, but what even is half of 0?
@@orcishhWoke politicians and the capitalists who want to make the world chaotic and full of conflicts to make them rule better, sponsor them.
Imagine having the backing of the entire mainstream media and not being able to keep 1000 concurrent players. That's actually impressive.
That shows how you can buy media, but not players (except, maybe, if your game is gacha-based (?)).
The only advertisement ive seen for concord is youtube people shitting on it
Imagine not even getting that as the peak players😂
they don't have any backing they have 500-600 twitter freaks playing the game no mainstream media backing this game
What kind of backup are you even talking about? Nobody was really talking about this game, nobody cared about the trailers, nobody cared about the cinematics, and a lot of people cared about the upfront price tag, which is fair. A premium multiplayer only shooter isn’t really an option and hasn’t been since 2016. Unsurprisingly the game died.
IGN died when UA-camrs started reviewing games now the only way they survive is sucking up to game companies
Always did.
Access Media and Corporate Fascism moving to globalist culture vs American for dubious reasons. The left thinks globalism is the future and the answer to war....
@lolimmune Exactly. There was this short period when I was like 10 that I actually thought they were objective, but then they just started rating everything between 7-9, and it was clear they were bought and paid for.
Still, ign has so many subs on youtube. They all need to unsub.
IGN reviews has been sketchy even way back, they hand out 9 and 10’s like candy. Gamespot was better than IGN back then, they gave lower scores and more strict dunno about now.
"Charming characters" oh IGN, how much money did Sony give you? IGN: YES.
Nothing they actually believe that, IGN is long gone.
Not sony, IGN is run bt blackrock, vanguard, state street
No, no, no! IGN would be like: "wait, they paying you money?" 😂
@@SWOTHDRA I think they are all the same. What I believe is happening is that these companies want both your money and the money from the taxpayers and investors, look at Dustborn and how it was funded by taxpayer money. What I believe is going on is that these companies want their cake and eat it at the same time but don't realize that such a demand is impossible.
WHy can't IGN just listen to Asmond and others that have not played the gane. IGN so stupid 🤦♂
Concord: 8 years, $200 million spent, 697 peak players, got a 7/10 from IGN.
Black Myth wukong: 4 years, $100 million spent, 2.4 million peak player, 15 million copy sold, got a 8/10 from IGN.
remember the cons they gave...did not allow SBI and apperently lack of diversity, whatever that means in a game about monkey king.
It proves that IGN is being woke infested lol
the 8/10 make them vomit. It was a force rating lol
@@dayyanshard3174 What's woke about them? What's your definition of 'woke'? I don't like IGN, but I dislike more people who use the word to just describe something they don't like. You can ask 10 people what woke means and you can get 10 different answers. So sick of it lol.
Black Myth was 6 years of development
IGN Dictionary:
"7/10" --> "3/10"
"Charming" --> "Uncreative"
"Plays it safe" --> "Boring"
"Sexist developer" --> "Developer raising the bar"
Yeah once you understand IGNs review scores it makes sense, they don't give anything under a 7, which means something getting a 7 is an incredibly low score and it's a terrible game. They do this to keep positive relationships with companies so they give them money.
🤣🤣🤣
Apply the following function (10 - IGN-Score) - BS-amount (in kg)/100 = Actual Score from a Sane person
0/10 on IGN's language means 10/10 on English language.
yeah the dude was mostly trashing on the game telling it how it was but he still has to mask the review as good lmao
4:40 "It's already dead" .. 4 days later, Concord is cancelled publicly
RIP Concord
@@jameschen5923nah for its crimes I'd rather the game rot in hell
@@jameschen5923smoking that firewalk pack😂
"immediately charming characters" Bruh the characters look like they were put in a character creation ai generator
AI would create much better looking characters tbf
IGN journalistic integrity is totally compromised in the name of diversity and inclusion
You'd have to specifically request 'modern audience' character creation for A.I. to do that, otherwise it would do a much better job.
That's an insult to AI
Those charming fingers
"Charming characters"
"Likeable characters"
"Characters with potential"
He's trying so hard to push this narrative. Alot of these journalist and official gaming reviewers are completely against gamers in every possible way. We will never benefit from having these people within the gaming space. For years I assumed they existed to get the word out for gaming companies and help advertise games that wouldn't normally reach many gamers but for years now all they do is slander games they don't approve of or doesn't match their political view point/personal world views and attempt to push the games that does fit their narrative but those games often fail.
idk why they called that big yellow fleshlight-lookalike robot is an "instant charming character"
Gatekeeping is necessary for all hobbies, including gaming. Otherwise you dilute your core audience in what is called "hobby tourists", AKA people _only_ using the hobby as either a propaganda piece toward the original core audience, a pretext for social meetings or dating opportunities, or just opportunistic power creeps seeking easy "wins" by lowering the standard of the hobbies' rules. An example of each categories, in order, would be gaming devs and journalists pushing leftist ideology, the complete 180 society has had toward "nerd/otaku/gaming" culture and its gatherings, and E-Sport ("""professional""" gamers are a plague on the development of game balance and I'm tired of pretending they're not)
I will puke if you ask me to write those words😅
@@CrimsonFIame controlled opposition is what they are.
@@chaospacemarine8330 yeah after e-sports culture is normalized i don't even want to look at any "competitive multiplayer" games
"I find myself losing dozens of hours to its PvP charms." This game's playerbase literally won't last by the end of the week
He's going to lose dozen of hours trying to find a game.
Lol yeah, I wonder how long the "pvp charm" is going to last.
Losing dozens of hours waiting in matchmaking lobbies for players who aren't there. Charming indeed.
@@VongolaXanxus I’m surprised he was always able to continuously find a match with such a small base of players, but than I remembered that most of the modern audience don’t have jobs…
to be fair, the reviewer didn't mention where he lost those dozens of hours. It could very well be "i lost dozens of hours to it's pvp charm (waiting in the queue)"
It’s pretty simple to understand, really. Hero shooters are, at their core, mascot games. When you have uninteresting, colorless, unappealing mascots, then your game isn’t gonna take off. There is no world where Concord does well no matter how much gameplay is changed because there is no appeal to the characters/character designs
Nailed it. Best comment.
And yet, the ammount of coping that "the charcaters aren't at fault", "being woke has nothing to do with it", "it's an oversaturated/dying genre" going around would fill a server farm.
It'd only take off with such uninteresting characters if there was no competition at all or if the gameplay was leagues ahead of it (which it could never be because of the simple opportunity cost of "playing it safe" and focusing on dei meant time and resources taken away from these core elements). But even then, alienating their largest, most reliable consumer base in order to reach new (modern), more games-journalist-friendly demographics could only ever make that impossible job harder.
Even people who don't oppose dei, hell, even people who avidly support it wouldn't play it. They just aren't be able to quite put their finger on the reason why.
The fact it's only one point away from wukong should be a crime.
@@anon-y8w 8 for Wukong is not too bad, this however should never be 7. Starwars outlaw too.
Wukong isn’t even an 8 lol just another soulslike game that doesn’t even do it as good as others, but it’s better than this game or Star Wars for sure
@@anon-y8wwukong is not that great honestly map design is lacking feels enclosed and invisible barrier everywhere
@@Cam-nq8br its okay to be objectively wrong in multiple ways and still keep your opinion, next time keep it to yourself tho. The game is universally acclaimed by basically everyone. going against the grain because you have to be special
@@anon-y8w hahaha bro... ign doesnt have standards, they're a bunch of in and out hired and fired "people" (ai) script makers, nodoy at IGN is a known name and never will be, its why they're shutting down, they simply dont have a steady business and whoever is running that company should be replaced with someone that knows games.
IGN review :
Pros - Has diversity, has pronouns, LGBTQ+, Fat characters, Ugly characters, colored hair characters, paid the DEI blackmail/tax, No Straight White Males: 10/10
Cons - The actual game: -3/10
Final 7/10
and anyone who disagrees will be called a Biggot
Love how they use the word DIVERSE and DIVERSITY every 2 sentences, not even joking
Basically
@@pudim1310they literally don't though?
7 is like the lowest they can give without biting the hand that feed them.
7/10 is the politically correct way of saying “mediocre, but we can’t say mediocre”
Only problem is that its below medicore
No.
It is the pc way of saying "we got bribed, but we won't say we got bribed".
4 is the pc way of saying "we asked for a bribe but it was declined".
3 is the pc way of saying "I do not like a developer and am taking out my unreasonable anger at the game".
@@JesusKreist Could you give me the examples on these?
@@JesusKreistFACTS lol!
IGN gives any game that remotely functions a 7
A game that is no longer being sold and getting refunded got a 7?? Wow. IGN wtf
To be fair, hindsight is 20/20, but at the time, IGN and other media was desperately trying to help Sony push this as the next huge thing.
@@Xyler94 This WAS the next big thing! You guys just ruined it by not buying it! Think about all the hard work those developers put into this project only for it to flop /s
Who would of ever seen this coming.... /s
7/100
CONCORD 7/10-IGN
Yeah right! 7 players left..
7 players left out of 10 players all time high
@@shiroiokami9dang it you beat me to it 😂
All devs XD
Not quite,but Yesterday there were just enough players to have 7 matches at once lol
Maybe they refer to that
58 today 😅
IGN: "So this sucks shit, that sucks shit, that's boring and sucks shit, its only not-awful points are mediocre at best, and there's nothing interesting here at all"
Also IGN: "7/10"
Also IGN: "Why are we a joke?"
IGN reviewing Wukong: Immediatly talk about fake contraversy
IGN reviewing Concord: Ignores the player base being in the 3 digits even in the open beta
IGN gave Wukong an 8, what are you talking about?
@@MarcoBayod_MB 8 is underrated for BMW
@@MarcoBayod_MB And yet they also gave concord a 7, ignored the actual racist/sexist devs from Firewalk Studio, and whined about lack of diversity in wukong trying to paint them as sexist.. Crazy what you can see when u use 1% of your brain, right?
@@dudebruh8534 and they gave Wukong an 8, the review has nothing on the diversity part, what's the point?
@@karlk7070 all the veterans that I have seen playing the game gave it an 8 or less, the game has pacing issues but they still have fun with it, so an 8
This reviewer has absolutely no enthusiasm in his voice, monotone the entire time, 100% reading from a script they constructed and were paid to read lol
Gaming journalism has to be the tightest, most concentrated echo chamber of all time. Only 2000 people but they're so determined to be right that they'd argue against 2 million
There are millions apon millions of gamers all over the world and a tiny cohort of mostly US/UK game journalists who deny reality and push the narrative in lock step.
200,000,000
Dude, it's sad. I'm a game journalist - not in the US though and all of these outlets had really good people - gamers, people who care deeply about games. But the majority were replaced with so called culture editors - Kotaku and Polygon especially have hired a ton of women who didn't had any gaming background, so they encounter games as movies and tv shows within the left bubble. You probably know that Amazon and other streaming services have really strict guidelines how they make tv shows now - certain percentage black, certain percentage Latin, certain percentage of characters need to be openly LGBTQ - if you deliver a script, you need to check a ton of boxes. And this is how they approach games - they don't know the mechanics or care about them, all that matters is that it checks a large list of diversity requirements.
And the overwhelming majority of them live on the same couple of cities.
It's to be expected that their "lived experiences", priorities and tastes would be so lacking in diversity.
Concord aesthetic is basically the pinnacle of DEI, truly Freakshow: The Game
Whilst it's definitely up there for DEI, Dustborn clears.
Freakshow is already a game, I believe its about killer circus performers
Baizuo, the game
DEI has nothing to do with it. The characters look stupid. Plain and simple.
Actually dustborn has that title 😅
9:10 "every character is diverse and fun.... except that ONE and only white guy. Yeah this one is pretty mid"
Did you thought we wouldn't notice IGN?
Was it the vague description?
@rigel2112 well you have to buy the game in order to play him first
To be fair, he is somehow the most generic character in a whole cast of nobodies
@@philltheotherguy1868 Duh. I wonder why? Almost like they don't want you to play as him and he was only added as deflection from criticism...
To be fair, these characters are so bland that nobody would take the time to look into them
This already aged like a fine wine
If you notice there's a pattern. Hogwarts. Palworld. Helldivers 2. Wukong. They immediately attacked them, and all of them were actually good games. Saints Row. Suicide Squad. Concord. Dustborn. Despite being massively unpopular with gamers they try to fluff them up and make them sound much better than they are, which doesn't work no matter how many times they've tried it before. If it's a good game they attack it. If it's a bad game they try to defend it like it's the last virgin princess. Hell. Squirrel with a Gun will probably out perform all of the bad games and it isn't even a big thing.
Tbf palworld is kind of a mess it deleted my save and still has a bunch of other bugs
@@ahtalmachanation3831 It did and does have its issues but it was still a smash hit, one that " journalists " tried to tear down like the others. That was the point.
I definitely don’t think ss and saints row got good reviews man. You’re just naming shit.
@@ahtalmachanation3831 idk i never had really bad bugs, the worst one was the one where pals would just spawn / clip outside of walls and get stuck there because they cant get back in.
I only got like 350 hours and these were mostly recent, maybe most of the bad bugs already got fixed
IGN gave Palworld an 8, a 9 to Helldivers 2, 8 to Wukong and 9 to Hogwarts Legacy, what's your point? @fracturedraptor7846
As an artist myself - this game has some of the absolute worst visual design I've ever seen. The characters are terribly boring or just downright ugly, the color scheme looks like a technocolor Brady Bunch bedroom, and nothing really feels dynamic whatsoever.
All the characters looked washed out and muted. The color palettes are honestly kinda nauseating. The whole pale green/purple/teal/maroon palette is not interesting or flattering in any context. Even the models look very basic and lacking in anything unique or even appealing. You can tell they tried to a variety of races and body types into the characters, but they spent more time on that than trying to make the characters look actually interesting and make people want to play them. They lack the cool factor that Overwatch and other hero shooters have.
I agree. A lot of people say it's because they're woke but it's not even that, it's the colors and how they look like bad cosplayers in a comic convention. Their clothes don't belong to them. They weren't well-designed at all, and I feel it's so hard to fuck up colors this bad.
they literally all feel like side characters from series with 2 seasons you couldve seen in the 90s after xena warrior princess.
@@0llar They were probably designed by AI.
You dont need to be an artist to know when an ''art'' is shit lol, stop acting like your important by addressing your an artist, giving me ''Im a physician'' Vibes.
A couples chinese saying goes: "cover your ears while stealing the bell" and "cheating yourself to cheat others".
Just because one fool themselves into believing certain things wont make others do the same, people are not stupid.
'Cover your ears while stealing the bell' is actually such a great analogy for this, I'm definitely gonna memorize that one!
Another saying is: "If you can cheat, cheat." Guess Game journos is going with that one.
Ya~ they think if you cheat yourself, you can cheat the WORLD... genius. Good lock to IGN, hope they food, because their brain definitely need some nutritions
Yes!
This is why I always call these people who say that a content creator saying something changes what people feel about a game dumb.
So many people are trying to gaslight others in the Overwatch community by saying they only don’t enjoy the game because they’re being told so.
Asmon (4:37): *_"This game is not going to evolve. It's already dead."_*
This aged like fine wine.
7 is the "this game REALLY sucks but I can't give it any lower without losing my job" review Imao
IGN: i can't wait to play as a very relateable green people and other screwed up looking people that i can't even remember
@CovenantoftheFatherland-e1w OK I know I'm not supposed to response to bots but I genuinely wanna know why some people waste there making these things because at this point everyone ignore them so there no pissing off anyone(which I'm pretty sure they can't see it with how many there are.) And it waste of time as there are other platforms they can go to that is easier to riled up people.
@@dantenadir2850wtf are you talking about
They also gave Dustborn a 7
7 from their site’s scoring explanation means that it covers the checkboxes within the game’s genre, but either doesn’t innovate beyond that or fails in any new design added. Concord getting a 7 makes sense
Multi player game with 200 concurrent players is a 7, single player game with 2,000,000 concurrent players is an 8. Somebody please make it make sense.
Obviously to get 9 you need the entire earth to play it. Right?
The distance between 7and 8 is the distance between heaven and earth
Perhaps IGN forgot to tell the viewers that it's a log scale
@@faiirnah, to be a 9 you just need to paid them more lol
More players dosent mean better games lol
the reviewer literally said in their review "I was bored"
How the fuck is that a 7 if you were bored within the first 40 hours of a new game
he’s just reading a script IGN gave him
The game is published by Sony. IGN constantly twerks for them.
He also claims to have spent "over 40 hours" playing a game that was released just 4 days prior... and averaged about 500 players during that timeframe. My guess? The reviewer didn't even play a single minute of this game
this aged well......
7/10 from IGN is legendary meme status.
Nothing beats too much water 7.8/10
@@fakerragingfanboy8420they gave Alien Isolation a 5.9
Can't spell IGNore without IGN.
IGN mental gymnastics.
@MrFroggster That’s so wild that I didn’t believe you. I’m glad people don’t take ign seriously.
IGN TOTALLY IRRELEVANT.
Sounds like a copy pasta of the Star Wars Outlaws review, reviewer lists a bunch of negatives and then gives the game a 7/10.
They sure are way more relevant than you.
@@sarah42e clearly. . .
they are a single person IGN is a corporation with millions of dollars.
the individuals decide what's relevant it doesn't matter how relevant they are
honestly, the dude sounds like he knows what hes talking about, if its only the mark that is weird... it doesnt really matter does it ?
so irrelevant that you are here, in an Asmond video talking about IGN and yet, commenting on it.
@@MarcoBayod_MB And you also commenting here. i'm just stating facts, IGN is way more relevant than some random person that makes unintelligent comments on a youtube video.
One thing Asmon didn't mention about game comebacks, is that both Cyberpunk and No Man's Sky had lots of hype when they came out had massive sales and lots of people playing on day one. So even after the interest dropped there was still a lot of residual intrest and memory of the game, this means there was great number of people the comeback could appeal to. Concords peak player count is 697, it has no chance for big return, because there will be noone who could return.
Yup. The true first impressions of those games (the announcements that built a LOT of hype) are why those games were able to come back. Disappointment players wanted the game to be good and were willing to give it a second look. By comparison, this game went over like a fart in the wind from the onset. Its dead in the water and there's nothing they can do to change it.
Steam does not represent the total amount of players lmfao not defending the game but you can't say that's peak when thats not including the ps fanbase 😂🤦♂️
Learn what peak means please
@@SuperCaspermannobody is interested in numbers you can’t look into lol, also even you can’t see the ps player numbers why shouldn’t the steam player count be representive in this term of context?
@@SuperCasperman he was clearly talking about the peak of the pc player base since we dont know ps sales. and whoever believes that concord is really on 4th place in ps sales must be a bot
@@SuperCasperman Is there a reason for a significant gap in gameplay between PC and console? Don't think visuals are different, doesn't seem to have bugs on PC, same price. There's absolutely no reason to assume that Concord is having record breaking numbers on PlayStation right now.
4 days later "Concord is dead" 😂
IGN logic:
"This game is a 7"
"This meme is a legal document"
"This obese whale is a mermaid"
I 100% believe the IGN staff has this rule that no matter how bad or broken a game is, if it has certain elements in it, they give it a 7.
Dustborn 7
Star Wars Outlaws 7
Concord 7
Starfield 7
It is pure symbology. What is exactly means I am not sure.
So, a DEI metric score? No way they'd ever do that! Right? .... right?
7/10 is the default, sometimes they will go lower. Remember Redfall? The entire article is talking shit about that game, final review: 4/10. Remember that a 5 is supposed to be average
They need to keep publishers sweet with them, so they can't afford to burn them...
@@oscardalmatiner8724 maybe Redfall was not woke enough, did not pay enough money to IGN or wasn't Mainstream/LGBTQ+- Friendly enough for IGN to give it a 7/10
"Immediately charming characters..."
"I spend over 40 hours (38 of them in queue)"
"Figuring out their tricks" is what a game reviewer calls learning the mechanics.👌
How can anyone take this guy and IGN seriously?😂
That's the neat part, we don't.
Go Sweet Baby inc, Go broke
@CovenantoftheFatherland-e1w your OF content? 🤣
Lol no one takes IGN seriously. Everyone knows if you wanna have fun you do the exact opposite of what IGN recommends. They're basically rotten tomatoes now.
"charming characters" yeah except maybe 1 or 2 of them
"the queue" takes about 90 seconds currently. seen gameplay & others that played it, & they thought its a fun game, with some good features that other games dont use, but will die anyway cuz its not a good game for 40 bucks. if it would be f2p it would be an actually good to play title
"figuring out their tricks" is journalism that get used for almost every game. like figuring out boss attacks & skiills = mechanics - used by pretty much everyone when writing a script.
-> its IGN (or if u listen to them, giving them a platform so they will keep going)
That fish comparison fckin killed me 😂😂😂
Bro Sony dropped a bag for IGN 💀
I'm suddenly reminded of Krusty the Klown
"I'm not made of stone!"😭
They are giving a bad review while praising it. I gotta give it to this IGN guy. He knows the games dog shit but he's trying to keep his job. The gaslighting techniques he's using, I havnt seen since dating a female sociopath. A positive followed up by a massive negative ending the sentence on a lower positive. Crazy af
They just wanna keep access to early releases for reviews to keep their dying company alive but sadly, choosing the losing side is wild
@@BoinkrNanis True, the IGN reviewer actually made some points, now we know IGN just needs to get paid to do a positive review of a game
Always remember they gave Alien isolation a 5.
They WHAT?!
For real? Alien Isolation was one of the most true game adaptations and one of the best survival horrors.
Yup a 5.9 to be exact. Mediocre. The absolute audacity.
What did they give Colonial Marines?🤨
@@V4Now 4.5
I noticed that IGN always claims they've "sunk over 40 hours into the game", yet that's clearly always a lie, since their reviews always seem to miss shit that happens within the first 5 hours. They're the same morons who claimed after "40+ hours" they saw no female characters in Wukong...
Exactly. There are 10 female characters in Wukong who take a high/important roles.
Considering how bad ign reviewers seem to be at playing games, I can totally buy they spent 40 hours in Wukong without making it to Chapter 3.
My favorite part about all that was their game impression article from a few months back where they said they saw no "femme coded" character models and asked the developers if any were in the game, to which the developers refused to answer. Turns out there were tons of them but game science knew exactly what ign was trying to do and refused to play their childish games. That infuriated them.
Who would get into a game and immediately look out for a particular gender or race like it's a shopping list?
You saw the cup head one?
Except the women issues was brought up before reaching those parts of the game and even stated this 😂
4:10 Seeing the gameplay, it looks very much like Destiny’s gameplay. So much so that it seems like it was taken from that and put into this, or at least modeled from that.
The "wait, is she from a game" had me dying, I swear
That little bro is the hero this world needs rn.
that lil bro has explored the world earlier than his big bro
it concern me that he's already knows Mercy from "other" sources...
@@ekkyaryamy hope is it was the animation reveals/UA-camrs
@@Ontinara It wasn't. I can't let you go on in false hope, sorry.
The reason IGN do this is because, although they are fully aware the game is trash, if the developers bend the knee regarding ‘the message’ and shoehorn a load of DEI into it, the legacy media will give them a pass. This is how the entire world works now
DEI?
@@mcbriteDiversity Equity Inclusivity policy and programs. It's an actual thing, you can look it up
not the entire world. mostly the us, canada, and europe.
@@mcbriteDiversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Well, that and Blackrock dumps those sweet sweet ESG credits on the bosses.
tf2: Instead of you having a sticky launcher, we give you a shield to rush enemies. Concord: YOU GET MORE AMMO.
10/10
Passive bonus is the most boring choice ever.
@@cattysplatand the easiest to implement. blatant laziness and “cookiecutterness” (if thats even a word) in this games design and mechanics is so commonplace its frightening
IGN:
Space Marine 2: 6.0
Alien: Isolation: 5.9
Forspoken: 6.0
Star Wars Outlaws: 7.0
Concord: 7.0
Dustborn: 7.0
I think the yellow robot fridge lookin fella is the most charming character in the roster
Yeah, at least it's not just a blue dude with a rifle, or just a green dude with pistols
I think his design is a little lacking and could have been alot cuter or something and even been a mascot character.
Benny the Boiler
@@ps-qw1up You might be surprised, some people look like a rubber barrel.
@@GFIZeraph so the most bland and uninspired design really gravitates towards you….the bar has been set so low for gamers.
I still think it’s HILARIOUS how the MEDIC is a bigger (unhealthily obese) and slower target than some of the DPS and Tank characters and has no real means of defending himself aside from his blubber layer.
Just a real representation of our health ministers; Maggie De Block comes to mind
Isn't a medic supposed to be, I don't know, frail? One of the only upsides to this "diverse" cast is that everyone being fat translates to being "more tanky"
@@survivorofthecurse717 Medic supposed to be able to rush from point A to B as quickly as possible while attracting minimal attention. Not in Concord.
Not being able to defend yourself as a healer is pretty standard, you shouldn't be caught alone.
@@Mehiel-Sanctoria While that statement is true, it's also misleading. The main 2 options a healer has if positioning is bad and your allies aren't with you yet is to run away while attracting as little attention as possible or to fend someone off in the case of it being 1 glass cannon. But when your movement is awful and the only thing you're packing in combat is several hundred pounds, there's a design problem
Black Wukong - 8
Star Wars Outlaws - 7
Concord - 7
HUH?! 💀
IGN 7 mean "it's shit but we're paid so we can't give less"
Dustborn - 7
Apparently 7 is IGN way to say, game is trash, but we got paid so, 7 is lower we are allowed to go.
Alien: Isolation - 5.9
@@ItsukaShimotsuki Despite Alien: Insolation being a very good game, it's like how every Pokémon Mystery Dungeon game gets shit on by IGN.
What's left of the HotS community's competitive side still ahs a format called "Meta Madness" in which within each set of matches a hero can only be picked once, so if say red team picks Raynor in game 1, neither team gets to pick him in game 2-5.
It's actually really cool because it leads to almost every character getting picked (basically 88/89 characters will be picked at least sometimes) and rare team comps and strategies are used, it's also the most fun format to watch. It is however not something you do as the main official ranked ladder, as Concord apparently wanted to.
Concord and Dustborn received a 7/10 from IGN, while Black Myth Wukong got a 8/10. The gap between a 7 and a 8 must me insane then
there's at least a hundred scale points between them! 7.01 7.02 7.03.... 7.98 7.99 8.00
@@a_person_of_all_time that is insane…what the hell are the perimeters they’re basing their scores on?!
@moongoalie2410 this $$$
The reason they gave Wukong a rating of 8 is because they thought it would raise their credibility in the eyes of the public... or CCP also gave them lots of $$$. Tho unlike Concorde or outlaws BMW is actually a good game made by people with passion for creating AAA gaming experience.
i guess it's a logarithmic scale except instead of base 10 it's base 10000000
LMAO "Wait...she's from a game?!"
A man of culture
Yeah, I love how asmond didn't press that harder. But also really concerning as to why states are trying to pass age restriction laws on corn sites. I don't wanna give my ID but I'm pressed because I also don't want young kids on those sites. Sure, as a 13 year old I found sites for say looking at Misty pics, but I'm a Fd up adult because of that sooooo idk.
@@BoinkrNanis I'm amazed that people forgot about parental controls. The ID push online thing is not what you think it is.
@@BoinkrNanis The problem is that it's not going to solve the issue. It's fighting the symptoms instead of the disease.
The actual problem is parents not keeping enough of an eye on their children. Giving your kids a device with unfiltered access to the internet is like giving them a tour of the back alleys of Calcutta on a humid Saturday night.
They're gonna be seeing some serious stuff.
Adding ID requirement for specific corn sites won't stop that, because A) not all sites are based in the US and therefore not all sites will ever be subject to this regulation to begin with and B) new sites will pop up and allow access to adult material without that filter until some overworked and underpaid government agency gets around to sending that cease and desist even if they COULD enforce it.
If the government had the sort of access and control they needed to actually make all adult sites lock content behind ID, we wouldn't still be able to pirate movies. The push to stop that was massive. Billion dollar multimedia giants pulled every lever they had to stop music and movie piracy any yet the newest movie release is just one google search away.
What they NEED to do is to educate parents on how to limit and monitor what their children watch. To teach parents how to educate their children about the dangers of the internet the same way they would teach them to stay away from that one street corner where the dealers/hookers hang out.
It's also not going to completely remove accidental exposure, but it's a damn sight more effective than trying to lock the internet away so parents don't have to parent.
I'm pretty sure the government knows this and the reason they push for ID is to get a foot in the door of a more complete surveillance state. Right now the government can spy on your internet habits but needs probable cause to actually use anything they find. They can't let on just how much they know about your activities online because that information is supposed to be confidential.
If they can push tying your IP or other login credentials to your ID, they suddenly have a lot more leeway to "become aware" of your activities online. Not necessarily terrible if you're somewhat internet savvy and can use proxies and burner devices to keep your activities unconnected to your government identity, but certainly a huge stride in locking down the access to information, behaviour and habits of the general population.
@@BoinkrNanisyou wanna trade something for that "safety". The politicians are using "safety" as a carrot, they want that something from you reaaaaal bad. But you're a free man from a free country, so I'm sure the mouse won't bite the piece of cheese
@@BoinkrNanis they'll just find it on other sites. Start raising your kids rather than ask daddy government to replace you.
Diverse, Diverse, Diverse, Diverse. Every point he made was about how diverse it is
too bad it can't get a diverse amount of players LMAO
Mawdern Auwdience.
jack of all trades but master of none, blatant genre copy without anything good in general.
Inclusivity Games Network. Sounds.
Whenever IGN gives a game a 7, that basically means 'The score should be lower but we don't want to piss anybody off'
This reviewer is the guy that gave Diablo IV a 9/10 on release with the quote "Diablo 4 is a stunning sequel with near perfect endgame and progression design that makes it absolutely excruciating to put down."
Diablo 4 at launch was a good game, stop crying
Didn’t Asmon also rate it 9.5/10 lmao?
Poe 2 : have you felt the touch of god Diablo??
@@TurdFerguson-td9nx Unless this is your first time playing ARPG, its below average and not worth the full price. No innovation, lack of storage because of useless materials, repetitive mechanics mobs and bosses, difficult to control mounts, predictable dull story after all the hype with Lilith, and cooler armor sets need to be purchased. This is just some of the cons which Blizzard needs to take seasons to fix. Its just a subpar at max 6-7 rating game at launch. I had more fun and immersion playing Diablo 1 or 2.
@@TurdFerguson-td9nx No. I would defend the state of D4 now, but at release the progression and itemization was pure dogshit.
As i'm writing this, there's 100 active players on steam with 178 at 24 hour peak. IGN should delete their whole network
it's surprizing to me with all the coverage it's getting that the 178 high number includes whatever trolls that bought the game
200 million for 200 players, I guess each player is getting a 'million dollar experience'
When it comes to Concord, I knew INSTANTLY that it was gonna be DOA the moment the first cinematic trailer was shown. But let's say that I was interested into the game.... Just having the developer calling gamers that did not liked Concord as "talentless freaks" it would instantly put me off from buying and supporting the game even if that remark was not targeted at me. I hope this failure teach a lesson to Sony and other developers that people are fed up with live service garbage
History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme with BF5 launch
they're projecting XD
20:26 "Concord's game modes are much less inspired than it's characters" That's a death sentence right there.
I mean they're wrong and the game modes are fine, but DAMN.
Imagine picking the robot knowing your hit box is 15x bigger than everyone else’s lmao
I would because I like his beam style weapon. In every clip I've seen they are getting trashed tho.
@@Mehiel-Sanctoria This game has such low weapon damage you have to track people, bigger targets are easier to track
@@herpderp4078 Yeah, he seems really weak. Hopefully next year when the esport scene for Concord starts picking up, he will be in a better state.
@@Mehiel-Sanctoria Esports for a game that is already dead? What there gonna be 4 people left playing. They gonna be on stage waiting in que's for randoms lmao
@@m.pearsonm9072 I mean dead is a better state than living on life support. I also want to see the Esport plan for concord hahahha
Can't spell Ignorant without IGN
BASED!!!!
And then IGNore.
Really funny how long that quote held up over the years.
@@shai310Aged like fine wine
"Charming characters"
Dude, one of the upmost main reasons why the game failed is because of the characters. The first thing people saw wasn't the gameplay. People saw the characters, established that its just THAT bad, and then it took off from there lmao.
12:05 I think this point in particular goes to IGN. It's fair to say that pushing players outside their comfort zone is a good thing in some games. Just look at Doom's gunplay.
that character with the fauxhawk has such a devastated look on his face whenever he's in frame, like he just now realized he's in Concord.
lmao...
The 60 people currently playing Concord are the devs themselves.
Actually wouldn't surprise me if the numbers are artificially inflated.
@@cattysplat a lot of things in that game look inflated.
Dude there's no way the devs want to spend any more time on this trainwreck than they already have lmao
Basically
And now they're gonna be playing on LAN. 😂
Last time i checked,this were the votes by some journalist:
Gaming Nexus - 8,5
Checkpoint Gaming - 8
MGG - 7,5
Game Rant - 7
Push Square - 7
Gaming Age - 7
Hardcore Gamer - 7
IGN - 7
PlayStation Universe - 7
The others have given lower scores(how it should be),but I don't know what they saw in this videogame to give 7 or higher
More critics than players, hmm.
All getting that, Sony Money.
Their reviews are paid for, 7 is generally their lowest theyll give a paid review
@@benmurray1178evidence?
They all scared by backlash
ign reviews are as trustworthy as CNN providing objective news coverage
this is a literal proof that IGN watch the paint dry and give it a 7.
Charming colour.
And they will call the painted wall "Charming" and "Brave".
if its from a major publisher yeah
We had proof 15 years ago. How old are you?
as long as the paint is rainbow yes.
I can tell Sony didn't watch Tropic Thunder. "You never go full wee Todd."
Lmao
Star Wars outlaws IGN score 7, Concord IGN score 7, BlackMyth Wukong IGN score 8, bro wtf 🥶
Wukong deserves a 9
Wukong gives you a free sight seeing tour into the fantasy wonderland.
Cutscenes are the last thing you need in a game where the players are fighting against alternate versions of themselves.
Sad for Sony, lesson today
"Never hire activist for anything"
Never give your money to people that hate you. First helldivers, now concord. Sony hates you
Sony entering a dark age.
It is impossible for sony, because all workers in company activists))
The player base of Concord represents ' The modern audience ' and that sounds about right.
"It still has a lot of growing to do during its live-service evolution."
How can something evolve if it's already dead?
Life finds a way...
"pushing the payload" is just a multiplayer version of an "escorting mission".
There should a law against false advertisement and misinformation.
There is, but because it's an opinion piece nobody can do anything about it.
@@glenmcl There should be a law against finding loopholes in the law.
@@OnionGod20 how do you make a law that outlaws finding loopholes when the entire point of a law is that you have to apply what is written, as is written.
There should be a law against people saying there should be laws against things when they clearly know nothing about the law.
@@marcogenovesi8570 There should be a law against defending shitty laws
@@OnionGod20 There should be a law against claiming people is defending shitty laws when they are in fact just pointing out how law works
Their scale starts on 7 to prevent injury, I don't know any gamers that trust IGN anymore.
It's just high enough to still practice access journalism.
IGN hasn't been good since the PS2 era for me, personally.
Unless it's Alien Isolation, that gets a 5.9 because reasons
Travis Northump who reviewed Concord and gave it a 7, gave The First Descendant a 5. The First Descendant had 64k people playing it today with an all time peak over 250k. Concord currently has 64. Talk about being out of touch. And no. Being F2P won't help Concord. Its rot runs deep.
While I agree Concord isn't a great game, player count is the least credible way to judge them. There are plenty of amazing games that go under the radar and have low play count because of no publicity.
Because TFD isn't woke trash and has hot asian women.
They had an open beta, which didn't reach 700 players. The game arrived dead.
@@mtbarnes1In this particular context, Concord is a AAA live service game. The fact that it has this low of a player count is significant. The entire point of live service is to maintain a high playerbase for a long period of time.
TFD is a f2p, concord is 40$. TFD only got that popular due to it being a gooner bait
watching this 6 days later is golden
2:24 the robot looks like a boiler at the back of the room, it doesn't even look like part of the crew 😂😂😂
That's actually part of the problem, they don't look like they belong in the same universe.
Even aliens from different planets in games or shows share some similar design aesthetics.
This game is all over the place
To be honest, the robot looks more like a knock off Astro boy, if he was wearing a suit of armor
How IGN still hasn't go bankrupt still amaze me!
They get ‘sponsored’ 😂
They are not a game only site.
6:11 “Devastating at close range,” takes almost an ENTIRE clip to kill a stick figure at full health.
To NOT kill*
It didn't kill anything. Pretty much just shoot wet noodles
@@Def4ult_404
Yeah, I noticed that, it's unsatisfying to even look at.
"Beautiful cutscenes." - Yes, because that is what makes you enjoy the game. Expensive pre-rendered cutscenes and the gameplay being an after-thought.
I took a dump today……IGN gave it a 7
A charming dump with a diverse range of textures and odours - 7.8/10
Diarreah, too much water.
Was it diverse??
That little brother story about seeing OW Mercy _"Wait, she's on a game?"_ I guess I knew where that brother saw Mercy. 😂
I didn't know either. Rule 34 content is wide and far with overwatch.
There's people who play Overwatch 2 instead of just enjoying the SFM?
"Charming" is indeed a word people use when they find something ugly, but can't say it outright. 😂
It's a habit of empty boxes.
Its pitiful but you still playing a nice person to show mercy to it. Nice, not kind person, worth pointing separately
Charmin is toilet paper
a 7 for "big" games is actually a 2 or 3.
2:00 HOLUP wait a minute
Regardless of any issues this game has, it's a multiplayer game with 100 total players. This review should be plastered with red flags like "this game may not survive the rest of the week, let alone a year, buyer beware." Getting even 1 person to waste 40$ with this review is shameful. I do not even care one iota whether this is a good or bad game. Not even warning people about this games dead player base should be criminal. If nothing else, this IGN review absolutely cements the notion that all IGN reviews should be thrown in the trash.
Most critics agree that the gameplay is not exactly bad. Problem is, that the gameplay is just medicore while asking for money for a type of game that has way too many free alternatives. I don't think, that anyone could make a paid hero shooter at this point, and win. No matter how great the gameplay is. To have any hope of doing something like that you need to create an alternative gamestyle. Like a great single player campaign with a great story, and maybe a CO-OP beside the hero shooter. Multiplayer focused games cannot live without players, and thus the players need to be pulled in. The number of players directly affect the experience for a game like this.
13:51 makes me think of Palworld's type variatipns where they change one of their typings and get a different colored variation of their texture, but I do think Palworld does it well because this doesn't guarantee that a pal will have their new typing's moveset in an arena, so maybe other games could do something similar. Something where you can tell there's a speciaty difference, but maybe something else to keep from making it too predictable like a massive pool of weapons available that don't have to correlate to the new variation but the new variation can still boost certain weapons or moves or whatever.
IGN: "Steller Blade has a lackluster story" = 7/10.
IGN: "Wuthering Waves Story is Dull and Bland" = 7/10.
IGN: "Concord Story is Non-Existent" = 7/10.
Edit:
As a Wuwa I admit the first half of the story was mid.
But what I hate is the fact that the 7/10 will Never change even if the it gets better.
And that 7/10 is slapped in your face when you google any game in general.
Like Alien Isolation is still 5.9 when you google it, these people refuse to change it still after 10 years.
They rated Stellar Blade at 7? Like this and Dustborn? Yeah they have 0 crediblity
Welcome to the club, took you a while to come but its never late to hate IGN.
Wuthering waves is like a 6 tho
IGN? More like 7/10!
WuWa is a 3 at best, be greatful they gave a 7
I saw one of the main Push Square writers trying to justify their 7/10 score basically saying "In the industry it's basically a game with more positives than negatives"...Like first, that's a 6/10, secondly you're justifying "more positives than negatives" with stuff like "It has no microtransactions...yet" "The game doesn't have alot of bugs" stuff that is literally expected of the game at a bare minimum is now considered weight on the positive side of the scale to give it 7/10 🤦♂
They'd get alot more respect if they said 7/10 (yes we are pandering to get future codes and access -2/-3 on any score we put out for this reason).
No. It is not a 6/10 since games like this have design problems and lots of bugs. Any game that does not have a clear design problem gets at least a 7.
@@paulodelima5705 I didn't say it's a 6/10, I said a review that has more positives than negatives by a small margin is a 6/10 because a game with the same positives and negatives would be a 5/10. A 7/10 would be a game with decent positives over negatives, not expected things every game should have as it's positives. Concord should be a 5/10.
So, I think the biggest problem with "games journalism" these days is something lots of people overlook. If you get paid to write a review of something, it isn't a review anymore...it's an ad. You didn't review the game, you were commissioned to write an advertisement. I can PROMISE you, that Kotaku, IGN and PC gamer would be dragging this game through the gutter like the rest of us if they weren't having money shoveled at them to fluff Concord's flagging erection.
That whole "you can't play the same character twice in competitive" thing is just a fancy way of a developer saying "You don't get to play the way YOU want to, you have to play the way WE want you to"...which is shitty.
That's been a problem since 2010
That or as mentioned in the video they're afraid of big daddy Sony not giving them benefits, such as early copies. Without them they'll fall behind other companies when it comes to getting their reviews up early and getting early clicks on the videos and articles on the website, which seem to be all these companies care about. Dunkey also mentioned these problems years ago, which is still relevant.
@@xandrixcreed literal 60 iq take.
Sane and normal people would refuse the pay and say no. The only people who would say yes are those with similar mind. That being the case, these journos would still give positive review whether they got paid or not. Their solidarity is just that tight.
@CovenantoftheFatherland-e1wyou're brown
This aged like one of the most expensive wines. Perfect take. Hit 100 nails in with one single hit.
Star wars Outlaw - 7
Concord - 7
Dustborn - 7
What a joke
Maybe they forgot their glasses and thought the 7 was a 1
Wukong: -3000
Friend works in advertising - they’re already pulling back ad spend for this game to avoid losses.
How?
Money.
There saved you 28 minutes of a nothing burger👍
Yummy nothing burger 😋
Evidence?
But how much money we talking billions or a taco bell coupon.
Probably Blackrock and other ideologically-biased investment groups giving venture capital with strings attached, though access journalism is a valid possiblility.
I lived through the 90s and 2000s, of official magazines being nothing but puff pieces for their respective format. This is WAY beyond that. This is the entirety of industrial games journalism in lock step to push a narrative that distorts reality to the viewer. They are telling you to ignore what your eyes see.
Your fish analogy is EXACTLY what IGNs review should have been lol