I don't mind the shaders and the way the environments look, but A: it's pretty conspicuous to give the original IP that kind of facelift, and B: the characters are pretty unappealing to look at in terms of their designs.
Here's Cliff Bleszinski talking about how he thinks the age of consent should be 14, and how 12 year olds "know what they're doing".
No, because you could still play and access those titles. Concord shuttered itself WITH its studio in two weeks' time.
They will eventually. I mean, you don't see that many battle royales anymore right?
they haven't even really begun, we had 10 years of Military shooters.
Nope, all the trend-chasing started 5 years ago still need to finish working its way through the pipeline.
I think it would be oversimplifying things to say that Concord's problem was with the character design. There are so many examples you can think of in support of or against that theory (Sonic, arguably, was a great character, until the franchise got a reputation for consistently bad games).
Marathon was worshipped in those circles when it came out but a lot of the Mac was known for was what would be considered quirky indie games today, with Escape Velocity (and its sequels) one of the bigger examples. One of the books I have that focuses on Mac games talks up Marathon as one of the best games on the platform but was also inconsistent on a lot of others. Marathon was tied with an obscure Accolade puzzle game Ishidō: The Way of Stones for their top-rated game, but they talked up how great The Daedalus Encounter was, which was an old FMV game that probably would've been completely forgotten if it didn't have Tia Carrere in the starring role.
Well, there is the gacha game format that has been trendy as of late. So add 3 into the trends.
People can use whatever pronouns they want. Don't be a reverse tumblrite.
Well, I guess it does demand some qualification - I guess what I mean to say is that I think character design (and indeed, characters in general) constitutes the meat of someone's first impression of a game, especially within the context of the trailers and thin looks we get of them these days. As much as I hate to say it, there does seem to be a correlation between the games I see people talking about after directs/state of plays/etc and how striking their character designs are, even to a greater degree than the merits of the gameplay (at least, from what can be inferred).
Makes you wonder what late-to-the-game products we'll see in 5 years, and which trends they'll be chasing then.
Cozy strand-type turn-based RPGs.
Ah, walking sims with goofy physics. Neat.
How do I not remember this game? I liked Mecha Break before it fizzled out, and I remember trying to look for alternatives.
If Steel Hunters took the easy way out, Mecha Break is going full on humiliation ritual. One of the creative developers mentioned something around the lines of "we're going to stick to our creative vision" when addressing MB's balancing issue, that has persisted in multiple seasons, on a game that has only 1k players, and backtracked around the 3rd Season.
