. Answer a question, was this game so bad that I saw people saying it was really bad?
i posted a video in a earlier post that covered it a bit, but in case you didn't watch it.
no, the game isn't that bad.
the gameplay is solid; which makes sense since it is copying overwatch from back when it first came out. one of the problems is that when this game started development, overwatch was new, as was the hero shooter genre. this is about 10 years later, and quite a bit has changed. barring the character designs and set up for them, the game doesn't incorporate any new features, improvements or anything else that has been introduced since then.
but that's just a minor problem, or even just a mild annoyance. like i said, the gameplay is quite solid. it's fast, responsive, pretty stable when running. all of the stuff that overwatch 1 has going for it.
everyone's main complaints about it is primarily the characters, and the setting, or seemingly lack of setting. it looks like whoever did the set up for the character archetypes had just watched guardians of the galaxy and thought that was the coolest shit ever. the first movie, in case you are wondering. this game was in development for a decade; with most of the actual game being made during the last couple of years before release.
the characters are the best nominee for "worst designs ever."
one of the 2 most important things to keep in mind when designing characters is that the viewer should be able to gleam some information from just looking at the character. whether it is just a basic personality trait, or, what their role in the group would be.
the members of team fortress 2 are the best example of this. you can tell with a glance, which role each character has. the guy with the machine gun is the heavy hitter, the slender guy is quick and fast, the guy with the lab coat is a medic. you might not quite know their personalities but you can easily guess their roles during gameplay.
in concord, there is a character named daw. he is a big guy, with bulky armor and a machine gun. do you know what is role is?
medic.
i had to be told that in a video that i watched because i would never have guessed that was his role. he looks like a tank type character. slow, high def, and just as high atk.
another problem that people have with the characters is that they are either bland, or uninteresting to look at. bland, muted colors, haphazardly slapped onto the clothes and armor. the outfits look like some cosplayers had 5 bucks, 2 paper clips and a half a month old medium sized pizza from pizza hut to work with. 400 million dollars, nearly 10 years of work, and this is what we get: cold, mediocre, uninspired slop half assedly poured into a cracked plastic bootlegged bowl to eat out of.
sorry for the wall of text. there's a lot to talk about just with the designs of the characters alone.