Comment on EXCLUSIVE - Year 2 Content is Planned for Ubisoft's Skull and Bones

• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Intergalactic from Naughty Dog lookin to be Concord 3.

  Sometimes these companies think they be making the most bomb idea ever, when its being made for an audience or market that doesn’t exist or isnt big enough to cover the cost of development. In the case of Intergalactic, most people that like space games are older, and much of it appears to try to market to older people (the logos, the CRTs, the rip off Snake Plissken woman), but the gameplay is going to be way too fast for older folks that typically like the setting. Looks like it will be like trying to make a Civilization player play Bloodborne.

  At least Ubisoft has a bit of an excuse, since Skull & Bones legally could mot be scrapped because of it being funded in part by the government of Singapore. I wonder if this new content is from the government of Singapore trying to get some of their really bad investment back. They wanna make a Concordillion dollars off of the like 3 people playing the game lol.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You’re inferring a whole lot from a mock-up of gameplay that isn’t actually gameplay. A single player Naughty Dog game has a huge leg up over Concord in that you can play it regardless of how many other people bought it. Just saying “from the makers of The Last of Us” buys a few million copies sold where Concord didn’t clear 50k. If you want actual candidates for the next Concord, it’s going to be Marathon and, even more likely, Fairgame$.

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    • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I definitely remember the Concord developers bragging about having worked on games like Destiny. Regardless, I think you are underestimating how expensive Intergalactic is going to be, and I absolutely think that it will not be breaking even on sales, unless they significantly change the fundamental design of the game they have shown (and the leaked plot honestly, it is not very good if that is real).

      Marathon and Fairgame$ are absolutely going next, but I don’t see them releasing before Intergalactic, despite being developed for much longer, probably. I think both are probably being delayed even more than they already are after seeing what happened to Concord.

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’m not underestimating how much Naughty Dog spends on their games. That stuff all leaked, so we can put an exact number on Last of Us 2. People dig the games that they make though.

        Concord selling themselves as having developers who worked on Destiny reminds me of a trend I’ve observed though, though maybe there are outliers that have slipped through the cracks that would prove me wrong. When a new studio pitches its inaugural game as being from developers of X, Y, or Z, it pretty much never goes well, especially if it’s aiming for AAA. Maybe there are difficulties building a game and scaling up to that team size simultaneously. Any of a number of things can be the case, but at this point, it’s a red flag for me. The difference between that and “from the makers of The Last of Us” is that Naughty Dog is still Naughty Dog, and that’s more or less the same band sticking together. The Last of Us didn’t do it for me, and neither did Uncharted 4 honestly, but their games keep seeing the same levels of acclaim and success release after release.

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  • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What makes you compare intergalactic with concord? Ones a paid for hero shooter doing nothing new in a sea of free to play games of the same genre. And the other is a single player narrative focused game from a studio that has a proven track record of being able to make great games in that field.

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