Troonwolf is gonna flop harder than Concord
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Nobody wants hero shooters but some people will entertain single player RPGs, so Dragon Age will sell better than Concord, not by much though
I think if they had actual badass male characters, hot female characters, and destructible environments with an engaging art-style and unique and fun locations, a hero shooter could work in today's environment. The problem is, no one is making that kind of game.
You also look at absolutely pure-mediocre cash-shop slop like The First Descendant, which does nothing memorable with its asset-flip tier gameplay, but is making Nexon millions of dollars hand-over-fist because all the female characters are interesting and have smoking hot skins, plus the art direction is solid (and the launch trailer here was brilliantly put together: https://youtu.be/UdmgmufAd9Q )
Is that a hero shooter? The advertising I saw made me think it was closer to Destiny.
Yeah you're right, it is definitely more like a Warframe/Destiny clone. But I guess my broader point was that even mediocre games can maintain some measure of popularity if they have the right appeal. I'm pretty sure if Concord had the same characters from The First Descendant with the same skin options, it likely would have done okay.
All things equal, single player games will always do better than multiplayer games until you reach that event horizon where enough people are playing the game to get other people to play it too.
Plus you can see the instant rot and unfun-ness of a multiplayer game in 2 matches, plenty of time to refund it. Single player games are never that kind, unless the character creator hurts you that much.
Considering how woke pathfinder wrath of the righteous was and is considered a success, I can see this having the same target audience.
Same as BG3
BG3 appears to be the rare legitimately good game that is also woke. IRL people are raving about the level of complexity in decisionmaking. Personally I don't think I'll ever play the game because I don't care for gay vampires and women with horns, but it seems to be a unicorn.
It's the 1st version of the woke mind virus. Wokeness slipped here and there into otherwise a great and well designed game. Some of it you have to actively be looking for it to happen in your game. It keeps it below the radars of most normies. RDR2 did it the same way.