BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Sheesh. Really makes you wonder how Square managed to make an Avengers game that flopped.
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Marvel Rivals hits 10M players in 72 hours
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Sheesh. Really makes you wonder how Square managed to make an Avengers game that flopped.
Gaiff
SBI’s Resident Gaslighter
Or how Sony managed to make a Guardians of the Galaxy that flopped.
Synless
Member
That was Square Enix as well. It was actually really good.
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Punished Miku
Human Rights Subscription Service
Guardians is 100x the game this copy is. Its almost like bragging about sales numbers doesn't tell you if something is good.
Gaiff
SBI’s Resident Gaslighter
Donald mac Ronald
Member
Lol I downloaded this today to see what all the fuss is. Man this game Is basic as fuck.
I spent 2 minutes doing a tutorial and jumped into a quick match.
I played one game and got MVP as the punisher with 18 kills and 2 deaths .
I just held the trigger button down and mowed everyone down.
The 'fighting' moved about a little back and forth. Maybe kids who love the ip might like this but there's no fun or even half decent mechanics in this.
Game doesn't even seem balanced at all for range .
I spent 2 minutes doing a tutorial and jumped into a quick match.
I played one game and got MVP as the punisher with 18 kills and 2 deaths .
I just held the trigger button down and mowed everyone down.
The 'fighting' moved about a little back and forth. Maybe kids who love the ip might like this but there's no fun or even half decent mechanics in this.
Game doesn't even seem balanced at all for range .
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Yeah that was a bot game lol.
ManaByte
Gold Member
They don’t care about balance. They just want to milk whales with the mobile MTX and progression.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
Concord vs Marvel Rivals, which one do you think is the best hero shooter of 2024?
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
ManaByte
Gold Member
Only one of them has Jeff the Land Shark.Only one of them got an Amazon Secret Levels episode
bender
What time is it?
ArtHands
Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
I remember the Avengers dev telling players that they have the option to play on Playstation if they want the Spider-Man DLC.
Avengers dev says Xbox players who want Spider-Man ‘have the option on PlayStation’ | VGC
Crystal Dynamics claims exclusivity deal was influenced by Sony’s relationship with Marvel…
www.videogameschronicle.com
That was the moment I know they have signed the death warrant, because players also have the option to play other games.
Hawk The Slayer
Member
Ugly characters and extremely low player count vs attractive characters and extremely high player count so I'll say equal since it's the Yin Yang Balance.
KimDongHwan
Member
Wasn't this an overcrowded genre and that's why Concord failed ?
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Holy shit. I remember people saying Rivals would dunk Concord (which was obvious), but 10M players? Wow.
Iced Arcade
Member
This is free and full of extremely popular characters.
lughnasadh123
Member
Well how about that, people still do like hero shooters.
Reizo Ryuu
Member
Full price story based game with live service endgame, linear brawler, awful loadtimes causing bugs on last gen consoles, live service updates were sparse because of restrictions from disney, terrible anti player updates that made the game less fun to play.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
And only one of them is The Future of PlayStation. Sounds like Rivals is a day late and a buck short.Only one of them got an Amazon Secret Levels episode
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Im not a superhero fan, so I'd never play the game.
But just looking at the cover art was hilarious. They didnt even have the hollywood stars licensed. So it was a bunch of generic looking people as the supes. lol. At least Hulk kinda looked like Hulk.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
im glad people are making fun of Sony and Concord. 
ManaByte
Gold Member
No it’s not. Fortnite has over 200M players and has had 15M concurrent.
Arsic
Loves his juicy stink trail scent
Lmao. Sure. Keep telling yourself that.
Plenty of f2p bombs. 10 million is a massive number.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Some people like to compare to the top dogs.
Its like saying every batter stinks if they cant hit 50 HR like Judge and Ohtani.
Reizo Ryuu
Member
The game wasn't related to the mcu
LectureMaster
Gold Member
Look at the character designs, how fucking pleasant and comfortable.
LavitzSlambert
Member
Free to play + licensed superhero IP that appeals to the masses = easy to get a ton of players. What will be telling is how many people continue to play a month from now.
ByWatterson
Member
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
It's always funny how people get caught out by the bot games, just like in fortnite.
Mister Wolf
Member
Killjoy-NL
Gold Member
This always was a retarded take. Lol
Good games get players, regardless of genre.
Marvel Rivals is a great and fun game. Simple as that.
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it's 3rd on steams best sellers so they are spending money.
Donald mac Ronald
Member
It wasn't. It had cross play from different platforms in it
VenomousCoffee
Member
These characters existed for decades before the movies, and yes, they do indeed look like stylized versions of the comic art. Lol.
Larxia
Member
I also had matches that felt strange and wondered a few times if we were in front of bots or not at first.
I think the most likely explanation is that you probably had a healer or two in your team, and you didn't notice but one of them was probably healing you non stop, and the opponent team didn't have any healer.
The healers are clearly a game changer and totally change the balance of a match.
I had a match where we were clearly winning, it almost felt like playing against bots, and then suddenly it became super hard and we were getting stomped and we lost. I wondered what happened, but it's because at the beginning of the match we had two healers in the team, and then at some point they changed heroes and we had no healer anymore, which is why we suddenly started to lose.
I think it's a problem that people can change hero in the middle of a match like this, it creates annoying situations like this.
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i would love to like this. I've been playing it and i guess i'll keep playing it occasionally because all my friends play. I love the idea of heroes in a shooter but i think the game modes that hero shooters have come up with so far are just the worst. First of all their all the same. There is a point and everyone in both teams just go there and team fight in a small radius the entire match. This also results in maps being whatever to me. I havent played a map that i thought was bad or great, they're all just whatever, and i dont think it's because the maps are bad, it's just that at any given time you're just fighting in a small part of it.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
“let’s make a hero shooter filled with the type of heroes we think gamers ought to like, instead of heroes they actually want. What’s the worst that can happen?”
Ronin_7
Member
The game is good.
Donald mac Ronald
Member
Yeah we did have a healer and they were healing none stop. Regardless the game is definitely brain-dead.
Maybe it's 5 minutes of mindless fun but it's very engaging at all imo.
AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
Marketing was bad, and every look at the gameplay was not good. They also released late. They should have come out between Infinity war and endgame and they missed the window. The Zeitgeist was gone.
saintjules
Gold Member
Now keep those 10 million players for a month straight. That's when the real congrats should take place.
ManaByte
Gold Member
No, they came out at the height of the MCU and people rejected the game because it wasn't based on the MCU.
That failure also hurt GOTG because people immediately (and to this day) thought it was just a clone of Avengers and not a great single-player game.
Thankfully 1943 shouldn't have that problem. Unless of course Black Panther 3 ends up being Denzel playing T'Chanda in WW2 with Chris Evans as Cap.