Anime Overwatch

[Metro]

I'll give it a try but I have the feeling the community will be terrible.

 

[Metro]

Overwatch will be on PC, consoles are something they can look at in the future.

Confirmed made for consoles. Also, it's 6on6 which, imo, is pretty shitty for a versus shooter.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

It's not Warcraft/Starcraft/Diablo which is something I guess, but I'm not really interested. Gameplay-wise I have a hard time imagining it'll be even half as good as TF2, and it also doesn't have the rich lore and fluff that TF2 does.

 

[Decado]

Lack of white male characters confirmed. Unlocked Achievement: Diversity.

 

[Lyric Suite]

What you mean it doesn't have rich lore. What about the pew pew girl. The Pixar kid thought she was cool, why can't you?

 

[Lyric Suite]

Lack of white male characters confirmed. Unlocked Achievement: Diversity.

The SJW gaming utopia is upon us.

 

[Night Goat]

Lack of white male characters confirmed. Unlocked Achievement: Diversity.

 

[Lyric Suite]

That's still diversity bro.

 

[Decado]

So you have

5 characters immediately identifiable as women (2 white, 1 Indian, 1 SE Asian (?), and 1 Purple chick)
3 characters immediately identifiable as men (1 obvious Warcraft Dwarf, 1 Japanese, 1 guy all masked up)
2 robots (1 repurposed Diablo 3 monk [melee master race reporting in] and 1 Transformer
1 guy encased in armor (is a dude?)
1 Gorilla

By all accounts a hugely diverse cast. But I'm betting it won't take long for resident SJW's to point out that:

1) All of the women are sexualized, skin tight outfits, etc
2) All of the women are conventionally attractive
3) Everyone is ableist
4) None of the women's body types are diverse
5) The game is violent
6) Violence causes misogyny

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

 

[felipepepe]

Blizzard makes Starcraft, where the all-mighty Queen of Blades has organic high-heels and bikini... I think they don't give a fuck.

 

[Metro]

Would bang.

 

[Great Deceiver]

This is typical modern Blizzard: a simplified take on an established formula.

What bothers me the most isn't the lack of originality - it's the lack of ambition.

 

[Metro]

There was an interview with them posted in (I think) the WoW thread where they admitted as much: they have little in the way of ambition and just want to stick with safe formulas to generate money. I'll see if I can dig it up.

Fake/real edit: fuck it, I'm too lazy.

 

[Lyric Suite]

Who gives a fuck about ambition or originality. What bothers me is the lack of quality.

 

[Metro]

Quality sort of necessarily entails a modicum of either ambition or originality.

 

[Lyric Suite]

Maybe, maybe not. But even so, the other way around isn't true. Originality does not in itself entails quality. And since the problem is lack of quality the argument is moot.

 

[sser]

This looks pretty awesome. I haven't played a competitive multiplayer FPS in years because they're all the fucking same. Something like this could be really fun and new.

Edit: except Natural Selection 2 and Rising Storm. Those games kickass. Also, I don't really understand the hate for a game that is leaning hard on diverse gameplay but whatever.

 

[Metro]

This looks pretty awesome. I haven't played a competitive multiplayer FPS in years because they're all the fucking same. Something like this could be really fun and new.

 

[Great Deceiver]

Maybe, maybe not. But even so, the other way around isn't true. Originality does not in itself entails quality. And since the problem is lack of quality the argument is moot.

I would say ambition is a necessary condition for quality. Not sufficient, but necessary.

 

[Lyric Suite]

I disagree. This obsession with novelty and originality is how we got modern art in the first place.

 

[Great Deceiver]

I don't understand why you're equating ambition to originality and novelty.

 

[Metro]

 

[Renegen]

Eh it doesn't look that bad, I just don't think it will involve any strategy of any kind and plus it's Blizztards and P2W so I have no hopes for this. If they actually make a decent team based competitive FPS, like Tribes or some of the better mods that were created, the game will be a big hit. But no one wants to do that, gotta get that casual market share.

 

[Metro]

All the heroes in TF2 are male. Valve is misogynist.