Blizzard announces Overwatch. Team based MP Shooter [Up: Trailers, Screens, More]
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UnrealEck
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Blizzard's visuals have been steadily improving artistically since WC3. Look at WoW for example. Look at Heroes of the Storm.
As for the tech side, they're not pushing boundaries but SC2 is one of the best looking RTS games there is I think.
WoW is a 10 year old game which has been improved visually with every expansion up to what they have now in WoD, new more modern looking smoke, lighting, shadows, animations and environments full of vegetation and nice textures.
Heroes of the Storm, although not out yet is probably the best looking MOBA. I'm not into the genre but I can't think of any MOBAs that look better.
PoweredBySoy
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Pankratous
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PS4/X1?
...what?
The game is mechanically the same as it was 6 years ago, what grievances do you have with it?
It seems pretty obvious to me that it is going to be F2P where you buy heroes. You cant make a successful multilayer game on PC without it being F2P.
I like the look of the game and I think bring the dota style heroes to an fps will be hugely successful.
yes thats the first thing i want from a pc fps. controller support. yep.
MrNyarlathotep
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I hope they don't do any alternate weapons or skills. Knowing exactly what a character can do just by seeing them run around a corner is pretty important to being able to learn a game like this.
I guess they could do them if they make the character look super different when equipped, but at that point just make a new character.
fluffydelusions
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PC only for now.
SparksterMeta0
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So how long until this one gets cancelled?
Freedom = $1.05
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if youre only interactions with african americans is through your VHS tape of ghostbusters then yeah, he's totally right.
Eppy Thatcher
God's had his chance.
Gat damn... when Blizzard makes a CG trailer they do not. fuck. around.
That was awesome. I'm in.
That was awesome. I'm in.
First impressions from Danny O'Dwyer from Gamespot. He is answering questions right now.
https://twitter.com/dannyodwyer
https://twitter.com/dannyodwyer
BasilZero
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When I saw the trailer and Winston appeared, I'm like.... but it's probably not intentional, because even if it's a common black name, you rarely see it used for stereotypical black characters. I think.
UnrealEck
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It will probably happen but to put things into perspective, they now have five major titles they're actively working on. That is of course unless they announce WC4 or a Diablo expansion too.
I wouldn't count on seeing their games on consoles any time soon.
First impressions from Danny O'Dwyer from Gamespot. He is answering questions right now.
https://twitter.com/dannyodwyer
Now i want it.
KojiKnight
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First impressions from Danny O'Dwyer from Gamespot. He is answering questions right now.
https://twitter.com/dannyodwyer
This all sounds really good. Better than I was kind of expecting.
Honestly, what I liked about vanilla TF2 versus what it's like now (or when I last played it 3 years ago) is that it was relatively simple, and complexity was born out of player choices. It was all fairly straight forward, and the players mattered more than the character abilities, if that makes sense. This game seems like it's all about the over the top player abilities, and it seems like Overwatch will get really stale after a while.
Edit: Danny O'Dwyer being on board gives me a bit of hope though.
First impressions from Danny O'Dwyer from Gamespot. He is answering questions right now.
https://twitter.com/dannyodwyer
HYPE!
legacyzero
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Wow, this was actually really cool to watch.
yes churchill born in 1870's really does refute his argument
Green Yoshi
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I guess that was intentional. Wouldn't surprise me if it runs decent on a Radeon HD 5000 series GPU and a Core 2 Duo.
MikeE21286
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That art style is awesome
First impressions from Danny O'Dwyer from Gamespot. He is answering questions right now.
https://twitter.com/dannyodwyer
Ohh sheeeit, sounds legit.
GasProblem
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Ohhh, you can swap heroes after every life!
MrNyarlathotep
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I mean, if they're designing heroes the way MOBA champions are designed where there's overall class role (attack / defend / support) with a couple of cooldown based superpowers for each, this goes way beyond TF2 having unlockable weapons to mix up class roles and potentially goes full on MOBA in terms of possible future updates.
Looks good to me.
EDIT:
Please, "Winston" is in no way synonymous with "Black man name", any more than anthropopmorphic gorilla is synonymous with "sinister covert racism"
Looks good to me.
EDIT:
Please, "Winston" is in no way synonymous with "Black man name", any more than anthropopmorphic gorilla is synonymous with "sinister covert racism"
Pai Pai Master
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Never met a black guy named Winston. Seems more like a stereotypical cartoon gorilla name than anything racially-charged.
I didn't say is was a stereotypical African American name. It's a stereotypical Afro Caribbean name.
It was a slave name in the Caribbean.
As for pointing to Winston Churchill, that plays into this age old racist joke:
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/is-this-racist-and-if-so-why
Pellegri Testament
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Considering we knew next to nothing for Titan was there really anything to expect? For all we know this was what Titan was always meant to be and all they did was rebrand it.
First impressions from Danny O'Dwyer from Gamespot. He is answering questions right now.
https://twitter.com/dannyodwyer
wow im so hype he has played a few matches in an excitable atmosphere this deffo makes me want it more
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LukasTaves
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OMG Looks amazing!
PC only or they are bringing it to consoles?
PC only or they are bringing it to consoles?
Baleoce
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Yeah this is the impression I'm also getting.
Anyone ever pre order from the blizzard store and knows the answer to this question?
No one knows yet.