fluffydelusions
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Nah. With Bliz it's all about getting the game to as many people as possible even people playing on a potato lol
Blizzard announces Overwatch. Team based MP Shooter [Up: Trailers, Screens, More]
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Nah. With Bliz it's all about getting the game to as many people as possible even people playing on a potato lol
Suzushiiro
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Yeah, Blizzard seems to be as tired of them revealing a game several years before it launches as we are. Both Hearthstone and HotS went into alpha/beta only a few months after reveal (well, excluding HotS' false starts as Blizzard DotA and Blizzard All-Stars,) and I'd imagine that Overwatch will be the same deal.
-MD-
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Which is fine by me, I think the game looks great as-is.
You say that but D3 runs like shit while also not looking amazing.
Now I'm in.There is no death match mode.
Fuck the kd mentality, gimme some teamwork and I'll play the shit out of it.
fluffydelusions
Member
Same here. I'm perfectly fine with how it looks. Actually looks great to me. I don't see a problem with the graphics
It's not that they used a stereotypical black name for a black character. That wouldn't be an issue. It's that they have used the de-facto black name (in the UK at least) for a fucking ape. If you don't see anything problematic with that, there's not much more I can say.
Gentleman Jack
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TF2 went for more stylized graphics for the same reason. Being playable on older hardware is pretty important if you want to build up a community.
CrunchyFrog
Member
Looks neat. Blizzard are wizards when it comes to cinematics. Why they're bothering with a live action WC film when they have the in house tools to make it CG I'll never know. If the game is F2P as rumored I just hope that they have a reasonable monetization schema and that there's a far easier learning curve than SC or Dota.
TF2's graphics were mainly a stylistic choice and it performed on par with the other Orange Box games when it was released, though it did stay on an older version of the engine because of that.
It ran like 60 fps on my gtx 260.
Aquavelvaman
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Went from zero to hyped in about 2 trailers, jeez.
fluffydelusions
Member
It looks like each character has 4 abilities going by the website so should be easy to pickup.
I don't like wasting my time, which is what happened everytime I tried a F2P game.
Still, this looks like SWTOR, and that game was released in 2011.
Rumors point to yes.
GasProblem
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More characters on the side there.
Cowboy is a badass motherfucker. (look at belt)
Last Uchiha
Banned
Wooooooooooow just wow
That's a pretty weak argument. For the longest time you were able to use a picmip kinda command to make it run on a potato. The joys of PC gaming and configs.
fluffydelusions
Member
Yeah, they said more are coming. They are only showing 12 right now.
Team deathmatch is a thing and requires a lot of co-ordination in any half decent FPS. Not including one of the most basic, deep and enduring game modes should not be perceived as a good thing.
As for the game as a whole, Blizzard will fuck this up. Just give them time.
Lol!! what the hell is that from
Dreams-Visions
Member
What? The genres do it overlap. How could one kill off the other?
Depends on how it's done. It will fucking suck if classes are locked behind grinds or paywalls.
That is the worst part of LoL.
Slamtastic
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Suzushiiro
Banned
Yeah, Blizzard games have always looked like shit from a technical standpoint compared to the games of its time because you can't really afford to spend a bunch of money making a game that is primarily or exclusively for PC that can only run on machines with a $200+ dedicated graphics card.
People bitch a lot about multiplat PC games' graphics being "held back by consoles," but that's a hell of a lot better than being held back by Intel integrated laptop GPUs with shared memory.
Don't see them doing anything else.
Would be dumb not to make it F2P.
:lol if they go P2P then add microtransactions. But I'm in the F2P camp.
Because it's fun.
Can Crusher
Banned
Cool Blizzard... the world really needed another mp shooter.
Turrets aren't useless in death match. Though in the games I played the build and upgrade times weren't half as long as the one in in this game without the ultimate.
Dreams-Visions
Member
And with less charm.
And we'll have to see how the balance and gameplay turns out. The later is not one of Blizzard's strengths.
His point remains. Some classes straight up do not work in Deathmatch.
Chaos2Frozen
Member
More characters on the side there.
Cowboy is a badass motherfucker. (look at belt)
Cyborg-fucking-Ninja for me please XD
Many F2P games use bad design to sell products, making them bad games. They are also constrained in a competitive sense because the playing field is uneven.
Basically, it produces a conflict of interest where the developers make more money by making a worse game.
Pop
Member
So what should they have done?
The worst part of LoL is the pointless runes that only exist for a grind. I don't have a problem with buying heroes.
Compsiox
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fluffydelusions
Member
I'm OK with this type of MP shooter. COD style I'm bored of however. This is all my opinion though etc etc.
Compsiox
Banned
Such information. Much accomplish
Suzushiiro
Banned
Yeah, I know Tigole and Metzen didn't want to talk about it, but in this day and age it's pretty silly for anyone to not make a class/character-based MP-only game F2P. The only question at this point is if it's going to be the Valve "characters are free, pay only for vanity bullshit" model or the Riot "pay for characters and vanity bullshit" model.
HotS is the latter, but it's entirely possible they'll decide the former works better for Overwatch.
HotS is the latter, but it's entirely possible they'll decide the former works better for Overwatch.
Gentleman Jack
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There's room for every publisher in each genre, I really don't see why you'd want LESS games coming out.