Blizzard announces Overwatch. Team based MP Shooter [Up: Trailers, Screens, More]

It's a wild idea, I know. Or what about an old woman? I'm not sure if I can handle a character like that yet, though.

TBH I like most of the designs. Symmatra wears like an evening dress, but I think it looks great, and I enjoy that Pharah mains a rocket launcher (the only female character I associate with that weapon is Lucy in Quake 3). But particularly diverse they're not.

Older female characters are incredibly rare in games, which is likely a consequence of them marketing only to males for such a long period. (See: The OKCupid age/attraction charts.)

I wouldn't mind tearing people up with my female rogue dwarf, WelkinKnight. I made that gender/race combo specifically because it was rare.

I don't think we'll get a female Pudge or Urgot any time soon, but an old witch or sorc would be cool. Most of the atypical fem heroes will probably be monster/creature or like pharah, just be a samus.
 
I think this is stupid.
Give her a proper armor or leave her as she is, just putting a cloth shirt under the metal bra just to calm down the fiercest feminists is stupid.
The "this-armor-doesn't-really-protect" problem persists.

Well she is a ranger type, so she shouldn't really have 'proper armor' to begin with, drawing a bow with those shoulder pads and gauntlets would be impossible. But trying to bring logic and reasonability into discussions about blizzards armor designs is kind of pointless, male or female.

Sylvanas(at least since she became undead anyway) was always the 'edgy badass' of the windrunner sisters. Vereesa is much more modestly dressed:

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And Alleria is gone missing, but would probably be something in the middle(the dota version is not far off what I would imagine).

Sylvanas is a bit of an outlier for Blizzard's female characters, along with a couple others I mentioned earlier like Alextrasza(who is a dragon aspect, so why would she need armor or clothes?). Most of the major female warcraft NPCs like Jaina, Katrana Prestor, Tyrande, Maiev, etc. are not dressed like that.

There is a pretty decent spectrum of female characters in warcraft, if you look past the noticable outliers.
 
So I watched all the videos and read a lot of impressions and to break it down into a short summary Overwatch is: FPS; hobby-grade coop campaign; genre-blended, multi-mode competitive e-sports; meta-growth, choice + epic Overwatch Heroes!

Am I getting this right?
 
So I watched all the videos and read a lot of impressions and to break it down into a short summary Overwatch is: FPS; hobby-grade coop campaign; genre-blended, multi-mode competitive e-sports; meta-growth, choice + epic Overwatch Heroes!

Am I getting this right?

and supposedly FUN!
 
Well she is a ranger type, so she shouldn't really have 'proper armor' to begin with, drawing a bow with those shoulder pads and gauntlets would be impossible. But trying to bring logic and reasonability into discussions about blizzards armor designs is kind of pointless, male or female.

Sylvanas(at least since she became undead anyway) was always the 'edgy badass' of the windrunner sisters. Vereesa is much more modestly dressed:

1MOfKp3.jpg


And Alleria is gone missing, but would probably be something in the middle(the dota version is not far off what I would imagine).

Sylvanas is a bit of an outlier for Blizzard's female characters, along with a couple others I mentioned earlier like Alextrasza(who is a dragon aspect, so why would she need armor or clothes?). Most of the major female warcraft NPCs like Jaina, Katrana Prestor, Tyrande, Maiev, etc. are not dressed like that.

There is a pretty decent spectrum of female characters in warcraft, if you look past the noticable outliers.

Artwork is another thing entirely though. Jaina and Valeera in Hearthstone aren't exactly dressed particularly well. Sylvanas card is also the old art with the bikini armour.
 
Blizz, first you steal Games Workshop fantasy, then you steal 40K, now you steal Homeworld logo?


y u do dis?


Also the cinematic trailer was goddamn big studio quality. They could totally make a movie like that.
 
I think this is stupid.
Give her a proper armor or leave her as she is, just putting a cloth shirt under the metal bra just to calm down the fiercest feminists is stupid.
The "this-armor-doesn't-really-protect" problem persists.

This might seem obtuse, but why would the queen of the undead give a shit about armor? What does she have to protect? She's already dead.
 
Artwork is another thing entirely though. Jaina and Valeera in Hearthstone aren't exactly dressed particularly well. Sylvanas card is also the old art with the bikini armour.

Jaina in Hearthstone may be more sexualized than her previous appearances, but it still isn't all that bad comparatively speaking.

And Valeera is a different character, one that I mentioned in my first post about the handful of outliers along with Sylvanas and Alextrasza.

If you are coming from an outside POV looking at hearthstone and some of the fan art and concept art, I get how someone could think that blizzard makes all their female characters dress slutty. From actually playing WoW though(and mostly female characters), 99% of the time there is absolutely no difference between how female and male characters dress(unless you want there to be and you transmog that way).

Also, I'm not trying to defend Blizzard's position as being super progressive with their character designs, if anything their spiel kind of falls flat to me because the overwatch females are mostly more sexualized than most of the warcraft characters(aside from the outliers we are talking about).
 
That's how people twerk in the future.

As for cosmetics, I hope they go the Dota 2 route. Have a base model that you can put many different things on so you can mix and match. I always thought League's palette swaps were too jarring.

How is it like, living in 2010?
 
Im 100% sure Tracer is Australian...



You know Australia is owned by England right?

They send their criminals there
Uh, what. England hasn't sent criminals to Australia for over 150+ years. I don't even know what you are talking about here. How did people even arrive at tracer being Australian?
 
Im curious. what other female body types could they use or do you want to see?

Pharah seems like she may be super muscular underneath that armor.

Tracer is skinny/athletic

Mercy is a little chubby

Symmetra and Widowmaker are voluptuous

Not to put words in your mouth, but this right here is the problem. When Mercy is considered "chubby" and a separate body type from Tracer, I don't even know what to say about that.

Some people can't even imagine women having more diverse body types than this, which should tell you just how bad this issue is.

In what fucking world is Mercy chubby?

In the world of video games.
 
Blizz, first you steal Games Workshop fantasy, then you steal 40K, now you steal Homeworld logo?



y u do dis?


Also the cinematic trailer was goddamn big studio quality. They could totally make a movie like that.

The two logos look nothing like.

Im curious. what other female body types could they use or do you want to see?

Pharah seems like she may be super muscular underneath that armor.

Tracer is skinny/athletic

Mercy is a little chubby

Symmetra and Widowmaker are voluptuous

In what fucking world is Mercy chubby?
 
Either way, it seems that Metzen is becoming more aware of this problem, so hopefully there will be a more diverse cast over time. At least these characters have clothes on, and Pharah already seems like a very interesting design in general.
 
Pharah seems like she may be super muscular underneath that armor.

Tracer is skinny/athletic

Mercy is a little chubby

Symmetra and Widowmaker are voluptuous

What the what?

I don't think anyone should include every body type under the sun due to >muh representation, but... what?
 
Rewatching the cinematic trailer, you can see a lot of other heroes that don't show up in any of the art on the main site yet.

Excited to see what else they have coming out way.
 
Just sent the following text to my best friend:

"What are your thoughts on Overwatch?

At first, I immediately dismissed it after seeing one screen. "TF2 clone, why?"

But watched the trailers and looked at more screens and read some impressions; and it's really growing on me. For some very odd reason, I don't normally like their art choices; but the style really works for me. Very clean. Character classes look fun. Gameplay looks very fast, and very team focused, which I like.

Basically, not a game I'd EVER think I would have gotten excited for; but for some unexplainable reason I'm intrigued."

He shot a text back seconds later that he feels the same. We're both hoping to get in the beta and it rolls out soon.

Just some impressions from a casual TF2-er (about 500 hours) who hasn't ever really liked a single Blizzard game.
 
Well yeah they haven't revealed this guy yet.

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Reminds be a bit of MP from Mass Effect 3 that you could play a Volus! :P

Said it in the other thread a few times i am very glad Jeff Kaplan is on board here he knows how to craft a game was glad to see him talk again after many years on Blizzcon.
 
Jaina in Hearthstone may be more sexualized than her previous appearances, but it still isn't all that bad comparatively speaking.

And Valeera is a different character, one that I mentioned in my first post about the handful of outliers along with Sylvanas and Alextrasza.

If you are coming from an outside POV looking at hearthstone and some of the fan art and concept art, I get how someone could think that blizzard makes all their female characters dress slutty. From actually playing WoW though(and mostly female characters), 99% of the time there is absolutely no difference between how female and male characters dress(unless you want there to be and you transmog that way).

Also, I'm not trying to defend Blizzard's position as being super progressive with their character designs, if anything their spiel kind of falls flat to me because the overwatch females are mostly more sexualized than most of the warcraft characters(aside from the outliers we are talking about).
Oh, I'm just saying that I wasn't particularly pleased with their recent artwork in Hearthstone. It's not an outsiders opinion. I've completed Warcraft 3, the expansion and played it online with friends quite a bit. Not to mention I played World of Warcraft Vanilla + TBC for around 2 years on and off during 05-07.
 
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