katsubento
Member
Kudos. It's a great game
Overwatch wins Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2016
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Hierophant
Banned
you know tf2 wasn't free to play on launch right?
RecRoulette
Member
I'd put Street Fighter above it. Overwatch is still trying to figure out what it really is, with constant changes and updates. They went from "Hero stacking is a part of the game" to "Okay fine we fixed it."
Dusktildawn48
Member
Most of gaf hates uncharted 4. So no.
Yes and then it did, then it became worth playing
Leafhopper
Banned
Pretty much.
Unknown?
Member
lol, no.
and lock actual gameplay content behind loot drops and make cosmetics locked behind a paywall? Yeah, no thanks.
Well, it's true.
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
I own both Uncharted 4 and Titanfall 2, yet I don't own Overwatch and I'm glad it won.
bigboss370
Member
imo the best games combine great story and great gameplay, and overwatch didn't do enough in the story department. Not gonna say it doesn't deserve GOTY though, its still a great game.
Char Aznable
Member
Well deserved, overwatch is an amazing game, love playing it with my friends
Hellsing321
Member
They got it right for once!
That Damn Kid
Member
My thoughts on this show...
Have the Black Beatles song playing in your head...
♫ This show is only good for teasers
Goddamn, Geoff Keighley loves Kojima
Mick Gordon's performance about to give me fucking seizures
Finish the show, it's getting too crony
Nintendo still tryna sell Wii U
GAFers mad for whatever reason
More AssCreed footage? Keep drinkin'
I'll fucking lose it if Uncharted 4 doesn't win it ♫
Have the Black Beatles song playing in your head...
♫ This show is only good for teasers
Goddamn, Geoff Keighley loves Kojima
Mick Gordon's performance about to give me fucking seizures
Finish the show, it's getting too crony
Nintendo still tryna sell Wii U
GAFers mad for whatever reason
More AssCreed footage? Keep drinkin'
I'll fucking lose it if Uncharted 4 doesn't win it ♫
Equanimity
Member
Most posts are fine. It's just a few people that are quite audacious in their remarks against a bonafide GOTY contender.
I hope not.
Oh is it "cool" to pretend this is true? Because... Lol, come on... No.
I don't have beef with Overwatch really, I haven't played it but it looks good and it's by far the most talked game around my circles this year, so it has to be doing something right.
The thing I'm pissed at is how Dark Souls 3 wasn't nominated at all for anything somehow. Surely it's important enough as a series by now to make it into these awards, no? Weird.
Edit: Hold on, it looks like it was nominated for best RPG. Still weird that it was only that, but eh.
The thing I'm pissed at is how Dark Souls 3 wasn't nominated at all for anything somehow. Surely it's important enough as a series by now to make it into these awards, no? Weird.
Edit: Hold on, it looks like it was nominated for best RPG. Still weird that it was only that, but eh.
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
Uncharted 4, much like Titanfall 2 is a great game where pretty much ONE aspect all but ruined it.
Uncharted 4 fixed SOOOOOOO much from the first 3 games and then undid all of it with atrocious pacing. Not forgetting that the game simply outstays it's welcome. It just drags on.
Laieon
Member
To put in perspective how popular OW is here, it managed to dethrone League of Legends. My students couldn't care less about LoL now it's all about OW.
Hopefully this is a sign that From Software will drop Dark Souls and reboot their best franchise, Lost Kingdoms.
Someday... God do I miss that series.
I would prefer that then grinding constantly just for one box, took forever in the free weekend against AI just to level up
Well Deserved. I played over 300hrs of Overwatch, which makes it the game I've spent most time.
Agree with this. Uncharted 4 was really unimpressive and there are many other great games that deserve GOTY.
Or, you know, people disagree with you? You know people have different opinions yes?
Anyways, let's check the nominees:
Overwatch - Better than Uncharted 4? - Yes
Titanfall 2 - Better than Uncharted 4? - Yes
Inside - Better than Uncharted 4? - Yes
damn, that was hard.
Don't play against AI then? You get more XP fighting actual people, for obvious reasons.
Equanimity
Member
Nope. It's subjective.
Dance Inferno
Unconfirmed Member
A bunch of things actually. The way they handle leavers is to punish everyone on the leaver's team rather than to actually create extremely painful punishments for the leaver. If someone leaves your game then you get a message then you get a loss, which is something that you have no control over whatsoever. It is a punishment for the leaver's teammates more than anything else. They tell you that you can leave the game with no consequences, but they don't mention that you lose any XP gained in that match. So if you want to actually earn the XP for that game, you have to stay until the very end in a completely one-sided match that isn't fun for you. That by itself is a glaring flaw in the competitive mode.
Next, the placement system in Season 2 placed so many people in Gold and Platinum that matches in those levels were all over the place. Sometimes you'd get balanced matches, but most of the time they were stomps because you've got people of all skill levels being placed together. You can't create a competitive mode where you lump 80% of people into the same skill tiers; that's not how you create balanced games and it makes for an unenjoyable experience.
Then you have the streak system which still baffles me. The system increases the amount of rank you gain/lose every time you win/lose a consecutive game. So you gain more rank for winning multiple games in a row, and you lose more rank for losing multiple games in a row. This makes no sense from a statistical perspective because even in a perfect 50% probabilistic universe you will get lots of streaks. Flip a coin 1,000 times and you'll get roughly 500 heads and 500 tails, but you'll also get tons of streaks along the way; it's a natural occurrence. With Overwatch's ranking system you would actually end up either higher or lower than where you started even if you won 50% of all matches because of this nonsensical streak system.
I have complaints about the loot box system, matchmaking, and other aspects of the game, but it's really the competitive mode that completely baffles me. The gameplay itself is really fun and with tweaks to the matchmaker and the competitive mode the game could be amazing, but after putting 50 hours into the game I just can't enjoy it anymore. I feel like the competitive mode needs a few more iterations before I can consider it a fun and enjoyable experience.
What A Time To Be Alive
Member
Some bullshit tbh
LurkerPrime
Member
TF2 was actually a lot more fun before it went free-to-play. A time when equipping items was a genuine strategic decision, rather than a means to monetisation. Also, weirdly, going free-to-play killed some alternative game modes, like Arena.
Overwatch wouldn't be improved by going free-to-play.
But what if I don't want too? what if I prefer fighting against bots
It sends a message to devs to prioritize gameplay mechanics over mundane slow cinematic experiences.
Yes, december 2015 and not considered for any awards that year. Plus its a completley different game now than what it was last year. It was also nominated for the multiplayer award.
Psychoward
Banned
Then you still get less xp. A lot of mp games don't give you any progression for fighting against bots because then people would cheese that.
Besides the fact literally every single gameplay item is unlocked before your first match. That's a rarity these days. Even DOOM and Battlefront didn't do it.
Vital Tundra
Member
Glad it wasn't Uncharted. Love Overwatch.
Radical Edward
Member
There were at least 2 other nominees with better gameplay, though
Why would you buy a multiplayer game to only play against bots? It's literally ignoring the major part of the game.
Most games also don't give you anything, not even XP for playing against bots btw.
Psychoward
Banned
No.
Team Fortress 2 balance is in the shitter partially because of it being free to play. Then there's the way they completely whore out their cosmetics... if you think OW does cosmetics poorly you should take a look at TF2.
Also Team Fortress 2 became f2p years after it was released, Overwatch hasn't even been out a year yet.
Crankshaft
Member
Well its not like Overwatch had any competition this year. It was either it or recycled sequel 9000. OW deserves any and all praise it receives.
Well the day it does, I will download it because then it will the price it should of been at launch.
Radical Edward
Member
Wha? Clearly you haven't played all the nominees
Psychoward
Banned
Ok. I'm sure Blizzard will take your weird refusal to purchase a game because it doesn't meet your arbitrary, unprecedented standards seriously.
Like, you don't seem to enjoy multiplayer shooters. That's fine, that doesn't mean they're not worth the money to those who do.
If it was f2p the microtransactions would have been assuredly worse, the community would probably be worse and the heroes might be on rotation which would be a death blow to the game. It being retail price means they could offer all heroes, cosmetics and future updates and content to owners of the game without any additional purchase.
Hierophant
Banned
tf2's downfall started with f2p update lol
Yeah but you don't even really care about the game so why do we care what you think about how it should have been priced? If you only want to play against AI, it's not a game for you. Move on.