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Article: ‘Overwatch’ is the most arrogant game of 2016
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The character progression is the element I can't wait to get past in any shooter/twitch based game I've played. I was disappointed when they added it to the Battlefield series.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
Star Wars battlefront is a great example, extremely bare bones and online only game that had a far shorter dev time than usual. It sold well over 12 million copies, lost almost all of its players very quick but it didnt matter because it still made a ton of money.
I was hoping we'd get some info for the North American region today.
Right now Overwatch has more viewers then League of Legends on twitch. I have never seen any game have more viewers then LOL.
Lol, nope, it really is that good. People just can t handle that it s a Blizz game. I m not a Blizz lover at all, but they made one hell of a good game. I have 20+ hours in already, and still look forward to getting home and playing it. Not everyone is the same obviously, but to me, and many I know , this is the best game to come in a long while, and a lot of fun at that. Don t see me getting bored for a long, long time.
edit -- not meaning to derail the thread... My thoughts: I didnt buy it. But my guild leader Sandy in my guild has been playing it quite a lot. Meaning she isnt online in WoW anymore because shes been playing Overwatch. She says she will come back when Legion releases, though.
Firstly, the only direct competitor is Team Fortress 2. I don't think the market is saturated with games like Overwatch. Call of Duty, CS:GO and Battlefield are all extremely different. While they are shooters, Overwatch is an ability centric game, much more similar to MOBAs than to CS:GO.
Secondly, competetive team games are not known for meta-progression. The main point is that all players are equal. The player progresses in terms of personal skill, not game dictated "skill". Adding any substantial progression system would pull away from that core principle.
I remember the main criticism for Heroes of the Storm was actually forced progression. People were upset they need to unlock abilities - saying they can't compete on an equal footing on lower levels.
I think Overwatch is unique enough for it to be a viable product. The moment to moment gameplay is fun, which is the most important thing. It could use with more social features in my opinion, to establish a stronger sense community. I did not play Counter Strike because of levels, but because my friends played it too.
With all the familiar "faces" I've seen in jail over the past week, I'm beginning to feel like I missed out on some awesome prank you guys pulled on Bill. :P
I honestly would give it a whirl, I'm just not going to pay $40 for a game that also has microtransactions.
I still maintain that DOTA 2 has far and away the best monetization model in the industry (outside of standard buy to play models, which are my preferred).
If they want my money its either an entry fee in the form of a game purchase, or me buying purely cosmetic items through an in game store, not both.
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Since its launch I haven't seen Overwatch out of the top five, almost always in the top three, and quite often in the #1 spot. That may or may not continue to be the case, of course, but so far I've seen no evidence of Overwatch slowing down. Nor are its numbers particularly dependent on time-of-day, which seems to indicate it's not just dependent on a couple of big name streamers.
Battleborn (which I bought, but quickly bored of; I don't own Overwatch) has dropped like a rock. I rarely see it over 500 viewers and at the moment it's so far down the list I can't be arsed to find it.
Somewhat to my surprise, I've noticed that since the 1.2 patch The Division (which I also own, but haven't played in weeks) has stabilized at around 5K viewers, for the most part, after having dropped down to the 1K range prior to the patch. Didn't really expect to see it make a Twitch comeback, given that, unlike Destiny, it lacks arena PvP and, at least as far as I can figure out, PvP is the big draw on Twitch.
I honestly don't know how good an indicator Twitch is of a game's overall health, I suspect my friend is right and that for PvP-focused games it's probably pretty good. Whatever the case, since launch Overwatch has been pulling consistently high numbers, often the #1 spot, and so far there's no real indication of it slowing down.
I disagree with this point. Clearly the chokepoints are intentional. It allows for strategic setting up for characters that need to, which is a lot of them. There are tons of nooks and crannies for snipers to work out of around them, plenty of places for symetra to hide things.
When I watch low-level games, players do just rush at eachother. But in higher-level games, people make calls to wait and group and push as a unit.
Compared to CS:GO maps I've seen, these maps are way better and better looking, of course.
I see all of Blizzard's attention to detail throughout the game.
As for his main point that they didn't reinvent the wheel, well, that's not what Blizzard does, and nowhere did they claim to have done it. They take solid ideas and polish the hell out of them.
There are some really cool things and character abilities I've not seen in games before.
Granted, I've not played many shooters or TF2, but the game seems fresh to me.
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I have no doubt whatsoever that Blizzard is going to add all sorts of goodness to OW over the coming months and years. While I don't play for hours at a stretch, and never will, I love it and can't see myself bothering with any other FPS.
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It's a game that millions love because...here's a shocker....it's fun.
If turnabout is fair play, let's try this: Blizzard haters lack imagination.
I'm going to assume that you said what you did because it's irksome that people like a game that you don't. Know what? What makes this world so amazing is that all sorts like all kinds of different things. Don't like OW? Great. But don't besmirch those who do.
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On the topic, well I don't agree with the op in any way. I already played Overwatch +450 hours(beta included) and I still play it everyday without slowing down. This game made me quit mmorpgs(finally). And I don't think I will ever get bored from it, given that I played Tf2 over +3000 hours.
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Then he says that after investing a dozen hours, he's seen it all... after saying it's worse than Halo, Counterstrike and Call of Duty in which you will see all there is to see in 15 minutes.
The ignorance in this "review" is astounding. Someone has an axe to grind because all their buddies are playing Overwatch and they're sitting on an empty CoD server going "Guys? Guys??!?".