2015-11-06, 16:36 | Link #81 | |
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Shit ton of new characters, including my highly anticipated Cyborg Ninja!!! Overwatch coming to PS4, Xbox One, and PC in spring 2016 Quote:
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2015-11-06, 18:21 | Link #82 |
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Got to say I'm happy with all the new characters shown off. Get the Cyborg Ninja, lady with a freeze gun, and a pro gamer riding a giant pink mech . Definitely worthy additions to this colourful crew.
Bit surprising they just went with a priced game, but kind of a refreshing move to not be free to play. $40 for the actual game itself, $60 if you want some bonus skins and little things for other Blizzard games, and a monster collector's edition. Makes sense as well to go to console. Game should play just fine there as well. At this point everyone except the 3 newly announced characters (so 18 characters) are available to be played. Can just jump into the game playing whichever character you want and going from there.
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2015-11-07, 00:46 | Link #84 |
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That mech pilot looks like she was ripped straight out of Korean MMO
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2015-11-07, 01:16 | Link #85 |
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Join Date: Apr 2007
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They look pretty fun, I will admit I was a little surprised that all three were Asian though. Mei seemed like a shoe in for being an Eskimo I guess. Anyway, Mei needs a water bender costume. Her Ice wall thing is sweet. She remind's me of Ymir from SMITE, so much control. D. Va looks pretty cool, and the bailing out of the mech to not die thing is interesting (dat explosion, the rag dolling is gold). I suspect she will be quite popular. I expected a bit more of a K-Pop thing with her when I first saw her, the Pro-Gamer thing was funny (that and she streams her battles, how meta). Genji looks kinda fun, but I'm not big on melee characters tbh, still he should be very popular.
Have to say I'm a little disappointed with the price point they're going with. I honestly think they're hurting themselves for going with something that high. I was expecting, $20-30. I'm kinda glad its not free, because its prohibitive to cheaters, but I hope that means skins aren't going to be like $10 like they are in HotS.
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2015-11-07, 13:54 | Link #87 | |
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2015-11-07, 14:35 | Link #88 | |
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I don't see what is going to hold this game back. It's a multiplayer shooter, charging $40 at the door for entry doesn't seem particularly weird. Making people buy a game to play the game is how games have worked for a long time. What's the free to play competition? TF2? If it can't handle competing against that then the game should flop. More characters, abilities, better graphics, and a wide market to tap into with PC and the current gen consoles. TF2 had 4 years of buy to play before they switched models since they couldn't squeeze any more cash out of the entry side of things. Think it's ok to start off that way with Overwatch as well. And of course free to play is cheaper or free....."free to play" kind of says it all doesn't it ? I do kind of wonder if the Dotas of the world haven't messed people up. There's nothing wrong with games costing money.
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2015-11-07, 17:25 | Link #90 | ||||
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Missed opportunity, that. Quite cute as is, though.
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The Origins (AKA 'prequel') skins are interesting as well (for instance, note that the pattern around prequel!Farrah's neck is highly reminiscent of a common one seen on keffiyehs), and it would be a shame if they (along with Noire!Widowmaker, whose arm tatoo I suspect reads 'cauchemar' (nightmare) were preorder exclusives (as in the proper use of the term - its use as a synonym for 'early access' annoys me whenever it appears, much as the misuse of 'optics' as a synonym for 'appearance' or 'perception'). With all the effort they've put into fleshing out the world (and the fun at least some had doing it), it would also be a shame for a proper singleplayer game to not come out of it...
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2015-11-07, 18:41 | Link #92 | |
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Honestly, i wish they just come out and say how they are supporting the games post release. Paid map packs are terrible idea (fractured community), paid heroes is probably the way to go but they repeatedly say all heroes should unlocked, new skins is a dead giveaway or they are going with the old school expansion model. Hopefully there wont be any lockbox bullshit but i'm not that optimistic. Stripe away the Blizzard branding, it is still a $40 dollar multiplayer only FPS with 18(?) heroes and only a handful of maps. Pretty steep for a brand new IP in fairly crowded genre and additional content is probably not going to be free.
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2015-11-07, 20:48 | Link #94 | |
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21 Heroes on release, including the three they announced yesterday. The guy was cagey when he was talking about extra heroes, he said something that pretty much amounted to "they'll cross that bridge when they get to it." But IIRC he did say they didn't like the idea of adding heroes piecemeal (so "expansion" packs?). Also 21 heroes for an FPS game is huge, the game, despite what many seem to be trying to make it out as is not a MOBA it doesn't need extra heroes. Keeping it at 21 allows them to a handle on things easier and keeps things more focused for the players. The implication from the way things were worded was the base price gets all the heroes and maps, everything else is cosmetic extras (ie skins/voice packs). Hopefully the skins are cheap, but I doubt it.
Comparison wise, if each hero was purchased separately, it works out to be $1.90 per hero, compared to say the $5-$12 in HotS for each hero (which makes me think skins will be similar to what they are in HotS). Quote:
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2015-11-09, 11:43 | Link #99 |
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I just noticed from this pic from the 1st trailer there are still some characters that have yet to be introduced to the game.
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2015-11-09, 18:36 | Link #100 | |
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