Blizzard Finally Announces New Game: Overwatch

[bloodroses75]

Blizzard: From innovators to imitators. How the mighty have fallen....

 

[dasper]

bloodroses75: Blizzard has never really been innovators or imitators. More of masters of refactoring.
When Warcraft and Starcraft came out during Age of Empires, Empire Earth, Earth 2140, Total Annihilation, Command & Conquerer, etc... They found what they felt made those games and stripped out the rest.
Diablo was against Gauntlet Legends, Dungeons & Dragons, Dragon Slayer, and so fourth. Again, found what they thought was fun and stripped out the rest.
World of Warcraft was not the first MMO and nothing exceptionally innovative compared to the competition and many felt it would be a short lived reign before Everquest 2 came out.
Brawlers may have spawned from their custom map editors but they did not create or innovate that genre. DOTA, LOL, HON, Smite... This market is already saturated as well. They are just putting what they feel is fun about it and stripping out the rest.

Blizzard is doing what they always do; trying to take what they like about a genre and make their version of it that they feel is fun, and if they do not feel like it will stand up to their standards then they will scrap it. It will not be fun to everyone but will be a Blizzard game.

 

[grokem]

It takes a long time to master a given character class and this game has a lot. I lost count at some point when I figured they couldn't possibly have any more. It reminds me of the viral video "Too many cooks". I was singing the song during the entire too long trailer. Maybe the game will be good but it's hard to see how they will balance so many characters.

 

[garrick]

Will it be free to play I wonder? If not it won't entice people to leave TF2 I think.

 

[clembez]

Im actually quite surprised at how bad this looks. Im a big TF2 fan and not saying it cause of that. Might be nice to have something similar with a different perspective. Might actually be fun. To early to tell really. Still looks silly though.

 

[peterp01]

Sure, it looks like a Team Fortress 2 rip off, but then again TF2 is a little long in the tooth by now. Having played TF2 and it's previous incarnations in the Quake and Half Life engines too... I'm up for something fresh and this might just be it. Interesting maps, interesting characters, unique game play/combat per character. Sounds like a fun mash up to me.

 

[comp_builder22586]

As an attendee of blizzcon (and hence able to play the demo they had there), I have to say this game was a TON of fun. I think it will be much better than TF2, there is already a much greater variety in Heroes and gameplay vs TF.

 

[Cons29]

i like the variation of characters

 

[ib2007]

It all depends on how it will be done! All game types have been done before. Some better some worse. If this is team force type of game, it does not mean anything. The way how they manage to do it, means everything.
Always hope for the best and be afraid the worst, so yo don't get burned, by bad release.

Looks like we got a Blizzard spokes person in the house.

 

[Petros Komninos]

Well. im happy, new Blizzard annouce..
i call this UNREAL 2015.
(worker plays hearthstone in vid. haha)