Overwatch is only huge because it's following the MOBA format, right? Can anyone explain any other appeal it has? I tried the beta and as an arena shooter it utterly fails. The gameplay is not fun at all
I'm wondering what sort of person this game is designed for.
1. It was made by the same people who made the most popular mmo of all time so of course it would be famous
2. it's fun
3. the waifus also hanzo (and junkrat if you like twinks)
MOBAS are cancer therefore Overwatch = Cancer
Literally none of those things except 2 make the game good, and you haven't even shown 2 to be true.
I didnt say it makes the game good.. I meant those are the components that make the game popular
Which of you knew how to read was the question....
>I'm wondering what sort of person this game is designed for.
People who haven't played good arena shooters
Explain to me how's a MOBA?
Where are the lains? The minions in those lanes?
The core, towers, exp and buying items/skills?
overwatch wouldn't be shit if it didn't have waifus
Overwatch isn't a moba it's just an arena arcade shooter
We need more of those
1. waifus
2. dumbed-down gameplay
3. massive advertising
So the LoL approach.
Plus they have the added benefit of drones with similar magnitude of zealotry as Apple drones.
ults
gameplay centered around who has their ult = MOBA, and shit
>So the LoL approach.
Except those guys want LoL to be as popular as football and people to 'dream' about being a professional.
Remember when games were about just having fun?
Overwatch makes me remember.
>arena shooter
Overwatch is not an arena shooter.
Splatoon has the same thing, Damn that Moba!
Splatoon = worst MOBA of all time
>Overwatch makes me remember.
Blizzard totally wants in on that eSports pie, user.
I mean that should have been a bullet point, but I'm an idiot.
no it doesn't
press Q, and something AWESOME happens!
EVERYONE can be a hero in Overwatch!(tm)
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Yeah I'm afraid it is. Map ration and the like? Yeah, it's the worst MOBA At least LOL lets you choose it's two maps
ults
too bad the stupid faggots can't balance worth a dime
>press Q
you mean triangle, right?
That doesn't mean people don't play it as an arena shooter.
because they do
Yeah, Splatoon has those for each and every weapon user
Literally even called ults which mean it's a bad moba imho
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Splatoon does have ults retard
I'm not that user, but... what?
Do you mean Overwatch identifies as an arena shooter, even though it's not?
That hasn't stopped Riot from making CoD money from their pile of ass cancer.
Balance difficulty scales quadratically with the number of heroes.
Did Splatoon get good? I bought it day one, played for about 3 hours and wasn't into it. I still have it though.
No, I'm saying people play it as an arena shooter, regardless of what it is or what people say it is. I'm just saying people play it as one
Overwatch is a tactical shooter, you're not supposed to be running around as a sniper with a shotgun, each character has a specific role.
Oh, and fuck Blizzard for bastardizing military terminology, "Support" class lays down covering fire, "Medic" does periphery.
If you wasn't into the multiplayer back then you won't be now. Just a lot of new maps, modes, weapons and clothes have been added.
It's still the same game.
>military terminology
It's ASSFAGGOTS terminology.
it's pretty simple OP. Sup Forums shits on battleborn, and has multiple threads/generals for overwatch daily. do you really need to ask if its fun?
I know, I'm just saying people still do. That's all I see anyway/
Seriously though, how the fuck does Mercy carry a machinegun?
Honestly, Blizzard haven't made a good game since Warcraft 3. People who buy this game are either Blizzard cock suckers or teenagers tired of TF2 and COD.
>wondering what sort of person this game is designed for.
People who like casual "fun" without heavy consequences for fucking up.
Are you a retard?
Why do you think TF2 peeked as high as it did?
You don't really know what an arena shooter is, do you?
In arena shooters, everyone starts with the same weapon, and gameplay revolves around picking stuff up from the arena (weapons, armor, modifiers...)
In Overwatch, since it's a class based shooter, you start with a predefined loadout.
So, explain that to me. How do you "play it as an arena shooter, even though it's not"?
>ults
so super smash bros brawl is a moba?
>Moba
Into the trash your opinion goes
>Implying this is a blizzard thing
Dumb idiot
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warcraft 3 was crap you underage pantshitter, C&C and AoE were lightyears ahead when that launched
diablo was the last good one
You just explained it user. Are you mental?
>Contrarian post
Took long enough
So people are picking up imaginary items from the map? Is the community really THAT retarded?
user lol you're too much! I see you never played it before.
Ooh, a tripfag to filter.
Fuck off tripfag, W3 was a good game. Not as great as the previous ones though.
The same imaginary items they picked up in instagib, before you were born, last night.
Now I'm just confused... This shilling is too intense for me
I don't think I'd like playing overwatch because the threads, and by extension the community, remind me of mobas too much.
People losing their shit over what everyone else is doing, the heroes they pick, how good they are, etc.
I think Overwatch is casual shit. I hope Blizzard pays me for that opinion, because that'd be pretty nice of them.
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>remind me of mobas too much
Most players come from LoL or DOTA, so the community is pretty much the same as a MOBA.
The only aspects of it that are like a moba are the focus on characters and the abilities, aside from that it doesn't resemble mobas at all. There is no game mode that comes close to it. It's pretty irritating when you niggers compare the two. The game relies more on fps skills, chances are some noscoping underage fagarino is going to be naturally better than a moba faggot. It's an fps and that's it. Fucking black cocks 3 has the same 2 features this game has and no one calls it a moba.
I'll take things that are untrue and unverifiable for 800, Alex
How is there character switching "at a cost" in Overwatch but not in TF2?
Overwatched completely gutted lolgen and the number of players of LoL in pcbangs.
You know it's the truth.
Just look at the twitch streams or the player behavior. Same shit you would find in League of Legends.
thanks for proving my point, there were a metric fuckton of games being released at that point that set the water mark WAY higher than "good". and innovated instead of dumbing down. the only people settling for WC3 were kids that didn't know any better.
>Waifus
>Appeals to normies
>Not a hard game
It's basically taking over LoL since Riot fucked up their own game and people are jumping ship and once they release competitive it will be king of mobashit.
Memes aside is it a good game
Graphics from the Incredibles, Gmod Machinima RIP in peace, custom skins, and free-to-play.
Games that try to be discrete arena shooters are good (eg. Doom, Halo 2).
Games that try to be discrete tactical shooters are good (eg. Tom Clancy, Counter-Strike).
Games that try to to both are casualized for both niches (eg. Call of Duty, Battlefield).
Now imagine adding that new point of MOBA-like and then you'll see why people hate games like Team Fortress 2 and Overwatch and Stillborn.
Stillborn is the only MOBA game you mentioned
Microtransactions and characterized loadouts are inherently RTS, ergo MOBA.
damn so all this time fighting games have been mobas...BTFO fighting nerds.
>Graphics from the Incredibles, Gmod Machinima RIP in peace, custom skins, and free-to-play.
Literally before free to play.
Also you are talking about things THE COMMUNITY MADE, and the graphics are/were shit.
You're just being knit picky.
Overwatch might not be good but it has what a lot of people want, clearly.
>arena shooter
Nothing about overwatch says arena shooter. Unless your definition of 90s era shooters and arena shooters is
>DEY GOT DA HEALTHPACKS!!!
Which honestly is as retarded as Blizzards "loveletter to 90's shooters" marketing
A better comparison would have been arcade and class-based shooter
Clear Lee, if u think fightan gaemz r boot da ultraz, den uz wak
I agree, I think overwatch is more frustrating than fun. I hop on to play with friends but I can't play for very long because the game frustrates me primarily from the 20 tick rate servers and bogus hitboxes which I'm surprised that a game with as much polish as overwatch has would fuck up so badly on those.
I just wish it wasn't $40. Good buiseness practice on Blizzard though
>Overwatch
>MOBA
lmao
This meme is about as interesting as that "superior version" meme of Mercy's ass
>Overwatch
>switching chars at a cost
explain
Oh boo hoo, it's even worse on consoles, you know. $59.99.
>Current Year
>Being poor
Does anyone else like the game but does not really enjoy playing any character? I think they're all boring...
well in tf2 swapping will only make you losea killstreak or something fancy like that, on the other hand swapping in overwatch makes you lose all your % ult meter.
>Something I don't agree with, must surely be shitposting!
MoBA format? You mean the three lanes and a jungler. Oh, you must mean the last hitting creeps for 20 minutes at the beginning of the game... Oh... You must mean buying items to specifically meat the needs of how you've played so far and apapting to whether your ahead of behind.... You mean how Heros have abilities. Yep MOBA tried and true. Considering how some retard is going to try and say that it is technically a MOBA it is not a MOBA in the same sense as LOL or DOTA or any of the other bandwagoning rip offs that tried to mimic them. It's an arena shooter that I will agree at the moment is more objective based than just short-shorty, but it is not Lol rip off
just referring to the ult charge
shit taste xd
why do you people continue to make these threads
you don't like the game, other people like the game. that is how the world is with things, it's not some big fucking weird mystery that a game you dislike has players.
Who gives a fuck?
>you don't like the game, other people like the game. that is how the world is with things
Where do you think we are?
It's a fact actually that's why it's interesting.
um... your question was "what makes the game popular" and "i wonder who this was made for"
If you think your question was anything else, go back to 4th grade.
>Ask a question, give anwser
>Who gives a fuck?
>Arena shooter
There are two types of FPS: Arena, and tactical.
Arena
>Quake
>Unreal
>Doom
>Halo up to 3
Tactical
>Overwatch
>Team Fortress
>Counter-Strike
>Gears of War
>Tom Clancy
Notice what they have in common? Overwatch is NOT an arena shooter.
Gamefaqs
It's really easy.
1, Money = Advertisement.
2, Sex = Sales.
3. Word of mouth = Friends that will only buy a game because there friend(s) plan on playing it.
That's about it really. It doesn't matter if the game is good or bad. With those 3 powers, you can shove it down anyone's throat.
>Theory
Say, if we were to jump in a time machine and created a complete copy (identical 100%) of Overwatch before blizzard creates it, without the three powers, our version would not sale, would get shitty reviews and everything else that comes with niche games.
That only leaves.... MOBA OMG IT'S A MOBA
Overwatch and TF aren't tactical shooters either.
Maps typically have three lanes, sometimes only two.
think of it as a single lane in a moba and there are no minions just other heros. instead of pushing down a tower your capping a point.
There are ults and units broken up into class.
However, there is no leveling mechanic so classes like 'carry' don't exist.
Yes they are. Each class has a specific function. When you work alone, you get crushed by the enemy, but when you work as a team, you outdo your adversary. That's what tactical shooters are about. Tactics.
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Uh its a good game xd get some taste lol