TF2 vs Overwatch

TF2 vs Overwatch

Which game has the best characters?

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Paladins

TF2

>one game has unique and funny characters
>other has boring unsurprising stereotypes

hmm i wonder

Second line sums up both games pretty well.

true
the reason why OW is loved is because of its great characters while TF2 is nothing but "lol so randumb" idiots

OW characters never fucking talk or interact with each other.

Overwatch is just the Burger King Kids Klub in videogame form.

true
the reason why TF2 is loved is because of its great characters while OW is nothing but "lol so randumb" idiots

This, OW is better by miles.

t. a kid
only a kid would fall in love with these walking pixar style / tumblr writing memes

This, TF2 is better by miles.

Just post the Pharah lewds already. That's the whole fucking reason this thread exists.

me on the left

>Team Fortress 2 is one of the greatest games ever made. It’s in my top 10, without a doubt. At the time that it came out, I felt like there was no purer example of elegant, masterful game design. Everything existed for a reason. And the game had so much flavor and color. I had played Team Fortress since the original quake mod and loved it. I played TONS of TFC. I was one of those fanboys who was eagerly awaiting the “WW2” Team Fortress game. So I was just blown away when TF launched.

Is this legit?

Yes they do, cancer child

Yes

Tracer.

lets ship OW females with TF2 cast
First, Zarya and Hoovy

RED team only tho

>not maining Kid Vid

>Jaws
>the only one in the club with defined lips
the burger king staff were a bunch of cheeky motherfuckers weren't they

Say what you want about the gameplay. But when it comes to characters, tf2 wipes the floor with most games out there.

Paladins or Quake Champions.

The only people in OW resembling a character are Junkrat, Roadhog and Reinhardt. The rest is cringelords and borelords.

"I love your new album, can i have an autograph?"
"Sure thing."
How can TF2 compete?

Only at the beginning of a round, sometimes.

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PSSSSH tf2 by far. Overwatch characters look like some fucking cringe anime meetup

So why would he make something so trash like OW?

reinhardt and pharah have amazing character designs

too bad pharah is such a boring nothing character in terms of personality though

pharah is literally just "brown Samus with the Quake 3 rocket launcher," though

the "robotic predator bird" look is really really cool

same with mercy's robotic angel motif. those 3 are probably the best character designs in OW.

how can ow beat tf2 when its interactions dont even work
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Overwatch.

the Mercs are more memorable, but the Overwatch cast is way more marketable. there's no way you can have someone as red pilled as Soldier or as crass as Scout because the majority of people won't be able to recognize them, only losers who live on the internet like us can on a regular basis

Dude, I laughed for a good few minutes with this webm.

>wheels

I forgot how much shit you could get away with back then, this would create a shitstorm if it happened now.

Save it my friend, it's all yours.

This

But to be fair the TF2 mercs were gaming icons for years after the release in 2007. There was fucktons of fanart, memes, animations, fandoms etc. of all the characters. It only started dying off when TF2 started dying off. And OW sprang up to replace it.

I like OW but the TF2 mercs are better written. With a couple exceptions.

I'd argue Torb, Junkrat, Reinhardt and Sombra are about on par in terms of dialogue.

>Torb openly racist towards robots
>Treats his turret like his own child
>Pops out quips related to engineering when he kills you
>Has great banter with Reinhardt
>MOLTEN COOOOORE
>Gets a kill and rein shouts "WELL DONE MY DIMINUTIVE FRIEND"

And Junkrat's just gold with all his shit.
And I like Sombra just annoying everyone.

youtu.be/yK9ya1vZZcU

overwatch for porn

tf2 for depth

Fucking pink haired SJW trash would be smashed through the desk trying to armwrestle heavy, This picture is BS.

>FLIGHT'S CANCELLED, AMELIA
>THIS IS A MAN'S WAR, GRANNY, GO BACK TO KNITTING SWEATERS
>MERCY IS NOT A WORD IN THIS SOLDIER'S DICTIONARY
>JUMP BACK IN TIME ALL YOU WANT, REDCOAT. YOU WILL NEVER UNDO THE INDEPENDANCE OF THIS GREAT NATION, OR YOUR ASS KICKING
>SWISS NEUTRALITY IS NO MATCH FOR AMERICAN FREEDOM
>OLD SOLDIERS NEVER DIE, THEY GET DOMINATED
>I AM AN EXPERIENCED KILLER OF BOTH ROBOTS AND HIPPIES. YOU JUST MET YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE
>I am the Dahli Lama of killing robots!
>THE ONLY MUSIC WELCOME ON THE BATTLEFIELD ARE WAR BUGLES, EXPLOSIONS AND SCREAMING
>NICE TRY CROISSANT, BUT I COULD SEE YOUR WHITE FLAG FROM A MILE AWAY
>TAKE OFF THOSE TRAINING WHEELS AND FIGHT ME LIKE A MAN
>YOUR FLIMSLY JETPACK IS NO MATCH FOR GOOD OL' AMERICAN ROCKET JUMPING
>Eagle takes falcon. Checkmate!
>THE ONLY THINGS RAINING FROM ABOVE ARE BLOOD GIBLETS
>I'VE FOUGHT IN REAL WARS, SON! THAT I STARTED! AND ENDED!
>YOU ARE NOT A REAL SOLDIER! YOU ARE A CIVILIAN PLAYING DRESS-UP!

Based Jeff.

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>Battleborn got away with EagleBro

whyyyyyyyyy

>DOMINATED, Hiroshima!
>Swords cannot pierce through this red, white n' blue KILLING MACHINE, son.
>HOO-AH! That's 3-0, Hiroshima!
>Even the Rising Sun is eclipsed by the radiant justice of AMERICA!
>GERMANY MAY START THE WARS BUT IT'S AMERICA THAT WINS THEM
>I AM GOING TO PUT LEDERHOSEN ON AND CHICKEN DANCE ON YOUR GRAVE, IT WILL BE EMBARRASSING FOR THE BOTH OF US
>YOU'RE MORE FIT FOR TEA PARTIES THAN A WEAPON, SALLY
>THE RED MENACE IS NOW RED SNOW
>GO BACK TO MAKING SNOW CONES, CHOW YUN-FAT
>TRY GRAPPLING AWAY FROM THE ROCKETS NEXT TIME MS. BAGUETTE
>GAZE INTO THE IRIS OF LIBERTY BEATNIK-BOT
>SUN TZU INVENTED WAR BUT AMERICA INVENTED WINNING
>WAR'S A LOT DIFFERENT FROM YOUR COMPUTER GAMES ISN'T IT LITTLE MISS SPANDEX
>YOU CALL YOURSELF A SOLDIER DRESSING LIKE THAT? WEAR THE UNIFORM SON!
>MAYBE I NEED TO REMIND YOU OF WHY ITS CALLED A ZOO, MAGILLA GORILLA
>YOU GIVE EXPLOSIONS A BAD NAME, SUNNY!
>AMERICAN BLOOD CAN NOT BE HACKED, SANCHEZ

>TF2 characters
>No dialogue with each other outside of direct combat interactions
>Kill lines, domination lines, revenge lines, getting healed lines, getting teleported lines, destroying buildings lines

>OW Heroes
>Exact same thing except they have tame ass pre-match banter too, and take on the role of the announcer mid match (Random heroes on your team calling out a teleporter/sentry gun, telling you to defend, telling you time is running out, calling out a sniper, telling you enemy is behind you etc.)

OW literally has more character voice interaction mid match than TF2 (Outside of manual voice lines, even then its close)

That isnt the difference. The difference is nobody in OW is written as well in mid game banter as Soldier is.

But then pretty much nobody in vidya is. Soldier is a treasure

I hate junkrat

>>Exact same thing
WRONG

>SWISS NEUTRALITY IS NO MATCH FOR AMERICAN FREEDOM

This is the best one and sounds like a real line

Can we port Soldier to OW please.

>implying the biggest movie of the decade (avatar) didn't start out calling a guy in a wheelchair "meals on wheels"

>Look at you. Soaring majestically through the air, like an angel. Then, plummeting down to the ground, like an angel with a bullet in her head.
>DOMINATED, YA PETROL HUFFING SACK OF SPOILED PORK
>Hold your gun with both hands and you might hit me, WANKA
>Nice try, love, but a professional never gets distracted!
>CAN'T JUMP BACK IN TIME WITHOUT A HEAD NOW, CAN YA MISSY?
>'course a bloody woman needs eight eyes to shoot straight
>looks like we got some yellow snow here lads!
>DOMINATED, YA HOP-SCOTCHIN' MOP-HEADED WANKER
>DOM-IN-ATED, SHIELA! YA GETTING THAT FEELING OF DEJA VU YET?
>what you do with a dragon, I do with a bullet
>one more angel on the ground
>Roses 'r red, corpses r' blue... you'd relate a lot to the second part, wouldn'tcha?

this picture gives you an idea of how poorly the overwatch models look outside of the lighting system.
as far as character personalities? I like the team fortress 2 characters. they've grown on me.

>Tiny baby lasers can't outsmart bullet
>Pink hair? Tiny baby like you would not last minute in Gulag.
>Your shields cannot outsmart MY BULLETS!
>NOW THEY ARE SENDING APE TO FIGHT HEAVY? DID HEAVY KILL ALL THE TINY BABIES?
>PUNY ROBOT MAKES FAKE NATASCHA, BUT REAL NATASCHA MAKES PUNY ROBOT SCRAP
>Da, my guns are better than YOUR guns! This is fact.
>You are like bear cub with water pistol!
>Defending teammates is DOKTOR'S job.
>Heavy will repaint silly haircut with your BLOOD!
>Tiny toys, tinier man!
>I DESTROY cowards toys! AGAIN!

Sorry had a stroke while typing this out, what I meant to say was that the stuff coming out of Soldiers and Scouts mouths are not something that the mainstream audience would like

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>TF2/Overwatch crossover
They would have to neuter the TF2 mercs so hard. Inagine Scout calling Tracer a limey carpetmuncher.

>I guess none a y'all are heroes then, what witchu dying and all that.
>Those are some cute lil' sentries. Get enough of 'em and you might be able to toast some bread.
>A sentry's got no business thinkin' fer itself.
>That cute lil' bird of yours is gonna fry up real good.
>Why don'tcha leave the sentry buildin' to a real engineer?
>I ain't one fer monkeyin' around.
>That's how a real Texan does it!
>Maybe someone shoulda oughta programmed you to fight a lil' more and preach a lil' less.
>With a suit like that, you'd think it wouldn'ta hurt you as much
>Put down the headphones and pick up a guitar, boy.
>I just sent your sorry behind back to the drawin' board, partner.
>Well, could always use the spare parts
>Engineer to Winston. "I'll be damned, Poopy Joe made it back home."

>disregards the voice command menu
>disregards pregame lines post MyM
come on. when was the last you played tf2?

>YOU SURE DID JUST DIE DIE DIED! HAH AHAHAHA!
>OH PLEASE, HAVE MERCY ON MY SOUL!
>You're not even the fattest pig I've killed today.
>Two good eyes, but still from an island of drunken buffoons
>I prefer to stab people with MY icicles
>ICE to meet you! HAH!
>Centuries in the art of spying have lead to THIS?
>You cowboys have no idea how to use a gun
>I can't tell which is dumber: you, or your hammer
>A front-facing shield, what a brilliant idea!
>Death comes... For YOU! AHAHAHA
>They should call you the man from U.G.L.Y.!
>We interrupt this stream to remind you, you suck!
>Hey, he really is a ghost!
>You died as you lived, a fallen angel!

>neutering the Mercs
that's grounds for execution right there.

>'course a bloody woman needs eight eyes to shoot straight

Overwatch characters are extremely plain and inexpressive, their personality is composed by a few boring traits that makes them completely predictable, also they all try to have a serious backstory but it doesn't reflect their cartoony aesthetics and elementary school tier ingame banter, on top of that they can be divided in two categories, the ones that are always cheerful, and Crawling.mp4

Tf2 wins by a landside

TF2 character design takes thoughts, themes and stereotypes from the ether of our collective consciousness, tunes them up to 11 and plays to their strengths. All while showing a bunch of love, appreciation and respect for what they're transforming.
Overwatch also takes familiar thoughts, themes and stereotypes but tries to do "modern" and "alternative but not too alternative" things with them in safe, inorganic and by the numbers ways. In the end it just all falls flat and feels sterile and bland.

Basically, TF2 uses unoriginal ideas in original ways while Overwatch uses unoriginal ideas in unoriginal ways.

Zarya is an Olympic weightlifter though

I dont think any of the mercs in tf2 insult sexualities.

They make "I slept with your mother" jokes but thats as risque as it goes in terms of sex

Violence wise? They're way too violent for OW

>disregards the voice command menu
>"OW literally has more character voice interaction mid match than TF2 (Outside of manual voice lines..."

TBF I was not aware they added pre-game voice lines to TF2. I havent played the game properly since roughly a while after MvM launch. And every other time I've played its just been hopping into an active game and no pre-spawn waiting. I'll have to give it a listen

>can't look at an enemy with your melee out and give them a threatening voiceline, sometimes class-specific, among many other interactions
>same thing
If they weren't going for mass marketing appeal, Overwatch would have a lot potential for class banter. But god forbid some feefees get hurt

>Treats his turret like his own child
Truly the height of Blizzard's originality.

>Oh no please, tell me how your katana lost to a bat
>Reflect my foot up your ass, pal!
>I been beaten by a fat hairless bear with a ham; you're small time!
>So many eyes and yet you STILL missed me!
>Oh hey, lovely view; your dead body really brings it all together!
>Here's you right now: HEE-KA-WAKI- Dead!
>Spent so much time finding peace ya couldn't find my bat in your skull!
>Ooooh, you can roll around on the ground! Don't you feel special!
>Oh I'm sorry, was my bat two inches too close to your face?
>You teleported somewhere just for me to kill ya! Good job!
>Oh man, look at the time! Oh wait, you're dead!
>Not so tough outside ya fancy robot suit, are ya?
>Bat A goes into Slot U, ya Swedish dolt!
>Oh man, you're so tiny! How do you even live?
>WOOHOO! Ya see dat!? I'm so fast, I jumped into duh future where yer DEAD!
>You've got skates on and you're still eatin' my dust!
>Hey four-eyes, FREEZE! Heheh, classic Scout.

>tfw they never gave Medic and Pyro domination lines for us to work with
I wanted to hear what sort of morbid medical jokes The Medic would've come up with while tryin my best to decipher what The Pyro is trying to say. pointless, but would've been cool

People would throw a shitfit about this "forced diversity" now.

Honestly the only thing that's really changed is that the token disabled kid is now replaced with a token gay. Which kind of sucks, wheelchair characters were always cool.

TF2 arrived at the right place at the right time.


youtube.com/watch?v=dzMq5_thk4o&t=68s

TF2 has better characters than any other FPS, and almost every other game

Prove me wrong

>I dont think any of the mercs in tf2 insult sexualities.
>They make "I slept with your mother" jokes but thats as risque as it goes in terms of sex
That's because none of them are gay.

>>ICE to meet you! HAH!
>>Death comes... For YOU! AHAHAHA
>>They should call you the man from U.G.L.Y.!
>>You died as you lived, a fallen angel!
>>Hey, he really is a ghost!
i haven't read your other classes's but these one are weak and unfitting

what are the most interesting shit ow characters can say to tf2 mercs

We can't, someone's feelings might get hurt.

rip in peace :^(
at least we got doc lalve now

and Heavy has to wrestle and kill 15 foot tall bears to have dinner and lug around a giant mini gun+all the ammo for it, so I'd imagine the two are a match for each other if there's ever an arm wrestling contest. Heavy would probably win an actual wrestling contest since he's far bigger than the average person with all that girth

Holy shit I'm fucking crying imagining him saying this shit

You wanted a tf2 thread but knew it wouldn't stand on its own unless you tried to toss in some half assed question about a popular game didn't you, fag?

TF2 characters actually have chemistry within their animated shorts, and never each take on only one specific role. At least before half the VA's left or died, and especially within the "Meet the Team" shorts, and ESPECIALLY in the comics, each one got a role in the spotlight and played the roles of protagonist and antagonist, winner and loser, guy-with-a-gun and guy-getting-shot. Hell, even within the game itself they each have specific lines bad-mouthing every other character to further push the point these characters were finely developed and polished over the last decade and change.

OW's characters are only good for porn, and in some cases really obscure porn.

>Mmm-mm-mhmm mmm
>MMMMMPH
>Mmmmph hmmm
>Mhmmhmmmhmm
>Mmmhmm mmph HMMM!
>Hmm hmm hmm hmm hmmmm

This engine is so ugly that's awful, look at Tracer's face kek

>Thankz for the cold! Your organz are well preserved!
>NOW I SEE VHY YOU SWISS AVOID ZE FIGHTING
>Yes patience and harmony right right, now please sign this death certificate
>Hows that licence working for you?

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You can bet there'd be sexist banter, especially given the timezone it's set in.

>models designed to be rendered in a different engine look odd

Without even reading this thread I know everyone's gonna say TF2, so I'll just go over why I think that is.
Neither series has original or deep characters, but the difference is that TF2's characters are lively and bombastic enough that it's fun to watch them interact.
The problem with Overwatch's writing isn't how simple and cliched it is, it's that it takes itself SO GODDAMN SERIOUSLY whenever Junkrat isn't on-screen. It's not smart enough to be engaging, but it also isn't silly enough to be good dumb fun.

>might
lol

>>'course a bloody woman needs eight eyes to shoot straight

>highly rated

You kids are seriously downplaying TF2 by comparing it to Overwatch
This single panel is one of the funniest things ever written.

>They make "I slept with your mother" jokes but thats as risque as it goes in terms of sex
HERE LIES SCOUT
HE RAN FAST, AND DIED A VIRGIN

TF2 was released in 2007.
Do you think people are still going to be playing Overwatch in 2026?

>tfw gonna die a virgin just like scout

Yup, I really enjoy how TF2 fleshes out the world in other media as well.

TF2 makes better comics, OW makes better action figures.

Yup, I really enjoy how OW fleshes out the world in other media as well.