How did Overwatch get away with ripping off everything about GI Joe?

How did Overwatch get away with ripping off everything about GI Joe?

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The company name on the front of box should give you the answer you're looking for.

Because it's okay when Blizzard does it.

Most things are reskins of other things.

I like how they designed one helmet and used it for all three guys on the right

Because we never had a G.I. Joe esc. class based shooter.
>inb4 TF2
That's more of a James Bond parody then anything. Overwatch is full on super-hero comic plot with overtly complicated plot and highly detailed yet stupid lore that makes no sense included.

People who say tf2 are just idiots

That's a robot head, a face visor, and a helmet dude.

Sucks being blind.

TF2 and Overwatch share almost no visual similarity other than both being stylized.

I don't play it, but am I wrong in thinking that this is too many characters all at once?

Yeah, you're pretty wrong.

I know but I felt the need to mention it because most of the time it just becomes of shitposting of why "X is better then Y"
Depends.

It's actually a good thing, since it keeps things fresh.

well, how many characters does the average batman-comic have?

Because Blizzard is known for ripping things off.
Majority of the characters in OW are rip off of pre existing ones
>76= Captain America
>DVA= wears eva plugsuit and pilots a mech from Appleseed
>Genji= literally Gray Fox

Goddamn, but a new GI Joe series with Overwatch stylings would be fantastic.

Because it's a video game, not meant to compete with GI Joe.

It's also a big blend of all superhero tropes, not from one source in particular.

Overwatch's whole thing is "what if every genre cliche was thrown together with a coat of modern cyberpunk"

Is the Knight and Ninja's armour of similar make or something?

Overwatch still needs a vampire, a hoary old wizard, a thinly veiled Jedi, and a black kid on a skateboard imho.

They're both high-tech. Ninja is a cyborg and knight is wearing power armor.

>black kid on a skateboard
Lucio is black and has rollerblades, does that count?

Genji×Hanzo = Snake Eyea × Storm Shadow

>tfw no cute boy hero
pls blizz make him the stereotypical rpg hero if you want. they did say they wanted to make a melee brawler/berserker hero

Genji doesn't count?

>wanting a guy whose 95% of his body is burned
i mean if you like charred dick then go ahead

Soldier 76 has an alt that makes him look younger, not really boyish, but he'd make a decent Captain America.

roasted dick, that actually sounds quite delicious, with some ketchup...

Reinhardt backstory reminds me of major armsrong

Does this vampire also have the ability to stop time?

Armin Meiwes pls go and stay go

How did they get away with not putting Chat Noir in the game

it's Don Quixote dude

Every morning I wake up I'm grateful I'll never be this much of a simpering fanboy.

Even M-rated games shy away from letting you kill kids.

I wish there were more settings about a big team of colorful paramilitary weirdos

Call of Duty was the worst thing that ever happened to GI Joe

>completely and unequivocally wrong
>"lol u fanboys, suck some more dick why dont you "

ok

because looks stupid and hasbro don't really give a shit

GODDAMNIT BASTION YOU FUCKED IT UP

What a rare and interesting specimen you are. We can both look at the same objective facts and yet your mind is impervious to them.

Blizzard is a creative void, they always have been.

Nigger are you fucking retarded?

tfw no shota hero

Cringey.

Is that phantom lancer next to pudge there?

for fuck's sake, not everything is jojo
fuck off

whoa dude chill out

*grabs you by the throat*
I TOLD YOU TO FUCK OFF???!!!?!!?!

A Constantine-esque mage would be so fucking killer.

To be fair Overwatch is the kind of game that would reference Jojo

The same way that G.I.Joe got away with ripping off S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra.

the fandom is completely allergic to fantasy,
which is quite ironic considering Reaper is a wraith and the Shmada-bros can summon dragons
>but no: IT'S SCIENCE!
>yeah sure

Reaper
>the edgelord with the skull-mask who yells DIE DIE DIE a lot
is a vampire; he consumes his victim's life-energy

Ancient Japanese science dragons.

Dr. Strange's whole deal is science = magic isn't it?

Wouldn't be that hard to swing.

youtube.com/watch?v=6XfqU9PghJM Just imagine this in Overwatch.

>Dr. Strange's whole deal is science = magic isn't it?

Where do people get off with this?

>Implying that "original content" isn't an illusion.
All stories have already been told, user. Everything just copies something else.

Just what I heard, didn't know if it was true or not.

The shimadas are magical, but Reaper is all science. Nano machines son

Mainly because the setting doesn't really permit too much magic. Like yeah, the dragons are in no way scientific but having some bullshit spirit of my ancestors mojo isn't quite the same as someone just flat out running around casting spells from a spellbook. In certain fictional worlds sometimes one level of supernaturalism or magic can be accepted while others can't, if that makes sense.

It's not at all

Reaper is nano machines. Mercy tried to save him with nano machines but it fucked up and now his cells are in an endless cycle of death and regeneration. He even has a line with her where she goes "What happened to you?" and his answer is, "You tell me Doc"

Well...Your cells are always in a cycle of death and rebirth. His are just particularly accelerated.

>so the Shimadas can run around summoning dragons
>but I'm crazy when I paint a pentagramm on the objective?
>I never wanted to join Overwatch anyways!

Yeah should have phrased that better.

and that allows him to teleport and become smoke for a while?
okay, that totally makes sense!

Reaper, you're not magic! You're science!

There is also "This is not what I intended for you Reyes" "You knew exactly what you were doing"

Why they didn't give Reinhart an oversized Zweihänder instead of that stupid hammer is a mystery to me.

Nano machines son. He separates his nano machined cells and recombines them at different locations or splits them to turn into mist

Just because it's science doesn't mean it's not bullshit science.

Because Blizzzard pussied out. It seems pretty obvious from the plot that Overwatch was supposed to have a much darker tone but some suit started crying about marketing to little kiddies so everything became pixar-lite and all the characters became focus group designed by committee puppets.

I like that it's not darker.

Because DATASS.

Right now it's nothing. It's not darker. It's not interesting. It's not goofy or funny like TF2. None of it's characters are interesting or memorable. The only thing it has going for it is hot chicks.

Well it seemed to have totally worked.

A few of the characters are interesting/memorable, I'd say. At least, enough. The issue is that they don't showcase it at all in the games.

>The only thing it has going for it is hot chicks.
A rare commodity in today's market. Overwatch needs to be protected.

Same way GI Joe got away with ripping off SHIELD.

"Good Guy Organization fights terrorists" isn't a novel concept.

?? GI Joe is about fighting the evil terrorist organization Cobra that wants to control dangerous tech and the world. Overwatch is about the aftermath of a WW3 caused by sentient robots and a group of people affected by it.

Cause Blizz marketing is $$$ and the gameplay is fun. For now anyways.

>hot chicks,
what about Genji's ass, Reaper's thighs, just Junkrat and Grandpa Rein?

What ass?