Didn't see a thread in the catalog so decided to make my own...

Didn't see a thread in the catalog so decided to make my own. Overwatch made a new animated short and get this: It's actually written fairly good for once.

youtube.com/watch?v=_q0QGtk_AM0&ab_channel=PlayOverwatch
Thoughts?

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>MemeWatch

Wish they'd release more animated content more often. It often rivals the actual game in terms of entertainment value.

next Short is Wednesday

This was the prequel to it. Hope this means we'll get more of this kinda short.

>This was the prequel to it.
Confirmed?

>TFW Roadhog and Junkrat are the only things you enjoy in Overwatch.

Felt like Timon and Puumba a bit.

God i'd kill for an overwatch animated series

>tfw they copied tf2 so hard they even got the part about the characters being the only good thing right

I dunno, I think there's some... other things to enjoy out of it.

speaking of
youtube.com/watch?v=4mHJp-doOak

>that Cowboy Bebop intro

But the only characters that are good on their own without shittons of headcanon tacked on to make them more than cardboard cutouts are Junkrat and Roadhog.

'This needs to be a SFM.

>still nothing for Zenyatta

Fuck Blizzard.

Yeah, I'd like proof too, I thought this was just the trailer for the map and giving actual lore content for the Sharkhog and Scarerat skins.

And for why they went on a crime spree

I don't hate Zenyatta (as a character, I mean because I hate playing him), but I think there are more interesting characters to focus on. Personally, I'd like to see a short centered around the original core Overwatch team of Mercy, Soldier, Reyes, Ana, and Rein. Maybe even a video of the actual attack on the Overwatch base.

i just don't like how this shit took a year to come out.

TF2 gets a pass b/c they pioneered it 8)

It's confirmed there's another short that's actually about a character done with the nice models and this was just a quick map lore intro (It's just more interesting than the last one of Winston looking up into space with narrative as the camera pans around the map).

The theory is the short may be a Pharah one as that's the character they've put with the Gamescom marketing this year (Last year they used Bastion and we got the Last Bastion short)

>Overcasual
I cringed during the whole thing.

>spoilers

I hope not. She's a boring as fuck character.

They already have something though. Zenyatta has literally no comics or shorts or supplemental material to hint at anything in his background. As a character, he's in far more need for development. Frankly, I'm sick of the inner Overwatch team, particularly Tracer and Genji, hogging everything.

>I want more stuff on characters that already have a shit ton of stuff
>can't even play based Zenyatta

Fuck off, nigger.

>calling games casual
>while posting on fucking Sup Forums
nigga half this board is fucking women, are you fucking serious?

Zenyatta has a lot of potential. Robots being religious when they know for a fact that they could one day turn into murder machines without provocation makes is a very interesting topic.

>still nothing for mcree

fuck this company

>Tracer was the gay character
>instead of these 2
why?

Didn't Hog have a wife that died when the Omnium blew?

Also, Junk's only true loves are money and bombs. Maybe Mei's big fat Chinese ass, depending on who you ask.

looks like it was made in SFM

>Maybe Mei's big fat Chinese ass
I do not understand this ship in the slightest. Like, where does it even come from? Even McHanzo at least has the whole "East meets West, and then they bum each other" thing going on

I don't care

I don't get it either. They're Mad Max villains, who are typically gayer than a fruitcake factory.

Junkrat makes advances towards Mei if you have both on your team sometimes and People clung to it.

>Maybe Mei's big fat Chinese ass, depending on who you ask.

Of all the characters they could pair up romantically on the overwatch team these are the ones I'd love to see the most. Of course it's never going to happen.

But Nier Automata already exists. I'd like to see a matyr group of robots that observed as Omnics rose the humans stopped hating eachother to hate them and intentionally attack humans to unite them further as now all the countries are working together, they have moon bases, nanotechnology, talking apes and other advancements because they want humanity to succeed or something like that.

I assume most ships are based on interactions. Like Ana and Rein get shipped quite a bit because of how flirtatious their voice lines are together.

With Junkrat and Mei though they only have these two interactions.
>Junkrat: Brr I get cold just looking at ya.
>Mei: Hmph. Then you should look somewhere else.

>Mei: You're just a No-Good Bully.
>Junkrat: That's cold...

At best you can say that Junk may be slightly attracted to her, but if he is it's not a mutual feeling.

>characters that are opposite in every way
>One sided flirt quips

If there's one thing that shippers love it's tsundere quirky almost but not really love interest potential.

OP here.
Tracer was only made gay so they could get progressive points while at the same time still let straight dudes like me jack of to all the lesbian porn. It's only there to pander.

I'm not gay but Junkrat and Roadhog makes more sense to me and I'd probably respect it more since it doesn't feel like they're just trying to pander to as many people as possible at once. That said Overwatch revels in pandering from the start, so it was to be expected this was going to happen from the get-go.

Does Symmetra and Junkrat have any lines? Because that gets shipped a lot. I'm surprised they haven't thrown any bones to the Pharmercy shippers as that seems to be the biggest ship a long with Widow/Tracer. Does anyone think the next actual short will be about Pharah? She was featured in the same place Bastion was last year on some poster for the event Bastion's short was shown at.

At least TF2 was more balanced

This. She at least had some character angle with the whole mommy issue thing. But as soon as Ana came out, she lost all potential. What even was the point of that if it was only allowed to exist for a month?

MERCY. BIKINI. NOW!

That's not the short.

It's just an advertisement for the new level.

The short is coming up in a bit.

>game has a lot of good fappable girls
>everyone clings to worst boring girl

Why do you fags have such shit taste?

>Pharah short
God I fucking hope so, I'd really like to know more about her character
And yeah, a Pharmercy nod would be great

You said it was fairly good.
You are a liar.

I want to see Talon during their off time. Shit like Reaper watching his cheesy movies, and making Widowmaker watch them too (because she is brainwashed to follow his orders anyway. I'm like 80% sure she only has a spider theme + tattoos because Reaper thought it was edgy and cool).

Like, we already know he likes The Last Starfighter enough to name his signature move after it. I imagine that sets the tone for his tastes.

>At best you can say that Junk may be slightly attracted to her, but if he is it's not a mutual feeling
I actually like that ship, but only when it's one sided.
I like the idea of Junkrat being oblivious to her hatred for him, and Mei hating the guy who likes her, when she's pretty much friendly with everyone else.
Is there even a word for half a ship? A boat?

Seriously? You don't think learning that her mother FAKED HER FUCKING DEATH is going to do anything but dig up whatever mommy issues Fareeha already had and make them a thousand times worse?

A wreck?

>Pharmercy
how does it feel being the fucking worst part of Overwatch? Pharah would be Symmetra tier if she wasn't riding off Mercy's Popularity. I'd rather see Genji/Mercy be canon just to watch you fags cry.
I bet you like Tracer or Widow more.

>I want to see Talon during their off time
Now the real question: is Doomfist as much of a slacker as the rest of the Talon characters we've met, or is he that one guy trying to get the villains to actually do something productive on the weekend?

They may do that in expanded material, but she seems pretty cool with it when interacting in-game.

I feel like McCree has the potential for good stories.
But then, futuristic cowboys and space westerns have always been my jam. Probably why Wings of Liberty was the only SCII campaign I enjoyed.

McCree had a comic though.

Now that the only two characters who matter in this game got a short, I literally don't care about the rest of the future ones.

>Women
>Sup Forums

That's pretty good.

He's that Chad who always wants you to join him in hitting those showers.

>Dva
>Widow
>Tracer
>Pharah
>Sombra
>Ana
>Mei
>Zarya

All of these choices are better than Mercy whose only character revolves around her being a doctor and making doctor related puns. Arguably the only girl more shit than Mercy is Symmetra. You're probably so far up Mercy's ass you'll never see the light though.

Probably because hearing Pharah have a mental breakdown whenever she sees an Ana would be immensely jarring and really off putting as you try and push the payload
Yeah the McCree comic they put out had some really interesting ideas about his connections to BlackWatch but they haven't really picked them up since

my taste lies more with Mei, especially when she is depicted as a milking cow. Mercy is just the "free space" when it comes to shipping.

>Hating on based Symmetra
Such a lack of imagination...

Forgive that user.
Half the posters on Sup Forums bitch and moan about things like women on their periods, so it's understandable why he got confused.

>All of these choices are better than Mercy whose only character revolves around her being a doctor and making doctor related puns

There's also the fact that she may ot may not be a modern day Frankenstein who turned Reaper's charred and broken body into a monster to "Save" him.

Literally all the other characters who interact with Ana before a fight, seem more surprised/upset that she wasn't dead, than her daughter does. She's extremely friendly with her considering how she talked about her before she was released.

While it could be down to the early retcons to the original Overwatch (That even saw an Origins comic get cancelled), I think her Mommy Issues were maybe just a little misinterpreted.

When she replies sarcastically to people saying that "Ana would be so proud of you", people assume it's because she resents her mother and doesn't want to be anything like her. But she has an eye tattoo in tribute to her.

It's the opposite way around. Pharah idolised Overwatch and only ever wanted to join the team. But Ana never wanted Pharah to be a soldier, she wanted Pharah to live a normal life away from conflict. So Pharah is just acknowledging that she is fighting despite her mothers wishes.

It is clear though that Pharah is for sure closer to her father though, simply because he didn't pretend to be dead for the majority of her life.

Yet the game never chooses to do anything with it aside from one dialogue where she realized Reaper is still alive.

the plan bit had a shaun of the dead vibe

Either Pharah knew all along (and the existence of the letter would seem to indicate Ana told her what really happened) so just faked the bitterness (or, more accurately, isn't bitter about faking her death and is just bitter about living in her mother's shadow) or they dropped the drama angle when they decided to make Shrike into Ana

Breaks my heart the thematic didn't keep with the other parts of SCII. Kerrigan could have had a great Once Upon a Time in the West story.

Wow totally not trying desperately to be TF2 animations.

Overwatch's problem is that it tries to hard to attract an audience for everyone, and because of this they are forced to make all the charterers happy and PC at all times.

I don't want to be that guy but compare character interactions in TF2 to Overwatch and you'd see why trying to force all the characters as buddies at best and extremely mild puns at worst 24/7 isn't as interesting.

>Pharah is for sure closer to her father thoug
Now there's an aspect of Pharah I'd like to see more of, just who the hell is her Canadad?
If you're looking to the game as your primary source of story in Overwatch you're going to be sorely disappointed. I wouldn't be surprised if its only canon in the sense of "these characters exists and act like that, and these places exist but the matches are abstractions of actual battles that happened there"
Hell when/if they make a full animated series of this I fully expect the game to be handwaved into a running joke of Athena being distracted by her 'combat simulations' she's got queued up.
The loot boxes are just her way of keeping herself entertained. Got to work towards something right?

To be fair this short seemed to be more TF2 in both theme and animation than most of the others.
Say the game is just TF2 all you like, but the shorts are generally well done.

Looks more like their comedic animations for WoW or HotS. Though I'm sure they're inspired by the Meet the Class shorts.

Well, it's to be expected.
Terrans were always space cowboys. To thr point that one faction was still rocking the confederate flag of old, and everyone sounded like they came straight from Texas.

Protoss always had more of a Samurai/Monk feel to them and Zerg were just Xenomorphs meets Tyranid.

Animated short detailing Zenyatta coming off the production line to serve as a robot slave, to finding self awareness, to joining the monks, to grappling with the reality he might go evil one day, to breaking up with Mondatta, to meeting Genji when?

Protoss could have been a great Kung Fu story.

>I mean because I hate playing him
He's got balls of steeeeeel!

The game not being Overwatch vs Talon always feels weird to me.

>>Tracer was the gay character
>>instead of these 2
>why?
Because these two only became friends due to fandom influence. It wasn't how they were originally envisioned.

>that pic
God I would love it if they met wandering the desert in those outfits, as Genji is trying to hide from the world and lose his humanity by wandering the Sahara, and Zenyatta gets conned by a very persuasive salesman into thinking this is what all North African omnics are wearing

>Overwatch's problem is that it tries to hard to attract an audience for everyone, and because of this they are forced to make all the charterers happy and PC at all times.
The game dialogue isn't canon to the lore.

Balls of steel? What is that? Hello?

It fucking writes itself. Slap on some quote about the path we each must walk in the journey of life, and where it will take us, and ask "Where will your path take you?" and you've got solid gold.

I'm going to go ahead and call bullshit on that one
Firstly if fans could influence who gets shipped with who on Overwatch there would already be emotes for Pharah and Mercy to stick their tongues down each other's throats by now.
Secondly, RoadRat isn't the most popular m/m ship but its pretty damn popular. Certainly I don't see major demand for a straight Junkrat or Roadhog

They still aren't friends. Roadhog never says anything but negative things about Junkrat.
Junkrat may think they're friends, but Roadhog sure doesn't.

He's honestly the best healer.

Don't have to babysit. Has Range and can inflict status effects quickly with no downtime.

I've contributed to a couple of TKs just launching discord orbs in the middle of a fight.

And Timed Right his Ult can be a really good stall.

Personally I never could see them as romantic but I could see them as violent fuckbuddies.

>D.va
>Better than mercy

Who fed you this bullshit

Now you say it yeah, partners in crime with benefits is a good way to describe their relationship. Junkrat isn't exactly what you'd call a romantic, and Roadhog is terrible at communication

I mean if like eating sloppy shit straight from someone's asshole I'm not going to tell you to stop user.

While I think he's the most fun healer to play, I hate playing him as a solo healer.
Instead of you throwing your orb on a tank and then focusing on dishing out some balls to the face, it becomes a game of figuring out who's taking the least damage and then throwing the orb between everybody else, at least when they aren't standing behind a wall screaming for heals.

I at least like the nice touch of using looney tune esque musical ques.

Well that sloppy shit would be better than D.va

talk about shit taste

Mercyfags are braindead cuckolds.

>and Zenyatta gets conned by a very persuasive salesman into thinking this is what all North African omnics are wearing

d'awww

So is blizz gonna announce anything big on wednesday? New WoW expansion? d4?