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Mithas
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« Last Edit: November 07, 2014, 01:23:09 PM by Trippy »
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luckton
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Watched the trailer and gameplay videos via the opening ceremony feed. Looks like a futuristic TF2 with more emphasis on unique characters and abilities.
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"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
"Tuning me out doesn't magically change the design or implementation of said design. Though, that'd be neat if it did." -schild
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Bhazrak
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Certainly got me interested. Now all they need is hats, skins, pets and whatever else and it will skyrocket.
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luckton
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Please...no hats. That's TF2's thing. Keep it there.
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"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
"Tuning me out doesn't magically change the design or implementation of said design. Though, that'd be neat if it did." -schild
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Trippy
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I guess it's apropos that when I saw "Overwatch" the first thing I thought of was "Space Hulk".
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Fabricated
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I guess they weren't totally keen on flushing however many hundreds of millions they pissed away on Titan down the drain.
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"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist." - George Bernard Shaw
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Fabricated
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"Fuck it, repackage it, multiplayer PVP FPS, HATS"
Also lol poor Bethesda; they're doing one of these stupid things too and no one gave a shit about it ALREADY. It's officially doomed.
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"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist." - George Bernard Shaw
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Bhazrak
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"Fuck it, repackage it, multiplayer PVP FPS, HATS"
Also lol poor Bethesda; they're doing one of these stupid things too and no one gave a shit about it ALREADY. It's officially doomed.
Ho damn, I forgot about that. Battlecry or something. Whelp... |
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luckton
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So Blizzard has become the Apple of the gaming industry. It doesn't matter what they make, as long as the trailer and gameplay are shiny enough, it'll print money  |
"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
"Tuning me out doesn't magically change the design or implementation of said design. Though, that'd be neat if it did." -schild
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Bhazrak
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So Blizzard has become the Apple of the gaming industry. It doesn't matter what they make, as long as the trailer and gameplay are shiny enough, it'll print money Coming to every genre near you. Looks like their website to sign up at is up and running now too. |
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Trippy
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LOL Tigole Bitties (aka Jeff Kaplan) is the Game Director.
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Falconeer
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Ugh, boring, uncool and unoriginal. I'd say almost embarassing, being Blizzard.
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Paelos
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LOL Tigole Bitties (aka Jeff Kaplan) is the Game Director.
I'll never play it then. Plus I never liked TF2 so if this is remotely like it I wouldn't bother to begin with. |
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murdoc
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I just cannot get into Multiplayer FPS games. I keep trying them and keep getting reminded how much my gaming reflexes suck.
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Have you tried the internet? It's made out of millions of people missing the point of everything and then getting angry about it
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Fabricated
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This is going to be the cash-shoppiest game ever. I don't know if it'll be Zynga-level cynical with its purchases but you bet your ass they'll be releasing skins and hats and stupid shit branded with all of their other IPs for it.
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"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist." - George Bernard Shaw
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Fordel
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The trailer looks really weird to me, and I don't fully understand why. Is that in house blizzard?
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and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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Rasix
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LOL Tigole Bitties (aka Jeff Kaplan) is the Game Director.
The Nameless server in EQ spawned both Tigole and Yantis (IGE forebearer). Only reason Tigole ended up at Blizzard was the large amount of Blizz employees in the resident uber guild (Legacy of Steel). Gawd, I even leveled with Yantis before he turned into a festering pustule on the face of gaming. This looks... OK. This genre is past me, however. I've got them old man reflexes. |
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« Last Edit: November 07, 2014, 01:34:59 PM by Rasix »
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luckton
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I also wonder if this is a jab at Valve over the whole DOTA thing... "Oh, ok, fine, you can have DOTA 2, which you made and developed out of one of our products. We're just gonna go ahead and make a FPS akin to TF2 for the next generation. So don't sue us, and we won't sue you, yeah?"  |
"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
"Tuning me out doesn't magically change the design or implementation of said design. Though, that'd be neat if it did." -schild
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Fabricated
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"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist." - George Bernard Shaw
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luckton
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On the one hand, yeah, the resemblance is uncanny.
On the other, how many variations of "ancient chinese/japanese martial arts/exotic weapons guy" can you come up with that hasn't already been done in some shape or form?
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"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
"Tuning me out doesn't magically change the design or implementation of said design. Though, that'd be neat if it did." -schild
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luckton
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They're doing a panel on it now at BlizzCon.
Apparently they're taking great strides in the aforementioned "I'm an old fart/non-twitch gamer these days" issue by having lots of less-lethal/non-combat options that contribute to the gameplay.
Fake edit: Which obviously means no Deathmatch, which was just clarified.
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"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
"Tuning me out doesn't magically change the design or implementation of said design. Though, that'd be neat if it did." -schild
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Hutch
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It's PvP by Blizzard. They might as well have named it OverCorrection.
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Plant yourself like a tree
Haven't you noticed? We've been sharing our culture with you all morning.
The sun will shine on us again, brother
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Mrbloodworth
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Looks kinda like they did Global agenda PvP, with MOBA like character classes.
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luckton
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/snip Metzen pics
From the WoW Insider Live blog: 1:19PM Hanamura, map set in Japan. Part of it is a suburban downtown, part of it is a temple ground. Homeland of the disgraced Hanzo. Metzen says it's a favorite of theirs. YOU DON'T SAY?! |
"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
"Tuning me out doesn't magically change the design or implementation of said design. Though, that'd be neat if it did." -schild
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luckton
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They're going with TF2 style more than you think...you'll be able to swap heroes in between deaths.
The shoutcast they're doing right now looks neat.
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"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
"Tuning me out doesn't magically change the design or implementation of said design. Though, that'd be neat if it did." -schild
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HaemishM
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What the fuck did I just watch? Blizzard just blatantly ripped off and reskinned most of the TF2 classes, and yet somehow made it look even less interesting. They really are some unoriginal fuckers.
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Mithas
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This will be huge because Blizzard. At least to start. I have no idea if they make much on Hearthstone, but I assume this would be similar from a revenue standpoint.
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luckton
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This will be huge because Blizzard. At least to start. I have no idea if they make much on Hearthstone, but I assume this would be similar from a revenue standpoint.
Doing Q&A right now. Business model Q was put up to bat, but the A was "we don't know yet". |
"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
"Tuning me out doesn't magically change the design or implementation of said design. Though, that'd be neat if it did." -schild
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Ironwood
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That looks fucking lame.
Pass.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Merusk
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TF2 got me with the hype back in the day. Then I played and proceeded to be the bottom guy on every server I was ever on, MAYBE getting 2 or 3 kills in an entire match by leeching off others. (Some of you played with me, you know this is true)
Now I'm older and have even slower reflexes. Fuckit, not for me.
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The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.
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K9
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Have they given up on Heroes of the Storm yet? Because that was some weak shit
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Paelos
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Have they given up on Heroes of the Storm yet? Because that was some weak shit
Unfortunately no. I'd need a lot more information about this particular project to see if it would do well across the masses. I am leery because this is spawned from something they scrapped as "not fun" |
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Trippy
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TF2 got me with the hype back in the day. Then I played and proceeded to be the bottom guy on every server I was ever on, MAYBE getting 2 or 3 kills in an entire match by leeching off others. (Some of you played with me, you know this is true)
Now I'm older and have even slower reflexes. Fuckit, not for me.
That's who the Medic is for. |
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Merusk
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If you enjoy the Medic, you mean.
I don't. I enjoyed playing healers in MMOs more.
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The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.
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Trippy
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Yeah, that's true. Engineer is another class you can play if you suck at the shooty bits.
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