overwatch

also the RTS model. (the sports model.) the carrot's supposed to be you get better, while still working w the same tools as all the people better than you.

the extreme paucity of modes/maps at launch almost reads as a statement about getting fundamentals strong -- a promise to focus on the basic interactions between heroes and get them as neat and dynamic as those between terran/zerg/protoss (starcraft after all only has one serious "mode"). as blizzard have never once in their history had an original idea their reputation's always been built on polish+balance. whether this is there or getting there or what is honestly a question i'm never gonna be qualified to answer but the ambition is to make a game people don't say (god help me) about, right? a player relationship that's (a lil) less narcotic.

played this for an hour or so in a pc bang at about 3am the other night, i guess that's my life now

new hero https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/heroes/sombra/

i haven't really played this in a few months though, the general populace seemed to be improving at it faster than i could keep up

i am still playing x_x

she looks fun although a mei ult followed by a sombra ult = time to shut off the computer. chain cc is pretty miserable to play against.

this may be the one offensive player i will use b/c she seems less aim based.

Thinking about picking this up now. Who's playing on PC vs. PS4?

PC here. played a bit this week after a long break, it's still pretty fun

there's a new deathmatch-ish game mode apparently, haven't tried it yet

Did end up getting it on PC. Played a ton this weekend.

Hardly an original thought, but it's a version of Team Fortress 3 that Valve never got around to. Hard for me not to compare it to TF2, which had this beautiful game and visual design to start with and devolved into a garish mess... Overwatch from the beginning seems designed for infinite expansion and a general lack of style/universe cohesion. Kept the sunny atmosphere of TF2 and dropped the blood and guts legacy from Quake. There have been tons of class-based team shooters, but none since TF2 have done such a great job on the appealing universe, character and visual designs.

Gameplay-wise it's like they took chunks of the various TF2 classes and split them even further, like instead of an Engineer who can build turrets, sentries and teleporters, you have individual classes that can do one of each (Anticipating an upcoming class that will do resupplies). TF2 was originally a streamlining of the original Team Fortress before it went all crazy with the secondary abilities and weapons and skins and hats and so on; Overwatch makes each character even simpler, most can't even sprint and half only have a single weapon w/alt fire. Definitely feels easier to learn a character in comparison.

Anyway, it's fun and I'll definitely be burning enough time into it to make me considering grinding out that stupid Heroes of the Storm quest to get a Genji skin, and I've never even played that game.

Still a while before I hit L25 to play ranked games but friend me if you want to: nhex #1 9 3 8

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/292245/How_Overwatchs_bleak_beginnings_turned_into_positivity_and_inclusiveness.php

I used to work at a law firm that sued activision a bunch and I always thought project titan was destiny, but nope.

when i went to LA the friend of a friend who i was staying with was obsessed with this, along with all his roommates and friends. we played a bunch of it and he tried to explain why it was so complex and strategic but i didn't really get it, kinda seemed like an unremarkable multi-player shooter

http://kotaku.com/here-is-a-good-video-game-kid-1793355232

hahaha

https://gfycat.com/CooperativeEmptyJellyfish

Got sucked into the Heroes of the Storm quest for the OW extras this time around; the game's actually pretty fun, despite how much I suck at MOBAs/RTS

not a game guy at all but i like playing overwatch ... maybe cuz im bad at aiming although my tracking has improved since playing soldier... im a fan of the lateral thinking required

if you're bad at aiming junkrat is a fun one