>The launch of Blizzard’s Overwatch has seen thousands if not millions of people abandon the games they were previously playing, including an absolute gem, and in many ways very similar game, made by Gearbox Software called Battleborn.
>It comes from the people behind the wildly funny and thoroughly engaging Borderlands series, and follows the same artistic, cartoonish style, which Borderlands is renowned for, and has the same genuine laugh out loud humour that Borderlands had.
>When playing Overwatch, while very different to Call of Duty there is a similar feel in the fast paced gameplay. Adrenaline comes easily, but so does the frustration that comes with spawning and rapidly dying.
>Battleborn has a much more relaxed and indeed fun feel to it. There is more depth, both in gameplay and in the character and story mode.
>Overwatch’s greatest asset currently is its player base, whereas, many of these will likely abandon the game once the next Call of Duty is released, given it is a no frills, basic first person shooter.
>Battleborn is a game which has much more long term appeal, and is objectively better than Overwatch.
Why wait for Overwatch to die once the next shiny game drops and the casuals that make up OW leave in droves when you can play Battleborn, which will outlast Overwatch, right now?
>>340651782
> long term appeal
> 12,000 all time player peak (at launch)
> 1,400 player peak in the last 24 hours
Ayyyy
>play battleborn yesterday
>queue for advanced story mode with a chum
>a full game
>oh shit we all ended up on the final level
>spend first 20 minutes getting our asses handed to us through a timed sequence involving going to two points on the map and fighting waves of enemies
>return to base and descend in to final boss chamber
>oh shit time to beat this
>never mind the game's making is fight 3 waves of previous level bosses, two at a time
>through teamwork and plenty of dying we make it to the final segment
>have to beat final boss with waves of enemies attacking us
>go from 11 lives to 1
>me and the other healer dead
>other healer respawns early and uses up last life
>thisisit.jpeg
>suddenly out of fucking nowhere my chum helps me up
>we get our shit together and manage to defeat the final boss without any more deaths
>finish the game
>140,000 points
>gold
Talk shit about the game all you want, it still has some nice fun value.
>>340652002
>not understanding how trends work
Come back when you're old enough to post here. Trends are cyclical. For example, everyone HATED Brink when it came out but a lot of people have been warming to it. This happens with a shitload of games. OW has waifus and sparkly graphics but people will eventually get tired of the gameplay and most likely go to Battleborn.
>>340652590
>most likely go to Battleborn.
Like they did with Brink?
>>340652590
>a lot of people are warming up to Brink
Literally who? Nobody gives a shit about that game any more.
>>340652590
>trends are cyclical
Ya, the falling sales trend of horse and buggies is bound to pop back up any day now.
>>340652590
>For example, everyone HATED Brink when it came out but a lot of people have been warming to it
Who the fuck do you know that played Brink for more than a week?
>>340653161
not him, but me and all my friends did over LAN.
>>340653161
I still play like 5 hours of brink a week
Is every Battleborn thread going to be a circlejerk of falseflags now?
>>340652590
>Brink
>a lot of people
>>340652590
>brink
Now that's a name I haven't heard in a very long time.
>>340652002
those figures are false, there's a bug that keeps people logged into battleborn which means the numbers are lower in reality
>>340652590
is gearbox paying you with the money they funneled away from colonial marines?
>>340651782
I guess I shouldn't be surprised any more, but that reads like an ad.
>>340651782
Jesus the game industry press is cancerous these days.
Battleborn is garbage though. Overwatch is also garbage but it stinks less, relatively speaking.
>>340652590
Battleborn bombed and it's not coming back.
I'm sorry for your loss Randy. Maybe less memes next time?
>>340654430
>both games are bad so buy Overwatch!
Fuck off Blizzshill
>tfw you didn't buy Battleborn
>>340651782
>wildly funny
>thoroughly engaging
>artistic, cartoonish style
>genuine laugh out loud humour
1/10 made me reply
Overwatch = lukewarm coffee
Battleborn = lukewarm coffee with a psychedelic-coloured mug
>>340654374
What you are seeing is not "journalism", nor was it ever pretending to be.
This is literally a blog post opinion piece by a random nobody on the internet.
>>340654818
Seriously, who writes like that unless you're a huge fanboy or paid shill?
>Playing Stillborn
>Playing Suicidewatch
>Playing Dead Fortress
When will the cartoon fps fad end?
>>340654756
>Got it for free
>Still haven't played it
>>340652590
http://steamcharts.com/app/22350
Nigga what the FUCK. There are nine fucking people playing this game right now. Granted, that's 2.65 percent up from last month, or .3 people. That is thirty percent of one person. If we were back in 1787 with the Three Fifths compromise, that would be fifty percent of one black person according to the United States government.
>>340651782
>It comes from the people behind the wildly funny and thoroughly engaging Borderlands series
>>340652590
>brink
That's still a thing?
>>340651782
> longer appeal
> All female characters are ugly as sin, thus, making it very hard to make porn or fanart of them
> Gameplay is just a 1st moba, a saturated genre
> Story is simplistic just like Overwatch, but without the artistic cohesion to make it interesting to add characters in the future
> Basically no fans outside of bored FPS addicts and SJWs pretending to be cool because they are playing an "underrated gem" or playing just to spite OW fans
> Lasting appeal
>>340651782
>wildly funny and thoroughly engaging Borderlands series
>>340651782
>genuine laugh out loud humour that Borderlands had.
>>340655890
>> All female characters are ugly as sin, thus, making it very hard to make porn or fanart of them
I find it sad that this would affect anyone's opinion of a video game.
>>340655890
Man, if they were clever they'd throw up a quick patch making all the females waifu-able.
Though I bet people would throw a fit over it.
>>340656216
Say what you will, but the reason OW will be remember by everyone's is because of two factors:
-It looks cool as fuck to play and look at
-It has beautiful women
You have two winning elements in there.
>>340656432
>Say what you will, but the reason OW will be remember by everyone's is because of two factors:
Wrong. Here are the true two factors:
1. An incredibly aggressive marketing campaign using cinematic, commercials and advertisement everywhere
2. Blizzard.
>>340651782
>wildly funny and thoroughly engaging Borderlands series
>>340656216
No one cares what you think when OW characters are instantly recognizable due to the sheer amount of porn they have. There's a reason why League's already increasing popularity skyrocketed around the time Ahri came out.
>>340656698
Oh and the game is good, little side note.
>>340652590
> trends are cyclical
No they aren't. Dead games are dead forever, especially if they're dead as Battleborn.
>laugh out loud humour
>>340656873
I'm literally LOLing over here XD
>>340654725
>b-b-but muh cherrypicking
> the UI look somewhat usable if you stand around and do fucking nothing
>>340652002
>measuring the quality of a game through steam players
This is more than a normal cuck, this is the cuckiest cuck move you can do in your cuck shed
>tfw such a good character design is being wasted in such a shitty game
It's not fair
>>340656698
You forgot:
3. The gigantic amount of porn.
>>340651782
The numbers will go back up when everyone gets bored of overwatch. You'll see, you'll all see!!
>>340657709
That's League of Legends tier atrocious though
>>340657709
>That
>Good character design
LOL
>>340657709
That's actually one of the worst designs in that game. LE GENTLEMAN DOING THINGS A GENTLEMAN WOULD NEVER DO XDD shit was never funny. Also, faux steampunk is worst than actual steampunk.
>I-it has a story mode!
Yeah, a "story" that manages to be even more worse and uninspired than Borderlands.
>AdvancedShilling.jpg
>>340657952
>paheal had to change the name of the "Overwatch" tag to avoid catching shit from Blizzard for having stronger SEO
>>340658928
You know what was advanced shilling?
Marketers deliberately ignoring this shit.
>>340651782
Was this post actually copy pasted from some article or did you just make this up for a laugh, OP?
Battleborn has two major problems.
First of all, it's a MOBA. MOBAs are a terrible genre and you're shit if you like them.
Secondly, it's art style is terrible. It's a gloopy mess. All of the colors run together. It's also on Unreal Engine 3, so it's technically a mess too.
Regardless of how you feel about Overwatch, fuck Battleborn. It's already dead.
>>340652590
>brink
>a lot of people have been warming to it
I fucking wish m8, Brink was really fun.
>>340658607
You can apply that logic and dismiss anything as "LE THING I DON'T LIKE BECAUSE OF REASON".
Battleborn is shit but hate it for the right reasons at least.
>>340657171
The thread is about its longevity, not its quality.
How does Tyrone's semen taste, cuck?
>>340659210
>shots autoaim to hit his legs
>sniper shot goes right between them
>>340659595
Also, apparently everyone is a fridge.
>>340659210
I don't understand why they put in the work to alter the effect's trajectory here but not the projectile here >>340659750
>>340658607
I actually think it's pretty cool how they worked his bird motif into his joints. The idea is pretty cliche but the execution isn't half bad.
>>340659895
Actually if you look REALLY REALLY CLOSELY you can see that it actually does teleport right to his face the moment it hits him, but it vanishes like one frame later.
>>340655012
Overwatch is more like a green tea latte. A vocal minority hates the shit out of it and everything it represents, but it sells well.
>>340651782
>including an absolute gem
>>340659895
The icicles and arrows teleport because they visibly stick into the model. Bullets and energy projectiles don't
>>340659210
I enjoy this game, but the hitboxes for heroes and projectiles fucking baffles me.
>>340660784
They actually do it's just really hard to see because they disappear right after hitting the target. All projectiles apparently do this, but I don't know if hitscan tracers do or not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYZYs2Nm3q4
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT VOICE GEARBOX???
>>Justin Wong really needs to lose a little weight.
>>340656228
>>340661278
There we go.
>>340656698
3. Fun moment-to-moment gameplay
>>340661175
That....doesn't fit the character AT ALL. Not to mention the abilities are ripped off straight from other games. That ult is Poseidon's Kraken from Smite, carbon fucking copy.
>>340661175
> water user
> It heals and washes away enemies with water
BOOOOOORRRRIIIIIINNNNGGGGGGGG
>>340661175
>this entire video
>>340656873
EHL OH EHL
>>340652794
anon, i live nowhere near the amish and i saw a horse and buggy this morning
maybe
maybe its time...
>>340659436
>It's also on Unreal Engine 3
Fucking seriously?
I thought only cheap, outdated shit like Bombshell is still using UE3.
Oh wait...
>>340657709
*tips*
>>340661175
I really don't know what I was expecting with that character, but it sure wasn't that
>>340661175
This fucking Borderlands (I know it's the same dev) type writing is so off-putting it's insane. How can anyone enjoy games that sound like this? It's literally like a small childrens cartoon with a bunch of PG-13 swear words.
God fucking fuck am I fed up with it.
>>340651782
>Gearbox shilling
>>340655012
>Battleborn = lukewarm coffee with a psychedelic-coloured mug thats been spit in by randy pitchford
ftfy pham
>>340651782
You shouldn't have revealed your identity, amateur shill Conor Hickey.
>>340652485
>$0.07 has been added to your account
I REALLY want to like this game but every aspect of it sucks. The graphics give me a headache and whenever I look at NPCs in single player, my screen starts looking like this.
>>340661175
I was expecting some sexy ara ara~ voice. Literally all the characters in Battleborn that I've seen have the same carbon-copy personality, they're always going "I'm so epic and badass, let do this!".
>>340657709
Why does every fucking game need a Steampunk Gentleman Robot nowadays? Does he also have a British accent?
>mfw Gearbox
![he-bo[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/WSMNbKf.png "he-bo[1].png")
>>340661175
>those abilities
literally He Bo from Smite.
The thing about overwatch is that its a blizzard game and as much as that can suck it means they will support it no matter what, They will try to push the game because blizzard wants basically all of its titles to be known and popular. Blizzard wont just let the game die, they will push out more characters, maps, or media for it. Yeah it will be bought up by blizzshills and it might not even be good but it will be way more supported than most games
Such an ugly game
>>340661175
That looks so fucking slow
JUST
>>340666934
I hope they have an epilepsy warning before you start this shit
>>340656216
Fuck off tumblrite trash. It's obvious you're here just to shill Battleborn.
>>340666993
But that's the reason it has long term appeal!
>>340667104
It's almost flatlining doc!
>>340666934
It all just looks a bit messy, which is just sad when you compare it to Overwatch.
>>340652590
i wonder if you could have used a worse example
>>340655197
Never.
/v/ forced the anti-'realistic' FPS narrative so hard it made it into the mainstream.
>>340652590
>people have been warming to it
>average players on steam: 10.5
>>340667292
As someone with epilepsy this actually might be merited,
Ive watched some gameplay and its set off some auras for me but not seizures. i rarely have problems in games, i had less problems with Rainbow goat in undertale
>>340657709
>steampunk mlady sniper
>good character design
>>340651782
i dont play either so its all based on porn to me
overwatch wins in spades
>>340660867
If the projectile hitboxes were so that you would have to actually hit the player model 100% of the time, projectiles weapons would be completely fucking impossible to use, and pretty much every FPS title in existence is way more generous with hitboxes in regards to projectile weapons than hitscan.
>>340652590
>go back to Battleborn
No one will even remember that Battleborn existed by the time the next CoD comes out.
The MOBA turds will be playing DotA and the console players will be playing CoD
>>340666934
MORE LUMENS!
The kids these days love bright lights! Make 'em flash every two seconds!
We'll be rich, Anthony; no one will ever be able to resist.So what is your ex up to these days?
>>340661175
>those reactions
>howbadcoulditbe.jpg
>15 seconds in
>mfw
>>340657709
Never noticed that his shoulders/elbows/knees are owls.
>>340668045
It will be exactly like Evolve all over again.
>>340652590
>For example, everyone HATED Brink when it came out but a lot of people have been warming to it.
>>340652590
Yeah man, people have been warming to Brink. By throwing it into their firepits.
>>340661175
Yessiree, Gearbox definitely made this character. That's all I can say about it. 4 years later and QUIRK!!! still isn't out of style with these turds.
>genuine laugh out loud humour that Borderlands had
Must not have been playing the same Borderlands series then.
>>340661175
There isn't a single original ability for that character at all. Then again it's Gearbox. They're great with plagiarism.
No matter how shitty Battleborn this is actually true.
Overwatch has so little content right now it's insane, maybe once they added more maps,character and gamemodes(?) it might be better.
>>340661175
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYZYs2Nm3q4
When did this become a cringe thread. I could probably watch the whole thing, but I'm happy I didn't.
>>340657709
>muh Steampunk gentleman
Kill yourself, and literally anyone who likes that cancerous genre.
>>340669782
>Steampunk
>Has nothing to do with steam.
What did he mean by this?
>>340651782
>gearbox
>this thread and the fucking homeworld remastered thread both up at the same time
MERELY A COINCIDENCE, GOY
i want the marketers to leave
>Battleborn
>Great artstyle and amazing lore+writing
>Overwatch
>le meme gorilla dong animu moe ass fetish reddit cowboy MEMES landwhale SHIT
>>340661175
What the fuck is that music. It sounds like something a poor AMV would use. Also her personality is shit and voice is annoying.
>>340670990
>battleborn
>will leave you for a better player and take your gaming system
>overwatch
>you think you want it but you don't
>>340653161
>tfw you were the only one in your friend's group who say the potential in Brink
>Overwatch
>casual shit that got advertised hard
>Battleborn
>casual shit that had 0 advertisement
You are either a massive fucking casual bandwagon faggot or a massive fucking casual memelands shitter faggot if you like one of those games
