Overwatch is only huge because it's following the MOBA format, right? Can anyone explain any other appeal it has? I tried the beta and as an arena shooter it utterly fails. The gameplay is not fun at all
I'm wondering what sort of person this game is designed for.
>>342411337
1. It was made by the same people who made the most popular mmo of all time so of course it would be famous
2. it's fun
3. the waifus also hanzo (and junkrat if you like twinks)
>>342411337
MOBAS are cancer therefore Overwatch = Cancer
>>342411668
Literally none of those things except 2 make the game good, and you haven't even shown 2 to be true.
>>342411789
I didnt say it makes the game good.. I meant those are the components that make the game popular
>>342412162
Which of you knew how to read was the question....
>>342411337
>I'm wondering what sort of person this game is designed for.
People who haven't played good arena shooters
Explain to me how's a MOBA?
Where are the lains? The minions in those lanes?
The core, towers, exp and buying items/skills?
overwatch wouldn't be shit if it didn't have waifus
Overwatch isn't a moba it's just an arena arcade shooter
We need more of those
>>342411337
1. waifus
2. dumbed-down gameplay
3. massive advertising
So the LoL approach.
Plus they have the added benefit of drones with similar magnitude of zealotry as Apple drones.
>>342414674
>>342414435
ults
gameplay centered around who has their ult = MOBA, and shit
>>342414695
>So the LoL approach.
Except those guys want LoL to be as popular as football and people to 'dream' about being a professional.
Remember when games were about just having fun?
Overwatch makes me remember.
>>342411337
>arena shooter
Overwatch is not an arena shooter.
>>342414880
Splatoon has the same thing, Damn that Moba!
Splatoon = worst MOBA of all time
>>342414963
>Overwatch makes me remember.
>>342414963
Blizzard totally wants in on that eSports pie, anon.
I mean that should have been a bullet point, but I'm an idiot.
>>342415126
no it doesn't
press Q, and something AWESOME happens!
EVERYONE can be a hero in Overwatch!(tm)
>>342415213
Yeah I'm afraid it is. Map ration and the like? Yeah, it's the worst MOBA At least LOL lets you choose it's two maps
>>342415351
ults
>>342415202
too bad the stupid faggots can't balance worth a dime
>>342415279
>press Q
you mean triangle, right?
>>342415334
That doesn't mean people don't play it as an arena shooter.
because they do
>>342415394
Yeah, Splatoon has those for each and every weapon anon
Literally even called ults which mean it's a bad moba imho
>>342415394
Splatoon does have ults retard
>>342415435
I'm not that anon, but... what?
Do you mean Overwatch identifies as an arena shooter, even though it's not?
>>342415401
That hasn't stopped Riot from making CoD money from their pile of ass cancer.
Balance difficulty scales quadratically with the number of heroes.
>>342415126
>>342415535
Did Splatoon get good? I bought it day one, played for about 3 hours and wasn't into it. I still have it though.
>>342415672
No, I'm saying people play it as an arena shooter, regardless of what it is or what people say it is. I'm just saying people play it as one
>>342415435
Overwatch is a tactical shooter, you're not supposed to be running around as a sniper with a shotgun, each character has a specific role.
Oh, and fuck Blizzard for bastardizing military terminology, "Support" class lays down covering fire, "Medic" does periphery.
>>342415753
If you wasn't into the multiplayer back then you won't be now. Just a lot of new maps, modes, weapons and clothes have been added.
It's still the same game.
>>342415804
>military terminology
It's ASSFAGGOTS terminology.
it's pretty simple OP. /v/ shits on battleborn, and has multiple threads/generals for overwatch daily. do you really need to ask if its fun?
>>342415804
I know, I'm just saying people still do. That's all I see anyway/
>>342415923
Seriously though, how the fuck does Mercy carry a machinegun?
>>342411337
Honestly, Blizzard haven't made a good game since Warcraft 3. People who buy this game are either Blizzard cock suckers or teenagers tired of TF2 and COD.
>>342412483
>wondering what sort of person this game is designed for.
People who like casual "fun" without heavy consequences for fucking up.
Are you a retard?
Why do you think TF2 peeked as high as it did?
>>342415771
You don't really know what an arena shooter is, do you?
In arena shooters, everyone starts with the same weapon, and gameplay revolves around picking stuff up from the arena (weapons, armor, modifiers...)
In Overwatch, since it's a class based shooter, you start with a predefined loadout.
So, explain that to me. How do you "play it as an arena shooter, even though it's not"?
>>342414880
>ults
so super smash bros brawl is a moba?
>Moba
Into the trash your opinion goes
>>342415804
>Implying this is a blizzard thing
Dumb idiot
>>342416135
warcraft 3 was crap you underage pantshitter, C&C and AoE were lightyears ahead when that launched
diablo was the last good one
>>342416216
You just explained it anon. Are you mental?
>>342416135
>Contrarian post
Took long enough
>>342416338
So people are picking up imaginary items from the map? Is the community really THAT retarded?
>>342416412
Anon lol you're too much! I see you never played it before.
>>342416303
Ooh, a tripfag to filter.
>>342416303
Fuck off tripfag, W3 was a good game. Not as great as the previous ones though.
>>342416412
The same imaginary items they picked up in instagib, before you were born, last night.
>>342416513
>>342416724
Now I'm just confused... This shilling is too intense for me
I don't think I'd like playing overwatch because the threads, and by extension the community, remind me of mobas too much.
People losing their shit over what everyone else is doing, the heroes they pick, how good they are, etc.
>>342416827
I think Overwatch is casual shit. I hope Blizzard pays me for that opinion, because that'd be pretty nice of them.
>>342411337
LOWEST
COMMON
DENOMINATOR
>>342416845
>remind me of mobas too much
Most players come from LoL or DOTA, so the community is pretty much the same as a MOBA.
The only aspects of it that are like a moba are the focus on characters and the abilities, aside from that it doesn't resemble mobas at all. There is no game mode that comes close to it. It's pretty irritating when you niggers compare the two. The game relies more on fps skills, chances are some noscoping underage fagarino is going to be naturally better than a moba faggot. It's an fps and that's it. Fucking black cocks 3 has the same 2 features this game has and no one calls it a moba.
>>342417372
I'll take things that are untrue and unverifiable for 800, Alex
>>342416276
How is there character switching "at a cost" in Overwatch but not in TF2?
>>342417449
Overwatched completely gutted lolgen and the number of players of LoL in pcbangs.
You know it's the truth.
>>342417449
Just look at the twitch streams or the player behavior. Same shit you would find in League of Legends.
>>342416687
thanks for proving my point, there were a metric fuckton of games being released at that point that set the water mark WAY higher than "good". and innovated instead of dumbing down. the only people settling for WC3 were kids that didn't know any better.
>>342411337
>Waifus
>Appeals to normies
>Not a hard game
It's basically taking over LoL since Riot fucked up their own game and people are jumping ship and once they release competitive it will be king of mobashit.
Memes aside is it a good game
>>342416156
Graphics from the Incredibles, Gmod MachinimaRIP in peace, custom skins, and free-to-play.
>>342416412
>>342416513
>>342416827
>>342416845
>>342417127
>>342417372
>>342417374
>>342417543
>>342416276
Games that try to be discrete arena shooters are good (eg. Doom, Halo 2).
Games that try to be discrete tactical shooters are good (eg. Tom Clancy, Counter-Strike).
Games that try to to both are casualized for both niches (eg. Call of Duty, Battlefield).
Now imagine adding that new point of MOBA-like and then you'll see why people hate games like Team Fortress 2 and Overwatch and Stillborn.
>>342418127
Stillborn is the only MOBA game you mentioned
>>342418368
Microtransactions and characterized loadouts are inherently RTS, ergo MOBA.
>>342414880
damn so all this time fighting games have been mobas...BTFO fighting nerds.
>>342418127
>Graphics from the Incredibles, Gmod Machinima RIP in peace, custom skins, and free-to-play.
Literally before free to play.
Also you are talking about things THE COMMUNITY MADE, and the graphics are/were shit.
You're just being knit picky.
Overwatch might not be good but it has what a lot of people want, clearly.
>>342414674
>arena shooter
Nothing about overwatch says arena shooter. Unless your definition of 90s era shooters and arena shooters is
>DEY GOT DA HEALTHPACKS!!!
Which honestly is as retarded as Blizzards "loveletter to 90's shooters" marketing
A better comparison would have been arcade and class-based shooter
>>342418521
Clear Lee, if u think fightan gaemz r boot da ultraz, den uz wak
>>342411337
I agree, I think overwatch is more frustrating than fun. I hop on to play with friends but I can't play for very long because the game frustrates me primarily from the 20 tick rate servers and bogus hitboxes which I'm surprised that a game with as much polish as overwatch has would fuck up so badly on those.
>>342418051
I just wish it wasn't $40. Good buiseness practice on Blizzard though
>>342411337
>Overwatch
>MOBA
lmao
>>342418520
This meme is about as interesting as that "superior version" meme of Mercy's ass
>>342416276
>Overwatch
>switching chars at a cost
explain
>>342418801
Oh boo hoo, it's even worse on consoles, you know. $59.99.
>>342418801
>Current Year
>Being poor
Does anyone else like the game but does not really enjoy playing any character? I think they're all boring...
>>342417543
well in tf2 swapping will only make you losea killstreak or something fancy like that, on the other hand swapping in overwatch makes you lose all your % ult meter.
>>342418896
>Something I don't agree with, must surely be shitposting!
>>342411337
MoBA format? You mean the three lanes and a jungler. Oh, you must mean the last hitting creeps for 20 minutes at the beginning of the game... Oh... You must mean buying items to specifically meat the needs of how you've played so far and apapting to whether your ahead of behind.... You mean how Heros have abilities. Yep MOBA tried and true. Considering how some retard is going to try and say that it is technically a MOBA it is not a MOBA in the same sense as LOL or DOTA or any of the other bandwagoning rip offs that tried to mimic them. It's an arena shooter that I will agree at the moment is more objective based than just short-shorty, but it is not Lol rip off
>>342418918
just referring to the ult charge
>>342411337
shit taste xd
>>342411337
why do you people continue to make these threads
you don't like the game, other people like the game. that is how the world is with things, it's not some big fucking weird mystery that a game you dislike has players.
>>342419039
Who gives a fuck?
>>342419153
>you don't like the game, other people like the game. that is how the world is with things
Where do you think we are?
>>342419051
It's a fact actually that's why it's interesting.
>>342412483
um... your question was "what makes the game popular" and "i wonder who this was made for"
If you think your question was anything else, go back to 4th grade.
>>342419161
>Ask a question, give anwser
>Who gives a fuck?
>>342419065
>Arena shooter
There are two types of FPS: Arena, and tactical.
Arena
>Quake
>Unreal
>Doom
>Halo up to 3
Tactical
>Overwatch
>Team Fortress
>Counter-Strike
>Gears of War
>Tom Clancy
Notice what they have in common? Overwatch is NOT an arena shooter.
>>342419212
Gamefaqs
>>342411337
It's really easy.
1, Money = Advertisement.
2, Sex = Sales.
3. Word of mouth = Friends that will only buy a game because there friend(s) plan on playing it.
That's about it really. It doesn't matter if the game is good or bad. With those 3 powers, you can shove it down anyone's throat.
>Theory
Say, if we were to jump in a time machine and created a complete copy (identical 100%) of Overwatch before blizzard creates it, without the three powers, our version would not sale, would get shitty reviews and everything else that comes with niche games.
>>342419437
That only leaves.... MOBA OMG IT'S A MOBA
>>342419437
Overwatch and TF aren't tactical shooters either.
>>342414435
Maps typically have three lanes, sometimes only two.
think of it as a single lane in a moba and there are no minions just other heros. instead of pushing down a tower your capping a point.
There are ults and units broken up into class.
However, there is no leveling mechanic so classes like 'carry' don't exist.
>>342419647
Yes they are. Each class has a specific function. When you work alone, you get crushed by the enemy, but when you work as a team, you outdo your adversary. That's what tactical shooters are about. Tactics.
>>342416276
I approve of this message.
>>342411337
Uh its a good game xd get some taste lol
>>342411337
It's made for everyone that's not like you. Which is alot of people, believe it or not.
