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Overwatch...

Too expensive. 287 51.25%
 
Too cheap. 20 3.57%
 
The price is right. 127 22.68%
 
^If it had a campaign. 82 14.64%
 
Indifference. I just don... 44 7.86%
 
Total:560
John2290 said:
Ruler said:

Why you come with exclusives to me? the game isnt one.

you know if the game would have a story, a singleplayer campaign maybe they would be a reason to find out. But this is just another online only shooter.

I played Unreal Tournament 3s MP so i played Overwatch, thats how easy you can decide things if MP all there is. And on top of that overwatch is only 6.3 GB big, 

For example

Uncharted 4 is around 44 GB

Dark Souls 3 is 19 GB

Star Ocean 5 is 27 GB


Yep screams worthy of my 70€

Track mania turbo is 4.5 gb. Rocket league is 5 gb. (maybe 6 or 7 now). Shadow warrior and most games from last gen are usually less than 10gb. I wouldn't go by that rule of thumb. However I still think Overwatch is bare bones.

Size isn't everything, it's what you do with what you got which is important.

This guy managed to fit all of this into 64 Kilobytes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NolWOXZcz50

To put that into perspective, the NES carts were topping out at 1024 Kilobytes.

Without a question though, Overwatch is barebones compared to it's competitors.

For example, Battleborn is not only cheaper, it has a fully fleshed out Multiplayer and a Campaign.
All the characters are unlocked from the start like Overwatch and you can switch between them, it does seem to have less maps though, future characters and maps and game modes will be free.
There will be some paid DLC and there will be some cosmetic microtransactions.

If Battleborn ditched the Microtransactions completely, they could have been onto a winner IMHO.
Also having split-screen Co-Op is sorely needed in games these days (Battleborn has it), you just can't have friends come around and do split screen like in Golden Eye/Perfect Dark/Halo 1,2,3,4,Reach like you used to because games don't offer it anymore, even Halo 5 removed the feature.

It's hilarious though, Battlefront, Evolve, Titanfall got ridiculed by gamers and media alike for the lack of content, Overwatch shouldn't be an exception to the rule.



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Ka-pi96 said:
Chazore said:
The "It must have SP and all my wildest dreams involved or it;s not a good game" crew should really just stick to what they clearly love best, SP only games and just leave the MP games to those who love them. Battlefield and COD along with Planetside 2, TF2, CS, many other shooters have no actual story injected into their core multiplayer matches because that's not what we play multiplayer competitive shooters for, if you truly think that is exactly what they should be then I'm sorry but you should just step back and stick with SP games because that is not what MP games are made for or aimed at.

If you only want people who would give the game a 10/10 discussing it then a public forum probably isn't the best place to look...

Wel. Actually, he could go anywhere but this place and have a reasonable discussion with people about this game. This place hates it, just like all other multiplayer games.



I bet the Wii U would sell more than 15M LTD by the end of 2015. He bet it would sell less. I lost.

Roronaa_chan said:
Blizzard died back in 2012. I guess the process started earlier but that was when it really happened. Crazy how I went from getting the CE for pretty much every release to not wanting to buy the new games at any price. A card game, a moba, a lite mp fps, wtf is this. It's Valve all over again. Both are dead as developers as far as i'm concerned. They should move to mobile cause that's where these games fit best

If by died you mean released great games at great prices that have large player bases and make them a ton of money, then yeah, they're dead as fuck.



I bet the Wii U would sell more than 15M LTD by the end of 2015. He bet it would sell less. I lost.

John2290 said:

Had more time with Overwatch this evening, played the few characters I didn't in the beta and spent some time with the few I liked from the beta, very quickly got bored (About 4 or 5 hours,maybe 6 in total including beta and post launch) and noticed that there is no emergent gameplay even on release, the maps just send teams on waves and then choke them into a "corridor" and theres almost always a robot ready with the tank power up or the turret to wipe a team right off the map. I thought the Beta was a slice of the game and that I would buy it when it surely released for 50 euro (Again, only the 69.99 version on ps4) and I thought at least I'd pick it up when I've nothing better to play. After playing some more this evening (and yesterday) I am so glad I didn't buy this, complete destiny style marketing campaign that has tricked many, myself included, into viewing a mediocre bare bones game as a genre defining masterpiece. If you have played some TF2 then this is that but without the years of updates and patches. Also, the game is so completely unbalanced by the fact that a team can change characters mid game and I think they should be locked in before even joining a lobby so the lobbies can be auto balanced to some extent. I seen a full team use the oversized Jonny5 and the Hawk Eye rip off with no other characters.....just...I pity the fools....

6 hours of total playtime really isn't enough to judge this game's balance or depth. Hero swapping is an essential component of the game. Team builds and how you alter them over a match to counter the opposing team is where most of the game's dynamism comes from. Bastion is noobicide, but easily countered once you know what you're doing. By level 20 he's not very common and a team of just him and Hanzos would get absolutely destroyed.



John2290 said:
So that Warcraft trailer...pretty nice right.

What has that got to do with Overwatch at all?.



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Yeah, based on what I'm seeing, it's a better Team fortress that you have to pay full price for.



way way better than team fortress, overwatch is the best multiplayer game to come out in years, decades even



flowjo69 said:
way way better than team fortress, overwatch is the best multiplayer game to come out in years, decades even

That's stretching things a little. :P

It's also only early days yet.



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I like what I've seen of the game but without more content, it's closer to a 30$ game than 60$, much like Star Wars Battlefront or Titanfall. Hopefully it won't sell to well.



Puppyroach said:
I like what I've seen of the game but without more content, it's closer to a 30$ game than 60$, much like Star Wars Battlefront or Titanfall. Hopefully it won't sell to well.

Hoping it won't sell to teach them a lesson is somewhat immature, especially consdierng how all those other games were loaded with £45 extra season passes that were designed to soak up more money and split the playerbase while dripping those maps over the period of a year or two. Overwatch isn't doing that though, you pay for the game and you get all future characters and maps for free, that is something all the other MP shooters out there refuse to do so until the game's lifespan is near it's end (like the very slow dripping of free BF4 and Hardline maps).

Also the game is selling well so far and has managed to garner the hype it was going for.



Step right up come on in, feel the buzz in your veins, I'm like an chemical electrical right into your brain and I'm the one who killed the Radio, soon you'll all see

So pay up motherfuckers you belong to "V"