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Blizzard working on unannounced Overwatch game
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NoKisum
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Why is Overwatch, even as a spin-off title, a terrible idea in third person? All the heroes sitting down and having a nice civil game of cards with the villains as a mobile card game would make more sense?
I've had a nice swarm of people constantly telling me that it's a "must buy for any gamer", so I gave it several shots during those free weekends, thinking perhaps I was playing it wrong. Does the full game have some content that I was missing out on? Maybe that could be why I was bored.
Yui's Empire
Member
Remember when it was hype when rumors started emerging about giants like Valve and Blizzard making a new game? How they're going to reinvent gaming as a whole and make some of the best things ever probably?
Nowadays when something comes out everyone thinks it's gonna be some mobile-based f2p card game with MOBA elements full of microtransactions.
Nowadays when something comes out everyone thinks it's gonna be some mobile-based f2p card game with MOBA elements full of microtransactions.
And they're probably right in thinking so.
the_darkness
Banned
They making an OW BR FPS?
AlexFlame116
Member
My heart yearns for Overwatch Switch Edition.
My heart also yearns for the idea that this intern is meant to find a way to combine the ecosystem between all of the platforms so that we can finally tie unlocks to an account. This means that I can use my skins, emotes, and other stuff in any system I want.
My heart also yearns for the idea that this intern is meant to find a way to combine the ecosystem between all of the platforms so that we can finally tie unlocks to an account. This means that I can use my skins, emotes, and other stuff in any system I want.
It's not a terrible idea, it's just an implausible idea
Why spend a ton of money making something that requires a shit ton of effort and has a hypothetical limited buy-in when you can make some crap ass mobile game that whales can pour a never ending flow of dineros into?
for what it's worth though i'd play the shit out of a single player Genji game. Or D.Va game. Or Reaper game. Junkrat game. Mei game... Reinharrdt game, ooh, that'd be good...
Not Soldier though if I wanted to play Call of Duty I'd just buy it in November
Possumowner
Member
Overwatchiablo yes the game were all waiting for Diablo and Overwatch in one game....it'll be a card game
Also a bit of a spinoff of my revenue stream thread, but this is exactly the point that's galvanized that topic for me.
The last single player campaign Blizzard created was Legacy of the Void, and that was tied to a promise they made back in 2007. (That, to their credit, they actually delivered on, unlike the other prominent dev named here and their episodic campaign...) They've shifted from making a full storyline driven campaign to bite sized chunks of content every so often for Diablo. Valve's last single player game was Portal 2. HL3? Dead. Their next big effort? A mp card game.
At the time Blizzard's Rob Pardo said in 2012 that the AAA single player experience was an endangered species. That, in the face of rising costs, the f2p models breaking waves at the time, and piracy, he could not see them reaching the same level of success as in years prior.
The point I'm getting to is that, unless a financial model that can compete with what mp games are doing these days with their models- f2p, fee based, dlc driven or otherwise- is devised for sp games, I see your big developers and publishers only moving more and more away from them.
Cow Mengde
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Overwatch: Loot Crate Bonanza
funkystudent
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Mobile?
Mobile.
Mobile.
kraspkibble
Permabanned.
please don't be mobile. please don't be mobile. please don't be mobile.
i hope it's a single player game. if it's a Battle Royale game they could just easily add that as a new mode in Overwatch as it is.
i hope it's a single player game. if it's a Battle Royale game they could just easily add that as a new mode in Overwatch as it is.
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Yui's Empire
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But I mean, single player as a profitable model still exists, even if sometimes we see compromises. Uncharted and The Last Of Us seem to do pretty well for Sony. Sure, some mostly forgettable multiplayer found a way in them to increase the value, but at least we got them. We've got a lot of single player open world games: okay, their gameplay and narrative may not be particularly focused, but there are games like Sleeping Dogs and Tomb Raider (okay, not a masterpiece of storyline in TR but old games were linear and still had dumber storylines) that still manage to do solid storylines with that formula. Games like Call Of Duty or Battlefield are very multiplayer-based, but they still manage to find a way to put a bit of a campaign for good measure. Black Ops 3 was criticized by many on GAF, but it had an unusually long and complex campaign playable in co-op as well, plus the
secret Zombie campaign
Blizzard could be interesting campaigns but kinda like Valve they're content with monetizing barebones but fun gameplay loops.
ChaosSmurf
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Initially I thought this was a convincing argument for something being announced at BlizzCon (because bringing interns on to a project seems really dodgy if you want that project to have secrecy) but given how far in advance these are it could easily be announced way later. It being in Incubation is the highest indicator of it being on mobile imo, because I expect after Hearthstone everything they have in Incubation is on mobile except for the new Diablo, WoW expansions and Overwatch single-player.
scoobs
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Yeeeeerrrrp, there is a 100% chance blizzard is putting their most popular IP on mobile as soon as possible.
Keep in mind that Blizzard's not-so-recent genre breakout was Hearthst...
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Compsiox
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Hearthstone is already different enough from WoW already though.
An Overwatch card game must have its own twist. If people play it long term for the theme alone...that would be disappointing.
BreezyLimbo
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what about a loot shooter
or
or
an MMO based on Overwatch?
or
or
an MMO based on Overwatch?
They can call it titan.
finalflame
Member
Overwatch card game. Mobile.
Bet on it.
Bet on it.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Hrm.
I mean, if it features 3D assets, characters, and weapons...there's not alot it can be?
They won't make another card game or MOBA. Maybe another shooter unless it's meant to be a supplement to current Overwatch, now requiring a knowledge of the Overwatch universe...hints that they'll be delving into it? So not a single player game, but a multiplayer game based on the lore...
...unless they supplement overwatch with single player missions? Except it'll be separate from the main overwatch game..who knows, I give up.
Could do a fighting game. That's one mp space they haven't explored heavily yet.
Could also get back to their roots and try and do a Blizzard take, esports or casual, on cart racing.
This is a fair point, and I can't see a future where the single player experience literally disappears completely- if nothing else, platform holders will see the value in continuing to finance premier exclusive SP experiences for their consoles. I just think the ratio of major MP experiences developed to SP experiences will continue to shift in favor of MP.
ChaosSmurf
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They didn't really. Warcraft 3 and Brood War were totally different games, and 4 years apart. StarCraft II was then 7 years later. More like alternating, back when games ever ended. That's not the case now - why make a new card game when you could just make your new ideas a mode for Hearthstone and piggyback a 100 mill audience, all the tech that's been developed, etc.
I guess the counterargument to that is, a new mode in Hearthstone doesn't require prop assets, etc.
We're speculating in context of the job posting.
Overwatch Kart game please with the power ups being tied to karts linked to the character abilities.
Blizz you can thank me after you make another couple of 100 million off the above idea D:
The mentioned job role would fit characters for HOTS as well right as they are unannounced projects from the Overwatch universe that brings a game to life.
Blizz you can thank me after you make another couple of 100 million off the above idea D:
The mentioned job role would fit characters for HOTS as well right as they are unannounced projects from the Overwatch universe that brings a game to life.
they already have 7 X-Com style models ready to go (from hots)
ChaosSmurf
Member
Sure. I mean, we don't really know shit right? They could put that Overwatch stuff on there for shits and giggles because they know sites and Gaf trawl job listings now. I'd expect anyone who seriously applied to work at Blizzard to have good working knowledge of Overwatch unless they were going for a very specific role on a different game team, so it's not exactly limiting the pool of applicants.