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CelticPredator posted:I kinda get it. But it seems like the same image is being posted over and over. I believe those are called memes
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Internet Kraken posted:I have no idea about most of those but in Dota 2 the supplementary lore didn't really come at odds with the way the game played. For the most part though, the characters in Dota 2 weren't as generic so there was less need for their to be extra chances to show off their character. Of course given that there were dozens of them there were some that weren't great, but Valve just has stronger writing than Blizzard overall. I was mostly listing games since aside from TF2 I haven't played any of them anyway. It's not like Payday has enemy classes you're fighting against. And in TF2's case, a good deal of its features didn't get added until years down the line so I dunno if all the writing was there at the beginning. Granted, that doesn't mean you can't tell or say that what Blizzard's put out right now isn't stellar. But I get your meaning. There is no fixing Overwatch's story, it's unsalvageable.
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Overwatch is about superheroes duking it out in spectacular fashion. As long as the spectacle is foregrounded, whether by old grudges coming to odds in animated shorts or by HitlerFan1998's highlight reel, they really can't go awry.
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There was like 15 images last page and zero this page, post some loving images and shut up about whatever you're blathering about                one of these is not fanart
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Huszsersvn posted:Overwatch is about superheroes duking it out in spectacular fashion. As long as the spectacle is foregrounded, whether by old grudges coming to odds in animated shorts or by HitlerFan1998's highlight reel, they really can't go awry. Superheroes are always temporarily changing sides or getting in fights with each other. Within the last few months we've had two huge blockbuster movies about superheroes fighting each other
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Honestly the only real problem with the Overwatch lore is that the writing is mediocre. It's not like Dota and TF2 characters are substantially more interesting on the concept level, their writer and voice actors just do a better job of bringing them to life. Plus nobody seems to have actually thought twice about any of the worldbuilding. For example, they keep referring to Overwatch as "heroes" whose goal is to "fight for peace", but their actual backstory is that they're an international taskforce designed to put down a slave revolt. They also make a big deal out of how Omnics are sentient beings with rights and feelings, then turn right around and cast them as faceless villains and monsters in the backstories of other characters. Also fwiw to me Reaper comes across as less Tryhard McGrimdark and more saturday morning cartoon villain, but whether that's intentional or just Blizzard trying and failing at Serious Business is anyone's guess. Okay now that I got that out of my system, here's some relevant fanart: Tracer voice lines SFM videos are a hell of a thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8HO6hba9ZE  There used to be an excellent motion comic version of this on YouTube, but it was taken down for some reason. At least the audio survives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4147195M5RA
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...Overwatch has lore? I thought it was just "here's some archetypes we made, we made a legitimate effort towards visual diversity, here's a fun FPS, have at it!" I'm sad these are fanart and not included in some sort of ultra-deluxe Earthbound art book where this is what's featured on the character bio and development sections.
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Pomp posted:A N T I M A G E The only story I know about DotA2 is that Invoker is on the lane and AntiMage hates him. This I learned from SaltyBet. Also, Invoker on the Train is the best team in Exhibitions.
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Captain Invictus posted:There was like 15 images last page and zero this page, post some loving images and shut up about whatever you're blathering about this type of fanart always looks so gross, which works really well for the bottom picture
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Even their last name is gross. MINCH.
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Tiberius Thyben posted:The infantilizing is because she is a gamer, and thus an adult child. She's also way younger than everyone else in the game. Most characters are in their thirties or later, with a couple people in mid to late 20s. D. Va's 19. e: I was beaten to this horribly and didn't notice, have this as penance  
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:...Overwatch has lore? I thought it was just "here's some archetypes we made, we made a legitimate effort towards visual diversity, here's a fun FPS, have at it!" What a disgusting display of toxic masculinity.
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I only know about Overwatch through being totally saturated with fanart and stuff, but I feel like the lore/game disconnect could have been really easily been fixed just by putting the heroes on opposing factions. Team Little Shitbird Gremlins causing no end of grief for Team Retired Cops Who Are Too Old For This poo poo.
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Abyssal Squid posted:I only know about Overwatch through being totally saturated with fanart and stuff, but I feel like the lore/game disconnect could have been really easily been fixed just by putting the heroes on opposing factions. Team Little Shitbird Gremlins causing no end of grief for Team Retired Cops Who Are Too Old For This poo poo. Ooh, and also you need to play long enough to unlock certain heroes, and if one person is playing one of them then you can't play that hero right now either!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_9SsX7HJhE That one gets weird towards the end so I wouldn't recommend watching it at work.
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That was some crazy poo poo right there, that someone would take the time to basically animate your average Hyrule adventure.
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If I wasn't about to fall asleep I'd write what this letter (and the one it's responding to) would say.
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So proud people are still making dragon age 2 fanart.
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Pick posted:So proud
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Lizard Wizard posted:
When your work has more words than B^U, that's when you know you need to put down the pencil. Just because there's white space doesn't mean you have to compulsively fill it in! This just gives me the vibe of something a middle schooler or freshman high school student would draw. I remember doing a trace sketch of Shrek in middle school for fun and the shakiness of the handwriting reminds me of that.
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Eh, it's more this.  Anyway...      
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Internet Kraken posted:Well here's one of the problems with Overwatch's writing; its trying to be two separate things at once. The backstory for the game is this more serious story about fallen heroes rising back up to save the world from crisis. Okay, what does this have to do with the actual game? Absolutely nothing. Nothing you do in Overwatch has to do with all this backstory. Some of your objectives have connections to the backround story but they are very flimsy. They also create weird problems; peaceful robot monk Zenyatta will help deliver an EMP bomb to genocide a bunch of other robots living under a city. Doesn't really make much sense, does it? I watched a few streams and it was pretty funny how heroic and bombastic the intermatch music was considering it's prefacing a zero stakes death match between a bunch of looney tunes. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:When your work has more words than B^U, that's when you know you need to put down the pencil. Just because there's white space doesn't mean you have to compulsively fill it in! To be fair, every art teacher I had in school said that blank area on a page should be filled in. Of course, they never meant with words...
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Tohouverwatch, nice.
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Its that time of the year, the Four Job Fiesta is starting soon. To celebrate, here's some FFV fanart.    
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Baron Snow posted:Tohouverwatch, nice. It's even better when you realize they're both fandoms for games with very little/no coherent plot, outside of a thinly constructed one to sort of drape the world upon. Which means the fans have gone APESHIT because there's so much room to impose yourself and your beliefs on there and make your own world/jokes. StrangersInTheNight has a new favorite as of 18:19 on Jun 11, 2016 |
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StrangersInTheNight posted:It's even better when you realize they're both fandoms for games with very little/no coherent plot, outside of a thinly constructed one to sort of drape the world upon. Which means the fans have gone APESHIT because there's so much room to impose yourself and your beliefs on there and make your own world/jokes. Touhou has significantly more thematic consistency and plot than Overwatch does Which is kinda sad, since Touhou was made by a single Japanese alcoholic and Overwatch is a AAA game
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