This is salt in the wound for my friends who miss launch Overwatch.
Submitted 3 hours ago by simple@piefed.social to games@lemmy.world
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ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
ulkesh@piefed.social 2 hours ago
I’m right there with you. I miss having 6v6 with like half the characters they have now (so I can actually learn them all), with Jeff Kaplan keeping me excited to play. What a fun time that was.
justsquigglez@leminal.space 2 hours ago
I think I actually took psychic damage reading that. Just… why.
The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 2 hours ago
I gave up on this game a long time ago. It took me longer than it should’ve to realize that “old blizzard” is gone and not coming back.
magiccupcake@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I took a long break from overwatch after the release of overwatch 2, but they have been made some big changes that have brought me back.
No more heros locked behind battle passes, free loot boxes, 6v6, great performance, sound design and the new perk system is nice. The game is more balanced than it ever was as overwatch 1, even it it’s still not perfect.
I don’t agree with everything, paid skins are absurdly expensive, and heros do seem designed to sell skins, but that’s really not new either.
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Still dead to me.
vogi@piefed.social 2 hours ago
Overwatch is close to being a decade old btw.
It’s so unfortunate what they did to Overwatch, wonder how Jeff Kaplan and the original Team feels about all that.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
IIRC he just washed his hands and moved on from it, which probably was the right call given the Acti-Blizz merger and Microsoft buyout.
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 2 hours ago
snooggums@piefed.world 1 hour ago
I laughed out loud at Overwatch x Hello Kitty and Friends.
Durandal@lemmy.today 50 minutes ago
fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.org 1 hour ago
Did this guy live under a rock?
actualaccount@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
No thanks. I have 1000 hours in OW, but I’ve moved on.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Isnt every sequel “just the previous thing again?”
lemming@anarchist.nexus 2 hours ago
Headline is trying, poorly, to say they are renaming it to just ’Overwatch’ without the 2.
snooggums@piefed.world 1 hour ago
That is how I read it, what else could it mean?
zewm@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Quake and Quake 2 would like a word.
ulkesh@piefed.social 2 hours ago
Diablo and Diablo 2 entered the chat.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I love both (personally like Quake 2 better) and consider Quake 2 to be “Quake 1 again.”
Though the visual tone of the game changed, it was still a fast paced action shooter with an identity that was different enough from Doom to be called “just Doom again.” Many improvements were made, but at its core it still felt like Quake. It didn’t feel like I was suddenly playing Mario, or even another shooter at the time like Turok, Heretic/Hexen, or GoldenEye.
I guess I am trying to say I understand what the headline is trying to say, but it doesn’t really do that good of a job.
fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.org 1 hour ago
Sequels are meant to be drastic improvements from the first game. Like everything. Visuals, story continuation, character development, new mechanics and features .etc
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 hours ago
Not good sequels, no.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
IMO, a good sequel doesnt have to change too much to be good, and is usually close enough to be called “more of the same.”.
A good sequel is good because of its similarities to the first. Otherwise you end up with Zelda 2, which is widely regarded as the worst of the Zelda games because it changed so much (outside of a small but very vocal minority that liked it). Many movie sequels also try to change too much and end up suffering because of it. Return to Oz was an interesting movie, but I wouldn’t ever call it as good as the original. Aliens and Terminator 2 are both similar enough to their respective originals while still having minor tweaks that led to a good follow up.
So in the sense of a sequel, Overwatch 2 isn’t the worst, but I think it changed too much from the original and suffers because of it. And Blizzards decision to overwrite the original obviously plays a big part in many people’s dislike of the game.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 hours ago
It is kinda hard to call yourself a sequel when you’re basicslly the same exact game and literally the original game doesn’t even exist anymore.
tidderuuf@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Counter-Strike would like a word.
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
You can still play the old counterstrike games
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 hour ago
I don’t like CS2 either; but Global Offensive had already killed CS for me long before it was converted to CS2.
fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.org 1 hour ago
The developers who made Terraria contemplated on a Terraria 2 and they were faced with the decision; continue developing Terraria as is or just try to make a Terraria 2.
Seems like they've instinctively chosen to keep supporting Terraria as is, because what can you do with a Terraria 2? When so many ideas and creations have been poured into one game? It sounded like Terraria 2 was going to be the same.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.social 26 minutes ago
What if someone made the hytale of terraria?
popcar2@piefed.ca 29 minutes ago
Well… They did try to make Terraria Otherworld, but that game got cancelled and they fell back into supporting Terraria because it keeps printing money.