#41

I corrected my typing error, I only played 10 hours of beta or so and solo queued because no one I know has played any Blizzard product since Vanilla WoW and my experience was a highly polished version of TF2 with heroes. I experienced spawn camping, 1 shotting, and personally thought the time to get to objectives was a little long for how short TTK is. Overwatch is a twitch shooter, it was designed to be one, there is no way around that. I have zero interest in playing another twitch shooter except maybe the new Battlefield and that is only if they get their World War One history correct and only if the game gets very good reviews.

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#42

I am speechless.

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#43

What? Sorry, I find Borderlands 1 really boring. It lacks polish and a cohesive identity.

That said, Borderlands 2 is pretty damn good. Definitely a classic to be enjoyed and remembered for many years. Most people I know agree and say the only redeeming factor was the DLC - which was good, but the base BL1 game was lacklusater. BL2 had both a great base game and amazing DLC.

I also remember the general feeling at the time of BL1’s release was “Where are these endless gun combinations Gearbox promised us”, and in BL2, it holds true. They advertise a billion different gun combinations, but that’s just marketing hype.

#44

I find the propensity of comparison with or without merit to be tedious at the very least.

It held value the first time it was discussed in depth, granted, but at this point, it has been more debated than the average electoral cycle.

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#45

Gr8 b8 m8 I r8 8/8

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#46

I’ve only played Borderlands 1. The weekend before BB launch actually. That game is revolutionary and left a template for games to follow. There wouldn’t be Sunset Overdrive without Borderlands. That’s all I could think about playing that game, about the influence its had on games I’ve enjoyed released years after but i played before. I’m hoping BL2 is on Games with Gold when BL3 nears.

But I’ve watched a fair bit of OW stream. From devs to media outlets, they’ve literally said spawn camping with Tracer is a legitimate strategy to be a nuisance, pest to the other team.

Youre kind of fill that role on here. It’s why I like your posts.

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#47

Forums are meant to challenge established viewpoints.

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#49

Or are they meant to establish viewpoints to be challenged?

#50

Which I’m all right with, but when viewpoints have already been established yet resummoned, The challenge becomes stale, reductive, redundant

#51

It’s meant to be a place for the exchange of ideas and differing viewpoints.

Nothing more

#52

It is true, there are some people out there who didn’t like it too much.

Personally I found the mechanics to be annoying after a while, no feeling of weight to the character, it feels like controlling a floating head at times. I struggled with accuracy, found almost all the weapons I would get had terrible bullet spread, combined with the bullet sponginess of the enemy increasing with each level it just turned into a grind. Having to loot every little container, crate, toilet etc was excessive, it was more like a modern day survival horror in that regards. The art style which people praise was actually a not that unique and distinctive then as it is now, it looked similar to a lot of cel shaded games. The co-op play is what pulled that game out of mediocrity, there weren’t that many games providing that kind of experience with a less serious cartoony vibe.

Hopefully number 3 will follow in 2’s tracks and improve on its predecessors, ignoring the prequel tho, I really did not like the zero G in that game, it felt like a cheap destiny, just with better story and humour and soul.

#53

I like OW cinematic shorts more than BB pre comics, but ill read comics before Disney Pixar movies anydah.

#54

I would have said the same normally but i gotta admit the new Dragons one was pretty damn awesome.

#55

Yeah that’s a valid point. I felt the same way, at first it was really fun but after a couple days there isn’t enough depth to really hold my attention. It’s basically CoD with different class skins, since I noticed a fair amount of character abilities hardly have effect or are just something that could have been a part of a generic loadout like Widowmaker mines. I mean Soldier 76 even has “sprint” as one of his 2 main abilities. It’s not a bad game but I was hoping for more impactful ability choices or ways to customize characters. I mean sure ultimates have good effects but how it plays out is an ulti fest with everyone instakilling each other. As it is every character plays one way and with only 12-14 characters (I think) it gets stale fast with the generic game modes, but everyone overlooks that cuz Blizzard (although I really like a lot of their games) or just cuz the game hasn’t even come out and people don’t realize.

Battleborn was better with interesting game types I like the way Incursion and Meltdown mix the different genres together in a good way. Twice the amount of characters with talent choices that affect the way the character plays along with unlockable mutations for new bonuses. Idk just seems like BB has way more depth

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#56

Nooooooooo!!!

Facts!

My only weakness!

You’ve won this round but I shall return.

#57

QQ there is the door.

#58

I mean , I think Team Fortress 2 is a better game than League of Legends but I don’t say that in the LOL forums…Mainly because I know that they are different genres and it would be a little silly to compare the 2…

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#59

Uh your math is wrong.
OW has 20 characters, with more on the way. Each of them unique.

BB has 25, with 5 more on the way, beyond that none are planned. Also unique.

#60

I think another problem is that Overwatch is called a “hero shooter” when the term only really applies to the moba styled Battle born.
Ow is JUST a shooter

#61

Actually its the other way around. Ow is the hero shooter.

Battleborn is a moba shooter. Mobas by definition are hero based so classifying as “hero” anything is redundant.

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