#24

I really like Overwatch but for all its characters it’s lacking in personality and really starts to come of as sterile. Kills are boring. no one blows up into meaty chunks. Hell, sometimes I couldn’t tell you if I have even killed anyone without checking the scoreboard.

TF2, from which it heavily borrows right down to the engineer, has 10 times the personality in its hats alone.

Fun game, though.

#25

Nice to see Angry Joe at least gave OW an unbiased review with a 7/10 - the same score he gave BB.

#26

OW is Twilight popular, not Harry Potter popular.

Or if you prefer musical analogies, OW is Justin Beiber popular, not Paul McCartney popular.

That’s not to say OW isn’t popular. It’s MASSIVELY popular, just like the Twilight and Beiber. It just doesn’t have the staying power of the other two.

And that’s also not to say BB is the flip-side of those analogies. Time will tell if BB has long endurance legs. The potential is there, but it’s a steep uphill climb.

#27

I like them both… BB & OW
I think if you just approach them as ‘games’ and not the ‘this and that’ of reviews and fan commentary, they are both fun…
I think either can be played in long or short periods, depending on your attention span…
Play all the things, and if you like it or lump it… That’s cool :wink:

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#28

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#29

I wish.

I’m still stuck with impossibly long queues. Sometimes it just feels like it’s never gonna get me a game. Is my MMR that high? Dunno, can’t check it out.

#30

I mean, in the last 24 hrs we hit a concurrent peak of 2,290 players on Steam. On the other hand, OW has just banned 1,572 accounts from China alone this week. A drop of a few thousand is not felt in OW at all while it’s painfully obvious in here :confused:

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#31

I like Overwatch because I can just shut off my brain and play and never give a damn about the outcome of the game. Win or lose I don’t really care. It’s a good game for a few quick matches. game I can play without getting stressed. A good game for me to play with friends. I doubt I’ll ever play it without at least one friend hopping in game with me though.

On the other hand Battleborn just sucks me in. Try as I might I can’t seem to remain uninvested in the outcome of a match. I want to do well. I feel like I am part of a team and I want to do well so I help out the team. I don’t feel detached at all from the entire process. It just sucks me in. Sure, it can be stressful sometimes, but when I do well I feel so damn good.

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#32

How about Sports?

OW is Alex Rodriguez while Battleborn Manny Machado

BTW…if you don’t follow Baseball…Machado is probably the BEST of the 3 young superstars in Baseball…

Trout, Harper and Machado (but Machado does not get the press time the others do…strangely)

Battleborn will stick and tries hard to be all things to all people. (PvP, PvE, private play, group play, solo play…you name it) I think it actually succeeds admirably. And as long as good DLC keeps coming and they keep up their commitment to improve the game.

It will be a success.

As big as BL2 was? No…IMHO

But BL2 had it’s own niche for a year and a half BEFORE Destiny. There was nothing like it and is filled with oodles of replayability.

Battleborn has to compete with OW, Smite, etc…in a genre that is kinda full right now.

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#33

Even if Battleborn ends up like Evolve, I will do what I’ve been doing with Evolve, and keep playing until I’m the last one on.

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#34

I think Gearbox learned a lot from BL2 I remember Pitchford talking about how the number of players was spiking like a year after its release when most games have died out. I think they’re pretty good at parking out dlcs and stuff so I wouldn’t be surprised if Battleborn has more sustain. I’miss sure they took the lessons they learned from BL2 and had a long term game plan in mind especially with the two releases so close together.

#35

Oh man, not Evolve lol! That game was a trash heap from the jump. Anyone that played the beta knew it was a high graphic game of hide and seek.

I admire your determination, but Evolve is not worth going down with the ship.

#36

Currently I think BB needs atleast a small boost to ad time/space. Overhyping a game is bad. But not putting its name out there enough is just as bad if not worse.

We don’t want to force BB down everyone’s throat like Blizzard is doing with Overwatch currently. But we need people to hear about the game in other forms than people bashing it on forums and social media or from biased magazines/ gaming sites.

I don’t think I’ve seen a single BB commercial on TV since Overwatch launched. There weren’t that many before then either.

Another idea would be figuring out a way to have some fun events in BB. Double EXP was nice. TBH I wish I was still getting character exp at double rate. Command rank goes up fast enough as is.

However I was thinking more like either community events such as collectively kill a total of 100 million minions as a playerbase and everyone get a reward skin or taunt or something.

Or level theme changes for major holidays or randomness of spawning crossovers from other gearbox games like say a bonerfart infestation. (Yes I know that isn’t what they are really called but I like that name better.)

#37

Is there really Elo in this game? I heard someone in a game say there was when we were waiting like 30 mins for a game earlier this morning.

#38

I have seen a lot of new players on PS4. I joined matchmaker and 2 guys were talking on the mic about just getting Battleborn. It was funny cause I was lvl 84 and they were like, " Hey level 84 guy don’t leave. We just got the game but we are good, don’t worry. " I told them I wasn’t gonna leave and we had a great game. We did win. Glad to see new players.

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#39

That really makes me want to get Battleborn even more right now! The sale is going well on PS4 I assume. If I wasn’t so damn busy right now Id get the digital deluxe right away. 50€ is a good deal for a new game.

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#40

Don’t leave it too long, the sale is only on until 8th June so grab it whilst it’s on offer!

#41

@Tenebeat
Why not take advantage of the sale now, and once you have free time then dive into Battleborn? Or are you worried it might cut into your priorities because you like it too much and have a hard time putting it down? (Totally not the case with me… Yea… Totally…)

#42

People who just left Overwatch after spending 40$ or 60$ on it will certainly not spend another 60$ on Battleborn. I hate to break it to you but all the “hope scenarios” which would magically inject new players into Battleborn have not come to pass.

#43

@phoreverphamily @Martok
I know! Too bad the sale is happening now… I’ll most likely be kinda busy till mid July, so it really doesn’t make much sense to buy it now. I’m not a person who can set their priorities straight, so I doubt I could resist playing it :c

Guess I’ll just hope a similar good sale will come up once I’m free. So wait for me, you guys :’)