I have actually seen Overwatch get flak about a lack of story. I think the biggest difference is OW is all MP whereas BB actually has a campaign in the form of “story missions.” If you’re going to call them that, there should be a story. I think that’s the expectation and I think we can all agree that the story mission story is pretty weak.
At least BB gives you the underpinning idea of the game upfront. Save the last star. Everything else is fluff. Other than The Experiment and The Heliophage, what story missions really have to do with the save Solus story? Most are just character or faction introductions with objectives. Void’s Edge rams home that Varelsi portal tech is a threat even when not directly swallowing stars. But, the rest are side quests.
Destiny was never clear about anything. The cultivation of mystery for hype’s sake is a slow twisting knife, as far as i’m concerned. And i’m a raging Destiny fan.
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My friend and fellow forum poster Ginger Greninja put it best while we were on a PvE mission once… If you look up the lore and related story stuff on websites, the story is really interesting, but for some reaosn the story missions focus on the least interesting parts of it and it’s just random side adventures in the story missions. C9Reeves makes similar points in his post above. It sounds like they are improving this with the new PvE missions, which would be cool because there’s a lot of good material they aren’t working with at the moment.
OW doesn’t get criticism for it’s storyline because it doesn’t have one. Every thing we know has been explained by the devs or through the really awesome trailers. People don’t complain about it because the game itself didn’t try.
Battleborn has a disjointed attempt at a storyline with a lackluster ending.
What I don’t get is other games with a story like titanfall, evolve, blah blah get hit with no story hate yet overwatch has a story but no complaints about not having a story mode
Titanfall was definitely criticized for not having a story mode. In fact, it doesn’t get story hate because it didn’t have a story once so ever. You just chose a side for the “campaign” then played through a series of multiplayer matches with some dialogue that both ended the same way.
Off topic but titanfall 2 will have one and so far the whole game looks good
Agreed.
Honestly they should make big spinoff games with characters like foxtrot like me and skeskis_SYL want
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