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I didn't think I'd like this, at all.  I went in not hyped, period, to this open beta.

And I played it.  And I really liked it, a lot.  It won me over.   The graphics are good enough, but I don't mind because for a multiplayer game it ran smooth.  I played on PC and had hardly any issues or really any lag.  Servers were mostly stable for a huge open beta.   Minus a few things, I think it's pretty balanced.    I may be picking this game up for sure.

Anyone else play?  Open beta was extended so it's still up today.

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I think it's a great game and will be picking it up for the Xbox One. I think some of the hero's powers and ability are a little OP..like Bastions turret. Other than that, I think it's a nice breath of fresh air for the vidgya world.

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45 minutes ago, P-paw said:

I think it's a great game and will be picking it up for the Xbox One. I think some of the hero's powers and ability are a little OP..like Bastions turret. Other than that, I think it's a nice breath of fresh air for the vidgya world.

Bastion is OP.  Definitely one of the things that needs fixed a bit but if that's the worst then, they did a pretty good job.  In ranked, he probably won't be as OP since you'll have teammates and hopefully the get behind him with Tracer or w/e and take him out.

 

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44 minutes ago, CarolinaCoolin said:

If you aren't playing on pc you are playing it wrong. Loved the open beta. Wasn't to hype on it before I played it then was sold really hard

I think PC will have better competitive matches because people are more used to playing objectives on there, and games like TF2 and whatnot.   

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After all of the hype I was expecting some great revolution in FPSs...

 

played about 6 hours this weekend, was disappointed.

It was a fine FPS and Im sure Id get my 60 bucks out of it if I bought it but not sure if Ill drop the cash.

 

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8 hours ago, Inimicus said:

After all of the hype I was expecting some great revolution in FPSs...

 

played about 6 hours this weekend, was disappointed.

It was a fine FPS and Im sure Id get my 60 bucks out of it if I bought it but not sure if Ill drop the cash.

 

There will never be a revolution of FPSs at this point, not before VR catches up.  Titanfall was the closest to do it and it wasn't as popular as everyone thought it would be (it was great though).

The reason Overwatch will be good is balance, and that it's backed by Blizzard, meaning it won't die off in 2 months like all other FPS games and whatnot.  Blizzard will continuously add new characters and maps and support this game for years and years.   There is not a FPS this balanced really since Call of Duty 4 I don't believe.    

Although it's not honestly a FPS in the traditional "TDM" sense.  It's more Team Fortress which I wouldn't call an FPS either.  The style is an FPS, but the gameplay/modes don't really push it that way.

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5 hours ago, Zaximus said:

There will never be a revolution of FPSs at this point, not before VR catches up.  Titanfall was the closest to do it and it wasn't as popular as everyone thought it would be (it was great though).

The reason Overwatch will be good is balance, and that it's backed by Blizzard, meaning it won't die off in 2 months like all other FPS games and whatnot.  Blizzard will continuously add new characters and maps and support this game for years and years.   There is not a FPS this balanced really since Call of Duty 4 I don't believe.    

Although it's not honestly a FPS in the traditional "TDM" sense.  It's more Team Fortress which I wouldn't call an FPS either.  The style is an FPS, but the gameplay/modes don't really push it that way.

It definitely suffered from the couldn't live up to the hype syndrome.  I have literally only heard one person speak negatively about it before I logged in Sat morning and he is a miserable man who never says good things about anything.

 

I liked the changing heroes mechanism which should avoid the miserable curb stomping you get when you just get a bad match-up. Of the toons I played I felt there was a nice balance to them and a ton of variety.

But at the end of the day I didn't think there was anything about it that would keep it from turning into what so many of these games become.  People who pour 100s of hours into it roflstomping the casuals and finding ways to cheat the brackets so they can grief the less skilled.

I hope Im wrong as I have quite a few friends who are committed to picking it up and I enjoyed playing this weekend.  It just fell short of the "SHUT-UP AND TAKE MY MONEY" experience I was expecting.

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7 minutes ago, Inimicus said:

It definitely suffered from the couldn't live up to the hype syndrome.  I have literally only heard one person speak negatively about it before I logged in Sat morning and he is a miserable man who never says good things about anything.

 

I liked the changing heroes mechanism which should avoid the miserable curb stomping you get when you just get a bad match-up. Of the toons I played I felt there was a nice balance to them and a ton of variety.

But at the end of the day I didn't think there was anything about it that would keep it from turning into what so many of these games become.  People who pour 100s of hours into it roflstomping the casuals and finding ways to cheat the brackets so they can grief the less skilled.

I hope Im wrong as I have quite a few friends who are committed to picking it up and I enjoyed playing this weekend.  It just fell short of the "SHUT-UP AND TAKE MY MONEY" experience I was expecting.

Yeah there will be great people that put in tons of hours, but they will play against OTHER people like that in ranked.   You could always just play quick play like open beta was.  Blizzard has years of experience with WoW's pvp ladder on how to do it (it's not perfect).  But any game will have the people that make it a job, you can't avoid that unfortunately.

I think they need to make it where you can't have more than 2 of the same hero though.   Going against 5 Bastion teams was annoying lol.

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