Overwatch

Huh, looks like most of the time playing Reinhardt consists of huddling behind your shield...worth it as that player might have shown, that doesn't sound very fun.

Also, not sure I like his voice. I kinda hoped he'd have a more stereotypical German accent.

edited 10th Jun '15 6:33:57 PM by VutherA

ACK! It's raining rockets! What strange weather!

...Oh, wait, that's just Pharah? Never mind.

The rocket launcher-equipped woman in a full suit of armor blows up every enemy in sight in her gameplay preview.

So far Pharah seems to be the mainstay damage source of most teams.

Which is disappointing, because she seems like she'll go the way of the Demoman or Soldier.

On the other hand, I expect a lot of shipping her with Mercy.

I am still waiting until Blizzard gives me Overwatch's Beta Key...

That won't be until fall at the earliest.

Thoughts:

1) Wow the skill gap is really apparent in some of these gameplay videos. The difference between the player Pharrah and red Pharrah is really striking, to say nothing of how bad that Bastion was.

2) It's interesting how characters with the same role can play so differently. A successful Pharrah will be very different from a successful Reaper even though they're both Offense characters.

3) Every Offense and Tank character is going to get shipped with Mercy. The play dynamics demand it.

I can feel the Launcher of a Thousand Ships entry just waiting to be put in

edited 12th Jun '15 9:13:38 AM by VutherA

It's time for this genetically-engineered gorilla scientist from the Moon... to go ape.

Winston gets primal on his enemies in his gameplay preview.

edited 17th Jun '15 10:13:32 AM by SonicWind

Reaper playing with the spinning screen in the setup phase was hilarious and adorable.

Characters with directional shields do really poorly against high-mobility enemies. In this video and the last Bastion keeps getting rekt for going turret in a space that leaves his back uncovered, and in the Tracer video it's shown that it's dirt-simple to blink past Reinhardt's shield and shoot him in the back.

People really seem to like the whole spider motif, huh? Widowmaker is no exception... or, rather, she would be if she was still able to like things.

The emotionless sniper takes aim in her gameplay preview.

I'm not going to comment on Widowmaker much- I'm a terrible sniper, I'd likely never play her in the first place.

I do know she really could have stood to use her Venom mine more.

And so the teasing begins...

And ends. Whatever that was, they deleted it.

Mind telling us what it said?

edited 20th Jun '15 7:23:33 AM by BaleFire

The tweet said "[BREAKING] Explosions reported at former Overwatch base. Assailant's motives currently unknown." before showing a picture with a silhouetted figure inside the facility◊.

I'm guessing they may actually have a story, if I'm reading the signs right.

And if you watch the trailer...

I'm just waiting to see the Bastion game play at this point. I already have an idea of what it will be like, but I'm curious to see what a good player will do.

I just realized that in the first group shot of all the overwatch operatives, it has both Bastion and Zenyatta.

Which raises a question, because while I don't know exactly when Zenyatta started doing his whole "walk the world" thing, I'm reasonably certain that Bastion only started wandering around relatively recently- long after overwatch disbanded.

And it doesn't have Reaper or Widowmaker while still having a bunch of characters not yet introduced, so it can't just be a bunch of Player Characters.

Well, I was thinking more an actual storyline in the game, as opposed to a Team Fortress 2 style of background story that I think it may be.

It's time for Bastion to transform and roll out! ...And by "roll out", I mean "kill everything in its general vicinity with a gatling gun".

In any case, this remnant of the Omnics tanks the competition in its gameplay preview.

edited 25th Jun '15 10:54:38 AM by SonicWind

Huh? No love for Bastion? Eh, alright.

Anyway, last but not least is Zarya, who understands the gravity of the situation. Here's her gameplay preview.

I'm going to like playing as Bastion, to say the least. Even if it seems like it's not the best character.

Zarya, on the other hand... Well, we shouldn't be seeing anyone massing close together with her on the field.

OCD Tracer.

If I am going to be totally honest. Not a big fan of Zayra. Find her backstory to be... well at least a little bland and uninteresting.

Bastion however looks like a lot of fun. If I can ever get this game to run on my piece a shit computer I will enjoy it.

Gotta admit, I like both.

Bastion's basically a mobile sentry turret, which is neat.

And Zarya is a lot like the Pyro except she has options. I really like her laser flamethrower thing.