What I don't understand is why, in the original trailer, with the two kids and the glove and everything, Widowmaker and Reaper seemed to be on one side, and Tracer and Winston were on the other, and yet in game, they're all one big happy family. I know there's story going on, but I never saw anything in any of the time I spent playing.
We know about the Temple of Anubis and Dorado.
Junkrat and Roadhog robbed the bank in Dorado, hence the start in the vault.
Temple of Anubis is an AI installation that Pharah, as part of Helix Security International, guards.
The characters have a lot of dialogue in game that tells the story. Widowmaker makes sassy comments to Tracer about "working on the same team for now" and Tracer snaps back at her. Same goes for a lot of the other characters. Like fun fact: McCree gave/made the guns Reaper uses, but resents Reaper for the way he uses them/throws them around.
It's set in the future but not in our real world, unless the possibilities of giant apes becoming scientists is something we wanna be devoting our resourses to in the future :P
Overwatch is a super hero themed game, it always has been, but a more grounded superhero based theme. I see X-Men or Avengers type of theme with Overwatch.
I love Warcraft, I dislike WoW
Unsubbed since January 2021, now a Warcraft fan from a distance
Well, most of the heroes are obviously only using tech and not magic, but even in gameplay it felt pretty clear to me that Hanzo and Genji used mystic stuff, unless they have a technobabble explanation for shooting dragons from your bow.
I also get the feeling we'll see more mysticism/magic in future heroes.
So.. Reaper showing up out of thin air in a different location and turning himself into a floating half-smoke creature is normal? Tracer time travelling is normal? Summoning Dragons out of arrows is normal? I mean, I could go on and on... the point being, magic being part of Overwatch universe is nothing new and I don't know why you're complaining/wondering just now.
It's set on 'a' Earth. Just like how Marvel Universe is set on Earth, IF you played Overwatch you would know there are loads of stuff in teh game that are not even possible even in 100 years into the future... food for thought.
Also On Topic: The cinematic was awesome. Very narrative driven and carried more emotion than the previous cinematics which I loved. Glad they didn't go with the same formula on this one. Loved getting into the backstories of two very complex characters. And I want that music score
Last edited by Orby; 2016-05-16 at 05:21 PM.
I love Warcraft, I dislike WoW
Unsubbed since January 2021, now a Warcraft fan from a distance
I suppose them having some mystic mojo makes sense, I just thought it was odd considering I thought it was set in a sci-fi world.
I always justified Reaper's abilities to something happening to him in that explosion he and Soldier 76 was in. Maybe affected by some experimental tech that changed him, like Tracer.
A Earth rather than our Earth does make much more sense, I'm just really sure Blizz said our Earth. Oh well guess I was wrong! Thanks!
Also I did play Overwatch, it's so fucking good. :3
Unrelated, those... classic(?) styled Japanese scenes looked really pretty.