"Blizzards answer for TF2"

[Acidbaron]

Blizzard is very clearly copying TF2 here, from the maps (payload and capture the point maps, wow how original) to the graphics to the class based FPS shooter.

How can anybody look at this and be content? It's a ten year old game they are trying to copy! Where is any of their originality?

They did the samething with everquest. Yet to hear people complain about that nowadays.

There are differences with class resource mechanics and such, but using working systems and playstyles is a good thing.

[Tucci]

No guys they didn't rip TF2 off at all..

Yeah, IMO TF2 totally ripped off Call of Duty though since they both have snipers.

[Mukor]

Yeah I agree with you.. And overwatch looks way better than TF2 in my opinion.

TF2 is 7 years old, if this game didnt look better it'd have a huge problem. So your opinion isnt an opinion its a fact since its a newer engine and updated graphics lmao

[Tucci]

TF2 is 7 years old, if this game didnt look better it'd have a huge problem. So your opinion isnt an opinion its a fact since its a newer engine and updated graphics lmao

What makes you think he was only talking about visuals?

[Kaleredar]

Isn't it possible to play both...

[THoyt]

"HOTS is Blizzards answer to Dota"

HotS is Blizzards version of getting back at GabeN for winning the rights to the DotA name.

As far as Overwatch, I have enough FPS games on Steam that I don't have time to play, so unfortunately this one will be added to the list of titles I'd like to play but probably never will.

[Tucci]

Isn't it possible to play both...

This^
Rofl, makes no sense to me at all why people start choosing sides over literally fucking everything.
CoD vs Battlefield
Playstation vs Xbox vs PC
DotA vs LoL
WoW vs Any MMO

[Celista]

Blizzard's niche has always been taking established concepts and making them mainstream/more accessible. When I played HotS in the technical alpha it was pretty readily apparent that was the direction Blizzard was taking with their MOBA. World of Warcraft was a more accessible version of its MMORPG predecessors, set in the Warcraft universe.

I don't really see the problem regarding any similarities to TF2, as long as Blizzard takes that concept and fundamentally improves it in some way.

[Conscious]

Sorry OP, perception is reality.

It looks like TF2, leaks have confirmed it's recycled Titan content, that's just the tip of the iceberg.

So that's why people think it is what it is.

[melodramocracy]

Overwatch is not like TF, silly, it doesn't have hats.

Yet.

/10characters

[woodydave44]

Sorry OP, perception is reality.

It looks like TF2, leaks have confirmed it's recycled Titan content, that's just the tip of the iceberg.

So that's why people think it is what it is.

Yeah, how dare they take a cancelled game that cost them millions, and use those assets elsewhere. Its almost like they re-worked their own creation that not a single one of us ever got to see.

With that logic, no one should make a fps ever, because they all look like CoD.

Lets go deeper. There should be no new games made ever, because god forbid it may look like something else.

[La]

Blizzard is very clearly copying TF2 here, from the maps (payload and capture the point maps, wow how original) to the graphics to the class based FPS shooter.

How can anybody look at this and be content? It's a ten year old game they are trying to copy! Where is any of their originality?

It's a ten year old game that tons of people still love and enjoy. What's wrong with taking elements from another game and giving your own spin to it?

I'd rather them take elements from TF2 than from Call Of Duty and every game as unoriginal as it, because TF2 doesn't feel like other FPS games or play like them, that's the great thing about it: it's just plain fun. And I hope this is the same.

[melodramocracy]

Yeah, IMO TF2 totally ripped off Call of Duty though since they both have snipers.

Hoping this is sarcasm.

[Baracuda]

My first thought was: Unreal Tournament. But I guess it's not a popular game here

[melodramocracy]

It's a ten year old game that tons of people still love and enjoy. What's wrong with taking elements from another game and giving your own spin to it?

Ask this question when the next MMO comes out, and the swarms of ardent Blizz devotees slam it for being a 'WoW clone'.

[nekobaka]

While I see some cross over I dont really think of Overwatch as TF2 based. Reminds me of many other games of years past and then the ones of today that get targeted towards the tweens. The production quality is definitely better than the tween oriented games done of the low end. Nice to finally see Blizzard making an new IP that actually gets announced after all these many years. No interest in the game, but a good change in my opinion.

My first thought was: Unreal Tournament. But I guess it's not a popular game here

Well UT and Quake have a lot of followers that the industry built off of. Was actually a number of children orient reskins of those games including one by Nerf of UT. Team oriented play with classes including engineers is not unique to TF and is just that TF became a long standing name. I have seen a number of games from various small developers that look closer to Overwatch than Overwatch looks like TF.

The styling and map design is different for Blizzard and does feel closer to Unreal and a number of those children oriented reskins and other FPS team based games.

[Tenjen]

lots of hate. irrelevant really.

Will it be fun though? It seems it will be. In which case i will play it and enjoy it.

[Deleted]

Yeah I agree with you.. And overwatch looks way better than TF2 in my opinion.

It obviously should be, TF2 was launched back in 2007, Overwatch 8 years later probably so yeah it should be a lot better

[Delekii]

It's a complete and utter rip-off of TF2. Trying to claim otherwise is totally irrational.

That said, who cares? TF2 is one of the best and most-played FPS in history. If they are going to choose something to rip off, it might as well be something good. Frankly, I can't wait to see a Blizzard skin of TF2. Blizzard have incredibly high production values and clearly have a great art style, so go at it.

[Deleted]

It's a complete and utter rip-off of TF2. Trying to claim otherwise is totally irrational.

That said, who cares? TF2 is one of the best and most-played FPS in history. If they are going to choose something to rip off, it might as well be something good. Frankly, I can't wait to see a Blizzard skin of TF2. Blizzard have incredibly high production values and clearly have a great art style, so go at it.

I agree. Omg, a company ripped of another one when making a game Must be a first. Everyone can see that they have been influenced by TF2, and that does not have to be a bad thing.