The Overwatch Story Thread: Lore, Animated Shorts & Comics!

[Deleted]

I loved the new animated short. Widowmaker is fantastic.

I'm really loving the artistic style and direction of this game. So refreshing.

Yep unfortunately it ends there. As art and cinematic movies are amazing gameplay tho si completly opposite of that. It is such shame. They have best art and animation team in the world but their games are lately so boring.

[Lothar]

yeah, usually Im not one to nitpick quickly, but with public assassinations in almost every second movie these days, its really funny how after widowmaker was found/ tracer "reported" her, they escort Mondatta OUT IN THE OPEN with TWO BODYGUARDS AS HUMAN SHIELDS through a CROWD OF PEOPLE.

so fucking stupid.

[Tenjen]

He cant be brought back btw, once the cranial core is destroyed, the unique personality developed from it own experiences is dead. you could reuse the body and try to remake him but it would basicly be a different omnic, like when you clone someone.

Yep unfortunately it ends there. As art and cinematic movies are amazing gameplay tho si completly opposite of that. It is such shame. They have best art and animation team in the world but their games are lately so boring.

speak for yourself, been having oodles of fun in overwatch

have a link to that reddit showing the lady and the robot btw?

[Soulwind]

yeah, usually Im not one to nitpick quickly, but with public assassinations in almost every second movie these days, its really funny how after widowmaker was found/ tracer "reported" her, they escort Mondatta OUT IN THE OPEN with TWO BODYGUARDS AS HUMAN SHIELDS through a CROWD OF PEOPLE.

so fucking stupid.

This realistic political thriller would have been better than House of Cards were not for that mistake.

[ldev]

Tracer is soooo god damn annoying...

[Lothar]

This realistic political thriller would have been better than House of Cards were not for that mistake.

its called suspension of disbelief.
it was really very very stupid.

[Arrashi]

I must say that after widowmaker short....im impressed. In fact really impressed. I don't care about overwatch, and even less about its story, but damn that animation is simply amazing. Easily justifies hype.

That being said, it also makes me wonder why did they ever bothered with live action movie for warcraft given they can produce something of that quality.

[Mormolyce]

It could also be about Morisson or Reyes, since the shorts have a theme of fighting Talon in them, so we may get a Reaper and '76 confrontation as it'd fit the storyline. Not sure how Genji and Hanzo would though (either they team up or one of them is working for Talon).

Maybe they're saving that for a bigger reveal, but I kind of hope it is the showdown that led to them being believed dead.

So would D.Va versus the colossal Omnic that was teased in the trailer!

I really want to see that. And not just because of my obvious bias.

[Tojara]

Making something of that quality, for ~80 minutes, is a lot different than making 4 shorts that are around 5 minutes each.

Keep in mind that I'm not knocking them at all because I think they are all excellent quality, but there is a reason you see a lot of the same characters in each one of these cinematics. We've seen Tracer, Winston and Widowmaker a couple of times already. The reason they do that is because it's a lot easier to use and work with those same assets as they don't have to build new ones from the ground up.

They would have to hire a lot more people to make a feature film of that quality.

As far as their other cinematics that they have made for WC/SC/Diablo, those ones take AGES to make and the longest one is only 5 minutes.

All that said, I like Tracer and all, but would love to see some new characters in the next few features they release.

[Soulwind]

Maybe they're saving that for a bigger reveal, but I kind of hope it is the showdown that led to them being believed dead.

Why not both? A fight that switches between past and present.

its called suspension of disbelief.
it was really very very stupid.

It's a futuristic fantasy universe for a PvP FPMOBA.

You can suspend your disbelief for the robot monk or the gorilla scientist but not for the security deployment of an irrelevant secondary character who only exists to get killed by Widowmaker in a 7min long video?

[Post]

What did Widowmaker say when Tracer asked her why she killed the robot? I couldn't tell.

[t1saif]

What did Widowmaker say when Tracer asked her why she killed the robot? I couldn't tell.

Adieu cherie

[Post]

Adieu cherie

Thank you, I loved it so that was bothering me not knowing.

[Ratyrel]

It's a futuristic fantasy universe for a PvP FPMOBA.

You can suspend your disbelief for the robot monk or the gorilla scientist but not for the security deployment of an irrelevant secondary character who only exists to get killed by Widowmaker in a 7min long video?

Suspense of disbelief doesn't work that way. It orients itself based on the world we know, unless rules are obviously suspended. There is no reason for the viewer to assume that security of political vips works differently in the overwatch world, but there is reason to allow for robot monks and gorilla scientists, as they are given in-universe explanations.

I really liked that new short, even better than the first one.

[Mormolyce]

Adieu cherie

Yeah. "Goodbye, sweetie". I think.

[Raetary]

holy fcking god, that new animated short is fcking awesome!
i feel sad for the.... omnic pope?
and tracer.

[Khaza-R]

Suspense of disbelief doesn't work that way. It orients itself based on the world we know, unless rules are obviously suspended. There is no reason for the viewer to assume that security of political vips works differently in the overwatch world, but there is reason to allow for robot monks and gorilla scientists, as they are given in-universe explanations.

I really liked that new short, even better than the first one.

Regardless. If you're gripe about the plausibility of the the scenario, you might want to start with an assassin who wears heels while flipping around buildings. Rather than worrying about someone's exit strategy in a game where people can shoot through walls like a hot knife through butter.

[Airlick]

Making something of that quality, for ~80 minutes, is a lot different than making 4 shorts that are around 5 minutes each.

Keep in mind that I'm not knocking them at all because I think they are all excellent quality, but there is a reason you see a lot of the same characters in each one of these cinematics. We've seen Tracer, Winston and Widowmaker a couple of times already. The reason they do that is because it's a lot easier to use and work with those same assets as they don't have to build new ones from the ground up.

They would have to hire a lot more people to make a feature film of that quality.

As far as their other cinematics that they have made for WC/SC/Diablo, those ones take AGES to make and the longest one is only 5 minutes.

All that said, I like Tracer and all, but would love to see some new characters in the next few features they release.

Blizzard could easily invest into that. And they could do so much better than with Warcraft. They could easily rival Disney if they wanted to branch out into the movie industry. They have some of the most recognizable IPs, ask 100 strangers on the street "what's Diablo/SC/WC?" and I bet 90 will have heard about at least one of them, and OW is a proof that they can dish out new ones on the same level.

[LiiLoSNK]

Wait so after the Widowmaker/Tracer fight and the assassination, couldn't they just reload the robots memories and what not into a new robot body? Or maybe just repair him?

I feel like the Talon terrorist organization didn't think this through.

[Fus Ro Yay]

Wait so after the Widowmaker/Tracer fight and the assassination, couldn't they just reload the robots memories and what not into a new robot body? Or maybe just repair him?
.

iirc they're not just "robots" anymore, they're artificial lifeforms.
may not be so easy to just reupload the memories.