It is kinda hard to call yourself a sequel when you're basically the same exact game and literally the original game doesn't even exist anymore.
I do not like that I paid for Overwatch 1 but now only have Overwatch 2.
Counter-Strike would like a word.
I don't like CS2 either; but Global Offensive had already killed CS for me long before it was converted to CS2.
In their defense, counter strike 1.5 and 1.6 existed. Condition zero as 1.7, source as 1.8, GO as 1.9 and now we are finally at two. 🤷♂️
Also, updating to the Source 2 engine, yea?
You can still play the og and cs source???
Thousands still play
You can play 1.5, 1.6, Conditon Zero, and Source.
You can't play Global Offensive anymore, afaik. It did the same thing OW2 did, getting replaced entirely by CS2.
You can still play the old counterstrike games
But not Global Offensive.
Global Offensive is still playable (at least the core gameplay) in the csgo_legacy branch of CS2 on Steam.
This is salt in the wound for my friends who miss launch Overwatch.
I'm right there with you. I miss having 6v6 with like half the characters they have now (so I can actually learn them all), with Jeff Kaplan keeping me excited to play. What a fun time that was.
I'm right there with you. I think the hamster was the last new hero I played with.
Those were good times.
Now they're adding a cat with a jetpack, which I would love if they gave her a better name than Jetpack Cat.
I gave up on this game a long time ago. It took me longer than it should've to realize that "old Blizzard" is gone and not coming back.
I took a long break from overwatch after the release of overwatch 2, but they have been made some big changes that have brought me back.
No more heros locked behind battle passes, free loot boxes, 6v6, great performance, sound design and the new perk system is nice. The game is more balanced than it ever was as overwatch 1, even it it's still not perfect.
I don't agree with everything, paid skins are absurdly expensive, and heros do seem designed to sell skins, but that's really not new either.
You seem knowledgeable about modern blizzard. What are the women who work there saying about equality? Would the breast milk thing happen again today?
I wouldn't know anything about that, but with respect to the overwatch team, they don't seem to be implicated in that controversy.
I can't imagine the fight for equality in game dev is over, but at the same time I haven't heard anything particularly controversial. If you have other evidence of wrong doing do let me know.
Huh, thanks.
why does this game ask for my phone no. to play?
Activision does that with all their games now.
It’s the reason I won’t buy a new COD game.
Because it's free to play and it's supposed to be a deterrent to smurfing.
man, games are taken so seriously these days that they resort to smurfing.
It's been that way for a long time. The term smurfing, I think, originated with Warcraft II.
The games I played didn't have ranking. It was better.
Fuck whatever morons think dumb shit like this is acceptable:
I swear, everybody is such a goddamn sellout these days.
Why are they storing that content in a third party cookie?
Seems like their webmaster needs to update it.
Overwatch is close to being a decade old btw.
It’s so unfortunate what they did to Overwatch, wonder how Jeff Kaplan and the original Team feels about all that.
As great as Jeff was, he's the one that did all the stuff to Overwatch.
As far as I've heard/read he was never really interested in making a PVP game, he wanted to make Titan, the MMO. Then he got another chance with OW2 and the PVE mode, and even got an offer to make a separate dev team that would focus on PVP, so he could put his all into PVE, but declined, so the game was left to die (even though it never really died). Then PVE in OW2 was a bust again and he left.
IIRC he just washed his hands and moved on from it, which probably was the right call given the Acti-Blizz merger and Microsoft buyout.
“Microslop”
"Jetpack cat"? Really? That desperate, huh?
I'm still grateful that Blizzard did the Overwatch free weekend so I could determine for myself that it sucks ass.
No thanks. I have 1000 hours in OW, but I've moved on.
Isnt every sequel "just the previous thing again?"
Headline is a poor attempt at saying they are renaming it to just 'Overwatch' without the 2.
That is how I read it, what else could it mean?
That the game "overwatch 2" is just a re-hash of the original "overwatch" game - not that it was renamed to be "overwatch"
I also had a hard time reading the post title, still think it's idiotic, but now it makes more sense to me. I couldn't understand what the original post title was trying to say.
Being a rehash/continuation of the same game was the case since Overwatch 2 came out as they dropped the PvE plans, so it wouldn't be news.
Right, which is why I thought it was weird there was an article being published about it and assumed it was untimely drivel since the game was released in 2022. Again, it didn't make sense to me as posted and I had to click into the article to sort it out.
All that to say, it wasn't abundantly clear to me just based on the title of the post.
Well, there might've been some change that made it even more like the original, which could've prompted such a title either way...
Not good sequels, no.
I laughed out loud at Overwatch x Hello Kitty and Friends.
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