Though the way the leaker describes it makes it sound more like a 3rd person MOBA than a hero shooter.
I just want a nice story driven single player game from Valve again that isn’t VR.
Have you played A Plague Tale (innocence, then requiem)? It’s one of the best story driven games I’ve ever played. It’s entirely linear, so plot urgency doesn’t feel artificial like it does in open world games.
I liked the plot of this game, but I did not like it as a game. I have not played the second one.
I played the first one but not the second yet. I did enjoyed the experience and the hairstyles stood out for the character designs with the ribbons.
1000 IQ power move: Valve promotes a fake game with fake trailers and fake reviews.
Day of the release approaches.
People buy and fire it up.
Starting screen says “Half Life 3”.
Thousands die from a stroke.
-1000 IQ, that’s an instant false advertising lawsuit slam dunk
So we are back at normal 😎
If it’s literally the first thing on startup, anyone annoyed can just refund it
As long as they don’t do pre-orders they’re fine.
Valves next game…
SQUEEEEEE!!!
it’s an Overwatch-style hero shooter
My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.
Won’t hurt to give it a shot, but I’ll be cautiously optimistic.
Man, I was taught “don’t judge a book by it’s cover” but you’re burying it by it’s genre, I hope you can experience new things once in a while .
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It’s been many years, maybe even decades, since I liked a straight up turn-based single player RPG. I seriously can’t think of one that has sucked me in since FFX. I even tried Divinity Original Sin 2 after so much hype and good reviews from my friends. But I just didn’t like it.
However, Baldur’s Gate 3 sucked me in. According to steam, approaching 100 hours of playtime (although I’m sure there is a good chunk of time where I just walked away with the PC with it “paused.”)
I’m not saying you’ll like the game, I have no idea. But to already be convinced that you won’t like it based on pretty much the nothing we’ve got it terribly presumptuous.
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I’m not ordering pizza from a restaurant if I’ve eaten 12 pizzas before and never liked any of them.
I was very intentional with my language, and pointed out that we know pretty much nothing about the game, so claiming you know you won’t like it is h reasonable. This is nothing like having a pizza, not liking it, and then not getting that same pizza again. This is like not liking the pizza at one store, it’s much closer to saying you don’t like the pizza in one store, so you know you won’t like it in another. Still imperfect because it would be closer saying you’ve never had a pizza you like, so you won’t like the pizza in a new store, which is more reasonable because you have a lot of information about that pizza.
But we have virtually nothing about this game.
To be faaaaiiiiir… D:OS (both of them) make the age-old mistake of having really slow, uninteresting, prologuish RPG starts. It takes a solid 5h of powergaming or 10h+ of normal play to get past that hump. That’s the point where the story picks up and you have enough tools to start really taking advantage of the games sandbox.
With BG3 they really seemed to have learned their lessons.
Well, it’s valve, so honestly the odds of it being genre-defining in an already established genre? Pretty high, actually. Seriously, when is the last time valve put out a shit game?
Here’s hoping it helps OW2 finally die.
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Artifact
… OK name two!
/s
I honestly forgot about that piece of crap lol.
Going to let an unannounced games rumored genre ruin your day?
Gamers need to set a better image of themselves.
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I hate beets. HATE them. I will eat durian, thousand-year eggs, stinky tofu, and a million other things that most people won’t touch… but beets? Fuck beets. Their sweet-yet-earthy funk is like a dead animal that has just started to decompose. I don’t care if they are cooked, pickled, or stewed in borscht… hate them and won’t touch them. They ruin everything they touch.
This is like that. They are cooking with lots of beet-like ingredients. Some people will love that. But as for me…I hate it… I hate just everything about it… and I hate it because I’ve experienced all those ingredients before. Over and over and over again. What they are making is for a very particular crowd, and I am not part of said crowd.
Sounds more like TF2 crossed with DOTA, which sounds weirdly fun and hella toxic.
I can’t wait to be called new and exciting racial slurs as I lose the game for my team.
Or bring back the classics. I haven’t been called a swamp kisser in a while.
I don’t want to get banned but just assume I tend to go 1 and 15 and every notices every time.
Isn’t Smite exactly this?
Ish, smite is literally a MOBA with the camera sitting behind the characters shoulder instead of top-down.
Easiest and only description of SMITE is third-person MOBA. I’ve played since 2012
Can you imagine the chaos of a veteran Dota2 player being matched with a notorious conga dancer?
I bet it will be made to run awesome on steam deck.
Try out Predecessor, it’s F2P and exactly this
It’s a Team Fortress Style Hero Shooter
Because it’s a Valve game
Because TF2 Inspired Overwatch
Get it right
So Team Fortress 3
One might think so, but the number 3 in the potential title makes this highly unlikely.
No, no, that’s not how this works. No 3s, them’s the rules.
Team Fortress 2.5
DOTASHOOTER
shoota
Shota
Dooter.
Whatever it ends up being, I’m not interested. Never cared for competitive gaming. Sad that Valve has decided to use part of their enormous talent pool for, well, this while almost any genre would’ve been better.
Also, this is already a highly saturated niche. I don’t doubt Valve’s technical prowess and knowhow to develop a game that can surpass all the other ones in quality, but a gilded turd is still a turd under that gold leaf, even if it’s technically the best turd in the world.
That’s unfortunate that it’s not a genre you personally are interested in, but it is a popular genre and Valve is a business. Just because it’s not to your tastes doesn’t mean it’s a waste of their talent.
Oh absolutely. I’m not conceited enough to imagine Valve is developing games for me or that I’m entitled to anything. Just venting my personal disappointment with their choice. I still consider them the cream of the crop in game and hardware development.
I’m just curious why Valve looked at the oversaturated hero shooter market (seriously, we’ve had failures 8 years ago now) and said “Oh yeah, let’s devote our resources there”
edit: Like, I seriously can’t understand it. Not even Blizzard is coming out unscathed from Overwatch 2.
Not even Blizzard is coming out unscathed from Overwatch 2.
Overwatch 2 didn’t fall because it’s a hero shooter
this is where you say “It failed because…”
My assertion was that it was an imperfect hero shooter among many hero shooters. The more competition, the harder it is to enter a game.
this is where you say “It failed because…”
Gestures broadly
Not really my responsibility to make an argument for you. Of all the reasons Overwatch 2 might not have performed well, it being a Hero Shooter doesn’t have any strong evidence and you didn’t provide anything showing that was the reason.
One could argue Overwatch 2 being a Hero Shooter is why it didn’t perform worse than it already has, given its problems.
Here you go. Reasons the hero shooter aspect is not working.
Blizzard’s Approach To Balancing in Overwatch 2 is Not Working
Overwatch 2 Cancels PvE Hero Mode, Reveals Seasons 5-7 Roadmap
Overwatch 2 players demand “faster” balancing fixes as ‘one-shot’ heroes run rampant
Overwatch 2 Is Failing Its Way Into Reinventing Overwatch 1
Overwatch 2 support role feels stale and needs a shake up, say fans
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Blizzard is bad at balancing the game - could be true of any game, doesn’t have to be a shooter
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Blizzard cancels promised mode - Blizzard being bad at design and following through on promises.
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See 1.
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Forcing a game to become the sequel, not making meaningful changes other than monetization
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See 1
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Blizzard made a bad game
None of these are a result of Overwatch 2 being a shooter, and all of them are a result of Blizzard being shit at making quality games, caring about players, and following through on promises. So thank you, you have done a fantastic job demonstrating that Overwatch 2 being a shooter is not the reason it didn’t perform well.
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Competitive online games have been Valve‘s focus for well over a decade so it‘s in line with their portfolio. If anything, Alyx was an outlier they only did because they have a headset to sell it with. I think they know what they‘re doing. Sucks for you to not be their target audience though because they are pretty good at making games.
Sounds more like SMITE than overwatch
I, for once am excited. I didn’t buy Overwatch since I was deeply disappointed in Blizzard, after D3. Then the whole pandering to CCP and Blitzchung fiasco happened and that cemented my decision.
I didn’t play Valor ant since I don’t enjoy having a Chinese kernel level spyware on my PC.
So this may be something that can satisfy my itch.
Valve famously only works on what excites them. You’re yelling me THIS is that?? How utterly defeatingly disappointing.
Bold statement. Might wanna hold judgment till you actually see some gameplay.
It goes both ways then, people who are happy should shut up until they see some gameplay.
But sir… The comment section? Why are we here?
People who don’t care are allowed to comment, that’s it.
My time is here
Yeah I agree.
We don’t know anything yet.
Artifact would like a word.
Like idk, when overwatch came out, it was an absolute blast. I wasn’t looking forward to it at all, i didn’t care for it a bit until i played it. It just got run into the ground slowly. Also they made team fortress 2 way WAY before, and yeah that’s what they excites them.
While I’ll likely still play this I have to agree.
Typically valve only puts out games that showcase something new, so might be interesting
Looks nervously at counter strike and dota.
Is it really surprising? It’s not like it’s their first competitive shooter.
Just think of the loot boxes they can sell.
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Rip, in EU they cannot force targeting cookies so we can see
VPN to EU countries for all general article reading it is then. Fuck this is getting obnoxious.
The Newscast is not the images. It’s an annoying video they embed in all articles and then floats when you scroll. I actually have set an adblock rule to block that shit.
As for the images, for now hotlinking to Twitter images is possible, so:
Why are people angry? This is exactly the kind of game valve has worked on for the last few years.
The valve of yesteryear would’ve a great single player campaign to go together with the multiplayer, just like Half-Life.
Team Fortress th-… 2: episode 1?
You know this sounds like battleborn and i miss battleborn. I’m kinda excited.
