Kotaku reports Blizzard cancels Starcraft FPS to focus on Diablo 4, Overwatch 2
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https://kotaku.com/sources-blizzard-cancels-starcraft-first-person-shoote-1835285125
what we’ve heard about Overwatch 2 (or whatever it winds up being called) is that it’ll have a large PVE element. (A couple of Blizzard people have compared it to Left 4 Dead.)
Okay, fucking what
again?
"Blizzard can you make your game fun to play pls?"
"That'll be $60 up front."
Another StarCraft fps lost, RIP.
I can just imagine how an asymmetrical team FPS with the races would be so cool.
I just want another Enemy Territory game.
After some slight thinking, Blizzard clearly dropped the ball on the PVP aspect of Overwatch. None of my friends play it anymore, and I can't imagine player retention being that high. Maybe, just maybe retooling the game into a co-op shooter, with the characters being classes you can pick from that all have their own differing styles of play, might be interesting.
It's pretty much the only thing worth doing when the game's such a fuckin headache competitively.
But Starcraft doesn't have enough waifus and husbandos. Like, seriously, that's the real reason we're getting Overwatch 2 instead. Monetization wouldn't be nearly as effective in a game where people people only want to fuck a third of the cast at most, instead of the ENTIRE cast - and where they can't so easily incorporate skins that are blatantly pandering to the fanbase's diverse fetishes.
What's gonna be really stupid is if the PvE element in Overwatch 2 still allowing you to wear these types of skins, while simultaneously attempting to tell a serious story. Can you imagine playing missions with the type of narration like in Destiny, while simultaneously playing alongside team-members dressed up as a schoolgirl, a maid, and a fucking scalie?
A StarCraft RTS would be cool
Yes. It works in other games :v
There's gonna bean Overwatch 2?
How about making the first game good first?
from the article it sounds more like a spin-off rather than a full blown sequel, overwatch 2 being just a WIP title
Maybe focusing on a select few heroes and creating maps that are not based 100% around awful chokepoint every 5 metres gameplay could've improved the PvP aspect, a community level editor would also be a nice bonus.
shame about the starcraft fps though, im not really into rts games so maybe it would introduce some people to the series
Seeing that '2' next to 'Overwatch' just left a really bad taste in my mouth.
Overwatch 2 sounds like a fucking joke somebody would come up with to make fun a blizzard tbh. Imagine if they took the bulk of the dev force away from a game they had intended to be a competitive pvp fps in favor of a sequel just three years after it releases. PvE Overwatch would probably be much more fun, but man imagine how much of a slap in the face that would be if you were an overwatch fan who invested a bunch of time into the game, and then had them drop active development just three years in.
Overwatch 2
Fucking what?
Starcraft: Ghosted
Oh that sounds fantastic considering the PvE events in Overwatch are the most boring things on the planet.
There's absolutely no fucking way Overwatch 2 is a thing. A campaign mode? Maybe. Some kind of expansion? Maybe. A sequel would destroy the Overwatch League, which they've been putting tons of resources into.
I still take news from Kotaku with a grain of salt.
Jason Schreier is very reliable, the fact that it's coming from him makes me 99% sure it's true.
But who DOESN'T want to fuck Artanis?
I'm pretty sure Activision isn't impressed that Blizzard has no yearly (or biennial) IPs. They probably want to make Overwatch into the next Call of Duty shit spin. I can see that.
The only way I could see an Overwatch 2 working, is that it would just be a massive expansion to the current game, offering single/multiplayer campaigns and some sort of PVE content. Making another game just for the sake of it would be an awful idea on so many levels.
they should do a StarCraft FPS in the vein of Planetside. Large continents (or planets) fought over by hundreds of zerg, tossers and terran players. but that's not a cheap project
They were doing a battlefield style game if you'd have read the articles opening 3 or 4 lines lol
They are absolutely never going to catch that lightning in a bottle that Overwatch was when it came out :V the hype for it was nuts and it took quite a while for people to realise just how not so great it was.
If there is Overwatch 2, I want a Genji part that is like Metal Gear Rising Revengeance, I could keep going but I'll leave it at that for now. Cinematics are cool but what if they were a game mode, like DVA fighting off those robots or being Reinhardt during the war. That being said I stop playing OW last year. I just miss Lucio.
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