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Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter (www.eurogamer.net)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Though the way the leaker describes it makes it sound more like a 3rd person MOBA than a hero shooter.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Edit:This was meant for the person above.

This seems reasonably different than the headline implies. It's a hero shooter, in that there are classes based on heroes (like Team Fortress 2 as well). The gameplay is more moba it sounds like. I think I've only played one other moba shooter, and it failed quickly, so that's different already.

It's not a copy of OW, and even if it were it could still innovate. Half Life might be a "Doom Clone", but it did stuff no one had done before. There's plenty of innovation potential without inventing a new genre. Even if you do create a new genre, it's probably still just evolution of existing things. No one ever has an original idea. It's always inspired by their environment.