It's a Team Fortress Style Hero Shooter
Because it's a Valve game
Because TF2 Inspired Overwatch
Get it right
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It's a Team Fortress Style Hero Shooter
Because it's a Valve game
Because TF2 Inspired Overwatch
Get it right
Calling things an OverWatch style shooter is a bit like calling every first person shooter a Doom clone. Just call it a hero shooter I know what a hero shooter is. You don't need to compare it to another game.
It's bad enough that the term a "roguelike" exists, I can guarantee that hardly anyone who plays them has ever actually played rogue, and fair enough since it's ancient, so they have no idea if the game they're playing is like it or not.
Overwatch is a particularly successful Team-Fortress-like
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.
I'd like a HL3, but not yet another competitive pvp game. So not sure if that would be the right approach if they can't even hit the same target audience.
I might actually have some sort of cardiac event.
Valves next game...
SQUEEEEEE!!!!
it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter
My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.
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.
All fair points, and given the way Valve operates (like a free collective) this would only happen if there were some really passionate people leading and working on it.
That said, it’s still a mix of things I just really do not have any interest in. Competitive online game, esports focused, MOBA-like, PvP, hero shooter… that’s a whole lot of hard no-thanks from me.
I’d love some new light-narrative single player and/or co-op stuff from them, though.
Won’t hurt to give it a shot, but I’ll be cautiously optimistic.
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.
Same. Something I can play, save anywhere to deal with life, and pick back up when time allows. I was one of those weirdos who really enjoyed Doom 3 when it came out (with the ducttape mod; that was one mechanic I didn't like) and grew up on old Commodore, Amiga, and PC single-player games and NES/SNES/Genisis RPGs. I want that again.
Team Fortress th-… 2: episode 1?
But when's Half Life 3 coming out?
Never, at this point half life 3 failing would do more damage to the steam sales platform than half life 3 succeeding could make in a million years
I don't see how that would damage anything though? It's not like people would stop using steam if hl3 is bad. That's ridiculous.
It might make Valve unlikely to make another game and a lot of people, including myself, would be hugely disappointed but I don't think it would have any major negative effects beyond those two.
Rejects all cookies on website
Website image:
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:
JESUS CHRIST JUST MAKE HALF LIFE 3 AND PORTAL 3 WHAT ARE YOU DOING VALVE?!?!
At this point, we have some absolutely impressive Portal 2 mods that, in my opinion, definitely make up for not having Portal 3. We've got Tag (the paint gun mod), Thinking With Portals (a short one that gives you the ability to create a clone thing that copies recorded actions), and I've been playing through one I just found out about called Revolution that is pretty cool so far.
I personally like to think that the fans have done a good enough job at creating mods and maps that a Portal 3 would be redundant.
Heavy Update plz
Volvo I beg
Medic: "Later."
So Team Fortress 3
No, no, that's not how this works. No 3s, them's the rules.
Team Fortress: Alyx
Isn't an overwatch style hero shooter just team fortress 2? Now get off my lawn, I have clouds to tell at.
I thought overwatch was based on team fortress. Why not just a new team fortress?
Why are people angry? This is exactly the kind of game valve has worked on for the last few years.
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.
Competitive shooter
Brooo I just wanna chill and have fun and play some games.
Me reading the headline: "Why would Valve make a porn shooter?"
Seeing the Steam store lately I'm honestly surprised there isn't a porn shooter. Imagine if someone went all in making an OW ripoff, but committed to making adult skins. Think about how much money that could make.
The screenshots look like a MOBA such as Smite or Predecessor