Well I've never played the game but I have seen enough "supplemental material" to assume that everyone is doing everyone else and I'm fine with it.
Overwatch Christmas Comic Reveals First LGBT Character
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This isn't newsworthy. As I have said before and will probably continue saying until I'm blue in the face, the sexuality of your fictional characters does not matter and shouldn't be treated as though it's a big deal.
Can we talk about the quality of the comic instead? It had some interesting parts, but overall...I'm having a hard time believing that people got paid to write and draw that. We all know that Blizzard is capable of putting out quality content, just look at some of their other comics, like "Going Legit". Compared to that, this comic just makes it look like Blizzard is phoning it in and hoping that all the "OMGZ TRACER'S A LESBIAN" hoopla will cover it up.
No surprises there.
Can we talk about the quality of the comic instead? It had some interesting parts, but overall...I'm having a hard time believing that people got paid to write and draw that. We all know that Blizzard is capable of putting out quality content, just look at some of their other comics, like "Going Legit". Compared to that, this comic just makes it look like Blizzard is phoning it in and hoping that all the "OMGZ TRACER'S A LESBIAN" hoopla will cover it up.
The Blizzard forums are a wretched hive of scum and villainy on the best of days. There's at least one guy who keeps posting NSFW pics while begging for schoolgirl skins, and it takes forever for the mods to ban his account. Then he just makes another one and keeps doing it.Zydrate said:
No surprises there.
Well, that's a bit disappointing.
I mean, they've built up this whole "ONE OF THE CHARACTERS IS LGB!!!" for like a month now and then they go for the safe option.
It's just a bit "Oh, that's it?" I suppose.
Good for Tracer, I guess. A game with no storyline now has slightly more things in the background.
I mean, they've built up this whole "ONE OF THE CHARACTERS IS LGB!!!" for like a month now and then they go for the safe option.
It's just a bit "Oh, that's it?" I suppose.
Good for Tracer, I guess. A game with no storyline now has slightly more things in the background.
I want this.Nurb said:
I also want this... and to be fair, it would make fine sense to have in Overwatch.Karadalis said:
I have a hard time understanding the appeal of lesbians to straight men. I know that it's a thing, but I don't understand it. The lesbians aren't interested in him, they aren't going to suddenly beckon him over, he will never play any part in it. What is the fantasy here? Just watching?Casual Shinji said:
Cool I guess. To be honest though I would have been impressed if it were one of the male characters being gay. No offence to lesbians intended at all, it's just we rarely see gay men due to gay women being a "safer" option.
Both.undeadsuitor said:
Like I said, it had some interesting parts. McCree passed out at a bar with Sombra (Do they know each other, or was this a coincidence?), Widowmaker visiting the grave of her husband, Reaper stalking an unknown family, and Ana not spending Christmas with her daughter were all very interesting tidbits.
But the art style, the panel layout, and the dialog just ruined the rest for me. More than anything...it seemed lazy, as though it was either rushed or Blizzard didn't care as much as they usually do. Neither of those sit well with me.
I think what really sold this to me as a really good representation of a lesbian character was that we got a long time to know Tracer independent of knowledge about her relationships. Then she just casually gets a girlfriend added to her story. She exists as a character independent of her relationship and treats her relationship as just a thing, and not some persecution fantasy.
Well done Blizz and nice little Christmas comic.
Well done Blizz and nice little Christmas comic.
I've seen a lot of people are saying they are going to main Tracer now/buying the game to play as her...so Blizz, can you please make all the support characters and the payload LGBT?
I interpret that scene as Sombra was following/spying on McCree on Christmas to discover his loved ones but he just went to a bar and passed out so she was like "screw it, I'll have a whiskey."SlumlordThanatos said:
Story in a game is an admirable trait. But unless this revelation serves a purpose in the game, I don't see the point of it.MHR said:
I didn't realize Blizzard made a big deal about it and did an announcement. I really thought the comic was all they did. Ya that's kind of weird then. I can understand people being annoyed that the media is making a huge deal of it, but I didn't know Blizzard was tooting their own horn over it too.shinyelf said:
Although, from what I could find doing a bit of searching after your response, it seems to be just that some people asked the devs if there were any LGBT characters. The Devs said yes and that they'd reveal who they were. I wouldn't really call that an announcement so much as answering questions in an interview. The media is responsible for trying to make the whole thing a bigger deal than it is. Now you could argue that Blizzard knew that the media would do this, but.... what are they supposed to do in that scenario? Say "no there aren't any LGBT characters."? That seems worse.
Basically, I find it hard to fault Blizzard all that much in this situation.
I am but not because "Hate the gays, boo more representation". The characters in Overwatch just feel so focus tested, sandblasted down archetypes to me. Which is why Tracer being LGBT doesn't surprise me. It feels like who a focus group would want to say is LGBT or would accept as one. That or Zayra but given that Tracer is the Pikachu of the game, let's go for the bigger of the two for marketing reasons eh?Zydrate said:
Yeah I'm happy there's more representation for them in Overwatch thanks to Tracer now but it still feels off to me thanks to AAA devs loving to focus test everything these days. Was it good for Tracer's story and background(I wonder if they will sell a pose of her looking a picture of her girlfriend), or was it something they ran past testing and said "Yep this will do"? Don't know, sorry to come off as a downer, I'm gonna just bail from this.
Off topic, back when it had a story, League of Legends' backstory/worldbuilding was done better than Overwatch. If only because they tied it into the game in a decent fashion. Tracer is a Lesbian, great. Can you guys explain how shooting clones of yourselves in game is going to somehow save the world?
Off Off Topic; Will any of the ripoff/bootlegs of Overwatch come out with their Tracer or another character?
In my opinion this wasn't done to add depth to tracer's character it was just done to get diversity points.erttheking said:
As much as I love Overwatch I feel that they try to pander so hard with all characters to appeal to as many people as possible.
Can you really tell me blizzard made Tracer gay because they think that was best for the character or because they thought having a gay character would get them more attention?