So People Are Noticing That Overwatch And Team Fortress 2 Are Quite Similar
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Yes, it does look like they borrowed from TF2. Or any of the other Pixar-like squad based games though we only care about TF2. Kind of like what they do with all their IPs. They see something they like for the most part but have some issues with, take it, and rework it to what they would want out of it. This is nothing new.
Not so much Battleborn, since that game is (supposedly) a shooter based around MOBA gameplay, rather than capture the flag, capture points, or death match.Nimzabaat said:
Still, knowing Gearbox, it?s probably going to be a bad game.
There are worse games to rip off than TF2. And it's not "really" a TF2 rip-off any more than TF2 is a Quake Arena rip off.
However, watching the gameplay footage leaves me... disappointed. It looks ridiculously casual. Let me add that I don't hate casual gamers or games. I just won't play them. Especially not shooters, because casual shooter = cheap kills = cheap deaths = frustration.
However, watching the gameplay footage leaves me... disappointed. It looks ridiculously casual. Let me add that I don't hate casual gamers or games. I just won't play them. Especially not shooters, because casual shooter = cheap kills = cheap deaths = frustration.
Fair enough. I'm not familiar with the man's prior work. And, without any meaningful context, it is fairly easy to take his comments at face value.Seraj33 said:
Thank you for clarifying.
Honestly, at the end of the day, I think it's fairly obvious Blizzard is aiming to make their own TF2. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, and I certainly am not saying the game is doomed to fail. On the contrary, if Blizzard can put a unique and entertaining spin on the formula set down by Valve, the game could turn out fantastic. And really, part of me hopes that it does. I just think people are being intellectually dishonest themselves if they genuinely think Blizzard isn't trying to copy the successful formula present in Team Fortress 2.
But again, I hope Blizzard succeeds. We could use more quality games in the genre.
Yes because Valve totally created squad based combat. It is no closer to TF2 the a dozen other games that came out before and after TF2.
Just wait for the updates later friend. There weren't hats at the launch of TF2 either. Then one day as they say, Gaben flew down bestowing hats and buffs for the Spy in 2009. And thus TF2 was never the same...seriously it wasn't. That was also the update in which they added the Dead Ringer for the Spy. Later would come the Spysicle+ Dead Ringer Combo...Eric the Orange said:
Unfortunately you can't copyright game mechanics, so unless valve could prove that they were ripping off code or something I doubt they could do much. I'll be keeping my eye on this one.
1. Blizzard never owned it.
2.It was always a mod.
3. Valve never "stole" it, they bought it and got the devs to work on the sequel.
4. It's Blizzard's own fault they didn't realize it's potential sooner.
So even if it was a carbon copy it doesn't really matter.
I'm not sure I agree that Dota 2 is so different from it's prequel, but at the end of the day, as you saidWar_Dyn27 said:
1. Blizzard never owned it.
2.It was always a mod.
3. Valve never "stole" it, they bought it and got the devs to work on the sequel.
4. It's Blizzard's own fault they didn't realize it's potential sooner.
So even if it was a carbon copy it doesn't really matter.
Come on guys, this is obviously not ripping off TF2.
I'm kidding, I'm really looking forward to this. Blizzard, you done well.
It's ripping off SMNC instead. Winston is Cheston, right down to the whole ape thing, as well as seperating single sentries to minisentries (Engineer and Combat Girl), not to mention Widowmaker and Hanzo being Sniper and Artemis respectively.
I'm kidding, I'm really looking forward to this. Blizzard, you done well.
Unless they can make it feel really unique, I fear if I ever play this game I'll feel as if I've done it all before.
And by the looks of the gameplay footage, characters seem to die very quickly, which also rubs me the wrong way. Unless they're tanks, but of course, they're tanks.
I'm not saying it's a rip-off, it's pretty clear to anyone not severely misinformed as to what a rip-off is that this isn't a rip-off, I'm just saying as somebody with 700 hours in TF2 over the course of 2 years...all the mechanics are too familiar at the minute, the concept, the characters, none of it catches my eye. It's sad, I looked into it because I was like "Blizzard made a game like that game I like!" and I look through everything and I say "I'm too distracted by how similar it is to that game I like..."
What I'm saying is, while I don't fault the game for taking inspiration from TF2, I'm so deep into TF2 at this point that I don't see a reason to heavily engage myself in a game that interests me but only because it seems to be a familiar experience. If it wasn't like TF2, I wouldn't even be looking at it.
They don't have a Pyro, though. And the robo-monk looks pretty unique.
And by the looks of the gameplay footage, characters seem to die very quickly, which also rubs me the wrong way. Unless they're tanks, but of course, they're tanks.
I'm not saying it's a rip-off, it's pretty clear to anyone not severely misinformed as to what a rip-off is that this isn't a rip-off, I'm just saying as somebody with 700 hours in TF2 over the course of 2 years...all the mechanics are too familiar at the minute, the concept, the characters, none of it catches my eye. It's sad, I looked into it because I was like "Blizzard made a game like that game I like!" and I look through everything and I say "I'm too distracted by how similar it is to that game I like..."
What I'm saying is, while I don't fault the game for taking inspiration from TF2, I'm so deep into TF2 at this point that I don't see a reason to heavily engage myself in a game that interests me but only because it seems to be a familiar experience. If it wasn't like TF2, I wouldn't even be looking at it.
They don't have a Pyro, though. And the robo-monk looks pretty unique.
Thank you.Dragonlayer said:
Well, mechanically, Dota 2 is bascially identical to DotA, with DotA being a balance patch behind Dota 2, but Dota 2 is missing 4 heroes, so I agree that it is the same in that respect.Infernal Lawyer said:
But, stylistically Dota 2 is quite different, favouring simpler, muted colours, compared to Warcraft. Also any reference to orcs, dwarves, tauren, etc. have been removed. Dwarves and goblins are now the 'Keen Folk' a kind of pink skinned hybrid of the two. Orcs are now 'Oglodi' a muscly red skinned race that worship storms.
Now about Overwatch, I don't know whether it is or isn't copying TF2, but it does seem to be more like the Monday Night Combat games based on what I've heard about them: Shooters with DotA-Style elements. Then again, I think I heard somewhere that it has a payload equivalent so who knows. The real make or break for this game will be the balance and the business model, and Blizzards track record in both leave me less than enthused.
Holy carp, games in the same genre are similar to each other! And well established archetypes such as tank, healer, and so on are used in more than one game!
Seriously people, it's an arena-based FPS. Team Fortress was a mod for Quake in the first place. If you're expecting a new arena shooter not to have any similarities to existing ones, you're an idiot.
Overwatch, on the other hand, doesn't have any of that. FPS controls and interfaces have been developed for computers from the start, and they've had a couple of decades of refinement already. There's simply not the same room for improvement that there was with Hearthstone. I have little doubt Blizzard will manage to make a perfectly functional and reasonably fun game, but there seems to be a lot less scope for them to manage much more than that when the competition this time is a highly refined and successful game made by a large company with plenty of experience making this sort of game.
Seriously people, it's an arena-based FPS. Team Fortress was a mod for Quake in the first place. If you're expecting a new arena shooter not to have any similarities to existing ones, you're an idiot.
One point to bare in mind there is that MTG is a fucking terrible video game. It's just a direct translation of the tabletop rules, which results in one of the most awkward and frustrating interfaces I've ever seen. Just playing a single turn with nothing happening takes about 100 times longer than it should because of all the pauses for interrupts, separation of phases, and so on. What Hearthstone did was take a similar idea, but design it from the ground up to be played on a computer, and that resulted in a game that is far easier to get into and far less frustrating to play, so it shouldn't be surprising that it did well. And of course most of the rest of the competition simply doesn't have the budget or experience with game development to compete on equal terms.RedDeadFred said:
Overwatch, on the other hand, doesn't have any of that. FPS controls and interfaces have been developed for computers from the start, and they've had a couple of decades of refinement already. There's simply not the same room for improvement that there was with Hearthstone. I have little doubt Blizzard will manage to make a perfectly functional and reasonably fun game, but there seems to be a lot less scope for them to manage much more than that when the competition this time is a highly refined and successful game made by a large company with plenty of experience making this sort of game.
