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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] 161 points 3 months ago (15 children)

I just want a nice story driven single player game from Valve again that isn't VR.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 142 points 3 months ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (7 children)

I'm inclined to agree with you, but Valve doesn't often miss

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

I might actually have some sort of cardiac event.

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[–] [email protected] 112 points 3 months ago (16 children)

Valves next game...

SQUEEEEEE!!!!

it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter

My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Won’t hurt to give it a shot, but I’ll be cautiously optimistic.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Sounds more like TF2 crossed with DOTA, which sounds weirdly fun and hella toxic.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I can't wait to be called new and exciting racial slurs as I lose the game for my team.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 75 points 3 months ago (1 children)

overwatch style

You mean team fortress style

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (3 children)

They had better call it Team Fortress 2 Episode 1.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Isn't an overwatch style hero shooter just team fortress 2? Now get off my lawn, I have clouds to tell at.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Nah. TF2 is a shooter with 9 classes. People can double up on "soldier" for instance. A hero shooter has for one, a lot more classes / heroes (which comes from MOBAs), for two activated abilities on each hero which change the games significantly, and usually disables doubling up in competetive modes. You wouldn't call Enemy Territory a hero shooter for instance.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Overwatch disabled doubling up well after launch, and only because they couldn't or wouldn't balance the game such that a 4 tank no DPS comp didn't utterly cheese the game.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Competitive shooter

Brooo I just wanna chill and have fun and play some games.

[–] n3m37h 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is why I bought Hell Divers 2

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Everyone needs some rock, and stone, and liberty in their lives.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

This is what the Bronze rank is for. Join us.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago

It's a Team Fortress Style Hero Shooter

Because it's a Valve game

Because TF2 Inspired Overwatch

Get it right

[–] casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer 39 points 3 months ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

One might think so, but the number 3 in the potential title makes this highly unlikely.

[–] DudeImMacGyver 12 points 3 months ago

No, no, that's not how this works. No 3s, them's the rules.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Whatever it ends up being, I'm not interested. Never cared for competitive gaming. Sad that Valve has decided to use part of their enormous talent pool for, well, this while almost any genre would've been better.

Also, this is already a highly saturated niche. I don't doubt Valve's technical prowess and knowhow to develop a game that can surpass all the other ones in quality, but a gilded turd is still a turd under that gold leaf, even if it's technically the best turd in the world.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (7 children)

That's unfortunate that it's not a genre you personally are interested in, but it is a popular genre and Valve is a business. Just because it's not to your tastes doesn't mean it's a waste of their talent.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Oh absolutely. I'm not conceited enough to imagine Valve is developing games for me or that I'm entitled to anything. Just venting my personal disappointment with their choice. I still consider them the cream of the crop in game and hardware development.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (4 children)
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[–] Assman 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sounds more like SMITE than overwatch

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Or Paragon even. That game was so fun back in the day before it got killed. If anyone can make something that fun again, it's probably Valve.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

I, for once am excited. I didn't buy Overwatch since I was deeply disappointed in Blizzard, after D3. Then the whole pandering to CCP and Blitzchung fiasco happened and that cemented my decision.

I didn't play Valor ant since I don't enjoy having a Chinese kernel level spyware on my PC.

So this may be something that can satisfy my itch.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Why are people angry? This is exactly the kind of game valve has worked on for the last few years.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm not angry, but I'm tired of live service esports games. Also the last time Valve arrived late to a trend (Artifact) it didn't turn out well.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Because many of us remember before that, when Valve revolutionized the single player first person genre again and again with the Portal and mainline Half-Life games.

Any other dev would have capitalized on the massive interest in a sequel or at least sold off the property so someone else could have continued those franchises.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yep. sigh I guess I'll go replay Portal 2 again. It really is fantastic, I should be happy that we got it when we did.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Valve famously only works on what excites them. You're yelling me THIS is that?? How utterly defeatingly disappointing.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Bold statement. Might wanna hold judgment till you actually see some gameplay.

[–] Kecessa 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

It goes both ways then, people who are happy should shut up until they see some gameplay.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (7 children)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

Team Fortress th-… 2: episode 1?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

You know this sounds like battleborn and i miss battleborn. I'm kinda excited.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I had a lot of good times and even more bad times with DotA over the years, until I finally freed myself from it years ago.

IceFrog being behind this backed by Valve bodes well, and I think the premise of an FPS/MOBA hybrid has promise, despite the market being insanely oversaturated already.

I'm not really interested in competitive games these days, but I hope it'll be good to watch at least. Following The International was fun even after I quit DotA.

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[–] DudeImMacGyver 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Fuck it, I'm down (unless it's a moba, then no thanks)

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