Overwatch 2

I was very excited for the idea of OW2, but the preview they gave and the way they explained it is very disappointing. I'm hoping it gets better, but the PvE looks like more of the same form their PvE events, not quite L4D levels, not quite Destiny Raids. I'm hoping the level design and enemy design gets more interesting, or else it isn't worth more than 20$. If the story gets to L4D level design and in-game conversations, then a Destiny Raid boss for you to take on like a horde mode for cosmetics, I'd be down. They said OW2 gets access to new default skins, but it would be sick if cosmetics got more customizable, like getting new Rein suit with a helmet but golden lion shield and hammer.

Lawerence put overwatch 2 on blast

Get yourself some shades for all that light you're seeing! Also, did Blizzard ever confirm that OW2 was $60? OW1 was not $60, so just curious if everyone is basing the value off of the true price of the game?

I love how insightful this show can get when Zach and Laurence just start talking to eachother

Plus Jeff confirmed that Overwatch and Overwatch 2 will eventually merge into a single client, so it kinda seems like the only reason to get 2 is for early access to the PvE content.

Wait, you guys kept quoting Overwatch 2 as a "$60 game" when I can find nothing where blizzard states what the price is going to be. Usually $60 would be a good guess but considering Overwatch 1 was never $60 (it was $40 for the base game with $60 "ultimate version" that came with extra skins), it just seems disingenuous to assume players will have to pay $60 for the PvE content coming to Overwatch.

Thing I did not hear from this... but did hear from the Developer Q&A are: 1. There is PVE exclusive loot confirmed. 2. Hero Mission for every existing and new map. (probably 30-35 missions.) 3. The Onyxia and Ragnarous Creators from WoW are working on the game. Which suggests Raid-like bosses. 4. Jeff said that Talents are only one part of the progression system. 5. They confirmed that there would be multiple new heroes on release. And new maps for every existing mode as well as the 4 new Push maps.

My first impression watching the Overwatch 2 cinematic was that all the dialog felt like they literally just grabbed random in-game lines and spliced them together in a way that almost made a coherent back-and-forth between the characters. Wasn't good.

Just from what I have seen, the price point, (that is currently unknown btw and like someone else pointed out Overwatch on PC started at $40), can possibly be justified to me almost entirely by a complete single player/story mode. The base mechanics may be the same as PvP but you have to take into account writing, designs for characters and locations (because they said everything is getting updates and the model comparisons at playoverwatch are quite telling), the design and creation and constant testing of new features like the talent tree and missions and AI and all things like that. They basically had to develop what could maybe be an entire game on it's own, using a system they already have (which is common) but kept it connected with the PvP. I see it sort of like, they made a story mode, alongside a bunch of various updates (the game is like nearly 4 years old just by now and 2 is nowhere near out) but they don't want to splinter the player base and especially not the Overwatch League, so "2" is largely The Story but also still has the PvP to keep that going without resets and other hitches. On another note: I never bought Overwatch. I don't have people to play it with. I have played the game before, and enjoy it, but I don't want to buy a PvP game and never play it. But Overwatch 2 has a story, and I love the story of the world we already have. So I am much more interested in Overwatch 2, and I am probably not the only person. And then, if I or these others want to, we can play the PvP the same as everyone else without any problems. They potentially could have kept it as an update to Overwatch 1, but it would basically have to be a paid DLC to justify even making it in the first place, and then people who wanted to play the story would need to buy the original game. So instead it might have been easier to repackage it as OW 2 as a complete experience. But this is just my theory on it, and whether or not any price is worth that is subjective and not for me to say.