Just read a review that knocked Overwatch hard for what the author basically said was ripping off TF2 part and parcel. Am I alone in my thinking that the Blizzard MO of taking a concept (CCG, MMO) and iterating upon it, kind of as touched on in the Bombcast the past couple weeks, is generally pretty good? Do you think this is just a big ass TF2 mod/reskin?
I think it was Drew brought up they wanted a better Magic so they made Hearthstone, they wanted a better Everquest so they did WoW, etc. The review I read basically bashed it for copying game style, art style, sound design etc. from TF2 and recommended players head back to TF2 instead. It came off as wholly disingenuous, slightly misleading, and overall rubbed me entirely the wrong way. Needless to say I won't be going back to that site to read reviews but I was wondering if anyone out there has heard these or similar comments, and just feel out the concept or discuss what Blizzard might be doing to counteract these sentiments. I won't post the link here as not to draw negative attention to the site in question, but I always wonder about the larger discussion regarding reviews and the responsibility reviewers have to accurately depict the product they're reviewing. If the guy didn't like it, fine he didn't like it - but this review seemed to reduce it to the core of "it's a team-based shooter with classes and the maps aren't great". If you couldn't tell from this keyboard vomit I'm still a bit "passionate" about it, but curious what other thoughts are.
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