Why did they decide to make Genesis into an animated short instead of just fully dedicating their time to making a full animated series with a linear path?
After every scene in the short, I’m like, “Okay, but why’s this happening? During what time frame did this happen? Where are we even at?” I’m just left with countless questions and literally no information to fill in the blanks.
It’s cool to have this kind of stuff, but a fully fledged series with consistent storytelling would have been infinitely better than these shorts.
Hopefully, there’s enough interest being generated from these shorts for them to want to dedicate their time and develop an entire in-depth animated series on Overwatch’s storyline.
Well… at least we have the possibility of it. I am personally fine with shortly explaining the past. The future and continuation of the story line would be much better.
Maybe cos these shorts are a test run of an official Netflix level anime and they’re using these to see if people are into it and determining if they should go ahead and make a full series
Honestly, they don’t even need to be testing this stuff; the official Overwatch shorts easily have over 100 million views combined. There’s clearly a massive audience that’s absolutely interested. Lol
Testing 2D vs 3D maybe? With 2D they come out faster but not as much attention is generated. With 3D TONS of attention is generated but they take much longer and are more expensive.
They didn’t just spend what was it again, 69 billion dollars? acquiring the company to just be “hands off,” they’re definitely going to be doing something with that massive acquisition. Lol
It’s promotional material meant to generate interest in Invasion and maybe gauge interest in potential Arcane/Edgerunner game to (prequel) series development.
It’s been pretty linear I thought though? It’s just a retrospective on the Omnic Crisis and the development of Aurora and Overwatch before the Crisis ended. Scenes mostly being news report like for the documentary style presentation.
Success of an OW attempt at Arcane/Edgerunners thing would depend entirely on the team behind that series. Arcane and Edgerunners both had solid teams making the project and it paid off as a viewer of both. We know there’s been legacy interest in OW’s lore, we know the shorts they used to make (Last Bastion, Honor and Glory, Rise and Shine ect) were super popular when they released and still hit today but they probably need to see how much/if the heavily into lore playerbase dried up and died and if this type of thing could draw in new players or wrangle back old ones before committing to making anything big. No business likes throwing money away after all, but if they can see some serious potential pay-off it could happen.
is an explanation of the basic story of Overwatch. that’s all. seriously, if you’re a new player, where do you find out about what the world of Overwatch is today? in wikias, certainly not in the Overwatch media pages which don’t have links to old articles from 2016.
isn’t bad that they have made this huge summary of the events with more visual references. but we can agree that they are doing it too late, and unfortunately with much less investment than the Overwatch franchise deserves to emerge. And indeed, there is a bit of the feeling that they arrived late with this narrative: detroit become humans came out in 2018 and dealt with themes very similar to the one exposed in these lines, which now seem “already seen” with further lack of connections, if you don’t know the characters within that story.
I would like to remind you that the entire gaming community (not just overwatch) was already asking for a real TV series for overwatch, since the days of the continuous release of animated shorts and especially during the sombra / doomfist origins. it’s an opportunity that not only has overwatch lost (or rather, blizzard itself could have done it for starcraft and WoW as well) but now the media example is a product of Riot game with LoL an arcane. oh yes, the mockery of those who took advantage of the missed opportunity after giving rise to the MOBA genre with Warcraft3.
That’s why we all agree that Blizzard has been run by stock climbers for too long: they look at the numbers, never at the opportunities.
Arcane is a series that I cannot recommend strongly enough!
Seriously, it’s an example of peak writing with peak 3d animation and an incredible and complex story and characters. I’ve combed through the first season three times now, and it’s honestly incredible that these animated characters can portray not just believable expressions, but human expression that actually lines up with psychological complexities. Each character has their own story and each story adds up to create an even bigger one.
The first 10 minutes put the best Overwatch CGI short to shame.
an animated series would be cool and so far league of legends is the only “online” competitive game to have one? i think?
cyberpunk 2077 got an animated series as well but thats a single player game. still it helped bring the spotlight back to it and probably generated revenue with people who would have never bought the game?
I got Genesis. I just didn’t like it. The older shorts they did like Honor and Glory, Dragons, Shooting Star, The Last Bastion, etc… That style of storytelling was way better. The animation was way more interesting to me.
If they are going to do something like this, I want something in the art style of those shorts but a full length show like Arcane.
