Thatâd be nice! Goodness I feel exhausted from this series. Maybe Iâm hoping too much from OW.
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Yes, yes you are. And so am I.
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Same, to be honest. Just thinking about getting whatever weâre going to get for Anniversary - which is a toss-up as to whether itâs something we want or even if itâs something other than the Workshop - and then we basically have to wait until BlizzCon for anything new now.
H31 Iâm not too optimistic about at this point. I think theyâre just throwing in no-names like Ashe and Baptiste in from now on, to be brutally honest.
Summer Games is meh at best.
Blizzard isnât going to Gamescom so abandon all hope of getting a summer cinematic. No one knows whatâs become of those mythical âcomics in productionâ we heard about months ago, either.
June-November is going to be a real painful trudge for Overwatch this year.
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Can it be any worse than the trudge last year though? I was so excited for Blizzcon because I like many of my friends called the McCree short, when it was called Reunion I literally screamed as the main connection to Deadlock Gorge was that it was where Reyes âpicked upâ McCree.
I liked Ashe well enoughâŚbut imagine how much the story would have been shoved along by the conflict between McCree and Reaper.
I still think we might get a short (as technically the D.va short was aired at a Korean fan event, not Gamescon, it was aired there afterwards as a repeat).
The thing Iâm looking most forward to in Summer Games is for all the new summer games that people have made in the Workshop lol. You know. Hammond Racing/Lucio Surfing. Actual new game modes beside Lucio Ball.
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Literally same. We knew McCree short was coming and when I saw the name of the short, I was 10000% convinced it will be exploration of McCreeâs and Reaperâs story (which would also further the overall story). Instead, the short was not about McCree at all, it was just a tease for two new heroes (and Ashe will forever be a completely mishandled character to me).
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I am terrible for saying this, but I wouldâve LOVED if Ashe was a guy. If Ashe was Ash. I wouldâve even hopped on the Ashe x McCree ship instantly. Iâm such a hypocrite.
But regardless Ashe is super fun to play, has a good personality, Bob is cute but everything else is a miss⌠but it wouldnât be a miss if he was a guy because Iâm a pathetic gay loser.
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hey! youâre valid my guy. Iâve yet to find a pairing that really sticks for me and ashe⌠but, tbh, iâm not that mad about more of McCreeâs history being explored and Ashe being apart of it.
Iâm a torn lesbian bc on the one hand I personally really like her because Iâm a pathetic gay loser, BOBs ok, im just disappointed that it did get done like that bc it could have been a home run! If they had included even a portion of the deadlock bust in it would it have tied in enough of what we knew about deadlock to really slam home the point of Ashe.
tbh tho i personally think she was the character we should have waited for. weâre 4 years late for a black woman hero, cmon. I like ashe but it was a bit u kno. Hm.
The mcCree short was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo bad and itâs such a shame. Not even mccreeâs short; just a âhey look at ashe isnt ashe cool guess what ashe is the new heroâ
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We might get Lucio Ball again. I donât think we will get an entire new mode. Very likely a reskin of the arena.
Ultimately, the newer shorts have always been in the pursuit of hyping future elements of the game.
I do wish McCree got more solo development in Reunion, tho.
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Weâre almost four years deep and they havenât shown they care about advancing the main story at all yet.
This honestly would have been a great way to do something with it
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We also wouldâve understood the emotions and the backstory of the titular reunion. We know the history McCree and Gabe have, we know how much Gabe saved McCree from a life in prison/gang, we know how they fell out during and after Retribution. Weâve seen them interact during the good and the bad, we understand the complex emotions behind the connection these two characters have. Their reunion wouldâve had the actual emotional impact and it wouldâve progressed the story because we wouldâve known that thereâs one more person aware of who Reaper is and we wouldâve gotten McCreeâs take on it.
Instead, âreunionâ is between McCree and two characters we have previously never heard of.
- Ashe is someone from his very distant past, during a time he was a literal teenager. We have no idea how their relationship worked. Were they really good friends or more like two people without homes looking for something bigger that just kinda stumbled onto each other? What was their fallout like? Was there in-fighting? The short suggests they werenât exactly besties and that they didnât part ways amicably (obviously, since McCree âbetrayedâ the gang by joining the other side). The short is trying to make us care, but we were never shown why we should care simply because Ashe appears out of nowhere.
- Echo is even worse. Sheâs a completely new and odd character that isnât tied to McCreeâs known past. She was never mentioned before as a part of Overwatch, we have no idea what McCreeâs connection to her is or if there even is a connection or he simply just knew this was once an Overwatch member in need of assistance. And yet, weâre supposed to feel for their reunion but thereâs nothing to feel because thereâs no context. Thereâs no history that weâve been shown between these characters.
McCree got some nice cool moments in the short, but not much in terms of development or progress. We found out what his take on Recall is (heâs in favour, but also realises itâs not for him). Thatâs about it. I like the beginning of the short a lot; the scene of McCree alone in an abandoned dinner is really poetic to show us who he is as a person; a lone wolf and bounty hunter with a price on his head who is pretty much cut off from society due to his wanted status and the beginning of the short conveys that nicely. I was so excited during that intro, but then as he leaves the dinner, the short kinda just forgets that itâs supposed to be about him.
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Hmm I wonder how soon weâre getting Anniversary teasers. Do OW updates happen on a Thursday too? The event either happens on 21 or 23. But Iâm used to seeing OW update on a Tuesday.
its the same issue with the Storm Rising short. We didnt have enough background to even understand the stakes and unlike retribution n uprising where we had enough characterization and backstory to get thingsâŚlike. It could have been done so much better.
But it didnt quite work.
I swear the only reason they did that is bc they didnt want to have reaper and mccree be the titular 2 for another event so close to retribution bc it would have 2 close some doors on opportunities to the future
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iâd bet that its gonna start the thursday, and yes, some events have started on thursday in the past. the all stars weekend skin period goes through (i think?) until the 21st, meaning a 2 day break between events would be uh called for.
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Hopefully the skins are nice.
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i hope so too!!! but iâd expect the skin reveals to either start today or on friday tbh
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Hopefully the skins suck. So that Blizzard doesnât get money.
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while fair i do like myself some nice skins for my girls
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Fair but the OW team canât be let off the hook just because they made a pretty lady skin or a hot guy skin, when theyâve been failing to deliver lore or needed content for so long. Literally would be fine if there were no new cosmetics for a whole year just so they can concentrate on other things.
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