So, What's the Narrative for OW 2.0?

[Pharazon-2864]

@Probata-1860

to be fair to blizzard, while this is often true, it’s an issue for any serial writing, especially comic books, to the point where it’s just called “the villain problem”. every villain your heroes surpass requires another, greater villain for them to grapple with the next go around. but it’s one that’s really difficult to get out of, unless you’re going for more character driven stories (for example, how “The Leftovers” handles problems of a mass population disappearing compared to “Avengers”.)

since the characters are the most interesting part of the story, to me, i’d love to see more set pieces like the London Calling comics, about forging new relationships with communities. but hard to do that in a game where the core loop is combat-focused!

Regardless of where it comes from, I just find it weak writing when you always have to rely on “master plan”. The writers try desperately to be “clever”, making it transparent and dull. What’s the fun in a story when you always know that there is a “plot twist” somewhere were the writers have deliberately avoided mentioning things that might foreshadow the event and suddenly just spring it out of nowhere?

@Izzy-1702

Ah yes. The classic cartoon villain doing evil for the sake of evil.

Except in Shadowlands, the villain just did villain stuff because he loved us so much and wanted to protect us from an even bigger villain.

[Probata-1860]

@Pharazon-2864

Regardless of where it comes from, I just find it weak writing when you always have to rely on “master plan”

hey, no argument from me here on that point!

[Azrael-13313]

@HadesPluto-11259

Aside from fighting Talon and Null Sector (which is more of a given than a narrative development) what is/should be the main story?

Blizzard exists in the OW world and is big enough to fund a massive theme park. This implies the company is similar to the likes of Disney.

And like Disney, Blizzard in the OW world likely controls numerous media outlets.

Flat out, Overwatch coming back would be great for ratings, as it would lead to more conflict and war with established antagonistic organizations like Talon.

So it would be in Blizzard’s best interests to have OW come back.

Problem is, Overwatch lacks funding as it is now a rogue group no longer officially recognized or connected to world governments.

So OW world Blizzard secretly funds Overwatch as a way to get more ratings and solidify their media dominance.

This results in the Blizzard CEO getting a lot of money and going power hungry for world domination.

Overwatch, now controlled by Blizzard, becomes a shell of itself. Can the heroes find the truth and break free?

So who is the big bad organization for OW2?

Blizzard.

Who is the big baddie final boss?

The Blizzard CEO.

[Probata-1860]

yo if the holograms in the health pack room on blizzard world popped out of the wall and came at you in a mission, i’d call OW2 PVE a critical success

[CalciumChief-2418]

@HadesPluto-11259

what is/should be the main story?

Run around the world, pick up randos for the team (like Junkrat and Roadhog) and run around some more. I doubt there’s even gonna be some big final battle with DF or any other Talon boss cause the whole thing is gonna be about releasing additional mission packs as DLC later. Even if you blow up Talon HQ all higher ups gonna pull a Dr. Claw and be like: “We’ll get you next time, Overwatch. Next time.”.

[ChronoSoul-1387]

@HadesPluto-11259

what is/should be the main story?

This story is about a man named Stanely.

[CalciumChief-2418]

If he’s last name is Ipkiss, I’m totally invested from the start.

[FourBlock-2801]

Talon and Null Sector will combine into a new super evil group, along with any other factions the devs come up with.
This would mostly happen for gameplay reasons, so we can have multi-faction enemy combinations.

[e4e16vmC0v3f-1947]

I wana fight un ambassadors

[Barsik-2545]

@Pharazon-2864

Except that villain’s master plan is just a stepping stone for a bigger villain, who also happens to have an even greater master plan.

Ah yes, the classic Blizzard villainy recursion.

[ChronoSoul-1387]

Employee number 427.