The overwatch lore is amazing

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like damn this is so good D: now i want more!
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Good luck with getting more m8. The best blizz can do is maybe 0,5 comics a year and an event that just gives us more questions.

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Lore ain’t that good if there’s not much comics and more new characters out of the blue.

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Love how easily people give Blizzard the benefit down with the hints of interesting lore
/s

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The lore is good, but the writing is terrible.

And yes, that can be a thing. The two aren’t mutually exclusive. Interesting concept of a world/characters that is delivered very, very poorly.

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Not to mention how little of this lore we have. We don’t have any decent world building. We don’t know much about most heroes. Hell, a lot of heroes only have few paragraphs about them, which hardly have any info.

So no, OW lore is not good. It is POTENTIALLY good. And at current rate, it will be fleshed out enough somewhere in 2030s.

D.Va’s lore, for example, is still just a list of her achievements and nothing more. Literal Mary Sue.

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That’s actually a good way of putting it. XD

/Sigh, poor OW universe. Such promise going to waste.

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They have to fix when Doomfist is captured
He show in storm rising at 6 year before Overwatch falls.
Or is that doomfist actually present version but devs are tricking us?

And the return of doomfist and Baptiste escape kinda comes after all of that I guess.

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I saw the title of this post and was ready to comment, "Yeah, you should watch the “Complete Overwatch Timeline!” video, its amazing.

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If you like lore you really should try Bioware games like Dragon Age Origins and Mass Effect trilogy. I haven’t played the Witcher trilogy, but I heard good things.

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My sweet summer child. If you are looking for lore, you will not find it here.

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What lore?
What is the actual lore of this game? Can someone even sum it up? I doubt so.

Not to mention the latest stuff with the ana short story and now archives have been kinda dull. Like nothing interesting is really happening in the story to get invested in it.

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Isn’t OW lore just “X hero has Y sexual preferences”?

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What’s there to fix? We already knew Doomfist was captured 6 years ago, now we know it was after the Storm Rising mission. Doomfist meets with the shadowy omnic before his capture.

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Lore building doesn’t equate to contribution towards E-Sports. Overwatch is a game that has so much potential to be a good PvE type of game, but the developers are hog tied and bound by the executive money grabbers to continue working on E-Sports at what ever cost.

So all we get are small trickles here and there.

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If you take some time and look into it, there’s more lore than people realize, and some good communities for discussing it.

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Compare what overwatch has to other shooters…

It’s “lacking”

Apparantly…

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Yes but the YouTube doesnt specify that. It says Doomfist captured before 6 years ago even starts

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No, no it isn’t. Both Overwatch’s lore and writing are bad. Anyone, can write lore or a timeline for a piece of fiction, the challenge comes from implementing that lore into an interesting and compelling story. Star Wars isn’t good because of it’s lore but how it uses that lore to craft an interesting story.

Though even than I wouldn’t call Overwatch’s lore good. We’re given only the bare minimum on heroes and sometimes nothing at all in the case of Zenyatta. Overwatch’s lore provides us with information but it doesn’t provide any connections. It gives the whats and hows but not the whys. For example, we know that Sombra’s main goal is to basically take over the Illuminati but we have no idea as to why or what she plans on doing after she does.

As for the writing, asides from the lack of it, how Overwatch’s story is told all over the place makes it difficult for compelling story arcs. For example, Genji has an interesting about a man learning to accept himself again. Unfortunately, because we’re constantly jumping around the timeline and a lot of that info is told and not shown, his arc doesn’t carry any weight to us.

Even when we are shown an arc, they happen way too fast. For example, Pharah is introduced and undergoes a character arc in like 10 pages. In my opinion, to write an interesting character arc you need to estabilish a connection between the character and the reader and than have the change happen naturally. People don’t just change all of a sudden because of a single event.

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Where does it say that? Which youtube video?