Overwatch - Blizzard's latest game

Adventagious

Yeah, i spent a few minutes browsing and it's just appalling idiocy. Hopefully the community moves on shortly.

Grayditch

Imagine caring either way.

Zillah

Grayditch wrote: »

Imagine caring either way.

It's nice to see gay characters existing in media rather than being ignored or presented as horrible stereotypes. It can be exhausting when that is all you ever see. It's hard to understand if you're not some under represented minority, but it's really nice to see a positive portrayal of a gay character without it being a gimmick or stereotype.

If you're not one of those minorities it's easy to sit back and say you don't care. Of course you don't care, you're not the one who never sees yourself reflected in popular media; if you're a straight man you get all the best gigs, every action hero, every president and king and superhero. I usually get the comic relief.

Grayditch

I get that in a story driven game it would matter to consider a broader spectrum, but I don't understand why sexuality has to be represented in any form in a multiplayer shooter, but I'm not interested in the the wedged in backstories so, I don't really care like.

J. Marston

Her arse was one of the bigger gaming news of stories of 2016 so I suppose her sexuality was going to cause a stir too.

Grayditch

Soldier 76 has a son from a previous marriage. This revalation will not require an update.

Grayditch

I actually think Blizzard would make a cracking animated series, where this would really matter to the story. I just think they're some crowd for stretching the background stuff for this game to rattle the cage. And they're good at it. Marketing masters and I'm just pretty cynical.

lawlolawl

J. Marston wrote: »

Her arse was one of the bigger gaming news of stories of 2016 so I suppose her sexuality was going to cause a stir too.

Pffft, we all know Widowmaker has the best arse.

I hate that this is a thing in videogames now

Osmosis Jones

I'm just waiting for them to release an extremely stereotypical Irish hero and then I'll never have to play anyone else again.

J. Marston

lawlolawl wrote: »

Pffft, we all know Widowmaker has the best arse.

I hate that this is a thing in videogames now

Don't be weird.

Mei all day.

madcabbage

Developer update; recap of 2016 and what's to come in 2017

https://youtu.be/mxlhFslsbu0

super_furry

Osmosis Jones wrote: »

I'm just waiting for them to release an extremely stereotypical Irish hero and then I'll never have to play anyone else again.

Oh God no. Imagine the awful Oirish accent they'd use - Tracer's cock-er-nee effort is bad enough.

Adventagious

I think the "tease" regarding a LGBT character in OW wasn't the greatest move by Blizzard, but representation matters. A lot. Some decent articles about the comic on Kotaku (i know many aren't a fan but the article is worth reading) and Waypoint if you want a take from another perspective.

Also i would kinda love an Irish hero, even with a fair it of twinkly eyed stereotyping. Just get the accent right for the love of god, a bad irish accent is just tough to listen to as a native. Who was that Irish character in Fallout 4? I had to remove her from the story ASAP her voice was so atrocious.

Osmosis Jones

Atlas from Bioshock probably has the most genuine Irish accent in a game.

Adventagious

Osmosis Jones wrote: »

Atlas from Bioshock probably has the most genuine Irish accent in a game.

That was pretty good actually yeah, strong without being a parody.

The narrator in Forza Horizon 3 is Irish (pretty sure) and the accent is very easy to listen to. It was such a nice surprise when you first start the game and it gives you a couple of hundred built in names that it has programmed to pronounce to choose from.

It had my surname, which isn't that common even in Ireland, and being referred to by my actual surname in an Irish accent throughout the game was novel in a really fun way.

Grayditch

Osmosis Jones wrote: »

Atlas from Bioshock probably has the most genuine Irish accent in a game.

Jaunty from Shadowman has got to be. You'd swear it was Dustin The Turkey.

https://youtu.be/B560lCn5kGU

J. Marston

Gilligan from Dark Souls 2, the ladder guy. Proper wesht accent on him.

Grayditch

WLLDLLWWWL in my placements. The draw was intense.

Zillah

Osmosis Jones wrote: »

Atlas from Bioshock probably has the most genuine Irish accent in a game.

Really? Because his awful accent is one of the reasons I couldn't get more than an hour into that game.

J. Marston

Speaking of Irish Overwatch characters, there's actually a thread on the Overwatch subreddit's front page today about one.

To say it's cringey would be an understatement.

Generic Dreadhead

But it did give us this gem :P

Osmosis Jones

Read through that thread on the subreddit there, so we're just seen as an even bigger group of mouths to everyone else thanks to McGregor it seems

A Neurotic

It's painful seeing Irish redditors being complicit in the horrible stereotyping. "LOL YEAH I'M IRISH AND THAT'S PRETTY ACCURATE"

K.O.Kiki

So.. I'm playing like sh!te.

Started the night by going 2-0 in control but losing 2-3 mainly due to a Symmetra.

Finished the night on a 5/6 game losing streak. I'm now on Silver 1589.

aaronjumper

12 Christmas loot boxes one Christmas skin for Roadhog. I wanted the Pharah one.

TitianGerm

aaronjumper wrote: »

12 Christmas loot boxes one Christmas skin for Roadhog. I wanted the Pharah one.

The Pharah one is cheap enough to buy.

aaronjumper

emmetkenny wrote: »

The Pharah one is cheap enough to buy.

Yeah probably, I'll just have to hope I can still get it after Christmas.

K.O.Kiki

aaronjumper wrote: »

Yeah probably, I'll just have to hope I can still get it after Christmas.

Winter Event lasts until 2. January.

aaronjumper

Woohoo!

J. Marston

Competitive is a bit of a bore. Same comps every game. Lucio/Ana dominate almost every aspect of the game.