Same. Something I can play, save anywhere to deal with life, and pick back up when time allows. I was one of those weirdos who really enjoyed Doom 3 when it came out (with the ducttape mod; that was one mechanic I didn't like) and grew up on old Commodore, Amiga, and PC single-player games and NES/SNES/Genisis RPGs. I want that again.

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[–] rustyfish@lemmy.world 142 points 5 months ago (6 children)

1000 IQ power move: Valve promotes a fake game with fake trailers and fake reviews.

Day of the release approaches.

People buy and fire it up.

Starting screen says “Half Life 3”.

Thousands die from a stroke.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'd like a HL3, but not yet another competitive pvp game. So not sure if that would be the right approach if they can't even hit the same target audience.

[–] NielsBohron@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago (7 children)

I'm inclined to agree with you, but Valve doesn't often miss

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[–] perdvert@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 5 months ago

I might actually have some sort of cardiac event.

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[–] Veraxus@lemmy.world 113 points 5 months ago (16 children)

Valves next game...

SQUEEEEEE!!!!

it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter

My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.

[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

Won’t hurt to give it a shot, but I’ll be cautiously optimistic.

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[–] RandomWalker@lemmy.world 77 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Sounds more like TF2 crossed with DOTA, which sounds weirdly fun and hella toxic.

[–] Sabata11792@kbin.social 25 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I can't wait to be called new and exciting racial slurs as I lose the game for my team.

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[–] ji59@kbin.social 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Isn't Smite exactly this?

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[–] Paradox@lemdro.id 74 points 5 months ago (1 children)

overwatch style

You mean team fortress style

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 31 points 5 months ago (3 children)

They had better call it Team Fortress 2 Episode 1.

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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 71 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Isn't an overwatch style hero shooter just team fortress 2? Now get off my lawn, I have clouds to tell at.

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Nah. TF2 is a shooter with 9 classes. People can double up on "soldier" for instance. A hero shooter has for one, a lot more classes / heroes (which comes from MOBAs), for two activated abilities on each hero which change the games significantly, and usually disables doubling up in competetive modes. You wouldn't call Enemy Territory a hero shooter for instance.

[–] spoopy@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Overwatch disabled doubling up well after launch, and only because they couldn't or wouldn't balance the game such that a 4 tank no DPS comp didn't utterly cheese the game.

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[–] Lenny@lemmy.zip 54 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Competitive shooter

Brooo I just wanna chill and have fun and play some games.

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is why I bought Hell Divers 2

[–] Veraxus@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Everyone needs some rock, and stone, and liberty in their lives.

[–] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Did I hear a Rock and Stone!?

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[–] Warjac@lemmy.world 40 points 5 months ago

It's a Team Fortress Style Hero Shooter

Because it's a Valve game

Because TF2 Inspired Overwatch

Get it right

[–] casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer@sh.itjust.works 39 points 5 months ago (5 children)

So Team Fortress 3

[–] Laser@feddit.de 23 points 5 months ago

One might think so, but the number 3 in the potential title makes this highly unlikely.

[–] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago

No, no, that's not how this works. No 3s, them's the rules.

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[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 33 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Whatever it ends up being, I'm not interested. Never cared for competitive gaming. Sad that Valve has decided to use part of their enormous talent pool for, well, this while almost any genre would've been better.

Also, this is already a highly saturated niche. I don't doubt Valve's technical prowess and knowhow to develop a game that can surpass all the other ones in quality, but a gilded turd is still a turd under that gold leaf, even if it's technically the best turd in the world.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 months ago (7 children)

That's unfortunate that it's not a genre you personally are interested in, but it is a popular genre and Valve is a business. Just because it's not to your tastes doesn't mean it's a waste of their talent.

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Oh absolutely. I'm not conceited enough to imagine Valve is developing games for me or that I'm entitled to anything. Just venting my personal disappointment with their choice. I still consider them the cream of the crop in game and hardware development.

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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 33 points 5 months ago (4 children)

DOTASHOOTER

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[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sounds more like SMITE than overwatch

[–] flamingarms@feddit.uk 11 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Or Paragon even. That game was so fun back in the day before it got killed. If anyone can make something that fun again, it's probably Valve.

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[–] lorty@lemmy.ml 22 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Why are people angry? This is exactly the kind of game valve has worked on for the last few years.

[–] BurningnnTree@lemmy.one 25 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm not angry, but I'm tired of live service esports games. Also the last time Valve arrived late to a trend (Artifact) it didn't turn out well.

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[–] scops@reddthat.com 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Because many of us remember before that, when Valve revolutionized the single player first person genre again and again with the Portal and mainline Half-Life games.

Any other dev would have capitalized on the massive interest in a sequel or at least sold off the property so someone else could have continued those franchises.

[–] fpslem@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yep. sigh I guess I'll go replay Portal 2 again. It really is fantastic, I should be happy that we got it when we did.

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[–] MustrumR@kbin.social 22 points 5 months ago

I, for once am excited. I didn't buy Overwatch since I was deeply disappointed in Blizzard, after D3. Then the whole pandering to CCP and Blitzchung fiasco happened and that cemented my decision.

I didn't play Valor ant since I don't enjoy having a Chinese kernel level spyware on my PC.

So this may be something that can satisfy my itch.

[–] antaymonkey@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago (10 children)

Valve famously only works on what excites them. You're yelling me THIS is that?? How utterly defeatingly disappointing.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Bold statement. Might wanna hold judgment till you actually see some gameplay.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

It goes both ways then, people who are happy should shut up until they see some gameplay.

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[–] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 10 points 5 months ago

Like idk, when overwatch came out, it was an absolute blast. I wasn't looking forward to it at all, i didn't care for it a bit until i played it. It just got run into the ground slowly. Also they made team fortress 2 way WAY before, and yeah that's what they excites them.

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[–] wafflez@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago (7 children)

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Calling things an OverWatch style shooter is a bit like calling every first person shooter a Doom clone. Just call it a hero shooter I know what a hero shooter is. You don't need to compare it to another game.

It's bad enough that the term a "roguelike" exists, I can guarantee that hardly anyone who plays them has ever actually played rogue, and fair enough since it's ancient, so they have no idea if the game they're playing is like it or not.

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[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

Team Fortress th-… 2: episode 1?

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

You know this sounds like battleborn and i miss battleborn. I'm kinda excited.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 12 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I had a lot of good times and even more bad times with DotA over the years, until I finally freed myself from it years ago.

IceFrog being behind this backed by Valve bodes well, and I think the premise of an FPS/MOBA hybrid has promise, despite the market being insanely oversaturated already.

I'm not really interested in competitive games these days, but I hope it'll be good to watch at least. Following The International was fun even after I quit DotA.

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