https://www.polygon.com/news/476638/overwatch-2-classic-mode-blizzard
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Overwatch 2 is going back to 2016 with a new Classic mode
Overwatch 2 players will get a taste of launch-day Overwatch with Overwatch: Classic, a throwback mode for Blizzard’s hero shooter.
Polygon (www.polygon.com)
oh man I feel like this is gonna be fun for a few games for nostalgia's sake and then its gonna get old real fast
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sure as fuck never want to play 2CP Horizon Lunar Colony or Hanamura ever again in my life
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Horizon Lunar Colony legit is my least favourite map, even after they reworked it
2CP/Assault was in general a unfun game mode but HLC was the worst map of all the 2CP maps
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fucking christ on a stick, Overwatch came out 8 years ago
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this reminded me of the Overwatch Animated Short (remember when they made those?) for Bastion called "The Last Bastion" which came out around launch of OW 8 years ago
it was a surprisingly nuanced depiction of PTSD, what makes it even more cool is that Bastion isn't a human character
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I say "surprising" because before then I hadn't seen video games handle the topic of PTSD with that kind of nuance and care, especially for a non-human character
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@packetcat Approachably human-like characters are an excellent vehicle for conveying nuanced emotion.
Something about the less you're looking at a specific human you might know, the easier it is to identify with the character and emotions being communicated.
That's one of the other reasons why furry art can be so excellent.
(puts my worn copy of "Understanding Comics" back on the shelf)
plus that's just some awesome visual storytelling, yeah
