Thread 718288697

Did China unironically save gaming from being #Woke?

Did you really put a pound sign next to a word?

I only play games with epic Battleborn heroes, sorry

That big Samoan peaking over the corner like a Wolfenstein boss was pretty funny though

>>718288697 (OP)
yeah and it has set back and exposed the DEI hires of the last decade and a half. Remember all those newspaper articles trying to trash the sexiness of those games when it turns out they had 100x the game play. Reminds me of the backlash JP had with Expedition 33, for the West it was Wukong being a better game than any of the shit they were developing. It even reached the point Microsoft shafted all those businesses and departments. But you still have those morons like the guy making the Concord single player space game that still has no fucking clue.

>>718288697 (OP)
>dexterto
Probably the exact opposite is happening if that retard is tweeting about it

>>718288697 (OP)

Blizzard is making attractive characters again, so they are going back to their roots, back to the Starcraft and WoW days of character creations?

>>718288697 (OP)
Fuck you, oddball characters are the best. China's taste is for a bunch of bland ass fucking garbage chink twinks and whores.

>just them all boring and gay
thanks blizzard!

>>718288697 (OP)
So more Hammond?

>>718288697 (OP)
Hammond sucks, stupid cutesy cringy garbage, zero fun to play against, not fun to play as.

>>718289028

Japan, China and Korea make attractive characters with oddball superpowers, though. Just like the Anime: Darker than Black.

>>718289051
>Hammond sucks, stupid cutesy cringy garbage, zero fun to play against, not fun to play as.
Hammond is unironically the best character in the game and the grappling hook/ball physics shit is what the whole game should have been designed around because it's more fun than fucking anything else in OW. Get some taste.

>>718288697 (OP)
I like oddball characters like Hammond/Ball though, just not hyper-woke gay genderblobs. If they had a nutsack they'd make a quadruped creature hero that can crawl on walls and ceilings, xenomorph style

>>718289028
>We can no longer have a middle ground
>Everything must be a hideous ironic man-beast that attempts to own the chuds or a soulless plastic doll that only sucks your dick
The future is grim

>>718288831
That's a hash sign not pound sign

>>718288831
It got really popular during the poundmetoo movement.

>>718288697 (OP)
Hamtaro was their best character though, make more of him and Winston and less Ventures and that tree fag

>>718289028
Ya im all for some fansevice when the entire game becomes that its fucking lame. Plus slant eyes are known for having asbsolute shit tastes like you said.

>>718289212
>or a soulless plastic doll that only sucks your dick
That's the 90's/2000's though
That's based

>>718289142
this, im convinced hammond was a complete accident. theres no way they actually meant to make such a fun character

>>718289212
It's a shame, too. The poll was held sometime roughly 2017 or so, and you can tell that League had a really good balance of conventionally attractive characters, weird monsters, diversity reps, and cool guys.

>>718289028
While I was reading this thread Riot released 2 ahri skins and 3 lux skins.

I'd like to have a good middle ground, but western devs are no longer capable of that, so just give me gruff man #824124772 and plastic sex dolls, please.

>>718289320
those were soulful plastic dolls actually

>>718289028
I fucking hate the slants so much its unreal. Why does Capcom have a monopoly on weirdo character designs in Japanese game dev.

>>718289028
>Kindred
>Warwiick
Thank God Nafiri wasnt added then

>>718289028
>china takes over
>turns your cool monster into a kpop
Asians are so fucking boring

just make oddball characters who are also attractive

>>718288697 (OP)
>competition makes things better overall
Who could've foreseen this development?

>>718289443
Beast men/animals have always been cool
It's just that you can't like them any more without being associated with furfags

>>718288697 (OP)
What was even the last oddball character, or attractive for that matter? Sometimes I'll remember this game is still a thing and look up the latest heroes, and it's boring humans that are troonbait or safe horny
I doubt it'll change soon, if this generic twink is anything to go by. Looks like a fucking fan oc that popped off on reddit compared to the og cast.

>>718289602
oh look they finally added mandatory wukong for chinese community

>>718289562
>It's just that you can't like them any more without being associated with furfags
Caring about that is the sign of an internet-poisoned faggot. Furfaggotry as a subculture started from animation circles in the 70s, so obviously that's what's gonna happen.

In general, letting any cool designs get ruined because of some niche subculture caring too much one way or the other is fucking gay.

>>718288697 (OP)
That's not what they said though. It was about making characters you can relate to aka simple designs that you can easily make a bunch of skins for

>>718289028
Right makes so much sense

Fuck OPs gamergate ragebait masturbate, I just want pve. I'll take 20 more Ventures, Wife Leavers, and Water Benders if it means I get pve. I like the ow heroes for their fun and character not because of their sfm economy (that's just a bonus that doesn't go away just because the new hero is wearing shoes). I just want an opportunity to play them in a way that's low stakes and not at constant risk of turning into counterwatch. OW peaked at Retribution.

>>718289123
>Just like the Anime: Darker than Black.
Will never forget that guy being fed to the roaches.

>>718289025
nu Blizzard becoming based>. Did they rehire more than 70% of their company yet

>>718289489
This can't be real

>>718289443
The PeePeePooPoo Man.

>>718288831
It's a number sign.

>>718289796
after pve cancelation i swear blizzard started paying off Indians to gaslight people
the hate for pve and praise that all those years of effort were wasted always seemed forced, it wasn't like that when we still waited for it.

>>718288697 (OP)
Ok, but what about Overwatch 2? Did they let it die already and came back to 1 or am I misreading the tweet?

>>718288697 (OP)
no the chinese are worthless children and should be ignored

>>718289350
(((wokeipidia)))

>>718289947
Sorry m8, there're more of them than there are of you.
For a long time people pretended that corpos went "woke" because that's where the money was, but China doesn't like that stuff, so that was obviously never true.

>>718289562
I agree__

>>718288697 (OP)
>>718289025
they didnt say "attractive" they said "relatable"
which means more ugly women and niggers
and don't forget fat trannies in wheelchairs

>>718289865
Skeletons...are scary.

>>718290069
LOOK AT THE TOP OF HIS HEAD

>>718290008
Nta but china put in race mixing in marvel rivals so they're gay

>>718289865
They made his boss a k-pop Twink too

>>718289865
it is, but kinda disingenuous because it's a skin, the original is still the same, but they do make a lot of Kpop boy skins, even a "monster" like Xerath has one (picrel)

>>718290069
???? That looks fuckin horrible, christ I'm glad I stopped playing this game back when I did.

>>718288697 (OP)
Oddballs were never the problem. It was the political expat characters.
Roadhog was based, because him being a fat fuck isn't a political message
Torbjorn was based because him being a handicapped midget isn't a political message.
Lucio was fine too because despite the political messaging being there it never interfered with the gameplay, story, or his design.
He could just be a nigga who likes music, without looking like he was from a Wyatt Mann comic.

Venture is shit because her being an ugly 'they' is a political message.
Sojourn looks like something /pol/ would draw during a psyop.
Lifeweaver is such a flaming faggot that I'm surprised that he's allowed in the Russian client.
He can't just be a scientist who happens to enjoy some cock, the cocklust must come first!

Though after looking at Juno and Freja, I think Blizzard is finally learning where their bread is buttered.

Hazard despite being the only straight white guy added to OW2

>>718290197
>>718290198
Cosmetic/skin culture has gotten out of hand.

>>718288697 (OP)
This is blatantly obvious for anyone actually playing Overwatch. Juno, Freya, tons of mild coombait skins for the conventionally attractive characters. They want their sales back and they know what sells.

>>718288697 (OP)
heterosexuality is back on the menu boys

>>718289951
>definitions of symbols are woke
Your brain is fried

>>718289917
PvE was pretty much the only justification for overwatch to even get a sequel, at least until Stadium (which I don't actually care for, too long and pretty much comp). The only reason to frown upon pve was if you overplayed them or actually paid for the cancelled new ones that sucked (the free Tracer's friend one sucked too though). I really don't get the two steps forward and one step back. They give Halloween a sequel, they make a cool Diablo event with upgrades and versatile hero choices, they don't bring the latter back, they never bring back archives. They allege that Rivals isn't pushing them all that much and they're working on their own ideas but I bet if MR dropped a pve mode OW2 would start moving.

>>718290191
China didn't do that, Marvel did that in the 1960s.

>>718288831
>>718289240
>>718289915
>>718289350
It's called an octothorpe.

>>718290251
Sojourn is an old ass design though, the model is fine, good even. They just made her character out of cardboard.

>>718290270
That's not even an alternate skin that's just what the ruined king looks like.

>>718290357
If china were based they would've changed that, but no they were happy to include it. Fags

>>718290281
pve story mode

When did "woke" becoming synonymous with low effort sameface gooner bait? With all the fucking porn available how are you still so horny that you have to goon to everything?

>>718289028
>right mogs left
Do ugloids really?

>>718290440
Marvel's call, not theirs. Allow the racemix or we pull the plug
No one is truly immune to globohomo

>>718290473
What about it? Nobody asked for it, cutting that bullshit unironically saved the game.

>>718290432
>the ruined king
Pretty disappointing the bork guy ended up being a kpop homo. This game unironically used to be kinda cool and mysterious.

>>718290498
They're both dogshit let's be real

>>718290251
>>718290393
Fucking ate my post
Hazard despite being the only straight white guy added to ow2 is still designed like a caricature. Like he's the gigachad meme as drawn by a woman who hates men.

>>718290251
>OW1 is full of diverse heroes with different races, cultures, viewpoints, and physical ability levels
>But like in a cool fine way that doesn't really matter
>OW2 has a cute autist that licks rocks but it's HARMFUL and WOKE because I don't get to know the penis status of said creature
Lmaoing @ ur life

>>718290440
Lol, now that's a retarded cope if I've ever seen one.

>>718288697 (OP)
It's actually unbelievable how much cum I've dispensed to Widowmaker

>>718288697 (OP)
what is sharp woke?

>>718290531
Probably, but china ain't innocent. They don't care they'll sell out to the highest bidder all the same even if it means including gay shit

>>718290552
i think they're both good, league had some good designs.

#wokeisdead
#xijinping2026

>>718290617
>They don't care they'll sell out to the highest bidder
Not their culture, not their problem.
Westerners need to sort that shit out themselves.

>>718290580
The cope would be to delusionally insist china is le based wholesome chungus when shitslop like marvel rivals is proof of the opposite

>>718288831
fpbp, that will always be the pound sign you little whippersnapper fucks

>>718290583
Based unless it was futa* or blacked
*redemption possible if it was futa!tracer on vanilla!widow

>>718290568
That was a lot to read, let me shorten it for you.
Cool and/or hot characters = Good
Lame and/or ugly characters = Bad.

I don't care if Symm is an autist, Tracer is a dyke, or 76 is a faggot. They're good, because I like them.

>>718290480
They’re Gen Z. All of their games are shit so they became porn addicts

>>718288697 (OP)
>Blizzard makes a bunch of shitty unappealing characters that are clearly made just to satisfy their fucked up diversity chart
>People say they don't like these characters for obvious reasons
>"Okay, we're going to stop making characters that are actually interesting like Wrecking Ball and Osiris. Instead you'll just get eternal coombait for fags and gacha addicts."

I know /v/ asked for this, but /v/ is fucking retarded. Just make interesting character designs because they look cool for fuck sake. Why is that so hard to understand?

>>718290672
azns are cucks tho

>>718290675
China doesn't own Marvel.
Sorry m8, you need a different cope for this one.

>>718290552
fair

>>718289562
It just depends on the art style. If they look like Don Bluth rejects you know they’re just made for the worst porn in existence. Cool and cute beastmen can enhance a fantasy setting or inform it.

>>718288697 (OP)
I really don't like the implications about a talking hamster living among human society. I mean, human society is 90% sex, people will subject the poor thing to human sexuality and this will not end well.
>but bestiality tho
applies to animal animals, the dumb ones that can't consent and have no real understanding about sex. When a fucking talking hamster is asking you questions about pornhub, things gets murky.

>>718290542
You missed nothing every new character they release is more obnoxious than the last

>>718289028
Westerners just want to be cool AND look at sexy girls. Asians just want to hide in their turtle shell or transform into a fly on the wall and observe sexy girls from a distance.

>>718290726
Everyone is cucked in globohomo, m8.
China is just cucked in different ways.

>>718290719
>characters that are actually interesting like Wrecking Ball
kys

>>718290727
They made the game didn't they? And the game is zogslop. China is pozzed

>>718290498
>right mogs left
In what world, faggot? Right is all homogenous chinkbait slop. Left has a good mix of hot characters, cool monsters, and other shit.

I can't relate to fat, balds or onions beard coded characters

>>718290251
Sojourn is just the railgun girl from MGS2 but with a boring personality. I wouldn’t put her on the same level as something like Venture, since she’s still designed to be conventionally cool.

>>718290794
>They made the game didn't they?
Based on Marvel properties.
Sorry m8, new cope, this one is lame.

>>718290053
So fat balding middle aged white characters with huge manboobs?

>>718290714
In that case Venture should make it in, I love moleman characters. I don't care what Venture identifies as I care they they can burrow under the ground like HotS Dehaka. Mauga and the new girl are fucking plain as shit to me though. Juno is an obvious attempt at Kiri2 but the voice is too insufferable, otherwise I'd love her. Spiky Chad is fun he just kinda flounders because character in ow to a certain point needs actual plot, beyond "fookin yeh m8 I'm purple!!!!"

>>718288697 (OP)
overwatch was a bunch of references and tropes strangled together to make the characters
it has a character called "reaper" who wears all black, dual wields shotguns, has a skull for a mask and says the edgiest quotes humanly possible, it has tall fat small skinny duo where the small is hyperactive and the big is slow, it has wise glasses who turns into a beast when they want, it has a black widow assassin woman, it has an aviator glasses quick brat, it has a woman that heals and gains angel wings and (the right is rod of asclepius caduceus is for merchants), it has a cowboy who does the fucking wild west shit, literal raiden.

the game was at its most popular when the oddball non realistic characters were the only characters. what the fuck is the point of -
>attractive
Finally, they yielded to the blenderGODs.

>>718288831
penis pounding butthoel : )

>>718290757
youtube.com/watch?v=VkoKke-KSb4

>>718290819
Please understand. Gachashitters suffer from brain damage that causes them to see gaudy, overdesigned trash as beautiful characters. Sort of like the dude from Saya no Uta, but retarded.

>K-Pop looking fags and bitches until Overwatch dies
please let that game die soon

>>718290757
Harkness rules give and take
>90% sex
That's a ridiculous estimate, especially for the future. Winston is the real muck up. His intelligence, broadly speaking, is human level, but he's literally a gorilla, so it'd be fucked up if he got with a human (unlike say X-Men's or Disney's Beast where it's just an afflicted human that eccentrics or the truly devoted could look past or appreciate). However if he were to get with another gorilla it'd be just as unnerving because he's way more aware of shit than they are. It'd be like if we fucked human-shaped dogs (no not furries).

>nig appropriating European culture
bad game desu

>>718289028
The way it's phrases is wrong
What they were doing for a while was making "oddball" humans, that is LPG or CNG or something of questionable racial hygiene. What they're trying to project(and that includes the OP tweet image) is that they were making some kind of monster characters. What is true is that neither appeals to the asians who are the biggest whales for f2p games so you get sexy women instead.

>>718290757
he can't talk though, he just hamster squeaks and the ball translates

>>718290702
>futa
I'm not gay

>>718290934
Venture is neither cool nor hot.
The premise is cool, and Venture being a squat old fuck with thick tech glasses could be cool.
Or being an proto omnic that was just a digging machine and is barely sapient could be cool.
Or having the exact same thing going on but being a hot chick or dude.
There's loads of iterations of mole man that would've worked fantastically.

Honestly dropping the pronoun bullshit entirely and just having her be androgynous, and having nobody mention her except by name like the pyro would still be way better than what we got.
I'm biased though. I quit the game after Venture dropped. Last straw.

Everyone is realizing that the chink coomers matter the most.

Even fucking Valve is planning on releasing back to back white heroes to Deadcock eventually while smoothing out the existing cast to be cuter and/or more palatable to asian crowds

>>718290719
If they're not doing the promised pve mode then the story is useless since it'll never be explored.
Wrecking ball could be a dude, or a robot and it wouldn't matter.

>>718288941
>backlash JP had with Expedition 33
What backlash? Japan doesn't know E33 exists, they can't even pronounce its name.
The only thing that can save it from obscurity there is unironically a Switch 2 port with a Jap dub.

>>718291430
When will they get rid of Calico.

>>718289028
>fuck you, freaks own! those fucking CHINKS and their hot women out-competing our totes wholesome freaks and fuglies!
Do you think before hitting "post"? Why would you make yourself and your position look worse like that?

>>718289562
beast women are cooler, but yet, they still havent added one

>>718291554
Why hasn't Blizzard tapped into the furry market? Do they not know?

>>718291430
i like valve concepts
not so much gameplay design

>>718291430
fuck those are some cool ass designs, hope they change Pocket to not be a they/them, although thats maybe cause hes multiple people?

>>718289028
both are trash picks

>>718291626
>humanoids all the way fucking down

Non-humanoid bros...

>>718291596
no idea. I mean you can add alot of degen stuff, but people will like it if its feminine, its why anime girls are popular, strong but cute. Add a strong femboss furry, but have her actually be feminine and cute, and bam, selling like diamonds

>>718291430
A FUCKING BELLHOP?

>>718290936
>Sniper Granny
>Hacker Mexican
>Squire Girl
>Robot Horse
>Genius Science Experiment 2 (tiny and violent)
>Mad Scientist
>Scientist Gone Mad
>The Villain
>Viper Lady Cowgirl
>"Fuckable Robot" (cowards edition)
>Disillusioned Ex Badguy
And then
>17th "I used to be in overwatch so I hate life now" Character but she does funny slides
>More Proof That Japan In The Future Has Real Magic
>Barbarian Warrior Lady
>The Villain 2 (Evil Fuckable Robot Edition)
>Hot Gay Man
>Unhinged Archeologist
>Chaotic Fun Bad Guy
>Okay Fine Natives Have Magic Too, But Only If They Die About It
>Weird Peppy Out Of Touch Space Girl
>SCOTLAND FOREVER
>18th "I used to be in overwatch so I hate life now" Character (bounty hunter, lawful evil)
>More Proof That China In The Future Mastered The Elements
Yeah not a ton of actual tropes or archetypes among anyone added, off the rip.

>>718291752
>tropes
>just listing characteristics of the characters
That's actually funny.

>>718289028
I hate chinkslop aswell but it’s can’t be worse than the recent dogshit blizzard has been making

>>718290719
>set your profits on fire just to own le chudz
This can only go so far, surely you're smart enough to understand. I mean you're able to turn on a PC or tablet or phone, you're able to type in English without making grammatical errors, your house isn't on fire, presumably you can wipe your own ass without assistance and also get dressed without help, so you should be able to understand that the devs themselves reached the conclusion that your fugly ass retarded shite designs are losing them money because they're being out competed by chinese games, so they're doing a 180 on that absolutely bonkers "diversity" chart which has so far only helped put holes in their financials.

>>718291363
Agree to disagree, I love a weird little freak that wants to drill and blow up enemies of science. An omnic drill bot could've been cool though, I'll align with you there.
>>718291524
You may be surprised to learn some people enjoy characters and their designs for Character and Design. Not just painted hentai babe #24601. It's more compelling to see something standout and unique that has you wanting to know more, than it is to go "woah that looks fuckable!!"

>>718291596
>Why hasn't Blizzard tapped into the furry market?
HELLO? PANDAREN? WORGEN? VULPERA? DRAC'THYR? DRUIDS?

>>718291894
Oh I wasn't being sarcastic if that's what you're getting at. I'm saying with that list of additions, even if some of them are interesting, few feel like what OGOW had on offer. Doomfist (though kind of a letdown) and Rammy most notably imo. Maybe Ashe. Moira if she wasn't so duality-y.

>>718292002
In the context of Overwatch dummy.

Blizzard came out and said that article was wrong, if you choose to believe them.

They still put out oddballs (Hazard, Venture), interspersed with the barbie dolls (Juno, Freya).

>>718292134
Fair point, they need a woman animal. At least they have some fembots.

>>718289028
The replies to this post show a very interesting divide between anons that want cool/varied character designs and anons that just want to jerk off.

>>718292134
Doesn't Orisa count?

>>718292134
Why compete with the king?
youtube.com/watch?v=M5TKZmwb0Uc

>>718288697 (OP)
No but they're definitely part of the push. Remember that the manuvering here is to keep Blizzard employees from rioting and burning the company down.

Reading between the lines, less oddballs means means more humanoids, that are conventionally attractive because they sell skins.

>>718292285
wait
youtube.com/watch?v=q8DRHa1JoSg

>>718292225
Honestly, I don't find modern western aesthetics to be all that cool.
I like the Norwood vampire-looking dude and the guy with the iron mask, but other than that it's mostly not something I find all that cool.
I think western artists are just too furfaggy for my tastes, and too gay.

>>718292184
> animal woman

What species we talking

>>718290719
>>718292184
I am convinced blizzard will pivot some, if nothing else than that skins for really weird characters take more skill. They KNOW the demand for skins for Juno vs their enby.

>>718288697 (OP)
If you want "diversity" so bad, just add cute brown and black girls, it's really not that difficult.

>>718292184
>tomboy
>scotsman
Wow, so quirky. I don't understand why is it so hard to give us more non human characters.

>>718288697 (OP)
Is Overwatch even a thing anymore? I thought they nuked their own player base with the second game?

>>718292694
It's doing better currently than it has been in a few years.

>>718292538
They're owned by Microsoft, Microsoft would rather run the company into the ground, than give up their fugly women.

>>718292694
It is still very much popular.

>>718288697 (OP)
Besides the Hamster; what fucking oddball characters are they taking about? That sounds like a shitty ass lie.

>>718292730
>>718292735
So, did everyone just get over the broken promises of a campaign? lol

>>718292694
If fucking TF2 is still alive, why the fuck would OW be dead? F2P games like this just don't die.

>>718292121
yeah i can see on the other ones, bounty hunter, rocket punch. moira tao bullshit.
i think the more they went into their own story the more they kinda try to steer away from references and tropes, feel the same with league of legends.

>>718292802
>F2P games like this just don't die

>>718292753
the article is a lie but oddballs would probably include more robots or animals, old people, weirdos like junkrat/roadhog/hazard

>>718292772
No, they did eventually put out some PVE stuff as an attempt a while ago and it was bad and so they basically dropped it and focused on integrating some of the PVE powerup stuff they showed off ages ago in a PVP mode that seems to be doing alright.

>>718291596
Wasn't there a Kemono style Fox Girl skin for Kiriko in some concept/Sketch art? That's the only way it'll be real is a skin of some kind.

>>718290719
The best thing to come from this is confirmed canon straight Zarya.

>>718290498
No one mogs Rakan, not even Sett

>>718292635
>So quirky
Believe it or not it's not OWs goal to crank out rainbow hairs with at least 4 diversity points. It's just supposed to be around the world characters that got tangled up into being a hero. Venture's hero origin story is practically Mei's if she started with a gun.
>More non human characters
It's still meant to be a play on hero genres, there's never really that big a ratio of animal/animal-like heroes. I mean they could add more robots but for that they'd have to actually know what to do with them.
>Zentatta, mostly minding his own business
>Rammattra, terrorist extremist but "justified", only one notably tangled in the "plot" but that doesn't matter since it's no longer advancing
>Orisa, literally who dragged into the field
>Echo, literally who retconned into the field, pointlessly
>Bastion, ex drone, memory wiped so he can also be a literally who dragged into the field
Hell on that note half the characters don't have a stated take on Omnics. I'm assuming by default all the good ones aren't racist, other than Torb, who's getting better. All the omnics like humans after all, so long as they're not terrorists.

>>718291752
>Okay Fine Natives Have Magic Too, But Only If They Die About It
lel

>>718292857
Lets not talk about hirez

They killed everything

>>718292772
Overwatch players didn't really care about that shit to begin with, which is why they cut it.

>>718292901
Zarya was always the cutest OW girl and I'm tired of pretending otherwise. Hair isn't the best, but everything else about her is based.

When is this nigga going to be added as a character

>>718288697 (OP)
Here's your "odd ball" characters /v/, say something nice about them!

>>718293054
>they gave a robot a norwood

>>718290719
she can solo them all btw

>>718293101
If they didn't, it'd just look like a helmet.

>>718292802
>>718292857
I'll alter that anon's defense to say blizz games don't really die other than by their own hand (e.g. overwatch 1 being nuked so that 2 is the only option). I've heard so much shit about the newer diablos, hearthstone "these days", wow; but they're all still standing because people still love them. I don't know what gets blizzard such loyalty, maybe the feeling that starting out everyone really has a grasp on what they wanted to do? Hope that it'll come back? But I mean HotS is officially comatose yet it's still has a pulse. I don't think even if updates died out OW would go away anytime soon, though they'd maybe have to tweak matchmaking so the remainder can still get games with relative ease.

>>718293019
If you could have base costume Zarya with the Olympics skin's hairstyle she would be perfect.

>>718293019
>Hair isn't the best, but everything else about her is based.
She has some skins with her natural hair which are cute

>>718288831
its a tic tac toe symbol

>>718293054
>Canonically a pussyass and really just a money man
Why would they ever add him beyond fan demand? What's he gonna do, sit in spawn and farm ecoin until he can just buy a win?
>>718293101
Why do you think the robots are uprising. Imagine being created with a hairline like that.

>>718290069
Is that Tresh? If yes lmao what the fuck why

My wife

>>718293217
>sit in spawn and farm ecoin until he can just buy a win
OW version of HOTS Abathur when

>>718291524
kill yourself

>>718293101
baldkeks desperate to psyop people

>>718293280
>Abathur when
Oh don't even get me started lmao. I've wanted OWbathur for ages. I was thinking omnic (technovirus) would be the easy path, but for a comics parallel overwatch still doesn't have a true mad science/freak accident genetic monstrosity. Some sorta gooey symbiote? Or maybe if they wanted things relatively groundes just a summoner support. I wouldn't be too picky on the how, so long as it's compelling. I just want similar "watch over everything, hop hero to hero, tweak the battlefield, call in assists" type of gameplay.

>>718289028
I don't know any of these characters except for the "watch your mouth kid or I'm gonna shit in it" girl

>>718292584
See the diversity matrix. They literally do not want conventionally attractive.

>>718292694
It's weaker but it's not like it's gonna get displaced by concord or marathon.

>>718293634
>I just want similar "watch over everything, hop hero to hero, tweak the battlefield, call in assists" type of gameplay.
This would probably suit Maximilian pretty well, arguably more on the summoner side than the grey goo thing. I do think him being a complete non-entity in the gamespace would be a bridge too far in OW, more likely his abilities would heavily be about supporting others, and his ult would maybe be a cross between Doom and Ana's, disappearing briefly to heavily buff another hero

>>718292753
Blizz denied the article. But they also denied the diversity matrix even though those considerations were clearly driving their designs, so we don't really know.

>>718292921
>Believe it or not it's not OWs goal to crank out rainbow hairs with at least 4 diversity points
Their designers publicly and directly contradict you both in online public statements, and GDC presentations.

In any case the plot is almost tangental to the designs.

>>718293019
I'm not going to argue with your dick, but I hated everything about her BUT her attitude.

>>718290198
>it is, but kinda disingenuous because it's a skin, the original is still the same,
In Wild Rift, prettyboy Thresh is the default.

>>718293280
Your waifu is A SHITTO.

>>718292000
>for Character and Design.
Do any characters in any of these live service games have interesting characters?
I sure as hell didn't notice.

>>718293742
>They literally do not want conventionally attractive.
Blizzard? I find that hard to believe with the main response to that article being people complaining that they've released too many conventionally attractive characters recently like Juno and Freya (and arguably Lifeweaver, Illari, Wuyang) and that the conventionally attractive characters get a lot more skins than the others.

If it was a conspiracy from the devs to push ugliness, they're going about it a really weird way

>>718294015
Why even make a post like this
>I personally don't like this thing PROVE ME WRONG
No, there's no point disagreeing with you

>>718288697 (OP)
>we are moving away from identifiable and good character design to appease people who cum to fanart and never play the game
There's already too much Overwatch porn.

>>718293886
Venture isn't nearly ugly enough or brown enough to be anything special, even if unfuckable relative to Mercy and Kiriko. Not even disabled or anything either, about as diverse as Soldier 76 is. Mauga has his fat tits out. Soujorn has her fat thighs out. The latest heroes have been thin white girls. You're falling for outragebait if you're seriously under the impression that blizzard is going to deliver fat hindu wheelchairbound he/they omnickin women who starts a polycule with Hanzo and McCassidy. It's like what was pointed out earlier in the thread, OW has always been diverse, it's just usually lent to the feel of futuristic worldwide varied heroes with standout designs. You'd as easily complain that the Justice League is too heavy on the blacks and women.

>>718289252
underrated

Why do so many women (biowomen too, not even troons) find him so attractive

>>718288697 (OP)
Basically admitting the only value their brand has is providing easily editable 3d models to porn animators.

>>718294270
>Gentle side
>I can fix him syndrome
>Purple
>Big
>Gets bigger
>Robot
>Hot/Wholesome ship art with Dva of all people (small and cute girl just like me fr (memeing that's not a personal claim))
It's no great wonder honestly.

They're going to slip and eventually release a Venture skin that shows her as fuckable and I personally can't wait

>>718294270
He looks like he'd snap your neck and shove his fist through your chest.
literal dreamboat qualities for women

>>718291640
Its because its identity is unknown

>>718289489
>>718290069
Wait..is that Thresh? What the actual fuck am I witnessing holy shit lmao.

>>718294128
It's such a bizarre strawman to try to portray me as an out of touch cultural warrior weirdo, when I'm simply using blizzard employees OWN statements in interviews. And they are absolutely neck deep in culture war stupidity.

>Venture
The very thought that you would use venture as a counterexample is beyond idiotic. Their entire focus was on being trans-nonbinary, and the FIRST trans nonbinary, which gets full points on that leg of the diversity scale, and that they made a focus of the entire design.

> We even consulted with a queer fashion company to help us realize Venture in a way that felt most true to their identity and the queer community at large.

Also for reference. Concept art before the narrative designers decided to be brave and stunning.

>>718294270
Why the FUCK are you asking me instead of some biofems? My guess is the same people who go for serial killers.

>>718294376
Their monetization relies on people buying skins now. I'd bet my p2 controller that skin purchases are directly proportional to rule 34 popularity.

>>718294079
Can you even explain what the character is for most characters in these games outside of their basic behavior? Genuinely asking, I don't see these characters as actual characters, they're just dolls that you can dress up in various funny ways, but characterization is kinda hard in something with no real story.
What the fuck even is LoL's story?

>>718294573
isnt his back story is that hes some rich kid, and is the son of a manufacturer?

>>718292753
Old Overwatch
>Dwarf
>Cool Robot
>Cool Monk Robot
>Gorilla
>Fat bastard
>Fat bitch

New Overwatch
>Generic white woman
>Generic white woman
>Muscular white woman
>Generic white woman
>Generic white woman
>Generic white woman

>>718294919
aren't most of the new characters asian

>>718294919
Freya was the first white woman they've released since Junker Queen when OW2 launched.

You'd be much closer saying Asians or 'browns'

>>718290309
Technically yes, they can be.

>>718289602
>What was even the last oddball character
Venture, the tranny that no one plays. Freya and Juno were the last two characters added, both female and both conventially attractive.

>>718288697 (OP)
What does china even have in common with this
Reminder they unironically put people in jail for making pornography.
>b-but what about the chinks who make coom shit
They play with fire

>>718296140
Hazard is a shitty oddball, did you forget he existed? Most people did.

>>718288697 (OP)
Nice
Now tell us when they stop designing characters based on "diversity points" or "woke points" as they're called

>>718288831
>Pound sign

Look at this unc frfr doe

Can you name a bigger sussy ahh fuck nigga on this board?

>>718296324
They already have

>>718296140
>that no one plays
She gets a decent amount of play what I've seen, fucking annoying to deal with up close.

>>718296537
The last hero added was a BDSM gay guy that is obsessed with sucking dicks

>>718296818
the closest thing about his sexuality theyve shown (besides dressing weirdly) is that he has a fat robot girlfriend

>>718296818
The last hero added is a Scandinavian Widowmaker.

>>718294590
As much as I hate Riot, that's a skin. Original Thresh still looks like this.

>>718288697 (OP)
attractive to fags and young women***

>>718288697 (OP)
This is fake news btw. Here's the original quote, where the guy literally confirms they are currently working on an "oddball".

>>718288697 (OP)
>'moving away from making oddball characters in favor of more attractive ones'
>still gay af
Burn Blizzard

>>718293102
she did something stupid shit again?
I know there's tons of her comics but simply refuse to read it due to lgbt s tuff

Why are all asian countries so into cuckoldry

>>718289028
None of those are oddball characters. They are just ugly. You can't just draw an ugly character and say "it's an oddball character" to justify it. I love TRUE oddball characters, though.

>>718288697 (OP)
they want to do more skin collabs

>>718289028
trvke

>the OG Overwatch cast was memorable and interesting
>let's replace all unique characters with generic anime sloots and soulless prettyboy twinks (no muscle allowed) to appeal to chinks, our last remaining demographic
Ah yes, going full Riot

>>718298172
>I love TRUE oddball characters, though.
Post one.

>>718290392
>oct
>only 4 lines.

>>718288697 (OP)
I downloaded Overwatch out of curiosity after Rivals, since I only knew OW for tons of porn.
I was overall unimpressed, everybody is flat, and covered up, or they look like a homeless woman.
Rivals girls are much more appealing because sex sells, everybody knows it does; China just doesn't give a fuck and likes money, while America prefers messages.

>>718298814
The brownest hands in the universe typed this post.

>>718298814
saaar redeem the fucking bobs and vegana saar

>>718288697 (OP)
You can still do attractive oddballs. I feel this is more just Overwatch trying to justify why their latest heroes have been boring and generic.

>>718288697 (OP)
They do understand that the attractive characters were there from the beginning and were a big draw. No one was picking up the game for a retarded gerbil

>>718298814
Why did you redeem the download bastard benchod bloody bitch

>>718298885
>>718298908
>>718298974
Weird.

>>718289028
A-attractive women make me feel scared and uncomfortable *cries*

>>718294606
>They gave venture design that a nonbinary picked
Okay? So say they scuffed the design, sure, my point was that nobody in ow is or has been superlatively woke, certainly not since base roster, and venture is no exception given they're ablebodied and not even all that busted given the true uggos overwatch could churn out if they really wanted. You think the art department can't do any worse than nonwaifish body and a tooth gap?
>Concept art
How late into it? Didn't mercy have concept art of a black guy angel? Don't go reaching for "what might've been"

>>718296215
China punishes degeneracy in their own nation, but advocates using it to make money out of other nations.
This is unironically smart and not being gay pussies is why they're catching up.

>>718294606
>It's such a bizarre strawman to try to portray me as an out of touch cultural warrior weirdo, when I'm simply using blizzard employees OWN statements in interviews. And they are absolutely neck deep in culture war stupidity.
This is what the woke side of the culture warriors do. The company doing culture war is ok, you commenting about it is the real culture war though.
Just consume product and get excited for next product.

The intentional conflation between
>good, interesting character design
>character design that makes my peepee hard
is one more proof of the thirdworldification of /v/

>>718288697 (OP)
>overwatch
it has alwasy been porn

>>718298658
Here you go

>>718288697 (OP)
What's oddball?

turns out that having a RIVAL for your game helps

>>718299380
They are legitimately one in the same. Being ugly isn't interesting, unless the character is built around that concept.
Humans like attractive things, the human mind knows what is attractive.
Being attractive is interesting.
There is nothing wrong with this, and it's weird to get upset about it.

>>718299328
I'm not even going to humor this, it's just sorta ducking for cover and going "oh god the enemy's got missiles!!!". I'm saying whatever culture plays the company is doing is very mild and not even notable. I'm not insisting it's okay though I'm at a loss as to what the issue could be. If "go woke go broke" is true it'll sort itself right? Nobody touched ow1 for being full of women, cripples, and ethnics right? And failing any personal interest in your part, no, no need to consume product and no need to get excited for next product. But whatever you want man. But don't stand outside the Shovels Store and panic that they're gonna switch up the merch to Big Spoons.

>>718288697 (OP)
I believe when I see it

>>718288697 (OP)
Opposite. They funded the sjw shit in the first place.

>>718299427
a square

>>718288697 (OP)
FUCKING

CHUUUUUUUUUUUUUDDDDS

>>718299453
Antithetical to your joke but I kinda wish Rivals had a standout oddball. Groot is probably their strangest.

>>718299627
Jeff the Landshark is their mascot

>>718297252
>aspirational characters in terms of physique, expertise, characters you can look up to
This is literally Marvel Rivals with more words added in.
>oddballs sprinkled in, we do still want to make them but we're gonna make way less of them, there's a few in the works please don't kill us please please we have families at home!
Translation: we're gonna make less weirdos because people want aspirational a.k.a. "goomer" characters as you call them.

>>718288697 (OP)
Futa Widowmaker sold the game.

>>718299478
>They are legitimately one in the same.
They are not, unless you are a shade of brown so dark it's still being studied by anthropologists.
By that logic I could never find a male character's design good, interesting, creative or memorable because I don't want to have sex with him.

>>718288697 (OP)
Good, especially since Blizzards idea of an oddball character is making them gay and trans

I wonder if people that get irritated at the idea of a curvy woman, or a buff man being playable characters over a hamster or a robot are BADASS fans of the Borderlands franchise

>>718299645
Oh right, I was thinking mechanics exclusively for a sec. I miss HotS. Honestly though Jeff is pretty tame, more of a sillyball. When they get Fin Fang Foom in there or whatever his name is, that's when the fun begins.

>>718299705
Eh, you've got some weird deep-seeded issues. Don't know where the brown thing is coming from.
I never said sex, I said attractive. You may need to search the definition, but it essentially means appealing.
Men can respect or idolize a fit male without wanting to have sex with them.
If you feel the need to have sex with men, or can't do anything besides masturbate to attractive pixels, that's a YOU problem.
What I'm stating is that in basic hinan psychology we are drawn to beauty, and it's healthy.

Yes

>>718299760
Mistargeting on two points, sasuga. Borderlands has thin women and buff men itself, and the complaint is more a rooster of "hot but generic". Also I resent the implication that robots can't be hot.

>>718299904
B A D A S S

>>718299926
C R A B C A K E S
I can loud and irrelevant too, see? It's not exactly hard over the Internet, friend.

>>718288697 (OP)
>making goonerslop instead of interesting and balanced rosters with male and non-human characters is anti-woke
No, anon. It's just pandering. Also, Overwatch's roster is already unimaginative as shit and there's like 2-3 genuinely sexy characters in it. Current year Blizzard couldn't make appealing characters to save its ass.

>>718300053
That's pretty wacky my dude.
You gotta chill out a bit though.
Lotta fags in this thread.

>Wang: Check this out, my new character: 20 year old female super soldier, but she's also a model!
>Yang: That's nothing, check this... 20 year old female super soldier... but she's also a singer!

I'm tired boss.

>>718299427
secret ice fairy boss in armored core

>>718300054
"Woke" in and of itself is pandering, so if the target is now the opposite it would thus be "anti-woke"
So yes, Anon is right, in a roundabout way.

>>718288697 (OP)
>retards believe they won't get sjw shit
Riot is doing the same method like blizzard and pump out blacks and lgbt shit as the new monster heroes.

Hey, if you want to play as a kangaroo in a diving suit, make your own game.

>>718300054
>goonerslop
>western companies
HAHAHAHAHAHA

>>718288831
7/10 got me to chuckle lol

>>718300493
Read OP's post and think really hard about it again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6ZEN5MVJaU

You WILL have gay thoughts about chinese men, and you WILL be happy.

>>718300627
You mean something thats fake?
>>718297252

>>718289028
I’m with China. I don’t like odd ball characters. You’re the type of person the play a souls game and erratically ram the sliders to max setting so you can make an ugly meme character. I fucking hate people like you I hate people who like ugly shit for the epic luls

I don't mind weirdo characters here and there, the problem was just a complete lack of female characters that makes the blood rush to my loins. Making goon bait again is fine but I hope we still get some fun male characters too

Only if they can somehow make new interesting archetypes. If you look at gacha games they still pull from 90s or 2000s anime archetypes.

>>718300682
Right. Doesn't disvalidate the point that goonerslop is hardly an improvement over wokeslop.

>>718289028
>China's taste
is the same as american's

you are seriously not falling for globohomo propaganda surveys are you?

>>718300686
>dei slop character
good example blud

>>718300686
>every character needs to be a fat titty asian model/anime girl and I hate anything that even slightly deviates from that
Definitely sounds like a Chang post, you should move there anon.

>>718300686
there's still a big difference between dei slop token character forced in by investment company vs funny looking harmless self created character. in souls it would be problematic if they didnt allow u to create fems with a beautiful face but thats not the case

>>718289142
One thing good with Overwatch is how they've designed and taken in account the verticality of their maps in their gameplay.
Hammond pushed that to a whole other level. It was so much fun to play him.

>>718300768
It is a gigantic improvement. If you ask any human being out there if they prefer literally anything over wokeslop they'd pick it. And overwatch 2 is riding hard on wokeslop until they get shut down (very soon)

>>718288941
Wukong was dogshit

>>718300984
>microjew
>ever dropping kikery
haha good one. they just released a faggy looking character who is all but white and straight, btw.

>>718301075
Microsoft just last month laid off 4800 employees which includes blizzard

Define oddball

>>718301117
it's their yearly ritual. also, they're replacing old employees with more talented, lower paid indians

>>718300686
Fuck you. I paid for the entire slider, I'm using the entire slider.

>>718300984
>overwatch 2 is riding hard on wokeslop
Surprisingly, outside of a few in-the-manual mentions, Overwatch is not really that woke. Diverse, but not woke. We got a few niggers, but they are all cool fucking niggers, not token race reps.

Maybe hots would've survived if they added more bikini skins

>>718301154
Fat white liberal women and diversity hire indians
Name a more iconic duo of the cancer killing video games

>>718301251
yeah cool genuine niggers, like the nigger that fucks the other samoan nigger. straight bromance, nothing too sexual. i love watching them from a cuck perspective, lol :)

>>718301276
>no bikini whitemane
>no bikini Jaina
>no bikini Tyrande
>no bikini Nova
>no bikini Valeera
But we got speedo tychus
What the fuck were they thinking

>>718289562
furnigger

>>718301678
>>718289562
Furry skins would unironically save Overwatch 2.

>overwatch female thread
>almost zero overwatch females posted
holy shit you guys are immense faggots

>>718301779
Where does it say its a overwatch female thread? The image in the OP is fake

>>718301779
Alright, here you go, you fucking crybaby. Happy now?

>>718301835
it doesnt say furfag thread and yet all thats posted is a bunch of ugly anthro trash

>>718289028
I thought this thread was just going to be /v/ going
>YAY MORE BOOBIES
but there are a surprising amount of based anons itt that actually want a balance of sexy and cool looking characters instead of the nonstop coomer garbage in Chinese gachashit games.

There is hope for this place.

Furry skins would unironically save Overwatch 2.

>>718294270
Godlike voice actor.

>>718293056
Jailbreak, Kommando and maybe Caracal can be fixed, everyone on the right is beyond saving.

>>718302012
and youre all just whining trannies

>>718288831
>>718289240
>>718289915
>>718290392
>>718293212
RAUTE my niggas.

>>718300781
This feels like the exact type of misleading wording they use to get people, because "diverse stories" could easily be interpreted as "I want a variety of stories and not every game being the same thing with a different coat of paint", but they'll 100% push the results of the survey as being about skin colour.

>>718290197
this is just the black clover guy

>>718288697 (OP)
I like oddball characters, I don't play OW because I hate its core gameplay, I'm not stupid enough to play a game just because I want to fuck a handful of characters, I pray they don't see success after pivoting.

>>718296140
venture is barely an oddbal, she's just a chick with a big coat and a drill. hazard is much weirder and even that was mostly a failed attempt at appealing to barafags
legit the last hero that was unique was ramattra, by virtue of being some kind of mad monk magneto robot. everything else is just "generic hot guy/girl". hell even ow1 never went that "oddball" aside from the literal ball

>>718291363
i think venture could've used a better color palette

>>718296232
oh yeh lol, him. I found his outfit to be more cringe than goofball, but can see why people would perceive him as such. His personality is boring, but in overwatch that's actually a good thing.

>>718303483
>this is who calls you racist online

>>718289028
this

>>718294270
He’s cool. He’s a passionate antagonist with great voice acting and a sick design. Women love all of those + he has a ‘mask’ and masked/helmeted freaks are attractive.

>>718303623
a hamster?

>>718289028
says somethign about this faggot west

I want to BE Mercy!

>>718288697 (OP)
no because they're still not racist enough to understand it's not oddball characters people dislike but rather ugly brown ones.

>>718289028
>NA
>furniggers
>baraniggers
>minorities
>wacky autismo scrimblo bimblos
>China
>character designs for straight males

I haven't played OW in years, I think the last character added before I stopped playing was Doomfist.
Did they add anyone cool after that?

>>718303875
>tranime poster
>league player
Yeah sure pal you're a "straight male"

>>718289142
Hammond's design is horrid. Pixar/Disney Channel garbage that somehow even Winston doesn't match. He could have just been an Omnic.

>>718303927
they added an ugly nig-pajeet girl with downs
a big muscle nig gal
and an anime jap chick
and another astronaut chick with big ass
and a robot slut

>>718303875
>J4
>Yasuo
>Zed
>Lee-Sin
>Ezreal
>Straight males
The only thing more gay than these picks on the left is Jhin.

>>718303927
Ramattra is cool.
Otherwise no.

>>718294270
he has suffered

>>718304071
>a big muscle nig gal
I did mostly use Zarya back then. Tell me more about her.

>>718294128
>fat hindu wheelchairbound
they'll find a way to give her fun gameplay so it's fine

>>718303268
id like to remind you that we could have gotten this sloppy freak instead of Hazard but blizzard dropped the ball

also Moira was originally supposed to have tentacle limbs like Doc Ock but she's still hot as fuck to me so I don't care.

>>718303483
the obsession with black women specifically will never cease to amuse me. like if overwatch was 90% white dudes i'd almost get it but overwatch cast was plenty diverse in terms of ethnicities, backgrounds and even disabilities

>>718304320
>tranny design
>mutated as fuck
kek i can see why it got scrapped

>>718288697 (OP)
>the "attractive" character in question

>>718289028
>vapid anime doll (angyyy)
>vapid anime doll (happpyy :DDD)
>vapid anime doll (super cereal)
>vapid anime doll (setsy)
>vapid an...

>>71828869
Get a grip

>>718304386
This user is not safe around children

>>718304364
>hips wider than shoulders
she's a biological female, sorry.
also imagine what that tongue does

>>718304342
Excellent cheeks
>Canadian
eww

>>718304469
I doubt theres anything biological there

>>718304381
>we want the tranny audience
did it work?

>>718304320
apparently the tentacles proved to be hard to animate (and i can believe them) while also making her silouette confusing. i think her ow1 design is still very elegant and effective. shame her ow2 design kinda sucks with the kaki coat and asymmetrical sleeves
>picrel
that's simply because the cool artists left and the company is now filled with college graduates who only know how to make corporate safe stuff. they are mentally unable to make anything even slightly cool, everything gets downgraded

>>718304520
that's for gays and fujo, tr0.0ns already have all the pretty girls they want to insert themselves as

>>718304320
>Urgot (female)
That rules. I doubt it ever would have made it in anyways, because it'd be a nightmare to animate, but still.

>>718304342
she needs some better hair and she'd actually be kinda cool

>>718288697 (OP)
Gacha is inherently "woke". No one who isn't a soulless bugman wants to play a game where you have to play slots for 99% of the content. The fact that most "non-woke" content is being cordoned off into such a format is awfully coincidental.

>>718304381
>You can make literally whatever character you want
>Decide to make a gook in a tank top
Someone was paid to design that.

>>718288697 (OP)


Can somebody generate an AI art of Wrecking Ball screaming in terror of his imminent demise while getting pushed down a plexiglass™ tube into Black Widows gaping anal cavity? Just to commemorate this occasion.

I am German btw.

>>718304575
>tr0.0ns already have all the pretty girls they want to insert themselves as
Least obvious falseflag.

>>718304610
>>718304520
it's for the fat white girl addicted to k-drama/pop

>>718303268
>ow1 never went that "oddball" aside from the literal ball
did you forget
>a literal gorilla
>sexy smurf
>two robots of diametrally opposite sentience quotent
>a grim reaper
>a "they took my dick" fullbody cyborg
>a bear-sized piloted mech
>two australians
and all of them on release too

>>718304320
>hazard's lore is that he's part of a borged out human group
>best he got is a gun for a hand and some random metal bits here and there
concept art is what a transhumanist in a cyberpunk setting should look like, barely human

>>718304632
Yes, all those Mercy posters are actually girls, LMAO

>>718304709
>a fringe group of discord trannies like to larp as sexy women therefore sexy women are for trannies!!!
>can't even type out "troon" like a normal person
Let me guess, you also think masculine male characters are for homosexuals because a fringe group of faggots are sexually attracted to them.
Fuck off back to wherever you came from, freak.

>>718304695
>two australians
kek

but i meant more in a "most characters are just humanoids in costumes" and winston is the classic "smart animal" trope. orisa being a centaur robot with an excited kid personality was good tho. hamster with a ball mech? now that's odd. bastion is also kinda unconventional. but that's a small pool compared to the nearly 40 heroes it had by the end
ow2 at best gave us robo magneto

>>718288697 (OP)
this happens to like every franchise, but they all suck at making attractive characters distinct so they're all just cookiecutters of each other

LoL had a lot of really interesting characters with really interesting silhouettes and proportions and colours and dimensions when it was in beta, but now every character is just generic-human-with-weapon. They all look the exact same.

You can avoid that if you work really hard to give characters a strong identity but AAA dev these days doesn't have enough soul for that shit, they just shit everything out on a production line

>>718304840
Why are you so stupid, ESL?
T@annies want pretty girls for themselves too but push for ugly nigs because of their ideology.
That's why "wokeshite" fails, it has no audience, just ideological keyboard warriors.
Retard.

>>718303984
I don't play LoL, I only played briefly with some friends.

>>718288941
>for the West it was Wukong being a better game than any of the shit they were developing.
Lmao

>>718305012
>esl out of nowhere
>still can't type out any derogatory word towards trannies like a normal person
Enjoy your last (You), redditroon.

>>718304979
Every gacha, every anime, every IP comes out with hot girls and guys, most all fail like everything and only those handful with good stories and gameplay succeed.
So making everyone "pretty" is not the reason for their success, that's the opposite way of thinking about it.

>>718288697 (OP)
I want INTERESTING characters, damn it, not JUST hot ones! This is exactly why the first overwatch succeeded so much, it had interesting AND hot characters.

>>718304156
>knight
>samurai
>ninja
>thai boxer
>wizard
>gay
pic related, its you

>>718289212
Truly, it is.

>>718305119
it's true and this says more about what shite the west has become when a mid-tier xbox360 game is better than the latest AAA turd

>>718288697 (OP)
Unironically, yes. China has three factors that cause this:
>An absolutely massive consumer base that has been relatively untapped by Western corporations.
>A nigh inconceivable amount of liquid capital, both from said consumer base as well as enormously wealthy corporations in bed with the CCP.
>A conformist, conservative culture that still rigidly prioritizes aesthetics, physical beauty, and adhering to societal standards. While the West is individualistic and aims to champion independent expression and aesthetics, the Chinese expect others to maintain a particular standard of beauty.

This means that China both wants all their female characters to be hot, but have the capital to compel corporations to appeal to it. You can see this happen in any franchise that starts getting big in China. LoL used to have a variety of bodytypes and animal champions, now 90% of released characters are jade beauties or Kpop men.

Chinese century is here, gweilo.

>>718305268
>god i love muscular/twinky anime men!!! give me more of that HUNKA HUNKA Jarvan!!! ;;)))
very straight, my guy. this is the part where you say
>no no no im just self-inserting as the chad I swear

>>718305316
based mindless insects

>>718298172
>None of those are oddball characters.
hating thresh and ASol's designs is an immediate indicator of irredeemable dogshit taste

>>718305309
It's really fucking not. You retards need to stop hyper focusing on every big name flop and pretending that's all that's being made. I mean holy fuck I know this thread is just the usual retards seething about porn over actual quality but open your fucking eyes

>>718288697 (OP)
This isn't even true btw. Polygon just made that line up and the devs never said that.

>>718305661
>implying anyone itt cares about what was actually said

>>718288697 (OP)
Yes they really saved baldurs gaping gate from being the most neomarxist filth in recent years

>>718305754
What about ethics in game journalism? Are you saying that was all a lie?

>>718305316
so why did they dump so many bland wakanda foreva niggers into lol?

>>718303875
>NA
>Cool monsters (ASol, Thresh, Azir)
>Cool guys (Jinn, Braum, Swain, Ekko pre-maximum overshilling)
>Furry Bait (Warwick, Kindred)
>Weirdos (Bard)
>Hot chicks (Fortune, Xayah)
>Beautiful women (Ahri, Irelia)
>Prettyboy-types (Kayn, Rakan)

>China
>Literally all hot/beautiful women and prettyboys with absolutely zero visual variety
>This is somehow an upgrade to retarded chinkaboos

>>718289252
Lul

>>718305992
>>718303875
Oh, and before you try to bring up Jarvan: the only reason the chinks ranked him so high is because he has a fucking Warring Kingdoms skin that also happens to make him look younger.

>>718304605
Her young skins are actually pretty cute

>>718305869
Sudaca and SEAnigs still rules LoL

>>718305316
>here's your state mandated Red Guard wife bro

>>718306437
>>718305316
GIV CCP WAIFU

>>718294847
Late response, but I genuinely don't play League because I fucking hate it, but I keep up with it because I keep hoping they'll make spinoff games about Bilgewater eventually. It's a fucking great setting; literally fantasy Louisiana with an underworld ruled over by the devil that went down to Georgia taking the form of a giant catfish who runs a fucking swamp mafia. It'd be a killer setting for so much cool vidya, but Riot refuses to do fucking anything with it.

That's kind of the big problem with League, really; the whole premise is that the actual game you play is that ten ultrapowerful summoners get together and contract powerful champions from across the setting's history and various regions to do arena bloodsports. It's basically a big fuckin' crossover setting for a series of stories that don't actually exist because Riot is fucking retarded and gave up after Arcane, and it's all slowly getting worse because Riot keeps rewriting characters and lore in stupid ways every other fucking week.

>>718293056
I particularly dislike Kommando. Most of his design feels 'gritty,' and then he has a pair of cartoonishly large horns. His clothes look grounded and practical, and that just serves to remind you how unwieldy it would be to wear something like that

>>718294847
>>718306836
To give a more succinct explanation: imagine if the Dissidia games existed as they do now, entirely unchanged, but the only Final Fantasy things Square Enix ever made were Advent Children, Spirits Within, and Chocobo Tales

That's League of Legends.

>>718301160
What can he smell

>>718305316
>While the West is individualistic and aims to champion independent expression and aesthetics
lol

>>718289915
this, it's always been the number symbol.

>>718303875
>straight males want to do nothing but goon all day and never have anything interesting

>>718307614
you know what I change my mind it's a pound sign

>>718288831
it's called a tic-tac-toe playing field

>>718289028
cool vs coom
i hate chinks and gooks!!!! (i hate wokefags and libtards too)

>>718307679
>>straight males want to do nothing but goon all day and never have anything interesting

>>718289028
>right before coomin'
>left after
shrimple as

>>718308129
posting the reddit gray man immediatly discards your opinion and labels you as a pathetic loser.

What's going to be the next shitty western trend for futa porn?
Overwatch is out, supergirls are out, resident evil girls are finished, baldur's gate is on its way out. Ponies are out! New anthroponies can still be seen, insane, what year is it 2015?

>>718308570
>posting the reddit gray man immediatly discards your opinion and labels you as a pathetic loser.

>>718308620
SAVE ME TABULEY where are you.

>>718299668
the only thing marvel rivals makes you aspire to is becoming some coomerbrain tasteless faggot, zoomers playing that piece of shit cause of same faced, same bodied gacha coomer bait female design

>>718309020
easy on them buzzwords, tr.ans-anon

>>718309074
Are they too complicated for your porn rotten brain?

>>718288697 (OP)
I think woke was on it's way out before china made some games. They just weren't selling any everyone knows it. Westerners too stupid to make money becuase they want to cater to non-gamers woke karens instead of listening to actual gamers. So they cater to these twitter freaks.... and when their woke games they sell, they blame gamers and call gamers everything under the sun.

China saw the writings and knew people like lewd shit. So they captalize on it with gacha shit. Now we have genshin impact, zzz, wuthering waves, horseshit, marval rivals and ect. The waifu market is STRONG.

>>718289028
>mutts hate china so much they go back to slurping trannies and furries
expected really

>>718289252
how have I never seen this joke made before until now

>>718289028
>majority of the playerbase wants to play as a cute girl
Has anyone put serious thought into the looming trooning out of china?

I think there are options for video game developers beyond "stamp waifus out of a mold" and "deliberately make ugly characters"

>>718309748
CCP won't allow it, they just have to beat it to tranime,s.

>>718309882
No anon, not anymore.

>>718309882
You can either appeal to the right (pattern-stamped stacies) or the left (crippled freakshow gobbos): there is no other option if you want to be profitable.

>>718308620
>Overwatch is out
As a 3d futa connoisseur I dont think this is true
Nyl seems to still basically have them as his main cast for one

>>718290069
Seymour is that you?

>>718288697 (OP)
>we are gonna start putting more sexy characters in our games
>the sexy character

>>718309748
don't worry about it there are reeducation camps

>>718289028
>NA
>Ekko
Never change you fucking americucks.

>>718309882
originality and attractiveness are not mutually exclusive
forced body positivity etc. and attractiveness are

>>718310850
it's not cucks when more than half the country is nigs, spic and mutts

>>718303875
straight men play dota thougheverbeit

>>718310474
He should stop, how about making his own cast and fuck Nyl anyway. He mindbroke the entire scene with his fat cocks. Enough with the raunchy lardasses.

>>718292225
or white people and brown people

>>718288697 (OP)
That really won't make anyone come back to the game. These out of touch morons should understand that ugly blob faced average joes are what defined Overwatch.

When is China going to nuke a America and rid us of the Pedo in Chief already?

>>718311527
>whites are natural cucks
mean

Han BVLLS own you gweilo

>>718312089
USA is doing a better job of destroying itself than any chinks can do.

>>718312228
But I want it dead NOW

>>718289428
They're the only ones with the guts to commit to it

>>718288697 (OP)
attractive by californian standards i imagine

America is done

>>718289028
this is because there are more gays in North America

>>718289028
Who the fuck thinks Jarvan looks cool, he's got the most generic chink knight fit ever. Same for lee sin, he's just some generic monk guy with a blindfold. I can understand gooning to the girls but I can't understand unironically liking any of the male designs china likes apart from Zed. As for NA I don't understand liking Rakan or Kayne as they're a faggot birdman and a half naked edgy guy with scythe. Even ekko's got better design than them.

>>718288697 (OP)
I just wanted Maximilian throwing playing cards ala robot gambit.... and more robits/omnics in general. Im getting coom fatigue.

>>718298573
you niggers all want unique designs, but would you be willing to whale for those skins? aesthetic cosmetics were never made for f2p poors.
op's original quote (not the sensationalist ragebait ie. false flag by troons) was about going from relatable black characters to relatable white characters.
regardless, westoids overrating fancy worldbuilding above all else when it's such a mechanical, algorithmic process to craft one was always stupid. any retard could come up with a "cool" setting or "epic" backstory by throwing darts at a list of tropes. it takes no skill and basically zero effort.

>>718305250
Not always both in one character though. The issue is with every new character if it's not a hot woman they go "man another woke flop from ow" and if they do add a hot woman it's "haha another win for gooners they finally know which side is winning". On top of all that characters can only be so interesting when there's still ZERO overarching story going on. Baptiste's chaotic keikaku yandere ex-buddy is in game now. The leader of the omnic rebellion is in game now. An ex-OW mercenary bounty hunter is in game now. And what do they all do? They shoot and quip. Any backstory is basically an excuse for their quips and their shooting. Any actual intrigue their character provides quickly shrivels up because you know it's not going anywhere. It shows too when so many of the additions are "guy who just kinda showed up so we'd have someone cool and new". What stake do Venture, JQ, Hammond have in any conflicts here?

asian taste is just as bad as niggerfaggots

>>718290069
numba one

>>718306173
needs big ole hoop earrings

>>718288697 (OP)
Chinks has to censor their own games

>>718289025
Pretty much anybody of worth left blizzard over a decade ago.

>>718304668
it's for chinese government and nothing else. soulless

>>718288697 (OP)
This was gonna happen either way the second they added collab skins and realized that they can't use genji every single time

>>718305316
>Chinese century is here
btw why are chinese not allowed to make videogames?

>>718314649
I did not say you could speak to me, Rajesh.

>>718289028
why are chinese such simps?

>>718306957
>That's League of Legends.
fucking GRIM

>>718290197
I remember for years and years this guy was hyped up to be the end boss of League. I always thought "Damn Mordekaiser is already a sick ass evil motherfucker how are they going to top him??".
Then we got that design. Yeah.

What's with all the Chinese shills on /v/?

>>718314834
Russbots

>>718288958
Dexterto is some 20 year old zoomer in UK. Every thing that thing posts is brainrot written for ADHD zoomers like OP. I truly despise the zoomer gen and social media.

>>718289028
Chinks don't even play the mandatory monkey king character they need to put in every game?

China and even Korea will never be able to match the sexual energy of peak Japan. Historically, Japan's content has been so coomer that OTHER countries had to ban it. China and Korea are too busy banning their OWN shit. And that's not even touching on Japan's porn industry, which does not even exist in China and Korea.

>>718288697 (OP)
How did it take devs like 10 years to realize that white straight males make up the majority of gamers that buy (actual) videogames... and that these like sexy and good looking women?
Then we have faggots like >>718289028 who think that designs for 12 year old kids is "superior"

>>718315068
They try too hard to emulate it and it just comes out like generic slop.

>>718314834
A new tier of console wars. There's only The West and The East. One puts out human games or wokeslop, depending on who you ask. One puts out peak waifus or soulless bugslop, depending on who you ask. Both are rallying for a team sport you don't even really play.

>>718300781
...the whole point of globohomo is to make sure Chinese have the same taste as Americans and vice versa.

>>718315220
What if I think one puts out wokeslop and the other soulless bugslop?

>>718288697 (OP)
>manage to blunder their game into irrelevantly
>”OH FUCK PEOPLE LIKE PORN QUICK ADD MORE CHARACTERS FOR PEOPLE TO JERK TO WE CAN MAKE EM GAY IF THAT DOESN’T WORK”
Sometimes I forget how braindead blizzard is

>>718291691
underlord has four arms and primal beast is a dinosaur

>>718289028
And people wonder why Deadlock failed. People want hot characters, not a bunch of freaks.

>>718315765
>>718315697
Valve has some of the worst designed characters of all time, it's insane how bad they are.
Even makes battleborn look good.

>>718315765
but that's not out yet

>>718289602
Didn’t a large chunk of blizzard’s staff end up either quitting, being fired, or turn out to be sex pests. Something tells me that played a huge role in the later designs sucking

>>718316020
*ASSFAGGOTS

>>718289028
The fact that many replies reduce the characters on the right to "goon" and "jerk off" materials just show why porn is banned by VISA/Mastercard maybe not a bad thing after all

>>718316543
See >>718315765
For Americans it's a strange concept that women actually look attractive and good, so they think it's a pure sex thing.

>>718315765
>deadflop
Oh right, that... exists

>>718316543
Post nose

>>718288697 (OP)
>Blizzshit and Chinks either need full fanservice or Virtue Signalling to graps 10% of the legacy of a group of mentally retarded racist men
Really makes you think

An average cultivationslop probably drives westranny into existential crisis
>all characters are beautiful
>completely sexless

>moving away from making oddballs
What? But the wheel is sacred!

GOOD
I'm tired of ugly characters in the name of inclusion or representation or diversity or what the fuck ever. It's all in the name of satan at the end of the day.

>>718317328
>self diagnosed
what does this even prove?

>>718317437
BELIEVE ALL WOMEN

>>718316794
These suck

>>718317887
kys thrice

Overwatch 1 is still removed from my library so what difference does it make if they're working on a game nobody can play.

never thought i'd see the day where /v/ became so contrarian that anons step up to bat for blizzard
sorry but marvel rivals is better

>>718315697
It is an old dota 1 character that was added to 2, not really a new design

>>718288697 (OP)
The artist probably wanted to make sexy characters the whole time. It's just Trump getting elected and the cultural shift that has made board member golems start moving in a different direction.

>>718289562
beast men/women have always been creatively bankrupt

>>718288697 (OP)
>devs put ugly humans in their games
>it doesn't work
>what can we do?
>we could create some actual cool characters
>cool-ass monsters
>cool ass-monsters
>nah, let's put in hot humans instead that all look identical
Hell, put both in at the same time. Now that's a million dollar idea, isn't it? Cool monsters and hot babes and dudes.

>>718289028
I want cool monsters, cool guys, hot girls, and hot monsters(f).
Idk why its so hard to do it all desu.

>>718315765
they ruined Ivy
she was perfect

>>718289489
so does this imply that his hair has bones?

>>718293056
>negro character has two afro bushes sprouting out of her head because of course
>the chink character has literal dragonball hair
LMAO

>>718289252
shut up owen benjamin

>>718316647
>look attractive and good
all rook same

>>718300829
>said by fujotard
You're the main reason why even mutt audience pick chink plastic fuck doll nowadays
begone thot

>overwatch releasing 5 white and east asian heroes in a row
>marvel rivals newest hero is a groid

Seems like both games realized who their main audience is.

>>718307442
Your fear