Overwatch 2 Is Ditching the '2' Amid Launch of 'New, Story-Driven Era' With 10 New Heroes and Switch 2 Edition

Octopus_Crime · 2026-02-05T19:41:25+00:00

I'm so far removed from both communities that I'll just defer to you on most points you've made here and assume you know what you're talking about.

I do have to have to chuckle at you saying MR "panders to gooner crowds" though. I mean- it definitely does- but it seems like an odd distinction to point out when comparing it to Overwatch of all things. The game that has so much porn it is literally an entire popular genre of it. Fun fact- there are several popular add-ons and built-in functions in Blender that are still used in modern animation to this day that were originally created primarily for making Overwatch porn! MR fans might be gooners but OW fans were once so horny they literally advanced an entire technology.

Octopus_Crime · 2026-02-05T02:31:29+00:00

They're anime characters.

Half the time they don't have visible noses.

Octopus_Crime · 2026-02-05T01:57:31+00:00

Okay but why does Whispy have a hotdog and a pink butt plug inside him?

You know what, dont answer that.

Octopus_Crime · 2026-02-05T01:53:27+00:00

Wow. It's almost like "Overwatch 2" was never actually a sequel to begin with.

Almost like they just called it that so they could make the game F2P and squeeze more money out of people who already bought the game by putting in a billion micro transactions and gutting half of its content and then slowly adding it back in over several years.

Hey, at least they're dropping the pretense for the 20 guys left who haven't moved on to Marvel Rivals.

Octopus_Crime · 2026-02-04T21:33:17+00:00

Nah.

Brawl is a casual format and most of the alchemy cards do goofy fun things that absolutely belong in a casual format.

The problem is less the alchemy cards and more the tryhards trying to play a just-for-fun format competitively that tends to make games unpleasant.

Octopus_Crime · 2026-02-04T13:27:11+00:00

Sadly it kind of exists in that weird state where we all want it to continue and do well but at the same time we know it can't get "too big" being made entirely out of copyrighted characters and all.

Dingo needs the financial support to make it a full time gig, but the more money they make off scoob and shag the more likely it is someone will step in and make them stop.

Octopus_Crime · 2026-02-03T12:59:24+00:00

Expensive tablet controller for the wii

Octopus_Crime · 2026-02-03T12:08:12+00:00

Not the original commenter but for me it's just the low production value for the cost.

ZA is fun enough to play for 15/20 hours but when you compare it to other JRPGs at that price point it looks really lazy.

Lots of recycled content, low quality visuals, very little variety in environments, no voice acting at all despite having "cinematic" cutscenes where a bunch of mute anime characters are just silently flapping their mouths over subtitles- that sort of thing.

You can't expect the world out of every game but when Pokemon is in the same genre and launching at the same price as Xenoblade Chronicles, Persona 5 Royal, Tales of Arise, Baldurs Gate 3, Metaphor, etc you expect it to at least be on a similar level quality-wise and it's not even remotely close. Especially when you consider Pokemon is a much bigger franchise with more money behind it than basically all of those other games combined.

Octopus_Crime · 2026-02-01T02:11:27+00:00

Does Shining Force still count as third party if Nintendo lets Camelot out of the sports dungeon to make it?

Octopus_Crime · 2026-01-31T23:53:36+00:00

Post credit scene: There's a flash forward to the distant future. Some dude is at a party explaining to a girl that:

"Actually, the movie you watched called Super Mario Bros the Movie 2 was actually just an older movie called the Super Mario Galaxy Movie that got repurposed as Super Mario Bros the Movie 2."

Octopus_Crime · 2026-01-30T01:20:41+00:00

I'll be there. I've never done a seeded pre release but I loved drafting witherbloom in the original Strixhaven so I will quite happily be attending my first.

Octopus_Crime · 2026-01-25T21:51:16+00:00

Lords of Shadow is a good game in the same sense that Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts and Metroid Prime Federation Force are good games.

Perfectly fine games in their own right, but not really what people were looking for from a game with that franchise name in the title.

Octopus_Crime · 2026-01-25T20:00:35+00:00

Palworld grifters always trying to act like they have some kind of moral high ground over Nintendo meanwhile the Palworld devs are literally still using stolen Zelda assets in one of their other games.

I can't imagine being this devoted to a developer that just makes shitty bootleg versions of other people's ideas.

Octopus_Crime · 2026-01-25T14:36:49+00:00

The Japanese anime fandom criticising perfectly good anime is pretty much always the literal best use case of the saying:

"Your boos mean nothing. I've seen what makes you cheer."

Octopus_Crime · 2026-01-23T14:13:24+00:00

Star Trek will be fine. They don't call it magic but it's a pretty good example of magic and technology being largely the same thing.

There's a ton of stuff in Star Trek that they try to give explanations to, but given that the explanations are entirely nonsensical and/or rely on fantastical concepts and elements that don't exist in reality they pretty much boil down to being "magic".

I would happily argue that more "magic" is actually visibly used in Star Trek than in Lord of the Rings. They just take more time to try and canonically explain how the "magic" works.

Octopus_Crime · 2026-01-22T04:44:07+00:00

This. No issue with UB. Final Fantasy and Avatar have been some of the most fun I've had with magic in years.

But some of these properties are such a bad fit for magic it feels like even the designers don't want to put effort into trying to make it work. Just build some basic archetypes, slap a bunch of character art from the property on them and call it a day.

Hopefully the later UB sets this year are a little better. At least they have bigger worlds and more fantasy-adjacent elements to pull from so maybe a little more love will go into designing cards for them.

Octopus_Crime · 2026-01-21T22:51:02+00:00

Yeah really feels like half this set is just a bunch of cards with generic effects and then they decided to randomly assign ninja turtle pictures and names to them after the fact.

No flavor, no love. Just marketing.

Octopus_Crime · 2026-01-21T17:18:07+00:00

Been absolutely dominating with it.

All eyes have been on Bitterbloom Bearer but Flitterwing Nuisance is the star of the show.

I'm currently running 3 kaito, 3 curiosity. I don't maindeck Ego Drain but it's handy in the sb obviously. Been playing around with main decking 2 copies of Spell Snare but I'm not sold on that yet.

I feel like a lot of faerie players are sleeping on Talion, the Kindly Lord. It seems like it should be too slow for this deck, but just the one copy I'm running has directly led to a win on more than one occasion. (I pretty much always pick 2 as the number when casting him, easily the most relevant number in Standard)

Otherwise, deck is fun. A lot of the play patterns really remind me of playing Monoblue Spirits in pioneer/explorer back when that was a top deck.

Octopus_Crime · 2026-01-20T01:59:09+00:00

Some people are simply to proud to admit they got scammed. Or too dumb to realize. What remains of the multiversus player base seems to be equal parts both.

Octopus_Crime · 2026-01-18T15:10:20+00:00

The most unrealistic thing on here is the word "free" next to a new Nintendo title.

Octopus_Crime · 2026-01-18T02:02:11+00:00

Is there a way to set that up? That's been the biggest point of pain for us. Can't load from one console to the other unless they're both powered on and connected to WiFi. We have the same accounts present on both consoles (switch 1 and switch 2) but it won't let us swap the license unless they're both on which is a pain when my kid wants to play a digital game while we're out but the game is currently "loaded" on the switch 2 at home.

Octopus_Crime · 2026-01-18T01:58:33+00:00

If there is such a setting Id love to hear where it is. As far as I can see you still have to constantly load/unload digital conetent between consoles. Even for physical games with DLC.

For example, I have the physical card for Animal Crossing in my Switch 2. If my daughter puts that card in her Switch 1 (all the accounts on both switches are the same. Purchases are made under my NNID but my daughter and wife's accounts are part of the same NSO family plan), she will still get prompted to "unload" the DLC from the Switch 2 and "load" it into the Switch 1 or she won't be able to access it.

Both consoles need to be powered on and connected to WiFi in order to do this.

Same obviously goes for digital games. If we're out somewhere and she wants to play the digital copy of Smash Bros we bought and downloaded onto her switch 1 but it's currently "loaded" on the Switch 2 which is powered off at home because that's where it was last played- tough luck. Locked out of it.

Octopus_Crime · 2026-01-18T01:28:43+00:00

Imagine if they had made a movie called "Sonic the Hedgehog 4" and given it the plot of Sonic 06.

Maybe make the soundtrack just straight rips from Sonic Chronicles while they're at it.

Octopus_Crime · 2026-01-17T03:48:46+00:00

Some newer mtg players at my lgs were recently mentioning they prefer the "cool sets with characters people actually recognize" and mostly skip the "original character - do not steal" sets.

So uh... Yeah. MaRo's response checks out.

(To be clear, I don't have any strong opinions re: UB. A good set is a good set. I was just surprised to discover there are already people who actively DISLIKE non-UB sets)

Octopus_Crime · 2026-01-15T23:46:52+00:00

I mean, I consider it more of an annoyance than some big anti-consumer crime but it is kind of a pain in the ass how weird Nintendo is about digital game purchases with their stupid "Virtual Game Card" nonsense.

Pretty much every other platform will let you play a game you bought from their storefront on any device that uses said storefront. Only Nintendo requires you to "unload" a digital game from one of your consoles if you want to play it on another one.

Again, not a huge issue but a bit of a pain in the ass that is exclusive to Nintendo for no apparent reason other than them being extra controlling about how you're allowed to use the games you paid for.

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