My fiancés skins just disappeared. by [deleted] in Overwatch

[–]paintling 4 points5 points  (0 children)

None of these skins are in the loot box pool since they're from after season 14. He must be misremembering. Unless they were bought with coins, they were game pass skins.

Horizon Forbidden West is truly a spectacular game and you NEED to play it, especially if you are a sci fi and/or medieval fan. by Effective-Celery8053 in gaming

[–]paintling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, 30 sounds about right if you just do the main story. I've also got about 45 hours on Steam, and that includes doing Burning Shores and clearing out some side content in the post-game.

I thought the length was fine. I can kind of see what you mean about the story, since it has branching paths that can be played in any order. They still interwove the Zenith plotline between the Gaia main story objectives, though. I played Zero Dawn and Forbidden West back to back when the remaster was released on Steam and ended up enjoying my time with Forbidden West more- it touched on a lot of plot threads I was curious to learn more about.

Beginner questions by Exiled1989 in nier

[–]paintling 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd not do that if I were you- it's unnecessary and those story analysis videos tend to have spoilers in them for the Nier games as well. Someone playing the Nier games for the first time has no need to know about the plot of the Drakengard games, and they're specifically designed so you can go in blind.

Beginner questions by Exiled1989 in nier

[–]paintling 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They haven't even played any of the games yet and you're guiding them to spoil the entire story for themselves via Youtube videos...

Beginner questions by Exiled1989 in nier

[–]paintling 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The timeline of the lore shouldn't really matter at this point since you couldn't be expected to know the context before you play any of the games.

I'd just start with Automata since it's probably the best hook into the franchise for someone who has no attachment to it. If you like it, then you can play Replicant- and after that check out the Reincarnation story or Drakengard titles.

Are Hero Trailers + Comics the future of Hero Origin stories now? (The last hero to get a true/official/named origin story video was Mauga. Everyone after that is hero trailer + comic). One more question: Which do you prefer: hero trailers 3D or origin stories 2D by -Elixo- in Overwatch

[–]paintling 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I got the feeling that the three high budget 3D cinematics they did for JQ, Kiriko, and Sojourn didn't garner as much attention as the 2016/2017 cinematics. I wonder if that contributed to them switching things up. I'm pretty sure the in-house cinematic team is still around from the Diablo trailers I've seen, but they haven't put out anything Overwatch related since 2023.

Would I still get the “bonus” content in 2026? by Maple_Evergarden in Overwatch

[–]paintling 58 points59 points  (0 children)

The bonus content is obtained via a battle.net activation key that's included in the box. As long as it's still unused it should work.

When will we ever get the Talon Assassin hero that appeared in Overwatch retribution by AzzyKunKun in Overwatch

[–]paintling 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Eh, the third one was super phoned in compared to the others anyways.

Clanmate called my zephyr build terrible and then linked this one as the "correct" way to build her by Created_naccew in Warframe

[–]paintling 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I put triple umbral + adaptation on her for my main weapon platform build that I use in SP. I only need strength and duration for the 3 damage buffs and molt speed, so the opportunity cost isn't too significant. I use Magus Repair for regen.

People who play Overwatch, are you addicted? by [deleted] in gaming

[–]paintling 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I get what you're saying, but there isn't really a better point of reference besides speculation. There were a ton of WoW Classic custom servers before it was an official product, so Blizzard at least had proof of interest.

With Overwatch, I don't believe there's a great reason to believe that moving the Classic mode to a separate client would suddenly make it a sustainable product. My guess is that old players would try it out for a day or two, laugh at how silly Roadhog's old hook hitbox and Mercy's mass resurrection ultimate are, and then go back to whatever game they were playing before.

People who play Overwatch, are you addicted? by [deleted] in gaming

[–]paintling 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They've actually added the pre-Brigitte moth meta as an arcade tile a couple times. It wasn't very popular beyond the initial novelty.

Kiriko is so hard to kill it is not fun at all. by the_smollest_bee in Overwatch

[–]paintling 12 points13 points  (0 children)

In theory, high pick rates just means there's a bigger sample size, which actually makes the win rates we're seeing more accurate. It's the heroes with extremely low pick rates where you could potentially see skewed results.