Johnny vs. Overwatch

now for this channel overwatch seems like a pretty random choice doesn't it I've covered platformers adventure games RPGs indie titles stealth games why the sudden interest in a first-person shooter well you know how I had a certain feeling about Bayonetta all those years back and ended up falling in love with it just a couple of years ago I had a similar feeling with BioShock Infinite and lo and behold I handed up falling in love with that game too and this past year the same feeling struck me when I laid eyes on overwatch normally it's because I like what I see in gameplay but overwatch at first glance seemed like your typical first-person shooter and that genre has become so ingrained in today's culture that even those that don't frequent video games know how they work in a basic sense you aim you shoot you die and you get back up but maybe that's why they're so prevalent they're so easy to understand very simple to pick up in place so accessible at a casual level and if you like what you play odds are that game is also packing extra layers that reward the dedicated player with appropriate skill sets and replayability oh I think replayability all depends on whether or not there are still people around to play with you at PAX East 2016 overwatch had a ginormous booth dedicated to it and immediately my eyes were drawn to the character designs these weren't your basic brown and green soldiers these were a rainbow spectrum of characters of all shapes and sizes and then I saw the developer of the game Blizzard and suddenly it all made sense this is my first game from Blizzard actually I had never played World of Warcraft but [ __ ] if I wasn't surrounded by people that did and the one thing I always talked about while was the world incited the diversity of people creatures and otherworldly creations I don't think I'd ever play the game now even with my unhealthy level of high fantasy 14 but I can still gawk at World of Warcraft's artistic direction and that same direction quite prevalent Lee bleeds into overwatch it's the first thing I'll praise right off the bat I love how this game looks the cast of heroes and villains are not just colorful but goddamn they're so spry and well animated expressions are top-notch it got squashed and stretch for a Saturday morning cartoonish feel it hits me in the spot that likes a good cartoon people like to compare to a Pixar movie and yeah that's exactly right should if we had an overwatch movie I'd go see that and I haven't even talked about the game yet but people were also quick to compare this game to Team Fortress 2 another team-based shooter that's a property of valve and I'll tell you I haven't put much time in tf2 but with all the internet made me surrounding the game in the past 9 years I feel like I know everything about the damn game and it wasn't just because both games were filled with exaggerated character designs but and this is really odd to me both games are packing very little story and I wanted to begin there when you load up the game you got an intro cinematic that gives you a small explanation about the world you playin in the distant future humanity created robots with advanced artificial intelligence and for a while they lived in a golden age together but because humans robots are simply not allowed to live peacefully together in a fictionalised setting robots built for combat soon began to turn on humanity causing a huge crisis in response a Defense Force called overwatch was created to counter the robotic threat and soon the corrupted robots were neutralized but the force is responsible for overwatch how to fallout and after the overwatch HQ was destroyed in an explosion overwatch was disbarred by the United Nations making any type of overwatch activity illegal years afterward the world slowly became a budding war zone full of corrupt organizations and terrorists and former heroes of overwatch despite what the UN had enforced have taken it amongst themselves to reform the band of Heroes all in an effort to save the world and cease the impending doom and there you have it you're brought to the main menu you choose which multiplayer mode you want to play and have at it no more story just gameplay instead of having a dedicated story motor campaign Blizzard has insisted on fleshing out the world of overwatch through promotional material YouTube trailers focusing on certain characters animated Stills web comics if you want more of the world of overwatch this is how you do it and I don't know how I feel about that on one hand it's really rare that I play an FPS 4 story so I suppose it's not a huge loss but on the other hand I like what I see so much I can't help but what a campaign mode within the same game to see what obstacles our heroes and phones face and how gameplay can enrich that with how the Internet is such a huge part of our lives now if all it takes to get more overwatch stories loading up a webpage then I guess that's not too intrusive it's just unconventional usually when you're reading story material through books and what not is to extend the universe but here that is the universe overwatch as a game is just that a game and as I said at first glance overwatch seemed to be a typical first-person shooter and being honest it's still sort of is you pick your favorite character you team up with others and they go at each other's throats in a randomly picked stage in terms of what you do you can either try and take over an enemy base or defend yours or you can escort something to a target area or you can prevent the other team from doing so and every character is equipped with their own ultimate attack giving a great equalizer on the battlefield when it fully charges up you get experience points from playing matches and that are in Doom or rewards as you level up which come in the form of loot boxes special little prizes that can reward you with different costumes skins a large selection of graffiti tags and in-game currency you can spend to unlock more of the same thing essentially you can also spend real to buy Lube boxes as microtransactions in case you really want to go for that specific reward and aren't blessed by our in Jesus I don't think the game is overly stingy and giving you Lube boxes as you play the game normally so I think the ability to get more with real money is harmless for the most part especially since it's all cosmetic stuff I'd be singing a different tune if they made your character more powerful or some [ __ ] like that now what kind of weapon you use is determined by the character you select so weapon customization is not really an option if you pick someone like tracer it's always going to be dual pistols if you pick someone like Widowmaker it's always a combo assault rifle and sniper rifle characters are broken up into four different categories offense which specialized in dealing on physical pain as much as possible though they aren't much in staying alive defense where territory control is their specialty but aren't much in direct confrontations then there's tanks which focus exclusively on getting as close as possible and giving you [ __ ] but are large targets most of the time and finally their support who help other team members with status buffs for better health management and offensive capabilities but good luck trying to defend yourself when you got three other people on your ass obviously a balanced team is key to getting those high marks the game even lets you know when your team isn't the most ideal and combat effectiveness but if you have a bunch of friends playing with you that shouldn't be much of a problem and you can totally [ __ ] with random people online with a team of Reinhardt's with it overabundance of shields and hammer swings or you can choose a whole team of maze where nothing matters except an overload of ice puns I wasn't much for the support class because an FPS I'm more of the confrontational type I want to be in the action get shot down here from my other team members and they continue to piss them off because [ __ ] them now seriously I want to dish out the pain not really heal it though I love and welcome all healers and whatever team I'm in whether they're zapping me with healing electricity or shooting me in the back with helpful injections from a sniper rifle that's overwatch for you that said this game has a robust cast of characters each with their own gimmick and I need more time to get a feel for all of them considering there's over 20-plus characters to choose from but some I just immediately clicked with tracers pretty much the poster girl for overwatch you've probably seen her in every advertisement for the game but I really dig how fast she moves and her ability to time travel a few seconds back allows her to restore health and ammo to get the surprise in the opponent it also goes without saying that I [ __ ] loathe going against another tracer because they're most likely better than me and make me feel like a dolt Fero was another one I really enjoyed a single burst cannon isn't exactly the best means for running and gameplay but she has power armor and that armor allows her to hover and straight up rock it to the skies for a few seconds and takin down opponents from a high altitude is very satisfying and I love rocket jumping as a means to escape immediate danger I want to get better with her for defense characters I loved playing as Mei and Bastion Mei with her obnoxious amount of ammo can freeze opponents in their tracks which you can follow up with an icicle to the head or let one of your teammates follow up Bastion I mean God his default form is pretty strong already all things considered and he can heal himself if he's got time to cool down but he can also transform into a turret that can't move granted but his Gatling gun on Isle eights everything I got my first play of the game using Bastion when it finally wasn't a [ __ ] diva using her suicidal mech attack on our defending base Christ [ __ ] that move Bastion is the perfect defense for keeping things in check as long as you remember to keep changing positions anybody can easily counter a bastion if they know the map well enough and pick the right character which is another cool thing I like about overwatch you're allowed to swap to another character anytime in the match when you die or when you go back to your base if things aren't working out with your current selection you can try a different character to even the odds and I've seen plenty of people pick Genji to counter my Bastion with how he can reflect bullets back at me my favourite character thus far though has to go to Zarya and I was quite honestly shocked she's a tank character and I know I plated the tank and Final Fantasy 14 primarily but playing as one in the FPS is not exactly the same thing her main weapon is a particle cannon and initially its weakest [ __ ] the key to powering it up lies within her barriers for a few seconds she can admit a barrier on herself or a teammate that absorbs all enemy gunfire and I mean all enemy gunfire you got a diva trying to nuke you with her ultimate attack [ __ ] god I hear not go back to drinking her [ __ ] Mountain Dew and for the record I don't hate diva players I just hate diva [ __ ] her the more you absorb with her barriers the stronger the cannon becomes and when it maxes out its disgusting I got some of my biggest kill streaks Azaria and I don't plan on stopping anytime soon with her because of that I feel I should apologize to you guys because I realize how long it's been since the mighty number 9 video and even though I was legitimately busy with the let's play channel brain scratch commentaries and the recent charity event I just did I kept you guys waiting a bit for a relatively short video in comparison to some of the big ones I just did recently the street fighter collection that mother 3 among others I was thinking I really need to get started on the Star Fox marathon real soon but I really want to talk about this game real quickly and I probably got take me forever but I was surprised to learn how simple overwatch was to get into and really how simple it is to explain it to others it's a video game before anything else there's really no story to talk about no single-player campaign and there's nothing much else to do other than online multiplayer and yes I do think it's online only overwatch is filled with assets you've most likely seen a million times before if you fancy yourself an FBS player so I see very little reason for that kind of player to consider overwatch over whatever FPS you're currently playing but overwatch is simplicity I also think makes for a fantastic selling point to those looking for a new first-person shooter again you start with the game you got all these characters right from the start you can just boot it up and go in less than a minute I like to look at it as the next splatoon which saddens me that I think about it not the final splatfest is wrapped up Coty Mary anyway splatoon was a breath of fresh air in a market that was exploding with all types of shooting games and it was something people of all ages could get down with I also make the splatoon comparison because like that game overwatch is going to get free updates with new gear and characters as post development continues and that's always a shaky proposition because if the game from the get-go isn't a winner then it feels like you're selling people an incomplete game even more so if it's full priced well overwatch isn't a full price game for starters unless you want the origins edition or the collector's edition overwatch is sold for $40 at base and with what's available now I think that's a good price overwatch is a little more traditional and edgier I guess I could put then something like splatoon but it's bright and colorful graphics wonderfully diverse cast of characters and whimsical writing can be enjoyed by more than whatever derogatory term people use nowadays for stereotypical FPS players it's on the ps4 Xbox one and PC I got it on the PC because believe it or not I actually prefer FPS is on a computer I think there's no better control for one than with a keyboard and mouse and I know that may sound shocking to some of you guys with how much I've said about how I'm against PC controls for other types of games in the past but I've been playing FPS games on the computer since the original counter-strike was a thing and that takes me back and I'd like to take this time to thank the people who join me in some multiplayer Nagin's specifically for this review my fellow associates from the brain scratch-free company I don't think it's a big secret that I played the hell out of Final Fantasy 14 and since my video on it last October with the help of a good friend of mine we made a free company I made a lot of new friends since then and they gladly helped me get into the overwatch scene so guys thanks a lot for your help through all the basketballs we've shot down the amount of times we slapped each other in the face and the people we confused he made a solid FPS game even better for me and hey if you got Final Fantasy 14 you should check out the brain scratch free company on the diablo server i'm on there constantly i should probably seek some medical attention so if you're not playing an FPS at the moment i recommend you give overwatch a try and get some friends to join along with you and it's not because the overwatch online community sucks or anything i'll actually complement it because when I got into matches with randoms I didn't really encounter any [ __ ] or racist [ __ ] that could have been luck certainly but maybe people just want to have fun with this one the time will tell but I've kept you starfox fans waiting long enough the next video won't be a review podcast a podcast in general or a reaction video to anything unless it's a new Metroid game that no promises on that one but the next video will be the beginning of the starfox marathon so I'm going to check my g-diffuser one last time and then next up we're heading into the lylat system with all that said thank you guys for watching have yourselves a fantastic night and take care

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Length: 13min 21sec (801 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 26 2016