Valve's next game is an Overwatch-style third-person hero shooter named Deadlock, a new report has stated. Details have…

Though the way the leaker describes it makes it sound more like a 3rd person MOBA than a hero shooter.

  • Warjac@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    6 months ago

    It’s a Team Fortress Style Hero Shooter

    Because it’s a Valve game

    Because TF2 Inspired Overwatch

    Get it right

  • stardust@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    6 months ago

    I just want a nice story driven single player game from Valve again that isn’t VR.

    • tiredofsametab@kbin.run
      1·
      6 months ago

      Same. Something I can play, save anywhere to deal with life, and pick back up when time allows. I was one of those weirdos who really enjoyed Doom 3 when it came out (with the ducttape mod; that was one mechanic I didn’t like) and grew up on old Commodore, Amiga, and PC single-player games and NES/SNES/Genisis RPGs. I want that again.

    • PlantJam@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Have you played A Plague Tale (innocence, then requiem)? It’s one of the best story driven games I’ve ever played. It’s entirely linear, so plot urgency doesn’t feel artificial like it does in open world games.

  • Veraxus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    6 months ago

    Valves next game…

    SQUEEEEEE!!!

    it’s an Overwatch-style hero shooter

    My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      This seems reasonably different than the headline implies. It’s a hero shooter, in that there are classes based on heroes (like Team Fortress 2 as well). The gameplay is more moba it sounds like. I think I’ve only played one other moba shooter, and it failed quickly, so that’s different already.

      It’s not a copy of OW, and even if it were it could still innovate. Half Life might be a “Doom Clone”, but it did stuff no one had done before. There’s plenty of innovation potential without inventing a new genre. Even if you do create a new genre, it’s probably still just evolution of existing things. No one ever has an original idea. It’s always inspired by their environment.

      • Veraxus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        All fair points, and given the way Valve operates (like a free collective) this would only happen if there were some really passionate people leading and working on it.

        That said, it’s still a mix of things I just really do not have any interest in. Competitive online game, esports focused, MOBA-like, PvP, hero shooter… that’s a whole lot of hard no-thanks from me.

        I’d love some new light-narrative single player and/or co-op stuff from them, though.

    • Donjuanme@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      6 months ago

      Man, I was taught “don’t judge a book by it’s cover” but you’re burying it by it’s genre, I hope you can experience new things once in a while .

        • SkyezOpen@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          6 months ago

          Well, it’s valve, so honestly the odds of it being genre-defining in an already established genre? Pretty high, actually. Seriously, when is the last time valve put out a shit game?

          Here’s hoping it helps OW2 finally die.

        • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
          0·
          6 months ago

          It’s been many years, maybe even decades, since I liked a straight up turn-based single player RPG. I seriously can’t think of one that has sucked me in since FFX. I even tried Divinity Original Sin 2 after so much hype and good reviews from my friends. But I just didn’t like it.

          However, Baldur’s Gate 3 sucked me in. According to steam, approaching 100 hours of playtime (although I’m sure there is a good chunk of time where I just walked away with the PC with it “paused.”)

          I’m not saying you’ll like the game, I have no idea. But to already be convinced that you won’t like it based on pretty much the nothing we’ve got it terribly presumptuous.

        • Donjuanme@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          6 months ago

          Going to let an unannounced games rumored genre ruin your day?

          Gamers need to set a better image of themselves.

      • Veraxus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        I hate beets. HATE them. I will eat durian, thousand-year eggs, stinky tofu, and a million other things that most people won’t touch… but beets? Fuck beets. Their sweet-yet-earthy funk is like a dead animal that has just started to decompose. I don’t care if they are cooked, pickled, or stewed in borscht… hate them and won’t touch them. They ruin everything they touch.

        This is like that. They are cooking with lots of beet-like ingredients. Some people will love that. But as for me…I hate it… I hate just everything about it… and I hate it because I’ve experienced all those ingredients before. Over and over and over again. What they are making is for a very particular crowd, and I am not part of said crowd.

  • rustyfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    1000 IQ power move: Valve promotes a fake game with fake trailers and fake reviews.

    Day of the release approaches.

    People buy and fire it up.

    Starting screen says “Half Life 3”.

    Thousands die from a stroke.

    • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
      1·
      6 months ago

      I’d like a HL3, but not yet another competitive pvp game. So not sure if that would be the right approach if they can’t even hit the same target audience.

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    Isn’t an overwatch style hero shooter just team fortress 2? Now get off my lawn, I have clouds to tell at.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    Calling things an OverWatch style shooter is a bit like calling every first person shooter a Doom clone. Just call it a hero shooter I know what a hero shooter is. You don’t need to compare it to another game.

    It’s bad enough that the term a “roguelike” exists, I can guarantee that hardly anyone who plays them has ever actually played rogue, and fair enough since it’s ancient, so they have no idea if the game they’re playing is like it or not.

  • Lenny@lemmy.zipEnglish
    0·
    6 months ago

    Competitive shooter

    Brooo I just wanna chill and have fun and play some games.

  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    6 months ago

    Whatever it ends up being, I’m not interested. Never cared for competitive gaming. Sad that Valve has decided to use part of their enormous talent pool for, well, this while almost any genre would’ve been better.

    Also, this is already a highly saturated niche. I don’t doubt Valve’s technical prowess and knowhow to develop a game that can surpass all the other ones in quality, but a gilded turd is still a turd under that gold leaf, even if it’s technically the best turd in the world.

  • antaymonkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    6 months ago

    Valve famously only works on what excites them. You’re yelling me THIS is that?? How utterly defeatingly disappointing.

    • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      At this point, we have some absolutely impressive Portal 2 mods that, in my opinion, definitely make up for not having Portal 3. We’ve got Tag (the paint gun mod), Thinking With Portals (a short one that gives you the ability to create a clone thing that copies recorded actions), and I’ve been playing through one I just found out about called Revolution that is pretty cool so far.

      I personally like to think that the fans have done a good enough job at creating mods and maps that a Portal 3 would be redundant.

  • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.todayEnglish
    01·
    6 months ago

    If companies see titles like Overwatch and Fortnite and want to be MORE like that, then I’m just done with anything other than Indie Games and Singleplayer at this point.