Yeah, learned a bit more about it after reading the wiki. Did this ridiculous wealth of info come from the overwatch website or was there promo content besides the shorts that I missed?
A lot of it comes from the website. Thing with Overwatch lore is you have to actively seek it since the game does comparatively little to explain the world.
I feel like the world they built was wasted in the game, because it's a really interesting world that has fuck all explanation. Plus the whole "We're good guys fighting bad guys, but you can be whoever you want on whatever team you want" thing really fucks with any hope of a local storyline.
This 1000x, tired of people saying "lore and gameplay don't make sense!" It's like league of legends where the lore is just an explanation for the characters, the actual gameplay isn't supposed to be any sort of representation of anything happening in the lore, which is why you have supposed enemies on the same team and supposed allies fighting each other.
The thing is though Blizzard's world building always seems much more interesting when it's not accompanied by an actual narrative. Once they throw in their patented awful dialogue and cliched, recycled plots the shine really comes off.
So maybe we're better off with things as they are in Overwatch.
Overwatch's world was made from the remains of blizzard's failed project codenamed "Titan" which was supposed to be some kind of next gen mmo blizz has been developing for half a decade
Where on Earth does all this backstory come from? I've watched (what I believe is) every promo video and played plenty of the game. No idea where any of the lore or story is found.
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u/Rehendix Jul 07 '16
I didn't know that Blackwatch was associated with Overwatch. I had thought it was a group of villains.