Incredible animation, great story, awesome game. *Promote

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Tuesday, May 17th, 2016 2:05am PDT - promote requested by iaui.

Stuff like this gives me hope that the Warcraft movie will actually be good.

*quality

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by Gratefulmom.

Blizzard's CGI dept really is top notch.

Shame they keep employing 14-year-old boys to write their stories.

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Overwatch: "Dragons" parody has been added as a related post - related requested by ChaosEngine.

This is showcasing the New Generic. Blizzard used to push the boundaries for hyper-realism in CG, but everything from designs to animations in this is wrapped tightly in a security-blanket of technical and conceptual cliche.

Sign of the times, but I'm still filing a formal complaint...

I both agree and disagree with this statement. Yes, their cinematics are probably the best in the business. I think they rely on a "cartoony" style in their games to keep them from looking too dated. They don't go hyper realism in the games because when graphics improve, the look can easily lose effect.

Imo, you don't get that with cartoony looking graphics, like Overwatch or the WoW character design. There hasn't been much of a visual overhaul over the 10+ years of WoW.

My guess is they did Overwatch's style like that to separate them for WoW. I think it has a lot of potential to work well for them. I can see if they made hyper realistic cinematics for Overwatch, that they would be compared to the WoW cinematics. This way, it's a clean break.

Personally, I like the Pixar look to it. It's all in the eye of the beholder. =)

What utter tosh.

I enjoyed the open beta and I'm looking forward to release, but ohmygod if they could please inject just a little humour into these characters instead of these angsty seriousface dullard cliches... They aint all like that, but characters called "Reaper" that mumble things like "Death Comes" are totally inexcusable unless you are 12yrs old.

@artician

Honestly, I'm much more a fan of stylized fantasy / sci-fi rather than just photo-realism. Like Bruti79 said, it keeps the game from ageing (e.g. TF2 still looks very good despite its age because of this).

Also a hyper realistic approach generally has less character and unique style. Admittedly, Overwatch is very Pixar inspired but stylistically that is still enough to distinguish it from your Call of / Battlefield monotony.

If there's anything I would criticize is the tone of all their titles is moving towards a PG-13-eque, appeals to the widest audience nature. They haven't released anything as dark as Diablo 1 or 2 in ages, and look like they never will.

*asia

Adding video to channels (Asia) - requested by ant.

Overwatch Animated Short | "The Last Bastion" has been added as a related post - related requested by OverLord on that post.