@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.

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. =)

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The Up montage should have been higher.

That destroyed me when I watched it. Taken on its own as a short film, it would be Pixar's finest hour.

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I thought it was one of Pixar's best movies... *quality

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I think they are targeted at the most basic level at the kids -- but the longest running kids shows also put in stuff for the parents, so they can watch with their kids without their brains running out of their ears from boredom.

One name for that is "Parental Bonus" content, and it makes the difference between shows like Animaniacs, Sesame Street (with stuff like this), Pixar movies, etc. and shows like Caillou -- the bane of every parent's existence.

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So apparently if you are an FPS that looks like it was made by Pixar then you're a TF2 clone.

I mean, the similarities are obvious. They both have guns, they both have (mostly) humanoid characters, there appears to be a control point...and, my god, was that a healing beam!?!?! "One of the characters even turns into a turrent" - Hey now, the heavy is certainly slow and fat but he's not _completely_ immobile.

I spotted something else. That Tracer girl is TOTALLY using Weaver's Time lapse. That's another shameless copypaste from another game that Valve created from a mod made by somebody else. What next, Portals? Silent crowbar wielding protagonists? Waiting almost a decade for the next installment of a hotly anticipated IP?...hold on, I think Blizzard invented that with Starcraft and Diablo. nvm.

Honestly, it's been over 7 years. I played TF2, I loved TF2. When somebody tells me "Hey, Blizzard are shoveling all their money and expertise into creating a new game based on that other game you loved" my reaction isn't "HOW DARE THEY INTRUDE UPON GABEN'S HOLY GROUND!". I am looking forward to playing Overwatch and continuing an age old tradition of whining about how Bliz can't balance games.