Blizzard being unoriginal again

and that makes it okay? that they have been doing this shit for ages?

Who said it was okay? I'm saying OP is either a newfag or hasn't been paying a lick of attention

indeed

Yeah, I'm glad they're doing it since warhammer games are shit while Warcraft 3 is top notch.

you forgot your flag

Maybe if you were autistic Blizzcuck.
Only Diablo 1/2 and Starcraft pre Esports bullshit were good.
Nope, garbage

Blizzard has been aping GW forever, is this just now registering with some of you?

40k has been a thing since the late '80s, you daft cunt.

Warcraft 3 is awesome. I'm still playing it.

Yeah, Billions of people are playing it using custom maps right now too.
They even have their own client

you know what I meant
I just woke up pls don't bully

I don't. Now give yourself an atomic wedgie.

Are you so autistic that you literally only play ASSFAGOTS out of all custom maps?

shit taste m8.

Its a joke, Blizzard however is shit and always has been shit since the very beginning with the autistic shit eating fanbase that love their cartoony shit being the cherry on top

Really? You're complaining about drop pods? The thing that appears in nearly every futuristic battle scenario? Might as well complain that Blizzard is using firearms as well.

I thought Summer was over

user, while I also agree with your point on Blizz' current sorry state, you can't deny that their earlier games where really fun.
It's like watching a close friend slide into insanity while everyone applauds this.

*Warcraft. Not Warhammer

Drop pods originally come from Starship Troopers I believe.
The novel of course

Not to worry, I have that lewd slut as well.

I was never a big fan of warcraft, I preferred Diablo and Starcraft. I thought I would see a Warcraft IV before they announced a shitty version of legacy servers though.

It still doesn't excuse it
Especially not today when there are Warhammer games using the IP anyways.
At least they had the excuse that the games were originally going to be using the IP but it fell through.
Nowadays its just pathetic to watch such blatant ripoff shit

Never got attached to their meh games thankfully.
Never understood all the fuss about it.

GOD FUCKING DAMMIT
DIABLO WAS MADE BY CONDOR ENTERTAINMENT

BLIZZARD ACQUIRED THEM AND RENAMED THEM TO BLIZZARD NORTH

Yeah, both warhammers are just amalgamation of every fantasy and scifi. But still.

God damn I really hate this Blizzardesque art design. Makes Final Fantasy look like fucking Michelangelo.

I know I mentioned that

It makes me puke, I fucking hate it so much.
It had some charm as low poly and contained to couple of franchises but now its used as a way to save up on modelling costs in a time where High Def is a thing and its fucking everywhere thanks to the ASSFAGGOTS cancer.

When HG die…we can finally get that actually good Battletech game..heck, we might even get an SRW that has Macr…never mind, Macross has been shit after 7.

It just all looks like it's 90% aftereffects and 10% actual drawing. All of it just looks so fake and interchangeable.

This is the third time blizzard copycats games workshop user, i dont know why youre surprised.

Because they dont make anything seriously. Everything must be ironic, fun, and never serious even for a moment. If they try to make something like that they go completely overboard with fucking space angels saving whole universe because fuck you. Everything also must be as much epic as possible in their vision.
You cant have any real story in their games. Every character was stripped from any personality and traits and their original stories. And new characters are just great. Remember that one with quirky personality who makes jokes all the time? Can you name all 50 of them? Or the totally ironic coldsteel the hedgehog.

I can't name a single Blizzard character aside from Kerrigan.

Not even raynor?

Its not hard to come up with knights fighting robots in the future, especially in an english country like germany. You're surprised they came up with such a broad idea? Hell even bungie did this with Spartans. See the name and whats its referencing?

Characters in Starcraft I were great, but they had to come back for Starcraft II to be fucked up beyond repair

I am not denying that, but jim was a pretty cool guy back in the day, while kerrigan was this weird sniper chick with dreadlocks that raynor wanted to kill.

why they fuck can't anyone do proper face animations? HL2 perfected them in 2004 and since then, people have only gotten worse at it.

SanFran numales want to work at Pixar, not Blizzard.

Tell me about it.

Blizzard couldn't design good looking armor and big men to save themselves.

My knowledge of blizzard characters comes entirely from WC3, SC1, and D2
Those games had some memorable characters, but that was ages ago.

the fuck is this? Is that Heroes of the storm or a new IP?

I'm struggling to figure out which one of their bland, lifeless IPs those pictures are even from. It's Overwatch, I know, but still.

This is the correct response.

Nope. Even then, Starcraft has more or less superficial similarities to 40k, with a much more different tone and atmosphere.

The biggest lie Jeff ever told is convincing all of these autists that Overwatch has a story.

But Diablo and Starcraft suck. Warcraft the RTS was the only good thing Blizzard made.

WHAT A CLUSTERFUCK

Wait, so what the fuck is this? I have absolutely no clue. Is this a new game or something?

Is this Project Titan?

I thought it was a 40k ripoff, but a friend of mine explained to me that it's from an Overwatch video.
I hope you weren't excited or anything.

Titan turned into Destiny and Overwatch.

No, just confused. This was its own thread so I thought it was a game announcement or something. Thanks.

If blizz really puts in some more effort they can almost be as unoriginal as GW themselves.

good maybe it will fucking stop now

It has a story. It's just in the cinematic shorts they release piecemeal at each convention they go to.

40k has grown too much since its days of being warhammer fantasy in space, you cant say 40k isnt creative.

Are you so autistic that you literally only play GOOD GAMES out of all the games available?

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Some dumb cinematic blizzard made for overwatch.

Blizzard is the most uoriginal company there is. They have only copied stuff and put bland heroes in it.

get out you fucking pleb

Is that why even in SC2 they keep copying shit straight out of 40k or are you too dumb to notice that a portion of the new units are based on 40k designs?

It's the exact combo of ground troops, their looks and gear being led by giant knights wielding futuristic warhammers on a crusade with their knightly order.
The knights being few and very valuable while the soldiers being many and expendable.
Their power levels, etc.

How can you even give spartans as an example ? Super geared supersoldiers in modernistic gear are extremely common in sci-fi.
Warhammer wielding knight orders supporting basic footmen are not.

Just reinforcing how bland the company is and how it keeps doing it.

wait, where the hell are those from?

Reinhardt is one of the few things I remotely like about Overmeme so even though this is fucking shameless it's actually sort of cool

They literally the imperial guard.
Does Blizzard have NO shame?

i thought they were imperial guard fam

I saw something somewhere that they were going to open up classic WOW servers. True?

Wasn't warhammer ripped off warcraft in the first place?
It's blizzard who should sue games workshop.

They said they were working on it. They just announced it at Blizzcon. Might have to wait a year for casuals to announce how vanilla WOW sucks.

Warhammer Fantasy was released in 1983, Warcraft Orcs & Humans was released in 1994. So, other way around.

Oh, look. It's that boring generic artstyle that won't go away.

Dude GW is literally retconning the Imperium to make it a diverse meritocracy, they're full on rabbis now.

This is some China-tier copying, holy fuck. I thought them ripping off TF2 was bad but this is fucking shameless.

BRAVO BLIZZARD

Last Bastion is the best short Blizz has done in years

They look like they should be on a fucking Disney parade float or something.

Peripheral vision would be severely impeded by those ludicrous pauldrons, also from the size we are to assume the whole set is made from fiberglass yes?

SUPACE MEHREEN

But you gotta admit, Fictional Germany is better than Real Germany.

Even worse than the 40k termies tbh, but at least those have a lore-based excuse.

What benefit are we to suppose comes from making individual soldiers that size, especially when projectiles are in play?

Also how wide is the door to the establishment these fellows are in cos it better be mighty fucking wide.

Cannot access second stories of house because how will collapse after doorframes have been caved in and stairs crumble under the weight.

I've always hated that aspect of Blizzard's art style. It's all the ugly bits of 40k with none of the originality. The armour's always look fucking stupid, the proportions are always retarded. Even in WC3 after they made the leap to 3D they didn't even try to keep the buildings in proportion to the people. I understand that's a bit of a nitpick, but this is alongside towns and caves and areas where everybody *is* in proportion with their surroundings. It just looks stupid. Don't even get me started on the majority of raid sets they introduced throughout the entire lifetime of WoW.

They are a lot of armor and are against robots, who will have near perfect aim.

Surprised no one's made a Bateman edit out of this yet. Too low hanging?

kek'd

It makes the porn quite disconcerting.

They'd barely need to aim at those massive fuckers.

But they already have impeccable accuracy, and their purpose is to take the bullets so the spess marines other soldiers don't have to.

they're timeline is all fucked up too, in universe its like 20 years after the war. somehow Rein is like 60+ even though he looks in his 20s during the war while other characters seemingly haven't aged like Tracer. D.va is supposed to be 19 but apparently remembers the horrors of war? nothing adds up. It wouldn't be a big deal if they just did it for fluff but they expect it to be taken seriously

The only thing worse than the shoulders in Blizzard art is the hands. Seriously, just look at the hands for any character in any of their games, Night Elves in particular are grotesque, and they're like twice the size of the character's head. It's fucking disgusting and it makes just about the all the porn, especially 3dshit, just intolerable, which is a real fucking problem considering porn is about the only thing these games are good for.

their*

Oh now you say that I bet that's why they make them look like Disney abominations, so that any porn made from it is inherently ugly enough to give fappers pause.

If they can make bullet sponge armour like this then why don't they *also* just send robots to do their fighting instead of pointlessly risking their lives against machines?

Cause the robots are whats attacking them. That's like asking why the humans didn't send robots to attack skynet, aside from the single one they captured and reprogrammed.

What amazes me is how Blizzard managed to make their proportions more ridiculous and impossible than Space Marines, with bigger pauldrons to boot.

apparently there's this whole "ROBOTS ARE NOT GOOD BOIS" angle going on where you're supposed to sympathize with omncis, but in one of their recent comics it reveals they can go all sleeper cell still. I didn't read that one myself its just what some one told me

We need to find out what retarded suit at Blizzard has a giant pauldron fetish and publically flog him.

I don't read blizzard lore or play their games, but are their humans at least extremely genetically modified - as spess mehreens need to be - to even put on the armor?

*ARE GOOD BOIS, christ i'm typing like shit tonight.

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In bastions animated short he gets robo-PTSD and the only reason be didn't shoot up a city was because he happened to have befriended a bird. Literally the only thing required to make a main character omnic commit mass murder is being reminded that he was in a war, add the only thing stopping him from doing it in the future is this therapy bird, but the game trys to imply that characters like Zarya are racist for not trusting him.

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Why do all the German soldiers look middle eastern? Don't answer that.

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Blizzard doesn't make original things.
WoW in general is basically Warhammer
Hereos of the storm is just another ASSFAGGOTS that has to use other properties to draw in normalfags
Diablo was pretty neat but I'm not too interested so maybe its original
Overwatch is a chinese ripoff of anything they can get a hold of and itself somehow.

It is. Remember kids, Overshit has: Warhammer knights, cowboys, 'cyberpunk' hackers with magic, magic robots, healing 'science' angels, totally not magic undead, mech suits, sentient robots but only some talk, a plot about totally not racism, blue people, wastelanders, hardlight 'technology', a russian with a big gun, a 4 year old who makes robots, and more. /tg/ would have a field day on their fucking world building.

God damn that armor is stupid.

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This. Its cancer at this point.

You can actually fin an astartes (who are wider/broader shoudler than normal humans) inside termie armor - it's not that wide and the actual shoulder is lower than where it looks.

Terminator armor is OK.

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Everything in those images look like a blatant ripoff of WH40k.

No they are not, an incompetence has always been a deadly thing in 40k, atleast in the military/navy.
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Not Terminator armor, but I think it illustrates how much bigger Astartes are to regular people

Have this full resolution image, lad.

Well, Ciaphas cain, who was a pretty tall guy, only reached up to the pauldron of a space marine.

tyranids were released in 1993, their design remains mostly unchanged with the exception of technical enhancements and a more fluid style.

starcraft 1 was released in 1998

blizzard ripped of GW (yet again) not the other way around

Trash tier taste
Every decision made after Norse by NorseWest was a step towards making Blizzard the giant tumor it is today

It's a robot suit

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I've heard Razorfist say that GW just ripped off of a bunch of fantasy writers. Is there any truth to that?
No bully, I just put his streams on for background noise during work. I've already listened to everything good and now I put pretty much anything on.

i know this is bait
gw is fucking beyond jew. there only saving grace now is blood bowl

I read somewhere that the whole robot war was a total and complete mystery. Like, they have no fucking idea what made all the robot people go fucking nuts and start murdering everyone and no idea what made them stop.. and then there's this racism allegory in there, except everyone who is alive in their timeline lived through that one period where all the robots went insane and killed most of the fucking human race

There isn't a single "orcs and elves" fantasy setting that didn't ripoff and least a handful of other guys. The deciding factor is how subtle they are about it and how much pop culture shit they shove in as a nonthreatening facade.

This. Though I think things like the Skaven were unique to Warhammer Fantasy, so they at least put something new into the setting.

the skaven are unique because its the first time to truly portray the jews in fantasy

who even built the fucking omnics. don't answer that because blizz obviously didn't think that one through

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I prefer being the useless peon who dies and is forgotten tbqh. I would rather my character be more human.

pls return to /vp/

Skaven are nothing like Jews. If Jews were portrayed in Warhammer they would have to be a small group of people that control multiple races, if that even exists in the universe.

obviously the robots got corrupted by interdimensional aliens who are trying to indirectly conquer the planet using them, the next game will have the robots get united by a green robot while a third faction is born from one of the leaders of the order knights getting corrupted and-

I wouldn't call it a rip-off, just a pretty piss-poor, predictable, short.

Hellsreach is fucking jury-rigged with tape an audio novel and it does so much more: youtube.com/watch?v=1D4jr-0_COg&list=PL2A7I_UoMy-E_OTQkwGktSvae_5UyO7x1

That award still goes to Gearbox, at least Blizz has the excuse of being located in the same area as GW and people from both studios knowing each other.

Warhammer Fantasy is (was - fuck you GW and fuck you AIDS of Smegmar) a rather generic fantasy setting at the most basic level. Pretty much every race with any focus given to it is a standard fantasy race with the exception of the Skaven and the Lizardmen (similar species exist in other settings of course, but they tend not to be as important). What made Warhammer Fantasy stand out was the sort of humor that was put into the writing. For example, take this bit from the 7th edition Ogre armybook:

So while at the most base level, Warhammer Fantasy wasn't very original, it had it's own unique charm to it. The setting itself is basically "Earth during the Renaissance, but with fantasy shit." Minor historical characters, events, and locations were references to real world history and geography, which could also be good for a laugh if you're into that sort of thing.

Contrast with Warcraft that isn't original either and has lost any of the charm it may have once possessed.

Chaos Gods?

You DO realize Warcraft 1 itself was meant to be a licensed Warhammer game and when the license got fucked they just filed off all the Warhammer references and called it Warcraft instead?

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At least in Rein's case you can justify it as combat stress.

GW are the jews of Warhammer.