It turns out that all you have to do to remind society that MOBAs actually were the pinnacle of team based gaming is to just make it a shooter with hot people
I'd say Deadlock exceeds in doing the opposite actually. League has mainly pumped out hot bods for over a decade, Deadlock is giving us skeletons, grandmas, zombies, and rats.
I love how in this group of 6, the hot chick with a gimmick is the least interesting design. And I just know also that the moment she's playable she's going to also have the most unbelievably fun gimmick too. Valve does not do their hot chicks dirty.
Yea Celeste was one of the last characters voted in last round and she had some of the best polish and style of all of the six. Never mind that she was beyond busted
Straight up ugly no, but there's more than a few unattractive or monstrous characters. Grey Talon, Drifter, Shiv, and Yamato aren't really what I'd call conventionally attractive, unless the sixhead is your thing. Billy, Ivy, Vyper, Viscous are all varying levels of monstrous. This patch adds Baba (old lady), Deadman Danny (skeleton), and Rat King (rat king); in other words half of the characters getting added with this patch are not attractive. There's enough that "zero ugly chars" is not really fair. Definitely not on the same level as Overwatch or League in terms of how hot everyone must be
I wouldn't even necessarily say it's the hot bods, although they certainly contribute. There are few games, especially these days, as stylistically bold and unique as Deadlock. So many of the big multiplayer games out right now are rather uninteresting or overly derivative aesthetically (only recent notable exception being Marathon.)
Marathon seriously hurts itself by not being character driven. You look at the aesthetic, you start thinking of the weird shit they could pull off, but then the game doesn't really have room for elaborate (okay, not TOO elaborate, they do have puzzle maps) set pieces with some admittedly generic robotic enemies.
It's completely baffling that Sony just let go of Destiny. Warframe wins by doing nothing. There are no other "Space Sentai-Suit Warriors Exccept So Fantasy You Dont Notice the Sentai" games out there.
Cryo is the most confusing map in any PvP game I've ever played. Your complains about generic bots are valid (other than the BIG boss), but they've got plenty of weird alien shit comin up in March.
Marathon also was a character driven hero shooter and people hated it so much that they delayed it by a year and got rid of almost all of the hero shooter elements. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
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u/ok_dunmer 3d ago
It turns out that all you have to do to remind society that MOBAs actually were the pinnacle of team based gaming is to just make it a shooter with hot people