Blizzard lade som bekant ner sitt omtalade onlinerollspel Titan efter åratal av arbete. Många har därför utgått att de återvänt en del av Titan i deras nyutannonserade Overwatch. Men så är inte fallet enligt Jeff Kaplan som arbetade på just Titan innan han blev game director för Overwatch:
"In all of our games at Blizzard we borrow ideas from previous projects, previous games, we take a lot of inspiration from other things that we've done. So there are things from Titan in Overwatch, but it's not like there aren't things from World of Warcraft in Overwatch as well.
I think there's a lot of assumptions, especially considering some recent stories that have come out, but Overwatch is its own game."
Chris Metzen från Blizzard berättade också lite mer om Titan och Overwatch och kopplingarna spelen emellan, samt hur det kändes att gå från ett mastodontprojekt till ett betydligt mindre:
"[Titan] was a big, giant idea, it was almost like six video games in one, it was the most ambitious thing we've ever done. We wrestled with it for a long time. And it... it sucked. We couldn't figure it out. We couldn't crack it," Metzen explained, before going on to reveal how the change of direction has reinvigorated the team.
It's been the funnest year of getting our feet back under us, getting our surety back. That magnetic north thing; we found it again and it feels good... I hope that people look at Overwatch as a very clever game, but I'm telling you, under the hood, we needed this. In a weird way it's like a rebirth [for Blizzard]; keep it simple, keep it fun."
Overwatch släpps till PC (en konsolversion vore enligt Blizzard "awesome" - men är inte utannonserad) och släpps som beta nästa år 2015.
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