So I decided it was time to go back and react to ALL of the OG Overwatch cinematics and what a JOURNEY! ESPECIALLY THE LAST 3 - WAY TO MAKE ME CRY! My socials: Twitch: / georgieegames Twitter: / georgieegames Videos used: • Video
"This is already going to be adorable I can tell!" Me: "yeah if we consider PTSD adorable, then yes" That first cinematic, the Bastion one, won several awards by military services for it's accurate representation of PTSD in an animated setting. :(
Ok i know this is long but. Widowmaker's backstory is actually so damn sad and tragic. in her former life, Widowmaker was married to Gérard Lacroix, an Overwatch agent spearheading operations against the Talon terrorist organization. After several unsuccessful attempts to eliminate Gérard, Talon decided to change its focus to his wife, Amélie. Talon operatives kidnapped her and subjected her to an intense program of neural reconditioning. They broke her will, suppressed her personality, and reprogrammed her as a sleeper agent. She was eventually found by Overwatch agents, apparently none the worse for wear, and returned to her normal life. Two weeks later she killed Gérard in his sleep. Her mission complete, Amélie returned to Talon, and they completed the process of turning her into a living weapon. And the only time she can feel enything is after a kill/successful mission.
The Pompadour guy in Hanzo's is the same from Kiriko. He lost teeth running into the bell, hence why he's missing teeth in Kiriko's cinematic and why he doesn't want kicked in the face.
I think what makes the Overwatch cinematics, and their characters by extension, so special is the fact that they 100% commit to complete stylistic choices. Everything is exaggerated in a way that is grounded somewhat in reality, enhanced by sci-fi fantasy, and perfected with brilliant characterization and voice acting. Junker Queen's cinematic was just a high-octane punk-rock fever dream; Kiriko's was a Japanese hip-hop ghibli pixar film, Ashe/Cassidy's was a witty Western, and so on and so forth. The characters are presented with extreme scenarios, but still shown with relatable humanity. Despite the ups and downs of Blizzard, I still stand by their games, Overwatch being one of them, and the dedication of everyone involved to create true art in gaming.
That's what I love about Blizzard! They know how to make their world feel stylish and yet believable and charming. World of Warcraft is not afraid to be bright, colorful and cartoony, with over-the-top armor sets and techy gnomes standing alongside giant tribal orcs, and it's all makes sense! They're not trying to be dark, edgy, realistic, like TES or Witcher, they go all in on Styalistic choices!
I like to think that the narrator in "Dragons", Hanzo and Genji's cinematic, is their father telling them both a bedtime story (which would explain why Hanzo yells at Genji that real life is not like the stories their father told them and he was a fool for believing it so)
Important to note is that most of the characters were either children or not yet born during the Omnic Crisis; Overwatch was originally only six members, Jack Morrison (Soldier 76), Torbjorn Lindholm, Ana Amari, Reinhardt Wilhelm, Mina Liao (Echo's creator), and Gabriel Reyes (Who would eventually become Reaper). Most of the other characters only joined in the intervening three decades, most of them towards the latter half. Pharah and Brigitte in particular are the children of Ana and Torbjorn respectively, and were only born after the Omnic Crisis. (There's actually a cute little story about Brigitte's birth; While his wife was pregnant, Torbjorn was on a mission with Reinhardt, and something went wrong, ending with both of them injured, but Reinhardt saved his life, so he let him pick out the name for his new child, and made him her godfather. That child was, of course, Brigitte)
@@doragonsureia7288 The older Crusader was initially going to join Overwatch as one of the founding members, but he never got the chance to accept the invitation because he died in the next battle. Reinhardt accepted the invitation of his behalf after his passing.
if you ever wanna check out the lore stuff of overwatch, it is actually pretty good. Widowmakers lore is what kinda got me into it, because her story is kinda sad but she is also linked to characters like Ana. I enjoyed your reaction to the cinematics and it would be cool if you could do lore stuff for overwatch too, like reading the comics or so.
ohhh interesting :) I would like to take a look as I really don't know a great deal regarding the lore of this game so it would be fun to learn more! :) thanks for watching!
@@georgieegames yeah there's shorter "cinematics" I think they are called like "character origin stories" and are shorter animated things. They have ones for Doomfist (his is like a straight up anime actually), Moira, Sigma, Ana and more :)
@@denzelherrman I can't remember the exact name of the comic, but all of the Overwatch comics are on the official website. Edit: Found it, it is issue number 15:Searching.
59:11 ya thats the hashimoto, its why when kiriko and hanzo are on the same team they banter about her neighborhood being over run by them since hanzo left. also the cassidy rename was cuz the guy they got the name from was sexual harrassing his coworkers and stuff so to kill ties with him to the game and company they fired him and renamed cassidy to cassidy.(which honestly is the better name)
@@Help_MehL3 Yeah, but if the name they originally chose for Cassidy is literally tied to a specific person then things become a little more complicated
"There's not too much story in the background apparently" Oh boy it may not be in game but the lore and the intertwined story when it comes to Overwatch is amazing
1:12:45 I have to share paying close attention to a detail here. It may be something from the suit, but it is no accident. A quick showing of a true blue blood. Hard to be even more noble than this mentor seeing his student out with the greatest lessons before the end of his life. It isn't about him. Also being a true crusader, their shield! Lost it when I caught this and felt tha feels after seeing Rein give up his hammer. Also gave me a hell of a gut punch seeing his mentor's armor STILL there. I wonder how many of the crusaders even know of his sacrifice and death in that castle. Or is it really just Reinhardt, then perhaps only Brig learned who sat on that throne.
Seeing her fangirl over Bastion: so you're getting the full emotional roller coaster in the first few minutes! Edit: but for more Bastion story, read the comics. There aren't that many. Torb's chapter is what you're looking for.
As I understand it, you were looking for a 'playlist' of the release date order of cinematic? because this is not that. This, I believe is story wise in chronological order.
My FAVORITE shorts are "Hero" (the Solider 76 short, which reminds me almost of a Batman movie?), "Dragons" (the Hanzo/Genji one, reminding me of an old Samurai film) and of course Kiriko (reminding me of a mix of Pixar + Tarentino film almost), all are amazing though!! You can actually see Alejandra's (the little girl Solider saved) house on the Dorado map and walk by it. It's towards the beginning of the map off to the right. Which I think is super cool still :) Fun fact about that Doomfist gauntlet in that one short with the kids. That was the very first trailer for Overwatch as a game. Doomfist was hinted at in this trailer, but he did not appear as a playable character in game until multiple years (want to say at least like 2 years) later.
Btw, this forest Bastion skin (and four other skins for Reaper, Tracer, Soldier 76 and Pharah) was given to those who bought the definitive edition of overwatch 1, I am quite sure the skin is unavailable now and will become quite valuable in the next few years.
Really? I have those skins and I just got the game? It says I have that edition but I've never actually played the first overwatch,I just downloaded the new one and they were there? Lmao I'm still confused
@@supremenugget5433 did you buy the "Watchpoint" package? I think tose "Origin" Skins are in there as well. The only truely unavailable skins are the Lego Bastion (cause the licence is gone) and teh Noir Widowmaker (preorder bonus of OW1)
I *think* (based on the armor) that the crusader shown in Bastion's short was Colonel Balderich. Not super important, but a kinda cool easter egg that places the battle before the past segment of Rein's short.
As a little easter egg a lot the after effects of what happens in the cinematics can be seen in the actual maps in game. For example in the Hanzo/Genji cinematic all the arrow's and shuriken's that were used are visible within the Hanamura map and on the Eichenwalde map Reinhardt's name can be seen where he carved it into the bar and the Overwatch medallion still sits on the arm of the chair where it was placed in the cinematic.
Players become dots when your machine/system isn't loading the 3d models fast enough, it will still give you an indication of everyone's location so you can attempt to play if you want
If you like Overwatch cinematics, you would love the Overwatch Fan animations too. My favorites are made by the creator 'To Binge' such as Ana's First Nanoboost and Zenyatta's Gold Experience. I love them cuz of the anime reference especially
Tracer didn't join overwatch right at the beginning when it was founded, so she's a lot younger than the rest. but she is also a special instance because, due to being trapped in the slipstream she ages differently. that's how she can blink and reverse time
Fun fact to the “taking the bullet for Mondatta”. There are 5 comics around this short, of what happened before and after and in these Comics Tracer takes a bullet for one of the Omnics, kinda like a small redemption arc
Tracer doesn’t age physically because of her ability. That’s why she looks the same age in the past and the present while Soldier for example looks way younger in the past and way older in the present
I like how nobody noticed how that one grunt that was holding winston with electrical wires dropped his gun after winston grabbed the wires once he was free. Thats one smart grunt right there ngl.
I have PTSD from the time I spent as a 911 EMT. You do what you can for the people you can help but you can't help everyone. And the people you can't save will haunt you more than the ones you can, but all the blood, injuries and losses will stay with you in your dreams. When you're awake you can control your thoughts (for the most part) but when you sleep nothing can stop it.
I know it's an old video, but... I can tell: "Jesse McCree" is the name of the game designer, an ex-employee of Blizzard. They used it (with his permission), because they agreed it was a great name for a cowboy. The problem came later, when this game designer was fired from Blizzard, and they have to rename this agent.
Overwatch could absolutely have already had an Arcane Style show or an anthology about events and characters. I mean, Arcane touched on just a few characters from 1 or 2 regions. Overwatch very much has enough lore for a good short season. Like I don't like Riot , but have grown to love League's lore (potential) I've still got a soft spot for Overwatch's lore and potential in spite of Activision driving me away with stagnation and their politics.
Sombra is a blackmailer. She wants to control everything and she does so incredibly well through blackmail and information control. One who controls information controls everything.
Tracer's not 26. She has chrono-impairment due to the experimental Slipstream Jet. She's been alive since like the 1940s or something. Winston found her as part of Overwatch. She's like hundreds of years old. Also Widowmaker doesn't work with the Omnics. She works with Talon.
The overgrown skin was in OW 1 from the beginning I believe. You either needed to preorder the game or it was part of the deluxe edition or something, I don't remember. I got it apparently and it was like the main skin I used for bastion for my entire time playing OW. Then they nerfed/reworked into oblivion, and now we have OW2 bastion which is just so...bleh...
I believe they have talked about the potential of a animated show or movie in the past and enjoy the idea. I think they wanna get overwatch to the point where it’s recognizable as a brand like Pokémon or Disney as it would definitely give it enough weight to stand on its own regardless if a hypothetical show/movie would succeed or fail
@59:45 Yeah,he IS the same person in both the cinematics (Hanzo/Genji and Kiriko). Why do you think (and not only you,Georgieegames,but everyone) in the Kiriko cinematic he says " I will call for back up." ? :P I wonder why he thought he would succesfully call for backup against Kiriko,when he failed against Hanzo. XD @1:22:00 Every GOD DAMN time : Ashe : Bob,do something! Bob either flies off the map.or becomes an ice sculpture or stares at GOD DAMN nothing. XD ( I know i am gonna be hated for my joke. :P )
Sry for the long comment, I thought you'd enjoy more infos and anwsers to your questions, I hope it's ok. For the lore part you mention and in general, between the comics, origin stories, official announcements, secrets in the game, voice lines etc you've still enough to piece most of it together. But yeah, there are big gaps :/. If I remember well enough, Bastion was then noticed and deemed a threat by Germany (I think he's there, we see the Eichenwald castle that is in another short with Reinhardt and on a map, so Germany) and must be destroyed (because last bastion, one of the enemies from the omnics war etc). But Torbjörn intercedes in his favour and vouch to take care of him/ watch over him and make sure he won't turn against Humanity. Through Torb, on of the founding members of Overwatch, we guess that Bastion got in (I hope I remember all of that well, maybe Torb didn't exactly did it the "official and proper" way and snuck Bastion out of the country, maybe X). PS: the omnics aren't "alienish" they're man-made in giant automated factories. But the AI went rogue and took control of factories in every countries (they all had at least one), producing military units (Bastions and OR-14/15) instead of civilian ones to overthrow Humanity o_o. Widow is not with the omnics which are the enemy, but also like all the sentient machines (even civilian ones helping humans/working for them etc, there are different groups in omnics, extremist ones like Null Sector or friends with humans). Widow is with Talon, the real assholes. Reaper or Doomfist too as well as Moira and others. They want to gain profit from chaos and conflict and they work at creating more of said conflict in every sectors (within Humanity or between Humans and Omnics, so a peacemaker like Mondatta wasn't "good for business" and the new world order they want). Widow and Reaper are former agents of Overwatch that got experimented on and turned by Talon :(, hence the smoke and blue skin. For the data Mei is talking about, again, I hope I remember well, but like Humanity drove the planet exploitation further which in turns fucked up the climate, triggering catastrophic events, like ice storms of high magnitude, heat waves, tornados, etc. Their scientific mission was studying that if I'm not wrong. Also, there are two omnic wars, the second one is ongoing during the two games, the first one is in the past and was the reason behind the creation of overwatch. During the first one, geoclimatic weapons have been used by the omnics and have triggered some pretty nasty chain reaction on top of the climate change ^^". Yes the guy in the Hanzo one is the same. Since the Shimada brothers have been raised with Kiriko and lived not too far, the "I'll call for backup" was a joke referencing the Dragons short ^^. Even his "I don't want to get kicked in the face" is a wink at the fact he took a bell in the face X). Why they didn't made a show or film like Arcane with all that? It was the plan at first. Overwatch wasn't meant to be a game at the very beginning it was supposed to be the big launch of Blizzard into animation movies (in 2016! So just when Arcane secret production started). Except nobody followed at the time, no investors, no one believed in that and they had to change plan late in the process to make a game instead, with the material they had. They still did the shorts to show that "see, we can do it". But they since lost some money and mostly their "aura" with all the shit around the studio and staff etc... I'm not sure such a costly adventure is in the cards now :/. For the McCree/Cassidy name change: the person he was named after was working for Blizzard but after the rise of MeToo and the MeToo gaming, some sexual misconduct/harassment he has done resurfaced and it was a big deal (other people were implicated too). They got fired and they renamed the chara after that. The last short we see launching itself at the end is supposed to be in the shorts for the first game, since it was the announcement for the second one, but the closure of all the cinematics you just watched. After Zero Hour, you only have Wastelander about Junker Queen and you've already seen the Kiriko one ^^. Then you've the origin stories and/or the comics to complete your journey and you'll be up to speed :) (maybe the "The story so far" video too). Again, sorry for the huge comment, hope it can be liked by some people, take care! ^^
Are you sure on the maybe overwatch shown. What I heard was it was a complete game change and some carryover like tracer, but I think it was supposed to be a mmo or something at first?
Just to correct a few details. Widow was not an overwatch agent. She was the wife of an overwatch agent tasked with bringing down talon. To eliminate this agent, talon kidnapped widow and brainwashed her. When she was finally "rescued", she was sent home with her husband only to kill him a few days later in his sleep. After which, she returned to talon and was experimented on thus the blue skin. Ow was also not originally an animated show or movie. It was originally an mmo called titan. The early characters were supposed to be classes but were since changed to their current day versions.
@@galonski64 It starts to be quite old, but that's the informations I had at the time for the first game yes. They also planned to release a different game at first, but it was supposed to be an animated film endeavour too. The irony is that the PvE for the second game had to be rolled over too, to piece together the PvP in only one year ^^".
@@jiopa Yes, sorry for that approximation around Widow. However, I didn't say it "was a film/show" per se, I said it was also supposed to be Blizzard big launch into animation (whether the game was a MMO/ a team shooter or not) and they weren't able to make it happen.
Can I just point out that Blizzard managed to make me care and fell sad over a robot having PTSD when he is incapable of thinking and doing it all in 4 minutes only showing the robot and some bird. That’s storytelling
Like others said: check out the 20(??) origin stories. they are all very short (around 2 minutes). Here you learn about Tracer's mistery why she is still 27 yrs old. (she is btw the godmother of Brigitte. Thats not in the origin story)
Mei was in Antarctica so those were the southern lights (Aurora Australis), not the northern lights. Also no polar bears lol Ecopoint was the environmental wing of Overwatch so they were probably gathering climate data
Widow actually has a really sad story. She was kidnapped by talon as they were unable to assassinate her husband. Moira then wiped her memory and slowed her breathing to add focus, which turned her skin purple. Moira Also made it so she could not go against anything Talon tasked her to do. She was then tricked into returning to her home and then killed her own husband. This is why in voice lines in game widow is scared of going against Moira. Another thing is when Widow said ‘At the moment of the kill, they are never more alive,’ this was specific to her as she can only feel emotions after a kill
Widowmaker was formerly Amelie, a ballerina, and wife to Gerard Lacroix head of anti-Talon operations for OverWatch. Talon was unable to kill Gerard, so they kidnapped his wife. After she was recovered, she killed her husband in his sleep. After Talon had its way with Widowmaker, the only time she feels alive is when she completes a kill.
I strongly recommend the free comics on the Overwatch site and the character bios if your want more story. I had more to say, but I canceled the comment by accident without remembering to copy it.
In concept, Reaper and his team are trying to get rid of Omnix influencers and agents... which makes them, evil? Stealing Dooms fist was roberry alright, but shooting Omnix influencer and trying to assasinate Omnix agent was - bad? Ok...
The Shimada Clan was a Yakuza family, perhaps the largest and most influential. Hanzo, the older brother, was his father's heir and took on the responsibilities therein. He wanted his brother at his side, but his brother, Genji was spoiled. Led the party boy lifestyle. When Hanzo tried to get him to take things seriously, Genji couldn't do that. Hanzo reacted with violence, and the two fought. Hanzo inflicted terrible wounds on Genji, and Hanzo thought he had died. In truth, Overwatch was looking into the crimes of the Shimada, and found Genji's broken body. Mercy put him back together again. He'd join Overwatch, and along with Cassidy, Reyes, and Moira, form Blackwatch, the covert branch of Overwatch. They eventually killed his father, and the Shimada crime family dissolved. Hashimoto would later move in on their territory, more aggressive and savage... but by then Overwatch had been disbanded. So yes, that guy with the phone is the same guy in the Kiriko short, lol.
The guy from Hanzo/Genji is the same guy as in Kiriko Short. Hanzo and Genji was trained by Kirikos mother. Also, funny enough, Hanzo was better than Genji with Swords when they were young.
