Just your average british lad. I write things for a living. It’s the strangest living you’ll ever find, second only to my inability to take myself off of the grid.
The Writers' Group56,491 stories ·9,300 members
One-Shots18,925 stories ·2,369 members
UK Bronies1,721 stories ·707 members
Comedy4,742 stories ·1,292 members
School for New Writers9,633 stories ·5,013 members
I Just Want a Comment15,728 stories ·3,674 members
The Group That Is Pretty Much Every Other Group Combined9,871 stories ·924 members
The Shameless Self-Promotion Bureau49,327 stories ·5,462 members
Sunset Shimmer is so eager to try out Paladins with her best friend, Rainbow Dash. However, Rainbow is less than pleased to hear that the new game is nothing more than a rip-off of Overwatch.
Sunset Shimmer is determined to show Rainbow that it's not a cheap clone.
Page generated in 0.098 seconds
Total duration
1,077 users online
2,082,925 hits today, 2,364,530 yesterday
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Fanfiction
Designed and coded by knighty & Xaquseg - © 2011-2024
Support us
SubStar
Chat!
Discord
Follow us
Twitter
MLP: Friendship is Magic® - © 2024 Hasbro Inc.®
Fimfiction is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Hasbro Inc.®
Because it's not a cheap clone...
Now if only people in real life could be sensible like these two were.
Keep up the good work man. This was pretty good.
...and then Rainbow Dash discovers Team Fortress 2.
Hm... Rainbow Dash, Sunset Shimmer, and video games... I wonder where you got this idea.
I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I didn't even read this yet. I'll be sure to give some actual critique when I do.
8151414 I hope you like it.
Heh, I was joking, but I'm honored to know that my shitty story inspired you to write this.
As someone who played a fair bit of Paladins and a shit-ton of Overwatch, I can confirm that Paladins is indeed an Overwatch rip-off, and not a good one. I can't speak of the game now, for it has been a long time since I last played and they might have updated, but when I played it, the game was balanced like shit. There was no meta. There were no counters. There was no originality. It really is a poor man's Overwatch.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. It's quite fun despite its lack of balance, polish, and craftsmanship, and as a notoriously broke poor man, I would be amongst those playing Paladins was it not for a rare stroke of good luck. But don't delude yourselves, people. It really is just a shitty Overwatch rip-off.
Now I want to see those two either make a gaming YouTube Chanel or playing Borderlands.
8151433 I've started trying paladins, and it's pretty good. You can customize your kit for shorter cool downs and special perks, kinda like LoL, so you aren't restricted to just what the devs want like OW.
My main complaint is it's an FPS that is marketed like a moba, with hit boxes to match. Like, take Skye, for instance:
vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/paladins/images/2/28/Skye2.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20151117205354
Her model always has her arm outstretched, her wrist-mounted dartgun at the ready. Unfortunately, that massive triangle between her hand and foot is part of the hitbox. Coming from a history of FPS games, it bothers me.
8151455 I like the idea of kit customization, but I experienced two problems with it. Problem number one is that some of the cards are explicitly better than the others, meaning they never get used, which kind of defeats the purpose. Problem number two is that even the ones that are better seem inconsequential, so much so that I hazard to say they don't matter at all. I'll play Paladins for laughs every now and again, but, when I went to play an actual competitive game, I'll stick with OW.
8151467 yeah, it's nowhere near comp level yet, and I agree a bit with the cards. Why would I use any other card with Maeve, an assassin, when there's a card which resets her movement/massive damage ability whenever she gets a kill?
8151433 And Overwatch is just a bloated, shitty clone of TF2
8151373 It is. Of TF2, same as OW.
8151486 I'm sure an argument for that point can be made, though I notice that the only people who say that are TF2 fans who didn't actually bother playing too much of Overwatch. Now, I can't give much argument, seeing as I played maybe five hours of TF2 a long ass time ago, but I really don't see how anyone can seriously say that. Overwatch has a completely different aesthetic, feel, roster, and personality than TF2. Not to say one is inherently better or worse than the other, I just think they're different. It's like comparing Mario 3 and Sonic 3. Nobody could ever reasonably say that one is a shitty alternative to the other, because they're just too different.
8151496 They're not though.
OW just has more bloat.
8151500 I think you're wrong, but play whatever game you want. It doesn't make a difference to me.
I'm not wrong.
To be fair they're both shit though.
8151508 So... Can we be friends?
As it turns out, all FPS's are Wolfenstien ripoffs.
8151575 Sure, I like meeting new people (that's not true, but let's try new things).
Let's be friends!
8151581 and Wolfy is a rip of DOOM.
And DOOM is just first-person Pacman with infinite power-pac on
8151589
8151595 Wolfenstien 3-D came out before DOOM
Well, I'm sure this won't piss me off... *said sarcastically*
8151788 *sarcasm detected* Do you want a cookie? A non-zombie cookie, I mean...
8151614 Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't most FPSes at the time considered DOOM clones, considering it was one of the first?
8152081 Yes, but, Wolfenstien 3-D came out a year earlier
The funny thing is that literally every multiplayer arena shooter ever is a Rip Off of Quake. So I fail to see what the problem is.
8152119 Wolfenstein 3-D wasn't actually 3D nor was it first person. It uses a pretty clever programming trick to make it's 2D top-down perspective engine give you the illusion of a 3D space, but it's still just 2D. THat's one reason why there are no elevation changes in the game. DOOM uses similar technology. However, DOOM is not a multiplayer arena shooter. It only had a Co-Op mode and a Deathmatch mode. There was no team battle. DOOM lacked online multiplayer too, you had to be on the same LAN.
DOOM II had the same multiplayer modes, but was able to be played over the internet. It still lacked any form of team-based battles. The quake was the first game to have team based battles. Team Fortress began as a Quake mod which made the game's weapons restricted to specific classes instead of being things anyone could get by picking them up in the Arena. As such, Paladins is a ripoff of Overwatch, which is a ripoff of Team Fortress 2, which is a redo of a mod for Quake.
So it's not like Paladins did anything different than Overwatch in the "take existing ideas and slap a new skin on it so people will buy the same mechanics again" department. Frankly, I'm surprised people are still enjoying Quake With a New Hat 21 yeas later.
8151486 And TF2 is just a HD remake of a mod for Quake. What's your point?
8152144 So was the original DOOM, considering they were made a year a part, by the same company.
8152150 Yeah, but DOOM's engine was much more advanced, capable of having elevation changes and the like. I personally see it a 2.5D and not a 2D due to this fact. But it is still a top-down shooter. Making Quake the first true 3D FPS.
8152146 I never said TF2 wasn't also shit. It's also a fair degree different from the original mod.
8152792 Fair enough. I'd argue that it's really only different from the mod in that it's standalone with its own engine though.
Great story! Now if only we had a group for Paladins... I'm sure there are a few other players around here besides me...
Anyone? ...... Anyone?
Both games went to development at the same time but blizzard drowned them out cause they r the big name there are alot of simular things but theres been bigger coincidences
8154926
I love paladins I am a ash main
8271564
Well, now you sound like me...
"COME ON, LET'S FIGHT!!!"
8272494
how do I sound like you
8272575
Because I play Ash a lot... besides Maeve
8272647
ah well other then ash I play most of the front line champions and I play skye and androxes
8272664
I'm a mix between Ash, Maeve, Viktor, Tyra, Lex, Mal'Damba and a couple of others. Mostly prefer Maeve and Ash though
8272825
for me it is mostly just ash Fernando and bek
Paladins is Overwatch done better.
Look at Overwatch's bootleg Engineer. He makes a turret, and then what? He's useless to the team.
Now, Paladins, its turret guy is cooler. And its healers? No Mercy "Medic from TF2 but even more braindead because your healy beam is also a bungee cord" here! Play Pip, this is what it's like to play a fun healer.
Also, following.
8774991
Yay!
Any girls who plays Paladins? 🙋🏻♀️ Cuz I do :D