mccree was a founding member of the deadlock gang when they started in 1976, 47 years before he was born, and then was recruited by blackwatch at the age of 17
does blizzard even read their own writing
additionally, blackwatch was formed only 8 years before the story’s present time, meaning he would be 25 at MOST, but nah who gives a damn hes 37 i guess. and overwatch itself takes place in the mid 2070s, so mccree is, canonically, three different ages ranging from 25 to 100+ depending on narrative.
i hate this game
Okay so I don’t want to be this guy, or engage with the Overwatch fandom, ever, but I really need for people to stop assuming that just because you’ve never even bothered to google old west gangs, the creators of a media that draws heavily on specific historical imagery must never have looked into it.
If you had googled it, you’d know that old west outlaw gangs were almost never the huge criminal organizations the media sensationalized them to be. They were almost always a number of gangs using the same name (taken from the location they used as their hideout) who would do their own jobs for their own gangs, and they’d only even see each other when they happened to be using the hideout at the same time.
For example, the "hole-in-the-wall” gang was actually several gangs with sovereign chains of command that had nothing to do with one another except that they agreed that they’d all get to use the hideout (hole-in-the-wall pass) as long as they agreed to never steal from each other or rat each other out to the authorities, as well as rules for how to deal with inter-gang conflicts, should they arise. These gangs pretty much spanned however long the hideouts stayed viable, which often lasted decades.
Does that sound familiar? It should, if you’re trying to make definitive statements on the lore, because if it doesn’t, you haven’t read the lore, which means you aren’t qualified to talk about how it doesn’t make sense! This is exactly what’s been stated about the “Deadlock Gang” in Ashe’s bio. Like, almost to the word, the structure of the criminal alliance in the American Southwest.
So, if you know literally the first thing about American Western outlaws, the reason why McCree can have a Deadlock Rebels Est. 1976 tattoo even though the Deadlock Gang was formed within his lifetime should be obvious to you. They’re two organizations that both operated out of Deadlock Gorge, something I’m sure the outlaw-obsessed history buff knew about when he started his gang. The writers must’ve thought you all had basic enough media literacy to figure that out, but clearly that’s an issue here, because people are wondering why there seems to be two different groups in Deadlock gorge called Deadlock founded at different times.
Now, you can dismiss everything I’ve just said. If you choose to believe that the writers based something on history (and part of history that’s incredibly common knowledge thanks to pop culture) without knowing anything about it, and then made a whole bunch of unrelated mistakes that happen to make their story ridiculously historically accurate by accident, be my guest. I’m not your mom, I can’t force you to stop being wrong on the internet, and you’re free to call me an idiot and say I’m reaching and pretend that poor media literacy on your part is actually poor writing on the franchise’s part. But, if we’re going by occam’s razor on this one, doesn’t it seem like “this gang is similar to the old west gangs it’s based on because the writers did that on purpose” is more likely than “the writers suck so hard that they got everything about old west gangs wrong and then made a bunch of other mistakes that cancelled it out and made them right by accident?”
Also, Blackwatch wasn’t founded 8 years ago. It says that nowhere. Blackwatch was already active at least 20 years “before present.” A blackwatch base was set up eight years ago, but “retribution” was not ever stated to be Blackwatch’s first mission; it was actually stated to be one of Blackwatch’s last missions. Plus, McCree is directly stated to be exactly 37, having been caught in a sting operation and recruited into Overwatch as a teenager. So, I guess the question isn’t “does blizzard even read their own writing,” it’s more, do you even read their writing, or do you just make up your own nonsense and then pat yourself on the back for calling it nonsense?
“Our philosophy has always been we want as many players playing Overwatch as possible, and we want to reach as many possible Overwatch
players as are out there.
We will always explore a platform if we think
we could make it viable – both the technology and the business
relationship. We would love to do it.
While we don’t have anything to announce or any plans with Nintendo or Switch at this time, but we are very open-minded to putting Overwatch on Nintendo Switch” -Jeff Kaplan, Blizzard
Meanwhile Paladins is available if you’re looking for something Similar
I also love, when the switch first came out blizzard was like “we don’t want to put OW in the switch cause it will be too much to keep up with updates” but you know what they say, follow the money
It’d be stupid not to have a switch port at this point.
plus they are activision blizzard so of course theyll do this
I was really confused because people have been complaining about how all of the female characters from Overwatch have the same face and I’ve never really seen it that way so I went and did a study on their face shapes and structures by tracing reference lines over official art of them and they are literally all different. They have different face shapes and facial structures, different eye shapes, even different eyebrows so no, the Overwatch artists are definitely not ‘reusing the same female model’ as so many people have been saying. Overwatch is an awesome game with great representation and diversity and I hate to watch it get shit on like this.
Its okay to be critical of something but not to the point where people are harassing the artists and creators over it on Twitter. That team works really hard and deals with a lot of harassment from fans and should be given some well deserved credit.
To any fanartists who see this post, feel free to use this image as a reference for fanart so that you can get the face shapes and stuff on point, and also, y’all overwatch fanartists rock.
Stay cool.
Edit: I know someone is going to reblog this with that gif (you know the one) but I’d like to point out that 1.That gif is incredibly cherry-picked and specifically leaves out characters with seriously different faces like Zarya. 2. The womens faces are angled specifically to downplay unique facial structures and shapes. 3. The gif was made to move quickly to make the faces seem to blur together on purpose because considering the creator cherry-picked the hell out of the gif I wouldn’t put it passed them to make it extra fast (so that you don’t have time to pick out differences) just to make their point valid (even though in the gif you can still see that not everything lines up perfectly).
The fact that it has to be brought up for discussion suggests there could be more efforts done to make female characters more visually distinct. We dont have this issue with McCree vs Soldier vs Reyes for example.
No, it actually just shows that people are fucking blind. All of the female characters are visually distinct from eachother and can be very easily told apart.
Unless you’re looking at really shitty blurry zoomed in screenshots that only show the faces of two characters that look vaguely similar to eachother, you can very easily tell the difference between them with merely a passing glance.
(Please excuse the scaling issue, that’s just the result of me using whatever PNGs of the official models I could find)
If you claim you can’t tell these characters apart, you’re either blind, a moron, or a god damn liar.
I’m not in Overwatch fandom and barely know characters names (minus ones I seen in discourse)
But even from outsider perspective all woman characters are different and unique from each other. From colors to body shape. And this coming from someone that doesn’t wear their glasses much
We are William Afton stans first and humans second 