@Robby:
It's not a requisite that the powers be "power" based… just that everything not be guns.
Overwatch beta is going right now, I played it some. Its not bad, but I'm not sold on spending 60$ on it either. (Though it might win on account of having the demo available for me to actually play...) And it IS Blizzard, I've certainly given them enough star craft and diablo time to trust them... Try it for a couple more days till the Beta ends.
But then there's still Paragon which is actually 3rd person which I vastly prefer... (and yes there's been gameplay vids)...
AAAAAAAND apparently there's ALSO Paladins later this year from the people that did Smite, and that one will be free and I like the character desings...
What the hell, I know I don't pay attention to this genre (due to previously not having a good rig for it and not liking the realistic shooters like CoD or Halo) but why are there like four games coming out together that are all comedic bright colorful fantasy/powers shooters?
the FPS multiplayer genre always need some sort of innovation as it was getting pretty stale with all these military style shooters. And with the popularity of moba this was bound to happen.
I too am prepelxed by the sheer amount of moba/fps style games coming out at the same and idk which one to go for. Most likely overwatch being a fan of sc2 (dont care for diablo) and I think blizzard is doing a great job with it as far as I can tell.
Paragon is more visually pleasing and from what little gameplay it seems enjoyable. But i'm not sure if there is anything really more to it besides the visuals, it doesn't that add much to the genre.
Paladin looks interesitng. Totalbiscuit did a video about how so many people are going to overlook battleborn because they think it's just like overwatch. It's a different game mechanically and it looks interesting. But man is all the amount of colros and shit annoying. Overwatch has this problem too can barely tell what's going on the screen.
Also, as far as character design I like Gigantic as well. Although it's very similar to paladin.
So much choice. I don't think i have enough time to want to try all of them.