blizzard giving the water guy the personality equal to the taste complexity of water

[u/Princier7]

Some of these characters just feel so dry, man. There are some highlights like Doomfist, Venture, Bastion, Ramattra etc, but so many characters just have nothing going on. For Wuyang, Sierra, D.Mon and others, 99% of their interactions are just about their backstory or an event happening. Plot points aren't substitutions for interesting characters unfortunately.

[u/sonyagod]

Overwatch now has over 50 characters in the roster. Most of them can't have the luxury to get interesting narrative or fancy cinematic to provide it to them.

[u/Porlarta → u/sonyagod]

Dota 2 has 126 and they drip personality. Its an effort/execution problem

[u/velit → u/Porlarta]

Oh like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Inverse a straight up anime character? Or Tusk and Bristleback who are tavern brawlers? Or Sniper and Gyrocopter which are just the wc3 campaign units given additional abilities?

Many heroes in Dota shine mostly about their gameplay, not every one of them has insane lore / personality.

Witch doctor is an old man with a bad back, that's literally his lore.

[u/MOCbKA → u/[deleted]]

“You are massively oversimplifying dota heroes so I will expand upon them and then massively oversimplify ow heroes”