Makes sense in-universe too: Regular omnics are established as sentient, so omnium-made battle omnics with nothing but "shoot shoot shoot" in their initial programming would essentially be like newborn babies. Incredibly dangerous newborn babies with machine guns, but all the more reason to promptly administer "Look! A birdy!" therapy
I came here after watching "Sympathy for The Machine" From curious archive. The whole concept of a war machine refusing war is so poetic and sad at the same time.
William Crist erm... he was overpowered in the first year of overwatch, maybe, when no one knew how to fight him. Now? Honestly I think he’s the worst character in the game. He can dish out damage, yes, but with any coordination or like one ultimate your team should be able to dislodge a bastion.
Tyler Wheeler Tyler Wheeler there are a variety of things you can do. First off, dive comp works well. Simultaneously jumping on bastion with Winston, D.Va, and two flankers should be enough to dislodge him, especially with defense matrix available to eat up his return fire as you assassinate him. If you don’t want to do dive, you can also fight fire with fire and run a bastion and some shield tanks of your own, then just shred enemy shields and bastion faster than they can break yours. Junkrat helps with this because of his insane shield break, and mercy damage boost will help your bastion destroy shields faster too. Also Baptiste’s lamp is amazing because if you place it behind cover, your bastion gets 5 seconds of literal immortality during which he can melt the enemy bastion with no consequences. If you can’t kill the bunker comp with coordination alone, ultimates work. Dragonstrike and self destruct forces bastion to move or die, during which your team can rush him and kill him when he’s vulnerable while relocating. (Lucio speedboost is also useful here if you aren’t using dive heroes.) Sym’s wall can completely block his sight lines on you guys, EMP literally nullifies bastion AND all the shields protecting him, riptire can destroy they entire comp provided your junk is good enough to sneak it behind them, sound barrier or trans gives your team the tankiness to ignore his damage and outright kill him... the list goes on. The main reason bastion is annoying is not because he’s OP, but because countering him takes a lot more coordination than playing bunker with him. That’s why you see him in lower ranks but in higher ranks where people are able to work together more fluidly, he isn’t very good. Sorry for the essay lmao
These animated shorts are like a time capsule of how things used to be. Like hanzo’s scatter arrrow, the self-repair arm bastion used to access the memories of the Omnic War is no longer a part of his kit in OW2.
6 years later, now realising the title last bastion, isnt just about bastion being the last of his kind but also a bastion in the sense of a last hope for omnics
No matter how many times i see these animations, it amazes me how good Blizzard's art team is to be able to pull this stuff off. All the little details, the way the dirt crumbled around bastion as he stood up, the way the grass deformed when he walked on it, the sun coming through the trees, the way the water pooled in his hand, and the way the long grass swayed in the wind all looked incredible.
I actually hope this happens, especially since it’s been established that bastion is currently with Torbjorn, and OW2 shows how overwatch is officially back.
Imagine being just a regular infantry dude and there’s just a bunch of airships shitting out bastions along the horizon with literally no end in sight. How hopeless must you feel.
In fact, that something really surprising me in this video. How desesperate was the situation to send infantry in an open field against thousand of Bastions? Even the fighters are ignoring the enemy mothership to engage in low flight the enemies in the ground.
@@MolotovKiller I assume they couldn't evacuate the city in time and decided to take the battle on the outskirts rather than in the city itself, the crusaders worked as mobile defenses so that would have at least helped a bit and maybe the fighters didn't engage the motherships because the omnis had interceptors.
His movements are a lot more human-like and less robotic when he's rediscovering things. He even replicated curiosity. Though, as soon as he's exposed to the PTSD and familiar sound of bullets, he becomes a lot more mechanical and devoid of any curiosity and only thinks of firing back.
He had a program defence mechanism that aloud him to recognize threats worst case scenario and automatically respond with violence. In other words this is his flight or fight program but he only has one option Fight Basically what I meant by worst case scenario is that his program will often over think things Hears something that sounds like gunfire, the program imeaditly thought pretty much this We are getting shot at and there missing or something else is getting shot and we’re next So that can cause some problems
@@shrekharvey2585 saw Numbani? that's Stuttgart, you can see Eichenwalde the last bastion from Stuttgart in the great war as seen in Reinhards origin story.
Iron Giant meets Walle comes immediately to mind. Animation is superior, from character & background development to execution of cinematic direction. Excellent handling of sensitive subject matter that only those that have experienced, can fully comprehend. Kudos on a jobs well done!
@@Dessicator1 I was going to say something similar. Characters who can't speak are forced to be more expressive through their actions and the way they interact with the world.
Qarasmatic _ the city wouldn’t have been expecting it They would have no forces prepared for it They would’ve been able to call people but the city would’ve taken heavy blows by the time they came
@@dragonboi6744 A bastion does not even have the fire capability of a tank even with his 'ult'. Sure many would die but you kind of underestimate the police force. Keep in mind the police still have access to a decent arsenal and could even spring in an ambush, not to mention the bastion is probably weakened and is rusty so it would be so easy for bullets to pierce its body
The shot at 6:09 just looks so amazing. It’s like he’s stuck between making a decision; passion or objective. Does he carry on the orders he was given as a machine of war and attack the city or does he retreat back into the calmness of nature in the forest?
Watching this six years ago, I didn’t really have a personal connection to this masterpiece. But after having gone through my own trauma and still recovering from it, this cinematic pulled at heart strings I didn’t know I still had and I admit I cried heavily. All it takes is one person who cares to help guide you back from the path of self-destruction, and to help you take the first step in seeking healing.
Maybe Bastion is way more important than he seems: he's the last of his model, after all. Even more, he's the last bastion from the omnic crisis, being the rest systematically destroyed. Even if he reprogrammed himself, that doesn't mean that he still preserves the original code he was built with. In other words, aside Sombra, he's probably the person (or robot, take your pick) closest to the truth about the Omnic Crisis.
@@ethanlauder4887 Maybe, but that's too simple for a Blizzard plot. I think more about something in the code that points out the true culprit behind the Omnic Crisis (both of them).
@@Ishidres Sombra is one of the few (aside Katya Volskaya) who knows about a big organization, above the UN or Overwatch or Talon... that surveys everything. That "Eye" (it's the only thing we can call them, given their icon) is maybe the cause of the two Omnic crisis. She got that information because they tried to hunt her down. Bastion probably has some kind of line of code that can point at them. In any case, no one should know they exist. Though, maybe, Reaper knows more than he wants to admit...
@@JeshuaMorbus Hopefully they actually touch-up on what you said in OW2. This "eye" you speak of kind of reminds me of the patriots from Metal gear solid.
I've watched this cinematic in particular several times. And every time I tear up. It's so cute, but the underlying representation of PTSD is the real kicker here. It might be effecting a fictional robot in a video game, but PTSD itself is very real. Thank you, Blizzard, for this cinematic.
It's a beautiful piece of story telling and doesn't use any humans or one single word of dialogue to convey the message or story. Someone doesn't have to do a bunch of clunky exposition or talking, it just happens.
@@isaned I'm watching the same video two days later than you and coming to the same conclusion. This is just an insanely good work of animation and storytelling. It tackles intelligence by taking humans out of the equation.
Bastion might just be a charecter in a video game... But when I watch this... I don't see Bastion.... I see my father... he has the same triggers.... Loud noises... Sudden sharp noises...
I like how if someone doesn't know the character, they wouldn't see he has a huge gun on his back until he actually starts firing. Then the moss covering it is gone for the rest of the animation.
The Overwatch film could be dark if they took it down that road. I'm not gonna lie, the warfights that took place during the Omnic crisis look absolutely brutal.
What's even more terrifying is that the bastion units were just the basic infantry of the Omnic forces, meaning that there were thousands of these death machines in any given battlefield scenario.
The ending scene made me cry, the battle is already over, and he's making a choice whether to fight back again or move on to something better. So he chose to live in peace... even with the bird
@@johnmalock6517 The bird coming back for the robot didn't flew away or died, the bird accepted to make the robot as its friend q-q and wants t o be with him through the new journey
I never noticed before, but it looks like Bastion has a 4 leaf clover near his reset button at the start, a sign of good luck for him being reactivated. Really cool.
"We made the perfect killing machine!" "You messed up a perfectly good warbot is what you did. Look at it. It's got PTSD. How did you even _do_ that?!"
i love how his movement is a lot more fluid in peace mode. like it adds to the effect of "the combat robot doesnt like killing, and it never has, but its programming makes it" its just beautiful
How did we regress so far. If a time traveller went into the future today, and saw the current animation, it's actually shocking. How did we go from this which may be the peak of 3D animation, to nothing, despite it being the future. It's so ironic as Overwatch is supposed to be about an advanced future, but we are currently STUCK.
Fun fact: they actually got the gun sound right While bastion has a minigun, his actual in game rpm is 1800, which is the same as the mg42, which sounds exactly like the gun in the cinematic Normally movies/shows make miniguns with actual higher rpms sound like this, but blizzard surprisingly got it right
You cry due to the tears of clarity. The video depicts the last remanence of mankind and the natural cycle process. Mankind was meant to be gentile. Gentlemen and Ladies. We were meant by commandment to be non destructive to life. Thou Shall Not Kill. And you cry because an entire race is not literate or can not understand the meaning of one little four letter word. Kill. If they could they wouldn't. Like the old lottery, no one wins except those who don't gamble life to win. The winners don't win due to lust and greed. the losers who played and lost , lose to greed and fixed numbers. Those who turn away from it and know its scheme neither win or lose. For they know it's rigged. State by state of states they walk away. Life as mankind's just wasn't meant to be , especially for a forever. Man - manos , the hand. The sign of humanity. Huh ? The color of the robot is old safety yellow and brown. Like that of industrial Keiser compressors.
You are crying because that's what it means to be human, you are a species who's proven to become emotionally attached and extremely empathetic to the fate of a toaster left behind during a move. Whom can form lasting, coherent friendships with a volleyball or a coconut, and who will routinely accept non-human entities such as dogs and cats as family members.
This one is the best. There are no words, no explanation and no humans. Only a robot, nature and his bird friend. I love it, how you guys can tell so much without any words. Great job!
You forget that Bastion is an omnic which are robots so advanced they claim to have souls and real emotions hence the Widowmaker short showing people with omnic partners in relationships.
I love this short so much, particularly because 5:07 is our first real look at the Omnic Crisis. Like every character in the game knows about this huge event, and it’s such a big deal.. But it’s never shown, or really talked about in detail. But then you see this scene and you realize why peace between omnics and humans might seem like a crazy idea, and why something like that would have lasting effects on the characters and the in-game world.
Well it affected everyone around the world and it’s was due to I guess after the factory shut down the AI went rogue and said “OH you don’t need us anymore?!” But anyways most of these animation are basically about Either Overmatch members Or People that associated themself with them
Not only that, but it's very likely that city was the capital of Germany. It's near Eichenwald so the Omnics where this close to wiping out an entire city.
So instead of nerfing him they want to make Bastion players feel bad for forcing a ptsd-suffering pacifistic robot into committing genocide? GG Blizzard, GG.
You know, the more that i think about it, the more i realize that in any Overwatch match, Bastion is probably the most miserable since he's likely stuck in a PTSD-induced nightmare hallucination for the duration of the match.
@@SKull0856 What do you mean Overwatch 2? Overwatch released only recently, they couldn’t have made a sequel to a game that was released less than a month ago.
@@SquishyPiGeon What are you on about? There is no Overwatch 2, Overwatch is a newly released video game. Whatever you were playing in 2016, it wasn’t Overwatch. Could you have possibly been playing Apex Legends at the time instead?
I am again incredibly impressed by the creative team behind Overwatch. Video game aside, what a beautiful short film. You guys rock, thank you for putting so much care and effort into every aspect of this game. It does not go unappreciated!
I mean there are tons of stories about benevolent giant beings that are loved by one unique character while the rest of the world sees something else. I think the Iron Giant just so happens to be a robot.
It isn't PTSD in its typical form. He isn't haunted, at least it wouldn't make sense for him to be. Though, he does have battle programming that was disengaged soley because he malfunctioned in the forest. It tends to reactivate anytime he analyzes a situation as a battle.
Yeah, it's not PTSD. It's more like a split-personality. The flashback is due to Bastion reading another Bastion's memory. It's only programming corrupted over time, leading to the more peaceful persona we see usually.
Thund3r_B01z I think that's Stuttgart. You can see Eichenwalde at 4:10 plus you can see that the bastion units are fighting against crusaders, probably Balderich at 5:14
What I learned from this: -Bastion is not a name, Its a robot unit -Omnic Crisis is a fancy word for Judgement Day -Robots evolved to become living beings -Bastion is the Terminator of Overwatch -The Last Bastion is probably in the forest, Learning how to be a bird. The End
I'm quite fine if they keep making shorts, since they don't have to explain and evolve multiple characters, while still being grounded in different styles. I mean, if you compare each short, they are something entirely different. It just wouldn't work as well if it were 2 hours.
+TheKatanarama I never heard that and knowing blizzard that sounds false overwatch was always meant too b a game was first called project Titan you can look up interviews on RUclips also they never mentioned it being a movie like you said rumor perhaps
2:46 I've watched this five times and this is the first time I've noticed why Bastion gets surprised. Ganymede just merc'd that inchworm right in front of him.
I come back to this so many years ago and I get whiplash of the emotional trauma of a war-machine with a soul, then my spitting all over myself from a worm getting merc'd.
Other games: "Gun is gun"
Blizzard: "Gun has PTSD and moral dilemmas"
I'm fortifying this position, my primarch!
Gun is robot
oh god who touched sasha?
*ahem* WHO TOUCHED MY GUN?
Makes sense in-universe too: Regular omnics are established as sentient, so omnium-made battle omnics with nothing but "shoot shoot shoot" in their initial programming would essentially be like newborn babies.
Incredibly dangerous newborn babies with machine guns, but all the more reason to promptly administer "Look! A birdy!" therapy
No dialogue, no facial expressions, all emotion. Still the best.
agreed
JPin
Good choice of words . . .
*Show, don’t tell*
Agreed
You seen Dragons?
he was covered up with all that moss and grass because he was camping in the corner too long
lmfao!!
lol
he was camping, and waiting, but the enemy team sucked so bad they couldn't even move the payload to the checkpoints.
lmao
Best comment award goes to you.
Even after all these years the concept of a robot with ptsd still makes me cry so hard
For reals. It’s so sad
You sure remember E-102 Gamma
Same
I came here after watching "Sympathy for The Machine" From curious archive.
The whole concept of a war machine refusing war is so poetic and sad at the same time.
@@HypercatZdamn… I know for a fact Gamma and Bastion would be great friends considering what they both want to do. To be their own robot.
He's so cute and peaceful except for when he gleefully blows my entire team to smithereens with no mercy after humming the victory tune
That's Bastion for ya. He's considered as overpowered, but I wouldn't know myself. I never played OverWatch, but I really want to.
William Crist erm... he was overpowered in the first year of overwatch, maybe, when no one knew how to fight him. Now? Honestly I think he’s the worst character in the game. He can dish out damage, yes, but with any coordination or like one ultimate your team should be able to dislodge a bastion.
Nick von Imhof not when the enemy team has a Reinhardt, Orisa, and Mercy protecting him. Makes it impossible to do anything about it
Tyler Wheeler Tyler Wheeler there are a variety of things you can do. First off, dive comp works well. Simultaneously jumping on bastion with Winston, D.Va, and two flankers should be enough to dislodge him, especially with defense matrix available to eat up his return fire as you assassinate him.
If you don’t want to do dive, you can also fight fire with fire and run a bastion and some shield tanks of your own, then just shred enemy shields and bastion faster than they can break yours. Junkrat helps with this because of his insane shield break, and mercy damage boost will help your bastion destroy shields faster too. Also Baptiste’s lamp is amazing because if you place it behind cover, your bastion gets 5 seconds of literal immortality during which he can melt the enemy bastion with no consequences.
If you can’t kill the bunker comp with coordination alone, ultimates work. Dragonstrike and self destruct forces bastion to move or die, during which your team can rush him and kill him when he’s vulnerable while relocating. (Lucio speedboost is also useful here if you aren’t using dive heroes.) Sym’s wall can completely block his sight lines on you guys, EMP literally nullifies bastion AND all the shields protecting him, riptire can destroy they entire comp provided your junk is good enough to sneak it behind them, sound barrier or trans gives your team the tankiness to ignore his damage and outright kill him... the list goes on.
The main reason bastion is annoying is not because he’s OP, but because countering him takes a lot more coordination than playing bunker with him. That’s why you see him in lower ranks but in higher ranks where people are able to work together more fluidly, he isn’t very good.
Sorry for the essay lmao
@@zoroken2946 definitely not impossible. you just need coordination.
These animated shorts are like a time capsule of how things used to be. Like hanzo’s scatter arrrow, the self-repair arm bastion used to access the memories of the Omnic War is no longer a part of his kit in OW2.
When you wave in sentry form he uses the repair hand as it's a reuse of assets from ow1
Now bastion himself isn't in the game anymore
@@JettTheRock now he's back and no longer waves with the repair hand
@@HelluvaGabbs0920 yes he does. I just checked
I miss OW1 bastion 😭😭
Not a single line of dialogue and yet this short has more passion and emotion than a lot of full length movies.
Reminds me of the first part of WALL-E last of his kind and only ambient sounds
Ikr
Silent movies are a genre that needs to come back. There's so many ways you can explain a narrative and create emotion without speech.
twighlight
It's like wall-e, but with no dialogue
6 years later, now realising the title last bastion, isnt just about bastion being the last of his kind but also a bastion in the sense of a last hope for omnics
Monica can effing die.
What is omnics?
@@ProbablyHanzo420 The Robots in Overwatch, Zenyatta and Ramattra for example
@@timmy2210 ironically bastion is not an omnic.
Not trying to invalidate your point but bastion isn't an omnic.
“What if a gun had a soul? And didn’t want to be a gun?”
Iron giant reference ?
@@sqoualalaobikord9690 :)
*laughs in MEGATRON!*
It's actually the question for Big Boss.
achivment aquired. *self aware gun*
Would actually watch a 2 hour movie about Bastion and that bird
Sorry, we gave that roll to a small, unrelatable, trash compactor robot. Maybe another day Bastion.
Jarrett Edwards So, WALL-E with birds?
Robbie Rotten More like Iron Giant with a bird instead of a boy and a far more interesting setting
You mean Bastion and JonTron
Jarrett Edwards ID BUY 27 COPIES
Cinematic: Kind angel
In-game: emotionless killing macine
Alexisgay I mean, I’ve been both when playing Bastion
This is the origin story so he joined overwatch and probably has no choice
That cuz he hears the woodpecker
Ikr what an emotionless killing macine
LoL
Still insane to me that this is one of the most respectful and tasteful portrayal of PTSD out there
No matter how many times i see these animations, it amazes me how good Blizzard's art team is to be able to pull this stuff off. All the little details, the way the dirt crumbled around bastion as he stood up, the way the grass deformed when he walked on it, the sun coming through the trees, the way the water pooled in his hand, and the way the long grass swayed in the wind all looked incredible.
true, true
*cough* Hawkeye Gough scene copy *cough*
Maybe they just paid a third party to do it
Yeah! The same things you mentioned remind me why I love animation!
His emotions in his non-existent face...
Good work Mr.Woodpecker you just triggered a Vietnam flashback.
The Solution i knew someone would say this
The Solution XD
The Solution
Please tell me that was a Brandon Rogers reference
The Solution XD
The Solution brandon rogers quote
Bastion is the only Battle Droid I will ever love.
So, are u dissapointed in Rey
Hey u have a high ground right?
*Sad R2 D2 noises* -wait artoo isn't a battle droid ah nvm
Necrons: hold my resurrection orb
And the only one capable of loving you back
love how everyone thought of this when they saw the wild robot trailer
Glad someone else realized that lol
Exactly...
That Robot Is Zog’s Brother At This Point
I came back here from a different video but thanks for recommending that one. It looks cool.
Went back to this after watching the trailer haha, I loooooove robots so much, I can't wait for the Wild Robot
Bastion: *Joins Overwatch*
All of his fallen robot comrades: "You've become the thing you swore to destroy!"
Halo guy 7 sometimes, the antagonist isn’t the bad guy, every villain is the hero of his own story
Arfi J well that was uncalled for
He didn t lol
I actually hope this happens, especially since it’s been established that bastion is currently with Torbjorn, and OW2 shows how overwatch is officially back.
It's said that you would destroy overwatch not join them!!
No talk,but a lot of feelings...
MasnoPecivo Right in the feels 😢
MasnoPecivo Your profile pic sets the mood XD
It’s why I love Walle-E!
Sometimes, talking dilutes the purity of wonders.
Bastion is so wholesome
Imagine being just a regular infantry dude and there’s just a bunch of airships shitting out bastions along the horizon with literally no end in sight. How hopeless must you feel.
They drop to their knees and pray when the Orisa's start dropping in.
@@ethanlauder4887 LOL
Bruh, 40k universe is gonna make you kack your pants
In fact, that something really surprising me in this video. How desesperate was the situation to send infantry in an open field against thousand of Bastions? Even the fighters are ignoring the enemy mothership to engage in low flight the enemies in the ground.
@@MolotovKiller I assume they couldn't evacuate the city in time and decided to take the battle on the outskirts rather than in the city itself, the crusaders worked as mobile defenses so that would have at least helped a bit and maybe the fighters didn't engage the motherships because the omnis had interceptors.
6 years later this is still one of if not the best animated short they've ever created
Makes me cry everytime
It is their best one. None of the others hit nearly as hard.
This is the best one in my opinion, followed closely by "Honor and Glory"
imo the one for Sigma was better by a little bit, but this for sure take the second place
@@thatdudefromthehood2960
Creative? Absolutely better in my opinion.
But animation wise? No
His movements are a lot more human-like and less robotic when he's rediscovering things. He even replicated curiosity. Though, as soon as he's exposed to the PTSD and familiar sound of bullets, he becomes a lot more mechanical and devoid of any curiosity and only thinks of firing back.
He had a program defence mechanism that aloud him to recognize threats worst case scenario and automatically respond with violence.
In other words this is his flight or fight program but he only has one option
Fight
Basically what I meant by worst case scenario is that his program will often over think things
Hears something that sounds like gunfire, the program imeaditly thought pretty much this
We are getting shot at and there missing or something else is getting shot and we’re next
So that can cause some problems
@@user-cx9un9fs7q Good analysis. Crazy how the most wholesome character is also one of the most toxic in game lol.
that's the same as humans. ever seen how a soldier who was in an active war responds to anything reminding him of the combat?
really sad tbh
When he destroyed the nest you can see his head down he was moping he was sad until he saw numbani (middle of literally nowhere).
@@shrekharvey2585 saw Numbani? that's Stuttgart, you can see Eichenwalde the last bastion from Stuttgart in the great war as seen in Reinhards origin story.
Bastion when he isn't fighting: animal crossing
Bastion when he hears a woodpecker: DOOM eternal
Doom eneral
Baston
@@FitzIsBetterThanYou wow
Let the dark harvest begin
Lol
that bird is the freaking best animal sidekick
Surprises it hasn't died in one of Bastion's battles
It knows it's not safe to enter until the fight is over.
@it's me mate That ship is best ship
@it's me mate wot
@Kieran Nicol im surprised that bastion survived
3:43 even though he doesn't have a face you can still see the absoluut horror he is feeling
The little subtle grasp of the hand at the air really emphasizes how bad he feels. Genuinely amazing work of fiction
Nobody:
Blizzard Writers, smoking crack: "Alright, so there's this tank, right? And it has an emotional support bird to help with its PTSD."
If it aint broke don't fix it
Spencer Berry it is.... bastion is
you put the exact words i was thinking off in post lol ty
Use Of "Tobacco"
Yes absolutely,lol
So it's a nature-loving malfunctioned war machine whose glitches act as PTSD flashbacks? That's a really interesting character design.
And his best friends are a bird, and someone who "hates omnics" but also helped him and fixed him
I think that second flashback was because he looked through the destroyed bastion's memory chip
@@michaelkowal3230 he was
laughs in hound
@@jaykofett6210 I don't get it.
Bastion. What if Wall-E was armed to the teeth and had ptsd.
Ur comment is a godsend
BulletShaba I too got reminded of wall-e
BulletShaba Bastion is basically a bigger and more dangerous version of Wall-E
Wall-E is deadly ok. Wall-E has a trash compactor.
Pretty sure he's inspired by the iron giant movie
A little birb snapped Bastion out of killing many many innocent lives. Thank the birb
Cute BIrb.
good birb.
We luv birb
we love ganymede.
Birb❤
The script for this video:
Robot noises
Bird noises
Reptilian Gamer don’t forget woodpeckers and bullets
Arsalan Khan And distant ptsd flashbacks.
Reptilian Gamer *GUN NOISES*
@@Demon108hunter and happy music
Writers: is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever read the words are deep deeper than any blade
bastion in this short:
me: aww so cute
bastion in game:
me: *die in a fire*
More like a die in a storm of bullets
bastion more like whywouldyoudothatyoufreakingidiotiwasgonnagetplayofthegameandthenyouhadtokillmewhydoyoudothistomeWHYtion
@@rippedphrog6027 hshssbsysushxhsyshwjwujwsshshwwoggjhb
bastion: hihi gun go brrrrrr
First match: I need to get rid of these stored bullets somehow. Riddling your body with them should do the trick.
Thank god I studied English, now I can understand this video without having to find Korean subtitle.
Hahaha
Ay
there was no talking
Sherlock? Is that you?
it adds to it that this comment have 69 likes looooooool
Iron Giant meets Walle comes immediately to mind. Animation is superior, from character & background development to execution of cinematic direction. Excellent handling of sensitive subject matter that only those that have experienced, can fully comprehend. Kudos on a jobs well done!
Bastion, the Iron Giant, Bumblebee and Wall-E will become best Friends for sure.
@@aquilesgarciaperez5918 yes
WHY IS THERE MORE SOUL AND EMOTION IN BASTION THEN ALL THE HUMAN CHARACTERS
Because all of the human characters in the game have mouths. And when they open those mouths, Blizzard's atrocious writing falls out of them.
Because they're losing theirs in the war while he's finding his after it...
@@Dessicator1 I was going to say something similar. Characters who can't speak are forced to be more expressive through their actions and the way they interact with the world.
It's WALL-E with PTSD
sugoruyo wow thats an actual really good explanation
perhaps the most beautiful cinematic from overwatch. So much with such little dialogue but instead all with body language
The Reinhardt one was really good too
It must have taken a page of Wall-E's way of doing "show, not tell"
@@hamboningmaster A little too on the nose for my taste this is perfect
It just makes me wanna play bastion so badly but when I get on the game reality kicks in
Agreed
We gonna talk about how that city might have been saved by a bird.
No
1 bastion couldn't take the entire city
Qarasmatic _ considering that he is a weapon of war he probably could have taken down have the city
Qarasmatic _ the city wouldn’t have been expecting it
They would have no forces prepared for it
They would’ve been able to call people but the city would’ve taken heavy blows by the time they came
@@dragonboi6744 A bastion does not even have the fire capability of a tank even with his 'ult'. Sure many would die but you kind of underestimate the police force. Keep in mind the police still have access to a decent arsenal and could even spring in an ambush, not to mention the bastion is probably weakened and is rusty so it would be so easy for bullets to pierce its body
The shot at 6:09 just looks so amazing. It’s like he’s stuck between making a decision; passion or objective. Does he carry on the orders he was given as a machine of war and attack the city or does he retreat back into the calmness of nature in the forest?
Robotic programming vs sapient consciousness
that Ghibli landscape ... always works ... Thanks to Hayao Miyazaki
The typical dilemma of a DPS player, objective or frolic
Also the field of tall grass depicts that the war is over, there's no need to cause more pain.
I'd pay $18 to watch a full length overwatch movie.
I think they wanted to do a movie, but decided to make a game instead so they can have a reason to make all of these animations
Overwatch sprung from the remnants of a spiritual successor to World of Warcraft, actually.
Farrem Shamist from "So This Is Basically Overwatch":
"You know how do we fund this? By making a *game*"
I would pay that much too, as long as they don't do what Warcraft did
any Overwatch fan would, guy
Me: misses a day of school
My friends telling me what happened while I was off:
5:10
So underated
🤣🤣
So true
Sounds like an American high school.
@@applesass of course we gotta give credit to our schools here in America...
Dammit blizzard we're supposed to hate this toaster not get emotionally attached to him
bastion is too cute ;~; i want bastion mini figure
omg i can just imagine that
No one can really hate that adorable robo... Even if he's really dangerous in-game. =w=
nope. still hate him
lol
This character is literally the only reason why I played overwatch when I was younger
Amo este personaje!! Muy emotivo vídeo
Bro was a Bastion main. 💀
@@jsmithy643You probably main pharah you dirty little orphan
This should be one of those shortfilms they play before the viewing of a Disney movie.
i cant unsee the "disney presents" instead of blizzard presents now
blizz cinematics blow those little pixar shorts out of the water.
hella agree w/ you
agree this short film move every cell of my heart
Yes they should :D
But we all know that this will never happen XD
That woodpecker just got play of the game
NUR ZULAIKHA BINTI ABDULLAH - yes
NUR ZULAIKHA BINTI ABDULLAH - interesting how this time the
REPLY got all the likes
yes lol
because it caused the bird's nest to get destroyed?
I think the joke was that POTG sometimes seems to go to someone that did basically nothing.
*“The last bastion”, a bird who saved a city from complete genocide by stopping a insane robot.*
more like robot with war ptsd after years of being deactivated going against its programming
I bet that the army or the police would have destroyed it
Why need overwatch then if omnics like bastion can be dealt with easily
@@hashteraksgage3281 even though its 1 omnic
Detroit:Become Human
Watching this six years ago, I didn’t really have a personal connection to this masterpiece. But after having gone through my own trauma and still recovering from it, this cinematic pulled at heart strings I didn’t know I still had and I admit I cried heavily. All it takes is one person who cares to help guide you back from the path of self-destruction, and to help you take the first step in seeking healing.
That bird saved a lot of lives
Markus Mäkelä and destroyed peoples sanity aswell
Bird ex machina.
Markus Mäkelä SUOMI 2018🇫🇮
Maybe Bastion is way more important than he seems: he's the last of his model, after all. Even more, he's the last bastion from the omnic crisis, being the rest systematically destroyed. Even if he reprogrammed himself, that doesn't mean that he still preserves the original code he was built with.
In other words, aside Sombra, he's probably the person (or robot, take your pick) closest to the truth about the Omnic Crisis.
If he still has the original code buried in him, does that mean he has the shut down command?
@@ethanlauder4887 Maybe, but that's too simple for a Blizzard plot. I think more about something in the code that points out the true culprit behind the Omnic Crisis (both of them).
@@Ishidres Sombra is one of the few (aside Katya Volskaya) who knows about a big organization, above the UN or Overwatch or Talon... that surveys everything. That "Eye" (it's the only thing we can call them, given their icon) is maybe the cause of the two Omnic crisis.
She got that information because they tried to hunt her down.
Bastion probably has some kind of line of code that can point at them.
In any case, no one should know they exist. Though, maybe, Reaper knows more than he wants to admit...
@@JeshuaMorbus what other evidence is there atm that this exists?
@@JeshuaMorbus Hopefully they actually touch-up on what you said in OW2. This "eye" you speak of kind of reminds me of the patriots from Metal gear solid.
I've watched this cinematic in particular several times. And every time I tear up. It's so cute, but the underlying representation of PTSD is the real kicker here. It might be effecting a fictional robot in a video game, but PTSD itself is very real. Thank you, Blizzard, for this cinematic.
It's a beautiful piece of story telling and doesn't use any humans or one single word of dialogue to convey the message or story. Someone doesn't have to do a bunch of clunky exposition or talking, it just happens.
@@isaned I'm watching the same video two days later than you and coming to the same conclusion. This is just an insanely good work of animation and storytelling. It tackles intelligence by taking humans out of the equation.
And after you had a freak out over it you feel extremely guilty just like bastion did. It's so real.
Bastion might just be a charecter in a video game... But when I watch this... I don't see Bastion.... I see my father... he has the same triggers.... Loud noises... Sudden sharp noises...
I like how if someone doesn't know the character, they wouldn't see he has a huge gun on his back until he actually starts firing. Then the moss covering it is gone for the rest of the animation.
This is why they should've just made OW a series/movie.
The Overwatch film could be dark if they took it down that road. I'm not gonna lie, the warfights that took place during the Omnic crisis look absolutely brutal.
War is always brutal, honestly. Its never a thing to take light on.
@@masterchief8655 Exactly; it is the antithesis to peace. Best to treat it as such.
That is if they even make a movie...
@@voscrolp1526 They said they dont want to becouse it would limit their future hero choices
What's even more terrifying is that the bastion units were just the basic infantry of the Omnic forces, meaning that there were thousands of these death machines in any given battlefield scenario.
The ending scene made me cry, the battle is already over, and he's making a choice whether to fight back again or move on to something better. So he chose to live in peace... even with the bird
I see it a bit as a choice to end the cycle of senseless violence, and god is it wonderful.
@@charleshammond7921 That's exactly the point, and I love how they put that lesson in to this
*Android 16 approves*
And the branch and bird being a metaphor for forgiveness is giving me the big sad
@@johnmalock6517 The bird coming back for the robot didn't flew away or died, the bird accepted to make the robot as its friend q-q and wants t o be with him through the new journey
imagine as soon as bastion wakes up he's bombarded with update notices
Omg thank guys for all the likes(~￣³￣)~
Hey! I see you don't have Windows 10 yet what we to fix that?
It seems like your weapon driver is out of date
you have 2000 updates that need to be installed
Would you like to upgrade to configuration: tank?
Yes Absolutely Definitely
+Chan Lawrence Estimated time remaining: 3780 Hours
I never noticed before, but it looks like Bastion has a 4 leaf clover near his reset button at the start, a sign of good luck for him being reactivated. Really cool.
The Nokia in your basement when it’s 17 years later
Underrated
Yes
"We made the perfect killing machine!"
"You messed up a perfectly good warbot is what you did. Look at it. It's got PTSD. How did you even _do_ that?!"
Aaahhh... where's this line from??? Chappie?
Randy Lynch If I’m correct I believe it’s a parody of a line said in the anime my hiro academia
i love how his movement is a lot more fluid in peace mode. like it adds to the effect of "the combat robot doesnt like killing, and it never has, but its programming makes it" its just beautiful
How did we regress so far. If a time traveller went into the future today, and saw the current animation, it's actually shocking. How did we go from this which may be the peak of 3D animation, to nothing, despite it being the future. It's so ironic as Overwatch is supposed to be about an advanced future, but we are currently STUCK.
At some point, things get old, no matter the subject.
Бро, просто дело в деньгах и больших кошельках. Сейчас в тренде нейросети, а не синематик
Q: Do androids dream of robotic sheep?
A: Maybe but we certainly know they can have PTSD flashbacks like it's 'Nam.
Do I think? Does a submarine swim?
Mmmmmmm.... techno lamb
the flashback was hilarious
Blizzard next character: Deckard confirmed
69 likes
Woodpecker: does woodpecker things
Bastion: *vietnam flashbacks*
*fortunate son plays in the background*
"Nature's m249"
That's how PTSD works though
PTSD2
A robot with PTSD...i wasn't asking for these emotions Blizzard!
so uh... should I delete my comment?
This short reminds me a lot of The Iron Giant honestly
Fun fact: they actually got the gun sound right
While bastion has a minigun, his actual in game rpm is 1800, which is the same as the mg42, which sounds exactly like the gun in the cinematic
Normally movies/shows make miniguns with actual higher rpms sound like this, but blizzard surprisingly got it right
How can beep boop boop beep be so emotional?
Beep Beep :-(
beep boop son,
beep boop
+TheGreatUtubeIan xDDDD
You mean beep beep beep boop boop?
SCIBBLE DE DOO BAP BIDDLE DE SKIDDLE BE BAP BE BOOP BEEP BOP SCIBBLE DE BAP!!!
"Woodpeckers imitate the sound of machine gun fire to trigger Bastion's Vietnam War flashbacks."
top comment award
*Omnic crisis.
Taking "TRIGGERED" to it's former meaning, and lethal level
Nam flashback
Hey I would be scared too if I heard gunshots in the distance, PTSD or not
why am i crying for a robot and its bird
because
Chad Eats Pasta because
because
You cry due to the tears of clarity. The video depicts the last remanence of mankind and the natural cycle process. Mankind was meant to be gentile. Gentlemen and Ladies. We were meant by commandment to be non destructive to life. Thou Shall Not Kill. And you cry because an entire race is not literate or can not understand the meaning of one little four letter word. Kill. If they could they wouldn't. Like the old lottery, no one wins except those who don't gamble life to win. The winners don't win due to lust and greed. the losers who played and lost , lose to greed and fixed numbers. Those who turn away from it and know its scheme neither win or lose. For they know it's rigged. State by state of states they walk away. Life as mankind's just wasn't meant to be , especially for a forever. Man - manos , the hand. The sign of humanity. Huh ? The color of the robot is old safety yellow and brown. Like that of industrial Keiser compressors.
You are crying because that's what it means to be human, you are a species who's proven to become emotionally attached and extremely empathetic to the fate of a toaster left behind during a move. Whom can form lasting, coherent friendships with a volleyball or a coconut, and who will routinely accept non-human entities such as dogs and cats as family members.
Bro really predected the wild robot film💀
This one is the best. There are no words, no explanation and no humans. Only a robot, nature and his bird friend. I love it, how you guys can tell so much without any words. Great job!
Emma van der Waal and vietnam flashbacks
Well there is reihnhart. So I guess
my personal favorites are:reinhardt,hanzos and widdowmakers
wall-e 2 looks good so far
Wall-e54
Play of the Game
Wall-E
as Bastion
Wall-PotG
you mean Johnny-5.
Fanic cute cat you git there.
Dammit Blizzard we get it, you animate better than pixar
Ikr!
SOOOO TRUEEE THEY CAN BE EASY AN ANIMATION STUDIO
siting and waiting for the overwatch movie. any moment now .....
Animating a movie compared to an animated short is pretty different. Either way, it is great though.
now they'll be the new disney partner :D
After watching the wild robot trailer I was brought back to this master piece.
Yo también. Es más, cuando ví el tráiler de la película me acordé de éste.
So bastion is a PTSD robot and when something triggers him he kills my entire team
Sorry, Was just putting the finishing touches on my turret. She's a beauty, just finished putting on some polished wood paneling too.
Is it him that's triggered or you?
Yes, my team is full of peckers ;)
robots cant have ptsd its in his programing. Gunshots= high alert
You forget that Bastion is an omnic which are robots so advanced they claim to have souls and real emotions hence the Widowmaker short showing people with omnic partners in relationships.
I think the reason why I love this short so much is because it reminds me of the iron giant and Wall-E, which are my two favorite movies
these are good movies
That's because you're 12. For us that are 100+Years old, it's Short Circuit, the movie
Makes me think Castle in the Sky.
+Zellder that too
+DeathClaw From Da Hood You just read my mind
Here's what I learned. The only thing keeping Bastion from going on a psychotic, murderous rampage of destruction, is that bird.
Maybe he should take meditative lessons from Zenyatta.
Bastion is JonTron confirmed.
+Nojatha XD I actually laughed so loud
ikr
He wears that programming out by playing Overwatch o3o
The Wild Robot (2024)
Glad someone else realized that lol
I think they literally predicted the future
Yay 💯 now
Same opinion
@@slimeghost103or someone stole an idea lmao
Bastion = Wall-E with Mini-gun
Yeah but he isn’t made of trash
Oh wait
LOL
@@terribletree7933 True XD
True
SuperTree 9678 not made of trash, only played by it.
I love this short so much, particularly because 5:07 is our first real look at the Omnic Crisis. Like every character in the game knows about this huge event, and it’s such a big deal.. But it’s never shown, or really talked about in detail. But then you see this scene and you realize why peace between omnics and humans might seem like a crazy idea, and why something like that would have lasting effects on the characters and the in-game world.
Well it affected everyone around the world and it’s was due to I guess after the factory shut down the AI went rogue and said “OH you don’t need us anymore?!” But anyways most of these animation are basically about Either Overmatch members Or People that associated themself with them
احياناً يكون النسيان نعمة
I really want a game or missions based on that now
Not only that, but it's very likely that city was the capital of Germany. It's near Eichenwald so the Omnics where this close to wiping out an entire city.
I love that the first crusader you see is balderich, RIP the real g
This was pretty sad.
Fanboy activate
Ayy what it do mang.
yeah it was , but at least it had a kinda happy ending .
It was really a feel trip :')
see what I did there
Agreed....
Ladies and gentlemen, the original Wild Robot.
Bastion: become human
Sauce Lord at least he isnt telling people to go to bed.
lmaoo, Connor ur spot is being taken
Overwatch: Become Bastian
Actualy it's more bastion won't make same mistakes than humans.
Arthur Rey-grange We’re referencing another game called Detroit: Become Human
Birdie: "Guns kill. You don't have to be a gun. You are who you choose to be. Choose."
@Tronix * yeah me too I loved that movie
Favorite non-Disney animated movie
"Superman..." That scene gets me every time... Love that movie and that sweet reference!
Well done. *hands cookie over*
ik its a movie reference but guns dont always kill people
So instead of nerfing him they want to make Bastion players feel bad for forcing a ptsd-suffering pacifistic robot into committing genocide? GG Blizzard, GG.
i think its more to make people hate bastion mains less
You know, the more that i think about it, the more i realize that in any Overwatch match, Bastion is probably the most miserable since he's likely stuck in a PTSD-induced nightmare hallucination for the duration of the match.
They have no reason to nerf Bastion though since he has the most counters and is almost never picked in competitive.
Good thing the matches aren't canon.
If you know which hero counters him he is easy to kill
What a cool new character! I can’t wait for them to release him!
On over watch 2?
@@SKull0856 What do you mean Overwatch 2? Overwatch released only recently, they couldn’t have made a sequel to a game that was released less than a month ago.
Overwatch was released in 2016 and Overwatch 2 has been released this year
@@SquishyPiGeon What are you on about? There is no Overwatch 2, Overwatch is a newly released video game. Whatever you were playing in 2016, it wasn’t Overwatch. Could you have possibly been playing Apex Legends at the time instead?
@@KAKATCam nice troll
I am again incredibly impressed by the creative team behind Overwatch. Video game aside, what a beautiful short film. You guys rock, thank you for putting so much care and effort into every aspect of this game. It does not go unappreciated!
AGREED
this
im only a few secs in and its soooo preetty
Absolutely
i cant wait for blizzard to make a huge movie like an ACTUAL movie that goes into theaters and its just amazing and yeah
Bastion seems to have been heavily inspired by 'The Iron Giant'. And that's awesome.
I love that movie.
heavily? nah
Oh, did Rapture get their wi-fi up and running then?
I mean there are tons of stories about benevolent giant beings that are loved by one unique character while the rest of the world sees something else. I think the Iron Giant just so happens to be a robot.
+Marquis Cross The people down in Rapture Central Computing figured it out years ago. The lighthouse makes a fantastic antenna.
I wasn't crying I swear, my eyes were just sweating.
Phineas and Ferb?
Phineas and ferb did not start that joke...
i know this joke from p&f D:
Can you believe it!
I had to hold back tears.
The best Overwatch short yet!
Jesus crist if there was that many bastions. Humans would not be a thing in overwatch. jeez 1000s of bastions can kill millions
There was a time when Blizzard could really create masterpieces...
That moment when there are no words but your moved
exactly
Yes, but...
*you're.
Watch wall-e if you want more of this
+Firefly T00lz lmao I have multiple times
+Firefly T00lz I need a Walle sequel
3:04 woody the woodpecker gives bastion Vietnam war flashbacks.
Yeah cause it sounds like gun shots
it really does in a distance
It's WALL-E with PTSD
@@EvErLoyaLEagLE You're not wrong... in some bits. When did you see WALL-E wield a giant submachine gun?
@@erraticpulse9991 all the time,because he's a Vietnam war veteran with PTSD.
That actually makes bastion a deep and interesting character, a robot with PTSD that fought in the omnic war.
It isn't PTSD in its typical form. He isn't haunted, at least it wouldn't make sense for him to be. Though, he does have battle programming that was disengaged soley because he malfunctioned in the forest. It tends to reactivate anytime he analyzes a situation as a battle.
I thought PTSD aswell, get the guy a break people he's the real victim here. =(
He has a very sad backstory. Look it up on the wiki later, pretty much everyone in overwatch has had some trauma in the past.
Yeah, it's not PTSD. It's more like a split-personality. The flashback is due to Bastion reading another Bastion's memory. It's only programming corrupted over time, leading to the more peaceful persona we see usually.
Basically PTSD.
I immediately thought of this video while watching the wild robot who else?
Why am I crying for a stick.
Monday566 ikr I got emotional when the birds nest broke
Because that stick made bastion happy but seriously
ONE STICK CAN STOP THE DESTRUCTION OF A CITY (which is probably Numbani in the distance)!?!?!?!
Thund3r_B01z I think that's Stuttgart. You can see Eichenwalde at 4:10 plus you can see that the bastion units are fighting against crusaders, probably Balderich at 5:14
BECAUSE NUMBER 5 IS ALIVE GODDAMNIT!!!
Sidious thx for the info because I would have never saw Eichenwald
when overwatch brings a tear to ur face and u cant help it
true
A tear? I think you miscounted, there was a lot more than that last time I checked.
Manly TEARS.
One of the 3 times something animated has made me cry.
I cried ;(
BASTION: I don’t want to hurt anyone
THE PLAYERS: Oh really?!
Bruh I got like 3 play of the games in a row with just bastion
@@theratman6718 ive never gotten a play of the game in the tank configuration only turret and robot mode
Lmaooooo
@@theratman6718 ME TOO
Lmao
I would literally watch a 10 hour movie of just bastion exploring the woodlands.
Such a beautiful short movie! How is this not in theaters but instead we get a reboot of ghostbusters???
so true
Yh, but ghostbusters movie was pretty good
+Danengscot agreed
I mean the reboot for Ghostbusters wasn't bad... It was actually a pretty good movie.
Some movies shouldn't be remade. like Ghostbusters because it's already terrible to begin with.
What I learned from this:
-Bastion is not a name, Its a robot unit
-Omnic Crisis is a fancy word for Judgement Day
-Robots evolved to become living beings
-Bastion is the Terminator of Overwatch
-The Last Bastion is probably in the forest, Learning how to be a bird.
The End
And also that the last bastion gets vietnam flashbacks
+Hidden L3 xD
+Hidden L3 LMAO
Nein, this Bastion wants to build a mansion for his birdy friend. Forget about the past, let's build instead! (With sticks and leaves)
+Juan Miguel Dela Cruz *takes out lollipop stick from didneylan*
They made Warcraft, I'm certain they could make a good full-length Overwatch film.
We can hope
I'm quite fine if they keep making shorts, since they don't have to explain and evolve multiple characters, while still being grounded in different styles. I mean, if you compare each short, they are something entirely different. It just wouldn't work as well if it were 2 hours.
+TheKatanarama I never heard that and knowing blizzard that sounds false overwatch was always meant too b a game was first called project Titan you can look up interviews on RUclips also they never mentioned it being a movie like you said rumor perhaps
aa ya qfl
Warcraft was pretty bad so ...
This was "The Wild Robot" before The Wild Robot
I want a bastion, but god forbid a woodpecker comes near my house
EpilepticSquid laughed too much at this comment
Austin Wooley did you get arrested by the laugh police?
Steven Guy I know I almost got arrested by the grammar police.
also don't make pop-corn when he is around
Dr. Rapture balloon pop=bastion:it's a bomb get down! Kills all people in a 7 mile radius
2:46 I've watched this five times and this is the first time I've noticed why Bastion gets surprised. Ganymede just merc'd that inchworm right in front of him.
great example bird. *yea that just almost killed a whole city of people if you wernt there*
I come back to this so many years ago and I get whiplash of the emotional trauma of a war-machine with a soul, then my spitting all over myself from a worm getting merc'd.
“Sorry I was afk for awhile”
why does this not have more likes,i know a lot of replies say this but i genuinely feel like this needs more likes
ripped phrog your the only reply lol
Funny comment
@@DerexArchives indeed
Yeah for a couple of centuries
I just finished watching Wild Robot, and I had to come back here because it reminded me of Bastion so much.