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A thrilling addictive time-waster
holdenhamlet
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So what do you guys think about Overwatch? The game has been out for a good bit now. Have you tried it? Why or why not? Do you still play and do you still have fun? What's your favorite/least-favorite things about the game?
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I've been playing Overwatch a lot lately after stopping BDO (no comment), and I have to say this game is the most addictive time-waster of a game I've ever played.
I will log on, say I'll just play a game or two, next thing I know it's 7 hours later. This happens like every day. Then I virtually have to pull myself away because I've spent too much time playing already.
If you haven't tried Overwatch yet, I highly recommend it. Even if you never play FPS games, there are heroes that don't require aim. Plus if you want to main Mercy or Lucio (healers) or Reinhart (tank), your teammates will love you since most people like to play DPS and get dem hot kills.
Mainly, the game just has a phenomenal mix of strategy and fun. Maps allow for multiple ways to flank and interactions between heroes are interesting, such as:
Genji's ult is terrifying. He can solo kill an team with it if left unchecked and played skillfully.
McCree hitting a perfect flashbang (stun) is one of the very few things that can stop him.
On the flipside, Genji can deflect his flashbang, bouncing the stun back at McCree. His deflect is one of the few counters to McCree's stun.
The famous Blizzard polish is here. In fact, it's like the took the bucket of polish and just decided to dump the whole thing on this game. From graphics to voicework to fine-tuning, it's all here.
The game also rewards improvement. You can learn tricks or ways to play heroes more effectively. You can improve your aim. When you get better in Overwatch, you can really feel it.
I love instanced battlegrounds in MMORPGs. The one thing Overwatch lacks compared to those is character progression, but because the game has a decently high skill cap, the progression happens with you as a person as you get better playing the various heroes or aiming better.
My favorite thing about the game is surprising things constantly happen, and are seemingly endless in supply. You just have to go to the Overwatch reddit and filter for "highlight" and every day shows 20 amazing/funny things at least.
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I've been playing Overwatch a lot lately after stopping BDO (no comment), and I have to say this game is the most addictive time-waster of a game I've ever played.
I will log on, say I'll just play a game or two, next thing I know it's 7 hours later. This happens like every day. Then I virtually have to pull myself away because I've spent too much time playing already.
If you haven't tried Overwatch yet, I highly recommend it. Even if you never play FPS games, there are heroes that don't require aim. Plus if you want to main Mercy or Lucio (healers) or Reinhart (tank), your teammates will love you since most people like to play DPS and get dem hot kills.
Mainly, the game just has a phenomenal mix of strategy and fun. Maps allow for multiple ways to flank and interactions between heroes are interesting, such as:
Genji's ult is terrifying. He can solo kill an team with it if left unchecked and played skillfully.
McCree hitting a perfect flashbang (stun) is one of the very few things that can stop him.
On the flipside, Genji can deflect his flashbang, bouncing the stun back at McCree. His deflect is one of the few counters to McCree's stun.
The famous Blizzard polish is here. In fact, it's like the took the bucket of polish and just decided to dump the whole thing on this game. From graphics to voicework to fine-tuning, it's all here.
The game also rewards improvement. You can learn tricks or ways to play heroes more effectively. You can improve your aim. When you get better in Overwatch, you can really feel it.
I love instanced battlegrounds in MMORPGs. The one thing Overwatch lacks compared to those is character progression, but because the game has a decently high skill cap, the progression happens with you as a person as you get better playing the various heroes or aiming better.
My favorite thing about the game is surprising things constantly happen, and are seemingly endless in supply. You just have to go to the Overwatch reddit and filter for "highlight" and every day shows 20 amazing/funny things at least.
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I think Blizzard cares too much about the image of the game to allow for user maps. A video on youtube of players duking it out in a building made to look like a giant pair of tits is probably something they don't want the game to be associated with.
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"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
I heard Torb is OP on console, is that true?
My review and my son's video. It's only been a few months, but so far it's holding up well for us.
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I never played TF2, and maybe I really should have since it seems up my ally, but I have played a shit-ton of MOBAs and instanced battlegrounds in MMORPGs. And although custom maps would always be nice, I never thought, "Man, I just can't enjoy this because there are no custom maps."
I could see custom maps being a necessity for plain shooters. There isn't that much going on- you shoot the guy or you get shot. New maps providing new angles would be necessary to keep the game fresh.
Overwatch has tons of heroes which all play and interact differently, and there is a pretty good variety in maps already. They are also coming up with new ones at a fairly quick pace (a new one is coming out in a week or two).
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Competitive mode is where I mainly play, but the issue with that is if I don't have friends to queue with then I get with 5 people who either don't speak english, or just don't want to play as a team so they run in with whoever even if it doesn't make sense. It gets a little infuriating at times.
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After 120 hours in the game, I discovered there's much more skill and strat than any MOBA I've played.
I've gotten a lot better but I still see huge room for improvement.
I see two skill "celings" really, the first is to just become an adequate player and at least do what you should be doing. I'm probably a little past this one, although I'm still learning some of the ins and outs of certain heroes.
The other one seems super high compared to most pvp games, where you make exceptional plays consistently. That's really hard to do in Overwatch but some people are there.
I think it helps if you have FPS experience to begin with. I watch mendokusaii on twitch and it blows my mind the shit he can do (he played CS:GO a lot). But I have a lot of MOBA experience from SMITE and BG experience from MMORPGs, and I think that helps me with positioning and taking advantage of heroes that counter other heroes.
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Anyway, I think the game can definitely be played casually, but it can also be played at a very high level, which makes for a great pvp game imo. You want to have fun at any level, but also feel like you're being rewarded for getting better.