How did overwatch feel to you as a New player?
I remember like I didn’t know you needed a Playstation plus membership at first so it sorta just sat in my drawer and eventually got one and I was just like finally, at first I was playing Moira and then Baptiste came out and I don’t know it felt like everything just “Clicked” heck had it not been for him this game would of just stayed in my drawer it was the only one I needed a Membership for.
I can’t remember what I had for lunch yesterday much less how I felt in 2017
Although I remember seeing Hanzo’s Dragons and thinking it was the coolest thing I’d ever seen
You got here somehow and now all you know is that you’re stuck XD.
This game so good on launch.
It was the best multiplayer that has come in years.
So much potential wasted into this 5v5 cashgrab garbage.
It was fun back in 2016. Better in 2018.
Garbage in 2022+.
it was my first ever online competitive game and my first fps. I one tricked dva and pretty much only played custom matches or play vs ai cause my aim sucked, then one day someone in a custom match clowned me for being bad so I got to watching youtube guides and locked in. I played Dva until a little after her micro missile update and really got into comp. Back then I would spend DAYS locked into my screen playing back to back matches with two of my friends, we were all hs freshman and had nothing else to do.
Somewhere along the lines I switched from one tricking dva, to one tricking Sym (back when she had noodle beam and shield gen) and then when they made her a dps I started branching out to Mei and finally I arrived at Sombra and never looked back.
It was all downhill from there (for everyone around me that is)
Overwatch was the coolest game that I’ve ever seen at that time. I didn’t play many games other than Nintendo stuff and fallout 4. This is also the time where I started playing wow and other games, so I was having a blast. Overwatch was particularly a favorite because I could play with my friends on discord and just have fun and learn how to play (since it was new). We all didn’t know what we were doing, YouTubers were figuring out how to play the game, the devs were active online. There was so much to look forward to with skins and holiday events and heroes and new maps!!! The heroes were amazingly designed and unique and different from a lot of games at the time as well.
But now, I can barely get a full stack of friends who even want to play overwatch. I don’t look forward to seeing skins of characters I love be stupid expensive, have to maybe buy a battle pass for one thing I like. The promised pve story mode was the biggest seller for me and my friends and we were so excited to finally, FINALLY get more lore on any character. But then it didn’t happen. That’s when I kinda began to just barely keep track of the game, only looking on battle net when I went to play wow, or see something on Twitter or YouTube.
The heroes and maps are still amazing! That’s the best part of the game, even 8 years later. But the storytelling and gameplay are lackluster imo. I still get a kick playing with whoever I can but I don’t even want to play if my team gets rolled 3 times. I just let out a big sigh and then play a game that doesn’t waste my time.
It was fun for a bit when everything was new and people had no idea what they were doing, but it quickly became painful when players started being separated into “People who know how to make a cohesive team comp” and “One reluctant tank, four dangerously unqualified dps, and that Mercy one-trick”.
I was pretty new to PC/Online gaming in general at the time (I got my first PC in 2015), and the only FPS experience I had on PC prior to Overwatch was mostly Team Fortress 2, and a little bit of Battlefield 4.
I’m not sure what exactly prompted me to try Overwatch in the first place, but I was almost immediately enamored by the art style and the characters. It struck me as such a novel idea that a shooter game could look like a Pixar movie, and have such a colorful cast of characters that all offered a very unique gameplay experience from one another. Of course, me still being new to FPSs in general at the time, I sucked really bad in the beginning. I gravitated towards heroes that didn’t require much mechanical skill, and I liked that I could still contribute to my team’s success even while lacking the vast history of FPS experiences other players had.
I wasn’t very good, and somehow the game was still really fun. The optimism of being just a little bit better next match, go next.
Now, I remember it being more fun. I’m getting jaded.
The game met every outlandish expectation I had which actually made the launch a bit lackluster. I wanted to be surprised; however, everything was as it should have been.
I remember thinking it looked fun - the different abilities, the colourful esthetics, the nice little things like PotG and the end game cards. One of the first heroes that fascinated me was Pharah, flying and raining down rockets.
“This game is alright. Pretty casual, but maybe I can play it if dbd gets too boring”
Flash forward two years…I barely play dbd anymore and I play with the most competitive section of the playerbase 
The moment I flew on Mercy and started dodging gengus and tracers left and right I was shackled to this game. It’s kind of ridiculous that Mercy keeps me glued to OW despite having basically no chance of playing her. I think in the last 4 seasons I’ve played a total of like 2-4 hours on her
but I was still pretty much confused when it came to playing dps. I didn’t understand how I could keep getting 3 and 4ks in games and still losing. Coming from counter strike, I felt like I was a god when instead I was just playing stupid
I bought it for my daughter because she was playing a lot of splatoon and it seemed like the next step in the evolution. I had never played a shooter and my philosophy was (a) I don’t play games I can’t pause and (b) I don’t play multiplayer games because humans are the worst.
And then I picked it up, starting with Orisa because she was immobile enough that I figured I wouldn’t need to worry about dodging and shot enough bullets that I could have bad aim.
And somehow it stuck. And here we are.
I picked up Overwatch during the decline of the game a little before 2019. Every patch since then has progressively made the character I chose to play (Reaper) significantly worse until he reached the point of having no value whatsoever.
Even the dark ages of pre-OW2 launch were more entertaining than modern day OW.
I first started playing with the Switch release, October 2019. I remember being REALLY excited because I had known about the game since the time leading up to its launch. I kept seeing people people talking about the characters and I was so fascinated, even though I had never seen gameplay or anything. I was actually really nervous and hesitant, but convinced myself to just go for it. It was the first and still is the only FPS I’ve ever played
I became a Brig main verrrrry quickly. For a long time, I was practically onetricking her 
In the following July IIRC, I got the PC version and moved over there. I remember being so amazed at the 60fps (was used to 30) and higher quality graphics
I see you, birb 
Oh you were a switch player… thats a fate I wouldn’t wish on anyone.
It’s really not so bad if it’s the only thing you know 
Also gyro controls were nice and smooth, next best thing to M&K
But if you have a taste of ANYTHING else it would probably be intolerable
Game was fresh and fun. I enjoyed luring peeps to edges and booping them off cliffs and hog POTG as Lucio back then. Lighthouse and that big hole were my fav spots. So fun.