Feeling nostalgic

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Not sure what season it was, the 1 with cyber demon genji on the title. I’d only just started playing OW2 and widow. I was, of course, terrible at widow, being brand new, but the game was so much fun, and so new to me, I wanted to keep playing, keep trying.

Even after a bad game, I was never discouraged because each new match presented another opportunity to do better. And maybe, just maybe, get PotG.

I’d found my substitute for TF2, only in OW, the sniper had a sexy French accent and a wicked sense of humor. I was hooked. :fish:

I believe widow’s in a better place now than she was then, but she’s not nearly as fun anymore.

Back then, I was new to the game and I was terrible, but I still had more fun than now simply because the game was new. I want more than anything to rediscover that feeling, let me tell you.

Somewhere along the way, I seem to have lost my rose tinted thermal goggles.

I know I’m preaching to the choir when I say the game doesn’t feel new anymore. Impossible for a game nearly a decade old to feel new. I know many of you have known this fact for way longer. I’m just realizing it now, after 3 years (give or take)

Maybe it’s taken that long for my nostalgia to wear off.

In lots of ways OW2 isn’t the same OW2 it was 3 years ago. Some of those changes are good, others bad. (S9 patch, hero bans) In many ways I’ve changed (having less time to play, or spending more time on the forums because it’s more fun)

Playing OW2 3 years ago, I was seeing the game for the first time, like a child with a sense of wonder and awe. I’ve since become a jaded adult.

I may at times surprise myself with a sweet play, may even accidentally awaken some vestige of that sense of wonder. But those old feelings are mostly gone now.

Sorry, I don’t mean to be a downer. I’m not one to begrudge you having a great season, and if you still feel like I felt about this game, hold onto that feeling cuz once it’s gone…

Well, you’ll miss it.

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I still enjoy OW, thankfully. I’ve played since release in 2016. I’ve been through A LOT of rough patches with this game, but never truly lost my love for it (except when Mercy was first reworked, but I think we ALL hated the game then :joy::joy:)

While I don’t play it as much and so many of my friends moved on from it entirely, I still stick around. It’s a comfort game. I know what I’m doing and how to play (while having my brain shut off). I don’t really need to think while playing anymore since it’s been nearly 10 years and over 2,000 hours. I’m also a QP warrior these days. I got my GM stuff a few times across OW’s lifespan and I have nothing competitively left to give.

I think that’s why I haven’t truly lost my enjoyment of OW. It’s definitely not the same and I don’t enjoy it as much as I used to, but I play to have an enjoyable brain off experience these days. Idc if I win or lose. Idc if I threw by going for the stupid (but FUN) play, etc. Just here to enjoy myself. I don’t throw and don’t TRY btw, but in QP, I will be going for that suicide resurrect on Mercy, for example. Never know if that Rein wins it for me! :joy:

I’m also a Mercy main, so that probably plays into it too. I do play many of the heroes, but primarily Mercy. Easier to shut my brain off on the hero I have those thousands of hours on! Hahaha

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No idea how it was in the beginning of ow2. I came back to the game during s11. However, in ow1 in the first seasons, she was a destroyer. To be honest, she hasn’t changed much, but the environment has become more crowded I would say. There are a lot of new heroes who bother her, for sure.

At least she came back home to Château and chills without hearing qué onda and hot cocoa all the time.

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You never played Widowmaker in 2016? You missed out. It used to be so fun before they added all of the power creep and gutted her. I feel as if the hero is nearly unplayable these days. I just pull her out for an opening pick and swap back to Genji these days. It’s tragic that you will never experience true Widowmaker… Unless you played her during the first Classic mode? I hope you did.

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I played her in the latest classic, not perfect, but better than now. I’ve always regretted not playing in 2016. If I’d known OW was this much fun back then. :pensive:

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I don’t know. I feel exactly the same as I did before and I like it. :upside_down_face: I miss my Noir skin, though, and Dame Chance with the Galactic effect, but I can handle the cold, despite everything.

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Confirmed, that’s OW2 S1.

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