I like Overwatch, but it’s not fun. Competitive games can be fun if they felt fair at least. I try my best to enjoy it, but nothing about Overwatch 1 or 2 really screams fun anymore. Overwatch 1 for a long while was just cheesy double shield setups which were super annoying to deal with, and Overwatch 2 feels very one-sided you’re either getting stomped or you’re doing the stomping.
I like Overwatch, but it’s not fun, not being able to play who you want to for fun. Sure somebody will tell you “Just play QuickPlay”, but QuickPlay sucks because everybody leaves it and half the time you don’t get a fresh game, it’s either the game started without you, the game finishes once you join, or you get into a fresh game with a full 10 person lobby, but then people just quit. Another problem is that QuickPlay is too short to enjoy. If it was like beta were both teams got a turn to attack and defend on Hybrid and Escort maps then, maybe it wouldn’t be as bad.
Never feeling like I can truly enjoy myself. For me the game itself isn’t a problem, but the people kinda just make it horrible. Getting flamed, cursed out, or whatever just for a simple loss or simply choosing my main when I’m confident in myself. I don’t like being or feeling “forced” to run a character because either my team does not like the character I chose at first, or I’m forced to switch because even though myself I’m doing well, my team isn’t winning anything so now I’m switching. There’s just no freedom when it comes to play at all. I understand it’s a team game and everybody has to work together but it doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy ourselves while we work together. I understand everybody wants to win, but being loud, rude, toxic, etc is not the way to go.
A game can be fun and competitive but if it doesn’t feel like fun, then what’s the point. It doesn’t help that balancing and patches are made based of this game trying to be an e-sport. There are so many heroes to choose from and I like the ones I play, and while yes they are easily countered, it still sucks I can’t ever play who I fully want to in the moment, especially when everybody can switch accordingly. I’ve have seen Roadhogs not switch when the enemy has a D.VA, I’ve seen Genjis not switch when the enemy team has a Symmetra, Moira, and a Sombra on one team. It’s almost like having fun is non existent.
The freedom of fun is a good thing. I love Overwatch, I really do it’s nog a problem, but everything that comes with it is (if you know what I mean). most of my matches never feel fair at all. The comp system is confusing and I feel like I’m getting matched with people who are higher rank than me but their account is my rank. Sometimes I’ll get a fair game here and there, but it feels like it’s rare to really get one.
I wanna find enjoyment in this game again, but I don’t know. Been playing for years, but when I launch it, it just does not feel fun. Playing Overwatch itself is fun, but it feels so demanding. I don’t like that feeling at all.
Some upsides exists, for example the Halloween event that just passed, the new Junkenstien mode was fun, but after you play it twice, it doesn’t have that spark anymore (at least for me). I don’t think this game is entirely bad, like I have played with people who are totally chill and don’t ask you to switch and try their hardest to win in comp, or are completely chill when it comes to QuickPlay and only care about gaming and playing, I want to be around those people more. So the game to me is not all bad and I have my moments where I’m 1000% enjoying it, but most times I just feel like I’m forced to play how others want because of the meta or whatever. I just wish I could go back to really enjoying the game like how ot used to be fun.