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Ow1 is very much a nostolgia trip, used to play on xbox, and recognizing names like hxvoc and feenix reminded me of one of my duos who went on a 10 minute rant at like 2 am about hxvoc just because we lost like 4 games in a row to him, and that he was the reason he dropped a rank. i dont get those moments anymore. Not in ow2 atleast... gaming as a culture changed, sometimes for the better but also the personalities of people just isnt the same, i dont get those moments where 6 random people were comming in a game good or bad, its all keyboard warriors nowadays

I played it on PS4 (still have the physical disk of the game) OW1 back 2016 and this game is a tragedy saga. Everyone knows it, i won't touch it but i enjoy watching streams of it even to this day, time by time not often, i enjoy watching a streamer like Metro who always rage on people or get tilted by them because it's something the game makes the player FEEL, unlike other "polite" streamers blindly playing it and forcing themselves to stay "cool", the thing is that the game nowadays is dead, the viewers decreased a lot, could have grown even more by people who just quit the game but still watch it like me but wasn't the case. Everyone literally like moved on and NOTHING gonna change it, this game to change need a full team of devs REDONE which is impossible.

The game is trash! I NEVER liked ow2. When they first released the closed beta or alpha I played it a few times then immediately stopped and continued to play ow1. Now, I can’t even launch the game without feeling dread about the upcoming bullshit that this game puts me through. Once I uninstalled my life has honestly improved so much that I’m so mad at myself for not quitting this hot mess two years ago.

Honestly I gotta stop watching mid-video because the lack of awareness and mention of many, many things from somebody that has had to grind HARD for GM as a Mercy OTP _(since Mercy has been coinflip for 75-90% of the metagames)_ during the run of OW1 is wild. The only diff here seems to be that you started playing again on PC where the competitive side of things was much stronger, during the opening weeks of OW2 with really shifting metas _(that weren't more or less shitty than the ones around the end of OW1 tbh),_ noticed, got burnt down, and your friends too. That's why you started by swapping to Kiriko _(was strong on release, has self-peel like Moira which is necessary when people can actually aim...)._

Honestly I think the reason we feel this way is not having 6v6. You just have to counterpick everything or you can’t play, so you end up playing characters you don’t want to, leading to not having fun.

Allow me to introduce you to the Team Fortress 2 Medic

It's really sad to say that paladins is more fun to play than overwatch 2.

It comes full circle tank needs to open path for team healer needs to sustain dps and tank and dps needs to take out other dps and healers while trying to stay away from tank.

Mercy is comfortable, because you aren't proactive. That's it. And yes, that inherently makes you a worse player, because proactivity is essential base for any competitive game including real life sports.

I think this last update has made people realize the game doesn't have the right stewardship to direct it into a fun and balanced state. They prioritize the wrong things and stifle criticism.

The self worth being attributed to numbers on a screen I felt WAY too much. Has been the biggest hit to my mental health, to the point where that’s all that mattered to me for a bit, both my stats and my teammates

My YT feed is boring. My fucking day lit up when i see more people hating this game. I love it.

i do really miss ow1 :,( i won’t pretend that i haven’t enjoyed ow2 but it was just so different. i felt way less stressed playing the game, and 6v6 was far more fun

I hate hate hate how much I can relate to this, Overwatch is so close and dear to me...yet has been going trough the same motions as you. Thank you for being vocal about such a human thing, I shed a few tears bahaha

I miss when there was a tank that could peel for me, and also miss when the hero you picked didn’t determines who wins the fight by default and that you can still outplay anyone with any character and not have the game itself take that away from me and outplay me like its a fast paced chess game I want the skill expression and the old 6v6 format back, until then i am not even having fun knowing the game is extremely low on the skill ceiling Oh and i do have the game uninstalled since season 7 or so i believe, no point to it unless they drop the 2 branding and go back to our roots especially with Marvel Rivals coming out I am a roadhog main and always liked when he was niche and not gigabuffed, and now i will just main Venom to fill that hole in Marvel Rivals

Yeah overwatch is just isn't the same anymore it lost it's identity

Me and my son would duo tank in comp everyday after school no clue why they made these decisions for the game.

I play ow time to time but I started playing ow 2 I was addicted. I was determined to get better at mercy and climb ranks as her but then I realized I didn’t have the skill enough to branch out to better supports and playing other roles felt stressful because of the stat board that everyone could see if I was doing bad or good. The only times I enjoyed playing was with my friends since we all could laugh and have fun but by myself I just preferred to play other games. Hopefully the game gets better soon especially with solo queuing and being able to play as characters you’d want to play as

At this point I am starting to regret having received Overwatch 1 as a gift and addicted to it in late 2018... (2.5k hrs time) and had too much hope in OW2... I am going to cry

they lied, stuffed the game full of monetization, lied some more, underdelivered, and power crept the whole roster because they are incompetent and don't actually understand the core issues with the game because their massive egos will not let them admit they fucked up going to 5v5 worst part is they know there's a whole swath of useful idiots like Jake who will go "well you have to play it for a few weeks (now LITERAL years) before you know it's bad" Same flawed logic people use to shit on people who don't watch a show or movie they know they won't like "Just give the company your time and attention anyway so you can confirm you don't like it" *No* Us overwatch OGs told everyone 5v5 was a bad idea, Jeff Kaplan flat out said they tried 5v5 in Overwatch's original development and that the game and original roster were designed for 6v6. Look like people are *finally* coming to that conclusion on their own. It wouldn't be as frustrating if Jeff didn't tell us all these things; but he did...and Aaron Keller and Jared Knuss ignored it all because they "knew better"

I think we used to play a lil bit together? I had rose and seokune as my gamertag

watching this video after playing the game since launch makes me sad how much from grace this game fell off for a lot of people. not only that but i remember buying this game with my own allowance and was so excited and to see it just be this pile of dumpster doodoo makes me sad. i now switched to tf2 and never looked back ever since the bot crisis got fixed. I hope overwatch manages to fix itself but with these current changes they want to do to tanks I will leave my roses to it's grave and only remember the good times.

I quit too. (Check comments for full rant)

The recent patch notes are definitely NOT going to help you in returning. Not that you are anyway but if you had seen it you’d just instantly lose too much hope in it. Even as a tank player I certainly didn’t ask for the amount of buffs tanks gotten.

Rip overwatch 1. Stacking 6 v 6 bastions vs. Mei If you are looking for other games here's some! #blud, bo:patj of the teal lotus, bleach: rebirth of souls (BANDAI HAS POSTED BLEACH CONSOLE OST!), legends of runeterra, PROJECT 2XKO, dragonball sparking zero, black myth wukong, unbeatable, titanfall 1 and 2, assassins creed black flags multiplayer still works!, etc. Good luck with finding a new game!

As a Grandmaster Mercy/Moira main who's been that rank since OW season 4, I 100% agree with your opinion about Mercy's appeal. She's such a mechanically stressless, relaxing hero to play, and that's one of the best things about her. Not everyone wants to manage mechanics and game sense like you can with other heroes like Ana. I'm writing this 7 mins into the video, but Overwatch isn't fun anymore due to 5v5. The only reason the game even IS 5v5 was just so they could help market the game as a sequel, which we all know it wasn't. Everything in Overwatch, except for like 6-7? New post OW1 heroes and maps were designed for 6v6.

Chrono Cross soundtrack on the background. Always good to listen to.

Will never be game of the year again 😢

SAME! such a great memory of how good the game was and trying to force myself to play has gotten to point where I dont even want to boot it up.

you made a good choice qutting again before this latest patch LMFAO game is cooked

The game feels terrible if you played ow1...the hitboxes really killed that last little bit of fun for me. now mid players just get pocketed and slap you around

That intro and disclamer in perfect mercy main voice

Your story really mirrors mine except I went from gold to masters instead of plat to gm. Really the soul just feels so sucked out of the game now... i miss ow1 so much...

Dammit, now I just want to play Chrono Cross again.

I'll play the game again when 6v6 returns. I think it will return at some point, maybe a few months, maybe a few years. Not touching it until then.

Started playing OW1 as well. Like when it was in closed beta. But i've never been competitive and never cared about numbers. I just play unranked a few times per day. Try to get my challenges done. And it's fine, though it feels pretty harsh sometimes. I think it's worst when you go against premade teams, since I play solo.

That sounds a lot like my rainbow six experience strangely enough

Never played OW1, seeing the old UI is weird to me, almost like a alternative timeline to me (a little surreal idk how to explain), it also makes the OW2 UI look like a optimized marketing style. I wish I got to play 6v6…

You are not alone.

Me too, revisiting this game is like visiting your old best friend only to find out they sold all their belongings to feed their heroin addiction

Good video :) Hope your getting away from overwatch is and does goes well too

ow 2 is good guys TRUST ME

Kinda unrelated sorry but hearing you talk about wishing you had that old passion for overwatch reminds me of my own expectations on how I should feel about things in my life, which idk i'm a bit too tired at 1 am rn to tell if this is nice to hear someone else also having a similar ish feeling (ik its not thatt similar but you get what I mean). Those expectations have made my mental health worse and make it hard for me to do things as simple as play through a video game and just be ok with me having conflicting not just good or bad feelings on something like a boss for example. (sorry for the essay I'm bouta dump, I like to talk way too much) I can't remember when you mentioned one tricks or why but hi yes I'm a doom one trick. I personally was playing overwatch a lot in the first couple years of it being out and then wasn't active much for another couple years after becoming superrr deep into platforming games. I think I got back into it after goats and then started learning doomfist in the last year of overwatch 1 and started to see some pretty big progress i think in my skill even if I never ever touched ranked (i was a silver or bronze player in the rank i actually did have from playing it prolly early on in overwatch 1). Rip dps doomfist and beta ow2 doomfist techs as well. They really had to rework my boy and then do it near perfectly in movement, and then ruin it. Rahhh. I did have a big compeititive drive early in ow2 and in the beta's. I found tankfist to be pretty fun and kinda natural. I remember finding a few new movement techs in the beta before quakedon made a video on all the ones he had found so that was helllaa cool. I think I took ranked particularly seriously in season 3 of overwatch 2 but I can't remember about the previous seasons. I managed to go from in season 3 starting at I think silver 5 on tank, within two weeks climbing to masters 5, without a single derank (I did I'm sure not move up or down in rank, such as I remember speciifcally my first rank updated in masters 5 I stayed masters 5 which ti me proves I did at the time belong between high diamond and low masters), and before this my peak rank ever in ow1 and ow2 was gold lmao and low gold at that. So I'm very proud of that, though my compeittive drive for some reason faded quickly after that, I'm not really sure why but I think it was a combination of a few things. As I said, tankfist techs being entirely ruined and only a few of them being brought back though they were brought back about as well as brining a dead person back to life as a zombie would be, clunkier and worse. Rip stair slam, rip slam bhop or whatever it was called yknow. I didn't even get enough time in the beta's and with his techs functioning properly to get as good at them as I know I could have, in general in fights and also with rollouts out of spawn you could do some crazy stuff. It's something I should be used to and I guess have become more disappointed and numb to over time being disappointed by blizzard. I know doomfist is just one of many heroe's and gets often a lot of hate but I hate how he's treated by blizzard. His techs and bugs don't get enough attention even if they shouldn't be a top prioirty and they probably don't have a large enough dev team to fix or improve on every hero and do what all the one tricks of each hero want. Also to do with techs I remember seeing a clip of a ball clip that was posted on tik tok that showed a new ball tech, which I think then got removed immediately, which is so sad. It wasn't even that crazy either. Movement techs aren't taken care of very well it seems.

The games in a great spot but I too get burnt out on the toxic players and frustrations due to lack of progress

I have a pretty same-same story as that beginning half, even as far as avoiding mercy, I picked up the game around the time Ana was coming out and the game was “free to try” on Xbox and was hooked since, I started out very casually and never with much dedication in mind, it was just one of the few games in my rotation and honestly I don’t know what kicked it off but I got heavy into it! Started out LOW silver and a DPS main. Eventually like you I succumbed to Mercy and over the year I made it to GM and the following seasons Top500 on Xbox, I picked up more characters and Tank role and was even high ranked there too! (#2 mercy for a few seasons, #34 Lucio, #48 Zarya) eventually I moved to PlayStation and did it all over again climbing back to GM, and (as I check my instagram post rn) on July 16 2019 I quit. I made LOTS of friends and even two girlfriends, the latter of which I’ve had a kid with and enjoyed these happy few years we’ve been together, but the online community was my big issue. Through social media I’ve experienced a lot of bad people and even things I’d have to put TW’s on (mind you I was a minor if that’s enough of a hint). But after all that, my current girlfriend dragged me back into the game after having quit cold-turkey for 2 years, now I’m on PC, I have a HUGE hero pool (JQ, Zar, Hog, Ana, Bap, Kiri, LW, Ashe, Cas, Echo, Mei, and Widow). I get to play a few hours every 1-2 weeks now that I have kids but recently just got all my roles to diamond and steadily climbing them all to Masters and I’ve been enjoying learning so many new heroes, yes the game isn’t in the best of states and never enjoyed many metas but I ALWAYS played what I wanted and I. MADE. IT. WORK! No matter how many counterswapped or flamed me I would always be determined to overcome against any and all odds and I really and addicted to the characters. The game, meh, BUT THE HEROES, I LOVE them! Nothing plays or feels the same to me as these do, nobody does a hero shooter like this and through all the pain and frustration the game may throw or change into, I just love being my little ol’ grandma Ana or flirtation Life weaver or game dominating Cas or beautiful JunkerQUEEN any chance I get

Ahh, yes, chrono cross music, a woman of culture I see 👌

I stand with you

Overwatch 2 has only one problem: It does't Overwatch. I understood it when Jeff have left. No PvE, no PvP (cause obsiolsy characters and mechanics based on 6v6 won't work on 5v5, I have no clues who the fuck think that it is possible), no lootboxes, no nice look UI. Just a fucking piece of garbage, which Blizzard names Overwatch. That's all. Thank you for video. I totally agree.

I can't stop coming back to this video, I even went and watched ur gameplay videos on ur other account and I'm kinda sad I never got to know you on this game. Your movement is so elegant I can tell you were a very high IQ player. It's also why I understand you hate the game now :/

same. still play it with friends on comp because it's a hilarious experience