Hey there! It’s your favorite son of Big Boss here bringing my opinions on Overwatch, which is a fantasy shooter that I absolutely love but have problems with as well.

Overwatch has been a big part of my recent involvement in more multiplayer games and this is because unlike other games I find a bit bland now like Call of Duty or The Division, Overwatch is always changing and can always be played a different way.

On the first week that I purchased Overwatch, which was August 2016, I devoted myself to the cool cyborg ninja dude Genji! I’m a huge fan of ninjas and their superhuman abilities in games such as Aragami so when I saw Genji I was ecstatic.

Over the past 2 years that I’ve been playing Overwatch, I’ve actually managed to bond with and become better friends with people from my school. This game really does bring people together because of its very wide selection of characters and play styles to choose from. You can go in swinging a hammer, shooting rockets from the spy, sniping with a bow and arrow, or even just sitting there and letting your own turret do all the work for you ;).

Although I praise this game for its wonderful game play and magnificent world-building, I have a lot that I REALLY don’t like either. Case in point, the competitive scene.

My buddies and I have gone through Overwatch for the past 2 years but most of them aren’t into competitive Overwatch so I tried it myself…emphasis on tried. When I go into competitive alone, I get people who leave the match when we’re winning, trolls who just want to bring the whole team down and ruin the game, and even stubborn players who refuse to switch characters simply because they all want to be the stars of the match.

Another problem is the balancing of the characters (Brigitte) and how Blizzard (creators of Overwatch) fails to address all the problems of their own game. McCree for example, is an old-fashioned Wild West like cowboy armed with a revolver and some flashbangs. He does a lot of damage but suffers heavily from his lack of mobility as all he has is a roll on a long cooldown and his ultimate slows him down even more making him an easy target.

Mercy is another character that Blizzard hasn’t shown very much love for. Mercy is a lot less viable than she was before in the game as they removed her ultimate to resurrect a number of people and made it into a 30 second cooldown ability (games typically last around 10 minutes so this really isn’t a lot). Her healing has been reduced to the point where she cannot heal more than the weakest character in the game can do damage, and her new ultimate has been downgraded to the point where the only values of it is that she can fly and extend her healing and damage beam to the whole team.

I play healers and I play tanks. The majority of these players religiously play offense like its their destiny. When I follow one of these offense players like say…another Genji, I get left behind and bashed on for “not doing my job” when there are 4 other people on the team who need my help. No matter what happens however, I still manage to keep calm and I currently am in Platinum which you could say is where the majority of players are and I’m proud of my rank.

The whole Mercy downgrade over the year really does irk me as I love to play healer as well. One of my favorite healers is Moira, who is a biological scientist who can heal a large amount of health with a limit and can inflict damage for a good amount in which it heals her and refills her biotic energy. She can also throw orbs of healing and damage and her ultimate is a coalescent laser combining her healing and damage which does major healing and damage.

I’m very passionate about this game and I may be all over the place when talking about it, but it really is a great game. It brings friends together and allows for a multiplayer and team based experience that hasn’t been seen for years. Overwatch brings out the best and the worst of me as I’m a bit loud when playing but I’m more aware and am able to alert my team when danger is coming from a side they’re not looking at. Really…this game is great.

And with that, I take my leave and am glad to have shared with all of you the beauty and ugliness of Overwatch. It was great talking about this and I’ll see you all later! Ultimate Despair out!