Overwatch 2: Why I can’t quit it

For the longest time, overwatch has been the black sheep of the gaming industry. A once prominent game, being one of the first multiplayer fps to win game of the year. But its fall from grace was even more massive. A meta lasting way longer than it should have making playing anything else redundant. The release of a character so fundamentally broken that the game revolved around them. And corporate bureaucracy.

And the nail in the coffin is false promises made for a sequel that failed to deliver what was promised. This led to why further questions and player base distrust, leading to the overwhelmingly negative reviews on Steam. Making Overwatch 2 one of the most negatively rated games on Steam and a black sheep in the gaming community.
But we aren’t here to talk about why it is how it is. Many different articles do a great job at it, I am here to tell you why even after all this how I can’t quit this game. I have played a lot of different games, and fps or MOBAs but Overwatch is the only game I feel heroic, where efforts and understanding feel like they pay off big time.

Take Dota or League, for example, a great game but extremely complex, making it super hard to pick up, or Valorant, a highly mechanical skill-involved game. Overwatch is different, it’s about, positioning, it’s about game awareness, about game knowledge. And when you make a play it’s different, it’s not just landing a headshot, it’s making a play that defines a team fight and it manages to do it with the simplest of gameplay loops.

Overwatch makes fights worth it and makes wins worth it. Each hero plays differently, has their own play style and their own advantages. One of my favourite overwatch streamers put it the best. Overwatch is the retirement home for gamers, as we lose reaction time we game knowledge and awareness, and this game puts quite a bit of value behind that.

So, even though it may be the black sheep of the gaming industry, I just can’t quit this game. And recommend everyone to give it a chance, it’s getting better and I look forward to its glory days coming back.