This game isn't just Overwatch 1.1, or whatever the initial running joke was on Twitter. I actually think that undersells just how bad what has happened here is, the terrible precedent that Blizzard sets with this being the model for how games "evolve" over time.
They have taken Overwatch, made it a worse game, slapped a 2 on the box, then deleted the original game from existence so that you have no choice but to play the new one. The "new" one: where characters feel more sluggish and spongy, where games constantly end in one team being railroaded because of the new 5v5 structure, where some of the actually fun moves that characters used to have are stripped out.
The gall of releasing this game without the PvE element that was supposed to make the sequel actually mean something is staggering. The lack of new content is gross. And the occasional moments of fun are undercut by the fact that I would rather just play the game the way it used to be when I had fun with it in 2016 and now I just straight up can't. This game is shameful and embarrassing.
They have taken Overwatch, made it a worse game, slapped a 2 on the box, then deleted the original game from existence so that you have no choice but to play the new one. The "new" one: where characters feel more sluggish and spongy, where games constantly end in one team being railroaded because of the new 5v5 structure, where some of the actually fun moves that characters used to have are stripped out.
The gall of releasing this game without the PvE element that was supposed to make the sequel actually mean something is staggering. The lack of new content is gross. And the occasional moments of fun are undercut by the fact that I would rather just play the game the way it used to be when I had fun with it in 2016 and now I just straight up can't. This game is shameful and embarrassing.