How is it possible to fumble the bag this hard? How did we get here? At a certain point it takes active effort to release something as bad and lazy as this. I am almost convinced that it isn’t even laziness but an act of self-sabotage; like how they could have left some of the DLC characters re-using other character’s animations but instead went and stole the work of a modder’s custom animations.

These games were finished and pretty polished, and certainly didn’t take up anywhere near the file sizes as they do now. Even knowing the textures were upscaled to 4K, how does that end up with 60~ GBs of data? Even on Nintendo Switch, this thing takes up 34 GBs of data— more than Mortal Kombat 1 on Switch. I have not heard of a new engine being utilized so I may be wrong but how did all these new bugs get here?

This release has left me with more and more questions, and this is quite possibly the worst fumble with any re-release/remaster I can think of in recent memory. Absolutely embarrassing on Aspyr’s part.

(A few-weeks-early one-year review)

I don’t know, maybe I had put too much faith in the team when this first released. My launch review was 4 stars, simply because I was already a big Overwatch fan and enjoyed all the changes that 2 brought.

But after a year has passed, I’ve come to feel disappointed with how the devs handled changes and patches and new content. The battlepass is probably the worst thing to happen to this game, because heroes and maps and skins now feel like they were forced out to keep up with a battle pass monetary system. Instead of the occasional pretty good new map, character or skin, now we get mid content often. I used to play this game for a few days every week, but I haven’t even touched it once a little bit after Kiriko released.

I don’t think any other game has fallen off this hard to me post-launch. The one thing that was going to bring me back got canceled, being the single player campaign. And I don’t really think anything they could do will reignite my interest, unless they overhaul the entire game (Overwatch 3?)

I just wish this game had a different developer, because Overwatch at it’s core was a pretty great game.