Count me among those that thought they were getting a different game than the one they did. So much talk of this being Blizzard's Team Fortress, all the talk from the Jeff and the Overwatch team about their inspiration from games like Unreal Tournament and wanting mobility to be a facet of the game. It's something that I still feel at odds with, but I haven't played much in the past few months -- in fact, I barely played a match outside of placements in season 4, then I played a whoppin' 1 game in 5, and now I'm at a big ol' goose egg in 6.
What Anne said about putting FPS in the backseat is very true, it's a game without a lot of individual character depth or nuance, and very strongly (too much for my liking) trying to synergize to an almost symbiotic way with a team. It doesn't even feel on a very fundamental level very FPS-y, characters control in a very jerky, binary way, it's a game about picking the right character, managing cooldowns, and knowing when and where to press Q. It's also why this is one of the dullest FPS games for me to watch on the professional end of things.
The thing is, a lot of this game feels like they're flying by the seat of their pants on the development side, and I think that solidified the moment they started implementing single hero limits on the basis that it would be a temporary solution, only to go y'know what actually nevermind that's what this game is now.
