So how have you liked Overwatch Open Beta so far? Rate it 0-10 (only those who played it)

lol give me a fucking break. It's exactly BECAUSE I'm not paying for it and won't be playing past the beta that I'm willing to spend that much time on it. I keep telling you I think it's fun and there just isn't enough there. It's as simple as that. There is nothing to be "embarrassed" about.

8-9 hours isn't much at all for me over 3 days, and isn't much at all for a multiplayer game in its cost/time spent ratio. Comparatively, I binged about 20 hours of Dark Souls 3 during it's first 3 days.

Plus, it isn't even like I have some burning desire to play. I'm just logging in because my guild plays and I'm bored.

Okay, let me check my facts: You sit down with your friends and play this game for three hour blocks. The game is good enough to justify doing this several nights a week. On top of that, you have no better games to play? Sounds like a ringing endorsement, particularly when you yourself say you are not planning on stopping just yet. Given your habits, you might just sink twenty hours into this game.

That makes your "not worth $40" claim pretty nonsensical. "$40 is way too much money for many nights of fun with my friends" isn't a negative review. It is a cop out. It also seems like a really silly way to scare people away from a game. Is this like reverse psychology or something?

Yea, "I have nothing better to do" sure sounds like a ringing endorsement.

Jesus Christ how are you not getting this? I had fun, I didn't have enough to spend 40 dollars when I don't like the level of content. I'm playing because it's open beta and it's free. The end. I'm not scaring people away. I'm not pulling legs or fronting. I simply gave my opinion and frankly you're being a condescending tool right now, coming up with all these bullshit excuses for why I should think otherwise.

If it was Free 2 Play 8/10

Full price for this ... 7/10

personally , no way im paying full price for this..

Yeah, I do think "I am going to spend several hours a day most days this week playing Overwatch with my friends because there is currently nothing better on the market" is a really solid endorsement. I also understand your position that despite all the time you are sinking into it, you do not think it is worth a discounted price. I think 10-20 hours having a blast with my friends is totally worth the price of a game. I am also pretty stoked that blizzard didn't tack on a bad campaign most people avoid in order to justify a sixty dollar price tag. That describes a great value in my book.

Which is why I stole the word nonsensical to describe your position. If that makes you so butthurt, perhaps choose nicer words for me to steal? I really wish more companies would follow suit. If EA ditched the phoned in single player and bundled the multiplayer/season pass for $60, They might actually be a solid value. Assuming they can get it working in the first month or two....

@Vaasman

At the end of the day the whole "Content" *opinion* is just a preference thing... people always brag about Halo/CoDS content when they release ... forgetting that they are on their 10th revision, TF2 has 9 year of updates etc... UT2k4 was on its 3rd revision. (Overwatch is launching with more than TF2 ... the unfortunate difference is Overwatch doesn't have the Source engine with tons of extra features all ready for people that want custom games in mind...)

But ultimately ... most people on those games end up playing 1 mode ... Team Deathmatch ... don't go pretending to me that UT2k4 Assault was popular ... it wasn;t ... it was a fraction of the community that played it to mess around in for awhile. Then there were the different little modes that got dwarfed by the standard deathmatch .... and in CoD, where you can even see how many people playing modes ... Team Deathmatch was 90% of the player base....

Just another example of gamers "not realising what they really want" .... the game modes play a very small factor into Multiplayer games... infact Multiplayer games with less modes do better..... look at the top current multiplayer games:

LoL , DoTA , CS:GO , Hearthstone etc .... all 1 trick ponies in the game mode departments ....

Now we can discuss player sizes ... and I will say that its balanced around 6 vs 6 and making a map larger is a S*it cop out that would work for battlefield or UT assault but NOT overwatch ... where you would start seeing duplicates of classes to the point of BROKEN.... (because skills/abilities are far more pronounced and exaggerated) This is also the case in TF2 ... oh sure, quite alot of casual kiddies like "16 vs 16 2fort FAST RESPAWN" .... but it becomes a s*it deathmatch fest ...... with no balance... and the game mode becomes broken. KEEP THAT IN CUSTOM , keept it out of quick play and ranked ... which is what the game is intended for.

Overwatch is designed with a tailored specific experience in mind, and they already stated they will add less strict modes over time through "CUSTOM GAMES" and eventually Private hosted customer servers... but they are not a focus .... because that isn;t the game.... its a design choice, not a lack of content flaw. This is the "Less is more scenario" ... where you pop on, play the game as intended and pop off.

Nobody is butthurt, I debated your opinion .... if you want to get upset about it then simply dont reply. instead of pretending we are rabid fanboys attacking your precious self.

I wish Gamespot allowed you to "view results" of the poll without voting. I haven't played it (nor intend to) but I want to see the results without voting. They used to have this functionality a few years ago, but they got rid of it for some reason. Such a stupid decision..

Same here.

I agree 100%. Theres an issue also with OVerwatch justifying its price overall. As i said before to some blizzboys , if this game was exactly the same but was coming from other developer than blizzard ... majority wouldnt even think to pay for it let alone play it .

But hey , if people think this worth their money , so be it. Its their $$ to begin with.

Game is fun but I would kill for dedicated servers, mod support and ranked servers. It is hard for me to justify the $70 AUS price tag on Overwatch without these features.

Dayum! the impressions are so good.

Seems that i gotta shell out.

Yeah i voted "8" just to see the results lol

The shooting feels sloppy as f***, the movement is way to floaty, the characters have ZERO customization, and the visuals are worse than TF2 while managing to run worse than TF2. No way would I spend a dime on this, I MIGHT be able to overlook some of this stuff if it were F2P, but at full retail on consoles and $40 on PC I expect WAY more out of a pure multiplayer shooter.

6/10 at best.

It has smaller maps, smaller player counts, fewer game modes, no modding, no character customization, and both the movement and shooting feel worse. How is that an evolution? It is no more an evolution than HotS is for the MOBA genre. They just stripped it down and simplified while simultaneously ripping half of their heroes directly from TF2 and removing all the customization that made them unique.

Big meh.

I'd give it an 8 so far. It went from not being on my radar to being a day 1 buy for me.

It has dedicated servers. Also, they are releasing a competitive mode soon.

I'd give it a 9/10. It's by far the best MP game I've played in years. I love TF2, so this is spot on for me.

Meh, I preordered it off Amazon. It's not like there's a glut of worthwhile games on consoles right now.

9/10. I'm enjoying the hell out of it. Went ahead and purchased the deluxe edition on PC.

Your words not mine.

implied and you know it.

By you maybe. I never once mentioned anything about anyone being a fanboy. But since you're clarifying to me now that that's the position you're coming from, then there isn't much left to discuss.

ah whatever, if I left that part off you wouldn't have had anything worthwhile to say, was silly of me to include maybe... but ultimately ... you didn't address anything else either.... because you couldn't. Just decided to pick out the only meaningless part and go to town on it... well done...

No I didn't respond to most of that because I've already made my stance clear and it's obvious from the thread there are others who agree, so there isn't anything left for me to say. I think you need to get a grip.

If you open this forum in an alternate browser (One you are not signed into your account with) it will show you the results. Not claiming the feature wouldn't be handy, just offering a work around!

its a good game and i'm sure it will be huge in e-sports i personally just dont like it much and prefer battleborn. i dont really find that many of overwatch's heroes fun to play and the mechanics for most of the characters arent interesting. some of the characters need to be nerfed a bit (tracer, bastion, mei) and then others have underwhelming kits (winston, symmetra) I'm sure thats due to synergy issues where they are supposed to be played paired with other specific heroes that directly benefit more from their tool sets, but just pugging matches and giving all the characters a decent amount of time thats how i felt.

I also didnt like overwatches reward system, seems kind just added on uninteresting fluff compared to battleborns loadouts and helix upgrades.

overwatch feels kinda like it should be free 2 play. it has less content than HotS

he plays cod religiously.

oh, thanks.

Good idea, thanks!

7/10

It's just brimming with so much charm and polish. The experience is very refreshing through and through, but it lacks that competitive edge, and it faces a bit of an identity crisis by emulating itself so closely to Team Fortress 2. Not to say that's a bad thing per se, but it could stand to use more deviations.

At any rate, I see myself getting it. But certainly not at full price.

I should clarify, I am looking for dedicated servers with a server browser list, not one you have to invite users via Battlenet. This is a very basic feature available in most popular FPS games.

I will also await the release of the ranked play to see if they have solo queues.

7/10.

I've never played a MP shooter before (yep, no CS, no TF2, not even L4D) they are just not my cup of tea...but i decided to try this one because it's Blizzard and hey, it's free.

Anyway, the game is fun, really fun but it get's old kind of quick and the matchmaking is terrible, sometimes i get to face guys with so much more experience and it get's frustrating, but when both teams are equal, is fun and intense.

However, like i said, it get's old and i don't see myself getting the game right now because it feels lacking, however in a year (maybe less) the game will have much more content so who knows, maybe it wil be worth.

I have been playing it on X1 and love it. the variety of players just make the game interesting. I have been jumping between a few characters including Soldier 76, Widowmaker, Torbjorn, and Reaper.

When is the beta over?

@mr_huggles_dog It ends on the 10th, they extended it by 1 day for everyone

@logicallizard07: thanks....going to download it tonight and try it out.

@SerOlmy: The game runs fine and looks better than TF2. Why are you spreading lies?

7. It gets boring after a while. It looks great but hopefully they get more content such as a full campaign mode featuring the characters.

Yikes.

I can't remember the last game with this feature if we're being honest. Valve games maybe?

@SexyJazzCat:

By what measure? The textures are muddy, the texture filtering needs to be maxed out just to not have distant objects look like they are made out of a solid pallet, and FPS get bogged down in heavy action. The only thing that looks objectively better in Overwatch is the character models.

Copied from my post in the PC forum

I'll be buying it at launch. I really love TF2, its my favourite game. But the community after TF2 turned F2P really pissed me off. Too many new players, people only going on Valve servers and trade servers and its competitive mode isn't out yet. Overwatch gives me that competitive edge I missed in TF2. Oh sure I can play the new mode coming to TF2 but will the community actually take it seriously? I also never saw TF2 as a 6v6 game(9v9 makes the most sense because ya know, it has 9 classes). Soooo Overwatch is just a new game like TF2 for me to hop onto and relive the days of when I had to learn the game and other players weren't just there to trade hats.

bleh

It's pretty good. I liked it more now than the Beta I played before. I'd say a solid 7/10. It's no Team Fortress 2, but I can see myself spending more hours on this than I currently have before I get bored with it. Not over 1000 hours like I did with TF2 as I think it'll be easier to get bored with Overwatch.

Great game lot of fun and highly competitive might buy it after playing the beta.

It's not groundbreaking by any means, but its choatically fun.

Meh, I hate most of the characters. Basically everybody except Hanzo and Bastion. And maybe Widowmaker. But all in all it gets boring way too fast like all multiplayer only shooters. It's always the same. Just can't stomach those for more than an hour until I fall asleep.

I'm not really impressed.

nothing very engaging.

It's meh

it's too similar to TF2, and with less content at launch looks like

I think it's superior to TF2 in just about every way and is a evolution of the class/hero based genre of team based shooters..

... Your crazy if you think TF2 looks better than Overwatch.. TF2 is almost 10 years old..

@sSubZerOo:

That is a ridiculous statement. As a class based shooter the characters have less options individually and you have less options overall to counter play. Each hero has ZERO customization option, none. That is objectively worse compared to TF2 where each class has dozens of items with different benefits/drawbacks that can be used situationally. Even though there are more characters in Overwatch you still have fewer options than you do with 9 classes in TF2. This is further amplified by the low player count, with only 6 per side versus 12 (or 16) in TF2 you again have fewer option.

I said it before - Overwatch is no more an evolution of the class based shooter than HotS is an evolution of the MOBA genre.

Probably like a 7 or 8, game is a ton of fun but lacks content and depth, feels like a F2P game. Blizzard's ass design is also on point as usual, some talented artists there.

Favorite characters are Hanzo, McCree, and Widowmaker.