What Was Overwatch Like 7 YEARS AGO

Never in my life did I think I would miss loot boxes… but here we are…

Better. It was better.

I miss this game so much. It’s crazy how 7 years have gone by. I met friends that I still talk to now and I really wish I could go back to those days sometimes.

This genuinely makes me kinda sad... I'll probably be leaving OW by the end of this year, because I as a player dislike the cancellation of pve, but will stick around just long enough to take a glance at the season 6 story missions. But seeing this video took me back to a much simpler time. Staying up late with friends to grind levels, practicing heroes none of us were normally good with, aiming for that POTG, etc. In a weird way, watching this helped me pay my respects to the ow memories that I have, and helped me feel content with walking away from ow2. Thank you.

At first i loved the ow 2 idea, but now, i want this back so hard

It baffles me how many good quality of life stuff they got rid of with OW2… UI design, on fire system, not being able to see amount of unlocks in hero gallery, etc… craaazy

I miss OG overwatch everyday tbh. I used to collect all my lootboxes like 500+ and open them all in one random day

this video was so nostalgic, but also depressing. back in 2018 on a hot summer day grinding out the event for loot boxes, some of the most enjoyable times i had with overwatch. Thank you for this video bro, i would definitely love to see some more comparison videos in the future

I remember every week you could get 3 lootboxes in arcade just by winning 9 games, truly miss it. [edit] Thanks for the likes 🥹

I still have my Physical copy of Overwatch to this day

I’ve been playing overwatch for 7 years and the most thing I miss is the Winston greeting,mercy’s old ult,and the loot boxes

the nostalgia is enough to make a grown man cry

this video brought me back to christmas of 2016, when i got the game and would stay up late every night just to grind levels, get loot boxes and just have fun with my friends. really makes me remember how good we used to have it, and how i’ve just become comfortably numb to ow2. after seeing this video, it makes it so much harder to open up the game and have fun with it like i could with ow1.

I really miss mass rez mercy. I was the person who solo healed a 5dps team. Mass rez was so fun and heroic, truly felt like an actual “ultimate” ability, not to mention it’s iconic tying it all together. And when we already had another support, I would play Symmetra. I loved giving shields to teammates. It’s really sad that both my favorite heroes are now so different to how I first fell in love with them.

My favorite memory of Overwatch was in a vsAI game (I was such a noob at normal games, but ironically, almost every time I played vs AIs I had a play of the game). I was playing Reinhardt in Eichenwalde, and just as everyone did, I went in front of the AI team's spawn point waiting for them to come out, I remember that we destroyed the bots four times, but it was on the fifth time where things got spicy for me. When the bot team got out of the spawn I charged and I made my first and only team kill. That one is the best memory I have of OW and also one of my happiest memories of all times

Something I miss so much about the old overwatch were the events. Especially the archives and Halloween terror events. I’ll admit after the first week of the events being out it usually got boring. However, the first week was filled with so much enjoyment from the new content and game modes, and they came out with so many new cosmetics you had a real reason to grind the game and get event loot boxes. Nowadays, they’ve gotten rid of most of the events and locked all new cosmetics behind a paywall most people can’t afford, and still won’t update the content of the events either. Blizzard has truly ruined everything good about overwatch and it’s such a shame :(

I really miss stacking hero's, because when I started playing the game, I was originally going to be a Tracer main (because I was a Scout main in TF2) and I remember actually being decent enough to get some kills. In one of the matches I had, my team were all Tracer, then the other team slowly became Tracer too and we all just zooming everywhere. The voiceline "Eva git dat feelin' of Deja Vu?" spamming everytime we recalled and immediately dying afterward, and I loved every second of it. It was just all chaotic fun, and I really miss it. (Btw, the map this took place on was at the fricken Shimada brothers home, I don't remember the name of it, though).

the double tank era hit different

The good times…I miss you ow1 😢

When I was younger I was playing over watch on my brothers ps4, the only thing I remember was bastions little healing arm thing. One year later my brother and my mother were going out to target to get groceries. My brother had a note on the ps4 saying “Don’t play until I come back.” Me and my brother always loved playing together, but on the way back from getting groceries they got hit by a car. My mother survived but my brother didn’t. And to this day, I still have a yellow sticky note saying, “Don’t play until I come home.”