definitely. you wouldn’t want to play it if you couldn’t tune it out. i don’t want to play it because i don’t want to tune it out. it probably shouldn’t be so distracting!
you should take my comments with a grain of salt, since i didn’t even touch the keyboard, just watched. that said, that’s a lot of… unlabeled stuff. with meaningless icons. i don’t know what i’m looking at at a glance.
don’t bother defending the game to me, i wasn’t going to play it anyway. it looks fun! i was just heavily put off by things, particularly the excessive effects (imo they are more than distracting; they are disorienting)
Those icons have meaning if you play the game (they are the icons for each player’s subclass) but otherwise I do feel the PvP HUD is leaning a bit too far towards utilitarian design right now.
of course they have meaning and make sense if you play, but when I play Halo i understand nigh everything the ui is telling me without needing additional info. again, grain of salt - i’m not even saying the ui is bad, it looks great, it’s just unintuive and a turn off
Your concern about grinding isn’t misplaced … i’ve played ~8 9-hole tournaments and i still haven’t unlocked the second course, or the golf carts, or fishing.
There also isn’t enough grinding, because you only improve one set of stats, rather than winning in characters of differing skill and type, and improving each of them. This means you can’t switch to a less powerful character, which can be really useful when you are playing with people who haven’t played the game as much as you have.
This game is also bad for someone with social anxiety - random characters in the home hub are constantly looking at you and offering encouragement, as if you are some kind of golfing celebrity. People in the gallery on the courses shout useful things such as “Don’t miss!”, when you are taking a vital putt. Maybe it’ll help me get to used to people paying attention to me.
Some friends of mine have been nagging at me to try and get back into Overwatch. Played some the other day. It’s fun enough I guess but I think I will only play when they want to. I still don’t get why everybody loves this game as much as they do.
I think overwatch is probably quite good if you want a shooter that’s like 95% focused on the meta rather than the particulars of being a shooter; it attracts a very specific contingent of people who like modern blizzard polish or identify as “well I’m not good at games but it’s something to chill out with and play together”
it is basically very wow-like (but less hideous and impenetrable), which is fine, but if that’s not what you’re into, something like titanfall 2 is about a million times better. when I took this tack with a friend who likes overwatch he said “huh I’m surprised you went for the more twitchy game” and that’s not how I see it at all
in other news I’m experiencing more “I guess I’m an obscurantist snob” than normal with this windjammers release, I think my friends and I played windjammers most heavily about 17 years ago
Gotta toggle those dipswitches to get the second Japanese player
