Better. It was better.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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’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

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

the nostalgia is enough to make a grown man cry

I still have my Physical copy of Overwatch to this day

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.

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 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.

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

I was playing the free period during summer in which I could play overwatch without paying and I loved the game, I spent almost every waking hour playing it ( this was when I was still young ) and then one day I tried to play it and it was locked, I asked my dad and he said that the free period had finished and I cried, I cried for like 10 minutes until my parents later came over to me and told me they had bought the game for me, I was so happy I didn't stop playing until midnight.

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 :(

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.”

the double tank era hit different

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 overwatch beta was definitely my favorite time with this game. i was looking for a new game to play and decided to just download the beta since it was free. and i fell in love with ever since. changed my life too

My favourite memory from Overwatch was watching my brother play my favourite hero Genji for the past 7 years and getting into the game

Ranked now is like Quick Play in OW 1. U don’t even play on your own rank anymore, is just random ranks in every role and they think is balanced because both teams are random. In OW 1 wasn’t perfect, but at least if u were plat, u would play in a full plat lobby. Now if u are plat as tank, u have 1 silver dps, another gold dps, 1 diamond healer and another gold healer. And the other team is the same thing. Ow 2 is so bad, omg…

You had me crying 😢

My favorite memory of Overwatch? I remember I was playing in Eichenwalde and I was a Mercy and I was swinging left and right between walls, making sure my team mates were being healed, and my team mates actually vocally responded to me, cheering me on and thanking me after the match. It felt like I was actually playing with a team as they had my back and I had theirs and there was communication.

dva players dying to their own ultimate was funny

Back when Jesse McCree was the most iconic name and was changed to the worst, weakest name ever in the game for a cowboy

Lmao people who still get tilted cause we still call him McCree but still love the character

Holy I wish we could play 2016 Overwatch again

Defense class was more for area denial, meis wall, snipers, junkrats balls it was meant to cut of areas making them dangerous or hard to go trough. I love the defense section and I would love for them to add it back. That way heroes feel more purposeful then just damaging the enemy team you have a job to do. Defend the point or cut off an area. There is a lot of different hero designs that could work well in this section.

School was hard for me socially, after school I would come home and grind junkrat (while keeping my grades up)

the intro literally says it all for me... the beta got me hooked i started my overwatch journey on day 1, the intro song to this video reminded me of all the friends i had, all the friends i started to play with.. they moved on i stayed i lost many friends that way. and now im on this sinking ship alone

Man I miss those days, good times. Very nostalgic

What is Overwatch? An awesome award winning game that had to die because of Blizzard's insane greed and incompetence

Oh my goodness - when you opened the main menu and the theme started playing, it got me right in the feels

I got the PS4 version on January 8, 2017 for my 14th birthday. I loved playing with my best friend, however not alone because it was very toxic back then. I do miss loot boxes though. Just last night we were playing. I'm still getting used to the change on my PS5 but we're having fun. I remember when Sombra was released. Her origin story was what made me want to play. I was so happy when the switched Symettra's class.

please do the comparison videos for the heroes and maps it sounds very interesting to see all the changes could also be a fun series if you do them separately

I'm sad that I never got to experience OW1 in 2016 but a year later from release, May of 2017. Only got to enjoy the best years of OW1 for a year before it went downhill in 2018. Would've been cool to preorder it and get the Widow's extremely rare outfit, Noire. And playing since the beginning with no hero limits!

i genuinely wish i was there, i miss player levels and loot boxes and completing hero galleries, even when i got a bad skin it still felt like a win because i got something, getting items was more fun and enjoyable, it was something to work for

My favorite OW memory was my first Play of the Game. Practicing throwing a Dva bomb in the practice room over and over, then throwing it at the enemy team, behind Rein's shield, and getting a 4k, so my team could take the point in overtime. 😊

One of my favorite memories was when overwatch did their first double xp weekend. It was like 2017. Me and my friends played overwatch for like 40 hours straight because we were all young and it was summer so we had no worries. We liked grinding levels because every level gave you a loot box and we loved getting skins. Now overwatch is super toxic and it makes the game not fun. I remember getting overwatch for Christmas 2016 and adoring the game. Reaper automatically became like my whole personality basically. The christmas music and the old lobby gives me this feeling of just hapiness and nostalgia because i miss being a kid.

The best overwatch memory I have is Christmas day 2017 Before this point, I’ve played overwatch a little bit on my brothers Xbox, but that day I finally got my own and I was amazed at all the different characters particularly junkrat

It was full of life back then, I had so much fun grinding from silver up to masters with my friends, level 900. I just feel robbed of time and money, the games so dead and they gave up on it 😢

A lot can be said, but bottom line is, they f***** up. RIP OW and thank you for the memories.

Overwatch one is so much better than Overwatch 2, like I paid for it once and everything was free and I actually felt I was being respected by Blizzard

Watching this just makes me want to have some sort of way to play OW1 again just for fun haha, hopefully when the anniversary event comes around we could get some old stuff back even if its just for the event, líke 6v6 and so on

Overwatch 2016, anytime! My greatest memories were things like huge resses (that felt so good) and being on fire and getting mvp card at the end. Good times. I really liked lootboxes and hos easily you could get credits and then buy your favorite skin (if that didn't drop from the box before). It was easy, cozy and fun to play Ow1. Dropped my most loved game two months after ow2. It's just sad.

The home screen with hanzo hit me so hard, i would give so much to play overwatch again. I mean the real overwatch. I honestly feel scammed for paying 50 bucks and they take it down and replace it with this shit

i miss the mei freeze

It was amazing coming home from school booting up overwatch playing with friends it was truly a great time

dude you made me cry that you so much for this

overwatch 1 was just more fun, even at the end when it was unbalanced as heck, the soul of overwatch was still there, now its just different. no lootboxes, no 2cp no on fire, just a battlepass and overpriced skins, we didn't even get pve.

This takes me back. I started playing when the first Halloween event came out, I was OBSESSED with the game. It was SO much fun

Take me back

I miss lootboxes 😢pls bring it backkk

I’m proud to say I was a genji main who didn’t spam NEED HEALING

goodbye Overwatch, you will be missed....

I remember playing overwatch with my friend and Mcree being my main , good times lol

I watched the Winston cinematic so many times while booting up overwatch I have it completely memorised

2017 gang 👇

My favorite memory will never be just one moment but all the collective moments shared with friends. I still love the game but can't play for long now anymore without being sad from losing those friends to time.

I played this in Beta and fell in love with the game until ow2. Now it feels like it should be a 2nd job.

best time was probably when i came back home from school and saw an update. It always used to be awesome cause i would save up credits to bujy the new event skins. Peak time for me

The trumpets made me cry ngl. I miss it

Take me back to 2016 😢

i am playing overwatch since 2017 and never noticed that there was something like "rate match"

i remember when my team used 3 Reinhardrt, 1 Bast, and 2 healer and we just jump on the payload and let bastion do the job while Reinhardt just used their shields hahaha

The old maps that aren’t in anymore. And double tank. Those are what I miss most

I miss the lootboxes, my dad was a MONSTER at ow1, having over 1000+ lootboxes from events and other such

7 years ago man..... It was just the greatest multiplayer game I'd ever played. But when that hamster dropped, everything started rolling down hill (including the hamster)

True that. No mater how tough of a day I had the trumpets always brighten my day.

The music when you loaded in gave me goosebumbs

I had just got my PS4 as a grad present and this was game had come out a few days later. Decided to randomly buy it and had no prior info to it. Had no idea it would change my life the way it did

Came to OW2 after a big break from OW1. This video was so nostalgic and made me think how much older I am now. Also I did not realise they took out 2cp just like that. I lowkey miss Volskaya or Temple.

I remember my first time playing in 2016. I was on Tracer on kings row and my dad just showed me how to play. From then I started playing the game constantly. Those were good times.

My brother got OW when it first came out, it was meant to be a late birthday present for me because I wanted the game, but, I was a kid, I didn't understand what to do to finish the tutorial and my brother helped me, but in doing that, he fell in love with the game too. We'd take turns playing, watching the other play, and helping with call outs. You can call it back seat gaming, we called it sibling bonding time. I stopped playing in 2021 due to school, my marching band made me never home, but my friends made me get ow2. I'm still shaking off some rust, I miss ow1. Rest in peace, OverWatch disk that we put in our display case, I'll miss waiting for you to load.

Im not lying but watching blizcon 2019 live hit so good My favorite moment I ever experienced

My first experience with overwatch was with my cousin when he lived with us. I was 7 it was 2016 my cousin had just got overwatch a few months prior. I played a game and I was hooked. A few years later he moved out when I was 9 then my younger brother came in clutch and told my mom I loved this game called overwatch. For my 10th birthday I got my own copy of the game and then it led to depression, stress, anxiety, and lots of fun times.

Dude, you just broke my soul. Lol! 2016-2019 was hands down my favorite time to be a gamer solely because of Overwatch. Then Blizz started doing their insane near daily updates to the game and it wasn't fun anymore. This video took me back to the sheer excitement I had when logging onto my Xbox to get into a match. smh. Thanks for the video tho!

I didn't get the game till mid 2017 and I still get nostalgia watching this video, man I miss ow1

Who remembers collecting 500 loot boxes those were good old times😢

i remember i met my first ever friend on overwatch, we would play every single day non-stop. i still know them, but we don't ever talk much. i really miss old overwatch when it was just fun times and nobody bullied you for your rank, nobody was toxic, nobody cared. we all just had fun. where do the years go?

This made me cry, my uncle showed me this game. I would play p vs ai on his pc and every Friday i would stay with him and he would let me try out new heroes etc and ever since he got me it ive played the game for 6 years religiously and in 2018 he died and this reminded me of him

watching this reminded me of back when it was around 2017, i was being bullied by my team for playing widow and apparently being garbage. So then they wanted to do a widow hs only deathmatch, and dang i dominated them, got potg and got kicked from their game XD

Takes me back 🥲

Who here misses Overwatch 1 because you get free stuff (Like skins and such), One thing that Overwatch 1 fan should remember is back when it was 2016-2021 you can get loot boxes for free…FREE all by playing the game it’s self, Leveling up you got it loot boxes,Arcade mode three loot boxes, You can get duplicates too

ive been playing since june 2016 and love that game so much. 2018 was prime overwatch and i miss it

My fav moment from Overwatch 1 was when I back capped on eichenwaldes first point as orisa

My favorite memory from overwatch one was just DPS doomfist. The movement the insanely high skill ceiling the rollouts making people mad. And killing someone with a hero that was so bad but so much fun. I just muss 6v6 and dps doom man :/

My favorite overwatch memory was 4 years ago on Pokemon RPG2, I pulled a all nighter collecting everything I could and exploring as much as I can

Love your videos 🤩!!

Yes make more! Hero comparisons and maps!

Overwatch gived me warm vibes on all hallowen and winter events

my favorite part about ow was meeting my friends :)

I heard about Overwatch before it came out but mostly in passing. The few screenshots and gameplay I saw, along with the positive feedback made me interested. I bought it day 1 at Best Buy and it came with a free license plate and poster which I still have. I was a Sophomore at the time and just got out for sumemr break, so I got to play it all night long. I had SO much fun and everyone on mic did too, so many cool chill people playing and having a good time. Everyone was just figuring out the game along with you and it was a great experience not dealing with overly serious players. I also wasnt keeping up with the games updates at the time, I guess I thought that this was just it, this was the game and nothing else would be added going forward. I was pleasantly surprised when the first summer games event dropped, it was pretty great. But the Halloween Terror and Winter Wonderland really blew me away, those were so much fun! Even though the events got repetitive for years after that, there was still a lot of charm in the game and the cinematics/new heroes were always exciting. Overwatch 2 is fine, but you just had to be there for Overwatch 1. I like the updated graphics and heroes for 2, but I can't help but want to go back to Overwatch 1 for the nostalgia and simplicity of it all.

My favorite memories were, 1) getting junk rats gold (aka my first gold) 2) cute spray and pixel spray hunting

I was a Mercy main and my friend was a Genji main begging me to heal him all the time lol.

Well yep this is one of the games that played a big part of my childhood!

Kinda crazy how much stuff came back since this video's release -on fire system -og noodle text -old hero intro voice lines (rare chance they say them before a round starts -ASSAULT MAPS -a few more skins -comp ranking system (since the new one is a refined version of that progression)