Overwatch is for Boomers (Highly Accessible)
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Hey guys, Tomato here (or Mato for short). Going over something that I think Overwatch does right although it doesn't get as much recognition for it. Many more popular games, such as Fortnite or Apex, have increased their skill ceilings so much that it has alienated the less dedicated player base. They have modes that account for this, but if you have a competitive nature , it can be hard to accept that you can no longer compete because your reflexes are starting to slow down. Overwatch has made their game more accessible to players of all types without making it overly difficult to master by approaching skill ceilings in a different fashion. Each hero has different skill floors and ceiling and it let's all different kinds of people play the game.
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As I get older, I substitute my worsening reflexes with game-sense and strategy.
Now that’s 🔥😎 always nice to hear alternatives
It's rare to see positivity and a welcoming message about this game these days. Props to you!
Overwatch is the first FPS that I know that you could have any gaming background and find familiarity in the characters. You play tekken/smash, here’s doomfist with his combos. You play Skyrim? Here’s a bow and arrow man hanzo. Monkey ball fan? Try wrecking ball! There’s a lot more examples that I cant think of right now
Good point, that's another thing that adds to the games accessibility. They take concepts from other games and somehow make them fit into a hero shooter.
Funny you said tekken considering that's exactly what I played. Unfortunately there isn't doomfist combos anymore but it's still funny
“Do u love doing nothing and watch other play? Here’s mercy”
@@chryic237 mercy players dont get enough credit sometimes. sure, aim isn't needed, but game sense and strategy are still important. the difference between a healbot mercy and a mercy that utilizes the whole kit effectively is huge. she's a good example for the topic of this video.
@@chryic237my Mercy gf described it as "I just love to nurture my teammates and heal all their worries and carry with Valk"
My favorite part about this game is the heros. I never liked fps but thats because theres no hanzo, doom, kiriko, tracer, etc in those games. Fast movement or high skill ceilings is just too fun for me
You might be interested to know that Blizzard had a thing called the "Mom Test" which asks the question, can Mom figure it out without reading the manual, and it played a big part on designing Diablo's controls to be as intuitive as possible and easy to play for those starting out. Looks like they carried some of that tradition onto newer games and why there are more accessible choices for play.
I've been saying this for years. As someone who's been playing PC games since the Intel 486, I'm grateful for OW/OW2 allowing me to play competitively without needing to have high mechanical skill anymore.
I was flabbergasted when i saw the thumbnail, im the type to play ow sipping on adderall and can't stand even apex for not being as fast, the amount of shit on your screen is enough to kill a victorian child and i really like that as of now. It's crazy to hear of your experience playing a hero pool that still allows you to come and play the game by recruiting other skills to make up for decaying reflexes
That's interesting. What heroes/role do you play? I find it's not as hectic when you're playing heroes like Zen, Ana, or Ashe, but if you're playing like Winston, Tracer, Genji, or Lucio there's more to react to since you're dead smack in the action.
@@MatoTM yeah overwatch gets crazy when you fighting in the pocket, i play lucio almost exclusively (kiri sometimes) and dabble into some winston, tracer, genji in qp. It's actually being pretty difficult for me to adjust to heroes like bap and ana, these are getting very meta from time to time now that im dipping into gm and it's a vastly different headspace to be at when you can't rely so much on movement
Overwatch's variety of heros is 100% it's biggest strength and why it is still a one-of-a-kind game. There is no other game that makes someone like reinhardt feel fun despite his simple mechanics while still allowing crazy stuff like doom to exist in the same experience.
i’m a teenager and i enjoy fps games but i’m not particularly good at them. i play with my friend who is pretty good at fps games and i felt bad about holding them back. overwatch has been really nice because i can play a hero like mercy or kiriko and still be contributing. i do occasionally dabble in tank and dps but i mostly play support and im content with that :)
i feel the skill floor thing for overwatch so much but for a different reason. i never played fps games until late in my teens, so i was utterly lost on all the basics of playing an fps, from mechanics to positioning to teamwork. ow1 was my first fps, and so it was easy to latch onto mercy as a low pressure hero that let me play the game with my more experienced friends. a hero like mercy made it so easy to get passionate about the game - having such good vision of fights and not having to aim frees up a lot of processing power for strategizing instead, and thats something that i could really easily learn to love and pick up without the frustration of fighting against my own reflexes to teach them how to aim. eventually i did begin trying more aim intensive heroes, but i got to carry over so much knowledge from my time playing mercy (who i still love to play and keep mastering movement on) and i could feel excited and optimistic about learning new roles and heroes because i knew there will be at least one hero who i could click with, and then its just a matter of time to improve on that character. loved the video, looking forward to seeing more!
I’ll be 33 soon and I love gaming more now than when I was younger. I have learned to supplement my lack of reflexive speed, with game sense. Overwatch was the game that made me think more deeply in gaming. Learning from my brain dead bot like mistakes. Great video. I needed this.
I'm 37, about to turn 38, and Overwatch is probably my favorite game in history. If you look at my most played heroes, it's Moira, Reaper, Rein, Winston, Junkrat, Torb. I can't aim for shit lmao but I'm still having fun.
Good video. I do agree that OW has quite low skill floor: Anyone can jump in and be somewhat productive in the matter of few games if they pick the easy heroes. But something author failed to mention: OW has also the highest skill ceiling out of any competitive games. It's not enough that you learn mechanics of few heroes. You need to put tens of hours to all heroes to understand how to properly handle every possible matchup. You need to put in hundreds if not thousands of hours to master your few main heroes. You need a lot of experience to understand different metas and counters. You need a lot of experience to understand more refined strategies and tactis. OW is not you run and gun shooter like APEX or COD. It's not slow paced tactical shooter like CS or R6. It's not a tactial MMO like LOL. It's everything that those games are but in one package.
I see your point. I guess I might have had an easier time getting into OW because I had already played all those games you listed. So I went in with some experience.
Jumping from game to game over the years has helped me learn a lot, and some of that knowledge transfered to the next game I played.
Your reflexes don't change as much as you think. What you're attributing to reflexes is more likely muscle memory and intuition - when you're good at Overwatch, for example, you don't need to think about what makes a good nade or how to throw your suzu to save your tank or if it's good to use your Ultimate - you just know how to use those abilities. At some point, you didn't even know how to aim and walk. These were all things you learned to do while playing. And, as you remove things from this mental stack, your "reaction time" is quicker because you spend less time thinking.
It is kind of true that ow2 requires less mechanical skill on tank and support, and less reaction time in general, but because of the team based nature and decision making, it is one of the tougher games to get into a high rank, such as masters and higher
Reaction speed really doesn't deteriorate that much with age, especially not if you stay healthy. Obviously when you get to a senior age it will certainly be slower, but in your 30s, nah.
It does start going down after like your early 20s for most, it's not by a lot it's still going down. Now I don't think that it does down enough to make you bad at video games tho but I haven't gotten there yet.
nope. study ive seen been actually age 27 start of decline, which saddened me as ive watched, bc i was 26 there x.x
@@lilwintery6434
I don't agree with your take. At 43 I know I can't beat bosses with ease in games I used to when I was younger.
As I get older, I substitute my worsening game-sense and strategy with senility.
Bro how old are you. You sound so young and you are making me feel like a dinosaur at 23.
Thank u for this. So nice to see something positive for once, and I do agree w ur points. It's really difficult to be smart at overwatch tho, since there is insane amount of abilities with all the visuals, sounds and names, maps are big and very detailed, game modes have fairly complicated rules and u need to figure out team comps & team synergy, among other things. Which is a lot to handle.
Apart from what u've mentioned, there is also this factor that ur mental attitude is very important, because u need to stay calm and focused at all times, otherwise u'll get into ur head, won't be present in the moment anymore and ur head will be too busy to handle all the required thinking. I think older ppl have an advantage here, since they tend to get along with ppl better, so higher social skills, be more understanding, patient and have way more stable self-esteem that teenagers normally do.
Good points! I'm actually planning on making a video about how staying calm and having patience helps a lot. I don't know when it'll be ready, but it's on my list!
I agree that the older you get, the better your social skills, understanding, patience, and self-esteem are, and when you're not stuck in your own head, it's way easier to make progress in life. Do you think it's possible to "teach" someone to stay calm, patient, etc.? Because I feel as though not everyone grows into it.
Im 33 and I haven't lost any speed for me. Just don't have as much time to play games now
This is a good video but I want to push back on the idea that slower reflexes as you age actually matter as much as people think it does.
I come from a fighting game background, which is arguably the most reflex intensive genre of competitive game. The thing is, in the fgc, there are a huge amount of examples of older people who compete at the top level. Knee (38) in tekken and Daigo (42) and Tokedo (38) in street fighter being the prime examples. If you want to include platform fighters, mang0 is 32 now.
The point is that while raw reaction time seems to degrade with age, raw reaction time has an actual smaller effect than it is given credit for.
What people in the fgc know is that actual reaction time is more based on familiarization with your opponents options and habits and the current game conditions. This all comes more from experience and having good muscle memory than the rote connection between your eyes and your fingers.
True. Raw reaction is what I'd use in the past, though. Now, I'm more focused on reacting preemptively rather than in the moment. Other comments call it game sense, I call it predictions.
I think a lot of the older fighting game players are doing something similar, but I'm not familiar enough with the fighting game community to know for sure. I know there's players that study frame data and stuff to see what the best follow up is to certain punches and kicks.
Have you ever watched Core A Gaming here on RUclips? That channel has some great analysis videos on fighting games.
@@MatoTM I am familiar with them!
Of course I can't speak to your experience and my comment was not really a criticism of your video, but what I found is that I've had the opposite experience as I age. I am 32 now and feel that I am better at video games than I ever was in the past.
It's exactly that "game sense" and "muscle memory" that I've been talking about. I just find it accounts for a lot more than raw reaction times can.
It's worth studying fighting games if you're interested in the subject of competitive gaming in general. I've been in a lot of scenes for a lot of games and I find that fighting games, while not as popular as other esports, really encapsulates many of the concepts in the others and presents them in a pretty distilled form. For instance, there are a whole class of moves that are deemed "unreactable," which is anything under about 20-26 frames (a frame is 1/60th of a second). Because of the quickness of these moves, players have to counter them differently than moves that are actually reactable. They may out space them or condition their opponent to use them in disadvantageous positions.
"Predicting" is a huge part of fighting games as well, but not only in the sense that you are looking for something your opponent does, but predicting a range of options your opponent may go for any given that situation and responding in a way that provides you the most reward for your risk. At a certain distance, your opponent may jump, press a long range attack, or they might dash in on you, all these options are at the low end of what is humanly reactable. A good player will make you worry about all three. This is called your "mental stack" or how much you have to look for at any given time, the more you are looking for, the harder it is to react.
In the end, what I am saying is that video games are so different from those reaction test trials that you click on a box when the screen turns green. Sure, there may be some times where your age will affect you, but my theory is what accounts for most of our skill issues as we grow older is that our priorities change, there is more on our mind, and we have less time to spend on priming our "muscle memory."
Bruh there are professional athletes competing in their 40s
I want to correct one point you made: Winning is fun. But getting stomped is not. But also getting stomped is not the opposite of winning. Losing can be fun too and that's important. If you were to design a game you'd want players not to get stomped but also not destroy others. But if they'd get stomped on let them stomp in another game. Winning and losing is both fine as long as it doesn't feel frustrating to play and maybe even challenged you and had you engaged
True. It wouldn't be a good competition if you were only winning.
I love winton overwatch, really makes you FEEL like a super smart gorilla. Mostly because gorillas dont have opposable thumbs so they probably suck at aiming just as much as I do.
What a great video hey, i'm excited to see what else you produce, also curious of how well you did in Gears 5, cause i fucking love that game, but i'm just kinda decent and not very consistent
I was in Masters in Gears 5, but now they do a leaderboard system, and I haven't played enough to be placed anywhere.
Heey well done i got into masters in one of the mid to later seasons, before the leaderboard update, but now that the games quite old the playerbase is all gone here in Aus so the matchmaking forces US servers but it takes a long 10-15mins to find a game, unless i have a friend from the US host for me, kinda sucks tbh, but i'm lucky to have a few friends who still play the game :)@@MatoTM
Ow is the only shooter I have ever been able to play for more than a few matches.
(was)
I just want to say that this video is so well put together.
I think the beauty of this game is as you said, you can always come back.
Me personally Ive always liked either being a support player or a player with lots of destructive power.
This is why games such as Battlefield, Battlefront and Overwatch is so good.
If I wanna be save my team in life threatining situations, Baptiste, Brig and Support
If I want destruction and being a nuisance, then there's Junkrat and Engineer with rocket lauchers.
I think fundamentally, games should offer players the ability to be an asset to their team without having high reflexes.
TL:DR Great vid, I agree, and here's an idea! If you plan on doing more vids like these, can I reccomend you do
'The genius of' videos? I love positive video analysis and I think you have a knack for that 😁
Here's a sub!
are your skills really worsening from age? Or is it just the fact that you cant play 8 hours a day and have responsibilities (which you said).
I think the one thing we can all agree on here is that you are in fact a boomer 😂😂😂
Thanks! But look at your profile pic lol
@@MatoTM Dang why did you have to burn him so much with the profile pic inspection
@@MatoTMHow old are you anyways?
I think he's just referring to the character. He's from an old anime I watched on adult swim back in the early 2000s (I can't remember the name of the show for the life of me).
Yu Yu Hakusho is the name
Instead of age, could it also be due to more responsibility/ being tired after a long day/week? I thought my reflexes were deteriorating too. I just had to give up playing on my phone so much. Save a little physic energy
3:00 least obvious reaper ult
I definitely subscribed after seeing this video, nice job, it was a good video, thanks.
No longer being a spring chicken in gaming terms and coming to OW1 in like 2017 from Dota2, I very much rely to this day on my knowledge and understanding over my mechanical skill. The strategic aspect is what drew me into the game, with the aesthetics really blending the feel for this game together for me.
The fact that neither skill nor knowledge alone can carry you is one of the parts I love about this game, and I'm always happy when I see others mention it too, as too many big content creators focus so much on the mechanical requirement, which granted is valid, but there's more to it than that :)
So thank you for adding to the pool of content that says its more than just pewpew good 🙏
I love dota 2 for similar reasons, out of all the mobas its the one that focuses on macro and coordination the most
flats sent me. thanks for making this.
Dang. I think you just convinced me to reinstall
this is true, I'm old and I can still carry in OW from time to time. a big part is the grind. older players have less time to grind those twitch mechanics into their hands.
Nice video, but as someone with a disability, it's a bit disheartening to hear 'you can just play other characters that dont have a high skill ceiling', I usually play on controller because I effectively play one handed, so people recommend I play tank champions, but I dislike the tank playstyle, which makes getting into the game very hard because I'm forced to play a playstyle I dislike. I don't think making simpler heroes is the ultimate solution to accessibility.
Tbh I find repeating the same inputs over and over until perfection very easy compared to actually having to think. For example everyone stuck in plat can reach diamond or masters if they simply could think better. I think fighting games are the perfect example of this cuz everyone thinks they’re hard cuz they don’t know how to learn things properly, and also there’s less familiarity cuz there’s no aiming but either way ppl struggle at them cuz they can’t think and learn things right which makes the barrier to entry higher than most games cuz ppl don’t like to use their brains
I’m 20 years old and I feel this bro
Lol I was happy he showed battleborn for a second 🤣
Is it possible that you used to play non matchmaking games like call of duty when you were younger and now you are playing games with matchmaking like overwatch? Back in my day, games would just put random people in games with no consideration given to skill level. If you were put up against a random sampling of the playerbase, you probably could still dominate and get out of the most risky situations scot free.
No no, please don't take away my best excuse for being low rank stuck 😂. Jokes aside, great take on a topic most players simply don't care about (those young fellas right?).
I have to say though, what still gives me a lot of trouble is the amount of data to process at a high speed. I sometimes see vod reviews where somebody says "and you know ana has no sleep..." just because you saw a tiny glimpse of pixle flying through the corner of the screen. Then to base decisions on that holy moly...
Anyways I love to at least be able to make progress by learning something not totally impossible due to lack of reflexes.
Also almight hrrrrr awesome flash... That was an insta subscribe on my side 😉.
Looking forward to see more of your videos. Thx
you dont like competitve games. u like winning
I'm 32 and I have the same ! How old are you if I may ask ?
as an old quake and Gunz online player I always found fortnight and apex annoyingly slow lol
im 26 and don’t feel a decline in my reaction at all. If anything I’m even better at games now because I can see the big picture and make smarter moves
As and old Gamer boomer whose been around since Sega, I've been stuck on OW since the OW1 beta back in 2016. I love it because there is a hero for everyone to succeed with no matter their skill level. If you have god level aim then play a hitscan like Widow/Ashe but if you're like me and your reflexes ain't what they used to be and just made the switch to PC finally... well then you can main Mei/Junkrat like me and still have fun🤣but if I don't wanna get rolled I just swap back to Halo Infinite on my controller and stomp even kids
I play widow, no brain needed. Just aim and go pew pew
Overwatch is the only competitive game I've seen which accommodates for a large variety of skill sets.
Magic the gathering is kinda similar in the fact that even a bad player can win a lot from creative thinking
ow is a game thats easy to b okay at to the point where u know whats going on but actually improving to a degree that is respectable is much harder than this person makes it seem, ow2 is a lot more dumbed down than ow1 but it still has so many intricacies and nuance that just expand with more characters being added
u are the goat
Fortnite is such a stupid game lol. The people who no life it put so much effort into their speed building but they are often dumb as bricks. My favorite thing to do was hide till the end and let the last no lifers have their build battle, then as soon as one died break down the whole thing and let fall damage finish them 😂
Despite overwatches balancing issues its the only pvp game really worth investing any time into imho. You cant win with aim or reactions alone and thinking you can will wind you up in silver or gold thinking your team is throwing when its really you.
Im 30 and feel the difference
Why is video 480p tho? Is it a yt bug or smth?
My PC is dying, maybe. Whenever there's lots of motion on screen, the recording gets blurry/pixelated. I'll try to up the settings in my recording software to see if it helps. I already tried to lower my in-game settings, and it helped a bit compared to older videos, but I'll see if I can make it better.
Bro how old are you in the first place?
How old exactly are you...?
I'm 30 and I've been improving lately, so I wonder...
Flats watched your video yet you didn't even crack 1000 subs and your video only got 13k views. Meanwhile Flats made bank off this video. That's tough.
TBF applying gamesense and good strategy to those other games would help you not need to rely on your reflexes so much regardless. Even in those high skill ceiling games you spoke about, having good movement in apex or building in fort is all things you can to to supplement not having the best aim or fastest reflexes.
I like the premise of the vid and love OW for this concept, but def think you don't need to be soo doom and gloom about your 'decline.' Take it from a 30 yr old fps player lol
great video! also unrelated but idk how you play with that ana skin. the gun is HUGE. 😭
I'm compensating for something...
@@MatoTM 😂😂😂
yup this is exactly it
Bruh! I thought that it was just me getting bad or ppl playing way too good 😂
I remember back on ps3 MW, WAW mw2 getting 30+ kills 5 death almost every match hitting GM in OW ps4 2016-18
Now if i play cod im negative 12-15 or 20k-20D
And Diamondin all roles in OW 💀
Im just 30y/o obviously I don't play as much anymore
Time to play singleplayer haha 😂
Played h2 and h1 competitively and saying you reached high level in h3. Yeah but everyone did. Trust.
I recommend paladins as well I find it fast but not to fast and learning it is not hard and it's mostly a metal game as well
Rly? Im 19 and started playing on OW2 release
Never mind just watched most of the video lol. Good points, i didn't play much when it released cause i was a cringe tf2 fanboy and my big brother talked much anti-Overwatch sentiment into but during lockdown in 2021 i started getting into it again cause i was bored and now im addicted even tho im probably not gonna ever be pro, because of the QP modes
Thats what adderall is for duh.
You don't know what a 'boomer' is, do you?
Thxs my wife needed to see this
thats what im saying, this games easy 👍
Facts.
I’m 38 years old and I can’t relate
Hey that's great. I wanted to make this video to showcase how OW is more accessible to players at a higher level. I remember watching a coaching video a long time ago from Stylosa where it was a gold or plat player that was legally blind but he was still able to compete because of the size of Lucio's projectiles and the size of the heroes, and I've played with a few people that have dropped games like CoD because of the accessibility.
Side note I also learned that being legally blind doesn't mean you can't see at all from that video.
Literally just react faster. Simple fix.
I love your format style and the positive view points :)))
Interesting perspective, but from the POV of someone who actually lacks the FPS skillset (and hardware), believe me, OV2 is not for "boomers" and in fact far too mechanically demanding to be considered highly accessible. It just seems that way to you, because you're not one of us. There are worlds between someone with declining skills and someone without any.
To an extent, OV1 was actually what you describe, it was a lot more about game sense, positioning and using cooldowns than pure FPS skills like aim and reaction time.
Not OV2 though, as all characters which get away without that skillset are easy to counter.
Sure, you can get by in the low ranks, but unless you have the hardware and skills to pull off flicks, tracking and/or projectile skillshots, that's as far as you go.
Rein orisa and winton just require game sense pretty much (outside of blocking shatters or primal), mei is OP and doesn't require anything but an above room temperature IQ, same shit with torb to a lesser extent. And then on support you have moira and brig which don't require mechanics.
@@lukasg4807 you just listed my roster. And it's with them in mind that I said what I said.
For just about all of them, you play only half a character if your mechanics aren't there.
It's also always funny to me when people claim you can compensate with game sense, as of mechanically gifted players were somehow unable to develop theirs.
They're not mutually exclusive.
This game is currently all about FPS mechanics, they're mandatory to be effective in all roles, because if you can't switch to exactly the Hero you need to stand against certain Heroes or Comps on certain maps or in certain situations, too many games are simply unwinnable.
My inability to use certain heroes or certain parts of the kit of the heroes I played has made me feel incredibly helpless so many times. It was painfully obvious that my lack of mechanical skill was exactly what lost the game. It's just such a demoralising experience.
A game that is so FPS centric is not accessible to non FPS players whatsoever.
@NniemandweiterR you don't ever really need to switch. Also I think overwatch is incredibly accessible, there are so many people who have never played an fps before but could hop on and play someone like mercy.
Also I never said mechanics and game sense are exclusive, but some heroes one is more important than the other. Also there are some plats with the mechanics of your average masters player they're just so dumb they can't climb and vice versa.
Overwatch is mechanics-light from the individual perspective. Lower number of skills and no weapon toggles/customs or item uses. Map geometry and decision making are ~ just as important as mechanically demanding skill use or aim. Both Shooter genre and RPG-ability genre games have more buttons to press which makes them more mechanically demanding by default, and a higher skill expression. Overwatch thrives by straddling geometry/map modes (3d spaces and the players activity around them) with a relatively lighter RPG hero kit. It culls a lot of the cerebral aspects of mechanically heavier games in favor of a faster pace across the board, that includes shorter matches.
@josephreynolds2401 I'd argue the more mechanical heroes like tracer, genji, doom, or even cassidy are far harder than other games. Mainly because other games your enemy doesn't move that much, it's way harder to hit a tracer blinking around than to hit a nasty flick in csgo imo.
OW has the most aim-friendly ui out of all the fps games out there. It’s truly remarkable how Blizzard implemented such a feat
Not to ruin the party but reaction time deteriorating with age (in gaming) is a bit of myth you know? I'm not talking about 60 year olds, but "gaming old" 30 and even pushing 40 year olds. The difference is negligible. The main reason for this popular false narrative is thatusually 30 year olds don't game/practice as much, and yes reaction time is partly genetics but also a trainable skill. Even more so when measured in situations you've been preparing for.
The real reason I hate call of duty, I stopped playing blaming SBMM, but in reality, 15 year old me would've dropped 100+ kill games every game no issue in 3kd+ lobbies, now I can't play to save my life
I didn't start learning FPS till overwatch. I was 26 when it came out. I had played a little COD but it was on controller and I was never good. Fun fact. If you become an adult and never develop your hand eye coordination for aiming you never really get good with it. Take sports or anything physical and I still do great against my brother. That could be darts or table tennis ect but video games he just outmatches me. He grew up on FPS and I did not.
While I agree with you that Overwatch caters to a larger pool of skill-levels which is great, I wholeheartedly disagree about the reaction-time claim. You're placing way too much emphasis on reaction time; a metric that holds little to any value regarding performance.
Reaction-time doesn't determine how well you can track a target, screen-center, micro-adjust, nor your gamesense and decision-making.
Unless you're like 70 years old or just plain malnourished, reaction-time plays no role on how good you are. With age comes a shift in priorities, as well as a general rise in the skill floor of the playerbase as the game ages.
I am 31 years old, and im a way better aimer and player overall than I was as a teen or young adult.
Sorry for the anecdote, but reaction-time is not the reason your skills arent what they were before.
Reaction time doesnt decrease in age until like 60😂
great video gives an awesome perspective
1st from flats
Im 20 but play w/ my bro and his boomer friends and they have this sentiment that other games are just so large in scale that it’s just hard to grasp the technical ability of what’s being done on screen. I’m like Diamond 5 on Xbox but Gold 3 on pc😂.