Circus Goes FPS in Overwatch

I just picked up Overwatch to find a game that my friends and I could play in some sort of competitive manner together. They refuse to play fighting games and that left me looking for something as close to a fighting game as possible, but in a genre that they wanted to play. This also happens to be how I got involved with Souls games. Overwatch has the character diversity of a fighting game, the mechanics of an FPS, and, as I later found out, the team synergy emphasis of a MOBA. As it turns out, I love it.

I will do at least a few write ups on my adventures in Overwatch, but I want to talk about my experiences in it as someone who has played almost solely fighting games and Souls games for like 5 years.

The biggest difference in Fighting Games and Overwatch is that winning is not entirely dependent on your solo decisions and skill. In fact, organization and better collective decision making will cause you to win. I've had the game for like 5 days but I believe this is the general consensus of the Overwatch community.

A big similarity in Overwatch and Fighting Games is the character diversity that I mentioned above. Every character has their own "kit" which is the equivalent of FG characters move sets. These kits will determine what your character's role is in each match. The kit determines their game plan, much like FG characters move sets determine the game plan.

There are actually quite a few analogous ideas in Overwatch and FGs. There are poke battles, resource management, a sort of neutral game in both. In Overwatch, these things all have a different name but the ideas are still there. In both games sometimes the decision making process comes down to, what decision do I need to make now, to give me the upper hand later or what resources do I absolutely need to spend now to win the battle? Do I need to do more than that?

These are my sort of vague first impressions. I am playing support characters a lot because my aim is only ok and I don't care about killing loads of people. Once I get better at the game and start actually playing ranked matches I will write a few beginners guides to a few of the characters that I have been playing.