LogFAQs > #955379447

I have played all of these games throughout their various sequels or lifespans. All have severe issues, positives, etc

CS GO: The most competitive, but also the most repetitive. Of all the shooters I've played, CS:GO has felt like the biggest knowledgecheck game, which-because of its massive lifespan now-makes it daunting to even be able to play. You need to know grenade throws, common positions for people to be camping/waiting etc. You need to know spray control to even be able to shoot your gun. It's fun, but CS GO games are really repetitive.

Apex: Has the best movement, but has severe issues third partying because the TTK is higher than other battle royales. If you fight a team, everyone flocks to you like vultures and you just die even if you win the team fight. The correct way to play apex is to fight as little as possible, but that's not very fun. Overall, probably the most fun BR but not as skill intensive as Fortnite. The average Apex gamer is far far more skilled than a Fortnite player though, and the sweatiness even in casual lobbies is exhausting.

Battlefied: I dont enjoy this series. I think this is game is popular for casual gamers who want big spectacles, but don't really want a game decided by their performance or for the games to have any stakes whatsoever. The guns sound amazing, the graphics are amazing, the guns feel great. This is, imo, the ultimate casual gamer experience for the type of the dude who has no plans whatsoever to take shooter seriously in anyway whatsoever. A lot of people who play battlefield only battlefield shooters.

MW: Slightly less casual than battlefield. Kind of serves as a gateway drug to more competitive games if players want to be more competitive. This is because you can carry pretty hard in random lobbies, but players eventually get frustrated by mechanics that serve beginners such as camping and forced safe spaces.

The quality of the games in MW really depends on the titles, and the respective developer making them. Most are fun arcade shooters. I think Warzone is probably the worst BR of all ones I've played (and I've played them all). MW 2018 was a great game, but the gameplay promotes too much camping. Cold War has better run and gun gameplay, but it is really derivative of previous titles.

Valorant: This is the worst game I've ever played. It's a literal clone of CS GO, but is somehow just worse in every way imo. The biggest issue is the map design, where the maps are huge and super corridorey. The character abilities add nothing to the game, and half are just utility items from cs go like smokes and flash grenades. I cannot express how much i hate this game. It's literally just Gen Z cs go

Overwatch:
This is genuinely of the greatest games of all time due to its polish and execution, but strange developer decisions have really hurt over a long period of time. Every character added since release has had huge, overloaded kits full of crowd control. This has made the game far less about shooting and mechanics, rather to abilties and teamwork.

Additionally, there are now 2 tanks and 2 healers FORCED in every game, leaving 2 players to play a damage hero. When the meta is for one of these damage heroes to be mei (a flamethrower character who freezes you) then there is really only 2 of 12 players in the entire game even shooting a gun. For better or worse, Overwatch has genre shifted from a shooter to a MOBA-Shooter

R6 Siege: No experience with this. This game has huge balance issues from what I hear. It also has a huge skill curve like CS GO. A good alternative to people tired of CS GO imo.