Is there a reason that members of the community can’t game together online? This post on Overwatch provides at least a small amount of evidence that the community would have enough members interested to form teams, and team-building seems to be one of the goals.
That requires that you (in order of importance)
Have good computer hardware to run the game
Have good latency to the servers (for me specifically, but statistically I’d imagine there shouldn’t be a big one)
Have good skill at aiming
Actually spend quite a bit of time learning all the game mechanics
As an ex-gamer I just realized that I can drop the games (still miss them sometimes) and focus on reading a book or do some better activity. Games are incredible fun, but so (at least from what I’ve been told) are plenty of drugs that you wouldn’t want to do, and once you generalize it a little bit games can be seen as a drug themselves.
Many people disagree with the ‘gaming is a waste of time’ opinion. I wouldn’t say totally, but most games focus on being like chocolate versus a salad to your mind.
Nope. You’re confusing “play” and “play competitively”. You can have fun in Overwatch without all the stuff that you mention (by the way, Overwatch very deliberately has classes that don’t require any aiming at all). And, of course, there is a variety of coop games that are not FPS or twitch-based.
like chocolate versus a salad to your mind
I see nothing wrong with picking chocolate over salad :-D Tasty and nutrient-dense vs some water with fiber—no contest at all.
That requires that you (in order of importance)
Have good computer hardware to run the game
Have good latency to the servers (for me specifically, but statistically I’d imagine there shouldn’t be a big one)
Have good skill at aiming
Actually spend quite a bit of time learning all the game mechanics
As an ex-gamer I just realized that I can drop the games (still miss them sometimes) and focus on reading a book or do some better activity. Games are incredible fun, but so (at least from what I’ve been told) are plenty of drugs that you wouldn’t want to do, and once you generalize it a little bit games can be seen as a drug themselves.
Many people disagree with the ‘gaming is a waste of time’ opinion. I wouldn’t say totally, but most games focus on being like chocolate versus a salad to your mind.
Nope. You’re confusing “play” and “play competitively”. You can have fun in Overwatch without all the stuff that you mention (by the way, Overwatch very deliberately has classes that don’t require any aiming at all). And, of course, there is a variety of coop games that are not FPS or twitch-based.
I see nothing wrong with picking chocolate over salad :-D Tasty and nutrient-dense vs some water with fiber—no contest at all.