There’s a reason that half of my Twitter timeline is still shipping Overwatch characters while nobody is talking about who the DOOM Marine is shacking up with on Mars (although I personally think he’d make a cute couple with a Revenant if they could stop trying to kill each other for a moment). That’s why it’s important to have alternatives, and Blizzard showed that a shooter could find success while spreading cheer. While I absolutely love the over-the-top gore in a game like DOOM, not everyone will. Perhaps Overwatch‘s greatest accomplishment was getting rid of the gritty feel that most first-person shooters have. This was largely due to the wide appeal of Overwatch, whose wide range of characters offered up a fun time for seemingly everybody. From Soldier 76’s traditional shooter layout to more unique characters like the mech-riding D.Va, my friends were able to find colorful characters that they enjoyed using.

One of the most exciting parts of 2016 was getting to see my friends that don’t regularly play multiplayer shooters fall in love with the genre. Thankfully, that has changed, as 2016 was filled with so many surprises and was the best year ever for first-person shooters.

Almost every shooter, no matter how technically sound, started to feel all too familiar. It’s not that shooters have been bad per se, as the yearly releases in Call of Duty and Battlefield have never been outright bad, but they lacked the ability to surprise gamers.

That’s why it’s been disappointing that such a key part of gaming has been in a bit of a rut lately.

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