u/TheGoodguyperson

Hi everyone just had a random nostalgia trip about the game I basically grew up with

I’ve been gaming for over 16 years now (more or less) and paladins was a good chunk of it, the whole thing started because I couldn’t afford overwatch at the time and this was “overwatch with horses BUT FREE” played the game, felt fun days turned to weeks then months to then years, then eventually came the time where they announced how they’ll be churning out less content overall and I also got bored of hero shooters in general, fast forward to 2024-25 I started playing hero shooters again (overwatch and marvel rivals to be specific since I can’t really find many games on paladins) with the recent hero releases it made me realise how well rounded paladins was as a game, TTK didn’t feel too low or too high compared to these 2, no character was broken/overtuned, as a tank main I didn’t feel miserable solo tanking (in rivals and ow 6v6) honestly team comps weren’t really complained about in paladins at all from what I remember, rivals has a whole running gag about solo tanking and overwatch had to cut a whole player just because of how difficult it was to find enough tank players, heck after playing marvel rivals I wish cauterize was a standard in any hero shooter now because everyone has a Grover/zenyatta ult in that game, the legendary system paladins had is being used in overwatch but it really doesnt change your playstyle in most cases like scorchnando or catalyst pip or cursed revolver andro , iirc i stopped playing slightly after atlas was released and honestly other than Vivian, every character felt interesting and the kit was unique enough (ok maybe tyra wasn’t unique enough either but still good enough) after all this i just wonder, if it was any other company with these talented devs, maybe paladins could’ve been a much bigger game and not be left on life support with no exact date on when hi-res pull the plug

If you made it this far, thank you for reading all of this and hope you all have a good day