A lot of characters have had a primary colour replaced with black, white or metal tones, they still have appealing designs but they're less punchy.

I think most of the returning characters have lost a bit of characterisation in their new redesigns with many of them loosing their key identifying colours or style choices which have now been swapped for a more neutral and reserved outfit that doesn’t pop as well

Some of the characters look like they have far less detail in 2, especially in the faces. They look less saturated and contrasty giving them a much flatter tone

An update I noticed was the way they've altered most characters eyes, changing the way certain expressions read between models. Some like Zarya have completely different irises and others have a more dark outline from either lashes or makeup. Interesting change.

Anyone else think 76 losing his mask is a little weird? It doesn’t feel right seeing his whole face, plus now with just the visor he looks like a snowboarder.

The good thing is that these aren’t mutually exclusive, people can use whichever skin they feel is the best.

Interesting to see the “paint chipping” on the older designs, with the newer designs giving the impressions that everyone invested in new armour and aged up a little. I think it’s a cool touch and while a little of the uniqueness is lost, I think it makes the TEAM look more like a team - more cohesive, more polished. Still love the paint chipping on the old skins though don’t get me wrong. I think that together (comparing old and new) actually help to tell a story and will hopefully aid OW2

The simple designs of the old ones make them stand out more and more appealing. The new ones are really good but too detailed

I feel like the Overwatch 1 versions were more varied. A lot of the new ones have the same looking “tech armor” going on and a darker color palette. It’s not that it looks bad, but it’s repetitive and reduces everyone’s individuality.

I like that Reaper's redesign is doubling down on the edgelord aesthetic. The moment I saw he now has the high collar IN ADDITION TO THE COWL it became my favorite hands down. The dumb serrated forearm blades are just icing on the cake.

"We're supposed to be going up, not down!" - obi wan kenobi

Zarya: I like the changes. Her face (especially her eyes) looks more expressive. I do wish they kept her arms bare because it fit her character, but yeah I like the changes Doomfist: I prefer the gold in his shoulder rather than the new black metal. I also liked the white face markings more than the new gold pieces. Orisa: I prefer the horns she had before. But I like her new body design more. I also like the new dread-like things coming out of her head Reinhardt: Love that you can see his face now. I generally prefer less face covering than more for characters. I also love the lion design on his chest. Though I will say his previous knight-like helmet was awesome Deva: While I do like the new hairstyle, there’s something about her hair being down that I liked a lot. I think her new outfit is cooler though. I also like the new blue design of the things at the side of her head Winston: Not different enough to really comment. I guess I like the overall higher detail of his new design Roadhog: Not very different. I prefer his new hairstyle I guess. But his new mask looks a bit too… cute? Something about the way it covers his face and the eye shape. Wrecking Ball: I like the new goggles. It was cute that he looked more like a normal hamster before though (not much clothing and stuff), but yeah. The ball itself looks cool too. Sigma: Not much different except the colouring of his outfit. I kind of prefer the darker grey-blues of his previous design. Also honestly the biggest loss is his original ‘character select’ animation (with the music and piano). I hope we can choose to keep the Overwatch 1 animation Bastion: The cap is cute, I like it. But I think I just need to get used to it. In terms of his body, I like the new colouring, and the new shaping is ok. Ganymede is the same 🐦 Genji: I like his new design. It’s not too different. Also glad they fixed the clipping of his sword and his scarf on his back. Although something about his new design makes him look less lean and more… buff? His armour seems bulkier. Not sure if I like this since it takes away from his sleek ninja vibe. Reaper: His new design is fine, but I prefer how his original mask looked like actual bone rather than the metal in his new mask. Junkrat: Aside from less sickly-looking skin and his hair being shorter, he looks the same. I prefer the new look. Cassidy: I like the longer facial hair. I also like the new outfit. It looks better than that thick scarf/cloak from before. Mei: I like her new design. I like the new hair m and the more detailed outfit. Widowmaker: While I did love the sleek long ponytail from before, I love her new braids. The facial markings she has now are also awesome. Cool new outfit too. Symmetra: Much better new outfit. More detailed and also more indicative of her culture. The previous outfit just looked like latex. I also like her new hair and mask. Ashe: Her new design is cool and all, but I kind of miss the suit part of her previous design. I like the new detail she has though. Echo: I see no differences Hanzo: I prefer his older design in every way. I don’t like that his chest is now covered. I don’t like the new black outfit. I don’t like that his headband is grey instead of that cool green. His new grey streak in his hair is cool though Pharah: I like the new detail of her new look, but I prefer the actual design of her previous look. Also now her hair no longer shows on the sides in her helmet :( Tracer: I’m indifferent to the changes. I kind of miss how that glowing orb in the middle used to be more out, and now it’s embedded. Similarly to Sigma, I just hope we can choose to keep her previous character select animation with the hair blowing thing Torbjorn: I like his new design. Love that you can see his hair, and his beard is more detailed. His actual outfit is cooler too Sombra: Not that different. I prefer her new look, especially the thing at the side of her head Soldier 76: Love the new design in every way. The more I can see of his face the better. Better hairstyle too. I will still want to use his ‘young’ skin though Ana: I prefer her previous look. The hair tuft showing, her eyepatch, her outfit, her rifle, all better before. I do like the updated look of her face though Mercy: I prefer her previous hair, but her new outfit Baptiste: I prefer his older outfit a lot (the pop of colour), but his new hair is ok (I like the older hair more though). I like that his new outfit has the medical cross on it though Brigitte: I prefer her previous design. Her hair with the headwear thing. Her outfit. Moira: I prefer her previous design. Though I like her new hair and that she doesn’t have those weird black things on her forehead. Lucio: I like the redesign of his face, but I like his previous hair and outfit. The new glowing dread things are cool, but I like his hair more before. Zen: I like his new design but it’s not that different. I like his new outfit and the new design of his orbs

I think Rein's OW1 skin is unbeatable

I’m just glad Genji finally has clothes. Mans been streaking for so long Edit: Arigato for the likes!

3:11 "HOOOGGGG RRRRIIIIDDDDDAAAAAA"

Literally looks like they took the soul of their bodies with the removal of that little eye shine the characters had haha

Thing I like about it is, Overwatch 1 was the heros in the past, while OW2 is the future/present. You can really see it with ana and soldier, ana has more wrinkles, soldier has a full white beard showing his ever increasing age. Moira gained some grey streaks. Most of the characters in general got some awesome suit upgrades. Hanzo's and McCree's beards grew. Echo didn't change because she doesn't need to over time. Zarya's forehead scar healed up a bit I probably missed a few, but I love how they didn't make it a redesign, they stuck with the lore and how OW2 takes place later on

I’m a little sad they nerfed the size of Orisa’s horns by so much, though I love all the other changes they made. I just love how weirdly gentle the huge horns made her face.

Not much of an overwatch fan, but I enjoy watching these types of videos. Interesting design changes as well. Went with the futuristic tech look and less into unique characteristics

I don’t think I can say OW1 or OW2 is better across the board. Lots of variety, but I am very glad we can pick which designs we want to use

the design philosophy for two seems to be "more metal pieces everywhere!"

As someone who doesn't play Overwatch I gotta say that Overwatch 1's skins look way better in my opinion. There is some spark of uniqueness missing in the 2nd version's variants, they tend to go a bit... Similar.

2:12 Why even bother having both on screen at once? Ain't shit different here 😭😭😭

"Can I copy your homework" "Yeah just change it up a bit so it doesn't look obvious you copied" "Ok" The homework:

Reapers new default looks sooooooo clean with golden guns. They should make a white one.

Gotta love how they showed Genji in this badass hoodie in the trailer, only for him to wear it with the hood down in the game. Almost as if Blizzard wanted to disappoint Players.

One of those things that doesn't change is the infinite amount of shotguns that Reaper can summon from his arsenal

1:32 A lot of first day players will remember his name before the name change happened.

Echo’s changes are the best 😮

I really like Ashe’s new skin. It’s the coolest one out of all these changes

I like how Lucio’s music is playing in the background

I see that mercy got alot of "curvature" upgrades

A majority of the original Overwatch designs are just too iconic to compete with. Everyone is entitled to their own tastes but a huge part of why the game even skyrocketed in popularity to begin with is because of how well made the characters/costumes were. You'd need to have a bad case of recency bias to try and downplay them in favor of these redesigns which for the most part are overdone.

With a couple of exception I like OW1 skins more tbh, no nostalgia as I had the game recently (when it became free)but the ow2 skins are a bit overdesigned and I always loved simple designs instead, no wonder two of my favorite designs in videogames are Joel from The Last of Us and the knight from Hollow Knight

I feel the newer ones for OW2, only some seem a bit more cartoony while the ones in OW1 are a bit more cooler and realistic in a sense

A lot of them appear to have a lost a lot of texture detail.

Some of them do look better I’ll admit that.

3:23 idk but but Moiras expressions are so good

The hub: "welp bois best get to work on the new project"

They did sigma dirty. I think the idea was to mark everyone look like their tech had been refined and done up by Overwatch, but in some cases it takes away a lot of cool details in favor of cleaner more hyper sci fi looks

Brigitte face was already lookin a little derpy in OW1, but the new one is much worse

Tracer's most significant difference is from the hips down. Still long legs, but no longer lanky. They have some more meat on them.

"Hey, can I copy your homework???" "Sure, just change it a little so we don't get caught" The homework:

Really nice 1:1 side by side comparison editing in this video

I think i like OW1 ver in majority, those designs really has individual personality, the ow2 feels like they had a designer at base

the reduced lighting on some skins look clean asf Edit: yo 400 likes in a day is crazy Edit 2: second highest liked comment behind kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rtx2jc2gmrbLd2Q.html

2:11 wow biggest change yet 😂

"So uh what can we do to convey a small time skip?" "Uhh give everyone either more facial hair or braids"

Sigma got his Hairline back 💀

They all get this more futuristic armor and style than the OW1 ones, but I think it destroyed everyone's personality, this armor looks almost the same but with some detailed and color changes for every character, but their unique original clothes that make them stand out from one another are completely gone (Sorry, my english is not good)

The first overwatch will always remain in my heart ❤️

4:00 aye y'all look it's that boi Cassidy ❗❗😂🤣😂 man went from high noon to afternoon tea😂😂😂

Blizzard to everyone else: "let's get you some new clothes and/or armor and outfit you with new cybernetics" Blizzard to Hanzo: "cover ur tits man"

New Zarya have eyes like a doll, there is no life in them :(

They've somehow managed to cut down on detail while simultaneously damaging the visual clarity of the characters, very impressive

Lucio’s new hair looks like there are a bunch of green silicone tubes attached to his head.

Who else also prefers the old skins over the new ones? The original were just so good designed and have a stronger art style material and texture wise. The new ones feel generic and more caroony with the texture work despite being higher res

I like most of them But first zaria was so much better in my opinion

"How little effort can you possibly put in a sequel?" BLIZZARD: "yes"

Now they made more brighter and that's good

You put more work into this video than Blizzard put into these skins.

What I love is that these scenes are from the character to the player, so quite alot of them are happy to see you and are ready for action.

Queen junker, Sojourn and kiriko are only new one that only on OverWatch 2 Wow

Introducing Overwatch: Dark mode

Damn, I thought I preferred the new ones, but seeing them like this the old ones were actually better at being iconic, simple, and better showing the personality of the wearer. Like tracer, who had a backstory behind her leather jacket.... and they removed it. Just like that. Or McCassidy, who went from having a strong broad facial structure, to a narrower anime-style face. Or Genji who just... they put a jacket on him? There's a zipper on his katana? Is this a joke?

While I do appreciate some of the design choices overall, I think that the problem with a lot of these new character designs is that the color palette is too saturated; that is, it's too bright. The original OW1 skins had a lot of the same colors, but duller, and with more general wear, which made the brighter colors like Doomfist's warpaint, the embers and ash on Junkrat, and the detailing on Pharah's armor stand out. Now everybody's just the same color all over and it kinda makes all the cool new costume stuff just wash out. Like, mans is just blue, or grey. He one color

3:50 *En resumen: todo es un copia y pega porque lo único que cambia es lo estético*

Thank you, this video has been very . . . Educational

"less is more" The OW 1 designs were nice, simple and clean, and got their characters across very well. By contrast, most of the OW2 designs feel overly busy, detracting from the characters core visual concepts. There's some I do think are improvements, but overall, most of them feel worse than the OW1 ones.

Why does hanzo's face in OW2 remind me of Dr Strange

Danggg my boy Genji looking pretty drip

a skin da ashe ficou absurdamente linda, perfeita. Nem parece skin padrão

D.va has extra armor to keep it from being too lewd, wouldn’t help much but I am loving their extra detailed armors and clothing

2:50 something things are better than others. I like the mouth piece it added mystery to him

It looks like they made the characters more 'realistic' in a weird way. That along with some dark tones, which mute alot of the features. A lot of the returning characters now seem 'overdesigned'. At least, in my opinion.

When you copy a homework, but try to change things so no one notices

I'm not sure if its just sensory accomodation but all the characters where their features, like eyes nose or face widght are noticeably smaller, like Doomfist, Mei or Symmetra, look much worse.

I personally really like most of the new designs. Also enjoy the fact that I can use whichever skin I feel is better for the character.

Aw they gave the Doom Fist mains a neck cozy. How nice!

I love the new characters changes, it's just shows that actual time had passed and that they look more iconic in a sense, hmmmm more sophisticated I think the word is :/

0:34 Someone just came online!

Man, Overwatch 1.1 really had some nice graphics tweeks! Can't wait for them to make a sequel!

I'll miss Sigma's lil piano on his select screen

It feel like in overwatch all the original characters have the same armor that look more simplistic and modified. It probably take place a while after the original overwatch so everyone has less armor that works efficiently. And some characters gave less armor cuz its not their first time doing their job.

what i like is that all of them got visibly older. Torb, Hanzo and Moiras hair is getting white for example

I really like reapers new design his guns just look sick same with everything else looks more sleek

0:25 what is Santa doing here

when i first saw Moira’s right arm in overwatch two i gagged bro it looks like barney whipped out his shmeat.

The new Orisa Looks awesome

old doomfist was better Bro looked like a menace not quite a massive change but Doomfist kinda looks like a nigerian with high tech glove

85% happier with new models, but the shading (maybe lighting) is just too dark to show detail. Small fixes :P

The redesigned characters have had their faces changed to a more realistic design compared to the more stylised design

Omg... I prefer how Zarya feature last time...Ow1 🥺

Other OW2 skins : changes in design and aesthetic Genji OW2 skin : “My drip is immaculate”

Why do the faces look less detailed in OW2 ? It's very uncanny.

I love how OW2 kinda indirectly confirmed that Genji has been running around naked

I love how the faces look a lot more defined.

Ngl I actually do like some of the updated designs more! Glad we get both options though.

Amazing! They look so cool!

The light in their eyes are gone.