Playing overwatch means playing the way blizzard intends you to play. No new maps, no private servers, no admins to get rid of jerks, etc...

The game mechanics seem largely the same with respect to a lot of the characters, but then they added in one-directional shields and turned it into team strategy game with much less room for individual skill -- again with no real ability to just run your own server and mandate a different playstyle.

>one-directional shields and turned it into team strategy game with much less room for individual skill

There's plenty of room for individual skill, which goes beyond hitting Q. One-directional shields only reveal that teamplay is necessary, by themselves they don't add the necessity of teamplay. A poorly coordinated team doesn't do a good job. Even if both teams didn't use shield tank heroes, you'd still need just as much coordination.

They've had custom games with the workshop that can serve most of what you request here, might be worth checking out

> Overwatch is the first game from Blizzard to hit consoles the same time it was available on Windows PC. It's also the only game from the company that isn't on the Mac

if you're gonna game on a Mac, i'd suggest installing windows via bootcamp. ime most games simply run better that way anyway and you don't have to deal with the issue of games that aren't MacOS compatible.

Which would be a great suggestion to the person wanting to play his favorite game on the Mac, instead of recommending another non-mac game, wouldn't it?

Parsec from an actual gaming system works very well.