I'm gonna cheat a little bit here, and just copy and edit a post I wrote a little while back on Reddit about this game because 1) it perfectly captures my feelings towards it and 2) I'm lazy.
Team Fortress 2, far and away, is probably my favourite multiplayer game of all
time. I first started playing it years ago, but only played for about 12
hours or so. I don't know why I stopped playing it. Maybe it was out of
frustration or lack of interest, I'm not sure. Either way, a few years
later, I picked it back up again - and now I have over 300 hours in
the game and still feel like there's many more hours to be enjoyed ("Damn
it TF2, you keep getting in the way of my backlog!").
It helps that the game can be run on my current very low-end ""PC"" (with a few
tweaks, of course). But even if it wasn't, I'd still play it to death
because there's still so much I haven't done. For example, I've barely
touched the Engineer, but I would like to try them out at some
point. And that's in addition to all the possible weapon and loadout
customisations for each individual class, plus the weapon metas...and the fact that
it's a 'true' F2P game, where you get item drops semi-regularly and the
microtransactions mainly revolve around cosmetics.
Not
to mention the community. From my own personal experience, the
community by and large has been really friendly. Sure, you get a few
a-holes here and there, but that's kinda (sadly) expected in online
games. I've spent quite a lot of time messing around on community 2fort
and Hightower servers. Many of my experiences on those servers can be
summed up as "seeing an enemy soldier flying through the air
before smacking an unsuspecting sniper on my team with a shovel, we look
at each other, we both say "Thanks!" in chat, nod our heads vigorously
and then carry on doing other stuff". No other game has given me that
experience.
And that's not even including the multiple
other aspects of Team Fortress 2 like the art style, colour and
timelessness of the game's look, the map design, the humour, the
characters themselves and the insanely catchy and memorable music, and
the content creators making well-produced content that help new players
to grow...or maybe it's just a neat clip compilation that's showing off
their skills.
There's a reason this game still has a
steadfast fanbase and remains one of the most played games on
Steam...where every day you usually have more than 50000 concurrent
players.
As the french baguette boy himself would say, it's "simply magnificent!"
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