Team Fortress 2: Still Some Of "The Most Fun You Can Have Online..."



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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