Why TF2 means so much to you?

[TooTiFrooTi]

I have been playing ever since the late 2013, jumping on and dropping off from time to time. There's something just more than being addictive with this game that keeps you in it. At least something for anyone I guess and I'd like to know what made you continue playing this old masterpiece even after all these years or months.

Let's share together why we love TF2 so much, I'll start with it's community. It's one of the most wholesome communities that you can find that strictly is loyal to it's game and values it carries in. For example, death of Rick May brought a tear to my eye back then when everyone seemed to really care a lot about him and paid lots of respect and showed sympathy etc. Not every game's community does that you know what I mean.

Other than that it's agile and competitive styled gameplay is like none I've seen to this day. Hitting your shots and dodging upcoming projectiles plays a crucial part in someone's performance in the game meanwhile in modern shooters it's more or less about who shoots first.

I can go on all day actually but I'd like to hear from your side aswell. What is or was your story? Let us express ourselves people.

[Ｉ Lᵒᵛᵉᵧₒᵤ]

Because I saw memes about tf2 and at the time I thought scout looked really cool and I did research and I found out about tf2 so thank you random video for showing me a tf2 meme

[Craziє]

Made my first steam friends from this game

[CRAZED MERC]

This was my very first game on steam. I started playing it since my friend at the time recommended it to me and I instantly fell in love with it. I started playing around the Gun Mettle Update and since then it's been my go to game whenever I feel like I'm bored

[One Face Mann]

welp here we go XD

i played tf2 since the mvm starts,i has 9 years old when i first played this amazing masterpiece,tf2 it´s like a friend that you never want to leave,but well...

well i ended up losing my first account i played,i don't remember what ended up happening, but unfortunately i ended up getting kind of missing from the game,years later i came back, and well i was never really a pro in the game,i was more of a casual/beginner player (even though I have 800 hours of gameplay in tf2),I've already had three ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ accounts on steam with this one being the third and I all played tf2,because I knew this game as old as it was,it was just perfect,even though it had some rocks in the shoe as certainly all of the game community in all of the games has,even if it has little of it,even so this perfect game will never die because I know that this perfect community even with Valve turning off the servers,will not stop giving love and affection to our old man from fps games,that's why this perfect game means to me,love, friendship and affection that this whole game gave me and also always gave to everyone in the community the most pleasure a game can give

life forever,life with health and always have new players,TEAM FORTRESS 2!

That was a hell of a campaign son!
Rick May/Soldier

R.I.P Rick May

[Vror]

It's one of the few games that's extremely accesible for everyone, while having a TREMENDOUSLY high skill ceiling

[Kevin Crabcakes]

Team Fortress 2 works because its so damn stupid and the developers knew to boast it and make it the dumbest game I have ever played. That's why it's so good.

[Snowballius]

I started playing TF2 when I was much younger with the friends I had at the time, but even as some of those friendships phased out, my interest in TF2 didn’t. I continued to play it with the friends that stuck around as I got older. Now I just have so many nostalgic memories from the game, and I’ve sunk so much time and money into it, that I can’t think of any foreseeable way that I would stop playing the game in the future.

[Mr. Something]

I can’t explain why, I just love it

[Psycho]

cuz it provides me with a lot of fun. i know whenever i get on tf2 ill have a fun time

and i used to play it when i was a kid all the time. so i have a lot of good memories of playing it during my childhood, and meeting some online friends in tf2

[Cat_Soldier]

Well let me tell you.

I never really liked FPS that much.

I never have played CS:GO, or any other game as I thought they looked boring, especially with long range classes.
However,
When I was visiting my good friend, I was watching some SMG4, a very weird mario animation/gmod youtuber, and stumbled on "If Mario was in TF2." Thats where I learned about "tf2."

I was so interested in that game, young me tried to download that game until I realized I needed a "steam account." Knowing my parents, they would not allow me to download this game, so I played it secretly in my friends home with his account around 2016- early 2017. Holy crap, I fell in love. The art style was as bad as play dough, but oh my. The atmosphere, the sounds, the weapons, they all surprised me. This was unique to any other game I have ever played before. I loved every second of it.

After I left my bud's house, TF2 was going throughout my mind. I was thinking about stupid strategies to try the next time I was in his home. Eventually, he came to a sleepover and he managed to convince my parents to get me a steam account. The first thing I did was download tf2 to my Old HP laptop with intel hd 4000 graphics and play tf2 after 2 hours of downloading.

I remember being that toxic squeaker when I started to get serious and remember playing comp. Eventually, my parents found out I was playing this game and shut it down immediately.

In early 2020, I was like, I wonder if I can play tf2 again. I managed to salvage this account, even if I lost my original friends, and played tf2 again. I was surprised about this bot crisis thing as was sad, but I decided to continue. This game was special, even if I was not an original guy like most of the guys here. This game reminds me of my friend (who does not play tf2 anymore). I always think of the great memories we had when we were kids, which brings a tear to my eye as he moved upstate and I never heard about him again (I don't remember his steam account name).

Tf2 was unlike very fps game. With exception of the Ambi and Sniper, this game does not focus on headshots like other games, and instead uses goofy mechanics such as an RPG that can hold 4 rockets in one clip, or a mad construction man who builds buildings for his team. This game has become my favorite of all time just because of how silly it is. Anything can happen in the span of 20 seconds in tf2, and thats what makes it engaging.

And that is the reason why I love tf2 so much.

tl;dr:Reminds me of my good friend and it is absolutely ridiculous and magical in my eyes unlike every other multiplayer FPS i have seen