Hats: The Worst Thing That Ever Happened to TF2

[Sorehead]

Much as I know hats have helped to create a thriving economy inside TF2, and they enjoy widespread popularity, I cannot help but hate them with fierce, burning passion. The reason I hate them is an aesthetic one. Before the introduction of cosmetic items, TF2 was a great looking game. All the classes had a great aesthetic design, they all looked perfect, just the way they were, and just by looking at them, what kind of character they were was clear straight away. The unique visual style was a delight to the eyes.

Then came hats. Hats, along with misc items like badges, polluted the visuals of the game. It stopped looking harmonious, and began to look messy. Players wearing a motly collection of hats, badges, shirts and other stupid looking stuff (even worse when painted in garish colours) befouled the entire screen. Each hat was worse than the next. from the painfully ugly gibus, a hat which is sadly available to all classes, and looks good on none, to ridiculous looking items like the hot dog hat. For god's sake, a hot dog hat! Are you f****** kidding me?

From stupid hats to ugly looking misc items like badges and hair, cosmetic items have made TF2 into an abomination. Albeit a brilliant abomination, but an abomination nontheless, because of the amazing looking game that died when hats arrived, and the subtle, understated theme that ceased to be coherent and became lost in the flood of clutter.

What do you think? Do you agree that hats have made the game look worse, or do you think they have improved it?

I'd like to note that I am glad others enjoy hats. My hatred of them is just my personal opinion.

[Counter-Life]

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[Sabesaroo]

Originally posted by KillTehMessenger:

This is my opinion:

People ruined TF2, not a few collections of pixels.

TF2 isn't ruined.

[Sabesaroo]

Originally posted by ubercat the CANADIAN Nerd:

The worst thing was free to play now you have noobs and even worse noobs who blame everything on medics that die only because they are not protected...

Solution: Don't play in pubs, or if you insist on playing in pubs then play in community servers.

[AtomicElise]

lol hats are awesome :)

[PeachyPynk]

Then don't play the game.

[Just a gamer...]

i prefer to keep my characters in their original form.

i've been playing for 4 years and i don't wear hats.

[racknae]

Originally posted by Axen:

i prefer to keep my characters in their original form.

i've been playing for 4 years and i don't wear hats.

Why did you necro this thread.

It's been dead for 4 months.

[Robotic Richard Simmons]

Originally posted by Axen:

i prefer to keep my characters in their original form.

i've been playing for 4 years and i don't wear hats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DgFWOvgL90
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QMRA3skBm4

[Swegkart64]

NO HATS=NO CAHS FOR GABEN=HL3 RELEASED TOO EARLY=HATE ON VOVLO=VALVE SHUTS DOWN.

[Justin]

I personaly don't mind cosmetic items.
I only discovered the computer version of this game about a year ago I think (I have horrid memory, I sometimes forget my own age, literally).
But anyway, before I discovered there was a computer version, I always played the console version on PS3.
And I still loved it.
TF2 is definately my childhood game, so I will always play it no matter how many wacky hats they add.
And besides, if I ever feel like time traveling to before hats and/or updates such as Pyro gaining the airblast ability or new weapons, then I can just play it on console.

[Sorehead]

I used to play the PS3 version, but it's riddled with bugs (such as flying players, low gravity, and walls appearing out of thin air), and it's impossible to play as well with a handset as with a keyboard and mouse. Snipers on the console version are rarely a threat, because they can't aim fast enough.

[Robotic Richard Simmons]

Originally posted by Sorehead:

I used to play the PS3 version, but it's riddled with bugs (such as flying players, low gravity, and walls appearing out of thin air), and it's impossible to play as well with a handset as with a keyboard and mouse. Snipers on the console version are rarely a threat, because they can't aim fast enough.

Originally posted by K. Appa the Rappa:

Why did you necro this thread.

[Chara]

Originally posted by Julia:

I like the hats. I just traded my Reggaelator for a Counterfeit Billycock for my Spy, and it's awesome! I mean, COME ON, it's a hat disguised as another hat! It fits perfectly with the my spy and the game.

The thing I absolutely hate are paints. They're a HUGE eyesore because most of the paints don't match the team colors and don't go along.

Some paints go. For example, Balaclavas Are Forever goes great with quite a few Spy miscs, as they're similar colours, yet not the same.

[Amsel :D]

Does OP realize you can make hats invisible?

[☭ Vladimir Lenin ☭]

OP plays DOTA 2.
I have a hatred for MOBA players, so i'm leaving now.