years ago friends played it and when i got bored of minecraft tf2 was the only other game i had heard of that did not make me sick or had no depth

the old mixup charity games

u still make fun of the game ever since u bought overwatch :]

2007 my dad killed a demo as pyro and wanted to play it
later on in 2012 i think star had a big influence on me for still playing the game
2013-2014 i started first getting into comp

I had a ps3 with some CoD games but I only really liked Black Ops 1 anymore. I was at the point where I carried every game and it was geting a struggle + sort of boring. Also hackers were already slowly taking over more and more lobbies.

In 2012 I was going to college which meant I'd need a laptop for myself. Seemed like a great opportunity to make the switch to PC.
I remembered liking the look of TF2 and that it's free. Seemed like a good way to learn how to use mouse + keyboard. So I started watching TF2 youtubers to prepare the summer before I got my laptop. The plan was to eventually play other games but that didn't happen for a long long time

I still remember when my bro pre-ordered this game and I was cussing him out saying shit like "what kinda baby shit is this" "look at the graphics" blah blah blah ahah, 2 months later after verbally abusing him and actually trying it out it has been my favourite game loool tbh I don't even like any other game.

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I was watching a miniminter vid on tf2, and thought it was a lit game. It was a my first fps and my computer got like 8 fps, but it was still lit. I then learned that you can get more fps with configs, and now it's my fav game.

i used to watch team roomba + omfgninja videos all the time, then my friend told me this game just became f2p

grandfather bought my brother the orange box
i stole it
i accidentally launched tf2...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzajqPp9JV8&ab_channel=IcyToonie

i googled best free to play games and watched some shibby and stabby stabby videos

played it at a friends house on xbox 360 2010-2011ish, then i picked it up for pc a year later.

Hey, me too :o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0PIQOYfzlo

I had gotten the Orange Box for free back in 2007 and I had played a lot of TFC. Played TF2 on and off but didn't start actually playing steadily until 2011

holy shit that video is a blast from the past, I remember watching this series back in '08

your mom xD

my twin brother played tf2 on the xbox (from the orange box) at a friend's house and told me it was super fun so we both downloaded it on steam when it went free to play (and the rest was history)
used to pub with him all the time and i remember yelling across the house at each other from our rooms when we killed each other and shit (clearly this was before we knew what mumble was or probably had proper mics/headsets)
i think i found out about competitive from star_s videos and/or tf2lobby.com

I got steam on my laptop and was trying all the popular free to play games. I had 15 fps at all times so I quit and started playing again like 3 years later when I had a real computer. I found out about comp from star advertising plat HL finals when he was in it. Once I started playing competetive at like 200 hours I quit pubs and only played DM game modes/pugs/lobbies.

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Me three

It was the logical thing to do after having played every other TF game, including the ones that never made it to public release. Bought in 2007 on day 1 before the f2p invasion.

My older brother used to talk about it all the time, even before the release of the game. He bought me the Orange Box for Christmas in 2007, but I didn't play TF2 until 2008 because I was addicted to WarRock.

my friends kept playing it instead of minecraft with me, so i decided to check it out

I played TFC a lot. Conc jumping, anyone?

one of my best friends in my freshman year of college was a reddit east regular and he would let me play on his pc because my laptop at the time ran the game at about 5 frames with a config

i saw some irl friends play gang garrison 2 8 years ago, which is an 8bit 2d demake of tf2. i immediately became invested in the game and it's community, and those people talked about tf2 a lot.

i had to wait for tf2 to go f2p before i could play it though, because I was a dumb kid without money.

My step dad played and scrimmed TFC on teams and such as a soldier main. He bought me the Orange Box for my 11th birthday in 2007 when TF2 came out. It also included L4D and Half-Life 2 and I believe Portal 1.

a friend introduced me and made me play it on xbox

next thing i knew i was trying to sell a genuine glengarry bonnet on a trade server