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I've only started Team Fortress Classic a few times. It feels really outdated. That said, how can that old game be more fun that TF2? TF2 is shock full of funny sounds, signs, taunts and so on!

Watch Meet the Sniper: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyNuriXG3BQ or Meet the Demo Man: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxps--huGKY&feature=relmf...

Listen to some of the Demo Man sounds: http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Demoman_responses . The game is really well done, you have funny characters to pick from.

- Demo Man - One-eyed drunk cyclops who is a black scottish patriot.

- Sniper - Talks like Michael Caine did in the 60's. Throws "jarate" at people.

- Engineer - Texas redneck with tech know-how.

and more...

I really love TF2 and play it a lot, so should you!

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> I've only started Team Fortress Classic a few times. It feels really outdated.

Well yeah, it's an old game. It is by definition outdated (even has "classic" in the title).

> That said, how can that old game be more fun that TF2?

I'm guessing you're a pretty young guy. How fun a game is does not depend on when it was released. I used to love playing TFC. TF2 is a lame cartoon game to me. It's a bunch of Reddit memes to me. It's 15 year old kids yelling over microphones to me.

TFC forever. ;)

No, I'm 40-ish. I grew up with VIC-20 and C64 being state of the art in home computing. I both played games and programmed stuff. I still do but on computers a zillion times faster.

I never liked games that try to be realistic, what's the point, trying to make me sleep bad because of gory headshots with blood everywhere?

So I prefer the semi-cartoonish style and hats. Several times every evening I laugh out loud because of the silliness in TF2. Give it a try. It's not easy because it's not realistic, but you can always go medic and follow better players till you know the maps.

Ahh I just assumed. I hear that from my younger brother a lot. He can't play any old games because "there's not enough twitch factor" and the "graphics suck." I've played it a few times, just wasn't for me.

Oh no, you're talking to someone who played HaloPC from summer 2004 to january 2010 and then gave up because of cheaters and lag.

Which games do you play these days?

Right on. I'm a die-hard Left4Dead2 addict. I play almost nothing else anymore. Even then, I only play a little bit on the weekends. Not enough time anymore to really enjoy a game. It has to be something I can dip in and out of in bursts.

Single-game guy like me then :) I only play TF2 and some indie-games. Often it's either TF2 or doing something else.

If you haven't played for more than a few minutes, you really should try TF2. Besides being free- The cartoonish style will cease to matter completely in an hour or two, the children can be muted in 2 clicks, and there aren't any memes. (though some hats are a little silly, some weapon names are punny, and some taunts are also puns. Example: "Your Eternal Reward", a Spy knife. Example: "I will kill you with bear hands!", Heavy, equipped with Warrior's Spirit http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Warriors_Spirit)

Oh, also, don't play 2Fort, and turn off sprays. Options -> Multiplayer -> Do not download any custom files.

It takes a little while to get competent, but it really is a pretty good game, and twitch-reflexes are not important for anybody but scout and perhaps sniper.

> That said, how can that old game be more fun that TF2?

EMP Grenades.

Ok, nothing with EMP in TF2 except for some anti-sticky bomb weapon the Engineer use. Looking for TF EMP grenade in Youtube gave me videos of jumpers. You know the demo man can do all that and probably more?

How about Jarate? http://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=19...

It's a jar of spit and piss that makes the lives miserable for the enemies.

http://videogamesrepublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/jar...

Ahem. TFC is a HL mod. The original TF is a Quake mod.

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