Team Fortress 2 has been my favourite FPS since I started playing it a lot a couple of years ago when I got the Orange Box collection. The only FPS I'd played much before that was Halo on the xbox since my brother and cousins would play it, but since finding TF2 I've moved away from regular FPS games since I've realised how little strategy and variation there usually is.
Team Fortress 2 has such balanced classes and and maps that there really is a need for strategy and teamwork. When I'm on a team that works well and wins as a team I get a much better feeling of success than if I was just running around shooting as many people as possible. Since I usually play an engineer or medic I don't often don't get many kills or points but having worked setting up my sentry to defend the intell, or healing someone and ubercharging them as they storm the base gives a great feeling of teamwork and worth.
I was really happy when it went free to play because I could get more friends to play it and have more people realising how good it is. Sadly some of the new players came in with a Call of Duty mentality and just went around shooting and ignoring the goal of the map they were on. Eventually most of those players realised that finding a class that suits your play style and working as a team is needed to win matches.
There is still a few lingering players that don't seem to understand there is different types of matches. Recently Michael and I have encountered quite a few people on Capture the Flag (intell) matches that get upset when we capture the intell, which is the whole point of that type of match. They seem to have wanted the game to keep going so that they could get more kills. There are Arena servers for people who just want kills, I don't know if they don't know how to search for servers or are just ignoring those servers. All I know is that it becomes annoying when players get angry at you for playing a game as it is meant to be played.
Saturday, 28 January 2012
Friday, 27 January 2012
The Beginning
I have finally decided to make a blog. I'm a tad late jumping on this bandwagon but meh.
I'll probably just be using this to ramble about what's happening, games, movies, and various random stuff. If nothing else it will be something (hopefully) interesting to look back on in a few years time.
So what have a done so far this year:
Finished Fable 3. I've always loved the fable games so I finally played this one and loved it too. I loved the gnomes, hated how well some of them were hiding though but I shot them all (with the help of a couple of guides for the ones I couldn't find). I hated that there wasn't a easy way to keep track of all the houses I owned though, buying houses to get money was a pretty important part of the game (if you want to save all the civilians) and not having easy way to repair them without going to each one individually on the world map was annoying to me. I liked most of the sanctuary but not having an inventory was annoying since I couldn't easily keep track of how many of each random item I have.
Finished Portal 2. I (like many, many others) love Portal. The first one was amazing so having a second one that is longer and has multiplayer is awesome. Loved the story mode, (I wish I could have had glados as a potato forever) and that fact is was longer but had parts outside of test chambers that broke it up at perfect points so that it didn't get tedious was great. I love playing the 2 player parts with Michael, having 2 sets of portals sometimes breaks my brain but makes the puzzles really interesting to do. Atlus and P-Body are so adorable that when they fall to their deaths when I misplace a portal makes me sad.
Played more FF13. Getting close to the end now, almost got stuck a couple of times recently but got past them with a little luck (and some grinding).
Watched Hugo. It was good, I didn't like it as much as some people seemed to though. I love the automaton and all the old filming style parts but at some times it seemed a bit like 2 movies mashed together.
Finally cleaned and sorted some of my table full of videos that I got from a garage sales ages ago, and got a shelf to store them on. I've cleaned about half of them so far, Once I've cleaned and sorted them all I'll have to count how many I got, then donate the one I don't want or have doubles of.
I think that's enough for a first post, time to go watch tv with Michael who has been waiting patiently for me to finish this.
I'll probably just be using this to ramble about what's happening, games, movies, and various random stuff. If nothing else it will be something (hopefully) interesting to look back on in a few years time.
So what have a done so far this year:
Finished Fable 3. I've always loved the fable games so I finally played this one and loved it too. I loved the gnomes, hated how well some of them were hiding though but I shot them all (with the help of a couple of guides for the ones I couldn't find). I hated that there wasn't a easy way to keep track of all the houses I owned though, buying houses to get money was a pretty important part of the game (if you want to save all the civilians) and not having easy way to repair them without going to each one individually on the world map was annoying to me. I liked most of the sanctuary but not having an inventory was annoying since I couldn't easily keep track of how many of each random item I have.
Finished Portal 2. I (like many, many others) love Portal. The first one was amazing so having a second one that is longer and has multiplayer is awesome. Loved the story mode, (I wish I could have had glados as a potato forever) and that fact is was longer but had parts outside of test chambers that broke it up at perfect points so that it didn't get tedious was great. I love playing the 2 player parts with Michael, having 2 sets of portals sometimes breaks my brain but makes the puzzles really interesting to do. Atlus and P-Body are so adorable that when they fall to their deaths when I misplace a portal makes me sad.
Played more FF13. Getting close to the end now, almost got stuck a couple of times recently but got past them with a little luck (and some grinding).
Watched Hugo. It was good, I didn't like it as much as some people seemed to though. I love the automaton and all the old filming style parts but at some times it seemed a bit like 2 movies mashed together.
Finally cleaned and sorted some of my table full of videos that I got from a garage sales ages ago, and got a shelf to store them on. I've cleaned about half of them so far, Once I've cleaned and sorted them all I'll have to count how many I got, then donate the one I don't want or have doubles of.
I think that's enough for a first post, time to go watch tv with Michael who has been waiting patiently for me to finish this.
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