TF2

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.