Team Fortress 2 - Worst game ever?

[quantum mechanic]

Well this isn't true, because the worst game ever was "Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing." Don't believe me? Look up the Gamespot review.

 

[Bureacreative]

while this is the most redundant thing ever said since general Custer uttered "we're boned", but tf2 for the pc. I don't care how much it costs, just do it. the voice chat usually amounts to warnings about incoming enemies, so it's really useful as apposed to teeth-grindingly annoying.

 

[Evil the White]

You got it for the wrong platform. Go buy it for the PC and find a good clan server. Then come back and say that.

 

[ArianaUO321]

If you bought TF2 or anything related for a console? I'm sorry, but you are a fool. The game is worthless on consoles. On a PC, where it BELONGS? The game is downright amazingly good.

 

[Silver Patriot]

Wow. Just... wow.

I bought Orange Box for the xbox360 today. Actually, I initially bought it on release day so I could play Portal... so I technically re-bought it. Back then there was barely a person playing Team Fortress 2 so I gave it a miss. However, having heard numerous endorsements of the game, and assuming that the amount of people playing might have picked up, I bought another copy.

What. A load. Of balls. I've been trying to play for the last few hours, but have now thrown in the towel - it's rubbish. It's like the original, TFC, but slow, with a total of about 4 maps - only one of which supports CTF- , and whining American children requiring mass-muting at the beginning of every game.

Am I doing it wrong? Have I missed something? Or is this genuinely a terrible game? I realise that the PC version has more support from Valve... but can the 360 version be so different? I'm not sure what my enquiry is with this post... but someone please explain - I'm feeling somewhat bewildered and perplexed!!

As someone who played both the 360 and PC versions, YES, it's SO different.

The reason is not directly the increased Valve support, it's because the increased Valve support caused all the real players to go to PC, leaving a bunch of douchebags playing the 360 version, and it's no fun to play a game with all jerks and griefers.

Try the PC version, and find a specific community group (may I recommend the Escapist group?) it's SO much more fun

Can you send me a link to the Excapist group? I just started playing again. (Computer problems)

Edit: I'm getting the hell out of here. This is turning into a PC vs Console flame pretty quickly and I hate those fights.

 

[soilent]

in before shitstorm, oh wait...

seriously though, You expected to not have mindless American 10 year olds?

 

[ryai458]

Troll

'He doesn't agree with me! Troll! Troll I say!'

*sigh*

Actually I have never played TF2 and by how it looks it seems like something I wouldn't play, but the reason I say "troll" is because the majority of the time someone makes a thread like this where it is contrary to many of the users they are just going for an response. This might not be the case this time but it often is.
Oh and side note, congratulations you can change what someone said and make them seem bad, you will do very well in journilism(sp) or politics someday.

 

[Jumplion]

Yes, as everyone else has said, you are playing it wrong. I just got the Orange Box for my brand new PC (squee!) and it is much better than the console version sadly. Though if one wants to go this way, this does show VALVe's "commitment" to us "console-tards" unfortunately.

 

[L4hlborg]

What. A load. Of balls. I've been trying to play for the last few hours, but have now thrown in the towel - it's rubbish. It's like the original, TFC, but slow, with a total of about 4 maps - only one of which supports CTF- , and whining American children requiring mass-muting at the beginning of every game.

I think it has 5 or 6 maps, features capturing positions and capturing the flag (there is a difference) and people in general usually require muting on xbox live. I personally thought it was a load of good fun, with differing classes and working gameplay. I did get a bit irritated, since getting none of the support the pc people got and an update that made it impossible to play as any other class as the sniper for a few months.

Apparantly the game is truly different on the pc though, so if you like pc gaming, you might wanna give it a try.

can you explain this sniper class sharade again? I think you wrote it wrongly.

Nope. You could only play as sniper for over a month. I don't know exactly how long it lasted, but I remember checking it every week for a while.

 

[NeutralMunchHotel]

Actually I have never played TF2 and by how it looks it seems like something I wouldn't play, but the reason I say "troll" is because the majority of the time someone makes a thread like this where it is contrary to many of the users they are just going for an response. This might not be the case this time but it often is.
Oh and side note, congratulations you can change what someone said and make them seem bad, you will do very well in journilism(sp) or politics someday.

Oh lord.

You can tell from the OP that he isn't trolling. The fact that he has been a member for a while already and that he was quite reasonable makes this very likely. I just don't think you know what a troll is.

And just how did I change the meaning of your words?

 

[NeutralMunchHotel]

Oops, double post

 

[ShadowDude112]

I think you just suck at the game and you need to get better.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

TF2 Xbox360 vs. PC, PC wins every time, personally I'd play the PC version but my computer can't handle it (Too much lag), the main reason that valve hasn't released any DLC for the Xbox version is the fact that Microsoft won't let them release free DLC, so they won't release any at all (Which is honestly, a bit retarded in my opinion, like refusing to eat ever again because they won't pay you to have steak).

Fix analogy a bit because Valve would be getting money out of release the updates as payable DLC even though it is not worth paying for like most DLC. Most DLC is a crock. The whole DLC might be worth paying for but not the little bits at say a fiver each which is what they would go for as DLC which is scandalous.

IF they released all the patches and content on the PC version, I'd pay half again the cost of the actual disk that's how much content we're talking here!

Well that is you really and that is fair enough as there is a fair bit of content but in my opinion it is worth no more than 10-20 euro at the very most. All most DLC are and every will be mods that you have to pay for(eg Different Weapon skins with altered effects in Dead Space) or half assed maps to squeeze extra cash(eg Kill House in CoD4) or small pieces of an expansion(eg the separate pieces of DLC for Fallout 3). I personally don't think most of these are worth the money. If you take all of the ones like the Fallout and Oblivion ones and throw them in a box set for the price of an expansion then they are worth it as those accumulate to an expansion.

the biggest problem i had with the console version was the lack of updates. I would get TF 2 for my pc if my pc was remotely good, but it isnt.

What are your specs as TF2 is really, really, really easy to run. The Source Engine is probably the most agreeable of all the engines out there at the moment in my opinion.

 

[ThatJagoGuy]

Haha! Oh dear. Clearly I've been away from this forum faaaar too long, and inadvertently shook up a hornet's nest with my OP. No, I wasn't trolling - 1) If I were in need of abusive human interaction, I have Xbox Live, as previously stated 2) It'd be far more blatant if I were. I can sort of see how the title might have given that impression... bad choice of phrase. Still, it's certainly the worst game I've ever paid for.

I checked out some TF2 pages and videos last night and I'm somewhat gutted that I didn't properly research before investing. The PC one does look pretty damned fun and, most importantly, dynamic! I want gun upgrades... AND I WANT HATS!! I think the RAM excuse is a little weak. How much more hardware intensive would some new maps, weapons, and hats be?? Do you think, perhaps, it's more an issue with Microsoft Marketplace - they apparently screw up loads of updates PC users get for free.

Finally, for those that "helpfully" proposed that I sucked at the game, I admit that I did not win a single game... but that's because in the 3 hours I played, all but one game was killed by the host as soon as it looked like they would lose. The fact that they can even do that is ridiculous.

I shall play the PC one as soon as I have a PC that will cope. Thanks all for explaining... repeatedly... how I did wrong!!

 

[Dr. Feelgood]

Troll, oh and be prepared for en masse' demanding that you play on PC.

Not a troll, perhaps a simple question?

 

[Danpascooch]

Wow. Just... wow.

I bought Orange Box for the xbox360 today. Actually, I initially bought it on release day so I could play Portal... so I technically re-bought it. Back then there was barely a person playing Team Fortress 2 so I gave it a miss. However, having heard numerous endorsements of the game, and assuming that the amount of people playing might have picked up, I bought another copy.

What. A load. Of balls. I've been trying to play for the last few hours, but have now thrown in the towel - it's rubbish. It's like the original, TFC, but slow, with a total of about 4 maps - only one of which supports CTF- , and whining American children requiring mass-muting at the beginning of every game.

Am I doing it wrong? Have I missed something? Or is this genuinely a terrible game? I realise that the PC version has more support from Valve... but can the 360 version be so different? I'm not sure what my enquiry is with this post... but someone please explain - I'm feeling somewhat bewildered and perplexed!!

As someone who played both the 360 and PC versions, YES, it's SO different.

The reason is not directly the increased Valve support, it's because the increased Valve support caused all the real players to go to PC, leaving a bunch of douchebags playing the 360 version, and it's no fun to play a game with all jerks and griefers.

Try the PC version, and find a specific community group (may I recommend the Escapist group?) it's SO much more fun

Can you send me a link to the Excapist group? I just started playing again. (Computer problems)

Edit: I'm getting the hell out of here. This is turning into a PC vs Console flame pretty quickly and I hate those fights.

I'm not part of it, but a quick user group search turned it up: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/The-Escapist-Team-Fortress-2-Group-PC