truly one of the games ever made where in order to truly grasp it, you had to experience it during its peak time era it was a part of. the peak was around 1999 - 2007 (a period in which i was only a child for, and an era of the internet so long gone), but the memories that were made from said experiences live on forever for me. this review includes tfc primarily, however half-life and half-life mods and its official titles in general are also looped into this as well. half-life had perhaps the best modding scene, and functioned kinda like how newgrounds was just the wild west of flash creation. people often made custom maps and servers just for their friends that operated almost as a social hub in a way. from when i played, these games served almost comparable to something like vrchat. no, seriously. people actually roleplayed on this game and in general just hung out with friends in teamspeak / irc chats. all over tfc. but yes obviously, the game was designed as a team deathmatch experience.

fun maps in tfc are truly admiring, i rank this game on this merit alone highly. the co-operative experience of playing on a laggy server with your friends and dying a lot trying to solve the most minuscule task is hilariously brutal and beautiful simultaneously. conc jumping is a serious skill on its own and IS one of the most intense movement skillsets ever created. however the real game itself is admittedly a tad lackluster. but it plays a lot different than team fortress 2 so "don't get it twisted" by comparing the two. watch any competitive game to get what i mean. nowadays the meta is defense heavy to where one team of CTF opts to defend, otherwise it would just be a game of movement with scouts and medics conc jumping across the map competing for the best score. still, i hold the belief that it is one of those things you need to see to believe. and no, i'm not talking about playing on some bot vs player server or whatever. the competitive scene (pick up games) still pop off today (neonlight TFC). oh and watch some frag movies, i recommend putting "before:2011" in your search feed for team fortress classic content. thanks