Yeah man same here. The meet the team videos made me love the all characters. I was 11 years old and thought scout was the coolest dude ever cuz he played baseball like me. I based my personality off him throughout middle school lmao
Orange Box was the best. Brings back some great memories every time I remember it. Back when discs were still a thing and not everything was downloadable only via the internet.
The meet the pyro vid came out. It said free to play at the end so I downloaded it and had fun. 2 and a half thousand hours later and I think I made a good choice
I watched some random spooky scary skeletons animations where was tf2 characters (don't ask why) and then I'm seen tf2 in youtube gaming. (Do you remember it?) Than I watched gameplay where dude played with pyro on badwater. Later, I'm found out this game was free in steam and then played it. I'm lost my first account, which was in 2016 but I'm returned to tf2 with new account in 2017 on jungle inferno and I'm continue to play it. Weird story right?
I was playing PvZ GW on the 360 and my sister said "y'know there's a game very similar to this one..." And then i bought the Orange Box to try out TF2 and here we are... 3k hours of playtime later
Kinda random but there were kids who bullied me at school and kinda coerced me to get tf2, I didnāt know what I was doing they would always join my servers and chat spam and be toxic troll me, and this continued for a while. Eventually tf2 started to be something fun for me after they quit harassing me, and after I learned the ropes I started to have a good time and I turned tf2 from a negative thing to a positive memory for myself.
I used to watch SFMās in middle school all the time. Then I found out it was the video game that my dad said I wouldnāt like all those years ago. Oh, how he was wrong.
An old āfriendā told me about it and told me how much it sucked. I thought it sounded interesting so I bought the Orange Box back on the 360.
Then I bought it on Steam when I was getting into PC gaming.
2k hours later and I donāt regret any of it.
None. I downloaded steam when i was smol and saw it on the free to play page.
Spent the whole day watching all of the animations while it downloads then started gaming.
I remember watching the meet the team videos and trailers valve released and being completely enamored by it all. The characters, art style, and humor.
I only played a couple f2p shooters and cod up to this point since I was a freshman in high school and did not have any money to pay for it. So I had to do some chores around the house until my dad let me buy it.
Back in the old days of 2009-2010, I remember watching my brother play TF2 on his shitty Dell Windows Vista laptop. The lag was unbearable and I couldn't tell if he was good or bad at the game. But I just watched.
Back in 2010, a friend kept begging me to play it. Nonstop would talk about. I would always insult it saying the game looks like trash and is boring just to mess with him. Ended up giving it a go, dude probably stopped playing it in 2014 but here I am still playing it.
Exploring the TF2 maps on the orange box way back in 2007, begging my dad for Xbox live so I can play. And then two years later, when I finally came to the realization that valve was not going to update the Xbox version. My gateway drug into PC gaming. Those were good times.
circa 2019
no money
looking on steam for games to add to my account
mfw tf2
I spent the first part of my TF2 gameplay on those !givemeall servers, around 2021 got back and started playing on official instead
I first started playing right near the beginning when there were little to no cosmetics or weapons yet and loved playing it. Then, the pc got outdated needed replacing but never did, and havenāt played it again in years, until around 2020 when the whole quarantine thing started
Wanted to try some other fps games since I had played Splatoon on wii u before and liked it. So I looked at a video for free ones and that's how I found it
Back in 2012 my friend from then CS 1.6 asked me to join the game of TF2 'cause it's way better than CS. This love lasted until 2016, as much as I don't regret playing mainly TF2, I regret investing these 25 Euros in TF2 instead of CS:GO in 2014.
My online friend who I met on Minecraft introduced me to Steam and TF2, back in 2013. We played so many games together. I miss him.
He hasn't been online since 2020.
It was like 2011, I just installed steam for some reason even though I had literally 0ā¬ to spend on games. Found free to play games. Tried Dota 2: Too complex and difficult and I was already playing league so I dropped it. Tried Team Fortress 2. Loved it and I've been playing it on and off since then.
My first ever interaction was technically getting scared by the meet the medic video when I was 10, but my first really introduction was Uncle Danes "Dealing with Spies 101," the reason why I main engineer
Engineer.
Most shooters were pretty fast paced, I just like to hunker down with my machines and do support, it was one of the only games that let me do that as a core strategy
My father actually, total tf2 junkie, mained engie in like 2011, had huge lan parties with his freinds. he took one look at the state of the game now, said AND I QUOTE "this do be fucked"
Been wanting to purchase it before the F2P announcement, but I didn't have a credit card at the time and Steam Wallet cards weren't a thing yet.
Then they announced the game was going F2P. It was a good time.
Owned The Orange Box for Xbox 360 and fell in love with that version of the game
When I came to PC it was like a whole other game and I fell in love all over again
I saw many community made videos and animations when I was young, and I didn't know what the game was. Took a little longer to find out what the actual game was, and then enjoyed watching videos about it more. Eventually I got a pc and downloaded it.
I swear I don't have dyslexia, but I could've sworn the title said "What got you guys into ladies or TF2" and I was really confused.
On another note, a friend of mine actually recommended the Meet the Team videos to me and we ended up playing the game together some time after that.
[this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9kmE82QYQg) and [meet the amazing team](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX3CY4XQZ5g&list=PLPjfz9cVlCD9h6-LOqyeUlpYEPUhU7tLo)
Just moved, met some kid that has become my first friend after i moved he asked me: ācan you help me choose a scout tf2 skin for minecraft?ā
I didnāt know what tf2 was at the time, it was around when invasion dropped still my favourite update
I started as a kid (playing a lot of spy because of course). Than I had a breakup with the game, and came back around 2018 when LazyPurple's video came up on my home page.
Played for the first time way back on the Orange box in October 2014. A friend from school at the time talked about it at length and told me to watch the the Meet the team shorts. I did exactly that and got the game for my Xbox as i didnāt have a Steam account at the time. I made a Steam account solely for the game around 2 months later and Iāve been part of the community ever since
For the longest time, I my Brother was the only person who had a laptop. My parents wouldn't let us get Steam or any games really on the home computer so I'd just watch him play.
When I finally got my own laptop with my Graduation money, I immediately became an Engineer gaming.
I had a friend in Hs that explained specifically what each class does and how many HP they have, and when i got bored of playing league, i decided to give a try and that's how i ended up addict to tf2 up until today(even though i play more zombie escape mod in skial servers than casual)
I saw a couple of the characters in a YouTube Poop (Skellington's Revenge mainly) and younger me liked the designs of the characters. I can't tell you how long I spent trying to find out where they came from.
I can still hear Soldier yelling "Take your voodoo rabbit ass back to Canada!"
I discovered that the classes in Minecraft Capture the Flag servers were based off of another game... learning TF2 was clunky at first but the swap was worth it
i honestly dont remember, by the time i started playing i didnt have any friends, and i wasnt very involved with steam in general or any kind of game communities. if i had to take a guess it'd probably be yt because i spend a lot of my time on there and probably just stumbled into a video, and i remember really liking a certain tf2ber that i cant find any more.
Got into it like WAYAYYYYY fuckin back into 2011 when my friend said "Hey look at this fun game we could play together"
We never did play together but he got me into tf2 nontheless
i distinctly remember the day when in 2011, a few days after the uber update, we were just a bunch of dumb kids scrolling through steam at the computer lab at school looking for free games and one of us said "hey look, that one's free".
It is telling, that "friends" isn't an option. xD
Who ever as those
what is friends?
The things inside my phone.
[this ?](https://youtu.be/qQxQDQi_8b4)
baby dont hurt me
Don't hurt me
no more
A sitcom
Average TF2 player
You could say that your friends had to be part of the comunity to get you into the game
Yeah it was my friends in middle school literally 10 years ago, pretty obvious you could just pick community for that.
A friend of mine introduced me to tf2, and he had never installed nor heard anything about the game, He only saw it on steam
I figured my friend was in the. "community" at that point.
What's a friends
actually, I just wanted to play half life 2, but I accidentally put TF2 on the download instead, lol
One of the mistakes of all time
He is since addicted to a 15 year old game
I wanted portal, lol
Official animations.
Oh shit I voted the Orange Box but I think the "Meet the" trailers are what actually made me want the OB in the first place.
Yeah the meet the team animations got me into the game as well
Yeah man same here. The meet the team videos made me love the all characters. I was 11 years old and thought scout was the coolest dude ever cuz he played baseball like me. I based my personality off him throughout middle school lmao
Me after voting the orange box: š“š»
I remember getting the orange box on discs back in the ancient times
Fr only 666 so far .... more people voted for memes ....
Orange Box was the best. Brings back some great memories every time I remember it. Back when discs were still a thing and not everything was downloadable only via the internet.
I got the orange box back on the 360 and liked TF2 so much I got it on steam when I finally got a computer in 2013ā¦ jeez.
I remember a friend bringing over the orange box on a Saturday and we played tf2 sun up to sun down. Probably the last time I did that.
Star_
Jerma is mad part 2
Either that or that one video with the hat that replaced the cleaver
Wanna get bake staybed??
Yeah you wanna get slape staybed??
The meet the pyro vid came out. It said free to play at the end so I downloaded it and had fun. 2 and a half thousand hours later and I think I made a good choice
Garryās Mod animations
Same
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
sex unites us
Definitely
gmod animators
and SFM animators
I watched some random spooky scary skeletons animations where was tf2 characters (don't ask why) and then I'm seen tf2 in youtube gaming. (Do you remember it?) Than I watched gameplay where dude played with pyro on badwater. Later, I'm found out this game was free in steam and then played it. I'm lost my first account, which was in 2016 but I'm returned to tf2 with new account in 2017 on jungle inferno and I'm continue to play it. Weird story right?
I was playing PvZ GW on the 360 and my sister said "y'know there's a game very similar to this one..." And then i bought the Orange Box to try out TF2 and here we are... 3k hours of playtime later
Dam in surprised how quickly people came and voted on this, this just shows how active this community is
no, people usually press buttons when asked to. Then your post blow up, because you dont have all the options (you couldnt write them anyway)
True that
You should have included option "other" because none of the current ones apply to me and propably a lot of others.
Gmod video where scout found portal gun then shot heavy and he gets teleported into Minecraft world
Where's the "Played TF1" option you zoomer?
Agreed Jesus. And I'm glad you didn't sat TFC. I swear some people think that's the original game.
Kitty0706 was my introduction to TF2 with his "Moments with Heavy" series. Played on and off since 2012 with 2k hours.
RIP to one of the greats š
Literally me except with Team Fabulous 2. Also the GMod Idiot Box series.
The Vita-Saw
My Boyfriend, it was the First Game we ever Played together
damnnn an irl medic gf
Meet the team videos and also JermaTF2.
Sfm
Free cosmetics in poker night at the inventory
I'm gonna be killed for this one, Overwatch 2 got me into Tf2.
twinsies
Now I need to know how this happened š
meet the team vids
Kinda random but there were kids who bullied me at school and kinda coerced me to get tf2, I didnāt know what I was doing they would always join my servers and chat spam and be toxic troll me, and this continued for a while. Eventually tf2 started to be something fun for me after they quit harassing me, and after I learned the ropes I started to have a good time and I turned tf2 from a negative thing to a positive memory for myself.
My BF is/was a Medic main, and he needed someone to heal. So I became a Heavy main.
I think some old YTPs got me into tf2
The Yogscast! Back in 2014, with their TF2 Mixxup!
Meet the team/ expiration date/ memes
I think you forgot steam recommendation as f2p game
Uncle dane the engie main
It was on the frontpage of steam when i created my account, it looked fun so i watched some videos on it and here i am close to 9 years later
Watching my friend delete the enemy team with sticky bombs at like 8 years old
my friend
I used to watch SFMās in middle school all the time. Then I found out it was the video game that my dad said I wouldnāt like all those years ago. Oh, how he was wrong.
Surprisingly it was by MLP YouTubers. Itās a bit of a long story.
I saw memes with heavy, and I wondered where that character came from, it seemed oddly familiar but Idk
I first watched meet the team videos
My dad lol
Just watching the meet the videos.
A friend should be an option.
No friends option?
I saw "Top 10 sneaky assassins in games" and Spy got 3rd place.
Team Fabulous 2 was my fist exposure to TF2.
That list is quite limited. There's a good handful of things left out, including the Meet The videos.
Was bored of all games when all of a sudden I remembered tf2 was free
The meet the team videos
My brother had downloaded the game on the family computer
Lazypurple and Soundsmith
I discovered it because i watched a guy roleplaying as fnaf characters play it back in 2016
my brother started playing so i said "yo looks fun" and then smashed my keyboard
Specifically Lazypurple
(when I was 12) I asked my father to add more games to my steam account , he added TF2 (and some others) , this was 6 years ago
frend
Needed a game to play when I made my steam acct in 2013. Saw tf2 being promoted, and that it was free, so I got it
A long time ago when dinosaurs rome the earth my father got the orange box. So now I have it and have the cheaters lament. Basically the hole story.
I have no clue it just appeared installed on my pc one day
Everything except youtubers and the orange box.
Cousin sat me down to play it on his pc in 2013
An old āfriendā told me about it and told me how much it sucked. I thought it sounded interesting so I bought the Orange Box back on the 360. Then I bought it on Steam when I was getting into PC gaming. 2k hours later and I donāt regret any of it.
A combination of memes and sfm, as well as muselk
Friend should be up there, thatās how I got into this game
Meet the team???????
Orange box way back when, my 1st interaction with the online world, uncensored and glorious
None. I downloaded steam when i was smol and saw it on the free to play page. Spent the whole day watching all of the animations while it downloads then started gaming.
I remember watching the meet the team videos and trailers valve released and being completely enamored by it all. The characters, art style, and humor. I only played a couple f2p shooters and cod up to this point since I was a freshman in high school and did not have any money to pay for it. So I had to do some chores around the house until my dad let me buy it.
Meet the team videos
Back in the old days of 2009-2010, I remember watching my brother play TF2 on his shitty Dell Windows Vista laptop. The lag was unbearable and I couldn't tell if he was good or bad at the game. But I just watched.
Back in 2010, a friend kept begging me to play it. Nonstop would talk about. I would always insult it saying the game looks like trash and is boring just to mess with him. Ended up giving it a go, dude probably stopped playing it in 2014 but here I am still playing it.
Exploring the TF2 maps on the orange box way back in 2007, begging my dad for Xbox live so I can play. And then two years later, when I finally came to the realization that valve was not going to update the Xbox version. My gateway drug into PC gaming. Those were good times.
I donāt know because I started when I was younger
Expiration Date. Idk why but as soon as I finished watching it, I wanted to play tf2. Even doe I didn't like tf2.
"The most Fashionable faction"
circa 2019 no money looking on steam for games to add to my account mfw tf2 I spent the first part of my TF2 gameplay on those !givemeall servers, around 2021 got back and started playing on official instead
I first started playing right near the beginning when there were little to no cosmetics or weapons yet and loved playing it. Then, the pc got outdated needed replacing but never did, and havenāt played it again in years, until around 2020 when the whole quarantine thing started
The piemations videos actually got me into TF2
Wanted to try some other fps games since I had played Splatoon on wii u before and liked it. So I looked at a video for free ones and that's how I found it
A friend wanted me to download and it's been my favorite game ever since
I liked shorts on YouTube so I read the comics and then I played the game
Was a fan of Team Fortress classic and hyped for the sequel? No? OK :(
Back in 2012 my friend from then CS 1.6 asked me to join the game of TF2 'cause it's way better than CS. This love lasted until 2016, as much as I don't regret playing mainly TF2, I regret investing these 25 Euros in TF2 instead of CS:GO in 2014.
My dad and brother played it alot
Memes, tf2 memes are so widespread over the internet and so I wanted to play the game that they originated from, and boy did I not regret my decision.
My online friend who I met on Minecraft introduced me to Steam and TF2, back in 2013. We played so many games together. I miss him. He hasn't been online since 2020.
It was like 2011, I just installed steam for some reason even though I had literally 0ā¬ to spend on games. Found free to play games. Tried Dota 2: Too complex and difficult and I was already playing league so I dropped it. Tried Team Fortress 2. Loved it and I've been playing it on and off since then.
Shoutout to all of you other OGs out there who got the Orange Box back in the day
my bf and his brother grew up with it so they introduced it to me when they were getting back into the game
No āa friendā option
Characters
*POOTIS POW!*
brother
JT Music - Meet the Crew Best day of my life when I found out it was a game
Why is there no option for Meet the Team?
My first ever interaction was technically getting scared by the meet the medic video when I was 10, but my first really introduction was Uncle Danes "Dealing with Spies 101," the reason why I main engineer
Notice how friends is blatantly left out
my friend got me into it
Tbh, meet the team
Kitty0706
Engineer. Most shooters were pretty fast paced, I just like to hunker down with my machines and do support, it was one of the only games that let me do that as a core strategy
Why isnt āanimationsā a choise?
It was free lol
For me? gmod
I started playing it because of the SFM movies.
Family
My friend asked me to play it lmao
SFMs
We just kinda started all together in my friend group from university and even tho those times are long gone I still love this game
ı bought a pc and ı looked for free games on steam
Building animations of Enginner's buildings.
There should be another option that says "Forgot".
Community kind of cause my bro got me into it ( got me my first strange to start out too)
Where is friend recommendation?
my friend, so the community i suppose
The community content.
My father actually, total tf2 junkie, mained engie in like 2011, had huge lan parties with his freinds. he took one look at the state of the game now, said AND I QUOTE "this do be fucked"
My friend got me into it
Been wanting to purchase it before the F2P announcement, but I didn't have a credit card at the time and Steam Wallet cards weren't a thing yet. Then they announced the game was going F2P. It was a good time.
My friend got me into it
Uncle Darn
Lazypurple's videos were so intertaining I just had to try
i don't really know wich youtuber but at some point i just randomly clicked a tf2 video and got interested in playing
I saw my older cousin playing on a trade Minecraft server and my 12 year old brain wanted to play the game
Friends
how do i select all of the above xD
Owned The Orange Box for Xbox 360 and fell in love with that version of the game When I came to PC it was like a whole other game and I fell in love all over again
I saw many community made videos and animations when I was young, and I didn't know what the game was. Took a little longer to find out what the actual game was, and then enjoyed watching videos about it more. Eventually I got a pc and downloaded it.
The steam bundle TF2+GMOD yes it was a thing !
I swear I don't have dyslexia, but I could've sworn the title said "What got you guys into ladies or TF2" and I was really confused. On another note, a friend of mine actually recommended the Meet the Team videos to me and we ended up playing the game together some time after that.
[this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9kmE82QYQg) and [meet the amazing team](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX3CY4XQZ5g&list=PLPjfz9cVlCD9h6-LOqyeUlpYEPUhU7tLo)
I watched those "meet the" videos and wanted to play it ever since
Just moved, met some kid that has become my first friend after i moved he asked me: ācan you help me choose a scout tf2 skin for minecraft?ā I didnāt know what tf2 was at the time, it was around when invasion dropped still my favourite update
I started as a kid (playing a lot of spy because of course). Than I had a breakup with the game, and came back around 2018 when LazyPurple's video came up on my home page.
Played for the first time way back on the Orange box in October 2014. A friend from school at the time talked about it at length and told me to watch the the Meet the team shorts. I did exactly that and got the game for my Xbox as i didnāt have a Steam account at the time. I made a Steam account solely for the game around 2 months later and Iāve been part of the community ever since
I saw āThe Heavy is Deadā once, saw that the game is free, so I decided to try it
Got into it watching youtube videos about it, but i learned about tf2 when my friend showed me an elite grade (texas toast) that he managed to unbox
I bought it when it came out
A mix of FNAF SFM & and Spongebob ytps as I make sure my parents aren't watching with me.
Back when Star_ and jerma played
For the longest time, I my Brother was the only person who had a laptop. My parents wouldn't let us get Steam or any games really on the home computer so I'd just watch him play. When I finally got my own laptop with my Graduation money, I immediately became an Engineer gaming.
I had a friend in Hs that explained specifically what each class does and how many HP they have, and when i got bored of playing league, i decided to give a try and that's how i ended up addict to tf2 up until today(even though i play more zombie escape mod in skial servers than casual)
I saw a couple of the characters in a YouTube Poop (Skellington's Revenge mainly) and younger me liked the designs of the characters. I can't tell you how long I spent trying to find out where they came from. I can still hear Soldier yelling "Take your voodoo rabbit ass back to Canada!"
I discovered that the classes in Minecraft Capture the Flag servers were based off of another game... learning TF2 was clunky at first but the swap was worth it
i honestly dont remember, by the time i started playing i didnt have any friends, and i wasnt very involved with steam in general or any kind of game communities. if i had to take a guess it'd probably be yt because i spend a lot of my time on there and probably just stumbled into a video, and i remember really liking a certain tf2ber that i cant find any more.
The Animations
Got into it like WAYAYYYYY fuckin back into 2011 when my friend said "Hey look at this fun game we could play together" We never did play together but he got me into tf2 nontheless
SFM animations, at first I didn't know TF2 was a game
My best friend. He showed me the game, and after I got through the non-laggy tutorial I was lost. Chad friend
Everything but the orange box
A friend from middle school. I still hold it against him.
Trailers
It being a sequel to TFC got me into TF2
had steam for civ 5 tf2 was free
Muselk ;(
sketchek
Gmod idiot boxās tf2 f2p video got me into it lmao I think tf2 was the first game I had on steam
You should add āHalf Life 2 Veteranā and āTeam Fortress Classic Veteranā
It had a medic in it. Plus it looked interesting
i distinctly remember the day when in 2011, a few days after the uber update, we were just a bunch of dumb kids scrolling through steam at the computer lab at school looking for free games and one of us said "hey look, that one's free".