Why I will never forget TF2

Back in 2013 i quit TF2 for good for CSGO and now there is OW

but i could never forget about this game and its community I installed it couple times from that day, hoping that nostalgic feeling would come back but it never did, or maybe I burned out..

tf2 has that "magic" which is hard to explain, my best gaming memories come from that time, cozy feeling during late gaming session on mario kart night map or various trade maps, funny stupid gmod content or just playing mixes as a scout main fun times

it's very different feeling than OW offers.. in tf2 i felt "free" doing whatever i wanted, not really rushed by map time.. playing OW feels like being in a cage, prisoner of map time, meta and narrow maps bereft of its character, with clear boundaries set by developers.. it feels so instinctive to jump onto the small roofs in OW yet game doesn't let you do it, you just slide off, slide off eveyrthing.. even small rocks and i could go on and on with these examples..

and then there are hats, everybody loves them and collects them, they distinguish us from eachother

in fact i don't think i would spend that much time in this game if not thanks to the hats.. whenever you get new expansive item, every time you log back to see it in game, it feels different, yet still the same

which is not the case with overwatch.. everyone looks the same it's boring AF.. game claims to have customization options yet it changes nothing.. you are not the only one.. there is thousands players looking just like you

there is no rare item.. no item that makes others on the server go 'wow' only "rare" thing you can get is animated spray for getting into top 500

I can't even pick map I want to play on (I guess this is partly adressed by server browser) i hate it, i hate how PC this game is, and blizzard trying to prove how PC they are by making their mascot gay (i have nothing against gays) heros with no fucking real character, fucking circle jerk in game and on their subreddit or just straight up toxicness

now there is this "gg ez" trend and i hate it so fucking much back when i played mixes, matches in tf2 there were only GGs and GHs showing respect to the opponent

even tho i'm now addicted to OW, i often feel worn-out, having to take breaks every 30m which never was the case with TF2.. i could play 4h stright with no breaks

those who never touched TF2 will never understand why it's considered as a better experience by those who tried out both..

That old image of TF2 hunts me to this day, I want to come back, i try but it feels not the same and maybe things are better to left that way. I just can't get hooked anymore,

that good old gmod community feels dead to me There is now so many items, most of them feel irrelevant to me prices of bill's hat, earbuds, max head reached rock bottom god knows why.. they introduced unusual weapons, strange hats i just dont get it anymore last time i checked, MM system was considered to be a disaster, why would they even introduce it..

these small things just make it harder for me to come back

game just doesn't feel the same for me, and no other game can offer what TF2 did

love this game too much to forget about it i hope some day i will get hooked again