Just before TF2 Came out, Id had all but given up on PC gaming... UT2004 was getting boring, CSS was too leetist, TFC didnt interest me that much.. there wasnt much out there for someone who just wants a laugh on their computer at the time..
So my PC was mainly used as a tool for work and and making movies/flash stuff/websites ect for some creative fun.
I played consoles most of the time.. My Xbox 360 was the main choice.. playing games like Halo, PGR3, Shadowrun, Crackdown and the like.. then this thing called the Orange box that everyone was raving on about.. I knew it had HL2E2 and this new portal concept on it, So i got it for the X360 for about £20 new (pretty sweet deal!)
Went through all the HL2 games again, finished portal and LOVED IT (still do) and gave TF2 a quick bash.
Played a lot of heavy and engie to start with.. theyr easy classes to start getting to grips with the game.. and I just thought it was a bit average.. silly looking cartoon shooter with all the basics of a MP FPS youd expect.. but no DM?
This confused me a LOT at first! Its not very often you see a multiplayer FPS without deathmatch mode! so I pretty swiftly gave up for about a month..
I gave it another go after a while and it was pretty dead online on the X360 at that point.. there were litterally NO servers with anyone on.. if there were, they were full of loud, brash americans and my ping made it unplayable!
Then my mate asked me to play UT2004 with him for a quick scrim (needed someone to fill up the match team for a game) and by chance, I clicked steam instead of UT. Doh
As it was up, I thought Id check to see how the TF2 community was on the PC..
Turned out it was BOOMING!
so I got myself a new steam account (thought it fitting as I was almost starting afresh with PC gaming) and got the Valve complete pack (why not, it was about as much as the Orange box in the shops.. about another £10 more for about 20 games!)
and I quickly downloaded TF2!
After a few evenings playing on GTFO/Multiplay/ect servers I was really enjoying it!
It was a challenge.. and I actually DIDNT miss Deathmatch!
the more I played, the less I missed it! "here's something completely different, the change I been lookng for!" I thought.
A game thats not about how many kills I can get and how I can be top of the scoreboard or how many achievements are left! (console gaming left me pretty jaded)
I used to click random class when I joined a server.. did that for the first month or so! so I quickly found the classes I liked to play and the ones I didnt!
I loved solly and engie at first.. with Sniper reminding me of my UT2004 days (thats the one where it does matter about how many kills so there is a similarity there) so I played him every now and then.
After growing bored of playing with different people every day and playing in the odd scrim for my mates CSS clan I thought Id look about at clan servers.. found NuB pretty quicky.. they were all very good! too good at first tbh.. I barely got a shot in most of the time.. so I left them and found WDG straight after!
Pretty much straight away I fell in love with the place.. I was on the forum the 1st night I joined the server pretty much!
I BEGGED to join the clan.. even provided myself as cannon fodder for the clan members in a quick achievement farming session one evening before my trail...
I fill out the "join us" form, and keep posting on the forums and playing on the server (sometimes 1st there and last out.. much like now)
a couple of weeks later (STILL LOVING IT!) PapaFade sends me a message "tag up mate, your in"
I IMMEDIATELY SPOOGE MY PANTS!
IM IN! I passed and gave myself to WDG!
Would do it all over again!
Ever since I joined I been a PC NERD and theres no chance of me going back to console gaming.. not how I was before anyway..
So Im a pc gamer once again.. after a long stint of consoles.. (dont suppose any of you would have guessed that I played consoles like that once)
Anyway.. back to class selection..
I was soldier most of the time at WDG.. bit of engie, demo, pyro.. but mainly soldier..
Then along comes ReVerT!
He (as you all know) could HS a fly moving at the speed of light the f*cker! and almost inspires me to get good at it again.. so I practice on the quiet (on public servers.. playing some CSS-GunGame on the side for better reactions and aiming) and I get to a level where I can actually kill him back a few times for the 100 hes killed me..
since then I played sniper all the time.. as you know

and got pretty awsome at it (toot toot)
But alas, now I am bored of sniping for the most part.. so he doesnt see much action anymore.. mainly solly and engie again.. full circle

Sorry that that was so long.. just had a long creative session so the juices are flowing
