Tumblr User Comprehensively Explains Why Team Fortress 2 Mercenaries Are The Greatest Video Game Characters

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mattstaff
Dec 19, 2018 7:00 PM EST

You don't even have to like video games to appreciate this post. What a silly, lovely game Team Fortress 2 is, indeed. 

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    Text - mittensmcgee-deactivated2018033 Why TF2's Mercs Are My Favorite Characters of Any Game So, as far as I know, Team Fortress 2 sort of brought the idea of the class- based PvP shooter into existence. It wasn't the first ever, but it was definitely the first huge hit of the genre. The classes, aka the mercenaries, are still loved today. People make fan art, SFM videos, jokes, memes, tons of content about them - every day. And over the years, I've realized they're probably my favorite cast of
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    Text - It's because they're so simple. There's really not much going on with any of them. I mean that as a compliment. Because they're so simply designed, yet each one is so unique. You can tell them all apart by their silhouettes, yet they all look sort of the same, in a weird way Ithink this small fact is why they're still loved by so many after 10 years. Because they're so simply (yet effectively) designed, we can put them in almost any kind of scenario and it doesn't feel wrong. For example:
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    Text - Normally they're fighting themselves - or rather, opposite colored versions of themselves. As far as the lore goes, that part isn't canon. Sure, Redmond hired his own mercenaries and Blutarch hired his, but in the comics it's revealed, or at least implied, that the mercenaries Blutarch hired are NOT just the same guys in blue clothing. They're the old mercenaries. From Team Fortress Classic.
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    Action-adventure game - PAK FORTRESS #6 VALVE
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    Adventure game - FISHHCAKE
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    Text - Even when the fans crank up their usual shenanigans to 11, making stupidly hilarious and seemingly out-of-place SFM videos or gmod videos, they still feel like the same characters. While a little more stretched, some scenarios in the goofier SFM videos could still certainly exist in the comics. The great thing about Team Fortress 2's level of realism is that it's at such a precise point between realistic and silly. It rides fine line I've yet to see any other game or fictional world achie
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    Text - Even on the holidays, the mercenaries are always doing something special. Part of what makes them feel real is that they're often shown as living somewhat normal lives, away from the fighting, enjoying Christmas (or Smissmas, in their universe), living in regular neighborhoods, having small chat at the office, the list goess on Through holiday events and the endless waves of user-created content, the mercs almost feel real. At their cores, they're just bare-boned, 'here's their class and
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    Text - All of which will certainly feel rich, charming, and just plain meant-to-be. thatfrigginturtle Reblogging once again because this post goes a long way to explain one of the reasons why this game holds a special place in my heart.
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