The How it FEELS to Play... series, by Lazypurple, summarizes in every video about how people usually feel when they play a specific class in Team Fortress 2, complete with hilarious skits and jokes.
Videos
- "How it FEELS to play Spy"
- "How it FEELS to play Scout"
- "How it FEELS to play Heavy"
- "How it FEELS to play Soldier"
- "How it FEELS to play Engineer"
- "How it FEELS to play Sniper"
- "How it FEELS to play Pyro"
- "How it FEELS to play Demoman"
- "How it FEELS to play Medic" (in development)
Examples:
- Achievements in Ignorance: In the extras for How it FEELS to Play Demo, Lazy manages to outmaneuver an enemy Spy attempting backstab him without even being aware of his presence, due his primary focus being on the flying Heavy landing next to a friendly Sniper and demolishing him.
- Bias Steamroller: By his own admission, Lazy has a very clear preference for how he likes to play Team Fortress 2, gushing about things he loves while decrying whatever goes against his favoured playstyle:
- He's a huge fan of rocket-jumping as Soldier, with almost the entirety of "How it FEELS to play Soldier" revolving around it. He does admit, however, that constantly rocket-jumping has downsides... like flying straight towards a Heavy guarding the point.
- He's highly enamoured with sticky bombs when it comes to Demoman, considering even the stock loadout to be "a marvel of game design". In the "Extras" video, he lambasts the Scottish Resistance as going against every instinct he has when playing the game as a whole, while the Loch-n-Load 's 25% projectile speed confuses his muscle memory.
- He considers air blasting fundamental to the Pyro due to how versatile it can be as a defensive tool and how many issues it solves. It's to the point that the Phlogistonator not having it makes it ultimately Awesome, but Impractical in his eyes.
- Bring It: In How it FEELS to Play Scout, Lazy once started to capture the center point in a match by himself, he lampshades how this is the opposite of a stealthy flanker by animating his Scout calling out to BLU team with a megaphone.Scout: Attention BLU Team: I am currently at central point and am prepared to engage in fisticuffs galore at your discretion.
- Bullying a Dragon: How it FEELS to Play Heavy notes that despite players knowing about Heavy's close-range damage and having any number of ways to counter him, sometimes overconfident enemies will just run in swinging, sometimes one at a time, and expect that to work.
- The Cameo:
- SoundSmith makes a cameo in a few of these videos, such as How it FEELS to Play Scout in TF2
- Uncle Dane makes a cameo in How it FEELS to Play Engineer, lambasting Lazy for his Engineer strategy.
- Critical Existence Failure: Discussed as being especially important for Scout. While a explosive class with 3 HP is not long for this world due to self-damage and slower classes are basically useless at that point, a decent Scout with 3 HP is still just as lethal as a full health one due to his ability to dodge and return fire regardless of HP.
- Difficult, but Awesome: Invoked by the core of the Sniper video; the Sniper presents an extremely steep learning curve, as showcased by Lazy's process of learning to land headshots, but that it results in an incredibly fulfilling payoff as he proceeds to one shot entire teams."If I had to summarize Sniper in one sentence:"
WOW, I'M SO GOOD AT THIS GAME AND NOW I'M DEAD
"But...what about the times when you're not even good?"
WOW-I'M DEAD - Dull Surprise: In the extras from How it FEELS to Play Demoman, Lazy aggressively lays a sticky trap on a Heavy eating a sandvich, whose only reaction is to stand there unpanicked and boredly say "Bruh, that is fucked up" as a Inner Monologue.
- Early-Installment Weirdness:
- In earlier "How it FEELS" videos, Lazy's editing was much more relaxed and to the point, in contrast to the rapid-fire balls-to-the-wall reference-filled style he would be known for.
- Lazy's in-character interjections where also more frat bro and a little cutting in earlier videos. Starting with How it FEELS to Play Soldier he became much more of a well meaning doof. To mark the change his choice in avatar changed from Scout to Soldier.
- Everything Trying to Kill You: The intro to How it FEELS to Play Engineer features 8 out of 9 enemy classes all working very hard to kill Lazy's Level 3 sentry gun (and him as he fixes it) and Lazy's equally Heraculean efforts to fight them off and save it. He notes that this illustrates just how hard a competent enemy team has to work to dislodge a well-placed sentry nest and its Engineer.
- Expospeak Gag: Uses one in How it FEELS to Play Demoman as he outsmarts an enemy Heavy by lobbing pipes around corners:Heavy's thoughts (Text-to-speech voice) Oh dear. It appears I have underestimated my opponent's critical thinking skills, while simultaneously overestimating my body ability to effectively move around corners. I should take note for the future not to chase explosive-wielding enemies around said corners, as they naturally have a sizable advantage due to not requiring a direct line of sight to deal bodily harm. It certainly does not help that I am at my most sluggish while revving up my gun, a precursor to shooting aforementioned gun, and therefore killing my enemy."Heavy in reality: Ohhhh shit. *explodes*
- Finger in a Barrel: In Extras from "How it FEELS to play Pyro", he manages to reflect a point-blank Direct Hit rocket so fast that it didn't even appear and says it felt like something out of a Looney Tunes cartoon. Then it cuts to an SFM animation showing exactly that.
- Funny Background Event: Shortly after the Engineer stickie dance sequence in How it FEELS to Play Demo, a Hoovy can be seen offering a sandvich to the Medic healing Lazy. Doubly so in that they're fighting on an Attack/Defend map.
- Graceful Loser: In contrast to his "hackusators" in How it FEELS to Play Sniper, one player asks Lazy for tips to get better at Sniper instead of getting mad and defending his pride, something Lazy himself even admits to still do. This is further emphasized when that player is shown taking notes despite his head being blown off, while he is put next to an enraged Sniper jumping and yelling furiously.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Mentions that in ''How it FEELS to Play Engineer" that sometimes the only thing you can do as Engineer to save your sentry for a few more valuable seconds is to block incoming damage with your own body. Of course, this is illustrated with Lazy sensually ripping his shirt off and making sexy poses while his body absorbs rocket fire. All while romantic music (formerly Careless Whisper) plays.
- Hypocritical Humor:
- In How it FEELS to Play Soldier in TF2, Lazy justifies his frequent attempts at trying to shoot Pyros with the rocket launcher by explaining that he doesn't see the Pyro as a class that can deflect rockets, but rather a class that can absorb rockets (though he admits he shouldn't be shooting rockets at Pyros in the first place). However, in How it FEELS to Play Pyro in TF2, he berates Soldiers who keeps shooting rockets at him, since he can easily reflect said rockets with his airblast.
- During How it FEELS to Play Heavy he notes you can't just enter a room and look around because Heavy is designed around punishing such careless behavior. Look closely at several of his videos and you see him doing exactly that and dying to a Heavy. He even animated that in Soldier and Sniper.
- I Am the Noun: During Uncle Dane's cameo in the Engineer video, he incredulously questions Lazy's defense after the latter wipes out the whole enemy team with the Widowmaker, which prompts the latter to respond by saying that he is the defense.
- Improbable Aiming Skills:
- Invoked in How it FEELS to Play Sniper in TF2, when a player who got headshot by Lazy essentially accuses him of having these by cheating. In reality, as Lazy himself points out, they were just standing still, making themselves an easy target.
- Played straight in How it FEELS to Play Demoman in TF2, he gets upset over a Scout surviving two direct grenade hits thanks to a Medic shooting an healing arrow at him from a distance.
- I Need a Freaking Drink: The drunken montage segment of How it FEELS to Play Demoman in TF2 starts in-universe when Demoman misses all 4 pipe grenades at a cluster of enemies for the second time, and promptly begins chugging from his bottle. The entire sequence that follows is narrated by a drunk Lazy.
- In Vino Veritas: When Lazy gets genuinely drunk for a good portion of the How it FEELS to Play Demoman commentary, it sounds like he has a great amount of contempt for Engineers and ambush sentries. Uncle Dane lampshades this in the comments of said video.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: In the intro of How it FEELS to Play Engineer, he confronts every class except the Scout. A level 3 sentry being the strongest counter against said class, Lazy guesses he didn't show up because he knew his place.
- Leeroy Jenkins: Discussed in various forms, but generally considered a bad idea.
- How it FEELS to play Heavy notes that rushing in against a Heavy who is ready for you will inevitably get you mowed down.
- The Soldier and Pyro videos both illustrate that continuing to shoot rockets at a class that can reflect them is never a good idea.
- Extras from How it FEELS to Play Demoman points out that, while he was too drunk to say it, Lazy doesn't really blame Engineers for relying on ambush sentries, especially if they know the enemy team will keep running into them.
- Lethal Joke Character: Discusses the kamikaze Sticky Jumper strategy in "Extras from How it FEELS to Play Demoman", while doing this will get you killed immediately (especially in competitive), assassinating at least one vital target like the Medic might make it worth it. In his words. "If this loadout is a joke, the enemy team is not laughing."
- Made of Explodium: When blaming his mouse for missing a headshot as Sniper, Lazy throws it against the wall where it promtly explodes."I BLAME YOU FOR THIS! NOW DIE!!"
- Major Injury Underreaction: In Extras from "How it FEELS to Play Demoman in TF2", Lazy attacks a Heavy with his Eyelander, who doesn't even turn around, and then a SFM clip shows Lazy decapitating the Heavy, whose only reaction is to say he feels funny, while his head is on the verge of falling off.
- Mama Bear: Lazy describes and compares his playstyle as the Pyro to this, where he feels like a Badly Battered Babysitter to his team and fiercely protects them by airblasting projectiles and spy-checking. Complete with transitions that harken back to Meet the Pyro where Lazy has to stop kids from bullying and harming themselves.
- Mook Horror Show: The intro of How it FEELS to Play Demoman in TF2 is shown from the point of view of the BLU Team, frantically trying to escape while Lazy is chasing and obliterating them while Ubered.
- Most Wonderful Sound: Invoked. During Lazy's discussion of the Loose Cannon in Extras from "How it FEELS to play Demoman in TF2" he reveals that he considers the sound of hitting multiple people with a Loose Cannon's cannonball to be such, even repeating that same clip to cement it.
- Never Recycle Your Schemes: In How it FEELS to Plays Scout, Lazy starts off by recreating a game-winning flank he takes to kill the enemy team and take the midpoint to illustrate Scout's mobility. He then shows the round afterwards where he hesitates to do the same thing, since it's "basically an insult to the enemy team's intelligence" to try that twice, and sure enough gets popped by a prepared Demo.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: For a sentry gun of all things in How it FEELS to play Engineer. Midway through the episode, Lazy is ambushed by a Soldier as he’s building. After barely surviving his attack, Lazy notices that despite being a freshly built, measly level 1, the sentry he put down somehow killed three people just before he kills said Soldier.
- Once per Episode: Every How it FEELS to Plays... video starts with a decent-length SFM segment, before cutting to the actual gameplay with Lazy explaining "THAT was a recreation of a competitive game I played..."
- Properly Paranoid: In How it FEELS to Play Heavy, Lazy notes that if you want to hone your Spy and Sniper paranoia (Heavy's two biggest counters), play Heavy for an extended period of time.
- Religious Bruiser: Pyro is this in How it FEELS to Play Pyro, frequently questioning if his actions are acceptable by God.
- Running Gag: Starting with the Engineer video, there has been a specific character in Team Fortress 2 who gets mad at Lazy and leaves the server to go play Minecraft. Usually the character Lazy is using is a counter to the character that leaves.
- Screaming Warrior:
- The intro sequence of How it FEELS to Play Engineer has Lazy shouting almost continuously as he does his damndest to gun them down and stop them trying to kill him and his sentry gun, though he's doing it more out of panic and terror than bloodlust.
- In How it FEES to Play Sniper, when the video starts editing itself, Sniper is shown screaming in triumph after almost every headshot.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: A Running Gag starting in How it FEELS to Play Engineer has one character outmatched by Lazy announce, "Screw you! I'm gonna go play Minecraft!" and disappear from TF2. At the end of the episode, you'll see those characters in Minecraft.
- Shout-Out: To many internet memes:
- How it FEELS to Play Heavy has a moment where Heavy tries to eat sandviches while a mini sentry is harassing him, eating so many and stuffing himself so much that the memetic "we'll be right back" screen and music appears.
- How it FEELS to Play Scout has several references to Sonic the Hedgehog from music, sound effects, and a Shadow the Hedgehog impersonation.
- How it FEELS to Play Sniper has a point where the video starts "editing itself" to create a headshot montage set to "Megalovania" while the Sniper's left eye is glowing blue like Sans.
- Sore Loser: In How it FEELS to Play Sniper, the segment on "hackusations" is about players he killed who accuses him of cheating and make up bogeymen to defend their pride. He even animated a Sniper throwing a tantrum to emphasize that point.
- Surrounded by Idiots: As noted in How it FEELS to play Engineer, playing a support class locking down a vital area makes him wonder more than any other class what the hell his team is doing when they fail to help him. He apparently imagines them all glitched out in the spawn room."WHERE IS MY TEAM?!"
- Taking the Bullet: In ''How it FEELS to Play Engineer", Lazy is out of metal and has no means to repair his sentry. So he uses the only thing he has left to protect his buildings: himself. Cue sexy music as he positions himself in front of his sentry to absorb rocket with the help of a friendly Medic.
