I'm not hating here. I think Valve are amazing, i attribute a few of the mini-bars that form the health bar of PC gaming to Valve, and i think it's great that Team Fortress 2 exists and that it has such a massive scene. 
 

play smaller servers, play with people using headsets who know the game, use snipers or medics or spies... I honestly don't find this game that chaotic really

Nope. I think it's great, I've not encountered the dying every 10 seconds problem
 
There's moments when you're alone, as in if there's no teleporter up and you're running to get back to the action or going through the back way to the enemy capture point.
 
We might just play different game modes. I tend to stick to 24 player servers doing capture point games or payload. I never play in instant respawn servers either, that completely breaks the game.

Give me your hats if you don't like it.

 I played it today for the first time for a few hours. Seems alright. Simple mechanics that largely belong to a place in time that I don't think most shooters go for these days. After I was done, I kind of thought, "Well, that's TF2 I guess." I don't intend to play anymore, but I can see why people might like it. I don't know if "boring" is the right word though. It just appeals to a specific set of tastes. 

I disagree completely. TF2 was and still is one of the best MP games to have ever existed, and was my personal go-to MP game until L4D hit.
Ditch the instant respawn servers, play on the lower player count servers (24 players preferably), and you'll find a very different experience than the one you described in your OP.
 
I myself kinda like the crazy instant respawn 36 player servers, TBH. Just mindless fun, nothing serious.

@Ygg said:

Nope. I think it's great, I've not encountered the dying every 10 seconds problem There's moments when you're alone, as in if there's no teleporter up and you're running to get back to the action or going through the back way to the enemy capture point. We might just play different game modes. I tend to stick to 24 player servers doing capture point games or payload. I never play in instant respawn servers either, that completely breaks the game.

Do this. It works. The game is fantastic, you just gotta find a gametype you like. Zombie Fortress and Prop Hunt are both great gametypes. Or Vs Saxton Hale.

Haha, I like TF2! I love spying around ;D

It's okay. 

You need to look beyond the core gameplay. The hats are where the action is at.

Seriously though, I find that the biggest problem with TF2 is people on your team not knowing what to do. With good teamwork and cooperation, you should be able to force your way past any of the choke points. The choke points are designed with that in mind. It might be a challenge, but it's always possible to get past them with good teamwork. To each his own, though.

I love TF2. It is a fantastic game that is constantly growing and getting better. I love it.

TF2 is the only shooter besides some Halo games that I have played with any semblance of regularity. I prefer it to yet another military shooter any day of the week.

Welp. I just figured out that my laptop can run Team Fortress 2, so I'm in the process of downloading it now. What I remember of it on the PS3 was it being awesome.

Get ready to get DEAD.

@KaosAngel said:

Give me your hats if you don't like it.

No, he has too many already. No one man should have all that power those hats.

Also, play with friends. That keeps me entertained.

Kind of.

There are three things i would suggest to anyone who feels that TF2 is 'boring' 

1. First, try out the different modes. There are normal team death matches, payloads (walk a bomb into the other teams base), capture points, ctf, arena, king of the hill, and duel payload (there might me a few more modes, but i don't remember)
2. Second, try playing different classes. Playing a spy is nothing like playing a soldier. A medic is nothing like an engineer. More or less, the classes all have a unique-ish role to play. I use 'ish', since there are items, which change how a class plays. For example, you can get a full melee set for the demo man, which turns an AoE, trapper, into a melee rusher. 
3. Third, play with people you know. The biggest draw for this game for me is that i know a few other people who play it. Like most games, it is much funner when you play with friends.

Yeah. It was fucking fantastic the first week I played though.

Welp. I just figured out that my laptop can run Team Fortress 2, so I'm in the process of downloading it now. What I remember of it on the PS3 was it being awesome.

Get ready to get DEAD.

I can only play Team Fortress 2 a very certain way, or else I lose interest very quickly.

24 player server, playing a capture point map with no instant respawn. Anything other then that -- no thanks.

I'm weird in that I have played over 200 hour of TF2, but I cannot play on "normal" servers because I find them so boring.  If I'm playing on a server and my team is chatting about tactics or whatever, I just don't like it.  Servers with constant music or soundclips going all the time (i.e. 4chan server) are the only ones I'll play on.

Is there even any sort of story to TF2? Do they even explain why these people are fighting?

i hate it... and i feel guilty because i was gifted this game right before it went free. 
 
but its so boring! it really is just to much going on at one time.  its a huge clusterfuck. 
rockets and bombs everywhere. spys just cloaking and stabbing you in the back once then running away. 
flamethrows just spraying everywhere.  
the issue to me is definitely the small ass maps. so tiny! also i dont like the fact there is only one class with a machine gun.  
every other long range weapon is a rocket or bomb or sniper....

I can only play Team Fortress 2 a very certain way, or else I lose interest very quickly.

24 player server, playing a capture point map with no instant respawn. Anything other then that -- no thanks.

I stopped playing when the achievements were first introduced, but before that I had some fun. It's not really a game you can play for hours, just a few rounds. Reinstalled it after the update and I'm having still enjoying it, best with a friend as a Heavy/Medic.

I loved it for three months. Then it stopped being fun.

Would I be weird if I confessed that about 900 out of my 1120 hours on TF2 are on nearly the same Arena server?

Is there even any sort of story to TF2? Do they even explain why these people are fighting?

nope.avi

TF2 is easily the best Multiplayer game ever.

You don't need to be good and it is still a bucket of fun. Yes: a bucket.

No, I love the fact that the classes are so different, so when you get bored of one you can just change class and have fun all over again.

And I really don't mind dying in TF2 for some reason, it's just fun to play as the scout and run in jumping over peoples heads and maybe getting a shot or two at them before getting blown up by the entire enemy team...

I guess it's the fast pace of the game that makes dying a non-issue for me since I can just respawn and get back into the action right away.

Playing with friends is out of the question because i don't have friends who play video games 
 
Thanks for the advice everyone, I'm installing TF2 right now and i'm gonna try the Giant Bomb server for starters.  
Later on i'll try 24 player servers and see what modes i enjoy best.

Not a game for you = boring?
 
Go away.

First, you definitely need to play on 24 or below player count servers. Anything over that is a clusterfuck indeed. After you get quite a few rounds under your belt, you should begin to see the ebbs and flows of the matchups and the suprising subtleties of the game. At least, if your perceptive, you should. I never got bored of the game because it was so random and chaotic. In fact, after 600 hours, I felt done with it because it became too PREDICTABLE.

Spent a couple hours with this and.... yeah got fairly bored. When you get down to it, the game is just meatgrinding down one hallway or another, and that's not particularly interesting. When you do get down to small fights, all the classes play more or less the same, just circle strafing wasd and spamming whatever interchangeable mid range or melee weapon you happen to have.

Search around, find a server you like with frequenting players, frequent that server, make friends, have fun!

For me its the opposite actually. BF2 felt too slow and there was too much downtime involved. A game like TF2 has continual action while keeping the teamwork aspect. I also like how its smaller scale.

Personally I really like TF2. You can hit points where there is a chokehold in the map and if neither team is really that big on strategy it just becomes a war of attrition, but overall I've found the battles to be very manageable and the maps to be large enough to accommodate everything that's happening.

TF2 is the only online game I've played where the teams progress is more important than mine. I never care about my own score I only care if my team wins or loses, that's what I love about it so much.

Its funny how you think TF2 is boring and duke nukem forever is fun proves that you have bad taste in games

309 hours played..so no?

Im 48% away from having an opinion on this matter :)

360 and PC combined I actively played it for ~400 hours. I don't think it's boring, it just turned into a whole different game as time went by. sigh

I just wish there was a SMG or machine gun guy not the heavy... just like the soldier except with a machine gun. 

@Ahmad_Metallic: I think a lot of TF2 servers are boring, but if you take the time to find decent ones it can help a shit ton.

The negatives your are associating with the game just scream "24/7 badwater insta-respawn", 32 player max, always full. Which is always definitely a cluster-F, I avoid them at all costs.

I always have 24 players max on my filters, but honestly I just don't like the attack vs. defense maps. The balance of the maps are largely determined by the server, if it's a big player count with a low respawn rate the defenders have it stupid easy. A 9 v 9 on coldfront on the other hand is my ideal setup, almost impossible to find though.

Well, I can say after one round that it's definitely a fun game, but I couldn't see myself playing a lot of it consistently.

I actually prefer smaller maps and clusterfucks. Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

@Dalai said:

I actually prefer smaller maps and clusterfucks. Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

Yeah true

For me its just egypt 24/7

Games so damn weird, every gun feels bad. How do you get a feel for shooting anything?

Games so damn weird, every gun feels bad. How do you get a feel for shooting anything?

Spent a couple hours with this and.... yeah got fairly bored. When you get down to it, the game is just meatgrinding down one hallway or another, and that's not particularly interesting. When you do get down to small fights, all the classes play more or less the same, just circle strafing wasd and spamming whatever interchangeable mid range or melee weapon you happen to have.