So I recently contracted the nostalgia virus, and it had me asking: "Why don't I reinstall Team Fortress 2 and Dota 2 for a little bit?" They are games we played to death with around 6000 hours playtime. TF2 has left a mark on us personally from the communities in them, and the experiences in playing competitively. That's in the past though, nostalgia trips have always left that feeling of unsatisfied yearning. Usually people are willing to leave things there, assigning the mismatch between feelings past and present to those rose-tinted glasses of memory, but this time I felt like there were more tangible reasons to be explored, and I think I've found out why. Both games have changed plenty over their lifespans. Dota has had so many gameplay changes over the years that a lot of it I forget while playing as someone who thought that adding talents 9 years ago was a bit too much. It's still Dota though. You wait for queue to pop, there's a smurf in the g...