Comments on: Team Fortress 2 Gameplay Footage

By: LordZ

LordZ — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:20:55 +0000

I love how people actually think TFC is what TF2 is based on. The game play itself is identical to the original TF (built and played on the quakeworld engine kiddos, you know pre halflife?). The animations fit with how most of us old timers played the game, it’s not a serious simulation by any means. I mean come on, who picks a spanner or baseball bat as a weapon against a 50 cal????

With that said, the only draw backs from the true original is the environment is locked down alot more. No more greande jumps from the engineers to balance a sentry on a 1 sqare inch outcropping.

All in all it fixed everything qwtf was missing. Graphics engine update and the ability to run in 2560X1600 resolution.

By: Kodiak

Kodiak — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 03:28:38 +0000

The death animation is a little odd… but, with a few months of development left, I’m still waiting to make a decision. I like the art style, it’s different, it’s not anime or realistic, which is refreshing.

By: Phil Migrowen

Phil Migrowen — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:27:20 +0000

“After watching the clip, the impression Iâ€™m getting is that both classes appear to have captured the original TF feel”

That’s a fanboy euphemism for “this game is a retread of the previous version.”

Watching that gameplay video confirmed my suspicions that TF2 is basically nothing but TFC on the Source engine in cartoonish clothing. The only thing that surprised me about the game was how poor the death animations are. The characters just uniformly lie down when they die (not by explosion) like they are passing out. I expected something cartoonishly bombastic given the art style or at least ragdolls circa 2003 or 2004. Valve should at least make the characters yawn while they do it because that is what I am doing while I watch that clip.