Thanks, Valve.
polycounter lvl 20
So anyone else feeling the same way I am since playing TF2? My thanks comes for two reasons.
Firstly, I haven't been this excited for online gaming since the old days of Quake 2 DM. Sure, I play games online. And sure, they're exciting. But not since those good ol' days have I yearned to play a game. Or has a game taken over my artistic schedule like TF2 has.
And second, for the past few days I've felt this certain sense of revival in game art and its potential. There's this bar that's been raised, and I'm thanking Valve for doing so. No, not every game has to be in the style of the Incredibles. But there needs to be a conscious effort from our fellow developers to give the paying customers this visual experience they have yet to receive. It's an easy thing to go with realism, and its an easy thing to go with cartoony. But its the blend between style, theme, and setting that'll set the games we make a world apart. I only hope that the companies paying for these games realize this.
Your thoughts/feelings?
Firstly, I haven't been this excited for online gaming since the old days of Quake 2 DM. Sure, I play games online. And sure, they're exciting. But not since those good ol' days have I yearned to play a game. Or has a game taken over my artistic schedule like TF2 has.
And second, for the past few days I've felt this certain sense of revival in game art and its potential. There's this bar that's been raised, and I'm thanking Valve for doing so. No, not every game has to be in the style of the Incredibles. But there needs to be a conscious effort from our fellow developers to give the paying customers this visual experience they have yet to receive. It's an easy thing to go with realism, and its an easy thing to go with cartoony. But its the blend between style, theme, and setting that'll set the games we make a world apart. I only hope that the companies paying for these games realize this.
Your thoughts/feelings?
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Not since custom QIII content have I seen this much creativity in level and character design blended nicely into new gameplay functions for an FPS, and I hope it brings the mod community back to life. I'm excited. I'm hoping companies will take note of this and stop pushing games based on processor speeds and quantity of content, and push more on great looking fun to play low cost high quality games.
Another amazing aspect about the art is how much and how well it is built for gameplay. You see someone across the map and instantly you know what team they're on and what class they are. You never "lose someone" against the background. You never get caught on little details on the environment. You never fire a weapon and think "wait, why didn't that hit him?".
The bar wasn't just raised, it did a rocket jump into the sky.
Once the crashing is fixed. It's much better than it was but I want it FLAWLESS.
I mean, the game is pretty much perfect in every other regard.
I love it.
The crashes will keep me on track in school and life because right now I really need to put together the most awesome portfolio showing my current ability.
I concur with what everyone is saying about art and gameplay its great/flawless? and stands out from the crowd.
Soon I will be able to play it more and more and im looking forward to that time.
Oh and the crashes are not your fault its just my old videocard I believe :P
I also want to thank you for the commentary sections, for a person like me who has not done a lot of maps or games in the matter of fact it is very nice to hear what you were thinking when you made certain elements in the game.
Thanks Valve
It's been a loooooong time since I've had this much fun with such a simple yet solid game... and technically speaking it's not even out yet. All the fun little details combined with the overall quality of the game.. I was sold on the game just for the sheer comedy it provides, and was won over the sheer enjoyment I get from playing it.
Thanks Valve!
I'd be down to help. I just hope the game supports custom levels easily.
Edit: brome, I have noticed that you are one of the only polycounters who rivals my TF2 stats (in some areas at least). Soon I shall pull away.
Steam is allowing me to have fun with PC games again.
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jie i also have a lot of fun with systems which say ME what i may do and what not.. jie.. lot of fun.. do you also want some dictator ruling your life?
nevermind.. steam has also some very cool sides but as long as i HAVE-TO use it instead of USE-IT-IF-I-WANT, steam is total sucking bullshit
so and now back to tf2 ..
thanks vALVE for all of this, I can now painlessly play with my friend and enjoy a MP game retard free.
communists
hmm.. i´m realy sorry for all of you guys who had to play the "ugly-world-versions"
(i never bought any game wich had stupid-anti-piracy shit .. ok expect hl2-oleole-i-need-steam-bla.... so why you??)
(i never bought any game wich had stupid-anti-piracy shit
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because you pirated them
TF2 is digital crack, and I want more. I'm giddy about it. In love with it.
I don't think it's made me think about the artwork any differently, though. It's certainly a nice style, but it's something that we could have always done. They made it very sexy looking, but it's nothing revolutionary.
Edit: Valve's games kick ass, but forcing me to use Steam was a bad idea. I'm just very bitter about it.
Edit2: Steam suddenly started working again. What the fuck is going on. Jesus fucki^%$^%#$^#^$%*&
Edit3: New update from them: "Changelog: Fixed rare crash during startup." Oi. Still slow. ALL I WANT TO DO IS PLAY MY GAMES. JEEZ.
i mean.. how long did it take them to build the go-offline button.. lol-wtf-lol ??
sorry.. steam is and will ever be a real big LOL as long as i HAVE-TO use it
where is the deal to make it possible to by the game and typ in the key OR use the internet auth..??
if you want to play the game without buying it you can, even with this who-hoo internet auth.. so why FORCING the people who paid for it to use this system..?? bc its an incredible big advertisement/shopping/datamining system that is just in its beginning..
btw: games i never had any problems installing playing modding (and deleting .. never thought this would become an issue in modern games): doom3,ut2k3-2k4,maxpayne1-2,farcry,gta3,dow+addons,pray,cncgenerals,q4,stalker(ok havn´t deletet it yet
HALFLIFE 1 .. best ever
so at least i can say valve makes realy cool games..
thx valve!! *G*
I wrote to them ,but judging by the reply, it looks like they don't want to take my money
Thx for replacing the limbs of exploded bodys with random stuff like Hamburgers, Ducklings, gears and a lot of other random stuff to make it available for germans!
-Buddikaman-
Its worth having a play through the developer commentary levels in TF2. They explain many of Valve's decisions including why they went with the cartoon art style and why they ditched the extra grenades.
buddikaman : Spy's are generally at the top of the scoreboard somewhere, and Scout's are usually up there too. Play the game more?
it makes me happy
and to play a game for the first time and actually get kills and move right up and down in the scoreboard, its so easy to pick up and play and yet theres so much depth to each character I dont know who to play as yet :P