- Mossy Feathers (They/Them) ( @MossyFeathers@pawb.social ) 11•4 months ago
Valve, when are you gonna figure out that people just want more TF2, Portal, CS, L4D, HL, and maybe DoD? Like, I guess at least you’ve recently released a CS and HL game, but what about the others? TF2 seems like it’s been on life support while Portal and DoD are completely forgotten.
- ringwraithfish ( @ringwraithfish@startrek.website ) 21•4 months ago
I’m ok with how Valve is doing things right now. If they followed the same path of EA, Blizzard, and every other big developer from the 90s/00s we’d be on HL5, L4D9 Left for Deadest, TF 3 but it’s a live service on season 15 and constant price increases on the season passes.
Let them experiment and dip their toes into new game types.
- ILikeBoobies ( @ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ) 8•4 months ago
TF2 is a hero shooter
- Wahots ( @Wahots@pawb.social ) 2•4 months ago
Wasn’t TF2 the first hero shooter?
- ILikeBoobies ( @ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ) 3•4 months ago
Well TF1 and probably a mess of random games but TF2 is seen as the one to invent the genre (vs just being an fps)
- Wahots ( @Wahots@pawb.social ) 1•4 months ago
I’m sure there’s some small game that technically invented it, but was rather obscure. TF2 was the first mass market hero game I can think of. I guess TF1, in some respects.
- Statlerwaldorf ( @Statlerwaldorf@midwest.social ) 2•4 months ago
The “small” games that inspired, if not invented it were Doom and D&D. There was a Doom map called Fortress where you’d attack each other’s base and the further you’d progress into your opponent’s base, the better weapons it’d unlock for them to use.
A few guys in Australia combined the ideas in a Quake mod called Quake Team Fortress. Then they got hired at Valve to remake it on the Half Life engine as Team Fortress Classic.
- I_am_10_squirrels ( @I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org ) 1•4 months ago
I spent a lot of hours playing TFC.
- ILikeBoobies ( @ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ) 2•4 months ago
Isn’t that what i said?
It was my intention
- Fluid ( @Fluid@aussie.zone ) 9•4 months ago
“Hero based shooter” I’m out. This smells like Artifact all over again.
- BmeBenji ( @BmeBenji@lemm.ee ) 5•4 months ago
Yeah, hero based-shooters haven’t been good since that one with the dumb name that came out in 2007. What was it called again? Squad Castle 2 or something?
- ramjambamalam ( @ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca ) 7•4 months ago
It’s a 6v6 hero shooter with shades of DotA.
- ILikeBoobies ( @ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ) 2•4 months ago
Sounds like Smite rather than a hero shooter