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[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 14 points 6 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@startrek.website 27 points 6 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.

[-] Visstix@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

I prefer them trying out new shit and see what sticks. Everything is a sequel nowadays.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[-] Wahots@pawb.social 3 points 6 months ago

Wasn't TF2 the first hero shooter?

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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@pawb.social 1 points 6 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@midwest.social 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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@beehaw.org 1 points 6 months ago

I spent a lot of hours playing TFC.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Isn’t that what i said?

It was my intention

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Wasn't there a free new portal game that dropped like last month?

[-] Kovukono@pawb.social 8 points 6 months ago

If you mean the one that has 40 new puzzles and new story content, that's a mod, and doesn't have Valve's involvement.

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 1 points 6 months ago

I'm about halfway through it and it's great. They nailed the storytelling, the environment feels like Portal, and the puzzles are engaging.

I rage quit a puzzle I was stuck in a loop on, when Hades 2 went early access and haven't gone back yet.

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