You’ve seen them zipping around the map in Team Fortress 2 before, sure, but have you ever stopped and thought about how twisted the mind of the Scout really is?
If you’ve missed them before, this is actually the fifth in the series of ‘Meet the…’ videos. They’re all incredibly well-made… some of the best video game related shorts around, and you can check the rest of them out here on Game Trailers. We still have yet to see videos for the Medic, Pyro, Spy, and Sniper, so you can expect more of these to trickle out from Valve at some point in the future.
Also in the works for Team Fortress 2 are a ton of updates for the game, including new maps, new weapons for each class, and even a new game mode entitled Goldrush (where your characters have to stand near a bomb cart to have it move towards the enemy’s base. The more attackers stand near it, the faster it moves- but if you’re all taken out, it’ll start to creep back to your base…). Course, that’s all for PC gamers first, but hopefully consoles will get the DLC at some point soon in the future. I need another reason to jump into the fray.
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This video is a little old, but awesome nonetheless. "TF2" is great fun to play, but the last time I signed on XBOX LIVE to play it, there were NO GAMES to be found.
this game is much better played on the PC
Why would anyone play this, or any other FPS for that matter, on a console? It's like trying to ski with a boat anchor on your ankle. Mouse and keyboard 4eva.
"an unknown user" is right. Now are there any news on Episode 3, some follow up to Portal, Aperture science project etc?
ugh, i hate playing games on my pc. i don't why people always say how computers are better for games, as computers aren't made to play games. you have to do so many things in order to play games on computers, ie. adjust frame rate, refresh rate, and 20 other video settings, apply patches, work out any bugs that arise, map your controls, etc. and then hopefully you'll be able to play, but only if you've spent a grand on a decent gaming rig, (and that won't even get you maximum quality graphics), that you have to upgrade every 6 months or so if you want to play newer games. bleh. call me lazy, i just want to pop in a disc, pick up a controller, and only have to invert the y axis before i start playing. when i built my pc, i was looking forward to playing pc games, but after trying a few, was so unimpressed that i just gave up and went back to my 360. now i use my computer for what is was really meant for. porn. lots and lots of porn.
Oh come on! That's the same bullshit argument console partisans always spout about PC gamers. Listen, if you have a middle of the road PC (i.e. some Dell or Best Buy special that costs less than a PS3) you basically have an XBox 360. Pop in the game, leave the settings on low, don't even think about any really hi-res 8xaa antistropic crap, and you more or less have the console experience right there.
All the costly, arduous shit crops up when you get greedy, and want the game to look better than its console counterpart. Then you either drop the cash for the bleeding edge card, or you spend the time and 2 brain cells to customize the graphics options to get the most out of your system. As for needing a new card to play the latest games, well, I was easily able to play Bioshock at the same res and general settings as the Xbox using an old $100 nvidia card. Oh, and my current machine (upgraded my video card to a $200 nvidia 8800; tend to swap out cards every three years for shits and giggles) runs Bioshock with everything maxed-out (had to wait for patch before I could enable the shader with the game crashing; so you are spot-on about all the fucking bugs in PC games these days). Essentially, console gaming can be replicated on a PC on the cheap and easy (the games even cost less, and no subscriptions for online gaming). If you want your games to look a generation ahead of the consoles, then you have to pony-up the money and time.
I concur with duck king … and PC is my game-player of choice. I am also one of those nurds that upgrades (although not crazily so) to play the hottest games at the best settings (BioShock is freaking INCREDIBLE). My consoles are basically glorified DVD players because they just don't turn out enough Survival Horror on them any more (and now, the ones they do also come out on PC … yay!). Could never wrap my brain around using a joypad for controls for shooters, and I am still convinced that if a console player would try a keyboard instead … they would change their tune. Also, no Lord of the Rings Online for consoles … which is a horrible malady! Must also suck to always pay for content that PC users get for free.
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Actually TF2 is built on Valve's Source engine, which was designed to scale well with various hardware (and it does). Patches are handled automatically by the Steam client. New content is always being created (by Valve and by the community) and distributed for free, content which isn't available to the 360. As for mapping your controls, with my setup I can do crazy ninja shit with the spy that you couldn't dream of doing with a controller. Consoles have their place and their own sort of games which work well in that environment. Just as I'd rather play GTA on a console, I'd rather play TF2 on a PC. TF2 is not a console game. It is a PC community.
TF2 is a guilty pleasure that I quickly tired of. Anyone who is into pc fps and hasnt played the original TFC should really give it a game…it still holds up for all the things that it taught many of the games that have learned and borrowed from it. Theres always some serious, hardcore gamers playing on pub server Gas Chamber.
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