An explanation for why we like Team Fortress 2 so much
Game-ism explains better than we could why we like Team Fortress 2 so much. The secret is the lack of straight-line weapons that I originally lamented when I first came to Team Fortress Classic, then quickly realized the genius of. You simply can’t have a varied class-based gameplay experience when all of the weapons are realistic (that is to say, they fire in straight lines, like normal firearms). It takes the removal of all of that vanilla stuff to allow true variation.
November 26th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
I like how suddenly this is a big deal, as if Quake and UT don’t exist. D:
Hopefully, however, we’ll see a resurgence of unrealistic shooters. If it takes Valve another game to get people to realize not all shooters have to be CS or Halo clones, then so be it. Those noobs at Epic and id certainly aren’t going to pull it off on their own.