Team Fortress 2 really has been in development for going on ten years, or so Shacknews was told by Valve's Robin Walker and Charlie Brown during a recent trip to the company's Bellevue, Seattle offices. Production of the long awaited game, for years presumed by many to be vaporware, never completely stopped or restarted, despite the drastic changes it has seen to its gameplay and visual style.
"It's a testament to our internal perspective that we're just not going to ship something until it's ready," Walker said. "As a company, we hate being in a position where we're making guesses."
Team Fortress 2 is back with a bang, and this can be the start of a new era for the game, but only if Valve is willing to help it.
The latest Team Fortress 2 update has added a seal and fans are lving it
Dozens, if not hundreds, of players could be affected.
Team Fortress 2 is one of Valve's most popular games, with the multiplayer FPS regularly among the titles listed in most played charts on Steam, despite not being supported all that much by its developer.
There are also console players of the game, but now it looks like one of these platforms is sadly no longer viable. TF2 arrived on Sony's PlayStation 3 as part of a package. And what a package it was. This would be The Orange Box, a compilation that included Half-Life 2, expansions for such, Portal, and Team Fortress 2. But now, 15 years after releasing on PS3, the servers for TF2 have gone offline.
I loved this game back in the day, me and my best friend would spend hours and hours on this.
Such a shame, but no doubt it was dead years ago.
Even the 360 version is on deaths door you can spend an hour just trying to find a game.
Come on Valve, give us a full remake of the first two games and their expansions. What else are you up too?
All gamers are in for a treat with TF2.
It should rock.
edit:
* cartoony graphics, exaggerated actions, distinctive classes - the right way to go.
* I wanna be The Engineer
In development for 10 years? It looks like it (not that the graphics are bad looking but they look 10 years old)should be pretty fun.
wow can't wait...i owned in the 1st TF on pc with my sniper lol man i rememebr the capture the flag its sooo goood back then b4 the cheaters came on i played like 24/7 well not tht much but pretty much lol and wen this comes out damn im not gettin off it lol
"Xbox 360 development is being handled by Valve, and PlayStation 3 development by EA UK. In Valve's offices, team members regularly play cross-platform multiplayer games, but the studio's Doug Lombardi noted emphatically that such functionality will not appear in the final versions."
Oops, they give Valve to the 360, one of the great developers out there and the sh!tty commercial EA to PS3... Mmmmhhhhhh which console got the better deal there?!
Already preordered this game for my PC and not for the 360, sorry guys but this game will suck on the 360 and PS3. Its been in deveoplment for 10 years as it was first gonna be a really gritty game like the first TF, then it turned to a cartoony graphics which I love.