Team Fortress 2...It's Alive, Alive!

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  I changed it the most recent time (I can't speak for what happened before that) because Newell said Porta... : Chris Remo
  • You're a lucky bastard you got to see this shit. It's like you just fingered the hot girl and I wanna sme... : bozer
  • Thanks Chris. I have referenced you guys a lot. I mean way back to the Shugashack days and you have been ... : Hatchetforce
  • as I posted elsewere: 1Up is saying it WILL ship (I just checked their page.) Newell is more involved ... : Hatchetforce
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  Aww, did his poor reliability hurt your feelings? : carnivore
  • Bloody hell calm down he's only doing a job, everyone makes mistakes... : Grim_Grom

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• the very first day? : Hoax
• I've yet to see a game mechanic quite like bunnyhopping. I know it wasn't intentional, but I thought it w... : S1ing B1ade

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  That's kind of a guess at this point : bozer
  • True. Must admit though, Valve has it's timing down to tea as FF's development draws to a close. : vorm
• The TFC character graphics are very toony really. Everything looks slightly silly, but it works really we... : Beady

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  And it's going to make some people (like me) wish that I could buy it without episode two... : CodeDark858
  • So just pretend you're buying it instead of Episode Two. : Chris Remo

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• Yeah, we need more info! >_< : code-e255

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  Well, you can create your own portals with a gun according to the text, which sounds neat and advanced. : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • There's a mod that lets you do that w/ the wrench in the prey demo. Very easily it could be applied to a ... : DOOManiac
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    Okey, so when other games used "gravity guns", they were copy cats. When HL2 uses "prey portals", it's "m... : zehh
    • It's probably just an EA marketdroid spouting bullshit. : Arcanum
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      those other gravity guns very obviously were develope in response to HL2. This sounds like it's an entir... : lont
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        Oh, and unlike HL2, they were just tossed in the game with no thought or design about it. They just need... : lont
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          I see. So "obviously" all games are copycats, Prey included, while HL2 is the master of all creation. Pre... : zehh
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            Did you have a problem reading my post? Apparently. As I said, there is a big difference between simply... : lont
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              No, I didn't have a problem reading your post, thanks for asking. I just disagree with yout notion tha... : zehh
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                No, you didn't read it, because the whole point that I made was that there was no "automatically." The s... : lont
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                  The situations are 'different' for you just because it fits your opinion. I've read it. And I disagree... : zehh
                  • Except you don't defend your opinion at all, you just keep insisting that I'm wrong. But no argument = t... : lont
                  • This game isn't even a "shooter," unless there's a whole other component to the game they didn't show. T... : Chris Remo
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        Do you know how long Prey has been around? : megarust32
        • Obviously he doesnt. : ArtilleryMarker
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          Do you know how long Portal has been around? it's been in development for 15 years. 15 FRICKEN YEARS! I r... : thecray
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            I think you are a bit confused... Prey has been around 15 years. 3DRealms were devoloping it. Then ... : Baddle Axe
            • Wait, Prey has ben around 10 years. Portal hasn't been around : Baddle Axe
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        I also think the orginal Unreal had portals you could see through and see the destination in real-time, b... : Derringer
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          You couldn't trace through them, as in using hitscan weapons. Projectiles passed through. Also, these por... : GreatGooglyMoogly
          • The whole "zone" thing (which was passed down to the span buffering and responsible for massive culling o... : GreatGooglyMoogly
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      let's spiral this thread out into a bunch of troll posts : jake2000
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        Ok. WoW is teh suxorz!! : coyoterys
        • Blizzard gimped my Necro! : binaryc
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      You guys are honestly amazing. I wrote that as fast as I could with my eyes on the big screen, trying to ... : rudds
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        Actually, you're not to blame for that one. The TF2 stuff is taken from your post, but the Portal stuff ... : Chris Remo
        • Haha, I didn't even check the source. Oops. Sorry, still sorta drunk. :\ : rudds
    • games have been using portals for ages now. Prey's gameplay was just based more around them and used the... : moshman
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  I think he is implying that Valve wouldnt just release the same portals as prey. : broly1718
  • pretty much. not slamming on prey at all since it's a great game. : Steve Gibson
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  FYI Valve hired a couple of students from Digipen who did Narbacular Drop( http://www.digipen.edu/main/Ga... : dravalen
  • That's cool. I noticed a similarity in their gameplay ideas when I read it over the first time. http://ww... : freshyk

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  hahahahahahahahahahah!!! you're silly! i like you! : Korban
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    We're gonna kill you last! : lont
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      roar! be ascared of my mightyness! : Korban
      • still wearing might? : [7]kami

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  I always wanted to know how to properly prepare Broussard sprouts. : Orange Pylon
  • Drink on screen laugh! : marmite
  • lol, ok someone needs to take this picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Dnf1.jpg Slap a chef... : SolrFlare
• Your last line was pure gold! : Zips
• That and a major war in middle east marking the coming of end of days / mahdi ... yep you are right. If D... : bombay
• haha, truth : rasputinreborn
• Don't forget - Chinese Democracy (the GNR album, not the political change) by the end of the year... : Schnapple
• He knows too much - take him down! : Tissen

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  ep1 isn't free for HL2 owners, so why would ep2 be? : RikiTiki2
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    TF2 was the subject of my query, not Ep2. : Korban
    • Is TF2 not worth $19.99? Why should it be free for anyone? : jake2000
• Yeah, you're "screwed" like every other gamer who have bought a game solely for either their single- or m... : OKcancel
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  if it helps, just think of it as paying $20 for tf2 and getting ep2 for free. : pupismyname
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    SOLD!!! : Korban
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      Although, I wouldn't be terribly surprised if Ep2 was more expensive. Unless I'm thinking TF2 will be ... : famine101
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        I think the success of Episode 1 will make the prospect of spending more money to develop TF2 further mor... : Sapiens
        • so many $10 words. i'm lost! : Korban

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  Only because they're packing stuff in like this. : Omaha
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    Hopefully this sets a precedent though. I definitely like getting things packed-in. : K1Bond007
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      Oh shit... I wish I had an edit button. Fuck. : K1Bond007
      • Need for random comments is rising. : Omaha
    • y helo thar : Orange Pylon
    • orly /unzip : CapnChaos
    • This post will haunt you in future threads. Tagged. :D : Magus
    • Please go on.. : Warlock
    • ATTN : lord warlock
    • This thread is going places.. : Tissen

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• There are a million different reasons--your self-serving bias being one of them. : annih1late
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  To be fair, it wasn't really private (though what you describe does unfortunately still happen fairly fre... : Chris Remo
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    I sat three seats away from the Remo during this demo! : rudds
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      I didn't even see you until I got up to leave, were you sitting there while I was talking to Carrie? I a... : Chris Remo
      • Yeah, two seats to her left. She was all tapping me and excitedly pointing at you and I was like, so say ... : rudds

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  Er failed? CS:S is strong, DOD:S is too, Gary's mod, and there are bunch of award winning mods out and s... : lont
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    A bunch of mods? There's Garry's mod and Dystopia. Two mods do not a mod community make. Grant... : DOOManiac
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      There's plenty of awesome mods in development, they just won't be released for a zillion years. The probl... : aeg1x
      • I agree with this. Though unfortunately, at least in terms of CS and DoD, the early betas were much more ... : Speedy8
    • The Hidden is out right now and it kicks ass : moonbreaker
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    dod source and cs source are just the same game with updated graphics, which i dont see as any sort of "a... : ballystix
    • Agreed. There are basically zero popular mods that are actually new good mods. The hidden is the closest ... : Speedy8
• Actually I remember HL1 multiplayer being hot shit before TFC came out. WHen I first saw it, with the gu... : Omaha
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  btw HL2DM is so much fun! :( : Omaha
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    so was HLDM, bounce pads and snarks and controlled RPGs were so much fun, that one map with the nuke (and... : pharoah mike
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      Those maps were so fun. Just over the top and crazy. : Serpico74
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        Yeah, bounce and crossfire were so awesome. We played those maps for hours after school in the tech cente... : datoo
        • If you had of been a doom fan instead, that wouldnt have been an issue But ya, hldm 4eva the tau gun,... : IrN00btastic

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  Black kinda sucked, though. : famine101
  • fucking racist! : Hoax

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• There's no way it'll be 50 bucks. That would completely contradict all the stuff Valve has been saying a... : Chris Remo

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• unless TF2 gets back to its QWTF roots : RikiTiki2
• I actually don't really like this style of gameplay very much. I don't mind the non-realistic movements a... : famine101
• I loved TFC and played it like crazy, and I'll be playing TF2. When it comes out. Unless it sucks. : Magus
• I've played TF since the v2.5 betas and in my humble opinion things like bunny hopping have absolutely no... : Sapiens
• Drippy's 2fort server has a speed limit. You can still bhop, but you can't get going stupid fast. I lik... : mourningstar
• Im sure whatever Valve releases, there will always be a niche of people who will complain that game featu... : ballystix
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  Why do you think it will be grounded in realism? Looking at the art direction choices they've made, I thi... : aeg1x
  • werd : the rizzo
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    have you seen old screenshots of tf2? http://www.gamespot.com/pages/image_viewer/frame_lead.php?pid=4... : ballystix
    • Yes, but they've clearly taken a huge step in a different direction based on the description of the new a... : aeg1x
• TFC<TF1 any day of the week... Something changed when it switched engines. Maybe TF2 will bring back th... : Acid Gumball
• Visually, the game doesn't look realistic at all. Obviously, I can't speak for the gameplay at this poin... : Chris Remo

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• I wonder how many original maps it'll have... oh wait.. it's another damn port.. so 0. One day Valve w... : Fuzzwah

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  And this is bad why? Would you rather pay for TF2 separately? : freshyk
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    If it was a full-fledged game, hell yes. : Sapiens
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      It doesn't make it a "not full-fledged game" because it's a new multiplayer mode coming along Ep2. TF2 wa... : Bingo
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        I think he means a separate $50 boxed game would be a lot more than a multiplayer mod accompanying a $20 ... : johngloid
        • I don't think thats necessarily true. CS:S came bundled with HL2 and it didn't suffer for it. Valve have ... : aeg1x
        • They've likely been working on it a lot longer than they've been working on Episode 2 though. : Chris Remo

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  Found it http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5420938125874531576&q=tfc : baron calamity
  • Oh, man, that's good stuff! : WARLORD48
  • lol : Maddog_Delphi97
  • 8 of the greatest minutes of my life, right there. : xpaladin
  • Needs more crazy wtf-jumping-all-over-the-map trixxx. : Stage
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    greatest online game ever : nutcrackr
    • tied with bf1942 for that honor in my book. : metralgia
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    Lol, that music was from requiem for a dream, not lord of the rings. LoTR used it in like a trailer or s... : lont
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      most overused crappy online movie soundtrack music ever : datoo
      • It was good in the original movie though... even if the movie was just one depressing thing after anothe... : lont
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    the next time someone uses the requiem for a dream score again... : the_algor
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      Considering that video is like 3 to 4 years old, that wasn't overused then. : baron calamity
      • is it? There is some CS:S at the end. That would make it not even 2 years old. Unless that part of the vi... : Bingo
  • Could have just skipped to 5 minutes for the funny to begin. : iamgoat
  • LOL CS:S sniper sound still in use. Christ I wish they would update some of the old CS shit in source. S... : Cygnus X-1
• no idea, but I'd like to see it : thekidd
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  The video that showed CS players camping and just sitting around doing nothing while showing TFC players ... : TrepidJon
  • I linked it above. it was called TFC forever : baron calamity
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  member the flash movie, 'I have died ten thousands times' : bombay
  • Named : Just A Game - was awesome : bombay

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  but TF2 isn't a title bought separately in stores. it's a bonus to a stand alone episode : RikiTiki2
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    ...which you can buy in a store. : brome
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      you're buying a game that isn't TF2 though :P : RikiTiki2
      • like CS:S and DOD:S, I wouldn't be surprised to see it available as a standalone game. : Bingo

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• I'm wearing my T-Shirt too! :D : Shadowdane
• I'd sell my sister for one of those shirts. : Omaha

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• No, this means we'll see Episode 2 around 2009...maybe : PenicillinX57

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  No, just that BF2 beat them to the type of game they wanted to make with Team Fortress. It had no identi... : Optimus Prime
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    If TF2 was going to be a BF style realism game, I woulda cried : RikiTiki2
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      Same here. TFC was all about exaggerated physics and gameplay, and that's a big part of what made it fun... : megarust32
      • it was a class based Quake CTF :P : RikiTiki2
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        This is the reason I'm not worried about an exaggerated visual style. I hope they don't play it for jokes... : jake2000
        • Exactly. I feel the same way. : megarust32
    • No kidding. I guess its ok now to say i actually didn't care for TF2 circa 1999. : baron calamity
    • well judging from the old screenshots thats what valve intended to make : ballystix
  • Pffft. Identity is over-rated. They could have kept the original artwork and still made a kick-ass team ... : coyoterys
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    To the gameplay I'd expect (specially since the first TF2 screens and such), I started thinking TF2 was d... : zehh
    • It's 'testing' to see how popular it could be if they made a stand alone game out of it. If not, they'... : Optimus Prime
• Or maybe they just decided to go back to the classic TF style, which was kinda cartoony/silly/goofy while... : TrepidJon

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  Let's put it this way. I plan on buying it when it comes out. I don't care what you think matters. : Maddog_Delphi97
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    You're that psyched about something you know nothing about save for "It's got classes"? That's fairly ... : Vincent Grayson
    • And a unique style that doesn't include current world events. : Amnesty_intl2
    • Maybe he buys everything that comes out. He never said he was excited about it. : binaryc
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      and you're hating on something you know nothing about because some other games share similar elements? S... : mourningstar
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        I'm not "hating" on it, there's simply no information on it that sounds exciting yet, given the availabil... : Vincent Grayson
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          Perhaps he's extrapolating from past experiences with TF games. : crummynz
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            I agree, TF was awesome back in the day, but I feel it's been surpassed in pretty much every possible way... : Vincent Grayson
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              Oh, how wrong you are... More features does not equal better game. Sometimes simplicity is fucking great! : ArtilleryMarker
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                I dunno, I loved TF back in the day (never played TFC), but I have enjoyed the BF games, despite their fl... : Vincent Grayson
                • I dunno, the fact that this game is being made by VALVe is enough to make me excited. I know I'm just ... : famine101
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  is it? what's a decent multiplayer game with classes to come out recently? : lakren
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    BF2? Quake Wars next year, BF2142 in a while. : Vincent Grayson
    • He said decent. Quake Wars is the only good (looking) game you mentioned and just because something has ... : the rizzo

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  ...but 3DRealms have been working on it and speaking of it publicly for more than 8 years... : flashmasta
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    It what? Portals? It's not an original concept. And no one thought Prey would ever come out. : lont
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      All I'm saying is that you can't say "look, these guys have been screwing around for a while on something... : flashmasta
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        It doesn't matter if anything is 100% original. The point is that nothing about this was just recently d... : lont
        • "It doesn't matter if anything is 100% original." lol...then what's the point in starting the flamewar!!!... : flashmasta
    • Yeah seriously, Portals were all the new talk for the engines coming out back then, Unreal, Prey, even Q2... : bombay
  • Portals have been in games before. : Serpico74
  • Not to mention there was at least one quake mod with 2 placable teleporters. That was what... 10 years ag... : jet-poop
• I should add that this is a pretty great indie game. Not great graphics, and who wants to be a princess,... : lont

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  IAWTHS. Also, I don't know whether to laugh, cry, or wait at a constant state of cat-like readiness. : manero
  • * D O G N O S E ' D * : Maddog_Delphi97

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  As opposed to ... not paying for content? What are you getting at? : cdbeckman
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    battered wife = paying for content wife comes back to husband = bundling tf2 i don't know maybe my ... : eldiablo01
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      Yeah I don't think anyone was forcing you to pay for episodic content. : datoo
      • yeah my analogy sucked. : eldiablo01
• I really don't see the problem with episodic content, especially when you consider that Episodes 1, 2, an... : Orange Pylon
• they do it because they love you : manero

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• Unless; TFC was the original TF2 project which was aborted and released for free. Work then began on t... : Fuzzwah
• or remember when it was going to be a Quake 2 mod, then Team Fortress Software was all bought/hired by Va... : guysterson

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• You spooged and shit yourself? : carnivore