Yeah, hero based-shooters haven’t been good since that one with the dumb name that came out in 2007. What was it called again? Squad Castle 2 or something?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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This is the first time I haven’t been excited for a Valve game :(
it’s just another game they will abandon like artifact and underlords.
You got excited for Artifact?
I haven’t even heard of Artifact until now. 🤨
It’s not a story gamers would tell you
For a whole 2 second when they revealed it, and then…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0qZTS38cjw
“Hero based shooter” I’m out. This smells like Artifact all over again.
Just like Artifact they’re joining a trend 6+ years late.
Yeah, hero based-shooters haven’t been good since that one with the dumb name that came out in 2007. What was it called again? Squad Castle 2 or something?
Sounds like Smite rather than a hero shooter
It’s a 6v6 hero shooter with shades of DotA.
I honestly like the sound of this
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.
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.
Half Life: Modern Warfare II (2022)
TF2 is a hero shooter
Wasn’t TF2 the first hero shooter?
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)
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.
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 spent a lot of hours playing TFC.
Isn’t that what i said?
It was my intention
Wasn’t there a free new portal game that dropped like last month?
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.
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.
I prefer them trying out new shit and see what sticks. Everything is a sequel nowadays.