Team Fortress 2's Fate Unearthed In Missing Games Feature 36
Thanks to IGN PC for the latest part of its feature discussing some notable PC games that were announced but, so far, never released. In particular, Valve's Team Fortress 2, as originally previewed by IGN in January 1999, is focused on, with Valve's Doug Lombardi clarifying: "Some time after we announced Team Fortress 2, which was then being created on the HL1 tech, the decision was made to move the project to the Source Engine, the same engine used for HL2. The project is still in development here at Valve and we will be announcing more info after HL2 ships." Other forgotten games include Digital Anvil's Loose Cannon ("...this hardly looks like a living project"), and Sid Meier's Dinosaurs ("...never found its niche. Extinct.")
Duke Nukem Forever (Score:5, Informative)
Part 1 [ign.com] is here.
What happened to all the people that put money down on that game?
Re:Duke Nukem Forever (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Duke Nukem Forever (Score:1, Informative)
On a side note, I seriously regret cancelling my DNF preorder. I had my $5 down since THE first day they were taking preorders, and something tells me a ~10 year deposit>pickup on the game would look really nice framed on my wall.
The problem with holding off on releaseses.. (Score:5, Interesting)
Whenever a company decides to miss a ship window like that, they're deciding against income and market share. I don't think it was a wise business decision, because it could've easily been another one of those Half-Life 1-based items that generated attention and income for the team while working on Half-Life 2. All they have to show for their work is vapour and promises, not products.
Re:The problem with holding off on releaseses.. (Score:2)
Not if there's something dreadfully wrong with the game, or at least enough to keep a release from being profitable.
Yea. (Score:2)
However, there's more to it. If TF2 doesn't sell worth a dang because of how long they waited, it won't be worth anything. At least if they had released it they could've patched it if it sucked.
Re:Yea. (Score:1)
What matters is the quality, not the development time.
Re:Yea. (Score:5, Insightful)
You might say that it's possible that DNF will be as good as its contemporaries whenever it comes out, but I don't think that it is possible. Once you're this far behind schedule, it's at the least extremely hard to catch up.
Rob
Re:The problem with holding off on releaseses.. (Score:1)
If they didn't have the brains to buy a seperate computer for each dev and hook it up to a KVM switch|Seperate Display|Display with builtin input switching....
Me thinks they have a slight problem thinking things thru.
correction (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:correction (Score:1, Insightful)
Missed the boat? (Score:5, Interesting)
I hope that Valve remembers WHY everyone played TF - they played it 'cause it was fun. Not because of the ultra-uber graphics, realistic looking maps/scenarios or other features.
Re:Missed the boat? (Score:2)
Re:Missed the boat? (Score:1)
Yeap, the golden days of Quake.
> It was the first on-line team style game.
No, CTF, and ThunderWalker preceeded it. (Not by much though.)
Mega-TF ruled too.
Re:Missed the boat? (Score:2)
TF was a Quake Mod (Score:5, Informative)
Team Fortress began life as a free add-on to Half-Life.
Team Fortress began life as a free add-on to Quake1 (QuakeWorld to be more specific), not HL.
Hey IGN: Great journalism...
but... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:but... (Score:1)
Re:TF was a Quake Mod (Score:2)
That is by no means "new" news. (Score:5, Interesting)
If anyone looked at the HL2 source code leak, you noticed that the code was divided in half. Half of it was about Half-Life2, and the other half was about Team Fortress 2. this is in no way a "dead" project, simply an completely secretive one. Some of the stuff in that code was really cool, a lot of good gameplay ideas, and what seemed to be some impressive innovation.
I'm guessing we'll hear more (and maybe see more) about Team Fortress 2 this E3 (May 12-14).
Does this mean my Gamstop Pre-Order is still good? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Does this mean my Gamstop Pre-Order is still go (Score:2, Interesting)
I remember that (Score:1, Troll)
HL2 (Score:1)
I wonder will it be free (Score:4, Interesting)
Hell, they did it for the first game - why not the sequel?
I wondered what had happened.... (Score:1)
And as for Duke Nukem Forever, I could have told you 5 years ago we'd never see that.
TFC Veteran (Score:1)