Everyone has been asking why I haven’t posted the meet the scout vid yet.
Well, I had a bit of a family thing at the last minute - my Grandad died. He was 80, and a great guy. He had lived a good life, was mentally and physically sound, but he was old and that wouldn’t have lasted much longer. It was just his time. He went out quickly and with his dignity with a sudden heart attack. Everyone thought that was much better than slowly decaying over the next decade or so and causing pain for him and the family. He was much loved and there must have been at least 400 people at the funeral.
So I had to book a last minute flight back home to see him off, and now I’m staying with relatives in non-broadband land. This is about the first time I’ve been online.
Apparently Valve has spies watching me, and knows that the only time they can get away with big news releases is when I’m not around to poke fun at them, cause as soon as I was under internet radio silence, they pumped out the Latest Meet The Team Vid:
After the Get Behind Me Doctor scandal from the other day, the Heavy is showing himself to be quite the perverted bad boy of Team Fortress 2. This video by newyorker52 doesn’t do anything to help his reputation. The filth from the original meet the team video has been bleeped out, and is now safe for at work and family consumption.
It costs $400,000 to f*** this weapon for 12 seconds
MiniKraft has assembled more Lego TF2 goodness. We saw the Lego scenes from TF2 a while back, but now we’ve got a sweet recreation of the TF2 preview video.
Spotted over at onlinegamer.se (which is in Swedish, I think - dunno. I just look at the pictures.)
Yahtzee (of Zero Punctuation fame) tripped over to the offices of Valve Software for a bit of an Orange Box love in. Apparently Valve were so impressed by his recent Orange Box review (or at least glad they didn’t get flamed too bad) that they had him and a few other angry video game commentary people along as well. Notably Jerry “Tycho” Holkins from Penny Arcade.
The interesting bit he let slip is this nugget regarding the future “Meet The Team” videos for Team Fortress 2:
I witnessed the Cabal System in action today when a roomful of rowdy animators asked me to take a look at the prototype for the newest “Meet the Team” Team Fortress short, about which I’ve probably already said too much. After I was forced to admit that I had completely misunderstood the entire thing because I’m kind of thick, the team spent the next three or four hours loudly arguing possible ways that props and character movements could be subtly changed to make it easier for thickies like myself to “get.” Watching it all unfold makes it easier to understand why there’s always such a long wait time between the releases of Valve games and products, but I guess history has proved that this makes for a higher-quality output than the more conventional routine of whipping the code monkeys with leather straps to make a strict publishing deadline.
Not all that insightful I guess, but its good to know they are still coming. Its just Valve’s usual “its done when its done” approach to releasing stuff. There were rumors doing the rounds a little while back that said the sniper was the next one to get the video loving treatment. We’ll see soon hopefully.
One of the things I love in Team Fortress 2 is the humour. The “Meet The…” series of trailer videos introducing the different classes shows this off nicely.
