Team Fortress 2 and the Resurgence of Class-Based Gaming

Iria · Jul 17, 2006, 09:46 PM

Source: TG Daily
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Yaknow considering how much we in the tech press like to have a go at 3D Realms over Duke Nukem (it'll take) Forever, I think that Half-Life creators Valve get off extremely easy for their own vaporware transgressions - namely Team Fortress 2.

Originally released as a mod for Quake the First all the way back in 1996, Team Fortress 2 was originally scheduled to be a commercial release for Quake II (making it one of the first mod teams, though certainly not a group of bedroom coders, to go commercial like that), but the development team was bought up by Valve. They then switched production to the Half-Life engine, and first we got Team Fortress Classic, a free mod for Valve's seminal FPS.

Jul 17, 2006, 09:46 PM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	Team Fortress 2 and the Resurgence of Class-Based Gaming Source: TG Daily __________ Yaknow considering how much we in the tech press like to have a go at 3D Realms over Duke Nukem (it'll take) Forever, I think that Half-Life creators Valve get off extremely easy for their own vaporware transgressions - namely Team Fortress 2. Originally released as a mod for Quake the First all the way back in 1996, Team Fortress 2 was originally scheduled to be a commercial release for Quake II (making it one of the first mod teams, though certainly not a group of bedroom coders, to go commercial like that), but the development team was bought up by Valve. They then switched production to the Half-Life engine, and first we got Team Fortress Classic, a free mod for Valve's seminal FPS.