Team Fortress 2 and Portal

[Spino]

Team Fortress 2 is a cartoon now? I remember when it began development, it
looked more realistic, even with the older engines.

The original TF2 was in development hell when Valve eventually pulled the plug on it. Personally I believe it was the explosion of Counterstrike's popularity that sealed the original TF2's fate.

Personally I love the 'Invincibles' animated look to the new TF2 and think it fits in perfectly with the look and feel of TF Classic. TFC was seriously removed from reality and possessed a certain humor and energy that would have been lost had Valve gone the more realistic route.

Here's the skinny on the trailer. Turns out with the exception of some screen effects that trailer was ripped directly from in-game footage!

http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=12522663

For those curious about how much of this is in game, here are some excerpts of emails from Valve's Robin Walker forwarded to me by Shacker tsteltz.

Actually, everything in that trailer is in-game. There's some extra screenspace effects on it (depth of field & motion blur), but apart from that it's all just recorded in the game. So yep, that's what the models look like, and that's what 2fort looks like now.

Robin.

When asked specifically about which animations are indeed from gameplay, here is Robin's reply. It seems that everything except the Spy animation is indeed actual gameplay footage.

Almost all of the animations are game anims used while playing (scout run, hwguy firing, etc). The exception is the Spy. We don't have a disguise effect we're happy with yet, so we whipped up that animation to give new players an understanding of what the Spy class is about.

We still haven't decided how we'll use screenspace effects. It's more of a design issue than anything else.

Robin.

[Kekvit Irae]

I hate the new look of TF2. I can only pray that its gameplay is far better than its looks.

[Mikeus Caesar]

Heeheehee, i'm teh king of photoshop.



Now you're thinking with portals, Zidane.

[Husar]

I hate the new look of TF2. I can only pray that its gameplay is far better than its looks.

I think that depends on what one expects from a game, 13 also had comic graphics but was more like a very serious comic.
The graphics don´t show the gameplay.

And that´s a cute picture in your sig, kek.

[Leet Eriksson]

that portal game looks pretty awesome.

I have heard of nerbacular drop, but haven't played it. I'm kinda glad valve picked them up to do the game.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Looks cool.

I just played N. Drop, and it was a short game, though very interesting and with replay possibilities.

Crazed Rabbit

[Antagonist]

I was never a fan of Team Fortress (although I see how the style they've chosen is appropriate) but Portal looks excellent. I had seen Narbacular Drop before, it's a great idea which seems highly suited to Valve's technology. Hope it plays as fun as it looks.

Antagonist

[Somebody Else]

Portal looks like it'd do my head in... Looks fun though!

TF2's Heavy looks kinda like Dwayne Johnson, no?