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That's not really TF2 at all.
The trailer was certainly a ripoff, but the game doesn't really seem to be.
07/14/09
Also, they only showed us one class/character. With all the differing capabilities of that one character, how different can the others be? Or does each person customize their own character that they always play with?
It looks interesting, and it might be fun, but it definitely looks similar to TF2, whether or not it actually is.
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But that narrator voice pisses me off. Seriously, I'd refuse to even playtest the game if you can't switch that off.
He sounds just like that stupid DDR Max 2 narrator... I'd like to meet someone that talks like that so that I can punch his face off someday.
07/14/09
To his crotch. Just in case that wasn't clear.
07/14/09
Also... I love in the video they highlighted keyboard controlled weapon changes.. ripping off Team Fortress 2 is one thing... ripping off Wolfenstein is another entirely.
07/14/09
If you ARE hating on Steam... you should try it again. It's a far cry from the nightmare that released with Half-Life 2, it's really a fantastic service. I say this with the hope that you can overlook my obvious Valve fanboyism (note avatar), and give it a shot- you won't regret it.
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"We'll make an announcement about it by the end of this year" 3 years running (it's been said in 2007, 2008, and here we are again in 2009) is not an appropriate response for a company that's supposedly so consumer focused.
We want communication, even things we don't want to hear, not outright lies.
07/15/09
To this day I still don't know what the hell I did lol. Apparently I could make a new account and rebuy all of my games over again if I wanted to access the servers again.. but I still don't know what the hell on my system flagged their VAC... so I'd sending them more money to get banned again I imagine.
Seriously tho... if it's because I have Cheat O Matic on my desktop for cheating at NES roms... I'd laugh pretty hard. =P
07/15/09
So maybe, just maybe you should start worrying about it after that happens.
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07/06/09
If you make a multiplayer game with cartoonish characters killing each other with bats, guns, and rockets; you've stolen from Team Fortress 2?
Nobody tell that to Valve, they'd have to sue everyone the entire industry, seeing as Team Fortress 2 was the first time any of those ideas were realized in videogame form.
Yeah.
07/06/09
Natal is more of an Eyetoy ripoff than this is a ripoff of Team Fortress.
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That's funny because I don't remember the doll-jointed anime girl models in TF2, much less ones that could just pick up a weapon and change class...
The graphical style is somewhat similar to Re-Volt (1999) though.
They're obviously going for the same type of game, but a lot of what people are calling a ripoff is pretty tenuous actually - HAVE seems to have a powerup that gives you a minigun. TF2 has a minigun-armed class. Ripoff? Well, Wolfenstein 3D has a minigun too, so TF2 rips off Wolf3D? HAVE has a shock grenade that happens to be cylindrical with glowing blue ends. So it's a ripoff of TF2's explosive grenade with glowing red ends? If that's so, then TF2 rips Quake 1 off since their grenade is a carbon copy of Quake's... (makes sense with TF originally being a Quake mod.) People are just overreacting at this point - I think mostly just because the game has simplified clean looking graphics instead of being another brown, gritty FPS which ironically be so much of a copy no one would even agree on what they're copying from...