Why are people acting like TF2 is gonna be shutdown within in the next week? The comics have ended, but not the game; you can expect Valve to drag it's mangled body for at least another 5 years or whenever CS2 / DOTA 2 are finally dead and gay.
Answer: autism
When most people think of art, they imagine marble sculptures and oil paintings. That said, few would disagree that literature, music, and film are also art forms. But for some reason video games are an exception because... you enjoy them? Just because something isn't stuffy or pretentious, that doesn't mean it isn't art.
to Half-Life 2 (2004). Night and fucking day. And then compare HL2 to HLA (2019). Sculpture hasn't changed in 40 thousand years. In the 15 years between HL2 and HLA they added an entirely new vector to the gameplay using technology that didn't even exist when HL2 came out. It's hard to appreciate video games (even great ones, like HL) as timeless or artful because of how ungracefully they age. Trying to make an argument that Half Life is one of the greatest games of all time to some 19 year old dweeb who's only ever played Fortnite and Warzone is like trying to argue to someone who's only ever watched Marvel movies that Citizen Kane is one of the greatest films of all time.
Its honestly because the comics feel like the end of an era, while TF2 is still going to be around, the comics just feel like a proper conclusion to things especially with how long the TF2 comics run was.
It's just a nice bit of closure. We already knew TF2 was over, but having it made official makes it easier to look fondly back at everything. Sure, it'll devolve into a bot-riddled hellscape again, inevitably, and all the other damage has already been done, but it's good to know it's truly finished, instead of Valve just tossing their hands up and fucking off like they did for the better part of a decade. And the sendoff for a beloved cast of characters was, flaws aside, still pretty nice, instead of anything cynical and cold and soulless telling us we were stupid for having been invested in it.
I just want them to make games so I can play them, not games that have had their day in the sun.
24/7 spent on an international Discord of teens and young adults. 2fort_egypt til 3AM. Fuck around one hour, serious 6v6 the next.
ESL sorry for bad grammer
And notice how of all this sounds similar to the conditions that led up to that golden age of gaming, time really is a circle.
Ok, here's the plan. We get to a place of decent stability, then we make our own games. Yes?
Sounds like a plan to me. Gotta work on the decent stability part though.
Game idea: TroonScape. Functionally identical to RuneScape except all the enemy NPCs you can engage in combat are troons.
People act like this was the inevitable fate of the game, that we just have to accept that this is the only way it could have ended and we should just move on from this old game, but it did not have to be this way.
As long as troons and faggots are infesting TF2, I can't and will not let go of it out of principle. It's my duty to drive them out like a pesticide.
In an alternate timeline we got the happy ending with MYM never happening and the game ceasing being updated with a proper goodbye from Valve and them maintaining bare minimum support for it's remaining life (that is, until CS2 and DOTA 2 croak). All of the game's major problems wouldn't exist and we wouldn't be having these discussions right now, living blissfully.
Classic TF2 had a thematic scope bubbling just beneath the surface that made you feel like a tiny cog in a huge machine, one that’s true intent was kept intentionally obscure yet unfathomably extensive. The 2fort command-center, the gravelpit deathray, the massive well launch bay. You were just the hired muscle, not paid to ask questions.
