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Nex Antonius

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If anyone has ever played TFC (Team Fortress Classic) and loved it, then you'll love this. It's pretty much what a lot of people thought TF2 should have been.

Does anyone else here play this gem?
 
Can we get a link or something, or are you going to make every person who reads this google?
 
team fortress classic was a peice of crap imo. The original QWTF was the best, then came Mega QWTF which is where team fortress classic spawned from. The only TF2 is lacking for me is grenades. Not the stupid secondary grenades like nail grenades, but the normal grenades that most classes had.
 
static21 said:
The only TF2 is lacking for me is grenades. Not the stupid secondary grenades like nail grenades, but the normal grenades that most classes had.
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A lot of veterans feel the same way, but I don't. I like that the classes are more narrowly defined in TF2. If you listen to the dev commentary, they pretty much outline that as the reason that grenades were gotten rid of. Grenades made each of the classes overlap too much in their combat ability so to make each class more unique they did away with them. Plus, it alleviated the spam issue as well.
 
I tried Fortress Forever, thought it sucked, and promptly uninstalled it. :)
 
It all started with QWTF for me, and then I moved onto MegaTF (remember throwing toasters into the water?).

I skipped over Team Fortress Classic and Fortress Forever, but I'm loving TF2!
 
Nex Antonius said:
If anyone has ever played TFC (Team Fortress Classic) and loved it, then you'll love this. It's pretty much what a lot of people thought TF2 should have been.

Does anyone else here play this gem?
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It sucks hard. I was a die hard TF fan but this is just garbage. It had been in development far too long for this result. And it seems the only people who think that FF is what TF2 should've been are the developers of named mod and some die hard followers.
 
To those who hated it (which seems to be pretty much all of you), can you specify why you hated it so much?

I'm not trying to start some war. I just want to know your reasons, if at all possible.
 
FF = the sux

Its just more TFC.. which is pick a class goto a battle press all your grenade buttons while wildly shooting at random.. die by the 50 billion grenades going off and then respawn and try again.

TF2 > * I like how they got rid of grenade spam, i played QWTF massively back in the day and i never remember gren spam being an issue, and how they handled it in TF2 is just great! If i am a scout i have to sneak as close to the corner as i can then unload my secondary till the gun goes down... of course this means the engineer is more then likely going to pull right out in my face and end my life but its freaking exciting.

All class are pretty well balanced and you can even play Pyro and have a damn good time.. can you do that in FF??? Well you can if you like getting butt rapped over and over again i guess.

As stated above.. i installed played uninstalled as soon as TF2 started to preload...
 
This maybe would have been a game I would have played had it been released a year or so ago, but they really couldn't have timed their release worse. When compared to TF2, it's garbage.
 
Nex Antonius said:
To those who hated it (which seems to be pretty much all of you), can you specify why you hated it so much?

I'm not trying to start some war. I just want to know your reasons, if at all possible.
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I don't hate the mod, it's just not my style of play. I liked TFC and played it a lot back in the day, but like I said, the grenade spam and overlapping of several classes made the game a lot less about skill and a lot more about spam in my opinion. I feel like valve fixed both of those issues by more narrowly defining each of the classes in TF2 and eliminating the grenades. It's rare in TF2 for me to join a team and not see at least one of each class. That never happened in TFC. Plus, the more narrowly defined classes rewards teamwork a lot more than it did in TFC and in a team game that's always a good thing in my book.

So it's not that I dislike TFC, but rather I think the gameplay has been improved in TF2 to such a point that it makes FF/TFC obsolete.
 
If you want FF just go play TFC...why would you wanna play FF when there is TF2? FF doesn't hold a candle to it.
 
I played FF for a day before TF2 beta came out, It was a good oldschool remake but I didn't wait the better part of 10 years to play a fairly basic remake, they definately picked a bad time to release, they wanted to compete but they just can't.

TF2 is great, it does have a few flaws and I hope they tweak it a bit, and we see more maps, but really it's a lot of fun.
 
aeonrevolution said:
If you want FF just go play TFC...why would you wanna play FF when there is TF2? FF doesn't hold a candle to it.
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because Fortress forever is TFC classic using the source engine, why would you want to play and outdated engine when you can play the same game on the source engine?
 
MatDef said:
I tried Fortress Forever, thought it sucked, and promptly uninstalled it. :)
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I gave it a fair chance, but it wasn't very good at all.

TF2 is approximately 100 times better, and once it was released I uninstalled Fortress Forever...forever.
 
FF is great if you love classic TFC.

What bothers me about it is most of the maps I've played have made it far too run and no gun. But that's how the original TFC was, and I can't say I was a huge player of TFC.
 
I played FF up until TF2 also, not that FF is bad, but TF2 really is more comical and fun in general. There's a lot more smiles and laughs to be had in a game as whacky as TF2 than in the more serious FF. And that's exactly what I want from a game, smiles, laughs, and good memories.

That being said, FF did impress me. They really captured the feel of TFC which is an impressive feat for a non-paid group of modders. And it's a deep gameplay experience just like TFC. So many ways to do things with conc grenades, so many clever escapes... You can be a one man hero (cannot tell you how many times I alone as a medic captured the flag by bypassing all the enemies with conc grenades), while in TF2 you REALLY need to rely more on your team.

So TF2 is definitely more worthy of the "team" title, because it is VERY difficult to be a one man hero when you are playing against a competent team. It is also more satisfying to win due to the amount of teamwork that is usually required to win. I've played nearly 3 hour 2fort matches that were pretty much stalemates the whole time until the team with the smarter strategy started to break through the defenses.

I don't know if I'll ever go back to FF, it was fun during the wait for TF2, but I think I outstayed my welcome with all the TFC I used to play back in the day, and it's finally time to move on.

That's my take on it.
 
For a free product, Fortress Forever isn't bad, but it's nothing compared to the masterpiece that is Team Fortress 2.
 
static21 said:
team fortress classic was a peice of crap imo. The original QWTF was the best, then came Mega QWTF which is where team fortress classic spawned from. The only TF2 is lacking for me is grenades. Not the stupid secondary grenades like nail grenades, but the normal grenades that most classes had.
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I agree about QWTF vs TFC....


I enjoy FF more than TFC/TF2, but not as much as QWTF.


I'd probably be playing FF tonight if I had a working gaming comp. ;)
 
Haha, QWTF was the best I agree. But the latency was horrible over modem. I also loved hearing all the Simpsons sounds. Like when you'd die, this would play. The "Ah there it goes" part was put into a different .wav to play when you respawned though, it was great. :D
 
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