Official Team Fortress 2012 Lounge

[Phantom Killah]

* Keeping the visual style consistent is important, in that we don't want anything out of theme or out of date. TF is a stylized world set some time in the 50's. Nothing modern, visually hyper-realistic, or overly "cartoony."
* Maintain character personality as much as possible with items. Hats should maintain the character personality of the wearer (heavy ushanka, scout batter's helmet, etc.)

isnt even about game balance. its something than hooked even more players in the first place, and its was tf2's unique desing and visual style. it certainly doesnt affect gameplay(to an extent, ignoring character "packs")

valve suddenly nailed it with the degree of vanity inside some players. can't deny that the whole "tf2 at $3" did nothing but increase the user pool - and therefore turning stuff being sold at steam not as tie ins to tf2, but rather tf2 as a tie in to said games.

mean, until the engineer update we were all excited and intrigued as to what wuld happen, lurked on to the secrets of what was going to be shown and how they managed to print some backstory into whats an already wacky nonsense. we had comics, videos, puzzles and even secret pages. nowdays at most we can hope for a blog post and sale.

its quite a huge turn off for anyone who saw in this game a refreshing breeze in terms of first person shooters.

this pretty much sums it up