Comments on: Strafe Left: The Formative Years #46

By: marilena

marilena — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:48:04 +0000

I remember having a very low opinion on Strafe Left when it first started in PCG, many of them were duds back then (or maybe I just didn’t get them).

Some of the ones I’ve seen on here were excellent, though, and, after looking at it, I would say that the TF2 Guide to History is the best. It’s genuinely brilliant, it gives so much food for thought in just one image.

And no, it’s not mocking Hiroshima. If that’s what you think, you missed the point.

By: spd from Russia

spd from Russia — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:10:50 +0000

TF2 Guide to History is indeed controversal. joking about stuff like Hiroshima and other horrible events? I dont know …

By: Crane

Crane — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:44:47 +0000

Incredibly potato? What?

By: emil

emil — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:43:56 +0000

lol SL is retarded and totally unfunny. I think the worst aspect (as seen in the unapproved edition) is that the British authors perpective is so incredibly potato.

By: Dinger

Dinger — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:54:14 +0000

Dang. I’d bail too if they blocked that one, not for any high-sounding principles, but because the people making the calls were clearly idiots.

By: Pod

Pod — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:17:11 +0000

I think Timmy Stone should make more Strafe Lefts and get them up on here.

By: Chris R

Chris R — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:14:10 +0000

Thanks Fumarole,

I really liked the TF2 Guide to History!! Someone thought that would be offensive? Lame-sauce.

It actually reminds me of the WW2 as an RTS chat transcript:
http://www.strategypage.com/humor/articles/military_jokes_20057151.asp

By: Fumarole

Fumarole — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:12:43 +0000

You can find the censored Strafe Left here:

http://bay01.imagebay.com/full_view.php?view=27887_whyilovepcgamer.jpg

It’s quite good, and hardly offensive… until one sees that the suicide messages are backwards.

By: Chris R

Chris R — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:50:47 +0000

So where’s the TF2 history of the Twentieth Century that PC gamer censored?

Also:
Yahtzee “reviews” MOH: Airborne
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/12-MOH-Airborne

Oh yeah, and I actually didn’t mind MOH:A… I had quite a bit of fun dropping into new areas each time I played. But it was criminally short, glad I borrowed it from a friend…

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:05:53 +0000

First and last MoH game I played was Allied Assault. Truely terrible game.

By: 357SIG

357SIG — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:52:20 +0000

Honestly I wish MoHA had never included online support from the beginning. Online play was terrible (on the pc at least, not sure about the console crowd) lacking in every way. In sharp contrast i found the single player to be a superb experience, it wasn’t perfect, nor the best game I’ve ever played but I was having a good enough time not to care. Too bad it wasn’t longer.

By: The Shed

The Shed — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:17:29 +0000

I vouch for another Sleft. Great idea Nick.