Though Half-Life [official site] is almost nineteen years old and its sanctioned fan remake Black Mesa is nearing completion, Valve have launched a wee patch for their pretty okay or whatever vintage FPS. The patch fixes a few crashes and exploits, and hit other Half-Life engine games too, such as classic Counter-Strike. Given how much of modern PC games history connects to Half-Life and its…
Team Fortress Classic
4 years ago
5 years ago
Feature: Rubbish, wasn't it?
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time.I did and I didn't like it. To me, Team Fortress Classic was unfairly dumped in a bin called "a team-based multiplayer shooter like Counter-Strike only messy and guff."
I haven't played Team Fortress 2 [official site] in almost a year, Steam tells me, but by gum! I haven't stopped caring about the goofy world have created for their free-to-play FPS. Valve have some of the funniest fun in games, and I don't especially mind if the yaks come through webcomics rather than computer games.While we were on holiday on Monday, Valve released the…
6 years ago
I always felt a little sorry for Fortress Forever [official site]. The folks behind the Source engine mod started in the long period when Valve had seemingly abandoned Team Fortress 2, with the goal of recreating Team Fortress Classic-y style class-based shooty shenanigans on a newer engine. Then Valve unexpectedly re-announced TF2, and Fortress Forever only beat it to release by one month before attention…