Team Fortress 2: Some thoughts.

[aoanla]

For those of you who have unaccountably missed this: Team Fortress 2 is the class-based team tactical shooter which comes in The Orange Box (itself, the best value for money game collection in some time - five games for £35ish, on the PC

Comments

[jordanis]

Demoman by far, here. I've actually gotten really good at eyeballing the course of the grenades. I can hit someone charging at me pretty close to every time, and a firing-moving heavy about three times out of four. I've also blown up a LOT of spies after noticing their cloak effect.

The uses of stickybombs are quite endless, also.

I also enjoy playing engineer and scout. Sniper isn't bad if there isn't a better one playing, but there usually is. Heavy is kind of a pain in the butt, I've only been effective there when the teamplay has been tight. Spy I suck at. Soldier I actually find kind of boring, the slow firing rate of rockets and their inaccuracy gets on my nerves. I used to play it a lot because it's the easiest class to get into, but I haven't for a while now. Medic is something I play at need, but there's almost always someone else filling that role before me on the servers I'm on. Pyro is for when I feel like really seeding some chaos, though scout is actually pretty good at that too.

[jordanis]

I actively hate Soldiers as a class - they're the least interesting, by far.
I quite like playing Scouts, but not for long periods - my reactions aren't up to doing the class justice (and similarly for Snipers - enemy Snipers usually beat me to the shot in Sniper duels).

Demoman, though, yes, that's a fun class! I just usually end up getting confused by the similarity of the sticky bomb launcher and grenade launcher models...

[aoanla]

Sorry, that was me!

[mcmartin]

They did do a really good job of making the Soldiers, well, the grunts, though. I do seem to find that when my team simply isn't Getting It Done, and it's not because we're being hilariously steamrolled, we don't have enough Soldiers in play.

[anonymous]

'Portal: The Flash Version' (http://portal.wecreatestuff.com/) has kept me busy at work this last week, whilst waiting for code to run of course. :D

Andy

[aoanla]

While the puzzle element seems to be there in the Flash Portal game, it is missing the hilarious commentary, which is sort of the point.