{"id":3438,"date":"2009-05-23T06:03:03","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T10:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=3438"},"modified":"2009-05-23T07:52:07","modified_gmt":"2009-05-23T11:52:07","slug":"meet-team-fortress-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=3438","title":{"rendered":"Meet Team Fortress 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

In honor of the big update for Team Fortress 2<\/a>, and the fact that TF2 is free to play this weekend, I thought I’d post these intro movies for the TF2 classes.<\/p>\n

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I’m a medic by nature and habit, so I’m a bit sad Valve never made a movie for the medic. <\/p>\n

Let’s see, we have:<\/p>\n

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  1. Scottish demo man.\n<\/li>\n
  2. Bronx (or Brooklyn, I can’t actually tell the difference) scout dude.\n<\/li>\n
  3. Russian heavy weapons guy.\n<\/li>\n
  4. German Medic guy.\n<\/li>\n
  5. Indistinct pyro man.\n<\/li>\n
  6. Frenchman spy.\n<\/li>\n
  7. American soldier dude.\n<\/li>\n
  8. Aussie sniper guy.\n<\/li>\n
  9. Texan Engineer.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    You’ll note that none of the characters are: A) Female or B) British. This seems like a major oversight. They need to add that. Maybe a Mary Poppins-style “governess” class, to rap perpetually AFK players on the knuckles, make the foul-mouthed brats wash their mouths out with soap, and pwn the naughty enemy team with her umbrella. (Which doubles as a transport device.) They could sexy her up by having her show a bit of ankle.<\/p>\n

    My unhealthy Poppins fetish aside, I’m having trouble picturing what new class they could introduce to the game or what role that character could play that wouldn’t simply overlap with existing classes. It’s a pretty well-rounded game. <\/p>\n

    EDIT: Put the Engineer on the list. Sort of daft, seeing as how I’m a [software] engineer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In honor of the big update for Team Fortress 2, and the fact that TF2 is free to play this weekend, I thought I’d post these intro movies for the TF2 classes. I’m a medic by nature and habit, so I’m a bit sad Valve never made a movie for the medic. Let’s see, we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[178],"class_list":["post-3438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream-cast","tag-tf2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}