Would a show based on TF2 work?

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maybe as a 10 minute show on Adult Swim.

SFM is clunky and slow, and Valve still acts like five guys in a garage with a work ethic to match, so no.

What would the plot even be? TF2 is a class based shooter.

Making a cartoon off of GTA would be easier. Fuck, making an Overwatch cartoon would be easier mainly because they aren't fighting recolors of themselves.

also, how about left 4 dead? Just curious.

As a kid's show, with a normal cartoon runtime? MAYBE. A lot of the humor would wind up getting wasted because they couldn't put a lot of the great jokes in, plus people couldn't die in it. Like, at all.

However, like said, it'd do pretty well on Adult Swim, even with a full run time. It might even do okay on Comedy Central, based on how well Futurama and South Park do (granted, they'd be totally different shows). I could a TF2 show doing especially well on the Toonami block, since then it could have a balance of seriousness and comedy, the way it is in the games.

What kinda stuff would go in the intro to the show?

Probably. The comic is great and that SFM pilot they did was pretty funny.

You're thinking too hard about this. It doesn't matter if it makes sense, as long as it's funny people will accept it.

>What would the plot even be? TF2 is a class based shooter.

Uh... The comics?

They were going to, Valve and Adult Swim had agreed to one. However Valve couldn't keep to Adult Swim's schedule so the idea was abandoned. The one idea for a short was made into Expiration Date.

>What would the plot even be? TF2 is a class based shooter.
Each class is it's own character. Have you not seen any of the shorts?

There's a comic, too.

You'd have to explain how the hell there's two teams of the exact same nine people. All eighteen characters dying each episode could at least be explained through nonexistent continuity, or some kind of ass-pull like Merasmus's "kill-me-come-back-stronger" pills.

source?

this is really interesting, never heard this.

Really? I didn't know that.

It would get two episodes, then go on an indefinite hiatus.

Well, it'd have to be a lot more like the comic at first. Fighting robots, and maybe even just doing missions against the robots at first. THEN they could bring in the TFC guys for an arc or two, followed finally by Gray Mann (one of the only people who could really work as a good villain, beyond maybe the Administrator) cloning them or some shit.

Still mad about Half-life?

there are enough comics to flesh out a world and general story.

>back in the old west days, an industrialist left his two undeserving sons a bunch of useless land, and gave his industrial empire over to the Hale family.
>his sons start fighting each other over the land.
>they hire mercenaries
>they both hire the Engineer to build machines to keep them alive well past the point of dying of old age.
>it is now this 1960s era.
>still fighting with mercs over the land
>buying all their weapons from Saxton Hale. Who is now the head of the company left by the brother's father, to the Hales.
>every mercenary has little bit of background story to expand upon. like Soldier is this American. who flies him self to europe to fight in ww2. but it was already years after ww2.
>then there is the third brother and his army of robots.

The comics are already hilarious, so if it kept the same pace and punchline deliveryment in an animated format I sure would.

>kept the same pace

One installment per year?

SURE If this was 2014.
Who else aside furries and valve drones still playing this game?

Not on the release of episodes, but the pacing of the episodes themselves.

Oh wait, my mistake. It's been over a year since the last installment of the comic now.

one team, that's it. problem solved.

I-I'm not a furry, AND I've only ever played TF2 as far as Valve stuff. I still play once in a while, but they fucking League of Lame-ified everything about game selection and shit so they could play catch-up with Overwatch. Which REALLY sucks for me, because one of my favorite things about TF2 in the first place was all the goofy fan-made maps people had on non-Valve servers

Fuck you, I still love beating up children at 2Fort and I always will.

No

yes

Found the Waifuwatch player.

>"bi-monthly" they said
Eh, in all honesty I can't give Valve any shit for how they release these because A.) it's Valve, what the fuck do you expect? And B.) I've yet to see a TF2 comic that hasn't gotten a chuckle out of me.

You're bound to find more these days, so you're right

Probably, but unless they'll do one for the game's 10th anniversary next year, that ship has long since sailed

Adult Swim tried, but they couldn't handle Valve time.
They wanted at least 6 episodes in 22 minutes format. Instead we got expiration date.

I can blame them because VR was and is the hold up. VR can die in a hole.

They're like fleas.

They botched the story in my opinion.
I think even they realised it, seeing how it takes one year to create an issue that was supposed to be released bi-monthly.
Pauling being gay is just another great show of Valve's sloppy work ethic, which consists of "the left hand doesn't know what the right hand does".

to be fair the shorts also posit the idea of them fighting recolors of themselves as well, sometimes there's even several Soldiers on one team. . But on the bright side the world lends itself to shit like clones and robots.

>What would the plot even be?

Holy shit read the comics. There's already enough there for two seasons and that's if they went plot-based.

>Pauling being gay is just another great show of Valve's sloppy work ethic
...How?

Everyone is on Team Vive. Some are still playing with Team Steam Controller, but that's pretty, much just a smaller crew.
And Team Tf2 is a dude with a Casio in a broom closet.

>tfw 99 heads on endless 2fort

IT Crowd with Pyro as Douglas.

>Matt Berry moaning through a mask to record lines.

I'd watch.

I think what a lot of people think, they should really just turn the game over to the community, or do what they do with CS:GO. Let a 2nd party developer work with it.

SFM has been one of the greatest additions to porn.

Plenty if creativity out there among workshop creators to push the game to the next level.

Just got to figure out the balancing issue.

>Pauling being gay
>Scheduling a date with scout in expiration day

So Scout is a girl now?

That's where a second party comes in. I mean, it's not like TF2 doesn't make them an assload of money.

tfw the market is trending down and has been since MYM. My backpack has suffered. But that's what I get for focusing on stranges and not unusuals.

FemScoot

Just make RED the protagonists
>what? Exact same people? No! ofc you can argue that BLU is made of a bunch of very good looking scumbags but we are not the same.
>Cue gag of Hale, The Administrator, whoever walking out with truckloads of money while Blutarch Mann loads tons of wooden boxes labed with "Clon-O Matics" into a warehouse

There, you can even reference it every now and then and blame it on Merasmus, Australium, Vortex to another dimension, Mann Co. "Realistic latex novelty mask" division test products etc.

>You'd have to explain
Why?

Why I cashed out and just have a load of keys. Use those to trade for games now.

Yeah I always imagined that they were clones and that one of the brothers stole the idea from the other, just like with the age-extending machines.

I still like the game and play occasionally. I'm just pissed my backpack's value's taken a hit.

Why the fuck is the matchmaking bothering you if you don't play on Valve servers anyway? You know you can still play on community servers, right?

Pauling being gay is the perfect punchline for Scout's Quest for the Succ, my only complaint is that they said it too early.

Yea I still have a few I like that I invested time in. My Sleeper, My few Festives, the Flamethrower and my Medi-Gun.

polygon.com/gaming/2012/6/22/3110808/valve-teams-up-with-adult-swim-for-team-fortress-2-mystery-project

It seems as if the Pyro short might have been testing the waters to see if they could take the concept further. From what I've gleamed they aired the Pyro short, but nothing else. It seems odd if that were t be the only testing done, and if they were pursuing something, it would be more reasonable to air a block of the Meet the Team shorts instead of one.

Honestly, Valve seems to have really dropped the ball with Team Fortress. I just hope that Blizzard makes Valve take an extra look at what they can do with TF2.

They are clones, both red and blue soldiers and also engineer I think are called by the same name in different comics. Also there are like a dozen soldiers dying in Meet the Medic.

>and Valve still acts like five guys in a garage with a work ethic to match
>still

user, you're implying things aren't going exactly according to design. Valve has a radical "absolutely no rules or bosses, not even Gay Ben will tell you what to do, do whatever the flying fuck you want" corporate layout that's purposefully engineered so that they can act like a bunch of guys dicking around in a garage for the rest of their lives. When they do put out shit, it's because they, as in everybody working on the project, they personally want to put it out. So usually the quality level is pretty high. But if they're not, like, feeling it today dude, then nothing will ever get done, and they're completely fine with that.

But that's not what the lore is like at all

Red team has 9 characters that never die, blue team can exist of as many characters as is needed for the episode, and can be killed to fit the plot.

I've got 6 aussies and a bunch of other high tier stranges. And a self-made item.

Nice, they even posed them like the Green comic.

Probably not now that a lot of the voice actors have retired

Wow they're lucky Steam is making them a shitton of money because with a policy like that they would go bankrupt within 3 weeks.

Engie isn't as it's his family that developed the tech for

That and cancer. Damn shame. Pretty much all voiced by one guy now. Nolan North

That was their plan all along.

Rick May is still alive and well, last I knew. That weird scream wasn't Nolan.

Gabe was also a multi-millionaire before he ever founded the company. It was always something of a passion project for him, he made a huge fortune working for microsoft, but he decided that video games were more interesting. If he just wanted secure money and a solid business plan, he would have just rode that microsoft train for as long as it'd take him because god knows it has no brakes at this point.

In any case valve has certainly worked out for him, he's one of the 1000 richest people in the world, with a personal fortune of billions.

Doom proved to him PC was a viable games platform and Mario 64 proved to him that games could be art.

Protip: Pauling was never actually gay, that was just one of the writers saying some non-Valve-approved stuff on their social media.

So? That doesn't stop him from cloning himself to not die in battle and make money from being hired in both sides. The original hangs out of the battlefield while the clones do the job. Or maybe the administrator just stole the cloning machine plans from engie's family.

>We will never have a TF2 cartoon with the animators and writers from Titmouse and Valve
Kill me.
Except it's still very much highly flawed because while everyone is fucking around with VR literally no one is actually working on their games, TF2 and CSGO, which is why they've gone down the shit as of late.

The worst part is this could easily be fixed by just hiring more people which they refuse.

are those fucking yogscast cosmetics

has TF2 gone too far?

Valve doesn't work on CS:GO, they handed it off to a third party. That's why CS:GO's matchmaking actually works and TF2's is absolute shit.

FUCK I hate the Meet your Match update. Ruined TF2.

I hate this model and I hate Max2ds for making it.
I hate the fucking Scout's mom model that he made, that everyone uses.
They both just look like the Scout in drag. I mean ffs the faces don't even look good.

What's worse is that there were other models made for femscout, but while they were better, they never got as popular as this ugly beast.

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They're charity donation reward items.

Likely something from workshop or something from a Tournament.

>They both just look like the Scout in drag
That's the fucking point.

I mean fine, okay.

Still.

Maybe.

It was for a good cause, though.
teamfortress.com/post.php?id=19497

Overwatch seems to do well with its version.

To be fair wasn't that date also his assassination?

"Still" what? The Yogscast set up a charity and you get a small virtual reward for donating. Get the fuck off your high horse.

Does YOUR mom look like you in drag?

>they handed it off to a third party.
I like Uncle Dane but that video pissed me off from the wrong information it gave and people regurgitating without doing their own research.

Hidden Path helped Valve make the game but once they released the game, Valve replaced them in LITERAL months. They barely did shit with comp, it was all Valve.

So no, Valve could very much make TF2 and CSGO good again if they bothered.

To be fair, Pauling isn't gay.

Read the thread.

So pretty much one of the writers shoehorned in Pauling's sexuality without any approval from the company he worked at?

How did he even get away with that>

I didn't get that misinformation from Uncle Dane, it was circulating well before that video came out.

That just makes the fucking over of TF2 even worse.

Yeah, but it's a bitch to get to the server list these days. Plus, I had a ton of cool servers saved in my favorites and can't find them now

>Pauling plans a date with Scout in Expiration Date
>said date presumably happens
>next time we hear from the writers, they hint at Pauling being gay

I'd probably go gay too. Just sayin.

It's hard to criticize anything when charity is involved but it's still another weird thing that doesn't fit much in team fortress, that's all i'm sayin

You could put a giant photorealistic shit on Heavy's head and if it came from charity it'd be really hard to earnestly criticize it.

READ

THE

THREAD

Scout blew it so hard Pauling went to bat for the other team.

It absolutely fits, that style of cartoon use for the faces had existed for decades before TF2 takes place.

I subjectively disagree with you.

Except she didn't.

Do you people not have the Sup Forums options enabled that let you see replies to a post?

Blame DOTA 2 and VR.
Robin Walker was the best thing TF2 had, but due to how Valve works he just upped and left with all the other best and brightest that worked in the game and since then they hired one other replacement.

Robin left? I didn't know that.

I knew they fired a lot of their best talent

>Plus, I had a ton of cool servers saved in my favorites and can't find them now
That's probably because they're all gone. The MvM update killed community servers. The previous system would funnel newbies and veterans looking for a quick game into community servers, which both increased the player count, encouraging more people to join and keeping the server alive, while also introducing new people to the community who might decide to stick around and be valued server players. Now, the new system keeps newbies and veterans looking for a quick game into exclusively valve servers for the matchmaking bullshit. People have to go out of their way to look for community servers now, which most people won't do. Which means that community servers are quickly dying off as they just can't keep players on them and members of the community quit and weren't replaced.

I meant femscout. Scout's design isn't meant to be the prettiest boy on the block, it's supposed to be an average twenty-something with a rough upbringing. Femscout wasn't created as scout's dedicated waifu, she's a genderbent version of the scout. Yes, obviously her design looks fucking similar to his.

Your comment on his mom is retarded, yes, she's his mom, they share physical similarities. She doesn't look like him in drag, she looks like his mother.

At this point I think Valve is TRYING to kill TF2 with bad decisions so they won't have to work on it anymore.