Comment Re:Watched about 20 seconds of the "game play" vid (Score 1) 183
And why does it have a backstory shoe-horned into it away? How is that supposed to translate into "capture the flag" or whatever?
Incidentally, TF2's backstory when it came out was:
Two companies that each control half the worlds governments are secretly controlled by one person who force them to fight each other over useless objectives to keep up appearances.
It wasn't until the first Halloween update (a year after the game came out) that that any semblance of a real plot involving the Mann family and Saxton Hale came about. Which is funny since the Mann family plot started as an excuse to have a ghost on the then-new Halloween map.
The TF2 backstory is now... complicated. And entirely unnecessary to just play the game.
On a side note, TF2 lore is separated into 4 sections: Original Game (back story prior to most of the game's modes), The Australium Saga (happens between original game and the DoomsDay map), Blood Brothers (happens between the Australium Saga and the MvM game mode), and Ring of Fired (post-MvM story and likely ties into the Asteroid map currently in beta). This is ignoring the non-canon Halloween storylines.