# Valvestravaganza: Team Fortress 2 exists, Portal appears, Episode 2 to rule, etc. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 19, 2006, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valvestravaganza-team-fortress-2-exists-portal-appears-episode-2-to-rule-etc/365105 "2006-07-19T01:37:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valvestravaganza-team-fortress-2-exists-portal-appears-episode-2-to-rule-etc/365105/1 "2006-07-19T01:37:15Z")
So Valve dropped a bombshell on the gaming world: there is a TF2, and it will be in our hot little hands supposedly this fall (heh, we’ll see). > **[Team Fortress 2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_fortress_2)** > > Team Fortress 2 is a 2007 multiplayer first-person shooter game developed and published by Valve Corporation. It is the sequel to the 1996 Team Fortress mod for Quake and its 1999 remake, Team Fortress Classic. The game was released in October 2007 as part of The Orange Box for Windows and the Xbox 360, and ported to the PlayStation 3 in December 2007. It was released as a standalone game for Windows in April 2008, and updated to support Mac OS X in June 2010 and Linux in February 2013. It Pl... For all you young-uns, Team Fortress was THE original class-based FPS. It’s sequel vanished into the bowels of Valve almost a decade ago, in which time the very generic concept was done a million different times by other games (though never quite the same): even the expected ideas behind TF2, the realistic military battlefield sim, were done (as the wiki article says: it’s a game that spawned a whole genre without ever being released). The new announcement shows the game going back to it’s more frantic, fast-pased comical roots. They also announced, and released a video of, a new game they call “Portal” which seems to be more of a puzzle game than a strict FPS. While other games have had working portals, this looks to leverage the idea in a neat new gameplay way (pioneered by an indie game called Narbacular drop, who Valve hired) Here’s a video preview of Portal: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpdCi5XpCsE) “The impossible is easy: now you’re thinking with Portals.” Both of these are being bundled with Episode 2, a game I’m eagerly expecting in its own right. Looks to be an awesome year for FPS games. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valvestravaganza-team-fortress-2-exists-portal-appears-episode-2-to-rule-etc/365105/2 "2006-07-19T15:31:56Z")
Yay for the TF2 loving- it’s about time. I wonder if they’ll make it out before Duke Nukem Forever (and ever and ever and ever)? Portal looks like it’d be a lot of fun. Also, speaking as a game effects artist, I highly approve of good games being released with bad special effects (like the fire in that movie)- it means that I have a better opportunity for jobs once they see MY effects! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valvestravaganza-team-fortress-2-exists-portal-appears-episode-2-to-rule-etc/365105/3 "2006-07-19T16:01:03Z")
> [@Apos](#): > > Here’s a video preview of Portal: > [http://youtube.com/watch?v=QpdCi5XpCsE](http://youtube.com/watch?v=QpdCi5XpCsE) > “The impossible is easy: now you’re thinking with Portals.” :eek: That…is awesome. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.