Quote: "What about Battle Cruiser 3000? That was almost 8 years."
depends where you lived i guess... as it was released when it was suppose to in the UK, however only through the games mags as a free game - was dubbed a demo but was the full copy that was shareware, with very little cut out.
Quote: "tfc2 wait has been almost 4 years now, me thinks."
first new of TF2 was October 1998 when HL 1.0.0.6 w/TFC was released.
lets all do the math shall we
2003-1998 =
it is getting totally ridiculous. Although the original HL slipped, they weren't stupid enough to create a media frenzy - it was just the media that were desperately trying to get news all the time.
Team Fortress Classic isn't anything like Team Fortress niether, although it is a nice game anyone who played the Quake original can testiment that the HL one just isn't frantic enough. The whole thing about the original wasn't an accurate wartime recreation like MOHAA or something - it was just the original class system game, and to be honest the classes weren't greatly important because you didn't live long enough to do anything with it.
But the fact that you had different specs based on your class was what the appeal was
Quote: "OK I am dense. Why is there a delay if some stole your code? (No back up?) "
what is floating around appears to be an old beta, source w/no media ... the point about the source although there are a few of us who don't care about hacking and are going to use the released source to get some 3rd party tools out so that the Mod development community doesn't have to wait the next 6months to start development, there are others out to create new game hacks like AimBot and such which just ruins the multiplayer experience for everyone involved but the smartass kids who use it.
Original hacks like that actually put me off even wanting to play online, personally i think its sad about what alot of the hacker kiddies do. Ho hum eh
