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Team Fortress 2's Fate Unearthed In Missing Games Feature

Posted by simoniker on from the buried-in-desert-with-e.t. dept.

Thanks to IGN PC for the latest part of its feature discussing some notable PC games that were announced but, so far, never released. In particular, Valve's Team Fortress 2, as originally previewed by IGN in January 1999, is focused on, with Valve's Doug Lombardi clarifying: "Some time after we announced Team Fortress 2, which was then being created on the HL1 tech, the decision was made to move the project to the Source Engine, the same engine used for HL2. The project is still in development here at Valve and we will be announcing more info after HL2 ships." Other forgotten games include Digital Anvil's Loose Cannon ("...this hardly looks like a living project"), and Sid Meier's Dinosaurs ("...never found its niche. Extinct.")

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  1. Re:Yea. by Pluvius · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But they do say "I would've played Duke Nukem Forever if it came out back in 1999, but now there's no reason to play it when I've got HL2, Doom 3, etc."

    You might say that it's possible that DNF will be as good as its contemporaries whenever it comes out, but I don't think that it is possible. Once you're this far behind schedule, it's at the least extremely hard to catch up.

    Rob

  2. correction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    We are talking about the same people who developed a multimillion dollar game on the same systems they used to check their email with Outlook.

    1. Re:correction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Gabe is an ex-Microsoft employee, apparently he still hasn't let go.