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 Send to email | Team Fortress 2 and Its Less Juvenile Environment [Steam] in Steam Culture Fps griefing orange box Team Fortress 2 Valve |  By Maggie Greene
el 22-Jun-2008 |  Anthropology isn't my thing, but I like the idea of a "game anthropologist"; the column at GameSetWatch with that exact title is young yet, but had an interesting look at Team Fortress 2 this week. What exactly makes the environment seem so much more mature than other FPS? The older user base? The official taunts and animations that render inelegant cursing obsolete? Because team playing really is built into the game? Mike Walbridge isn't exactly sure, but has some ideas:
Exactly why most teammates are polite, patient, and helpful in a game that is violent and wildly popular is not easily answered, but I have some good ideas. The players seem older, and this may be because of its predecessor, Team Fortress Classic, which predates TF 2 by 10 years. Someone who is 24 may remember TFC, but someone who is 15 will not. I?m not saying it?s devoid of teenagers?but there are a lot more people in their 20s and there are a lot more women on voice chat online as well, signs of a more mature audience and community.
Or maybe it's the medic class. Or the critical hits? Or the team atmosphere .... Steve at PlayNoEvil had an interesting take on the article, pulling out the critical issue as "the topic of griefing and how Valve's Team Fortress 2 seems to have less 'annoying griefing' because the game provides structured 'official griefing'." Since a lot of griefing and abuse on Xbox Live and elsewhere comes from the rather inarticulate swearing of teenagers, perhaps the simple fact of giving players powerful, fun, but non-obscene, racially insensitive, or other insults makes the need to swear ... less.
Perhaps there's something to the idea. Hopefully there will be more interesting 'anthropological' explorations of games from this relatively new column in the future. The Game Anthropologist: Team Fortress 2: Radical Departures [GameSetWatch via PlayNoEvil]
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| New Environment Coming to Team Fortress 2? [Team Fortress 2] | | Valve's latest post on the official Team Fortress 2 blog says that they're looking at creating a new environment in which to build levels for the next TF2 update. "We're pretty happy with the way our environments have turned out so far, but as we create more and more maps with these [..] Read complete article | | Published 02-Aug-2008 by Owen Good in Team fortress 2 Pc Gaming Valve
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| Xbox 360 Team Fortress 2 DLC Details Soon-ish [Valve] | | PC gamers are enjoying new Team Fortress 2 updates right now. Things like new maps, the new Payload gameplay mode, new weapons, and balance tweaks are old hat to the Steam set. Console gamers, however, are pretty much stuck with the stock Team Fortress 2 experience that shipped [..] Read complete article | | Published 21-May-2008 by Michael McWhertor in Team Fortress 2the orange boxValve
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