Originally posted by hidE_:

I generally enjoy the concept of this taunt. But for a game that takes place in the 70's-50's a camera would have commonly have a large flash and a much louder "snap" sound. But that's just my idea.

The game involves mercs fighting around a wizard, robot armies, mechanical chairs, zombies, magic, futuristic weapons and cosmetics, AND sentient bird people. Something tells me that this 'Unrealistic Camera' is one of the LEAST unrealistic things which may potentially be in this game based on the time period.

Originally posted by Station's Clown:

Originally posted by hidE_:

I generally enjoy the concept of this taunt. But for a game that takes place in the 70's-50's a camera would have commonly have a large flash and a much louder "snap" sound. But that's just my idea.

The game involves mercs fighting around a wizard, robot armies, mechanical chairs, zombies, magic, futuristic weapons and cosmetics, AND sentient bird people. Something tells me that this 'Unrealistic Camera' is one of the LEAST unrealistic things which may potentially be in this game based on the time period.

I completely agree but im just tired of all of the unrealistic and ridiculous design choices in tf2. And a nice old style camera would be nice for the game.

Considering you can get shot 12 times in the chest with a pistol and not die... I think a camera is the least of our worries... or being able to take a full bottle of pills without dying... or... eh, you get the point

Originally posted by hidE_:

I completely agree but im just tired of all of the unrealistic and ridiculous design choices in tf2. And a nice old style camera would be nice for the game.

Everything in tf2 is unrealistic and ridiculous. from rocket jumping to having telleportation in the 60's to 70's.

And the prop in the taunt looks like something from the late 70's.

I'm not quite sure what you're upset about.

Originally posted by hidE_:

I generally enjoy the concept of this taunt. But for a game that takes place in the 70's-50's a camera would have commonly have a large flash and a much louder "snap" sound. But that's just my idea.

there's honestly no point complaining about this being unrealistic. There's so much ♥♥♥♥ now that it's like the time period doesnt exist

Originally posted by hidE_:

I generally enjoy the concept of this taunt. But for a game that takes place in the 70's-50's a camera would have commonly have a large flash and a much louder "snap" sound. But that's just my idea.

Originally posted by ღღLinkღღ:

Originally posted by hidE_:

I generally enjoy the concept of this taunt. But for a game that takes place in the 70's-50's a camera would have commonly have a large flash and a much louder "snap" sound. But that's just my idea.

there's honestly no point complaining about this being unrealistic. There's so much ♥♥♥♥ now that it's like the time period doesnt exist

not to mention the game has been unrealistic since the start

Originally posted by ღღLinkღღ:

there's honestly no point complaining about this being unrealistic. There's so much ♥♥♥♥ now that it's like the time period doesnt exist

not to mention the game has been unrealistic since the start [/quote]
Well, when the Orange Box was first released it was very far fetched but atleast made sense on a tactical level. TFC is and will always be my favorite Team Fortress in existence. Back on topic, Iv'e only played pre-update console TF2, and after awhile that became very addicting and made plentiful amounts of sense after some insight unto the story and character backgrounds. I just launched it recently to see how much it has changed and holy hell. It's like they went the opposite direction from which they started.

The camera is based off of the Polaroid OneStep SX-70 which came out in the mid-70's, TF2 currently takes place in the 70's so it's not that unrealistic. I don't think our camera would threaten the artstyle, especially when there's players running around with earbuds and Oculus Rift's.

Originally posted by █▀█ █▄█ ▀:

I generally enjoy the concept of this taunt. But for a game that takes place in the 70's-50's a camera would have commonly have a large flash and a much louder "snap" sound. But that's just my idea.

then again they have an air guitar

You probably just watched the FUNKe video.

Dude, the game is not meant to be taken seriously in a realistic sense.

According to lore, the Mann Brothers managed to live 200+ years with special machines, Australia was techonolycaly advanced during the late 1800's, weapons have special effects, Übercharge, there are 1980's aerobics championship based taunts, Spies can cloak, Merasmus is a real wizard, etc. etc. etc.

All that is what makes the game unique. Valve wouldn't have added nothing of this if they wanted a more realistic (cartoony) FPS.

Originally posted by Milk and WAAAGH Flakes:

Originally posted by hidE_:

I generally enjoy the concept of this taunt. But for a game that takes place in the 70's-50's a camera would have commonly have a large flash and a much louder "snap" sound. But that's just my idea.

The game involves mercs fighting around a wizard, robot armies, mechanical chairs, zombies, magic, futuristic weapons and cosmetics, AND sentient bird people. Something tells me that this 'Unrealistic Camera' is one of the LEAST unrealistic things which may potentially be in this game based on the time period.

Well, unrealism in tf is a subject I already had in mind so...
Facts here: the wizard and the magic do not afect the time period and the logic of the game, space things have a reason to be there: the mercs contacted aliens and they got weapons ( still not afecting the time period, also popular in the 50's-70's), other things (like rocket jumping or the alcohol blooded demo) are simply there because of the esence of caricature and the black, bizarre humor of the game, it's perfectly fine for the story. So, the problem is not unrealism, that unrealistic things fit absurd humor, this camera's model doesn't.
Some times Valve added things that do not fit any of this, cuz hats and money, and it hurts people like me that like some logic in a game and thus it's beauty. So, this camera has no justification to not fit the time period since the activity of the spy of taking photos is not afected by any of the team fortress events.
-Would that camera be bad for the story? just a little, the polaroid camera model of this taunt came on the 80's, a big flash and a little changing of the model would age it to the 72 so it'll be fine (that's where we are now in the storyline), not the best model but fine. -Is it good to preserve the things that are part of the esence of the game? I think so, it's not that hard actually, you just need a little of research and an explanation to the existence of that item/ taunt. Having history based or funny explanation to things in a game makes it better

Originally posted by TheTempleofTheWhiteRam:

According to lore, the Mann Brothers managed to live 200+ years with special machines.

Incorrect. According to the lore, they lived "only" 149 years with the machines (from 1822 to 1971). I guess it doesn't matter and my comment is off-topic, but I felt like I had to tell this anyway for some reason.

its not bad... i mean its cartoony wich is the main thing of tf2 i think.

Originally posted by POOT and DISPENSER Flakes:

Originally posted by hidE_:

I generally enjoy the concept of this taunt. But for a game that takes place in the 70's-50's a camera would have commonly have a large flash and a much louder "snap" sound. But that's just my idea.

The game involves mercs fighting around a wizard, robot armies, mechanical chairs, zombies, magic, futuristic weapons and cosmetics, AND sentient bird people. Something tells me that this 'Unrealistic Camera' is one of the LEAST unrealistic things which may potentially be in this game based on the time period.

I agree that TF2's artstyle is currently dead but I think if the creators of new items try to be a little more accurate with their desighns, we might be able to make the game look a bit more satisfying to look at. And we CAN do better models and criticize the contributers for not making fitting items. We should not just close our eyes on something that looks off, especially on something that does not involve anything related to gameplay and is just a cosmetic addition. (Unless you genuinely don't care for anything and just want to get your dopamine for getting sick lucksman kills)