cks you designed to be ~exotic~ or whatever, and those rabid jerks at Disney can only grit their teeth now!
RIP Rick May 1940 - 2020 · 11:08am Apr 14th, 2020
Don't think I've ever mentioned it on this site, but TF2 is an important game to me. It's zaniness and just downright sense of camaraderie got me through some dark times when I was even more poor and unemployed then I am now. It was... frankly, the closest thing I had to you guys before I stumbled into the whole brony community.
And even though the game is aging and not as popular as it used to be, I still play the odd match now and then. It and Warframe are the only 'forever games' that's ever sunk their claws into me, and I don't expect anything else to manage that feat anytime soon.
Also: Peppy O'Hare and Andros in Star Fox, and Dr. M in Sly 3, if TF2 isn't your thing. Plus a frankly BONKERS roles in classical theater that's not my thing, but a darn respectable list of achievements, even so according to what I've heard, but couldn't find a list of those. Over 300 different productions (!) was the number I heard, at least.
And damn~. If what I've also heard is right, then it took a heart-attack, a stroke, and throat cancer for him to check into a care home to recover. And only THEN did a freaking world-wide pandemic manage to sneak up on him and finish the job.
If I ever end up even half as hard to kill as that, I'll be quite proud of myself.
R.I.P. You will be missed, you magnificent bastard, you.
It truly is sad. TF2 was a big part of my early gaming as well. While I don't play the game anymore due to what Valve has done to it, my interest having declined since MvM was introduced with the matchmaking update killing the normal game completely for me.
It still has a place in my heart, as being one of the games I loved and used to play nigh constantly. I also loved the story, while I didn't read the comics or anything I loved the animations they were funny and they showed that it wasn't just a game, it was a world with a story of a bunch of misfit mercenaries.
Honestly, the death of Rick May is a big blow to TF2. I think the death of any VA in the game is a big blow. Even the Mann brothers. Simply because every character plays a part in the story. I don't know what Valve will do now, because without the VA they can't easily make more for Soldier because they can't get new lines from him. Sure, it's rare for items to add new lines to the character, but it does happen, especially with taunts. The animations will definitely be a big problem.
It's a problem that I hope Valve has an answer to. Because if they do it wrong, it could end up with a lot of backlash.
Here's to hoping COVID-19 ends quickly, that people out there realise the problem and act to prevent the spread, so that we can prevent others from dying. Not just the celebrities and VA's and all that, but elderies, adults, children. Everyone is at risk, some more than others.
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That's an interesting perspective to me, because M&M was the update that turned TF2 into a game I'd played about twelve, eighteen hours something in, to the current fifth ranked Steam game play-time I have. Currently sitting at a pretty solid 174 hours, and that's from somebody that almost NEVER play multiplayer titles. I just have way more fun in cooparative style games then competetive ones, and M&M scratched an itch I hadn't even realized I had at the time
(Well, technically sixth, but Metro 2033 had this bug where it wouldn't close completely, so i don't really count those couple of hundred hours as real.)
Still I've heard others that were turned away by the M&M update. You're definitely not alone in that perspective, even though I do not share it myself.
Still, yeah, definitely a sad problem to have. Really hope Valve manages to walk that tightrope between respect and actually managing to continue the series.
Was actually one of the smaller reasons I was turned off Kingdom Hearts 3 last year. The Japanese voice actor for Phil (Hercules trainer) died, and suddenly one of the funnier chatterboxes in the series was just... this mute background character that barely gave a thumbs up. No in-story reason with him having lost his voice or anything, just... silence in all versions of the game.
Really hope that's not an example that gets followed in TF2, or any other game for that matter. It was just so jarring and alienting for his character to do a 180 like that.
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I phrased that a bit wrong. I loved MvM, but it distracted me from the main part of the game - the quick play PvP - especially when I found a community, leading to my decline in playing the game as the normal PvP interested me less and less. Soon enough I stopped playing PvP entirely. Then the matchmaking update happened. I tried to play PvP again, jump back into it maybe, but it just wasn’t the same. It wasn’t the same fun game where random stuff could happen like the odd SpyCrab migration or a conga line. It became full of tryhards and “pros” and I just started to hate it.
MvM became the sole part of it I played, and only in my community’s server. Disaster struck when said community’s owner could no longer keep the server running due to finances. The server died, attempts were made to replace it including myself hosting a server but they never really picked up, and so I stopped playing TF2.
I still have it installed and as said it holds a place in my heart. Maybe I’ll play again someday - hell talking about it now has me interested - but yeah.