Is TF2 a Retro Game?

Dom makes you feel old. Did you know he was alive to see the release of Sonic 1? Be careful, he might turn to bones any second now.

Note: this video specifically releases today because it's the first day the statement about the time span being bigger is true. Yesterday the distances of time were the same. Today we one day further away to TF2's release than Sonic 1 is. Crazy, ah?

[tehfriedwaffles]

It really goes to show the exponential improvement in graphics in video games

[catke]

I don't want to be part of time anymore, not when I can't keep up man...

[milesbrown]

ALSO ALSO, the Team Fortress franchise started as a mod for Quake back in 1996. The gameplay of TF2 compared to its contemporaries is a lot closer to old school arena FPS vs modern military fps. So even in its prime I think one could consider at least its gameplay to be “retro”

[ahbraveconscript]

time is like scout. it never stops.
bonk.

[therealgeneralMacArthur]

Kids born in the same year as team fortress 2 are now taking driving lessons btw

[dantheman]

And TF2 art style still has so much soul and is unlike basically any other game. Same with most valve games. God I wish valve made games anymore.

[victoraugusto]

"Conclusion: i don't know"

[LoneHermit]

Worst part is that everyone keeps trying to modernize the game, and even Valve when they added matchmaking. But that's the thing, TF2 is not a modern game.

[jazzmeister]

Someone brought up a fantastic explanation, retro isn't a matter of time but rather progression.

Think this through, every Nintendo console had a 5 year gap in between each console release, by the time the GCN came out both the NES and SNES were considered retro and the N64 would be called such by the time the Wii released, yet the Gamecube wouldn't be called retro until it was close to reaching it's 20's atleast because you could still take a gamecube game and re-release it on modern consoles with an upscale and updated lighting, I still remember when the OG Xbox and PS2 were still considered modern consoles right up until 2019ish.

Time doesn't dictate if you are retro or not, progress does, and it seem that progress has slowed down considerably

[Gnonne]

I think it’s mainly the relevance it has in our culture and the art style holding up

[dolphinerofachero]

We’ve got to get another name for 2000’s era video games. Retro should be only for 80’s to early 90’s games

[FightCain]

TF2 is forever.
It’s so engrained in internet culture thanks to so many fan works.
It’s not over until the final comic is released.

Also I really miss when medics syringe gun was animated and the models had more natural lighting on them. (I haven’t played TF2 for a long time so I don’t know if these got updated. Stopped around gun metal was a thing).

[fuego_ferrico]

It's never single-player that should be the second weirdest thing.

[roelbagas]

Black jack missed an opportunity to be heavy

[bakubaku]

This goes to show that the concept of retro really has very little to do with age, and more to deal with whats considered Nostalgic. I wouldn't consider tf2 a nostalgic game, because for many people it has never left

[camdenzeigler]

It's only slightly longer, probably less than a year

[birdothegreat]

All of us will be grey before we even realize.

[KekMinCongLukeQss]

this is too much for my brain to process

[some_body_else]

ssshhh! don't tell them it's a retro game they're gonna bump up the price like crazy!

[wsurviver]

I was born in 2007 and I think of every game older than me as retro, but it came out on 2007 so it’s in a limbo state between retro and not retro so theirfor you don’t have to feel old about this… My logic is absolutely perfect here