Valve could have its eyes elsewhere for the time being however, for some, the eye by no means shifts from 2007’s Group Fortress 2. Whereas its developer continues to assist the sport, with an replace as not too long ago as March, that and all the things for the previous few years has been largely neighborhood authored and the sport’s ongoing vibrancy is totally right down to the devoted followers that hold making Steam Workshop mods, foolish movies, and limitless memes (most not too long ago about a plump and beautiful seal).
Maybe the preferred Group Fortress 2 skit is Heavy is Lifeless, a 2019 YouTube video by Antoine Delak that at present has slightly below 20 million views. This can be very daft, a Gmod-infused pisstake of a detective story the place, in the beginning, the Heavy dies. The varied lessons of TF2 then enter the video, with most proclaiming “Heavy is lifeless”—their expressions and animations messed with to create some surreal results. Its on the spot recognition noticed the parody parodied endlessly, each in TF2 and with different video games because the backdrop. It even has a Know Your Meme web page.
The unique Group Fortress 2 forged has not too long ago been having a little bit of a love-in with the neighborhood, and doing issues like terrorising America’s small cities on a hunt for sandviches, ABBA parodies, and even enjoying the sport itself. Now you guessed it: nearly all of the TF2 forged got here collectively as soon as extra, minus just a few forged members, to recreate the Heavy is Lifeless sketch on YouTube.
The video (under) is the work of ShorK and begins with the forged watching the video itself, which they have not seen earlier than, and reacting with some well mannered puzzlement on the fast-paced and sometimes weird nature of TF2 humour. However they’re sport alright and you may watch the total sketch with their new voiceover round 4 minutes in. My private spotlight must be Robin Atkin Downes, the Medic, who’s calling in from LA with an Archimedes toy in his prime pocket and clearly having an absolute blast with the absurdity of all of it. Give that man an Oscar.
It has been nice watching the actors have an excellent time reprising their roles, although does make one want that Valve would use a few of its treasure hoard to provide some official TF2 spinoffs once more: I do not assume the studio’s ever topped Meet The Group and, within the absence of Group Fortress 3, perhaps it might get round to one thing like adapting the (nice) TF2 comics (or at the least ending the sequence off).