Why "The Heavy"

[der_ketzer]

Originally Posted by Y2Zero

He has the best poker face. It would be a pain to beat him in the high wages match

Well but we could have a strip poker game with her.

[doom saber]

Imo, the heavy is the perfect choice.

In my opinion, the worst choice would be the Pyro, the Sniper, and the Medic.

The Sniper would probably just get interrupted with calls from his parents about changing his line of work. The Pyro would only speak gibberish all the time; it would be funny for the first few times it happens, but I see it getting old fast; the characters he is talking to has to repeat what he says so that the audience can understand what the pyro is saying. The medic doesn't seem to be developed fully enough; I would wait till his Meet the Medic comes out since I would just see him spoutin out German

[doom saber]

I think the Soldier would be a good choice but he would be too crazy and would be over-the-top like Max and Strongbad. I think Demoman would work well considering that he is a drunken, depressed scottsman who is insecure over his one eye

[furrykef]

Originally Posted by doom saber

The Sniper would probably just get interrupted with calls from his parents about changing his line of work.

Really? You think that's all there is to the Sniper?

I think the Sniper would be good. He's a real gentleman, he's got that (pseudo-)Australian charm, he looks like somebody who would play cards every now and then -- oh, and he's a professional killer. I'm sure he's also full of entertaining stories about his experiences in the Australian outback.

[doom saber]

Originally Posted by furrykef

Really? You think that's all there is to the Sniper?

I think the Sniper would be good. He's a real gentleman, he's got that (pseudo-)Australian charm, he looks like somebody who would play cards every now and then -- oh, and he's a professional killer. I'm sure he's also full of entertaining stories about his experiences in the Australian outback.

The Sniper seems boring especially since he is the patient and silent type; silent because of his occupation. I am mostly basing these off of their meet the videos since it is the only way we see their personalities. His "meet the.." was really boring; other than his job, he is the m0st realistic and normal character out there in TF2 and the inventory game; Max is a sociopath, strong bad has a grandiose personality, Heavy is stupid funny, and Typco has a crazy zoo fetish. The realistic straight man is the player, so having another would be unbalanced.

Considering that none of the current Inventory characters play casino cards, I don't think whether or not a character appears to know how to play cards every now and then matters. No offense, but any game character you can think of looks like they can play cards. Not to be mean, but that is just my opinion.

[MeaningOfLife]

Actually the biggest question is why RED team Heavy but not BLU team Heavy?

[furrykef]

Valve always portrays RED as the good guys and BLU as the bad guys in promotional materials. If you watch the Meet the Team videos, RED always comes out on top.

[Jub]

Originally Posted by furrykef

Valve always portrays RED as the good guys and BLU as the bad guys in promotional materials. If you watch the Meet the Team videos, RED always comes out on top.

Also RED Team is always on defense in the ATTACK / DEFEND game modes, adding to their "good guys" appearance. Whereas BLU Team is always attacking for "no apparent reason".

[tredlow]

I'm surprised on how good Telltale depicted Heavy. They didn't make him the big, dumb moron, which would be the obvious choice. Instead, they made him the aggressive, ambitious guy, but he's not an idiot.

[furrykef]

They made him a big ol' teddy bear -- except when he's mad at you. Or at an enemy Engineer...

[jeeno0142]

Originally Posted by MeaningOfLife

Actually the biggest question is why RED team Heavy but not BLU team Heavy?

I thought this was because he refers to Strong Bad as lil' Heavy, and SB is also red. If Heavy had been in the blu team then he would probably consistently try to assasinate SB thinking he's on the other team, which would make it awkward when trying to play poker.

That was my first thought on the subject, anyway.

[doom saber]

Originally Posted by tredlow

I'm surprised on how good Telltale depicted Heavy. They didn't make him the big, dumb moron, which would be the obvious choice. Instead, they made him the aggressive, ambitious guy, but he's not an idiot.

I think they made him a little bit of a moron, but not as much as it 1 would think. Then again, I think moron is a strong word for Heavy since "simple" would be a better term.

I mean there were lines which made him a little bit simple like mistaking Strongbad's job to do a prank on the king of town as to murder or liking Tyco's wife just because she has red hair.

[doom saber]

Originally Posted by jeeno0142

I thought this was because he refers to Strong Bad as lil' Heavy, and SB is also red. If Heavy had been in the blu team then he would probably consistently try to assasinate SB thinking he's on the other team, which would make it awkward when trying to play poker.

That was my first thought on the subject, anyway.

I always thought it was because red is the official colors for the characters. I think because both Heavy and strongbad are red they made them allies.

[Falanca]

Originally Posted by Jub

Also RED Team is always on defense in the ATTACK / DEFEND game modes, adding to their "good guys" appearance. Whereas BLU Team is always attacking for "no apparent reason".

Except for Meet the Spy video, in which Blue team defends their intelligence... and Meet the Scout, where RED Scout starts the fight... And Heavy, as he just kills a BUNCH of BLU guys for no reason in 12 seconds...

[bluedarky]

I think the RED Heavy was chosen simply because of the fact that Strong Bad has the best responses for when Heavy refers to him as a potential ally and Tycho is more likely to act afraid to the Heavy's insinuations that Tycho plays for the BLU team.

[Andorxor]

I like that he is the most cautious players

[PSI Guy]

Originally Posted by Bunnyman

The Spy would make this game too confusing. Not only would he have the perfect poker face, you wouldn't be able to believe anything about the game. You will defeat Strong Bad and it revealed that he is actually a spy, along with everyone else at the table, and even your full house is a spy. Then you are murdered by the one thing you thought wasn't a spy: the table.

This gave me a good hearty laugh. Thank you.

Anyway, heavy is the most quotable, ever since he got the sandvich. Shame he doesn't try to get advice from it. "What's that sandvich? Go all in! Well, I don't know, but if you say so..."

Anyway, in the blurb for Meet the Heavy, they explicitly averted the dumb muscle stereotype; he's a big bear; sleepy and conservative, but he'll kill you if you annoy him. Nothing in there about being dumb.

[Chyron8472]

Originally Posted by PSI Guy

he's a big bear; sleepy and conservative, but he'll kill you if you annoy him. Nothing in there about being dumb.

Don't forget he's cultured: "check, check, check! on my sandvich! cha cha cha!"

[S@bre]

Originally Posted by Jub

Also RED Team is always on defense in the ATTACK / DEFEND game modes, adding to their "good guys" appearance. Whereas BLU Team is always attacking for "no apparent reason".

"No reason" if you disregard that BLU are attacking to capture/prevent the use of huge ballistic missiles and other assorted superweapons. They should so have depicted these items being fired if BLU lose a timed attack such as dustbowl or gravel pit.

[RAnthonyMahan]

Originally Posted by Falanca

Except for Meet the Spy video, in which Blue team defends their intelligence... and Meet the Scout, where RED Scout starts the fight... And Heavy, as he just kills a BUNCH of BLU guys for no reason in 12 seconds...

It's not that BLU is "the bad guys" (in canon, both teams are being manipulated by The Administrator anyway), it's just that the RED Team is, for some reason or other, the "face" of TF2. Why is a mystery. Maybe they just like the RED outfits better?

Regardless, the only class to regularly be shown as BLU in promotional material is the Spy. ...Or maybe it's a RED Spy disguised as a BLU Spy?