Some of you may know of my 30 seconds of fame when I helped Robin and crew release TeamFortress 2.9 for QuakeWorld back in … wow, 1998! Anyway, back in those days my cousin (known in-game as “Kinlord”) and I ran a clan called “Clan Braveheart”, where we played primarily as Demolitions Men. One of the silly characteristics we had was often “speaking” (as much as one could speak with typing) in a Scottish accent. I think it was pretty well known by many of the TF gaming community, and definitely Robin, John and Ian, that we did this.
Lately there have been a lot of videos coming out, introducing us to characters of the upcoming release (finally!) of TeamFortress 2. However, one character has yet to be introduced to us: The Demolitions Man. I emailed Robin (who now works at Valve), commending him on the fine work on the game and the videos, then jokingly asked if the Demoman would have a Scottish accent. Well wouldn’t you know it,
I don’t give a shite if it’s coincidence or not (Robin won’t commit either way to me), but I’d like to think this was a brief shout-out from Robin to Jason and I. If you don’t think so, then shag off!
(UPDATE 2007-10-09: And here’s the video! Comes out this week, shaggas!)
“You know, Scotland has its own martial arts. Yeah, it’s called Fa-Cue. It’s mostly just head butting and then kicking people when they’re on the ground.”
