Pathie

If you have a spy that coordinates with your offensive, it's a lot easier to break through engineer fortifications. It's a lot easier to destroy an enemy sentry when a sapper has it incapacitated. The engineer has to whack off the sapper first with a wrench before it can repair the damage the sentry took from the sapping, and the spy can put a sapper back on instantly. So, if there's no one to back up the engineer, he'd have to leave the safety behind his defenses to take out the spy with a wrench or risk a few seconds of sapping to shoot the spy dead. Either way, that gives the offense a crucial opening.

I have to disagree about your opinion of the medic class, mainly because I think you're going about the playstyle of the class the wrong way. Since your ubercharge charges faster when healing players close to death, you're encouraged to take the risk of joining in on a fight so that you can then reap the benefits of healing your teammates afterwards. This is especially true when the blutslager gives you health per hit to survive a fight and the ubersaw increases your ubercharge meter directly.

As for the achievements, it's quite possible to play team fortress 2 as you normally would and get the majority of the achievements just for being a good player. While the special items are fun to fool around with, any class with the standard items would still hold their own against any specially-equipped characters. With that in mind, why intentionally grind for items? Instead you could get the items as a reward for being a good player instead. Besides, Valve is already thinking of ways to obtain those items without the achievements, so this complaint of yours will be addressed in due time.

Did you forget what happened in the Prohibition Era? :(

You mean like Phantasmagoria?

Uh...yeah. :|

The song they play ad infinitum is creeping back into my head. ;_;

My Logitech illuminated keyboard, Ideazon Fang Gamepad, and Microsoft Sidewinder Mouse usually gets the job done. But those devices look pretty neat.

Tim Schafer's games tend to be the darling of critics and gaming enthusiasts, but due to various circumstances lack the financial return he and his development team strive to earn. Whether or not they fit your personal tastes on the surface does not change the fact that Tim's games are often high-caliber. It'd be nice if he had the funds and support to keep making those games. So, at the very least you should give the game a shot before dismissing it outright. It might surprise you.

Because videogames are serious business.

I believe the word you are looking for is
"HADOKEN!" :)

You're forgetting the Bloodrayne films.

I see the Chicken Littles of the gaming community are out in full force today.