Valve: We're Not Making Crappy Party Games

[sicpric]

These guys need to get their head checked. Nobody cares about those retarded apps, go back to the series that made your name AND GIVE US A F*CKING ENDING TO HALF LIFE 2!!!

 

[micky_lund]

ahhh...bring back crysis...if u can improve the gameplay..if not, i'll leave it undusted on the shelf

 

[rantoc]

Its a shame that the its in the end microsoft who keeps back the development of DX10-DX11 games with their dx9 console. For the game developers i can understand the chooice to only use dx9 in games since you reach both PC and Xbox...

I sure hope that they upgrade the xbox and push it to Dx11... The scalability with tesselation ect will allow the games to be played in insane detail on PC and scaled down budget style on the console with the same development time for the developers! - A pure win win for everyone including microsoft who will likely sell more windos+consoles...

My 2 cents!

 

[Clintonio]

I propose a new 'law'; the Crysis Law. In any conversation about video games, the probability of a conversation having Crysis mentioned tends to 1. A slight modification of Godwins Laws.

@article: I'm very glad. VALVe products are too good to waste on party games.

 

[user-one]

no they just make crappy looking cartoony games.

 

[cptnjarhead]

[citation][nom]Parsian[/nom]I dont get this culture surrounding ZOMBIES... What is up with people and their obsession with zombies??? I used to host LAN parties at my house for L4D and we all got bored of it...[/citation]
No beer?.. no food?.. i would be board to.

 

[geofry]

I like the route Valve has been taking. It would be nice if they would be a little more aggressive in pushing the hardware requirements, but the fact that they run the surveys and pay attention to what their player base has installed speaks volumes in of itself.

My current card got damaged (one of the DVI ports is dead) during shipping so I'm waiting for the dust to settle on the current crop from ATI/NVIDIA, but it would be nice to see some games from Valve that could actually take advantage of the new hardware.

 

[cptnjarhead]

here we go again.. yet another developer letting his personal opinions get in the way of good business. as many have stated here... sawing zombies with a motion sensing type controller would be cool.. everyone in here who plays pc games.. think about this.. when you buy a game for pc.. you know who developed it..what game engine it uses.. system requirements.. reading reviews.. and guides for best FPS.. but when someone buys a wii/ or console game.. they dont even now who makes it.. what game engine it has.. they just play it.. they dont care... some like.. a certain type or title.. like call of duty or Madden.. but most have no idea what game engine it uses.. unless they play it on pc. The point im trying to make is.. in this economy.. why in the hell would you not make games the cater to a mass of people who dont even pay attention to who makes the game. My wife.. loves the Wii and has absolutely no idea what makes it work.. or how the games are developed.. but when i want a pc game.. she shakes her head.. "dont you have enough?" but when she see's or here's about a Wii game.. just like a pair of shoes.. its in the bag.
@ developers.. its ok to make games with motion sensing or as you call them.. "mini games"... my wife will be right in line to buy them.

 

[universalremonster]

VALVe is one of the leading PC game companies, no matter what. They pushed FPS games to new standards and still do.

Thats hilarious

 

[bill gates is your daddy]

[citation][nom]LePhuronn[/nom]Valve can say all they want about what they're producing and not producing. Until I see HL2:EP3 in my Steam account I would like them t shut up, spend the time faffing on finishing the thing and get it out![/citation]

Exactly. Finish Half-Life 2. Until then...shutup and work. Don't f'up and pull a DNF on us.

 

[hillarymakesmecry]

Valve needs to work on HL 3. HL2 is dated already. Give us a new engine.

 

[kanaric]

Leave it to Valve to come up with the only cool-sounding mini-game ever as an example of something they consider crappy."Leave it to Valve to come up with the only cool-sounding mini-game ever as an example of something they consider crappy."

Soudnds crappy to me, a one trick pony party game like that would be entertaining for maybe 5 minutes.

 

[bounty]

You people are confusing the visual of seeing a zombie's head sawed off (cool) with something else (not cool.) Now look away from the TV, and at your friend playing the game. Faster, faster... ahhhhhhhhh finally got it off. "Ok, your turn Jimmy. You gotta use long strokes."

 

[FlorinR]

"We have these technologies now that let us interact in different, really exciting ways,"

Where are they ???

 

[bill gates is your daddy]

[citation][nom]FlorinR[/nom]Where are they ???[/citation]

It's called a mouse and keyboard I think.

 

[warezme]

The biggest benefit to games is quit developing to the standards of consoles. Beef up those games with DX10 - 11 and use the power of new generation GPU's.

 

[demonhorde665]

[citation][nom]universalremonster[/nom]Coming from the company that has only released 2 games and a couple expansions in their entire existence... Maybe what he meant was the development house will no longer be buying - college students school projects, existing development teams that are currently working on a cool looking game, or community made mods - to be rebranded with the Valve name if they involve any crappy mini games.So we can buy you and slap Valve on the game box.[/citation]

your comment is an epic fail dude , valve ahs more than 2 games .. they have atleast 3 ip's i know of, and ech ip has had 2 games to date tghat 6 games.. and besides, in the game industry it is QUALITY not quantity that matters

here are teh 6 games i knwo valve has done

half life

half life 2

Team fortress

Team fortress 2

Left 4 dead

Left 4 dead 2


and every one of these games is platinum in sells ( aka sold over 1 million copies)

most of which did well over 1 milion in sales

says a lot more to me than a company that releases 3 good games out of 15 bad ones. again teh emphasis is quality

 

[capp1688]

Motion controls without feedback are unimmersive. Period.