What's next Valve?

Give it a rest with L4D 2 already, just read what they'll make out of it, with the A.I Director 2.0 and all, yeah I don't like this new "content" much but what it offers, other than characters, weapon sounds, daylight and a few maps, sounds extremely good, especially for future mods/maps.

Anyway, this isn't really up to Valve, but I really want them to continue working with Arkane (more like supporting) on The Crossing :(.

To me, it pretty much looks like HL 2 E3 will be shipped with Portal 2, since they said it will be a bundle (like they did with CS Source) and they hinted at these two games way too much for them not to be released at the same time.

Their L4D2 decision was crap IMO. We were waiting for a great DLC some time ago... and we got... wait for it.... a gamemode. Point is this; they are using the same engine, same gameplay and even gonna make L4D2 backwards compatible with L4D maps and campaings. So why not just give us the DLC instead of calling it L4D2?Ca9ine

I agree, I find it hard to justify 50 or 60 dollars for L4D, luckily I got it on a weekend deal with Steam for 25. I've probably played that game in all about 6 hours.

The episodes of HL2 are great, but...I thought they said they were releasing the episodes so that we wouldn't have to wait several years to play the next part in the HL universe. I think I would have preferred to just wait, instead of, well, wait.

HL ep3 will be great, I know it will, but I kind of want to see what they can do with NEW hardware (i.e. new engine), the Source engine is starting to show its age, I mean, it is 5 years old. L4D looks great, but I can think of many games that look better, though it is good that the game can basically play on any computer.

Personally, I think Valve should drop the L4D, use some of that REAL originality that I am used to from VALVE. Zombies have been milked for all they're worth in videogames AND film this generation. I want to see those creative minds at work, like we did in HL1, I want to see the beautiful and awesome alien environments that VALVE can come up with, combined with genius game ideas, such as the gravity gun.

They are also working on natural selection 2Franko_3

While I do not support the idea of L4D 2 I do not understand the whole theres no way to justify a price tag of $50 for L4D. I am sorry but games like Fear 2, Mirrors Edge, CoD4 all cost the same and the first two are 5h long and so is CoDs campaign. So why are these games ok while L4D isnt. I have played 50 hours of L4D that is 10 time more than either FEAR or ME. By this logic CoD4 for 50 is also a misunderstading as its campaign is short and post release support pretty pathetic.

I think Valve's next big hit will be the Waiting Game.

While I do not support the idea of L4D 2 I do not understand the whole theres no way to justify a price tag of $50 for L4D. I am sorry but games like Fear 2, Mirrors Edge, CoD4 all cost the same and the first two are 5h long and so is CoDs campaign. So why are these games ok while L4D isnt. I have played 50 hours of L4D that is 10 time more than either FEAR or ME. By this logic CoD4 for 50 is also a misunderstading as its campaign is short and post release support pretty pathetic.

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