Do PS3 Owners Forgive Valve after Portal 2 Announcement?

After Gabe Newell came on the stage at Sony's press conference Tuesday to reveal Portal 2 with Steam support, do you feel happy that Valve is trying to make a turnaround with their support or do you feel envy with rage for them talking smack about the PS3 years ago?

no idea what your referring to....Xx-Addict-xX

Lets focus on the future is what I say.GrandJury

[QUOTE="Xx-Addict-xX"]no idea what your referring to....e_stone001

I'm really *shrug* about the whole thing.

they are just businessman...what do you expect? lol

of course they would critize ps3 when they not make games on it, and praise it when they are making gmaes on it.

lol you see sony praise 360 or wii?

At the time yes,it was a little irritating to hear them talk about the PS3(EVEN THOUGH I HAVE A 360 ALSO)but just as others have said...we need to look to the future now.

Don't have a position on it, funny though that Newell acknowledged his earlier comments and poked fun at himself. Now let's get Left 4 Dead!

Portal 2 is coming out later on PS3. During a 1up interview, they said that portal 2 would be out May 2011 on 360, PC and Mac. I don't really know what the advantages of steam or steamworks are but, I doubt that Gabe Nowell has changed his tune about the PS3. He is eating his words about PS3 being similar to the Sega Saturn. He claimed that Sony lost track of what consumers wanted and made things difficult for developers. Now that PS3 has sold almost as much as the 360, He is being forced to change his tune. Every other game company has figured out how to develop for PS3 and he is the only one stating that the system is still too hard to develop for. They had another person valve state that they don't have enough resources in order to develop for the PS3. Yet in the 1up interview they said that valve has over 300 employees or something. If a small company like Hello games created Joe danger and this consisted of 5 people, then I am sure Valve could develop for PS3. The PS3 might have a different structure for developing games but from what I have heard, once you know how to do it, then it is not so bad. I don't understand where valve is coming from.

seeing as how valve is in the neighborhood (i live in seattle) i say no for right now
but there is plenty of time for them to get off their high horse and start making games for ps3
but i was really happy to hear that portal 2 is coming to ps3
IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME VALVE!!!

I never really cared about what Valve did, but now that Portal 2 and Steam are coming to PS3, I'm incredibly overjoyed.

I would be a liar if I said that I was ever "angry" at Valve for largely ignoring the PS3, but I'm pretty happy now. Portal 2 is just one thing, but the leadups that should follow including the introduction of Steam on to the console will be simply fantastic. And why not? The PlayStation is quite different from other consoles in that it enables more developer freedoms with a certain degree of hardware customization making it the powerful multimedia device that it is. Unreal Tournament 3 evidences this with it's trailblazing modification support, and as one of the most powerful PC game developers with it's own fantastic distribution services makes this a natural match. I'm hoping for big things from the partnership. I think that Valve's announcement for a partnership is more important to me than any other game announcement was.

Never cared for the Newell bashing as he has brought way too much to the industry to be bashed upon.

Move forward.

EDIT - In the past I think I bashed him aswell, but I never had a gaming PC then. ;)

I don't really care if he said stuff bout ps3 or not 'cos that's his opinion. I use steam on pc anyway, so portal 2 will probably be a pc purchase for mexsynth

This.

Edit: I use Steam but have never purchased a Valve developed game from it. I have Portal, but I got it for free when they were offering it free as some sort of special. Hopefully they'll eventually do the same for Portal 2 because Portal is a great game that I enjoyed a lot. I won't pay $60 for P2.

Lets focus on the future is what I say.GrandJury

as long as he delivers his promises, yes i will forgive him, it took a lot of balls do do what he did during that press conference. Only time will tell on how things will plan our in the future but i think he realized his mistake and is going to learn from it

Lets focus on the future is what I say.GrandJury

Forgive? I don't see how I was "personally offended". If anything, he just made himself look like a jackass. I mean, going around playing "system wars via internet forums" around the media doesn't exactly make you a creditable or professional person in my opinion. Any guy who has time to float around without anything productive to do or say aside from barking "Console A sucks" can't be too good for a dev team.

I sure as hell know I would not want to work for a person like that. "Who cares if you think Sony sucks! We've got work to do!":lol:

Now I owned a 360 before I had a PS3 and even though I mainly play PS3 anymore I nver really felt like I had been screwed over by valve. Of course I did own The orange box on 360. When I saw the guy from valve up there I was like ok so now you're going to support this system after ripping on it. But i'm really more of a forgive and forget type person when it comes to these types of thing. So yes, I do support valve and will buy their game when it comes out. Hopefully other PS3 owners will do the same.

Valve games are meh, so it doesn't affect me as I won't buy any of their games. Plus, I am not paying $60 for a 4 hour game in Portal 2.ExoticAnimal

I like to see a source on that. Portal 2 is going to be a lot longer then Portal plus the co-op is going to have a different campaign so that adds some more replay value there.

Valve games are meh, so it doesn't affect me as I won't buy any of their games. Plus, I am not paying $60 for a 4 hour game in Portal 2.ExoticAnimal

I never held a grudge against them. They've been my favorite developer for several years and I love them regardless of their stance on the PS3 :)

[QUOTE="ExoticAnimal"]Valve games are meh, so it doesn't affect me as I won't buy any of their games. Plus, I am not paying $60 for a 4 hour game in Portal 2.Wanderer5

I like to see a source on that. Portal 2 is going to be a lot longer then Portal plus the co-op is going to have a different campaign so that adds some more replay value there.

It was funny to see Fat Gabe eat my favorite kind of pie (humble) - does that mean he has now eaten all the pies?

Portal 2 was the only thing from Valve that I was interested in so I'm happy now.

[QUOTE="Wanderer5"]

[QUOTE="ExoticAnimal"]Valve games are meh, so it doesn't affect me as I won't buy any of their games. Plus, I am not paying $60 for a 4 hour game in Portal 2.ExoticAnimal

I like to see a source on that. Portal 2 is going to be a lot longer then Portal plus the co-op is going to have a different campaign so that adds some more replay value there.

[QUOTE="ExoticAnimal"][QUOTE="Wanderer5"]I like to see a source on that. Portal 2 is going to be a lot longer then Portal plus the co-op is going to have a different campaign so that adds some more replay value there.GrandJury

I haven't enjoyed any game i played made by valve (L4D, L4D 2, and Portal) so i really didn't care what they were saying before or what they are saying now.

Maybe - I'll wait and see if Portal 2 runs like a champ on the PS3. Or if they give us some crappy port like they did with the Orange Box.

Don't know anything about Valve or Portal, so doesn't bother me at all :P

valve games blow,, unless its left for dead..

If anyone actually hated him prior to announcing Portal 2 for PS3 then you need get off your pc and go get some fresh air. It's nothing to get angry over; games are games.

I don't know what I should be forgiving them for. They never hated on the PS3 like loads of mindless fanboys have claimed. All Gabe ever said was that the PS3 was hard to code, he also said that he did plan games for the console. So this was never a shock for me and I don't blame him for the PS3 being hard to code for. Keir21

"The PS3 is a total disaster on so many levels, I think It's really clear that Sony lost track of what customers and what developers wanted," Newell told Game Informer magazine. "I'd say, even at this late date, they should just cancel it and do a 'do over'. Just say, 'This was a horrible disaster and we're sorry and we're going to stop selling this and stop trying to convince people to develop for it.'"

Forgive them? They didn't do anything wrong. :?