What do you think of Valve?

They should give me mah half-life/10

I believe them to be arrogant and highly over-rated. While I won't deny that the L4D is series is heaps of fun. That is all they have that appelas to me, I can play the occasional match of TF2, but I don't understand the amzing praise they get, I think that this all goes to their heads. They really like to dangle the carrot of a new half-life in fron tof their fans, when it could easily have released long ago, surely they dont have all of their talents towrds the massivly over-rated portal 2 or their next announced title DOTA 2? Could they have not broke up into organized groups like other Devs do and perhaps have a permanent Half-life team, since it is such a popular IP? They seem reluctant to birth a new engine as well, while Source is doing a fair enoguh job keeping pace, the time is about right make something new? The pedigree they have seems undeserved recently, L4D2 being the only strong thing recently out, while their other games continue to thrive of mods the community makes. Thats my ant, agree? Disagree? I am curious to see what people think of them. Derp_over9000

VALVE is an overrated one trick pony.

I haven't played anything from them other than the L4Ds, but based purely on those, Valve is freakin awesome. Those are the only games I'm truly jealous of not having :evil:

They should give me mah half-life/10

Lto_thaG

Valve is amazing/10 Not only do they make freaking awesome games they also made Steam. Consoles wish they had steam. They also wish they had our version of TF2.Ace6301

Steam/Steamworks is coming to consoles....specifically the PS3.

Valve's still an overrated One Trick Pony though.

[QUOTE="Ace6301"]Valve is amazing/10 Not only do they make freaking awesome games they also made Steam. Consoles wish they had steam. They also wish they had our version of TF2.Unnatural101

Steam/Steamworks is coming to consoles....specifically the PS3.

Valve's still an overrated One Trick Pony though.

What do I think of valve?

I think they should release the next Half Life installment already before I blow up their headquarters.

[QUOTE="Unnatural101"]

[QUOTE="Ace6301"]Valve is amazing/10 Not only do they make freaking awesome games they also made Steam. Consoles wish they had steam. They also wish they had our version of TF2.SAGE_OF_FIRE

Steam/Steamworks is coming to consoles....specifically the PS3.

Valve's still an overrated One Trick Pony though.

I love Valve. :3

I just got the Orange Box for the PC and Team fortress 2 is one of the best games I ever played.

[QUOTE="SAGE_OF_FIRE"][QUOTE="Unnatural101"]

Steam/Steamworks is coming to consoles....specifically the PS3.

Valve's still an overrated One Trick Pony though.

Derp_over9000

lol im pretty sure "unnatural" and "derp" are the same person trolling. I don't even see why you would even have a problem with them. Don't like their games, thats fine, but millions of others do. You could completely ignore valve and everything htey do and still have a plethora of great devs to choose from. Your just wasting your time grumbling over something completely trivial

I like Valve when they aren't working on Half Life at this point.

What Left 4 Dead lacks in content(well 2 fixed that a bit) it made up for in being the epitome of cooperative gaming. It was unique when it came out, and it's entire styIe of play is still its own thing. It's highly replayable, and the competitive MP side of it is a lot of fun to play. It just needs more acts.

Portal is probably one of the best puzzle games I've played. The stupid "the cake is a lie" meme was killed thanks to the Internet, but the game is damn good.

Team Fortress 2 is probably the best shooter MP this gen. Half Life 2 on the other hand I have a love/hate for. I love the pacing, the presentation, gravity gun, and I like that it tries to stay varied. I absolutely dislike the combat(it's ass), the vehicles(the controls are ass), and the puzzles are pathetic(major waste of time). That and I really do not think it aged as well as everyone says it does. **** was archaic in the gunplay department the day it came out. The hell do you think happened to it years later?

So yeah personally I love Valve with less Half Life, more everything else. Portal 2 looks ace. DoTA could be interesting.

I stopped at "Valve is overrated", I am sorry but Valve is anything bud overrated.

Half Life1 and 2 are amazing and Team Fotress2 for pc is not only this gens best online shooter but one of the best ive played in 20+ years.
Sorry bud, gotta dissagree with ya.

they take all the credit where credit is not due.

they did not make Counter-Strike. 2 modders did.

they did not make Left 4 Dead. modders did.

did not make Portal. students did.

did not make Day of Defeat. modders did.

did not make Team Fortress. modders did.

what they do is they look at people who have original ideas like the games above, and hire them, then slapping a Valve logo at the end-product.

all they ever did was Half Life. from that those above games were born, but Valve's only creative input for me was Half Life. those other games are born from other people's minds. people outside the studio. the ideas were already conceived even before Valve hired them.

lol im pretty sure "unnatural" and "derp" are the same person trolling. I don't even see why you would even have a problem with them. Don't like their games, thats fine, but millions of others do. You could completely ignore valve and everything htey do and still have a plethora of great devs to choose from. Your just wasting your time grumbling over something completely trivial

tutt3r

They're one of the most respectful companies when it comes to the consumer, they provide one of the best services imagineable for gamers completely free of charge, and they have yet to release a game I did not LOVE.

I stopped at "Valve is overrated", I am sorry but Valve is anything bud overrated.

Half Life1 and 2 are amazing and Team Fotress2 for pc is not only this gens best online shooter but one of the best ive played in 20+ years.
Sorry bud, gotta dissagree with ya.

kozzy1234

They're one of the most respectful companies when it comes to the consumer, they provide one of the best services imagineable for gamers completely free of charge, and they have yet to release a game I did not LOVE.

Raymundo_Manuel

Quick question, slightly off topic. Would you say it's worth buying the PS3 version of The Orange Box? I hear it's got some bad technical bugs but being that it's my only option, would you still recommend I buy it?

Quick question, slightly off topic. Would you say it's worth buying the PS3 version of The Orange Box? I hear it's got some bad technical bugs but being that it's my only option, would you still recommend I buy it?

Master_ShakeXXX

Quick question, slightly off topic. Would you say it's worth buying the PS3 version of The Orange Box? I hear it's got some bad technical bugs but being that it's my only option, would you still recommend I buy it?

Master_ShakeXXX

Quick question, slightly off topic. Would you say it's worth buying the PS3 version of The Orange Box? I hear it's got some bad technical bugs but being that it's my only option, would you still recommend I buy it?

Master_ShakeXXX

All of the games they publish are top notch,they created the most modded engine out there, they created Steam. That's enough for me to like em.

[QUOTE="Master_ShakeXXX"]

Quick question, slightly off topic. Would you say it's worth buying the PS3 version of The Orange Box? I hear it's got some bad technical bugs but being that it's my only option, would you still recommend I buy it?

Ace6301

Hm, well I guess that $20 for all those games, broken or not, seems like a good deal. I'm also thinking about getting FEAR, but of course the PS3 version has to suck. DAMIT SONY! I love teh PS3 but why in the holy hell does so many of it's multiplats have to suck!?

Quick question, slightly off topic. Would you say it's worth buying the PS3 version of The Orange Box? I hear it's got some bad technical bugs but being that it's my only option, would you still recommend I buy it?

[QUOTE="Ace6301"][QUOTE="Master_ShakeXXX"]

Quick question, slightly off topic. Would you say it's worth buying the PS3 version of The Orange Box? I hear it's got some bad technical bugs but being that it's my only option, would you still recommend I buy it?

Master_ShakeXXX

Hm, well I guess that $20 for all those games, broken or not, seems like a good deal. I'm also thinking about getting FEAR, but of course the PS3 version has to suck. DAMIT SONY! I love teh PS3 but why in the holy hell does so many of it's multiplats have to suck!?

[QUOTE="Master_ShakeXXX"]

Quick question, slightly off topic. Would you say it's worth buying the PS3 version of The Orange Box? I hear it's got some bad technical bugs but being that it's my only option, would you still recommend I buy it?

jg4xchamp

Not an option for me. Let me put it this way - my PC has trouble running games from 2000 on max settings. Yeah, it's a beast...

[QUOTE="Ace6301"][QUOTE="Master_ShakeXXX"]

Quick question, slightly off topic. Would you say it's worth buying the PS3 version of The Orange Box? I hear it's got some bad technical bugs but being that it's my only option, would you still recommend I buy it?

Master_ShakeXXX

Hm, well I guess that $20 for all those games, broken or not, seems like a good deal. I'm also thinking about getting FEAR, but of course the PS3 version has to suck. DAMIT SONY! I love teh PS3 but why in the holy hell does so many of it's multiplats have to suck!?

[QUOTE="Master_ShakeXXX"]

[QUOTE="Ace6301"] I doubt anyone plays TF2 anymore on the PS3. Portal and all of HL2 is really good but chances are your computer can run both of those games since portal is rather low intensity and HL2 is quite old. TF2 you actually need a much better PC then it says you do since they've added so much stuff over the years and it runs worse now than it did at launch. But yeah imo HL2 and Portal are worth it since it must be less than 20$ now or something.Derp_over9000

Hm, well I guess that $20 for all those games, broken or not, seems like a good deal. I'm also thinking about getting FEAR, but of course the PS3 version has to suck. DAMIT SONY! I love teh PS3 but why in the holy hell does so many of it's multiplats have to suck!?

While I love games with horror elements, I mainly wanna get it so I can take on that crazy AI I hear so much about :D

[QUOTE="Derp_over9000"]

[QUOTE="Master_ShakeXXX"]

Hm, well I guess that $20 for all those games, broken or not, seems like a good deal. I'm also thinking about getting FEAR, but of course the PS3 version has to suck. DAMIT SONY! I love teh PS3 but why in the holy hell does so many of it's multiplats have to suck!?

Master_ShakeXXX

While I love games with horror elements, I mainly wanna get it so I can take on that crazy AI I hear so much about :D

[QUOTE="Master_ShakeXXX"]

[QUOTE="Ace6301"] I doubt anyone plays TF2 anymore on the PS3. Portal and all of HL2 is really good but chances are your computer can run both of those games since portal is rather low intensity and HL2 is quite old. TF2 you actually need a much better PC then it says you do since they've added so much stuff over the years and it runs worse now than it did at launch. But yeah imo HL2 and Portal are worth it since it must be less than 20$ now or something.jg4xchamp

Hm, well I guess that $20 for all those games, broken or not, seems like a good deal. I'm also thinking about getting FEAR, but of course the PS3 version has to suck. DAMIT SONY! I love teh PS3 but why in the holy hell does so many of it's multiplats have to suck!?

i agree bungie , naughty dog and Kojima Productions are overrated :Pbadtaker

[QUOTE="badtaker"]i agree bungie , naughty dog and Kojima Productions are overrated :PDerp_over9000

[QUOTE="Master_ShakeXXX"]

[QUOTE="Ace6301"] I doubt anyone plays TF2 anymore on the PS3. Portal and all of HL2 is really good but chances are your computer can run both of those games since portal is rather low intensity and HL2 is quite old. TF2 you actually need a much better PC then it says you do since they've added so much stuff over the years and it runs worse now than it did at launch. But yeah imo HL2 and Portal are worth it since it must be less than 20$ now or something.jg4xchamp

Hm, well I guess that $20 for all those games, broken or not, seems like a good deal. I'm also thinking about getting FEAR, but of course the PS3 version has to suck. DAMIT SONY! I love teh PS3 but why in the holy hell does so many of it's multiplats have to suck!?

Wha... you mean the awesome enemy AI didn't transfer over to the PS3 version? You made me feel worse...

[QUOTE="jg4xchamp"][QUOTE="Master_ShakeXXX"]

Hm, well I guess that $20 for all those games, broken or not, seems like a good deal. I'm also thinking about getting FEAR, but of course the PS3 version has to suck. DAMIT SONY! I love teh PS3 but why in the holy hell does so many of it's multiplats have to suck!?

Master_ShakeXXX

Wha... you mean the awesome enemy AI didn't transfer over to the PS3 version? You made me feel worse...

[QUOTE="Derp_over9000"]

[QUOTE="SAGE_OF_FIRE"] "Steam is coming to consoles" NOPE That's not what he meant. SAGE_OF_FIRE

Not just that...

Valve also said that they want PC and PS3 users to play together.

Whether you call that Steam or Steamworks doesn't matter to me....The point is, PS3 is getting a version of the service...so I'll see you there :)

Gods among men is what I think. One of the few companies who listen and cater to their fans. To the OP, Valve is broken down into teams so L4D or Portal and I think even TF2 had little to no effect on the development of HL3. The reason for the EP3 delay is more likely the development of a new engine not arrogance and blabla.

[QUOTE="Master_ShakeXXX"]

[QUOTE="jg4xchamp"] The first year multiplats are pretty bad for the system. But if it makes you feel better the only thing you'll be missing with FEAR is some of the best enemy AI, and what could very well be the best first person shooter combat in the genre because the gunplay/audio work is superb :] See now don't you feel better :]jg4xchamp

Wha... you mean the awesome enemy AI didn't transfer over to the PS3 version? You made me feel worse...

Oh, well as long as I'm getting 60% of the awesomeness it's fine :lol:

Spirits have been lifted!

[QUOTE="Master_ShakeXXX"]

Quick question, slightly off topic. Would you say it's worth buying the PS3 version of The Orange Box? I hear it's got some bad technical bugs but being that it's my only option, would you still recommend I buy it?

Ace6301

People still play TF2 on the PS3.

I own the game, and the problems that were talked about were patched a long time ago.

Game is good...Although, I do admit that the game loads alot...other than that its fine.

I think that with all the money they are making from Steam and their past titles they should be doubling their work force and bringing me games faster. I think the same about Blizzard and Bioware as well. alextherussian

[QUOTE="Derp_over9000"]

[QUOTE="badtaker"]i agree bungie , naughty dog and Kojima Productions are overrated :Pbadtaker

Gods among men is what I think. One of the few companies who listen and cater to their fans. To the OP, Valve is broken down into teams so L4D or Portal and I think even TF2 had little to no effect on the development of HL3. The reason for the EP3 delay is more likely the development of a new engine not arrogance and blabla.

rzepak

I like Valve when they aren't working on Half Life at this point.

What Left 4 Dead lacks in content(well 2 fixed that a bit) it made up for in being the epitome of cooperative gaming. It was unique when it came out, and it's entire styIe of play is still its own thing. It's highly replayable, and the competitive MP side of it is a lot of fun to play. It just needs more acts.

Portal is probably one of the best puzzle games I've played. The stupid "the cake is a lie" meme was killed thanks to the Internet, but the game is damn good.

Team Fortress 2 is probably the best shooter MP this gen. Half Life 2 on the other hand I have a love/hate for. I love the pacing, the presentation, gravity gun, and I like that it tries to stay varied. I absolutely dislike the combat(it's ass), the vehicles(the controls are ass), and the puzzles are pathetic(major waste of time). That and I really do not think it aged as well as everyone says it does. **** was archaic in the gunplay department the day it came out. The hell do you think happened to it years later?

So yeah personally I love Valve with less Half Life, more everything else. Portal 2 looks ace. DoTA could be interesting.

jg4xchamp

To be honest Thats what I want from them. While I agree the driving was bad I disagree with everything els you said. I could care less about portal 2 since while portal1 was fun I dont see it as the GOD some gamers do. I just want my next half life since thats what I really like from them.