Yes we all know that Valve is the world's best game company but looking at it objectively what do they have. Cliched shooters with a very limited number of generic weapons running on a decade old engine. I don't have anything against Valve, in fact I love the Left 4 Dead games, the original Half-Life, HL2 Deathmatch and Counter Strike Source but do we really need to treat their every release like the second coming? I know for certain after playing Portal that there will be absolutely no compulsion for me to get Portal 2 or even look at Portal ever again. And the little mythology that they're building up is grating too- the cake, the hats and every thing ever said about GLADOS or TF2. Its all just unnecessary and detracts from otherwise good games and seems like cutesy Fanboy rubbish. I must admit though, when I read about the Left 4 Dead dual DLC I nearly creamed my pants...