Valve 'in better place to invest and focus a lot more on games again' - Sensationalist Headlines

Assuming In the valley of gods doesn't count. Even though valve owns it

Inb4 We here at Valve have had a lot of time to think about what we want to achieve as a company. We have listened to your calls and we couldn't me more happy with the result. Introducing the Crowbar case for CS:GO! Contains 20 breath-taking Half-Life style skins as well as an all new crowbar replacement for the knife.

don't forget that one time we imported the city of france into source 2. Pretty sure it was in this thread Seems that Source 2 is coming soon! + New DOTA 2 Authoring Tools doubt the images are still online

Heh, I remember wanting to see an expanded Orange Box for Wii U, so we could see stuff like Wiimote Plus integration or Off-TV Play. Even made a mock-up once. https://orig00.deviantart.net/29a3/f/2016/055/0/d/mock_up___the_blue_box__boxart__by_vinlauria-d9t0o3l.png A lot of that could still apply to a Switch compilation.

they can't even put out games made by other people, why should this be any different?

Even if they release something beyond the scummy card game Valve can go fuck themselves after the shit they pulled to avoid removing lootboxes. They are greedier than EA and look how many games they've ruined.

Okay valve, sure. Stop talking and actually do something people want. Then I'll believe you.

johnny, johnny, eating chicken? no, papa! YOU'RE LYING

They said this like 3 years ago

I guess its fun for valve to tease us that theyre actually doing something suuuuper secret but its just annoying now

make new games? how about you fix your existing ones for starters.

I wouldn't count it, as development for that game has been going on since late 2017 maybe even way before that since it was announced. At this rate I would say Valve themselves have bought themselves a near complete game, slapped their sticker on the box and called it a Valve game.

So a company built on video games apparently didn't have the ability to make video games for three whole years? Because... what exactly? They pretty much did nothing but sit around letting the steam and DOTA cash roll in, I don't see what exactly changed.

They want to be like Nintendo and tailor software to hardware and vice versa, they have a largely automated manufacturing plant in Illinois for the Steam Controller and probably other stuff. They spent the time hiring people who work in hardware and getting the assembly process smoothed out for future hardware.

Valve's time is long gone now. Even if the stars were to align and they actually started to finish the Freeman saga, there's no conceivable way it could ever live up to what hype remains. I choose to remember Valve as they were. Not as they are.

They could if they wanted to. It doesn't have to be anything more than just the good old pipe-runner single-player action, and I'm sure a lot of the fans would be pleased. I sure as hell would be pleased if I got one final installment to go head-on against combine advisors and other creatures with Magnum revolver and a crowbar with the HEV-suit telling me how much morphine is being administered. It's just that a lot of the old writers and creators behind HL1&2 are gone now, so you'd need some new creators who want to bring back just that. The script is even already there for HL3 that could be worked with - anyone who's read it can easily envision the gameplay locations and the whole campaign.

Tf2 will still be ignored and its grassroots competitive seen will fizzle away.

Valve always delivers so i'm excited for them to make more games I don't get why people are mad that they're saying they want to release games again. It's not like they're the only game developer in the world you haven't been barred from video games while they focused on steam just take the games when they arrive????

i think it's due to the fact that the valve we know now is very different from the valve we once knew in the past, the ones who were putting out all sorts of hits left and right. lots of long-time people from valve have since left the company, and plenty of new employees have taken their place. understandably there's people who are curious and even sceptical about how valve's newer games will turn out, if they even turn up at all, that is.

france is my favorite city

lol, City of France in Paris classic

They do this really often. Not that that's a bad thing when it works, though.

instead you got the blue balls

The only plausible explanation I can think of is that this latest piece of PR is just a cover story for the real reason: Gabe Newell derailing development of new games by executive mandate in order to focus the company's efforts on his inane Steam Box scheme. As we all know, that ended up being a complete joke, and Gabe's nearly conspiracy theory level paranoia about Microsoft destroying PC gaming hasn't even come close to being true. So they've slowly settled back into developing new games, one of which ended up being Artifact. Unfortunately, they bled a lot of creative talent in the process, including most everyone that worked on the type of games Valve used to make. Combine this with the rumors about how Valve's management structure really operates, and you have a virtual guarantee that whatever Valve chooses to release in the next few years, it's not going to come anywhere close to the genius of Half-Life or Portal or Left4Dead.

I think its referring to the internal shift towards VR and hardware development that happened over the past few years there, as in the vive (and associated periphreals like knuckles), steam machines (lmao),' and steam controller and whatnot'.

{x} doubt

Their statements sound like North Korea's at this point

Say it with me all together now "WE'LL BELIEVE IT WHEN WE SEE IT."

I'm not so sure about that. Half Life hype diluted a long time ago from "the fact that Valve is taking so long must mean that this is really good" to "well nobody in the company cares, if they'd just release a freaking game that ties the story up that'd be grand."

It's not like Valve doesn't have money to hire more people so there are enough people to work on games and hardware/VR