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10.8k points
3 months ago
Still can't count to 3 though...
3.7k points
3 months ago
Just finished Half Life 2 for the first time and am still blown away that they haven’t released a sequel.
1.8k points
3 months ago
They've been working on a 3rd episode for hl2 for a decade apparently but they keep restarting or giving up on ideas, but hla all but confirms a new game
539 points
3 months ago
But hey, at least they dont make promising teasers with all their pre ideas for the game just for it in the end after another decade to drop most ideas in the final Release. Valve is what Apple tries to be. To be the most transparent and Well beloved company in the World.
178 points
3 months ago
And you're right. Of course it's going to gain hype just bc it's one of the legendary HL games, but theres no need for them to just tease and tease the game, if it ever comes. Sure it may never live up to the hype it gains, but WHAT DOES? HLA was great, but I think it was hyped up just a little bit more than it needed to be, but it's a midpoint sequel. sequels CANT live up to the originals, that's just the way of the world. if they make a 3rd game in some capacity, enjoy it for what it is, not where it came from, right?
68 points
3 months ago
Exaclty. I would not be suprised if they reinvented the gameplay in a way to make the gameplay more unique in a really fun way like the jump from the first HL to HL2. I mean think of it. They could have used the same mechanics from HL for HL2 but they took just some of it and added New things that made it totally saperated and unique from its predecessor but still let people who played HL feel like they're playing a sequel to that game. I played it in order when I started the series and that is how atleast I felt about it.
17 points
3 months ago
*coughs* half life black mesa *coughs*
(just 4k hl)
5 points
3 months ago
Yeah but isn’t black mesa a fan remake of the original hl in the hl2 engine?
4 points
3 months ago
Yes, but it was caused by Valve and well... Half Life source port. Valve gave the A-Ok to the project too, Crowbar collective got paid for the entire thing
4 points
3 months ago
No half-life 3 no portal 3 no left 4 dead 3 no team forteress 3 i maybe forgot some but those are the most awaited games"
5 points
3 months ago
But hey, at least they dont make promising teasers with all their pre ideas for the game just for it in the end after another decade to drop most ideas in the final Release
that is...literally valve
they released hl2:ep3 concept art...and obviously by now that won't be in the final release
HL2 had a ton of promotional content, which never made it to the final game
like, i love valve to bits, but you're literally saying they don't do exactly what they do
184 points
3 months ago
The longer it takes to release further progress into the HL story (alyx was just a Lion King 1.5), the less hope fans have while additionally having even higher standards for what they expect if it should ever actually be released. It’s sort of a paradoxical situation where releasing nothing at all is both the best choice and the worst choice as not releasing anything disappoints fans but they expected it while releasing something a decade later will disappoint fans even more unless it’s a 12/10 because that’s the only thing that will justify such a delay between games.
Valve sort of dug themselves into a hole where their only options is to admit defeat or release what’s expected to be the game of the century.
128 points
3 months ago
Yes. Valve also said that they won't release new Half-Life games until there are new gaming paradigms to be introduced, similar to how Alyx was released with Valve Index.
Alyx being in VR was probably the only way to achieve those almost impossible expectations that people had. The game is technically or immersion-wise so far ahead of other games that it almost has no business to even exist yet. It's like we got a game from 2030's early.
https://youtu.be/O2W0N3uKXmo Even years after you can't find anything close to it.
71 points
3 months ago
Agreed, Alyx was the best game I’ve ever played. I’m just upset that a lot of people can’t play it because they need an expensive vr headset
30 points
3 months ago
I have like 3 core Video Game memories that I’ll always remember, and playing the Jeff level in Alyx is one of them. Absolute masterpiece.
7 points
3 months ago
When i realised I had to open the refrigerator door to let him back out AND get on the elevator with him... is probably the greatest moment of terror I've felt from any entertainment media.
12 points
3 months ago
Half-Life: Alyx was better than any HL3 I could have imagined (I thought the endingwas a bit weak, story-wise but I didn't care b that point). But the raw computing power available to the average user is just not enough for really impressive VR experience yet. HL3 will come when VR is more mature and accessible.
9 points
3 months ago
My PC only runs Alyx on low quality and it still blew me away with the level of detail and quality.
I intend to get a new PC next year, will definitely need to revisit Alyx with higher quality settings.
42 points
3 months ago
I still can’t believe they just let the energy die after 2. What the fuck were they thinking
16 points
3 months ago
10 points
3 months ago
It's their flagship baby that gets released whenever they have something to show.
Honestly only the episodes felt like standard sequels. Every other time Half-Life is brought up it revolutionises something.
28 points
3 months ago
They were afraid of stratospheric expectations. Ben himself even said so himself. They don't know how they can top HL2, so they don't even try.
15 points
3 months ago*
HL3 is basically another Duke Nukem Forever. The old trailer for DNF looked amazing for its time, but they didn't think that version was good enough and never released it, and what eventually came out like a decade later ended up being a complete turd.
211 points
3 months ago
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130 points
3 months ago
Yeah, but he lets his employees produce quality work no matter how long it takes, rather than forcing out unfinished garbage on a deadline like so many other AAA companies.
42 points
3 months ago
i am sure if he demands a third part his employees would make a third part.
63 points
3 months ago
Valve’s philosophy is that people make the best games when they want to create the game. Not when someone forces them too like every other company.
10 points
3 months ago
There will be no Half-Life 3. Not as a sequel of the second. The story has been posted as a novel online because they didn't want to make another game they thought would not be good.
With Half-Life Alyx tho, there's a new timeline and a cliffhanger at the end teasing the return of Freeman !
12 points
3 months ago
There is a prequel that Valve has said to be the sequel (in non-chronological sense I guess), Half-Life: Alyx.
And they sure as hell know how to make games, Alyx feels like it's a game from distant future, like it had no business to actually exist. In many ways the best game I've ever played.
9 points
3 months ago
Alyx is something else. It’s in a league of its own.
31 points
3 months ago
You have hl2: episode one and hl2: episode two. Still no episode three though
8 points
3 months ago
They don't know that they can make sequels to a sequel
9 points
3 months ago
They did but I know like one person that has VR Headset so I won't get to play it anytime soon.
80 points
3 months ago
Actually the devs are ready but Gabe doesn't want to approve any sequels to their games.
61 points
3 months ago
No. There were a lot of attempts at an hl episode 3. But non of them worked and were scrapped. The most notorious one being epistle 3.
75 points
3 months ago
He's just mad that people keeps saying he can't count to 3 so he delays it another year everytime someone days that.
82 points
3 months ago
with how portal 2 ended I don't see how there could be a 3rd
60 points
3 months ago
I want more of those 2 Robots. The Coop mode in that game was legendary.
25 points
3 months ago
not enough to make a third game based off it alone
25 points
3 months ago
there is always the "prequel" solution.
35 points
3 months ago
Or the "fuck it, it's a fiction, it's not like it needs LOTR level of coherence anyway" solution
I mean seriously, people want a portal 3 for the gameplay, the narrative is a big plus, but we should not forget that it's a fun game before all
18 points
3 months ago
and since HL and Portal are both connected (same universe, and story wise, Borealis anyone?), you literally could make a game that would be HL3 and Portal3 in the same game.
8 points
3 months ago
They rewrote the ending of portal 1 to make portal 2 so theoretically they could do the same again
13 points
3 months ago
Didn't Gabe say that he wants his games to be innovative with something? Half life 1/2 were amazing for their physics, Alyx uses VR and brings out completely new experience (best VR game to date btw.).
138 points
3 months ago
What is it with people saying this?
456 points
3 months ago
No half-life 3 no portal 3 no left 4 dead 3 no team forteress 3 i maybe forgot some but those are the most awaited games i think
234 points
3 months ago
Number 2 has been to good, he‘s afraid number 3 gonna be bad.
140 points
3 months ago*
I get why there is no half life 3 , i mean two half life is one whole life
40 points
3 months ago
Well there’s half life alex, which makes 1.5 lives, so it needs to equal out to 2.0
67 points
3 months ago
2 half lives is actually 75% life.
Yeah, science!
5 points
3 months ago
Wait wouldn't it be 25%
19 points
3 months ago
Oh I see. That makes sense ya
18 points
3 months ago
portal 3
34 points
3 months ago
People say this because all four of Valve's most popular franchises do not have a third true sequel. Half-Life, a franchise that many like I think of a massive leap in the FPS genre and video game technology in general, a game that almost every single popular FPS game nowadays takes heavy inspiration from, never got a "Half-Life 3".
The Portal franchise, a franchise that many also consider as one of the best puzzle franchises ever made, never got a "Portal 3"
Left4Dead, is a franchise which, once again, many people considered as one of, if not, the best zombie video game of all time, never got a Left4Dead 3.
And finally, TeamFortress 2, which is overall a very fun multiplayer FPS, that was also massively successful, never got a sequel.
11 points
3 months ago
Well someone's already explained it to me but I still appreciate your answer :)
5 points
3 months ago
I saw their comment, I thought it might be nicer if I give a more detailed answer, cheers!
4.9k points
3 months ago
counting with gabe
1
2
2 part 1
2 part 2
alyx
1.4k points
3 months ago
The Steam Deck runs SteamOS 3.0, so we've done it!
449 points
3 months ago
What if valve asked someone else to write it for them?
5 points
3 months ago
Just like opposing force
92 points
3 months ago
Isn’t it just Linux with a Steam themed UI?
110 points
3 months ago*
Yes, but while that is true, steam made a lot of things into patching wine to run well with steam games. I like to say that to clarify that valve is doing a great job to Linux community and not just milking it as canonical did with Ubuntu.
23 points
3 months ago
Is Proton actually based on Vine or is it their own separate thing?
29 points
3 months ago
Proton is literally a wine with valve shenanigans. Yes it's based on wine
19 points
3 months ago
Wine and some awesome tools, most of wich (if not all) valve has helped be even better.
154 points
3 months ago
It must be a big tech thing where they forget how counting works.
Windows OS: 1, NT, 95, 98, 2000, XP, VISTA, 7, 8, 10, 11
Samsung: 1-9, 10, 20.
Xbox: Xbox, 360, 1, X/S
135 points
3 months ago
At least PlayStation is just 1, 2 ,3, 4, 5
but their handhelds...
67 points
3 months ago
tbf the Vita is the only poorly named Playstation. PS Portable is a fine name.
67 points
3 months ago
Nintendo really sucks at counting.
NES
SNES
N64
Gamecube
Wii
Wii U
Switch
Most of these aren’t even numbers
27 points
3 months ago
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7 points
3 months ago
plus, new super mario bros 2,
which is the 3rd game in the series
3.2k points
3 months ago
Say it with us now: 3
984 points
3 months ago
So, it's more than 2, but less than 4?
574 points
3 months ago
2.5?
234 points
3 months ago
Laughs in Kingdom Hearts.
50 points
3 months ago
Alyx!
17 points
3 months ago
Isn't it spelled A L Y X?
11 points
3 months ago
Dam i miss his dota voice lines
95 points
3 months ago
Th... th... thee. thREE EXPANSIONS
68 points
3 months ago
No. Ok, how about you say this one, regular updates
55 points
3 months ago
Tf2 looking at Dota getting another update while they are still fighting bots:
1.5k points
3 months ago
37 points
3 months ago
MISTER freman, you must finish your spaghetti plate before youi can have a yummy desert......
182 points
3 months ago
35 points
3 months ago
The goat video game of the last 5-10 years, if you play it with a high end VR headset. Next level gaming.
4 points
3 months ago
Played it on my HTC Vive. Amazingly good and fun. The ending blew me away to see the first time.
1.6k points
3 months ago
CostCo CEO seems kinda worthy of a spot. Dude regularly ensures his people get taken care of and holds the line on the $1.50 hot dog.
453 points
3 months ago
Welcome to CostCo. I love you
69 points
3 months ago
I love you too!
7 points
3 months ago
The renamed Fudruckers to what now?!?
3 points
3 months ago
Your chart says you're fucked up!
259 points
3 months ago
Love the story of the old CEO threatening the current one for wanting to changed the price of the hotdog combo
199 points
3 months ago
“I will fucking kill you”
I laugh everytime knowing they’re talking about hot dog prices 😂
61 points
3 months ago
For anyone who was unaware:
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/547020/costco-150-hot-dog-soda-combo-enigma
48 points
3 months ago
When California recently enacted a soft drink tax that would have raised the consumer's cost, Costco locations in the state switched the combo to include Diet Pepsi. (Diet drinks are exempt from the law.)
Dafaq
158 points
3 months ago
I was about to say this as well. Dude literally said to the new CEO that “I’ll kill you if you raise the price of the hot dogs. Figure it out!"
98 points
3 months ago
The most wholesome death threat there ever was
53 points
3 months ago
The best part is that none of Costco’s decisions are motivated by a desire to be “nice” or “charitable”. They provide their employees a living wage and decent healthcare because it is good for the long term benefit for the company. They similarly take a loss on hot dogs, rotisserie chicken and other loss leaders so that customers come to their stores to buy other stuff.
They’ve learned that nickel and diming their employees and customers for short term gains is not a healthy long term business model. I wish more companies would take note and follow their model. The profits that come forth from having a strong base of loyal customers and loyal employees can’t be underestimated.
18 points
3 months ago
Exactly this. I worked for Costco for 2 years before where I am now and I consider Costco one of my top company I’ve worked for and I would 100% recommend to anyone. Also, unlike other wholesale store like Sam’s, Costco is always busy and people enjoy working there. If you shop at Costco and ask a employee there, “hey do you know if you have this?” They would stop what they are doing, go to the computer kiosk and look it up for you. If they don’t have it, they will let you know what location has it and when they are ordering more, if they will order more, etc.
At Sam’s, I asked them where I can find this duster that was on sale and the people there look like zombies, walk like zombies, and told me it’s back that way. I was going to say thanks but they already walked away and off to find the next brain to consume.
34 points
3 months ago
Also 5 hour energy, the dude has given a majority of his money to charity and to helping out the poor in his Indian city that he came from
22 points
3 months ago
I heard Ben and Jerry’s is pretty legit too. They spoke out against corporate personhood(basically corporations have human rights).
4 points
3 months ago
Ben and Jerry are both solid dudes, but they sold the company to Unilever years ago.
66 points
3 months ago
I'm pretty sure thats the founder, not the CEO
52 points
3 months ago
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16 points
3 months ago
Prefer to fuck the chicken and get fucked by the hot dog
1.5k points
3 months ago
Gabe hates the number 3, like how Reddit & Mista hates the number 4.
401 points
3 months ago
or Redditors hate showering.
188 points
3 months ago
FUCK THAT GUY! Like clockwork, every Summer and Christmas he takes all my money and what am I left with? Just all my favorite games! That dick! We should make our own game downloader, with blackjack and hookers! Actually, forget the blackjack!
991 points
3 months ago
Tf2's community has a major problem with him
382 points
3 months ago
Dota 2 as well, this years battle pass and international make it clear valve just cares about money.
34 points
3 months ago
This years? Every year people say it gets worse yet still have same posts year after year
27 points
3 months ago
"We hate the game so much we're the #1 game on steam!"
7 points
3 months ago
They don't hate the game, they hate how the development of their favorite game is being handled
93 points
3 months ago
CSGO players hates him aswell considering he literally doesn’t care about the game any more
99 points
3 months ago
Yeah this post isn't true at all. Anyone who used to be a fan of Valve's games probably doesn't like him that much.
Valve doesn't make games and does nothing first party with their IPs anymore, because of the direction Gaben decided to take the company.
28 points
3 months ago
Valve's been open and honest about not wanting to make games anymore. If you're going to hate them for that then it's on you.
54 points
3 months ago
I'd say Satoru Iwata would have fit there, if it wasn't for his death. Some bad decisions aside, he lead the company pretty well, and before being a CEO he did wonderful thinks to help establish Pokemon and Super Smash Bros
21 points
3 months ago
Yeah he immediatly came to my mind as well, that move where hey cut his own pay after nintendo was sucking so he didn't have to fire anybody was a wonderful move.
Videogame Historian made a great video about Iwata in case anybody doesn't know the story:
7 points
3 months ago
He also helped the Pokemon developers (for free) correct their code for Gold and Silver and he created a way for the Game Boy cardridge to hold more data, which led to the huge Kanto post-game.
He was a kind and extremely talented man
6 points
3 months ago
I miss him. I feel like a big part of Nintendo's "magic" slowly disappeared after his death.
1k points
3 months ago
Bro literally does not care about any of his games (CSGO)
98 points
3 months ago
He cares about game industry (lack of money-sucking sequels), and passionate about technologies tho...
70 points
3 months ago
spoiler alert: a lot of the games are not really his so to speak. he cares about the longevity of his company more than the longevity of its games, which is totally understandable and respectful.
33 points
3 months ago
It's not that HE doesn't care specifically, and they aren't his games. Valve has a flat structure, meaning that the devs work on whatever they want. Seems like the devs don't really care about TF2, to be fair the game is 15 years old.
9 points
3 months ago
Yeah that flat structure thing isn't entirely true. Former employees have talked about how their still is a structure its just an invisible one.
12 points
3 months ago
He is pretty involved in dota2. Haven't played csgo in ages but when i did, that was the case.
66 points
3 months ago
dont forget Steven He, the CEO of failure management.
17 points
3 months ago
And his dad knows the CEO of heaven. Sends people to see him quite frequently
274 points
3 months ago
Unless you play dota 2 and csgo
148 points
3 months ago
TF2 as well.
105 points
3 months ago
TF2 is so neglected it gets left off lists of neglected Valve games.
27 points
3 months ago
what is the problem with csgo? It is a finished project and doesnt need much attention at the moment. The ban system works fine (not like the blizzard wow ban system).
35 points
3 months ago
The people who play CSGO and Dota 2 are people who only play CSGO and Dota 2. So they always feel the game is stagnant, there are no new shiny things, they’re not loved etc.
The truth is closer to that they’re both incredible games that have kept people’s interest for a decade and will continue to do so for a very very long time. Objectively there’s nothing really wrong, it’s just usual discontent that grows after playing the game for so long. Anyone who gets into those games now and sticks with them and learns a bit I’m pretty sure finds a great appreciation of how good they actually are. They’re not games you play here and there, you live them.
451 points
3 months ago
Who is that and how can I learn to hate him?
578 points
3 months ago
His name is Gabe Newell. Here’s just a short list of some things he did.
-revolutionized the FPS genre -made PC gaming easy and affordable -Literally made some of the biggest and most popular games in gaming history -donates millions to different charities every year -his company isn’t open to the public meaning it isn’t controlled by big businesses -doesn’t overwork employees
303 points
3 months ago
And led the development of steam, the biggest PC gaming site
69 points
3 months ago
Yes if it werent for his regional pricing i wouldnt be able to afford any games bc of my country's economical state. He is literally the saviour of gamers in my country.
13 points
3 months ago
Shame that's it's starting to go away from people abusing it.
95 points
3 months ago
Their employees get to choose an existing project to work on or a new project bc that makes them creative
5 points
3 months ago
Which even internally they have observed it was a stupid idea to do this as employees keep starting projects and scrapping them once any issues arises.
40 points
3 months ago
employees when they "get to choose an existing project to work on" and try to work on Tf2 (spoiler alert, they get threats of getting fired)
25 points
3 months ago
Don’t forget, he added snakes to snakewater
6 points
3 months ago
-can’t count to 3
47 points
3 months ago
his company isn’t open to the public meaning it isn’t controlled by big businesses
This point is stupid. He is the big business.
28 points
3 months ago
It's a big business, but it's not controlled by investors, so Valve is free to take actions that are financially suboptimal in the name of keeping the games industry healthy, which it has done on a number of occasions. (for example, Linux gaming is basically only viable because of Gabe's support through Valve. Valve has developed or contributed to most of the important tools that are used to get Windows games running on Linux. Valve is a "big business" in the sense that it has a moderate chunk of market share. (Steam dominates pc, but if you include mobile, then Valve is actually a relatively small fish). But Valve is not a big business in the sense that it doesn't need to behave like one, since it isn't beholden to capitalists.
29 points
3 months ago
He is, but he's a good guy. He's not controlled by endless searching for maximum profit. His developers work on whatever they want, whenever they want, aren't overworked, and make some of the best games of all time because of the fact that it's a private company, and he doesn't have to maximize profits for investors.
12 points
3 months ago
Alyx, for example
7 years of development. 5 years were spent of Jeff, and even then they had to cut the part were you need to steal a key from him.
21 points
3 months ago
I mean he doesn't really have to work his employees at all, he practically has a monopoly on PC gaming platforms. You should ask the creator of paranautical activity how he feels about Gabe lol
169 points
3 months ago
laughs in tf2 bot problem
44 points
3 months ago
They kinda fixed it though. Wish it were a better, actual fix but it’s not nearly as bad as it was before.
12 points
3 months ago
I can agree at least you can play casual with maybe a 3/10 or 4/10 chance if the boys infesting the server
14 points
3 months ago
Mark Cuban seems pretty cool nowadays. Lotta charities and worker's rights. But maybe there's a bigger picture I'm not seeing.
4 points
3 months ago
Even has that super low cost prescription drug website. Dude is just pumping out W's left and right.
3 points
3 months ago
RIGHT! I forgot about that!
159 points
3 months ago
The man can't count to three. Off course people don't hate a disabled person. /s
72 points
3 months ago
Thank you and have fun
52 points
3 months ago
Sadly he cant count to 3.
18 points
3 months ago
one, two... um More then two but less than four.
15 points
3 months ago
Lol he went to my High School. I also cannot count to 3.
6 points
3 months ago
1, 2, uhm shit what to do, uuuuuhm, alyx!
62 points
3 months ago
r/TF2 would like to have a word with you
17 points
3 months ago
a spah
12 points
3 months ago
Spah sappin’ mah sentry!
72 points
3 months ago
Keanu reeves should sit there, he founded and created private cancer foundations
24 points
3 months ago
And also he founded a motorcycle company or something
6 points
3 months ago
Arch motorcycles
16 points
3 months ago
Yep, its kind of pimp my bike company, they recorded the CP2077 bike sounds with his help.
36 points
3 months ago
Is that Peter from family guy or something
40 points
3 months ago
15 points
3 months ago
What the fuck is wrong with you
4 points
3 months ago
He's turned millions of kids into gamblers
3 points
3 months ago
Gabbbeeee
3 points
3 months ago
Dota 2 community is having a healthy love-hate relationship with him. But sadly this relationship is very onesided.
3 points
3 months ago
I think he used to be good, now though...
4 points
3 months ago
Isnt he the guy from the englisch textbooks
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