Comments on: End of the Weak – 3.12.2010 http://epicbattleaxe.com/end-of-the-weak-3-12-2010/ Let Your Voice Be Heard! Fri, 25 May 2012 03:41:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: beema http://epicbattleaxe.com/end-of-the-weak-3-12-2010/#comment-10620 beema Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:22:39 +0000 http://epicbattleaxe.com/?p=12659#comment-10620 this is awesome. Love it when devs put so much effort and creativity into things like this. Makes you appreciate the marketing and games so much more than say some annoying uncreative gamestop ad, which is the other end of the spectrum. this is awesome. Love it when devs put so much effort and creativity into things like this. Makes you appreciate the marketing and games so much more than say some annoying uncreative gamestop ad, which is the other end of the spectrum.

]]> By: HueyTheDoctor http://epicbattleaxe.com/end-of-the-weak-3-12-2010/#comment-10619 HueyTheDoctor Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:39:30 +0000 http://epicbattleaxe.com/?p=12659#comment-10619 Valve is still by far the developer i hold with the highest regard, because when they liscenced Id Tech 2 way back in the day and released Half-Life 1 it got me addicted to gaming. I used WorldCraft to build my own mods and expansions, something i never would have done without Valves support and encouragement. When Half-Life 2 came out and they showed off Source and how well they had integrated Havok into the engine, it blew my freakin mind. Valve has always given so much support to the mod communities and independant developers, Portal was a project started by another small dev team and finished by Valve after they saw the work and hired the devs to finish their project under another name. My biggest problem is there has been no continuation of the Half-Life story in years, and every time they release a new game like Left 4 Dead 2 it pisses me off because i feel like the whole team should have been working on either Episode 3 or Half-Life 3. Not everyone at Valve worked on either L4D or L4D2 in fact i think the vast majority of the team have been working on Half-Life 3 in earnest for at least the last two years, but WHERE IS THE FREAKING GAME. Its been ages since Episode 2 and they were the ones talking about releasing more content, more often. Love them to death, but they better deliver more Half-Life related content soon or i'll get sulky and leave a ranting comment on EBA. Oh wait Valve is still by far the developer i hold with the highest regard, because when they liscenced Id Tech 2 way back in the day and released Half-Life 1 it got me addicted to gaming. I used WorldCraft to build my own mods and expansions, something i never would have done without Valves support and encouragement. When Half-Life 2 came out and they showed off Source and how well they had integrated Havok into the engine, it blew my freakin mind.

Valve has always given so much support to the mod communities and independant developers, Portal was a project started by another small dev team and finished by Valve after they saw the work and hired the devs to finish their project under another name. My biggest problem is there has been no continuation of the Half-Life story in years, and every time they release a new game like Left 4 Dead 2 it pisses me off because i feel like the whole team should have been working on either Episode 3 or Half-Life 3. Not everyone at Valve worked on either L4D or L4D2 in fact i think the vast majority of the team have been working on Half-Life 3 in earnest for at least the last two years, but WHERE IS THE FREAKING GAME. Its been ages since Episode 2 and they were the ones talking about releasing more content, more often. Love them to death, but they better deliver more Half-Life related content soon or i’ll get sulky and leave a ranting comment on EBA. Oh wait

]]> By: deadsexy http://epicbattleaxe.com/end-of-the-weak-3-12-2010/#comment-10618 deadsexy Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:23:55 +0000 http://epicbattleaxe.com/?p=12659#comment-10618 The best thing about it was that it actually was really fun to play through Portal again (although I guess it would've been almost as great without those update - let's be honest Portal kicks ass). It was fun to figure out how to get to the radios and where to find those spots just to be rewarded by a somewhat new ending. While I'm simply not smart enough to have figure all that out on my own I watched closely how the community was working together, making guesses and suggestions and ultimately had a great time. You're right, it's about who we are and Valve seems to know us quite well actually. The timing was just perfect, there was about a month between the first update and the GameInformer article and that's about how long it took all those smart people out there to figure it all out, even if everything still was pretty cryptic. The BSoD on Gabe's GDC Acceptance speech, when he started talking about their future projects was the perfect icing on the cake. I grew pretty tired of all the viral marketing floating around these days but that whole shit was simply genius. The best thing about it was that it actually was really fun to play through Portal again (although I guess it would’ve been almost as great without those update – let’s be honest Portal kicks ass). It was fun to figure out how to get to the radios and where to find those spots just to be rewarded by a somewhat new ending.

While I’m simply not smart enough to have figure all that out on my own I watched closely how the community was working together, making guesses and suggestions and ultimately had a great time.

You’re right, it’s about who we are and Valve seems to know us quite well actually. The timing was just perfect, there was about a month between the first update and the GameInformer article and that’s about how long it took all those smart people out there to figure it all out, even if everything still was pretty cryptic.

The BSoD on Gabe’s GDC Acceptance speech, when he started talking about their future projects was the perfect icing on the cake.

I grew pretty tired of all the viral marketing floating around these days but that whole shit was simply genius.

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