What is Valve working on these days?
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RIP pubs.
That guy's Kickstarter game got cancelled after funding
Tesseract
Banned
time between sequels is irrelevant, the story must end.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
People said the same thing about Half Life 2
ashecitism
Member
Yeah, both of those ended with G-Man taking/"hiring" you, so will 3 end the same or will you manage to free yourself from him? And then there's the Combine. Like, I have more confidence in the Combine plot ending (Borealis will help you with that probably). The G-Man? Dunno.
Damn, the meltdowns in that topic are gold.
BibiMaghoo
Member
Fleecing people with the new CSGO operation, by having MT's to top it up after you buy the coin.
Half-Life is how Valve started. it is wholly and completely their own development. It was Gabe's first project after leaving Microsoft (where, among other things, he ported Doom to Windows 3.1).
blindrocket
Member
I really want HL3.
Just the other day, totally out of the blue, I started thinking about it. Like a craving for a food, it just sounded really good. That classic Valve quality. The HL sounds and atmosphere were like this sweet aroma that I remember and I want to taste it all again.
Mmmm... I'm hungry for some Half Life.
Just the other day, totally out of the blue, I started thinking about it. Like a craving for a food, it just sounded really good. That classic Valve quality. The HL sounds and atmosphere were like this sweet aroma that I remember and I want to taste it all again.
Mmmm... I'm hungry for some Half Life.
Complistic
Member
Left 4 dead 3 is a certainty.
Ricochet is OG init
This is true....well except Portal....the portal gameplay was not, but the portal universe is all Valve
Forsaken82
Member
Technically they still hired Kim Swift and company to make Portal 1. Tying it to Half Life 2 was valve, but it is still Kim Swift and her teams game. It is like arguing that Counter Strike was originally a valve developed title.
A lot of the gameplay is Valve too. Hell, most of it is, all but portals more or less.
... Yeah, no. You should really try Narbacular Drop. It's kind of awful. And the only thing the two games share are portals. But the way they utilised portals was intriguing and fresh, thusly Valve hired the students, and with this intriguing concept, they developed a full game, a fleshed out story and a proper IP.
And seeing how there were more Valve-staffers involved than there were newly hired students, it's 'more' Valve than Kim & co.
ashecitism
Member
The reason Portal turned out the way it is wasn't just because of DigiPen, come on. Valve could have given them free reign and would have been a different game.
It's unofficially confirmed, yeah. We've got L4D3 stubs in the Source 2 stuff for Dota, we saw slides from a Source 2 presentation with L4D content on them, and L4D3 showed up on that internal project manager/tracker software.
ashecitism
Member
And Gooseman saw it in motion. Also linked to an ivy generator (lol) that Valve used for it.
Funkyhamster
Member
(unfounded speculation incoming)
I think Valve is still a very ambitious company, and maybe even more ambitious than they've been before, just not in the way that Half-Life fans want. There's no doubt in my mind that Valve is working on a lot of other stuff aside from just hats and F2P. They do seem really interested in multiplayer and user-created content, but I absolutely don't think that's all they're doing now. The problem is that I think the other projects they're working on are probably really speculative, out-there things that they find more exciting than Half-Life 3, but that have a much longer road to being commercial products.
I was recently at a talk by Michael Abrash (he said it was the same talk he gave at Oculus Connect). He was extremely enthusiastic about VR and its possibilities, and he has a really ambitious view of what it could accomplish. Between the talk and his blog posts, I get the sense that he's really passionate about making something that will fundamentally change the world. I didn't ask him anything about Valve, and this is entirely me putting words in his mouth. But I feel like if I asked him about Half-Life 3 and he replied honestly, he would say "Half-Life 3? Sounds boring, why would I want to work on that? I want to create a real-life Metaverse."
Now I'm not suggesting that everyone at Valve is obsessed with VR, but I bet Valve has other projects that are similarly ambitious pie-in-the-sky endeavors. My guess is that anyone at Valve who doesn't find DOTA 2 or CS:GO exciting probably has something else that they think is much more exciting than Half-Life 3, and that they're working on it, but that we won't hear about for years if at all.
I think Valve is still a very ambitious company, and maybe even more ambitious than they've been before, just not in the way that Half-Life fans want. There's no doubt in my mind that Valve is working on a lot of other stuff aside from just hats and F2P. They do seem really interested in multiplayer and user-created content, but I absolutely don't think that's all they're doing now. The problem is that I think the other projects they're working on are probably really speculative, out-there things that they find more exciting than Half-Life 3, but that have a much longer road to being commercial products.
I was recently at a talk by Michael Abrash (he said it was the same talk he gave at Oculus Connect). He was extremely enthusiastic about VR and its possibilities, and he has a really ambitious view of what it could accomplish. Between the talk and his blog posts, I get the sense that he's really passionate about making something that will fundamentally change the world. I didn't ask him anything about Valve, and this is entirely me putting words in his mouth. But I feel like if I asked him about Half-Life 3 and he replied honestly, he would say "Half-Life 3? Sounds boring, why would I want to work on that? I want to create a real-life Metaverse."
Now I'm not suggesting that everyone at Valve is obsessed with VR, but I bet Valve has other projects that are similarly ambitious pie-in-the-sky endeavors. My guess is that anyone at Valve who doesn't find DOTA 2 or CS:GO exciting probably has something else that they think is much more exciting than Half-Life 3, and that they're working on it, but that we won't hear about for years if at all.
Seriously people.
Portal 1 would have been nothing without Valve Writers, Voice Actors and Game Designers.
Who expected Glados to be one of the best video game characters of that year? That was all Valve.
Portal 1 without Valve already exists and no one remembers it or even brings it up really in comparison to Portal.
Portal 1 would have been nothing without Valve Writers, Voice Actors and Game Designers.
Who expected Glados to be one of the best video game characters of that year? That was all Valve.
Portal 1 without Valve already exists and no one remembers it or even brings it up really in comparison to Portal.
TheSinkingKnight
Member
I fully believe and expect L4D3 to launch Fall 2015.
Prophet Steve
Member
I really wonder whether you are talking about Portal 2 or DOTA 2 here.
Not to mention CS:GO.
They haven't spoke about anything since... what it was? February with the Valve Dev Days?
Not a word about Steam OS, hardware partnerships for Steam Machines, Source2 or even new games announcements (yeah new games lol). I understand that lots of this stuff is still under huge works but hey at least two words on a random interview saying that everything is going smoothly or a "expect something in 2015"...
Too busy making those MOBA money?
Not a word about Steam OS, hardware partnerships for Steam Machines, Source2 or even new games announcements (yeah new games lol). I understand that lots of this stuff is still under huge works but hey at least two words on a random interview saying that everything is going smoothly or a "expect something in 2015"...
Too busy making those MOBA money?
The Jackdog
Member
I still just don't see the market for steam machines.
Gamers who don't care about PC gaming and the extra bells and whistles that come with a custom built PC will get a console.
Gamers who care about PC gaming and the extra bells and whistles will build a PC.
Who are steam machines for?
As for the question, I'm sure we'll hear stuff in conjunction with source 2
Gamers who don't care about PC gaming and the extra bells and whistles that come with a custom built PC will get a console.
Gamers who care about PC gaming and the extra bells and whistles will build a PC.
Who are steam machines for?
As for the question, I'm sure we'll hear stuff in conjunction with source 2
Glass Shark
Banned
I am starting to doubt that Steam Machines or the Steam Controller will ever actually come out.
funkystudent
Member
Busy consulting with Geoff on The Video Game Awards apparently.
Steam Machines are merely a trojan horse for SteamOS, it's meant for people who would like pc performance in a pre set box without the hassle of building an huge pc tower.
vincenth69
Member
Christmas is near. Valve is preparing to infiltrate your wallet and empty it as quickly as it can.
kitschbeam
Member
just release steam controller already!
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Steam's seen some pretty big updates in the last couple months. If the various leaks are anything to go by, they're working on Source Engine 2 and Left 4 Dead 3.
BasilZero
Member
This is the source version.
ashecitism
Member
regarding SteamOS/Machines/Controller:
- got announced too early
- what they announced and released for beta were half-baked at best
- Valve Time
And Source 2 has been stealth launched with Dota worskhop.
- got announced too early
- what they announced and released for beta were half-baked at best
- Valve Time
And Source 2 has been stealth launched with Dota worskhop.