The Valve and Steam Platform Discussion Thread

Quetzacoatl · Aug 16, 2012

Where do people get these pics?

Puxirepublic · Aug 16, 2012

Multi-headed Cow · Aug 16, 2012

I looked at the beta for the new Steam community shit, holy hell it's awful. For example, there was the old community page that listed happenings on your friends list, like so-and-so achieved such-and such, and so-and-so took a screenshot in whatever. Now it's that only with giant thumbnails of the screenshots and pictures of game boxes and all manner of stupid shit.

The game specific pages are pretty useless too. Again, a whole bunch of screenshots by random people and random links to mods regurgitated on a webpage. I guess it could be fun to take a bunch of burly nord sex screenshots in Skyrim and try to get them on the Skyrim list, but apart from that I don't know what the hell Valve was thinking.

Metro · Aug 16, 2012

Yeah I saw all that and couldn't care less about it. I guess it's meant to appeal to the facebook/twitter crowd that thinks people want to see every inane thing they do.

Pika-Cthulhu · Aug 17, 2012

inb4 steam community achievements.

Gragt · Aug 17, 2012

There are already badges for the sales. It's the next logical step.

Multi-headed Cow · Aug 17, 2012

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Morgoth · Aug 17, 2012

BREAKING: Gabe Newell on Half-Life 3: "I hate sharks"

:hmmm:

CorpseZeb · Aug 23, 2012

Translate: he's worried about jumping over the shark in the context of HL3.

Ps. ... ha!

Icewater · Aug 23, 2012

why won't this corpulent fuck just give us some info already

Metro · Aug 23, 2012

Probably because there is none? Are people really that eager to see HL 2 Episode 3 or HL 3? HL2 was an okay game but I don't really find myself pining for a sequel. Not when L4D2 and Portal 2 were wholly underwhelming.

Oriebam · Aug 23, 2012

CorpseZeb said:
Translate: he's worried about jumping over the shark in the context of HL3.

Ps. ... ha!

huh, I didn't actually realize the "jumping shark" thing, thought it was lolrandumb or something

:thumbsup:

Menckenstein · Aug 23, 2012

Half-Life 3 will come out in the form of a valvemoviefilm made in source filmmaker.

SkullSplitter · Aug 24, 2012

@_@ (Pic from /v/, previously reddit I think?)

DemonKing · Aug 24, 2012

Metro said:
Are people really that eager to see HL 2 Episode 3 or HL 3? HL2 was an okay game but I don't really find myself pining for a sequel.

I recently replayed HL2 Episode 2 and its a pretty good FPS game with decent storytelling. The last sequence leading to the end credits was well-executed and certainly left me egaer to see where they'd go from there. Of course, the longer they take to produce HL3/Episode 3 the less likely we are to get something that meets expectations or that people will remember enough to care.

I still cringe when I play a more recent FPS and find the whole story is contained on audio-tapes left lying around the place (hello Bioshock) when HL2 managed to convey a story seemlessly into the gameplay years beforehand.

Jaesun · Aug 25, 2012

No. The really good story telling starts and ends with Pick Up The Can.

Gragt · Aug 25, 2012

But Valve still create great characters, unlike other games.

Bonus for Ultima fans.

Cry "Butthurt!" and let slip the dogs of war.

Jaesun · Aug 25, 2012

I personally don't think HL2 is a TERRIBLE FPS. Mechanics wise, it is fairly solid. Engine is good. (I HATED the fucking awful vehicle mission shit). The whole intro up to Pick up the Can is GREAT.

Half Life is GREAT. It is a wonderful game, but something just got lost between HL and HL2. Sure, those huge fucking walker things? AWESOME. Etc...

The creativity that spawned the first HL just seems to have gone the way of the popamole. THAT is something Valve needs to get back.

Metro · Aug 25, 2012

I could live with the vehicle sections if they weren't as long as they are... but they are... and oh God are they tedious and painful.

IDtenT · Aug 25, 2012

There is no question that the HL series sits pretty on the FPS heap. The problem is the heap is so filled with shit it is practically shit. Automatically HL series gets over-rated, because it's good for what it is.

Oriebam · Aug 25, 2012

I don't know why I like HL2 much as I do... athmosphere, I guess?

Infinitron · Aug 25, 2012

The Half Life series appeals to RPG fans because it shares many characteristics with the dungeon crawler genre (lots of atmosphere, good sense of progression, not much hand holding from NPCs, emphasis on puzzles)