vallorn said:
I think you're making a fundamental mistake on what people took issue with for Mass Effect 3's story, namely that the ending was a literal deus ex machina the likes of which has been out of favour with sci-fi audiences for over 50 years at the least, and it doesn't work both logically and narratively to the point where it feels like it was made by different people who had no involvement with the story up to that point and didn't really care for it. Probably because it actually WAS written by people who had no involvement with the story up to that point and from the looks of it didn't care that their plothole filled ending made no sense in the context of the lore it was a part of.JohnZ117 said:
Stuff like "steam doesn't have a management system" I don't know the inner workings of steam but I can't see how a company can work like that, people just turning into work doing what they think is right and then leaving. companies need direction and over sight, someone to manage resources ... I work in a kitchen and the effects of not communicating can be crippling. Also seems weird that it has no formal structure but it's always "lord Gaben" and Gabe speaking for steam ... not exactly anon is it?vallorn said:
I think one serious issue that's likely been holding it back is that between when development started and now software has leaped forward quite a bit, and developers have been finding new tricks to take advantage of the physics engines they have to work with. I honestly think that their work on Source 2 may have been in part so they could use the new engine for it and other games they want to make. People harp on the fact that thanks to Steam and the economies of TF2, Dota and CS:GO they don't need to make games anymore, but while that's true many of the people, both who founded the company and who have been hired in the past decade, are ones who have a clear passion for making games, so that financial stability just means that they have more time to work on quality work instead of rushing it.Xeros said:
omega 616 said:
Valve's structure is unconventional, but there is very much one there such as the aforementioned CEO and PR's face of the company Gabe. One thing which does make things different for them is the fact that developers choose which of the projects they have active at any given time to work on, with there being claims by some employs that their desks are made to be easily pushed to a different project if they want to do so. Not exactly structureless, but definitely far from the norm for a company of their size.omega 616 said:
I don't see why anyone is surprised by how long it's taking. Even now it hasn't set the record for longest development time for a Valve game or sequel, TF2 still holds that title for another 2 years. And given the fact that a lot of effort at the company over the past few years seems to have been put into the Source 2 engine coupled with the 'info' that they aren't working on Half Life being as dubious as that which shows they are, coupled with every half life game still being updated on a regular basis even to this day (hell they updated them just in the past week again) it seem that there are, at the very least, a few devs over there still keeping it alive.
Not sure which one you're talking about, because that sure isn't Half Life.
Zomg that pic is so funny ....!Josh123914 said:
Sorry but yes, I was speaking about half life being mediocre ... if not plain boring. The only thing it got right was the gravity gun.Zontar said:
As much as I dislike VR, I don't think I'd mind it in this instance. Half-Life has had so many damn surprises, devs playing pranks on the players, their [s/]build-a-bear[/s] create-a-solution platforming and just general fun in the exploring parts of it that it would probably work really damn well.CrystalShadow said:
Well, they have put a lot of time, money and effort into developing the Source Engine 2 over the past few years, so I think it's safe to say that's what a lot of them have been doing outside of patching and updating their games, since it seems their games after its release will be using it (hell even already out games are seeing re-releases using it like Dota 2).omega 616 said:
I think something you're forgetting is that there where about a half dozen other games on the list of ones people have been waiting equally long for, and that they too have been announced, made or confirmed as being dead IP, so it's no surprise that the last one which has had rumours that ever even fairly recent that it is being made hold some weight. I mean hell, just look at Fallout 4, Bethesda didn't even made a single piece of official news or anything else which implied it was being made during their past 7 years of development, and only made its existence know within 6 months of its release.
And it was 9 years between TF and TF2, plus as I've stated before there's the Source 2 engine which took a lot of their manpower to get up and running. Until they come out and say they aren't making it anymore, or the evidence that they aren't starts to outweigh that which they are, it's safe to say that the game is just taking its time in being made, which is par for the course with Valve these days.
Have a decent story which deals with the cliffhanger ending of HL2ep2 which is 95% of the reason people want Half Life 3 in the first place. We want to know how the story that we've invested so much time into ends. Plus given the A.I. Half Life 2 had, having that improved could make for the most intelligent bots of any FPS on the market which could actually rely on skill and not automatic hit probability to be a challenge.
Steam probably has a team of employees over it. But Valve famously has wheeled desks as this video also remarks, this is because they are a flat organization with employees at Valve able to wheel their desks around to move from project to project at will. There is no "Management" at Valve really and the "Lord Gaben" thing is an internet pun more than any job title (Which you really should know). Besides, Gabe tends to do PR yes, but if he didn't want to one of the others could do it, as it is everyone recognizes him and so him performing the PR role makes logical sense, it gives a face and humanity to Valve as a company rather than them being a faceless monolith.omega 616 said:
As it is, there is conflicting information here both from this anonymous source who has made repeated mistakes in how Valve is structured internally and from Valve employees and people who keep a very close eye on Valve. As it is, without more evidence than the word of an anonymous source I can't simply disregard everything else like you have.
You should work at that fine, upstanding publication Polygon. [http://i.imgur.com/BqcAmsg.png]
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I don't think it's going to be VR for the mere fact that it would put their game behind a fairly steep paywall. Sure you could say that it would be great for them because they sell the peripheral but I highly doubt it.CrystalShadow said:
Perhaps... But if anyone can afford that kind of risk right now, it's valve.EXos said:
That, and if they didn't say anything people would be kind of pissed they strung them along for all those years about it. At least, I know I would be angry if they just casually dropped a sentence or two about it not being in development at E3 2023 or something like that.Olas said:
