How did Valve win?

[Jaranja]

I just found the story boring and I felt it never even tried to engage me.

Might have something to do with Gordon Freeman, I mean if your character can't show any emotion how is anyone suppose to feel like they're being engaged.

Although if seeing enough shows like this has taught me anything, expect GF to pull off his human mask to show a 180 pound preying mantis underneath in the third act...lol

Don't be silly...

It's obviously a dinosaur.

 

[Rednog]

The cavalry arrived, /b/ and steam showed up and fought them off!

Erm.. your memory might be a bit fuzzy.

Close to the end an announcment was put up on the 4chan group. I'm guessing thats who helped along with the steam announcment.

Well them and probably /v/

I honestly think that this is true, despite some threats of /b/ voting for Zynga "for the lulz", I think that some realized there is more lulz to be hand by trolling people on facebook when they cry that Zynga lost. That and the steam announcement helped a ton, I know that half my friends on steam who had never heard of the escapist before were like hey did you hear about this contest?

As far as I can tell this is pretty much correct. Support came from unlikely fronts and bailed us out. Hard to think of /b/ as the Rohan to our Gondor but meh, never look a ift horse in the mouth.

In a side note: I love your avatar.

Thanks, I really appreciate that, I've been working a while to spruce up my avatar, glad someone likes it

 

[real life potato]

They were losing, and then everyone remembered what Valve gave us:

Half Life 2.

Counterstrike is more accurate as more people are die hard fans of that for longer.

Yes, Counterstrike is the best multiplayer FPS since multiplayer sliced bread, but Half Life 2 gives gaming nerds orgasms. It's a SCIENTIST. Kicking ASS. Kicking MAJOR ass with a crowbar. It's hard to compare the two, but I'd have to say that HL2 easily beats Counterstrike.

 

[Plurralbles]

They were losing, and then everyone remembered what Valve gave us:

Half Life 2.

Counterstrike is more accurate as more people are die hard fans of that for longer.

Yes, Counterstrike is the best multiplayer FPS since multiplayer sliced bread, but Half Life 2 gives gaming nerds orgasms. It's a SCIENTIST. Kicking ASS. Kicking MAJOR ass with a crowbar. It's hard to compare the two, but I'd have to say that HL2 easily beats Counterstrike.

But CS was the Halo of its day. It brought in non gamers by droves.

 

[Nikolaz72]

It makes it much more fun.

Yeah that's true.

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You know, honestly I think Valve has been getting lazy...=P

Maybe it's the nostalgia goggles but I think Bioware hasn't matched the quality of BG1&2 yet.

I did really like Portal, though. I just don't understand the fuss about Half-life 2. Can you explain why you think it's good?

Mass Effect (35 Hours)
Mass Effect 2 (60 hours)
Dragonage i left and came back to now and then it was quite good (120 hours gametime)
Neverwinter Nights (Woah. This ate a lot, but i think its more Atari than Bioware)-3-500 Hours


Halflife 2 i was locked at the computer till the point of finish because of the interresting storytelling combined with some of the best gameplay of its time ( 20 hours gametime )

But when you add the couple of halflife 2 mods...

(Garry's mod) [360 Hours played)
(Battlegrounds 2)
(Synergy)
(Age of Chivalry)
(Obsidian Conflict)
(Zombie master)
(Zombie panic)
-All mods apart from Gmod rounds up to about 100

-Numbers come from steam. All except neverwinter nights where i just made a good guess (Playtime times Days equals- I believe i played enough of each to be a judge


If it was between a Bioware game or a Valve game i would almost every time choose a valve game due to the Half Life series being easily modable. Few DLC and most of the stuff that comes is Free! (Im looking at you 60$ ofmass effect DLC)

And They are in my opinion more well written and it has such a big modding community that basicly opens whole new games for free all downloadable over steam.

All in all i believe Valve gives more for the money in Patches and its Modding communit than Bioware does in its patching and biowarepoints DLC

(Sorry for reviving a dead thread didnt see how old the last post was )