Valve Becomes the New March Mayhem: Developer's Showdown Champion

[dalek sec]

I could have sworn I picked for Valve during the whole line up thing but all I got was the badge for voting all the way through...

Anyways, congrats to Valve and Bioware for making it to the finale showdown!

 

[silver wolf009]

Credit where credit is due. Horray for valve!

 

[brodie21]

bioware should have won. valve only released one game last year and bioware released two great games.

But valve released an entire games worth of content as DLC for free in their games. Best community support out there.

better than the entire game of mass effect 2? for that matter, why are they futzing around with DLC when they could be working on the next half life? what's with that?

Because they want to continue to make their great games even better while they work on all of their other projects. Valve is not a company who needs to overflow the market and rape our wallets with sequel after sequel. HL:Ep3 will get here soon enough, and HL3 sometime after that, but until then ill continue to sink hundreds of hours into TF2 and L4D.

And as far as ME2... other than the dumbed down RPG mechanics, the tedious and fruitless planet scanning, and the constant crashes and clipping bugs it was a great game.

but wasnt the whole point of episodic half lifes being that they would come out more often?

More accurately, it was to make games come out more often. Which we have seen. Since the launch of Ep1 in 2006 we have seen a total of 6 games (Ep1, Ep2, Portal, TF2, L4D, L4D2)in 4 years. Pretty impressive, if you ask me. And counting in this years release (hopefully, See: Valve Time) of Portal 2, that makes 7 total games in a matter of 4.5 years. Not bad considering in the 6 years between HL and HL2 we saw almost nothing official in the HL universe, and only TFC, DoD and CS and their respective Source upgrades. HL:OP, HL:BS, and CS:CZ do not count as they were developed by Gearbox (borderlands).

i was thinking more in terms of just half life, but if you care to check, BioWare released 6 games in four years, and since you counted the future release of Portal 2, Bioware will release Dragon Age 2 on Feb. 1st 2011. which brings the tally to about even.

 

[HavoK 09]

even though i was voting for valve i consider this match a draw, because this way we got 2 winners instead of just one.

it was great battle between two great companies

 

[maddawg IAJI]

Ah well. I voted for Bioware, but I'm proud to see Valve up their. Both sides deserved to win and I'm happy it was so close. Congratulations to both Valve and Bioware, you each fought hard and deserve your spots as Finalists.

 

[Kevimaster]

Yay, Valve!!! Valve == Awesome

Although I do really like BioWare also, but their games I'll play through two or three times, no more than that, I've played through HL series maybe... 5-6 times? plus a couple more once I got cinematic mod. Plus the time I've had in them with Gmod, plus TF2 (almost a thousand hours sunk into that), Portal being amazing, all that stuff, and the amazing community they have (assuming you steer clear of the steam forums), that just puts them at the top IMHO.

EDIT: now that I think about it... why is it that I'm very active in every other forum I'm a part of, but I just lurk this one? lol

 

[Knight Templar]

Ah well, it was a good event.

 

[R4di4ti0n.]

bioware should have won. valve only released one game last year and bioware released two great games.

But valve released an entire games worth of content as DLC for free in their games. Best community support out there.

better than the entire game of mass effect 2? for that matter, why are they futzing around with DLC when they could be working on the next half life? what's with that?

Because they want to continue to make their great games even better while they work on all of their other projects. Valve is not a company who needs to overflow the market and rape our wallets with sequel after sequel. HL:Ep3 will get here soon enough, and HL3 sometime after that, but until then ill continue to sink hundreds of hours into TF2 and L4D.

And as far as ME2... other than the dumbed down RPG mechanics, the tedious and fruitless planet scanning, and the constant crashes and clipping bugs it was a great game.

but wasnt the whole point of episodic half lifes being that they would come out more often?

More accurately, it was to make games come out more often. Which we have seen. Since the launch of Ep1 in 2006 we have seen a total of 6 games (Ep1, Ep2, Portal, TF2, L4D, L4D2)in 4 years. Pretty impressive, if you ask me. And counting in this years release (hopefully, See: Valve Time) of Portal 2, that makes 7 total games in a matter of 4.5 years. Not bad considering in the 6 years between HL and HL2 we saw almost nothing official in the HL universe, and only TFC, DoD and CS and their respective Source upgrades. HL:OP, HL:BS, and CS:CZ do not count as they were developed by Gearbox (borderlands).

i was thinking more in terms of just half life, but if you care to check, BioWare released 6 games in four years, and since you counted the future release of Portal 2, Bioware will release Dragon Age 2 on Feb. 1st 2011. which brings the tally to about even.

I wasnt comparing the releases on Bioware vs. Valve, we know who won that battle. I was stating that by making the HL games episodic they did increase the number games they were able to release per year. You know, in order to counter your point.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

WHAT EVIL SORCERY IS THIS?!?!?!!? MY EYES AND EARS ARE BLEEDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One of my many weapons...

 

[JWAN]

wo hoo!

*exchange butt smacks

lets hope Zynga never recovers

 

[Snotnarok]

I wonder how many casualties (bans) we've had considering how fanboys tend to rage when their favorite company loses.

Either way, neat that Valve won, I'm still waiting for them to release the meet the Medic and Pyro videos! :|

 

[KaimanaMM]

Good game Valve, congrats!

Still am and always will be a Bioware fan, I'll be right there for them next year for another epic showdown. Yay Bioware!

 

[Jumpingbean3]

bioware should have won. valve only released one game last year and bioware released two great games.

But valve released an entire games worth of content as DLC for free in their games. Best community support out there.

better than the entire game of mass effect 2? for that matter, why are they futzing around with DLC when they could be working on the next half life? what's with that?

Well when they were making L4D2 I'm told they had one team working on L4D2 and another working on EP3. Maybe it's the same with TF2. Also I know it's been at least 3 years now but going on about EP3 isn't going to get it released any quicker. Remember, Valve may be slow but they DO release their games. We're talking about Valve here not 3D Realms.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Oh, and post "Still Alive" and you'll feel my wrath.

But this was clearly a triumph...

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I'll do it. I'll finish that embed.

 

[HavoK 09]

Oh, and post "Still Alive" and you'll feel my wrath.

But this was clearly a triumph...

I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.

 

[Irridium]

Well congrats to Valve! I personally didn't care who one, and had to flip a coin. It told me to vote for Bioware, and I obeyed.

All hail the coin.

Oh nice.
Personally I voted for Bioware, but Valve are a great dev, so I'm happy to see them get the win.

Either way,
Anyone But Zynga

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Oh, and post "Still Alive" and you'll feel my wrath.

But this was clearly a triumph...

I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.

That's it...JRPG PHILOSOPHY CANNON!

 

[pedroREE]

Chief-o-rific

Louis, Bill and Zoey are happy.


Francis hates winning.