Valve's Gabe Newell, Wii more interesting and valuable than Graphics/CPU

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JHawkNH said:

scorptile said:
hey ben dont forget the biggest and greatest online multiplayer FPS ever created in counterstrike. these guys know what they are talking about and btw i have a friend online that works for digipen and he knows these guys and says they are so wanting to make games for the wii cause of the controller. i think for some rason the ps3 and xboxz360 hl 2 versions are just ports anyways. i wonder if they do make a game for wii it wont be a port but a new IP FPS game unique to wii only.

Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't Counterstrike a mod create by fans of HL that became so popular that Valve bought the rights to it?

Originally yes but there have been iirc three versions developed and released by valve that have been just as popular if not more so than the original. Its actually a similar situation to the Team Fortress 2 situation.

If you think about it however, with two very popular games (ie Team Fortress & Counter-Strike) coming about through mods for another popular game I think you have to give a lot of credit to Valve for the way they created the original game such that these guys were capable of putting together their ideas into something enjoyable. I won't say valve gets credit for the ingenuity or novelty of the games but I think their existence as great games in their own right, still owes some credit to the engine they are based on.

Edit: PS - I could be wrong on this one but didn't these modders end up getting jobs with valve anyways?