President of Gearbox questions Valves lack of PS3 support.

[Pristine20]

Procrastinato said:

Pristine20 said:
i've never played a valve game and I really cant see why the one's that are out there are so hyped so I really don't care for the lack of ps3 support. Why is a game where you team up to shoot zombies, with no story whatsoever, so much fun? I saw my bro playing l4d and I just don't get why it's fun. Maybe I'm just ignorant. Oh well, to each, his own

Most of Valve's games have really good level design and gameplay.

From the tech-perspective, they were some of the first devs to jump on the some modern shader techniques (they are just down the road from MS, after all) with HL2, and thus, people think they have good engineers -- when in fact its MS that has the good engineers.  Valve does good game design, and some decent art.  Every Valve game follows this same path -- good gameplay, but nothing interesting or new technologically.  HL, HL2, TF, TF2, L4D, L4D2... all good games.  Only HL2 was impressive, and only because MS held their hands, IMO.

L4D is a fun game.  Its not a technologically impressive game at all.  Valve's standpoint on console hardware differences is meaningless.

Fair enough. I wasn't particularly impressed with l4d's gameplay but thats entirely opinionated