MikeB said:
IMO they peaked with Half-Life 1. I loved Half-Life 2 as well, but they are lagging behind with regard to coding competence and fail to really amaze like they did before. The thread question is about most over-rated. I didn't say Valve released horrible games, I just think many overate their current company competence. BTW, IMO Bungie nose dived as well compared to their Macintosh era. |
That's interesting mainly because Half-Life 2 was revolutionary when it was released in 2004, and looked far better than its competition (Doom 3) while still maintaining reasonable minimum requirements. Half-Life 2 was also considered such a breakthrough from a gameplay perspective because it offered a ton of variety, and just as you were begining to get tired of an environment or action they mixed it up on you ...
As for Chronotrigger JM's assumption that Gabe didn't feel like learning the PS3's hardware, maybe Gabe realized that the Source engine is 4 years old and his time would be better spent developing a new engine.
