MikeB on 25 April 2008
| BenKenobi88 said: I don't understand the Valve complaints, I'd say they're much better than they were in the Half Life days. Yes the Source engine is getting old, but it still looks about as good as the other engines on the market, and it's even better because it scales to older computers so nicely. That's a REALLY big deal for gamers who can't or don't want to upgrade their PCs. |
Half-Life was IMO amazing for its time in 1998, Half-Life 2 took a while but was pretty great in 2004. Now it's 2008 and I see nothing special like I would have expected from a Half-Life 3. IMO they are no more at the forefront of development, mainly floating on past reputation. For example as for PC developing companies Crytek seems far more ambitious and far more adaptive towards new technology.
Steam is mainly a content deliverly implementation, this implementation may be good and popular but the technology is IMO nothing revolutionary.
