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The Ghost of RubangB said:

Also, I'd take a bullet for you guys."


*looks at Rubang's avatar and then back at picture of Gabe Newell*

It's a commendable offer but I don't think it would do one damned bit of good, man.




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I do enjoy the irony here.

At points when a developer would say something negative towards Wii and Wii fans would angrily retort, PS3/X360 fans would demand we get over it and then rant why the Wii sucks. Well now a developer who simply says we aren't developing for PS3 at this time comes forth and PS3 fans go nuts.



The rEVOLution is not being televised

Technically there is a chance Valve could make a kid's game on Wii from a recent interview, but there will never be a time when Valve cares about anything more than PC.

You have to understand that the money they made on the (rather mediocre) sales of The Orange Box on 360 and PS3 is nothing compared to what they make selling their games on Steam and selling advertising space for Steam. The PC is their bread and butter in every way.  



After offering a bad version of orange box they decided not to work again for PS3. Only if EA ask them to do...



Valve have tried their hand at consoles. Half Life was gone on the Dreamcast, before it was cancelled and the project was shifted to the PS2 with an exclusive sidestory called Half Life : Decay starring 2 female assistants of Dr. Foreman with splitscreen co-op gameplay featuring primarily.
The PS2 version of Half Life eventually hit about 1.25-1.5 million WW, not a great hit. The PS2 version had higher polygon count and improved graphics compared to the PC version.



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naznatips said:
rocketpig said:
*bleu-ocelot* said:
Everybody don't go bashing Valve now,i mean if a developer isn't comfortable developing a game for a certain system then he they should not be forced to and probably wont be.

Heh, bashing Valve is a good way to immediately piss off 4-5 of the mods on this site. Honestly, Valve is one of those developers like Team ICO. They're just not a company you can find ways to bash without coming off as a jackass.


Yes.

If you haven't figured it out by now people about half the mods on this site are PC gamers first. I like to think it gives us a slightly more nuetral perspective on the consoles themselves. Valve and Blizzard bashers shall be destroyed! (I won't really ban you for having an opinion. It's a joke.)


Seriously, if it were up to me, it'd be an offense worth 60 days in jail depending on which game they bashed. 120 days if a Korean bashes it, simply for being a traitor to his countrymen!



Fonzerelli said:
Valve have tried their hand at consoles. Half Life was gone on the Dreamcast, before it was cancelled and the project was shifted to the PS2 with an exclusive sidestory called Half Life : Decay starring 2 female assistants of Dr. Foreman with splitscreen co-op gameplay featuring primarily.
The PS2 version of Half Life eventually hit about 1.25-1.5 million WW, not a great hit. The PS2 version had higher polygon count and improved graphics compared to the PC version.

 I don't know who did Half Life on Dreamcast, but Gearbox (the guys who made the add-on Half Life: Opposing Forces) did Half Life on the PS2.  It was a very good port and had multiplayer options...though higher polygon count and improved graphics over the PC version?  I'm not so sure about that one...

And EA published Half Life 2 on the original Xbox, as well as the Orange Box for 360 and PS3 of course.



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eliasg said:
After offering a bad version of orange box they decided not to work again for PS3. Only if EA ask them to do...

Wrong, Valve never worked on the PS3. It was EA that offered themselves to make the port to the PS3, Valve did not touch the PS3 version.



Fonzerelli said:
Valve have tried their hand at consoles. Half Life was gone on the Dreamcast, before it was cancelled and the project was shifted to the PS2 with an exclusive sidestory called Half Life : Decay starring 2 female assistants of Dr. Foreman with splitscreen co-op gameplay featuring primarily.
The PS2 version of Half Life eventually hit about 1.25-1.5 million WW, not a great hit. The PS2 version had higher polygon count and improved graphics compared to the PC version.

 Yes it was very sad that the Dreamcast version was canned at the last minute,as they had upgraded it to the point that the PS2 version did not look any better than the DC one. They made Blue Shift just for the DC, and said that an on-line version was also in the works. The rumor later was that Sony had bought the exclusive rights to Half Life because the folks at Valve had told them the Dreamcast version would have been equal to or a little bit better than the PS2 version.

Luckily a Dreamcast beta version was leaked on-line so most DC owners were able to download a copy, it is one of the four unrealeased Dreamcast titles that even the most anti-pirate DC owner will look the other way when someone says they have a copy. 

Sega made a developement kit just for the PC developers which is why so many PC games were ported over, as a matter of fact some of them could be played on-line against each other.

It would seem that there were folks at Valve who loved the Dreamcast as one of the major cheats was _ _ _ _ loves Dreamcast. 



Dreamcast-18 years later "It's Still Thinking"

For not being PS3 developers and actually doesnt having a clue at how the machine works they have had their fair share of trolling against it isnt it?

 

Specially that obese guy....