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Erik Wolpaw(Co-Writer of the Half-Life episodes, Portal, and Portal 2) is allegedly back at Valve
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Didn't he just leave?
I really hope it's true though. The Portal games had such incredible writing.
I really hope it's true though. The Portal games had such incredible writing.
Damn first Jay Pinkerton, then Adrian Finol, and now Erik Wolpaw. This has been quite the year for returning Valve superstars.
Trying hard not to make an "Ito Square-Enix janitor" joke.
Anywho, I'm really happy to see him back at Valve!! His writing is what makes their games for me.
I wonder if Valve will ever release a product that makes all the random comings and goings of big names make sense.
didn't he leave because he was tired of writing flavor text for MP games though (one of the reasons)?
I'm not getting my hopes up
But if Valve is actually going to develop games again.... nope nope nope not going to get my hopes up.
... Buuut... aaaaah damn it!
But if Valve is actually going to develop games again.... nope nope nope not going to get my hopes up.
... Buuut... aaaaah damn it!
The comings and goings of Valve don't merit the drama people often like to impose on them. Valve seems to be very accepting of people leaving for a while to then come back. This is also pretty common in a lot of large tech companies.
They're working on three VR titles, one which is strongly rumored to be Half-Life VR. It's likely we'll see a lot more comings and goings as these develop.
They're working on three VR titles, one which is strongly rumored to be Half-Life VR. It's likely we'll see a lot more comings and goings as these develop.
It's true, for tech-oriented or more creative jobs it's generally expected that people will hop around from company to company a lot. It can be easy for people to get stuck at one company with no advancement opportunities or creative chances, leave, then come back with more knowledge and greater options.
Laidlaw retired and is writing books again. Not really sure why this matters so much considering the length of time that has past and how old some of these pedestaled devs / writers etc are. There are lots of great writers around and Valve certainly has been picking some interesting ones up. It's been obvious for several years that VR is the big target of their efforts as a company for the near term.
Being "excited" is probably for the hype mongers. Being interested what in talented devs / writers etc may do is a better response to me
Cool, hope he gets to work on something narrative driven, even if it isn't Half-life.
Narratively Portal doesn't need another sequel at all, but I'd still take it obviously.
Eh, I imagine the story stuff is probably some of the first things they hammered out for that game, given that's kinda their strength.
The dream continu3s.
Narratively Portal doesn't need another sequel at all, but I'd still take it obviously.
Eh, I imagine the story stuff is probably some of the first things they hammered out for that game, given that's kinda their strength.
I'll take anything that includes portal gun and puzzles even in VR. It doesn't need to be follow up or sequel to 2 (which is not happening because the story is finished).
