GabeN confirmed as well. Valve is gearing for a new announcement? A lot of writers returned to Valve in the last year.
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Erik Wolpaw (writer of Portal 1-2, co-wrote HL2 Eps 1-2) is back at Valve
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GabeN confirmed as well. Valve is gearing for a new announcement? A lot of writers returned to Valve in the last year.
Don't waste this dude's talent. Give us some actual freakin' games, Valve, instead of yet another vehicle for microstransactions.
What dumb shit? It's an honest assessment, according to my own opinion, of Valve's repertoire.
That game's basically content-complete, according to the latest dev vlog, so I think his job on that one is done.
No "might not" about it. I won't be what people want. Which is to say, an actual ending to the actual thing they started a decade+ ago. That ship has sailed.
I think there's a chance that they'll start releasing some interesting stuff again though, in the context of VR, what with the Campo Santo acquisition. Maybe some sort of Half Life experience springs from that, who knows.
Glad to see someone else is on the same page. Call me when something is actually announced.
Hopefully we get a single player game from them, preferably something first person again. HL 1/2 and the Portal games were all so good. L4D series was pretty fun as well but preferably we get something more of a campaign from em
I dont really care about MOBA or card stuff.
I dont really care about MOBA or card stuff.
He was still working at Valve when he started on Psychonauts 2. There was a gag in the original crowdfunding video about Gabe letting him work on it (it's around the 2:52 mark in the video below). If he has anything left to write on it, still, I would imagine the same deal would be in place.
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Ill update my memes when valve updates their catalog with a non-monetized cashgrab
https://www.giantbomb.com/articles/erik-wolpaws-top-10-games-of-2017/1100-5658/
Well, that's it. I'm out of the game industry and have no plans to return.
I wonder what happened...
Well, that's it. I'm out of the game industry and have no plans to return.
I wonder what happened...
I think in this case it's less of a "Valve no longer makes games" false argument and more down to the fact Erik Wolpaw is specifically a writer and Valve haven't released a narrative-focused title for eight years now. Completely agree that its silly to say Valve haven't done anything since Portal 2 as they have CS, Dota, and Artifact - but it's definitely exciting that there seems to be a reason they have high-profile writers returning to the company.
I'm still convinced that Valve will be the ones who release the VR killer app. They're developing the VR Hard- and Software and that's why it's taking an eternity.
20m unique players (not a real game though)
Yakuza 0 on number 1. This dude has great taste.
I highly doubt people think that they haven't made real games since P2, but I would find it to be a shame if someone of Wolpaws talents would be working on something akin to their recent output.
No one's denying they're great at making really popular and financially successful games. It's just too bad that it has come at the expense of games that have anything in the way of narrative value.
It's not about that. It's about the MT in every fucking game. They build their games around those. The loot boxes that everyone hates so much basically started with Valve.
Here's a crazy thought: maybe Wolpaw likes working at Valve even though it doesn't develop singleplayer narrative-driven games anymore.
Okay? What's your point? Fact of the matter is that he hasn't had the chance to write anything of actual substance since Portal 2. Whether he minds that or not has no bearing on whether or not his talent is being wasted.
I bet if they actually got Half Life 3 going or some canonical continuation of Episode 2, they could get him and Laidlaw back just for that production's duration.
Laidlaw did cite the work environment as being one of the reasons he quit, not specifically because of Valve but because of how game-development works and how "chaotic" it can be, which valve is due to how they move between projects all the time.
I mean, that whole vegan juice salesman narrative is merely a joke, isn't it? I don't think the sentence you quoted was said in earnest either.
The real games dumb shit. DOTA2 is the best game in the world and valve is actively working on it.
Yeah but I wasn't talking about TF hats which I'm p sure aren't even a thing anymore.
Well, that's, at best, debatable. What is less debatable though, is that Wolpaw's talent is wasted on whatever sort of work he does on DOTA 2.