Comments on: Valve Buys Pet Turtle

By: FuzzDad

FuzzDad — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:40:21 +0000

It’s a smart move. Valve will be able to add development time beyond what they’ve already done for TR (I was at Valve’s HQ a year ago and they were working w/TR then on the game), they offer an extremely well funded organization that perhaps TR lacked, and since all we’ve seen are action scenes that seem to repeat themselves, perhaps Valve’s prodigious story-telling machine will add some pacing or flow to the game outside of four people running through decrepit buildings.

PS: Mr Softpants: Valve is also working on an update to DoDS…we should get some bug fixes, a new CoF, a map, and the move to the core EP2 engine (the same source engine used by TF2). A month or so.

By: poullos

poullos — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:30:40 +0000

@Mr. Softpants,

This is one of the things valve does, and love: supporting games to an extend of expansion without any return except playing them.

By: Mr. Softpants

Mr. Softpants — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:08:11 +0000

Also, Valve mentioned later last year that TR will indeed go back to CS:S after L4D’s launch and do a sort of “revamp” of the game.

I’m actually excited to see Valve and TR pump new life into that game as well. Especially with the latest Source engine updates. Maybe DOD:S can get the same love too? :o

By: Mr. Softpants

Mr. Softpants — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:05:02 +0000

@ Andrew B,

Valve let’s me look up porn and stalk ex-girlfriends? :O

By: Dude

Dude — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:31:15 +0000

A french gaming website only about FPS report that valve has push left4dead for aout/septembre, I fell I wanna cry…
source:www.nofrag.com
(from my experience they don’t bullshit on this website)

By: Andrew B

Andrew B — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:06:01 +0000

Valve is the Google of game developers.

By: kadayi

kadayi — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:53:34 +0000

‘kadayi: Mike Booth wrote the majority of the AI for the bots in CSS – in fact, TR did a lot of work on CSS.’

If that’s the case, why are the bots so much smarter in CZ? Their navigation in CS:S is second rate in comparison.

By: Lightbulb

Lightbulb — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:05:42 +0000

When i hear of EA buying someone i think: Well thats that game fucked then.

When Valve by someone i think, *shrug* good for the devs they got some money.

By: Freelancepolice

Freelancepolice — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:10:14 +0000

Unlikely, episode 3 is potentially 2009. I’d hope we’ll see L4dead in march time.
It does certainly seem ready to release but valve ususually don’t set a date until they’re absolutely sure it’ll ship on that date. Otherwise it just tends to be a Quarter they specify.
Anyway this merger may of affected the release slightly

By: Dude

Dude — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:57:18 +0000

So will left4dead be publish in a kind of orange box deal with episode 3?
I hope not, that would mean another year or so to wait for it… But it might just happen as the game looks ready to ship but we still have no release date.
Meh, me want shoot zombies.

By: Pwnzerfaust

Pwnzerfaust — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:08:29 +0000

Considering I have nothing but love for Gabe and his band of merry men, I wholehearted accept this merger. Though Turtle Rock would have had a bit more personality as an individual company, I think they’ll fair that much better under Valve’s wing, much like what happened with the Portal team.

By: Matt Dovey

Matt Dovey — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:14:19 +0000

Sainsbury’s? You posh buggers. And I always thought blogging was a starving artist kind of profession.