Poll: Valve's Big Surprise: What do you want it to be
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I want something for TF2, but definitely not TF3. That would just confuse everyone whose very lives are held together by TF2. It's the kind of game we can all keep playing for decades if they keep polishing it. So, shinies for TF2, and if you'd be so kind, let the L4D franchise rest. They're good enough games for us to get into without you confusing us with another. I love 1, but can't play it because it confuses me- 'I want to play zombies... but I should play 2, because it's newer...'.
Oh, and Episode 3. Not that you're ever going to make it, you rats.
Oh, and Episode 3. Not that you're ever going to make it, you rats.
With each major game release there has been a tweaked version of the engine with better visuals and more things added, originally the split was (I'm not counting the slight changes made when Episode 1 was released because it's a lot easier if I don't):Reep said:
The "Source/Episode 1" Engine: CS:S, DOD:S, Half-life 2, Episode 1
The "Orange Box" Engine: TF2, Portal, Episode 2
The "L4D1" Engine: L4D1
The "L4D2" engine: L4D2
However since then they ported DOD:S onto the Orange Box engine a while ago, and continued to update the TF2 and DOD:S engine without changing the Portal or Episode 2 engine. Recently with the release of Steam for Mac there has been some major re-shuffling, HL2 and Ep1 were ported onto the Ep2 Engine, and CS:S currently has a beta going for porting it to the OB engine, the main reason for these changes were so that Valve only had to port the OB engine and higher onto the Mac instead of also having to port the Ep1 engine, which could have caused some issues, after the reshuffling it (as far as I'm aware) currently looks like this:
Source engine 2006: CS:S
Source engine 2007: HL2, Ep1, Ep2 (and I would have thought Portal would also be under this list but for some reason Source SDK shows it as being under the later version)
Source engine 2009: TF2, Portal, DOD:S, CS:S Beta
The L4D games kept their respective engines. The reason HL2 and Ep1 are still shown in the 2006 section of Source SDK is (AFAIK) it hasn't been updated to change them yet. I could be wrong about this but that's my current understanding of it, correct me if I'm wrong.
I'm not sure if Portal 2 will run using the L4D2 engine (being the latest and best looking actual build), an updated version of the L4D2 engine, an updated version of the Source 2009 engine, or an entirely new build of the engine altogether, we'll have to wait and see.
Also I just saw this:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/101146-Gabe-Newell-Valve-E3-Surprise-Isnt-Episode-3
and died a little inside. =/
It won't been episode 3. That's been confirmed. The Gabe could just be fucking with us and it's in fact Half Life 3.
But personally I'd rather see something completely new. I'm tired of sequels, let's see something creative and new for a change.
But personally I'd rather see something completely new. I'm tired of sequels, let's see something creative and new for a change.
Half-life: The Strategy Game.
Play as either combine or the resistance! Reclaim city blocks and bombard populated areas with head crab rockets! Conscript the people you find in city blocks as either, well, uncontrollable zombies, or turn them into combine transhumans, or have them join your glorious war for freeing the Earth from alien overlords!
Wow, that actually sounds pretty cool if not very likely. It'd make a pretty cool strategy game slightly similar to WH40K in sense that controlling city blocks would be the only way to get resources - there wouldn't be some kind of a generic mining/tree cutting/whatever for your workers to do.
Play as either combine or the resistance! Reclaim city blocks and bombard populated areas with head crab rockets! Conscript the people you find in city blocks as either, well, uncontrollable zombies, or turn them into combine transhumans, or have them join your glorious war for freeing the Earth from alien overlords!
Wow, that actually sounds pretty cool if not very likely. It'd make a pretty cool strategy game slightly similar to WH40K in sense that controlling city blocks would be the only way to get resources - there wouldn't be some kind of a generic mining/tree cutting/whatever for your workers to do.
You, guys, will probably hate me for this but I really want more Left 4 Dead.
I enjoyed both games immensely and love coop more than any other type of game mode.
I enjoyed both games immensely and love coop more than any other type of game mode.
Blasphemy I know but I didn't think of HL2 as the second coming of the fps revolution everyone else did. When it comes to valve's games sure they are good but the word over-hyped is a good word here. Maybe a new engine or the ability to have all steam games a cloud service? No installing on hard drive and no graphic requirement? Sign me up!
I would say a brand new game or my personnal hope: TF2 free on Mac.
Note* The latter will only be a dream. The free part that is.
Note* The latter will only be a dream. The free part that is.
God no, if that ever happened I would probably just stop using Steam altogether (unless it was optional), not only is that EXTREMELY unlikely, but if it ever happened it would suffer from exactly the same problems that make me extremely doubtful of OnLive.rpspartin said: