Fiend Matador posted:

Lumpy the Cook posted:

I can. You know what? gently caress irony, enough joking, time to be sincere and caremad: Valve used to set trends*, not follow them. The fact that they're willing to do blatantly follow the example of other popular game trends, especially in the wake of many of their senior level/gameplay designers, writers, game programmers etc. leaving in the last couple of years, is a really bad sign and further verifies the rumors that in-house game development is far on on the back burner. In half a decade Valve won't be a game developer, they'll be a former game developer. They'll be "that company that runs Steam".

*in fact, the 'innovative' trends Valve set were mostly bad, like unskippable narrative levels in action games, and elevator/tram sections, and microtransactions/loot boxes in non-free2play games. I sincerely doubt that there is anything that the prospective Half-Life 3, which every gaming community wishes for, could do to actually set good trends and not be wholly derivative of games it influenced (a'la Duke Nukem Forever)... So ah gently caress 'em anyway, they've done way more harm to gaming than good

Pablo Gigante posted:

It's kind of shocking how Konami pulled the biggest heel turn in gaming history

Sir John Feelgood posted:

If you want a vision of the future of PC gaming, imagine Blizzard and Valve ripping each other off - forever.

In Training posted:

It's sick as hell

Rock My Socks! posted:

its called artifact because it is going to cause the collapse of human civilization and artifacts will be all that is left of our pathetic race