Denk jij dat Half-Life 2 episode 3 nog gaat verschijnen? Of Half-Life 3? De hoop begint zo ongeveer op te raken. Het lijkt erop dat Valve de franchise heeft laten vallen. Volgens Randy Pitchford, baas van ontwikkelaar Gearbox, moet Valve zich schamen en zich weer eens op games moeten gaan richten. Met de onthulling van Valve’s SteamOS en Steam Box zegt Pitchford dat mensen liever een nieuwe Half-Life spelen, dan dat ze extra moeten betalen voor nog meer hardware. Hij is wel nieuwsgierig naar Valve’s hardware, maar snapt niet waarom de focus van het bedrijf daar ligt.
I want to fiddle around with their controller. I’m curious what spectrum of propositions will be made with the specific machine offerings, but am sceptical that something will appear that leads me to think it’s a good decision to replace my PC. Maybe that’s not their aim – we’ll all learn more soon. But the burden to add an additional thing beyond the PC I am likely to keep is pretty high, so we’ll see if any of their machines can get me there if their intent is that these are dedicated Steam OS machines.
I want to see Half-Life 3 or other exciting and big and original offerings from these guys who are amongst the best in the world at crafting interactive entertainment and are resourced better than anyone. As long as Steam and Valve are one entity, I am always going to feel uneasy that attention and resources towards the platform is distracting attention and resources away from the entertainment they could (should?) be creating. I guess I am just a greedy gamer who wants to be blown away playing more of the best, new video games in the world, so I selfishly want to know that the incredible talent at Valve is spending 100 percent of their mindshare building new video games!
