So for that reason I am not surprised Valve said fuck it we don't want to spend time on something only to have people complain about how we didn't do our series justice. I don't understand why other than people like to bitch about stuff. They almost go out of their way to complain and find a reason to say every game is a pile of shit. They either think the graphics aren't where they should be, their story isn't what it should be, gameplay isn't what they think it should be. Honesty I don't know if a single sequel / remake has come out in the past 5 years that people haven't bitched whined and moaned were nowhere near as good as the original or earlier games. Duke Nukem Forver as 12 years of waiting was shit. Skyrim was a shit game that wasn't as good as previous games and was a major let down, Fallout 4 was a shit game, of course we all know how much fans hated Mass Effect 3 & Andromeda. listen to people in here and other parts of the internet. No games are good enough, no game lives up to its series. As a majority now gamers bitch about every little thing. It is simply looking at what happens with every other game that comes out and the current mentality of gamers.
then simply giving up on ever releasing Legacy of the Void after they had already announced it. As I said, what Valve did would have been the equivalent of Blizzard announcing Wings of Liberty, Heart of the Swarm, and Legacy of the Void. They finished episode 2, left the story on a cliffhanger, then proceeded to hype up episode 3 for quite a while. They were at the conferences, they did the interviews with websites and magazines, etc. When Valve announced the Episodic content for HL2, they hyped it up big time. Then when they did decide to finally make it, they actually followed through on their commitment. My point was that a StarCraft 2 was never expected to be made by anyone other than Blizzard because Blizzard themselves didn't hype it up. What I was pointing out was your use of StarCraft as an example that no game can live up to it's hype that long after release. Frankly, I think it would be great if they handed it off.
It might check all the technical boxes, but may lack a lot of heart and raw greatness.Ĭlick to expand.I'm not even arguing that part of your post. It would be like a big record label assembling a band from highly skilled studio musicians though. Valve could definitely assemble such a team, but I'm pretty sure their current team isn't that. I have to think that there is more talent for game making in other studios now. Valve is perfectly welcome to prove me wrong, and drop some big incredible game (HL or not) that we all love more than anything else, but I don't expect it, nor do I really care unless they actually do. Meanwhile there are other people making games, some of which are likely better than anything that HL2.3 or 3 might've been. Just that now that they have, I wouldn't expect much from them where new games are concerned. I don't even mind what Valve moved on to. Not some group of people who've basically moved on. Those are the people that can bring us new and interesting experiences. I'm actually fine with them continuing down that path, and leaving the game development to people who are actually interested in doing it.
You can argue this point, some do, but Valve pretty much unified PC gaming, gave us a mostly centralized place to buy from, and generally did good things for the platform.