The low gravity and utter amazing slowness of halo makes me hate it, while the story is very nice and the concept of the halo is very cool(which is from a book), the makers had to make it enormously sluggish for gamepad jockeys to have a chance to aim in time, which kills it for me, also the forced fov value at 60 ruins it even more. 

Valve "MADE" the FPS genre? You better start sharing some of that stuff you are on. ID and Epic made the fps genre. Valve rode on their success. 

FPS SP genre. Single player. They set the bar for it with Half-Life. Reading, mofo, can you do it? 

voodoochopsticks: lol, you can't bash Halo without at least mention it's level design:

1) Build a large, generic box room (try to make it as symmetrical as possible, but put in enough dividing walls and random crap on the floor to make it hard to see where exactly you are in relation to the exits).
2) Build a straight corridor and a corner corridor.
3) Take the aforementioned three prefabs and ctrl-c/ctrl-v as many times as is necessary until the level hits it size budget.
4) Profit!!! 

JPL: Peter Jackson is not directing the Halo movie, although he may be producing it. 

its ok that u are mad about HL and that you want to work at Valve

Just dont get angry and bitter every time subject of Valve vs ID appears 

Yeah Kinn, I remember some of those levels, like running down a spiral staircase for 20 minutes straight, with the same enemy positioning for every 5 floors, and the ones in between empty.

I thought that game looked so cool before, I wonder if it had been much better if it had been made for pc in the first place. 

/me shouts over the noise of people who still think it's worth the time spent trying to argue with speedy

You can't be serious... right?

I never signed an actual contract that says I can't do that, but an NDA can be construed a lot of ways, and there's plenty of other "policies" that aren't in any contract.

That said, the general attitude is "if you're spending the time/ideas on game stuff, spend it on your job." I've heard it ten different ways from ten different people though, ranging from "activision owns any game work you do, so you can't release anything that hasn't been through QA" which I've still been unable to officially confirm, to "doing free stuff for a raven game will encourage/bolster the online modding community." Either way I feel blessed I can entertain myself with plenty of non-gametype creative endeavors should the need arise.


pjw doesn't have any free time anyway though. 

Valve did not make the fps SP genre - the only thing they made that was any good was mass-production of user-made Total Conversions, and they even fucked that up.

Assuming you mean interesting, enthralling SP experiences I would say look to Hexen or Duke3d before lurching to Valve. WAY before HL, these games were pushing the SP experience to the limits.

Ok, HL added some cut-scenes. HL2 added some physics. Can anyone tell me where the gameplay is? Hmm? Throwing chairs around with my grav-gun? Crawling through innumerable vents to get around a locked door? Jumping on crates to reach the vent which gets me around the locked door? I admit HL and HL2 had a few good moments, but that is all they had.

And besides those games, all of Valve's other products are just plain Made-In-America crap. Steam? LAFF. Counterstrike? CRY. DoD? It used to be good, but DoD: Source ruined most of what made DoD fun, and combined it with bad framerates.

Give me Nintendogs before you give me Crap-Life 2. Haha, that was clever. :( 

 

The kittens do.


:*( 

You're all wrong. Apart from the people who are right. But I didn't read their posts.

Anyway, can I just point out that unless metl threatens to de-moderator-ise me, I will post news items about people's puppies.

Thank you. 

"if you're spending the time/ideas on game stuff, spend it on your job."

What if you're a level designer by profession and you want to animate monsters in your spare time? Or an engine programmer who chooses to knock out a few Quake textures as a hobby?

It all sounds a bit silly to me. 

JPL: Peter Jackson is not directing the Halo movie, although he may be producing it.

OK, OK, sorry for the mistake... 

Zwiffle,

all of Valve's other products are just plain Made-In-America crap.

Have a little pride, son; Volvo, BMW, Jaguar, Honda, etc. have not been building those autoplants all over our landscape out of charity. 

by 'son' I don't mean it to be condescending. It just means I think of you as a red headed step child (I'm not sure if that phrase is regional or not). 

In Wisconsin that phrase refers to the child who you keep locked in the closet, scalp them, then rape them after sticking squirrels up their rectum. That child may or may not be yours O_O

BTW: I'm kidding. Mostly. 

raven is insecure and gets jealous of its mappers. That's why the office is way out on the tundra. When you get there, they give a speech about how Raven "has no guards... no fences... no life-sign sensors... only a transporter scrambling field" 

that's the one! 

If that's real, it's complete bullshit. And if I were someone else and in that field I'd fucking map otherwise anyway. Just use an alias, like anyone does and keep your shit covered.

That or I'd just not take the job. 

It's not that big a deal. Seriously, if I had the time/drive to work on anouther map, I'd rather see if there was a possiblity of getting a Q4 map pack together at work and doing something for that and get paid for it. But I don't. 

I'd still want to map for Quake or mess around with Winter Assault or AoE3 or something. Although if I were really happy with the project I was working on, were I in the business, it wouldn't be a big deal anyway. 

Zwiffle now you sound just like a Valve hater. They`v made two good games, cant deny that

Lun get over that really, it was like half year ago
and afterall it was you who started all the insulting

Phait: you map, yeah. You cant map even w/o such a contract ...

scamp is right, after mapping at work you dont really want to do that in your free time 

I DO hate Valve. Through and through. They've made some mediocre games people went ape-shit for, and a shitload of crap. That's it. 

They've made some mediocre games people went ape-shit for, and a shitload of crap.

You don't think perhaps the reason people went ape-shit was because, you know... they liked them?