This must be a troll. Steam as a concept isn't open for discussion and nearly everyone who plays Valve games supports the idea. Valve is never going to be "punished" for their "amusive" system. Yes, they have made mistakes with it, such as the shiny cubemaps around Christmas, but on balance it's a good system.
Surprisingly negative comments about this. It will be great. More shorter cheaper games is better than fewer longer worse games.
Plus stand-alone, as has been said above, is an old model that rightly proved very popular.
Half Life 2 had exactly 2 cut scenes, one at the beginning to put you in the action and one at the end to take you out. All the information normally given during a cut scene was achieved through player interaction with npcs, monitors or other props. This is surely the way ahead.
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I can't wait for this! Free the data, then free the tools!
Don't forget when using this technology to hit alt+f4 to enable god mode.
No you are not the only one. But there seem to be ever fewer of us.
Where can I get access to this database?
This must be a troll. Steam as a concept isn't open for discussion and nearly everyone who plays Valve games supports the idea. Valve is never going to be "punished" for their "amusive" system. Yes, they have made mistakes with it, such as the shiny cubemaps around Christmas, but on balance it's a good system.
Surprisingly negative comments about this. It will be great. More shorter cheaper games is better than fewer longer worse games. Plus stand-alone, as has been said above, is an old model that rightly proved very popular.
Half Life 2 had exactly 2 cut scenes, one at the beginning to put you in the action and one at the end to take you out. All the information normally given during a cut scene was achieved through player interaction with npcs, monitors or other props. This is surely the way ahead.
Probably someone needed that last red brick to complete their Galaxy Commander.
I for one welcome our new astroid-dwelling neighbours!
Isn't this what Palladium is all about? http://www.ntk.net/index.cgi?b=02002-06-28&l=21#l
It's been reported that monkeys and dogs have declined to test this round of space vehicles, seeing as there is no ice cream in space.