Video: Gabe Newell talks you through Left 4 Dead

holy monkeys dribble, i want this game!

Nope. Still not feeling it. It’s too fast, too twitch. Ruins the atmosphere.

Kill. pussycat, kill, kill … too fast, too meh!

The remarks about “healing” (in demo part 1) were funny though. Men are so stupid!

… and those outlines of alies & enemies look really ugly and destroy the whole atmosphere.

But I must confess: I’m biased, I really don’t like this Gabe Newell, for years now.
His remarks about the PS3 are the most stupid words I ever heard from someone representing the games-industry.

does seem a bit too repetitive.
too simplistic as well. zombies run at you, shoot them, repeat. much more interested in far cry 2 than this.

Quiiick: What did he say about the PS3?

Gabe Newell’s Quote: “… I think [PS3 is] a waste of everybody’s time. Investing in the Cell, investing in the SPE gives you no long-term benefits. There’s nothing there that you’re going to apply to anything else. You’re not going to gain anything except a hatred of the architecture they’ve created. I don’t think they’re going to make money off their box. I don’t think it’s a good solution …”
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“Investing in the Cell, investing in the SPE gives you no long-term benefits. There’s nothing there that you’re going to apply to anything else. You’re not going to gain anything except a hatred of the architecture they’ve created.”

Well I’m pretty certain that’s nonsense. CPUs are going towards multi-core, parallel architectures, similar to that of the Cell. The lessons learnt from PS3 development will certainly be useful in the future.

The hatred bit might be true, though.

I think he’s pretty much right, to be honest. Whether it’s the sort of thing he should be saying in public or not is another thing altogether. It’s not exactly going to do EA’s PS3 ports of his games much good, business-wise.

Gabe really only cares about the PC, the consoles are a sideshow to him.

“… There’s nothing there that you’re going to apply to anything else …”

If I would apply this “rule” to the creative work I’m doing in my job … well, the results would be really, really boring, for sure …

And that’s exactly what happend to L4D, … no wonder

Well to be fair, he’s been more fair recently, but the PS3 has had a lot of money invested in by Sony to make it easier, or to teach other programmers.

But I don’t hate him for that at all. He can see that the PS3 is going to be worth peoples time now.

And more to the point, this game looks fun, but it doesn’t make me want to buy it. The Zombies I ahve seen shovign throguh corridors does look fun though.

He doesn’t have to worry about it really… they’re not going to employ PS3 programmers as they have EA covering their ports for them.

Sorry to double post (I didn’t), but needs an awesome kick button, ala Dark Messiah or Wolfenstein!

“… But I don’t hate him for that at all. He can see that the PS3 is going to be worth peoples time now …”

I don’t hate him for saying all this stupid stuff either.
I hate him for being so fat and ugly, to be honest. His physical appearance, the tone of his voice, this really makes me feel uncomfortable. I know it’s not fair, but I can’t change my gut-feelings.

Compare this to John Carmack of “id”. Every time I see or hear anything of him, I feel warm inside. Makes me comfortable. I really adore this guy.

Quiiick: You’re a cock. Seriously, you hate him because he’s fat and ugly? You’d better look like a supermodel.

It’s the hidden PS3 rage that comes out in people when top, top, developers say the console isn’t worth their time.

I’ve seen comments on other sites that have posted our Gabe Newell interview and all it was was PS3 Fanboys crying yet again about The Orange Box Port 100 years ago.

Terrible really.

Either buy a 360, a decent PC or stfu. Easy.

@ Psychotext
No, it’s not that way! Sorry I may have used the wrong words here (english is not ma native language). I don’t hate fat people in general, most fatties are very handsome. It’s just this guy !!! There’s something about his physical appearance that almost makes me …

So basically Quiiick fancies John Carmack and doesn’t fancy Gabe Newell. I think that’s what he’s getting at.

He might be a chubby chaser too! /o\

@ Blerk
Yeah. that’s basically it!
(It goes a little bit beyond that though, but I don’t have the words to describe it …)

… chubby chaser? What’s that?

This: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chubby_chaser

Mostly because of this: “I don’t hate fat people in general, most fatties are very handsome.”

morriss, even buying a 360 very of the ornage box doesn’t work very nicely.

But I agree, it makes me angry such a talented developer is so ignorant, becuase it’s clearly a very difficult but powerful machine.

Half Life 2 wasn’t that special to me, but Half Life was legendary. And Portal is unbelievable, not becuase I enjoyed the puzzles (sorry Still Alive) but becuase it’s an awesome ‘Truman Show’-esque story.

He’ll have to warm to it eventually.

Back from shopping, where I met a “girl” which I haven’t seen for at least 35 years … … had a nice chat …

@ Psychotext
Thanks for the info. So “handsome” was again a wrong term I used.

Can’t we all just write in swiss-german here?

It’s ok, I can barely do English.