Left 4 Dead on PS3? 4geddaboudit ... 4 now

Seems history tries to paint the EA port as the worst thing ever when most reviews I saw, said that apart from a few places in Half Life having framerate issues, the port was ok. Portal for instance was said to have no major issues.

Can't help but feel the fanboy war is trying to turn an anthill into K2.

The Orange Box is 100% playable and the reports of its problems are HUGELY exaggerated. It has a few minor problems that are barely worth mentioning.

That being said, really, I don't give a shit about some crappy zombie game.

Wow, a developer doesn't want to port a game to the PS3?

I am shocked and appalled, good sir.

lol, and when I looked at this page... 4 comments.

It was always in the rumours section. What's the big deal? Have you seen the quality of the rumours in some of these magazines!
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Dear god, it seems the PS3 is an insult to them.

Intervier: PS3?

Valve Official: What?! How could you say that about my company, parents, siblings, children, wife and I? Are you some kind of monster? Swearing at me like that?


Intervier: ...But I didn't, I simply mentioned the P...

Valve Official: DON'T SAY IT AGAIN! Don't say that again! Do you hear me? Its an insult!

I've got some genital herpes that I'd love to share with you Silla. True romance is a case of the clap.

OH I GET IT.

Its left 4 dead because theres four of them

Yeah, I'm slow, don't judge me (although you all will)

To everyone whining: Want to play Valve games?

GET A PC.

I don't see why on Earth you would WANT to get a Valve game for a console, considering the horrendous support and dearth of updates that TF2 has gotten for the console gamers. Left4Dead is going to be no different.

Valve can kiss my ass with their games anymore. I'm sure the game will be great,but it's the principle of it. Valve can't be bothered because "iz 2 hard 4 me" and Gabe Newell's years of working with Microsoft,so I can't be bothered with their games. Insomniac, Media Molecule,and others can sure figure out how to develop on the PS3. Shit,Media Molecule has like 30 employees.

I own all 3 of the consoles AND a gaming PC,so it's not like i'm some bitter PS3 fanboy. I just think it's bullshit to keep your games out of the hands of people who want to share the experience you created and PAY $60 dollars for it. I can understand not being able to with exclusivity deals,but there are none with this game. It's more of Valve whining.

If you don't want to share your created games with the fans who have a passion for gaming,then piss off Valve. You make amazing games,but so do other companies,so you're not above anyone else. Man up for the good of the paying customers and the passionate gamers. Without us,you wouldn't HAVE a company.

deadjesterx

You realize the original Half-Life was on the PS2 and
Counterstrike/Half-Life 2 on the Xbox,right?

Actually, that did work out really well. Quit buying into the hype and try playing the Orange Box on PS3 and you'll see that it's kickass. Until you play it yourself, stop writing about it. Come up with something original for once goddamn it.

Lol bitter sony fanboys...

There's NO law that says every developer has to develop for your precious ps3. Frankly I don't think it's worth their time and trouble.

I'll be buying Left 4 Dead either way. But it will definitely be sweeter if its a 360 exclusive.

Yes, I am. And like the 360, the Xbox uses the same kind of coding as a PC so those were easy to port.

As for Half-Life for the PS2, that was ported over by a different developer, Gearbox Software. Valve did not port it over themselves. So yeah, good try with the snarky comment. Know what you're talking about first next time.

Most likely than not, Valve probably doesn't want to bother with the PS3 for financial reasons. Since the PS3 uses a different form of coding Valve would either have to train their employees on how to do it, which takes time and money, or hire people who are familiar with the hardware/coding which also means spending more money. They probably figured that it would be more cost effective to forget about porting the title in-house and just focus on what their employees are already good at.

As for the whole two examples you provided for developers being able to create games for the PS3, well, both of those developers have almost exclusively made games for Sony. Insomniac's two main franchies are Ratchet and Clank and Resistance, both Sony exclusives. MM's first game is LittleBigPlanet, which is also a Sony exclusive. What I'm getting at here is that these two developers are already experienced with the way Sony builds their machines so of course they are going to be able to make great games for them. Valve is not experienced with Sony machines.

You're last little paragraph in your amusing rant makes you sound like the most rabid of PS3 fanboys, despite you're half-hearted disclaimer that you are not one. Why would Valve bother to cater to the Sony audience? Their number one priority has always been the PC. It's where their major fanbase comes from, it's what they know the best, and they have one of the best PC services. Since when do they owe anything to Sony fans? I doubt Half-Life for the PS2 contributed a significant amount of revenue to Valve, especially when you compare it to PC sales.

The humor in the headline was so 4ced.

Throw in mouse/keyboard support and it trumps anything on 360.

Actually the Orange Box did turn out pretty well for the ps 3. Not as well as the other two versions, but it still has an average review score in the high 8s, which, while I don't care about review scores, is definitely respectable.