Big Download awards 2009's vaporware

Wait, what?
That wasn't even on there.



Personally, I was disappointed on the This Is Vegas delay, mainly because I wanted to see how many times I would die be fore I successfully robbed an entire casino.

It's not on there since we all know what happened to it. For something to be vaporware (correct me if I'm wrong, we all know I'm wrong just as much as I'm right), it has to be something that kind of fell of the face of the earth, without any real explanation. Something that might come out at some point, but no one really knows.

I don't think most people have been playing games for less than 12 years...

So 12 year old gamers have played video games for more than 12 years, right...

I don't think the majority of gamers are 12 now (although it seems like you are).

You and me both.

I mean, the new AvP sounds cool, but CM was supposed to have the Aliens dragging the PC through vents and jumping out of floors and shit. It sounded like a MASTERPIECE.

um starcraft two was announced in 08...

Blizzard always announces games way before they come out, and the only time I can think of where they didn't deliver was Starcraft: Ghost. Well, I guess there was WarCraft Adventures, but they outsourced that.

that's a symptom of Blizz does the right thing and cancels junk instead of pushing it through just because..

@RauBurger

Um, Starcraft 2 was announced in 2007.

@iHavepants {SteamPSN: Arkanti}

either way, the point was is that starcraft 2 hasn't been in development since he was in jr high.

I thought Blizzard confirmed that Starcraft 2 is going to be released in 2010? Unless it gets delayed, I guess.

I'd love for Diablo 3 to come out next year as well, but I just don't see it happening. It seems way too early in development for that to happen. Hopefully in 2011.

Yeah, I've been thinking about that. It has been so long, that there is now no way that I can be satisfied fore episode 3 if it's just a simple expansion.

yeah, they definitely need to hurry up and make that game. I'll be so pissed if Valve's next is L4D3 or Counterstrike 2(3?) or something. Unless they bundle it with ep3.

@ The Baron - Just the thought of all the Valve games in the "pipeline" is a bit baffling. They've still got a ton of support going into TF2, they have the oft rumored Counter Strike 2, they have Half-Life 2 Episode Three AND/or Half-Life 3, they have the next Portal Project (whether it be Portal 2, Episode Three/Half-Life 3, or another new idea game in the H-L universe), they have two version of Left 4 Dead they've promised to support and what is becoming more likely a third version in the works...

And of course, they've got that pesky tradition of releasing a multiplayer component with every Half-Life iteration. So something's shipping with the next H-L. Valve seems spread a bit too thin methinks, at least they aren't completely losing it though (even if they are kinda the least productive episodic developers having practically kick started the idea as streamlined development =P )

Valve is just going to do a lame cop-out and say that the end to the story is meant "to be created in the players mind"

Referring to This is Vegas.

Oh, Look.

http://www.cabel.name/2006/04/boot-camp-first-look-half-life-2-video.html

get copy of windows
lrn2bootcamp
enjoy bone

Because I have, what, an additional 100 dollars lying around to spend on Windows just to use on a SINGLE GAME?

Not to mention that it completely misses the point: Valve has refused to explain why it won't develop native, or even have a 3 to 4-man team port their games or the Steam service to Mac OS X through Cider (which is better than nothing). Gabe has said at one point that there are "three very good reasons" why they are not able to develop for Mac OS X, as a result of negotiations being broken down with Apple. He refuses to disclose them though for some reason. I would agree that Apple is doing something wrong, IF I KNEW WHAT IT WAS.

Apple platforms are highly controlled entities. To develop on a Windows platform you don't have to ask anyone's permission or even pay out royalities. Apple doesn't operate this way. Everything designed to run on Apple has to be approved by Apple along with the fees. Apple systems have more in common with home consoles than PCs. Developing on an Apple platform simply costs more because of all the fees and approval hoops a developer has to jump through. Valve has simply decided that the extra cost is not worth the minimal revenue generated by what amounts to 4% of the computing world.

Newell worked for Microsoft, he became one of the many Microsoft Millionaires, Half-Life and Half-Life 2 both pushed the expectations of gaming visuals and were benchmarks for Direct-X performance, and Steam uses Trident to display it's store and news layouts.

It's a bit silly to expect the man to budge after all these years, he doesn't have to give us a good reason. There's about a million other PC devs out there that aren't giving reasons for not developing Mac native games, so why should Valve be any different... Just because they are the crème de la crème? So where's Bioware then? Just be glad we even have Blizzard still.

I'm a dedicated Mac user too, but complaining that a game doesn't run on Mac OS X is the same as still bitching about not having MGS4 on 360. I agree, running Boot Camp isn't an ideal solution (especially since it requires a Windows license), but if you aren't willing to go the extra mile you obviously don't care enough to want to play it and shouldn't expect a developer to go so far out of their way either.

Just save up some money and buy Windows OEM license, or do what I'm doing and save some money to build a dedicated gaming PC.

@ Laughing Target - You couldn't be more wrong. All you need to do to develop a Mac game is to buy a Mac and start developing (providing you know HOW to use Mac specific development tools included with your OS X license). You don't have to do anything else, It's pretty much open development, just like Windows.

You're confusing things with iPhone development (in which you have to buy a Mac and a developer's license).

Because people do not buy Macs to play games. It would be a waste of time.

People don't buy Macs to game on, so why make games for Macs?