Gabe pointed the most obvious ish out



"the average gamer seems to know more about what makes a good game than the average person at a publisher"



really? cause we play the damn games. why did u even make an article about this? should this article be about what a dumbass this guy is?

yeah well it might be obvious to us gamers, but i do think it was something that needed to be said..most publishers are hopeless and seem to think that every game needs online capabilities etc.



games seem to be lacking depth these days and rely on online play to make the game sell

I didn't expect to see Game Newell here.

judging by the pic, he may be right.



dude seriously needs to watch his carbs.



as funny and or rude as that may sound....

dude looks like he could fall victom to a stroke any second now...



i suppose that would be "my" eyebrow raising comment "as of late"

Nowadays, most SHOULD have online capabilities!

@WiiRolled

Yeah they should, but not at the expense of a decent single player exerience or functions for real friends. Too many games come out now that don't have 2/3/4 player split screen...i don't know about everyone else, but i miss the days of golden eye and mario kart.

Wish someone would run that fool over.

.

This is obvious, but publishers don't realize that



Also Gabe Newell should know we like consoles and stop bashing them

Hell ya we are! We can spot out the bugs and ask dev's to tweak them out of the game hehe.

I could have sworn the artists were the developers themselves.

Judging by his multiple amount of Chins, i'd say he's had enough cookie's, maybe if he'd gotten off his fat ass sooner and put those pies away he'd have noticed he's stating the obvious.

This guy is Fat ....XD LOL

This guy deserves more cookies for stating the obvious.

It would have been more interesting if he said what he was gonna do about it.



we all know war is a bad thing but so far no one has found a way to stop it.



By the way he also bashes Apple for not helping him sell more games.

Also If he doesnt like consoles he should consider making one? There are plenty of gamers here who like what they have already, we are just waiting for devs to give more games we enjoy to play.

Most of the best games the past few years have no online whatsoever. Bioshock, Mass Effect, Oblivion, etc.



If a feature is cobbled together and half-assed, and brings down the quality of the game as a whole, that will come back to bite publishers. So why do they do it? They need to wake up



Unless if course your game has 50 Cent in it, that whole game is garbage yet has sold millions. Same for Army of Two and Kane and Lynch, horrible games all around with terrible online modes, but millions in sales. They are the exceptions however



Also the Newell hate found above is getting annoying. Is it because he dislikes your PS3? Deal with it. The man has made some of the best games ever, he could also hate the Xbox for all I care, and only make games for PC. So long as he keeps making games

...but I gotta say that Team Fortress 2 and their support for it rocks.

Valve brings out so many updates for Team Fortress 2 and it's all for free.

That's what I call a good publisher.

But I heard that they aren't so attentive to their other games.

Let's do this,

(After I learn to become a programmer) lol

My Friend has that T-shirt!!

If we, the gamers, are smarter than why are we still purchasing lacklustre games that receive a fair bit of hype?



We vote for games with our dollars, if we purchase bad games then we are telling publishers that we will purchase bad games and love it.



THE SOLUTION (for those who have read this far): TRY BEFORE YOU BUY. You can rent video games at video rental stores and test them, or download game demos when they are available. Some web sites, like www.gametrailers.com, happen to feature trailers for new games so you can get a feel for what to expect in the game. Not that I condone piracy, but if all else fails you can resort to downloading the game through file sharing and then either purchasing or deleting the game after playing through one level.







ALSO, A NOTE TO THE PUBLISHERS (don't worry, this is not offensive)...

Perhaps you should publicly ask the gamers "What would you like to see in our next video game?" That question alone will give you a lot of new ideas and help you to create the next best seller.

That port was by the "great" EA

I fig'd out who that pic reminds me of.



Denis Nedry



Wayne Knight's part from Jurassic Park