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Valve hates "sh*tty party games"

Posted Feb 22, 2010 at 12:35PM EST by Karl B.

Listed in: Wii, PS3, Xbox 360 Tags: motion control, Natal, Valve Corporation

Valve is sick of party games. Well, company writer Chet Faliszek in particular, who recently made his thoughts known to gaming news site CVG.

"Hopefully we've gotten past the point of mini-games," he said. "I'm sick of that [makes arm movement]. That's not a game for me anymore. Let's get some real interaction going."

"We have these technologies now that let us interact in different, really exciting ways. It's developers' jobs to do something with it. Impress me. Don't just make sh*tty games I wouldn't want to play if I had to use a joystick," the writer added.

That's not to say Valve is against the thought of motion control. They just think it should be used for something more. Faliszek describes Natal, for instance, as "really cool". He furthered that it could be incorporated into future Left 4 Dead games, but don't expect it to show us in some "tiresome" mini-game.

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After reading that I'm left wondering, WTF does anything this guy said have to do with anything important? That would be like me stating, out of nowhere, I hate consoles with blinking lights on them. ????? Who the frack cares? If Valve wants to do more with their games then by all means they are free to do more. Meanwhile what the hell does it matter if smaller devs continue to make fun little party games that groups of people can play together? His comments have no value unless someone is truly interested in the personal opinions of Faliszek.

Does Valve want a room full of 12 people to play Half Life together? That is not reasonable and just plan idiotic.

If the games sell then obviously people like them. Seems to me the majority disagrees with Faliszek.

"That's not a game for me anymore. Let's get some real interaction going."

Um...Valve has been free to get "interaction going" for a LONG TIME NOW. So WTF have they produced that does just that? Nothing. Again, seems to me, like this is a fat load of TALK and no ACTION.

+1 # :) — hush404 2010-02-22 16:42

Well said.

Developers need to get off their bitchin asses. Instead of whining like little tars, perhaps they could be developing something they deem worthy of this new technology.

+3 # well... — Guest 2010-02-22 14:33

I don't like party games either, but damn, he cant really say anything. all valve do are piss FPS games... ALL THE TIME.

Get some talent, valve.

+1 # RE: Valve hates "sh*tty party games" — Navani 2010-02-22 14:37

I dunno, Pokemon Stadium had some of the funnest minigames ever.

# haha — Guest 2010-02-22 19:20

Man, Navani, that game brings me back. I dont think their minigames can be topped.

# .... — Beansta 2010-02-22 19:48

staduim 2's were better, but i agree anyway

+1 # RE: Valve hates "sh*tty party games" — pspg2000 2010-02-22 15:24

Not to diss Valve, but they have a lot of FPS games, I don't hate FPS games but it's too much.

# RE: RE: Valve hates "sh*tty party games" — Guest 2010-02-22 16:56

valve doing a fps mmorpg would be ownage

# RE: Valve hates "sh*tty party games" — Guest 2010-02-22 17:15

Then do something about it Valve!

# HAHA — Guest 2010-02-22 19:05

Isnt that Gabe Newell (dont know if its correct) guy on Valve? This guy is an ***hole that does nothing just criticize Sony, because he (and Valve) doesnt got talent or talented people on there to program for the console, nor have the money to contract people to do the job. Now, they are flamming the casual comunite just because their focus continue to be on programing fps for the old, cheap and easy to program windows. The are sooooo lamm that if i was Sony or Nintendo, doesnt even care if they are on their "team" or not.

# ... — papajag 2010-02-22 20:57

"We have these technologies..."

LOL that's funny. So far Valve games hasn't even come close to reaching the peak of today's technology. L4D sucks so much. If they made it into a realistic Zombie survival game then it would have been better. Nazi Zombies was way better than L4D and that was just an extra feature.

# RE: Valve hates "sh*tty party games" — Guest 2010-02-23 03:41

I aint seen any valve wii games, put up or shut up

# RE: Valve hates "sh*tty party games" — Guest 2010-02-23 06:26

Morons. Saying Valve doens't have talent is moronic. Valve is one of the most talented developers in the world, and this is a fact. Just saying Half-Life sucks because you haven't played it is the most moronic thing ever.

Moron.

-1 # HEHEHEHEHE — gammy69er 2010-02-23 07:04

LAN PARTY (isn't that what TF2/DODs/CSS is ALL about)
And Portal (okay, so it's good, but it's a MINI Game)

They Comment about Mini and Party games, yet they make some of the Best. *contraditction *

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