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Valve open to discussions on Left 4 Dead PS3 port

Videogaming247: Following confirmation from GDC that there were no plans in place to bring zombie shooter Left 4 Dead to PS3, Valve's Doug Lombardi has said that no fat lady's sung on a Sony port yet.

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Hydrollex5917d ago

Noob Developers make me sickkkkkkkk !

These A##holes need to spend some money, learn something instead of porting games. They embarras me as a human. All they want is $

iceice1235917d ago (Edited 5917d ago )

Did this you just call Valve a noob developer?

MikeGdaGod5917d ago

they might as well not even bother

Winter47th5917d ago (Edited 5917d ago )

I remember when Gabe Newell bashed the PS3 and 360, praising his Source Engine, only to have his engine butt ****ed by Epic's Unreal E. 3.0 when companies started buying it like hot cakes, and pretty much by ever other graphical engine out there.

After seeing L4D, it should be a great title for the N64.

sonarus5917d ago

bring it if you want. As is it won't be anything but a rental on my 360 when it comes out. Unless offcourse it runs around with 9's and 10's lol. Then i will reconsider

wageslave5917d ago

Want evidence that N4G is a worthless hole of idiot fanboys?

This comment has 10 Agrees & 5 Disagrees.

A) Valve is not "newb" in any sense.
B) "learning something instead of porting games" is retarded. You would have to learn to use the PS3 development environment, and program for it, in order to DO THE PORT.
C) "All they want is $" *EVERY* Company in the gaming industry is in it for the money.
D) "They embarras[sic] me as a human." Really - I think you're doing a bang-up job of that yourself.

Bonsai12145917d ago

well considering that source is already 4 years old, its time they refreshed it anyways. but its not like UE3 hasn't been having any problems either. a good share of people are complaining as well.

TheIneffableBob5917d ago (Edited 5917d ago )

Source Engine 2007 was a huge update.
The Antlion Caves with the dynamic- and self-shadowing is one of the most graphically impressive things I've ever seen, especially with 16xQ CSAA, 16x AF, and every other setting maxed out at 1920x1200.

LaChance5917d ago (Edited 5917d ago )

some people are soooo hypocrite. They say "Anyways I'll get the superior version on the PC" If the pc is so superior than console versions , that means 360 and ps3 (DONT tell me pc is superior to 360 but not ps3) why didnt you guys buy Unreal tournament on PC instead ?

Why didnt you wait for GTA4 and DMC4 on PC , since its the "superior" version ?
Dont tell me its because of the wait.You people wait 1 year to play Geow on PC and anyways most 360 ports to pc come out months later so waiting isnt a problem.
So why dont you get those games for PC instead ?
Why?
It is the superior version right ? But you still get those games for your PS3 instead.
Wheres the logic ?

kwicksandz5917d ago

yeah i guess those noobs at valve with their AAAAAAA+ half life 1,2 and the most played multiplayer game ever Counter strike plus the most fun multilayer last year TF2 and the most original game last year in portal need to go back to drawing boards.

fanboyism of this level makes me sick. Take your crap to the gamer zone. Valve hasn't made a crap game yet

and i agree LAchance the hypocrisy on this site is amazing. every time a 360 multi plat goes PC its off to PC for the superior version.

Everyone complains about the cost of gaming pcs in one thread seemingly has a ultra rig at home to play any mulitplats on their "superior format" But Ut3 was fine on consoles right?

Milky5916d ago

This game looks horrible graphically.

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chasegamez5917d ago

please no port
it already looks like a ps2 port

wageslave5917d ago

Ha. Really. Dont bother, if you must, please take it ->

hazeblaze5917d ago

What do you mean "ha really"? Have you not seen the gameplay vids?!!! The game looks like it will be a blast to play but the graphics look pretty bad. They look even more outdated than Half Life's!!! The game will probably be fun... but with Resistance, Gears, & KZ all on the way, this is a game I will probably be passing on.

satanslilh3lp3r5917d ago

instead of him taking his non flaming comments to the open zone, you can take all of your flaming crap and shove it right back up your...(i won't finish this comment; i am in the gamer zone after all :D)

Joey Gladstone5917d ago (Edited 5917d ago )

..but as it appears to be another possible port I say NO WAY ...you will not get my hard earned cash on your last minute, extra profit, full of bugs and framerate issues port.......
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...."The JOEY has Spoken"

Palodios5917d ago

Did you even play the game? I don't know about Team Fortress(I don't play online so I never touched it), but I didn't even notice any problems in half-life and portal, besides slightly longer than normal loading times. I only gave it a rental, but playing Portal and Half-life 2 with minor glitches is way better than not playing it at all. Those games are sweet! Not to mention that the game IS GETTING FIXED by the end of March anyway. Valve is just stubbon, by the end of 2008, they'll change their minds about the PS3.

Storm235917d ago

a port by a third party...NO!!!!!!!!!!!!

The only way this would ever turn out ok is if Insomniac did the port, and we know that will never happen. Nope

heyheyhey5917d ago

why?

sure it would be behind 360 and PC versions, but it would still be a game and it would still be fun

Orange Box had a few extra framerate dips on the PS3 because it was handled by another studio- it was still pretty damn amazing

of course it would rock if Valve did the PS3 port themselves- but i would pretty satisfied with an external port as well

BSigel815917d ago (Edited 5917d ago )

I agree with all of you guys, they must take us gamers as jokes that will buy anything that they put out. Not to pick at EA, but that is the same trick that they are trying to pull gamers to buy the same recycled material. The only reason people buy these games are because they are misinformed and are used to see these products heavily advertised every year. For example, Friend 1 would have a played these type of games would give their opinion, and then friend 2 would be jealous because, friend 1 is having so much fun, then they would be sucked up in the trap. So in essence it is heavy advertising, but word of mouth is how these games are sold, until peoples opinions change, it will continue to sell. Sorry about all the commas I had to type this in a hurry and make it sound write.

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Looking Back At 2008, An Unbelievably Incredible Year Of Video Game Releases

Huzaifa from eXputer: "2008 was home to the likes of Call of Duty: World at War, Dead Space, GTA 4, Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, and many other hits, which is outright remarkable."

ChasterMies19d ago

Some of these low paid video game “news” writers weren’t born before 2007.

just_looken19d ago

Here here

Those that were around before 2000's i am sure are like me that think we entered a world of non readers or those that follow without question.

I can not wait to see fallout 3 a goty game even though it was about water with non content until you add the dlc/updates then you got the performance/crashing

CrimsonWing6919d ago

I don’t think anything can compare to 2023

lucasnooker19d ago

1998 - the best year in gaming! Metal gear solid, crash bandicoot 3, medievil, half life, ocarina of time, thief, tenchu, resident evil 2, Spyro, tomb raider 3, oddworld abes exodus, banjo kazooie.

It was a different breed of a gaming era. You’ll never understand what it was like back then. The aura of gaming, it was different!

KyRo19d ago (Edited 19d ago )

I second this. Gaming was a lot more varied and fun than it is today. I'm 35 so getting on compared to some here but I got to see all the changes from NES up to now but I've never felt so disappointed in any generation than I have this current gen. I was expecting more from this generation rather than prettier versions of games that came before it. Game mechanics have become so refined that alot of games feel the same and has done for a while now.

Maybe it's time to have a break for a while. I love gaming but I don't feel I get much fun in the traditional sense out of it anymore.

CrimsonWing6919d ago (Edited 19d ago )

Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil 2, Abe’s Exodus, and Ocarina of Time are the only things from that list that I liked.

Here’s the 2023 game releases that I personally liked… and big releases that I didn’t care for:

- Dead Space Remake
- Wo Long Dynatsy
- Resident Evil 4 Remake
- Diablo 4
- Fire Emblem Engage
- Hogwarts Legcay
- Street Fighter 6
- Hi-Fi Rush
- Like a Dragon: Ishin
- Octopath Traveler 2
- Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters
- Final Fanatsy XVI (actually ended up not liking this, but it was still a big deal release)
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
- Lies of P
- Mortal Kombat 1
- Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
- Starfield (Ended up hating this one, but big release)
- Super Mario Bros. Wonder
- Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (I’m an old-school Zelda fan, but didn’t really enjoy this game)
- Alan Wake 2

I mean, honestly I’ve never seen a year of major IP releases like that, ever.

Profchaos19d ago (Edited 19d ago )

Isn't it just a generational thing realistically.

I've been gaming since way back and I some of my favourite games go as far back as the late 80s for me each generation has a year or two of game changing releases one after another before an inevitable dry spell.

I kind of agree gaming had a different feel games hit different because we didn't have the internet nothing got spoiled and you really had to put in the effort to beat a puzzle which could set entire groups of people looking for a solution. But most importantly games were experimental and not as cookie cutter as today even basics like controls were not universal today r2 is shoot l2 is ads garunteed you can't deviate from that in a shooter back then it could of been square, R1 or R1 and circle nothing was standard.

But as time moves on a new generation picks up their controller they are going to be interested in different things that PS1 demo disc with the t Rex blew our primitive 16 bit brains back on launch but to kids today it's laughable.
The new gen of kids coming into to hobby seem to value different things to us there seems to be a huge focus on online play, streamers, gaming personalities, and social experiences, convience of digital downloads. To me I value none of that but that's ok like my parents not liking the band's I would listen to its just the natural cycle.

Gameseeker_Frampt19d ago

Just about every year in the 7th generation was great and something we most likely won't experience again.

2009 for example had Assassin's Creed 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Dragon Age: Origins, Uncharted 2, Halo 3: ODST, Killzone 2, Borderlands, Bayonetta, and Demon's Souls to name a few.

just_looken19d ago

It still amazes me we got over 7 rockstar games ps2/ps3 but 3 for the ps3/ps4/ps5

Dragon age 1-3 and mass effect 1-3 in 7ish years what a generation.

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Most Offensive Video Games That Would Never Cut It Today

Times are changing, and these games would have never been made in today's climate.

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thorstein57d ago (Edited 57d ago )

Every single time someone uses this phrase whether it's music, movies, books, comics, video games, etc it's always the same claim.

The ubiquitous "they" won't allow it to be made. And every decade these claims are made the claimant completely ignores all the "offensive" material that is published when the claim is made.

In ten years, you can write a new article about how you can't make games like Helldivers 2, Resident Evil VIII, Mortal Kombat I, Dragon's Dogma 2, Alan Wake 2 etc etc etc any more.

MrBaskerville56d ago

Yeah, people wouldn't be constantly outraged if there weren't games that people found enraging. The whole SBI discourse shit wouldn't be a thing if all games were inoffensive. A game like Starfield can make a guy froth at his mouth, so there will always be room for a list like this.

0hMyGandhi56d ago

Normally, I'd be inclined to agree with you, but there are massive caveats.
TV shows like Venture Bros, Ren and Stimpy, and Aqua Team wouldn't/couldn't be made today. Hell, Ren and Stimpy was a *children's* show, same thing with Rocko's Modern Life.

It's not for some arbitrary reason, either. It's branding and IP alignment. Companies are far more risk-averse than they were when I was kid in the 90's. Of course, you have companies coming out of the woodwork to hell spur on similar content, but remember: Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon and some incredibly provocative material.

And for movies? it's pretty obvious. American Pie/Wedding Crashers/Eurotrip among many other "raunch coms" have fallen out of style, and are absolutely outside what the modern day film industry is willing to stand by.
Ace Ventura 1 and 2, Dumb and Dumber, Freddy Got Fingered, Rat Race, Harold and Kumar, and Van Wilder follow suit.

Remember: I am not explicitly talking about films put onto streamers. I am talking wide-releases in actual theaters. Same thing goes for games: Carmageddon, Duke Nukem, Manhunt, Six Days In Fallujah (with their original concept), Hatred, and so on and so forth. Of course, I'd be inclined to mention most tactical shooters like Rainbow Six and Joint Ops as well, due to cultural sensitivity regarding *who* you are shooting and why.

And not all of it is bad (obviously). Tastes change, and perspectives change to fit the demographic.
I should add that I'm a lefty, living in L.A. Working in film.

thorstein56d ago

The Boys, Invincible, Jojo Rabbit, Deadpool, Gen V, Last of Us, Banshee... There are plenty of media being made today that people will claim "can't be made today".

Profchaos56d ago

Yeah but if you consider manhunt which was basically a snuff film could you seriously make that game with high than PS2 era graphics.

thorstein55d ago

The Outlast Trials just came out.

But the storyline of Manhunt was that you were executed. But then lived. And if you didn't do as you were told, you'd die. And the people you killed were not innocents.

It was all filmed by a psychopath.

As we speak GTA VI is being finished up for a release. You get to play a Bonnie and Clyde type of protagonist who run up against the law.

Bodycam looks so real.

People are making those games. Articles like this will always exist no matter how incorrect they are, no matter how many times they blame "them" for whatever it is "they" do to prevent "those" games from being made.

Number1TailzFan56d ago

The UK is the biggest junk country pandering to that nonsense as well, with laws against free speech and expression to match. It got so bad even Rowan Atkinson made a video on free speech about it.

Now the UK raises the age rating on harmless films like Mary Poppins, it's just a load of pansy weak ass nonsense.

MrDead56d ago (Edited 56d ago )

The right wing Tories have been in power in the UK for the 14 years you know the ones that are "anti-woke", blame them for your perceptions.

Killer2020UK56d ago (Edited 56d ago )

Are these snowflakes in the room with us now?

This is more faux outrage designed to get hits. The consequences are unfortunately creating hysteria amongst those willing to buy into it and blame "them" or "the left" or "liberals" meanwhile the left are kicking off about genocide, actual real world abhorrent acts. Nobody is campaigning to censor this shit.

Huey_My_D_Long56d ago

Not too mention the fact that some of these game are controversial for you know, underage porn and encouraging rape.

So either the guy just came in to comment snowflakes without reading anything, or he is calling people snowflakes for having a problem with said titles. Crazy how much brain rot someone can have.

banger8857d ago

Dead Island: "The early PC version of the zombie game swapped the playable character Purna’s Gender Wars skill with a prototype name, which shouldn’t be mentioned directly. The skill name made fun of both Purna as a character and feminists."

"Feminist Whore" lmao

gold_drake56d ago

ill add one more to the list.
drakengard 1.

its ridiculous tho, especially since they'd still be able to find their place in alot of places in the world. except america of course ha. and maybe Australia.

ppl are so sensitive these days. ha. but it is what it is.

Barlos56d ago (Edited 56d ago )

They're not offensive.

And we need another Fat Princess. Fantastic little game!

Some people just have no sense of humour if this sort of thing offends them. They need to lighten up and stop taking themselves so seriously.

Deeeeznuuuts56d ago

Would love a new fat princess game 🤟

CantThinkOfAUsername56d ago

Games literally about sexual assault, mass genocide, bombing civilians, and school shooting. None of which is satirical.

isarai56d ago

Actually it's about fat princesses

Huey_My_D_Long56d ago (Edited 56d ago )

Its crazy that people are fixated on Fat princess when clearly the list is going over controversies, and not all of them are equal. Like way worse examples but pretend the entire list is like that.

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Left 4 Dead Writer Explains The Drawbacks Of Releasing Games In Early Access

He wants to launch all his projects initially through close beta.