In Rock, Paper, Shotgun's exclusive conversation with Gabe Newell, they discuss the nature of Valve as a company - its ethos and potential, the real reason Gabe hired the Portal team, the vision for Steam, and indeed all online distribution, have every game ever available to download, Gabe's beginnings with id, and how Valve was very nearly called Rhino Scar.
Rock, Paper, Shotgun: And you expect more old games to show up?
Gabe Newell: Oh yeah, I expect we'll go back in time and eventually pretty much every game that's ever been available will be on there 24/7.
Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Old LucasArts games?
Gabe Newell: Sure, those are some great games. I mean there are some real problems, where the waters are muddied and companies have gone out of business. That makes things difficult.
A gameplay demo of the cancelled Portal prequel F-Stop using recreated assets features no portals, and a unique camera that duplicates items.
From GamesReviews:"Portal with RTX is a fresh look for the 2007 classic. But it's not easy to run, and the results may not impress everybody."
Portal RTX may look like a quant remaster, but that couldn't be further from the truth. It's one of the most demanding games available today.
And in a bad way! This is not where gaming should be going. We should focus more on better physics, AI, more meaningful writing, substance in storytelling and overall art over reflections and lighting effects. But hey, you've got billion dollar companies trying to sell you stuff, so I guess you have to make a whole ecosystem around ray tracing because people make a living out of it on youtube. Talk about losing touch with reality and taking eye off the ball. Advancing gaming as a whole my ass!
This is Portal. Are you expecting them to remake it for different physics or something? What else should they have done other than make it pretty? Besides, this isn't just run of the mill ray-tracing. It's path traced. Richard on DF said path tracing with 4 bounces is very demanding.
Yeah this isn't basic RT like doing some shadows and reflections and that's it, it's doing a lot more, that's why the original Doom games and Quake 2 etc look so good with it turned on. Most other games that have RT don't have much of an effect at all because it's doing much more basic and limited fx, it's too demanding.
I get it, I'm a PC enthusiast, but I just feel that what we, and I do, way too much is checking out puddles and mirrors for reflections, rooms for lighting effects and rocks and trees for shadows.
I understand Path Tracing is expensive, and I get the DF side of things and all that. I listen to them and learn everyday, and I really like their cast and what they are doing.
I just genuinely think that the narrative and discussion is revolving too much on the technical aspects of the games nowadays, and I fully understand it when games are shipped in a poor condition today more and more.
I just mean that maybe we could have just done without this Portal RT update, and maybe we are at a point where we talk about RT as much as we talk about music or story when a new game comes out. I'm just saying that I think the discussion is unbalanced and skewed towards these relatively insignificant aspects of games.
Anyway, enjoy the Portal 2 RT.
And we shouldnt expect other advancements because Portal RTX is literally just a Tech Demo for Nvidia RTX Remix. Its just made to show what is possible using the RTX Remix tool and it looks like people can't wait for the release of it
Someone give that man a cake STAT
He doesn't deserve the cake lol his fata$$ bashed the PS3.
Man, look at that picture...the guys is really huge!!! burgers and coke all day!!!
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That guy must have some serious Health Issues.....
...... What year was it when he last was able to see his feet i wonder.
Not only that but he really needs to work on something OTHER than a Half Life related game, Talk about flogging a dead horse. Gabe you need to get yourself sorted, being that big isn`t good, otherwise the only game you will be making is `After-Life Featuring Gabe Newell`