That Valve intro tune is already so powerful to me... If I get to be 70, and I dust off an old PC with half-life 1 installed, and that song starts playing, I know that my Lord and Saviour Gaben will watch over me in death as he did in life, and I might shed a tear. Praise Gaben.
Truly. This interview came out during my "peak" gaming years, and IMO when PC gaming was on fire. I'm 35 now and I haven't touched a computer/ video game in close to two years. I lost interest in gaming as Valve lost interest in making games.
Developing a PS3 game apparently IS a mess, but the results can be outstanding. Having worked with Microsoft for so many years, it was only natural Gabe wasn't used to the PS3 and immediately dismissed it, I don't blame him.
I think Gabe lost his coding instinct long ago, though he has some ambitious visions, he always hires people who are smarter than him. That is success.
i've used steam since it was released as optional, and I can say from personal experience that it has evolved so much since then. It really makes pc gaming easier and more fun, especially multiplayer components of games.
Coming from a gamer boy here in beautiful Eureka, Gabe Newell is the only man I simply have respect to. He is highly resourceful and talented at everything he's doing. Praise Lord Gaben!! :)
Did these guys realize level of journalism podcast quality this is and we genuinely don’t have it today. This is seriously a historic interview. Gabe is genuinely the best and seriously good content. This is from 17 years ago and I hope we can all appreciate the context of the convo ❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏
gabe may be... slightly larger than normal, but he is one of the greatest geniouses of our time. he gave us great amazing games like half life, portal, left 4 dead, team fortress 2, and many others. so who cares if he may be a little overweight, he is a genious who cares about his clients and gives theam great games. and he doesnt ask for much i return (well besides money, but it is his job so who can blame him)
Yes this is true that consoles blow air from the fans located inside the systems. Much as PC does to keep out dust and cool the system. I appreciate your comment informing us of such a helpful and effective gadget.
actually at E3 Sony spokesman stated how Gabe doesn't like consoles and then went on to talk about how Portal 2 for PS3 will be receiving move controls to go along with its steam support. On a somewhat related note CS:GO PS3-PC cross support! $15 on PSN and PC
Almost every demo for console games at any E3 are run on high end PCs and not the console. It's very simple to connect an XBox or PS3 controller to a PC.
@nexus1g There are multiple kinds of IBR. What he talks about, my guess, would be a combination of Imposters - i.e. caching rendered graphics as images, and Deferred Shading, a process which outputs intermediate rendering results as image and then recombines them to final image, which allows to change time impact from scene_complexity*shader_complexity to scene_complexity+shader_complexity, allowing for more complex shader or more complex scene. Can drop me a message if confused.
Actually, $500 is enough to build your own gaming pc. It's not too hard to piece it together either. I recommend going to a website called newegg. You'll find everything you need, and can get it for under $700 to build your own, and you'll have a sick gaming pc. Better than most preset gaming computers.
I don't understand how IBR will work. The geometry is already being transformed into a 2-D rasterized image, so I don't understand what having images will help with.
PC actually can suit everyone's needs. It's theoretically cheaper, graphics and gameplay in general is better, more mods, you can use just about any controller these days. Only real problem is the compatability of games, but emulators are currently being worked on.
hey the last two resident evils were fantastic as the average movie going moron who loved the dark knight I greatly enjoyed the lack of character development and lack of an on going story line it makes things much easier to understand for a person like me. Introducing new characters that suddenly become important works a lot better than having characters do two things, and it's cheaper than hiring morgan freeman
If i recall correctly they had problems porting half life 2 to the PS3 and had to hire a 3rd party later(EA) to create a port, they found that the programming was more complex for the PS3.
lol that's like saying a (stock) Honda Civic is faster than a McLaren F1. And considering the Honda Civic is the thing representing console in this analogy, this means you can't even modify said Honda Civic, in order to make it faster. Here's another analogy... If PC and console were pipes side by side with water flowing through them (water representing game data), the pipe representing PC would be many times wider than the one representing consoles. Able to move much more water, much faster.
PS3's CPU is hard to program for, and its split RAM is a huge bottleneck for today. 256mb per CPU and GPU is very low... It's like 8mb was to 256mb back when 256mb was considered a lot.
Okay, honestly, fat jokes aside, Gabe has a GLORIOUS head of hair right here. How old is he? I hope I still have that much hair with that consistency at that age.
@Evilwolf95 Mouse and keyboard play is also better than a gamepad. When Microsoft tested cross-platform play between Xbox and PC players, the PC users destroyed the Xbox players. Valve also anticipates that the PC players will win most of the time in CS:GO.
