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StonecoldMC
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Congratulations to Mr Newell, some well deserved recognition indeed.
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badgerpog
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| Posted: 15 Jan 10 3:28 pm |
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Fair enough. Also as the Half Life series pioneered some of the things we take for granted these days... |
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altitude2k
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| Posted: 15 Jan 10 3:32 pm |
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I can't think of anyone in the industry more deserving.
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feedel
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| Posted: 15 Jan 10 3:58 pm |
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Half life was a revolution in FPS, Steam was a revolution in Digital Distribution. No one deserves it more than him. Unless they wanted to give it to me for my hello world app i did a few years ago. |
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h3r3tic666
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| Posted: 15 Jan 10 4:14 pm |
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Well and truly deserved ! congratulation  Now how about some Ep3 news ?
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Mogs
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| Posted: 15 Jan 10 4:23 pm |
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Gabe FTW!
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Mark240473
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| Posted: 15 Jan 10 4:24 pm |
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I can't argue with that. Although, when it comes to inspirational developers, Shigsy and Kojima immediately spring to mind, rather than Newell.
Maybe that's because I am not a PC nut though.
Anyway, congratulations.
Now please make some games for the PS3 and stop being a stubborn sod.
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ricflair
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| Posted: 15 Jan 10 4:29 pm |
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Well deserved.
Has he been given it before, but I'd go for Miyamoto as a rather more obvious (and more deserving, in my opinion) choice. It might be a bold thing to say, but I doubt anyone else will have the same effect as him over such a long period in this industry. Although different times and conditions will play a huge part, not that nobody else will 'be as good'.
As he said himself, he doubts he'd even get a job at nintendo now. Most other long term staff members/directors end up being like annoying mouth pieces like Balmer or Kaz, without actually having any direct effect on the games. |
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kimoak
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| Posted: 15 Jan 10 4:33 pm |
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Can't argue with that when you look at the shortlist. I chuckled when I saw Popcap there.
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pishers
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| Posted: 15 Jan 10 4:42 pm |
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| Mark240473 wrote: | I can't argue with that. Although, when it comes to inspirational developers, Shigsy and Kojima immediately spring to mind, rather than Newell.
Maybe that's because I am not a PC nut though.
Anyway, congratulations.
Now please make some games for the PS3 and stop being a stubborn sod.
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i dont think mr newell is actually a dev, think he is just a business man that left MS to setup a games dev. the best thing he did was suppport modders and employ the best ones - cheap yet effective way of finding talent.
its hard to think of another dev that has come from nowehere in the last 12 years and produced such quality games and one that changed a genre for the better in 1998 and then another that did it again in 2004.
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4everutd
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| Posted: 15 Jan 10 5:06 pm |
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please what the hell? they havent made a decent game ever, i played the orange box on xbox and its so dull and boring. one other thing how did half life 2 get so many awards for its story?
anyway there are much more deseving peeps/devs that deserve this
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kill4pie
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| Posted: 15 Jan 10 5:39 pm |
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| Quote: | please what the hell? they havent made a decent game ever, i played the orange box on xbox and its so dull and boring. one other thing how did half life 2 get so many awards for its story?
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Just because you were to thick to understand the story of the Half Life series dosen't mean it wasn't good. And you have clearly never played any of VALVe's games on PC (which you need to do to appreciate them fully). |
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nathar
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| Posted: 15 Jan 10 5:50 pm |
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| 4everutd wrote: | | there are much more deseving peeps/devs that deserve this |
Please give us the list of those who you feel are more deserving? Im looking forward to reading more of your wisdom. |
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kimoak
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| Posted: 15 Jan 10 9:35 pm |
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| 4everutd wrote: | please what the hell? they havent made a decent game ever, i played the orange box on xbox and its so dull and boring. one other thing how did half life 2 get so many awards for its story?
anyway there are much more deseving peeps/devs that deserve this |
Seriously??!?
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4everutd
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| Posted: 15 Jan 10 10:05 pm |
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hideo Kojima, Miyamoto as someone else said, also maybe ken lavine. oh and Shinji Mikami.
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bubblyofart
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| Posted: 15 Jan 10 10:51 pm |
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congrats to Gabe Newell!!!
Now where the hell is Episode 3?! lol
If its released alongside Portal 2 (we all know its coming) then all will be forgiven.  |
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Paradaz - UK
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| Posted: 16 Jan 10 12:05 am |
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| 4everutd wrote: | please what the hell? they havent made a decent game ever, i played the orange box on xbox and its so dull and boring. one other thing how did half life 2 get so many awards for its story?
anyway there are much more deseving peeps/devs that deserve this |
You played it on xbox........so you probably weren't aware that people were playing the same game in 2004, which was probably about 3 years before you had even heard of the game, along with HD resolutions, online multiplayer and game modifications....all of which were available back then to PC Gamers and had been for a long, long time before that.
Back in 2004, it was great..however it did lose some of the impact later in its life after poor conversions especially the PS3 version.
This is exactly why console only gamers wax lyrical about their favourite games. PC Gamers has had everything that a console gamer has now....but only 10 years ago, some of it just isn't impressive to PC gamers like it is to console gamers...
What next? 3D games and head tracking lol? Like that isn't over 7 years old either!
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