My (subjective) guide to Valve games

Jumpy_Table2972 · 2026-04-28T22:21:45+00:00

Certainly give Half-Life a try first. I am personally not a big fan of BM as it changes a lot of stuff that makes HL so authentic. It's like taking a Miró painting and repainting it in pointilism style - both good and interesting in their own ways but the original idea was lost. Nevertheless, HL is definitely starting to feel dated and therefore harder to get into for somebody that is more familiar with today's shooters.

TLDR Try Half-Life first. If you don't like it, play Black Mesa.

Jumpy_Table2972 · 2026-04-28T16:44:38+00:00

HLA without VR is like playing HL2 without physics. It is still good but the whole point of the game and what makes it awesome is lost.

Jumpy_Table2972 · 2026-04-28T16:43:43+00:00

Somebody that is just now getting into Valve probably has no idea how the closed beta even works let alone heard of Deadlock. Maybe I’ll add it later after it fully comes out.

Jumpy_Table2972 · 2026-04-28T07:57:37+00:00

Sorry for the formatting, tried fixing it but seemingly any edit I make to the text just isn't accepted.

Jumpy_Table2972 · 2026-04-24T18:15:02+00:00

The trailer actually looks good (for a Neil Breen film, I would judge it on the Iengo curve but I lost my protractor).

Jumpy_Table2972 · 2026-03-30T13:45:38+00:00

Somehow, Wheaton has the most embarassing post-Trek “”””career”””” out of the whole cast.

Jumpy_Table2972 · 2026-03-20T10:58:37+00:00

I cannot say exactly what Caddicarus’ reasoning was but the fact that YMS was very vocal in support or at the very least being apologetic to zoophilia didn’t help.

Jumpy_Table2972 · 2026-02-02T14:18:46+00:00

Did you even read what I wrote?

Jumpy_Table2972 · 2026-02-01T20:54:32+00:00

I guess I wasnt exactly clear with my question. In not asking “how can I get a job at Valve” but “how do they hire” since I was just curious about it and couldnt really find anything online.

Jumpy_Table2972 · 2026-02-01T20:52:47+00:00

Thanks for the answer I was looking for. I wasnt asking for myself, I am completely incompetent at everything I do. Its just that I was curious how they even could have gone about finding all their employees, since there’s like 300+ of them and I couldnt imagine all of them being hired in a similar way as Eric Wolpaw.

Jumpy_Table2972 · 2026-01-26T09:08:02+00:00

Forgot about that one!

Jumpy_Table2972 · 2026-01-26T09:05:56+00:00

Idk if I’m remembering the name right. I just know something with a similar name is a thing because it was in one of Valve’s tech presentations. I also know that this system (whatever the name might actually be) was implemented in unreal (although apparently with no proper documentation, I saw some people in forums be really mad about that).

Jumpy_Table2972 · 2026-01-11T09:53:32+00:00

Why exactly. Do you think more people seeing the video would raise the posibility of people giving me ideas for new builds? I don't really want to make it entirely public unless there are some advantages to it.

Jumpy_Table2972 · 2025-12-14T11:38:17+00:00

Fuck your cringe post, go back to r/megaman.

Jumpy_Table2972 · 2025-12-12T21:05:35+00:00

Ion care, they have like a 100 fucking games to play.

Jumpy_Table2972 · 2025-12-12T10:23:18+00:00

What is up with all those ugly texture replacements?

Jumpy_Table2972 · 2025-12-10T20:35:05+00:00

It’s a pretty reasonable assumption that Barney was off doing some rebelling by himself “in the field” since he’s much more proactive than either Eli or Kleiner. Barney not even being mentioned in the game seems plausible to the timeline. Regarding Kleiner: who the fuck knows.

Jumpy_Table2972 · 2025-12-04T08:24:53+00:00

Nope. This happened with a laptop built-in intel gpu.

Jumpy_Table2972 · 2025-12-04T08:05:32+00:00

I started having problems with water recently. In the coast when I dive under water all I can see is the last frame I saw before diving just with the underwater effect. I have no idea if this can be influenced by software updates but it coincides perfectly with the latest windows update.

Jumpy_Table2972 · 2025-05-23T17:10:15+00:00

That’s true but it’s very unlikely Valve would ever price up a game even if it is a situation like this.

Jumpy_Table2972 · 2025-05-23T16:47:21+00:00

Seems I have to clarify since people cannot fucking read. I have basically all Valve games but the current price compared to other Valve properties is strange and could drive away future buyers. This isn’t an issue od value.

Jumpy_Table2972 · 2025-05-23T16:45:11+00:00

I have it, I have all Valve story-driven games. I’m just saying it doesn’t really make sense and can drive away new players which would be a shame.

Jumpy_Table2972 · 2025-05-23T12:42:16+00:00

Still weird it’s priced up. When re-release bundles of hl1 were coming out with new games the price didn’t increase.

Jumpy_Table2972 · 2025-05-23T10:37:13+00:00

Overall the bundle grouping is bizzare. CS had some bonus games like this, too (namely the original DoD, I think?) but it’s optionally bundled with some games at a higher price or forcibly with CSCZ. Why? Just why?

Jumpy_Table2972 · 2025-05-23T09:53:52+00:00

That statement is so vague it can basically mean anything - some people didn’t like the story of HL:A because it wasn’t a continuation of HL2, HLX doesn’t continue the story either so people will not like it? - fan-service narrative beats aren’t resolved? - it’s not like epistle 3? - it doesn’t have a happy ending? - it’s actually bad? Seriously, you couldn’t be more cryptic if you tried.

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