Cutter wrote on Sep 29, 2010, 14:02:
Grifter, you seriously need to start learning about actual history. Your ignorance is really telling. And yes, to everything you mentioned religion was a major part, or thee major part of everything you mentioned. Your actual level of practical knowledge on this subject, coupled with your atrocious grammatical skills peg you at about a 6th grade education. Rely on your brain, not god, mmmkay?

And I've never played any of those games you mention save DOOM, and those were extra-dimensional creatures, not demons from hell. And again, those games aren't about indoctrinating anyone, this one is. Jesus, man, learn to think critically if you can.

Cutter wrote on Sep 28, 2010, 21:34:

Grifter wrote on Sep 28, 2010, 21:22:
why is this such a big deal its just about the bible. If it were about many other books or religious text people just would not care.

It's like people have a license to hate, because its on the bible instead of just treating it like millions of other text that are in existence

Because millions of other stories haven't been responsible for most of mankinds woes like religion has - specifically Xtianity leading the way.

Prez wrote on Sep 16, 2010, 13:25:

Verno wrote on Sep 16, 2010, 12:08:
I've noticed there is a lot more of that these days too. You can no longer enjoy a game but have a complaint about it without being attacked by a pack of apologists and fanboys. I like Valve but to say that the development of episode 3 has been anything but a huge disappointment on every level is insane.

Exactly. It's amazing how with some people the developer can do no wrong and the community is always at fault for everything.

Dev wrote on Sep 16, 2010, 01:19:

Grifter wrote on Sep 15, 2010, 23:26:
I disagree with this completely, if they were working on it they would at least tease. But having to be asked and then Gabe saying I don't have to answer says alot.

And I disagree with THAT completely. There's been numerous games that weren't revealed while they were working on it until close to launch.

The reason with valve is, remember hl2? How they had to delay it for an entire YEAR and didn't announce it until like a month before the planned release? They blamed a hacker for that one.

Anyway, just look at blizzard. They didn't announce SC2 or Diablo 3 until reasonably close to release, despite that they've been working on them for quite a long time.

Game companies that are secure in their future and making money have less reason to announce games as soon as they start working on them. They want to wait until they have a significantly complete game that they are pretty sure they can release. They also want to concentrate the hype time period into a shorter time so people will still be hyped up and wanting to purchase it, instead of just tired of it. Like DNF, thats been hyped for so long, a lot of people are just like STFU I don't want to hear about it. Plus, if a company announces too much about a game too far in advance, other competing companies can just take those announced features and integrate them into games before the games release.

Its like how apple keeps products secret until near release, despite working on them for years. There are good reasons to do that.

When valve started work on l4d2 before the release of l4d1, do you think they released news about that? No that would have been stupid, and it would have killed the sales of l4d1.

I agree with some of the other posters here, the most likely reason they don't want to talk about it is because they are doing HL3 instead of hl2 ep 3. They want to coordinate the announcements with some event complete with game footage and probably people playing part of the game itself, and if they talk about it ahead of time, that reduces the impact of the announcement.

Beamer wrote on Sep 15, 2010, 23:02:
We're the reason they don't say anything.

When they said stuff about HL2 and it slipped we bitched endlessly (and by "we" I mean the fanbase, and the community here possibly in particular.)

When any game a decent ways out gets discussed we bitch that it's being hyped.


Valve, after being flayed for this, has decided it's best to not say anything until it's close to launch. Can you blame them? Just go look at any HL2 thread on Blues from pre-launch.