Created 14 years ago2010-07-25 16:58:40 UTC by quailcreek
Sounds like an aspiring level designer who doesn't like any of the aspects of level design or the game he's chosen to map for, and has some odd hangups about HD space allocation.Fair point. Thing is, I can't name another contemporary engine which doesn't also fall under this category. Nonetheless, I've decided I'm going to try picking up the UE3 enigne to see if it's any less of an annoyance. Yeah, I'll be sacrificing more hard drive space than I had hoped; but at least it wasn't made by a company I have a serious grudge for.
Why don't you just pick another engine if you're going to get all worked over over dedicating 5GB to so-called "pop-culture hype"?
least it wasn't made by a company I have a serious grudge for.What has Valve done that gave you a grudge against them? Besides being part of the huge 'realism' crowd (and what FPS company isn't?) what is there that bothers you?
Valve is the Super Wal-Mart of the game industry.I don't get your analogy. It would be more appropriate to say that Valve is to digital distribution as Microsoft is to operating systems. Wal-Mart has plenty of viable competitors.
Steam isn't needed to distribute content digitally, nor is any standardized platform.But it's more convenient for both the consumer and the seller. Besides, for years Steam was exclusively for Valve games. Then they branched out and let other companies sell their games through Steam. During that time, other companies had plenty of opportunities to build their own digital distribution platform, but they didn't. They flocked to Steam. That was their choice, and they chose to make a standard out of Steam. Stop using Windows all together if you're against this sort of thing, because it's exactly the same story.
Well, for one, I think it would do justice to say Valve STARTED the realism plague. They basically created the stardard model for a next-gen FPS with HL2.That's about as sound as blaming ID Software for the mere existence of the FPS genre. For a while after the first Doom came out, all first-person shooters were called "Doom clones".