With the recent talk around Back 4 Blood, there’s been a lot of talk both here and from prominent youtubers that seems intent to bad-mouth Valve and praise turtle rock.
I routinely see “valve didn’t do left 4 dead 1, turtle rock did, valve just punished it” and obviously turtle rock loves putting “from the markers of left 4 dead” on all their products.
But this is so false it’s not even funny. Left 4 dead is on valves engine, uses valves game scripting tools, was written by valve writers, assets and maps were made with valves authoring tools, voiced by valve in-house actors, the score was recorded by the valve symphony orchestra. The games key feature was valves AI director.
To imply valve simply published the game is such an insult. The original concept was turtle rock sure. The beta was turtle rock, but everything I love about the game came from valve. Hell, left 4 dead 2 (my favorite of the two) was 100% valve.
We’ve seen what …
I wanted to spoil myself for Christmas, and I have a little extra cash, so I’m getting Cities Skylines since its only $7.49. I really was hoping to get a couple EPs and use the $10 coupon Epic Games is offering for them but there only seems to be a buy now option.
I’ve never been so confused on my life.
EDIT: that $10 coupon is for games priced $14.99 or higher, so its useless for me. It expires on January 7th, which is the same day this sale ends, go figure.
EDIT #2 Steam is doing the exact same sales price AND offers bundles so I think I’m switching. I feel like an idiot. I’m getting my EGS purchase refunded. Yes, I had to learn the hard way 🤦♀️ I’m super unfamiliar with all of this and I just stick to the Sims 4 so..
EDIT 3: I got myself the starter bundle on Steam for $30. I may get myself another EP before the sale ends in January. If only I didn’t get stuck with Origin for the Sims 4..