Valve Q&A
Q&A on Computer and Video Games talks with Valve's Doug Lombardi about
what's in the pipes at Valve, including the highly anticipated Portal sequel and
Half-Life 2: Episode Three. On interesting answer concerns whether they'll
diversify from the FPS genre at some point:I think Portal was sort of a
baby step outside of our comfort zone. There weren't any weapons, so to speak.
No real combat. The success of that has encouraged us to keep trying new things
outside of that comfort zone.
There's a lot of people at Valve who are parents and would love to make a game
for kids. We all play the Wii a lot and we think that the proper way for Valve
to approach the Wii would be to make something cool designed specifically for
Wii.
I mean, I'm not making any announcements but there's a lot of desire internally
to do something for kids, do something on the Wii.
Gabe's [Valve co-founder, Gabe Newell] a huge fan of MMORPGs and he's always
wanted to make one, but that's a big risk to venture out on. I think at some
point you'll see us move a little further out of our comfort zone than Portal
was, but it's not going to be this year or next.
But definitely, before we're done, years from now we'll diversify a little more
and move outside of PC FPS.
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