Bro I just now met up with friends on PS3 that I haven't seen in 9 years my guy. Heart wrenching experience that they still had their accounts. And we all met on little bit planet 2
If anyone is wondering why Gabe keeps glancing left and right, it's because his Heavy-esque physique means he needs to be on the alert for enemy spies.
When I was starting college back in 2009, wanting to be some kind of digital Artist, I emailed Gabe asking him for tips for what I could do to work for a company like Valve one day. He actually responded and put me in contact with Bay Raitt, who gave me some very brief pointers on where to start. It's been a few years since I've finished my degree, and although I never went into 3D as a career, that spark really kept me motivated while working on my degree and where I've gone since. It would still be killer to work for a company like Valve one day, it really seems like an environment where bouncing ideas off each other is encouraged; and I imagine it leads to some amazing stuff.
@@alfonzo4553 Just to stay creatively active, make projects outside of those you'd do for school and work, make things for fun that interest you. Spend time trying to find other fields that interest you that could co-exist or benefit from the things you already like to do. In addition to some software suggestions at the time. In doing 3D, Bay told me about Wings3D which was the first 3d software I learned to use.
Dude, that's a great story, thanks for sharing. And it was so cool to see Gabe Newell just throw out his work email address out there in this video, so reading your story just seems to confirm that he's still trying to be that approachable. What's going on with you now, man? Back in high school and my first and only year in art school, I wanted to be a concept artist for games and movies, looking up to people like Syd Mead and Feng Zhu. Are you something like a concept artist nowadays? Either way, I hope you get to work at a place like Valve someday, man.
After reading your comment i though he would mention something like like a workflow for the game taped to ceiling. Five minutes in the video "ohhhhhhhhh clever"
I really like Gabe's honesty. He had no problem talking about Artifact and that it was a disappointment, as opposed to Todd 'Lies' Howard, who pretends that 76 was never a failure.
@@callummack7098 Todd ain't a boss though. And likely has to listen to actual heads of Bethesda. If he didn't say yes, it would be someone else on the stage saying the same things.
Fallout 76 was a financial success for Bethesda though. They ported the game to a shitty multiplayer and then kept charging whales and making bank off them.
2:28 - How many founders of any company give out their email address during a well-publicized interview and actually ask people to reach out and tell them what they thought of their company's product? Its elements like this that really outline why Gabe Newell is a video game developing icon.
Right? I think it's been pretty well known he reads and replies to almost every email he gets from anyone. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't started writing one to him at least a few times over the last.... 15 years and ended up chickening out and not finishing it.
I mean Tim Sweeney did active on Epic Hater subreddit rather that the official one, answering support ticket and criticism. For a CEO to answer hater and support ticket is not professional way to do your business. Gaming company these day should look at how Gabe do thing, not trying to beat him
Josh its not a meme, gabe did actually answer some question or just reacting videos or even rampage from dota2. But its take a time to wait him replies.
I think it's amazing that he fully admits Artifact's disappointment without hesitation....that shows a great leader right there, someone who's actually able to admit mistakes and push forward with that knowledge.
Let's be honest, you would have to be a really delusional person to argue about Artifact's 'success'. This is Gabe Newell, a guy who reinvented gaming and made billions out of it. He's a smart cookie and he has nothing to prove to anyone anymore.
@@wellbi agreed, I just found it admirable that he straight up admitted it in an interview. I don't know many game devs that would publicly acknowledge disappointments like that.
@@wellbi tbf, look at people like Randy Pitchford who still tries to preach that Colonial Marines was a success, or Todd Howard who defends Fallout 76 and its $100 subscription. Egotism and an underserved sense of self worth are extremely common among game dev CEOs and team-leads -- GabeN seems to have none of that.
@@AngryAlfonse The difference is that people like Todd Howard can't go off script and say whatever they want about the games that he represents. He just works for Bethesda; he doesn't own Bethesda, he alone doesn't get to decide when Bethesda will give up on FO76. Another thing is that Artifact tanked much harder than FO76 - they could have made it work but Valve with their 'no bosses' policy just isn't the kind of company that can do a card game.
At this point he owes it to us. Not because we deserve it but because he wants to crash back in and pretend this never happened? No he owes us an explanation of whats been going on at this point
Leaving a beloved franchise on a cliffhanger after multiple promises of a follow up for so so long- then creating a new game and not shedding much light on these many years previous- does create questions, no? But he has said they made mistakes and it’s clear HL is back on the menu so let’s see. I think it has been troubling him and this is finally a kind of vindication. I have a feeling Alyx is more than just a prequel given some of the hints. We may learn some long sought answers after it’s release and in the coming year or two. Alyx has been basically wrapped for months, I doubt they’ve all been Just resting
Lol right I rolled my eyes when interviewer said that. Gabe had literally just mentioned BCI which is next level stuff n it gets ignored to ask him about the damn past.
@CallOfCody he owes us nothing, he gave us Steam, Half Lifes, Portals and also CSGO was originally mod from Half Life..... so considering what he gave us, he owe us nothing.
Interviewer: “Do you think we need to band with technology so it doesn’t overthrow us?” Gaben: *brief flashbacks to Portal lore, GLaDOS, and neurotoxin* “I think it’s complicated...”
Will-In-A-Million well it is. It all sort of depends on who is the creators of the next generation of intelligent AI systems. Technically they can’t do what we don’t program them to do, but what if we program them to learn and interpret? Then the question becomes HOW do they learn and HOW do they interpret?
@Adam J. Harper That's kinda the point the guy makes with his question. Elon Musk and many others believe that is what will happen if we blindly continue advancing AI and that we should be looking to improve ourselves using technology instead. If we can map the human consciousness and transfer it into a machine without corrupting it, we can bypass the limit of our biological brains. Of course there is the chance we get a GLaDOS, but there's also an equal chance we get what happens in Transcendence. We can't program an AI to start with the knowledge of the most important things, if we could it would be simpler to just map and transfer an existing consciousness. If we build an AI from scratch, how do we teach it subjective concepts such as human morality? There is no way to do so effectively without a childhood state of mind but even then we could not keep up with the speed at which an AI thinks and learns. Every single mistake would be cemented into the AI's mind before we have a chance to correct it and that will affect the way it thinks. To me that means a much higher chance to fail and end up with a homicidal robot army that wants to wipe humanity off the face of the planet. TLDR: Build AI = 90% chance of Skynet | Build GLaDOS = 50% chance of neurotoxin, 50% chance of Caroline retaining control
You guys should watch Robert miles, he explains AI safety problems really well. But yeah essentially the idea is that the AI will do exactly what we program it, but what we program might not be what we really want or meant.
"I'm not gonna give up the easter eggs yet" Can't wait for the nostalgia of looking up random forums around the internet to find out where the easter eggs are
Hearing Gabe talk about artifact gives me the impression that Valve *was* listening, but just didn't know how to approach community transparency again until recently.
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Derflerp One of the many reasons why Valve has everyone’s utmost respect in the industry, they didn’t reach their titanic status without such a critical mentality
@ Not gonna lie, I do take a bit of pride knowing that Valve is based about 30 minutes away from me. Not like it reflects on me in any way, but I suppose it's preferable to having EA right there.
Valve listens, they have just outsorced everything but development - this means anything that's not coding/art/sound is not valve employees. Valve makes code (steam, games, etc). Valve is also a private company and don't have to do anything they don't want to do. So while they are "doing something" the people we are talking to aren't exactly helpful because they aren't the same people. Gabe cares greatly about his company. Everyone needs to just chill.
Imagine the amount of feedback a normal developer gets for their game (just look at reviews, steam forums and other forums dedicated to a game) and then multiply that by a thousand or more and you'll start reaching the levels how these companies like Valve get feedback. Of course, everyone thinks their feedback is critical and informative and helpful but just the sheer amount of it is so much that even a dedicated team would require a long time to go through all of it, organize it, see what is actually helpful and what is not and then somehow try to crystallize it into a form that is usable to the developers. And then you get to the developer level where they have to share their time between working on a product and going through the feedback and then try to see if and how to implement the feedback into their process and eventually to the product itself - not to mention rounds and rounds of testing after the fact.
Questions 0:18 - What's your reaction to the team saying they're working on Half Life? 0:55 - Were you surprised when it was a VR Project? 1:34 - Robin, were you nervous when you came to Gabe with the project? 1:36 - Are there any Gabe Easter eggs? 2:43 - What is a typical day for you? 4:19 - Do you ever reflect on the impact Valve has made on the Games industry? 5:11 - It it fair to say that you started Valve because you loved Doom and Quake (vs working on Windows all day)? 9:02 - Do you still keep in contact with your co-founder Mike Harrington? 9:30 - What still drives you after all this time? 11:28 - Do you agree with Elon Musk on merging with AI? 13:31 - Do you see a gaming tie-in to [Human Interfacing]? 14:03 - What was you favourite game from the last year? 14:56 - How did the Campo Santo [Makers of Firewatch] acquisition come about? 17:44 - Are you looking at the new consoles being made by Microsoft and Sony? 19:15 - Will you be licencing out Source 2.0? 20:21 - Pick a favourite. Half-life 1 or 2? 23:44 - What is the closest we've ever gotten to a Half -life 3? 26:07 - Does it matter how well Alyx does/sells? 27:07 - What does the next 10 years of Valve look like?
When he said "Go ahead" for the other guy to answer what the future looks like for Valve was a touchin moment. It was like Gabe was passin him the torch.. damn.
27:15 That "Go ahead" from Gaben to Rob felt like a father telling his son to take the leashes of his company. He sounds so proud of what Rob has accomplished and must be seeing himself back when he had that developer fire in him when making HL1.
My favorite part of this video is when they're asked about the future projects, and Gabe just looks at Robin to answer the question. I can only hope that I work at a company that puts it's employees first in this manner.
There's something so nostalgic about him saying his email address at 2:34. It's like happening across a song on the radio you haven't heard on almost a decade.
It looks like he's shy or something. He's having a hard time looking the reporter in the eyes when talking back. Gabe the gray haha, but I'm glad and can't wait to finally play some half-life content from Valve again.
Most rich people that earn there wealth through tech or business don't care for luxury stuff it's the creatives like music, sport etc that you'll see there sudden riches is being spent on material goods.
14:50, in which Gabe Newell-esteemed video game developer and CEO of arguably the most important company in all of PC gaming history-said that he'd been playing Bloons Tower Defense in 2020.
I appreciate Gaben's honesty and pointing out their previous mistakes like the Steam Machine and Artifact. We need this kind of transparency in gaming nowadays.
Imagining how many crazy sensory experiences you could potentially create with a brain computer interface... that's really the only way you could experience Gman fully
"We don't just crank Half-Life titles out because it helps us make the quarterly numbers, we deliberately avoid that constraint on how we approach stuff" Also that statement about Steam being just a set of tools for other people to use as they want, as they know how detrimental it can be to have outside funding, just so refreshing to hear.
I could feel Gabe speaking from his heart here, that he says his passions and his thoughts and not just a face put on to please interviewers or the fans, he says what he wants truly, and he doesn't feel like he's pressured either, I've never seen him like this before and I really got enjoyment out of his happiness
It's so nice to see that Robin is so comfortable with Gabe being his boss that he can easily tease him a little and make jokes without fear that he'll get mad.
Kyezie131 at my last job if id insulted my boss hed of just ran off and reprimanded me to a manager and theyd yell at me for it, he had no problem yelling at the elderly lady that was a stocker for moving to slowly
If you work in a place where you can’t do that, find another job. I take the piss out of my boss in every job I go to. And the ones where they banter back and don’t get pissy, are the ones I stay at for a long time.
NolePtr: Company called HMD Global wants to make cellphones that are connected to your brain Computer interfaces, they also want to build those interfaces :) might be scary if it's used in military but not that scary if somebody volunteers for that and everybody uses them in future, might be sad though when internet crashes and your brain is online uploading updates, or maybe they don't need updates, the interface in brain learns just as your own brain learns
@@isokessu understandable, it offers the best hope for infinite life within our lifetimes. We can upload our consciousness into a virtual world when our bodies give out. Much like the black mirror episode, San Junipiro.
Problem with Zeus is... He care more about Money, then making Games, people really want to play... Like HL3. Whey do you think, Valve have not make a Game worth talking about in 10+ years.
There’s no way Gabe doesn’t have a brain or 2 in his office, the interviewer didn’t dig any deeper as to the crazy amount of research he’s doing into altering peoples brains
@@gotivanmomak well you get a super rare chance to interview gabe, and gabe brings up computer interfacing and its getting super interesting like "were a lot closer to the matrix than people release" and then the interviewer just changes the subject to "whats your favorite game of last year" AGH
G-man slowly disappeared Gabe opens his eyes and then he found out himself in some sort of a wooden cart Tod Howart: - *Hey, you. You're finally awake*
"He's really big into mountain climbing, and I'm really big into NOT mountain climbing. I'm the best NOT mountain climbing person you'll ever meet." Gabe and his deadpan humour never cease to amuse me. xD
It’s a shame that Robin Walker wasn’t called out in the credits. I think he’s just as interesting as Gabe Newell, although perhaps not at the same level of celebrity. I absolutely think Robin Walker deserves to be mentioned in the title and description, and I enjoyed listening to his insights.
they've been avoiding this question for years. They dont want to do a large scale game production anymore is my assessment. Alyx seems to be a relatively small game in comparison
but everybody have beard these days, even me, and I had eyeglasses too but I lost them somewhere, but which age is GabeN? Btw I think people get minus vision from Computers and plus vision from oldness, so I guess GabeN is not even old yet. He just looks like one
I find it interesting how the interviewer kept asking Gabe what seemed to be for him "unpractical" questions. Gabe practically didn't respond when he asked him if he reflected on his past, he said he focus more on the present and the future. Then he asked Gabe about the AI apocalypse and he eluded the question completely, and focused on what can be made, speaking about brain interfaces and technological advancements which give us practical things. Which makes me think that Gabe lived to this day a life centered on the futured and focused on the practical rather than the unpractical thinking. Which isn't bad at all, you need these to thrive on such an industry an position. But what interests me the most is that he isn't a "braindead" utilitarian guy, he seems more than capable of capturing and embracing the valuable things. For example he was very honest about Artifact, which is a trait most corporate-minded people wouldn't think of. It's so fun to analyze such a "revered" by the community person and come to realize he's a human being after all, like all of us, we might have our differences but we all come down to this, trying and struggling to be ourselves in life. Thanks for everything Gabe, I hope you the best on your future endeavors.
I agree. Also interviewer could've asked better questions. Console question was asked as complete bait. I wasn't surprised to hear this question since IGN is mostly console focused outlet. And Gabe perfectly dodged this bait question. Instead of questions like this, time would have been better spent with questions like what they think about Black Mesa and their Xen remake, especially since they think Xen was mistake.
"I definitely want to make more Half-Life." After 12 years of waiting, not even talking about the game, datamining every single thing, I got to hear this answer. I can't even believe it is real. Finally Valve is delivering. From what I've seen from the videos, they will not disappoint. Finally.. A huge thank you from the bottom of my heart as a concerned citizen. Please do make more. We'll be waiting, as we've always been.
To be honest they don't deserve thanks. Everybody around Half-Life have been straining at the leash for years, waiting for a single word from Valve and they've said nothing. Most of the staff responsible for Half-Life 2 moved on. Most of the community have moved on emotionally. Fans have literally died in the interim waiting for news of the next Half-Life, and they've given them absolutely nothing. It's an incredibly shitty way to treat people who made you what you are.
This is so surreal, seeing Gabe after so long... it looks like he’s been on a spiritual journey... I hope VALVe comes back and dominated the PC market.
@@cookieface80 But on the other hand Gabe for the past years made the case that there needs to be something groundbreaking technology or graphics wise for HL3 to be justified. So it's not that there's no direction for HL3, it's that in this one instance Gabe is actually hell bent on sticking to his guns.
Not really a bad thing, its different, thats for sure. Theyre basically a collection of smaller indie studios / teams, so for example, theres a team for TF2, theres a team for CSGO, theres a team for new hardware etc.., afaik, employees can jump from one team to another without hassle (thats why, for example, TF2 might have 14 people working on it today and 4 just next week (though TF2 probably has like 0.5 right now lmao)) these teams might work independently of eachother, or help eachother out or whatever. And thus, a person can go into the lab, put some guns in, port a hl2 map and realise "Hmmm, this would be very fun as a game" and then people might agree with that person and a team is born. Obviosuly, GabeN would probably know about this, but considering the fact that his job title is more "Dota player" than "CEO" I wouldnt be surprised if that was not the case.
Half-life comes out to pushes the Technology "We found it a lot easier to read and write to the brain than making a person feel cold" HL3 Confirmed when Valve releases Full Dive Helmets
@@ColinAmes there are way more than 1 or 2 vr games out there! Here is a list of amazing vr games that I've played: Beat saber Boneworks Lone echo Robo recall Vader immortal Job simulator Super hot vr
Alyx really is a great move from valve, they alleviate the pressure to make a new half life game without the risk of inevitably disappointing over a decade of hype of half life 3
why does the background music sound like all people in this video recently passed away tragically and we're remembering them now by watching their last video?
I love him so much for that! Portal 2 is, in my opinion, Valve's best game overall. The Half-Life series is a huge leap forwards in gaming, but Portal 2 with its story and gameplay is so unique, and it really bears Valve's signature game design... It's a bit sad that Portal as a series is most likely abandoned at this point, but it doesn't really need a continuation, and it will go down as one of the most important games in history!
@Greg B Valve is way more flexible when it comes to multiplayer games, but in terms of single-player experiences, Portal 2 is definitely what I would consider a masterpiece. Half-Life and Half-Life 2 are revolutionary.
@@saricubra2867 Odd choice of words by me there, yes, it has ended there. I don't really wish for a continuation of the story, but it would be interesting to see them use the Portal mechanics again :D perhaps in VR somehow, without motion sickness?
@@XeZrunner I mean, if F-stop is ever finished/released at least we'd get more lore from the Portal universe(which is also the Half-Life universe), even if there'd be no portal gun Chell or GLaDOS. Still some cool unique puzzles and hopefully a lot of Cave Johnson, though.
@@danis8455 Rebelled against DirectX ? Valve's Source games use DirectX on Windows (GoldSrc games like HL1 and CS1.6 use OpenGL or a software renderer). id Software is a better example, as I don't remember a single id game that uses DirectX.
19:30 uh ign that was an april fools video from a youtuber using unreal engine. the half life alyx environments in steam vr use source 2 if anyone is interested in seeing what a baseline version of source 2 looks like
2:29 hearing him utter these words so closely to how he says it in the developer commentary bubbles and just in general about Half-Life again makes me unbelievably excited.
@@yumirak TF2 is not being supported by valve. Right now there is a game-breaking exploit that botters have been abusing to DDOS every single valve server. The game is actually literally unplayable. Valve hasn't even released a statement, and it's been a problem for over 3-4 days.
When your friend that’s been offline for 1274 days is online again
Perfect description of what I just witnessed.
more like 5061 days
He didn't come back, overdosed on something
Bro I just now met up with friends on PS3 that I haven't seen in 9 years my guy. Heart wrenching experience that they still had their accounts. And we all met on little bit planet 2
You described the situation perfectly. Thank you!
I like seeing gabe so lively talking about half life again
Looking forward to the HL Alyx crate surfing speedrun
Cant wait to see you break the game xD gaben enemy number 1
It's like a dream.
So how are you going to initiate an accelerated backwards bhop in VR?
door stuck
*Gabe disappears looking like an overweight homeless man*
*Gabe emerges as a grey elder sage, wise beyond his years*
Jizard Slayer Gaben the grey evolved to Gaben the white
Jizard Slayer I wanna like your comment but... nice
Lord of the ring reference 👌🏻
Next time he emerges, he'll be in the white wizard stage. This should be around the time that HL3 comes out.
Gandelf
Now we know why Gaben looks so reborn in this interview. The guy knows he's finally gonna make Half-Life 3.
Yeah, it looks like he's genuinely happy to talk about Half-Life agian.
and hopefully a tf2 update
--_ I hope the next update is the heavy update
@@exolaruia8789 it's been what? 3 years since Jungle Inferno?
Tf2 still gets updates? Damn thats hardcore service, I guess thats what happens when people buy billions worth in hats and knifes
If anyone is wondering why Gabe keeps glancing left and right, it's because his Heavy-esque physique means he needs to be on the alert for enemy spies.
fireaza He needs a Pyro with him! “Spy around here!”
That's why he's so slouched. He's protecting his back.
Tf2
He must've tried some brain-computer interfacing surgeries...
You sure he just doesn't have high tech glasses and is checking his texts?
this feels like my dad went out for cigarettes but then actually came back
After 15 years
Oof gabey love
Bebe yeah, his back... really back....now what?
e p i c xD
That’s a great joke, it’s funny cos it’s true. 😂
With brain interfaced Half Life games, you'll be able to actually feel a headcrab drill into your skull.
Truly pushing the envelope.
Has a potato pc game stutters has a seizure
maybe even experience being a zombie XD
Valve will fulfill the prophecy of 2022 nerve gear
Calm down satan, no need to put that idea into peoples heads.
@Morgoth Bauglir with safety protocols installed maybe
Gaben looks like he found his true inner Xen lol.
Gaben in his natural state
*cough* he looks like he found his true inner XEN
I'll let myself out now
And I absolutely love it!!!
The Big Gabowski. (so long, Gabowski!)
he's a wizard now
so weird to see him again. he looks like Gaben the Wise now.
You mean Gaben the white?
@@elkinwolf sure
Gabe looks like a dude that just hits a blunt at work eats lunch plays video games and is a dope boss
The Gabe abides..
gaben the shithead more like it
Gaben has never looked better and more confident, he's truly become gabedalf.
Hey it's you
Or Gaben the White.
@@cupcayuk bobbo
I'd say give him a staff he looks like moses
Looo
When I was starting college back in 2009, wanting to be some kind of digital Artist, I emailed Gabe asking him for tips for what I could do to work for a company like Valve one day. He actually responded and put me in contact with Bay Raitt, who gave me some very brief pointers on where to start. It's been a few years since I've finished my degree, and although I never went into 3D as a career, that spark really kept me motivated while working on my degree and where I've gone since. It would still be killer to work for a company like Valve one day, it really seems like an environment where bouncing ideas off each other is encouraged; and I imagine it leads to some amazing stuff.
Bargadiel what were the tips?
@@alfonzo4553 Just to stay creatively active, make projects outside of those you'd do for school and work, make things for fun that interest you. Spend time trying to find other fields that interest you that could co-exist or benefit from the things you already like to do. In addition to some software suggestions at the time. In doing 3D, Bay told me about Wings3D which was the first 3d software I learned to use.
That's amazing
Dude, that's a great story, thanks for sharing. And it was so cool to see Gabe Newell just throw out his work email address out there in this video, so reading your story just seems to confirm that he's still trying to be that approachable. What's going on with you now, man? Back in high school and my first and only year in art school, I wanted to be a concept artist for games and movies, looking up to people like Syd Mead and Feng Zhu. Are you something like a concept artist nowadays? Either way, I hope you get to work at a place like Valve someday, man.
You realize that you're basically a gaming prophet, right?
Q: What's your goal in the next 10 years?
A: I definitely want to make more Half Life.
Everyone gets a morphine injection.
*Morphine Administered*
HEV suit: E-X-T-R-E-M-E S-E-X A-C-T-I-V-A-T-E-D
Have a very SAFE day
it really is slightly surreal to hear him talk openly about it again after being so cagey for so long
@@DeSinc 🧠
*injecting noise*
*beep beep*
Morphine. Administered.
Kinda unique that Gabe keeps his script taped to the ceiling.
The belly does that.
The second i read this i was like "WTF he's talking about?" And then gabe looked up and i was like oooooh
made my day, bro
After reading your comment i though he would mention something like like a workflow for the game taped to ceiling. Five minutes in the video "ohhhhhhhhh clever"
Lol
Just hearing him say "Half-Life" after so many years of gritted teeth and conceited silence is surreal.
Mr. Bump 2.0 I know right
Mr. Bump 2.0 I know right
Ikr
Mr. Bump 2.0 I know right
Mr. Bump I know right
I really like Gabe's honesty. He had no problem talking about Artifact and that it was a disappointment, as opposed to Todd 'Lies' Howard, who pretends that 76 was never a failure.
Todd Howard is the deluded captain of a sinking ship.
Big Dean lover Todd Howard probably doesn’t have any control. He’s a smooth talking puppet who takes the blame for corporate decisions.
I think he did say that 76 was going to be a failure when they were making it but released anyway because $$$.
@@callummack7098
Todd ain't a boss though. And likely has to listen to actual heads of Bethesda. If he didn't say yes, it would be someone else on the stage saying the same things.
Fallout 76 was a financial success for Bethesda though. They ported the game to a shitty multiplayer and then kept charging whales and making bank off them.
He’s wearing sandals. Same old Gabe.
The super clichê super rich guy that wears simple clothes. Ooooooooooooohhhhh......
@@neildrunkmaam7040 everything is cliché these days lol
Just like Jesus.
flip flops
People don't change
2:28 - How many founders of any company give out their email address during a well-publicized interview and actually ask people to reach out and tell them what they thought of their company's product?
Its elements like this that really outline why Gabe Newell is a video game developing icon.
Right? I think it's been pretty well known he reads and replies to almost every email he gets from anyone.
I'd be lying if I said I hadn't started writing one to him at least a few times over the last.... 15 years and ended up chickening out and not finishing it.
I mean Tim Sweeney did active on Epic Hater subreddit rather that the official one, answering support ticket and criticism. For a CEO to answer hater and support ticket is not professional way to do your business. Gaming company these day should look at how Gabe do thing, not trying to beat him
Likely he has a couple of community managers that would handle that email on his behalf most of the time.
Josh its not a meme, gabe did actually answer some question or just reacting videos or even rampage from dota2. But its take a time to wait him replies.
You think its it actual email?
"I'm really big into not mountain climbling"
-Gabe Newell
"I'm really big...mountain." - Gabe Newell
I am Zeus
-Gabe Newell
I mountain -nabe gewell
*Todd Howard will remember that*
he is really big into not moving at all and eat steak it feels
I think it's amazing that he fully admits Artifact's disappointment without hesitation....that shows a great leader right there, someone who's actually able to admit mistakes and push forward with that knowledge.
Let's be honest, you would have to be a really delusional person to argue about Artifact's 'success'. This is Gabe Newell, a guy who reinvented gaming and made billions out of it. He's a smart cookie and he has nothing to prove to anyone anymore.
@@wellbi agreed, I just found it admirable that he straight up admitted it in an interview. I don't know many game devs that would publicly acknowledge disappointments like that.
@@wellbi tbf, look at people like Randy Pitchford who still tries to preach that Colonial Marines was a success, or Todd Howard who defends Fallout 76 and its $100 subscription. Egotism and an underserved sense of self worth are extremely common among game dev CEOs and team-leads -- GabeN seems to have none of that.
@@wellbi way easier said then done my dude. Seem so easy to just acknowledge failure, but most game devs can't.
@@AngryAlfonse The difference is that people like Todd Howard can't go off script and say whatever they want about the games that he represents. He just works for Bethesda; he doesn't own Bethesda, he alone doesn't get to decide when Bethesda will give up on FO76. Another thing is that Artifact tanked much harder than FO76 - they could have made it work but Valve with their 'no bosses' policy just isn't the kind of company that can do a card game.
Gabe: “I don’t really like to think about the past”
IGN: “SO LETS TALK ABOUT THE PAST!”
At this point he owes it to us. Not because we deserve it but because he wants to crash back in and pretend this never happened? No he owes us an explanation of whats been going on at this point
@@Toripusutashi Valve wants to not look at the past and just look into the future now since they have changed for the better.
Leaving a beloved franchise on a cliffhanger after multiple promises of a follow up for so so long- then creating a new game and not shedding much light on these many years previous- does create questions, no? But he has said they made mistakes and it’s clear HL is back on the menu so let’s see. I think it has been troubling him and this is finally a kind of vindication. I have a feeling Alyx is more than just a prequel given some of the hints. We may learn some long sought answers after it’s release and in the coming year or two. Alyx has been basically wrapped for months, I doubt they’ve all been Just resting
Lol right I rolled my eyes when interviewer said that. Gabe had literally just mentioned BCI which is next level stuff n it gets ignored to ask him about the damn past.
@CallOfCody he owes us nothing, he gave us Steam, Half Lifes, Portals and also CSGO was originally mod from Half Life..... so considering what he gave us, he owe us nothing.
love how he knew and accept the fact that artifact was a disappointment
Yeah, he didn't try to sugar coat it or find excuses. It was just "We screwed up on it."
Boo yah, maybe they’ll accept their horrible handling of tf2 next.
You have to be delusional to not know that
Sometimes disappointment and humility is the best teacher as opposed to constant success and hubris.
Rexen Yeah but then look at the Fallout devs, in denial and thinking all the criticism is unjustified
Now we know why valve hasn't released anything for so long. Gabe was instructed to write 10 commandments and free people from a Pharaoh.
Looks more like he just created the world in 7 days.
😂😂
Hands down, you won the internet today Mr. Kirk Weaver!
vargen1414 Why Do You Capitalize Every Single World You Send
@@fish_activity I Don't Know, I Just Feel Better Doing It, Dunno About The Rest.
Interviewer: “Do you think we need to band with technology so it doesn’t overthrow us?”
Gaben: *brief flashbacks to Portal lore, GLaDOS, and neurotoxin* “I think it’s complicated...”
Will-In-A-Million well it is. It all sort of depends on who is the creators of the next generation of intelligent AI systems. Technically they can’t do what we don’t program them to do, but what if we program them to learn and interpret? Then the question becomes HOW do they learn and HOW do they interpret?
@Adam J. Harper That's kinda the point the guy makes with his question. Elon Musk and many others believe that is what will happen if we blindly continue advancing AI and that we should be looking to improve ourselves using technology instead.
If we can map the human consciousness and transfer it into a machine without corrupting it, we can bypass the limit of our biological brains. Of course there is the chance we get a GLaDOS, but there's also an equal chance we get what happens in Transcendence.
We can't program an AI to start with the knowledge of the most important things, if we could it would be simpler to just map and transfer an existing consciousness. If we build an AI from scratch, how do we teach it subjective concepts such as human morality? There is no way to do so effectively without a childhood state of mind but even then we could not keep up with the speed at which an AI thinks and learns. Every single mistake would be cemented into the AI's mind before we have a chance to correct it and that will affect the way it thinks. To me that means a much higher chance to fail and end up with a homicidal robot army that wants to wipe humanity off the face of the planet.
TLDR: Build AI = 90% chance of Skynet | Build GLaDOS = 50% chance of neurotoxin, 50% chance of Caroline retaining control
If we get Wheatley I’m happy
Also the combine using neural implants to turn humans into mindless soldiers
You guys should watch Robert miles, he explains AI safety problems really well. But yeah essentially the idea is that the AI will do exactly what we program it, but what we program might not be what we really want or meant.
"I'm not gonna give up the easter eggs yet"
Can't wait for the nostalgia of looking up random forums around the internet to find out where the easter eggs are
inb4 gabe face textured room
Unloaded Black Mesa entrance that looks straight outta beta
I know for a fact that one of the 'easter eggs' you can find is a little bobble head of the Scout from TF2.
A shame that internet forums are pretty much dead and buried :(
Gugazero _ too bad facepunch is dead :(
Hearing Gabe talk about artifact gives me the impression that Valve *was* listening, but just didn't know how to approach community transparency again until recently.
Derflerp One of the many reasons why Valve has everyone’s utmost respect in the industry, they didn’t reach their titanic status without such a critical mentality
@ Not gonna lie, I do take a bit of pride knowing that Valve is based about 30 minutes away from me. Not like it reflects on me in any way, but I suppose it's preferable to having EA right there.
@@TheDrewker You have Finnish Last name?
Valve listens, they have just outsorced everything but development - this means anything that's not coding/art/sound is not valve employees. Valve makes code (steam, games, etc). Valve is also a private company and don't have to do anything they don't want to do. So while they are "doing something" the people we are talking to aren't exactly helpful because they aren't the same people. Gabe cares greatly about his company. Everyone needs to just chill.
Imagine the amount of feedback a normal developer gets for their game (just look at reviews, steam forums and other forums dedicated to a game) and then multiply that by a thousand or more and you'll start reaching the levels how these companies like Valve get feedback. Of course, everyone thinks their feedback is critical and informative and helpful but just the sheer amount of it is so much that even a dedicated team would require a long time to go through all of it, organize it, see what is actually helpful and what is not and then somehow try to crystallize it into a form that is usable to the developers. And then you get to the developer level where they have to share their time between working on a product and going through the feedback and then try to see if and how to implement the feedback into their process and eventually to the product itself - not to mention rounds and rounds of testing after the fact.
Funny how Gabe is basically this timeline's Gandalf.
GabeNdalf
Gabriel the Grey
I literally said to my girlfriend when we watched this video. Its like he has returned as Gandalf The White after returning from fighting the Balrog.
Bit on the heavier side, mind you. Guess he had a falling out with the eagles.
James(AKA Yames) was the Balrog.
9:15 "I'm really big into *not* mountain-climbing"
I can relate to that so well.
Varangian501 I wanted to comment that too but I was so confused when he said that, was it joke or true thing?
I thought he was going to leave it at "I'm really big."
@@saerain and really rich thats the more important one lol
You and the rest of America too
This is supposed to be a joke so no need to kill me
"DEFINITELY WANT TO MAKE MORE HALF-LIFE"
I could not be happier.
*Cries in Left 4 Dead*
@@gamzillio Hey! Did you forget we're getting Back4Blood?
@@gamzillio @Red Mercenary I played L4D, and definitely want it in VR. Maybe. *shivers in fear*
They why didnt he before his main writers left
he said that 12 years ago too lol
Questions
0:18 - What's your reaction to the team saying they're working on Half Life?
0:55 - Were you surprised when it was a VR Project?
1:34 - Robin, were you nervous when you came to Gabe with the project?
1:36 - Are there any Gabe Easter eggs?
2:43 - What is a typical day for you?
4:19 - Do you ever reflect on the impact Valve has made on the Games industry?
5:11 - It it fair to say that you started Valve because you loved Doom and Quake (vs working on Windows all day)?
9:02 - Do you still keep in contact with your co-founder Mike Harrington?
9:30 - What still drives you after all this time?
11:28 - Do you agree with Elon Musk on merging with AI?
13:31 - Do you see a gaming tie-in to [Human Interfacing]?
14:03 - What was you favourite game from the last year?
14:56 - How did the Campo Santo [Makers of Firewatch] acquisition come about?
17:44 - Are you looking at the new consoles being made by Microsoft and Sony?
19:15 - Will you be licencing out Source 2.0?
20:21 - Pick a favourite. Half-life 1 or 2?
23:44 - What is the closest we've ever gotten to a Half -life 3?
26:07 - Does it matter how well Alyx does/sells?
27:07 - What does the next 10 years of Valve look like?
Doing God's work thx =)
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You mean 13:31 for ties in to human interface.
@@liamiangaming7931 ah! Thanks
Foremanski This needs to be the pinned comment.
Valve making a new Twitter account, being more communicative than ever and now a gabe interview? This feels so unnatural goddamn
Valve has changed alot, for the better that is!
Gabe finally got bored and too old of his million dollar spending sprees and hookers.
we switched universes
didn't Gabe mentioned something about brain interfaces? how did they get that data? what if they're being brain controlled? and by whom?
@@engiecat705 bro the story of half life is based on real life. Headcrabs. Welcome to the matrix..
When he said "Go ahead" for the other guy to answer what the future looks like for Valve was a touchin moment. It was like Gabe was passin him the torch.. damn.
I thought that. That guy is clearly a massive fan of Gabe's games.
it's like dad handing his company to his son.
That other guy is Robin Walker, he made the original TF and has been in Valve ever since. It'd be more like passing a torch down to a younger brother.
Great. Passing the torch to NuValve.
27:15 That "Go ahead" from Gaben to Rob felt like a father telling his son to take the leashes of his company.
He sounds so proud of what Rob has accomplished and must be seeing himself back when he had that developer fire in him when making HL1.
I hope so, he seems eager to make more Half Life, maybe in the future we`ll see another Half Life with Gordon Freeman
yeah when gabe will retire rob will replace him
More like 4543 days, since that's how long ago HL2 Episode 2 was released
I believe Robin will be the new Gabe Newell, when he retires.
Nickname I thought it was more like he didn’t want to answer the boring question lol
Damn, I just realized I haven't seen Gabe in like 15 years. He looks like Jeff Bridges in the last Tron.
Indeed. A really nice analogy
and in tron, sam flynn hadn’t seen kevin flynn in 15 years
I bet he's a fan of Tron and has been living in the Grid for the last few years with his brain inteface
More like Jeff Bridges on Big Lebowski
@@PhilipeGamer yeah kinda a hybrid of both. The age and white beard from Tron but the vibes and dontgivafuck from Big Lebowski lol
My favorite part of this video is when they're asked about the future projects, and Gabe just looks at Robin to answer the question. I can only hope that I work at a company that puts it's employees first in this manner.
or maybe he just didn't knew about them lol
Robin made Alyx a think, Gaben isn't the future of valve's games.
You could try and work at a worker collective.
There's something so nostalgic about him saying his email address at 2:34. It's like happening across a song on the radio you haven't heard on almost a decade.
He looks like he just fell through a volcano for a thousand years and came back as Gaben The White
Hahaha having just finished rewatching The Two Towers it's hilarious
@@zackfair_og same
I thought you were referencing spykids 2 😅
Hahahahaahahahahahhahahahha
"After a thousand years I hope it was worth the weight"
2020 is a weird year.
Hellllll yeah.🤔
Nothing out of the ordinary so far
@@dynestis2875 ?? Oh yeah??
@@borderreaver4615 I was planning to stay home anyway right fellow gamers.
Nikola Leviathan we are in the matrix now
you can tell that gabe's uncomfortable with the interviewer's praises. humble dude
"I'm not the Messiah!"
@@kylesoler4139 he is the Messiah
@@kylesoler4139 he's also dressed to look like the Messiah
@@tsukikotsutsukakushi9339 That's just like...your opinion man.
It looks like he's shy or something. He's having a hard time looking the reporter in the eyes when talking back. Gabe the gray haha, but I'm glad and can't wait to finally play some half-life content from Valve again.
Gotta love Gabe. Worth atleast 1.5 billion dollars, but dresses like he sleeps on the beach. Stay humble Gabe
that's not humble, that's not giving an eff cause you're work 1.5 billion....
Jaqen H'Ghar hes not flexing his wealth. Last time I checked, that’s pretty humble.
Most rich people that earn there wealth through tech or business don't care for luxury stuff it's the creatives like music, sport etc that you'll see there sudden riches is being spent on material goods.
Nothing wrong with that either people can spend their money how they want.
@@ayrfresh9632 They can, and we will judge them for it.
Gabe has completed his transition from Microsoft millionaire to Pacific northwest billionaire. A true rags to riches story.
More like a shoes to Birkenstocks story.
Can you imagine how rich he'd be if the Valve was a public listed company.
@@Loundsify Imagine how little control you'd have too
More like rich to more riches
@@Loundsify publically listed is not the best thing in our current, environment..
14:50, in which Gabe Newell-esteemed video game developer and CEO of arguably the most important company in all of PC gaming history-said that he'd been playing Bloons Tower Defense in 2020.
Bloons Tower Defense 6 is a solid game xD
Great game series
@@nebelwaffel8174 love btd6
I love bloons
I appreciate Gaben's honesty and pointing out their previous mistakes like the Steam Machine and Artifact. We need this kind of transparency in gaming nowadays.
we really do!
Just a shame it took them 10yrs+ to realise all the gamers ever wanted was...another game!
@@moistpotato2739 Yeah, they work like the anti EA-Sports, not releasing anything until they figure out something the previous game couldn't do.
And how about introduction lootboxes to the industry ?
I do not even know what Artifact is/was.
2030: Announcing Half-Life Gman, only available on the valve brain computer interface
Costs $100,000 dollars. Also on back order for 3 months.
Its time to travel through space and time... As the Gman...
It costs $400.000 to play this game... for 12 seconds.
Imagining how many crazy sensory experiences you could potentially create with a brain computer interface... that's really the only way you could experience Gman fully
No first we need Half-life Freeman (Half life 3)
*Just finished playing Half-Life Alyx, I can't wait to play the sequel in 2035*
skeletonwaitingmeme.jpg
only Included in the orange box 2, comes with portal 2 episode 2 and 10 team fortress 2 hats
At this point it isnt even a joke but a defense mechanism
How funny
Do not play with my feelings, OK? :(
ooh yeah cant wait for half-life: kleiner
"We don't just crank Half-Life titles out because it helps us make the quarterly numbers, we deliberately avoid that constraint on how we approach stuff"
Also that statement about Steam being just a set of tools for other people to use as they want, as they know how detrimental it can be to have outside funding, just so refreshing to hear.
There's a difference between taking time making titles and what they've been doing
but then enter epic games... with their money, telling devs to defend them and do shits to control them lol
oh tim swiney....
oof
@@Lubble- half life is not their only game. Get over it
@@GifCoDigital name one other major franchise other than Portal
I could feel Gabe speaking from his heart here, that he says his passions and his thoughts and not just a face put on to please interviewers or the fans, he says what he wants truly, and he doesn't feel like he's pressured either, I've never seen him like this before and I really got enjoyment out of his happiness
It's so nice to see that Robin is so comfortable with Gabe being his boss that he can easily tease him a little and make jokes without fear that he'll get mad.
@Suhail Alhegry Oh, really? I will be sure to have a look at it.
@Suhail Alhegry see valvenewsnetwork's interview that just came out, tells another side
xoKoshiro That's how most work places are lmao
Kyezie131 at my last job if id insulted my boss hed of just ran off and reprimanded me to a manager and theyd yell at me for it, he had no problem yelling at the elderly lady that was a stocker for moving to slowly
If you work in a place where you can’t do that, find another job. I take the piss out of my boss in every job I go to. And the ones where they banter back and don’t get pissy, are the ones I stay at for a long time.
He's REALLY passionate about Brain-Computer Interfaces. Love listening to him talk about it.
NolePtr: Company called HMD Global wants to make cellphones that are connected to your brain Computer interfaces, they also want to build those interfaces :) might be scary if it's used in military but not that scary if somebody volunteers for that and everybody uses them in future, might be sad though when internet crashes and your brain is online uploading updates, or maybe they don't need updates, the interface in brain learns just as your own brain learns
thats cool n scary at the same time...
Quote might not be 100% but “if I die, I want them to put my brain in a computer” - Cave Jonson
@@isokessu hmmm i dont think thats how that works my dude bmi != ai
@@isokessu understandable, it offers the best hope for infinite life within our lifetimes. We can upload our consciousness into a virtual world when our bodies give out. Much like the black mirror episode, San Junipiro.
It's like he's interviewing Zeus..
Problem with Zeus is... He care more about Money, then making Games, people really want to play... Like HL3.
Whey do you think, Valve have not make a Game worth talking about in 10+ years.
Wow. Zeus let himself go. He used to have such an electric personality. :(
@@TheAronDark project borealis my friend that will be the true hl3
@@TheAronDark no, he cares about the people he's working with, his employees and colleagues, and thus, his company.
@@TheAronDark Because his company no longer needs to rely on generated income, instead he focus on passive income.
Gabe: "I try to solve problems that aren't super obvious."
Now we know why they don't make more updates for Team Fortress 2.
lmaoo
Also why he plays dota so much
It's sad.
"I solve practical problems"
i was waiting question about that ... feelsbadman
Bah buh huh beeeeeeewwwwwww
This guy's inbox must be a mess. He's been giving out that email address for decades.
He actually answers a lot of people too.
I emailed him about something maybe 10ish years ago, and he responded within a few days. I was pretty surprised.
He's probably set up some automated systems to sort the wheat from the chaff. Maybe even has staff reviewing it before he takes a look.
One hell of a mail server
If I remember correctly from VNN valve employees have access to that email if they want to answer or chat with fans
There’s no way Gabe doesn’t have a brain or 2 in his office, the interviewer didn’t dig any deeper as to the crazy amount of research he’s doing into altering peoples brains
Yea interviewer dropped the ball and changed the subject
What do u mean
@@gotivanmomak well you get a super rare chance to interview gabe, and gabe brings up computer interfacing and its getting super interesting like "were a lot closer to the matrix than people release" and then the interviewer just changes the subject to "whats your favorite game of last year" AGH
@@lilgustav5065 ya, a more technically minded interviewer would have immediately picked up on that and asked interesting follow up questions.
him and elon musk should have a chat
Gaben looking like Santa Claus as he's gifting us with a new Half life game
exactly, who doesn't want Half Life for the Wii
in some countries they call him papa newell...
Lmao I thought the exact same thing before even looking at the comments
TDS seventy-five but globally known as our lord GabeN
@@strikeveteran247 No i'm talking about santa, some countries call him something like papa Noël not kidding, Sounds like Newell
G-man finally brought Gabe out of stasis.
Rise and Shine, Mr. Newell.
This comment is amazing!
@@bizijr wake up and, smell the money
The right man in the wrong time can make all the differ-ence.
G-man slowly disappeared
Gabe opens his eyes and then he found out himself in some sort of a wooden cart
Tod Howart: - *Hey, you. You're finally awake*
"He's really big into mountain climbing, and I'm really big into NOT mountain climbing. I'm the best NOT mountain climbing person you'll ever meet."
Gabe and his deadpan humour never cease to amuse me. xD
It’s a shame that Robin Walker wasn’t called out in the credits. I think he’s just as interesting as Gabe Newell, although perhaps not at the same level of celebrity.
I absolutely think Robin Walker deserves to be mentioned in the title and description, and I enjoyed listening to his insights.
Robin Walker is Gabes apprentice... at least that is the vibe I got
I hate how they just cropped him out of most of the interview. He has great insight and a big involvement in Alyx
"we're way closer to the matrix than people realize" 10:45
if gabe is saying it then it must be true
He also said: "Half-life 2: Episode 3 will be out in Christmas 2007" Sounds True
Dont forget its Valve Time
So ur saying
GaBe Is MoRpheus?
Sword Art Online.
@@prisonshift3r236 Most have been a mistake, he probably meant "christmas 2027".
Not once (of course) did he utter the word "three" during the whole talk
Cheappy V coincidence? I think not
I noticed it too
He physically can't
@@darkflamerpunkboy did he say 'one' 3 times? TRULY CONFIRMED
they've been avoiding this question for years. They dont want to do a large scale game production anymore is my assessment. Alyx seems to be a relatively small game in comparison
Gabe looks like he's about to talk about expanding your consciousness through hallucinogenic drugs.
In a way its true
He refers to be called "The Dude"
And he is basically a genius. Coincidence?
I've been waiting for that since I first read neuromancer, expecting to experience the shared VR hallucination of cyberspace.
1997: Open your eyes
2007: Open your mind
2020: Open your consciousness
Gabe calling artifact a disapointment was pretty epic.
i feel like hes been having some years on a island, taking many psychedelics and meditating thinking about this day. the prophetic journey.
He has Ascended from his time in the Baha.
he looks like gandalf but is chill and works in an office
😎 then he's ready for Joe Rogan's Podcast
he looks like the kind of person to never do psychedelics
Pllayer064 ngl I’d be interested
"After 9 years in development, here is the matrix, I hope it was worth the wait"
Thanks, and have fun!
And my favourite class is the spy
Damn, he’s aged as though people have been heckling him for 2 decades about HL3
Well the better part of it, yes
He deserved it... Admit it!
Gabedalf the gray has become gabedalf the white
but everybody have beard these days, even me, and I had eyeglasses too but I lost them somewhere, but which age is GabeN? Btw I think people get minus vision from Computers and plus vision from oldness, so I guess GabeN is not even old yet. He just looks like one
GabeN: Shutup it's only been .......... 12 years
I find it interesting how the interviewer kept asking Gabe what seemed to be for him "unpractical" questions. Gabe practically didn't respond when he asked him if he reflected on his past, he said he focus more on the present and the future. Then he asked Gabe about the AI apocalypse and he eluded the question completely, and focused on what can be made, speaking about brain interfaces and technological advancements which give us practical things. Which makes me think that Gabe lived to this day a life centered on the futured and focused on the practical rather than the unpractical thinking. Which isn't bad at all, you need these to thrive on such an industry an position. But what interests me the most is that he isn't a "braindead" utilitarian guy, he seems more than capable of capturing and embracing the valuable things. For example he was very honest about Artifact, which is a trait most corporate-minded people wouldn't think of. It's so fun to analyze such a "revered" by the community person and come to realize he's a human being after all, like all of us, we might have our differences but we all come down to this, trying and struggling to be ourselves in life. Thanks for everything Gabe, I hope you the best on your future endeavors.
I agree. Also interviewer could've asked better questions. Console question was asked as complete bait. I wasn't surprised to hear this question since IGN is mostly console focused outlet. And Gabe perfectly dodged this bait question.
Instead of questions like this, time would have been better spent with questions like what they think about Black Mesa and their Xen remake, especially since they think Xen was mistake.
Two of my favorite things. The Gadsden Flag and Death.
@@ea09 He asked that question because Gabe has expressed his thoughts game consoles multiple times before.
16:46 "there's a lot of experienced ricochet developers" damn gabe, that was cold.
Lmao I still play Ricochet.
@@JackFoxtrotEDM y
@@dogobgynz idk y not
@@JackFoxtrotEDM because pong is more engaging
@@JungleScene You can literally say this about any game. We have our preferences. :P
"I definitely want to make more Half-Life." After 12 years of waiting, not even talking about the game, datamining every single thing, I got to hear this answer. I can't even believe it is real. Finally Valve is delivering. From what I've seen from the videos, they will not disappoint. Finally.. A huge thank you from the bottom of my heart as a concerned citizen. Please do make more. We'll be waiting, as we've always been.
Mert Ronael don’t get your hopes up. They probably will make more Half Life, but you never know. This is Valve after all.
yeah Valve has never lied about Half life before guys, totally believable
To be honest they don't deserve thanks. Everybody around Half-Life have been straining at the leash for years, waiting for a single word from Valve and they've said nothing. Most of the staff responsible for Half-Life 2 moved on. Most of the community have moved on emotionally. Fans have literally died in the interim waiting for news of the next Half-Life, and they've given them absolutely nothing. It's an incredibly shitty way to treat people who made you what you are.
@@Strike86 Well, they're saying something now. Okay?
Strike86
They don’t owe you anything, friend. They are entitled to make a Half life game when they want.
he should've asked if spy was still his favorite class.
He forgot me
@@spy1008 what an imbacel, he has doomed us all!
@@spy1008 Nah you just went invisible
McButters you can ask him via email, he usually responds which is surprising
Tf2 is not even in the list from 4:34 to 5:10
GABE: Im gonna dress up for this meeting.
Also GABE: Sandals
At least without socks
Why not? He's looking fine)
@@beardedghinzu yes but we call that the gaben effect, imagine if anyone else did that
@@gadhanumberone2254 nobody would care?
A layed back style.
This is so surreal, seeing Gabe after so long... it looks like he’s been on a spiritual journey... I hope VALVe comes back and dominated the PC market.
That's one hell of a company. They told the CEO, that they're working on a new game.
Andrewik lol
No wonder there's no Half Life 3, no real direction.
@@cookieface80 But on the other hand Gabe for the past years made the case that there needs to be something groundbreaking technology or graphics wise for HL3 to be justified. So it's not that there's no direction for HL3, it's that in this one instance Gabe is actually hell bent on sticking to his guns.
Not really a bad thing, its different, thats for sure. Theyre basically a collection of smaller indie studios / teams, so for example, theres a team for TF2, theres a team for CSGO, theres a team for new hardware etc.., afaik, employees can jump from one team to another without hassle (thats why, for example, TF2 might have 14 people working on it today and 4 just next week (though TF2 probably has like 0.5 right now lmao)) these teams might work independently of eachother, or help eachother out or whatever. And thus, a person can go into the lab, put some guns in, port a hl2 map and realise "Hmmm, this would be very fun as a game" and then people might agree with that person and a team is born.
Obviosuly, GabeN would probably know about this, but considering the fact that his job title is more "Dota player" than "CEO" I wouldnt be surprised if that was not the case.
SlovakThrowback - Danny Video starts: „Gabe Newell - Dota Player - Valve“ *glitches* „Gabe Newell - CEO - Valve“
Its so cool to hear him talk again.
He always talk wdym
He always talk wdym
He always talk wdym
Wdym he talks always
mydw klat syawla eH
Everyone: half life 3 confirmed !!??!!!
Gabendalf: we're gonna have full brain interfaces soon but to make you feel cold that might take awhile
wtf
Truth...
HL 3 won't come out until your brain interface can make you feel the cold of the ice around the Borealis.
we'll need those fully functioning pain receptors too especially when a headcrab jumps on our face
@@vherox3826 injects a tumor into your brain when you go near the Borealis reactor
@@vherox3826 that remembers me an episode of black mirror... 😅
Because Gaben has his arms behind the chair, he literally looks like he’s being held hostage with his arms tied behind his back
HAHA
Or he's still working on Half-Life 3 BEHIND his back!
GIVE US L4D 3!!!
Why I laugh to this
LOL, to me he looked more like Pablo Escobar in his terminal days with that super cool beard + flip-flop combo.
"Gabe pick one between Half Life 1 and Half Life 2"
Gabe: "Portal 2"
i died
timestamp?
Taking external money, "Something they're helpful, sometimes they're the death of your company" *Cough* Blizzard *Cough*
Unfortunately Blizzard wasnt owned by Blizzard for far longer than after Activision acquired them.
Blizzard isn't dead lmao
I’m impressed he managed to not touch his beard at all.
i want his beard!!!
Are you talking about the interviewer or Gabe?
Half-life comes out to pushes the Technology
"We found it a lot easier to read and write to the brain than making a person feel cold"
HL3 Confirmed when Valve releases Full Dive Helmets
Half life online here we come
I hope they make special edition that looks like a headcrab
@@Otzkar LOL
I really hope HL 3 is not VR. Just can’t justify getting VR stuff for one or two games
@@ColinAmes there are way more than 1 or 2 vr games out there! Here is a list of amazing vr games that I've played:
Beat saber
Boneworks
Lone echo
Robo recall
Vader immortal
Job simulator
Super hot vr
Director: Don't look at the camera
GabeN: *looks at everything except the camera*
He looks at the people around him instead of the camera.
@@drumer960 Yeah, though I wonder if it was necessary to tape an intern to the ceiling...
27:46 - Gman passes by behind the glass at Robin's back while he talks about the future of Valve. Half-life 3 Confirmed.
Where's his suitcase though?
Gman wouldn't put his hands in his pockets
Time Mr. Newell? Is it really that time again?
Alyx really is a great move from valve, they alleviate the pressure to make a new half life game without the risk of inevitably disappointing over a decade of hype of half life 3
why does the background music sound like all people in this video recently passed away tragically and we're remembering them now by watching their last video?
Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing
"whats your favorite, half-life 1 or half-life 2?"
"portal 2"
I love him so much for that! Portal 2 is, in my opinion, Valve's best game overall.
The Half-Life series is a huge leap forwards in gaming, but Portal 2 with its story and gameplay is so unique, and it really bears Valve's signature game design...
It's a bit sad that Portal as a series is most likely abandoned at this point, but it doesn't really need a continuation, and it will go down as one of the most important games in history!
@Greg B Valve is way more flexible when it comes to multiplayer games, but in terms of single-player experiences, Portal 2 is definitely what I would consider a masterpiece.
Half-Life and Half-Life 2 are revolutionary.
@@XeZrunner Portal wasn't abandoned.
The story ended in portal 2.
@@saricubra2867 Odd choice of words by me there, yes, it has ended there. I don't really wish for a continuation of the story, but it would be interesting to see them use the Portal mechanics again :D perhaps in VR somehow, without motion sickness?
@@XeZrunner I mean, if F-stop is ever finished/released at least we'd get more lore from the Portal universe(which is also the Half-Life universe), even if there'd be no portal gun Chell or GLaDOS. Still some cool unique puzzles and hopefully a lot of Cave Johnson, though.
We’ve called him our lord and savior for so long that he’s finally embracing it
My mom walked into the room while I was watching this and asked who that is...I said my true lord and savior Gaben
16:59 “there’s also a lot of experienced ricochet developers.”
lol
Gabe Newell: the enigmatic oracle of modern computer gaming.
The fact that he quotes John Wick already makes him even cooler lol
an actual interview with Gabe Newell? i guess the beast has finally awakened after his long slumber.
Awankened lol
After epic store trying to shake the throne the beast must awake to show them who's the boss!
the Gentle Giant
And boy does he look like a beast. Absolute unit.
I'm gonna go "awank" to some HL:A footage later
When you have enough money to develop a full fledged AAA game to test the waters.
27:18 Gabe knew that Robin wants to now make more Half Life, Robin didn't know if he's allowed to say it.
Gabe is going for the "Santa Claus is actually Jesus but working from home" look
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Honestly i love Gaben so much, he's honest, hardoworking and respects his customers. What a wonderful human being
scams you with CS:GO cases tho ;)
But still no Half-Life 2: Episode 3. Or even Half-Life 3.
"respects his customers", what a joke
@@mugiwaradarwin4504 or Portal 3 Dota 3 Team Forteress 3 left 4 dead 3
@@skortana3760 why dota 3? It's fine now same with tf2 they just need to update tf2
It’s heartwarming to see that behind a horrifying and creepy series like Half-Life there are just some awesome and chill dudes like Gabe and Robin.
Man, this was eye-opening. It really, REALLY isn't about game development or making money for Gabe anymore. It goes way beyond that.
And I love it.
When they rebelled against directx its kinda stopped being about the money.
Paving the way for gaming
@@danis8455 Rebelled against DirectX ? Valve's Source games use DirectX on Windows (GoldSrc games like HL1 and CS1.6 use OpenGL or a software renderer). id Software is a better example, as I don't remember a single id game that uses DirectX.
Let's be honest the lord makes so much from micro transactions and game sells he dont have to care anymore.
@@winterwyvern4993 He doesn't have to care, true, but he still cares. His company is always working to improve PC gaming, after all.
19:30 uh ign that was an april fools video from a youtuber using unreal engine. the half life alyx environments in steam vr use source 2 if anyone is interested in seeing what a baseline version of source 2 looks like
i was really confused when I saw that, Jesus, I hate love ign, so much...love the content, hate how they produce it...
Looks like Santa's got his jolly back.
7:52 He's talking to you EA, Ubisoft, and Activision...
“I’m here with Valve co-founder and recent Santa Claus...”
Erik McArthur air left my nose reading this
2:29 hearing him utter these words so closely to how he says it in the developer commentary bubbles and just in general about Half-Life again makes me unbelievably excited.
Did you just use a fake April 1st video showing Unreal Engine to show Source 2?? 19:32 :D
For a brief moment I was so excited for footage of CSGO in Sourc 2, but then I learnt it was from april fool's video. :(
lol
IGN at it again.
Im glad it wasn't DOF would kill cs go
When talking about valve's legacy they showed all of them, even artifact, except TF2 :(
I don’t think they talked about CS or Left 4 Dead.
@@zachyaninek2658 to be fair though left 4 dead is even more forgotten than tf2 is by them
but tf2 still supported by them. Did you guys even remember ricochet ? they never talk about it
@@yumirak TF2 is not being supported by valve. Right now there is a game-breaking exploit that botters have been abusing to DDOS every single valve server. The game is actually literally unplayable. Valve hasn't even released a statement, and it's been a problem for over 3-4 days.
@@verisimuli The lag bot issue has been patched.