Lost Between Levels Special Edition: Valve

Shaun visits the house that Half-Life built to meet some of its talented employees and to learn more about the company culture that inspires them.

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Lost Between Levels is a look at game development communities around the world, and the culture created by the people who live there.

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just make half life 3 o rdy....and stop doing unwated crap....thank

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@commander1122 why would they want to create a game on the current gen, it would look crap

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@zisek Whats a costumer ? Why does valve have them ?

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Half-Life may have helped build the house but right now it feels as if Half-Life is the corpse that was buried in the walls and forgotten about.

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@Fursnake They'll announce it for sure between E3 2013 - E3 2014 while revealing source engine 2 .

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@Fursnake I'm sure the ghost of that corpse, in the form of frighteningly massive public expectation, is still haunting them.

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Edited By Rippletonz

@loafofgame @Fursnake GIVE ME A BREAK. Fucking whiners are being so melodramatic about HL3. Do you really want to see it this generation? Do you want a sequel or an expansion pack?

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this was a very good video....shaun and co. should do more stuff like this imo

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Edited By stefip

They function like a Marxist communist society (The success of communism on small). It's better that they stay that way, that's what makes them special (and their games).You know that whenever you hear that there's a new game from Valve you'll know it's ought to be good

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keep it up vavle and never forget to keep it real

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@TommyBarban Valve's pretty cool too.

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hahaha, yea.. I didn't keep it real on that one

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Awesome video thank you.

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Edited By Mojira7

Hooray! I've feel like I've been waiting ages for a lost between levels show. Please do more and do them more often Mr Shaun McInnis and team. This is an awesome well crafted show please don't be lost again. Japanese cities and studios would be great to see here in the future if that were possible. :)

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riiiight, so until almost every one of them at their own leisurely pace will come to a consensus about making a new game ,say hl3, there will be no game!? \ got it!

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A great piece. Well done. Thanks.

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ugh if i could work any where in the world..... some day....

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Shaun, you need to do more of these, the UK bros are cool, but they try too hard to be funny. Nicely done.

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@ahpuck

I know right. It's like they all think they're Ricky Gervais or something.

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Anyone know the music from 15:50 - 18:45? Its pretty funky.

I've heard Gamespot using it before on those "Portal 2: Tests of the Week" videos.

Great video by the way Shaun, really well polished and professional, I look forward to seeing more.

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This company seems so cool, I would clean toilets just to work there.

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@sunyatanada76 lol

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"Interesting" company that will be "interesting" to watch. ...Shaun needs to learn how to use a thesaurus :P ...haha Just teasing. It was an "interesting" video :D

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This was an interesting vid. Valve seems like a great company to work for.

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@zisek L2 English

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Cue HL3 related posts.

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That was cool Love these inside looks at game companies. This is what G4 should have been doing. Not tons of ninja warrior.

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ummmm. III

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Edited By Rheinmetal

I wonder how all these wonderful ideas about Freedom that inspire people in Valve can co-exist with...Steam! Freedom and Steam. A service that takes away your Freedom to play your game (that you bought) unconditionally, and merely allows you to play it under certain conditions.

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@Rheinmetal Steam does not limit you...
The game developers limit you, steam only allows them to

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@Subli23 @Rheinmetal For instance an update of the Terms of Use of Steam that unless you agree with it, blocks your access to all your games purchased prior to the update is something that games developers are responsible for?

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Edited By Subli23

@Rheinmetal @Subli23 U can still run the .exe from inside the folders or you could just put steam in offline mode and still run the games.

And that is only because of legal protection for them, any online based system does exactly the same, for the sake of example Origin, Blizzard updater, WoW, Lineage 2, Ubisoft gmae manager, Windows Live, Playstation network (even blocks your entire video game)

And why wouldn't you agree with the terms ??? have you even read them???
but anyways if you e-mail them telling them that you don't agree with the new terms and explaining i be6t they will give you acces to your old games but cut ur connection to the on-line STEAM services not the games on'line services...
After all you boiught the games and payed for them it must be illegal to take them away from you...

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This player really sucks
Go to you tube plz

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@Subli23 What kind of issues are you having with the player. Feedback is valuable in any effort to fix problems. :)

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@neur0sis @Subli23 The video just stopped playing at 18:00 and froze so i reloaded the page i couldn't get the player to skip straight to 18:00 min and streaming from there instead of buffering those 18:00 before i could skip to that point

And that happened again at 20:00
So i got pissed and donwloaded the video....


It's good to see that you guys do care about our satisfaction =D

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I haven't seen quality, comprehensive behind the scenes analysis like this on IGN before.

Almost like real journalism...

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Thank you for having a download link, I really enjoyed the piece, but am not a fan of the web player. Good stuff GS.

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Edited By neur0sis

@robmonga2 What kind of issues are you having with the player. Feedback is valuable in any effort to fix problems. :)

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Edited By loafofgame

@neur0sis @robmonga2 What faizanhd said.

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@neur0sis @robmonga2 You cant start playing the video from the middle unless that part is already loaded .

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Soooooooo...... Half-life 3?

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That's good and all, but where's Half-life 3?

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steam is awesome. Valve is awesome. their games are awesome. I love being a PC gamer.

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Gamespot, you should rename the title of this article to "Valve: Inside The House That Isn't Making Half Life 3"

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Wow - I don't think I've ever seen the comments so one-sided, let alone with the general consensus being positive. I guess that's a pretty good statement about the quality of the video. Awesome stuff!

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I hate Valve! HL Sucks! Activision is the Best!

is that better?

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Edited By Viral-venom13

Pretty cool insights, more of these please!!!

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I've always wondered what went on inside those valve offices. I imagined some kind of willy wonka type setting! And its not far off really! This was great stuff, an excellent piece of journalism. Thanks Shaun!

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Edited By evil_m3nace

That was really interesting. Make more of these!


Kudos to the editor, this was amazingly professional.

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Edited By MasterTheHero

Quality edited here, I loved how you guys used the office Valve logo to transition into the graphic. Great quality interviews, except maybe for that last one, he kind of didn't give any interesting answers. Overall though, this was a very cool and excellent video.

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I liked this, very informative, and like @CivilizedPsycho said, it's like watching the 20/20 or video games.

now give me HALF LIFE 3 GODDAMNIT!

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