My ONE problem with Valve...

i remember a TV advert for hl2 just before it came out (here in the uk) which was just the large orange lambda hl2 logo fading into the screen then fading back out again thats it.
 
like whoever said it said (wasn't paying attention XD ), you could have an add running durring a show were the screen starts to get fuzzy and the G-man can be faintly seen and heard saying somethong, something, G-manish...
 
i like where this thread is going (ADvert ideas for valve)

i say they should put trailers in like movie theaters and cinemas.. like halo 3..
 
my one problem with valve is the cancelling of the black box.
"**** our old, loyal customers, they can buy some games for their friends"
 
HL2 and EP1 are free.
 
if you think about it, most game that don't advertise are the best ones. Like for instance vampire the masquerade-bloodlines....yes theres a few glitches, but still an awsome game
 
imo it would be kind of hard to make an ad from a trailer;since its all first person. i mean the first ep2 trailer HECK YES that trailer was amazing and would do great for an ad.

Edit: i just thought of something though. you cant just advertise for ep2 alone. because its a ongoing story to hl2. i mean imo it would be best to get a huge montage of all of the ingame videos for the Orange box and combine that into an ad.
 
Well they can make many cool commercials, and if they mention steam in every game copy of every non-valve game they will have a lot of customers in that way.
 
Just watched the Orange Box commerial (just added to steam media) And I reckon one advert is too small for three games. A shorter version of the good 'ol portal trailer would be nice seperately.

EDIT: Just thought, they should capitalise on g-man to advertise ep2! Have him say something suitably mysterious but relevent either at the beginning or the end. Not too long, but long enough to make people want to know what the hell he is talking about.
 
Valve's advertising is a funny beast. In the Half-Life 1 era their advertising was handled by Sierra... hardly the most charismatic publisher it has to be said. I remember their Half-Life campaign having a picture of a kid with the Lambda symbol in his eye... like, wtf does that have to do with the game? The Half-Life 2 years were much the same thing with a few fleeting glances... but I think by this time Valve just had a 'safe' core market. 2003/2004 was a whirlwind hype internet hype machine that you'd easily miss if gaming news wasn't something you watched out for, but utterly unavoidable if you were into it. I believe there were adverts on TV, but what do Net users know about TV? Most of us never watch the damned thing :P

It didn't help HL2's status that Vivendi developed a policy whereby all games were represented on shelves by character portrait shots. All of a sudden, Half-Life 2 looked like a consumer-end software geiger counter or anti-virus program. The GOTY edition was better, and EA seem to be a little more on the ball... only a little though.

soulslicer said:
yes indeed they are free, however, it makes me feel like i wasted cash buying ep1 and hl2.
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Iron_cube said:
:rolleyes: ...
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-Psycho- said:
Paradox?!
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Where is the paradox? I spent ?40 on both of them, ?55 if you count the copy of Episode One I got for a friend. We've spent money on things that now allegedly don't cost money for people who come along fresh. It's hard not to feel some resentment for that. Many companies in similar situations run upgrade schemes or rebates. Orange Box - which is unmistakably too generously priced to be worth criticizing - contrasts simply because you get no pat on the back for being 'a loyal customer'.
 
In reality though the games are so old you SHOULDN'T be getting a pat on the back, or an upgrade, or a rebate. You shouldn't even get a "thank you" note because, as a PC Gamer, you've had these games for ages. Or, you should have had these games for ages, and realistically if you bought Half-Life 2 or Episode One in the previous months--as many months as we've KNOWN Orange Box was going to come with those two games--you can really only blame yourself for "wasting money."

Saying you resent them giving away old games for free is like going to your local gamestore bargain bin and seeing a game you bought two years ago for $50 now priced at $19. That's exactly what it is. I don't think anyone rationally gets mad in those situations. Do you?
 
I'm glad there's an Orange Box commercial, but I'm annoyed by the vocoder-like woman's voice.
 
kupoartist said:
It didn't help HL2's status that Vivendi developed a policy whereby all games were represented on shelves by character portrait shots. All of a sudden, Half-Life 2 looked like a consumer-end software geiger counter or anti-virus program.
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Seriously? Crazy Frenchies.

Although IMO the GOTY boxart is inferior to the original. Just looks much less low quality.
 
Polaris said:
That voice is one coolest things in this commercial, it's GLaDOS from Portal.
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It sounds... different from GLaDOS, somehow. To me, anyway, like its been sped up for the purposes of the commercial.
 
The woman who does GLaDOS is the only voice actor who appears (not literally, obviously) in EP2, Portal and TF2. Therefore she's the only one qualified to do the ads :p
 
Darkside55 said:
I don't think anyone rationally gets mad in those situations. Do you?
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Condescend much, oh Mighty Darkside?

edit: More to the point, I do feel recently that any criticism of Valve, especially of the makeup of the Orange Box, and regardless of how much balance you put into the argument is inevitably shot down by the Staff with all the subtlety of a automatic sledgehammer-launching machine gun. Sure it's a fansite, but since I've heard through the good old Marvin Gaye that a number of the staff have Free Press Accounts including certain elements of the Orange Box anyway, I do find their contempt for lowly money users like myself rather unsurprising.
 
I for one am a bit glad that Valve doesn not over advertise their games. Yea it would be great if more people knew about the game, though I think Valve respects their work to much to start over advertising making mountain dew with Gordon on it or slurppee cups at 711. I think they have enough confidence in their material and they have confidence in the quality of their games. I am glad they have trailers here and there though too much advertising dilutes and disrespects the game I am glad they aren't like Halo (even though I love Halo) and vomit their product all over eveyone by not having game pictures and themes on XBL. Valve do what they want and have a certain degree of care and protection over there work. That one of the reason why I love Valve, they make the best games ever and they know and are modest about it.
 
I to find it strainge that the single greatest game i have ever owned and played for pc (HALF-LIFE 2) only came into my possesion purely by fluke when i decided to buy a ati 9800pro instead of a nvidia FX5900.
im glad i did because i truly got the best game i have ever played and in essense for free! as it was bundled with the card.
 
I only got hl2 last year. Never knew about it. First time I saw it, I thought head crabs were possessed turkeys and it was a funny game where you shoot turkey heads.
 
they shuld build a big psycic tower and project Gman into everyones dreams. Presto! instant fame! or instant mass panic and subsequent nukeing of said psycic tower...
 
Yeah, Valve needs to advertise more. Quite a lot of my friends play computer games and yet barely any of them have heard of half life (i count one who owns it) The rest only know about it because i talk about it all the damn time.
 
True. I conversed with a friend recently, who knows nothing ABOUT Half-Life, and they all think Halo is better. Bah, they're both good games, but HL is better. I only heard bought HL2 for CS:S anyway. :P
I ended up playing it later on.. pure leetness.
 
This is how crap Valve's advertising is... I really loved HL1 and there was no major advertising for HL2, so when i saw it on a shelf last year i was like, hmmm HL2 i wonder what it's like, didn't even know there was a HL2. I ended up buying it but i did have a copy of Halo in my hand when i made the decision.
Good thing that got put back on the shelf.
 
I know a guy who got the OB but only really plays TF2 and Portal. He's got no interest in the storyline, really. Then again I consider his amusement tastes fairly childish and limited. He does not like games that can become "long", and based on the last time we played Sup. Com., games he can lose either.
 
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