Granted, on the one hand, he signed an NDA agreement, he should at least be bound by some degree of professionalism to honour it which shows you nobody hates journalists enough. On the other hand though, the 'secrecy' around game development has baffled the fuck out of me particularly when it comes to AAA studios.

I know I come across as majorly cocky sometimes, I'm not that lacking in self-awareness but I'm sure any programmer worth their salt will back me up in that even Valve can't produce anything that would remotely wow people anymore. There is no need to be so secretive, the only reason they do any of this crap is as a marketing ploy and honestly just from the screenshots the game looks thoroughly unremarkable.

If anything, when developers pull this crap and do the old marketing-fu it makes them look shady as fuck and they're almost certainly trying to cover up how bland or shit their game is. If I see a studio announce a game that's going to be release within a year and refuse to show anything beyond a teaser trailer, I'm assuming it's shit and they're hiding behind marketing hype.

The most Valve managed to do with their programming tech with CS:2 was the interactive smoke and in reality they were just a bunch of destructible textured cubes floating in the air to make the simulation a bit more believable. I saw a programmer in Godot quickly replicate it no problem so it's not as if they were that amazing.

People will play this game because it's Valve, just like people will play GTA because it's Rockstar, but overall I suspect the reception will be extremely meh.

Granted, on the one hand, he signed an NDA agreement, he should at least be bound by some degree of professionalism to honour it which shows you nobody hates journalists enough. On the other hand though, the 'secrecy' around game development has baffled the fuck out of me particularly when it comes to AAA studios.

I know I come across as majorly cocky sometimes, I'm not that lacking in self-awareness but I'm sure any programmer worth their salt will back me up in that even Valve can't produce anything that would remotely wow people anymore. There is no need to be so secretive, the only reason they do any of this crap is as a marketing ploy and honestly just from the screenshots the game looks thoroughly unremarkable.

If anything, when developers pull this crap and do the old marketing-fu it makes them look shady as fuck and they're almost certainly trying to cover up how bland or shit their game is. If I see a studio announce a game that's going to be release within a year and refuse to show anything beyond a teaser trailer, I'm assuming it's shit and they're hiding behind marketing hype.

The most valve managed to do with their programming tech with CS:2 was the interactive smoke and in reality they were just a bunch of destructible textured cubes floating in the air to make the simulation a bit more believable. I saw a programmer in Godot quickly replicate it no problem so it's not as if they were that amazing.

People will play this game because it's Valve, just like people will play GTA because it's Rockstar, but overall I suspect the reception will be extremely meh.