Valve, as ever in PC gaming, continues to string its personal path all through the trade. In addition to working the de facto PC distribution platform Steam, it appears to have lastly cracked the {hardware} facet with the Steam Deck, and continues to assist a number of the world’s hottest video games whereas steadfastly refusing to make use of the quantity ‘3’. Let you know what although: it isn’t as humorous because it was.
There’s humorous within the context of video games, after which there’s simply humorous interval. Valve is within the latter camp and, for me, hit its richest vein of type across the Orange Field period. Portal was hilarious, the whole lot about Workforce Fortress 2 raised a smile, after which Portal 2 arrived shortly afterwards and to today stays the funniest singleplayer and co-op expertise I’ve ever had. Maybe it was pining for these days that led me to observe Valve’s new video for a Cave Johnson announcer pack, and realise that the studio’s nonetheless bought it.
Okay it’s six minutes lengthy. However what sights: a glance behind-the-scenes on Gabe Newell’s motivational course of for voice actors. Workers losing away on pet food. Studio kidnappings! After which the coup de grace of Gaben on a yacht, in a stunning pink shirt, enjoying Steam Deck with a cocktail and making his man flunkey carry over the potato cellphone.
This is stuffed with Portal 2 in-jokes, as one may anticipate, with a very good contact being Gabe licking the potato cellphone earlier than use. Regardless of its size the video would not showcase an enormous quantity of Cave Johnson’s singular presence, but it surely’s fairly clear that J.Okay. Simmons is again and never a second too quickly.
The one dangerous information, in fact, is that it’s a must to be certainly one of them there Dota 2 gamers as a way to have Cave Johnson barking alongside within the background. Not less than the remainder of us get to gaze on Gaben in all his glory.
