In an interview with OXM, Valve's marketing man Doug Lombardi has said that bringing older games to Xbox Live Arcade (like Counter-Strike) is something the developer would "certainly consider".
Portal: Still Alive will be Valve's first entry into the Xbox Live Arcade scene. The Combine-less portion of The Orange Box is being released on Xbox Live for those who didn't fancy playing some of the best games ever made.
"It's designed to give Xbox 360 gamers the chance to get Portal, for those who didn't want to go through the Orange Box. It's Portal, the game we all played and loved last year, plus 10-20 new challenges that you'll unlock," explained Lombardi adding that the extra challenges will be "exclusive to Xbox 360 in 2008".
When asked about the possibility of older Valve games appearing on XBLA, Lombardi sounds interested though he stopped short of saying anything was actually in the pipeline. "We'll certainly consider it. If you look at what we've done on Steam, we try to make all our games available and we're always reviewing the prices to keep them current. We'd love to do that, but Portal: Still Alive is our first step at doing that beyond the PC."
As usual, none of these plans yet include PS3 or Nintendo, although Portal on Wii would be a awesome. "Right now, Valve's doing PC and 360 stuff, so anything we would iterate on would be on Xbox. We don't have any immediate plans to do this on PS3 or Nintendo."
Whenever I join a CSS server, it's always full of bots. I can play offline with bots, assholes! It annoys me so much that I delete it, then redownload it the very next day.
The 360 version will suck. You can't awp with the controller. The keyboard/mouse combo allows you to turn more quickly and accurately. I guess only nubs who can't go against the awesome pc lords will download it...
Whenever I join a CSS server, it's always full of bots. I can play offline with bots, assholes! It annoys me so much that I delete it, then redownload it the very next day.
The 360 version will suck. You can't awp with the controller. The keyboard/mouse combo allows you to turn more quickly and accurately. I guess only nubs who can't go against the awesome pc lords will download it...
True, gamepads will never match a m&k but counterstrike is a slow enough game(at times) for it to work. Although in the game of headshots, everyone will need the sensitivity cranked way up. And for it to work properly, it would have to use the server setup that is used on pc. And make mod servers, love zombie mod! And if you only find bot servers, then filter the servers so the ones with the most players are at the top. Problem solved.
As long as it's nothing like the horrible Xbox version, I wouldn't mind a downloadable version of Counter Strike on the 360.
huh...i loved the counter strike game on the xbox 180,it was the second most playable online game after star wars battlefront,i had a lot of fun with a lot of people on that game
CS:S wasn't too bad, but if it was to be downloadable there would be a massive upsurge in HDD purchases.
Plus I hope they would find a way to make user generated content available as there is a lot out there already.
Oh and I don't think Portal Still Alive is exclusive, apparently it's levels that have already been released on the PC (I have them, just haven't played them). Shame they lied.
There will never be mouse and keyboard support for the xbox, ms said it would never happen. If someone starts using m&k they have a distinct advantage, so everyone would have too use m&k.
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