"499 and up....",. don't forget that. if the price in europe is 500 (1$=1 sadly)... for a build with an i5 4570: i5 - 150 mobo gigabyte - 60 8GB Ram - 60 500GB 2.5"- 40 GTX 760 - 200 case - 25-40 Psu corsair 500w - 50 600 or less for the intel build, and we would have a better itx case with a better air flow, so…
Is that really the requirement for a game to be considered made by Valve developers? Take Portal-Portal 2 for example, it was a project created by Digipen students under a different name and a different theme. Valve hired the team of, I think 8 and then worked alongside them to come up with Portal. With Portal 2, the…
Seriously. This way of thinking is running rampant on NeoGAF too and it's just ridiculous. The original Portal was indeed mostly the team from DigiPen, but the developers themselves have said it would have been no where near as good without the guidance from so many of the other employees. Not to mention Chet and Erik…