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Wonder how Portal would run on the Wii...

Kids are going to play games, and I'd sure as hell want them to be Valve games over "Colorful Creature's Repetitive Platforming Menagerie!"

Ummm....

This is BS. I think Valve is confused. They don't like making new games and I don't think HL would work on the wii.

@ShirtGuyDom: Probably fine, but I don't think most kids would get it. At least not the sugar-hyped, mouth-breathing undisciplined and unsupervised hellions that run around at Gamestop for hours on end, knocking stuff over and generally being loud, unruly and obnoxious*.

I'm sorry, that came out really harsh. I mean to say "little bastards". ;)

I would actually love to see what Valve could do with a new IP.

*Note: I don't even work at Gamestop.
Just an observation.

What next for Valve?

Maybe a ps3 game??

Another previously serious software house setting up to make shovelware...

If they really wanted to make a game for kids, the first thing they'd have do is change that creepy eye-faucet logo.

How about a Wii game for adults? Or at least a Wii game that isn't not for adults?

I would get anything that Valve would put on the Wii. In fact I think that if they did it could do as well or maybe dare I say it, better then Nintendo games. Also I think that Portal would work great on the Wii. However all of this is only a wet dream for the time being.

@Babylonian: They did. Now they have some bald guy with a Valve sticking out of the crown of his head. :P

They pretty much dissed the wii by assuming the Wii is for kids

It seems Bioware and Valve are realizing the value in expanding their portfolio beyond bald space marines.

@Captain Impulse: I've heard Gamestop employees talk about the kids, seems they share your sentiments. Parents like to just drop their kids off their like a daycare while they go and buy groceries for hours on end...

Port Portal.

Profit.

@QualityJeverage: As a former Gamestop employee, I can attest to this. I could have paid my rent just on babysitting fees.

If this game would be made I wonder what the kids would think about the headcrabs

Portal Jr?

I already have Orange Box on PC... but would I buy it again (or at least Portal) on Wii? Maybe.

@QualityJeverage: I guess I should have said that I used to work at a Gamestop, so yeah, I also have first-hand experience. It's no wonder kids get their hands on whatever games they want - their parents can't be bothered with supervising them, so they ended up leaving them in my store to be raised by Tommy Vercetti and Max Payne.

im expecting a series of games starring companion cube

@Grey Gecko: Companion cube should've made a cameo in Boom Blox, for serious.

Portal: Companion Cube's Number Journey

Portal Zero: The

@Grey Gecko:

talk about a short game!

:P

@Babylonian: In tf2 its coming out some doods head :)

I'd actually rather see valve make a mature game for Wii... yea... like, with guns or portal guns and stuff.

Considering how amazing everything that Valve has done in the past has been, I really wouldn't mind playing a kids game made by them.

Hell, if Valve made a minigame compilation it would be the best god damn minigame compilation ever concived.

Um... first?

I swear to God that this thread had comments at one point. Am I experiencing a technical hiccup, imagining things, or did the mysterious Powers-That-Be at KHQ wipe 'em out for inscrutable reasons beyond the ken of mere mortals?

So. I was originally going to state that I'd love a TF2-style kids game from Valve, and if I ever have any children (GOD NO), I'd want them to play it as well. I'm actually quite curious to see what they could do with a title that isn't an FPS.

Well. That was certainly strange. And here are all the comments that I knew I saw before. I do think I'm going insane. It is time, perhaps, that I stopped "working" and went to bed.

@Velops: I wasn't aware that either Bioware or Valve had many games that featured bald space marines (Mass Effect notwithstanding).

@Velops: My space marine was most definitely not bald. She was pretty.

...and on that note, which space marine game by Valve would you be referring to?

@JustThisGuy: Two things you might want to know:

1) Saying "First!" can get you banned here. Seriously. (I'm not threatening you, just informing you).

2) Something's whacked out with the site, has been for months. Comments, articles will sometimes randomly disappear and reappear, lending credit to the theory that Kotaku is actually some sort of really unstable time machine that only goes back in time.

@Captain Impulse: I think there are multiple replicas that get out of sync.

@Captain Impulse:

The comments were also disappearing completely for me tonight. Refreshing Kotaku refreshes the soul!

@Torgen got his apology faceplate but not his fixed GH3 disc: Probably. Annoying as hell, though.

@globones: If only that worked all the time.

People seem to assume that a game for kids, means that it wouldn't be entertaining for adults.

I think there are plenty of games and tv shows 'for children' that can still appeal to everyone else. Think psychnauts, think invader zim. Mix in the right level of insightful humour with randomness and slapstick for goodness.

I have nothing against Valve creating a game for kids, that's perfectly fine by me. It's the sole fact that they're making it on Wii that I find very irritating.

They're furthering the "kiddy" stereotype of the Wii and Nintendo in general by doing this, especially since they've already dished out Half Life and Portal to the "next gen" consoles.

I know, the Wii console's a family thing first and foremost, but this is just another in the many cases of developers not taking the hardcore gamers for Wii seriously. Oh well, there's always The Conduit, I guess.

Lol, a kids game everyone grown man would play also... because, you know, they are VALVE...

Don't fall into that trap, Valve. Making a game for the Wii is okay, but don't think it HAS to be a kids game.

Make Team Fortress Wii, or maybe a less creepy Portal, but don't go out of the way of what you're doing normally.
...actually the statement sounds like a joke to me. If they were actually playing on the Wii, they'd know the last thing it needs is another cheap game for kids and casuals.

A kids game? No thanks, I'm pretty sure Wii has enough of those. Give us Orange box on Wii!

I sure hope Gabe Newell plays Wii a lot... he sure as hell needs it.

Actually, a kid's game doesn't sound that crazy. They already have an almost kid's friendly style, all they need to do is polish it and remove the blood.

Translation..."we would love to tap into that install base and make a shit ton of money from it!"

Maybe the Commander Keen anthology on wii?

Portal on the Wii would be awful concerning graphics, physics wise but control wise it would be pretty fun.

New IP for the Wii.

Half-Life ABC-123 Shapes & Numbers

or

Gordon Freeman Teaches Typing

I'd rather have them go to Nintendo headquarters and show them how to make a motherfucking online system work.

Friend codes? REALLY? I mean give me a fucking break Nintendo. Now merging Valve's Network with the Wii, THAT would be sick.

What? Wait? You mean all games aren't for kids ... fujack

@Cin: Majesco already figured out how to make online on the Wii work:

[multiplayerblog.mtv.com]

Headcrabs for all!

orange box for wii would be nice, it can produce fine graphics if they put there mind to it. They do need to adjust the game a little, i want a companion (game)cube!

a version of team fortress 2 would be great... without friend codes of course =D

@ShirtGuyDom:

Very fun-like.

Hehe, no one takes the Wii seriously for "grown-up" games, not even Valve.

A shame, really.