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[GrayChild]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2yQoqWhJ4M

Taken from the Steam store page:

Gabe Newell Simulator is a game for those who have always dreamed of being the glorious PC Master Race Gabe Newell!
You can impersonate Gaben and help him in his fight against other companies and make the decision to release Half Life 3 or not, and this will have drastic consequences in the whole universe!
Explore the different rooms and corridors of Valve Corporation (many inspired by real ones), the secret lab and... their space station!

Key Features

Millions of easter eggs! There are already several easter eggs in the game and finished early access there will be many more

You can watch for hours the face of Gabe

You can release Half Life 3

You can eliminate forever Half Life 3

http://store.steampowered.com/app/407420

Teleport me to Xen if old.

 

[GRIMREEFZ]

Bought it!

 

[RipperGrim]

Doesn't it cost money to release games on Steam? What a waste of it.

 

[Bunta]

So dumb.

 

[Hesemonni]

And here I was, mistakingly thinking, Halo 5 would be the gaming event of the year.

 

[Kurita]

Sounds like something you could have played for free on Newsground 10 years ago

 

[Rezae]

Sure. Why not?

 

[ashleythedragon]

Frog Fractions 2?

 

[Hibiki Kurosawa]

Omg that's stupid...

 

[CambriaRising]

Gross.

 

[Shuggananas]

You can watch for hours the face of Gabe

I'm sold

 

[MUnited83]

Doesn't it cost money to release games on Steam? What a waste of it.

I'd say he will probably make his money back.

 

[jwk94]

Sounds like something you could have played for free on Newsground 10 years ago

Pretty sure you could say that about a lot of indie games today. This probably has its market just like the other simulators out there.

 

[KarasuEXE]

So the stupid simulator games are coming back?

 

[Berrigal]

Plot Twist: Once you reach 999 hours of gameplay, the words 'Thank you for playing Half Life 3' come up.

 

[Leafhopper]

Doesn't it cost money to release games on Steam? What a waste of it.

A whole 100 dollars through greenlight.

And since it was a dumb dead joke it got passed quick. Probably already made their money back.

So the stupid simulator games are coming back?

They never left...

 

[fastmower]

Is this going to be a trilogy?

 

[Xater]

As expected, this looks like something no one should spend money on ever.

 

[gossi]

Eurogamer has some background: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...n-actual-game-thats-coming-out-on-steam-today

Gabe gave his permission for likeness. The game itself is terrible.

 

[Kinyou]

I'm surprised steam is okay with it. Less surprised about the game looking like utter crap.

A game where you'd manage steam, with a gameplay like Game dev tycoon, might actually be kind of cool

 

[Compsiox]

Smother it all over my body!!!

 

[Lunar15]

Dank.

 

[Leafhopper]

I'm surprised steam is okay with it. Less surprised about the game looking like utter crap.

No one at Valve has probably seen it yet and if they did Gabe might still not care.

 

[SgtCobra]

The only monster stopping Half Life 3 from getting released is mister Newell himself.

Spoiler

Gaben pls :'(

 

[Red Hood]

 

[Arttemis]

Such harsh reactions. No humor.

 

[GrayChild]

Eurogamer has some background: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...n-actual-game-thats-coming-out-on-steam-today

Gabe gave his permission for likeness.

But... why!?

 

[Interfectum]

1. $
2. the lulz

 

[SpaceWolf]

Is this going to be a trilogy?

Well, two games will probably come out.

 

[MUnited83]

No one at Valve has probably seen it yet and if they did Gabe might still not care.

They did see it, otherwise it wouldn't be on the store. Despite of how automated the greenlight process is, there's still a lot of manual proccesses a game must go before it's published.

 

[gossi]

Well, two games will probably come out.

Gabe Newell Simulator 2 Episode 2 should be the sequel name.

 

[Kriken]

You can release Half Life 3

You can eliminate forever Half Life 3

SOLD!

 

[Leafhopper]

They did see it, otherwise it wouldn't be on the store. Despite of how automated the greenlight process is, there's still a lot of manual proccesses a game must go before it's published.

True, then they just didn't care like thought anyway.

Such harsh reactions. No humor.

If it wasn't a joke nearing a decade old maybe it would be funny. They are also charging for this.

 

[balladofwindfishes]

How much is it? If it's like, 50 cents, I might buy it and gift it as a joke to someone.

 

[red731]

This is out before HL3. Think about it.

 

[gossi]

Hilariously in the author's Let's Play video of their own game they encounter a bug where they can't walk through a doorway as they killed a creature which blocks it. So they just cut around the problem in the video, heh.

 

[JBuccCP]

Could've at least made a valvi-fied Game Dev Story clone. You start making a few games, the release STEAM which is so successful you just kick back and spend the rest of the game playing DOTA 2 within the Gabe Newell simulator.

 

[MUnited83]

How much is it? If it's like, 50 cents, I might buy it and gift it as a joke to someone.

I'm guessing it will be pretty cheap, since it has trading cards. The guy can make a few thousand bucks on that alone.

 

[Nzyme32]

If you have a voting system for allowing games on to your service, especially concerning gamers, memes will make it through.

 

[Gordito]

Frog Fractions 2?

We can only hope.

 

[MDSLKTR]

cringe

 

[Leafhopper]

How much is it? If it's like, 50 cents, I might buy it and gift it as a joke to someone.

Not sure yet. They know they made a joke game so hopefully it's not something silly.

 

[Kinyou]

Such harsh reactions. No humor.

I'd be up for some humor, but going by the trailer the game offers zero.

 

[Papercuts]

rip videogames.

 

[diamount]

Such harsh reactions. No humor.

This looks exactly like the other assets flips which get shit all the time, it's a shitty looking game which would look dated 10 years ago.

 

[d00d3n]

Good sales pitch, but idiotic that you can't buy the game right now. The only potential profit here is people checking gaf and other forums and conveniently being offered the game for a low price.

 

[diamount]

Good sales pitch, but idiotic that you can't buy the game right now. The only potential profit here is people checking gaf and other forums and conveniently being offered the game for a low price.

More then likely they want pewdiepie to promote it to increase sales but at least the other simulators look like they weren't shit out in a day.

 

[JoshGrilli]

Really saddens me seeing people support this garbage on a service known for having an over abundance of it. Steam has turned into a dumping ground.

 

[GrayChild]

Good sales pitch, but idiotic that you can't buy the game right now. The only potential profit here is people checking gaf and other forums and conveniently being offered the game for a low price.

If anything this looks like something Jim Sterling would play. Many developers have claimed that even if he trashes their game, it brings them much attention and profit.

 

[Marjar]

This "simulator" bullshit ran its course with Goat Simulator, which really was only funny for about a half an hour.