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Comment by Almondsetat | Hacker News Reader

HL Alyx and Dota 2 aren't of note?

Dota 2 is of note, but that was a pretty safe project being a straight remake of an already popular mod with the mods developer at the helm. Their major titles since 2012 were:

  CS:GO (remake of a remake)
  Dota 2 (remake)
  Artifact (flopped)
  Underlords (flopped)
  Alyx (good)
  Counter-Strike 2 (remake of a remake of a remake)
  Deadlock (early beta, but promising)

They haven't completely lost the sauce, but it's rare to see the old Valve show up these days.

Making remakes old popular mods is not a safe project.

Cs:Go was a 'remake' of cs 1.6, which was the original cs with a lot of changes and updates, but no remake

I think you grossly undervalue execution. Ideas are cheap. Most developers would have turned those games into weaker money extracting machines that generate one tenth the love from current players

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