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Looks like Half-Life 3 ain't never gonna happen

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Ego check ?, then again better to end with a good game than a wanna be as good game. HL3 would have to really good a lot of people be watching, as they do say higher you are the further you can fall so why end on a possible bad HL3.

All so sounds like he don't know what he wants yet like come on we don't want another Deus Ex 2 \ Dragon Age 2 \ GRAW \ Thief 3 \ Alien V's Predator \ COD 3 and the rest after \ Sim City 2 \ Company Of Hero's 2 \ Fear 2\3 \ Rainbow Six Vegas just to name a few, of course not every one will agree.

Check that after few years most of those who played HL2 and also created the first ones will be retired or kicked the bucket. HL formula is pretty much straightforward, like Bioshock does. If it ain't broken, don't fix it and they didn't do it with Portal. There is not much innovation needed.
 

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All so sounds like he don't know what he wants yet like come on we don't want another Deus Ex 2 \ Dragon Age 2 \ GRAW \ Thief 3 \ Alien V's Predator \ COD 3 and the rest after \ Sim City 2 \ Company Of Hero's 2 \ Fear 2\3 \ Rainbow Six Vegas just to name a few, of course not every one will agree.

LOL, I must be the oddball....you named several games in there I really kike and enjoy: GRAW, Thief 3, Rainbow Six Vegas. :eek:

@qubit: Count me in for liking Duke Nukem Forever also for it's pace and cheesiness! In fact, based on so much criticism and horrible reviews, it sat uninstalled on my shelf till late last year. I'm glad I finally said "what the hell, I will see what is supposed to be so bad."
 
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So no, I still don't take it as saying Half-Life is done for. It just isn't happening now.
seems legit...!

I do sadly think that Halflife 3 isent going to happen.
Too many people loved HL1-HL2 which properly are some of the best games ever made. How can you top that ?, it has to have cinematic grafics, a fantastic storyline, not to mention even a good multiplayerpart, as games have to have today.

If Valve desided to make it anyway, the game had to be epic, just like the old games were in their time. Just think about the heat Valve would have, if the game didnt deliver, gamers all over the world would be so disapointed and say they made 1 too many.

HL 1 was epic
HL2 was even more epic
HL3 has 99½% chance to fail, because so many really loved and enjoyed 1 and 2.

For me its better to stop at the top of the game because people still find joy in thinking about how those games made them just enter into another world with loved caracters and a storyline they can relate to. HL2 can out well just about 10 years ago and we still want/need that closure for how the story ends, and I think that will never happen, its all a part of the fantasy ;).
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Half-Life is not Star Wars!!!

I want Valve to make new IP :)
 

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LOL, I must be the oddball....you named several games in there I really kike and enjoy: GRAW, Thief 3, Rainbow Six Vegas. :eek:

The original RvS was much better more teamwork and Ghost Recon we used to run tournaments with 8 people teams and on top of that you could run your own dedi server with observers so you could actually watch them playing with the ability to make awesome stealth missions that depended on teamwork. Far Cry 4 is more what GR 2 ( GRAW ) should of been more than GRAW will ever be.

With Theif 3 it's the way you grabbed shit which i thought was annoying i have yet to play it further as it annoyed me no end on top of the linear game play which all so GRAW had compared to GR.

tsk, you forgot to mention Duke Nukem Forever. Now, I was the one person who actually liked that game and played it all the way through, so don't you say nuffink. :p

I liked it but it felt like some thing was missing, looked like crap too. Maybe have a another go at it and play it at 3200x1800 res might make it look better haha.
 

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LOL, I must be the oddball....you named several games in there I really kike and enjoy: GRAW, Thief 3, Rainbow Six Vegas. :eek:

@qubit: Count me in for liking Duke Nukem Forever also for it's pace and cheesiness! In fact, based on so much criticism and horrible reviews, it sat uninstalled on my shelf till late last year. I'm glad I finally said "what the hell, I will see what is supposed to be so bad."
Oh yeah, the game is one massive satire about videogame superheroes, but so many people just don't get it and marked it down for it. Also, it felt old skool because it was supposed to. That's what Duke Nukem is and it played very well.
 
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I read it as we aren't going to give you another dose of HL2, e1, and e2. It's got to be as big of a jump from 1 to 2. Games die because they make the same game over and over. It sounds like Gabe understands this and want's to keep innovating Half-Life. I b3li3v3 this innovation will be VR. HL3 will probably bundle with their VR headset. This will be the sleeper for Valves VR headset. ;) Mind blown! BOOM! :toast:
 
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Oh yeah, the game is one massive satire about videogame superheroes, but so many people just don't get it. Also, it felt old skool because it was supposed to. That's Duke Nukem is and it played very well.

Like Jeremy Clarkson would like, a game made by dinosaurs - for dinosaurs :D.

VR's wont take off... a niche product... IMHO, why? Because of neck pain... most of us cannot handle studio grade headphones for few hours, because they are heavy. Take the all puke/dizzy stuff as a small problem... neck pain not, you can't make it weightless... Take my five cents... it won't happen...
 
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Like Jeremy Clarkson would like, a game made by dinosaurs - for dinosaurs :D.

VR's wont take off... a niche product... IMHO, why? Because of neck pain... most of us cannot handle studio grade headphones for few hours, because they are heavy. Take the all puke/dizzy stuff as a small problem... neck pain not, you can't make it weightless... Take my five cents... it won't happen...
Neck pain from headphones? You need to drink some milk.
 

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Like Jeremy Clarkson would like, a game made by dinosaurs - for dinosaurs :D.

VR's wont take off... a niche product... IMHO, why? Because of neck pain... most of us cannot handle studio grade headphones for few hours, because they are heavy. Take the all puke/dizzy stuff as a small problem... neck pain not, you can't make it weightless... Take my five cents... it won't happen...
Clarkson a dinosaur - who'da thunk it? :laugh:

You may be right about the VR, I don't know. From what I know about VR, the inevitable lag between moving your head and the image moving eventually leads to pretty significant motion sickness problems, so I don't know how they'll overcome this. Perhaps rendering it at 120fps without dropped frames will be sufficient to sort this out.
 
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There was an Half life artist/modder who was landed a job for Valve a few years back.

From what I remember thats all the guy spent his time doing was HL concepts/mods.

So if thats anything to go on there will be a HL3/ep3 eventually sometime.
 
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I think their resources have gone into other things and atm they want to coast off of other peoples work or easier work.
 

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There was an Half life artist/modder who was landed a job for Valve a few years back.

From what I remember thats all the guy spent his time doing was HL concepts/mods.

So if thats anything to go on there will be a HL3/ep3 eventually sometime.

I'm sure they have some people working side projects related to HL3 until something really grabs Gabe's eye and he says "yes, that's what I'm looking for!" and ramps things up. Wasn't Portal a side project, kind of a proof-of-concept that got greenlighted that way?
 
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I'm sure they have some people working side projects related to HL3 until something really grabs Gabe's eye and he says "yes, that's what I'm looking for!" and ramps things up. Wasn't Portal a side project, kind of a proof-of-concept that got greenlighted that way?


Yes ,It was a side project/poc. Either way we get cool games. =D
 

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Yes ,It was a side project/poc. Either way we get cool games. =D

True. Valve makes great games they just take their sweet time doing it but that's a good thing in the end.

Probably the real reason that we don't have HL 2 EP3 is that people keep making jokes on the internet about how fat the Gaben is. Every time he sees one he delays HL for another month and if people don't stop it this could happen



:p

I've actually seen people start threads on some sites saying "Please stop making fat jokes about Gaben so we can get HL3" and they seem serious. Funny.
 
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I think their resources have gone into other things and atm they want to coast off of other peoples work or easier work.


Yeah HL3 dev team is busy assigned to help/tech support center :laugh:



FOREVER :D

It actually explains why the service is so slow :D
 

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Getting sideways... Anyone play the Black Mesa mod? It is awesome, but incomplete without Xen. Give us Black Mesa complete with Xen and that should keep us HL fans happy for a little while at least.
 

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He might be fat, but he sure knows how to run business...
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Getting sideways... Anyone play the Black Mesa mod? It is awesome, but incomplete without Xen. Give us Black Mesa complete with Xen and that should keep us HL fans happy for a little while at least.
awesome?
its the best mod i have ever played!
 
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For an intelligent guy, Gabe doesn't speak very eloquently.

That said, Valve IMO are very overrated as far as creative talents go. Their only big truly original IPs are CS, TF, and HL. Portal and L4D were both IPs brought to them, and it seems now they prefer to milk one of those rather than continue to expand on their own original ideas.
 
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LOL, I must be the oddball....you named several games in there I really kike and enjoy: GRAW, Thief 3, Rainbow Six Vegas. :eek:

@qubit: Count me in for liking Duke Nukem Forever also for it's pace and cheesiness! In fact, based on so much criticism and horrible reviews, it sat uninstalled on my shelf till late last year. I'm glad I finally said "what the hell, I will see what is supposed to be so bad."

Well, Duke Nukem Forever and the 2 expansion packs are on sale at Steam for $7.19 (82% off). I guess I will pick it up. If it blows then I can always blame you and qubit. That drama alone should be worth 7 bucks of entertainment. :D

j/k
 

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You may be right about the VR, I don't know. From what I know about VR, the inevitable lag between moving your head and the image moving eventually leads to pretty significant motion sickness problems, so I don't know how they'll overcome this. Perhaps rendering it at 120fps without dropped frames will be sufficient to sort this out.
I've played Half-life 2 with my OR DK1, and it is amazing, but after 30 minutes I'm ready to puke.. Gabe said it best with OR DK1 being the best motion sickness simulator.. lol But what they where able to do to make HL2 work with VR is the best I've seen of a full game. Now, I've played a few Demo's that work really well and they don't make me sick, but it's not a full game. I really think HL3 will be geared for VR on none other than Source 2. So, just think of all the gamers that will buy Valve's HTC VR Headset for HL3 using the Source 2 engine. If I were OR I'd be shitting bricks right now with this possibility. To bad John Carmack can't use Doom 4 for OR as a selling point. Either way I'm excited about both, but I'm hoping Valve's headset is better just because they are a gaming company and not a social media company.
 
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W/E. If they want to waste a great title that could make a great profit, that is their stupidity.
 
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Looks like Half-Life 3 ain't never gonna happen.

One negative removes the other. HL3 confirmed.
 
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