https://youtube.com/watch?v=1jUcCg-W4Rk
fake
I'll believe it when I see it.
>>694496716How about a sequel for a good game next?
>>694496904half life 1 is a good game
anything real or just the usual they found another "hl3.nav.mesh.gordon.placeholder" in a cs2 update
>modern valveIts going to be woke
>grifter follower grifting in his new grifter vid
>>694497396fuck off falseflagging tranny
>Includes paid promotion
>>694496716Until I see it on Steam on a day that isn't April 1st, I won't believe it.
I don’t want a new Half-Life. I want Artifact.Valve screwed over the Artifact fanbase by cancelling the Artifact 2.0 beta without even allowing users to invite friends like they said they would in January 2021 and does not deserve your financial support for these gross consumer-unfriendly practices.
>Not Tyler McNigger saying ityaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn
HOLY SHIT GUYS GABE NEWELL JUST FLEW OVER MY HOUSE
>>694498108did he came on your eck too
>>694498739Yeah, he left a trail in the shape of a three
>>694496716Didn't story of hl3 leaked years ago?
I can feel it in my veins. This is for real this time. It's coming!
>>694497558>posts ugly campo santo redesignYour point?
>>694497396nah, she looked fine in Half Life Alyx. That VR game.
>>694498963>Picture is more than a decade old nowIT'S OVER
>>694496716Wow, dynamic weather what an age we live in
damn we will never get new alien sarm
>>694498946yes, marc laidlaw released a short story about the proposed ending with the names changed, but the ending of HLA indicates they've thrown it out
>>694497396So THIS is why half life alyx didn't have mirrors.
the question isis it going to be FULLY MODELED?
>>694496716is about as indifferent as it's possible to be
We all know that Gabe was putting together a team of all star devs. It's not suprising, but it's still cool news.
>the half like 3 isn't coming out meme is older than 70% of posters herelel
Didnt the last half life come out like 20 years ago? Who even cares about ancient shit like that
>>694499673The last game was released in 2020
>>694500000>spin-offtechnically true but lol all the same
>>694500000>wasted on this
>>694496716its rick astley isnt it
>>694500000factually accurate statment also fuck>>694499673I care about ancient shit like that.
>>694500000Thanks faggot
>>694498946>>694499236It wasn't a leak, and it wasn't really a proposed ending. Half-Life 2 Episode Three never got far enough in production to have a plot outline beyond vague concepts like "Breen copy in a Shu'ulathoi grub." Laidlaw admits that he basically threw together the vague ideas he had into a short plot in what was an author's version of a late-night drunk post.The last few paragraphs in particular are pretty clearly just Laidlaw crying about how he grew old and was left behind by Valve growing past him, not really anything he or anyone else actually imagined for Half-Life 2 Episode Three.Also, Laidlaw has said in interviews that he always wanted Half-Life 3 to be something completely different from Half-Life 2. The Epistle Three letter was supposed to be about Half-Life 2 Episode Three, not Half-Life 3.
>>694499673>On November 16, 2004, Valve released Half-Life 2.Yes it has been twenty years
>>694496716Do you guys really want a hl3 to be made today?With how things are right now?Talk about a monkey paws wish.
>>694500623No, I don't want Half-Life 3, I want a Half-Life 2 Episode Three built on the 2009 or 2013 branch of Source and looks like it could have been made and released in 2008 or 2009.
>>694500760
Oh man...>/v/ looking at deadlock and how DEI filled it is>thinking HL3 will be goodWhy do I waste my time with you stupid niggers.
>>694501063behold! your new gordon freeman. (Courtesy of Gabe Newell at Valve Inc.)
>>694500000If it can't be played by the main playerbase, then it's not a real game. It's merely a shitty gimmickinb4 >b-but u're poorfag!1!1!1I have oculus rift cv1, played HL:A in 2021, and I still hated it.
>>694496716YES!!! AN OVERRATED PC GAME TO SLURP UP!!!
>>694500760This but make everyone black & gay.
>>694496716Who cares? All the talent at Valve left.
>>694501895Everybody can play it now with the no VR mod
>>694496716well maybe if it was 2010 again i would get excited about such newsi used to be die hard fan of Half-Life, all my online accounts always had Gordon Freeman as avatar, i would cite characters from the game in conversations with friends for lulz etc. but it's been so many years i don't really care. even if Gaben himself came out and said they're developing HL3 it wouldn't make me feel shit about it.
So far I know of 2 active mods that are trying to do a fan-made Half-Life 2 Episode Threehttps://www.moddb.com/mods/infinite-finalityhttps://www.moddb.com/mods/half-life-interludeI'm genuinely more interested in these than any Valve-made Half-Life 3(Project Borealis is not a Half-Life 2 Episode Three mod, it's a wannabe Half-Life 3 on Unreal engine)
>>694497396Why would they model the player character's face in a VR FPS?
I am insane and obsessed so i will use this thread to bitch and moan about how terrible Alyx is. Alyx is a dated, overly simplistic VR amusement park ride that brought nothing to the scene besides unusually great graphics. It feels like a tech demo from 2012, not a modern VR title. -you cannot beat the game in smooth walk. The game is designed for teleport movement, and even though its mostly playable with smooth locomotion you have to teleport several times for utterly pointless platforming sections since they refused to give you a jump-no physics based damage in a half life game. Despite H3VR and Blade and Sorcery having varying degrees of functional physics based damage, and Pavlov even having melee in a multiplayer setting, Alyx has no way to hurt enemies except guns. You can literally bash headcrabs with a crowbar and it does not do damage. You can chuck a brick at an enemy, and watch it shatter on their face while they simply turn and shoot you-there is only one gun in the game. Despite masquerading as a premium single player game, all you get is a pistol, shotgun, and smg, and ALL THREE are one handed semi/full auto pistols with identical handling and control schemes. The barrels all have the same relative angle to the grips of the guns, and they cannot be duel wielded, enemy weapons cannot be picked up, and none even have foregrips. Even serious sam VR had two handed guns. Pavlov and Onward had pump actions in multiplayer, dozens of games had them in single player. Virtual stock was a plugin almost every other VR game had at this point. But despite all of this innovation, Alex gives you three identical pistols that fire different ammo types for the entire duration of the game.1/2
>>694500760based
How long has this autist been doing this? I remember him doing this since at least 2019? How is he still going on about fake leaks and literal made up shit.
>>6945033852/2-the game broke reloading. This one is baffling, boys. The game does not have what we would consider functional reloading mechanics. If you attempt to reload your gun, which is done by pressing the reload button, the magazine is released from the gun. at this point, you may pull a fresh magazine from your inventory and put it into the gun. Everything sounds pretty good so far. That old mag though? It cant be returned to your inventory. Only full mags can be placed in your inventory, if its missing a single bullet the game simply doesnt read it as an inventory item anymore. This sounds like a fairly innocuous oversight. Unfortunately, the effect of this has the gameplay actually fairly severe. Ammunition is pretty scarce in Alyx compared to other half-life games, you are regularly running low on at least one of your “3” guns. There’s therefore a lot of incentives to not lose large amounts of ammo whenever you try to reload. Since reloading on a partially full mag means the complete loss of all of the ammo in that mag, regardless of the situation you find yourself in, youre massively incentivized to reload only when the magazine is completely empty. This removes the choice from reloading. it means that if there’s a room with many enemies in it, and you know you only have five bullets left in your gun, there’s no choice to make, you’re just going to have to assault that position with only five bullets to start with. Because it’s not worth the significant cost to reload the gun, those five bullets are extra 2 1/2 kills youre throwing away. Its silly because the reason most non VR games make you lose your ammo when you reload is to simulate throwing a mag away in a stressful situation. Modern games often have a “tap R for slow reload that keeps mag, mash R for fast reload that discards it” system. But this is a VR game! Whether the player has the presence of mind to hold on to their mag requires no additional simulation!
>>694496716>gibbing returning to half life
>hyping gibbing as a feature I've had that for years now.
>>694505694nice cinematic fps
>>694497396alyx has always been ugly as shit
>"Time", Dr. Freeman? Is it really that "time" again? It seems as if you only just arrived. You've done a great deal in a small "time" span. You've done so well, in fact, that I've received some interesting offers for your services.>Ordinarily, I wouldn't contemplate them but these are extraordinary "times".>Rather than offer you the illusion of free choice, I will take the liberty of choosing for you... if and when your "time" comes round again. I do apologize for what must seem to you an arbitrary imposition, Dr. Freeman. I trust it will all make sense to you in the course of... well... I'm really not at liberty to say.>In the mean"time"... this is where I get off.Seriously though what the fuck did he mean by this, why the intense emphasis on that particular word just to backpedal in that one instance
I jerked off to the glimpse of panty you get looking down Akyx's jeans
>>694506169>Seriously though what the fuck did he mean by this, why the intense emphasis on that particular word just to backpedal in that one instance"We ran out of time."They originally announced a Half-Life 2 release date of September 30, 2003 and missed it so badly (actual release was November 16, 2004) that they were so desperate to finish as soon as possible that they didn't have time to spare to write a better ending. They were acknowledging and apologizing for it.
>>694505694honestly the way it was described in the OP tweet made me think of the dynamic gore system in L4D2 that lets you blow chunks off of zombie models without the entire model exploding into gibs, but L4D2 turns 15 later this week so that system isn't new either.
>>694501895tardo tardo tardo tardo tardo
>>694506694All of the wacky theories about who G-Man is and he's really just a dev self-insert who can vaguely break the fourth wall. "My employers" = Valve
>>694505694its not about gibbing, its about a DOOM Eternal style gore system with dynamic gore
>>694496716Nu-Valve will pozz it up.
>>694506942I accept your concession.
>>694496716Better not EVER mention Tyler mcNICKKER, boy!
Any time HL3 is mentioned it gets delayed by another 3 years.
>>694507449Not that guy but your logic is retarded, its not a "real" game cause it cant be played by the "main playerbase". So HL2 isnt a real game cause a lot of HL1 players cant play it with their outdated hardware
>>694507804Ok tranny
>>694507829I accept your concession.
>>694507906suck a dick, VRflop shill
I want some concessions too
>>694497396is alyx meant to be half asian?
>>694507990Don't google her mother's name...
>>694508064Azian is an Arabic name, so it makes her sound half-MENA
>>694505694>>694506874I think it's going to be like the gore system from blood trail, except even more advanced and detailed.
>>694508064>half malaysianhuh, interesting. I never knew that
>>694507829literally rent free
>>694500067>>spin-offoh you don't know
>>694508278seethe troon!
>>694503295because of the ending cutscene
>>694496716Project Borealis?
>>694508509More like Project Unrealislop
Half Life 2 sucks and I'm tired of pretending it doesn'tHL1 remains kino
>>694508509Released a one-level tech demo two days ago.Best of luck to the devs, but Project Borealis was such a bad idea from the very beginning:1. Trying to make a modern-style Half-Life 3 instead of a Half-Life 2 Episode Three means insane scope2. Trying to make a Half-Life fan game in Unreal engine means insane legal troubles (the project is always one cease & desist from Valve away from dying)3. Trying to recreate Source inside Unreal means insane development time (7 years for a one level tech demo!)
i wish abiotic factor wasnt early access
>>694496716Its too late. Its going to be filled with reddit humor and the campo santo faggots will ruin the story. What the fuck was Gabe thinking hiring them?
>>694497396Oblivion to Skyrim
>>694500000>1.5% of Steam users have the hardware to play this gameit's about as relevant as the Mario/Zelda CD-I games were
>>694496820I might not even believe it if I see it. Half-Life Alyx came out and didn’t really manage to excite me much.
>>694500000People were crying when Lidlaw released his writing, but Alyx was completely ignored, even though it's the first Half Life title in fifteen years. Probably for a good reason.>>694500760Imagine a studio with the balls to do that.
>>694497396You were never supposed to see her face in-game in proper lighting condition, compare that to the concept art where she looks much closer to her HL2 model, It's like looking at Gordon's model and asking why he doesn't look as gaunt and accurate to all the promo art.
>>694509258you play the entropy zero games?
>>694509206>>1.5% of Steam users have the hardware to play this gameWonder why
>>694509113Most of them left the company since then actually
>>694502259>The shitty No VR mod made as a psy-op to convince you to buy VR>Not the VR mod being made by that one Argentinian putting his entire soul into itDo not fall for VRFags propaganda, if it's not from SoMNst then it's the shitty NoVR mod.
>>694507990Blasian.
>>694509113>Get hired by Valve>The game you were working on immediately gets put on the backburner for all of eternity
>>694500000its fucking almost 5 years!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>694500067don't look up the ending to hl alyx and how it changes hl2's ending
>>694496716just like hl2 it's gonna be a tech demo for their new engine with a very bland "game" on top. Normies will gobble up all the "LE TECHNOLOGY!!!!1!" and valvedr0nes will pat gabes ass some more. Bah humbug.
The only thing that the video has covered so far is that there have been multiple restarts of the Source 2 engine and the game has been stuck in development hell. Valve was experimenting with randomly generated environments.
>>694497396weird mutt vs weird mutt
>>694505694what was the tentacle? is gordon a host of the darkness now?
>>694504148I played Alyx after HL2VR and I kinda hated it. I can't believe there's dynamic resolution still enabled by default and I had to fiddle with console commands.Same issue as you with the movement. I wanted to play smooth loco then figured out that firefights were designed around teleporting around cover.What broke the camels back was discovering the "game director". The same shit that there's in L4D that decides monster spawn. Except for this game it's a director that dynamically spawn ammo in closets depending on how low you are, so no matter how carefully you can play, you'll never have double digit shotgun shells EVER.What a great engine however. I wish they would have licensed or shared all the tech they used for rendering. It's the only vr engine that doesn't have specular aliasing.
>"GUYZ HALF LIFE 3 IS TOTALLY REAL">a bunch of screenshots of code that references stuff that could be related to Half Life 3 (been in development for nearly two decades, restarted several times)I don't give a FUCK about any of this shit until I see a Steam store page
>>694497396she was cute in HL alyx
>>694496716>gibs backso can I shoot my smg grenade at a group of friendly NPCs and watch them all explode, while the last one says something along the lines of "NOO! STAHP!"?
>>694515523>>"GUYZ HALF LIFE 3 IS TOTALLY REAL">>a bunch of screenshots of code that references stuff that could be related to Half Life 3 (been in development for nearly two decades, restarted several times)>I don't give a FUCK about any of this shit until I see a Steam store pageIt seems like HL3 has only been restarted multiple times because of continual engine changes and feature creep related to the Source 2 engine. Development won't officially start until Valve has game engine feature sets locked down, and they find that one gameplay hook that the game will be built around.
>>694496716>rain wind fog dynamic weather systemDoesnt work in linear shooter
>>694517634There's probably going to be some open-world hub in the game or something, kinda like Metro Exodus.
>>694497396>half life alyx is almost 5 years old
>>694514457https://youtu.be/OY2_53oydbM
>>694496716>Blow millions of dollars making Deadflop>ACTUALLY GUYS WE'RE GETTING READY TO DROP HALF LIFE!!Yikes
>>694519009>"they started development last week"smartest retard itt
>>694519009I'm sorry your parents dropped you on your head when you were a child. Kind of fucked they did it recreationally
>>694517749>There's probably going to be some open-world hub in the game or something, kinda like Metro Exodus.It sounds like Valve was experimenting with procedurally generated maps at some point for the game world.It would also make sense if they had procedural generated weather conditions too.
>>694519096>>694519212
>>694519556Man, to think it only hit 171k concurrent players during closed alpha. For shame
>>694519556It probably won't happen because it has the backing of guys as senior as Robin Walker, but it'd be hilarious if it was quietly cancelled without an official announcement.
>>694519735>Game peaked before it made $1I guess you'll just have to buy the next International compendium
>>694517634It worked for Left 4 Dead 2 in the Hard Rain campaign.
>>694519009Shitcock is being made by Valve's B-team
>>694496716>tyler mcnigger
>>694497396She looks like a flip.
>>694496716After how bad outlawed or deadlaw or deadshot was I honestly can't trust Valve to make a good game.The latest hero shooter they made was so bad and filled to the brim with DEI characters that Its shocking that I would play for 8 whole hours. I played every single character once and maybe liked one or two mechanics wise. The guy who turns into a giant snot ball and the girl with the machine gun.
>>694505694Yes, but that's boring gore.
>>694514457>CHAPPELLES SHOW...chappelles show...CHAPPELLES SHOW....chappelles show...
>>694519556it's fun but it needs more heroes
>>694520174>deadlock>dei characterslol what are you smokingit's not 2016 anymore anon
>>694500000wasted
>>694497841we will have a fully playable Artifact 2 minigame inside HL3 that's why they shut it down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNy42Wd9gfI&t=6
>>694520421Not one (1) I attractive woman.Overwhelming amount of very handsome men with chiseled jaws and 6 pack absa majority cast of nonwhites.they them pronouns for multiple charactersgay characters lesbiansWhat more do I need to say?
>>694519880Maybe wait until the game is available to the public before you claim it's peaked
>>694497396It looks like G Man killed her and is wearing her face like a mask.
>>694519916Icefrog OWNS Valve. He could tell Gaben to face that Valve needs to shut down Steam because doing so will somehow assist Dota and he will accept it without a second thought
>>694520196Such awesome technology.
>>694520196Shame Capcom dialed the gore system down in such a way in their subsequent RE games that it's pretty much nothing now.
>>694496716fake and gay
>>694496716>Half Life 2 turns 20 in a couple days>Not so much as a peep from Valve
>>694496820>even when copying ancient Japanese style they still shove the stupid tumble nose
>>694496716WHY THE FUCK IS THIS THREAD NOT STICKIED!?/v/ is fucking dead. the tourists won
>>694524463Did you miss all those updates to the HL2's test branch on Steam the last two months?
>>694524940Why? It's not an official announcement or anything.
>>694525054Yes
>>694524940do you have any idea how long half life 3 has been hyped up, leaked, and revealed?and the last time something really happened, it was a shitty VR game
>>694522059Nta but it's absolutely going to have the wind taken out of its sails during release because everyone's played it already and gotten it out of their system. See every early access game release ever.Will it see a new peak because friendless people who couldn't get a invite will suddenly be able to play it? Yeah sure. But we've already seen people lose interest in this game in the long run.
>>694497841>>694496716
>>694526694Bit too late for that, unfortunately. The best you can hope for is Valve naming this rumored new Half-Life game as Half-Life Xen or Half-Life Borealis to signal that this is the replacement of Episode Three instead of Half-Life 3.
>>694496716I don't care anymore.
>>694527025What they SHOULD do is make the version of Episode 3 that they were planning to make and put it on the Source Engine. And at the same time that they announce that, they also announce that it'll be followed by an actual Half-Life 3 with a completely new story unrelated to the Combine and running on a new engine.
>>694497841LET IT GOOH MY GOD DUDEEVERY VALVE THREAD, HERE YOU AREIT'S BEEN YEARS, JUST LET IT GO
>>694507990half black, half asian, gamers would call her woke dei sbi propaganda today
>>694528470No, they wouldn't, and (((you))) know it. Stop being (((disingenuous))).
>>694496716I REALLY DON'T CAREBECAUSE VALVE GAMES SUCK
>>694528784Yeah there are no mixed race black women characters nowadays amirite
>>694500760hl2 has too many dead vas at this point
>HL3 is going to be the merging of portal and half life in an official manner>player character will have access to grav gun, portal gun, gravity boots for wall running, and a grapple that works like a weird version of the gravity gun hard to explain>time jumps>dimension jumps>impossible places physics shouldn't normally explain>procedural animations, enemies, settings, items, etc along with set stuff >parts on parts on parts for everything in the world>everything has hundreds of settings for how they interact with everythingyou people don't understandscribblenauts, noita, bab is you, kerbal, factorio, nothing is gonna touch HL3
>>694529136alyx's race isn't a personality trait nor is it used to make some sort of retarded political statement. she's just there
>>694497396OHHH NOOOOOOOO!!! THE FACE THAT WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE SEEN IN GAME LOOKS BAD!!!
>>694496716oh my heckin science! the old gang is back just like my comics?!
>>694529607So are most characters that this board calls woke
>>694529525>>HL3 is going to be the merging of portal and half life in an official mannerThat sounds fucking horrible.
>>694529884sorry I meant half life 2 and dota 2
>>694511796wow you're so different
>>694530032do you want to hear about how much I hate call of duty?
>>694529884i mean wasnt borealis aperture science in hl2
The best part of HL Alyx compared to other VR games is the grafix and the interactivity with objects and the like.Can pull the lid off the back of the toilet etc. Would be cool if you could kill enemies with said porcelain rectangle but oh well.Also some really neat tech for things like enemy legs and walking paths.Gameplay wise, lots of VR games that are more fun imo. HL Alyx is still almost perfect as baby's first VR game though and should probably be the first game you play after turning on a headset.
>>694527330i'd be all for that if the devs who worked on half life 2 were still there
>>694529525Nice fanfiction
>>694530167tell me about how much you hate 2K too
>>694529525It would be nice if they bring back the stuff from HL Expansions, stuff like Race X and Adrian fucking Shephard.
>>694530476I think race x should stay banished desu. bring back shepherd tho
>>694506169>>694507080Everything the G-Man says and does can be interpreted in a meta way. HLA kinda made it really obvious by referring to the advisor and Eli as "entities", which is what they are in Source engine terms.
>>694497396fully modeled?
>>694530194>i mean wasnt borealis aperture science in hl2Portal always had ties to Half-Life right from the start. With the Aperture Science and Black Mesa rivalry. Portal 2 does feature the Borealis Dry Dock as a location, which is the science boat that gets referenced at the end of Half-Life 2 Episode Two. Portal technology was suppose to play a role in Episode Three. But I think canonically, the events of Portal are suppose to take place much later than the Half-Life series. It seems like Valve has tried to retcon the connection, but I am unsure.
>>694497641why is he pointing the cross at himself
>>694496716Wow.
>>694530853Honestly I thought the references were a joke until I played hl2, and then they talked about the drawbacks in combine portal tech vs humanity’s. Also i hope portal 2 takes place way after, just because I want chell to not be roped into the dystopian hl mess.
>>694530853>It seems like Valve has tried to retcon the connection, but I am unsure.It feels that way sometimes with how Portal 2 gets crazier, but despite all that they still try to connect things to Half-Life. The Borealis dock comes to mind. With that, I don't think they're trying to distance the connection between the two series as much as people think.
>>694499098>Episode 3 was slated to be released 16 years ago
>>694528470true, but not their fault feed a man shit enough times and they'll expect shit every time
>>694496716WHOAit's going to get canceled like every HL3 project Valve ever started.
>procgen slopIT'S OVER
>>694524773Tumblr gives people big red noses because it reminds them of their drunkard fathers
>>694531151Yeah, instead up until now they've just tried to distance themselves from HL3 at all lol.
>>694531042>Honestly I thought the references were a joke until I played hl2, and then they talked about the drawbacks in combine portal tech vs humanity’s. Also i hope portal 2 takes place way after, just because I want chell to not be roped into the dystopian hl mess.I don't think Half-Life 1 or 2 has any references to Portal. Portal 1 was released during the same year as HL2: Episode 2 with the Orange Box release. HL2:E2 was the first Half-Life game to make any references to Portal, it was also the first time the Aperture Science ship: The Borealis gets a reference, which was lost in the Arctic circle. Portal 2 features the Borealis dock, where the boat originally departed. It also has a lot of backstory to the character Cave Johnson who owned Aperture Science and had a rivalry with the Black MESA research lab. Portal makes far more story connections to Half-Life than Half-Life made connections to Portal. That's just because the Half-Life series existed before the first Portal game was ever released. I think in one version of Half-Life 2 Episode 3 Gordon and Alyx arrive at the Borealis in a helicopter or something. Episode 3 was long since scrapped, not sure if any of that was ever planned for HL3.
>>694496716Hl3 came out like 5 years ago didnt it?
>Valve releases 20th Anniversary Update>It bundles Episodes 1 and 2 into the main game>Beating everything unlocks Episode 3 and ends on a cliffhanger announcing Half-Life 3What would be your honest reaction?
>>694532352The most I expect will be Valve changing Episode 2's ending the same way they tweaked Portal 1 ending for Portal 2.
>>694524940>Half Loif 3 confirmedFucking newfag fuck you know how many of these we've had?There's like 300 builds of Half Life post Episode 2 that never got anywhere.
>>694524940>"It's definitely going to happen this time, pinky promise!"
>>694496716>half life alyx 2
>15 straight minutes of a deep dive into half life 3's very modern development with every single bell and whistle the modern industry has had on offer so far>/v/tendo: HL3 NEVER EVERWhy are you like this? hell this is the first time i've seen an HL3 video from this faggot that doesn't mention ((mcnigger)) on top of that.Yeah they're making HL3, it's probably already almost done judging by how much shit this guy had to say about all the data out there now.
>>694534086People were burned by the fact that this data mining bullshit has been reported, debunked, resurfaced, and debunked again since like 2008.
>>694534086You're too young to understand and too new to care.
I'd like to see some more gore. I always hated that 2 really toned that down in favor of the hip new ragdolls
>>694532559>>>694532352>The most I expect will be Valve changing Episode 2's ending the same way they tweaked Portal 1 ending for Portal 2.Half-Life Alyx retcons Episode 2 with a new timeline (not a spoiler, since I didn't reveal anything). So they don't need to do anything with Episode 2. It may as well be a dead-end story thread. Or even non-cannon?
>>694529856that's not true and (((you))) know it
>>694535883They're probably just gonna retcon HLA ending anyway in HL3. Half-Life is full of retcons when it comes to connecting the endings of their one HL game to the beginning of their next HL game.
>>694530356If they have the original outline and assets (which they should still) then that's enough for them to follow as long as they don't change any of the original plans.
>>694536035It is true, I know cause you never played modern games and just regurgitate things you hear about them.
>>694531473Hey i'm not a father so cool it with the accusations
>>694500760absolutely fucking basedand have the texture work be made from photoscans like in the original games instead of the resin/plasticine look every Valve game has had since Left 4 Dead 2
Fans will do what Valve won'thttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OmYS1wB6ps
>goreWAAAOOOWWWWHalf Life Alyx is one of the worst written games of all time
>>694509206>>694509428well, out of all the vidya companies there are, Valve is probably the best candidate to make a VR killer app to get more people interested in it. having it be the first Half-Life title in 14 years let them to rouse interest from people who otherwise wouldn't care about VR at all, while having it be a prequel means it's independent of the main narrative for the most part so anyone who plays a hypothetical main series continuation isn't missing any plot details for the most part by never having played Alyx. Valve also not only has a functionally infinite amount of money from their Steam income, but the fact that they're a private company means they don't have any suit-wearing Jews to answer to and are able to do long-term and experimental shit like this.
>>694509283>You were never supposed to see her face in-game in proper lighting conditiondumb tranny she literally appears in front of you with a huge light pointing at her face
>>694500000not half life also you are trans
>>694497396Would
Do you even care anymore?
I really hope they never explain what gman is
>>694541948He's a government man. He works for the government. It's literally in his name. Duh.
>>694500760god taste
>>694541948>I really hope they never explain what gman isG-Man is Gordon Freeman's dad. I spoiled it for you.
>>694496716They waited so fucking long to reboot this series that no one will even know what it is by the time 3 comes out.
>>694496716Valve said like 4-5 years ago that HL Alyx got them interested in finishing the series and back into working on singleplayer. I don't give a shit and there's no reason to watch it because it means nothing until they get around to it, which as always, takes forever - if ever. Seems like it was bullshit anyway since they're making Deadlock or whatever that faggy game is.
>>694541948I'd settle with them revealing one of his employers at least.
So they dropped the whole “Find and destroy the Borealis to stop another possible resonance cascade” plot then? I was kinda looking forward to a legit ending to that.
>>694541948he's nobody, his entire existence is there solely as a plot contrivance, just think about how after 10 years they decided to resurrect Eli and have alyx get "recruited" out of nowhere, gman is just a writer checkov's gun, he's made to shoot when its convenient for them
>>694543027I like how the 25th anniversary documentary straight up admitted that. They made the character model just because Gabe liked the cigarette man from X-files, and then later realized if they just scattered the character model everywhere it would automatically hint that the entire incident was due to a mysterious conspiracy.Also loved the Marc Laidlaw quote in his interview: "I still get questions about stuff I spent 5 minutes on 25 years ago from people who've now thought about this for 25 years, and they're thinking there's 25 years worth of development went into this!"
>>694542963They're still going with that I think. It's just that now that Eli lived, the Combine didn't get to know what the Resistance is after because they didn't get to divulge that information from sucking up Eli's brain which came undone. Also now that G-Man is at the forefront of the story, Eli would probably face the dilemma of whether or not the Borealis can be used to stop the G-Man.
>>694543590>I like how the 25th anniversary documentary straight up admitted that. They made the character model just because Gabe liked the cigarette man from X-files, and then later realized if they just scattered the character model everywhere it would automatically hint that the entire incident was due to a mysterious conspiracy.>Also loved the Marc Laidlaw quote in his interview: "I still get questions about stuff I spent 5 minutes on 25 years ago from people who've now thought about this for 25 years, and they're thinking there's 25 years worth of development went into this!"That kind of development just doesn't exist anymore. Maybe valve should just make Half Life 3 on the old GoldSrc engine with a team of like 20 people and just get that shit done.
>>694541948I feel like they have to explain some of the mechanics there after Alyx. Like the fact that the Combine can actually trap him feels like it grounds him in the setting in a new way.
>>694534086nobody cares anymore episode 3 should've come out in 2008 nobody gives a shit we all read epistle it's over it's finished and the fact that valve tried to bury it as Fanfiction Is even more clear that's the true ending, move on
He's in
>half life 3 announced>demo on steam >it's half life 2 episode 3
Doctor Freeeeeeeeeman
>>694496716>listing a bunch of things that are barely impressive in today's techit'll be fun for mods, granted they actually give us support for that.
>>694546938>>listing a bunch of things that are barely impressive in today's techHonestly, that's where Half-Life 3 seems to be stuck at. Outdated engine tech. It's going to be one of those things where the real game development will never get off the ground until they have an engine satisfactory to their game needs. Maybe they should go back to ID and get a license for IDTech 7/8. But then again, who knows (outside of Valve) at what they have now?
>>694508429>VR>cutscenes>third person VR cutscenes
Nothingburger.>>694499236The ending of HLA throws out the entire HL story, for ever. Once you have le myterious man change the whole story with arbitrary time travel with no explanation, it doesn't matter anymore. You can argue HL story is a huge meme that was never meant to be taken seriously and I would even agree. But then the gameplay has to be god tier.>>694500623>>694501737lol this>>694500760Umm, hello where is the lootbox esports monetization?>>694517634Yeah. Sounds worthless unless they're making an open world. The reason some old games like Mirror's Edge look so good for their age is because everything is pre-baked. Lighting literally ray traced at map compile time with zero gameplay performance impact.>>694531358Also this. People who think any of this is going to see the light of day don't know anything about Valve.>>694534086I don't care they make a whole HL EP3/3 game, they already did that multiple times. It will never ever release.>>694541948You just know the söydevs will die if they don't make hours long YouTube essay tier lore that leaves no mystery of the exact timetables when G-Man takes a shit and it's metamaterial properties.>>694543590>Marc Laidlaw quoteHoly shit this this this. People making "lore" video essays about minor Half-Life details drive me fucking nuts.
>>694509314I haven’t, no. I hear they’re good.
>Reddit Life 3 confirmed upboatsNo one cares lil bro
>>694547276They should give up on the whole photorealism arms race, based on Half-Life Alyx Source 2 graphics looked good enough anyway.
>>694496716Who cares, all the original writers left Valve when it became obvious that they didn't care about games anymore and it was all about their digital store.It's going to be written by completely different people sort of mimicing what they think a HL game is.
>>694536880(((YOU))) ARE FOOLING NO ONE
>>694547276It's fine, it doesn't have to pioneer anything grand, it just needs to be a good finish to the story and have decent tools for hosting and modding, just like all Valve games before it (probably not counting the esports trash beyond CS)The worst thing that can happen is that the game is VR onlyThe best thing that can happen is that it'll be a dawn of new age of great community created content and custom maps
>>694547623>They should give up on the whole photorealism arms race, based on Half-Life Alyx Source 2 graphics looked good enough anyway.I think the model animation in Half-Life Alyx still looks pretty top notch. What else would they have to do to the engine? add ray tracing or path tracing? Add some additional sharers? It seems like Valve wants the game engine to be as dynamic as possible. That's what it seems like.
>>694547623HLA already feels like it went for cartoon realism
>>694543590>I still get questions about stuff I spent 5 minutes on 25 years ago from people who've now thought about this for 25 years, and they're thinking there's 25 years worth of development went into this!Possibly the ultimate sign of a great game.
>>694546759>vorts examine if her model is fully modeled
>>694536880take your meds, kike
>>694549421The proportion is so high you can count the sane ones on one hand.
>>694530694fully modeled.
>>694496716waitthere are *three* punctuation marks censoring letters in that worddid they really censor "fricking"
>>694496716I really don't give a fuck at this point. It's been 17 years, and Alyx retconned and raped the entire story anyway.
>>694552276>Alyx retconned and raped the entire story anyway.Episodes already did it first by having us stuck with HL2's storyline and Eli's death was especially shortsighted as it was Gabe's on a whim idea for shock value.
>>694552276>and Alyx retconned and raped the entire story anyway.yeah, basically Alyx cancels out the cliffhanger of Eli Vance dying at the end of Episode 2, and removing the Episode 2 Alyx from the ending. Causing Gordon to go alone. essentially making Episode 2's ending pointless. Which squashes Episode 3 for good and leaves the game open for a HL3.
>>694529615You know, for a game that played a lot with what VR can do, they failed to include a mirror.
>>694497396She's suppose to be younger in HLA, but somehow looks older.
>>694530194yeah but everyone on /v/ hates portal because it's a reddit game.
>>694552276>and Alyx retconned and raped the entire story anyway.>marc didn't give a single fuck for the overall story>valves been coasting on half-life 1's bullshit for 26 years
>>694540054If they could make a VR killer app they already would have, it makes no sense to invest so much in VR hardware and then just sit there doing nothing with it. They've had the Index for like what, 5 years now and they released one game, that's pathetic. What was the point in investing into all this hardware when they just sit there and do nothing with it?
>>694554381Meta aka Facebook essentially monopolizing the VR industry overnight demoralized them so they had to go with Plan B (Steam Deck)
>>694500760>I want game but old and badclassic /v/
>>694497558sweet baby company.
