>>696961492every year they say this shit kek
>my uncle is gaben
>>696961492nothing ever happensgabe is living on his megayacht right now lil bro
Who gives a shit? Nobody. Watching the anniversary video and realizing they never gave a fuck about the plot or story and the entire game was just a bunch of mechanics and levels to display those mechanics took me out of the delusion that hl2 was any good
>>696961668>they cared about making a fun video game instead of telling a story>that's why I hate themlol
Gaben will anounce another multiplayer team based game called something like Pro-State and you will deal with it
>>696961492no one cares at this point.
>>696961734That's your opinion anon but to me it's a generic corridor shooter with at the time above par physics. I played it for the story.
>>696961668That is nearly every single game ever made, you fucking dope.
>>696961492Wrong, Orange Box Remastered is coming to Switch
>>696961492Gaben personally being there to announce anything is laughable.
>>696961830>half life but you play as the good guys (the combine)
>>696961492What does Tyler McNigger have to say about this?
>>696961492I hope it does just because hardly anyone will give a fuck. One day these companies will learn that pulling your decade ot two IP out of the closet is a waste of time.
can someone tell me what's "Half Life"? is it a tv show or some shit?
RICOCHET TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>696961492It won't be 3, it'll be a remake of 1 and 2.
>>696961964https://youtube.com/watch?v=UUNGEU2vCu8He was there for the first Portal 2 trailer
>>696962046board game
>>696961668you seriously just now realised it? i thought it was common knowledge>>696961870>with at the time above par physicsstill some of the best physics in vidya ever and it's 20 years old
>>696961971>gman fucking with causality, potentially destroying all time everywhere>combine tries to stop himbut just because they need a bit of Earth's water to save every reality they're somehow le bad guys.
Gaben will announce a partnership with the ADL and that all chuds are banned from steam and their games are revoked (no refunds)
>>696961870Literally how is it a "corridor shooter" when half the game you're on an airboat, are you retarded
>>696962138Some of the best physics ever for 3 years until crysis came out.Now; slop tier ragdolls
>>696961492Valve doesn't announce shit at events. They just release trailers on a random tuesday.
>>696961492Oh my science.........
>>696961870If you care about story and not gameplay then read a book, fag
>>696962315You mean when they make you surf down linear canals?
>>696961492it will be more linear than the 2nd one, or this time will hopefully go back to 90's maze design that makes console audience seethe?
>>696961492imagine gaben comes out on stage and announces fkin DEADLOCK lmaoooo its gonna happen
>>696961870>I played it for the storyRead a fucking book, games have never, and will never, tell stories on par with the greatest films, let alone literature. That’s not what they’re for.
>>696962545And if I want to play a good video game it sure as shit won't be half-life 3
>>696962651>story faggot thinks he has the right to discuss video gamesgo back to drinking your soi and watching sissy porn dumbass
>>696962098that was a thousand years ago my guy, let it go
>>696962040Anon the Syrian rebels who stormed Assad’s bunker this week said “this feels like I’m playing half life”. Half Life is the Michael Jackson of video games.
>>696961492>half life 3More like half life forever.
>>696963161Anon, that's probably the newest video game the rebels had.
I've never played a Half-Life game.
>>696961668>they never gave a fuck about the plot or storyBased, neither did I.
>game awards tomorrow>12/12/24>12+12=24check my math twice, freehand and calculatorsomeone please verify
>>696963478I'm installing HL:Alex as I type this. Gonna be my first one. Might play the VR mod of the other 2 later.
>>696962651ok how u know?
>>696961492real talk, who the fuck actually cares about HL3?like 2 wasnt even that good, it just had good graphics for its time and spawned a bunch of 3rd party game modes and mods ppl preferred over the actual game
>>696961492IDS HABBIDING!!!!!! :-DDD
TWO MORE WEE- DAYS
>>696961492Give me Nioh 3 instead.
>>696961853Honestly this. It's just too late. If it's good then that's nice, but the half-life flair has all but dried up.
New Half Life is coming, it’s probably Half Life 3. It’s a bit early but could make sense, Valve would rather reveal it themselves than have dataminers ruin the moment completely.I could see it.
>>696962098Crazy to think that this was only 3 years ago
>>696961492>at least 2 announcementsthis is how you know it's fake. they would give the spotlight to valve completely, it would be about 1 big thing, not 2.Also Valve likes to stealth announce stuff
>>696961492I don't believe it till I see it.
>>696963161>Anon the Syrian rebels who stormed Assad’s bunker this week said “this feels like I’m playing half life”.Haha, really?
>>696962304Sony already did. No refunds for snoyggers like you. :^)
>>696963161>Anon the Syrian rebels who stormed Assad’s bunker this week said “this feels like I’m playing half life”But why? Video games are haram.
>>696964324I cared A LOT between 2007 and 2017.
People say nobody cares but when it happens this board will explode and it’ll be universally acclaimed.
>>696965959>and it’ll be universally acclaimed.Not guaranteed by any means. Remember Valve hasn't released a good game since Portal 2 (2011).
>>696961492
>>696966040I hope he wears an especially horrible outfit this year.
>>696961492Geoff is a scammer who hypes up all his shows. Every fucking Summer Games Show was meant to have some big announcement, and it's always radio silence. You're all setting yourselves up for disappointment.
>>696966092He'll have security on stage this time.
>>696966025True, but it’ll be good.
>>696963161>>696965765https://youtu.be/BFTfBSu3L3kAt 1:55>>696965825Mohammad was a gamer
>>696966189Haha, I dunno what took him so long. God, what an utter clown.
>>696963524>12/24 = 1/2>12/1/2 = 24I get something different, someone runs this into an AI
>>696962015He won't because it's not something you can datamine from Deadlock or CS2 patches.
>>696966025Alyx is better than Portal 2
>>696965652>this is how you know it's fake. they would give the spotlight to valve completelytbf he doesnt say 2 spotlights, just 2 games that people won't believe is real. the first could be some ultra niche title that is announced fairly early or something that has been remastered that has been in an ip rights limbo situation. clearly if hl3 is announced it will be the "oh one last thing" showstopper at the end
>>696966390Eh. To each their own.
>>696966390VRslop will never, ever, EVER be good.
>>696963161>>696966303based rebels
>>696966436one of them is probably Routine
Bioshock 4, Half Life 3.
kike schreier just got paid to hype up the game awards, like a good game journo he does what he is paid for, it will be fucking nothing but ya'll suckers will tune in anyway and watch the commercials like good little consumers.
i'm expecting a cinematic deadlock trailer and maybe an additional announcement of half-life or new steam machines or controller.
>>696965240They can just focus on Male Rebel #4 and everyone will go wow its the skibidi man
>>696962646games do tell stories on par with movies
Jarvis, look up Gabe's private jets on flightradar. Get satellite images for the location. Enhance.
>>696961492Why would some random Apple employee knows about these things? I mean I guess it makes sense considering the insider gossip that may be happening around the social circle of big tech but the idea of Apple people knowing about it feels random.
He can’t roll on stage anymore but it’ll still be awesome
>>696966635>cinematic deadlock trailerThat game is way too early in development for something like that, unless it's just gonna be a trailer starring Abrams.
>>696961668Half-Life 2 was never good. It winning "Game Of The Decade" was fucking criminal.
>>696966610for all the shit Geoff gets he's been pretty good at tempering expectations, so if he doesn't say anything about this then chances are it's legit. I remember last year he said not to expect anything big and there really wasn't anything, he didn't even hype up his annual Kojima dick riding.
>>696961492I doubt it considering how they announced HLA. They literally don't need marketing stunts to sell their products. It will go viral anyways.
>>696966635Imagine the bait if the valve logo appears at TGAs and then it's for fucking shitflop.
Hi I'm Gabe Newell and I work at Valve Software
>>696966531Sorry about your financial situation
>>696966673>look up Gabe's private jets on flightradarskyking thread on /v/ when? iykyk
>>696966916You would have to pay ME to force me to play VR waggleshit.
>>696966835alyx was supposed fo be announced at the game awards back then but valve pulled out for some reason
>>696966835yeah, they could just silently put up a half-life 3 store page on steam at like 11pm on a thursday and by 11:01 it would be all over the internet
What will HL3 do that revolutionize the industry?My guess is related to AI.Like the AI will actually learn your gameplay and adapt accordingly. Something that Hello Neighbor tried to do but failed horribly.
>>696966780sure but visual progress has been slow so maybe they're saving the art team's work the trailer.>>696966854i think it's pretty obvious to show a trailer for their current in-dev multiplayer game rather than show off a lambda logo with no date in sight.
>>696966898You can e-mail me at GayBen@ValveSoftware.nz
it's too late. it's going to be woke shit like all the rest, and HL2 was already proto-woke
>>696966659Name one game that even remotely competes with Lawrence of Arabia
>>696967037If HL3 involves AI slop then it's a guaranteed no-buy for me.
>>696967089>classic valve logo music>lambda logo appears>a 3 appears next to it>available now>steam logob o o m
I heard a rumor that gabe will be there to announce total nigger death
>>696967037Voxels-based rendering and voxel-based destruction physics based on the datamining. Also, I'd reckon that over the years they have a war chest full of gameplay gimmicks ready to use like the F-Stop mechanic they talked about, they could just put that stuff in too.
>>696967125Schizo
>>696966826>for all the shit Geoff gets he's been pretty good atstopped reading right there, all that cunt is good at is shilling, if your opinion can be bought you have no worth as a human being.
>>696967269>Voxels-based rendering and voxel-based destruction physicsisnt there a heist game that already did this?
I hope it's Portal 3 instead
I heard that there's going to be a special guest appearance by the Sweet Baby. Is this true? I need to DVR this if that's true; my family loves the Sweet Baby.
>2027>The Blue BoxValve has a lot of threequels to release before I die of old age>Portal 3 (completely unnecessary)>HL2 Ep:3 (completely necessary)>Team Fortress 3 (just 2 remastered with regularly released content)>Left 4 Dead 3 >Counter Strike 3 (or not, who fucking cares)>Day of Defeat (source 2 or whatever)
OH MAN THAT WULD BE SO SWEET
>>696967357Yep, it's Teardown. Although I don't think voxel application in that scale was ever done in photorealistic graphics before, could be wrong though.
>>696967467>>Left 4 Dead 3 I would kill anything for it.
>>696966898Hi i'm gay ben and welcome to sucking my cock. You're reading this in my voice. Thanks and have fun.
Post the green text of gaben eating steak
>>696967037Fleshlight integration.
>>696968046Homosexual Benjamin
>>696961492It's like Bioware announcing (and releasing) Veilguard for Dragon Age.It does'nt matter anymore, all the original writers left (in this case, because valve left them to squander for like a decade with no games since they were now 100% all about Steam)The original writers made a "totally not gordan freeman" short story explaining the intended ending for half-life since it was obvious Valve had no interest in the franchise anymore.Modern Valve is something different.
>>696968339>The original writersJust one: Marc Laidlaw.He later recanted it, but I'm sure that was just to save face with his old coworkers.It's a good read.
>>696968046new personality dropped
if that damn Half life 3 shit is confirmedis there any ideal console for the gamer who hates gabe newell, hates half life, hates FPS, hates steam, and wants the most anti-pc console of all?
>>696968523Switch 2
>>696968573I hate Nintendo too and I wouldn't buy a Switch 2 for nothingIs there any other alternative that fits what I'm looking for and is also anti-Nintendo?
>>696968691Rockstation or Book. Or maybe Outside
>>696968874I prefer to play on SmartphoneAt this point the smartphone is the only platform I have left.Is there any genre and game that nobody plays on PC and that is played a lot on smartphone?
>>696968445Not too uncommon. Vitriol towards the employer, but realization you still have friends or old coworkers you like who still work there and need a paycheck
>>696961492It's actually just gonna be Miyamoto drunkenly firing a gun into the audience. Screencap this.
>>696961492I feel like this guy is trolling. Don't they have to sign NDAs if they go to this show?
>>696961668Lmao it's been Valve's philosophy from the beginning. Even their writer thinks so:>"I'm a game writer but I'm not even 100% convinced that games are the best medium for telling epic long stories. I kind of think of what I do as more of providing a film score. You know, movies aren't about the music but the music is definitely an important part that enhances the experience of watching the movie. So, the writing is something that enhances the experience of why you're there, which is playing the game."
>>696961492>Gaben floats onto the stage
>>696961492It's obviously Peggle 3 you fuckin MORONS
>>696966780pushing out a trailer 6 months after it's been public knowledge but this far before release would be an astounding level of retardation
New Elder Scrolls.
>2 announcements that people won't believeHOLY SHIT, ANOTHER HORIZON RELEASE
>>696969007There's no acceptable logic for a person to hate Nintendo/Steam to not hate smartphones as well when smartphone gaming is absurdly worse in every metric.
>realizing that the big documentary for the 20th anniversary was just a marketing tactic to throw everyone off the scent of an imminent announcement, while simultaneously drumming up excitment for a sleeping franchise in preperation for it's awakening
>>696969594it's fairly obvious they're re-invigorating interest in the franchise, i just don't think dorito pope has anything to do with it, nor do i think they will announce something within a month of the 20th anniversary when they could have done it on the 20th anniversary
>>696968523>>696968691Dango
>>696961668>games are only good if they also have a good movie inside them"no"
>>696969594It's pretty obvious they're doing those documentaries and anniversary updates to bring back the engagement for the series again for HL3. The *wink* *wink* references they made in HL2 commentary really hammer the point too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tsHkpesBdY
The game awards is too fucking normalfag for me. Keighley & Co sucks off their AAA garbage so fucking hard. Then you've got all the shooters that are put on a pedestal. And I include Half-Life in that. Half-Life has always been overrated as fuck, from the very beginning. And then the show is also oddly passive aggressive towards anything anime. Shitting on most of it, while having token exceptions.
>>696965508not funny bro
>>696969739this shit will not leave my youtube reccomended
>>696968339>lamenting a future game>starts talking about fucking writers, of all positions Wrong hobby
>>696969583Well, I do prefer to play on a smartphonePlaying on a PC (including emulation) is blasphemous to meAnd Nintendo is fucking shit
>>696969036Yeah, I bet that's exactly what happened too.It's not hard to read the writing on the wall over at Valve with how many people left in the last decade. I'm hoping their recent new hires are the first of many; they need some new blood over there.
>>696961492A new Ridge Racer??
>>696961668>>696961870>>696962651
>>696969861Preference is one thing, but when you said "hate Gabe" I assumed you were referring to something Valve did, ie. creating a platform that facilitates DRM. Anything that Valve/Gabe did is insignificant compared to the damage smartphone gaming brought to the industry.
>>696961492Way too late. Nobody cares. Zoomers dont even know what half life is and Millennialls are retired with grandkids. These media companies really need to learn that timeliness matters. I am not waiting 3 years for a sequel let alone 30.
>gabe can count to three It’s time to give up op
>>696969241That quote is brilliant and the man perfectly understands the role of video game writing. Faggots who care about story above all else are just too retarded to grapple with literature, and so they leech off of a more approachable entertainment medium to get their narrative fix.
>>696969816The Game Awards are a marketing platform and a vanity project of Geoff Keighley's. This isn't a hot take or anything. It's nothing like a real award show, and Geoff has mysteriously been in this industry since he was a child, entirely of his own merit, of course.>Keighley was born on June 24, 1978, and grew up in suburban Toronto.>Both of Keighley's parents were executives at IMAX (and remain there as of 2022), which came with membership in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.>As a teenager, Keighley started GameSlice in 1996, a website for game reviews and journalism.>Keighley's foray into video game reporting and presentation had been through Cybermania '94, the first video game awards show broadcast on television.>Keighley was fourteen at the time, but, through his father's connections, was brought in to help write lines for the celebrity hosts to read.
>>696969854You never played the Half-Life games
>>696961668Bait, Dr. Freeman? is it really......bait, again?
>>696967237>classic valve logo music>lambda logo appears>a 3 appears next to it>available now>epic logo
>>696970140>to something Valve didI'll tell you what Valve did: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.
>>696969902You know what, I'll get in on that hopiumI'm still a little bitter over how Valve squandered their old guys, buy maybe some of the new blood can make Valve great again?
>>696961492 Yeah can't wait to see Gordon get killed off so we could give full attention to the strong female character's story. Schreier is a disgust rat person I want to squash him like a bug.
>>696969504Already announced and got a trailer >>696970154Stalker is a literal who franchise compared to Half Life, and it somehow garnered a fuckton of attention this year. You underestimate how late the third world, Steam’s main user base, experiences games like this.
>>696970140>>696970334I hate that damn Gabe Newell because damn PC gamers put him on a very high pedestal (as if he were a god or something)Plus, for me, the smartphone is the only decent place to play.I prefer to play on the touch screen than using the damn mouse and keyboard.
>>696970334Lel, OK. I'm sure smartphone games would never engage in gross consumer-unfriendly practices.
>>696970434mindbroken status?
>>696970328Maybe I am just a terminal contrarian, but that would actually be very exciting to me lolIt would unironically restore most of the goodwill that Valve has lost from me over the last decade and prove to me that they aren't a bunch of greedy fucks and still care about games
>>696970270All but Alyx, actually. You are a faggot for caring about story to this degree and even the writer agrees with me:>>696969241
>>696961668lol
I fucking LOVE Kirby.
>>696961492>Game Awards 2024>Gayben rolls in front of the audience>"We have a big announcement to make today">puts up 3 fingers on his hand>audience gasps audibly>everyone about to lose their collective shit>RICOCHET 2!>ARTIFACT 2!>STEAM DECK 2!>leaves
>>696969861>>696970535You sound very gay. Or very young.
Half Life 3 and Concord: Reloaded (F2P)
>>696970895>I don't believe the rumor myself lolAbsolutely devious.
>>696969816>And then the show is also oddly passive aggressive towards anything anime. Shitting on most of it, while having token exceptions.They do suck off Chinese and Korean gacha trash. But those are very blatant advertisements, even more so all other games shown/nominated.
>>696970895>blue checkmark AI bubble company vice president
Half Life 3 and Bloodborne are both announced. Your reaction ?
>>696970885>I'm 28 years old>I've never really played on PC>My contact with Nintendo is rather minimal>and I've always preferred Playstation consoles.
>>696970632Nah, you never played a Half-Life game, zoomie.
>>696961492Half-Life 3 and Silent Hills
>>696969241Ya see anon i would believe that except they put great quality and effort into its stories even as extensions. Tf2 comics leading to in game events as well as its story, left4dead and its character building between fights, portal and portal 2, half life obviously. I call bullshit when you have clearly shown yoy can captivate players in worlds multiple times over. The notion of turning around and going "OH YOU CARE ABOUT HOW THINGS GO? ARENT YOU SAD, ITS NOT REAL!" (Ala Return to Monkey Island and i will forever be mad about that) is retarded and pathetic.
>>696971027Keighley taking a huge stance against lootboxes. Only to shill gacha so hard the very following year was pathetic.
>announce Half-Life 3>it’s VR only slop like AlyxPost your honest reaction
>>696971437I watched that documentary and can't say that this is what I thought they meant when they were talking about how their narrative design takes a backseat to game design.If I take what that quote you're replying to has to say at face value, it supports this. Whoever said that (I forget who) isn't tearing down people who compose music for film. He's just acknowledging that when he works on games, he lets the game design inform the narrative rather than vice-versa. I think the proof is in the pudding as far as this is concerned; the Half-Life games are fantastic.
>>696971664
>>696971664Slight disappointment as I shuffle over to my closet to retrieve my Index, eventually followed by acceptance and extremely cautious optimism.
>>696961492gaben doesnt show up to this type of shit, he is busy in his yatch
>>696971256Skin-whitening SEAgirls are better
>>696971256>Half Life 3 and Bloodborne>Exclusive on Steam Machine I WOULD COOOOOOOOOM HARDER
>>696961492Who the fuck still cares about half-life?
>>696972025Trigger you basic bitch. You have zero game on your plastic shit.
>>696972025I wish I didn't. There's been nothing but pain and suffering for me for so long. I bought a VR headset over this shit, anon
>>696971256IndifferenceI am empty inside
>>696972124Alyx is fun desu
Half Life is insanely overrated franchise. I would go as far to say that it is the most overrated franchise in gaming history.
>>696968339>It's like Bioware announcing (and releasing) Veilguard for Dragon Age.>It does'nt matter anymore, all the original writers left (in this case, because valve left them to squander for like a decade with no games since they were now 100% all about Steam)>The original writers made a "totally not gordan freeman" short story explaining the intended ending for half-life since it was obvious Valve had no interest in the franchise anymore.>Modern Valve is something different.this right herehow anyone could be excited for a possible HL3 at this point is beyond me
>>696972237k
>>696972195It's alright, but it just doesn't quite feel like the same series as HL1 and HL2 to me. I realize that is textbook fanboy shit, but it is how I feelI love Robin Walker's work otherwise too, which brings on even more mixed emotions regarding that game. I'm so shittershattered by Alyx, a game I should love
>>696971437It doesn't mean that they don't care, they do especially with how Marc Laidlaw went with Epistle 3 fiasco back then. They are just aware that at the end of the day, their stories are expendable for the gameplay ideas and that didn't stop them from making good storytelling over the years.
>>696969719It definitely isn't Valve's style to announce shit at events, but also they must know how many people watch this scam.
>>696961870anons opinions shifting in real time to oppose someone else's, classic nu /v/
>>696965240What people expect from a fps today is so monumentally different from what people would expect from a half life game that I haven't been able to see any way for them to do it in over a decade unless they just say fuck it and cater to half life fans only. It's the only way and it's kind of retarded to release a fps that would piss off 97% of the shooter audience.
>>696972681what's expected?
>>696970627you ARE just a terminal contrarian, and a retard as well
A lot of the excitement for 2 was all of the new mods people would make, but zoomers and younger are afraid of installing mods
>>696967467>>696967763l4d3 is free money its such an easy formula they've already mastered they could half ass the fuck out of it and it would probably still be good AND sell a bazillion copies
>>696972681AAA single-player fps is rare as fuck these days. People ain't expecting much from this particular subgenre right now. A HL3 game would do fine.
>>696961492she's in
>>696969816geoff is a cocksucker but this is blatant gookslop gachatard post
>>696973021>cosplay bitchShe'll never be an anime girl.
>>696972721Half life fans expect a half life game. One of the Red Orchestra devs gave a print interview years back and he said they had a couple punks playtesting the newest, at the time, RO game or xpac or whatever and the kids thought it sucked because the time to raise into iron sights wasn't exactly what it was in cod and three other things weren't exactly like cod so he got mad and said he changed going into sights like a 100th of a second more in the 'wrong' direction for them. Shooters aren't what they were. Valve missed the window. They can please their fans and not the masses or vice versa.
>>696966303holy kek
>>696971664>dusts off index
>>696972770I'm no retard, but I do spend way too much damn time on the computer. I also realize that would never ever happen, to be perfectly clear. It would just be a Bro Move.
>2010: Half Life 3 announcement this year>2011: Half Life 3 announcement this year>2012: Half Life 3 announcement this year>2013: Half Life 3 announcement this year>2014: Half Life 3 announcement this year>2015: Half Life 3 announcement this year>2016: Half Life 3 announcement this year>2017: Half Life 3 announcement this year>2018: Half Life 3 announcement this year>2019: Half Life 3 announcement this year>2020: Half Life 3 announcement this year>2021: Half Life 3 announcement this year>2022: Half Life 3 announcement this year>2023: Half Life 3 announcement this year>2024: Half Life 3 announcement this year>2025: Half Life 3 announcement this year this time for sure
>being excited for franchise revival in era of pozzed woke shit
>>696961668>and realizing they never gave a fuck about the plot or story and the entire game was just a bunch of mechanics and levels to display those mechanicsthis was never a secret, its a game not a fucking movie, go play sony shit if you want narrative before gameplay, cuck
>gabe hinted at it in hl2 documentary>lots of talent being hired recently>tons of HLX leaks in recent valve game update filesnah, its not happening
I will be here to spam how even Half-Life 3 will come out before Silksong
>>696971302Cope however you will >>696973114And yet Alyx was beloved despite being their first VR game, and an fps to boot. >>696973303>revival>Alyx came out 4 years ago
>>696973657Uh huh.Go play your Veilguard slop, because obviously whoever the writers are doesn't matter.Only a zoomer could think this after all the old series we've seen.
>>696973239It'll be announced by Gaben himself and all of you will repent for not believing.
>>696973657Yeah because vrfags weren't dying for a game to champion. People didn't know what to expect from a vr shooter. That aint' the case with a normal screen.
>>696961492It's been too long. I don't care anymore.
Why cant someone just leak a list of all the reveals so I can consume it instantly and move on to go consume something else
>>696973657you're a fucking retard dude
>>696973114Only good post in this thread. There is a reason why gaming is in the shitter. It is what the people want.
>>696961492Nah. You are not going to do this to me again. This isn't 2015 anymore. You can't hurt me no more, Gabe.
>nu-Valveno thanks
>two announcementsXCOM 3.I WANT TO BELIEVEWANTTOBELIEVE
>>696973783>because obviously whoever the writers are doesn't matter.Never said it didn’t matter, but to claim that’s the most desirable thing in Half Life, or any game, is retarded. A good script can only enhance a game, but it should not define it. Games like veilguard and bg3 are pisspoor games, tranny shit aside. Laidlaw is probably a better writer than anyone left working at Valve now, but if the game part of the game sucks, that hardly matters. Half Life 1 had a pittance of 2’s narrative volume, and yet it handled gunfights with grunts a million times better than any fight against the combine in Half Life 2. You want good writing? Go read Laidlaw’s grubposts on twitter. >>696973890>People didn't know what to expect from a vr shooterVR had plenty of shooters pre-Alyx. They just pale in comparison.
>>696974226I accept your concession
>>696974658>bg3 are pisspoor gamesnta but BG3 is a great gameyou seem to be making a lot of retarded posts all over this thread
>>696974723good one
>>696974732BG3 is unmitigated pozzed globohomo slop and any other buzzword you can imagine. Sorry, I can’t tolerate faggotry in my fiction.
>>696974826Thanks I tried
>>696974924But the writing doesn't make or break a game, you just said, it's purely gameplay.Sounds like you're full of complete shit and not even consistent.
>>696974924BG3 is a great gameyou said yourself that the writing doesn't define a gameretard backtrack in 3... 2.... 1....
>>696975012>>696975114>checks the gameplay>its just a degenerate sex simYeah, I stand by what I said
>>696961492Who fucking cares at this point
>>696973239>HL3 and GTA VI before Winds of Winter
>>696973058How so? I fucking detest his gacha shilling.
>>696961668>and the entire game was just a bunch of mechanics and levels to display those mechanicsPerfect. I want a game that pushes physics and mechanics forward as much as HL2 did when it came out. Games have been focusing on presentation for too long now. We need more mechanics driven games.
>>696975324Not the gameplay you idiot.That's like when mainstream media was claiming that Mass Effect 1 was a sex simulator.
>>696975324woo! retard backtrack!100% called it!
>>696961492>It'll happen this year for REALFuck it, I'll believe it again, what's falling for the same bit a tenth time gonna do?
>>696976096The tenth one will activate your MKULTRA sleeper cell programming anon, don't do it!
>half life 2 episode 3 is announced>it's an "episode" and lasts 7h to finish and concludes freemans story with combine turning out to be infinitely impossible species to fight and him shutting down a portal to earth because the only way to survive is block access to Earth and him staring at the dyson sphere before roll credits>the gaming world is overjoyed for having a conclusion to freemans thrilling story
>>696969521That's completely believable
>>696961492I honestly don't care anymore, too little too late.HL 1 and 2 were a big deal because of the time they were released. There is no way it will bring anything we have not seen before.
>>696961492Too bad Valve can't make good games anymore
>>696976271most game studios dont have access to hundreds of valve employees to make a game tho
>>696975904Half the gameplay is listening to or navigating dialogue written by snarky twenty-something year old dykes. How one can sit through a hundred-plus hour playthrough exposed to that and not feel embarrassed is beyond me.
>>696961668This. It was basically a tech demo. People who care about Half-Life "lore" are literally retarded.
>>696976271Video Games are a solved genre.It's over. I think it's time to go outside
>its an unbelievable announcement, youll be like holy shit>everyone just assumes HL3ok. been there, done that...
>>696976482everyones assuming its artifact #2 but cope by saying it's gonna be half life
>>696976370Anon, it's okay if you don't understand the CRPG genre, but it's retarded to pretend an RPGs are all "bad games" simply because you don't like it.In any case, your claim was the writing was bad, and that's why BG3 was bad initially. You backtracked into pretending the gameplay was bad when it clashed with your earlier claim that the writing doesn't really matter and doesn't make or break.If you don't want to man up and just say "my bad", whatever, but it's still showing your refusal to man up.Many our issues with the original Half-Life people not being involved is a valid complaint when the setting is a big part of what people loved about Half-Life.
>>696976482All these newfags acting like we haven't gone through 20 years of this shit
>>696961492Dude can't even walk on his own. How is he going there exactly?
>>696962646I like playing games with good gameplay and atmosphere while listening to a book because I find it can heighten the experience on both fronts. I still have vivid memories of playing through bloodborne while listening to malazan book of the fallen.
>>696963161>Syrian rebels*CIA and Israel backed insurgents
>>696976593Moron, in a CRPG that prides itself on choice, the writing IS the gameplay. You can’t play a game like BG3 with all the dialogue turned off and enjoy it the same way you can enjoy the half life games while not giving a fuck about the story. Ravenholm is HL2’s best chapter and it has the least amount of talking.
>greg coomer walks on stage and announces steam now allows loli porn games >now for the big reveal : Unteralterbach 2 VR edition out 24.12.2024
Ok but hold on for a second..What if..Scalebound or HL3 reveal?THINK CAREFULLY.
>>696977032Coomer retired
>>696977112>ScaleboundKamiya resigned bro, let it go...
>>696976998Jesus, you're a lost cause.Just gonna agree with everyone else on this at this point. You're just a retard. Moving on.
>>696968339>It's like Bioware announcing (and releasing) Veilguard for Dragon Age.Best way I've seen it phrased.Laidlaw is gone. Lot of the old guard left Valve. The original people behind Half-Life are gone. It's a completely different beast at this point.
>>696977376>just gonna agree with everyone else!>tumbleweedsActual schizo
>>696977540Nah Valve made Alyx in 2020. We have no reason to believe that they would insert a literal transgender therapy session into Half Life 3. You guys are being sensationalist.
>>696976370>how do rpgs work?retard
>>696961668HL1 was a good game. HL2 was a good tech demo.
>>696977765Alyx was trash, anon. The sole reason it happened was so Valve could push VR hardware.Half-Life is a gimimck to nu-Valve, not a series they give a shit about. The writers left for a reason.
>>696977765At this point people here WANTED trans character in HL3 more than woke people do, it's almost pathetic.
>>696977951I feel like you’re trolling but I’ll bite. How, exactly, was Alyx “trash”?>>696977971It is bizarre
Epistle 3 was the ending and nothing they reveal will be anything other than future sequel bait
>>696977872Darn you’re right. I guess I’ll go expose myself to leftist faggot propaganda
>>696978297>damn you're rightI know I am. you're a retard
>>696978401Dude you’re so right I actually love all these trans characters in BG3 they’re all hecking valid and charming. Who’s your favorite? Mine’s the one voiced by philosophytube, my favorite trans YouTuber!
>>696977540it's just a few valve drones in here pretending that new valve gives a crap about half-life.they've outright admitted the only reason they made alyx was for pushing vr, and that they only intend to release half-life to push whatever gimmick they're pushign at the moment.which leads me to believe this "rumor" of HL3 is false. there's no gimmick Valve is currently pushing, unless they can figure some way to make it uniquely applicable to their handheld.
>>696978506i think you're slowly starting to get why anons are pointing out a hl3 would be trashbut you're likely too retarded to finally come to that realization
>>696978547Half life has been about pushing gimmicks since 2, which was a physics test bed. Nothing wrong with that mind you, awesome game. As for the next frontier, data mines suggest voxel-based environmental destruction, and AI behavior.
>>696978506>you're so rightI know I am. you're a retardi'm so happy you're celebrating your retardation so much!
>>696977679Nah, they're right. You're a fucking retard.
>>696971256Happy.
>>696978632Did Alyx have trans shit? Even gay shit? Why would you expect a Half Life 3 to suddenly go full degenerate? They introduced one new major character and it was a white New Zealander. >>696978713Answer me, who’s your favorite nonbinary character in BG3? Representation is AWESOME.
>>696978802Schizo, consume your gay porn it’s getting late
Who cares, they retconned episode 2 and replaced the voice actors. Starcraft 2 / WoW all over again.
>>696961668BASED GAMEPLAY > STORY DEVS
>>696978884>>696978954>schizo is a valve dronewho could've saw that coming
>>696978884>but seriously, gameplay is the only thing that matters, writing doesn't matter at all>no wait, that's not how I meant itkek
>>696979095>he won’t answer the question because it’s too embarrassing to admitAnd it’s funny, I’ve now been accused of being a valve hater and valve drone in the same thread
Okay but what else could we actually get? HL3 is likely BS (let's be real). But what else could pop up beyond the slip we already know about?
>>696979154You’re specifically referencing gay stuff in video games as a “concern”. Where has half life gone gay recently?
>>696979179>answer out-of-pocket question nobody was talking aboutthis is your brain on schizophrenia
>>696961668That's how games used to be made, yes. You're a secondary.
>>696979287You're specifically referencing writing not mattering in video games. Why does the writing now matter?I accept your concession.
>>696979294>bg3 is chock full of pozzed fantasy>out of pocketL M A O
>>696961492i fucking doubt it. its probably going to be some steam deck releated thing LOL
Leave the fucking zoomer alone. He's just gonna do the normal reeling until bump limit thing they always do because they lost their argument.
IT'S UP SISTERShttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9cLbSumFO4oh my goooood tyler's inside sources just confirmed half life 3 announcement tomorrow
>>696967919Perfect for all the headcrabs, vortigaunts, and striders.
