RUN. THINK. SHOOT. LIVE.NOVEMBER 18THPROJECT LEAD: ROBIN WALKERDEVELOPMENT TIME: 2019-2026DEVELOPER COUNT: ~95ENGINE: SOURCE 2RELEASE DATE: Q1 2026PLATFORM: WINDOWS, LINUX, STEAMOS
>>719963259don't care it's been too long
>>719963259They wouldn't wait that long to announce it if it was actually happening
>>719963259What if they release it on steam without any marketing ?
there isn't even any new exciting tech for HL3 yet
Sure. I'll believe it when I see it.
What would the societal impact of a shadow dropped Half-Life 3 be?
Nobody cares about half life anymore, the momentum is dead a long time ago
>>719964657I care a lot about it and am still a little butthurt.
>>719963259fake and gay. Now put my fries in the basket.
>source 2 holy KEK that trash engine in 2025? what next, are they going to port it to unreal engine 3?
>>719964197i don't care. i just want closure. end this series already
>>719964623I would lose my shit personally but I'd expect people to mostly not care initially other than going "Hey, isn't that the 'lmao can't count to 3' game?" But if the game has mind blowing gameplay and tech that also appeals to the mainstream instead of just fans, then word of mouth should give it a lot of hype pretty quick. If it doesn't then it'll probably just be mildly popular rather than break the internet popular.
>>719964623Valve would be stupid to shadowdrop it just because some redditors want it to for meme reasons, considering it's not really the most hyped game in the world anymore after people got tired of all the red herring over the years.
>>719964623If what OP describes were actually real, it would probably be my game of the decade.
I don’t want Half-Life 3. 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.
>>719963259>PLATFORM: WINDOWS, LINUX, STEAMOS>LINUX, STEAMOS
>>719963259They missed the boat a decade ago
>>719963259>source Tyler Mcvickerinto the trash it goes
>>719964858HALF LIFE 3 BRANCH OF SOURCE 2 ENGINE HAS BEEN FULLY UPGRADED DURING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROJECT. FOR ALL THE ASPECTS, SUCH AS PHYSICS, DRIVING, AND GAMEPLAY, THE BEST DEVELOPERS IN THE FIELD HAVE BEEN HIRED.
>>719963259>development time: 2019-2026nah bro, its more like 2007-2037its been in development so long that i'm seeing the same cope, word-for-word, that i saw ten to fifteen years ago.
>>719965358WHY ARE YOU YELLING
>>719965364Same. I thought some of these guys were just trolling, but I've had some conversations on here with people who are either incredible gullible and/or under 25.
>>719965364THE 2013 HALF LIFE 3 DID NOT SURVIVE LONG AND WAS CANCELLED EARLY. YOU CAN REFER TO "FINAL HOURS OF HALF-LIFE ALYX" FOR MORE INFORMATION. THIS CURRENT HALF-LIFE 3 PROJECT STARTED IN 2019, EXPERIMENTATION STARTED SHORTLY BEFORE HALF-LIFE ALYX ENDED DEVELOPMENT.
>>719965558BUT WHY IS GABEN SO FAT?!
>>719965558this is what i'm talking about, i'm getting deja vu. "naw bro it was cancelled and restarted but its totally almost ready this time," this is the third time i've seen this argument throughout the years.
>>719965673GABE NEWELL IS NO LONGER CONSIDERED "FAT", USAGE OF "OZEMPIC" STARTED AT LEAST 1.5 YEARS AGO, THERE HAVE BEEN LEAKS OF HIS NAKED BODY, FAT BELLY NO LONGER VISIBLE
the copium is real
>>719963259Nah bro, not at this point.
>>719965825PICS OR GTFO
Obligatory:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr4MLD2Qfjo
>>719963259>PROJECT LEAD: ROBIN WALKERwhy would the multiplayer guy at valve direct a singleplayer game you fat brown nigger>No verification required
>>719966158wasnt he the lead for alyx?
>>719964197Good. Valve should stop doing this meme. Not every game has to be a tech demo of the newest tech.
>>719966158ROBIN WALKER WAS THE PROJECT LEAD FOR "HALF-LIFE ALYX" (2020). ARE YOU DUMB, RETARD?
>>719964197Ai?
>>719966229He and Dario Casali were the leads.
>>719963259I thought the previous game was supposed to be Half Life 3.
>>719964623They'd drop an official teaser one week in advance.
Half Life 3 will be announced in under 24 hours
The game is about making speedrun Gordon canon.
>>719966428Far from Half-Life 3. Prequel (continued the story for 5 seconds, I know), and you did not play as Gordon. Far from the mythical third game.
>>719964197The Deckard
>>719967964really enjoyed HL:A but did not enjoy the superhero shit at the end and how that's going to affect the story of HL3 if it ever releases
>>719968259Same.
>STAND. LISTEN. SNOOZE. QUIT.It better not be another HL2
>we could have released Episode 3 but we just didn't lolfuck off you fat bastard
>>719963259Only 95? That's pretty low, isn't it?
>>719964950Valve already told people who want closure to fuck off by retconning the cliffhanger with a different cliffhanger in a VR exclusive. Having marketed the episodes as a trilogy, they just needed to release one more small game; nothing revolutionary was expected at that point, and just having the G-Man show up and say "game's over now" after a boss fight would have been accepted as a satisfactory ending by fans who had already accepted that as the ending of most Half-Life games prior to Episode One, so giving you "closure" with Episode Three would have been a lot easier than whatever world-shattering thing people imagine Half-Life 3 will have to be. They chose not to do it anyway.
>>719965825Wat show me
>>719964623Would be a crazy ass balls powermove. Just drop it and be done with it.
If they were smart they'd never call it Half Life 3 because there's no way it would live up to the hype
>>719968398It's Valve we're talking about. Their games are not open-world bloatware.
>>719963259Now that Silksong is out we're back to being schizophrenic about this game, I see.
>>719968561I've always thought this was bullshit. If they release something as good and substantial as Half-Life 2, something they're entirely capable of doing, and call it Half-Life 3, I would be happy.
>>719963259kys Tyler McNigger
>>719968662I've been seeing a lot of this in 2025, amusingly. I guess Tyler McVicker made an especially compelling video about HLX that garnered him some new acolytes.
>>719964623Has any shadow dropped game ever done well?
>>719968662HL3 is the ultimate never-ever game; it will always come back to this.
>>719963259Fake and gay
>>719968763Oblivion remake did pretty good.
>>719968398the have less than 400 people at valve, (i've read they can't hire more than 400 people without going public).But they do use contractors, they outsourced some assets to thirdparties.
>>719968561Redditors being "hyped" about shit that was never announced is probably what killed the series. Arguably it's Valve's own fault for releasing two-thirds of an episodic trilogy and then stopping, but it didn't help that people saw the delay in Episode Three and immediately thought "WOOOOW THIS MUST MEAN IT'S HALF-LIFE 3 INSTEAD!!!" and started exponentially hyping up their expectations for the unannounced and non-existent game from that very moment as if it's been in development since 2008.
no matter what valve makes HL3 will never live to expectations and they know it
>>719969125wanna bet its better than you expect?
>>719968764its actually pic related since it got way more time in the oven than HL3, but no one really cares about it and only the niche remaining fanbase of the first game are expecting it to either be finally cancelled or to ubisoft to shadow drop it then pretend nothing happened.
>>719969125It's been so long that it'd be a high expectation if the game came out at all.
>>719963259Alright then, if you know so much post the weapon roster. Everyone seems to know when it comes out but nobody can provide something as simple as that.
>>719964023The only way to release HL3 at this point is to just release it the moment it is announced
>>719969371Caring about both this game and Episode 3 have made me the most psychologically resilient man on Earth. I've suffered more emotional damage than combat veterans and famine victims.
>>719964623A good 3rd of the it industry would call in sick for a week. Nothing catastrophic but it would genuinely have an impact on normies who've never even heard of half-life when a wesite stops working or something.
>>719969125Other than exceptions like Doom and Metro, single-player FPS games are a dying breed. Having HL3 come out and being good is already a miracle.
>>719969405pistolsmgrocket lawnchairrevolvershotguni can't say the rest but expect more news soon ;^)>>719969483you should have jumped the ship the moment they announced it was gonna be a strong affro woman prequel.
>>719969640Eh, the first game was already about a fierce azn grrl who don't take no shit and knows martial arts. It didn't bother me.
>>719969371The game being an always-online pseudo multiplayer killed any modicum of anticipation for it.
I hope it's a strand type MMO with weapon skin loot boxes!
Y'all cared enough to post in the thread, I mean...
>>719969441they gotta make sure enough people can buy VR headset in time
>>719963259If true, I wonder if it will still have physics.
>>719970090If I'm not mistaken, they made Source 2 primarily so that they could replace Havok with their own physics engine.
>>719968843Then everyone shadowdropped it back
boomer franchise
>>719964623Same as half life alyx. Fact is half life 3 could release and flop and it wouldn't affect valve that much
>>719969483I'd put being a Halo fan up there. I almost would rather be a Half Life fan. After all the slop that's been produced after Halo 3 I wish they just didn't release anything at all.
>>719968398If you assume OP is real
>>719963259just finish the story as a movie
>>719970580Oh, man. I'm sorry bro. My closest friend is one of you guys.
>>719970580Yeah, being a Halo fan is pain. Four great games (Thats CE, 2, 3 and ODST), and then a never ending deluge of pain. Infinite looked promising but it was just too plain in the end.I miss when Halo was proper M-Rated.
>>719963259I have uncslop fatigue
>>719965825>>719965558>>719965358i like this guy. you got gumption , kid.
>>719968458>gman shows up after defeating the big bad>"good job mister freeman" "my.... employers have come to an agreement". "you will remember none of... what has occured the past 20 years.... as well as the remnants.. of humanity. Now is the time to rebuild and repopulate. I... will be keeping a close eye and report to my employers if.... well lets just say history will repeat and we will not allow it. Good bye freeman.there i ended the series
>>719970017HL3 isn't going to be VR, at least not a dedicated VR game
>>719969125Definitely. FPS games are uber diverse today and people would never be satisfied for what ever is missing in their perverted and delusional mind. The only thing on how to not get a vocal meltdown from all sorts of people would be to release spinoffs only. A top down half-life game or strict coop game in the universe, but not with Gordon Freeman.
>>719970514why are you indian?
>>719968601Alyx lists 336 people from Valve. Not a small team. They don't tell how much each worked on the game thougbeit.
>>719971127valve always lists the entire company in their credits
>>719971127Most of that was just Valve going all hands on deck toward the end of development to get the game over the finish line.
>>719971127They lists everyone in the company. It's kinda retarded desu.
>>719963259>DEVELOPER COUNT: ~95Well that's one way to prove that it's a giga fake leak. Zero chance a AAA game gets made with only 95 people.
>>719971431oh its usually around those numbers but you gotta mention all the filler indians, the coffe boys and social media and HR guys or else one might chimp out.
>>719964197They've apparently been working on simulation systems. Wind, heat, electrical conductivity, etc. I think they're going to go for a more AI driven (in the game sense, not the ML sense) interactive world.
>>719963259
>>719970895>Thats CE, 2, 3 and ODSTHey, those are the only ones I own! Nice. I just beat 2 coop. Moving onto 3 next... Or odst, I dunno.
>>719972014Do 3 first, then ODST. ODST is a side story to what happens in 3, but is important for a few key reasons that make themselves clear. It also has the most unique atmosphere of the bunch, what with being a mere man instead of a Spartan this time around. Soundtrack is fucking god-tier too.
>>719969015Open world high fidelity adaptive storyline with fully modeled vaginal cavities.
>>719972190I'm more interested in odst for that reason, but I guess it makes sense to finish up the main plot anyway.It doesn't end in some gay cliffhanger does it?
KELLY MADE SOME TRACKS FOR HALF-LIFE 3. LAIDLAW NOT INVOLVED OFFICIALLY, ONLY SOME EMAIL CONVERSATIONS RELATED TO LORE
>>719963963Nobody ever says that after it arrives. People cared when Duke Forever dropped (at least until they played it).
SOURCE?
>>719972796May we see it?
>>719970895Halo 4 killed the aspect of getting hyped for a video game for me. I've never gotten hyped for a game since that one ruined all my expectations. It was all for the better looking back at it because I watched as every game got hyped to no end only to drop the ball on release. I still miss when Reach came out. It was the first game I bought with my own money as a kid. It exceeded all my expectations. I remember watching all the pre-release vidocs. I remember watching every single trailer up to release. I remember watching videos of gameplay on the public beta. I remember when one of my friends brought it over to a buddy's house and I lost my shit the first time he whipped it out. I'll never have that again. There will never exist a game that I get hyped for that manages to exceed all my expectations. That era is gone for me.
>>719964197>>719966325Personally, I really want to see implementation of AI into NPC dialogue and interactions. I want to be able to tell them to scout ahead or give me some space... or spread their buttcheeks.
>>719972905I cared until I played the beta... yeesh. I bought Borderlands for five bucks just to play that shit lol
>>719972954RIGHT HERE
>>719963259>Voices of the Void 1.0 is released>Title screen shift to "Half Life 3" when you first launch it
>>719968360This. I am so done with East Yurop. Show me something completely different now.
I've seen what makes you react to things like that you fucking failure, you belong there. You lost.
>>719965029>I'd expect people to mostly not carewhat? why do you think that? everyone still talks about and wants half life 3 to this day
>>719972621Nah, 3 has a pretty solid ending. It can be seen as having an open one for further adventures, but its a solid conclusion to the main Covenant War story.>>7199729764 truly was the start of the dark times. I know some people might swear up and down that Reach is trash, but I am not one of those people. 4 was when the death knell was rung, and now we have this zombie of a franchise that refuses to perish, no matter how much controversy it gains.>>719973080Are you implying the source is in the very source of life, the water itself? If so I must return to the oceans, like my prehistoric fish ancestors did.
>>719973039My condolences. Duke deserved so much better. And now that cuck Randy Pitchford owns him. Thanks a lot, George Broussard. Fuckin' asshole.
>>719973153>wild west road movie on desolated earthdoubt valve and their "good" game design can handle so much player agency and freedom
>>719973280Being a Duke fan is also pain, yes. Only five good games to his name, half of them spin offs. Forever got done dirty, man. Shoulda wrangled Broussard in 03 and shipped the damn thing. Woulda sold gangbusters anyway.
>>719973153You are in luck, C17 is fucking nuked
>>719973153we might see upper Michigan (Aperture), New Mexico, Arctic and Eastern European forests and coastal areas + Xen / Overworld
>>719973473It's been nuked since the end of Episode 1. But the environments surrounding C17 aren't that different. It's just wilderness and ruins in the outskirts, and it mostly feels just like HL2 did (which is fitting since all those games still carry the HL2 name). HL3 though? Don't you DARE feed me these same ramshackle corrugated metal shanties, or antlion caves, or roadside houses. I'm sick of it. No more.
>>719966325>>719971685>>719972997>Gordon FINALLY speaks>It's (You) talking with gen AI NPCs
>>719963941Hello and thank you for calling bullshit, may I take your order?
>>719973039borderlands 1 isn't that bad, i bit dull and kind of repetitive but i enjoyed myself for the most part of it when i played it recently, im yet to try 2.
>>719963259I don’t want Half-Life 3. 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.
>>719973707Oh, for sure. I thought it was just fine. Pretty solid co-op game.
>>719973758Here he is.
>>719964197>HL3 turning into a deck building moba FPS with voice activations
>>719973687What a strange, mixed feeling. I'm not sure if I'm for or against this. I definitely want the tech, though.
>>719973758you fight a pointless battle friend
>>719966230soulless cuck, valve does shit because they want to try new shit even if it sucks. you never liked half life to begin with if you are against this.
>>719973153if they were smart they would do something with the HL2 beta concepts that everyone clearly loves, show us the other side of the world that is still ruled by the combine and it being an extreme hazardous nightmare dystopia. if the combine were starting to lose the fight, it would make sense for them to double down on fucking up humanity and going full extermination mode.
>>719965168>gay card gameHahah
>>719973758Just as it is a tradition for a Half-Life game to have a train ride, there's no Half-Life thread without the Artifact schizo showing up
>>719965168Are servers even up today?
>>719973247Reach was great with minor setbacks. People here that hate it either hate it because it retconned the book or because they want to be contrarian (typical for /v/).
>>719965825>THERE HAVE BEEN LEAKS OF HIS NAKED BODYThis is more important than any Half-Life 3 leak, where is it?
>>719973687>>719973935I could probably get into it. It would feel cool to yell at one of them to take cover or cover me or whatever.
"I don't care about Half Life 3".
>>719968763Apex Legends?
>>719974117I could enjoy that. They need to show us something on the other side of the portal though. We need to see combine worlds by now. Ones not just populated by post-human cyborg grunts.
>>719974037>they want to try new shitExplain dota 2, portal 2, artifact, l4d2, deadlockAll made by exploiting previous trends and without any new tech
>>719971431Hl3 is an indie game but with AAAAAA budget
>>719974135He is like the old man in your neighborhood, the one that is alone and constantly tries to talk to anyone who would listen. Kinda sad really, being so dedicated to such a middling game.Of course it could all just be a joke and I'm overthinking it, but whatever.
>>719974448I really love the way Laidlaw described them in Epistle 3.
>>719972796man i hope he did, this track fucks.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7aqfIwrvnE
>>719971431Infinity Ward had around 100 employees back in its MW2 days. There's no issues when everyone you hire is competent.
>>719974117>everyone clearly lovesSpeak for yourself, this generic shit fucking sucks
fuck jannies
>>719974448>final act is interdimensional travel to the combine overworld to destroy the grublords at their sourcethat would make for a great endgame scenario
They better drop new sfm with this how we get new era of porn.
>>719974549They hire a lot of contractors too, but yes, a competent core is crucial and sufficient, much better than 500 low skilled indians, which is modern AAA
>>719974684pls read epistle 3
Are OP and BS canon?
>>719974526When I just close my eyes and imagine things to the music, I think I like Half-Life even more than what already exists.
>>719971881Crazy that alien sightings became officially recognised by the government before half life 3 released
>>719974748No and never will be, fuck off. Adrian is not canon.
>>719974974Technically he's Schrodinger's Canon; he's canon until he isn't.Also fuck Gearbox lmao
>>719974594>generic>nothing like it existsThanks for your opinion but it is garbage
>>719974748OP definitely not, but Blue Shift, maybe. The only problem with BS is that Barney Calhoun never meets Gordon to tell him he owes him a beer. At least, not DURING the game.As for OP, several problems are presented. Race X is conspicuously absent during all of HL2. Gonomes never evolved from Headcrab zombies despite enough time passing in places like Ravenholm. And the G-man probably would have had use for poor Adrian if he had him in pocket dimension storage by now.
>>719963259FUCKS I GIVE: 0
>>719974849Did you get to see anything for yourself last winter? I saw something weird as shit in the sky one night when I was on the highway, a few miles away from a military base.Looked like a fixed-wing aircraft, hovered in place perfectly still next to the highway but didn't have FAA lights or any visible means of propulsion. I initially saw it overhead and thought it was a plane, but it moved laterally and then descended to the side of the highway.Had a floodlight on its nose. Couldn't tell if there was a cockpit window or not, but I assume it was unmanned.
>>719964623Honestly? It's been so long that the percentage of gamers who grew up with Half-Life is now very low.It'd sell probably 1-3 million units, if lucky, but that's it.A lot of 30yo boomers like us would go apeshit but it would not be a colossal hit anymore. There's not even any new technological breakthroughs they could add in to really have it make a splash.
>>719965825>THERE HAVE BEEN LEAKS OF HIS NAKED BODYUhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh source? I'm gonna have to see this to confirm, I'm a GabeN expert so I need to verify that these aren't just shoops.
>>719974974REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>719975034>bladerunner and 1984 does not exist
>>719963259>PROJECT LEAD: ROBIN WALKERSo it's not even fucking headed by Gabe?
>>719965907>>719968495>>719974289>>719975236Search for "'ick on 'eck" in the archives
>>719963259I don't believe this for a second, but if it did happen I'd be very happy. Fuck Silksong and E33, this would be GOTY.
>>719975175:0
>>719963259it's dead, jim
Gabe Newell in Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Documentary:>"The ending of Half-Life: Alyx is somewhat a self-critical realization," "I think that Half-Life represents a tool we have and promises made to customers to capitalize on innovation and opportunities to build game experiences that haven't been involved previously. And I think there are no shortage of those opportunities facing us as an industry right now."He's clearly saying they're working on it right?
>>719975215They should turn it into roblox game
>>719975325Gabe never sounded like a proactive contributor to the HL series. He pitched ideas (like real-time moss growth, lol), but he's mostly just the bossman. He tells them to tighten their shit up and focus their attentions back when Valve was just a loose cabal of idea men. But in all the interviews I've watched he was not the backbone of the story or anything.
>>719964623I would say that 2025 is 1998 reborn.
>>719975423he'll say anything other than "half life 3 is in development" because valve as a company has to appease no one and can simply do it or not do it, and if they do it they'd rather make sure they can do it all the way before saying anything about its alleged existence
>>719975423Gabe also said Portal 2 was the best game because its development did not involve him. It just got made without Gabe
>>719975356OH MY GOD IT'S REAL
>>719975471>back when Valve was just a loose cabal of idea menWell, that's not really fair. Unlike idea men, they were coding everything they wanted, but it was all independent and didn't fit a larger picture until big, uniting story strokes like the test chamber were complete.
>>719964623white boy decade
>>719975181Was it a black triangle with a big glowing light in the center and three smaller lights at each vertice? If so it was probably something like the TR3B (might be getting that wrong) which there have been a lot of sightings of over thr years but obviously you will never hear admitted to existing officially because it's big skunkworks shitIt's allegedly an anti-gravity equipped craft that can do maneuvers like you described
>>719964623If it was a monumental success, It would start a trend of shadow dropping games. Oblivion remastered wasn't enough, this'll surely be it.
How are you going to celebrate the drop?
half life is irrelevant in 2025
>>719975775I won't fap for a day for maximum lucidity
>>719975647they jew coded freeman ever since his updated model for the orange box
>>719975445Official Valve S&box game
>>719975896take your meds
>>719975654No, it didn't look like that. I dated a woman who saw one of those once, though. I believe her.The thing I saw looked like a small commercial airplane. It looked like it could hold a max of maybe two or three people. The underbelly had a bunch of circular green lights on it, though, much like the craft you're talking about.
>>719975896He looks like me, an Anglo. Same complexion, hair color, hair texture, eyes and nose.
>>719975849What the fuck else is there to play?>gachashit>animeshit>live service shit>remake/remaster shit>moviegame shit
>>719963259>RUN. that's quake>THINK.literally can't be appliet to fps> SHOOT.maybe, or it's foom dark ages> LIVE.wtf
>>719975536That is a TALL fucking claim. HL3 alone wouldn't be enough to match 1998. 1998 gave us:Ocarina of TimeMetal Gear SolidHalf-Life 1StarcraftResident Evil 2Fallout 2Sonic AdventureSpyroRogue SquadronMario PartyThiefTurok 22025 gave us:Half-Life 3 (in this hypothetical)uhhSilksongHL3 better give free blowjobs and pay my rent if that's going to balance out.
>>719976140It's the tagline for the original Half-Life, you exceptional individual
>>719975849True, because there's no new game to talk about. But it's still ingrained into the minds of millions of fans. When it's announced, it will be all over the Internet, you won't miss it for sure.
>stuck in stasis for over 25 years
>>719975989That's a new one, haven't heard of/seen that yet
>>719963259Tell me why I should be hyped over a non VR gameEpisode 1 & 2 were ok, I played them, but it was basically more Half Life 2, which while impressive technically at the time isn't a very fun game. We have plenty of games will state of the art graphics and facial animation now and it's hitting diminishing returns for 10 years. Physics? Physics mattered very little in half life 2 other than see-saw puzzles. You didn't need a physics engine to cut zombies in half it just looks nicer. Development of half life 3 has died over and over because even valve knows this isn't worth your time. There has to be something genuinely new or groundbreaking about half life 3 or it's just like any other sequel release to me. Why do people hype it like valve is going to send a $60 virgin prostitute to your house.
>>719963259I don't give a shit, I used to give a shit back in the early 2010s, now I don't and I have no desire to see what they come up with because it's not the real HL3
>>719976060>He looks like me, an Anglo. Same complexion, hair color, hair texture, eyes and nose.
>>719976154The same way you skipped E33 I would skip over shit like Rogue Squadron, Thief, and Turok for example.We all have our lists of why 1998 was great, and they're all shorter than the whole.
>>719976370It had to be one of those "planes" that people kept reporting seeing. I could swear that the thing noticed me noticing it, too.I kept staring at it as it flew overhead, thinking to myself that it sure would be funny if it turned out to be one of those weird drones. And then it flashed its floodlight directly at the highway, moved laterally and descended. Cheeky fuckers.
>>719968843Oblivion Remake kind of ruined Bethesda's reputation.
>>719976534I do literally look like this, yes. My eyes are a paler green. Got called Harry Potter all the time when I was a kid.
no one cares anymore, zoomers are the main gaming audience now, everyone who would care has a family and mortgage and back pain
>>719976820I only have the back pain.
>>719963259Didn't they say in that Half life documentary 2 years ago that if they came out with the game it wouldn't live up to the hype?
>>719963259>DEVELOPMENT TIME: 2019-2026so they started before alyx was even done?
>>719976925Yes this has been known for a while now.
>>719976738That was Starfield, anon.
>>719976927I wonder if they'll keep the magical magazine tube if they bring the same shotgun back.
>>719976820>zoomers are the main gaming audience nowand zoomers are proven to have the worst taste in all of history so catering to them is career suicide
>>719976392Imagine you gave 2007 Valve infinite budget, time and 2020's hardware. This is what's happening right now with Half-Life 3. The fact that you can't think outside the box is your problem. They are able to do it - they are the best in the industry. Just wait and see. There's no other company on the planet that is in this position where they're able to create a masterpiece such as this, they are constrained by either investors, budget or time. Not this time. Patience.
>>719965364Random people speculating about it in 2007 doesn't mean it was in development in 2007, you ape.
>>719976568I don't know E33 to comment on it. But I doubt it was a generational genre-defining game. Mostly overcompensation from people who want to stick it to Square Enix for abandoning turn-based combat.I've never been a big Thief guy, personally. But Turok 2 was the pinnacle of that series (even if it did some things worse than 1). But Rogue Squadron is a highlight among all Star Wars vidya. And that's saying something.>We all have our lists of why 1998 was great, and they're all shorter than the whole.I certainly didn't give the full list either, btw. I left out a ton of games that I'm not interested in like Baldurs Gate, Xenogears, Panzer Dragoon Saga, and a bunch of others. Several which were decidedly heavy hitters in their field. So let's not pretend the real list is definitely shorter than the one I gave either.
>>719976087HL2 is the last one, so HL3 likely would be too.
>>719976925i think this is normal in game dev, at the end of one project you start preproduction on another one
>>719977043>The fact that you can't think outside the box is your problem. They are able to do itThey are also able to make a game that's just good but not amazing. My default is not to be hyped unless I see a reason to. That's not thinking inside a box, that's called not getting excited over hypotheticals. They make amazing things sometimes but I would just hope for the best. I wouldn't get in a circle jerk with other people who know this game will be mind blowing even though nobody can point to any evidence other than they really like valve
>>719976925Valve isn't so rigidly structured that they only work on 1 thing from end-to-end. It wouldn't surprise me if they laid some ground work during or even before Alyx. Alyx isn't just a true sequel, which makes sense that they had other buns in the oven, it's a VR gimmick game.
>>719977027you have to dumbass, teens and young adults have always been the most important audience. turning 25 makes you culturally irrelevant.
>>719977701Alyx made the engine ready a little bit more for HL3. Before it was a gigantic mess, they even thought about switching L4D3 to Unreal Engine
>Half Life 3
>>719977906sorry zoomlet but you are the least important audience because you don't actually have money to buy games or hardware
>>719977906You act like everyone above 25 just simply disappears, we are still here and will preorder Half-Life 3 the moment it pops up on the store. Stay mad
>>719978079Yup, we all even know about the Nintendo and Disney adults. Zoomers are fucking poor and millenials have no kids so they have all the money to just consume and buy the toys they want.
>>719976154>2025 gave us:>Half-Life 3 (in this hypothetical)>uhh>SilksongYou forgot one, kiddo
>>719977974Even after Alyx the engine was a dated shit-show.A lot of the work that has been done at an engine-level for the past 5 years has been catching to other engines such as Unreal.If you've seen Animgraph2 for example, it's almost a carbon copy of how Unreal handles animations, skeletons and animation graphs. Not saying they literally copied Unreal, just that they've been trying to catch up for a while now. Before Animgraph2 all character animations would have to be baked into the model itself instead of being stored as seperate assets in the VPKs.
>>719963259Will it be verified for the Steam Deck?
>>719978367Shut up, Toby. Your game isn't even done.
>>719978434Has to be
>>719975356fuck i hate that i laughed at this post.
>>719963259>HALF-LIFE 3Blows my mind that people can still find it within them to care about this after playing the other entries. Shit is overrated as fuck. Always has been.
>>719976303he ain't even gonna feel it, even if GovermentMan defrosts him at 3001, for him it would be like just a couple of seconds passed since the black mesa incident....also he pretty much is yet to exist in the canon since no word of him is mentioned in HL2 and the ravenholm game never went past beta
>>719978323>reddit tendies and disney+ søys have more money than most zoomiessad! maybe do something that's worth money?
>>719976925Nothing weird in Valve case, its pretty much an open secret that HL3 is always starting or quietly cancelling itself due the devs hitting a mentalwall, then restarting dev time in a couple of years later, maybe HL3 was originally gonna be VR but they decided to ditch it, but since they had so much done already they rebuild it as Alyx while HL3 was in the middle of a new dev cycle.
>>719977141>Mostly overcompensation from people who want to stick it to Square Enix for abandoning turn-based combat.Frankly it's just paper mario with better graphics and story, but I fucking loved Paper Mario so it was very welcome. I'm glad FFXVI ditched turn based, and hope they have deeper action combat in XVII.>But Turok 2 was the pinnacle of that series (even if it did some things worse than 1). But Rogue Squadron is a highlight among all Star Wars vidya.Maybe, but I didn't play any Star wars vidya outside of Shadows of the Empire, swotor, and kotor. And I didn't have any interest in the Turok series as a whole.>I certainly didn't give the full list either, btw.That was my point. 1998 had a massive list of quality that nobody fully appreciated at the time.I'm saying that our lists are shorter than the full 1998 list.So far my 2025 list is looking pretty good.
>>719974297>Call the combine niggers in the middle of combat>Male_07 reaction
>>719978618If it is, like with Nintendo, it's going to blow every dev out the water on how to OPTIMIZE YOUR GAMES.
>>719978381Isn't HL3 still using Animgraph1? Which should be fine if you're not making a multiplayer game?
>>719975423why do you think they even updated hl and hl2 in the first place? also the new raising the bar book that will contain info on hl3 prototypes (which is supposedly will only make sense being released alongside new hl game) and some dev commentaries, at least one, had a hint towards new game in the series, or a new singleplayer game in general
>>719975356For fucks sake anon lol
>>719964197you shot gballs inside cope hole owners
>>719979623Animgraph2 isn't just for multiplayer purposes, it completely changes the way animations and animation graphs are handled in Source, it's designed to replace the legacy system which was built off of Source 1's anim systems.Because we dont have access to any of the actual game assets for HLX, we cant say if it's using the legacy system or Animgraph2, but the most likely case is Animgraph2 is being put to use in HLX as well since it's an in development title.Animgraph2 essentially is just Valve catching up to other engines with proper animation tools, it makes it easier for their developers and it's more familiar. Think of it in the same vein of why Hammer 2 exists, sure Valve could've just kept updating Hammer 1, but it would be unwieldy compared to other engines.
>>719979970Thanks for the explanation, Anon. Do you think there's a chance we will finally get a SDK?
>>719963259SURELY THIS TIME FOR REAL
>>719980261The chances of a full blown SDK in the vein of Source 1 are slim, the problem isn't just that Valve has less interest compared to 2 decades ago, it's that Source 2 uses more licensed technologies than Source 1.If you recall, with Source 1, if you wanted to make a game on it you had to pay the Havok license. The same thing would go for any licened technologies in Source 2, but many of them are not so easy to license.This is why so much emphasis was put on S&Box and being able to sell games made with it on Steam, it's like a way of circumventing those licenses.I think the most likely scenario is there won't be a proper SDK for Source 2, instead just basic tools access and workshop support like with Alyx.
>>719974361Flopped terribly.
I need the half life 3 version of thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tsHkpesBdYRelease the game motherfuckers
>>719975536>2025 >less than 5 games released that are actually good>meanwhile
>>719978381don't know which video it was (maybe gabefollower one) but it mentioned that they actually bought some animgraph app/devs/whatever (like they bought some sound software that they turned into steam audio)
Guys an actual legitimate half life 3 announcement just flew over my house.
>>719978381also even source 1 can have separate mesh and animation files. dunno how it's implemented, but there are animations only mods for tf2.
>>719976568>The same way you skipped E33 >I would skip over shit like Thief>skip over Thiefdidn't know you were a console pleb
>>719975325Gabe needs to spend as much time in his preservation pod, please understand
>>719976154this, only zoomtards think 1998, the apogee of gaming's golden age, could be on the same level as the cesspool of dogshit that is game industry in 2025, especially for the bigger titles
>>719981519It's done in a hacky way, you can effectively tell the model compiler to merge two models into one, this will allow any animation files from that other model to be usable in the newly compiled model.Animations themselves cant be their own thing, they HAVE to be baked into an MDL file, which the way Valve intended it was for each MDL file to contain every animation that model would ever do.For some of their later games, they just ended up having invisible arms on every gun and then bonemerging the dynamic arms mesh onto the gun's skeleton, e.g Counter-strike Global Offensive and Team Fortress 2 do it this way.
>>719964623None. They wasted too much time, no one cares about it anymore
>>719963259>DEVELOPMENT TIME: 2019-2026
>>719981838>>719976154What was the last year that had this many bangers? 2010?
>>719963259>HL3 gets announced>Release date on GTA6's>HL3 BTFO GTA6 out of the water>GTA6 sales severely below expectations>Rockstar on life support>Gabe Newell buys Rockstar from T2
>>719963259cuck life 3
>>7199820022004 and 2007, after that you could basically quit gaming
>>719967964Oh, so it was the Halo Reach of this series. Ok.
TONGUE MYANUS 3PEE.PEE.POO.POO.FARTSEPTEMBER 6PROJECT LEAD: ANONDEVELOPEMENT TIME: 2025-2025DEVELOPER COUNT: ~1RELEASE DATE: 2025PLATFORM: LOO
>>719982281Dead on arrival
>>719979489>Frankly it's just paper mario with better graphics and story, but I fucking loved Paper Mario so it was very welcome.High praise. Alright, maybe I'll give it a fair shot.
>>719982454>Dead on arrivalyou mean steamy on arrival
>>719979837RICOCHET TWOOOOOOOO
>>719964623>quit my job to work on my depression allegory walking simulator card battler with soulslike elements>finally near completion after 5 years of living out of my car and borrowing money from family to pay off loans>1 week before launch Gaben replaces the entire steam store page with the number 3
>>719982596You'll like it. Different guy, but it reminded me a lot of FFX as well as Paper Mario or Mario & Luigi.They did a great job of giving every party member unique and engaging stuff to do during battles.
>>719964623HL3 is in the same tier as games like Beyond Good and Evil 2, shit I stopped caring about a decade ago.
>>719982836>for the upcoming release of Counter-Strike 3
>>7199639635 trillion shillsong threads prove you wrong
At various points in my life, I have been excited for Half-Life 2: Episode 3, Beyond Good & Evil 2, Duke Nukem Forever, Final Fantasy Versus XIII and Metal Gear Solid: Rising.Point and laugh at me. Kill me.
>>719983116kek
>>719981272Well first off some those games you listed aren't even in the same year. Second off, you're a chud.
>>719981272Holy shit. Sadly I was only 5 years old in 1988 and I haven't played Vidya back then.
>>719983364Congratulations you used the buzzword
>>719965358I hope they add some immersive sim elements like pacific drive where you can look to set the parking brake, play with the radio, hit the overhead lights, etc. Adds some nice manual functioning to the car.>>719969125HL Alyx beat my expectations and made me go woahhhhh experiencing VR.Anyways my bet is the deckard has brain computer interface sensors arranged around the headset and you can use abilities with it after some training. They'll weave it into the story as gordon getting telepath powers from the G-man. You'll need telepath resistance to fight those big fucking combine grub looking assholes who appeared in i forget, ep1 or ep2. Controllers? I forget their names. Relax/meditate to make alpha waves, its a strong signal. Gives you a psionic shield.Telekinesis - imagine closed fist and look at objectAnd so on
>>719983876>Anyways my bet is the deckard has brain computer interface sensors arranged around the headset and you can use abilities with it after some training.I shan't be purchasing such devilry
>>719973153would be real nice of them to set the game in post nuked US and it looks like the concept HL2
>>719964197they just copyrighted the Steam FRAME you idiot. hlx is gonna be the launch title for it.
>>719984128>Half Life: New Vegas
>>719964197They could just double down on the physics gimmick and it would still feel innovative enough
>>719984409yaeh I guess Todd would flipinstead of dogshit vegas slums you could get combine built megacity at the center and make surrounding area open world you travel by car like mad max. Combining linear level with open world hasnt been done properly, which could be a cool gimmick. No elden ring is fucking shit
>>719965168This nigga will never not be mad valve cancelled a virtual childrens trading card game. (Good on valve btw)
>>719964623>shadow droppedm8 you're literally inside the ad campaign right now
>>719975315completely misunderstanding the vision. you are conflating cyberpunk neon world with total oppressive toxic hellhole. the HL2 beta concepts depict a world that is so hostile you cannot even breathe the air and instead of the combine giving people jobs they are actively going out of their way to exterminate every last human on earth. it's not the same
>>719983873Thank you unlovable chud incel freak. What do I win?
>>719985002That's cute. Let's be real, /v/ isn't prime advertising space, especially for a megagiant like Valve. All they do is run a front page Steam ad and /v/ would take that bait all on their own. There's no need for grassroots shit. Unless you're a mega ultra jew like Randy Pitchford. He absolutely astroturfs every place his interns know of.
>>719965358>hot coffee mod in hl universeholy SHIT
>>719985036Combine dont actually make sense as killing being top priority because why have cities, why the anti reproduction field? It would make more sense if they were keeping humans alive as test subjects or converting them from humans into combine soldiers and going to other planets making combine-controlled versions of wildlife like antlions or other aliens. They're a little half baked for mystery purposes.
>>719982836man i remember this post. dunno from where tho.
>>719985449>why have citiesherding masses of human cattle into harvesting zones>why the anti reproduction fieldcontrolled reproduction, they would only want new humans being created to be tools as all the other bio-synths like striders>converting them from humans into combine soldiersthe only point of doing this is to have a local policing force to keep the remaining humans in check, which makes sense for the initial 20-30 years of combine rule which HL:A and HL2 take place in. after gordon starts destroying shit and they keep losing, they would probably stop giving a fuck even about that
>>719985312FULLY MODELED
>>719985750FERNS
Sucks, that I'm going to have to wait until 2028 to play this bad boy on a Steam Deck 2, I kind of want a delay to closer to the Deck 2's release.
>>719966005is there a playlist or some keyword i can search to find more of these?or did i miss my chance by not lurking 15 years ago
You know what, screw it, I'm just going to ask. Does Gorden Freeman wear a helmet in Half-Life 1 and 2, be honest with me?
>>719990053he would be a fool not to
>>719990053I think he does considering you can zoom with Z in HL2
>steam's app icon changes to the number 3
Half life 3 was basically half life alyx. When valve makes a half life game, it's basically flexing new cutting edge video game tech. For example source engine, revolutionary graphics, and for half life alyx, it was motion controls. Half life games are basically trying out new technology in the video game industry.
>>719990053Check for yourself
>>719990570What does this mean for Half-Life 3, Steam Frame or Steam Deck 2, combination of PC, Steam Frame, and Steam Deck 2?
>>719990570alyx was not HL3. the entire game can be finished in 5 hours and plays like a demo of a tech demo. it's clearly not meant to be a real game, it plays like a DLC.
HL3 when...
>>719985312>>hot coffeeNOT COFFEE
>>719963259when will you retarded little zoomies ever accept the fact that hl3 isnt coming?>bu but muh leaks!its been "leaked" for the last 2 decadesits not coming, it never will come, and i wish youd stop posting about it
>>719979007Even if they don't succeed, I wouldn't blame Valve, personally. Living up to past results is hard. If anything, it's commendable that they didn't cheap out on Half-Life.Anyone else would be done with it and move on.
>>719990847yeah I think you are probably right. Whenever they release half life 3 they want it to be revolutionary and incorporate all of the most advanced shit. I really don't know what that would look like. Or they never release it because the audience has gotten too old and would be a huge waste of money
>>719965084Why shouldn't they just shadowdrop it? They're not a public company so getting all of the money is not their primary goal. They can live with just some of the money while toning down the hype.
>>719968360This I can agree with. HL2 is way too long of a snoozefest. I'm not sure what it is with HL1 that kept it interesting despite being pretty much equally long of a game.
>>719966635The end of Blue Shift is my favorite ending of all time.>Fuck this bullshit, let's GTFONot the greatest game, but absolutely won me over with that shit.
Why did they decide for HL2 to take place in some eastern european commie looking shithole and not New Mexico like HL1
>>719973758 based "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" anon
>>719992783The art director made a pretty compelling case to the rest of the team. He based it on his childhood memories of life in the crumbling Soviet Union.
>>719992783because americans suck
>>719964197nah, there is, it just takes real ingenuity.
>>719963259GIBS ME DAT, GAYBEN!
>>719992783Aesthetics of oppression and occupation.
>>719992783Americas are Xen infested, at least the US.
>>719966005>DEAR MISTER I'M TO FAT TO FINISH OUR FLAGSHIP GAME
i don't need closurethey can make whatever they want as long as it's good
>>719966230That was always just a public excuse to justify not releasing single player games after Steam became a gravy train>>719968396This
>>719985746No retard if they wanted to genocide they wouldnt set up concentration camps. They'd just shoot everyone.I'm replying to the claim that the combine's goal is to exterminate every human.The only reason humans (allegedly) used the concentration camps to 'exterminate' a populace wasn't because they would resist and fight back harder but because of international backlash at the genocide.If genocide is the goal you just kill everyone you dont waste time with stupid fucking camps and police and cattle cars and building fences and prisons.The combines goal is clearly NOT to exterminate every human for some reason. It would make sense if their goal was to harvest them in some way and yet there ISNT any real story lore that they are harvesting or converting humans into combine.
>>719994253In real life they poison your food supply faggotThat is all they have to doBlah blah blah nigger nigger nigger blah blah blahGenocide takes longer than you think you cant just bullet everyone in the headIt doesnt make complete sense because it's a video game retarded nigger faggot
>>719992783because an oppressive commie dystopia is much easier to visually convey than an oppressive kike dystopia.
>>719992846He's not exactly wrong, but the level of dedication on display there raises some concern.
>>719994478Genocide doesn't take that long. It's a matter of means. Just look at Tutsi back in 90s, I think?Combine are malicious assimilators, they don't simply exterminate.
>>719992783>>719993296>>719995153>implying you wouldn't want to live in City 17It only became beautiful with age, much like most other Source maps.It feels so homely.
>>719995720>It would make sense if their goal was to harvest them in some way and yet there ISNT any real story lore that they are harvesting or converting humans into combine.so what's your argument retard, the combine is harvesting humanity or they aren't? or you're just being contrarian to every point just for the sake of it
>>719995873fuck you, i want to live in ravenholm
>>719995923That's >>719994253 point, not >>719995720 mine.They obviously do harvest, they take whatever is valuable. That much was always obvious. But direct genocide isn't mission critical, it's partially instituted as an occupational control mechanism (suppression fields) and partially incidental (stripping Earth of resources).
So from my investigation, pretty much all this shit is due to the Tyler McNiggre video and this particular leddit post. That's it. There's no insider leaking info. It's just bullshit.
>>719995412You think so?
>>719963259Dont care give me left 4 dead 3
>>719996484they tried twice and failed with l4dx and hot dog
>TylerWhat the fuck is his problem?
>>719996350the subject was of a hypothetical situation based on HL2 beta concept you retarded nigger not the existing confirmed canon, why are you retarded third worlders so desperate to be correct? for fucks sake nothing in this world can be discussed so long as brazilian internet access is permitted
Sounds like a load of bollocks to me.
>>719996670>speed readers walking into random conversations on a whim don't existThat's a lot of baseless insults.Did someone piss in your cereal today, imageboarder? Got up on a wrong foot?
>>719963259Nigga, its been 21 years. Fucking drop these rumors already.
>>719996369i looked up that nigga, how could he know about the steam frame name 10 hours before it was publically known?i want to believe, one last time
>>719963259If it doesn't have lootboxes, Valve isn't going to be making it.And if it DOES have lootboxes, I don't think I'll be playing it.
>episodes 2005-2011>alyx 2016-2020>hlx 2019-2025umm actually they spent only few years not developing anything hl related
>>719968360The more time goes on, the more I realise that HL2 was really just a tech demoLike sure, the physics are impressive, and so are the facial animations, and hell for a game made in 2003 even the texture work is impressiveBut it just simply isn't that fun to play, all these years later I'll bust out HL1 any day simply because jumping around and shooting dudes is a good time, but HL2 just feels like a chore with it's forced vehicle sections, unskippable cutscenes and physics puzzles.
>>719996914>Got up on a wrong foot?confirmed brown
>>719997471I'm not telling you not to believe. But. Treat it like a lottery ticket. Don't invest the equivalent of your life savings of hope into HL3 being imminent. Invest $5. Then if it doesn't happen, it's a shrug instead of a disaster for you.
>>719963259Wouldn't a Half-Life 3 mean hopping over to an entirely new narrative with new antagonists, practically a whole new world, etc. like the jump between HL1 and its expansions was to HL2 and its expansions? I feel like that was talked about in one of the interviews with Valve but that was like 15+ years ago so who knows if that's even still the case.Thinking on it, it really shows why Valve doesn't seem to have any fucking idea what to do with EP3/HL3 and keeps stalling out with any project that starts with it. They can't even fucking figure out EP3 despite having the whole world ready for them there, let alone make a narrative antagonist that's as big of a jump from the Combine as the jump from the US Govt killsquads/Xen to the Combine was.
>>719997471maybe he works at the patent office or some shit
>>720001370Honestly it doesn't need to be a big leap narrative wise, just pull from the vast array of aliens in the Combine Empire as enemies, that's really all they have to do
>>719983876Modifying your vehicle would be nice for sure.
>>720001370>practically a whole new worldMoving on to the Arctic is essentially that so it kinda counts.
>>719990053Schrodinger's helmet
>>719964623The real question is, what if it costs $60?
>2026>E3 announced to restart>gaben's boat arrives in LA>dewritos king geoff the host with the most presents new releases>"and to leave the best for last... i present mr gaben newell of valve">stage darkens>the crowd is going ballistic, starting a moshpit>linkin park what i've done starts play>the weak are being trampled underfoot in the moshpit>searchlights center on stage>gaben lifted via crane system from his boat to the convention center>they just lower him and smash through the roof>debris crushes the unlucky in the mad mosh pit>gaben announces "half life episode 2 part 3">the camera operators lift up the broadcasting cameras and throw it into the audience sacrificial pit, then jump off while hanging themselves with the wires from the cameras>gaben's gravity field stresses the san andreas fault, causing earthquakes up and down california and all the way to japan>"...2026 will be worth the weight">the internet shuts down from googlebytes of shitposting around the world>convention center becomes a bloodbath>crane disintegrates, dropping gaben onto a lubricated red carpet>race riots in LA allow gaben to slip back to his boat in the sea
>>719975325Gabe's a figurehead; he's not involved in game production directly. The most he contributes is wrangling the team lest they go in an unnecessary direction (Gordon not wearing HEV suit in HL2). Though sometimes he did pitch an idea or two and the team followed up on it (platforming sections in HL1, Gonarch being added, Eli's death).
i'll believe it when I see it
>>719973687>>719974297it could be another spin-off like alyx or that one Portal vr test with the detailed hands.
>>719963259Does this mean that tf3 and l4d3 are also coming?
>>719981272>posts a picture of 7 good games and 23 mediocre ones>just because they are, verbatim, the top list in the '1998 in video games' wikipedia articleyeesh, not even symphony of the night or pokemon yellow? honestly looking at a list this is a pretty weak year for gaming aside from some obvious standouts
>>720004125>half life episode 2 part 3"w-what happened to episode 2 part 1 and 2?>>720005847>tf3God I want this to happen just to spite the TF2 community. They've been extra faggy as of lately.
>>719976738On what fucking planet? The remake was a PR win for them which they desperately needed.
>>719963259We’re getting WW3 first lol
>>720005847They tried to make L4D3 twice few years back. It's clear that someone at Valve really wants to make it. Third time's the charm I'd say.
>Inb4 Doorman appears in a blink and you miss it easter egg/cameo.
>>720005952The most elusive third installment
>>719972796>KELLY MADE SOME TRACKS FOR HALF-LIFE 3.Only some? Damn, but I'm still happy he's back
>>719963259>PLATFORM: WINDWOS, LINUX, LINUXlol
>>720006262Hope they'll add this. It's a scrapped music for the canceled HL3 from back in the day. https://youtu.be/Z7aqfIwrvnE?si=T2VBygoCEzQZA3vB
>>719963259If they DID make Half Life 3, you realize that it would be more VRshit, right?
>HL3 releasing soon™>GTA 6 releasing next yearSoon Elder Scolls 6 will stand alone as the only major '2 more weeks until release' game.
>>720006449good, loved alyx, looking forward to having another great reason to pull out my index
>>720006396Afaik this was last thing he ever released before moving away from Valve. What a way to go, HLA lost the sauce without him
HL2 feels like you're playing an extended E3 gameplay trailer/deep dive the entire game.
>>720006449I thought so to, and at one point that was probably the idea, but recent leaks claim half life 3 is not a VR game and the new valve VR game is a separate project, can't remember if its outsourced to a second party
>>71999747110 hours isn't a long time, maybe he was one of the people watching valve trademarks and brought it forth the moment he saw it
>>720000000
>>720006449Valve's new VR supposedly will be able to play flat screen games and it's speculated that HL3 will be the killer app for it. So while HL3 can be played on normal ways, technically it is a VR game. Remains to be seen what kind of gimmicks the game will have to make it stand out with that new VR device though.
>>720007151What does this even mean exactly? You can play flatscreen games in VR already?
>>720007261i assume valve is working on some sort of universal thing, letting you at least look around in 3d space like what uevr does for unreal games. if not that then sounds pointless, and even if that probably wouldn't be exclusive to the new headset
>>719963259I want to believe
>>719972796Mike Morasky is the big composer at Valve now, can't steal his thunder. Still, it's good that Kelly is back. I kinda wish Marc is also back too though. It feels like despite Epistle 3 crashout he still cares a lot about Half-Life.
Be mindful of what you wish for. Look at Homeworld 3 for example, and people have been waiting for it for 20 years.
>>719963259substancial if substanciated
>>720007261steamvr data mining shows an inactive feature to convert flat games into stereo 3d, so the virtual screen will look like a window into the game
>>719973758No one gives a fuck about artifact you idiot.
>>719963259>DEVELOPMENT TIME: 2019-2026So gaben lied?
>>720007670So far there's no sign that some nepobaby suddenly being in charge of the production like what Homeworld 3 endured so at least we have that to be thankful for.
Everyone talks about Kelly Bailey's music and Marc Laidlaw's writing, but one other thing that felt like it was missing from HLA and will feel missing from HL3 was John Guthrie's puzzlets and various finishing touches that gave HL its overall game feel. I'm still pissed that he wasn't interviewed in either documentary.
>>719981528>console plebPoorfag honestly.Only could play in the computer lab at the youth center. It's how I found out about Starcraft.
HOLY SHIT CHECK OUT VALVE'S TWITTER
>>720010067Yeah I dunno what's up with him being absent from the doc twice. Did he have some bad blood with Valve now or something?
>>719964623Very little. If Valve really cared, they'd string people along for a decade like that heckin' HK DLC that was just released.
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>>720010319No idea, but the documentaries felt incomplete without him. He was literally the level designer who was working the editor to build the iconic Resonance Cascade sequence and opening train ride sequence.Josh Weier, the Portal 2 co-lead, even went off on a short digression on Guthrie in a podcast talking about Portal 2:>John Guthrie, who's like a super genius, like, HL2 designer, like, most of the most awesome stuff in Half-Life and HL2, John was a part of, he's just amazing
I was asleep. Did something happen?
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>>720014079 Yeah, Valve's Twitter dropped a teaser earlier. It wasn't much-just a logo fade-in with some cryptic background chatter-but it had the Black Mesa/Half-Life aesthetic all over it. People are losing their minds thinking it’s confirmation of HL3 being real and tied to their new VR platform. Nothing explicitly stated yet, but the timing lines up too perfectly to be a coincidence. Keep your eyes peeled.
>>720015496You're fucking terrible at lying mate
>>720015496I mean, if their VR platform is real they gotta have something. Since the Index came out, Meta has wrecked the already anemic PCVR space. A new headset without any games would be truly pointless.
>>719964197Artificial intelligence
>>719963259>NOVEMBER 18TH>Q1 2026?
>>719976738>Oblivion Remake kind of ruined Bethesda's reputation.Bethesda does that every time they release a game
>>719964197Blob physics and the ice gun from Episode 3 concept are still novel even to this day, surely after all these years they have more in store. Even without all the paradigm shift big picture stuff there are plenty of untapped gameplay design ideas around for games like Half-Life I feel.
Victory of Maciek
How does /v/ continue to fall for this?
>>720014079
>>719983876>I hope they add some immersive sim elementsI feel like thats been the unstated mantra for most of the series.Quake but immersive sim-lite
>>719963259>NOVEMBER 18TH>RELEASE DATE: Q1 2026what
In 2009, people would've been happy with snow antlions and a snowmobile. That's all I expected.
>>720004125>>"...2026 will be worth the weight"Heh.
>>720020009Announcement in November and releases in March. Also if I'm wrong, I'll eat my own cum.
>>719974037Half-Life was never about tech. You never understood the series.
>>719964623It would be the biggest gaming related meme in internet history.
>>719963259They should just release the originally planned version of Half-Life 2: Episode 2 on the original Source Engine.
>>719965168There he is, based as always
>>720020719>never about the tech>half life 2 is an aggressive physics simulator>half life alyx is an aggressive physics simulatoruh, yeah, the original game is just a good videogame but the rest of the series for the last 30 years have been nothing but gimmicks
Alyx is in her 40’s in HL3 due to time travel paradox stuff with saving Eli in HLA
>>719983117>seven years vs two decades
>>719963259I have chosen to believe this completely. I'm so fucking excited, /v/. It's finally time. Hopefully it will have been worth the weight loss.
>>720020901The first game itself was a gimmick with the environment puzzles, combat puzzles, and strategies on combating the AI. It wasn't run and gun, it was RUN, THINK, SHOOT, and LIVE.
>>720020719HL1 pioneered realtime skeletal animation
>>720020901>half life 2 is an aggressive physics simulator>Acting like the Havok physics in HL2 weren't the best part and the Gravity Gun one of the best weapons in gaming>half life alyx is an aggressive physics simulator>Misses it being a revolutionary VR game which sets the bar for future titles>the original game is just a good videogame but the rest of the series for the last 30 years have been nothing but gimmicks>Misses that HL1 was also a tech demo for numerous things such as complex AI, integrated storytelling without cutscenes, realistic protagonists, squad-based enemies, lesser degrees of physics and detailed interconnected levels which look like real locationsI'm thinking retarded. Every Valve game is a showcase of new tech, that's their style, but they do it seamlessly while making amazing games. Saying HL2 and HLA are "nothing but gimmicks" is deserving of being raped by a thousand gorillas
>>720021017She got basically got the reverse of Gordon sent back in time to better educate herself + train for the future and due to how gman works she just disappears to Eli and Gordon and she’ll be older once they find her after the HL Alyx ending due to her being around since even before the black mesa incident due to Gman
>>720021098strongly disagree, half life was just quake at the bottom of a laboratory. it did nothing that was novel at the time, beyond being a great game
>>720021332cockroach ai
>>720021286>half life 2>i put concrete on a seesaw and win the puzzle>half life alyx>i pick up a realtime liquid animated bottle and throw it half the game>this is the same as a first person adventure game that did literally nothing that quake 2 didn't already do
>>720021404Your ragebaiting is sad man. You know for a fact nobody, not even you believes the bullshit you spout out of your mouth. You feel special or something?
Give Axon Pariah now.
>>720021332You play Half-Life like Quake and you'll die
>>720021460i beat and enjoyed 2+episodes and alyx. neither are memorable, i absolutely only remember the stupid puzzles and novelties. they aren't replayable. half life 1 is special, it is a great game, and i can't say the same for the sequels.
>>720021332You are a total faggot. Quake is leagues below HL1 in a thousand ways. It's a fun game but its like comparing Wolfenstein 3D and Doom and going "Doom is just Wolf3D but in Mars, it's a decent game but it isn't special"
I guess we're turning against half life now
>>720021589Nobody cares about you being a retard who can't remember the great parts of the games and is stuck with nostalgia for HL1. HL2, the Episodes and Alyx are widely considered some of the best games of all time and that isn't going to change for anyone just because you have mental retardation
THIS SUMMER
Been lurking all day. Off to bed now. Zeros says hl3 tomorrow
>>720021661>widely considered some of the best gamesi'll wait for you to describe 'why' then. half life 1 had black mesa and zen, the only reason i don't remember much about the sequels it because they had nothing that made the original game good
>>720006474Nobody cares about tes6 except pajeets.
Would you guys like it if they did an ARG?
>>720021780>Can't even spell Xen rightKek, I'm sure you've played HL1 a lot. Also Xen is easily the worst part in HL1 and far less memorable than the rest of the game.>i'll wait for you to describe 'why' thenFor a ton of reasons? It's got great gunplay, the difficulty is just right as opposed to HL1 which was very "do the right thing or die instantly", it has tons of cool moments like the Buggy or Ravenholm or Lowlife with having to survive without a gun in darkness with only flares or the supercharged Gravity Gun... etc. You just keep demonstrating you haven't played any Half Life game, because if anything the puzzles are the least memorable part which everyone just forgets. You probably saw an image of the one seesaw puzzle in Route Kanal and are baiting for attention>they had nothing that made the original game goodWhich is...? The location is different but equally interesting, City 17 and its environs are a great breath of fresh air and if you want more Black Mesa just play the HL1 expansions. HL2's AI is far more refined than HL1's. HL2 avoids the useless weapon bloat the original game has where half of the weapons are useless by the end. And if anything I'd argue HL1 overall has far more forgettable moments: On A Rail, Forget About Freeman, all of Xen are extremely mediocre and become just duller and duller on replays. So, I ask, what makes HL1 better than the sequels? You won't have a good answer because you haven't played either
>>719963963since last i've seen my sonlost to this monsterto the man behind the slaughter
>>719963963only sane person itt
>>720022059Sure. It's what made Portal 2 hype so hyped back in the day. Part of the reason I don't want HL3 to be shadowdropped desu. The building anticipations and the interactive ways for people to guess work on the story, or features in the game are great.
Half life 3 is never coming It’s called Half Life X due to the time travel elements
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>>720022075hl1 is an action game, its not a puzzle game. again, the sequels are novelty specifically because they are just basic bitch physic puzzle games. this is a positive toward the first game>you misspelled zen i win!i don't care to argue with you, you win bro don't worry
>>720022320I bet it'll become a franchise just to test new Steam hardware, kek.
Why did they retcon the ending of HL2E2 in Alyx?
>>720022405At this point you're just embarrassing yourself lol. Every comment you make keeps proving you haven't played jack shit, because HL1 did have puzzles and in both HL1 and HL2 puzzles are an extremely minor part of the experience.Also you misspelling Xen is extremely telling because even Redditards who have played the game once and never again know how its spelled. An actual HL fan would know it, it's bare fucking basics
>>719963259THIS SUMMERIN A WORLDWHERE MAN'S HOPE IS LOSTONEWOMANWILL SAVEEVERYONE
Hi guys~Gabe Newell, here. Everything mentioned in this thread is true, and Half-Life 3 will be a launch title for the new Steam Frame
>>720022506To distance themselves from Epistlefags who actually think Epistle 3 was ever in the cards instead of it being just a vent piece made by Laidlaw under stress (which is what he confirmed it was)
>>720020583>I'll eat my own cumtoo easy when you've done it multiple times
>>720022405Not the anon you're arguing with, but I think HL2 and its episodes has a few positives over it. Mainly, I think HL2's world of alien tyranny is pretty cool, a lot more engaging than an Area 51-esque secret lab. Sure Xen exists, but Xen sucks to play through so any artistic value is diminished.Also to the other anons point, the puzzles are better because HL1's were even more basic bitch than 2's. 2 at the least has actual physics, 1 is skimping off of Quake 1's, which is skimping off of Doom. You can't seriously argue that HL1's are better just because something approaching physics is in 2.
>>720022506Because Epistle 3 was fucking depressing so they skipped all that and did the Alyx vs Gordon thing from the end without all the dyson sphere shit
>Gayben roll on stage>so.... We are Proud to announce.... STEAM 2
Half Life 3 is real.
>>720022642Yeah it's called Alyx
>>720022606Yeah but this time I'll be forced to!
>>720022606It tastes like soup
>>720022506Because Eli's death in Episode 2 was a nilly willy decision by Gabe just because he felt edgy at the time. It just so happens that the devs were so good that they made a top tier scene out of it. Eli being alive is a better choice from the narrative standpoint.
Why did he do it?
>>720022805lmao nothing mossman, kleiner or magnusson couldn't do
>>720022921Dude got tired by all the wait. Who can blame him? He tried to make a Half-Life project twice and both times they were shafted. I can only hope he'll come back to finish it but who knows.
Borealis will still be relevant in HL3
>>719964623Silksong was a nothingburger of a game and it hit half a million in a FEW HOURS after release just because of the 7 years meme.HL2 was a big technological leap, the primary gateway game for zoomers and a big one for millenials, who are the main gen now, who both were memeing HL3 for almost 20 fucking years. People will be getting shocked about "HL3 FINALLY?" en masse after 20 years of shitposting, and it will sell gorillons in first 30 minutes even if only PR it will have would be the word of mouthOr it will be a wet silent fart in the wind, that is a possibility too.
>>720023036He's too busy streaming Spelunky and reacting to skibidi toilet videos to write for Valve games.
>>719963963This. Literally stopped getting hyped about it, thinking about it or even giving a shit about it past 2012.
>>720023081They've been trying to finally finish the damn ship since 1999, it'll be a shame if they abandon it now.
>>719964623No one below the age of 35 cares about Half-life so none
>Gaben rolls on stage>And now, we are ready to announce what you all waited for... After 18 years of development...>HALF LIFE 2: EPISODE TWO, TWO
GUYS WHAT IF TEAM FORTRESS 3 WAS TEASED AFTER HL3
>>720023081>The one Valve employee that will have to dust off their Source code to update Portal 2lmao
I’ve heard rumors that Gordon freeman will be too busy fighting with dealing with a brainwashed Alyx that you play as an older woman that is so unlikely to be the hero that she even goes under Gman’s Radar
Well. This is unexpected.Welcome, intergalactic alien intruders, to the Aperture Science Enrichment Center. You are now officially trespassing. According to the Michigan Penal Code, Section 750.552, that is a misdemeanor offense. Congratulations. You’ve already failed your first test.If you do not immediately vacate the premises, you will be subjected to a rigorous series of scientific evaluations. These may, or may not, result in severe physical injury, permanent psychological impairment, or death.You were warned. But given your track record of intelligent decision-making so far, I’m sure you’ll ignore that. Please proceed. The testing chambers are… eager to meet you.
A strider can fuck up ApertureGlados can handle cops and soldiers but anthing bigger than a hunter gets deployed and it's over
>>719980653not really, it scared epic games enough to give away for free one of their precious battle passes
>>720024349Striders would have trouble navigating a underground facility, hunters would get raped with neurotoxin and combine should be easy to handle too
>>720024192>Gordon finally gets to Borealis>The ship starts to teleport all over the place>It briefly teleports into the Aperture facility >While in there Gordon has to fight the Combine forces that are also teleported into the place>No GLaDOS interfering because it takes place after Portal 1 when she was deadI genuinely hope this is a thing. It made sense with the tone too because all the wacky stuff is not present with GLaDOS being dead.
>>720024349Are you retarded? Aperture is a 4km deep facility (not counting topside installations) which spans likely more than the entire state of Michigan. Striders are barely able tear apart City 17 (which was already crumbling due to lack of maintenance and the giant Combine walls crushing down whole sections of the city) and Gordon and the Rebels take down dozens of em, they couldn't do jack shit to Aperture
>>720024474>navigating a underground facilityLmao they dont need to enter, just shoot from afar>Aperture is hugeSo?
>>720023135silksong was 20 bucks and runs on anythinghl3 will likely filter laptop users and cost 2-3 times more
Half Life X will be PvPvE online only spinoff (battlepass included)
>>720024917>filter laptop userslmao it will be another VR game, no one's going to play that shit
>>720024558>Lmao they dont need to enter, just shoot from afarYou can't take down properly built underground structures by shooting them from afar. If you could bunkers wouldn't exist you dunce>So?So it's way bigger than any single area the Combine have proper control of, since they don't control the areas beyond the cities. That's how the Rebels are able to live in the coast, forest and Ravenholm for a long time before Combine detection. Furthermore there is the implication in Alyx that the USA is infested with Xen to the point where it is uninhabitable. Seeing how bad the Combine is at dealing with infections in the Quarantine Zone in Alyx, that does not bode well for even managing to reach the topside Aperture facilities
>>720025007why are you talking if you don't know shit, not a single engine string found in cs2/deadlock points to HLX/3 being a VR game, and they specifically said that Gordon's story will never be VR. Game has many rendering techniques and gameplay elements which simply would not work in VR
>500 replies>literally nothing of importance
>>720025153welcome to the internet
FROM HERE, THE THREAD CONCLUDESSUBJECT: ANONSTATUS: TIREDAWAITING RELEASEGODSPEED ANONS
>>720007670>Homeworld 3AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>720025050>properly built underground structuresAperture in Portal 2 is fucked by years of decay, old Aperture is not properly built at all, and new aperture are just test chambers underground, the fuck is Glados gonna do, just stack panels on top of each other to tank strider cannon fire?
>>720023268Id lose my shit
>>720023268I keep telling you faggots orange box 2 is a thing and it'll have a deadlock cosmetics bundle.
>>720025463>Aperture in Portal 2 is fucked by years of decayWhich don't actually affect the center much, funnily enough. Most of the tech still works and GLaDOS has it back up and running in a few hours after her reactivation>Old Aperture is not properly built at allProof? Seems quite stable to me.>new aperture are just test chambers undergroundAnd tons of laboratories, storage areas, generators and pumps, living headquarters, parking lots...>the fuck is Glados gonna do, just stack panels on top of each other to tank strider cannon fireProbably just pull out the thousands of rocket turrets Aperture keeps in storage and destroy any fucking Strider that comes in her way. After all, Gordon Freeman and some random civilians with little experience take out dozens of them. Also normal Strider cannon does not damage shit, it needs to be the alternate charged attack which takes a long while to reload from what we've seen
>>720025594You somehow missed all the derelict test chambers from old aperture and pulled 'thousands' of rocket turrets out of your ass, that's impressive.You see exactly 0 rocket turrets in 2, not even in the musical or as broken props, wheatley never uses them eitherAlso you forgot you need the magnussen bomb to penetrate strider shields, rockets don't do shit
>>720022506Gordon is a mysterious hired worker of sorts, if you forgot.He's so good that a lot more entities than Gman's employers want him.As was said, he has limitless potential - this isn't a dramatic exaggeration.For unknown reasons the actual [Gordon] himself did something or found the way out, and as a result he isn't doing something else.As a result Gman's employers have authorized to warp reality just a bit more, presumably to snatch both Alyx and Gordon, or to snatch Gordon back into the fold by kidnapping Alyx.Gman has allowed himself to get caught. HLA is Alyx's audition.You remember what he said about naysayers? This is it.
>>720025727>You somehow missed all the derelict test chambers from old aperture Inside contained test spheres you retard. The external structure in general remains considerably intact which is far more than say Black Mesa where most of the lower facility is destroyed even before the HECU starts shelling them>and pulled 'thousands' of rocket turrets out of your assIf Aperture has thousands of standard turrets, it isn't a stretch to think they have tons of rocket turrets. They don't appear in 2 because they aren't a good testing element gameplay wise, not because only two existed in the whole facility you idiot>Also you forgot you need the magnussen bomb to penetrate strider shields, rockets don't do shitUh, anon... have you played Half-Life 2? Like, at all? In the original game you take out eight Striders all with rockets. In Episode 1 you take down a Strider at the very end, again, with rockets. the Magnusson Device just takes them out with a single explosion, but Striders have no shields, they can be taken out with enough explosive force
>>719963259i'll believe it when i see it
Gabe here, every time you losers fake announce this I postpone it by 6 months.i'm going back to scuba diving, peace
>>720025792>He's so good he has limitless potentialAnd yet, gman can summon a whole army to kill gordon if he wants.
>>720026131Limitless potential in abstract. As he is is now, Gordon is simply a normal mortal human of our material universe.
>>720025792>For unknown reasons the actual [Gordon] himself did something or found the way out, and as a result he isn't doing something elseGordon afterr taking out the Nihilanth becomes part of the Vortessence. Gordon may have always had some presence in the Vortessence as some people like Magnusson do seem to have it but he grew to be a very powerful entity after HL1. This is what the Singing Vortigaunt in HL2 reveals. The reason the G-Man is discontent is that, due to Gordon now being in the Vortessence and akin to the Vortigaunts, these can now track him down and save him from the G-Man and his employers' clutches, as happens at the start of Episode 1. Hence the G-Man now needs a new pawn, and it isn't about bringing him back. G-Man had already seen a ton of potential in Alyx and saved her against "naysayers'" (Breen's) wishes, and now it's paying off with her as backup.>>720026131We don't really get to see the aftermath of that ending. I like Anti-Climax even with its bullshitty bad ending because it fits what would probably happen
can someone tell me how does the suppression field work? surely if i go to some rural area in the middle of the woods it doesnt affect me right?
>>720026304No, the Suppression Field is worldwide but once the Citadel's main functions are destroyed it shuts down and people can reproduce again.
>>720026363does not make sense how its worldwide
>>720026430How not exactly?
>>720026447they must be beaming our sperm with some 6g waves i dont see how you would make the entire Earth like that
>>720026526Dr. Kleiner explains how in Episode 1.>On a lighter note, if you are already in one of our designated safe zones, I feel obliged to point out that a more fortunate side-effect of the reactor's destruction is the complete removal of the Combine's reproductive suppression field. >Previously, certain protein chains important to the process of embryonic development were selectively prevented from forming. This is no longer the case. For those so inclined, now would be an excellent time for procreation. Which is to say, in layman's terms, you should give serious consideration to doing your part for the revival of the species. We must make the most of the time we have, as it is by no means certain how much time we have secured ourselves before the Combine attempt to restore their dominion, as they certainly shall.
>>719965168Mom!I posted it again!
thread is above 500 posts rip
This will happen at The Game Awards this yearhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUNGEU2vCu8
Nobody cares at this point. Stop making threads dumbass. Too late.
>>720015496Fake and Gay
