https://insider-gaming.com/half-life-3-trailer-rumoured-to-be-in-production/>Valve has been utterly silent about the next instalment to the Half-Life series, with only rumours, datamines, and leaks being our only source of information. >The latest update regarding Valve’s work on Half-Life 3’s trailer comes from Tyler McVicker’s latest HLX Files episode on YouTube. McVicker says that the “current rumour that’s going around is that work on the trailer is occurring.” >The video also mentioned that trailers and announcements typically arrive close to a year before launch. However, “Valve is not doing that.” Players are going to get Half-Life 3’s announcement and launch “very close together”, similar to what they saw with Half-Life Alyx.We're almost there bros.
>>724571776Two more weeks, trust the plan.
>>724571776Patriots in control.
>>724571821Wongawoonga
Apologize.
Weren't they hiring people for their engine upgrade like last summer? And that's just engine. Development itself will take like 3-4 years.
Expectation:Actual HL3 newsReality:pic related
Does Valve even have any developer talent left?
>source: my ass, their ass, his ass, assy ass assKek
TWOMOREWEEKS
>>724571930sneed
I believe it. I'll believe the next false rumor too.
>>724571993Say for the sake of argument that Half Life 3 or even episode 3 got announced. How unusable would the board be, and for how long?
>>724572001did you miss deadlock?no
>>724571776>Tyler McNiggerStopped reading there
lol keep dreaming cuck.Deadlock is the futureThe Lash won
>>724572320Not very long, this place is a corpse.Protomen threads get near no traction, AI and Gacha softcore porn threads exist in the multiple, on topic old school vidya threads filled with rage baiters or zoomers who stop by to talk shit, etc.Doubt most Zoomers know what Half life is.
>>724572320there would be a sticky and the thread would be filled with gore cp and animal abuse
>other companies: hi, we're making a game, it'll be ready in 8 years, probably more>Valve: hi, we made a game, it's ready btwBASEDASED
>>724571776steam hasnt made a good game in over a decade. hl3 is going to suck
>>724572485why does this trash game get shilled so much??
>>724571776>337 views in 8 minutesPack it up valvebros it's over
>Tyler McNigger
Half Life 3 is the only game I'd consider paying full price for on launch. I'd even pre-order it. I haven't paid full price for a game in 10 years.
>>724571776Didn't they just blow their load on Deadlock?>making a half life game without most of the original developers at the company anymoreNGMI, desu.
Yes its coming in November 100%, people will act like its somehow impossible for Valve to develop a game with the number 3 but its literally just a game and all they have to do is make it, which they already did. Half Life isn't about the story, its about showing off new and innovative tech and game mechanics, which is why the longer it goes without a new game releasing the more likely it becomes.
>>724573207How do you know who works at Valve or who they hired to make this new game? Dumbass.
>>724573239I highly doubt Valve has have any new tech to show off. They've been lagging behind the industry since forever. They think they can compete with the juggernauts on technical ability and come up with the next gen experience people were expecting 18 years ago? Interactive and destructive environments, cutting edge physics, smart AI, all of the tech exists but it hasn't been put into one package yet. Their specialization is handheld walking sims and shooting galleries.
>>724573087Same. It's not the only game, but it's a very short list.
they can't make a good game anymore lmao look at Deadshlock
I refuse to play any AAA game made after 2009 on principle, even if it's Half-Life.
>>724571776I don't care
>>724573316It's public information.
>>724571776Artifact blah blah playerbase blah blah got cheated blah blah blah
>>724573658This, Viktor Antonov is already dead. It won't be the same without him.
>>724571776>>The latest update regarding Valve’s work on Half-Life 3’s trailer comes from Tyler McVickerI refuse to believe anyone posts this in earnest. It has to be all in jest.
>>724571821
>>724572320The board is 80% underage third worlders who only play gacha and then shitpost about new games they can't run. None of them have played Valve’s games. If anything, they'd shitpost about HL3 being a physics tech demo and not a based and curated experience like real old games were. And then they'd probably call it UE5 ubislop.
>>724571930this guy ruined TF2 for everyone with his publishing of the botsfuck him
>>724574272quick rundown?
Marc Laidlaw is gone, he was the brains that wrote all the smart sci-fi concepts about Half Life, so I don't care anymore.Erik Wolpaw, the portal guy, instead went back. It's why Alyx was a quippy ironic detached thing like a Joss Whedon movie. Every line was trying so hard to be funny in HLA, it was so cringeworthy.
>>724573998>UE5 ubislop.unlike other companies, valve has its own custom made engine and its rather good actually.
>>724571776Tyler McVicker is an autistic Valve fanfic writerHe's like if Chris-chan started emailing Sega nonstop demanding Sonic Adventure 3
>>724571776>TylerFuck off
>>724575513They should use it to fix how godawul CS2 look then
>>724574735it came to me in a dream
>E3 2026>Gaben comes on stage>"Here at Valve, we've noticed a lot of excitement online about a new Half-Life trailer. Well, we're pleased to announce to day that all those rumors were true. We hope it's been worth the weight.">a pickup truck with a Half-Life itasha paintjob rolls onto the stage
>>724572320We had a sticky thread when Epistle 3 was postedThat was probably the last time people TRULY gave a shit about Half-Life on /v/ - I haven't seen much traction for Alyx (probably because it was VR-only) and these days people don't really care about HL3 outside of DNF syndrome (same reason people bring up Beyond Good & Evil 2 - nobody really cares about the game itself anymore, they only care if it ever comes out or stays in development for gorillion years)
>>724572431imagine ordering that at mcdonalds
>>724573741Imagine the guy going into each of the 80 threads that will be up at any given time after the announcement and posting that.
>>724575513Yes, but that won't stop the retards I described from calling it UE5 ubislop. Those words are just vague insults that to them mean "thing I don't like (but haven't played)".
I hope the reveal is Gabe sailing one of his yachts into Timmy’s shitter and lesser one, dropping his pants and winking at the audience as he poops all over Tim Sweeney. And then he says “drop this” as he waddles into the sunset
>>724571821Gabe Newell just fucking flew over my house
it's gonna be fucking shit
>>724571776I thought Alyx was 3
>>724571930even a broken cock works twice a day
>>724572320won't be any more unusable than the average fotm release
>>724571776>company that hasnt made a good game in nearly 20 years is set to release a new gameOH BOY
>>724572571Old school threads go one of two ways:>filled with shitposting OLD BAD NEW GOOD faggots who drive it into the ground within a dozen posts>zero shitposting and filled with actual oldfags fondly discussing it till bump limit, usually switches near the end toward lamenting how bad things have gottenMy personal favorite modern /v/ism is people rabidly defending bad shit in videogames like microtransactions/DEIshit/on disc dlc.This place really isn't what it used to be at all.
>>724572954Why does any trash gayme get shilled on /v/? You think the Gayshit Impact and Pedo Archive threads are form Anons that love videa?Also, why the fuck did Valve let TF2 rot for a Reddit hero shooter?
>>724577043their last game in 2020 was good, despite it's flawsif hl3 is just a hl2 level pack with hl:a level of detail, then it will be a good game
>>724574735the rumor is that he knew someone that grabbed the source code for csgo and tf2 (from inside the company) and then when he was doing it for data mining, he gave it some rando on his discord to "help" which resulted for that person to leak it to more people on discord that basically spiraled until someone just uploaded it publicly online lol. its probably some schizo drama, theres no proof that tyler actually did give it to someone but he did have the source code
>comes from Tyl-aightnext thread
>>724573553Weren't they working on better water physics which is why Source 2 currently has no water entities
>>724571776>be valve>do some source2 updates for deadlock as icefrog demands new features>for shits and giggles reference them with halflife universe entities>retarded sloptubers fall for it every damn time>their audience just eats it up
>>724571776I have no time for woke flops, sorry
[JUBILANT NEWS] I don't give a fuck
>>724577601WOKE FLOPPPP
>>724571930No.
I love how half of this board's posts are just a picture of some fuck ugly faggot and then a billion posts replying talking about some stupid gay eceleb drama you should be permabanned for knowing anything about, yet getting any actual discussion going about FUCKING VIDEOGAMES is impossible
>>724571776Post your war face when it's real, RIGHT NOW
>>724577706You want to discuss a game that we know nothing about? Yeah go ahead retard
>>724577740
>>724577779Of course you know nothing about them, you don't play fucking videogames?>you want to discuss games on /v/???
>>724577869What do you do in half life 3? What's the story?
>>724577949It doesn't exist. What the fuck kind of retarded nigger brained response is that? My entire point is that you fags discuss nothing but eceleb drama instead of videogames, which this thread is proof of.
>>724577296HLA had awesome tech. I'm assuming HL3 will be a similar tech leap but for non-VR, and I'm very excited about that.
>>724571821Fippy Bippy
>>724578052What's the best half life 3 weapon?
>>724571776Wake me up when the trailer actually drops
>>724571776>Game Awards, 2025>"Hello, Gabe Newell here, with a special announcement." >The roar from the crowd splits the air like a flashbang, peoples ears are still ringing by the time the auditorium is quiet enough for Newell to speak again.>"I know some of you have been waiting a very long time for this...">Screen darkens, and an orange lambda symbol appears.>The crowd works up such a fervor that some people will lose their voices for the next week.>Slowly, at the top right corner of the lambda symbol, a 3 fades in.>At this point, everyone in the crowd has screamed themselves hoarse, and in a poignant moment that everyone expected to be deafening, the crowd is unable to actually speak.>"Now, one of the thing's we've always stressed about our releases in this serious is technological developments in games, and this will be no exception.">Gabe takes a moment before continuing, "So I am pleased to announce that Half Life 3 will present to the gaming audience everywhere the first full dive immersive VR experience in the history of gaming.">"Everyone who has made a steam account since the inception of the program is already pre-enrolled in what is going to be out first multiplayer live-beta test.">At this point Newell slowly lifts off the stage, arms spreading wide, the biggest shit eating grin ever recorded in the history of mankind on his face. >"In fact, you're already all in it.">The environment spazzes out with some glitchy effects before settling back into the auditorium, just to drive the point home.>"We're going to keep things in theme, of course.">"The Seven Hour War for Earth by the Combine starts in fifteen minutes. Good luck everyone!"
>>724578184This entire fucking board is full of faggots like you and I cannot stand it anymore. Nothing about being an annoying fuck should be even slightly amusing to you, feel some shame for once in your life you pathetic piece of shit.
>>724573553God you are so confidently dumb and fucking ignorant, how about just be fucking quiet? Retard.
>>724578303Yeah I like the revolver too
>>724573776Why would he be needed for Half Life 3? They're not going back to the slav architecture from Half Life 2, which they recreated in Alyx without him.
>game starts in Antarctica>you and alyx make your way to a mine, combine hideout>gorgeous locations as you're killing enemies>find a portal and jump in>you are in aperture science and alyx is suddenly a teenager>she's down bad for that mute freak gordon>combine hunt you>find another portal and go to ayy planet>now gordon is a teen and alyx is an old hag>ara ara, gordon>they battle enemies on the planet, need a portal home>find one and travel to abandoned black mesa>gordon and alyx are normal again>enter final boss
>>724572320Do people really expect this to break le internet, everybody moved on already
>>724578573Those locations are ass, nobody wants to go to Antarctica it's an empty shithole
>>724577949>first thought is about the storynot a real gamer
>>724577687Yeah
>>724578573shitty fan fiction here's your (you)
>>724571776Any news on a Switch 2 release of Half Life 3?
>”Reports from numerous sources have said Sony were the main financial backers of Half Life 3’s development, donating the majority of funding due to Gabe Newells insistence on using Valves money to secure yet another luxury cruise ship for his already existing fleet. Because of this, Half Life 3 will launch exclusively on PS5 and PS5 Pro for a period of 8 months before coming to PC”Steam Sisters? its not looking good, we might need to buy a PS5 to play Grand Theft Auto VI AND Half Life 3…how could Gaben do this
>>724578696>he doesn't know
>>724572320HL3 won't be anywhere as big as Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3, CP2077 or probably even Silksong (600k peak players). It's a very old IP by now, and the main appeal is uhhhh it's a shooter with some cutscenes and physics puzzles? Basically it was only big because of the tech, the game itself is just okay though aged gracefully.t. late 30's
>>724571776It won't live up to the expectations. It will be a good game, just not a good game with nearly 20 years of development.
>>724579519no one cares about 'how old the IP is', people will play it because its a good game and no one except for major autists actually cares about the 'story'it will be bigger than silksong
>>724572320None , I knew this board was fucking dead when Halo coming to PlayStation barely had any threads or a sticky at all , you may as well call this site something else entirely because it's not fucking 4chan anymore
>>724579746>20 yearsfake fan detected, at the earliest development wouldn't have started until 2008 at the earliest, or 2011 when Portal 2 came outthis iteration only began development in 2019/2020 after Alyx was finished, but judging by your TF2 image you're probably perma stuck in 2015
>>724578573>>you and alyxAlyx was written out of the timeline due to the events of HL Alyx, basically she sacrificed herself so that her dad doesn't die at the end of EP2. HL3 will be Gordon and Eli, no blasian gf for you anymore anon.
>>724571776Funny, I actually had a dream about it today. In dream I fired up HL2, and when I went out on the roof in the beginning, I realized there's some kind of ship floating above City 17 (not vault thing from HLA), which shouldn't be there, and then I realized I had to update the game before I could play it, so I rushed to my friends to tell them it's red alert.
>>724577302>the rumor is that he knew someone that grabbed the source code for csgo and tf2 (from inside the company) and then when he was doing it for data mining, he gave it some rando on his discord to "help" which resulted for that person to leak it to more people on discordthis is all FACTHe admitted in the past to sharing source code with other modders and developers while working on some of those weird Half Life RTS mods.
>>724571776>Source: Tyler Mcnigger'no'
>>724576286>I haven't seen much traction for Alyx (probably because it was VR-only)as someone who played it I hate the stupid retcon shit, and portal style dialogue the characters have now.
>>724578269My uncle works at Valve and he told me this is true. My uncle also has been invited to Gaben's yacht countless times, so he can be trusted.Checkmate, haters and doubters!
>>724579859Halo was always hated here and only used as consolewar image bait. Why would anyone care about it now?
>>724572320It will get recurring threads for a little over a week.Within a day or so it will be 50% shitposts, 25% people replying to shitposts, and 25% discussion.The main talking point will be about how Alyx doesn't have massive anime tiddies.So, business as usual.
>>724580876Alyx is disappeared by G-Man at the end of HL:A, she won't be in HL3.
>>724572320The time of half-life significant influence is long over. The anons who played even episode 2 when they were kids are in their 30s now. I bet 95 percent of this board never touched a single HL game.
>>724581093???????The ending was literally "We have to go save her!" and you think we're not gonna go save her?
>>724581093If she doesn't get deus-ex-machina'd by the vorts, she'll be replaced by some other minority lead, and they'll get all the complaints. Also they'll complain about Gordon being too soft-looking despite being designed as a foil to the Duke-Nukem era of action protags.
>>724576286>I haven't seen much traction for Alyx (probably because it was VR-onlyNot just that, the game itself was boring, they played it too safe, it is like they were too scared of VR limits and so simplified everything way too much.No two handed weapons, just 3 one handed guns that all play the sameNo melee weapons or any melee damage at all, you don't want to hit a wall right?No fast movement or jumping, slow walk everywhere with the whole game made with teleportation in mind lest you get a lil bit dizzy.Those stupid virtual puzzles did not help and instead of finding cache of weapons and ammo you just find resin like coins in a mario game.And the story and writing also had issues >>724580294The game simply was too boring to had any cultural impact, boneworks/blade and sorcery did more for VR than alyx, hell even deadlock has had more content/discussion already and is not even out of alpha.
>>724572320Duke Nukem Forever came out and discussion of it stopped within a few days from what I remember. People would post the RC part, say it was a massive disappointment, and then the thread would die.
>>724572320About the same that when silksong was announced. So not very long (E33 raped the board much more). Silksong had pretty much become neo-HL3, most of HL3 oldfags left the board.
>>724579859No one cares about Halo past its prime coming to PlayStation. This isn't 2007 anymore.
>>724580753>Halo was always hated hereIt wasn't. Captain King and "Baby's first FPS" posting was shitposters shitposting in the afternoons because nighttime /v/ (You know, the actual good /v/) had in-depth lore discussions, novel discussions, tips on how to clear stuff, Legendary tips, people sharing the cracked CE client so everyone could play Blood Gulch together, etc.If you only browsed /v/ during the afternoons US then you'd see the hate, if you browsed it during the evening US when people actually posted reasonably here you'd see most topics you think were "hated" were actually constantly discussed. Call of Duty is one major one where discussion of CoD4, WaW, Black Ops, and MW2 was constant with CoD4 even having people here make 32 player Killhouse servers just to have fun in. "Remember, no Russian" took the entire board by storm, same deal with "No leaning" and people were regularly talking about Veteran tips and complaining about Estate and Pro Pipes. Even years later "Press F to pay respects" became such a meme even normalfags know it.
>>724571930I wish Valve sued this faggot into the ground and he would just kill himself, we'd be in a entirely different timeline at this point
>>724581495I think the only things Alyx had going for it was some of the advanced graphical tech they were using, some of the physics engine optimizations (that you never got to interact with outside of tiny objects), and their implementations of the grav gloves.
>>724572701>fell for it again1000
>>724582176How do you manage to always be consistently wrong and retarded about literally everything?
DeCarlos Brown Jr. murdered Iryna Zarutska on August, 22, of 2025.
>mfw never stopped believing and soon will be vindicated
>>724582524Graphics and the optimizations that they did were certainly the best part, but graphics alone can't carry a game.Speaking of physics, it is surprising how stable good old havok physics work on skyrim VR, specially with the vrik, higgs and plank mods, the plank/higgs modder even implemented some tweaks so grabbing a container carrying other items worked great instead of the items phasing through it, like sometimes happened in alyx.
>>724579859Pretty sure when Halo MCC Steam release was announced there was a sticky.
>>724583236And then all of that is going to fly in random directions when the cell is reloaded lol
>>724579859Name any one thing from 20 years ago that is the same.
>tripnigger is also a consolefag retardsurprise surprise
>>724572571What are your thoughts on Act 3 so far? I think it's pretty good, I like how Buried in the Red sounds similar to Vengeance.
>>724583614It lasted way longer than I thought it would, that pile was done over the course of a playthrough, 10 or so ingots at a time every time I got back to the fort.It did happen though, I think shortly after that webm, it was a sad day when I got back and found them all on the ground.Still it was a 40 hours or so playthrough and I came back to that fort a lot. The only thing is I think I dropped them all on the ground first then saved and reloaded before interacting with them, that may have helped prevent the issue.
>>724579519>HL3 won't be anywhere as big as Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3, CP2077 or probably even Silksongfucking delusional, it's HL3, entire game releases will be delayed if it finally comes out.
It's not coming out.
>>724584679i want to believe, goddamn it.
>>724571930Isn't this the sneed and feed guy? From that New Vegas mod interview?
>>724571930Not one of his "leaks" panned out. He should apologize to me for all his false leads.
i'll believe it when I see it
>>724571776It's annoying how people pretend to still care about this game
I'm 43, and still don't understand the fascination with Half-Life.
>>724584542HL3 will easily exceed Elden Ring numbers.Half of Steam will buy HL3.
>>724585074Because you were a console poor who's first FPS was probably COD MW.
>>724585257my first gaming console was an atari but i gamed on pc for all my lifenow explain what makes half-life so special? i get the physics playing a big part of 2, but the game is still mediocre.
>>724586045Stop lying bro.
>>724585074>43>doesn't know half lifeYou should know because half your life is already over
>>724586045yeah half life 2s supposedly a dystopian game but honestly never felt that oppressive. I think Cyberpunk and even fucking GTA of all things felt more like actual dystopian video game than it
>>724585074look at you special little snow flake
campo santo cucks being integrated into valve made me lose all hope for future HL titles
>>724585074yupi played it like 20 years ago in a lan house that loved to blast rammstein, and i remember it being mid *shrug*
>>724582176this. god I hate people who parrot stuff here without a hint of their own opinion
>>724584237Do you really have to go that slow or are you just being careful since you don't have any physical feedback?
>>724572320Its already unusable
>>724572650>there would be a sticky and the thread would be filled with gore cp and animal abuseclassic 4chan
>>724573553Unreal Engine and Unity are their competition. It's not going to be hard to surpass them
>>724572320>Board quality at an all time low>Offtopic and porn spam galore>Moderation treats it as their own personal playground to do whatever they want>Entire site (internet really) overrun by >>724573998 people who should not have internet access>Literally every single thread is harassed by a horde of the above mentioned "people" with unhinged hatred and spam>Impossible to discuss any new game whatsoeverNo one trolls any more, it's just garbage posting by the mentally deranged. You'd see an initial surge in threads like Elden Ring, maybe 80-100 threads up at a time but then it would quickly devolve into "this is the worst game ever" posting that would drive the discussion elsewhere.
>>724572320Sticky, blasted with CP and goretons of regular threads, also blasted with CP and gore because why the fuck notthose proxies really need be taken out
>>724586997Just being careful, touch one on the side or place them with too much force and it would cause a mess.
>>724576969More like 1.5 but the last 10 seconds were a sequel tease taking place after episode 2 so also kind of 2.5.
HL3 is not happening because they know there is no way to match the expectations. Even if the game was good, it would never be good enough.
Doubt, seriously.
>>724571776The biggest proof that something is happening within the next 2 months is that the Raising the Bar reprint preorders still have not gone up and theres two months left of 2025.
I played Half Life 2 again after so many years, and for all this time I thought it had negative effect on the genre developmentI still think so but it's head and shoulders above everything that came afterOnly FEAR comes close to HL2's setpieces, the game feels like lost technology compared to shit that came out in 20 years after that (not accounting for L4D and some aspects of Titanfall and STALKER)
>>724585074>UM DAE NOT UNDERSTAND POPULAR THING?Reddit attitude. It doesn't have to be to your taste, you don't need to play, but not understanding the impact of HL1 in 98 is just pretending to be retarded to look interesting. Unless you are just retarded.
>>724588572>there is no way to match the expectationsyou're retarded
Should Valve learn into the meta elements more?
>>724571776>Source: Tyler McVickerHes been saying Half Life 3 soon(TM) for like 15 years, this time hes totally right!
>>724588572Valve assembled their biggest team ever to ship half-life alyx, and in the dev commentary they said that they wanted to come back to the franchise with a desktop titleThere is no sign that the half-life alyx team has disbanded and there are dozens of unused engine features popping up in source 2 game updates marked HLX
post yfw it's that time again
Who is this game for? Original Half-Life fans are in their 30s and 40s now, zoomers don't know what that franchise even is.
>>724571776oh wow the original scripted walkie talkie moviegame FPS so excited
>>724578573>you and alyx
Meanwhile, in the valve cafiteria>I told him we were working on the hl3 trailer!>*general laughter*>god he's a fucking retard, anyway have to go, need to design ten more hats by 5pm
>>724589735Hat design is the sole reason they hired a bunch of Forza devs ofc
>>724589454Me, who has been waiting for this since 2007.
Even if it was VR Alyx showed me they still have the IT factor.
>>724579919?????? How are you the second person in this thread to see Eli saying "We have to go rescue her!" and taking that to mean he's just going to forget about his daughter and do nothing about.
>Playstation and Xbox have GTAVI>PC has HL3>Nintendo has nothinglol
>>724590415They'll drop the next 3D Bing Bing Wahoo
If Half Life 3 comes out I'll have to draw Alyx porn even though I don't like minorities
the orange box just turned 18
>>724590879I miss being young and playing it for the very first time. we might never had such a good deal ever again.
Valve already removed Laidlaw's epistle story which would've been good. Now we have this bullshit HLA retconning EP3's ending for no reason.I don't trust Valve going forward.
>>724572954no one talks about this game because it isnt out yet but ill still put you on lil bro. because its fun
>>724571776I just can't see it being anything special today.
>>724590879I'm still mad they canceled the Black Box and made me buy HL2 again.
>>724590879so you can now legally fuck it?
>>724590997i'm surprised how many people defend laidlaw when he's woke as shit and his writing is thoroughly mediocre
>>724588697It's not Valve's fault that people are bad at copying HL2. To this day I think all the mainline games are expertly paced. Retards say the prototypes had better ideas but also conveniently forget that the equivalent to Point Insertion and Red Letter Day were a one hour long walking sim at some point.>>724590950>play portal first>heh nice HL reference>play ep2>realize portal was an actual spin-offit was so kino
>>724571776>Tyler McChickenAAAAAAAAAAND STOPPED READING
>>724591654I don't care about Laidlaw's political opinions, I care simply about his work on HL which was good. Without him the series would definitely not have become as popular as it did. HLA flanderized several characters and I think it's a hint at what's to come.
>>724590997>misery porn ending where everything you did didn't actually matterFucking yawn. No wonder why they threw out so many versions of HL3 instead of just shipping them out.
>>724591935The game would've ended with the Combine being kicked off earth and them also not getting the portal technology. That's pretty positive overall.
>>724578273>Gabe then spawns a jeep on stage and drives away
>>724571776I'm too old for this shit
>>724590879I still have mine.
>>724589293It is coming. Ex Valve employee left his LinkedIn profile open last year.An anon here posted the link.Prestigious single player FPS they were working on.
>>724590415Nintendo has a lot, only normalfags like GTA. Only Tendies and Vegans have taste, Snoys have no games so this is the only game they can bring up, Xbots are irritating trannies that need to be lined up at a wall, I don't even know why they still exist. The worst fanbase that caused the most damage to the game industry. One thing Vegans, Tendies, and Snoys can all agree with, WE HATE XBOTS!
>>724592025Yeah but it ends with Gordon giving up because one second he sees a huge ass dyson sphere and the next he's stuck in fucking bumfuck nowhere.Which is borderline just another cliffhanger like episode 2.
>>724592416That was meta commentary on laidlaw giving up on valve making games again
>>724592416That's not "giving up". Failing to destroy the interdimensional super-civilization is not a dark ending, it's just not the hopeful capeshit story you might've liked.The ending would be open enough to allow the writers to take the story wherever they wanted. Alyx protagonist sequel, another Gordon game, hell even bring back Shepard if you really wanted to.
>>724571776Gordon is looking more and more like a Aged Charlie Sheen, as Gaben intended to be thanks to The Arrivalhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgUy9wwVQQs
>>724571776I'm now far older than Gordon Freeman
>>724592581>capeshit out of the aetherThey weren't an "interdimensional super-civilization" until he made it that way in Epistle, which was THANKFULLY scrapped. As far as we know they're just one planet outside of Laidlaw's headcanon.And you're acting like the first game wasn't about ONE NIGGA with a suit and pain killers killing the Nihilanth by himself. Between that and closing the portal in episode 2, Half-Life is LITERALLY about overcoming hopelessly low odds.
It's going to be vr only just like alyx. I don't know why anyone is getting hyped.
>>724592998>They weren't an "interdimensional super-civilization" until he made it that way in EpistleThat got repeated several times throughout the series. Ep2 even spelled it out for you why the Combine want to get to Borealis to begin with. They cannot teleport within the same dimension, this was also explained in HL2.>Half-Life is LITERALLY about overcoming hopelessly low oddsGreat, it still doesn't mean that failing to wipe out the combine is somehow a hopeless ending.
>>724571776Just like all the shit that's come out many decades after the fact, written and made by completely different people, it's not actually Half-life 3 whatsoever. It's a new product using name recognition to get you to buy it. No doubt it will be stuffed full of memberberries too. Gordon's story is essentially finished, and zoomies don't give a shit about him or Alyx. The new writers can make up whatever fan fiction nonsense they want, just call it the sequel and it'll still sell like hotcakes simply because it's a big meme
>>724593168The team behind Alyx basically said they were sad about how more people didn't get to play it because it was VR exclusive. So no, the next one won't be VR exclusive.
>>724592025they also wouldn't get the time machine, at least. i like the idea of time travel being possible but squandering it.
>>724571776gabe newel just flew over my house you guys
sorry wrong pic...
are they finally going to explain this?
>>724572001Yeah. They hire the best in the business because they can afford to.
>>724594063He means gman
>>724593821Anon-kun...
>>724594117i know that but are they gonna elaborate on their meeting because otherwise it feels like it came out of left field
>>724593902Me too it's dark, I can't see, when will it end?
>>724594063Anon what was that other image you posted
>>724571930anti-semantic
>>724594063gman promised him gordon would fuck alyx
>>724571776According to my sources HL3 will be an EGS exclusive, that's part of the deal they signed with Tim Sweeney Himself for him to drop the monopoly charges against steam.
>>724594331monsters vs aliens porn don't worry about it
Half Life is mid. Only boomer PC fats care about it.
>>724585074I'm 35 and same.
>>724593821>>724593916>>724594063holy keki do wonder what eli wanted to tell you
>>724580294>portal style dialogue the characters have nowHalf-Life's dialogue has always been pretty autistic so this didn't bother meThe retcon shit is lame and gay though
>>724587739>anymoreThe most mentally deranged posters have been ruining 4chan for well over 10 years though.
So whats the best way to play Half Life 1 and 2 if I never played them before? Keep in mind I do not play game with keyboard and mouse as I find it annoying so I need a way that supports controller.
>>724594187G-Man likely saved Alyx as a baby to have her escape from Black Mesa
>>724573053comfy image
Retards not understanding Half Life is such a boonIts why its such a clean and pure fandom that can actually have good discussions
>>724594832Just launch it through steam, since the anniversary updates they support whatever controller out of the box
>>724571776https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=632kyLysP6c
>>72457232010 years ago maybe it would be hugenow it would be just ok
>>724573564>>724573087stop being corpocucks you fags
>>724592746even the fucking ai admits it
>>724584862His Half-Life: Alyx one did. I also wouldn't doubt if some of his other leaks had legitimate validity, but Valve just scrapped their plans. That's the thing about Valve. Gabe himself could say they are working on Half-Life 3 right now and it would mean actually nothing. They have worked on and scrapped that game several times. Just like a lot of other projects they have worked on and then canned.
>>724595873yeah that's not saying much
>>724595910finding out they only did 6 actual months of work on ep3 made me really sad
>>724571930Never.#TF2FOREVER
>>724595964Watch the documentary later, they kinda admit that HL changed early in development because of that movie seeing how heavily inspired the xen was based on the aliens of that movie, and the fact that the main antagonist is literally G-Man down to offering "gifts">>724596016Killing Alyx father kinda put a roadblock into the project because they didnt knew what to do after it with tons and tons of revisions, it took Alyx to undo said roadblock and focus the game BACK on Gordon, Him and G-Man.Also Episodic games died out quickly courtesy of sony and microsoft pulling assinine shit to kill PC gaming in the mid 2000's courtesy of normalfag crowd control under >pic.
>>724596351As an aside, does anyone know where I can find a collection of those style of pre-2015 /v/ comics? Thanks.
>>724595523Shut the fuck up, idiot. As if there's no game you'd pay full price for. At least for us, it's a game series that only releases one game every decade.
>>724571821trump did eventually succeed in conquering the country so idk i guess ill hold out on this
>>724590997Epistle 3 is meh, only the Dyson Sphere reveal part is good.
>>724594063That's why they revived Eli in HLA.
>>724572320It would have the "valve canceled artifact " copy past spam fill half the board because half the board are all underage zoomers who have never played good games.
>>724590997>I don't trust valve retconning the ending of episode 2>when both half life 1 and 2 are literally about gman being able to see the past and future, and setting up the entire campaigns for you
>>724599873Gman plotting shit is not the same as Gman undoing things that have already happened.
>>724599943Yes gman being able to see into the future and setting up the dominoes is literally the same as him going into the past to rercon something. At the end of episode 1 he literally teleports you into the future(half life 2) or into Xen if you refuse.
>>724577096row row fight da powa
>>724600084No it isn't. Also freezing someone and then unfreezing them in the future is not the same as going back in time.Are you being retarded on purpose?
>>724577746why does hl3 guy have pickaxe? it not minecraft!!!
>>724599440MIGGERS tongue my anus
>>724600179Time travel into the future is the same as the past. Gordon was not "frozen and teleported" he was directly transported into the future in a different location. Gman jokes about Gordon being given a "rest" when from his perspective he was transported from the hl1 shuttle directly to the hl2 shuttle.Gman can move through different areas of space and time away will, but suddenly if he wants to go into the past he can't? Gman literally gave them the crystal that caused the resonance cascade, so of course he can go forward and backward in time, as well as anywhere in or out of space. It's like you weren't paying attention to his power and actions.
Get this. I discovered the leaked Half-Life 3 plot.>gordon: HONEY!>alyx: what?>gordon: WHERE IS MY HAZARD SUIT?>alyx: what?>gordon: WHERE. IS. MY. HAZARD SUIT!?!?
>>724599873Then how did the vortis cuck gman?
>>724600468>Time travel into the future is the same as the past.Kill yourself.
*at will
>>724571776>final chapterwow so it's true the developers hate this game and they're only doing it out of obligation.why would you discard the possibility of a half life 4 before half life 3 has even been anounced?
>>724593821nigga what the fuck are you doin
>>724600607The hell was this post?
>>724600496They also have some species ability to see through time or to different realities. It's probably why they only use 3rd person pronouns. They obviously have extra dimensional powers. >>724600516You are incapable of theorizing about time travel or manipulation as it's presented to you in the games.
it's going to be vr only and have forced co-op
>>724600694Maybe.
>>724600646Lolhttps://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/724571776/#724593821
>>724600646Install 4chan X
>>724600516>entire game takes place due to gman's ability to travel/see into the future and back, and locate himself anywhere in space>gman set up the resonance cascade and both campaigns>voice actor literally says gman talks like that bevause he's experiencing multiple realities at once, at different times and places>FUCKING GMAN RETCONNING THE ENDING OF EP2 THIS MAKES NO SENSE!!!
>>724593821I don't remember half life being like this.
>>724587947I think you can post on 4chan with Javascript disabled, which is essential for browser fingerprinting. If they forced JS, proxies wouldn't save those posters. Something has to be done about these unhinged spammers.
>>724600847Yes you cocksucking faggot it does make no sense. Name one other instance of gman going back in fucking time to retcon something previously in the series.
>>724579859I feel like the internet at large including here has become even more ADHD post-Covid. Discussions on single player games only last for a week or two at most now.
>>724600973Probably any time he sets something up and fucks it up, but you never see that. Like gordon getting in with the vortigaunts? And gman stealing Alyx is part of him fixing his mistake of trusting freeman?
>>724600604What, you want another Shenmue situation?
Half-Life 3 is NEVER EVER.
>>724601168Ok so it never happened and it's purely your headcanon. Got it.
idk man it seems kinda nasty to make people watch and wait for like 20 years without a peep
>>724600604I'd be more excited at HL being done after the next game, so Valve is free to do something new for a single-player IP that isn't yet-another-fucking-competitive-multiplayer-game-with-random-loot-drops-or-cosmetic-focus.
>>724601229Considering we get to see it at the ending if half life alyx, I think that confirms my theory, which is fully consistent with his methods and abilities :)
>>724601253Blame Valve and their "say nothing until you have an actual thing to show" motto.
>>724601418>give an example of it happening previously>ermmm the fact that it happens the first time in HLA proves I don't have to actually give an examplecool
>>724573053Imagine the smell
>>724571930Not apologizing to a man that sucks cock
>>724601381I really hope they'll revive their Stars of Blood game concept.
>>724571776I'll never understand how people can have the energy to endlessly cheer and believe in shit like HL3. it's been twenty fucking years, guys.
>>724601102This. My ability to read books has been damaged by the pandemic stay home stuff.
>>724601548Just let me have this one, anon.
hlx is being announced in the next 2 months, and tyler will be right againhe has helped with all the primary leaks the past dozen years with valve, you can say he is annoying sure, but he is more skilled at journalism and valve history than any of you will ever be
>>724601548i need something to look forward to
>>724571776
>>724601645Valve would be in a good position to set him up for laughs by supplying false information.
>>724572320eh not much
>>724601734you will be crying in the next couple of months. you dont deserve to play hl3 and be in the hl communitytyler won
>>724571776>sprinting>recoverable health after time passes >pronethats all they need to add
>>724601849HL2 has sprinting
Too little, too late. Nobody cares about half life, the kids think it's a joke and the older people don't give a fuck.
>>724601885HL3 will be the biggest Steam game launch ever, you're retarded.
>>724571776>Tyler McVickerStopped reading.Half-Life 3 never ever.
>>724601479It is assumed by someone being able to teleport anywhere in space or time, including the future, which is demonstrated, going into the past is no problem as well. You're just mad about the retcon.
>>724601929I'm assuming my pc won't be able to run it.
>>724572320Half-Life hasn't had a real game for almost 20 years now. Old as balls.If you think the coomers who post in this board give a shit you are mistaken.
>>724601929>Beating PUBG I doubt it. It's going to be big but it's not going to be THAT big.
is captcha, post, and reply reallllllyyyy fucking slow for anyone else?
>>724602179Yes
If I had a cent for every time HL3 was rumored to be juuust around the corner, I'd probably have enough money to buy HL3 at full price when it actually does.
>>724602179i was just about to ask I can't fucking POST.
>>724602179thought it was only me
>>724601849They'll add gun modifications and ADS too I'd reckon. HLA introduced plenty of modern FPS tropes into Half-Life.
>>724602037>It is assumed by someone being able to teleport anywhere in space or timeNope, it was literally never established he can go back in time. HLA introduced that out of nowhere, hence my complaint.
>>724602179It's the Gma
HOLY HECK ANOTHER CORRIDOR SHOOTER WE ALL HAVE TO PRETEND IS ACTUALLY MORE SPECIAL THAN IT IS
>>724579859Holy newfag. Nobody gives a fuck about halo retard.
2 more weeks bro, any day now
>>724572320there would be a sticky AND /v/ would be re-named for a while AND music would play on the catalog AND the sticky AND the catalog and sticky would have the gaben diamond beard gif in the bottom right corner
>>724602294ADS absolutely does not need to be a standard in Half-Life going forward; It only exists in Alyx because a floating crosshair would be distracting and retarded in VR. There could be gun modifications though, considering the leaked code already alludes to car customization
>>724571930Didn't even remember this guy existed
>>724601548it's real this time
>>724600496gman = valvevorts = us/external factors forcing valve to make episodes and expand on hl2simple as>>724602294hl2 itself nearly had a halo style 2 weapons limit
>>724571776Yeah sure thing pal
>>724588572we have proof they have been on a massive hiring spree for the past three years and the people that have been hired are extremely senior tech people at other huge companies like rockstar
>>724602671>It only exists in Alyx because a floating crosshair would be distracting and retarded in VROr just not be a noob to VR FPS and just lock your arm/angle and know where it'll generally land.
>>724602719they did announce a half-life sequel in 2019 though
>>724578667This10 years ago it would've broke the internetNow it's just like "whatever"
>>724602124It'll definitely get close but not surpass it. The meme will be enough to propel it to the status of most concurrent players of a single player game.
>>724587739Do you really think the things you described are caused by organic "real" mentally deranged people. It's all manufactured to keep the "noise" levels at a perfect sweet spot so that (((they))) can tune the "noise" up or down whenever they need to push their narratives into a direction of their choosing.
>>724602720>hl2 itself nearly had a halo style 2 weapons limitThank God they didn't end up doing that desu.
>>724579859Who honestly gives a fuck about Halo still. I stopped after 3. Its a product of its time for fps's on consoles. >>724579784And how do you know it would be good? Its been 18 years since EP2, most of the people who worked at Valve back then moved on or retired from the company.And only reason i ever cared about HL2 sequel like EP3/HL3 past a point was due to new conversion mods like a new Gmod or sven coop. Because lets be clear, the games work better as platforms for other stuff more so than individual games.>>724601548Because a good chunk of Valve fans are suckers, esp those who believe Tyler McFuckingVicker. Same man who made a "HL3 SOON GUIZ!!!" video back in 2015. Yes, ten years ago! He's been doing this shit nonstop since yet retards still cling to him.I was 15-18 when HL2-EP2 came out. Im now 36. I no longer am part of the targeted age demographics for videogames by devs. Chances are most 18 year olds today do not care for HL. And why should they? Steam is no longer the "Valve game drm client" that it was in 07. But those same youngsters are who Valve will be targetting. So IF HL3 is real, expect it to be something catering to the fornite crowd >>724601849Its no longer 2010-2015.
>>724603020Those who know, know
>>724602671>car customizationOkay now that's actually something I want. Something like Pacific Drive maybe.
>>724571930A broken clock is right twice a dayIn this case it's more of a bomb with no fuse
>>724577096Yeah, it's trueI hate that people slop shit like arc raiders with its 40$ price tag and 24$ skin bundles and bpsI hate it
>>724582847Liar. Lurk moar.
>>724579859Halo has been a dead franchise for a while. Reanimating it's corpse using Unreal Engine 5 and announcing it will be playable on PS5 ( and maybe even Switch 2) while the Xbox barely competing with the other two console makers AND after announcing they are going to launch everything everywhere, is barely news.I think it got more attention that it should.Half- life 3 will maybe raise some eyebrows, but it won't represent a fraction of the impact if it was announced back 2015. Even Alyx that was released in 2020, is already forgotten.
>>724572320Considering there was a day long sticky for a tf2 comic, pretty unusable. It would have been more unusable if it came out 10-15 years ago though.
>>724579859>old /v/ loved halo!meanwhile old /v/:
>>724604748idk why these zoomers try to gaslight us>erm zoomers didn't play these gamesthe oldest zoomer is about 28
>>724571776>tylernah fuck that guy
>>724603946There are ways for Valve to get the discussions going well after release. Connect HL3 into hinting a new Portal game they could work on sometime in the future, release proper Source 2 SDK to get the modders going in no time and help out S&Box to be able to import HL3 assets so zoomers can stick Source 2 G-Man's head into Source 2 toilets for years to come.
Imagine being excited for hl3. Alyx was dogshit, valve is incapable of making good games.
I never even finished 2.
>>724605549Alyx was great tho
What did you think of the soundtrack for Alyx?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdDiPQ5evVQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxYDyMs5bZMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2lyGcaWeHI
>half life 3 where the portal gun is now part of the gameplayhow complicated would this be? however, I do want a brand new gimmick, half life 2 had the gravity gun, portal had the portal gun, but I want half life 3 to feature something entirely unique that will set it apart from the previous games.
>>724606190Overall it's fine, Kelly Bailey is still better though. Also, not a fan of dynamic music. It just doesn't fit with the series compared to Portal.
>>724606435This, I kinda like that Half-Life 1 and 2 had no ambient music during exploration. Lets you appreciate other sounds
>>724606402Interactive Alyx sex scene
>>724606402In that Half Life documentary Valve put out a year or two ago, they showed off a weapon that creates cover that they wanted to put in. Not sure if its up to par with the Gravity/Portal gun though.What else could they put in?
Fake and Gay
>>724571776>>724572320literally no one outside of a bunch of boomers gives a fuck about this tech demo series, it was always decent at best and of course it will never even live up to these boomers' expectations after so much time anyway
>>724575860they literally did, it runs with source 2 now
>>724606402The leaked strings don't seem to provide insight into their big gimmick yet, aside from the thermodynamics stuff and the liquid physics. Other than that it seems like Valve is focused on trying to improve on every aspect of the series, from character interactions, melee combat, vehicle handling, all the way to gunplay with how characters react when they get shot (flinching animations) and dynamic AI pathfinding.
>>724606573That ice gun thing and the blobs are probably Valve drip-feeding on what they're about to include in the next game.
>>724578273it would still have lower system requirements than ue5 games
>>724572571> Protomen threads get near no tractionWhy the fuck do you expect anyone to care? Most of old /v/ has migrated to MySpace, newfag. That’s where the culture war free game discussion is going on now.
>>724571930This guy called me because I was a janitor at valve years ago.
>>724572954What shilling? It's not a gacha, therefore /v/ seethes and cries about it 24/7.
>TOTALLY CREDIBLE VALVE LEAKS!!
Do any of you genuinely believe Half-Life 3 will be announced in November?
>>724603534Arc raiders is actually fun. Only /v/ is complaining about it (like they do with all non-gachas).
>>724581801I recall all that Tortanic-tier shitposting around ESO and then when the game actually released, nothing at all. It already got swept under the rug as the board moved onto something else.
>>724596791The archive doesn't go that far but I'm sure you can find nostalgiafag threads on /v/ where people dump all that stuff. The domain is arch.b4k.dev. if you weren't aware.
>>724607965Of course not. The source is Tyler McVicker who has said Half Life 3 for 15+ years now.
>>724607965It'd be better if they announce it on TGA rather desu. Might as well go for big fanfare this time with Geoff being a huge shill for it.
>>724572320>>724587739>Board quality at an all time high>Valve and PC supremacy spam galore>Moderation pitches in to curbstomp the hordes of seething Nintentroons>Entire site celebrating>Literally every single thread is swept up with joy and excitement>Impossible to discuss any game aside from HL3 because no one gives a shitFTFY
Nobody would really care about HL3 coming out. Alxy and all the gay rumorfaggotry around HLX has taken wind out of the hype sails.Now, TF2 Source 2, on the other hand. That would actually break the internet.
>>724605391where is that image from?
>>724604748Cherrypicking is pretty dishonest considering I can pull up random threads where discussion is completely civil around it.https://old.sage.moe/v/thread/1728958https://old.sage.moe/v/thread/1103772https://old.sage.moe/v/thread/6177881Even the third thread outright shows you everyone knows no one really hates it.
>>724608762You're cherrypicking
>>724608565Valve is not that big, it's in a weird spot that it's a legendary developer but their games are like normie repellents, even Portal that managed to seep into the cracks of popular culture and the concept is considered to have been coined by the game, it seems that for people it is completely disconnected from Valve.It's so weird that I don't have any other examples of it.
>>724585074its just a cool well well-designed linear story FPS game thats pretty much it man
>>724608869https://old.sage.moe/v/thread/12955584Here's a guy setting up servers and another guy linking the portable CE like I said earlier in the thread.https://old.sage.moe/v/thread/2085881https://old.sage.moe/v/thread/6346628https://old.sage.moe/v/thread/6914492Here's a classic shitposting thread that turns into a book review thread.I am literally just using terms like "Library", "Flood", "Halo", "Guilty Spark", and "Cortana" to get these results. Just sort by oldest posted. You can even find people doing "Snape kills Dumbledore" spoilers if you search "Guilty Spark" when Halo released. You could easily have civil Halo threads because most of the hate for it was shitposting at certain times of day. The old archive is based on EST and you can see that when the threads are early in the morning or late at night they're fairly civil like the 5am one.
>>724585074it's incredibly overrated. Half life is a good game for its time. Half Life 2 is a tech demo for prop physics and facial animation and is otherwise just a mid game. For some reason sequels to these games have reached absurd hype and cultural relevance, even though Half life 2 had two sequels that had nothing special about them. Alyx is technically a great achievement but most half life fans didn't experience it. I think a lot of it rides on gabe's meme energy, gabe is like the groundhog day of video games and one of these winters he's going to see his shadow and drop half life. The story is just, a silent guy helping his new friends fight aliens I guess. If I had to say something nice, I'd say half life has good art and atmosphere and they keep people interested in the little world building they actually show. Also the no cutscenes with scripted characters right in front of you has held up.
>>724602719
>>724610513Why is his head getting bigger
>>724609767>half life 2 had two sequelsyou mean the overglorified DLC and prequel?
>>724610610excessive consumption of semen
>>724610610full of HL3 leaks
>>724572954It's yet another skinner box for retarded troons (Valve fans).
>>72458507438 heresamei was more impressed with games like far cry, ghost recon, crysis, battlefield 1942, or even haloi played shitloads of medal of honor games before playing hl and i found hl's level designs (what people usually praise) not very funprobably because it was already dated by the time i played it (in early 00s)
>>724572320Valve completely missed the window of opportunity to break the internet. The majority of gamers nowadays have no idea what Half Life is
>>724607689How'd the convo go?
>>724612861He asked me to get him more pink cookies, he just got done beating his gf for eating the last of the previous batch I snuck to him.
>>724610850>"skinner box">look inside>nothing but pure gameplay because it's still an alpha
>>724606402For a long time the devs have been racking their heads around how to make Borealis level fun. I'd say just have Borealis be a gameplay hub with it teleporting across new places Gordon will go to.
>>724571776Wouldn't that be a welcome surprise!
>>724614663it seems like weird time travel/non-linear time stuff is how they were gonna do it
>>724614985>weird time travel/non-linear time stuffThe last thing I want out of that is them revisiting big moments from HL1/HL2 again like some lame ass best-of compilation. I'd be fine if they're doing it Titanfall 2 style though.
>>724615365you could do surreal stuff like fighting combine soldiers in some place and eventually encounter yourself fighting those same combine soldiers from another perspective
>>724612861He asked me about half life alyx and I hunh up
>>724572320This board is already unusable. Look at the catalog.
