>>739815685
I call bullshit on that one. The blob and the ice gun are cool enough to justify Episode 3.

Gabe does games for the high IQ gamer

>>739815685
This whole thing about Half Life only existing when they had to drive a technology is some crap he just invented in retrospect. They literally just made games because it was part of what they did, and they stopped making them when it became clear that single player titles didn't sell that well and the Episodic format was not a success in driving up continual player interest in Half Life compared to making a full third game, but by the time they quietly stopped making Ep3, they didn't begin HL3 because Steam was their new main project.

>>739815685
>My personal failure
for most people this means debt, ruin, starvation. For Gaben - he just sells his yacht to Zuckerberg to cover the loss

>>739815685
My personal failure with Half-Life Episode 3 was being too darn handsome

>>739815796
you're not the target audience apparently

Why does he have to push anything forward just finish the story

>>739816028
Yeah i overshoot the target IQ

>>739816060
miyamoto disease
you did something innovative once and you think that's the only thing you can do, the only reason people like your games
you can't just make good and fun games anymore, each has to showcase a new technology or gimmick

>>739815685
What the fuck was episode 1 pushing forward? Fucking nothing that's what. Just finish the damn story.

>>739816060
>just finish the story
no one gives a fuck about the story
go read a book retard

>>739816783
episode 1 had some neat improvement to specular effects in the source engine

>>739816060
>>739816356
You guys cry about vidya being repetitive slop not pushing the medium forward
You guys cry about series getting shovelware sequels
But it's cool for Half-life apparently

kind of crazy how this fat fuck basically admitted right to everyone's faces "yeah we abandoned our flagship series because it didn't make enough money for us, fuck you lol"
and all the steamies ate it up
seriously, what is up with this near religious devotion to valve that steamies (which /v/ is 99% are) have?

>>739816783
NPC AI companion that didn't stuck is a big deal I guess.

>>739817243
the whole point of the episodic model format that valve abandoned because they were lazy fucks was precisely because they wanted to release more half-life games without the expectations of a big full-budget release

>>739817243
It's one thing to want a proper epochal sequel; it's another to have to wait 2 decades for it.

>>739817254
Gabe isn't a storyfag and never was. before laidlaw was hired he offered to write the HL backstory himself

>>739817672
which is why he started the episodic model for half-life 2 to "deliver new story content more efficiently", as he put it himself in marketing interviews?

>>739817254
Kind of crazy how not a single word of this post is true.

>>739815685
>"I couldn't figure out why doing Episode 3 was pushing anything forward
What did Episode 2 "push forward"?

>>739815685
Thank you for killing PC Gaming Mister Newell. Please enjoy the yachts and OpenAI investment dividends I bought you while I enjoy what little time I have left with the game keys you rented to me.

*buys another yacht*
wow

well did Alyx do anything new except be in VR?

>>739817827
there's no contradiction here, Gabe didn't want to just crap out episode 3 to end the story yet

>>739818186
Um. It has... physics. Also cs go 2 had smoke! Oooo aaaaaa.

>>739818186
Be the first AAA VR game I guess? Game-wise it's basically HL2 with even fewer guns and slower enemies.

>>739818219
>there's no contradiction here
what was episode 1 and 2 "pushing forward"?

>>739818278
they were much much much better games than HL2, which was 50% shitty boat ship ride

episode 1 and 2 also had a bunch of different source engine shit they were showing off

>>739818559
>they were much much much better games than HL2, which was 50% shitty boat ship ride
this isn't "pushing foward" anything, it's just basic renifement of an already established concept
>episode 1 and 2 also had a bunch of different source engine shit they were showing off
so? nobody gives a shit about new source engine trinkets, they weren't revolutionary the same way the base game physics were in 2004. either way, how come "new source engine shit" wasn't enough for episode 3? judging by what info we have, they had some far more impressive things cooking up like the ice gun. that wasn't enough?

>>739818710
>judging by what info we have, they had some far more impressive things cooking up like the ice gun. that wasn't enough?
I think Gabe was merely bullshitting. The rank and file dev like David Speyrer told the exact reason in the documentary: Valve devs would rather move on to work on something new at the time. Projects like L4D and Portal 2 were a thing and by the time they were done, it was too late for another Episode.

>>739815685
Its been done before. Just reveal the combine to be a syndicate of non-three-dimensional space criminals who are on the run from the celestial police who are astrally projecting sentient neutron stars. Gman is shapeshifting Combine agent but defected to Earth after becoming addicted to its local radiation, who basically uses Gordon’s actions to send out psychic blasts across the cosmos hoping to alert the nova police to the Combine actions on Earth so he can end their rapacious cycle. Ask me anything about this

>>739819165
>I think Gabe was merely bullshitting
i don't deny that, in fact that's exactly what i'm trying to say - this "pushing forward" narrative is just marketing jargon to weasel out of responsibility.
>and by the time they were done, it was too late for another Episode.
i don't agree. half-life alyx was already late to save the VR market like gabencunt wanted but people still liked it, and were excited about it.
gabencunt could've easily pushed for episode 3 to be finished, he just didn't give a hit because steam and cs:go lootboxes were printing infinite money at the time.

Get fucked, battle station fags.

He does not owe you content. Moreover, you can call bullshit on this but it makes perfect sense. HL 1, 2, and the episodes do something new as far as tech or presentation, and they want that franchise to be the vessel for "the new big feature or concept," and the extant demo for HL 3 looks like more of the same. Yes, a different gimmick gun, but altogether too similar to everything that came before. When there is a new one, it will feel fresh and proper. The story can only connect if the gameplay is there.

>>739817254
/v/ is browncoded

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>>739819854
thank you for your input, dear south asian shill. $0.02 have been deposited to your kotak mahindra account

>>739817958
New shader and scripted destruction physics. All things considered, the Episodes were made specifically to be incremental additions where devs put new features into the engine - nothing too drastic. Even Valve said so back in the day. Things were fine with the two episodes, and the fans weren't complaining at all. I dunno what happened, but out of the blue Gabe decides that Episode 3 should be the equivalent of Citizen Kane for some reason.

>>739817254
because half life was always average
>crying about this when epic have been trying to erase unreal from existence
i also prefer if they let the franchise die than turn it into some completely different shit (like alyx, or anything crapcum have been doing to all their franchises)

>>739815685
That's what I've been saying. Half Life 3 won't come out until there is something that it can champion.
The "current thing" is AI, and there is no fucking way in hell Half Life 3 is going to want to champion that filthy shit in games.
HL1 was the narrative and level design
HL2 was physics and a few other things

I want HL3, but I also get what he's saying, and he's right about it too.

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>>739820228
>and there is no fucking way in hell Half Life 3 is going to want to champion that filthy shit in games.
better get ready for a very nasty surprise then, my faggot friend...

>>739820339
>using AI as a tool
vs
>Implementing AI as a core component of the game and its mechanics
There's a big difference there

>>739819546
>he just didn't give a hit because steam and cs:go lootboxes were printing infinite money at the time
This.
It's crazy how people get so easily convinced by PR talk.
I guess even the most obvious marketing works and most people will just believe anything a company says without a second thought.
If Valve didn't have Steam and digital hats and their only means to make money was developing games we'd have Half Life 8 by now.

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>>739815685
All we want is the Source 2 SDK, nothing more.

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>>739820496
>I guess even the most obvious marketing works and most people will just believe anything a company says without a second thought.

>>739820339
I think back then most people didn't expect AI to mainly become a text and image generator.
They had showmatches where AI played Dota against pro teams.
They probably thought using AI to make AI in video games better is the next big thing, but I guess that's not as easy as stealing art from google images or summarizing wikipedia.

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>ITT: "Just release slop so I can consoom wtf"

>>739815685
Why is his hair fat?

>>739820472
your brain must've turned into mush from all the twitter shit, because the only way to "champion ai usage" in games is to use it as a dev tool extensively, which is what valve is already doing with deadlock.
it's not sustainable to be used real-time like for voice generation on the fly. they're certainly not going to to do that.

>>739820680
>cope

>>739820662
That's gachaslop though

>>739820496
>If company didn't have their main source of revenue they would do things differently.
Brilliant. I bet if people were aquatic mammals they'd have a higher lung capacity.

>>739820743
>cope
The biggest cope is thinking HL3 is ever going to release lmao.

>>739820756
i've never seen people defend gachas unless its something like
>you dont need to waste money on it
anyway thats all current fanbases who can't accept people dont like their shit

>>739815685
Hearing him out, I can't deny that what he's saying makes a lot of sense. Both Half-Life 1 and 2 were hallmark games for the industry at their time of release. The ideas they had for the Ice Gun and blobs for Episode 3 were pretty neat, but it sounds like a combination of fatigue, doubts about whether to continue with episodic games and wanting to explore other genres resulted in the Half-Life franchise being put on hold until it took long enough that it'd make more sense to make a third installment instead, but besides Valve's struggles to adapt to modern game development and the uncertain future of the Source Engine, there wasn't enough technological innovation to justify a sequel. From that point of view, it makes a lot of sense that we haven't gotten a new Half-Life until VR was good enough.

I think it's notable that Gabe said that there are plenty of technological innovations that could justify a new Half-Life 3 right now. Few developers are actually trying to do something new with all this incredibly powerful hardware we have these days beyond pushing for more photorealisms, so I'm definitely interested what they're doing with Half-Life right now. I can think of some cool mechanics like a bigger focus on terrain shaping like DK Bananza, accurate fluid simulations to fuck around with, there's plenty of cool shit you can still do like instantaneous transitions like Insomniac Games has played around with in Rift Apart and Spider-Man 2... I can easily see some of those getting used in a new Half-Life game.

>>739820858
>>739820726
here come the shills defending valve like good goys.
reminder that gabencunt explictly promised to release episode 3 before even episode 1 came out.
he made promises to his customers that he didn't fulfil, he made them buy in into an INTENTIONALLY incomplete game subseries, and rugpulled them at the last moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt0w9YP_wZ0

>>739817593
>waited a decade for Dragon's Dogma 2
>worse than the original game in nearly every conceivable way
Sometimes its best to leave things alone

>>739820858
It is obvious but apparently people prefer to get lulled by Gaben's PR excuses thinking Valve cares so much they just couldn't release HL3 in good conscience when the truth is that they didn't care at all.

>>739821018
a gaming company making promises and breaking them?
where i've seen that before...

>>739820948
ice gun and melting realities (see epistle 3) would have been enough for ep3, it didnt need a big skip like hl1 > 2

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>>739815685
>Teeheehee I'm sorry that we never released that sequel to that game you like whatever it was called
>*Goes to buy 10 more yatchs with the steam deck price increase money to play modern AAA slop on them*
OH MY GAWD PRAISE THE SCIENCE AND OUR LORD AND SAVIOR GABEN

>>739821067
Base game Dragon's Dogma felt unfinished and lacking too.
That's just Crapcom, release unfinished base game despite AAA pricing, then have the DLC make the game complete.
This way you can basically get paid twice for developing one game.
Unless people no longer accept your bullshit and you axe the DLC out of spite.

>>739821414
I agree, but then refer back to what I said about Half-Life fatigue and wanting to explore other genres and shit. Episode 2 was around the same time TF2 was finally being finished up and Portal was being made, and then L4D and 2 came after that, DOTA2, etc. etc. Clearly they were just kind of done with high budget innovative single player shooters at the time.

>>739820948
To be honest I think the current generation is the perfect time for HL3. Single player FPS games are few and far between these days and physics-based games are even fewer. To have both in one package and being properly made at that is enough to wow people imo. Though I suppose the expectation for HL3 is too great, they have to add more bells and whistles to the equation.

why is he so photogenic bros

>>739821645
>unfinished
no
>lacking
yes
DA changed very little of base game just added a new dungeon to crawl through that had no bearing on\ the main story.

>>739815887
they didn't think vr was a big enough advancement for hl3 so they made a prequel with it instead

>>739821684
I do too, honestly, and not just because it would be a nice breath of fresh air. Like I said, I feel like we haven't even scratched the surface of what our modern hardware can do. Nintendo is like one of the few developers to put out some actual fucking games and experiment with new ideas which is how, despite putting out a whole bunch of lazy Mario sequels, we still get games like Splatoon, Breath of the Wild or Bananza. I wouldn't say these games are always great, and obviously these games are often still held back by their native hardware, but an attempt was made. We need more of that again if we the industry wants to survive past the next generation. Gameplay is cheaper than graphics.

>>739815685
Had you done Episode 3 nobody would be even complaining about a HL3 at this point.

>>739821674
>Half-Life fatigue and wanting to explore other genres and shit
>Clearly they were just kind of done with high budget innovative single player shooters at the time.
you don't get this excuse as an enormous multimillion company, and after having made explicit promises to your customers for delivering this game multiple times
>>739821018
people still give shit to CDPR for not delivering on every feature they promised in cyberpunk, and not releasing an online component for it, yet for some reason you retards give valve a pass?

>>739822259
damn I forgot valve sold preorders for ep3 and ran away with the money... oh wait that didn't happen you stupid faggot

>>739822259
>having made explicit promises to your customers for delivering this game multiple times
Well they kinda stopped doing that after 2008 based on that Crowbcat video lmao. Still shitty though, like they were really hyping it up before that.

>>739822259
>"we wanna make games we actually want to make instead of following trends or what our fans demand of us"
>you don't get this excuse as an enormous multimillion company

If more companies operated like this the AAA industry might not be failing right now due to the oversaturation of lazy, cynical failed sequels/reboots with the ocassional new, market-tested-to-be-as-generic-and-inoffensive-as-possible IP. And if it were up to the fans, Valve would just be the Half-Life, Counter-Strike and Team Fortress devs forever and would have never made anything else like Portal, DOTA2, Left 4 Dead or Deadlock.

>>739822309
episode 2 was deliberately ended on a fucking cliffhanger for that very reason you cocksucking shill. if you don't know if you will/don't want to make a sequel, don't end your fucking game on a cliffhanger and don't make explicit promises for it.

>>739822442
>whataboutism
>false dichotomy

>>739815685
The real answer is that they stopped being a videogame company and started being digital Gamestop, an ecommerce company.

They make more money than Half-Life 3 could possibly bring in just by selling shitty digital collectables. They are more likely to hire an economist for their market or a psychologist to keep things addictive than an actual game developer. Most of the games they did make (a looooong time ago) were even made to begin with because they brought in some modder to fucking lead the thing because Valve hasn't had the ability or motivation to start up a game completely internally for a long time.

>>739821862
>despite putting out a whole bunch of lazy Mario sequels, we still get games like Splatoon, Breath of the Wild or Bananza.
Even Mario Wonder and Odyssey did some interesting things despite being "Mario sequels".
Wonder had the crazy level morphing into all sorts of wacky scenarios, Odyssey had transformation and cap tricks

Is it just me or are there threads bashing on Gabe every day lately?
I don't have a stake in the matter either way (my steam account is 15 years old but I only got like 20 games total on it), but that Documentary is from last year yet people keep bringing him and his yachts up these past few months for some reason, more than at any point in time.

>>739822259
>i was promised slop give slop as promised gaben you fat slopfuck

>>739822602
It's just the famitsu schizo having another one of his hyperfixation melties.

>>739822442
Yes I would indeed much rather more Team Fortress, Half-Life, Portal, L4D, and CS than Deadlock and that would be A Good Thing(TM).
Mobas are shit. Doing chores instead of shooting people is shit. An FPS Moba is a step back for the FPS genre.

>>739815887
>they're not making games
Name another studio of their size that puts out more games than them. Even if you ignore all the things Valve does on top of that.

>>739815926
>only understands failure in terms of money
cattle
>thinks people starve all over the place
retarded cattle

>>739820339
He isn't wrong.

>>739822602
there might be a few epic shills, but it's mostly trolls having fun playing console wars

>>739820339
Gabe consistently looks like he could be playing video games right now but isn't

>>739822694
>I would indeed much rather more Team Fortress, Half-Life, Portal, L4D, and CS than Deadlock and that would be A Good Thing(TM
I made a distinction between Half-Life, Team Fortress and Counter-Strike and the latter games for a reason, you disingenuous dick. People didn't know they wanted Portal or L4D until Valve made an attempt to make a new game. I haven't even played DOTA2 or Deadlock because I'm not an ASSFAGGOTS guy, but Valve trying new shit is objectively a good thing. It just doesn't always work out.

>>739822542
Fuck off. "Why can't Valve just poop out a bunch of cynical sequels like the rest of the industry instead of making the games they wanna make" was the argument. Valve only exists right now because they kept making gambles on what they thought the future of the industry would look like, and they paid off.

>>739822602
Yeah, some guy is spamming this shit hard. Making the exact same retarded accusations over and over again.

>>739822559
Oh absolutely, but I just wanted to nip that argument in the bud preemptively because I can't deny they've put out some lazy ass sports titles or New Soup games.

>>739823065
i'm kind of curious as to how you got from "wanting valve to release 1 (one) game they explicitly promised to people" to "poop out a bunch of cynical sequels like the rest of the industry instead of making the games they wanna make". that's an incredible leap in logic

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>>739822259
I don't want to defend CDPR for the garbage CP2077 release, but to this day I still think a huge part of the bad PR were a Sony hit pieces.
They were extremely butthurt over the game's PS4 performance which resulted in mass refunds and the eventual delisting from the store.
I read articles shitting on CDPR everywhere, from outlets that usually don't give a shit about video games to outlets that suck every publisher's cock.
Suddenly everyone cared about an AAA title's poor launch as if this was the first time something like this happened in the history of mankind.

>>739823312
because this was after cdpr got huge with normies over fucking witcher 3 and the tv series you dumb nigger

>>739823041
You could be eating poo right now.

I realistically think too much time has passed and it'd be far better to just leave it as it is, I think whatever is going on with gman is going to ruined as well if they try and explain what he's about, stalker 2 for example pretty much explained everything away and it all sucked.

>>739823229
This mentality of:
>you owe your customers to make the games you promised as a multimillion dollar company

They didn't even promise anything, they just brought up potential plans they had during interviews from time to time and then fans went rabid when they "broke" those promises. Of course they never made any promises and they didn't take your cash for anything they never ended up releasing. If they had to realize every off-the-hand cuff remark some random Valve employee has made over the decades, you get a "factory assembly line sequel" developer.

>>739823229
You don't want valve to release one game, in fact it fills you with glee that you have something to create manufactured drama about despite literally no one caring about it.

>>739821860
If that's the case, they thought right. Despite all the hype VR is very limiting for HL. Enemies can't move fast because people will get overwhelmed, the player can't move fast because they might get nauseous, the weapon selections are limited because two-handed weapons are too janky looking, etc.

>>739823742
hl2vr works literally just fine

>>739823491
these mental gymnastics are absolutely fascinating. apparently repeatedly assuring people, in public interviews mind you, that episode 3 is in development is not a promise? nevermind that they also explicitly marketed episode 2 "the middle point" in developer commentary?
>off-the-hand cuff remark some random Valve employee has made
i don't know, equating the literal CEO and founder of the company publicly reassuring people that episode 3 is in development seem s a little dishonest...

i should also mention that nobody ever had the same problem with portal 3 or left 4 dead 3 because valve never explicitly announced these games to be in development.

>>739823706
>despite literally no one caring about it
guess all those 4.8 million views on crowbcat's video must be all bots then.

>>739822602
Most studios smaller than them put out more games. I'm not going to look through a ton of devs so I will just give you the first one I pulled up on wiki because they are AAA but extremely small for a AAA dev, Remedy. This is the full list for the last 10 years despite how bullshit most of Valve's are.

I'll go from 2015 about 10 years.
>The Lab (free vr tech demo)
>Artifact (card game)
>Dota Underlords (fan mod turned game)
>Artifact: Foundry (demo that remains unfinished)
>Aperture Desk Job (free tech demo)
>Counter-Strike 2

Remedy
>Quantum Break
>Control
>Alan Wake Remastered
>CrossfireX
>Alan Wake 2
>FBC: Firebreak
and they are releasing Control Resonant this year.

In that time frame Valve released 2 tech demos, a collectable card game, a demo of an update for that card game, an official release to a fan mod and yet another version of counterstrike.

In the same time frame a small studio like remedy released 3 big budget single player games (one with a fucking tv show attached), a multiplayer shooter, whatever CrossfireX is and they are releasing another big budget single player game this year.

>>739823881
If a game comes out it comes out, what developers hype up or not doesn't really matter and not releasing a game is pretty inoffensive as far as things go. Literally no one wants some uninspired sequel.
Why are you trying so hard to make it up to be something worse than it actually is? It's pretty obvious your angle isn't because you actually give a shit about the series.

>>739823928
Should be directed at>>739822832

>>739815685
I'm still convinced that the only thing that really "stumped" them was how to conclude the story in a satisfying way. He can swear up and down that it's due to some deep artsy-fartsy reason of pushing forward new game mechanics and experiences or whatever, but does that really line up with their history?
What did Portal 2 do over Portal 1? A handful of new puzzle mechanics (you can cover the stages with bouncy ink) and more focus on a narrative story, which is something we've already seen a ton of with Half Life and countless other AAA games.
What did LFD2 do over LFD? It was a nice progression, QoL stuff, but nothing "groundbreaking" in the way that Gabe's talking.
Episode 1 was more companion-focused and Episode 2 was more car focused. And I guess a lighting engine or shader improvement here and there. Are you telling me that they were really stumped on what sort of feature of that caliber they could add to Episode 3?
No, I think it's a classic case of: it's easy to write an engaging story when you're in the middle of it - just throw out some shocking character deaths, cliffhanger moments, and mystery boxes ala JJ Abrams. But when it comes time to wrap up the story with a satisfying conclusion that won't reveal the fact that you were just winging it with no plan and some cheap storytelling tricks in a way that won't piss off the fanbase, that's where the real hurdle is. They didn't know how to end the Combine arc, or how to have a satisfying payoff to Eli's death, or what to do with the G-Man, so they just did nothing and then claimed it was because they couldn't think of some super cool next-gen gaming miracle to integrate in with the game. Yeah right.

>>739824145
It had nothing to do with being stumped, it was all money. Portal games are small and relatively cheap. A real Half Life 3 would have taken up a lot of time and money. No one at the company wanted to work on it when they could make 10x the money updating gambling or adding stupid shit to the market place. They could justify a small game that they could work on a bit but didn't want to explain why they hadn't shown an ROI in years despite Joe two seats having brough it 100 million dollars by updating loot boxes with the help of a psychologist they hired. Gabe absolutely didn't give a shit about it, other wise he would have told them to make it. He was happy milking Steam and lootboxes.

>>739823872
To be fair, HL2VR works if you're used to VR. Alyx was made in part to sell VR hardware, and putting in vehicle sections or fast enemies would put newcomers right on the vomit train, destination your apartment.

>>739824145
Episode 2 sorta build the victory condition already. The Combine army got cut off from the main force and they cannot invade anymore. The Earth is safe more or less but G-Man is up to his old tricks. Just have the story revolve around Gordon rescuing Alyx and keeping the G-Man at bay from fucking shit up again, that's it.

>>739815685
>enter thread
>somebody defending his favorite multibillionaire (Gabe) for 3+ hours

>>739823881
>"yes episode 3 is *currently* in development"
>"yes we're working on half-life *right now*"
>etc

I don't see any promises in this statement. Nothing like "we promise we will release it soon". They said they were working on it, which they were, and it didn't work out for various reasons. There aren't any promises or even falsehoods in those statements.

You claim that I'm employing mental gymnastics, and yet you keep moving the goalposts. This kinds of logical leaps are why Valve stopped talking about what they're working on, they've been burned before and learned their lesson due to retards like you treating every statement they made as gospel. Good job.

>>739815685
Ten years ago I would've been mad about this, but now I agree. I've seen too many forced sequels and remakes, so its refreshing to see someone who would just turn down the money printer like that (granted he already owns quite a few, so its not like needed it) because he actually has standards.

>>739815758
They're cool gimmicks, but not the kind of thing that leaves a lasting impact of the video games as a medium, which is what they're after. Keep in mind that the previous two Half Life games were technological marvels that pushed the industry forward.

Plus they did end up using the tech for the blob in Portal 2

>>739818186
The VR was the killer feature. Its still the best designed and biggest budget VR game out there.

>>739823928
wasnt remedy close to bankruptcy?

>>739823041
He looks like Santa Klaus

>>739825350
https://youtu.be/nVKuc9vd118?si=29ZB8J1oLPfhF-7V&t=318
>after orange box, we HAVE to get episode 3 out

>>739825734
I don't hear any word like "promise" in there, or even "vow", "pledge", "assure", "guarantee" or insert your pick of synonym!

>>739825841
you're very good at sophistry, i'll give you that. still doesn't change the facts.

>>739825962
In this entire time we've been debating you haven't proven anything or even made a convincing point. You sound more like a jilted lover than anything else. You're either an Epic shill, a retard or both. It was nice to get my thoughts out in writing, but that's all I can say about what was otherwise a waste of time.

>>739822880
only takes 1 bad debt to fuck up your life

>>739822880
>doesn't believe in global widespread poverty and hunger
>ugh you're cAtTlE!!!!!
Terribly ignorant and inflammatory post.

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>make a five hour game that wraps up the story nicely
>it has some portal and temperature gimmicks
Yeah, impossible.

>>739826641
Small AAA company pls understand

>>739822602
Probably console warriors trying to move up the ladder.

>>739826817
People are doing this competitively?

>>739826041
your concession has been accepted.

>>739815685
is gaben the most beautiful man on earth?

>>739821860
Pretty sure they needed someone that wasn't a canonical speed demon or a combat demigod, the game is too slow and using Gordon would have made it more obvious.

>People who were born the year Half-Life episode 2 came out are 19 years old

The shine is wearing off even for old fans and there are literal adults now who never saw the days Steam sales were actually good and weren't old enough to get in on the ground floor of any Valve games that aren't vr tech demos.

Gabe never wanted to admit he just didn't care. He got into yachts and other stuff and couldn't care less about Valve itself other than it keeps serving as his piggybank oink oink. Making HL3 back in the day would have been easy, story was already finished

>>739822602
>Is it just me or are there threads bashing on Gabe every day lately?
I think on one hand people hate gabe because if they had his money they'd do something. But then they see gabe being spammed on social media every hour with his fat face and his fanboys say "does nothing wins" like it gets fucking tedious. People like tim sweeney doesn't have fanboys so people don't have a reason to hate him in the same way. Gabe's fanboys actively turn people into haters on the other hand

>>739815685
Then why don't they just make a CGI movie using the Source engine? That way the rabid fans get a conclusion to the story and Valve doesn't have to think of gameplay gimmicks.

>>739822602
Smear campaign (no one will ever switch or uninstall steam over it btw shills)

>>739823928
How many massive live service games is Remedy maintaining?

>>739833030
>yes, my sperging it totally reasonable
Every schizo thinks that, anon. Stop being retarded.

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>>739815685
MAKE. THE. FUCKING. GAME. YOU. DON'T. NEED. TO. REINVENT. THE. WHEEL. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

>>739826641
If it's so easy why haven't you made a series of games that people care as much about as they do with Half Life?

>>739817672
>office room, mid-day
>a young, chiseled, NONE FAT Gabe Freeloader is working on his latest project at Macrosoft corporation

>>739818710
>hey guys what about a gravity gun, that shoots ice instead !
bravo

>>739820339
Gabe couldn't predict that the technocrats would woo the US government into grifting the entire economy, destroying the tech sector in the process. The RAMpocalypse is not caused by AI as the ML tech itself but by technocrat bribery.

Reminder that it all started when Sam Altman announced Project Stargate and that he would buy 2/3rd of the world's RAM supply without having the money. Scams and lies are what caused it, not ML researchers.

>>739822880
This is someone who does not have money problems btw.

>>739823928
>but extremely small for a AAA
About 20% bigger than Valve.
>despite how bullshit most of Valve's are.
I'm sure you forgot Half Life Alyx on accident. I'm also sure mentioning an upcoming game for Remedy while ignoring Deadlock didn't happen because you are biased either.
Nor ignoring the continued development on CS and Dota 2 for which Riot has over 1000 people working on LoL and about 750 on Valorant for comparison.
implying Team Fortress 2 is real

>I'm not going to look through a ton of devs so
I think it did, because picking someone like Larian who have made two games in that timeframe wouldn't be fun.

>>739816153
110 in binary means jack, anon.

>>739832885
You know that Gabe is not the guy who makes all of Valve's games by himself, right? He could just pick some guy and put him in charge of the project.

>>739816060
Half Life games was always about pushing the game tech forward. Every release of HL was always mindblowing because of tech like physics and real time lighting which push the videogames medium forward. Zoomers won't understand this.

>>739815685
gibe half life 3 gabe

>>739818035
meh they did help kill it
early access
mtx etc
also helped fund proton
so its a dougle edged sword they fucked up on steam deck being 40% more

>>739815685
It's not like the episodes advanced the medium either. Episodic gaming was a dumb fad but that didn't stop Valve from getting swept up in the hype. I see no reason they couldn't have chosen some other gimmick to commit to and I don't know why he's acting like new Half Life games always have to have HL2 levls of foresight and innovation.

>>739815926
I don't think Gaben was referring to failure of the monetary kind

>>739823312
The hype for CP2077 was absolutely insane and it sold more than Witcher 3, so when it came out and was broken as fuck, people noticed. You don't need Sony to put that disastrous launch on the media's radar

>>739834848
>About 20% bigger than Valve.
Its almost like Valve has nearly no interest in making games at all and essentially only hires people to maintain their e-store, old lootbox games. Also its 15%.
>Alyx
Missed it. Honestly thought it was part of one of their demos I listed used to sell the equipment they keep pushing.
>Deadlock
Has no release date or time frame announced. Control 2 does. Why would anyone trust valve to release something this year if they haven't even given a date?

At the end of the day using the number of people that work at Valve as an excuse doesn't matter. You can say that to an Indie dev who is doing everything he can with the resources available but Valve essentially has infinite resources. You should be asking why hasn't Valve hired people to actually make games. To make a game like Half-Life 3 with the expectations of today's customers, or almost any large budget game, would involve hiring more people which they don't want to do because having a core team that runs the estore and the lootbox software is Valve's business now.

They have the ability to make the games, they just don't have the desire.

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>>739815685
>jewish thread

I miss the days when this place wasn't occupied by Mossad demoralizing agents & their golems

>>739834848
Yes, let's use Larian as an example for what's standard in the industry, when every single one of their peers said that their companies would be unable to sustain their level of per-project expenditure for more than a single title.

>>739824615
>A real Half Life 3 would have taken up a lot of time and money.
No one expected a "real" HL 3. Everyone was waiting on Episode 3, which reasonably wouldn't be radically different from episode 1-2 in scope. That only changed when such a long time had passed that it seemed more likely an entirely new Half-Life would come out, rather than another episode. Your timeline is also all fucked up, with thinking that they stopped work on Episode 3 because of gambling, but TF2 didn't get its first loot box until 2010

>we're working on lots of different stuff
>none of it is half-life 3
>it's just a coincidence

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Half Life was never a relevant franchise.
Half Life 1 (1999) was a nothing burger and quickly forgotten.
Half Life 2 was a scam. Why was it a scam? Simple: it was made for Steam and it required Steam. The whole purpose of the HL2 game is to make people install Steam. That's it. Gabe even did the most dishonored market tactics ever called a publicity stunt with the "half life 2 leak by a German programmer" (but it works, so I don't blame him). Suddenly, Half life 2 became a big and most anticipated game ever, covered by every gaming website and magazine from back in the day. Gabe successfully lured everyone to purchase their game with the sole purpose of a third party software installation: called Steam. Imagine requiring everyone to install an additional software and authenticate online to be able to play in plain 2004? Yes, Gabe did it and everyone praised thinking that they were about to play the best game ever.
Therefore, half life was never relevant outside of marketing and publicity. The game is a tech demo, but not that tech demo that you are thinking about. It was a tech demo for the Steam platform, to benchmark its servers, infrastructure, user experience... etc. "B-but... the physics". Stupid Nigger zoomer, the physics is handled by the Havoc engine, a physics engine found in PS2/Xbox games.
Also, fuck Gabe for normalizing the "you will own nothing and will be happy" concept.

>>739839141
Therefore, you ignorant freaks must stop asking for Half-Life 3. A project like that has no other purpose for Gabe other than to please the retarded gamers.
For Gabe, it would make sense was an Steam Machine exclusive game, to force the idiots to buy his gaming PC, but I think that would backfire, outraging the gaming community.

>>739839141
>Half Life was never a relevant franchise.
>Half Life 1 (1999) was a nothing burger and quickly forgotten.
What are you even doing man

>>739815685
>if I can't sell a gimmick or hardware, we won't do it!
people just want half life 1 boomer shooter again with complex maps
half life 2 was a mistake.

>>739816060
Its like how the Game of Thrones author won't release the final 2 books.
Why bother? Normies lapped up the TV show and he made millions.
But the author of GoT, like Gaben, even though they are rich as fuck, they will forever be known as hacks who didn't finish the story, unlike Cody Rhodes.

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>>739840409
I built my first gaming PC in 1998. I still have countless of gaming related magazine from late the late 90s to late 00s. I also browsed several gaming forums back then. The only thing keeping HL1 aflot or relevant was the Counter strike mod. People just wanted to play CS. Copies of Half life were sold to play counter strike, not half life. Nobody asked for HL2.

>>739822602
Because Steam and Gabe have always been a toxic and shit company and anti consumer.
They buy studios just to have them do nothing and fire them to own what they have.
Most of their successes is paid mods from other people, who they hired, did the work for valve, then were canned while valve made squillions.
Valve is a shit company just like EA and Activision.
Bobby Kotick would kill for Gabes level of control and ownership of a company and because its a private company, people can't vote him out or get rid of gabe.

I wonder if HL3 was made in a different timeline, and Half-Life just become the One Piece of video games.

>>739815685
He should had added Seamless coop and rolling to dodge to it.

>>739841210
That's bullshit but I'll believe it

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>>739844606
We're talking about Half-Life 1 in 1998. What do you think showing me this will prove about the relevance of Half-Life?

>>739844772
Like I said, copies of HalfLife were sold to play Counter strike.
You really had to be alive back then to understand.