Thread 717779892

Even if its the greatest game ever made, it wont be able to deliver. Its been too long.

>2005: HL3 soon
>2006: HL3 soon
>2007: HL3 soon
>2008: HL3 soon
>2009: HL3 soon
>2010: HL3 soon
>2011: HL3 soon
>2012: HL3 soon
>2013: HL3 soon
>2014: HL3 soon
>2015: HL3 soon
>2016: HL3 soon
>2017: HL3 soon
>2018: HL3 soon
>2019: HL3 soon
>2020: HL3 soon
>2021: HL3 soon
>2022: HL3 soon
>2023: HL3 soon
>2024: HL3 soon
>2025: HL3 soon
>2026: HL3 soon
>2027: HL3 soon
>2028: HL3 soon
>2029: HL3 soon
>2030: HL3 soon
>2031: HL3 soon

>>717779892 (OP)
>1 more year

What would you want nudged, Mister Anon?

>>717780089

>2019: lof of leaks in Source 2 updates about a new HL in VR

>2020: HL Alyx announced and the ending is a teaser for 3

>2025: lot of leaks in Source 2 update about a new HL game with a HEV suit (Gordon Freeman’s suit)

>>717780207
i wonder what they're going to do with the plot now that the gman can just go back in time

how many of the people who made HL2 are still at valve?

i mean, some of them are literally dead

>>717780803
Antonov died recently. Some of the old members came back for A project at Valve, presumably HL3. It better be worth the weight.

still not installing a new os, gayben

half life was cool 20 years ago
time to move on

>>717781130
?

>>717781285

He thinks 3 will be steam os exclusive, it won’t

>>717781350
I mean they could make it exclusive for like a week, but that'd piss off so many people.

>>717779892 (OP)
this quarter century for sure bros

>>717779892 (OP)
The Winds of Winter will come out before hl3

the last itch i had for another hl game was scratched by abiotic factor.

>>717780350
I swear to god if Valve makes a haptic HEV suit for HL 3

>>717779892 (OP)
Nobody cares about HL anymore, remember when pic dropped? Yea me neither.

tyler said it's coming out in two weeks!

>>717785501
i had a headset with only tech demos before alyx came out so i do remember when it dropped

>>717780207
Israel out of Palestine. I want Israel out of Palestine.

>>717780350
The end of Half-Life Alyx is completely meaningless because you could have just as easily written
>2007: Half-Life 2 Episode Two released and the ending is a teaser for Half-Life 2 Episode Three
And Half-Life 2 Episode Three was an actual officially announced game too while there has NEVER been an official announcement of a Half-Life 3. Yet everyone expects Half-Life 3 and not Half-Life 2 Episode Three for some reason.

>>717780602
They're gonna pull some "closed time loop" nonsense where every event was always orchestrated by G-Man in some 5D chess timeline. Freeman's just gonna be a fancy meat puppet with a crowbar. Either that or they soft reboot it by having someone else get the HEV suit in a post-collapse world. Honestly though, knowing Valve, they’ll spend five years perfecting headcrab eyelash physics and drop the plot entirely.

>>717788065
To quote Marc Laidlaw himself, "story was never the boss of anything."

Laidlaw's job was never to write a story that the level designers would tell, Laidlaw's job was to take all the cool ideas that the level designers have and figure out a way to combine them together into a story. The entire plot of Half-Life (basically the level track) had already determined even before Laidlaw was hired. Even with Half-Life 2 where Laidlaw was there from the beginning, he only wrote as much as made sense to inspire the level designers, then tried to figure out how to stitch it all together at the end.

>>717788648
I loved reading through his pre-release writings, the Nihilanth one is pretty neat in particular.
https://valvearchive.com/laidlaw-vault/half-life/

>>717787146
Ah... That would be a considerablyly large nudge. Too large, given the interests of my greatest ally.

>>717780207
PS5 games.. I want PS5 games!

>>717787167
Because finishing your 21 year old game after 18 years of nothing feels a little retarded

>>717788065
>They're gonna pull some "closed time loop" nonsense
Good thing is that even Valve realized going back in time to Black Mesa is a stupid plot, so I don't think we'll see that kind of nonsense.

>>717779892 (OP)
I'll only be excited if it's sold in the Blue Box with L4D3 and TF3. Then I will basedface and preorder

>>717793117
>Good thing is that even Valve realized going back in time to Black Mesa is a stupid plot, so I don't think we'll see that kind of nonsense.
Marc Laidlaw claims that way back in 1998-1999 he encouraged Gearbox to blow up Black Mesa in Opposing Force to remove the temptation of ever going back to Black Mesa.

>>717788648
I feel that HL3 will focus more on the story because this time they are forced to address the two cliffhangers they have gotten themselves into. HL2 was freer in that regard because as far as Valve was concerned, HL1 ended rather conclusively with a lot of possibilities they could have chosen.

>>717785501
I love alyx, it's one of the most unique gaming experiences i've ever had, but no it doesn't validate the purchase of a headset and it's STILL the only real VR game, therefore it's doomed to live on in obscurity.
That said if HL3 comes out next year with the release of the index 2 i'm probably still buying it.

>>717793493
>I feel that HL3 will focus more on the story because this time they are forced to address the two cliffhangers they have gotten themselves into. HL2 was freer in that regard because as far as Valve was concerned, HL1 ended rather conclusively with a lot of possibilities they could have chosen.
Which is why they should have just made HL2Ep3 in the first place. After his retirement, Laidlaw gave an interview where he stated that his personal goal had been for HL2Ep3 to have wrapped up the HL2 story arc to leave a clean state for HL3 the same way HL1 had left a clean slate for HL2, with the implication that the failure to make HL2Ep3 was a great personal regret of his.

>>717793379
could you imagine the collective pants shitting that would happen if valve announced 3 of their '3' games at once

>>717793379
>>717793918
Orange Box was a freak coincidence of three in-progress projects that started at different times all getting close to completion around the same time. It'll never happen again.

>>717780803
>Dario Casali quit Valve back in 2022
>He decided to do a Let's Play of HL1 on the anniversary event
>Promised to do the same thing for HL2 the following year
>Never get around to it for some reason
Hope it's a sign that he's back at Valve again.

>>717779892 (OP)
What happened to this year?

>>717791903
>Well you asked.
>What if...I could offer you something you...don't know you want.
>Alyx grabs briefcase
>*She is now in front of Trump on July 13th, 2024*
Bros...does the G stand for goyim?

>>717794323
Yeah, there's a good chance that Casali is back as a level design contractor.

Really wish Valve would try to get the whole "band" back by also bringing back Casali's old cabal mates Steve Bond and John Guthrie, assuming they haven't been black-listed from Valve like Tom Leonard was.

>>717794504
>Tom Leonard
What did he do?

Gabe is fat

>>717779892 (OP)
Your filename says 2022 kek

>>717794380
Deadlock

>>717794607
Dario Casali, John Guthrie, Steve Bond, and Tom Leonard were the Ravenholm/City 17/Canals cabal during the development of Half-Life 2.
After Half-Life 2 and the Episodes, Leonard ended up doing a lot of work with Mike Booth on the L4D and L4D2 AI Director and then on Source 2 engine development, but ultimately Leonard was caught on the losing end of the Valve internal politics infighting over company direction in the 2013 era when Michael Abrahs was pushing to turn Valve into a VR company. He wasn't the only one, either. For other big names at Valve that were caught in the 2013 purge, see:
https://www.pcgamer.com/valve-layoff-hardware-mobile/
Tom Leonard still appeared in the Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Documentary so I'm guessing personal feelings have gotten over it in the intervening years, but Valve supposedly has a policy of never re-hiring anybody who was fired, so he's never coming back unfortunately.

>>717794028
Except portals come in orange and blue, TRUST THE PLAN

>>717793538
I bought a headset for Alyx and I use it to watch porn some times

>>717795076
Michael Abrash fucked Valve hard back then I hear. Supposedly the guy was Facebook's "spy" when the company turned its attention to VR and took a lot of Valve's tech and brought some of its employees to Oculus. It's also theorized that John Carmack had something to do with it as well.

>>717795504
I recall seeing claims on /v/ that John Carmack himself had commented that he was not on speaking terms with Gabe Newell

>>717780350
It hurts just a little that someone had to work on this gorgeous version of 1 scene from episode 2 and we wont get more of it.

>>717779892 (OP)
sorry, its complete shit since episodes, i dont care now